Azure DevOps Contract Job Trends in England

Microsoft Azure DevOps
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Azure DevOps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 83 79
Rank change year-on-year +4 -4 +12
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 954 845 1,068
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.10% 2.71% 2.78%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.05% 7.51% 7.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 682 570 827
10th Percentile £358 £377 £411
25th Percentile £413 £461 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £638
90th Percentile £688 £700 £708
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 9
10th Percentile £45.84 £67.63 £54.25
25th Percentile £57.44 £69.69 £57.50
Median hourly rate £74.63 £73.75 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.19% +18.95% -5.76%
75th Percentile £90.00 £77.19 £77.50
90th Percentile £93.75 £78.88 -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £73.75 £62.00
% change year-on-year +1.69% +18.95% -5.76%

All Cloud Skills
England

Azure DevOps falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 11,844 11,252 13,554
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.51% 36.05% 35.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,062 7,474 9,888
10th Percentile £305 £313 £288
25th Percentile £406 £425 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £716 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 303 156 275
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.00 £14.36
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.88
Median hourly rate £25.47 £33.00 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.82% +24.53% +17.78%
75th Percentile £50.88 £58.95 £58.75
90th Percentile £78.50 £70.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £30.00 £27.00
% change year-on-year -13.33% +11.11% +21.13%

Azure DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure DevOps relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Azure DevOps job vacancy trend in England

Azure DevOps
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Azure DevOps.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Azure DevOps

Azure DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure DevOps in England over the 6 months to 27 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure DevOps in England

Azure DevOps
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Azure DevOps.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Azure DevOps

Azure DevOps
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Azure DevOps in England over the 6 months to 27 November 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Azure DevOps in England

Azure DevOps
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure DevOps within the England region over the 6 months to 27 November 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -7 509 £520 -5.45% 171
South East -3 124 £500 -9.09% 154
North of England -15 98 £500 -3.61% 51
Midlands +10 86 £498 -2.69% 49
South West +42 77 £475 +5.56% 37
West Midlands -15 52 £575 +9.52% 31
Yorkshire -31 47 £506 +1.25% 14
North West -9 46 £405 -26.36% 23
East Midlands +13 34 £450 -5.26% 17
East of England +4 30 £525 -20.75% 19
North East -4 5 £600 +23.08% 14
Azure DevOps
UK

Azure DevOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 53 (5.56%) Confluence
2 49 (5.14%) SharePoint
3 15 (1.57%) Apache
3 15 (1.57%) Apache Spark
4 11 (1.15%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
6 5 (0.52%) CMS
7 4 (0.42%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.31%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.31%) Documentum
8 3 (0.31%) IIS
8 3 (0.31%) Sitecore CMS
9 2 (0.21%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.21%) Mule
10 1 (0.10%) Apache Synapse
10 1 (0.10%) Appian
10 1 (0.10%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.10%) HCL Notes
10 1 (0.10%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.10%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 30 (3.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.26%) Microsoft Project
3 11 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
4 10 (1.05%) MS Visio
5 7 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.31%) Trello
7 1 (0.10%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 34 (3.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (1.05%) Aladdin
3 7 (0.73%) Endur
4 5 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.42%) NEC Housing
6 3 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.21%) Oracle Assets
7 2 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.21%) Oracle General Ledger
7 2 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.21%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.21%) Primavera
7 2 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.21%) Workday HCM
8 1 (0.10%) Dynamics AX
8 1 (0.10%) Orchestrade
8 1 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.10%) SAP MRS
8 1 (0.10%) SAP PM
8 1 (0.10%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 953 (99.90%) Azure
2 218 (22.85%) GitHub
3 161 (16.88%) Power Platform
4 157 (16.46%) GitHub Actions
5 130 (13.63%) AWS
6 113 (11.84%) Azure AKS
7 105 (11.01%) Serverless
8 88 (9.22%) Azure Data Factory
8 88 (9.22%) Azure Monitor
9 87 (9.12%) Dynamics 365
10 77 (8.07%) Entra ID
11 69 (7.23%) Azure Logic Apps
12 64 (6.71%) PowerApps
13 63 (6.60%) Power Automate
14 60 (6.29%) Azure Functions
14 60 (6.29%) GCP
15 57 (5.97%) Azure Key Vault
16 52 (5.45%) Azure Service Bus
17 51 (5.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 42 (4.40%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 32 (3.35%) Firewall
2 21 (2.20%) Network Security
3 18 (1.89%) DNS
4 16 (1.68%) VPN
5 11 (1.15%) WAN
6 8 (0.84%) SD-WAN
7 6 (0.63%) LAN
8 5 (0.52%) DHCP
9 4 (0.42%) TCP/IP
10 3 (0.31%) HTTP
11 2 (0.21%) AMQP
11 2 (0.21%) DSL
11 2 (0.21%) MPLS
11 2 (0.21%) NGFW
11 2 (0.21%) Remote Desktop
11 2 (0.21%) SSL
11 2 (0.21%) VLAN
12 1 (0.10%) iSCSI
12 1 (0.10%) VRRP
12 1 (0.10%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (10.69%) Power BI
2 55 (5.77%) SQL Server
3 41 (4.30%) Azure SQL Database
3 41 (4.30%) PostgreSQL
4 39 (4.09%) Data Warehouse
5 34 (3.56%) Data Lake
6 23 (2.41%) Delta Lake
6 23 (2.41%) NoSQL
7 21 (2.20%) MongoDB
7 21 (2.20%) Relational Database
8 19 (1.99%) Redis
9 12 (1.26%) Metadata
9 12 (1.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 11 (1.15%) MySQL
11 9 (0.94%) Big Data
11 9 (0.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 8 (0.84%) DynamoDB
12 8 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
12 8 (0.84%) Oracle Database
12 8 (0.84%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 178 (18.66%) JIRA
2 141 (14.78%) Git
3 95 (9.96%) Jenkins
4 63 (6.60%) GitLab
5 50 (5.24%) Selenium
6 36 (3.77%) Oracle APEX
7 34 (3.56%) Postman
8 26 (2.73%) SonarQube
9 19 (1.99%) JUnit
10 17 (1.78%) Cucumber
10 17 (1.78%) Cypress.io
11 16 (1.68%) Bitbucket
12 14 (1.47%) JMeter
13 13 (1.36%) Gradle
13 13 (1.36%) SpecFlow
14 11 (1.15%) Artifactory
15 10 (1.05%) NUnit
15 10 (1.05%) Sonatype Nexus
15 10 (1.05%) Visual Studio
16 9 (0.94%) Maven
General
1 325 (34.07%) Social Skills
2 171 (17.92%) Finance
3 108 (11.32%) Public Sector
4 89 (9.33%) Analytical Skills
5 50 (5.24%) Banking
6 34 (3.56%) Documentation Skills
7 30 (3.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 25 (2.62%) Investment Banking
9 24 (2.52%) Retail
10 21 (2.20%) Influencing Skills
11 20 (2.10%) Law
12 14 (1.47%) Marketing
13 12 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
14 11 (1.15%) Back Office
14 11 (1.15%) Billing
15 10 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
15 10 (1.05%) Telecoms
16 7 (0.73%) Manufacturing
16 7 (0.73%) Military
17 6 (0.63%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 269 (28.20%) Developer
2 137 (14.36%) Senior
3 119 (12.47%) Azure Engineer
4 117 (12.26%) DevOps Engineer
5 93 (9.75%) Analyst
6 75 (7.86%) Lead
7 65 (6.81%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 63 (6.60%) Senior Developer
9 58 (6.08%) Architect
10 51 (5.35%) Business Analyst
11 45 (4.72%) Data Engineer
12 42 (4.40%) Azure Developer
13 35 (3.67%) Test Analyst
14 29 (3.04%) Platform Engineer
15 28 (2.94%) Tester
16 27 (2.83%) .NET Developer
16 27 (2.83%) Azure Architect
17 26 (2.73%) C# Developer
18 24 (2.52%) Project Manager
18 24 (2.52%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 190 (19.92%) .NET
2 91 (9.54%) REST
3 66 (6.92%) RESTful
4 64 (6.71%) ADO
5 55 (5.77%) ARM Templates
5 55 (5.77%) React
6 51 (5.35%) Node.js
6 51 (5.35%) YAML
7 50 (5.24%) .NET Core
8 48 (5.03%) SOAP
9 39 (4.09%) HTML
10 37 (3.88%) JSON
11 36 (3.77%) AngularJS
12 34 (3.56%) .NET Framework
13 33 (3.46%) Kafka
13 33 (3.46%) OAuth
13 33 (3.46%) PySpark
14 27 (2.83%) Playwright
15 25 (2.62%) CSS
15 25 (2.62%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 93 (9.75%) Cloud Native
2 53 (5.56%) Product Ownership
3 30 (3.14%) Distributed Systems
4 25 (2.62%) Legacy Systems
5 23 (2.41%) CMDB
6 21 (2.20%) Enterprise Software
7 20 (2.10%) Mobile App
8 18 (1.89%) Onboarding
9 15 (1.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 15 (1.57%) Hybrid Cloud
10 12 (1.26%) AI Agents
10 12 (1.26%) Greenfield Project
10 12 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
11 11 (1.15%) Fixed Income
11 11 (1.15%) Linux Command Line
11 11 (1.15%) Low-Code
11 11 (1.15%) NHS
12 10 (1.05%) Data Structures
12 10 (1.05%) Security Posture
13 9 (0.94%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 45 (4.72%) Windows
2 42 (4.40%) Linux
3 18 (1.89%) Android
4 13 (1.36%) Apple iOS
5 11 (1.15%) Windows Server
6 10 (1.05%) VMS
7 8 (0.84%) Unix
8 7 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.21%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.10%) Robot Operating System
11 1 (0.10%) Solaris
11 1 (0.10%) SUSE
11 1 (0.10%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.10%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 952 (99.79%) DevOps
2 504 (52.83%) CI/CD
3 473 (49.58%) Agile
4 228 (23.90%) Infrastructure as Code
5 206 (21.59%) Scrum
6 181 (18.97%) Problem-Solving
7 159 (16.67%) Test Automation
8 138 (14.47%) Analytics
9 121 (12.68%) Containerisation
10 114 (11.95%) Validation
11 113 (11.84%) Continuous Improvement
12 106 (11.11%) Microservices
13 103 (10.80%) Business Intelligence
14 100 (10.48%) AI
15 98 (10.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 96 (10.06%) Migration
17 86 (9.01%) Stakeholder Management
18 73 (7.65%) Infrastructure Automation
19 70 (7.34%) Data Engineering
20 67 (7.02%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 270 (28.30%) SQL
2 249 (26.10%) Python
3 204 (21.38%) C#
4 162 (16.98%) JavaScript
5 116 (12.16%) PowerShell
6 78 (8.18%) Bicep
7 75 (7.86%) Java
8 63 (6.60%) Bash
9 55 (5.77%) TypeScript
10 43 (4.51%) PL/SQL
11 12 (1.26%) Go
12 8 (0.84%) Kusto Query Language
12 8 (0.84%) T-SQL
13 7 (0.73%) Korn
13 7 (0.73%) PHP
13 7 (0.73%) VBA
14 6 (0.63%) VB
14 6 (0.63%) VB.NET
14 6 (0.63%) X++
15 5 (0.52%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 229 (24.00%) Security Cleared
2 189 (19.81%) SC Cleared
3 66 (6.92%) Degree
4 64 (6.71%) Azure Certification
5 31 (3.25%) Microsoft Certification
6 28 (2.94%) DV Cleared
7 26 (2.73%) Computer Science Degree
8 15 (1.57%) ISTQB
9 13 (1.36%) AWS Certification
10 10 (1.05%) Master's Degree
11 9 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
11 9 (0.94%) PMI Certification
12 7 (0.73%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 6 (0.63%) CISSP
13 6 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
13 6 (0.63%) Numerate Degree
14 5 (0.52%) CBAP
14 5 (0.52%) ISEB
14 5 (0.52%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 5 (0.52%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (7.76%) QA
2 38 (3.98%) Accessibility
3 32 (3.35%) Data Quality
4 31 (3.25%) GDPR
5 17 (1.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 17 (1.78%) NIST
6 12 (1.26%) NCSC
7 7 (0.73%) EU AI Act
8 6 (0.63%) WCAG
9 5 (0.52%) PMO
10 4 (0.42%) HL7
11 3 (0.31%) Government Security Classifications
11 3 (0.31%) PSD2
11 3 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.31%) SOC 2
11 3 (0.31%) Solvency II
12 2 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.21%) GRC
12 2 (0.21%) GxP
System Software
1 159 (16.67%) Docker
2 51 (5.35%) Active Directory
3 22 (2.31%) Virtual Machines
4 11 (1.15%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (0.52%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.21%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.10%) KVM
7 1 (0.10%) Squid
7 1 (0.10%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 255 (26.73%) Terraform
2 171 (17.92%) Kubernetes
3 68 (7.13%) Ansible
4 41 (4.30%) Grafana
5 39 (4.09%) Prometheus
6 16 (1.68%) Puppet
7 13 (1.36%) Progress Chef
8 9 (0.94%) Istio
9 8 (0.84%) HP ALM
9 8 (0.84%) Kibana
9 8 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
10 7 (0.73%) Argo
10 7 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
10 7 (0.73%) Podman
11 3 (0.31%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (0.31%) Packer
11 3 (0.31%) vCenter Server
12 2 (0.21%) Fluentd
12 2 (0.21%) Opsgenie
12 2 (0.21%) SCCM
Vendors
1 293 (30.71%) Microsoft
2 99 (10.38%) Databricks
3 74 (7.76%) Oracle
4 54 (5.66%) ServiceNow
5 34 (3.56%) Salesforce
6 25 (2.62%) OpenAI
7 19 (1.99%) SAP
8 17 (1.78%) Google
8 17 (1.78%) Splunk
9 16 (1.68%) MuleSoft
10 9 (0.94%) VMware
11 8 (0.84%) DocuSign
11 8 (0.84%) HP
11 8 (0.84%) Murex
12 7 (0.73%) Brio
12 7 (0.73%) NetApp
12 7 (0.73%) Sitecore
13 6 (0.63%) Cisco
13 6 (0.63%) Dynatrace
13 6 (0.63%) UiPath