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 4 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
4 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 83 83 78
Rank change year-on-year 0 -5 +10
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 948 837 1,034
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.04% 2.74% 2.73%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.95% 7.55% 7.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 680 567 798
10th Percentile £356 £377 £410
25th Percentile £413 £461 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £600 £635 £638
90th Percentile £682 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
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 11,931 11,085 13,325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.30% 36.26% 35.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,163 7,389 9,709
10th Percentile £305 £313 £288
25th Percentile £406 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £650 £645
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 291 148 267
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.00 £14.32
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £26.30 £32.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.81% +28.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £51.83 £56.31 £54.38
90th Percentile £78.75 £70.00 £77.70
UK median hourly rate £26.30 £30.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -12.33% +15.38% +17.33%

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 4 December 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 4 December 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 4 December 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 -4 505 £516 -6.14% 123
South East -8 124 £500 -9.09% 127
North of England -25 99 £500 -3.61% 68
Midlands +6 85 £500 -2.20% 44
South West +35 75 £475 -3.55% 39
West Midlands -15 52 £575 +9.52% 31
North West -8 47 £403 -26.82% 37
Yorkshire -25 47 £515 +3.00% 19
East Midlands +10 33 £434 -8.68% 13
East of England +4 30 £525 -20.75% 18
North East -5 5 £600 +23.08% 12
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 (5.59%) SharePoint
2 50 (5.27%) Confluence
3 14 (1.48%) Apache Spark
4 12 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
5 11 (1.16%) Apache
6 8 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.53%) CMS
8 4 (0.42%) IIS
8 4 (0.42%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.32%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.32%) Documentum
9 3 (0.32%) HCL Notes
9 3 (0.32%) Sitecore CMS
10 2 (0.21%) Anypoint
10 2 (0.21%) Mendix
10 2 (0.21%) Mule
11 1 (0.11%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.11%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.11%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.11%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 31 (3.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.16%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (1.16%) Microsoft Project
3 10 (1.05%) MS Visio
4 8 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.32%) Trello
6 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 31 (3.27%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (1.05%) Aladdin
3 5 (0.53%) Endur
3 5 (0.53%) NEC Housing
3 5 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.21%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.21%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.21%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.21%) Primavera
5 2 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.21%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.11%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.11%) SAP BPC
6 1 (0.11%) SAP MRS
6 1 (0.11%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.11%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 947 (99.89%) Azure
2 216 (22.78%) GitHub
3 162 (17.09%) Power Platform
4 159 (16.77%) GitHub Actions
5 125 (13.19%) AWS
6 111 (11.71%) Azure AKS
7 107 (11.29%) Serverless
8 89 (9.39%) Azure Monitor
9 88 (9.28%) Azure Data Factory
10 86 (9.07%) Dynamics 365
11 79 (8.33%) Entra ID
12 70 (7.38%) Azure Logic Apps
13 64 (6.75%) PowerApps
14 62 (6.54%) Azure Functions
15 60 (6.33%) Power Automate
16 59 (6.22%) Azure Key Vault
17 56 (5.91%) GCP
18 53 (5.59%) Azure Service Bus
19 49 (5.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
20 44 (4.64%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 32 (3.38%) Firewall
2 21 (2.22%) Network Security
3 17 (1.79%) DNS
4 16 (1.69%) VPN
5 10 (1.05%) WAN
6 8 (0.84%) SD-WAN
7 5 (0.53%) LAN
8 4 (0.42%) DHCP
8 4 (0.42%) HTTP
8 4 (0.42%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.21%) AMQP
9 2 (0.21%) DSL
9 2 (0.21%) MPLS
9 2 (0.21%) NGFW
9 2 (0.21%) Remote Desktop
9 2 (0.21%) SSL
9 2 (0.21%) VLAN
10 1 (0.11%) iSCSI
10 1 (0.11%) VRRP
10 1 (0.11%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (11.08%) Power BI
2 55 (5.80%) SQL Server
3 41 (4.32%) Azure SQL Database
4 40 (4.22%) PostgreSQL
5 37 (3.90%) Data Warehouse
6 29 (3.06%) Data Lake
7 24 (2.53%) NoSQL
8 21 (2.22%) Delta Lake
8 21 (2.22%) MongoDB
9 18 (1.90%) Redis
9 18 (1.90%) Relational Database
10 12 (1.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 11 (1.16%) MySQL
11 11 (1.16%) Oracle Database
12 10 (1.05%) Big Data
12 10 (1.05%) Tableau
13 9 (0.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 8 (0.84%) DynamoDB
14 8 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
14 8 (0.84%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 176 (18.57%) JIRA
2 138 (14.56%) Git
3 102 (10.76%) Jenkins
4 63 (6.65%) GitLab
5 51 (5.38%) Selenium
6 36 (3.80%) Oracle APEX
7 35 (3.69%) Postman
8 27 (2.85%) SonarQube
9 19 (2.00%) JUnit
10 18 (1.90%) Cucumber
10 18 (1.90%) Cypress.io
11 16 (1.69%) Bitbucket
12 14 (1.48%) JMeter
12 14 (1.48%) SpecFlow
13 12 (1.27%) Gradle
14 10 (1.05%) Artifactory
14 10 (1.05%) TestRail
15 9 (0.95%) CircleCI
15 9 (0.95%) REST Assured
15 9 (0.95%) TeamCity
General
1 322 (33.97%) Social Skills
2 178 (18.78%) Finance
3 107 (11.29%) Public Sector
4 85 (8.97%) Analytical Skills
5 53 (5.59%) Banking
6 32 (3.38%) Documentation Skills
7 30 (3.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 24 (2.53%) Investment Banking
9 23 (2.43%) Influencing Skills
10 22 (2.32%) Retail
11 19 (2.00%) Law
12 13 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
13 12 (1.27%) Marketing
14 11 (1.16%) Back Office
14 11 (1.16%) Billing
14 11 (1.16%) Financial Institution
15 10 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
16 8 (0.84%) Telecoms
17 7 (0.74%) Front Office
17 7 (0.74%) Military
Job Titles
1 259 (27.32%) Developer
2 136 (14.35%) Senior
3 121 (12.76%) Azure Engineer
4 117 (12.34%) DevOps Engineer
5 90 (9.49%) Analyst
6 75 (7.91%) Lead
7 64 (6.75%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 60 (6.33%) Senior Developer
9 58 (6.12%) Architect
10 47 (4.96%) Business Analyst
11 45 (4.75%) Data Engineer
12 41 (4.32%) Azure Developer
13 35 (3.69%) Test Analyst
14 29 (3.06%) Platform Engineer
15 28 (2.95%) Project Manager
15 28 (2.95%) Tester
16 27 (2.85%) .NET Developer
16 27 (2.85%) Azure Architect
17 24 (2.53%) Software Engineer
18 23 (2.43%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 190 (20.04%) .NET
2 87 (9.18%) REST
3 62 (6.54%) ADO
3 62 (6.54%) RESTful
4 58 (6.12%) React
5 54 (5.70%) Node.js
6 51 (5.38%) YAML
7 49 (5.17%) ARM Templates
8 46 (4.85%) .NET Core
9 45 (4.75%) SOAP
10 37 (3.90%) AngularJS
11 35 (3.69%) JSON
12 34 (3.59%) Kafka
12 34 (3.59%) PySpark
13 33 (3.48%) OAuth
14 32 (3.38%) .NET Framework
15 30 (3.16%) HTML
16 28 (2.95%) Playwright
17 23 (2.43%) XML
18 22 (2.32%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 95 (10.02%) Cloud Native
2 53 (5.59%) Product Ownership
3 32 (3.38%) Distributed Systems
4 24 (2.53%) CMDB
5 21 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
5 21 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
6 19 (2.00%) Mobile App
7 18 (1.90%) Onboarding
8 15 (1.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 15 (1.58%) Hybrid Cloud
9 13 (1.37%) AI Agents
9 13 (1.37%) Low-Code
10 12 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
10 12 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
11 11 (1.16%) Fixed Income
11 11 (1.16%) Linux Command Line
11 11 (1.16%) NHS
12 10 (1.05%) Security Posture
13 9 (0.95%) Public Cloud
14 8 (0.84%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 47 (4.96%) Windows
2 41 (4.32%) Linux
3 17 (1.79%) Android
4 13 (1.37%) Apple iOS
5 12 (1.27%) Windows Server
6 10 (1.05%) VMS
7 7 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.74%) Unix
8 3 (0.32%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.21%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.11%) Robot Operating System
10 1 (0.11%) Solaris
10 1 (0.11%) SUSE
10 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.11%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 946 (99.79%) DevOps
2 503 (53.06%) CI/CD
3 461 (48.63%) Agile
4 225 (23.73%) Infrastructure as Code
5 203 (21.41%) Scrum
6 184 (19.41%) Problem-Solving
7 161 (16.98%) Test Automation
8 135 (14.24%) Analytics
9 123 (12.97%) Containerisation
10 118 (12.45%) Validation
11 117 (12.34%) Continuous Improvement
12 107 (11.29%) Microservices
13 105 (11.08%) Business Intelligence
14 102 (10.76%) AI
15 99 (10.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 94 (9.92%) Migration
17 88 (9.28%) Stakeholder Management
18 72 (7.59%) Data Engineering
18 72 (7.59%) Infrastructure Automation
19 69 (7.28%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 261 (27.53%) SQL
2 245 (25.84%) Python
3 202 (21.31%) C#
4 158 (16.67%) JavaScript
5 114 (12.03%) PowerShell
6 79 (8.33%) Bicep
7 75 (7.91%) Java
8 60 (6.33%) Bash
9 56 (5.91%) TypeScript
10 45 (4.75%) PL/SQL
11 11 (1.16%) Go
12 9 (0.95%) Kusto Query Language
13 8 (0.84%) T-SQL
14 7 (0.74%) PHP
14 7 (0.74%) VBA
15 6 (0.63%) Scala
15 6 (0.63%) VB.NET
15 6 (0.63%) X++
16 5 (0.53%) Korn
16 5 (0.53%) VB
Qualifications
1 231 (24.37%) Security Cleared
2 191 (20.15%) SC Cleared
3 68 (7.17%) Azure Certification
4 67 (7.07%) Degree
5 31 (3.27%) Microsoft Certification
6 28 (2.95%) Computer Science Degree
6 28 (2.95%) DV Cleared
7 15 (1.58%) ISTQB
8 14 (1.48%) AWS Certification
9 10 (1.05%) Master's Degree
10 9 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
10 9 (0.95%) PMI Certification
11 7 (0.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 6 (0.63%) CISSP
12 6 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
13 5 (0.53%) CBAP
13 5 (0.53%) ISEB
13 5 (0.53%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 5 (0.53%) Numerate Degree
13 5 (0.53%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (8.33%) QA
2 37 (3.90%) Accessibility
3 32 (3.38%) GDPR
4 31 (3.27%) Data Quality
5 18 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 18 (1.90%) NIST
6 12 (1.27%) NCSC
7 7 (0.74%) EU AI Act
7 7 (0.74%) WCAG
8 6 (0.63%) PMO
9 5 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.42%) HL7
11 3 (0.32%) Government Security Classifications
11 3 (0.32%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.32%) PSD2
11 3 (0.32%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.21%) GRC
12 2 (0.21%) HIPAA
System Software
1 161 (16.98%) Docker
2 51 (5.38%) Active Directory
3 21 (2.22%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (1.05%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.21%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.11%) KVM
7 1 (0.11%) Squid
7 1 (0.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 253 (26.69%) Terraform
2 169 (17.83%) Kubernetes
3 69 (7.28%) Ansible
4 40 (4.22%) Grafana
5 38 (4.01%) Prometheus
6 15 (1.58%) Puppet
7 13 (1.37%) Progress Chef
8 8 (0.84%) HP ALM
8 8 (0.84%) Kibana
8 8 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
9 7 (0.74%) Istio
9 7 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
9 7 (0.74%) Podman
10 6 (0.63%) Argo
11 4 (0.42%) Packer
12 3 (0.32%) vCenter Server
13 2 (0.21%) Fluentd
13 2 (0.21%) Kubeflow
13 2 (0.21%) Opsgenie
13 2 (0.21%) SCCM
Vendors
1 288 (30.38%) Microsoft
2 103 (10.86%) Databricks
3 84 (8.86%) Oracle
4 57 (6.01%) ServiceNow
5 31 (3.27%) Salesforce
6 25 (2.64%) OpenAI
7 21 (2.22%) Splunk
8 19 (2.00%) SAP
9 16 (1.69%) Google
10 15 (1.58%) MuleSoft
11 10 (1.05%) VMware
12 8 (0.84%) DocuSign
12 8 (0.84%) HP
12 8 (0.84%) Murex
13 7 (0.74%) Brio
13 7 (0.74%) Dynatrace
13 7 (0.74%) Sitecore
14 6 (0.63%) Cisco
14 6 (0.63%) Citrix
14 6 (0.63%) NetApp
353 Azure DevOps jobs in England