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 18 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
18 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 87 75
Rank change year-on-year +15 -12 -3
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,437 761 1,032
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.19% 2.80% 2.86%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.13% 7.47% 8.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,022 545 694
10th Percentile £363 £350 £400
25th Percentile £419 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £694 £725 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 3 4
10th Percentile £21.25 £36.45 -
25th Percentile £25.38 £45.75 £65.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% -4.58% -6.43%
75th Percentile £88.00 £76.25 £65.75
90th Percentile £103.70 £83.75 -
UK median hourly rate £61.75 £85.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year -27.35% +29.77% -6.43%

All Cloud Computing 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 15,743 10,190 11,973
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.99% 37.43% 33.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,552 6,893 8,511
10th Percentile £325 £313 £312
25th Percentile £421 £409 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £717 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £519 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +3.70% -4.67% -3.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 557 268 303
10th Percentile £16.70 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £22.50 £18.04 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.50 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +57.06% +14.32% -33.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.39 £43.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £27.76 £22.00
% change year-on-year +29.68% +26.18% -37.14%

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 18 July 2026.

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 18 July 2026.

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 18 July 2026. 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 +19 795 £505 -3.81% 125
South East -11 178 £500 +9.29% 85
Midlands +17 162 £465 -7.00% 41
North of England +5 162 £485 -2.95% 56
West Midlands +8 118 £450 -14.29% 27
North West +2 82 £500 -4.76% 32
South West +1 74 £475 -15.37% 22
Yorkshire -19 60 £500 - 19
East Midlands +1 42 £525 +5.53% 14
East of England +12 38 £425 -11.69% 20
North East -14 20 £450 -18.18% 6
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
1 103 (7.17%) Confluence
2 86 (5.98%) SharePoint
3 36 (2.51%) Apache Spark
4 31 (2.16%) Apache
5 26 (1.81%) Apache Airflow
6 14 (0.97%) Microsoft Exchange
7 7 (0.49%) CMS
8 6 (0.42%) Documentum
9 4 (0.28%) IIS
10 3 (0.21%) Kentico
10 3 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (0.21%) SAS
11 2 (0.14%) Mendix
11 2 (0.14%) OpenROAD
11 2 (0.14%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.070%) HCL Notes
12 1 (0.070%) IBM HTTP Server
12 1 (0.070%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.070%) SharePoint Server
12 1 (0.070%) WebLogic
Applications
1 52 (3.62%) Microsoft Project
2 35 (2.44%) Microsoft Excel
3 21 (1.46%) MS Visio
4 13 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
5 8 (0.56%) CPLEX
5 8 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 6 (0.42%) Trello
7 5 (0.35%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.28%) Notion
8 4 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.070%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.070%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 48 (3.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 20 (1.39%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.49%) Dynamics AX
4 6 (0.42%) Maximo
5 4 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.21%) Endur
6 3 (0.21%) Findur
6 3 (0.21%) SAP BPC
6 3 (0.21%) SAP MDG
6 3 (0.21%) SAP MM
6 3 (0.21%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 2 (0.14%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.14%) Dynamics GP
7 2 (0.14%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
7 2 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.14%) Unit4 Business World
8 1 (0.070%) Loan IQ
8 1 (0.070%) Oracle Financials
8 1 (0.070%) SAP SD
8 1 (0.070%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 1,437 (100.00%) Azure
2 362 (25.19%) GitHub
3 243 (16.91%) GitHub Actions
4 222 (15.45%) Power Platform
5 206 (14.34%) AWS
6 121 (8.42%) Azure Data Factory
7 113 (7.86%) Entra ID
8 110 (7.65%) Dynamics 365
9 108 (7.52%) Azure Monitor
10 105 (7.31%) Azure AKS
11 103 (7.17%) Power Automate
12 90 (6.26%) Serverless
13 80 (5.57%) Azure Key Vault
14 78 (5.43%) PowerApps
15 77 (5.36%) GCP
16 72 (5.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 62 (4.31%) Azure Logic Apps
18 60 (4.18%) Microsoft 365
19 55 (3.83%) Azure Functions
19 55 (3.83%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 49 (3.41%) Firewall
2 28 (1.95%) DNS
3 27 (1.88%) Network Security
4 19 (1.32%) VPN
5 13 (0.90%) SD-WAN
5 13 (0.90%) WAN
6 10 (0.70%) SSL
7 9 (0.63%) DHCP
7 9 (0.63%) Internet
8 8 (0.56%) TCP/IP
9 6 (0.42%) LAN
9 6 (0.42%) VLAN
10 3 (0.21%) IPsec
11 2 (0.14%) BGP
11 2 (0.14%) NAS
11 2 (0.14%) OSPF
11 2 (0.14%) SAN
11 2 (0.14%) SSH
11 2 (0.14%) Wi-Fi
11 2 (0.14%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 142 (9.88%) Power BI
2 106 (7.38%) SQL Server
3 75 (5.22%) Data Lake
4 67 (4.66%) Azure SQL Database
5 64 (4.45%) Data Warehouse
6 55 (3.83%) Delta Lake
7 47 (3.27%) NoSQL
7 47 (3.27%) PostgreSQL
8 28 (1.95%) Relational Database
9 23 (1.60%) MongoDB
10 22 (1.53%) Snowflake Schema
11 21 (1.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 19 (1.32%) Metadata
12 19 (1.32%) Redis
12 19 (1.32%) Spark SQL
13 15 (1.04%) Oracle Database
14 14 (0.97%) Big Data
15 13 (0.90%) Amazon Redshift
16 12 (0.84%) Parquet
17 9 (0.63%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 293 (20.39%) JIRA
2 236 (16.42%) Git
3 148 (10.30%) Jenkins
4 110 (7.65%) GitLab
5 61 (4.24%) Selenium
6 33 (2.30%) Postman
7 24 (1.67%) Cypress.io
7 24 (1.67%) SonarQube
7 24 (1.67%) Visual Studio
8 22 (1.53%) Cucumber
8 22 (1.53%) REST Assured
9 21 (1.46%) WebDriver
10 16 (1.11%) Team Foundation Server
10 16 (1.11%) TestRail
11 15 (1.04%) Gradle
11 15 (1.04%) JUnit
12 13 (0.90%) Bitbucket
13 11 (0.77%) MSI
13 11 (0.77%) NUnit
13 11 (0.77%) SpecFlow
General
1 368 (25.61%) Social Skills
2 294 (20.46%) Finance
3 169 (11.76%) Public Sector
4 154 (10.72%) Analytical Skills
5 69 (4.80%) Banking
6 59 (4.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 32 (2.23%) Organisational Skills
8 28 (1.95%) Legal
9 26 (1.81%) Documentation Skills
10 25 (1.74%) Retail
11 23 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
12 14 (0.97%) Aerospace
13 12 (0.84%) Law
14 11 (0.77%) Investment Banking
14 11 (0.77%) Local Government
14 11 (0.77%) Marketing
15 9 (0.63%) Billing
15 9 (0.63%) Front Office
16 8 (0.56%) Manufacturing
17 7 (0.49%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 270 (18.79%) Developer
2 215 (14.96%) Azure Engineer
3 207 (14.41%) DevOps Engineer
4 200 (13.92%) Senior
5 130 (9.05%) Analyst
6 129 (8.98%) Data Engineer
7 128 (8.91%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 123 (8.56%) Lead
9 96 (6.68%) Architect
10 67 (4.66%) Business Analyst
11 52 (3.62%) Platform Engineer
12 48 (3.34%) Test Analyst
13 47 (3.27%) Project Manager
14 46 (3.20%) Tester
15 42 (2.92%) Solutions Architect
16 39 (2.71%) Consultant
17 38 (2.64%) Full-Stack Developer
18 37 (2.57%) .NET Developer
18 37 (2.57%) Cloud Engineer
19 36 (2.51%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 184 (12.80%) .NET
2 154 (10.72%) REST
3 77 (5.36%) PySpark
4 75 (5.22%) ADO
4 75 (5.22%) RESTful
5 65 (4.52%) JSON
5 65 (4.52%) YAML
6 63 (4.38%) React
7 59 (4.11%) Kafka
8 55 (3.83%) .NET Framework
9 51 (3.55%) Playwright
10 50 (3.48%) ARM Templates
11 45 (3.13%) .NET Core
12 44 (3.06%) SOAP
13 40 (2.78%) HTML
14 38 (2.64%) Node.js
15 37 (2.57%) CSS
16 33 (2.30%) OAuth
17 31 (2.16%) AngularJS
17 31 (2.16%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 165 (11.48%) Cloud Native
2 100 (6.96%) Product Ownership
3 52 (3.62%) Distributed Systems
4 48 (3.34%) Legacy Systems
5 41 (2.85%) Onboarding
6 30 (2.09%) Enterprise Software
7 27 (1.88%) Self-Motivation
8 22 (1.53%) Reinsurance
9 20 (1.39%) Hybrid Cloud
9 20 (1.39%) Management Information System
10 19 (1.32%) Data Structures
10 19 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
10 19 (1.32%) Mobile App
11 18 (1.25%) Replication
12 14 (0.97%) AI Agents
13 13 (0.90%) Enterprise Cloud
13 13 (0.90%) Low-Code
13 13 (0.90%) Virtual Team
14 12 (0.84%) Data Centre
14 12 (0.84%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 87 (6.05%) Windows
2 54 (3.76%) Linux
3 16 (1.11%) Windows Server
4 14 (0.97%) VMS
5 9 (0.63%) Unix
6 8 (0.56%) Android
6 8 (0.56%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.28%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.070%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,437 (100.00%) DevOps
2 772 (53.72%) CI/CD
3 587 (40.85%) Agile
4 338 (23.52%) Infrastructure as Code
5 245 (17.05%) Test Automation
6 229 (15.94%) Problem-Solving
7 224 (15.59%) Analytics
8 215 (14.96%) Continuous Improvement
9 209 (14.54%) Stakeholder Management
10 204 (14.20%) Scrum
11 196 (13.64%) Migration
12 186 (12.94%) Containerisation
13 158 (11.00%) Data Modelling
14 153 (10.65%) Business Intelligence
15 143 (9.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 142 (9.88%) Microservices
17 141 (9.81%) AI
18 140 (9.74%) User Acceptance Testing
19 131 (9.12%) Platform Engineering
19 131 (9.12%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 403 (28.04%) SQL
2 348 (24.22%) Python
3 236 (16.42%) C#
4 160 (11.13%) PowerShell
5 135 (9.39%) JavaScript
6 122 (8.49%) Bicep
7 107 (7.45%) Bash
7 107 (7.45%) Java
8 84 (5.85%) TypeScript
9 26 (1.81%) T-SQL
10 20 (1.39%) Go
10 20 (1.39%) Scala
11 15 (1.04%) Kusto Query Language
12 12 (0.84%) Apex Code
12 12 (0.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 11 (0.77%) PL/SQL
14 10 (0.70%) X++
15 8 (0.56%) VB
16 6 (0.42%) C
16 6 (0.42%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 410 (28.53%) Security Cleared
2 336 (23.38%) SC Cleared
3 98 (6.82%) Azure Certification
4 93 (6.47%) Degree
5 51 (3.55%) DV Cleared
6 40 (2.78%) Microsoft Certification
7 39 (2.71%) ISTQB
8 35 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
9 31 (2.16%) Computer Science Degree
10 22 (1.53%) AWS Certification
11 16 (1.11%) PMI Certification
11 16 (1.11%) PMP
12 12 (0.84%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 12 (0.84%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 12 (0.84%) Master's Degree
13 9 (0.63%) DBS Check
14 8 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
15 6 (0.42%) CISSP
16 5 (0.35%) ITIL Certification
16 5 (0.35%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 163 (11.34%) QA
2 97 (6.75%) Data Quality
3 79 (5.50%) Accessibility
4 48 (3.34%) GDPR
5 45 (3.13%) WCAG
6 22 (1.53%) PMO
7 17 (1.18%) NIST
8 16 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 16 (1.11%) SLA
9 13 (0.90%) NCSC
10 11 (0.77%) GRC
11 9 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 5 (0.35%) PCI DSS
13 3 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
13 3 (0.21%) Government Security Classifications
14 2 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
14 2 (0.14%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 2 (0.14%) NIST 800
14 2 (0.14%) PSD2
14 2 (0.14%) SEPA
System Software
1 194 (13.50%) Docker
2 72 (5.01%) Active Directory
3 30 (2.09%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (0.97%) Virtual Desktop
5 12 (0.84%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.28%) Firmware
7 3 (0.21%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.14%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 2 (0.14%) Embedded Firmware
8 2 (0.14%) Microsoft App-V
8 2 (0.14%) OpenSSH
8 2 (0.14%) Postfix
8 2 (0.14%) vSphere
9 1 (0.070%) HDFS
9 1 (0.070%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.070%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 373 (25.96%) Terraform
2 245 (17.05%) Kubernetes
3 81 (5.64%) Ansible
4 56 (3.90%) Grafana
5 49 (3.41%) Prometheus
6 20 (1.39%) Argo
7 18 (1.25%) Puppet
8 17 (1.18%) Progress Chef
9 15 (1.04%) HP ALM
9 15 (1.04%) Microsoft Intune
10 14 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
11 12 (0.84%) Istio
11 12 (0.84%) Packer
12 7 (0.49%) HP Quality Center
13 6 (0.42%) Jamf Pro
14 4 (0.28%) SCCM
14 4 (0.28%) SCOM
15 3 (0.21%) Rancher
16 2 (0.14%) linkerd
16 2 (0.14%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 441 (30.69%) Microsoft
2 133 (9.26%) Databricks
3 70 (4.87%) Oracle
4 59 (4.11%) ServiceNow
5 50 (3.48%) Salesforce
6 48 (3.34%) SAP
7 28 (1.95%) Google
8 25 (1.74%) Splunk
9 20 (1.39%) Dynatrace
10 19 (1.32%) OpenAI
11 18 (1.25%) Informatica
11 18 (1.25%) VMware
12 16 (1.11%) HP
13 14 (0.97%) Foundry
14 10 (0.70%) Bloomberg
14 10 (0.70%) IBM
14 10 (0.70%) MuleSoft
15 9 (0.63%) Guidewire
15 9 (0.63%) InterSystems
16 8 (0.56%) Citrix
309 Azure DevOps jobs in England