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

 6 months to
18 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 89 74
Rank change year-on-year +17 -15 +1
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,533 774 940
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.35% 2.80% 2.84%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.60% 7.54% 8.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,081 559 631
10th Percentile £363 £350 £380
25th Percentile £416 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £601 £600
90th Percentile £675 £714 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 3 0
10th Percentile £21.25 £36.45 -
25th Percentile £36.12 £45.75 -
Median hourly rate £46.80 £62.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -25.12% - -
75th Percentile £79.50 £76.25 -
90th Percentile £101.51 £83.75 -
UK median hourly rate £50.90 £73.75 -
% change year-on-year -30.98% - -

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 15,975 10,267 11,194
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.93% 37.18% 33.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,666 6,947 7,935
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £512 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £644
90th Percentile £723 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 553 271 219
10th Percentile £15.55 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £18.31 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.50 £26.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.54% +4.00% -22.65%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £54.38
90th Percentile £83.54 £67.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £27.88 £25.00
% change year-on-year +25.54% +11.52% -28.15%

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 August 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 August 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 August 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 +20 864 £500 -4.76% 301
South East -18 188 £525 +14.75% 143
Midlands +39 174 £458 -9.63% 69
North of England +3 171 £480 -5.65% 120
West Midlands +31 127 £450 -18.18% 42
North West +5 87 £500 -4.76% 67
South West -6 72 £475 -9.52% 43
Yorkshire -20 59 £478 -4.50% 40
East Midlands +4 45 £513 +7.89% 27
East of England +5 36 £425 -12.82% 53
North East -15 25 £450 -18.18% 13
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 (6.72%) Confluence
2 91 (5.94%) SharePoint
3 37 (2.41%) Apache Spark
4 32 (2.09%) Apache Airflow
5 31 (2.02%) Apache
6 13 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
7 10 (0.65%) CMS
8 6 (0.39%) Documentum
9 5 (0.33%) IIS
10 4 (0.26%) Mendix
11 3 (0.20%) Kentico
11 3 (0.20%) Palantir Foundry
11 3 (0.20%) SAS
12 2 (0.13%) nginx
12 2 (0.13%) OpenROAD
12 2 (0.13%) Umbraco
13 1 (0.065%) ArcGIS
13 1 (0.065%) Oracle Workflow
13 1 (0.065%) Smallworld
13 1 (0.065%) WebLogic
Applications
1 58 (3.78%) Microsoft Project
2 37 (2.41%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (1.11%) MS Visio
4 12 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
5 10 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 7 (0.46%) Chatbot
6 7 (0.46%) CPLEX
6 7 (0.46%) Trello
7 5 (0.33%) Notion
8 3 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.065%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.065%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 47 (3.07%) Dynamics CRM
2 20 (1.30%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.46%) Dynamics AX
4 5 (0.33%) Maximo
5 4 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.20%) Aladdin
6 3 (0.20%) Endur
6 3 (0.20%) Findur
6 3 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
6 3 (0.20%) SAP BPC
6 3 (0.20%) SAP MDG
7 2 (0.13%) Dynamics GP
7 2 (0.13%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
7 2 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.13%) SAP MM
7 2 (0.13%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 2 (0.13%) Teamcenter
7 2 (0.13%) Unit4 Business World
8 1 (0.065%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 1,533 (100.00%) Azure
2 402 (26.22%) GitHub
3 275 (17.94%) GitHub Actions
4 252 (16.44%) Power Platform
5 235 (15.33%) AWS
6 141 (9.20%) Azure Data Factory
7 137 (8.94%) Entra ID
8 121 (7.89%) Dynamics 365
9 120 (7.83%) Azure AKS
10 116 (7.57%) Power Automate
11 113 (7.37%) Azure Monitor
12 101 (6.59%) Serverless
13 91 (5.94%) PowerApps
14 89 (5.81%) GCP
15 80 (5.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 76 (4.96%) Azure Logic Apps
17 73 (4.76%) Azure Key Vault
18 71 (4.63%) Microsoft 365
19 67 (4.37%) PaaS
20 66 (4.31%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 66 (4.31%) Firewall
2 37 (2.41%) DNS
3 35 (2.28%) Network Security
4 27 (1.76%) VPN
5 16 (1.04%) WAN
6 15 (0.98%) SSL
7 14 (0.91%) DHCP
7 14 (0.91%) SD-WAN
8 9 (0.59%) Internet
9 8 (0.52%) VLAN
10 7 (0.46%) LAN
10 7 (0.46%) TCP/IP
11 4 (0.26%) SAN
11 4 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
12 3 (0.20%) 4G
12 3 (0.20%) BGP
12 3 (0.20%) OSPF
12 3 (0.20%) RS-232
12 3 (0.20%) RS-485
13 2 (0.13%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 164 (10.70%) Power BI
2 108 (7.05%) SQL Server
3 74 (4.83%) Data Lake
4 72 (4.70%) Azure SQL Database
5 70 (4.57%) Data Warehouse
6 57 (3.72%) NoSQL
7 51 (3.33%) Delta Lake
8 44 (2.87%) PostgreSQL
9 26 (1.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 24 (1.57%) Metadata
10 24 (1.57%) Relational Database
11 21 (1.37%) MongoDB
12 19 (1.24%) Big Data
12 19 (1.24%) Snowflake Schema
12 19 (1.24%) Spark SQL
13 16 (1.04%) Redis
14 14 (0.91%) Amazon Redshift
15 13 (0.85%) Parquet
16 12 (0.78%) Data Vault
16 12 (0.78%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 288 (18.79%) JIRA
2 249 (16.24%) Git
3 186 (12.13%) Jenkins
4 145 (9.46%) GitLab
5 68 (4.44%) Selenium
6 34 (2.22%) Postman
7 31 (2.02%) SonarQube
8 27 (1.76%) Visual Studio
9 25 (1.63%) Cypress.io
9 25 (1.63%) WebDriver
10 23 (1.50%) Cucumber
11 18 (1.17%) Gradle
11 18 (1.17%) REST Assured
12 17 (1.11%) JUnit
12 17 (1.11%) TestRail
13 15 (0.98%) Bitbucket
13 15 (0.98%) Maven
14 14 (0.91%) MSI
15 12 (0.78%) Sonatype Nexus
16 11 (0.72%) Snyk
General
1 403 (26.29%) Social Skills
2 315 (20.55%) Finance
3 190 (12.39%) Public Sector
4 157 (10.24%) Analytical Skills
5 84 (5.48%) Banking
6 75 (4.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 33 (2.15%) Retail
8 28 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
8 28 (1.83%) Legal
9 25 (1.63%) Organisational Skills
10 24 (1.57%) Aerospace
11 23 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
12 15 (0.98%) Investment Banking
12 15 (0.98%) Marketing
13 13 (0.85%) Law
13 13 (0.85%) Local Government
14 11 (0.72%) Manufacturing
15 9 (0.59%) Billing
16 8 (0.52%) Pharmaceutical
16 8 (0.52%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 280 (18.26%) Developer
2 227 (14.81%) Senior
3 224 (14.61%) Azure Engineer
4 212 (13.83%) DevOps Engineer
5 135 (8.81%) Lead
6 127 (8.28%) Data Engineer
7 126 (8.22%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 121 (7.89%) Analyst
9 108 (7.05%) Architect
10 58 (3.78%) Business Analyst
11 54 (3.52%) Platform Engineer
12 52 (3.39%) Project Manager
13 51 (3.33%) Cloud Engineer
14 47 (3.07%) Consultant
15 44 (2.87%) Test Analyst
16 43 (2.80%) Solutions Architect
17 42 (2.74%) .NET Developer
17 42 (2.74%) Senior Developer
17 42 (2.74%) Tester
18 40 (2.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 207 (13.50%) .NET
2 179 (11.68%) REST
3 83 (5.41%) PySpark
4 79 (5.15%) RESTful
5 78 (5.09%) ADO
6 74 (4.83%) JSON
7 72 (4.70%) YAML
8 64 (4.17%) Kafka
9 60 (3.91%) .NET Framework
10 55 (3.59%) ARM Templates
11 54 (3.52%) React
12 53 (3.46%) .NET Core
12 53 (3.46%) Playwright
13 43 (2.80%) SOAP
14 39 (2.54%) OAuth
15 37 (2.41%) HTML
15 37 (2.41%) XML
16 36 (2.35%) Middleware
17 33 (2.15%) AngularJS
17 33 (2.15%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 183 (11.94%) Cloud Native
2 108 (7.05%) Product Ownership
3 51 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
4 50 (3.26%) Distributed Systems
4 50 (3.26%) Onboarding
5 39 (2.54%) Enterprise Software
6 30 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
7 29 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
7 29 (1.89%) Management Information System
8 24 (1.57%) Data Structures
9 20 (1.30%) AI Agents
10 19 (1.24%) Low-Code
11 17 (1.11%) Reinsurance
11 17 (1.11%) Replication
12 16 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
12 16 (1.04%) Mobile App
13 15 (0.98%) Data Protection Act
13 15 (0.98%) Enterprise Cloud
14 12 (0.78%) Linux Command Line
14 12 (0.78%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 102 (6.65%) Windows
2 72 (4.70%) Linux
3 28 (1.83%) Windows Server
4 15 (0.98%) VMS
5 12 (0.78%) Unix
6 10 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (0.52%) Android
7 8 (0.52%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.26%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.26%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.065%) Amazon Linux
9 1 (0.065%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,533 (100.00%) DevOps
2 844 (55.06%) CI/CD
3 639 (41.68%) Agile
4 391 (25.51%) Infrastructure as Code
5 273 (17.81%) Test Automation
6 245 (15.98%) Stakeholder Management
7 241 (15.72%) Problem-Solving
8 237 (15.46%) Analytics
8 237 (15.46%) Continuous Improvement
9 221 (14.42%) Containerisation
10 215 (14.02%) Scrum
11 208 (13.57%) Migration
12 173 (11.29%) Business Intelligence
13 171 (11.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 165 (10.76%) Data Modelling
15 153 (9.98%) Microservices
15 153 (9.98%) User Acceptance Testing
16 150 (9.78%) Platform Engineering
17 149 (9.72%) AI
18 142 (9.26%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 416 (27.14%) SQL
2 379 (24.72%) Python
3 263 (17.16%) C#
4 206 (13.44%) PowerShell
5 154 (10.05%) Bicep
6 153 (9.98%) JavaScript
7 122 (7.96%) Bash
8 119 (7.76%) Java
9 85 (5.54%) TypeScript
10 24 (1.57%) T-SQL
11 19 (1.24%) Go
11 19 (1.24%) Kusto Query Language
12 15 (0.98%) Apex Code
12 15 (0.98%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 13 (0.85%) X++
14 9 (0.59%) Scala
15 8 (0.52%) PL/SQL
15 8 (0.52%) Shell Script
16 6 (0.39%) Kotlin
16 6 (0.39%) R
Qualifications
1 460 (30.01%) Security Cleared
2 378 (24.66%) SC Cleared
3 112 (7.31%) Azure Certification
4 100 (6.52%) Degree
5 55 (3.59%) Microsoft Certification
6 54 (3.52%) DV Cleared
7 42 (2.74%) ISTQB
8 36 (2.35%) BPSS Clearance
9 32 (2.09%) Computer Science Degree
10 25 (1.63%) AWS Certification
11 16 (1.04%) PMI Certification
11 16 (1.04%) PMP
12 14 (0.91%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 13 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
13 13 (0.85%) CISSP
13 13 (0.85%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 11 (0.72%) Master's Degree
15 9 (0.59%) DBS Check
16 8 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 6 (0.39%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 167 (10.89%) QA
2 109 (7.11%) Data Quality
3 85 (5.54%) Accessibility
4 52 (3.39%) GDPR
5 47 (3.07%) WCAG
6 27 (1.76%) PMO
7 26 (1.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 25 (1.63%) NIST
9 20 (1.30%) NCSC
10 14 (0.91%) SLA
11 12 (0.78%) GRC
12 11 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 7 (0.46%) ISO 20022
14 6 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
15 5 (0.33%) PCI DSS
15 5 (0.33%) SEPA
16 4 (0.26%) PSD2
17 3 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 3 (0.20%) Government Security Classifications
18 2 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 228 (14.87%) Docker
2 85 (5.54%) Active Directory
3 30 (1.96%) Virtual Machines
4 18 (1.17%) VMware Infrastructure
5 16 (1.04%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (0.39%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.26%) Firmware
7 4 (0.26%) vSphere
8 3 (0.20%) Embedded Firmware
8 3 (0.20%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (0.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.13%) OpenSSH
9 2 (0.13%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.065%) Postfix
10 1 (0.065%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.065%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 431 (28.11%) Terraform
2 304 (19.83%) Kubernetes
3 99 (6.46%) Ansible
4 62 (4.04%) Grafana
5 53 (3.46%) Prometheus
6 23 (1.50%) Microsoft Intune
7 22 (1.44%) Argo
8 21 (1.37%) Progress Chef
9 20 (1.30%) Puppet
10 13 (0.85%) Packer
11 12 (0.78%) HP ALM
11 12 (0.78%) Istio
12 11 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
13 9 (0.59%) SCCM
14 6 (0.39%) Jamf Pro
14 6 (0.39%) SCOM
15 4 (0.26%) HP Quality Center
16 3 (0.20%) HP Fortify
16 3 (0.20%) Rancher
17 2 (0.13%) linkerd
Vendors
1 517 (33.72%) Microsoft
2 141 (9.20%) Databricks
3 64 (4.17%) ServiceNow
4 61 (3.98%) Oracle
5 52 (3.39%) Salesforce
6 49 (3.20%) SAP
7 38 (2.48%) Google
8 34 (2.22%) Splunk
9 28 (1.83%) Dynatrace
10 22 (1.44%) VMware
11 20 (1.30%) Informatica
12 13 (0.85%) Foundry
12 13 (0.85%) HP
13 12 (0.78%) MuleSoft
13 12 (0.78%) OpenAI
13 12 (0.78%) UiPath
14 10 (0.65%) IBM
15 9 (0.59%) Adobe
15 9 (0.59%) Cisco
15 9 (0.59%) Red Hat
683 Azure DevOps jobs in England