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

 6 months to
3 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 91 76
Rank change year-on-year +19 -15 -2
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,515 767 915
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.32% 2.80% 2.79%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.55% 7.50% 8.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,072 549 622
10th Percentile £363 £350 £376
25th Percentile £414 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 3 0
10th Percentile £21.25 £36.45 -
25th Percentile £37.24 £45.75 -
Median hourly rate £46.80 £62.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -25.12% - -
75th Percentile £81.63 £76.25 -
90th Percentile £102.17 £83.75 -
UK median hourly rate £45.20 £73.75 -
% change year-on-year -38.71% - -

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 15,864 10,226 11,185
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.77% 37.36% 34.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,627 6,924 7,781
10th Percentile £323 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £502 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.69% -4.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £643
90th Percentile £719 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 541 267 194
10th Percentile £15.31 £15.19 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.51 £18.25
Median hourly rate £34.23 £26.30 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.15% -12.33% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £59.18
90th Percentile £83.00 £71.33 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £33.99 £28.88 £30.00
% change year-on-year +17.71% -3.75% -14.29%

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 3 September 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 3 September 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 3 September 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 +25 862 £500 -4.76% 419
South East -20 173 £500 +5.26% 150
North of England +21 172 £475 -5.00% 141
Midlands +33 171 £460 -10.24% 79
West Midlands +25 126 £450 -19.28% 39
North West +1 87 £500 +5.26% 78
South West -1 69 £475 -13.44% 63
Yorkshire -13 60 £480 -4.00% 43
East Midlands +3 43 £500 +5.26% 40
East of England +4 37 £425 -15.00% 53
North East - 25 £450 - 20
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
1 107 (7.06%) Confluence
2 94 (6.20%) SharePoint
3 38 (2.51%) Apache Spark
4 31 (2.05%) Apache
5 30 (1.98%) Apache Airflow
6 12 (0.79%) CMS
7 8 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.40%) Documentum
9 4 (0.26%) Mendix
10 3 (0.20%) IIS
10 3 (0.20%) Kentico
10 3 (0.20%) nginx
10 3 (0.20%) Palantir Foundry
11 2 (0.13%) OpenROAD
11 2 (0.13%) SAS
11 2 (0.13%) Smallworld
11 2 (0.13%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.066%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.066%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.066%) WebLogic
Applications
1 59 (3.89%) Microsoft Project
2 41 (2.71%) Microsoft Excel
3 22 (1.45%) MS Visio
4 15 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
5 13 (0.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 7 (0.46%) CPLEX
6 7 (0.46%) Trello
7 6 (0.40%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.33%) Notion
9 3 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.066%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.066%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 52 (3.43%) Dynamics CRM
2 19 (1.25%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.33%) Dynamics AX
3 5 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.20%) Endur
5 3 (0.20%) Findur
5 3 (0.20%) Maximo
5 3 (0.20%) SAP MDG
6 2 (0.13%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.13%) Dynamics GP
6 2 (0.13%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
6 2 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.13%) SAP MM
6 2 (0.13%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 2 (0.13%) Teamcenter
6 2 (0.13%) Unit4 Business World
7 1 (0.066%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.066%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,515 (100.00%) Azure
2 390 (25.74%) GitHub
3 271 (17.89%) Power Platform
4 264 (17.43%) GitHub Actions
5 223 (14.72%) AWS
6 139 (9.17%) Azure Data Factory
7 130 (8.58%) Entra ID
8 126 (8.32%) Dynamics 365
9 123 (8.12%) Azure AKS
10 117 (7.72%) Azure Monitor
11 114 (7.52%) Power Automate
12 113 (7.46%) Serverless
13 88 (5.81%) PowerApps
14 80 (5.28%) GCP
15 79 (5.21%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 76 (5.02%) Azure Functions
17 74 (4.88%) Azure Logic Apps
18 68 (4.49%) Microsoft 365
19 62 (4.09%) Azure Key Vault
20 59 (3.89%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 68 (4.49%) Firewall
2 40 (2.64%) DNS
3 39 (2.57%) Network Security
4 27 (1.78%) VPN
5 19 (1.25%) SSL
6 16 (1.06%) WAN
7 15 (0.99%) DHCP
8 13 (0.86%) SD-WAN
9 8 (0.53%) Internet
10 7 (0.46%) LAN
10 7 (0.46%) TCP/IP
10 7 (0.46%) VLAN
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%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 177 (11.68%) Power BI
2 114 (7.52%) SQL Server
3 77 (5.08%) Data Lake
3 77 (5.08%) Data Warehouse
4 68 (4.49%) Azure SQL Database
5 55 (3.63%) NoSQL
6 50 (3.30%) Delta Lake
7 47 (3.10%) PostgreSQL
8 31 (2.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 29 (1.91%) Metadata
10 22 (1.45%) Relational Database
11 21 (1.39%) MongoDB
12 20 (1.32%) Snowflake Schema
13 19 (1.25%) Big Data
14 17 (1.12%) MySQL
14 17 (1.12%) Spark SQL
15 15 (0.99%) Oracle Database
15 15 (0.99%) Redis
15 15 (0.99%) Star Schema
16 13 (0.86%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 284 (18.75%) JIRA
2 256 (16.90%) Git
3 191 (12.61%) Jenkins
4 149 (9.83%) GitLab
5 75 (4.95%) Selenium
6 37 (2.44%) Postman
7 29 (1.91%) SonarQube
8 28 (1.85%) Cypress.io
9 27 (1.78%) WebDriver
10 26 (1.72%) Visual Studio
11 23 (1.52%) Cucumber
12 20 (1.32%) REST Assured
13 19 (1.25%) Gradle
14 17 (1.12%) JUnit
15 16 (1.06%) TestRail
16 15 (0.99%) Bitbucket
16 15 (0.99%) Maven
17 13 (0.86%) MSI
18 12 (0.79%) Sonatype Nexus
19 11 (0.73%) Snyk
General
1 408 (26.93%) Social Skills
2 320 (21.12%) Finance
3 187 (12.34%) Public Sector
4 162 (10.69%) Analytical Skills
5 82 (5.41%) Banking
6 80 (5.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 32 (2.11%) Retail
8 28 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
9 26 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
9 26 (1.72%) Legal
10 24 (1.58%) Aerospace
11 22 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
12 19 (1.25%) Marketing
13 15 (0.99%) Investment Banking
14 14 (0.92%) Local Government
15 12 (0.79%) Law
16 10 (0.66%) Manufacturing
17 8 (0.53%) Billing
17 8 (0.53%) Telecoms
18 7 (0.46%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 263 (17.36%) Developer
2 236 (15.58%) Senior
3 227 (14.98%) Azure Engineer
4 225 (14.85%) DevOps Engineer
5 135 (8.91%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 130 (8.58%) Lead
7 126 (8.32%) Data Engineer
8 125 (8.25%) Analyst
9 112 (7.39%) Architect
10 62 (4.09%) Business Analyst
11 55 (3.63%) Project Manager
12 54 (3.56%) Platform Engineer
13 51 (3.37%) Cloud Engineer
14 46 (3.04%) Consultant
15 45 (2.97%) Senior Developer
16 41 (2.71%) Test Analyst
17 40 (2.64%) Solutions Architect
18 39 (2.57%) Dynamics 365 Developer
19 37 (2.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
20 36 (2.38%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 433 (28.58%) Terraform
2 205 (13.53%) .NET
3 180 (11.88%) REST
4 85 (5.61%) PySpark
5 81 (5.35%) JSON
5 81 (5.35%) RESTful
6 77 (5.08%) ADO
7 69 (4.55%) Kafka
8 68 (4.49%) YAML
9 63 (4.16%) ARM Templates
10 60 (3.96%) React
11 55 (3.63%) .NET Framework
12 54 (3.56%) Playwright
13 52 (3.43%) .NET Core
14 43 (2.84%) XML
15 41 (2.71%) OAuth
16 40 (2.64%) HTML
17 37 (2.44%) CSS
17 37 (2.44%) Middleware
18 33 (2.18%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 176 (11.62%) Cloud Native
2 121 (7.99%) Product Ownership
3 54 (3.56%) Onboarding
4 48 (3.17%) Distributed Systems
4 48 (3.17%) Legacy Systems
5 46 (3.04%) Enterprise Software
6 35 (2.31%) Management Information System
7 31 (2.05%) Hybrid Cloud
8 30 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
9 23 (1.52%) AI Agents
10 21 (1.39%) Data Structures
11 20 (1.32%) Replication
12 19 (1.25%) Low-Code
13 17 (1.12%) Linux Command Line
13 17 (1.12%) Mobile App
14 16 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
15 15 (0.99%) Reinsurance
16 14 (0.92%) Clustering
16 14 (0.92%) Enterprise Cloud
17 13 (0.86%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 105 (6.93%) Windows
2 73 (4.82%) Linux
3 35 (2.31%) Windows Server
4 18 (1.19%) VMS
5 13 (0.86%) Unix
6 12 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (0.66%) Android
7 10 (0.66%) Apple iOS
8 6 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (0.26%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.26%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.066%) Amazon Linux
10 1 (0.066%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,515 (100.00%) DevOps
2 848 (55.97%) CI/CD
3 657 (43.37%) Agile
4 394 (26.01%) Infrastructure as Code
5 276 (18.22%) Test Automation
6 269 (17.76%) Stakeholder Management
7 243 (16.04%) Problem-Solving
8 241 (15.91%) Continuous Improvement
9 236 (15.58%) Analytics
10 231 (15.25%) Containerisation
11 221 (14.59%) Scrum
12 201 (13.27%) Migration
13 187 (12.34%) Business Intelligence
14 173 (11.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 167 (11.02%) Data Modelling
16 166 (10.96%) AI
16 166 (10.96%) User Acceptance Testing
17 158 (10.43%) Validation
18 157 (10.36%) Platform Engineering
19 153 (10.10%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 406 (26.80%) SQL
2 392 (25.87%) Python
3 257 (16.96%) C#
4 208 (13.73%) PowerShell
5 166 (10.96%) Bicep
6 158 (10.43%) JavaScript
7 132 (8.71%) Bash
8 124 (8.18%) Java
9 91 (6.01%) TypeScript
10 26 (1.72%) T-SQL
11 19 (1.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 17 (1.12%) Go
13 16 (1.06%) Apex Code
14 14 (0.92%) Kusto Query Language
14 14 (0.92%) X++
15 8 (0.53%) Shell Script
16 7 (0.46%) Scala
17 6 (0.40%) Kotlin
17 6 (0.40%) PL/SQL
17 6 (0.40%) R
Qualifications
1 449 (29.64%) Security Cleared
2 368 (24.29%) SC Cleared
3 118 (7.79%) Azure Certification
4 113 (7.46%) Degree
5 68 (4.49%) Microsoft Certification
6 53 (3.50%) DV Cleared
7 42 (2.77%) BPSS Clearance
8 39 (2.57%) ISTQB
9 34 (2.24%) Computer Science Degree
10 26 (1.72%) AWS Certification
11 17 (1.12%) PMI Certification
12 16 (1.06%) PMP
13 14 (0.92%) CISSP
14 12 (0.79%) Master's Degree
15 11 (0.73%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 10 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 10 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
16 10 (0.66%) DBS Check
17 9 (0.59%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 9 (0.59%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 176 (11.62%) QA
2 111 (7.33%) Data Quality
3 87 (5.74%) Accessibility
4 55 (3.63%) GDPR
5 51 (3.37%) WCAG
6 32 (2.11%) PMO
7 28 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 27 (1.78%) NIST
9 19 (1.25%) NCSC
10 12 (0.79%) SLA
11 11 (0.73%) GRC
12 9 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 8 (0.53%) ISO 20022
14 7 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
15 5 (0.33%) SEPA
16 4 (0.26%) PSD2
17 3 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 3 (0.20%) Government Security Classifications
17 3 (0.20%) PCI DSS
18 2 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 246 (16.24%) Docker
2 80 (5.28%) Active Directory
3 33 (2.18%) Virtual Machines
4 18 (1.19%) VMware Infrastructure
5 14 (0.92%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (0.40%) 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 (0.066%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.066%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 315 (20.79%) Kubernetes
2 98 (6.47%) Ansible
3 57 (3.76%) Grafana
4 49 (3.23%) Prometheus
5 25 (1.65%) Microsoft Intune
6 23 (1.52%) Progress Chef
7 20 (1.32%) Argo
7 20 (1.32%) Puppet
8 14 (0.92%) Packer
9 13 (0.86%) HP ALM
10 10 (0.66%) SCOM
10 10 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
11 9 (0.59%) SCCM
12 8 (0.53%) Istio
13 5 (0.33%) HP Quality Center
13 5 (0.33%) Jamf Pro
14 3 (0.20%) HP Fortify
14 3 (0.20%) Kibana
15 2 (0.13%) Docker Swarm
15 2 (0.13%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 543 (35.84%) Microsoft
2 140 (9.24%) Databricks
3 58 (3.83%) Oracle
4 54 (3.56%) Salesforce
4 54 (3.56%) ServiceNow
5 45 (2.97%) SAP
6 39 (2.57%) Google
7 30 (1.98%) Splunk
8 28 (1.85%) Dynatrace
9 23 (1.52%) VMware
10 19 (1.25%) Informatica
11 16 (1.06%) OpenAI
12 14 (0.92%) Foundry
12 14 (0.92%) HP
12 14 (0.92%) UiPath
13 13 (0.86%) MuleSoft
14 11 (0.73%) Red Hat
15 10 (0.66%) Cloudera
16 9 (0.59%) Cisco
16 9 (0.59%) InterSystems
855 Azure DevOps jobs in England