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

 6 months to
16 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 91 75
Rank change year-on-year +15 -16 -2
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,334 670 1,043
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.11% 2.71% 2.79%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.90% 7.18% 8.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 981 476 696
10th Percentile £375 £350 £400
25th Percentile £415 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £614 £600
90th Percentile £688 £725 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £521
% change year-on-year - -3.97% -5.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 2 6
10th Percentile £25.38 £35.85 £64.50
25th Percentile £38.00 £44.25 £65.25
Median hourly rate £72.25 £59.50 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% -9.16% -6.43%
75th Percentile £89.59 £74.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £104.00 £83.15 £68.50
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £85.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year -17.65% +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 14,992 9,332 11,983
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.99% 37.79% 32.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,162 6,351 8,561
10th Percentile £325 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £625 £638
90th Percentile £715 £738 £748
UK median daily rate £512 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +1.89% -4.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 527 233 333
10th Percentile £16.50 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £17.33 £16.06
Median hourly rate £41.06 £25.01 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +64.17% +16.33% -38.21%
75th Percentile £69.10 £37.75 £43.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.31 £28.00 £21.64
% change year-on-year +33.25% +29.39% -38.17%

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 16 June 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 16 June 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 16 June 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 +12 746 £500 -4.76% 151
South East +3 184 £500 +7.24% 102
North of England +17 152 £485 +2.16% 70
Midlands -3 129 £470 -8.29% 53
West Midlands -7 90 £450 -14.29% 28
North West +8 71 £500 -2.44% 39
South West +10 65 £495 -5.71% 26
Yorkshire -22 58 £500 +11.11% 20
East Midlands -11 37 £525 +5.00% 25
East of England -8 29 £450 - 38
North East -11 23 £450 -18.18% 11
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 86 (6.45%) SharePoint
2 83 (6.22%) Confluence
3 40 (3.00%) Apache Spark
4 28 (2.10%) Apache
5 24 (1.80%) Apache Airflow
6 15 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.45%) CMS
7 6 (0.45%) HCL Notes
7 6 (0.45%) Mendix
8 4 (0.30%) Palantir Foundry
9 3 (0.22%) Documentum
9 3 (0.22%) IIS
9 3 (0.22%) Kentico
9 3 (0.22%) SAS
10 2 (0.15%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.15%) Umbraco
11 1 (0.075%) IBM HTTP Server
11 1 (0.075%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.075%) SharePoint 2013
11 1 (0.075%) WebLogic
Applications
1 45 (3.37%) Microsoft Project
2 27 (2.02%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (1.42%) MS Visio
4 10 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
5 8 (0.60%) CPLEX
6 6 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 5 (0.37%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.30%) Notion
9 3 (0.22%) Trello
10 2 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
11 1 (0.075%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 45 (3.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (1.12%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.75%) Maximo
4 7 (0.52%) Dynamics AX
5 4 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.22%) Endur
6 3 (0.22%) Findur
6 3 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
6 3 (0.22%) SAP BPC
6 3 (0.22%) SAP MDG
6 3 (0.22%) SAP MM
6 3 (0.22%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 2 (0.15%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.15%) Dynamics GP
7 2 (0.15%) NEC Housing
7 2 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.15%) Unit4 Business World
8 1 (0.075%) Oracle Financials
8 1 (0.075%) SAP SD
8 1 (0.075%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 1,334 (100.00%) Azure
2 332 (24.89%) GitHub
3 222 (16.64%) Power Platform
4 217 (16.27%) GitHub Actions
5 181 (13.57%) AWS
6 130 (9.75%) Azure Data Factory
7 116 (8.70%) Azure AKS
8 111 (8.32%) Entra ID
9 104 (7.80%) Azure Monitor
9 104 (7.80%) Serverless
10 102 (7.65%) Dynamics 365
11 95 (7.12%) Power Automate
12 83 (6.22%) Azure Key Vault
13 77 (5.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 73 (5.47%) PowerApps
15 68 (5.10%) Azure Functions
16 66 (4.95%) Azure Logic Apps
17 64 (4.80%) Microsoft 365
18 62 (4.65%) GCP
19 55 (4.12%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 48 (3.60%) Firewall
2 23 (1.72%) Network Security
3 20 (1.50%) DNS
3 20 (1.50%) VPN
4 13 (0.97%) SD-WAN
5 12 (0.90%) WAN
6 8 (0.60%) Internet
7 7 (0.52%) DHCP
7 7 (0.52%) TCP/IP
8 6 (0.45%) VLAN
9 5 (0.37%) LAN
10 4 (0.30%) IPsec
11 3 (0.22%) MQTT
11 3 (0.22%) SSL
12 2 (0.15%) FTP
12 2 (0.15%) NAS
12 2 (0.15%) Remote Desktop
12 2 (0.15%) SAN
12 2 (0.15%) Wi-Fi
12 2 (0.15%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 142 (10.64%) Power BI
2 101 (7.57%) SQL Server
3 81 (6.07%) Data Lake
4 74 (5.55%) Azure SQL Database
5 70 (5.25%) Delta Lake
6 56 (4.20%) Data Warehouse
7 46 (3.45%) NoSQL
8 44 (3.30%) PostgreSQL
9 24 (1.80%) Relational Database
10 23 (1.72%) MongoDB
11 22 (1.65%) Spark SQL
12 21 (1.57%) Snowflake Schema
13 19 (1.42%) Redis
14 18 (1.35%) Oracle Database
15 15 (1.12%) Big Data
15 15 (1.12%) Metadata
15 15 (1.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 14 (1.05%) Parquet
17 13 (0.97%) Amazon Redshift
17 13 (0.97%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 257 (19.27%) JIRA
2 208 (15.59%) Git
3 117 (8.77%) Jenkins
4 91 (6.82%) GitLab
5 48 (3.60%) Selenium
6 27 (2.02%) Postman
7 24 (1.80%) REST Assured
8 22 (1.65%) SonarQube
9 20 (1.50%) Visual Studio
10 17 (1.27%) Cucumber
11 16 (1.20%) Cypress.io
12 15 (1.12%) WebDriver
13 14 (1.05%) TestRail
14 13 (0.97%) Gradle
15 12 (0.90%) Bitbucket
15 12 (0.90%) Team Foundation Server
16 11 (0.82%) NUnit
17 10 (0.75%) fastlane
17 10 (0.75%) JUnit
17 10 (0.75%) SpecFlow
General
1 319 (23.91%) Social Skills
2 278 (20.84%) Finance
3 144 (10.79%) Public Sector
4 128 (9.60%) Analytical Skills
5 60 (4.50%) Banking
6 44 (3.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 32 (2.40%) Organisational Skills
8 24 (1.80%) Legal
9 20 (1.50%) Retail
10 19 (1.42%) Documentation Skills
11 17 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
12 14 (1.05%) Aerospace
13 11 (0.82%) Law
13 11 (0.82%) Marketing
14 10 (0.75%) Front Office
14 10 (0.75%) Investment Banking
15 9 (0.67%) Financial Institution
16 7 (0.52%) Back Office
16 7 (0.52%) Local Government
16 7 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 241 (18.07%) Developer
2 220 (16.49%) Azure Engineer
3 187 (14.02%) DevOps Engineer
4 186 (13.94%) Senior
5 137 (10.27%) Data Engineer
6 121 (9.07%) Analyst
6 121 (9.07%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 106 (7.95%) Lead
8 95 (7.12%) Architect
9 59 (4.42%) Platform Engineer
10 54 (4.05%) Business Analyst
11 45 (3.37%) Test Analyst
12 41 (3.07%) Cloud Engineer
12 41 (3.07%) Project Manager
13 39 (2.92%) Solutions Architect
14 38 (2.85%) Tester
15 37 (2.77%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 37 (2.77%) Test Engineer
16 36 (2.70%) Senior Developer
17 35 (2.62%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 177 (13.27%) .NET
2 122 (9.15%) REST
3 86 (6.45%) PySpark
4 67 (5.02%) React
5 66 (4.95%) ADO
6 62 (4.65%) ARM Templates
7 59 (4.42%) YAML
8 57 (4.27%) Kafka
8 57 (4.27%) RESTful
9 50 (3.75%) JSON
10 45 (3.37%) Playwright
11 44 (3.30%) .NET Framework
12 39 (2.92%) Node.js
13 36 (2.70%) SOAP
14 32 (2.40%) CSS
15 31 (2.32%) .NET Core
15 31 (2.32%) HTML
16 28 (2.10%) OAuth
17 27 (2.02%) AngularJS
17 27 (2.02%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 148 (11.09%) Cloud Native
2 78 (5.85%) Product Ownership
3 42 (3.15%) Distributed Systems
4 36 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
5 30 (2.25%) Onboarding
6 29 (2.17%) Reinsurance
7 25 (1.87%) Enterprise Software
8 22 (1.65%) Hybrid Cloud
9 20 (1.50%) Data Structures
9 20 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
10 18 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
10 18 (1.35%) Mobile App
11 17 (1.27%) Low-Code
12 15 (1.12%) AI Agents
13 12 (0.90%) Data Centre
14 11 (0.82%) Public Cloud
15 10 (0.75%) Enterprise Cloud
15 10 (0.75%) Management Information System
15 10 (0.75%) Replication
15 10 (0.75%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 69 (5.17%) Windows
2 49 (3.67%) Linux
3 15 (1.12%) VMS
4 8 (0.60%) Unix
4 8 (0.60%) Windows Server
5 6 (0.45%) Android
5 6 (0.45%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.22%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.075%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,327 (99.48%) DevOps
2 723 (54.20%) CI/CD
3 494 (37.03%) Agile
4 312 (23.39%) Infrastructure as Code
5 229 (17.17%) Analytics
6 220 (16.49%) Test Automation
7 211 (15.82%) Problem-Solving
8 173 (12.97%) Migration
9 169 (12.67%) Continuous Improvement
9 169 (12.67%) Scrum
10 159 (11.92%) Data Modelling
11 157 (11.77%) Containerisation
11 157 (11.77%) Stakeholder Management
12 150 (11.24%) Business Intelligence
13 141 (10.57%) AI
14 139 (10.42%) Data Pipeline
14 139 (10.42%) ETL
15 131 (9.82%) Platform Engineering
16 119 (8.92%) Observability
17 117 (8.77%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 399 (29.91%) SQL
2 345 (25.86%) Python
3 221 (16.57%) C#
4 133 (9.97%) PowerShell
5 122 (9.15%) JavaScript
6 119 (8.92%) Bicep
7 94 (7.05%) Java
8 89 (6.67%) Bash
9 69 (5.17%) TypeScript
10 24 (1.80%) T-SQL
11 23 (1.72%) Scala
12 16 (1.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 16 (1.20%) Go
13 11 (0.82%) Kusto Query Language
13 11 (0.82%) PL/SQL
14 10 (0.75%) Apex Code
15 9 (0.67%) X++
16 6 (0.45%) LotusScript
16 6 (0.45%) Shell Script
16 6 (0.45%) VB
Qualifications
1 361 (27.06%) Security Cleared
2 302 (22.64%) SC Cleared
3 103 (7.72%) Azure Certification
4 76 (5.70%) Degree
5 40 (3.00%) DV Cleared
6 39 (2.92%) Microsoft Certification
7 34 (2.55%) BPSS Clearance
8 32 (2.40%) ISTQB
9 26 (1.95%) Computer Science Degree
10 17 (1.27%) AWS Certification
10 17 (1.27%) PMI Certification
11 16 (1.20%) PMP
12 10 (0.75%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 9 (0.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 9 (0.67%) DBS Check
14 8 (0.60%) CISSP
15 6 (0.45%) Cisco Certification
15 6 (0.45%) CISM
15 6 (0.45%) Master's Degree
16 5 (0.37%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 142 (10.64%) QA
2 108 (8.10%) Data Quality
3 56 (4.20%) Accessibility
4 37 (2.77%) GDPR
5 31 (2.32%) WCAG
6 20 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 20 (1.50%) NIST
7 16 (1.20%) NCSC
7 16 (1.20%) SLA
8 15 (1.12%) PMO
9 9 (0.67%) GRC
9 9 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 8 (0.60%) NIST 800
11 7 (0.52%) PCI DSS
12 2 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.15%) Government Security Classifications
12 2 (0.15%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.15%) HL7
12 2 (0.15%) PSD2
12 2 (0.15%) SEPA
System Software
1 182 (13.64%) Docker
2 74 (5.55%) Active Directory
3 25 (1.87%) Virtual Machines
4 15 (1.12%) Virtual Desktop
5 9 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.30%) Firmware
7 2 (0.15%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.15%) Microsoft App-V
7 2 (0.15%) OpenSSH
7 2 (0.15%) Postfix
8 1 (0.075%) HDFS
8 1 (0.075%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.075%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.075%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 354 (26.54%) Terraform
2 227 (17.02%) Kubernetes
3 64 (4.80%) Ansible
4 43 (3.22%) Grafana
5 37 (2.77%) Prometheus
6 17 (1.27%) Argo
7 13 (0.97%) HP ALM
7 13 (0.97%) Istio
7 13 (0.97%) Microsoft Intune
7 13 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
8 12 (0.90%) Puppet
9 10 (0.75%) Packer
9 10 (0.75%) Progress Chef
10 6 (0.45%) HP Quality Center
10 6 (0.45%) Jamf Pro
11 3 (0.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.22%) Rancher
11 3 (0.22%) SCCM
12 2 (0.15%) linkerd
12 2 (0.15%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 394 (29.54%) Microsoft
2 160 (11.99%) Databricks
3 74 (5.55%) Oracle
4 54 (4.05%) ServiceNow
5 41 (3.07%) SAP
6 40 (3.00%) Salesforce
7 24 (1.80%) OpenAI
8 23 (1.72%) Informatica
9 21 (1.57%) Google
10 19 (1.42%) Splunk
11 16 (1.20%) Dynatrace
12 15 (1.12%) Foundry
12 15 (1.12%) VMware
13 14 (1.05%) HP
14 12 (0.90%) IBM
15 10 (0.75%) Bloomberg
16 9 (0.67%) InterSystems
17 8 (0.60%) Red Hat
17 8 (0.60%) Refinitiv
18 7 (0.52%) MuleSoft
405 Azure DevOps jobs in England