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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 93 78
Rank change year-on-year +14 -15 -2
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,493 782 895
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.21% 2.83% 2.78%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.31% 7.48% 8.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,036 554 596
10th Percentile £363 £351 £384
25th Percentile £419 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £613
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 46 2 0
10th Percentile £21.25 £63.75 -
25th Percentile £37.50 £67.50 -
Median hourly rate £67.44 £75.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -10.08% - -
75th Percentile £79.75 £82.50 -
90th Percentile £101.67 £86.25 -
UK median hourly rate £60.83 £85.00 -
% change year-on-year -28.44% - -

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 16,039 10,456 11,138
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.46% 37.88% 34.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,685 7,075 7,552
10th Percentile £320 £305 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £530
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -5.66% -3.64%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £644
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 558 245 165
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.35 £15.99
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £21.37
Median hourly rate £33.99 £26.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.73% -25.71% +6.06%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £66.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £67.15 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £28.00 £33.27
% change year-on-year +16.07% -15.84% -4.94%

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 23 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 23 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 23 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 +21 841 £514 -2.14% 430
South East -24 173 £525 +14.44% 174
North of England -7 167 £478 -4.40% 193
Midlands +18 153 £461 -7.75% 106
West Midlands +29 119 £450 -19.28% 55
South West +6 79 £475 -13.64% 61
North West -11 79 £500 +11.11% 102
Yorkshire -16 66 £475 -5.00% 71
East of England +1 45 £425 -15.00% 53
East Midlands -13 33 £530 +14.59% 51
North East - 22 £450 - 21
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
1 108 (7.23%) SharePoint
2 107 (7.17%) Confluence
3 37 (2.48%) Apache Spark
4 31 (2.08%) Apache Airflow
5 27 (1.81%) Apache
6 12 (0.80%) CMS
7 8 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.40%) Documentum
9 4 (0.27%) 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%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.13%) OpenROAD
11 2 (0.13%) SAS
11 2 (0.13%) Smallworld
11 2 (0.13%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.067%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.067%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 48 (3.22%) Microsoft Project
2 43 (2.88%) Microsoft Excel
3 26 (1.74%) MS Visio
4 14 (0.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 12 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
6 9 (0.60%) Chatbot
7 6 (0.40%) CPLEX
7 6 (0.40%) Trello
8 5 (0.33%) Notion
9 2 (0.13%) Mingle
9 2 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.067%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.067%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 59 (3.95%) Dynamics CRM
2 21 (1.41%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.33%) Dynamics AX
3 5 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (0.33%) SAP MDG
4 4 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.20%) Aladdin
5 3 (0.20%) Maximo
6 2 (0.13%) Dynamics GP
6 2 (0.13%) Endur
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 BPC
6 2 (0.13%) SAP MM
6 2 (0.13%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 2 (0.13%) Teamcenter
6 2 (0.13%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.067%) SDL Web 8
7 1 (0.067%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 1,493 (100.00%) Azure
2 370 (24.78%) GitHub
3 277 (18.55%) Power Platform
4 253 (16.95%) GitHub Actions
5 231 (15.47%) AWS
6 134 (8.98%) Dynamics 365
7 132 (8.84%) Entra ID
8 125 (8.37%) Azure Data Factory
9 123 (8.24%) Azure AKS
10 122 (8.17%) Azure Monitor
11 120 (8.04%) Serverless
12 119 (7.97%) Power Automate
13 91 (6.10%) Azure Functions
13 91 (6.10%) GCP
14 88 (5.89%) PowerApps
15 79 (5.29%) Azure Logic Apps
16 73 (4.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 65 (4.35%) Azure Key Vault
18 64 (4.29%) Microsoft 365
19 62 (4.15%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 61 (4.09%) Firewall
2 41 (2.75%) DNS
3 36 (2.41%) Network Security
4 23 (1.54%) VPN
5 18 (1.21%) SSL
6 13 (0.87%) DHCP
7 11 (0.74%) WAN
8 7 (0.47%) SD-WAN
9 6 (0.40%) VLAN
10 5 (0.33%) Internet
10 5 (0.33%) LAN
10 5 (0.33%) TCP/IP
11 4 (0.27%) SAN
12 3 (0.20%) RS-232
12 3 (0.20%) RS-485
12 3 (0.20%) Wi-Fi
13 2 (0.13%) Cisco IOS
13 2 (0.13%) Reverse Proxy
13 2 (0.13%) VSAN
13 2 (0.13%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 175 (11.72%) Power BI
2 121 (8.10%) SQL Server
3 78 (5.22%) Data Warehouse
4 71 (4.76%) Data Lake
5 58 (3.88%) Azure SQL Database
6 46 (3.08%) PostgreSQL
7 43 (2.88%) Delta Lake
7 43 (2.88%) NoSQL
8 31 (2.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 29 (1.94%) Metadata
10 22 (1.47%) Big Data
11 19 (1.27%) Relational Database
11 19 (1.27%) Snowflake Schema
12 18 (1.21%) MongoDB
13 17 (1.14%) MySQL
14 15 (1.00%) Star Schema
15 14 (0.94%) Data Vault
15 14 (0.94%) Spark SQL
16 13 (0.87%) Geospatial Data
16 13 (0.87%) Redis
Development Applications
1 271 (18.15%) Git
2 265 (17.75%) JIRA
3 191 (12.79%) Jenkins
4 152 (10.18%) GitLab
5 80 (5.36%) Selenium
6 40 (2.68%) Postman
7 34 (2.28%) Visual Studio
8 30 (2.01%) Cypress.io
9 29 (1.94%) SonarQube
9 29 (1.94%) WebDriver
10 28 (1.88%) Cucumber
11 21 (1.41%) REST Assured
12 18 (1.21%) Gradle
12 18 (1.21%) JUnit
13 16 (1.07%) TestRail
14 15 (1.00%) Maven
15 13 (0.87%) Bitbucket
15 13 (0.87%) MSI
15 13 (0.87%) Snyk
15 13 (0.87%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 419 (28.06%) Social Skills
2 307 (20.56%) Finance
3 176 (11.79%) Public Sector
4 156 (10.45%) Analytical Skills
5 85 (5.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 81 (5.43%) Banking
7 37 (2.48%) Retail
8 30 (2.01%) Influencing Skills
9 28 (1.88%) Aerospace
10 25 (1.67%) Legal
11 24 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
12 22 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
13 20 (1.34%) Marketing
14 15 (1.00%) Investment Banking
15 13 (0.87%) Manufacturing
16 12 (0.80%) Law
16 12 (0.80%) Local Government
17 10 (0.67%) Pharmaceutical
18 9 (0.60%) Telecoms
19 8 (0.54%) Billing
Job Titles
1 259 (17.35%) Developer
2 239 (16.01%) Senior
3 238 (15.94%) DevOps Engineer
4 231 (15.47%) Azure Engineer
5 145 (9.71%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 132 (8.84%) Lead
7 126 (8.44%) Analyst
8 114 (7.64%) Architect
8 114 (7.64%) Data Engineer
9 65 (4.35%) Business Analyst
10 53 (3.55%) Project Manager
11 51 (3.42%) Cloud Engineer
11 51 (3.42%) Consultant
12 47 (3.15%) Platform Engineer
13 46 (3.08%) Dynamics 365 Developer
14 45 (3.01%) Senior Developer
15 42 (2.81%) Test Analyst
16 39 (2.61%) Senior DevOps
17 38 (2.55%) .NET Developer
17 38 (2.55%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 437 (29.27%) Terraform
2 203 (13.60%) .NET
3 194 (12.99%) REST
4 81 (5.43%) JSON
5 79 (5.29%) ADO
6 78 (5.22%) RESTful
7 76 (5.09%) PySpark
8 67 (4.49%) ARM Templates
9 64 (4.29%) Kafka
10 62 (4.15%) YAML
11 61 (4.09%) React
12 59 (3.95%) .NET Framework
13 53 (3.55%) .NET Core
13 53 (3.55%) Playwright
14 45 (3.01%) XML
15 44 (2.95%) OAuth
16 40 (2.68%) HTML
16 40 (2.68%) Middleware
17 35 (2.34%) CSS
17 35 (2.34%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 162 (10.85%) Cloud Native
2 127 (8.51%) Product Ownership
3 57 (3.82%) Onboarding
4 46 (3.08%) Legacy Systems
5 45 (3.01%) Enterprise Software
6 41 (2.75%) Management Information System
7 39 (2.61%) Distributed Systems
8 31 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
9 28 (1.88%) AI Agents
10 25 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
11 22 (1.47%) Low-Code
12 20 (1.34%) Data Structures
12 20 (1.34%) Replication
13 18 (1.21%) Greenfield Project
14 17 (1.14%) Linux Command Line
14 17 (1.14%) Virtual Team
15 15 (1.00%) Data Centre
15 15 (1.00%) Mobile App
15 15 (1.00%) Reinsurance
15 15 (1.00%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 102 (6.83%) Windows
2 72 (4.82%) Linux
3 33 (2.21%) Windows Server
4 17 (1.14%) VMS
5 13 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (0.60%) Android
6 9 (0.60%) Apple iOS
6 9 (0.60%) Unix
7 6 (0.40%) Ubuntu
7 6 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (0.27%) CentOS
8 4 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.20%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.067%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,493 (100.00%) DevOps
2 842 (56.40%) CI/CD
3 645 (43.20%) Agile
4 396 (26.52%) Infrastructure as Code
5 281 (18.82%) Test Automation
6 279 (18.69%) Stakeholder Management
7 247 (16.54%) Continuous Improvement
8 241 (16.14%) Problem-Solving
9 233 (15.61%) Containerisation
10 229 (15.34%) Analytics
11 224 (15.00%) Scrum
12 195 (13.06%) Migration
13 186 (12.46%) Business Intelligence
14 181 (12.12%) AI
15 170 (11.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 170 (11.39%) User Acceptance Testing
16 168 (11.25%) Data Modelling
17 161 (10.78%) Platform Engineering
18 159 (10.65%) Deployment Automation
19 152 (10.18%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 375 (25.12%) Python
2 365 (24.45%) SQL
3 266 (17.82%) C#
4 210 (14.07%) PowerShell
5 170 (11.39%) Bicep
6 166 (11.12%) JavaScript
7 131 (8.77%) Bash
8 117 (7.84%) Java
9 97 (6.50%) TypeScript
10 25 (1.67%) T-SQL
11 20 (1.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 18 (1.21%) Kusto Query Language
13 17 (1.14%) Apex Code
14 14 (0.94%) Go
14 14 (0.94%) X++
15 8 (0.54%) C++
16 7 (0.47%) C
16 7 (0.47%) PL/SQL
17 6 (0.40%) Scala
17 6 (0.40%) VB
Qualifications
1 441 (29.54%) Security Cleared
2 362 (24.25%) SC Cleared
3 125 (8.37%) Azure Certification
4 116 (7.77%) Degree
5 74 (4.96%) Microsoft Certification
6 57 (3.82%) DV Cleared
7 40 (2.68%) ISTQB
8 39 (2.61%) BPSS Clearance
9 31 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
10 25 (1.67%) AWS Certification
11 21 (1.41%) PMI Certification
12 18 (1.21%) PMP
13 15 (1.00%) Master's Degree
14 14 (0.94%) CISSP
15 10 (0.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 10 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
15 10 (0.67%) DBS Check
15 10 (0.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 9 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 9 (0.60%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 178 (11.92%) QA
2 103 (6.90%) Data Quality
3 92 (6.16%) Accessibility
4 60 (4.02%) GDPR
5 54 (3.62%) WCAG
6 33 (2.21%) PMO
7 27 (1.81%) NIST
8 25 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 19 (1.27%) NCSC
10 12 (0.80%) SLA
11 10 (0.67%) GRC
11 10 (0.67%) ISO 20022
12 8 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 7 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
13 7 (0.47%) SEPA
14 4 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
14 4 (0.27%) PSD2
15 3 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 3 (0.20%) Government Security Classifications
16 2 (0.13%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 242 (16.21%) Docker
2 67 (4.49%) Active Directory
3 30 (2.01%) Virtual Machines
4 18 (1.21%) VMware Infrastructure
5 15 (1.00%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.33%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.33%) vSphere
7 4 (0.27%) Firmware
8 3 (0.20%) Embedded Firmware
8 3 (0.20%) Microsoft App-V
8 3 (0.20%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.13%) OpenSSH
9 2 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.067%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 311 (20.83%) Kubernetes
2 96 (6.43%) Ansible
3 52 (3.48%) Grafana
4 46 (3.08%) Prometheus
5 30 (2.01%) Microsoft Intune
6 21 (1.41%) Progress Chef
7 18 (1.21%) Argo
8 16 (1.07%) Puppet
9 14 (0.94%) HP ALM
9 14 (0.94%) Packer
10 10 (0.67%) SCOM
11 9 (0.60%) SCCM
12 7 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
13 5 (0.33%) HP Quality Center
13 5 (0.33%) Jamf Pro
14 4 (0.27%) Istio
15 3 (0.20%) HP Fortify
15 3 (0.20%) Kibana
16 2 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 2 (0.13%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 545 (36.50%) Microsoft
2 134 (8.98%) Databricks
3 59 (3.95%) Salesforce
4 56 (3.75%) ServiceNow
5 55 (3.68%) Oracle
6 45 (3.01%) SAP
7 41 (2.75%) Google
8 34 (2.28%) Splunk
9 32 (2.14%) Dynatrace
10 26 (1.74%) VMware
11 22 (1.47%) Foundry
12 21 (1.41%) OpenAI
13 17 (1.14%) UiPath
14 16 (1.07%) MuleSoft
15 15 (1.00%) HP
16 12 (0.80%) IBM
17 11 (0.74%) Informatica
17 11 (0.74%) Workday
18 9 (0.60%) Red Hat
19 8 (0.54%) Adobe