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

 6 months to
13 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 89 78
Rank change year-on-year +14 -11 -3
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,407 753 1,023
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.14% 2.76% 2.79%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.97% 7.38% 8.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,006 536 684
10th Percentile £363 £350 £400
25th Percentile £416 £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 £697 £725 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 3 5
10th Percentile £25.38 £36.45 -
25th Percentile £37.25 £45.75 £65.25
Median hourly rate £72.25 £62.50 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.60% -4.58% -6.43%
75th Percentile £88.00 £76.25 £65.75
90th Percentile £103.85 £83.75 -
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 15,685 10,209 12,060
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.98% 37.41% 32.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,533 6,894 8,591
10th Percentile £325 £311 £311
25th Percentile £418 £410 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £514 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.27% -2.19% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £638
90th Percentile £717 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £518 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +2.99% -4.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 562 269 324
10th Percentile £16.63 £15.00 £14.16
25th Percentile £22.50 £18.13 £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 £46.18
90th Percentile £83.75 £67.50 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.06 £27.76 £22.30
% change year-on-year +33.50% +24.48% -36.29%

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 13 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 13 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 13 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 +16 781 £500 -4.76% 177
South East -19 178 £500 +9.29% 116
North of England +9 162 £488 -2.50% 84
Midlands +12 153 £475 -5.00% 55
West Midlands 0 109 £450 -14.29% 32
North West +5 81 £500 -2.44% 50
South West +4 68 £475 -17.39% 37
Yorkshire -28 62 £500 +1.42% 25
East Midlands -1 42 £525 +6.06% 22
East of England +9 37 £438 -9.09% 30
North East -16 19 £450 -18.18% 10
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
1 100 (7.11%) Confluence
2 85 (6.04%) SharePoint
3 37 (2.63%) Apache Spark
4 29 (2.06%) Apache
5 25 (1.78%) Apache Airflow
6 14 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
7 7 (0.50%) CMS
8 6 (0.43%) Documentum
9 4 (0.28%) IIS
9 4 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (0.21%) Kentico
10 3 (0.21%) Mendix
10 3 (0.21%) SAS
11 2 (0.14%) HCL Notes
11 2 (0.14%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.071%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.071%) Apache Pulsar
12 1 (0.071%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.071%) SharePoint 2013
12 1 (0.071%) WebLogic
Applications
1 52 (3.70%) Microsoft Project
2 36 (2.56%) Microsoft Excel
3 21 (1.49%) MS Visio
4 12 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
5 9 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 8 (0.57%) CPLEX
7 5 (0.36%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.28%) Notion
8 4 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.21%) Trello
10 1 (0.071%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.071%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 47 (3.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 19 (1.35%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.50%) Dynamics AX
4 6 (0.43%) 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 (0.071%) Loan IQ
8 1 (0.071%) Oracle Financials
8 1 (0.071%) SAP SD
8 1 (0.071%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 1,407 (100.00%) Azure
2 353 (25.09%) GitHub
3 234 (16.63%) GitHub Actions
4 220 (15.64%) Power Platform
5 202 (14.36%) AWS
6 123 (8.74%) Azure Data Factory
7 113 (8.03%) Entra ID
8 109 (7.75%) Azure Monitor
9 106 (7.53%) Azure AKS
9 106 (7.53%) Dynamics 365
10 102 (7.25%) Power Automate
11 95 (6.75%) Serverless
12 82 (5.83%) Azure Key Vault
13 77 (5.47%) PowerApps
14 73 (5.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 73 (5.19%) GCP
15 66 (4.69%) Azure Logic Apps
16 60 (4.26%) Azure Functions
17 57 (4.05%) Microsoft 365
18 55 (3.91%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 46 (3.27%) Firewall
2 27 (1.92%) DNS
2 27 (1.92%) Network Security
3 19 (1.35%) VPN
4 14 (1.00%) SD-WAN
5 13 (0.92%) WAN
6 10 (0.71%) SSL
7 9 (0.64%) Internet
8 8 (0.57%) DHCP
8 8 (0.57%) TCP/IP
9 6 (0.43%) LAN
9 6 (0.43%) VLAN
10 4 (0.28%) IPsec
11 3 (0.21%) MQTT
12 2 (0.14%) 4G
12 2 (0.14%) NAS
12 2 (0.14%) OSPF
12 2 (0.14%) Remote Desktop
12 2 (0.14%) SSH
12 2 (0.14%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 140 (9.95%) Power BI
2 108 (7.68%) SQL Server
3 75 (5.33%) Data Lake
4 70 (4.98%) Azure SQL Database
5 64 (4.55%) Delta Lake
6 60 (4.26%) Data Warehouse
7 49 (3.48%) NoSQL
8 47 (3.34%) PostgreSQL
9 29 (2.06%) Relational Database
10 24 (1.71%) MongoDB
11 22 (1.56%) Snowflake Schema
12 20 (1.42%) Redis
12 20 (1.42%) Spark SQL
13 18 (1.28%) Metadata
13 18 (1.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 16 (1.14%) Oracle Database
15 14 (1.00%) Big Data
16 13 (0.92%) Amazon Redshift
17 12 (0.85%) Parquet
18 10 (0.71%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 289 (20.54%) JIRA
2 233 (16.56%) Git
3 141 (10.02%) Jenkins
4 104 (7.39%) GitLab
5 51 (3.62%) Selenium
6 30 (2.13%) Postman
7 25 (1.78%) Visual Studio
8 24 (1.71%) SonarQube
9 22 (1.56%) REST Assured
10 20 (1.42%) Cucumber
11 18 (1.28%) WebDriver
12 17 (1.21%) Cypress.io
13 15 (1.07%) Gradle
13 15 (1.07%) JUnit
13 15 (1.07%) Team Foundation Server
14 14 (1.00%) TestRail
15 13 (0.92%) Bitbucket
16 11 (0.78%) MSI
16 11 (0.78%) NUnit
16 11 (0.78%) SpecFlow
General
1 354 (25.16%) Social Skills
2 290 (20.61%) Finance
3 153 (10.87%) Public Sector
4 148 (10.52%) Analytical Skills
5 68 (4.83%) Banking
6 55 (3.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 31 (2.20%) Organisational Skills
8 28 (1.99%) Legal
9 26 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
10 24 (1.71%) Retail
11 19 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
12 14 (1.00%) Aerospace
13 12 (0.85%) Investment Banking
14 11 (0.78%) Law
14 11 (0.78%) Marketing
15 10 (0.71%) Front Office
16 9 (0.64%) Billing
16 9 (0.64%) Local Government
17 7 (0.50%) Manufacturing
17 7 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 270 (19.19%) Developer
2 209 (14.85%) Azure Engineer
3 198 (14.07%) Senior
4 196 (13.93%) DevOps Engineer
5 133 (9.45%) Data Engineer
6 123 (8.74%) Analyst
7 119 (8.46%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 116 (8.24%) Lead
9 105 (7.46%) Architect
10 65 (4.62%) Business Analyst
11 54 (3.84%) Platform Engineer
12 48 (3.41%) Solutions Architect
13 43 (3.06%) Test Analyst
13 43 (3.06%) Tester
14 41 (2.91%) Project Manager
15 39 (2.77%) Consultant
15 39 (2.77%) Full-Stack Developer
16 37 (2.63%) .NET Developer
16 37 (2.63%) Cloud Engineer
17 36 (2.56%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 190 (13.50%) .NET
2 154 (10.95%) REST
3 81 (5.76%) PySpark
4 75 (5.33%) RESTful
5 72 (5.12%) ADO
6 64 (4.55%) React
7 63 (4.48%) YAML
8 62 (4.41%) JSON
9 61 (4.34%) Kafka
10 54 (3.84%) .NET Framework
11 48 (3.41%) ARM Templates
12 46 (3.27%) Playwright
13 44 (3.13%) .NET Core
13 44 (3.13%) SOAP
14 40 (2.84%) HTML
14 40 (2.84%) Node.js
15 37 (2.63%) CSS
16 34 (2.42%) OAuth
17 31 (2.20%) AngularJS
17 31 (2.20%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 168 (11.94%) Cloud Native
2 95 (6.75%) Product Ownership
3 50 (3.55%) Distributed Systems
4 46 (3.27%) Legacy Systems
5 42 (2.99%) Onboarding
6 29 (2.06%) Enterprise Software
7 27 (1.92%) Reinsurance
8 25 (1.78%) Self-Motivation
9 22 (1.56%) Data Structures
10 20 (1.42%) Hybrid Cloud
11 19 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
11 19 (1.35%) Management Information System
11 19 (1.35%) Mobile App
12 18 (1.28%) Replication
13 14 (1.00%) AI Agents
14 13 (0.92%) Enterprise Cloud
15 12 (0.85%) Low-Code
16 11 (0.78%) Public Cloud
16 11 (0.78%) Virtual Team
17 10 (0.71%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 86 (6.11%) Windows
2 53 (3.77%) Linux
3 14 (1.00%) Windows Server
4 13 (0.92%) VMS
5 9 (0.64%) Unix
6 6 (0.43%) Android
6 6 (0.43%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.28%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.071%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,404 (99.79%) DevOps
2 764 (54.30%) CI/CD
3 559 (39.73%) Agile
4 336 (23.88%) Infrastructure as Code
5 232 (16.49%) Test Automation
6 229 (16.28%) Analytics
7 228 (16.20%) Problem-Solving
8 201 (14.29%) Scrum
9 200 (14.21%) Continuous Improvement
10 190 (13.50%) Stakeholder Management
11 187 (13.29%) Migration
12 182 (12.94%) Containerisation
13 162 (11.51%) Data Modelling
14 148 (10.52%) Business Intelligence
15 139 (9.88%) Microservices
16 137 (9.74%) AI
17 134 (9.52%) User Acceptance Testing
18 133 (9.45%) Data Pipeline
19 132 (9.38%) Platform Engineering
19 132 (9.38%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 410 (29.14%) SQL
2 353 (25.09%) Python
3 240 (17.06%) C#
4 149 (10.59%) PowerShell
5 138 (9.81%) JavaScript
6 126 (8.96%) Bicep
7 101 (7.18%) Bash
7 101 (7.18%) Java
8 87 (6.18%) TypeScript
9 24 (1.71%) T-SQL
10 22 (1.56%) Scala
11 20 (1.42%) Go
12 15 (1.07%) Kusto Query Language
13 12 (0.85%) Apex Code
13 12 (0.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 11 (0.78%) PL/SQL
15 10 (0.71%) X++
16 6 (0.43%) R
16 6 (0.43%) Shell Script
16 6 (0.43%) VB
Qualifications
1 391 (27.79%) Security Cleared
2 319 (22.67%) SC Cleared
3 98 (6.97%) Azure Certification
4 91 (6.47%) Degree
5 49 (3.48%) DV Cleared
6 40 (2.84%) Microsoft Certification
7 37 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
8 33 (2.35%) ISTQB
9 30 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
10 18 (1.28%) AWS Certification
11 15 (1.07%) PMI Certification
11 15 (1.07%) PMP
12 11 (0.78%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 10 (0.71%) Master's Degree
14 9 (0.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 9 (0.64%) DBS Check
15 8 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
16 6 (0.43%) CISSP
17 4 (0.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 4 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 152 (10.80%) QA
2 100 (7.11%) Data Quality
3 73 (5.19%) Accessibility
4 46 (3.27%) GDPR
5 41 (2.91%) WCAG
6 20 (1.42%) PMO
7 17 (1.21%) NIST
8 16 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 16 (1.14%) SLA
9 15 (1.07%) NCSC
10 9 (0.64%) GRC
10 9 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 7 (0.50%) PCI DSS
12 3 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.21%) Government Security Classifications
12 3 (0.21%) NIST 800
13 2 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.14%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.14%) PSD2
13 2 (0.14%) SEPA
System Software
1 190 (13.50%) Docker
2 73 (5.19%) Active Directory
3 28 (1.99%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (1.00%) Virtual Desktop
5 11 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.21%) Firmware
7 2 (0.14%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 2 (0.14%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.14%) Microsoft App-V
7 2 (0.14%) OpenSSH
7 2 (0.14%) Postfix
8 1 (0.071%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (0.071%) HDFS
8 1 (0.071%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.071%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.071%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 374 (26.58%) Terraform
2 241 (17.13%) Kubernetes
3 73 (5.19%) Ansible
4 53 (3.77%) Grafana
5 47 (3.34%) Prometheus
6 19 (1.35%) Argo
7 15 (1.07%) HP ALM
7 15 (1.07%) Puppet
8 14 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
9 13 (0.92%) Microsoft Intune
9 13 (0.92%) Progress Chef
10 12 (0.85%) Istio
11 11 (0.78%) Packer
12 7 (0.50%) HP Quality Center
13 6 (0.43%) Jamf Pro
14 4 (0.28%) SCOM
15 3 (0.21%) Rancher
15 3 (0.21%) SCCM
16 2 (0.14%) linkerd
16 2 (0.14%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 431 (30.63%) Microsoft
2 142 (10.09%) Databricks
3 77 (5.47%) Oracle
4 58 (4.12%) ServiceNow
5 47 (3.34%) Salesforce
6 46 (3.27%) SAP
7 24 (1.71%) Google
7 24 (1.71%) Splunk
8 23 (1.63%) Informatica
9 21 (1.49%) OpenAI
10 20 (1.42%) Dynatrace
11 17 (1.21%) VMware
12 16 (1.14%) Foundry
12 16 (1.14%) HP
13 10 (0.71%) Bloomberg
13 10 (0.71%) IBM
13 10 (0.71%) MuleSoft
14 9 (0.64%) InterSystems
15 8 (0.57%) Refinitiv
16 7 (0.50%) Zscaler
448 Azure DevOps jobs in England