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

 6 months to
4 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 91 77
Rank change year-on-year +14 -14 -8
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,374 718 1,036
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.12% 2.73% 2.77%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.93% 7.24% 8.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 984 506 693
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 £600 £600
90th Percentile £693 £738 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 3 6
10th Percentile £25.38 £36.45 £64.50
25th Percentile £37.75 £45.75 £65.25
Median hourly rate £74.50 £62.50 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.20% -4.58% -6.43%
75th Percentile £88.00 £76.25 £65.75
90th Percentile £104.00 £83.75 £68.50
UK median hourly rate £72.25 £85.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year -15.00% +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 15,383 9,918 12,163
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.98% 37.66% 32.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,344 6,690 8,678
10th Percentile £325 £313 £308
25th Percentile £415 £413 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.98% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 554 255 331
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.04 £14.16
25th Percentile £23.17 £17.96 £16.06
Median hourly rate £40.53 £25.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +58.94% +15.91% -31.89%
75th Percentile £70.00 £40.73 £43.75
90th Percentile £83.18 £67.50 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £28.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year +33.93% +27.27% -37.14%

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 4 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 4 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 4 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 +17 764 £500 -4.76% 166
South East -11 174 £500 +9.29% 122
North of England +15 161 £490 -2.05% 86
Midlands +4 147 £475 -5.00% 47
West Midlands -1 105 £450 -14.29% 24
North West +17 80 £500 -4.76% 50
South West +6 65 £475 -9.52% 26
Yorkshire -24 62 £500 +8.11% 25
East Midlands -3 40 £525 +5.00% 23
East of England 0 35 £450 -6.49% 37
North East -17 19 £450 -18.18% 12
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 91 (6.62%) Confluence
2 83 (6.04%) SharePoint
3 37 (2.69%) Apache Spark
4 29 (2.11%) Apache
5 25 (1.82%) Apache Airflow
6 14 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
7 7 (0.51%) CMS
8 6 (0.44%) Documentum
9 4 (0.29%) Mendix
9 4 (0.29%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (0.22%) HCL Notes
10 3 (0.22%) IIS
10 3 (0.22%) Kentico
10 3 (0.22%) SAS
11 2 (0.15%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.073%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.073%) IBM HTTP Server
12 1 (0.073%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.073%) SharePoint 2013
12 1 (0.073%) WebLogic
Applications
1 48 (3.49%) Microsoft Project
2 32 (2.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (1.46%) MS Visio
4 11 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
5 8 (0.58%) CPLEX
5 8 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 5 (0.36%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.29%) Notion
8 3 (0.22%) Trello
9 2 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.073%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.073%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 47 (3.42%) Dynamics CRM
2 19 (1.38%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.51%) Dynamics AX
4 6 (0.44%) Maximo
5 4 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.22%) Endur
6 3 (0.22%) Findur
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%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.15%) Unit4 Business World
8 1 (0.073%) Infor SunSystems
8 1 (0.073%) OpenText VIM for SAP
8 1 (0.073%) Oracle Payables
8 1 (0.073%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.073%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,374 (100.00%) Azure
2 346 (25.18%) GitHub
3 232 (16.89%) GitHub Actions
4 218 (15.87%) Power Platform
5 196 (14.26%) AWS
6 121 (8.81%) Azure Data Factory
7 111 (8.08%) Entra ID
8 108 (7.86%) Azure AKS
9 107 (7.79%) Azure Monitor
10 104 (7.57%) Dynamics 365
11 99 (7.21%) Power Automate
12 97 (7.06%) Serverless
13 80 (5.82%) Azure Key Vault
14 76 (5.53%) PowerApps
15 70 (5.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 69 (5.02%) GCP
17 64 (4.66%) Azure Logic Apps
18 62 (4.51%) Azure Functions
19 58 (4.22%) Microsoft 365
20 56 (4.08%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 47 (3.42%) Firewall
2 25 (1.82%) Network Security
3 23 (1.67%) DNS
4 19 (1.38%) VPN
5 14 (1.02%) SD-WAN
6 13 (0.95%) WAN
7 10 (0.73%) SSL
8 9 (0.66%) Internet
9 8 (0.58%) DHCP
9 8 (0.58%) TCP/IP
10 6 (0.44%) LAN
10 6 (0.44%) VLAN
11 4 (0.29%) IPsec
12 3 (0.22%) MQTT
13 2 (0.15%) NAS
13 2 (0.15%) OSPF
13 2 (0.15%) Remote Desktop
13 2 (0.15%) SAN
13 2 (0.15%) SSH
13 2 (0.15%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 139 (10.12%) Power BI
2 104 (7.57%) SQL Server
3 73 (5.31%) Data Lake
4 71 (5.17%) Azure SQL Database
5 65 (4.73%) Delta Lake
6 59 (4.29%) Data Warehouse
7 50 (3.64%) NoSQL
8 46 (3.35%) PostgreSQL
9 28 (2.04%) Relational Database
10 25 (1.82%) MongoDB
11 22 (1.60%) Snowflake Schema
12 20 (1.46%) Redis
12 20 (1.46%) Spark SQL
13 17 (1.24%) Metadata
13 17 (1.24%) Oracle Database
13 17 (1.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 15 (1.09%) Big Data
15 13 (0.95%) Amazon Redshift
16 12 (0.87%) Parquet
17 11 (0.80%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 272 (19.80%) JIRA
2 224 (16.30%) Git
3 136 (9.90%) Jenkins
4 101 (7.35%) GitLab
5 51 (3.71%) Selenium
6 30 (2.18%) Postman
7 24 (1.75%) Visual Studio
8 23 (1.67%) REST Assured
8 23 (1.67%) SonarQube
9 19 (1.38%) Cucumber
10 17 (1.24%) Cypress.io
10 17 (1.24%) WebDriver
11 15 (1.09%) TestRail
12 14 (1.02%) Gradle
12 14 (1.02%) Team Foundation Server
13 13 (0.95%) Bitbucket
13 13 (0.95%) JUnit
14 11 (0.80%) NUnit
14 11 (0.80%) SpecFlow
15 10 (0.73%) MSI
General
1 333 (24.24%) Social Skills
2 288 (20.96%) Finance
3 146 (10.63%) Public Sector
4 142 (10.33%) Analytical Skills
5 69 (5.02%) Banking
6 51 (3.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 30 (2.18%) Organisational Skills
8 28 (2.04%) Legal
9 24 (1.75%) Retail
10 20 (1.46%) Documentation Skills
11 19 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
12 14 (1.02%) Aerospace
13 12 (0.87%) Investment Banking
13 12 (0.87%) Marketing
14 11 (0.80%) Law
15 10 (0.73%) Front Office
16 9 (0.66%) Local Government
17 8 (0.58%) Billing
18 7 (0.51%) Back Office
18 7 (0.51%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 261 (19.00%) Developer
2 209 (15.21%) Azure Engineer
3 192 (13.97%) Senior
4 191 (13.90%) DevOps Engineer
5 133 (9.68%) Data Engineer
6 118 (8.59%) Analyst
7 116 (8.44%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 108 (7.86%) Lead
9 105 (7.64%) Architect
10 60 (4.37%) Business Analyst
11 55 (4.00%) Platform Engineer
12 48 (3.49%) Solutions Architect
13 43 (3.13%) Test Analyst
14 42 (3.06%) Tester
15 41 (2.98%) Project Manager
16 39 (2.84%) Consultant
17 38 (2.77%) Full-Stack Developer
18 37 (2.69%) Cloud Engineer
19 36 (2.62%) Senior DevOps
20 35 (2.55%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 188 (13.68%) .NET
2 150 (10.92%) REST
3 79 (5.75%) PySpark
4 71 (5.17%) RESTful
5 69 (5.02%) ADO
6 63 (4.59%) React
7 61 (4.44%) YAML
8 58 (4.22%) Kafka
9 57 (4.15%) JSON
10 53 (3.86%) ARM Templates
11 52 (3.78%) .NET Framework
12 47 (3.42%) Playwright
13 44 (3.20%) SOAP
14 41 (2.98%) Node.js
15 40 (2.91%) .NET Core
16 38 (2.77%) HTML
17 37 (2.69%) CSS
18 35 (2.55%) OAuth
19 31 (2.26%) AngularJS
20 30 (2.18%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 163 (11.86%) Cloud Native
2 90 (6.55%) Product Ownership
3 49 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
4 41 (2.98%) Legacy Systems
5 36 (2.62%) Onboarding
6 29 (2.11%) Enterprise Software
7 27 (1.97%) Reinsurance
8 25 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
9 21 (1.53%) Data Structures
10 20 (1.46%) Hybrid Cloud
11 19 (1.38%) Greenfield Project
12 18 (1.31%) Mobile App
13 17 (1.24%) Replication
14 16 (1.16%) Management Information System
15 13 (0.95%) AI Agents
15 13 (0.95%) Low-Code
16 12 (0.87%) Enterprise Cloud
16 12 (0.87%) Virtual Team
17 10 (0.73%) Data Protection Act
17 10 (0.73%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 82 (5.97%) Windows
2 51 (3.71%) Linux
3 14 (1.02%) Windows Server
4 13 (0.95%) VMS
5 9 (0.66%) Unix
6 6 (0.44%) Android
6 6 (0.44%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.29%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.073%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,371 (99.78%) DevOps
2 755 (54.95%) CI/CD
3 539 (39.23%) Agile
4 329 (23.94%) Infrastructure as Code
5 230 (16.74%) Test Automation
6 226 (16.45%) Analytics
7 225 (16.38%) Problem-Solving
8 192 (13.97%) Scrum
9 190 (13.83%) Continuous Improvement
10 187 (13.61%) Migration
11 180 (13.10%) Containerisation
12 176 (12.81%) Stakeholder Management
13 157 (11.43%) Data Modelling
14 146 (10.63%) Business Intelligence
15 137 (9.97%) AI
16 135 (9.83%) Microservices
17 133 (9.68%) Data Pipeline
18 132 (9.61%) Platform Engineering
19 130 (9.46%) ETL
20 129 (9.39%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 404 (29.40%) SQL
2 347 (25.25%) Python
3 237 (17.25%) C#
4 146 (10.63%) PowerShell
5 137 (9.97%) JavaScript
6 129 (9.39%) Bicep
7 99 (7.21%) Bash
8 98 (7.13%) Java
9 86 (6.26%) TypeScript
10 23 (1.67%) T-SQL
11 21 (1.53%) Scala
12 20 (1.46%) Go
13 12 (0.87%) Apex Code
13 12 (0.87%) Kusto Query Language
14 11 (0.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 10 (0.73%) PL/SQL
15 10 (0.73%) X++
16 6 (0.44%) R
16 6 (0.44%) Shell Script
16 6 (0.44%) VB
Qualifications
1 370 (26.93%) Security Cleared
2 305 (22.20%) SC Cleared
3 94 (6.84%) Azure Certification
4 85 (6.19%) Degree
5 46 (3.35%) DV Cleared
6 36 (2.62%) Microsoft Certification
7 35 (2.55%) BPSS Clearance
8 34 (2.47%) ISTQB
9 29 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
10 17 (1.24%) AWS Certification
11 16 (1.16%) PMI Certification
11 16 (1.16%) PMP
12 12 (0.87%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 9 (0.66%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 9 (0.66%) DBS Check
13 9 (0.66%) Master's Degree
14 7 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
15 5 (0.36%) CISSP
16 4 (0.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 4 (0.29%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 153 (11.14%) QA
2 99 (7.21%) Data Quality
3 66 (4.80%) Accessibility
4 44 (3.20%) GDPR
5 38 (2.77%) WCAG
6 17 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 17 (1.24%) NIST
7 16 (1.16%) PMO
7 16 (1.16%) SLA
8 15 (1.09%) NCSC
9 10 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 9 (0.66%) GRC
11 7 (0.51%) PCI DSS
12 3 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.22%) Government Security Classifications
12 3 (0.22%) NIST 800
13 2 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.15%) FedRAMP
13 2 (0.15%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 2 (0.15%) SEPA
System Software
1 192 (13.97%) Docker
2 73 (5.31%) Active Directory
3 29 (2.11%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (0.95%) Virtual Desktop
5 10 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.15%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 2 (0.15%) Firmware
6 2 (0.15%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.15%) Microsoft App-V
6 2 (0.15%) OpenSSH
6 2 (0.15%) Postfix
7 1 (0.073%) HDFS
7 1 (0.073%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.073%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.073%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 371 (27.00%) Terraform
2 238 (17.32%) Kubernetes
3 72 (5.24%) Ansible
4 52 (3.78%) Grafana
5 46 (3.35%) Prometheus
6 19 (1.38%) Argo
7 15 (1.09%) HP ALM
7 15 (1.09%) Puppet
8 14 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
9 13 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
9 13 (0.95%) Progress Chef
10 12 (0.87%) Istio
11 10 (0.73%) Packer
12 6 (0.44%) HP Quality Center
12 6 (0.44%) Jamf Pro
13 4 (0.29%) SCOM
14 3 (0.22%) Rancher
14 3 (0.22%) SCCM
15 2 (0.15%) HP Fortify
15 2 (0.15%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 417 (30.35%) Microsoft
2 142 (10.33%) Databricks
3 75 (5.46%) Oracle
4 58 (4.22%) ServiceNow
5 46 (3.35%) Salesforce
5 46 (3.35%) SAP
6 24 (1.75%) Google
6 24 (1.75%) Splunk
7 23 (1.67%) Informatica
8 21 (1.53%) OpenAI
9 20 (1.46%) Dynatrace
10 16 (1.16%) HP
10 16 (1.16%) VMware
11 15 (1.09%) Foundry
12 10 (0.73%) Bloomberg
12 10 (0.73%) MuleSoft
13 9 (0.66%) InterSystems
14 8 (0.58%) IBM
14 8 (0.58%) Refinitiv
15 7 (0.51%) Zscaler
435 Azure DevOps jobs in England