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 11 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 92 74
Rank change year-on-year +14 -18 +1
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,147 696 1,029
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.16% 2.82% 2.70%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.53% 7.42% 8.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 830 499 738
10th Percentile £363 £385 £413
25th Percentile £413 £450 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £541
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -3.00% -1.59%
75th Percentile £588 £627 £630
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £490 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -6.67% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 3 12
10th Percentile £25.38 £37.45 £55.50
25th Percentile £45.46 £48.25 £62.81
Median hourly rate £70.00 £67.50 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +3.05% -3.53%
75th Percentile £75.00 £74.38 £72.81
90th Percentile £90.35 £77.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £69.25 £80.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year -13.44% +22.14% -4.73%

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 13,451 9,383 12,311
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.05% 38.01% 32.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,250 6,498 8,876
10th Percentile £313 £313 £275
25th Percentile £412 £418 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £606 £638 £638
90th Percentile £710 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 396 155 331
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.82 £19.00 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.75 £26.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% +26.19% -16.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £43.39 £43.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £71.75 £64.50
UK median hourly rate £38.51 £26.00 £21.37
% change year-on-year +48.10% +21.67% -14.52%

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 11 March 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 11 March 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 11 March 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 +20 640 £500 -9.09% 126
South East -24 143 £523 -5.00% 129
Midlands -9 110 £463 -7.50% 73
North of England -29 108 £500 - 105
South West +26 86 £475 -8.21% 48
West Midlands -15 71 £475 -9.52% 47
North West -12 52 £492 -10.55% 58
Yorkshire -53 45 £509 +13.06% 37
East Midlands -17 38 £418 -14.36% 25
East of England -6 28 £554 -7.71% 44
North East -5 11 £513 -4.65% 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 76 (6.63%) SharePoint
2 64 (5.58%) Confluence
3 28 (2.44%) Apache Spark
4 17 (1.48%) Apache
5 15 (1.31%) Microsoft Exchange
6 13 (1.13%) Apache Airflow
7 11 (0.96%) HCL Notes
8 10 (0.87%) Mendix
9 8 (0.70%) IIS
10 4 (0.35%) CMS
11 3 (0.26%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.26%) OpenStack
11 3 (0.26%) Sitecore CMS
12 1 (0.087%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.087%) Apache Synapse
12 1 (0.087%) Kentico
12 1 (0.087%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.087%) Palantir Foundry
12 1 (0.087%) SAS
12 1 (0.087%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 28 (2.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (1.74%) Microsoft Project
3 17 (1.48%) MS Visio
4 10 (0.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
6 3 (0.26%) Trello
7 2 (0.17%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.087%) CPLEX
8 1 (0.087%) InDesign
8 1 (0.087%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 45 (3.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.70%) Maximo
3 7 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (0.52%) NEC Housing
5 5 (0.44%) Aladdin
6 4 (0.35%) Dynamics AX
6 4 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
7 3 (0.26%) SAP BPC
8 2 (0.17%) Oracle Assets
8 2 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
8 2 (0.17%) Oracle General Ledger
8 2 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
8 2 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
8 2 (0.17%) Primavera
8 2 (0.17%) Workday HCM
9 1 (0.087%) Endur
9 1 (0.087%) Oracle Financials
9 1 (0.087%) SAP MM
9 1 (0.087%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 1,147 (100.00%) Azure
2 284 (24.76%) GitHub
3 199 (17.35%) Power Platform
4 198 (17.26%) GitHub Actions
5 139 (12.12%) AWS
6 135 (11.77%) Serverless
7 128 (11.16%) Azure Data Factory
8 125 (10.90%) Azure Monitor
9 119 (10.37%) Azure AKS
10 115 (10.03%) Entra ID
11 101 (8.81%) Dynamics 365
12 91 (7.93%) Azure Functions
12 91 (7.93%) Azure Key Vault
13 79 (6.89%) Azure Logic Apps
14 78 (6.80%) Power Automate
15 72 (6.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 70 (6.10%) Azure Service Bus
17 66 (5.75%) GCP
18 64 (5.58%) PowerApps
19 61 (5.32%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 45 (3.92%) Firewall
2 23 (2.01%) Network Security
3 20 (1.74%) DNS
3 20 (1.74%) VPN
4 13 (1.13%) SD-WAN
5 12 (1.05%) WAN
6 8 (0.70%) TCP/IP
7 7 (0.61%) LAN
8 6 (0.52%) DHCP
9 5 (0.44%) HTTP
10 4 (0.35%) IPsec
10 4 (0.35%) MQTT
11 3 (0.26%) FTP
11 3 (0.26%) Internet
11 3 (0.26%) MPLS
11 3 (0.26%) Remote Desktop
11 3 (0.26%) SSL
11 3 (0.26%) VLAN
12 2 (0.17%) BGP
12 2 (0.17%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 121 (10.55%) Power BI
2 98 (8.54%) SQL Server
3 71 (6.19%) Azure SQL Database
4 59 (5.14%) Data Lake
5 50 (4.36%) Delta Lake
6 45 (3.92%) Data Warehouse
7 39 (3.40%) PostgreSQL
8 31 (2.70%) NoSQL
9 27 (2.35%) Oracle Database
10 22 (1.92%) Redis
11 21 (1.83%) Relational Database
12 18 (1.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 17 (1.48%) Spark SQL
14 16 (1.39%) MongoDB
14 16 (1.39%) Tableau
15 12 (1.05%) DynamoDB
15 12 (1.05%) Snowflake Schema
16 10 (0.87%) Data Vault
16 10 (0.87%) Oracle Reports
17 9 (0.78%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 213 (18.57%) JIRA
2 169 (14.73%) Git
3 114 (9.94%) Jenkins
4 62 (5.41%) GitLab
5 54 (4.71%) Selenium
6 37 (3.23%) Postman
7 35 (3.05%) Oracle APEX
8 23 (2.01%) Cypress.io
9 19 (1.66%) TestRail
9 19 (1.66%) Visual Studio
10 18 (1.57%) SonarQube
11 16 (1.39%) Cucumber
11 16 (1.39%) Team Foundation Server
12 15 (1.31%) JMeter
12 15 (1.31%) REST Assured
13 14 (1.22%) JUnit
13 14 (1.22%) Zephyr
14 12 (1.05%) SpecFlow
15 11 (0.96%) MLflow
16 10 (0.87%) Artifactory
General
1 327 (28.51%) Social Skills
2 224 (19.53%) Finance
3 136 (11.86%) Public Sector
4 122 (10.64%) Analytical Skills
5 55 (4.80%) Banking
6 29 (2.53%) Organisational Skills
7 27 (2.35%) Documentation Skills
8 26 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
9 23 (2.01%) Retail
10 17 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 16 (1.39%) Financial Institution
12 14 (1.22%) Front Office
12 14 (1.22%) Investment Banking
13 12 (1.05%) Law
13 12 (1.05%) Legal
13 12 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
14 9 (0.78%) Telecoms
15 8 (0.70%) Back Office
15 8 (0.70%) Marketing
16 6 (0.52%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 265 (23.10%) Developer
2 171 (14.91%) Azure Engineer
3 165 (14.39%) Senior
4 148 (12.90%) DevOps Engineer
5 97 (8.46%) Lead
6 95 (8.28%) Analyst
7 89 (7.76%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 87 (7.59%) Data Engineer
9 83 (7.24%) Architect
10 55 (4.80%) Senior Developer
11 48 (4.18%) Azure Developer
12 46 (4.01%) Platform Engineer
13 44 (3.84%) Test Analyst
14 41 (3.57%) Tester
15 36 (3.14%) Azure Architect
15 36 (3.14%) Business Analyst
16 33 (2.88%) Cloud Engineer
16 33 (2.88%) Full-Stack Developer
17 30 (2.62%) Test Engineer
18 28 (2.44%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 197 (17.18%) .NET
2 115 (10.03%) REST
3 73 (6.36%) React
4 71 (6.19%) ARM Templates
4 71 (6.19%) Node.js
5 65 (5.67%) PySpark
6 57 (4.97%) ADO
7 54 (4.71%) YAML
8 48 (4.18%) .NET Core
9 41 (3.57%) RESTful
10 40 (3.49%) .NET Framework
11 39 (3.40%) SOAP
12 38 (3.31%) Playwright
13 37 (3.23%) CSS
13 37 (3.23%) HTML
14 35 (3.05%) Kafka
15 34 (2.96%) OAuth
16 33 (2.88%) JSON
17 32 (2.79%) AngularJS
18 27 (2.35%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 124 (10.81%) Cloud Native
2 67 (5.84%) Product Ownership
3 34 (2.96%) Distributed Systems
4 33 (2.88%) Legacy Systems
5 29 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
6 22 (1.92%) Low-Code
7 19 (1.66%) AI Agents
7 19 (1.66%) Hybrid Cloud
8 18 (1.57%) Onboarding
9 17 (1.48%) Reinsurance
10 15 (1.31%) CMDB
11 14 (1.22%) Data Structures
11 14 (1.22%) NHS
11 14 (1.22%) Public Cloud
12 12 (1.05%) Security Posture
13 10 (0.87%) Replication
13 10 (0.87%) Virtual Team
14 9 (0.78%) Data Centre
14 9 (0.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 9 (0.78%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 54 (4.71%) Windows
2 46 (4.01%) Linux
3 15 (1.31%) VMS
4 9 (0.78%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.17%) Unix
7 1 (0.087%) Android
7 1 (0.087%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.087%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.087%) Solaris
7 1 (0.087%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,139 (99.30%) DevOps
2 628 (54.75%) CI/CD
3 447 (38.97%) Agile
4 279 (24.32%) Infrastructure as Code
5 222 (19.35%) Problem-Solving
6 204 (17.79%) Analytics
7 193 (16.83%) Test Automation
8 181 (15.78%) Scrum
9 171 (14.91%) Continuous Improvement
10 148 (12.90%) AI
11 136 (11.86%) Business Intelligence
11 136 (11.86%) Containerisation
12 123 (10.72%) Data Modelling
12 123 (10.72%) Stakeholder Management
13 122 (10.64%) Migration
14 120 (10.46%) Validation
15 116 (10.11%) Microservices
16 113 (9.85%) Observability
17 96 (8.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 94 (8.20%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 386 (33.65%) SQL
2 320 (27.90%) Python
3 219 (19.09%) C#
4 185 (16.13%) JavaScript
5 131 (11.42%) PowerShell
6 104 (9.07%) Bicep
7 77 (6.71%) Bash
8 76 (6.63%) Java
9 75 (6.54%) TypeScript
10 55 (4.80%) PL/SQL
11 27 (2.35%) Scala
12 26 (2.27%) T-SQL
13 19 (1.66%) Kusto Query Language
14 16 (1.39%) Go
15 11 (0.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 11 (0.96%) Formula Language
15 11 (0.96%) LotusScript
16 6 (0.52%) PHP
16 6 (0.52%) X++
17 5 (0.44%) XPath
Qualifications
1 319 (27.81%) Security Cleared
2 268 (23.37%) SC Cleared
3 106 (9.24%) Azure Certification
4 78 (6.80%) Degree
5 37 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
6 33 (2.88%) ISTQB
7 32 (2.79%) Computer Science Degree
8 31 (2.70%) DV Cleared
9 25 (2.18%) BPSS Clearance
10 16 (1.39%) PMI Certification
11 15 (1.31%) AWS Certification
12 13 (1.13%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 12 (1.05%) PMP
14 10 (0.87%) Master's Degree
15 8 (0.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 8 (0.70%) CISSP
16 7 (0.61%) CISM
17 5 (0.44%) ISEB
17 5 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
17 5 (0.44%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 122 (10.64%) QA
2 68 (5.93%) Data Quality
3 33 (2.88%) Accessibility
4 28 (2.44%) GDPR
5 21 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 21 (1.83%) NIST
6 18 (1.57%) NCSC
7 15 (1.31%) PMO
8 12 (1.05%) WCAG
9 9 (0.78%) NIST 800
10 8 (0.70%) SLA
11 7 (0.61%) EU AI Act
11 7 (0.61%) PCI DSS
11 7 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 6 (0.52%) HL7
13 4 (0.35%) GRC
13 4 (0.35%) HIPAA
13 4 (0.35%) SOC 2
14 2 (0.17%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 2 (0.17%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 178 (15.52%) Docker
2 66 (5.75%) Active Directory
3 24 (2.09%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (0.78%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (0.52%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.35%) Firmware
7 2 (0.17%) Postfix
8 1 (0.087%) HDFS
8 1 (0.087%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.087%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.087%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 334 (29.12%) Terraform
2 197 (17.18%) Kubernetes
3 55 (4.80%) Ansible
4 47 (4.10%) Grafana
5 40 (3.49%) Prometheus
6 13 (1.13%) HP ALM
7 12 (1.05%) Istio
7 12 (1.05%) Single Sign-On
8 10 (0.87%) Argo
9 7 (0.61%) Puppet
10 6 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
10 6 (0.52%) Podman
11 5 (0.44%) Progress Chef
12 4 (0.35%) HP Quality Center
12 4 (0.35%) Packer
13 3 (0.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (0.26%) Icinga
13 3 (0.26%) Kubeflow
14 2 (0.17%) linkerd
14 2 (0.17%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 361 (31.47%) Microsoft
2 148 (12.90%) Databricks
3 129 (11.25%) Oracle
4 63 (5.49%) ServiceNow
5 37 (3.23%) OpenAI
6 28 (2.44%) SAP
7 27 (2.35%) Salesforce
8 23 (2.01%) Splunk
9 17 (1.48%) Google
10 14 (1.22%) HP
10 14 (1.22%) VMware
11 11 (0.96%) Foundry
11 11 (0.96%) Informatica
11 11 (0.96%) Lotus
12 10 (0.87%) Kofax
12 10 (0.87%) NEC
13 9 (0.78%) IBM
14 8 (0.70%) Brio
14 8 (0.70%) Cisco
14 8 (0.70%) Citrix