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

 6 months to
17 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 90 77
Rank change year-on-year +16 -13 -3
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,429 757 1,027
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.19% 2.78% 2.84%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.13% 7.45% 8.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,015 540 688
10th Percentile £375 £350 £400
25th Percentile £423 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £504 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.74% -4.05% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £694 £725 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 3 4
10th Percentile £21.25 £36.45 -
25th Percentile £25.38 £45.75 £65.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% -4.58% -6.43%
75th Percentile £88.00 £76.25 £65.75
90th Percentile £103.70 £83.75 -
UK median hourly rate £61.75 £85.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year -27.35% +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 15,658 10,159 11,960
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.96% 37.34% 33.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,495 6,871 8,501
10th Percentile £325 £313 £311
25th Percentile £421 £409 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.95% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £519 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +3.60% -4.67% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 555 267 303
10th Percentile £16.70 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £22.50 £17.96 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.50 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +57.06% +14.32% -36.77%
75th Percentile £70.00 £42.68 £43.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.71 £27.63 £22.00
% change year-on-year +32.86% +25.59% -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 17 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 17 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 17 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 +15 790 £505 -3.81% 121
South East -14 178 £500 +9.71% 81
North of England +9 161 £488 -2.50% 58
Midlands +15 160 £475 -5.00% 40
West Midlands +11 116 £450 -14.29% 26
North West +8 82 £500 -4.76% 38
South West -1 74 £475 -15.37% 22
Yorkshire -20 60 £500 - 15
East Midlands -2 42 £525 +6.06% 14
East of England +10 38 £425 -11.69% 20
North East -19 19 £450 -18.18% 6
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
1 102 (7.14%) Confluence
2 84 (5.88%) SharePoint
3 34 (2.38%) Apache Spark
4 29 (2.03%) Apache
5 26 (1.82%) Apache Airflow
6 14 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
7 7 (0.49%) CMS
8 6 (0.42%) Documentum
9 4 (0.28%) IIS
10 3 (0.21%) Kentico
10 3 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (0.21%) SAS
11 2 (0.14%) Mendix
11 2 (0.14%) OpenROAD
11 2 (0.14%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.070%) HCL Notes
12 1 (0.070%) IBM HTTP Server
12 1 (0.070%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.070%) SharePoint Server
12 1 (0.070%) WebLogic
Applications
1 51 (3.57%) Microsoft Project
2 35 (2.45%) Microsoft Excel
3 21 (1.47%) MS Visio
4 13 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
5 8 (0.56%) CPLEX
5 8 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 6 (0.42%) Trello
7 5 (0.35%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.28%) Notion
8 4 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.070%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.070%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 47 (3.29%) Dynamics CRM
2 20 (1.40%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.49%) Dynamics AX
4 6 (0.42%) 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 (0.070%) Loan IQ
8 1 (0.070%) Oracle Financials
8 1 (0.070%) SAP SD
8 1 (0.070%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 1,429 (100.00%) Azure
2 362 (25.33%) GitHub
3 242 (16.93%) GitHub Actions
4 219 (15.33%) Power Platform
5 206 (14.42%) AWS
6 120 (8.40%) Azure Data Factory
7 111 (7.77%) Entra ID
8 108 (7.56%) Dynamics 365
9 107 (7.49%) Azure Monitor
10 104 (7.28%) Azure AKS
11 100 (7.00%) Power Automate
12 90 (6.30%) Serverless
13 80 (5.60%) Azure Key Vault
14 77 (5.39%) GCP
15 76 (5.32%) PowerApps
16 72 (5.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 62 (4.34%) Azure Logic Apps
18 58 (4.06%) Microsoft 365
19 55 (3.85%) Azure Functions
19 55 (3.85%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 49 (3.43%) Firewall
2 28 (1.96%) DNS
3 27 (1.89%) Network Security
4 19 (1.33%) VPN
5 13 (0.91%) SD-WAN
5 13 (0.91%) WAN
6 10 (0.70%) SSL
7 9 (0.63%) DHCP
7 9 (0.63%) Internet
8 8 (0.56%) TCP/IP
9 6 (0.42%) LAN
9 6 (0.42%) VLAN
10 3 (0.21%) IPsec
11 2 (0.14%) 4G
11 2 (0.14%) BGP
11 2 (0.14%) NAS
11 2 (0.14%) OSPF
11 2 (0.14%) SSH
11 2 (0.14%) Wi-Fi
11 2 (0.14%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 141 (9.87%) Power BI
2 105 (7.35%) SQL Server
3 75 (5.25%) Data Lake
4 68 (4.76%) Azure SQL Database
5 64 (4.48%) Data Warehouse
6 55 (3.85%) Delta Lake
7 47 (3.29%) NoSQL
7 47 (3.29%) PostgreSQL
8 28 (1.96%) Relational Database
9 23 (1.61%) MongoDB
10 22 (1.54%) Snowflake Schema
11 21 (1.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 19 (1.33%) Redis
12 19 (1.33%) Spark SQL
13 18 (1.26%) Metadata
14 15 (1.05%) Oracle Database
15 14 (0.98%) Big Data
16 13 (0.91%) Amazon Redshift
17 12 (0.84%) Parquet
18 9 (0.63%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 291 (20.36%) JIRA
2 236 (16.52%) Git
3 148 (10.36%) Jenkins
4 110 (7.70%) GitLab
5 60 (4.20%) Selenium
6 32 (2.24%) Postman
7 24 (1.68%) SonarQube
7 24 (1.68%) Visual Studio
8 23 (1.61%) Cypress.io
9 22 (1.54%) REST Assured
10 21 (1.47%) Cucumber
11 20 (1.40%) WebDriver
12 16 (1.12%) Team Foundation Server
13 15 (1.05%) Gradle
13 15 (1.05%) JUnit
13 15 (1.05%) TestRail
14 13 (0.91%) Bitbucket
15 11 (0.77%) MSI
15 11 (0.77%) NUnit
15 11 (0.77%) SpecFlow
General
1 364 (25.47%) Social Skills
2 293 (20.50%) Finance
3 165 (11.55%) Public Sector
4 152 (10.64%) Analytical Skills
5 68 (4.76%) Banking
6 56 (3.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 32 (2.24%) Organisational Skills
8 28 (1.96%) Legal
9 26 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
10 25 (1.75%) Retail
11 22 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
12 14 (0.98%) Aerospace
13 12 (0.84%) Law
14 11 (0.77%) Investment Banking
14 11 (0.77%) Local Government
14 11 (0.77%) Marketing
15 9 (0.63%) Billing
15 9 (0.63%) Front Office
16 8 (0.56%) Manufacturing
17 7 (0.49%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 269 (18.82%) Developer
2 215 (15.05%) Azure Engineer
3 206 (14.42%) DevOps Engineer
4 198 (13.86%) Senior
5 129 (9.03%) Data Engineer
6 127 (8.89%) Analyst
6 127 (8.89%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 122 (8.54%) Lead
8 95 (6.65%) Architect
9 66 (4.62%) Business Analyst
10 52 (3.64%) Platform Engineer
11 47 (3.29%) Project Manager
12 46 (3.22%) Test Analyst
12 46 (3.22%) Tester
13 42 (2.94%) Solutions Architect
14 39 (2.73%) Consultant
15 38 (2.66%) Full-Stack Developer
16 37 (2.59%) .NET Developer
16 37 (2.59%) Cloud Engineer
17 36 (2.52%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 185 (12.95%) .NET
2 155 (10.85%) REST
3 76 (5.32%) PySpark
4 75 (5.25%) RESTful
5 74 (5.18%) ADO
6 64 (4.48%) JSON
6 64 (4.48%) YAML
7 63 (4.41%) React
8 59 (4.13%) Kafka
9 55 (3.85%) .NET Framework
10 51 (3.57%) ARM Templates
10 51 (3.57%) Playwright
11 45 (3.15%) .NET Core
12 44 (3.08%) SOAP
13 40 (2.80%) HTML
14 38 (2.66%) Node.js
15 37 (2.59%) CSS
16 33 (2.31%) OAuth
17 31 (2.17%) AngularJS
17 31 (2.17%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 166 (11.62%) Cloud Native
2 98 (6.86%) Product Ownership
3 52 (3.64%) Distributed Systems
4 48 (3.36%) Legacy Systems
5 41 (2.87%) Onboarding
6 30 (2.10%) Enterprise Software
7 27 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
8 22 (1.54%) Reinsurance
9 20 (1.40%) Hybrid Cloud
10 19 (1.33%) Data Structures
10 19 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
10 19 (1.33%) Management Information System
10 19 (1.33%) Mobile App
11 18 (1.26%) Replication
12 14 (0.98%) AI Agents
13 13 (0.91%) Enterprise Cloud
13 13 (0.91%) Low-Code
13 13 (0.91%) Virtual Team
14 12 (0.84%) Data Centre
14 12 (0.84%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 87 (6.09%) Windows
2 54 (3.78%) Linux
3 16 (1.12%) Windows Server
4 13 (0.91%) VMS
5 9 (0.63%) Unix
6 8 (0.56%) Android
6 8 (0.56%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.28%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.070%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,429 (100.00%) DevOps
2 770 (53.88%) CI/CD
3 581 (40.66%) Agile
4 336 (23.51%) Infrastructure as Code
5 243 (17.00%) Test Automation
6 227 (15.89%) Problem-Solving
7 222 (15.54%) Analytics
8 211 (14.77%) Continuous Improvement
9 206 (14.42%) Stakeholder Management
10 202 (14.14%) Scrum
11 195 (13.65%) Migration
12 185 (12.95%) Containerisation
13 157 (10.99%) Data Modelling
14 152 (10.64%) Business Intelligence
15 142 (9.94%) Microservices
16 140 (9.80%) AI
16 140 (9.80%) User Acceptance Testing
17 139 (9.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 131 (9.17%) Validation
19 130 (9.10%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 403 (28.20%) SQL
2 346 (24.21%) Python
3 235 (16.45%) C#
4 158 (11.06%) PowerShell
5 134 (9.38%) JavaScript
6 120 (8.40%) Bicep
7 107 (7.49%) Java
8 106 (7.42%) Bash
9 84 (5.88%) TypeScript
10 26 (1.82%) T-SQL
11 20 (1.40%) Go
12 19 (1.33%) Scala
13 15 (1.05%) Kusto Query Language
14 12 (0.84%) Apex Code
14 12 (0.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 11 (0.77%) PL/SQL
16 10 (0.70%) X++
17 8 (0.56%) VB
18 6 (0.42%) C
18 6 (0.42%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 407 (28.48%) Security Cleared
2 334 (23.37%) SC Cleared
3 97 (6.79%) Azure Certification
4 92 (6.44%) Degree
5 51 (3.57%) DV Cleared
6 38 (2.66%) ISTQB
6 38 (2.66%) Microsoft Certification
7 35 (2.45%) BPSS Clearance
8 30 (2.10%) Computer Science Degree
9 22 (1.54%) AWS Certification
10 15 (1.05%) PMI Certification
10 15 (1.05%) PMP
11 12 (0.84%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 12 (0.84%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 12 (0.84%) Master's Degree
12 9 (0.63%) DBS Check
13 8 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
14 6 (0.42%) CISSP
15 5 (0.35%) ITIL Certification
16 4 (0.28%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 160 (11.20%) QA
2 96 (6.72%) Data Quality
3 77 (5.39%) Accessibility
4 47 (3.29%) GDPR
5 44 (3.08%) WCAG
6 22 (1.54%) PMO
7 17 (1.19%) NIST
8 16 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 16 (1.12%) SLA
9 13 (0.91%) NCSC
10 11 (0.77%) GRC
11 9 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 5 (0.35%) PCI DSS
13 3 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
13 3 (0.21%) Government Security Classifications
14 2 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
14 2 (0.14%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 2 (0.14%) NIST 800
14 2 (0.14%) PSD2
14 2 (0.14%) SEPA
System Software
1 193 (13.51%) Docker
2 72 (5.04%) Active Directory
3 29 (2.03%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (0.98%) Virtual Desktop
5 12 (0.84%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.28%) Firmware
7 3 (0.21%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.14%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 2 (0.14%) Embedded Firmware
8 2 (0.14%) Microsoft App-V
8 2 (0.14%) OpenSSH
8 2 (0.14%) Postfix
8 2 (0.14%) vSphere
9 1 (0.070%) HDFS
9 1 (0.070%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.070%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 372 (26.03%) Terraform
2 244 (17.07%) Kubernetes
3 81 (5.67%) Ansible
4 56 (3.92%) Grafana
5 49 (3.43%) Prometheus
6 20 (1.40%) Argo
7 18 (1.26%) Puppet
8 17 (1.19%) Progress Chef
9 15 (1.05%) HP ALM
9 15 (1.05%) Microsoft Intune
10 14 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
11 12 (0.84%) Istio
11 12 (0.84%) Packer
12 7 (0.49%) HP Quality Center
13 6 (0.42%) Jamf Pro
14 4 (0.28%) SCCM
14 4 (0.28%) SCOM
15 3 (0.21%) Rancher
16 2 (0.14%) HP Fortify
16 2 (0.14%) linkerd
Vendors
1 438 (30.65%) Microsoft
2 133 (9.31%) Databricks
3 70 (4.90%) Oracle
4 59 (4.13%) ServiceNow
5 50 (3.50%) Salesforce
6 48 (3.36%) SAP
7 28 (1.96%) Google
8 25 (1.75%) Splunk
9 20 (1.40%) Dynatrace
10 19 (1.33%) OpenAI
11 18 (1.26%) Informatica
11 18 (1.26%) VMware
12 16 (1.12%) HP
13 14 (0.98%) Foundry
14 10 (0.70%) Bloomberg
14 10 (0.70%) IBM
14 10 (0.70%) MuleSoft
15 9 (0.63%) Guidewire
15 9 (0.63%) InterSystems
16 8 (0.56%) Citrix
306 Azure DevOps jobs in England