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 26 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
26 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 96 77
Rank change year-on-year +20 -19 -4
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,352 682 1,024
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.12% 2.71% 2.74%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.89% 7.16% 8.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 981 481 682
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 £688 £738 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 2 6
10th Percentile £25.38 £35.85 £64.50
25th Percentile £38.25 £44.25 £65.25
Median hourly rate £74.75 £59.50 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year +25.63% -9.16% -6.43%
75th Percentile £88.00 £74.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £104.00 £83.15 £68.50
UK median hourly rate £74.50 £85.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year -12.35% +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 15,208 9,531 12,090
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.04% 37.81% 32.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,287 6,462 8,623
10th Percentile £325 £310 £306
25th Percentile £415 £413 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.34% -2.24% -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £638
90th Percentile £715 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +2.40% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 544 241 337
10th Percentile £16.62 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.20 £17.33 £16.06
Median hourly rate £42.69 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +69.72% +14.32% -31.89%
75th Percentile £70.00 £40.00 £43.75
90th Percentile £83.60 £67.50 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £28.00 £22.15
% change year-on-year +33.93% +26.41% -36.71%

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 26 June 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 26 June 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 26 June 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 +19 755 £500 -4.76% 143
South East +2 174 £500 +7.24% 110
North of England +24 154 £485 -0.46% 71
Midlands -7 140 £465 -9.27% 43
West Midlands +2 99 £450 -14.29% 23
North West +7 75 £500 -4.76% 40
South West +4 65 £481 -12.50% 31
Yorkshire -13 59 £500 +11.11% 23
East Midlands +2 39 £525 +5.00% 20
East of England 0 34 £438 -7.89% 36
North East -12 20 £450 -18.18% 9
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 88 (6.51%) Confluence
2 85 (6.29%) SharePoint
3 37 (2.74%) Apache Spark
4 28 (2.07%) Apache
5 24 (1.78%) Apache Airflow
6 15 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.44%) CMS
8 5 (0.37%) Mendix
9 4 (0.30%) Documentum
9 4 (0.30%) HCL Notes
9 4 (0.30%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (0.22%) IIS
10 3 (0.22%) Kentico
10 3 (0.22%) SAS
11 2 (0.15%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.074%) Apache Pulsar
12 1 (0.074%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.074%) IBM HTTP Server
12 1 (0.074%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.074%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 46 (3.40%) Microsoft Project
2 30 (2.22%) Microsoft Excel
3 21 (1.55%) MS Visio
4 10 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
5 8 (0.59%) CPLEX
6 7 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 5 (0.37%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.30%) Notion
9 3 (0.22%) Trello
10 2 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
11 1 (0.074%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.074%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 47 (3.48%) Dynamics CRM
2 17 (1.26%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.59%) Maximo
4 7 (0.52%) Dynamics AX
5 5 (0.37%) 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%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.15%) Unit4 Business World
8 1 (0.074%) Loan IQ
8 1 (0.074%) Oracle Financials
8 1 (0.074%) SAP SD
8 1 (0.074%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 1,352 (100.00%) Azure
2 335 (24.78%) GitHub
3 223 (16.49%) GitHub Actions
4 219 (16.20%) Power Platform
5 191 (14.13%) AWS
6 125 (9.25%) Azure Data Factory
7 109 (8.06%) Azure AKS
7 109 (8.06%) Entra ID
8 105 (7.77%) Dynamics 365
9 101 (7.47%) Azure Monitor
9 101 (7.47%) Serverless
10 99 (7.32%) Power Automate
11 81 (5.99%) Azure Key Vault
12 76 (5.62%) PowerApps
13 73 (5.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 67 (4.96%) Azure Logic Apps
14 67 (4.96%) GCP
15 66 (4.88%) Azure Functions
16 62 (4.59%) Microsoft 365
17 57 (4.22%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 47 (3.48%) Firewall
2 24 (1.78%) Network Security
3 22 (1.63%) DNS
4 19 (1.41%) VPN
5 13 (0.96%) SD-WAN
6 12 (0.89%) WAN
7 8 (0.59%) Internet
8 7 (0.52%) DHCP
8 7 (0.52%) TCP/IP
9 6 (0.44%) VLAN
10 5 (0.37%) LAN
11 4 (0.30%) IPsec
11 4 (0.30%) SSL
12 3 (0.22%) MQTT
13 2 (0.15%) 4G
13 2 (0.15%) NAS
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
1 140 (10.36%) Power BI
2 96 (7.10%) SQL Server
3 73 (5.40%) Azure SQL Database
3 73 (5.40%) Data Lake
4 65 (4.81%) Delta Lake
5 55 (4.07%) Data Warehouse
6 48 (3.55%) NoSQL
7 45 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
8 26 (1.92%) Relational Database
9 24 (1.78%) MongoDB
10 21 (1.55%) Snowflake Schema
11 20 (1.48%) Redis
12 19 (1.41%) Spark SQL
13 16 (1.18%) Oracle Database
14 15 (1.11%) Big Data
14 15 (1.11%) Metadata
15 14 (1.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 13 (0.96%) Amazon Redshift
16 13 (0.96%) Parquet
17 11 (0.81%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 269 (19.90%) JIRA
2 216 (15.98%) Git
3 126 (9.32%) Jenkins
4 96 (7.10%) GitLab
5 50 (3.70%) Selenium
6 30 (2.22%) Postman
7 24 (1.78%) Visual Studio
8 23 (1.70%) REST Assured
8 23 (1.70%) SonarQube
9 19 (1.41%) Cucumber
10 17 (1.26%) Cypress.io
10 17 (1.26%) WebDriver
11 16 (1.18%) TestRail
12 14 (1.04%) Gradle
12 14 (1.04%) Team Foundation Server
13 12 (0.89%) Bitbucket
13 12 (0.89%) JUnit
14 11 (0.81%) NUnit
14 11 (0.81%) SpecFlow
15 10 (0.74%) fastlane
General
1 333 (24.63%) Social Skills
2 283 (20.93%) Finance
3 149 (11.02%) Public Sector
4 134 (9.91%) Analytical Skills
5 68 (5.03%) Banking
6 50 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 31 (2.29%) Organisational Skills
8 25 (1.85%) Legal
9 21 (1.55%) Documentation Skills
9 21 (1.55%) Retail
10 20 (1.48%) Influencing Skills
11 14 (1.04%) Aerospace
12 12 (0.89%) Investment Banking
12 12 (0.89%) Marketing
13 11 (0.81%) Law
14 10 (0.74%) Front Office
15 8 (0.59%) Billing
15 8 (0.59%) Local Government
16 7 (0.52%) Back Office
16 7 (0.52%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 253 (18.71%) Developer
2 213 (15.75%) Azure Engineer
3 189 (13.98%) DevOps Engineer
4 185 (13.68%) Senior
5 134 (9.91%) Data Engineer
6 121 (8.95%) Analyst
7 119 (8.80%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 105 (7.77%) Lead
9 99 (7.32%) Architect
10 58 (4.29%) Business Analyst
11 56 (4.14%) Platform Engineer
12 45 (3.33%) Solutions Architect
12 45 (3.33%) Test Analyst
13 42 (3.11%) Project Manager
14 40 (2.96%) Tester
15 39 (2.88%) Cloud Engineer
16 36 (2.66%) Full-Stack Developer
16 36 (2.66%) Senior DevOps
17 35 (2.59%) Consultant
18 34 (2.51%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 182 (13.46%) .NET
2 135 (9.99%) REST
3 81 (5.99%) PySpark
4 67 (4.96%) RESTful
5 65 (4.81%) ADO
5 65 (4.81%) React
6 57 (4.22%) Kafka
6 57 (4.22%) YAML
7 54 (3.99%) ARM Templates
7 54 (3.99%) JSON
8 49 (3.62%) .NET Framework
9 47 (3.48%) Playwright
10 39 (2.88%) Node.js
10 39 (2.88%) SOAP
11 37 (2.74%) .NET Core
11 37 (2.74%) HTML
12 36 (2.66%) CSS
13 33 (2.44%) OAuth
14 30 (2.22%) AngularJS
15 28 (2.07%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 158 (11.69%) Cloud Native
2 86 (6.36%) Product Ownership
3 47 (3.48%) Distributed Systems
4 41 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
5 34 (2.51%) Onboarding
6 28 (2.07%) Reinsurance
7 25 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
8 23 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
9 21 (1.55%) Data Structures
10 20 (1.48%) Hybrid Cloud
11 19 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
12 18 (1.33%) Mobile App
13 15 (1.11%) Management Information System
14 14 (1.04%) AI Agents
14 14 (1.04%) Low-Code
15 13 (0.96%) Data Centre
16 12 (0.89%) Enterprise Cloud
16 12 (0.89%) Public Cloud
16 12 (0.89%) Virtual Team
17 11 (0.81%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 74 (5.47%) Windows
2 49 (3.62%) Linux
3 15 (1.11%) VMS
4 9 (0.67%) Unix
4 9 (0.67%) Windows Server
5 6 (0.44%) Android
5 6 (0.44%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.22%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.074%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,347 (99.63%) DevOps
2 740 (54.73%) CI/CD
3 526 (38.91%) Agile
4 322 (23.82%) Infrastructure as Code
5 230 (17.01%) Analytics
6 222 (16.42%) Test Automation
7 219 (16.20%) Problem-Solving
8 186 (13.76%) Scrum
9 185 (13.68%) Migration
10 180 (13.31%) Continuous Improvement
11 170 (12.57%) Stakeholder Management
12 168 (12.43%) Containerisation
13 161 (11.91%) Data Modelling
14 147 (10.87%) Business Intelligence
15 137 (10.13%) AI
16 136 (10.06%) Data Pipeline
17 134 (9.91%) ETL
18 130 (9.62%) Platform Engineering
19 128 (9.47%) Microservices
20 123 (9.10%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 396 (29.29%) SQL
2 343 (25.37%) Python
3 231 (17.09%) C#
4 135 (9.99%) JavaScript
5 134 (9.91%) PowerShell
6 121 (8.95%) Bicep
7 94 (6.95%) Bash
7 94 (6.95%) Java
8 81 (5.99%) TypeScript
9 22 (1.63%) Scala
9 22 (1.63%) T-SQL
10 18 (1.33%) Go
11 15 (1.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 12 (0.89%) Kusto Query Language
13 11 (0.81%) Apex Code
14 10 (0.74%) X++
15 9 (0.67%) PL/SQL
16 6 (0.44%) R
16 6 (0.44%) Shell Script
16 6 (0.44%) VB
Qualifications
1 370 (27.37%) Security Cleared
2 309 (22.86%) SC Cleared
3 96 (7.10%) Azure Certification
4 81 (5.99%) Degree
5 41 (3.03%) DV Cleared
6 35 (2.59%) Microsoft Certification
7 33 (2.44%) ISTQB
8 31 (2.29%) BPSS Clearance
9 29 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
10 17 (1.26%) AWS Certification
10 17 (1.26%) PMI Certification
11 16 (1.18%) PMP
12 11 (0.81%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 9 (0.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 9 (0.67%) DBS Check
14 8 (0.59%) Master's Degree
15 7 (0.52%) Cisco Certification
16 5 (0.37%) CISSP
17 4 (0.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 3 (0.22%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 149 (11.02%) QA
2 105 (7.77%) Data Quality
3 62 (4.59%) Accessibility
4 41 (3.03%) GDPR
5 34 (2.51%) WCAG
6 19 (1.41%) NIST
7 18 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 18 (1.33%) SLA
8 16 (1.18%) NCSC
9 13 (0.96%) PMO
10 9 (0.67%) GRC
10 9 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 7 (0.52%) PCI DSS
12 5 (0.37%) NIST 800
13 3 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
14 2 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
14 2 (0.15%) FedRAMP
14 2 (0.15%) Government Security Classifications
14 2 (0.15%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 2 (0.15%) PSD2
System Software
1 183 (13.54%) Docker
2 73 (5.40%) Active Directory
3 25 (1.85%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (1.04%) Virtual Desktop
5 10 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.30%) Firmware
7 2 (0.15%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.15%) Microsoft App-V
7 2 (0.15%) OpenSSH
7 2 (0.15%) Postfix
8 1 (0.074%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 1 (0.074%) HDFS
8 1 (0.074%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.074%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.074%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 358 (26.48%) Terraform
2 229 (16.94%) Kubernetes
3 66 (4.88%) Ansible
4 47 (3.48%) Grafana
5 41 (3.03%) Prometheus
6 18 (1.33%) Argo
7 16 (1.18%) HP ALM
8 13 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
8 13 (0.96%) Puppet
8 13 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
9 12 (0.89%) Istio
10 11 (0.81%) Progress Chef
11 10 (0.74%) Packer
12 6 (0.44%) HP Quality Center
12 6 (0.44%) Jamf Pro
13 3 (0.22%) Rancher
13 3 (0.22%) SCCM
14 2 (0.15%) HP Fortify
14 2 (0.15%) linkerd
14 2 (0.15%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 404 (29.88%) Microsoft
2 148 (10.95%) Databricks
3 73 (5.40%) Oracle
4 54 (3.99%) ServiceNow
5 45 (3.33%) Salesforce
6 43 (3.18%) SAP
7 24 (1.78%) Google
8 23 (1.70%) OpenAI
9 22 (1.63%) Informatica
9 22 (1.63%) Splunk
10 19 (1.41%) Dynatrace
11 17 (1.26%) HP
12 16 (1.18%) VMware
13 14 (1.04%) Foundry
14 10 (0.74%) Bloomberg
14 10 (0.74%) IBM
15 9 (0.67%) InterSystems
16 8 (0.59%) MuleSoft
16 8 (0.59%) Refinitiv
17 7 (0.52%) Adobe
382 Azure DevOps jobs in England