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 15 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
15 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 86 72
Rank change year-on-year +15 -14 +3
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,528 777 953
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.34% 2.81% 2.87%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.53% 7.55% 8.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,075 561 633
10th Percentile £363 £350 £380
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 £601 £600
90th Percentile £675 £720 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 3 0
10th Percentile £21.25 £36.45 -
25th Percentile £35.56 £45.75 -
Median hourly rate £43.15 £62.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -30.96% - -
75th Percentile £79.75 £76.25 -
90th Percentile £101.67 £83.75 -
UK median hourly rate £46.80 £73.75 -
% change year-on-year -36.54% - -

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 16,031 10,291 11,217
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.99% 37.18% 33.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,694 6,965 7,949
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £512 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £643
90th Percentile £719 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £523 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.60% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 553 274 231
10th Percentile £15.79 £15.02 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £18.22 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.50 £26.15 £24.15
Median % change year-on-year +35.76% +8.28% -25.23%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £53.38
90th Percentile £83.54 £67.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £28.00 £24.18
% change year-on-year +25.00% +15.80% -26.73%

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 15 August 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 15 August 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 15 August 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 +20 861 £500 -4.76% 388
South East -13 189 £525 +14.75% 149
Midlands +39 173 £450 -12.20% 71
North of England +12 169 £480 -5.65% 109
West Midlands +29 128 £450 -16.28% 38
North West 0 85 £500 -4.76% 64
South West -11 73 £475 -9.52% 39
Yorkshire -18 60 £478 -4.50% 34
East Midlands +8 43 £506 +6.58% 33
East of England +8 35 £425 -12.82% 41
North East -20 24 £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
1 106 (6.94%) Confluence
2 90 (5.89%) SharePoint
3 37 (2.42%) Apache Spark
4 33 (2.16%) Apache Airflow
5 31 (2.03%) Apache
6 13 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
7 10 (0.65%) CMS
8 6 (0.39%) Documentum
9 5 (0.33%) IIS
10 4 (0.26%) Mendix
11 3 (0.20%) Kentico
11 3 (0.20%) Palantir Foundry
11 3 (0.20%) SAS
12 2 (0.13%) nginx
12 2 (0.13%) OpenROAD
12 2 (0.13%) Umbraco
13 1 (0.065%) ArcGIS
13 1 (0.065%) HCL Notes
13 1 (0.065%) Smallworld
13 1 (0.065%) WebLogic
Applications
1 58 (3.80%) Microsoft Project
2 36 (2.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (1.05%) MS Visio
4 12 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
5 8 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 7 (0.46%) Chatbot
6 7 (0.46%) CPLEX
6 7 (0.46%) Trello
7 5 (0.33%) Notion
8 3 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.065%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.065%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 47 (3.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 20 (1.31%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.46%) Dynamics AX
4 5 (0.33%) Maximo
5 4 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.20%) Aladdin
6 3 (0.20%) Endur
6 3 (0.20%) Findur
6 3 (0.20%) SAP BPC
6 3 (0.20%) SAP MDG
7 2 (0.13%) Dynamics GP
7 2 (0.13%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
7 2 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.13%) SAP MM
7 2 (0.13%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 2 (0.13%) Teamcenter
7 2 (0.13%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 1,528 (100.00%) Azure
2 402 (26.31%) GitHub
3 274 (17.93%) GitHub Actions
4 246 (16.10%) Power Platform
5 232 (15.18%) AWS
6 141 (9.23%) Azure Data Factory
7 134 (8.77%) Entra ID
8 119 (7.79%) Azure AKS
8 119 (7.79%) Dynamics 365
9 115 (7.53%) Power Automate
10 113 (7.40%) Azure Monitor
11 101 (6.61%) Serverless
12 90 (5.89%) PowerApps
13 88 (5.76%) GCP
14 78 (5.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 74 (4.84%) Azure Logic Apps
16 73 (4.78%) Azure Key Vault
17 70 (4.58%) Microsoft 365
18 67 (4.38%) Azure Functions
19 66 (4.32%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 63 (4.12%) Firewall
2 37 (2.42%) DNS
3 33 (2.16%) Network Security
4 27 (1.77%) VPN
5 16 (1.05%) WAN
6 15 (0.98%) SSL
7 14 (0.92%) DHCP
7 14 (0.92%) SD-WAN
8 9 (0.59%) Internet
9 8 (0.52%) VLAN
10 7 (0.46%) LAN
10 7 (0.46%) TCP/IP
11 4 (0.26%) SAN
11 4 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
12 3 (0.20%) 4G
12 3 (0.20%) BGP
12 3 (0.20%) OSPF
12 3 (0.20%) RS-232
12 3 (0.20%) RS-485
13 2 (0.13%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 162 (10.60%) Power BI
2 110 (7.20%) SQL Server
3 74 (4.84%) Data Lake
4 73 (4.78%) Azure SQL Database
5 69 (4.52%) Data Warehouse
6 56 (3.66%) NoSQL
7 53 (3.47%) Delta Lake
8 44 (2.88%) PostgreSQL
9 26 (1.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 25 (1.64%) Relational Database
11 23 (1.51%) Metadata
12 21 (1.37%) MongoDB
13 20 (1.31%) Snowflake Schema
14 19 (1.24%) Big Data
15 18 (1.18%) Spark SQL
16 17 (1.11%) Redis
17 14 (0.92%) Amazon Redshift
18 13 (0.85%) Data Vault
18 13 (0.85%) Parquet
19 12 (0.79%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 293 (19.18%) JIRA
2 244 (15.97%) Git
3 182 (11.91%) Jenkins
4 142 (9.29%) GitLab
5 64 (4.19%) Selenium
6 33 (2.16%) Postman
7 31 (2.03%) SonarQube
8 27 (1.77%) Visual Studio
9 24 (1.57%) Cypress.io
10 23 (1.51%) Cucumber
10 23 (1.51%) WebDriver
11 18 (1.18%) Gradle
12 17 (1.11%) TestRail
13 16 (1.05%) JUnit
13 16 (1.05%) REST Assured
14 15 (0.98%) Bitbucket
14 15 (0.98%) Maven
15 14 (0.92%) MSI
16 12 (0.79%) Sonatype Nexus
17 11 (0.72%) Snyk
General
1 401 (26.24%) Social Skills
2 313 (20.48%) Finance
3 190 (12.43%) Public Sector
4 155 (10.14%) Analytical Skills
5 81 (5.30%) Banking
6 72 (4.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 32 (2.09%) Retail
8 28 (1.83%) Legal
9 26 (1.70%) Documentation Skills
9 26 (1.70%) Organisational Skills
10 24 (1.57%) Influencing Skills
11 22 (1.44%) Aerospace
12 15 (0.98%) Marketing
13 14 (0.92%) Investment Banking
14 13 (0.85%) Law
14 13 (0.85%) Local Government
15 10 (0.65%) Manufacturing
16 9 (0.59%) Billing
17 8 (0.52%) Pharmaceutical
17 8 (0.52%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 280 (18.32%) Developer
2 229 (14.99%) Senior
3 222 (14.53%) Azure Engineer
4 212 (13.87%) DevOps Engineer
5 135 (8.84%) Lead
6 128 (8.38%) Data Engineer
7 125 (8.18%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 123 (8.05%) Analyst
9 105 (6.87%) Architect
10 62 (4.06%) Business Analyst
11 54 (3.53%) Platform Engineer
12 52 (3.40%) Project Manager
13 48 (3.14%) Cloud Engineer
14 45 (2.95%) Consultant
15 44 (2.88%) Test Analyst
16 42 (2.75%) .NET Developer
16 42 (2.75%) Senior Developer
16 42 (2.75%) Solutions Architect
16 42 (2.75%) Tester
17 39 (2.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 204 (13.35%) .NET
2 176 (11.52%) REST
3 83 (5.43%) PySpark
4 79 (5.17%) ADO
4 79 (5.17%) RESTful
5 74 (4.84%) JSON
6 71 (4.65%) YAML
7 64 (4.19%) Kafka
8 60 (3.93%) .NET Framework
9 55 (3.60%) React
10 53 (3.47%) .NET Core
10 53 (3.47%) ARM Templates
11 52 (3.40%) Playwright
12 43 (2.81%) SOAP
13 39 (2.55%) OAuth
14 37 (2.42%) HTML
14 37 (2.42%) XML
15 36 (2.36%) Middleware
16 33 (2.16%) AngularJS
16 33 (2.16%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 182 (11.91%) Cloud Native
2 108 (7.07%) Product Ownership
3 51 (3.34%) Legacy Systems
4 50 (3.27%) Distributed Systems
4 50 (3.27%) Onboarding
5 38 (2.49%) Enterprise Software
6 30 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
7 27 (1.77%) Hybrid Cloud
8 26 (1.70%) Management Information System
9 24 (1.57%) Data Structures
10 19 (1.24%) AI Agents
10 19 (1.24%) Low-Code
11 17 (1.11%) Reinsurance
11 17 (1.11%) Replication
12 16 (1.05%) Greenfield Project
12 16 (1.05%) Mobile App
13 15 (0.98%) Data Protection Act
14 14 (0.92%) Enterprise Cloud
15 12 (0.79%) Linux Command Line
15 12 (0.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 101 (6.61%) Windows
2 71 (4.65%) Linux
3 28 (1.83%) Windows Server
4 15 (0.98%) VMS
5 12 (0.79%) Unix
6 9 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (0.52%) Android
7 8 (0.52%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.26%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.26%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.065%) Amazon Linux
9 1 (0.065%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,528 (100.00%) DevOps
2 838 (54.84%) CI/CD
3 637 (41.69%) Agile
4 386 (25.26%) Infrastructure as Code
5 269 (17.60%) Test Automation
6 242 (15.84%) Stakeholder Management
7 238 (15.58%) Problem-Solving
8 237 (15.51%) Analytics
9 235 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
10 218 (14.27%) Containerisation
11 213 (13.94%) Scrum
12 207 (13.55%) Migration
13 171 (11.19%) Business Intelligence
14 170 (11.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 168 (10.99%) Data Modelling
16 151 (9.88%) Microservices
17 150 (9.82%) User Acceptance Testing
18 148 (9.69%) Platform Engineering
19 146 (9.55%) AI
20 142 (9.29%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 413 (27.03%) SQL
2 380 (24.87%) Python
3 258 (16.88%) C#
4 200 (13.09%) PowerShell
5 155 (10.14%) JavaScript
6 151 (9.88%) Bicep
7 121 (7.92%) Bash
8 114 (7.46%) Java
9 85 (5.56%) TypeScript
10 24 (1.57%) T-SQL
11 19 (1.24%) Go
11 19 (1.24%) Kusto Query Language
12 15 (0.98%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 14 (0.92%) Apex Code
14 13 (0.85%) X++
15 10 (0.65%) Scala
16 8 (0.52%) PL/SQL
17 7 (0.46%) Shell Script
18 6 (0.39%) Kotlin
18 6 (0.39%) R
Qualifications
1 455 (29.78%) Security Cleared
2 371 (24.28%) SC Cleared
3 110 (7.20%) Azure Certification
4 99 (6.48%) Degree
5 54 (3.53%) DV Cleared
5 54 (3.53%) Microsoft Certification
6 40 (2.62%) ISTQB
7 36 (2.36%) BPSS Clearance
8 31 (2.03%) Computer Science Degree
9 24 (1.57%) AWS Certification
10 16 (1.05%) PMI Certification
10 16 (1.05%) PMP
11 14 (0.92%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 12 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
12 12 (0.79%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 11 (0.72%) CISSP
13 11 (0.72%) Master's Degree
14 9 (0.59%) DBS Check
15 8 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 5 (0.33%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 165 (10.80%) QA
2 109 (7.13%) Data Quality
3 85 (5.56%) Accessibility
4 55 (3.60%) GDPR
5 47 (3.08%) WCAG
6 28 (1.83%) PMO
7 25 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 24 (1.57%) NIST
9 19 (1.24%) NCSC
10 14 (0.92%) SLA
11 12 (0.79%) GRC
12 11 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 5 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
13 5 (0.33%) ISO 20022
13 5 (0.33%) PCI DSS
13 5 (0.33%) SEPA
14 4 (0.26%) PSD2
15 3 (0.20%) Government Security Classifications
16 2 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
16 2 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 224 (14.66%) Docker
2 84 (5.50%) Active Directory
3 31 (2.03%) Virtual Machines
4 18 (1.18%) VMware Infrastructure
5 16 (1.05%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (0.39%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.26%) Firmware
7 4 (0.26%) vSphere
8 3 (0.20%) Embedded Firmware
8 3 (0.20%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (0.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.13%) OpenSSH
9 2 (0.13%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.065%) Postfix
10 1 (0.065%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.065%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 428 (28.01%) Terraform
2 299 (19.57%) Kubernetes
3 98 (6.41%) Ansible
4 62 (4.06%) Grafana
5 53 (3.47%) Prometheus
6 22 (1.44%) Argo
6 22 (1.44%) Microsoft Intune
7 20 (1.31%) Progress Chef
7 20 (1.31%) Puppet
8 13 (0.85%) Packer
9 12 (0.79%) HP ALM
9 12 (0.79%) Istio
9 12 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
10 9 (0.59%) SCCM
11 6 (0.39%) Jamf Pro
11 6 (0.39%) SCOM
12 4 (0.26%) HP Quality Center
13 3 (0.20%) HP Fortify
13 3 (0.20%) Rancher
14 2 (0.13%) linkerd
Vendors
1 512 (33.51%) Microsoft
2 137 (8.97%) Databricks
3 64 (4.19%) Oracle
3 64 (4.19%) ServiceNow
4 54 (3.53%) Salesforce
5 49 (3.21%) SAP
6 37 (2.42%) Google
7 33 (2.16%) Splunk
8 28 (1.83%) Dynatrace
9 22 (1.44%) VMware
10 20 (1.31%) Informatica
11 13 (0.85%) HP
12 12 (0.79%) Foundry
12 12 (0.79%) MuleSoft
13 11 (0.72%) OpenAI
14 10 (0.65%) IBM
14 10 (0.65%) UiPath
15 9 (0.59%) Bloomberg
15 9 (0.59%) Cisco
15 9 (0.59%) InterSystems
762 Azure DevOps jobs in England