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

 6 months to
23 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 90 75
Rank change year-on-year +19 -15 -1
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,548 777 923
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.37% 2.80% 2.78%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.66% 7.51% 8.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,092 555 620
10th Percentile £363 £350 £380
25th Percentile £416 £413 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £600
90th Percentile £675 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £520
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 3 0
10th Percentile £21.25 £36.45 -
25th Percentile £36.12 £45.75 -
Median hourly rate £46.80 £62.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -25.12% - -
75th Percentile £79.50 £76.25 -
90th Percentile £101.51 £83.75 -
UK median hourly rate £50.90 £73.75 -
% change year-on-year -30.98% - -

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 16,022 10,351 11,219
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.90% 37.32% 33.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,711 7,007 7,899
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £644
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 548 275 207
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.25 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.31 £18.51 £16.47
Median hourly rate £35.00 £26.00 £26.97
Median % change year-on-year +34.62% -3.60% -18.27%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £83.08 £67.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £34.13 £28.00 £26.97
% change year-on-year +21.88% +3.82% -22.94%

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 23 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 23 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 23 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 +24 880 £500 -4.76% 150
South East -22 184 £525 +10.53% 100
Midlands +43 173 £450 -12.20% 53
North of England +18 171 £479 -4.20% 71
West Midlands +27 125 £450 -18.74% 28
North West +7 87 £500 -0.99% 45
South West -2 75 £475 -6.86% 30
Yorkshire -13 59 £478 -4.50% 20
East Midlands +11 46 £500 +5.26% 25
East of England +9 36 £425 -13.92% 27
North East -19 25 £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
1 104 (6.72%) Confluence
2 97 (6.27%) SharePoint
3 38 (2.45%) Apache Spark
4 31 (2.00%) Apache
5 28 (1.81%) Apache Airflow
6 13 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
7 11 (0.71%) CMS
8 6 (0.39%) Documentum
9 5 (0.32%) IIS
10 4 (0.26%) Mendix
11 3 (0.19%) Kentico
11 3 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
12 2 (0.13%) nginx
12 2 (0.13%) OpenROAD
12 2 (0.13%) SAS
12 2 (0.13%) Smallworld
12 2 (0.13%) Umbraco
13 1 (0.065%) ArcGIS
13 1 (0.065%) HCL Notes
13 1 (0.065%) WebLogic
Applications
1 58 (3.75%) Microsoft Project
2 40 (2.58%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (1.23%) MS Visio
4 13 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
5 12 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 7 (0.45%) CPLEX
6 7 (0.45%) Trello
7 6 (0.39%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.32%) Notion
9 3 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.065%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.065%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 49 (3.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 20 (1.29%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.52%) Dynamics AX
4 5 (0.32%) Maximo
5 4 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
6 3 (0.19%) Aladdin
6 3 (0.19%) Endur
6 3 (0.19%) Findur
6 3 (0.19%) 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%) SAP MM
7 2 (0.13%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 2 (0.13%) Teamcenter
7 2 (0.13%) Unit4 Business World
8 1 (0.065%) OpenText VIM for SAP
8 1 (0.065%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 1,548 (100.00%) Azure
2 402 (25.97%) GitHub
3 273 (17.64%) GitHub Actions
4 261 (16.86%) Power Platform
5 232 (14.99%) AWS
6 139 (8.98%) Azure Data Factory
7 136 (8.79%) Entra ID
8 129 (8.33%) Azure AKS
8 129 (8.33%) Dynamics 365
9 120 (7.75%) Azure Monitor
10 118 (7.62%) Power Automate
11 105 (6.78%) Serverless
12 92 (5.94%) PowerApps
13 84 (5.43%) GCP
14 78 (5.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 75 (4.84%) Azure Logic Apps
16 72 (4.65%) Azure Key Vault
16 72 (4.65%) Microsoft 365
17 68 (4.39%) Azure Functions
18 67 (4.33%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 65 (4.20%) Firewall
2 38 (2.45%) DNS
3 36 (2.33%) Network Security
4 27 (1.74%) VPN
5 16 (1.03%) WAN
6 15 (0.97%) SSL
7 14 (0.90%) DHCP
8 13 (0.84%) SD-WAN
9 9 (0.58%) Internet
10 7 (0.45%) LAN
10 7 (0.45%) TCP/IP
10 7 (0.45%) VLAN
11 4 (0.26%) SAN
11 4 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
12 3 (0.19%) 4G
12 3 (0.19%) BGP
12 3 (0.19%) OSPF
12 3 (0.19%) RS-232
12 3 (0.19%) RS-485
13 2 (0.13%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 169 (10.92%) Power BI
2 107 (6.91%) SQL Server
3 74 (4.78%) Data Warehouse
4 72 (4.65%) Azure SQL Database
4 72 (4.65%) Data Lake
5 57 (3.68%) NoSQL
6 47 (3.04%) Delta Lake
7 45 (2.91%) PostgreSQL
8 27 (1.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 26 (1.68%) Metadata
10 24 (1.55%) Relational Database
11 21 (1.36%) MongoDB
12 20 (1.29%) Big Data
13 19 (1.23%) Snowflake Schema
13 19 (1.23%) Spark SQL
14 17 (1.10%) Redis
15 14 (0.90%) Oracle Database
16 12 (0.78%) Amazon Redshift
16 12 (0.78%) Parquet
16 12 (0.78%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 293 (18.93%) JIRA
2 256 (16.54%) Git
3 191 (12.34%) Jenkins
4 147 (9.50%) GitLab
5 75 (4.84%) Selenium
6 37 (2.39%) Postman
7 29 (1.87%) SonarQube
8 28 (1.81%) Cypress.io
8 28 (1.81%) Visual Studio
9 26 (1.68%) WebDriver
10 24 (1.55%) Cucumber
11 19 (1.23%) Gradle
11 19 (1.23%) REST Assured
12 17 (1.10%) JUnit
13 16 (1.03%) Bitbucket
14 15 (0.97%) Maven
14 15 (0.97%) TestRail
15 14 (0.90%) MSI
16 12 (0.78%) Sonatype Nexus
17 11 (0.71%) Snyk
General
1 414 (26.74%) Social Skills
2 321 (20.74%) Finance
3 192 (12.40%) Public Sector
4 161 (10.40%) Analytical Skills
5 87 (5.62%) Banking
6 76 (4.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 31 (2.00%) Retail
8 28 (1.81%) Documentation Skills
8 28 (1.81%) Legal
9 25 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
10 24 (1.55%) Aerospace
10 24 (1.55%) Influencing Skills
11 18 (1.16%) Marketing
12 14 (0.90%) Investment Banking
12 14 (0.90%) Local Government
13 13 (0.84%) Law
14 10 (0.65%) Manufacturing
15 9 (0.58%) Billing
16 8 (0.52%) Pharmaceutical
16 8 (0.52%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 278 (17.96%) Developer
2 232 (14.99%) Senior
3 228 (14.73%) Azure Engineer
3 228 (14.73%) DevOps Engineer
4 136 (8.79%) Lead
5 134 (8.66%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 125 (8.07%) Data Engineer
7 122 (7.88%) Analyst
8 108 (6.98%) Architect
9 59 (3.81%) Business Analyst
10 55 (3.55%) Platform Engineer
11 54 (3.49%) Project Manager
12 52 (3.36%) Cloud Engineer
13 48 (3.10%) Consultant
14 44 (2.84%) Senior Developer
15 43 (2.78%) Test Analyst
15 43 (2.78%) Tester
16 42 (2.71%) .NET Developer
17 40 (2.58%) Solutions Architect
18 39 (2.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 441 (28.49%) Terraform
2 213 (13.76%) .NET
3 183 (11.82%) REST
4 83 (5.36%) PySpark
5 79 (5.10%) RESTful
6 78 (5.04%) ADO
7 77 (4.97%) JSON
8 73 (4.72%) YAML
9 66 (4.26%) Kafka
10 63 (4.07%) ARM Templates
11 61 (3.94%) .NET Framework
12 56 (3.62%) Playwright
13 54 (3.49%) React
14 51 (3.29%) .NET Core
15 41 (2.65%) OAuth
15 41 (2.65%) SOAP
16 39 (2.52%) HTML
16 39 (2.52%) Middleware
17 38 (2.45%) XML
18 34 (2.20%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 180 (11.63%) Cloud Native
2 115 (7.43%) Product Ownership
3 51 (3.29%) Legacy Systems
3 51 (3.29%) Onboarding
4 48 (3.10%) Distributed Systems
5 39 (2.52%) Enterprise Software
6 31 (2.00%) Management Information System
6 31 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
7 29 (1.87%) Hybrid Cloud
8 23 (1.49%) AI Agents
8 23 (1.49%) Data Structures
9 19 (1.23%) Low-Code
10 17 (1.10%) Mobile App
11 16 (1.03%) Replication
12 15 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
12 15 (0.97%) Enterprise Cloud
12 15 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
12 15 (0.97%) Linux Command Line
12 15 (0.97%) Reinsurance
13 12 (0.78%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 103 (6.65%) Windows
2 70 (4.52%) Linux
3 29 (1.87%) Windows Server
4 18 (1.16%) VMS
5 12 (0.78%) Unix
6 10 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (0.58%) Android
7 9 (0.58%) Apple iOS
8 5 (0.32%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (0.26%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.26%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.065%) Amazon Linux
10 1 (0.065%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,548 (100.00%) DevOps
2 855 (55.23%) CI/CD
3 658 (42.51%) Agile
4 400 (25.84%) Infrastructure as Code
5 281 (18.15%) Test Automation
6 258 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
7 249 (16.09%) Problem-Solving
8 247 (15.96%) Continuous Improvement
9 237 (15.31%) Analytics
10 230 (14.86%) Containerisation
11 221 (14.28%) Scrum
12 210 (13.57%) Migration
13 177 (11.43%) Business Intelligence
14 174 (11.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 165 (10.66%) User Acceptance Testing
16 159 (10.27%) Data Modelling
17 155 (10.01%) Microservices
18 153 (9.88%) Platform Engineering
19 152 (9.82%) AI
20 148 (9.56%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 418 (27.00%) SQL
2 384 (24.81%) Python
3 268 (17.31%) C#
4 213 (13.76%) PowerShell
5 169 (10.92%) Bicep
6 154 (9.95%) JavaScript
7 131 (8.46%) Bash
8 122 (7.88%) Java
9 88 (5.68%) TypeScript
10 23 (1.49%) T-SQL
11 19 (1.23%) Go
11 19 (1.23%) Kusto Query Language
12 16 (1.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 15 (0.97%) Apex Code
13 15 (0.97%) X++
14 8 (0.52%) PL/SQL
14 8 (0.52%) Scala
14 8 (0.52%) Shell Script
15 6 (0.39%) Kotlin
15 6 (0.39%) R
Qualifications
1 472 (30.49%) Security Cleared
2 389 (25.13%) SC Cleared
3 117 (7.56%) Azure Certification
4 103 (6.65%) Degree
5 59 (3.81%) Microsoft Certification
6 54 (3.49%) DV Cleared
7 41 (2.65%) ISTQB
8 36 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
9 33 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
10 27 (1.74%) AWS Certification
11 16 (1.03%) PMI Certification
11 16 (1.03%) PMP
12 14 (0.90%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 13 (0.84%) Cisco Certification
13 13 (0.84%) CISSP
14 12 (0.78%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 12 (0.78%) Master's Degree
15 10 (0.65%) DBS Check
16 9 (0.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 6 (0.39%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 177 (11.43%) QA
2 112 (7.24%) Data Quality
3 85 (5.49%) Accessibility
4 50 (3.23%) GDPR
5 46 (2.97%) WCAG
6 28 (1.81%) PMO
7 26 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 24 (1.55%) NIST
9 19 (1.23%) NCSC
10 14 (0.90%) SLA
11 12 (0.78%) GRC
12 11 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 8 (0.52%) ISO 20022
14 6 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
15 5 (0.32%) SEPA
16 4 (0.26%) PCI DSS
16 4 (0.26%) PSD2
17 3 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 3 (0.19%) Government Security Classifications
18 2 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 239 (15.44%) Docker
2 82 (5.30%) Active Directory
3 31 (2.00%) Virtual Machines
4 18 (1.16%) VMware Infrastructure
5 14 (0.90%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (0.39%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.26%) Firmware
7 4 (0.26%) vSphere
8 3 (0.19%) Embedded Firmware
8 3 (0.19%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (0.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.13%) OpenSSH
9 2 (0.13%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.065%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.065%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 312 (20.16%) Kubernetes
2 99 (6.40%) Ansible
3 62 (4.01%) Grafana
4 52 (3.36%) Prometheus
5 22 (1.42%) Argo
5 22 (1.42%) Microsoft Intune
6 21 (1.36%) Progress Chef
7 20 (1.29%) Puppet
8 15 (0.97%) Packer
9 12 (0.78%) HP ALM
10 11 (0.71%) Istio
10 11 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
11 9 (0.58%) SCCM
12 6 (0.39%) Jamf Pro
12 6 (0.39%) SCOM
13 4 (0.26%) HP Quality Center
14 3 (0.19%) HP Fortify
15 2 (0.13%) Docker Swarm
15 2 (0.13%) linkerd
15 2 (0.13%) systemd
Vendors
1 537 (34.69%) Microsoft
2 139 (8.98%) Databricks
3 63 (4.07%) Oracle
4 58 (3.75%) ServiceNow
5 52 (3.36%) Salesforce
6 46 (2.97%) SAP
7 38 (2.45%) Google
8 35 (2.26%) Splunk
9 28 (1.81%) Dynatrace
10 22 (1.42%) VMware
11 20 (1.29%) Informatica
12 14 (0.90%) OpenAI
12 14 (0.90%) UiPath
13 13 (0.84%) Foundry
13 13 (0.84%) HP
14 12 (0.78%) MuleSoft
15 11 (0.71%) IBM
16 9 (0.58%) Adobe
16 9 (0.58%) Cisco
16 9 (0.58%) Red Hat
382 Azure DevOps jobs in England