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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 86 78
Rank change year-on-year +13 -8 -3
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,421 758 1,024
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.18% 2.79% 2.79%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.09% 7.48% 8.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,014 541 684
10th Percentile £363 £350 £400
25th Percentile £416 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £693 £725 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 3 5
10th Percentile £25.38 £36.45 -
25th Percentile £37.25 £45.75 £65.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £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 £104.00 £83.75 -
UK median hourly rate £69.25 £85.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year -18.53% +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 15,626 10,136 12,064
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.93% 37.36% 32.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,489 6,852 8,592
10th Percentile £325 £311 £311
25th Percentile £419 £409 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £516 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.20% -4.76% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 559 266 324
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.00 £14.16
25th Percentile £22.50 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.50 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +57.06% +14.32% -33.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £41.84 £46.18
90th Percentile £85.00 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £27.50 £22.30
% change year-on-year +34.55% +23.32% -36.29%

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 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 15 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 15 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 +19 790 £500 -4.76% 148
South East -13 177 £500 +2.56% 134
North of England +13 164 £488 -2.50% 111
Midlands +12 156 £475 -5.00% 61
West Midlands +2 112 £450 -14.29% 35
North West +13 83 £500 -2.44% 64
South West +3 68 £475 -15.37% 38
Yorkshire -28 62 £500 +0.70% 36
East Midlands 0 42 £525 +6.06% 26
East of England +9 37 £425 -11.69% 50
North East -21 19 £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
1 102 (7.18%) Confluence
2 87 (6.12%) SharePoint
3 35 (2.46%) Apache Spark
4 30 (2.11%) Apache
5 26 (1.83%) Apache Airflow
6 14 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
7 7 (0.49%) CMS
8 6 (0.42%) Documentum
9 4 (0.28%) IIS
9 4 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (0.21%) Kentico
10 3 (0.21%) Mendix
10 3 (0.21%) SAS
11 2 (0.14%) HCL Notes
11 2 (0.14%) OpenROAD
11 2 (0.14%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.070%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.070%) IBM HTTP Server
12 1 (0.070%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.070%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 52 (3.66%) Microsoft Project
2 36 (2.53%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (1.41%) MS Visio
4 12 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
5 9 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 8 (0.56%) CPLEX
7 5 (0.35%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.28%) Notion
8 4 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.21%) Trello
10 1 (0.070%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.070%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 47 (3.31%) Dynamics CRM
2 20 (1.41%) 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%) Infor SunSystems
8 1 (0.070%) OpenText VIM for SAP
8 1 (0.070%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.070%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,421 (100.00%) Azure
2 358 (25.19%) GitHub
3 238 (16.75%) GitHub Actions
4 219 (15.41%) Power Platform
5 206 (14.50%) AWS
6 117 (8.23%) Azure Data Factory
7 112 (7.88%) Entra ID
8 108 (7.60%) Azure Monitor
9 106 (7.46%) Dynamics 365
10 103 (7.25%) Azure AKS
11 102 (7.18%) Power Automate
12 93 (6.54%) Serverless
13 80 (5.63%) Azure Key Vault
14 78 (5.49%) GCP
14 78 (5.49%) PowerApps
15 67 (4.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 65 (4.57%) Azure Logic Apps
17 59 (4.15%) Microsoft 365
18 58 (4.08%) Azure Functions
19 55 (3.87%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 49 (3.45%) Firewall
2 27 (1.90%) DNS
2 27 (1.90%) Network Security
3 19 (1.34%) VPN
4 14 (0.99%) SD-WAN
5 13 (0.91%) WAN
6 10 (0.70%) SSL
7 9 (0.63%) Internet
8 8 (0.56%) DHCP
8 8 (0.56%) TCP/IP
9 6 (0.42%) LAN
9 6 (0.42%) VLAN
10 4 (0.28%) IPsec
11 3 (0.21%) MQTT
12 2 (0.14%) 4G
12 2 (0.14%) NAS
12 2 (0.14%) Remote Desktop
12 2 (0.14%) SAN
12 2 (0.14%) SSH
12 2 (0.14%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 139 (9.78%) Power BI
2 109 (7.67%) SQL Server
3 73 (5.14%) Data Lake
4 68 (4.79%) Azure SQL Database
5 60 (4.22%) Data Warehouse
6 59 (4.15%) Delta Lake
7 48 (3.38%) NoSQL
8 47 (3.31%) PostgreSQL
9 28 (1.97%) Relational Database
10 24 (1.69%) MongoDB
11 22 (1.55%) Snowflake Schema
12 20 (1.41%) Redis
13 19 (1.34%) Spark SQL
14 18 (1.27%) Metadata
14 18 (1.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 16 (1.13%) Oracle Database
16 14 (0.99%) Big Data
17 13 (0.91%) Amazon Redshift
18 12 (0.84%) Parquet
19 9 (0.63%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 295 (20.76%) JIRA
2 238 (16.75%) Git
3 146 (10.27%) Jenkins
4 108 (7.60%) GitLab
5 56 (3.94%) Selenium
6 32 (2.25%) Postman
7 24 (1.69%) SonarQube
7 24 (1.69%) Visual Studio
8 22 (1.55%) REST Assured
9 20 (1.41%) Cucumber
9 20 (1.41%) Cypress.io
10 19 (1.34%) WebDriver
11 15 (1.06%) Gradle
11 15 (1.06%) JUnit
11 15 (1.06%) Team Foundation Server
11 15 (1.06%) TestRail
12 13 (0.91%) Bitbucket
13 11 (0.77%) MSI
13 11 (0.77%) NUnit
13 11 (0.77%) SpecFlow
General
1 360 (25.33%) Social Skills
2 291 (20.48%) Finance
3 159 (11.19%) Public Sector
4 150 (10.56%) Analytical Skills
5 68 (4.79%) Banking
6 56 (3.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 32 (2.25%) Organisational Skills
8 28 (1.97%) Legal
9 26 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
10 25 (1.76%) Retail
11 20 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
12 14 (0.99%) Aerospace
13 12 (0.84%) Law
14 11 (0.77%) Investment Banking
14 11 (0.77%) Marketing
15 10 (0.70%) Local Government
16 9 (0.63%) Billing
17 8 (0.56%) Front Office
18 7 (0.49%) Back Office
18 7 (0.49%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 271 (19.07%) Developer
2 212 (14.92%) Azure Engineer
3 203 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
4 197 (13.86%) Senior
5 128 (9.01%) Data Engineer
6 125 (8.80%) Analyst
7 124 (8.73%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 118 (8.30%) Lead
9 99 (6.97%) Architect
10 65 (4.57%) Business Analyst
11 52 (3.66%) Platform Engineer
12 46 (3.24%) Project Manager
13 45 (3.17%) Solutions Architect
13 45 (3.17%) Test Analyst
13 45 (3.17%) Tester
14 39 (2.74%) Consultant
14 39 (2.74%) Full-Stack Developer
15 38 (2.67%) .NET Developer
16 37 (2.60%) Cloud Engineer
17 36 (2.53%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 191 (13.44%) .NET
2 156 (10.98%) REST
3 77 (5.42%) PySpark
4 75 (5.28%) RESTful
5 74 (5.21%) ADO
6 64 (4.50%) React
7 63 (4.43%) JSON
8 62 (4.36%) YAML
9 59 (4.15%) Kafka
10 55 (3.87%) .NET Framework
11 51 (3.59%) ARM Templates
12 48 (3.38%) Playwright
13 45 (3.17%) .NET Core
14 44 (3.10%) SOAP
15 39 (2.74%) HTML
15 39 (2.74%) Node.js
16 36 (2.53%) CSS
17 34 (2.39%) OAuth
18 31 (2.18%) AngularJS
18 31 (2.18%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 168 (11.82%) Cloud Native
2 96 (6.76%) Product Ownership
3 51 (3.59%) Distributed Systems
4 48 (3.38%) Legacy Systems
5 42 (2.96%) Onboarding
6 30 (2.11%) Enterprise Software
7 26 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
8 25 (1.76%) Reinsurance
9 20 (1.41%) Data Structures
10 19 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
10 19 (1.34%) Hybrid Cloud
10 19 (1.34%) Management Information System
10 19 (1.34%) Mobile App
11 18 (1.27%) Replication
12 14 (0.99%) AI Agents
12 14 (0.99%) Low-Code
13 13 (0.91%) Enterprise Cloud
13 13 (0.91%) Virtual Team
14 12 (0.84%) Data Centre
15 11 (0.77%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 86 (6.05%) Windows
2 53 (3.73%) Linux
3 15 (1.06%) Windows Server
4 13 (0.91%) VMS
5 9 (0.63%) Unix
6 7 (0.49%) Android
6 7 (0.49%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.28%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.070%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,420 (99.93%) DevOps
2 770 (54.19%) CI/CD
3 576 (40.53%) Agile
4 335 (23.57%) Infrastructure as Code
5 240 (16.89%) Test Automation
6 227 (15.97%) Problem-Solving
7 221 (15.55%) Analytics
8 203 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
8 203 (14.29%) Scrum
9 198 (13.93%) Stakeholder Management
10 193 (13.58%) Migration
11 185 (13.02%) Containerisation
12 158 (11.12%) Data Modelling
13 147 (10.34%) Business Intelligence
14 140 (9.85%) Microservices
15 139 (9.78%) AI
15 139 (9.78%) User Acceptance Testing
16 134 (9.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 129 (9.08%) Platform Engineering
17 129 (9.08%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 403 (28.36%) SQL
2 353 (24.84%) Python
3 239 (16.82%) C#
4 156 (10.98%) PowerShell
5 136 (9.57%) JavaScript
6 120 (8.44%) Bicep
7 106 (7.46%) Java
8 105 (7.39%) Bash
9 85 (5.98%) TypeScript
10 24 (1.69%) T-SQL
11 20 (1.41%) Go
11 20 (1.41%) Scala
12 15 (1.06%) Kusto Query Language
13 12 (0.84%) Apex Code
13 12 (0.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 11 (0.77%) PL/SQL
15 10 (0.70%) X++
16 8 (0.56%) VB
17 6 (0.42%) Shell Script
17 6 (0.42%) VB6
Qualifications
1 398 (28.01%) Security Cleared
2 326 (22.94%) SC Cleared
3 98 (6.90%) Azure Certification
4 91 (6.40%) Degree
5 51 (3.59%) DV Cleared
6 38 (2.67%) BPSS Clearance
6 38 (2.67%) Microsoft Certification
7 37 (2.60%) ISTQB
8 30 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
9 22 (1.55%) AWS Certification
10 15 (1.06%) PMP
11 14 (0.99%) PMI Certification
12 12 (0.84%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 12 (0.84%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 10 (0.70%) Master's Degree
14 9 (0.63%) DBS Check
15 8 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
16 6 (0.42%) CISSP
17 4 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
17 4 (0.28%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 159 (11.19%) QA
2 99 (6.97%) Data Quality
3 76 (5.35%) Accessibility
4 47 (3.31%) GDPR
5 43 (3.03%) WCAG
6 21 (1.48%) PMO
7 17 (1.20%) NIST
8 16 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 16 (1.13%) SLA
9 15 (1.06%) NCSC
10 9 (0.63%) GRC
10 9 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 6 (0.42%) PCI DSS
12 3 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.21%) Government Security Classifications
12 3 (0.21%) NIST 800
13 2 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.14%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 2 (0.14%) PSD2
13 2 (0.14%) SEPA
System Software
1 193 (13.58%) Docker
2 72 (5.07%) Active Directory
3 28 (1.97%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (0.99%) Virtual Desktop
5 11 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.21%) Firmware
7 2 (0.14%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 2 (0.14%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.14%) Microsoft App-V
7 2 (0.14%) OpenSSH
7 2 (0.14%) Postfix
8 1 (0.070%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (0.070%) HDFS
8 1 (0.070%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.070%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.070%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 372 (26.18%) Terraform
2 244 (17.17%) Kubernetes
3 76 (5.35%) Ansible
4 56 (3.94%) Grafana
5 49 (3.45%) Prometheus
6 19 (1.34%) Argo
7 18 (1.27%) Puppet
8 17 (1.20%) Progress Chef
9 15 (1.06%) HP ALM
10 14 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
11 13 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
12 12 (0.84%) Istio
12 12 (0.84%) Packer
13 7 (0.49%) HP Quality Center
14 6 (0.42%) Jamf Pro
15 4 (0.28%) SCOM
16 3 (0.21%) Rancher
16 3 (0.21%) SCCM
17 2 (0.14%) HP Fortify
17 2 (0.14%) linkerd
Vendors
1 436 (30.68%) Microsoft
2 136 (9.57%) Databricks
3 75 (5.28%) Oracle
4 58 (4.08%) ServiceNow
5 50 (3.52%) Salesforce
6 48 (3.38%) SAP
7 28 (1.97%) Google
8 25 (1.76%) Splunk
9 22 (1.55%) Informatica
10 20 (1.41%) Dynatrace
10 20 (1.41%) OpenAI
11 17 (1.20%) VMware
12 16 (1.13%) Foundry
12 16 (1.13%) HP
13 10 (0.70%) Bloomberg
13 10 (0.70%) IBM
13 10 (0.70%) MuleSoft
14 9 (0.63%) InterSystems
15 8 (0.56%) Guidewire
15 8 (0.56%) Refinitiv