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

 6 months to
27 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 91 77
Rank change year-on-year +19 -14 -1
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,542 775 921
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.37% 2.81% 2.77%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.72% 7.54% 8.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,087 556 622
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 £613 £600
90th Percentile £675 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £521
% change year-on-year - -3.97% -5.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 3 0
10th Percentile £21.25 £36.45 -
25th Percentile £35.00 £45.75 -
Median hourly rate £39.50 £62.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -36.80% - -
75th Percentile £80.00 £76.25 -
90th Percentile £101.84 £83.75 -
UK median hourly rate £39.50 £73.75 -
% change year-on-year -46.44% - -

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 15,872 10,285 11,248
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.72% 37.27% 33.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,606 6,960 7,889
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.96% -3.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £643
90th Percentile £718 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 541 275 197
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.15 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.25 £18.51 £17.80
Median hourly rate £34.38 £26.30 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.70% -6.07% -15.15%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £67.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £33.99 £28.00 £27.86
% change year-on-year +21.39% +0.50% -20.40%

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 27 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 27 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 27 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 +25 874 £500 -4.76% 115
North of England +17 178 £475 -5.00% 60
South East -19 178 £525 +10.53% 52
Midlands +36 172 £450 -12.20% 49
West Midlands +25 125 £450 -18.74% 23
North West +5 91 £500 -0.99% 35
South West -5 72 £475 -11.42% 34
Yorkshire -21 62 £471 -5.90% 22
East Midlands +12 45 £500 +5.26% 26
East of England +4 36 £425 -15.00% 11
North East - 25 £450 - 3
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
1 107 (6.94%) Confluence
2 100 (6.49%) SharePoint
3 36 (2.33%) Apache Spark
4 31 (2.01%) Apache
5 28 (1.82%) Apache Airflow
6 14 (0.91%) 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%) nginx
11 3 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
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 (3.76%) Microsoft Project
2 40 (2.59%) Microsoft Excel
3 21 (1.36%) MS Visio
4 15 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
5 12 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 7 (0.45%) CPLEX
7 6 (0.39%) Chatbot
7 6 (0.39%) Trello
8 5 (0.32%) Notion
9 3 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.065%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.065%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 52 (3.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 22 (1.43%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.45%) Dynamics AX
4 4 (0.26%) Maximo
4 4 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (0.19%) Endur
5 3 (0.19%) Findur
5 3 (0.19%) SAP MDG
6 2 (0.13%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.13%) Dynamics GP
6 2 (0.13%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
6 2 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.13%) SAP MM
6 2 (0.13%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 2 (0.13%) Teamcenter
6 2 (0.13%) Unit4 Business World
7 1 (0.065%) Infor SunSystems
7 1 (0.065%) OpenText VIM for SAP
Cloud Services
1 1,542 (100.00%) Azure
2 402 (26.07%) GitHub
3 272 (17.64%) GitHub Actions
4 267 (17.32%) Power Platform
5 226 (14.66%) AWS
6 138 (8.95%) Azure Data Factory
6 138 (8.95%) Entra ID
7 132 (8.56%) Dynamics 365
8 129 (8.37%) Azure AKS
9 122 (7.91%) Azure Monitor
10 121 (7.85%) Power Automate
11 110 (7.13%) Serverless
12 94 (6.10%) PowerApps
13 81 (5.25%) GCP
14 78 (5.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 76 (4.93%) Microsoft 365
16 75 (4.86%) Azure Logic Apps
17 74 (4.80%) Azure Functions
18 72 (4.67%) Azure Key Vault
19 66 (4.28%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 67 (4.35%) Firewall
2 40 (2.59%) DNS
3 37 (2.40%) Network Security
4 28 (1.82%) VPN
5 16 (1.04%) WAN
6 15 (0.97%) DHCP
6 15 (0.97%) SSL
7 13 (0.84%) SD-WAN
8 9 (0.58%) Internet
9 7 (0.45%) LAN
9 7 (0.45%) TCP/IP
9 7 (0.45%) VLAN
10 4 (0.26%) SAN
10 4 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
11 3 (0.19%) 4G
11 3 (0.19%) BGP
11 3 (0.19%) OSPF
11 3 (0.19%) RS-232
11 3 (0.19%) RS-485
12 2 (0.13%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 171 (11.09%) Power BI
2 109 (7.07%) SQL Server
3 74 (4.80%) Data Warehouse
4 73 (4.73%) Azure SQL Database
4 73 (4.73%) Data Lake
5 54 (3.50%) NoSQL
6 46 (2.98%) Delta Lake
7 45 (2.92%) PostgreSQL
8 28 (1.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 27 (1.75%) Metadata
10 24 (1.56%) Relational Database
11 22 (1.43%) MongoDB
12 20 (1.30%) Snowflake Schema
13 18 (1.17%) Big Data
14 16 (1.04%) Redis
14 16 (1.04%) Spark SQL
15 14 (0.91%) Oracle Database
16 12 (0.78%) Amazon Redshift
16 12 (0.78%) Parquet
16 12 (0.78%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 292 (18.94%) JIRA
2 258 (16.73%) Git
3 191 (12.39%) Jenkins
4 149 (9.66%) GitLab
5 76 (4.93%) Selenium
6 37 (2.40%) Postman
7 29 (1.88%) SonarQube
8 28 (1.82%) Cypress.io
9 27 (1.75%) Visual Studio
9 27 (1.75%) WebDriver
10 23 (1.49%) Cucumber
11 20 (1.30%) REST Assured
12 19 (1.23%) Gradle
13 17 (1.10%) JUnit
14 16 (1.04%) Bitbucket
14 16 (1.04%) TestRail
15 15 (0.97%) Maven
16 14 (0.91%) MSI
17 12 (0.78%) Sonatype Nexus
18 11 (0.71%) Snyk
General
1 409 (26.52%) Social Skills
2 319 (20.69%) Finance
3 195 (12.65%) Public Sector
4 164 (10.64%) Analytical Skills
5 82 (5.32%) Banking
6 78 (5.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 30 (1.95%) Retail
8 28 (1.82%) Legal
9 27 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
10 25 (1.62%) Influencing Skills
11 24 (1.56%) Aerospace
12 23 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
13 17 (1.10%) Marketing
14 14 (0.91%) Investment Banking
14 14 (0.91%) Local Government
15 13 (0.84%) Law
16 10 (0.65%) Manufacturing
17 9 (0.58%) Billing
18 8 (0.52%) Pharmaceutical
18 8 (0.52%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 279 (18.09%) Developer
2 234 (15.18%) Senior
3 229 (14.85%) Azure Engineer
3 229 (14.85%) DevOps Engineer
4 135 (8.75%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 130 (8.43%) Lead
6 126 (8.17%) Analyst
7 122 (7.91%) Data Engineer
8 110 (7.13%) Architect
9 63 (4.09%) Business Analyst
10 56 (3.63%) Platform Engineer
11 52 (3.37%) Cloud Engineer
11 52 (3.37%) Project Manager
12 47 (3.05%) Consultant
13 45 (2.92%) Senior Developer
14 41 (2.66%) Solutions Architect
14 41 (2.66%) Test Analyst
15 40 (2.59%) .NET Developer
16 39 (2.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 38 (2.46%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 441 (28.60%) Terraform
2 209 (13.55%) .NET
3 185 (12.00%) REST
4 81 (5.25%) RESTful
5 80 (5.19%) JSON
5 80 (5.19%) PySpark
6 78 (5.06%) ADO
7 74 (4.80%) YAML
8 66 (4.28%) Kafka
9 64 (4.15%) ARM Templates
10 62 (4.02%) .NET Framework
11 60 (3.89%) React
12 54 (3.50%) Playwright
13 51 (3.31%) .NET Core
14 42 (2.72%) SOAP
15 41 (2.66%) OAuth
15 41 (2.66%) XML
16 38 (2.46%) Middleware
17 37 (2.40%) HTML
18 35 (2.27%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 174 (11.28%) Cloud Native
2 122 (7.91%) Product Ownership
3 52 (3.37%) Onboarding
4 51 (3.31%) Legacy Systems
5 47 (3.05%) Distributed Systems
6 41 (2.66%) Enterprise Software
7 32 (2.08%) Management Information System
8 30 (1.95%) Hybrid Cloud
8 30 (1.95%) Self-Motivation
9 23 (1.49%) AI Agents
9 23 (1.49%) Data Structures
10 19 (1.23%) Low-Code
11 17 (1.10%) Mobile App
12 16 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
12 16 (1.04%) Linux Command Line
12 16 (1.04%) Replication
13 15 (0.97%) Reinsurance
14 14 (0.91%) Enterprise Cloud
15 13 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
16 12 (0.78%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 103 (6.68%) Windows
2 71 (4.60%) Linux
3 31 (2.01%) Windows Server
4 18 (1.17%) VMS
5 12 (0.78%) Unix
6 10 (0.65%) Android
6 10 (0.65%) Apple iOS
6 10 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (0.26%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.26%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.065%) Amazon Linux
9 1 (0.065%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,542 (100.00%) DevOps
2 853 (55.32%) CI/CD
3 656 (42.54%) Agile
4 400 (25.94%) Infrastructure as Code
5 279 (18.09%) Test Automation
6 268 (17.38%) Stakeholder Management
7 249 (16.15%) Problem-Solving
8 247 (16.02%) Continuous Improvement
9 238 (15.43%) Analytics
10 233 (15.11%) Containerisation
11 220 (14.27%) Scrum
12 212 (13.75%) Migration
13 179 (11.61%) Business Intelligence
14 175 (11.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 168 (10.89%) User Acceptance Testing
16 160 (10.38%) Data Modelling
17 158 (10.25%) Platform Engineering
18 157 (10.18%) Microservices
19 155 (10.05%) Validation
20 154 (9.99%) AI
Programming Languages
1 411 (26.65%) SQL
2 383 (24.84%) Python
3 262 (16.99%) C#
4 213 (13.81%) PowerShell
5 171 (11.09%) Bicep
6 155 (10.05%) JavaScript
7 130 (8.43%) Bash
8 122 (7.91%) Java
9 88 (5.71%) TypeScript
10 23 (1.49%) T-SQL
11 20 (1.30%) Kusto Query Language
12 18 (1.17%) Go
13 16 (1.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 15 (0.97%) Apex Code
14 15 (0.97%) X++
15 8 (0.52%) PL/SQL
15 8 (0.52%) Scala
15 8 (0.52%) Shell Script
16 6 (0.39%) Kotlin
16 6 (0.39%) R
Qualifications
1 468 (30.35%) Security Cleared
2 385 (24.97%) SC Cleared
3 114 (7.39%) Azure Certification
4 105 (6.81%) Degree
5 63 (4.09%) Microsoft Certification
6 54 (3.50%) DV Cleared
7 41 (2.66%) ISTQB
8 37 (2.40%) BPSS Clearance
9 33 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
10 26 (1.69%) AWS Certification
11 17 (1.10%) PMI Certification
12 16 (1.04%) PMP
13 13 (0.84%) CISSP
14 12 (0.78%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 12 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
15 11 (0.71%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 11 (0.71%) Master's Degree
16 10 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 10 (0.65%) DBS Check
17 6 (0.39%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 177 (11.48%) QA
2 110 (7.13%) Data Quality
3 88 (5.71%) Accessibility
4 52 (3.37%) GDPR
5 49 (3.18%) WCAG
6 32 (2.08%) PMO
7 27 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 25 (1.62%) NIST
9 18 (1.17%) NCSC
10 13 (0.84%) SLA
11 11 (0.71%) GRC
11 11 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 8 (0.52%) ISO 20022
13 7 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
14 5 (0.32%) SEPA
15 4 (0.26%) PSD2
16 3 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 3 (0.19%) Government Security Classifications
16 3 (0.19%) PCI DSS
17 2 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 246 (15.95%) Docker
2 81 (5.25%) Active Directory
3 31 (2.01%) Virtual Machines
4 18 (1.17%) VMware Infrastructure
5 14 (0.91%) 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
1 318 (20.62%) Kubernetes
2 100 (6.49%) Ansible
3 59 (3.83%) Grafana
4 51 (3.31%) Prometheus
5 24 (1.56%) Microsoft Intune
6 22 (1.43%) Progress Chef
7 21 (1.36%) Argo
8 20 (1.30%) Puppet
9 16 (1.04%) Packer
10 13 (0.84%) HP ALM
11 11 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
12 10 (0.65%) SCCM
13 8 (0.52%) Istio
14 6 (0.39%) Jamf Pro
14 6 (0.39%) SCOM
15 4 (0.26%) HP Quality Center
16 3 (0.19%) HP Fortify
16 3 (0.19%) Kibana
17 2 (0.13%) systemd
17 2 (0.13%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 544 (35.28%) Microsoft
2 137 (8.88%) Databricks
3 58 (3.76%) Oracle
4 57 (3.70%) ServiceNow
5 53 (3.44%) Salesforce
6 48 (3.11%) SAP
7 38 (2.46%) Google
8 33 (2.14%) Splunk
9 28 (1.82%) Dynatrace
10 23 (1.49%) VMware
11 19 (1.23%) Informatica
12 14 (0.91%) HP
12 14 (0.91%) OpenAI
12 14 (0.91%) UiPath
13 13 (0.84%) MuleSoft
14 12 (0.78%) Foundry
15 10 (0.65%) IBM
16 9 (0.58%) Adobe
16 9 (0.58%) Cisco
16 9 (0.58%) Red Hat
307 Azure DevOps jobs in England