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

 6 months to
16 Feb 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 88 80
Rank change year-on-year +5 -8 -1
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,053 723 984
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.10% 2.80% 2.59%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.22% 7.49% 7.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 764 491 737
10th Percentile £363 £385 £413
25th Percentile £413 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £588 £625 £638
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £491 £524 £538
% change year-on-year -6.30% -2.56% -2.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 14
10th Percentile £45.84 £67.63 £55.75
25th Percentile £49.94 £69.69 £60.94
Median hourly rate £74.63 £73.75 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.19% +12.60% -0.44%
75th Percentile £79.69 £77.19 £75.94
90th Percentile £93.75 £78.88 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £74.63 £82.50 £65.50
% change year-on-year -9.54% +25.95% -2.96%

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 12,806 9,658 12,565
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.65% 37.44% 33.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,843 6,464 9,116
10th Percentile £306 £313 £275
25th Percentile £406 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 354 140 299
10th Percentile £14.65 £16.18 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.00 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £37.00 £27.50 £22.30
Median % change year-on-year +34.55% +23.32% -10.80%
75th Percentile £58.75 £48.19 £49.54
90th Percentile £77.50 £73.93 £67.11
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £27.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +30.91% +22.22% -10.00%

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 16 February 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 16 February 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 16 February 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 +16 576 £500 -9.09% 114
South East -20 137 £514 -6.59% 105
Midlands -8 96 £485 -6.73% 59
North of England -39 94 £500 - 85
South West +29 84 £475 -6.86% 32
West Midlands -14 59 £525 - 37
North West -13 45 £405 -26.36% 49
Yorkshire -59 38 £525 +10.53% 26
East Midlands -4 37 £418 -14.36% 22
East of England +1 33 £554 -16.42% 19
North East -4 11 £513 -2.38% 11
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 71 (6.74%) SharePoint
2 57 (5.41%) Confluence
3 24 (2.28%) Apache Spark
4 16 (1.52%) Apache
5 10 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
5 10 (0.95%) HCL Notes
5 10 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
6 9 (0.85%) Mendix
7 6 (0.57%) IIS
8 4 (0.38%) CMS
8 4 (0.38%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.28%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.28%) Sitecore CMS
10 2 (0.19%) Documentum
11 1 (0.095%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.095%) Kentico
11 1 (0.095%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.095%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 33 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (1.61%) Microsoft Project
3 16 (1.52%) MS Visio
4 9 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
6 2 (0.19%) Trello
7 1 (0.095%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.095%) CPLEX
7 1 (0.095%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 40 (3.80%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.57%) Maximo
2 6 (0.57%) NEC Housing
3 4 (0.38%) Aladdin
3 4 (0.38%) Endur
3 4 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.28%) Oracle Assets
4 3 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (0.28%) Oracle General Ledger
4 3 (0.28%) Oracle Payables
4 3 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
4 3 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.19%) Primavera
5 2 (0.19%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.095%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.095%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.095%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.095%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.095%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 1,052 (99.91%) Azure
2 255 (24.22%) GitHub
3 195 (18.52%) Power Platform
4 178 (16.90%) GitHub Actions
5 127 (12.06%) Serverless
6 122 (11.59%) AWS
6 122 (11.59%) Azure AKS
7 120 (11.40%) Azure Data Factory
8 112 (10.64%) Azure Monitor
9 100 (9.50%) Entra ID
10 95 (9.02%) Dynamics 365
11 85 (8.07%) Azure Functions
12 81 (7.69%) Azure Key Vault
13 77 (7.31%) Azure Logic Apps
14 72 (6.84%) Power Automate
15 67 (6.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 61 (5.79%) GCP
16 61 (5.79%) PowerApps
17 59 (5.60%) Azure Service Bus
18 52 (4.94%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 38 (3.61%) Firewall
2 20 (1.90%) Network Security
3 16 (1.52%) DNS
3 16 (1.52%) VPN
4 9 (0.85%) SD-WAN
4 9 (0.85%) WAN
5 6 (0.57%) TCP/IP
6 4 (0.38%) DHCP
6 4 (0.38%) HTTP
6 4 (0.38%) IPsec
6 4 (0.38%) LAN
7 3 (0.28%) MQTT
7 3 (0.28%) Remote Desktop
8 2 (0.19%) FTP
8 2 (0.19%) MPLS
8 2 (0.19%) SSL
8 2 (0.19%) VLAN
9 1 (0.095%) BGP
9 1 (0.095%) VoIP
9 1 (0.095%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 126 (11.97%) Power BI
2 87 (8.26%) SQL Server
3 62 (5.89%) Azure SQL Database
4 52 (4.94%) Data Lake
5 47 (4.46%) Data Warehouse
6 43 (4.08%) PostgreSQL
7 37 (3.51%) Delta Lake
8 25 (2.37%) Oracle Database
9 21 (1.99%) NoSQL
9 21 (1.99%) Relational Database
10 19 (1.80%) Redis
10 19 (1.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 18 (1.71%) MongoDB
12 16 (1.52%) Tableau
13 11 (1.04%) DynamoDB
13 11 (1.04%) Oracle Reports
13 11 (1.04%) Spark SQL
14 10 (0.95%) Metadata
14 10 (0.95%) MySQL
14 10 (0.95%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 189 (17.95%) JIRA
2 153 (14.53%) Git
3 101 (9.59%) Jenkins
4 55 (5.22%) GitLab
5 52 (4.94%) Selenium
6 36 (3.42%) Oracle APEX
6 36 (3.42%) Postman
7 24 (2.28%) Cypress.io
8 22 (2.09%) SonarQube
9 17 (1.61%) TestRail
10 16 (1.52%) Visual Studio
11 15 (1.42%) JMeter
11 15 (1.42%) REST Assured
11 15 (1.42%) Team Foundation Server
12 13 (1.23%) JUnit
13 12 (1.14%) Cucumber
13 12 (1.14%) Zephyr
14 11 (1.04%) Artifactory
15 10 (0.95%) Bitbucket
15 10 (0.95%) webpack
General
1 331 (31.43%) Social Skills
2 192 (18.23%) Finance
3 119 (11.30%) Public Sector
4 113 (10.73%) Analytical Skills
5 46 (4.37%) Banking
6 28 (2.66%) Documentation Skills
6 28 (2.66%) Influencing Skills
7 25 (2.37%) Organisational Skills
8 20 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 19 (1.80%) Retail
10 15 (1.42%) Financial Institution
10 15 (1.42%) Investment Banking
11 13 (1.23%) Law
12 12 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
13 11 (1.04%) Back Office
13 11 (1.04%) Front Office
13 11 (1.04%) Marketing
14 10 (0.95%) Legal
15 9 (0.85%) Billing
15 9 (0.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 241 (22.89%) Developer
2 170 (16.14%) Azure Engineer
3 151 (14.34%) DevOps Engineer
4 141 (13.39%) Senior
5 95 (9.02%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 90 (8.55%) Analyst
7 79 (7.50%) Architect
7 79 (7.50%) Lead
8 78 (7.41%) Data Engineer
9 52 (4.94%) Senior Developer
10 41 (3.89%) Azure Developer
11 40 (3.80%) Platform Engineer
12 39 (3.70%) Test Analyst
13 35 (3.32%) Business Analyst
14 33 (3.13%) Azure Architect
15 31 (2.94%) Tester
16 30 (2.85%) Cloud Engineer
17 27 (2.56%) Project Manager
17 27 (2.56%) Solutions Architect
18 25 (2.37%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 188 (17.85%) .NET
2 96 (9.12%) REST
3 74 (7.03%) ARM Templates
4 72 (6.84%) React
5 65 (6.17%) ADO
6 62 (5.89%) Node.js
7 58 (5.51%) PySpark
8 45 (4.27%) .NET Core
8 45 (4.27%) RESTful
9 41 (3.89%) YAML
10 34 (3.23%) HTML
11 33 (3.13%) CSS
11 33 (3.13%) OAuth
12 32 (3.04%) JSON
12 32 (3.04%) Kafka
13 31 (2.94%) .NET Framework
14 29 (2.75%) Playwright
15 25 (2.37%) SOAP
16 24 (2.28%) AngularJS
17 20 (1.90%) HTML5 Canvas
Miscellaneous
1 108 (10.26%) Cloud Native
2 59 (5.60%) Product Ownership
3 31 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
4 27 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
4 27 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
5 21 (1.99%) Low-Code
6 17 (1.61%) Onboarding
6 17 (1.61%) Reinsurance
7 16 (1.52%) AI Agents
7 16 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
8 15 (1.42%) CMDB
8 15 (1.42%) Public Cloud
9 14 (1.33%) NHS
10 13 (1.23%) Data Structures
11 11 (1.04%) Linux Command Line
12 10 (0.95%) Mobile App
12 10 (0.95%) Replication
12 10 (0.95%) Virtual Team
13 9 (0.85%) Data Centre
13 9 (0.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 46 (4.37%) Windows
2 43 (4.08%) Linux
3 15 (1.42%) VMS
4 7 (0.66%) Windows Server
5 6 (0.57%) Android
5 6 (0.57%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.19%) Unix
8 1 (0.095%) Solaris
8 1 (0.095%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,044 (99.15%) DevOps
2 569 (54.04%) CI/CD
3 438 (41.60%) Agile
4 263 (24.98%) Infrastructure as Code
5 217 (20.61%) Problem-Solving
6 181 (17.19%) Analytics
7 175 (16.62%) Scrum
8 173 (16.43%) Test Automation
9 164 (15.57%) Continuous Improvement
10 140 (13.30%) AI
10 140 (13.30%) Business Intelligence
11 137 (13.01%) Containerisation
12 121 (11.49%) Validation
13 112 (10.64%) Stakeholder Management
14 106 (10.07%) Migration
15 104 (9.88%) Data Modelling
15 104 (9.88%) Microservices
16 93 (8.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 87 (8.26%) ETL
18 86 (8.17%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 337 (32.00%) SQL
2 292 (27.73%) Python
3 199 (18.90%) C#
4 170 (16.14%) JavaScript
5 113 (10.73%) PowerShell
6 101 (9.59%) Bicep
7 75 (7.12%) TypeScript
8 70 (6.65%) Java
9 66 (6.27%) Bash
10 55 (5.22%) PL/SQL
11 24 (2.28%) T-SQL
12 23 (2.18%) Scala
13 11 (1.04%) Go
13 11 (1.04%) Kusto Query Language
14 10 (0.95%) Formula Language
14 10 (0.95%) LotusScript
15 9 (0.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 7 (0.66%) PHP
16 7 (0.66%) VBA
17 5 (0.47%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 290 (27.54%) Security Cleared
2 245 (23.27%) SC Cleared
3 98 (9.31%) Azure Certification
4 73 (6.93%) Degree
5 38 (3.61%) Microsoft Certification
6 31 (2.94%) DV Cleared
7 28 (2.66%) Computer Science Degree
8 25 (2.37%) ISTQB
9 23 (2.18%) BPSS Clearance
10 15 (1.42%) PMI Certification
11 12 (1.14%) AWS Certification
12 11 (1.04%) PMP
13 10 (0.95%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 9 (0.85%) Master's Degree
15 8 (0.76%) CISSP
16 7 (0.66%) CISM
17 6 (0.57%) ITIL Certification
18 5 (0.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
18 5 (0.47%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
18 5 (0.47%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (10.54%) QA
2 58 (5.51%) Data Quality
3 33 (3.13%) Accessibility
4 26 (2.47%) GDPR
5 21 (1.99%) NIST
6 19 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 16 (1.52%) NCSC
8 14 (1.33%) PMO
9 10 (0.95%) WCAG
10 8 (0.76%) EU AI Act
10 8 (0.76%) NIST 800
11 6 (0.57%) HL7
11 6 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 6 (0.57%) SLA
12 4 (0.38%) HIPAA
12 4 (0.38%) PCI DSS
12 4 (0.38%) SOC 2
13 2 (0.19%) FedRAMP
13 2 (0.19%) GxP
13 2 (0.19%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 180 (17.09%) Docker
2 58 (5.51%) Active Directory
3 21 (1.99%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (0.95%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.38%) Firmware
7 1 (0.095%) HDFS
7 1 (0.095%) KVM
7 1 (0.095%) Postfix
7 1 (0.095%) Squid
7 1 (0.095%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.095%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 313 (29.72%) Terraform
2 187 (17.76%) Kubernetes
3 52 (4.94%) Ansible
4 38 (3.61%) Grafana
5 33 (3.13%) Prometheus
6 13 (1.23%) HP ALM
7 10 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (0.76%) Puppet
9 7 (0.66%) Podman
9 7 (0.66%) Progress Chef
10 6 (0.57%) Argo
10 6 (0.57%) Istio
10 6 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
11 4 (0.38%) HP Quality Center
12 3 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (0.28%) Icinga
12 3 (0.28%) Kibana
12 3 (0.28%) Kubeflow
12 3 (0.28%) Packer
13 2 (0.19%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 334 (31.72%) Microsoft
2 135 (12.82%) Databricks
3 119 (11.30%) Oracle
4 50 (4.75%) ServiceNow
5 36 (3.42%) OpenAI
6 26 (2.47%) Salesforce
7 20 (1.90%) Google
8 19 (1.80%) SAP
9 17 (1.61%) Splunk
10 13 (1.23%) HP
11 12 (1.14%) MuleSoft
11 12 (1.14%) VMware
12 10 (0.95%) Lotus
13 9 (0.85%) Foundry
13 9 (0.85%) Kofax
14 8 (0.76%) Dynatrace
14 8 (0.76%) Informatica
14 8 (0.76%) Sitecore
15 7 (0.66%) Citrix
15 7 (0.66%) Red Hat
373 Azure DevOps jobs in England