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 4 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 87 77
Rank change year-on-year +5 -10 +12
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 906 808 1,131
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.09% 2.61% 2.85%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.94% 7.33% 8.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 643 536 874
10th Percentile £357 £378 £410
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £600 £635 £650
90th Percentile £694 £684 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 9
10th Percentile £45.78 - £54.25
25th Percentile £53.63 - £57.50
Median hourly rate £74.26 £80.00 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.18% +29.03% -5.76%
75th Percentile £81.88 - £77.50
90th Percentile £90.75 - -
UK median hourly rate £74.63 £80.00 £62.00
% change year-on-year -6.71% +29.03% -5.76%

All Cloud 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 11,416 11,019 14,101
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.87% 35.64% 35.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,726 7,310 10,295
10th Percentile £300 £313 £300
25th Percentile £405 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £535 £530
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £619 £645 £650
90th Percentile £720 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 289 143 289
10th Percentile £14.75 £18.66 £14.47
25th Percentile £18.87 £23.80 £18.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% +27.27% +22.22%
75th Percentile £45.46 £64.73 £58.75
90th Percentile £71.56 £70.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £32.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% +9.38% +43.56%

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 4 November 2025.

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 4 November 2025.

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 4 November 2025. 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 -4 488 £525 -4.55% 223
South East +7 119 £500 -4.76% 197
North of England -19 96 £500 -4.76% 62
Midlands +10 85 £500 - 86
South West +37 62 £475 - 37
West Midlands -11 56 £575 +12.20% 58
North West -9 46 £405 -25.52% 34
Yorkshire -24 45 £500 -2.44% 12
East Midlands +10 29 £463 -2.63% 27
East of England +5 28 £525 -20.75% 23
North East -7 5 £600 - 16
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 48 (5.30%) Confluence
2 41 (4.53%) SharePoint
3 15 (1.66%) Apache Airflow
4 14 (1.55%) Apache
4 14 (1.55%) Apache Spark
5 6 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.44%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.33%) CMS
7 3 (0.33%) Documentum
8 2 (0.22%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.22%) IIS
8 2 (0.22%) Mule
9 1 (0.11%) Apache Synapse
9 1 (0.11%) Appian
9 1 (0.11%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.11%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.11%) Kentico
9 1 (0.11%) SharePoint Server
9 1 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 28 (3.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (1.10%) Microsoft Project
3 8 (0.88%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.44%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.44%) Trello
Business Applications
1 34 (3.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (1.32%) Endur
3 9 (0.99%) Aladdin
4 5 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.44%) SAP PM
6 3 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.22%) Maximo
7 2 (0.22%) Oracle Assets
7 2 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.22%) Oracle General Ledger
7 2 (0.22%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.22%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.22%) Teamcenter
7 2 (0.22%) Workday HCM
8 1 (0.11%) Dynamics AX
8 1 (0.11%) SAP BPC
8 1 (0.11%) SAP MRS
8 1 (0.11%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 1 (0.11%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 905 (99.89%) Azure
2 190 (20.97%) GitHub
3 160 (17.66%) Power Platform
4 129 (14.24%) AWS
5 128 (14.13%) GitHub Actions
6 96 (10.60%) Serverless
7 92 (10.15%) Azure AKS
8 82 (9.05%) Azure Data Factory
9 79 (8.72%) Azure Monitor
10 78 (8.61%) Dynamics 365
11 70 (7.73%) Entra ID
12 65 (7.17%) Azure Logic Apps
12 65 (7.17%) PowerApps
13 62 (6.84%) Power Automate
14 58 (6.40%) GCP
15 55 (6.07%) Azure Functions
15 55 (6.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 49 (5.41%) Azure Key Vault
17 48 (5.30%) Azure Service Bus
18 42 (4.64%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 33 (3.64%) Firewall
2 21 (2.32%) Network Security
3 17 (1.88%) DNS
4 15 (1.66%) VPN
5 10 (1.10%) WAN
6 8 (0.88%) SD-WAN
7 7 (0.77%) SSL
8 6 (0.66%) HTTPS
9 5 (0.55%) DHCP
9 5 (0.55%) LAN
10 4 (0.44%) TCP/IP
11 3 (0.33%) HTTP
11 3 (0.33%) Remote Desktop
12 2 (0.22%) AMQP
12 2 (0.22%) DSL
12 2 (0.22%) VLAN
13 1 (0.11%) BGP
13 1 (0.11%) iSCSI
13 1 (0.11%) MPLS
13 1 (0.11%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (11.04%) Power BI
2 57 (6.29%) SQL Server
3 43 (4.75%) PostgreSQL
4 40 (4.42%) Azure SQL Database
5 31 (3.42%) Data Warehouse
6 28 (3.09%) Data Lake
7 26 (2.87%) Delta Lake
7 26 (2.87%) Relational Database
8 24 (2.65%) Redis
9 21 (2.32%) NoSQL
10 19 (2.10%) MongoDB
11 14 (1.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 12 (1.32%) MySQL
13 10 (1.10%) Metadata
14 9 (0.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 8 (0.88%) Big Data
15 8 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
16 5 (0.55%) DynamoDB
16 5 (0.55%) Oracle Database
16 5 (0.55%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 173 (19.09%) JIRA
2 125 (13.80%) Git
3 85 (9.38%) Jenkins
4 57 (6.29%) GitLab
5 46 (5.08%) Selenium
6 32 (3.53%) Postman
7 28 (3.09%) SonarQube
8 26 (2.87%) Oracle APEX
9 18 (1.99%) JUnit
10 15 (1.66%) Cucumber
10 15 (1.66%) JMeter
11 14 (1.55%) Bitbucket
11 14 (1.55%) Gradle
12 13 (1.43%) Cypress.io
12 13 (1.43%) Visual Studio
13 12 (1.32%) SpecFlow
14 11 (1.21%) TeamCity
15 10 (1.10%) Maven
15 10 (1.10%) NUnit
16 9 (0.99%) WebDriver
General
1 298 (32.89%) Social Skills
2 162 (17.88%) Finance
3 94 (10.38%) Public Sector
4 80 (8.83%) Analytical Skills
5 50 (5.52%) Banking
6 31 (3.42%) Documentation Skills
7 26 (2.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 26 (2.87%) Investment Banking
8 25 (2.76%) Retail
9 20 (2.21%) Influencing Skills
10 17 (1.88%) Law
10 17 (1.88%) Marketing
11 12 (1.32%) Manufacturing
12 11 (1.21%) Presentation Skills
12 11 (1.21%) Telecoms
13 10 (1.10%) Billing
14 9 (0.99%) Back Office
15 7 (0.77%) Military
15 7 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
16 6 (0.66%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 256 (28.26%) Developer
2 117 (12.91%) Senior
3 110 (12.14%) Azure Engineer
4 105 (11.59%) DevOps Engineer
5 90 (9.93%) Analyst
6 71 (7.84%) Lead
7 68 (7.51%) Architect
8 63 (6.95%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 57 (6.29%) Senior Developer
10 52 (5.74%) Business Analyst
11 43 (4.75%) Azure Developer
12 42 (4.64%) Data Engineer
13 35 (3.86%) .NET Developer
14 31 (3.42%) Azure Architect
15 30 (3.31%) C# Developer
15 30 (3.31%) Test Analyst
16 26 (2.87%) Tester
17 24 (2.65%) Project Manager
17 24 (2.65%) Solutions Architect
17 24 (2.65%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 184 (20.31%) .NET
2 85 (9.38%) REST
3 65 (7.17%) RESTful
4 64 (7.06%) ADO
5 51 (5.63%) ARM Templates
5 51 (5.63%) React
6 47 (5.19%) .NET Core
6 47 (5.19%) SOAP
7 45 (4.97%) YAML
8 41 (4.53%) HTML
9 35 (3.86%) JSON
9 35 (3.86%) Node.js
10 33 (3.64%) PySpark
11 32 (3.53%) .NET Framework
11 32 (3.53%) Kafka
12 31 (3.42%) AngularJS
13 27 (2.98%) CSS
13 27 (2.98%) XML
14 26 (2.87%) ASP.NET
14 26 (2.87%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 81 (8.94%) Cloud Native
2 47 (5.19%) Product Ownership
3 23 (2.54%) Distributed Systems
3 23 (2.54%) Legacy Systems
4 22 (2.43%) Mobile App
5 21 (2.32%) CMDB
6 17 (1.88%) Hybrid Cloud
6 17 (1.88%) Onboarding
7 14 (1.55%) Enterprise Software
7 14 (1.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 13 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
8 13 (1.43%) Linux Command Line
9 12 (1.32%) Low-Code
9 12 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
10 10 (1.10%) Data Structures
10 10 (1.10%) Fixed Income
11 9 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
11 9 (0.99%) Public Cloud
11 9 (0.99%) Reinsurance
11 9 (0.99%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 44 (4.86%) Windows
2 43 (4.75%) Linux
3 23 (2.54%) Android
4 17 (1.88%) Apple iOS
5 10 (1.10%) Unix
5 10 (1.10%) VMS
5 10 (1.10%) Windows Server
6 7 (0.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.22%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.11%) Robot Operating System
9 1 (0.11%) Solaris
9 1 (0.11%) SUSE
9 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.11%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 904 (99.78%) DevOps
2 459 (50.66%) CI/CD
3 440 (48.57%) Agile
4 203 (22.41%) Infrastructure as Code
5 192 (21.19%) Scrum
6 161 (17.77%) Problem-Solving
7 149 (16.45%) Test Automation
8 132 (14.57%) Analytics
9 103 (11.37%) Business Intelligence
9 103 (11.37%) Containerisation
10 99 (10.93%) Continuous Improvement
11 98 (10.82%) Migration
12 93 (10.26%) AI
13 90 (9.93%) Validation
14 89 (9.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 79 (8.72%) Microservices
16 77 (8.50%) Stakeholder Management
17 69 (7.62%) Data Engineering
18 66 (7.28%) Data Modelling
19 64 (7.06%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 251 (27.70%) SQL
2 233 (25.72%) Python
3 194 (21.41%) C#
4 137 (15.12%) JavaScript
5 111 (12.25%) PowerShell
6 81 (8.94%) Bicep
7 69 (7.62%) Java
8 56 (6.18%) Bash
9 46 (5.08%) TypeScript
10 29 (3.20%) PL/SQL
11 10 (1.10%) Go
11 10 (1.10%) Kusto Query Language
12 8 (0.88%) T-SQL
13 7 (0.77%) VBA
14 6 (0.66%) Korn
14 6 (0.66%) Kotlin
14 6 (0.66%) Shell Script
14 6 (0.66%) VB
14 6 (0.66%) VB.NET
14 6 (0.66%) X++
Qualifications
1 198 (21.85%) Security Cleared
2 160 (17.66%) SC Cleared
3 63 (6.95%) Azure Certification
4 57 (6.29%) Degree
5 30 (3.31%) Microsoft Certification
6 26 (2.87%) DV Cleared
7 21 (2.32%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (1.55%) ISTQB
9 13 (1.43%) AWS Certification
10 11 (1.21%) BPSS Clearance
11 9 (0.99%) PMI Certification
12 8 (0.88%) Master's Degree
12 8 (0.88%) Numerate Degree
13 7 (0.77%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 7 (0.77%) CISSP
14 6 (0.66%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 6 (0.66%) ITIL Certification
15 5 (0.55%) CBAP
15 5 (0.55%) ISEB
15 5 (0.55%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (7.06%) QA
2 37 (4.08%) Accessibility
3 35 (3.86%) Data Quality
4 34 (3.75%) GDPR
5 20 (2.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 19 (2.10%) NIST
7 12 (1.32%) NCSC
8 7 (0.77%) EU AI Act
9 5 (0.55%) SOC 2
9 5 (0.55%) WCAG
10 4 (0.44%) Government Security Classifications
10 4 (0.44%) PMO
11 3 (0.33%) PSD2
11 3 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.33%) Solvency II
12 2 (0.22%) EMIR
12 2 (0.22%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.22%) HL7
12 2 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 2 (0.22%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 133 (14.68%) Docker
2 50 (5.52%) Active Directory
3 25 (2.76%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (1.32%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.11%) KVM
6 1 (0.11%) OpenAM
6 1 (0.11%) OpenDJ
6 1 (0.11%) OpenIDM
6 1 (0.11%) Squid
6 1 (0.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 230 (25.39%) Terraform
2 146 (16.11%) Kubernetes
3 65 (7.17%) Ansible
4 38 (4.19%) Grafana
5 36 (3.97%) Prometheus
6 14 (1.55%) Puppet
7 12 (1.32%) Progress Chef
8 9 (0.99%) HP ALM
8 9 (0.99%) Kibana
9 8 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
9 8 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
10 7 (0.77%) ITRS Geneos
10 7 (0.77%) Podman
11 5 (0.55%) Argo
11 5 (0.55%) Istio
12 3 (0.33%) Packer
12 3 (0.33%) vCenter Server
13 2 (0.22%) Fluentd
13 2 (0.22%) Jamf Pro
13 2 (0.22%) SCCM
Vendors
1 282 (31.13%) Microsoft
2 90 (9.93%) Databricks
3 58 (6.40%) Oracle
4 49 (5.41%) ServiceNow
5 32 (3.53%) Salesforce
6 24 (2.65%) SAP
7 17 (1.88%) OpenAI
8 16 (1.77%) Google
9 15 (1.66%) MuleSoft
10 14 (1.55%) Splunk
11 9 (0.99%) HP
12 8 (0.88%) DocuSign
12 8 (0.88%) Murex
13 7 (0.77%) Guidewire
13 7 (0.77%) NetApp
13 7 (0.77%) VMware
14 6 (0.66%) Duck Creek
14 6 (0.66%) UiPath
15 5 (0.55%) Aruba
15 5 (0.55%) Virgin Media