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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 78 74
Rank change year-on-year -10 -4 +14
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 794 912 1,229
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.85% 2.77% 2.91%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.58% 8.00% 8.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 563 612 918
10th Percentile £350 £376 £404
25th Percentile £413 £450 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £600 £603 £644
90th Percentile £700 £675 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 7
10th Percentile £63.75 - £37.70
25th Percentile £67.50 - £59.25
Median hourly rate £75.00 - £71.00
75th Percentile £82.50 - £77.50
90th Percentile £86.25 - £78.18
UK median hourly rate £85.00 - £68.50
% change year-on-year - - +4.12%

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 10,478 11,407 15,176
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.67% 34.62% 35.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,092 7,760 11,128
10th Percentile £305 £313 £310
25th Percentile £406 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 244 173 299
10th Percentile £15.33 £14.75 £14.47
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.50 £18.39
Median hourly rate £26.00 £33.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.21% - +53.49%
75th Percentile £43.75 £64.73 £68.75
90th Percentile £67.25 £70.00 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £31.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -9.68% -11.43% +62.79%

Azure DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Azure DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Azure DevOps 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 19 September 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 19 September 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 19 September 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 -20 461 £525 - 139
South East +20 118 £458 -12.86% 124
North of England -21 74 £500 -2.44% 83
Midlands +10 67 £500 - 47
West Midlands -1 41 £554 +5.48% 29
North West -1 39 £450 -14.29% 38
Yorkshire -18 35 £500 - 26
South West +16 34 £550 +4.76% 35
East Midlands +14 26 £463 +27.59% 15
East of England +7 14 £500 -13.04% 31
Azure DevOps
UK

Azure DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 46 (5.79%) Confluence
2 30 (3.78%) SharePoint
3 14 (1.76%) Apache Spark
4 13 (1.64%) Apache Airflow
5 11 (1.39%) Apache
6 4 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.38%) CMS
7 3 (0.38%) Documentum
7 3 (0.38%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.25%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.25%) Mule
8 2 (0.25%) Umbraco
9 1 (0.13%) Appian
9 1 (0.13%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.13%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 25 (3.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.39%) Microsoft Project
3 10 (1.26%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.63%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.50%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.38%) Trello
Business Applications
1 20 (2.52%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (1.64%) Endur
3 7 (0.88%) Aladdin
4 4 (0.50%) SAP PM
4 4 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
5 3 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.25%) Maximo
6 2 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.25%) Teamcenter
7 1 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.13%) SAP BPC
7 1 (0.13%) SAP MRS
7 1 (0.13%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 1 (0.13%) Temenos T24
7 1 (0.13%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 793 (99.87%) Azure
2 135 (17.00%) GitHub
3 122 (15.37%) Power Platform
4 116 (14.61%) AWS
5 92 (11.59%) Azure AKS
6 85 (10.71%) GitHub Actions
7 77 (9.70%) Serverless
8 75 (9.45%) Azure Data Factory
9 65 (8.19%) Azure Monitor
10 58 (7.30%) Dynamics 365
11 55 (6.93%) Entra ID
12 54 (6.80%) GCP
13 52 (6.55%) PowerApps
14 51 (6.42%) PaaS
15 49 (6.17%) Azure Logic Apps
15 49 (6.17%) Power Automate
16 47 (5.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 38 (4.79%) Azure Service Bus
17 38 (4.79%) IaaS
18 37 (4.66%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 32 (4.03%) Firewall
2 17 (2.14%) DNS
2 17 (2.14%) VPN
3 14 (1.76%) Network Security
4 11 (1.39%) SSL
5 10 (1.26%) HTTP
6 7 (0.88%) HTTPS
6 7 (0.88%) SMTP
6 7 (0.88%) TCP/IP
7 6 (0.76%) FTP
8 5 (0.63%) LAN
8 5 (0.63%) WAN
9 3 (0.38%) DHCP
9 3 (0.38%) Remote Desktop
10 2 (0.25%) AMQP
10 2 (0.25%) DSL
10 2 (0.25%) SD-WAN
10 2 (0.25%) VLAN
10 2 (0.25%) Wi-Fi
11 1 (0.13%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (10.33%) Power BI
2 52 (6.55%) SQL Server
3 46 (5.79%) Azure SQL Database
4 40 (5.04%) PostgreSQL
5 27 (3.40%) Data Lake
5 27 (3.40%) Relational Database
6 25 (3.15%) Data Warehouse
7 24 (3.02%) Delta Lake
7 24 (3.02%) NoSQL
8 22 (2.77%) MongoDB
8 22 (2.77%) Redis
9 14 (1.76%) Metadata
10 13 (1.64%) Big Data
11 11 (1.39%) MySQL
11 11 (1.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 8 (1.01%) Elasticsearch
13 5 (0.63%) BigQuery
13 5 (0.63%) Oracle Database
14 4 (0.50%) Data Mart
14 4 (0.50%) GIS
Development Applications
1 145 (18.26%) JIRA
2 106 (13.35%) Git
3 68 (8.56%) Jenkins
4 49 (6.17%) GitLab
5 37 (4.66%) Selenium
6 29 (3.65%) Postman
7 24 (3.02%) SonarQube
8 15 (1.89%) JUnit
9 14 (1.76%) Gradle
10 13 (1.64%) Bitbucket
10 13 (1.64%) TeamCity
11 12 (1.51%) SpecFlow
12 11 (1.39%) Cucumber
12 11 (1.39%) NUnit
13 10 (1.26%) Appium
13 10 (1.26%) Cypress.io
13 10 (1.26%) JMeter
13 10 (1.26%) WebDriver
14 8 (1.01%) Octopus Deploy
14 8 (1.01%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 248 (31.23%) Social Skills
2 149 (18.77%) Finance
3 67 (8.44%) Analytical Skills
4 63 (7.93%) Public Sector
5 59 (7.43%) Banking
6 30 (3.78%) Investment Banking
7 24 (3.02%) Documentation Skills
8 21 (2.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 20 (2.52%) Marketing
10 17 (2.14%) Retail
11 13 (1.64%) Law
11 13 (1.64%) Manufacturing
12 10 (1.26%) Billing
13 9 (1.13%) Telecoms
14 8 (1.01%) Front Office
14 8 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
15 7 (0.88%) Back Office
15 7 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
16 6 (0.76%) Electronics
17 5 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 210 (26.45%) Developer
2 113 (14.23%) Azure Engineer
3 92 (11.59%) DevOps Engineer
4 79 (9.95%) Analyst
4 79 (9.95%) Senior
5 70 (8.82%) Lead
6 68 (8.56%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 67 (8.44%) Architect
8 44 (5.54%) Business Analyst
9 42 (5.29%) Azure Developer
10 39 (4.91%) Data Engineer
10 39 (4.91%) Senior Developer
11 35 (4.41%) .NET Developer
11 35 (4.41%) C# Developer
12 30 (3.78%) Test Analyst
13 29 (3.65%) Project Manager
14 26 (3.27%) Azure Architect
15 25 (3.15%) Solutions Architect
16 23 (2.90%) Lead Developer
17 22 (2.77%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 157 (19.77%) .NET
2 65 (8.19%) ADO
3 62 (7.81%) RESTful
4 56 (7.05%) REST
5 47 (5.92%) ARM Templates
6 41 (5.16%) YAML
7 40 (5.04%) .NET Core
7 40 (5.04%) React
8 37 (4.66%) HTML
9 35 (4.41%) Kafka
10 34 (4.28%) SOAP
11 31 (3.90%) PySpark
12 30 (3.78%) JSON
13 26 (3.27%) AngularJS
13 26 (3.27%) CSS
14 25 (3.15%) Node.js
15 24 (3.02%) .NET Framework
16 23 (2.90%) ASP.NET
17 20 (2.52%) Playwright
17 20 (2.52%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 70 (8.82%) Cloud Native
2 36 (4.53%) Product Ownership
3 26 (3.27%) Mobile App
4 22 (2.77%) Distributed Systems
5 16 (2.02%) Greenfield Project
6 15 (1.89%) Onboarding
7 13 (1.64%) Hybrid Cloud
7 13 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
8 12 (1.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 10 (1.26%) CMDB
9 10 (1.26%) Linux Command Line
9 10 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
10 9 (1.13%) Data Structures
10 9 (1.13%) Fixed Income
10 9 (1.13%) Low-Code
10 9 (1.13%) Reinsurance
11 8 (1.01%) Algorithms
12 7 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
12 7 (0.88%) Management Information System
12 7 (0.88%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 42 (5.29%) Windows
2 34 (4.28%) Linux
3 27 (3.40%) Android
4 18 (2.27%) Apple iOS
5 13 (1.64%) Unix
6 6 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.76%) Windows Server
7 5 (0.63%) VMS
8 2 (0.25%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.13%) Robot Operating System
9 1 (0.13%) Solaris
9 1 (0.13%) SUSE
9 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.13%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 793 (99.87%) DevOps
2 376 (47.36%) Agile
3 375 (47.23%) CI/CD
4 172 (21.66%) Infrastructure as Code
5 153 (19.27%) Scrum
6 132 (16.62%) Problem-Solving
7 128 (16.12%) Test Automation
8 103 (12.97%) Analytics
9 88 (11.08%) Migration
10 85 (10.71%) Business Intelligence
11 83 (10.45%) Containerisation
12 66 (8.31%) Microservices
12 66 (8.31%) TDD
13 62 (7.81%) ETL
14 61 (7.68%) Data Engineering
15 60 (7.56%) Artificial Intelligence
15 60 (7.56%) Stakeholder Management
16 58 (7.30%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 56 (7.05%) Continuous Improvement
17 56 (7.05%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 203 (25.57%) SQL
2 185 (23.30%) C#
3 181 (22.80%) Python
4 107 (13.48%) PowerShell
5 94 (11.84%) JavaScript
6 83 (10.45%) Bicep
7 65 (8.19%) Java
8 47 (5.92%) Bash
9 35 (4.41%) TypeScript
10 10 (1.26%) VB
11 9 (1.13%) Kotlin
11 9 (1.13%) Kusto Query Language
12 7 (0.88%) Go
12 7 (0.88%) PL/SQL
13 6 (0.76%) Scala
13 6 (0.76%) Shell Script
14 5 (0.63%) Apex Code
14 5 (0.63%) Korn
14 5 (0.63%) VBA
15 4 (0.50%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 123 (15.49%) Security Cleared
2 95 (11.96%) SC Cleared
3 54 (6.80%) Azure Certification
4 50 (6.30%) Degree
5 24 (3.02%) Microsoft Certification
6 21 (2.64%) DV Cleared
7 16 (2.02%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (1.76%) Numerate Degree
9 12 (1.51%) ISTQB
10 10 (1.26%) PMI Certification
11 9 (1.13%) Master's Degree
12 8 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
13 7 (0.88%) PMP
14 6 (0.76%) AWS Certification
15 5 (0.63%) CISSP
16 4 (0.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
17 3 (0.38%) CBAP
17 3 (0.38%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 3 (0.38%) ITIL Certification
17 3 (0.38%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (7.30%) QA
2 30 (3.78%) Accessibility
3 29 (3.65%) GDPR
4 28 (3.53%) Data Quality
5 16 (2.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (1.26%) NIST
7 8 (1.01%) NCSC
8 3 (0.38%) Government Security Classifications
8 3 (0.38%) PMO
8 3 (0.38%) PSD2
8 3 (0.38%) Solvency II
8 3 (0.38%) WCAG
9 2 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.25%) EMIR
9 2 (0.25%) GxP
9 2 (0.25%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.25%) HL7
9 2 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 2 (0.25%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 111 (13.98%) Docker
2 40 (5.04%) Active Directory
3 26 (3.27%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (1.13%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.25%) OpenAM
5 2 (0.25%) OpenDJ
5 2 (0.25%) OpenIDM
6 1 (0.13%) KVM
6 1 (0.13%) Squid
6 1 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.13%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 194 (24.43%) Terraform
2 145 (18.26%) Kubernetes
3 48 (6.05%) Ansible
4 28 (3.53%) Grafana
4 28 (3.53%) Prometheus
5 14 (1.76%) Puppet
6 11 (1.39%) Progress Chef
6 11 (1.39%) Single Sign-On
7 10 (1.26%) HP ALM
8 9 (1.13%) ITRS Geneos
8 9 (1.13%) Kibana
9 6 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (0.50%) Istio
11 3 (0.38%) Argo
11 3 (0.38%) Podman
11 3 (0.38%) SCCM
12 2 (0.25%) Control-M
12 2 (0.25%) Jamf Pro
12 2 (0.25%) Nessus
12 2 (0.25%) Packer
Vendors
1 228 (28.72%) Microsoft
2 73 (9.19%) Databricks
3 33 (4.16%) ServiceNow
4 31 (3.90%) Oracle
5 28 (3.53%) Salesforce
6 20 (2.52%) SAP
7 15 (1.89%) Google
8 14 (1.76%) MuleSoft
9 10 (1.26%) HP
10 9 (1.13%) OpenAI
10 9 (1.13%) Splunk
11 8 (1.01%) DocuSign
11 8 (1.01%) Murex
12 7 (0.88%) Guidewire
13 6 (0.76%) Duck Creek
13 6 (0.76%) InterSystems
14 5 (0.63%) Informatica
14 5 (0.63%) Workday
15 4 (0.50%) NetApp
15 4 (0.50%) Virgin Media