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

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 88 78
Rank change year-on-year +9 -10 -4
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,498 794 912
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.22% 2.85% 2.77%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.32% 7.57% 7.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,045 563 612
10th Percentile £363 £350 £376
25th Percentile £419 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £603
90th Percentile £675 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 2 0
10th Percentile £21.25 £63.75 -
25th Percentile £37.25 £67.50 -
Median hourly rate £67.44 £75.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -10.08% - -
75th Percentile £79.75 £82.50 -
90th Percentile £101.67 £86.25 -
UK median hourly rate £60.83 £85.00 -
% change year-on-year -28.44% - -

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 16,068 10,493 11,409
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.52% 37.73% 34.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,724 7,098 7,761
10th Percentile £320 £305 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 557 247 174
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.40 £14.84
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £20.56
Median hourly rate £33.99 £26.30 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.24% -20.30% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.92 £64.48
90th Percentile £82.30 £67.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £28.50 £31.00
% change year-on-year +14.04% -8.06% -11.43%

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 19 September 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 19 September 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 19 September 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 +15 842 £519 -1.19% 480
South East -19 175 £525 +14.75% 182
North of England -7 161 £477 -4.70% 204
Midlands +19 159 £461 -7.75% 100
West Midlands +19 119 £450 -18.74% 47
South West +6 81 £475 -13.64% 61
North West -19 75 £500 +11.11% 117
Yorkshire -10 64 £475 -5.00% 64
East of England +5 44 £425 -15.00% 60
East Midlands -1 39 £500 +8.11% 53
North East - 22 £450 - 24
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
1 108 (7.21%) SharePoint
2 107 (7.14%) Confluence
3 37 (2.47%) Apache Spark
4 31 (2.07%) Apache Airflow
5 27 (1.80%) Apache
6 12 (0.80%) CMS
7 8 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.40%) Documentum
9 4 (0.27%) Mendix
10 3 (0.20%) IIS
10 3 (0.20%) Kentico
10 3 (0.20%) nginx
10 3 (0.20%) Palantir Foundry
11 2 (0.13%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.13%) OpenROAD
11 2 (0.13%) SAS
11 2 (0.13%) Smallworld
11 2 (0.13%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.067%) EPiServer
12 1 (0.067%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 51 (3.40%) Microsoft Project
2 46 (3.07%) Microsoft Excel
3 27 (1.80%) MS Visio
4 14 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
4 14 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (0.53%) Chatbot
6 6 (0.40%) CPLEX
6 6 (0.40%) Trello
7 5 (0.33%) Notion
8 3 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.13%) Mingle
10 1 (0.067%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 59 (3.94%) Dynamics CRM
2 21 (1.40%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.33%) Dynamics AX
3 5 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (0.33%) SAP MDG
4 4 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.20%) Aladdin
5 3 (0.20%) Maximo
6 2 (0.13%) Dynamics GP
6 2 (0.13%) Endur
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 BPC
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 (0.067%) ResourceLink
7 1 (0.067%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 1,498 (100.00%) Azure
2 374 (24.97%) GitHub
3 272 (18.16%) Power Platform
4 256 (17.09%) GitHub Actions
5 229 (15.29%) AWS
6 135 (9.01%) Dynamics 365
7 133 (8.88%) Entra ID
8 127 (8.48%) Azure Data Factory
9 125 (8.34%) Azure AKS
10 121 (8.08%) Azure Monitor
11 120 (8.01%) Serverless
12 118 (7.88%) Power Automate
13 91 (6.07%) Azure Functions
14 90 (6.01%) GCP
15 87 (5.81%) PowerApps
16 80 (5.34%) Azure Logic Apps
17 73 (4.87%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 64 (4.27%) Azure Key Vault
18 64 (4.27%) Microsoft 365
19 60 (4.01%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 59 (3.94%) Firewall
2 40 (2.67%) DNS
3 36 (2.40%) Network Security
4 23 (1.54%) VPN
5 18 (1.20%) SSL
6 13 (0.87%) DHCP
7 12 (0.80%) WAN
8 8 (0.53%) SD-WAN
9 6 (0.40%) VLAN
10 5 (0.33%) Internet
10 5 (0.33%) LAN
10 5 (0.33%) TCP/IP
11 4 (0.27%) SAN
12 3 (0.20%) RS-232
12 3 (0.20%) RS-485
12 3 (0.20%) Wi-Fi
13 2 (0.13%) 4G
13 2 (0.13%) NAS
13 2 (0.13%) Reverse Proxy
13 2 (0.13%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 172 (11.48%) Power BI
2 118 (7.88%) SQL Server
3 76 (5.07%) Data Warehouse
4 71 (4.74%) Data Lake
5 58 (3.87%) Azure SQL Database
6 44 (2.94%) Delta Lake
6 44 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
7 43 (2.87%) NoSQL
8 31 (2.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 29 (1.94%) Metadata
10 22 (1.47%) Big Data
11 19 (1.27%) Relational Database
11 19 (1.27%) Snowflake Schema
12 18 (1.20%) MongoDB
13 17 (1.13%) MySQL
14 15 (1.00%) Spark SQL
14 15 (1.00%) Star Schema
15 14 (0.93%) Data Vault
16 13 (0.87%) Amazon Redshift
16 13 (0.87%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 272 (18.16%) JIRA
2 270 (18.02%) Git
3 197 (13.15%) Jenkins
4 157 (10.48%) GitLab
5 78 (5.21%) Selenium
6 40 (2.67%) Postman
7 33 (2.20%) Visual Studio
8 31 (2.07%) SonarQube
9 30 (2.00%) Cypress.io
10 29 (1.94%) WebDriver
11 27 (1.80%) Cucumber
12 20 (1.34%) REST Assured
13 19 (1.27%) Gradle
14 17 (1.13%) JUnit
15 15 (1.00%) Bitbucket
15 15 (1.00%) Maven
15 15 (1.00%) TestRail
16 13 (0.87%) MSI
16 13 (0.87%) Snyk
17 12 (0.80%) JMeter
General
1 425 (28.37%) Social Skills
2 310 (20.69%) Finance
3 179 (11.95%) Public Sector
4 157 (10.48%) Analytical Skills
5 87 (5.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 82 (5.47%) Banking
7 36 (2.40%) Retail
8 31 (2.07%) Influencing Skills
9 27 (1.80%) Aerospace
10 25 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
10 25 (1.67%) Legal
11 24 (1.60%) Organisational Skills
12 20 (1.34%) Marketing
13 15 (1.00%) Investment Banking
14 12 (0.80%) Law
14 12 (0.80%) Local Government
14 12 (0.80%) Manufacturing
15 9 (0.60%) Pharmaceutical
16 8 (0.53%) Billing
16 8 (0.53%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 255 (17.02%) Developer
2 245 (16.36%) DevOps Engineer
3 242 (16.15%) Senior
4 230 (15.35%) Azure Engineer
5 146 (9.75%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 134 (8.95%) Lead
7 127 (8.48%) Analyst
8 116 (7.74%) Architect
9 114 (7.61%) Data Engineer
10 64 (4.27%) Business Analyst
11 54 (3.60%) Project Manager
12 51 (3.40%) Consultant
13 50 (3.34%) Cloud Engineer
13 50 (3.34%) Platform Engineer
14 45 (3.00%) Dynamics 365 Developer
14 45 (3.00%) Senior Developer
15 43 (2.87%) Test Analyst
16 40 (2.67%) Senior DevOps
17 38 (2.54%) Solutions Architect
18 36 (2.40%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 437 (29.17%) Terraform
2 204 (13.62%) .NET
3 190 (12.68%) REST
4 81 (5.41%) RESTful
5 79 (5.27%) ADO
5 79 (5.27%) JSON
6 77 (5.14%) PySpark
7 70 (4.67%) ARM Templates
8 64 (4.27%) Kafka
8 64 (4.27%) YAML
9 60 (4.01%) React
10 57 (3.81%) .NET Framework
11 52 (3.47%) .NET Core
11 52 (3.47%) Playwright
12 43 (2.87%) OAuth
12 43 (2.87%) XML
13 40 (2.67%) HTML
13 40 (2.67%) Middleware
14 35 (2.34%) CSS
14 35 (2.34%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 165 (11.01%) Cloud Native
2 129 (8.61%) Product Ownership
3 57 (3.81%) Onboarding
4 46 (3.07%) Enterprise Software
5 45 (3.00%) Legacy Systems
6 41 (2.74%) Management Information System
7 39 (2.60%) Distributed Systems
8 30 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
9 27 (1.80%) AI Agents
10 25 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
11 21 (1.40%) Low-Code
12 20 (1.34%) Data Structures
12 20 (1.34%) Replication
13 17 (1.13%) Linux Command Line
13 17 (1.13%) Mobile App
13 17 (1.13%) Virtual Team
14 16 (1.07%) Greenfield Project
15 15 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
15 15 (1.00%) Reinsurance
15 15 (1.00%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 106 (7.08%) Windows
2 73 (4.87%) Linux
3 33 (2.20%) Windows Server
4 17 (1.13%) VMS
5 13 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (0.67%) Android
6 10 (0.67%) Apple iOS
6 10 (0.67%) Unix
7 6 (0.40%) Ubuntu
7 6 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (0.27%) CentOS
8 4 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.20%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.067%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,498 (100.00%) DevOps
2 842 (56.21%) CI/CD
3 651 (43.46%) Agile
4 398 (26.57%) Infrastructure as Code
5 282 (18.83%) Stakeholder Management
6 280 (18.69%) Test Automation
7 250 (16.69%) Continuous Improvement
7 250 (16.69%) Problem-Solving
8 236 (15.75%) Containerisation
9 230 (15.35%) Analytics
10 227 (15.15%) Scrum
11 193 (12.88%) Migration
12 182 (12.15%) Business Intelligence
13 178 (11.88%) AI
14 170 (11.35%) User Acceptance Testing
15 169 (11.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 165 (11.01%) Data Modelling
17 163 (10.88%) Platform Engineering
18 161 (10.75%) Deployment Automation
19 156 (10.41%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 376 (25.10%) Python
2 364 (24.30%) SQL
3 265 (17.69%) C#
4 212 (14.15%) PowerShell
5 171 (11.42%) Bicep
6 164 (10.95%) JavaScript
7 135 (9.01%) Bash
8 119 (7.94%) Java
9 96 (6.41%) TypeScript
10 24 (1.60%) T-SQL
11 19 (1.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 18 (1.20%) Kusto Query Language
13 17 (1.13%) Apex Code
14 14 (0.93%) Go
14 14 (0.93%) X++
15 8 (0.53%) C++
16 7 (0.47%) C
17 6 (0.40%) Kotlin
17 6 (0.40%) PL/SQL
17 6 (0.40%) Scala
Qualifications
1 444 (29.64%) Security Cleared
2 363 (24.23%) SC Cleared
3 126 (8.41%) Azure Certification
4 117 (7.81%) Degree
5 74 (4.94%) Microsoft Certification
6 58 (3.87%) DV Cleared
7 40 (2.67%) BPSS Clearance
7 40 (2.67%) ISTQB
8 31 (2.07%) Computer Science Degree
9 26 (1.74%) AWS Certification
10 21 (1.40%) PMI Certification
11 18 (1.20%) PMP
12 15 (1.00%) Master's Degree
13 14 (0.93%) CISSP
14 11 (0.73%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 10 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
15 10 (0.67%) DBS Check
16 9 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 9 (0.60%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 9 (0.60%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 177 (11.82%) QA
2 101 (6.74%) Data Quality
3 94 (6.28%) Accessibility
4 60 (4.01%) GDPR
5 56 (3.74%) WCAG
6 32 (2.14%) PMO
7 27 (1.80%) NIST
8 23 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 19 (1.27%) NCSC
10 12 (0.80%) SLA
11 10 (0.67%) GRC
11 10 (0.67%) ISO 20022
12 9 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 7 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
13 7 (0.47%) SEPA
14 4 (0.27%) PSD2
15 3 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
15 3 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 3 (0.20%) Government Security Classifications
16 2 (0.13%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 246 (16.42%) Docker
2 71 (4.74%) Active Directory
3 30 (2.00%) Virtual Machines
4 18 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
5 16 (1.07%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.33%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.33%) vSphere
7 4 (0.27%) Firmware
8 3 (0.20%) Embedded Firmware
8 3 (0.20%) Microsoft App-V
8 3 (0.20%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.13%) OpenSSH
9 2 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.067%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 313 (20.89%) Kubernetes
2 102 (6.81%) Ansible
3 55 (3.67%) Grafana
4 49 (3.27%) Prometheus
5 29 (1.94%) Microsoft Intune
6 25 (1.67%) Progress Chef
7 22 (1.47%) Puppet
8 17 (1.13%) Argo
9 14 (0.93%) HP ALM
9 14 (0.93%) Packer
10 10 (0.67%) SCOM
11 9 (0.60%) SCCM
12 8 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
13 6 (0.40%) Istio
14 5 (0.33%) HP Quality Center
14 5 (0.33%) Jamf Pro
15 3 (0.20%) HP Fortify
15 3 (0.20%) Kibana
16 2 (0.13%) Docker Swarm
16 2 (0.13%) systemd
Vendors
1 542 (36.18%) Microsoft
2 136 (9.08%) Databricks
3 59 (3.94%) Salesforce
4 57 (3.81%) ServiceNow
5 53 (3.54%) Oracle
6 44 (2.94%) SAP
7 41 (2.74%) Google
8 33 (2.20%) Splunk
9 32 (2.14%) Dynatrace
10 26 (1.74%) VMware
11 21 (1.40%) Foundry
12 20 (1.34%) OpenAI
13 17 (1.13%) UiPath
14 16 (1.07%) MuleSoft
15 15 (1.00%) HP
16 11 (0.73%) IBM
16 11 (0.73%) Informatica
17 10 (0.67%) Workday
18 9 (0.60%) Red Hat
19 8 (0.53%) Adobe