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 18 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
18 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 94 75
Rank change year-on-year +18 -19 -3
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,339 671 1,048
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.11% 2.70% 2.78%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.90% 7.18% 8.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 983 477 699
10th Percentile £375 £350 £400
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 £601 £600
90th Percentile £688 £725 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £520
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 2 6
10th Percentile £25.38 £35.85 £64.50
25th Percentile £38.00 £44.25 £65.25
Median hourly rate £72.25 £59.50 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% -9.16% -6.43%
75th Percentile £89.59 £74.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £104.00 £83.15 £68.50
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £85.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year -17.65% +29.77% -6.43%

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 15,046 9,350 12,065
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.00% 37.69% 32.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,190 6,358 8,621
10th Percentile £325 £312 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +1.99% -4.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 531 234 338
10th Percentile £16.50 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £17.33 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.50 £25.08 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +57.50% +16.65% -36.10%
75th Percentile £69.60 £38.50 £43.44
90th Percentile £82.37 £70.50 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.06 £28.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year +32.36% +27.27% -37.14%

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 18 June 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 18 June 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 18 June 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 +14 745 £500 -4.76% 114
South East +3 184 £500 +9.29% 91
North of England +20 151 £483 -0.92% 62
Midlands -3 131 £475 -7.32% 44
West Midlands +2 90 £450 -14.29% 22
North West +14 73 £500 -4.76% 37
South West +16 68 £481 -8.33% 27
Yorkshire -29 57 £500 +11.11% 14
East Midlands -9 39 £525 +5.00% 22
East of England -2 31 £450 - 27
North East -16 21 £450 -18.18% 12
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 88 (6.57%) SharePoint
2 87 (6.50%) Confluence
3 38 (2.84%) Apache Spark
4 28 (2.09%) Apache
5 24 (1.79%) Apache Airflow
6 16 (1.19%) Microsoft Exchange
7 7 (0.52%) Mendix
8 6 (0.45%) CMS
8 6 (0.45%) HCL Notes
9 4 (0.30%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (0.22%) Documentum
10 3 (0.22%) IIS
10 3 (0.22%) Kentico
10 3 (0.22%) SAS
11 2 (0.15%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.15%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.075%) IBM HTTP Server
12 1 (0.075%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.075%) SharePoint 2013
12 1 (0.075%) WebLogic
Applications
1 45 (3.36%) Microsoft Project
2 27 (2.02%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (1.42%) MS Visio
4 10 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
5 8 (0.60%) CPLEX
6 6 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 5 (0.37%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.30%) Notion
9 3 (0.22%) Trello
10 2 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
11 1 (0.075%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.075%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 44 (3.29%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (1.12%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.75%) Maximo
4 7 (0.52%) Dynamics AX
5 4 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.22%) Endur
6 3 (0.22%) Findur
6 3 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
6 3 (0.22%) SAP BPC
6 3 (0.22%) SAP MDG
6 3 (0.22%) SAP MM
6 3 (0.22%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 2 (0.15%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.15%) Dynamics GP
7 2 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.15%) Unit4 Business World
8 1 (0.075%) Loan IQ
8 1 (0.075%) Oracle Financials
8 1 (0.075%) SAP SD
8 1 (0.075%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 1,339 (100.00%) Azure
2 332 (24.79%) GitHub
3 220 (16.43%) Power Platform
4 218 (16.28%) GitHub Actions
5 178 (13.29%) AWS
6 126 (9.41%) Azure Data Factory
7 114 (8.51%) Azure AKS
8 113 (8.44%) Entra ID
9 106 (7.92%) Azure Monitor
10 102 (7.62%) Dynamics 365
10 102 (7.62%) Serverless
11 96 (7.17%) Power Automate
12 85 (6.35%) Azure Key Vault
13 76 (5.68%) PowerApps
14 75 (5.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 69 (5.15%) Azure Logic Apps
16 67 (5.00%) Azure Functions
17 66 (4.93%) Microsoft 365
18 61 (4.56%) GCP
19 57 (4.26%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 49 (3.66%) Firewall
2 25 (1.87%) Network Security
3 21 (1.57%) DNS
3 21 (1.57%) VPN
4 13 (0.97%) SD-WAN
5 12 (0.90%) WAN
6 8 (0.60%) Internet
7 7 (0.52%) DHCP
7 7 (0.52%) TCP/IP
7 7 (0.52%) VLAN
8 5 (0.37%) LAN
9 4 (0.30%) IPsec
10 3 (0.22%) MQTT
10 3 (0.22%) SSL
11 2 (0.15%) BGP
11 2 (0.15%) FTP
11 2 (0.15%) NAS
11 2 (0.15%) OSPF
11 2 (0.15%) SAN
11 2 (0.15%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 142 (10.60%) Power BI
2 98 (7.32%) SQL Server
3 78 (5.83%) Data Lake
4 74 (5.53%) Azure SQL Database
5 68 (5.08%) Delta Lake
6 55 (4.11%) Data Warehouse
7 47 (3.51%) NoSQL
8 42 (3.14%) PostgreSQL
9 23 (1.72%) MongoDB
9 23 (1.72%) Relational Database
10 21 (1.57%) Spark SQL
11 20 (1.49%) Snowflake Schema
12 19 (1.42%) Redis
13 18 (1.34%) Oracle Database
14 15 (1.12%) Big Data
14 15 (1.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 14 (1.05%) Metadata
15 14 (1.05%) Parquet
16 13 (0.97%) Amazon Redshift
17 11 (0.82%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 261 (19.49%) JIRA
2 208 (15.53%) Git
3 117 (8.74%) Jenkins
4 91 (6.80%) GitLab
5 48 (3.58%) Selenium
6 27 (2.02%) Postman
7 24 (1.79%) REST Assured
8 22 (1.64%) SonarQube
9 20 (1.49%) Visual Studio
10 17 (1.27%) Cucumber
11 16 (1.19%) Cypress.io
12 15 (1.12%) WebDriver
13 14 (1.05%) TestRail
14 13 (0.97%) Gradle
15 12 (0.90%) Bitbucket
15 12 (0.90%) Team Foundation Server
16 11 (0.82%) NUnit
17 10 (0.75%) fastlane
17 10 (0.75%) JUnit
17 10 (0.75%) SpecFlow
General
1 320 (23.90%) Social Skills
2 279 (20.84%) Finance
3 144 (10.75%) Public Sector
4 126 (9.41%) Analytical Skills
5 61 (4.56%) Banking
6 47 (3.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 32 (2.39%) Organisational Skills
8 24 (1.79%) Legal
9 20 (1.49%) Retail
10 19 (1.42%) Documentation Skills
11 17 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
12 14 (1.05%) Aerospace
13 11 (0.82%) Law
13 11 (0.82%) Marketing
14 10 (0.75%) Front Office
14 10 (0.75%) Investment Banking
15 9 (0.67%) Financial Institution
16 8 (0.60%) Local Government
17 7 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
18 6 (0.45%) Billing
Job Titles
1 242 (18.07%) Developer
2 222 (16.58%) Azure Engineer
3 190 (14.19%) DevOps Engineer
4 184 (13.74%) Senior
5 137 (10.23%) Data Engineer
6 123 (9.19%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 119 (8.89%) Analyst
8 108 (8.07%) Lead
9 98 (7.32%) Architect
10 59 (4.41%) Platform Engineer
11 54 (4.03%) Business Analyst
12 45 (3.36%) Test Analyst
13 43 (3.21%) Solutions Architect
14 41 (3.06%) Cloud Engineer
14 41 (3.06%) Project Manager
15 38 (2.84%) Tester
16 37 (2.76%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 37 (2.76%) Test Engineer
17 35 (2.61%) Full-Stack Developer
17 35 (2.61%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 175 (13.07%) .NET
2 126 (9.41%) REST
3 83 (6.20%) PySpark
4 68 (5.08%) ADO
5 66 (4.93%) React
6 62 (4.63%) ARM Templates
7 59 (4.41%) RESTful
7 59 (4.41%) YAML
8 56 (4.18%) Kafka
9 50 (3.73%) JSON
10 46 (3.44%) .NET Framework
11 45 (3.36%) Playwright
12 39 (2.91%) Node.js
13 36 (2.69%) SOAP
14 34 (2.54%) CSS
15 33 (2.46%) HTML
16 32 (2.39%) .NET Core
17 28 (2.09%) OAuth
18 27 (2.02%) AngularJS
18 27 (2.02%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 153 (11.43%) Cloud Native
2 78 (5.83%) Product Ownership
3 43 (3.21%) Distributed Systems
4 38 (2.84%) Legacy Systems
5 33 (2.46%) Onboarding
6 29 (2.17%) Reinsurance
7 25 (1.87%) Enterprise Software
8 23 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
9 21 (1.57%) Data Structures
9 21 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
10 18 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
10 18 (1.34%) Mobile App
11 17 (1.27%) Low-Code
12 15 (1.12%) AI Agents
13 13 (0.97%) Data Centre
14 12 (0.90%) Enterprise Cloud
15 11 (0.82%) Management Information System
15 11 (0.82%) Public Cloud
16 10 (0.75%) Replication
16 10 (0.75%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 71 (5.30%) Windows
2 45 (3.36%) Linux
3 17 (1.27%) VMS
4 8 (0.60%) Unix
4 8 (0.60%) Windows Server
5 6 (0.45%) Android
5 6 (0.45%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.22%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.075%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,332 (99.48%) DevOps
2 727 (54.29%) CI/CD
3 500 (37.34%) Agile
4 317 (23.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 232 (17.33%) Analytics
6 218 (16.28%) Test Automation
7 207 (15.46%) Problem-Solving
8 177 (13.22%) Migration
9 173 (12.92%) Scrum
10 170 (12.70%) Continuous Improvement
11 161 (12.02%) Containerisation
12 160 (11.95%) Data Modelling
13 159 (11.87%) Stakeholder Management
14 150 (11.20%) Business Intelligence
15 139 (10.38%) AI
16 138 (10.31%) Data Pipeline
17 137 (10.23%) ETL
18 131 (9.78%) Platform Engineering
19 121 (9.04%) Microservices
20 118 (8.81%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 399 (29.80%) SQL
2 344 (25.69%) Python
3 221 (16.50%) C#
4 135 (10.08%) PowerShell
5 127 (9.48%) JavaScript
6 123 (9.19%) Bicep
7 92 (6.87%) Bash
7 92 (6.87%) Java
8 71 (5.30%) TypeScript
9 23 (1.72%) T-SQL
10 22 (1.64%) Scala
11 16 (1.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 16 (1.19%) Go
12 12 (0.90%) Kusto Query Language
13 11 (0.82%) Apex Code
14 10 (0.75%) X++
15 9 (0.67%) PL/SQL
16 6 (0.45%) LotusScript
16 6 (0.45%) Shell Script
16 6 (0.45%) VB
Qualifications
1 366 (27.33%) Security Cleared
2 308 (23.00%) SC Cleared
3 103 (7.69%) Azure Certification
4 76 (5.68%) Degree
5 40 (2.99%) DV Cleared
6 38 (2.84%) Microsoft Certification
7 32 (2.39%) ISTQB
8 31 (2.32%) BPSS Clearance
9 26 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
10 17 (1.27%) AWS Certification
10 17 (1.27%) PMI Certification
11 16 (1.19%) PMP
12 10 (0.75%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 9 (0.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 9 (0.67%) DBS Check
14 8 (0.60%) CISSP
15 6 (0.45%) Cisco Certification
15 6 (0.45%) CISM
15 6 (0.45%) Master's Degree
16 5 (0.37%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 142 (10.60%) QA
2 108 (8.07%) Data Quality
3 60 (4.48%) Accessibility
4 39 (2.91%) GDPR
5 33 (2.46%) WCAG
6 21 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 21 (1.57%) NIST
7 18 (1.34%) NCSC
8 17 (1.27%) SLA
9 15 (1.12%) PMO
10 9 (0.67%) GRC
10 9 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 8 (0.60%) NIST 800
12 7 (0.52%) PCI DSS
13 3 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
14 2 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
14 2 (0.15%) FedRAMP
14 2 (0.15%) Government Security Classifications
14 2 (0.15%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 2 (0.15%) SEPA
System Software
1 180 (13.44%) Docker
2 76 (5.68%) Active Directory
3 25 (1.87%) Virtual Machines
4 15 (1.12%) Virtual Desktop
5 9 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.30%) Firmware
7 2 (0.15%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.15%) Microsoft App-V
7 2 (0.15%) OpenSSH
7 2 (0.15%) Postfix
8 1 (0.075%) HDFS
8 1 (0.075%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.075%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.075%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 357 (26.66%) Terraform
2 224 (16.73%) Kubernetes
3 64 (4.78%) Ansible
4 43 (3.21%) Grafana
5 37 (2.76%) Prometheus
6 17 (1.27%) Argo
7 13 (0.97%) HP ALM
7 13 (0.97%) Istio
7 13 (0.97%) Microsoft Intune
7 13 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
8 12 (0.90%) Puppet
9 10 (0.75%) Packer
9 10 (0.75%) Progress Chef
10 6 (0.45%) HP Quality Center
10 6 (0.45%) Jamf Pro
11 3 (0.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.22%) Rancher
11 3 (0.22%) SCCM
12 2 (0.15%) linkerd
12 2 (0.15%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 399 (29.80%) Microsoft
2 158 (11.80%) Databricks
3 72 (5.38%) Oracle
4 54 (4.03%) ServiceNow
5 41 (3.06%) Salesforce
5 41 (3.06%) SAP
6 24 (1.79%) OpenAI
7 22 (1.64%) Informatica
8 21 (1.57%) Google
9 19 (1.42%) Splunk
10 17 (1.27%) Dynatrace
11 15 (1.12%) VMware
12 14 (1.05%) Foundry
12 14 (1.05%) HP
13 12 (0.90%) IBM
14 10 (0.75%) Bloomberg
15 9 (0.67%) InterSystems
16 8 (0.60%) Red Hat
16 8 (0.60%) Refinitiv
17 7 (0.52%) Adobe
319 Azure DevOps jobs in England