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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 90 78
Rank change year-on-year +10 -12 -4
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,484 789 914
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.19% 2.82% 2.79%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.25% 7.43% 8.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,025 561 600
10th Percentile £363 £354 £381
25th Percentile £418 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £613
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 47 2 0
10th Percentile £21.25 £63.75 -
25th Percentile £37.75 £67.50 -
Median hourly rate £68.22 £75.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -9.05% - -
75th Percentile £79.50 £82.50 -
90th Percentile £101.51 £86.25 -
UK median hourly rate £66.66 £85.00 -
% change year-on-year -21.58% - -

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 16,037 10,617 11,325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.45% 38.00% 34.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,689 7,193 7,615
10th Percentile £319 £305 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £533
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -6.10% -3.09%
75th Percentile £626 £625 £645
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 555 252 166
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.50 £15.99
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £21.37
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £34.47
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -27.03% +4.44%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £65.68
90th Percentile £82.25 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £26.48 £33.54
% change year-on-year +13.31% -21.06% -4.17%

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 26 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 26 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 26 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 +19 834 £513 -2.38% 485
South East -29 175 £525 +14.44% 196
North of England +3 167 £478 -4.40% 183
Midlands +9 149 £460 -8.00% 105
West Midlands +20 120 £450 -21.74% 60
North West -2 79 £500 +11.11% 100
South West -3 76 £475 -15.56% 60
Yorkshire -12 66 £475 -5.00% 66
East of England -5 45 £438 -12.50% 62
East Midlands -14 28 £500 +8.11% 45
North East - 22 £450 - 18
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
1 111 (7.48%) Confluence
2 106 (7.14%) SharePoint
3 39 (2.63%) Apache Spark
4 31 (2.09%) Apache Airflow
5 27 (1.82%) Apache
6 12 (0.81%) CMS
7 8 (0.54%) 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%) SharePoint Server
12 1 (0.067%) WebLogic
Applications
1 45 (3.03%) Microsoft Project
2 41 (2.76%) Microsoft Excel
3 28 (1.89%) MS Visio
4 14 (0.94%) Microsoft Office
5 13 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 9 (0.61%) Chatbot
7 6 (0.40%) CPLEX
8 5 (0.34%) Notion
8 5 (0.34%) Trello
9 2 (0.13%) Mingle
9 2 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.067%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.067%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 58 (3.91%) Dynamics CRM
2 21 (1.42%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.34%) Dynamics AX
3 5 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (0.34%) SAP MDG
4 4 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.20%) Aladdin
5 3 (0.20%) Maximo
5 3 (0.20%) Workday HCM
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 HCM
6 2 (0.13%) Teamcenter
7 1 (0.067%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.067%) SDL Web 8
7 1 (0.067%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 1,484 (100.00%) Azure
2 373 (25.13%) GitHub
3 278 (18.73%) Power Platform
4 254 (17.12%) GitHub Actions
5 234 (15.77%) AWS
6 134 (9.03%) Dynamics 365
7 130 (8.76%) Entra ID
8 125 (8.42%) Azure Data Factory
9 123 (8.29%) Serverless
10 122 (8.22%) Azure AKS
11 121 (8.15%) Azure Monitor
11 121 (8.15%) Power Automate
12 93 (6.27%) Azure Functions
13 91 (6.13%) GCP
14 90 (6.06%) PowerApps
15 80 (5.39%) Azure Logic Apps
16 73 (4.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 64 (4.31%) Microsoft 365
18 63 (4.25%) Azure Key Vault
19 62 (4.18%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 60 (4.04%) Firewall
2 41 (2.76%) DNS
3 36 (2.43%) Network Security
4 22 (1.48%) VPN
5 18 (1.21%) SSL
6 13 (0.88%) DHCP
7 10 (0.67%) WAN
8 6 (0.40%) SD-WAN
8 6 (0.40%) VLAN
9 5 (0.34%) Internet
9 5 (0.34%) LAN
9 5 (0.34%) TCP/IP
10 4 (0.27%) SAN
11 3 (0.20%) RS-232
11 3 (0.20%) RS-485
11 3 (0.20%) Wi-Fi
12 2 (0.13%) Cisco IOS
12 2 (0.13%) SSH
12 2 (0.13%) VSAN
12 2 (0.13%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 173 (11.66%) Power BI
2 117 (7.88%) SQL Server
3 78 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
4 72 (4.85%) Data Lake
5 57 (3.84%) Azure SQL Database
6 44 (2.96%) Delta Lake
7 43 (2.90%) PostgreSQL
8 42 (2.83%) NoSQL
9 31 (2.09%) Metadata
9 31 (2.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 20 (1.35%) Big Data
11 19 (1.28%) Snowflake Schema
12 17 (1.15%) MySQL
12 17 (1.15%) Relational Database
13 15 (1.01%) MongoDB
13 15 (1.01%) Star Schema
14 14 (0.94%) Data Vault
14 14 (0.94%) Geospatial Data
14 14 (0.94%) Spark SQL
15 13 (0.88%) Redis
Development Applications
1 275 (18.53%) Git
2 265 (17.86%) JIRA
3 190 (12.80%) Jenkins
4 148 (9.97%) GitLab
5 79 (5.32%) Selenium
6 41 (2.76%) Postman
7 35 (2.36%) Visual Studio
8 31 (2.09%) Cypress.io
9 29 (1.95%) Cucumber
9 29 (1.95%) WebDriver
10 28 (1.89%) SonarQube
11 22 (1.48%) REST Assured
12 18 (1.21%) Gradle
12 18 (1.21%) JUnit
13 16 (1.08%) TestRail
14 15 (1.01%) Maven
15 14 (0.94%) JMeter
16 13 (0.88%) Bitbucket
16 13 (0.88%) MSI
16 13 (0.88%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 412 (27.76%) Social Skills
2 309 (20.82%) Finance
3 180 (12.13%) Public Sector
4 156 (10.51%) Analytical Skills
5 85 (5.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 81 (5.46%) Banking
7 37 (2.49%) Retail
8 30 (2.02%) Influencing Skills
9 28 (1.89%) Aerospace
10 25 (1.68%) Legal
11 24 (1.62%) Documentation Skills
12 20 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
13 19 (1.28%) Marketing
14 15 (1.01%) Investment Banking
15 14 (0.94%) Manufacturing
16 12 (0.81%) Law
16 12 (0.81%) Local Government
17 10 (0.67%) Billing
17 10 (0.67%) Pharmaceutical
18 9 (0.61%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 257 (17.32%) Developer
2 237 (15.97%) DevOps Engineer
3 236 (15.90%) Senior
4 230 (15.50%) Azure Engineer
5 143 (9.64%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 134 (9.03%) Lead
7 129 (8.69%) Analyst
8 117 (7.88%) Data Engineer
9 114 (7.68%) Architect
10 70 (4.72%) Business Analyst
11 52 (3.50%) Project Manager
12 51 (3.44%) Cloud Engineer
12 51 (3.44%) Consultant
13 47 (3.17%) Dynamics 365 Developer
13 47 (3.17%) Platform Engineer
14 45 (3.03%) Senior Developer
15 43 (2.90%) Test Analyst
16 39 (2.63%) Senior DevOps
17 38 (2.56%) Solutions Architect
18 35 (2.36%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 437 (29.45%) Terraform
2 201 (13.54%) .NET
3 198 (13.34%) REST
4 81 (5.46%) JSON
5 79 (5.32%) ADO
6 78 (5.26%) PySpark
7 77 (5.19%) RESTful
8 65 (4.38%) ARM Templates
9 63 (4.25%) Kafka
10 61 (4.11%) React
10 61 (4.11%) YAML
11 59 (3.98%) .NET Framework
12 53 (3.57%) .NET Core
12 53 (3.57%) Playwright
13 46 (3.10%) XML
14 44 (2.96%) OAuth
15 40 (2.70%) HTML
15 40 (2.70%) Middleware
16 37 (2.49%) SOAP
17 35 (2.36%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 165 (11.12%) Cloud Native
2 129 (8.69%) Product Ownership
3 59 (3.98%) Onboarding
4 46 (3.10%) Legacy Systems
5 45 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
6 41 (2.76%) Management Information System
7 40 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
8 31 (2.09%) Hybrid Cloud
9 28 (1.89%) AI Agents
10 25 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
11 22 (1.48%) Low-Code
12 20 (1.35%) Data Structures
12 20 (1.35%) Replication
13 19 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
14 18 (1.21%) Virtual Team
15 17 (1.15%) Linux Command Line
16 16 (1.08%) Data Centre
17 15 (1.01%) Mobile App
17 15 (1.01%) Taxonomies
18 14 (0.94%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 102 (6.87%) Windows
2 74 (4.99%) Linux
3 33 (2.22%) Windows Server
4 16 (1.08%) VMS
5 13 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (0.67%) Unix
7 9 (0.61%) Android
7 9 (0.61%) Apple iOS
8 6 (0.40%) Ubuntu
8 6 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (0.27%) CentOS
9 4 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.20%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.067%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,484 (100.00%) DevOps
2 842 (56.74%) CI/CD
3 639 (43.06%) Agile
4 398 (26.82%) Infrastructure as Code
5 286 (19.27%) Test Automation
6 277 (18.67%) Stakeholder Management
7 246 (16.58%) Continuous Improvement
8 241 (16.24%) Problem-Solving
9 233 (15.70%) Containerisation
10 232 (15.63%) Analytics
11 224 (15.09%) Scrum
12 200 (13.48%) Migration
13 186 (12.53%) AI
14 184 (12.40%) Business Intelligence
15 171 (11.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 170 (11.46%) User Acceptance Testing
17 168 (11.32%) Data Modelling
18 162 (10.92%) Deployment Automation
19 160 (10.78%) Platform Engineering
20 158 (10.65%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 378 (25.47%) Python
2 365 (24.60%) SQL
3 262 (17.65%) C#
4 211 (14.22%) PowerShell
5 172 (11.59%) Bicep
6 165 (11.12%) JavaScript
7 131 (8.83%) Bash
8 117 (7.88%) Java
9 96 (6.47%) TypeScript
10 25 (1.68%) T-SQL
11 20 (1.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 18 (1.21%) Kusto Query Language
13 16 (1.08%) Apex Code
14 14 (0.94%) Go
14 14 (0.94%) X++
15 9 (0.61%) C++
16 7 (0.47%) C
16 7 (0.47%) PL/SQL
16 7 (0.47%) Scala
17 6 (0.40%) VB
Qualifications
1 439 (29.58%) Security Cleared
2 361 (24.33%) SC Cleared
3 123 (8.29%) Azure Certification
4 118 (7.95%) Degree
5 74 (4.99%) Microsoft Certification
6 58 (3.91%) DV Cleared
7 42 (2.83%) ISTQB
8 39 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
9 33 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
10 26 (1.75%) AWS Certification
11 21 (1.42%) PMI Certification
12 18 (1.21%) PMP
13 16 (1.08%) Master's Degree
14 14 (0.94%) CISSP
15 10 (0.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 10 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
15 10 (0.67%) DBS Check
15 10 (0.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 9 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 9 (0.61%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 175 (11.79%) QA
2 104 (7.01%) Data Quality
3 92 (6.20%) Accessibility
4 60 (4.04%) GDPR
5 54 (3.64%) WCAG
6 30 (2.02%) PMO
7 27 (1.82%) NIST
8 25 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 19 (1.28%) NCSC
10 12 (0.81%) SLA
11 10 (0.67%) GRC
11 10 (0.67%) ISO 20022
12 8 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 7 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
13 7 (0.47%) SEPA
14 4 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
14 4 (0.27%) PSD2
15 3 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 3 (0.20%) Government Security Classifications
16 2 (0.13%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 242 (16.31%) Docker
2 65 (4.38%) Active Directory
3 30 (2.02%) Virtual Machines
4 18 (1.21%) VMware Infrastructure
5 15 (1.01%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.34%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.34%) 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
1 307 (20.69%) Kubernetes
2 97 (6.54%) Ansible
3 53 (3.57%) Grafana
4 47 (3.17%) Prometheus
5 30 (2.02%) Microsoft Intune
6 20 (1.35%) Progress Chef
7 16 (1.08%) Argo
8 15 (1.01%) Puppet
9 14 (0.94%) HP ALM
9 14 (0.94%) Packer
10 10 (0.67%) SCOM
11 9 (0.61%) SCCM
12 7 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
13 5 (0.34%) HP Quality Center
13 5 (0.34%) Jamf Pro
14 4 (0.27%) Istio
15 3 (0.20%) HP Fortify
15 3 (0.20%) Kibana
16 2 (0.13%) Nagios
16 2 (0.13%) systemd
Vendors
1 547 (36.86%) Microsoft
2 135 (9.10%) Databricks
3 56 (3.77%) Salesforce
4 55 (3.71%) Oracle
4 55 (3.71%) ServiceNow
5 44 (2.96%) SAP
6 41 (2.76%) Google
7 34 (2.29%) Splunk
8 32 (2.16%) Dynatrace
9 26 (1.75%) VMware
10 22 (1.48%) Foundry
10 22 (1.48%) OpenAI
11 17 (1.15%) UiPath
12 16 (1.08%) MuleSoft
13 15 (1.01%) HP
14 12 (0.81%) IBM
14 12 (0.81%) Workday
15 9 (0.61%) Informatica
15 9 (0.61%) Red Hat
16 8 (0.54%) Adobe