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

 6 months to
17 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 84 83 78
Rank change year-on-year -1 -5 +12
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 925 820 1,115
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.10% 2.65% 2.80%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.01% 7.39% 7.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 658 553 857
10th Percentile £358 £375 £411
25th Percentile £413 £458 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £645
90th Percentile £688 £686 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 9
10th Percentile £45.84 £67.63 £54.25
25th Percentile £57.44 £69.69 £57.50
Median hourly rate £74.63 £73.75 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.19% +18.95% -5.76%
75th Percentile £90.00 £77.19 £77.50
90th Percentile £93.75 £78.88 -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £73.75 £62.00
% change year-on-year +1.69% +18.95% -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 11,544 11,091 14,068
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.64% 35.90% 35.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,863 7,378 10,253
10th Percentile £304 £313 £290
25th Percentile £406 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £535 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £645 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 296 140 279
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.47 £14.47
25th Percentile £18.87 £23.80 £18.27
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £29.72
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% +17.77% +35.09%
75th Percentile £44.43 £60.64 £60.00
90th Percentile £71.73 £70.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £33.27 £32.00
% change year-on-year -24.41% +3.97% +46.19%

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 -7 489 £525 -4.55% 330
South East +4 120 £500 -9.09% 132
North of England -19 98 £500 -4.76% 102
Midlands +7 85 £495 -1.00% 74
South West +44 73 £475 +5.56% 60
West Midlands -12 52 £575 +15.00% 54
Yorkshire -29 47 £513 - 33
North West -11 46 £405 -26.36% 55
East Midlands +12 33 £434 -8.68% 20
East of England +5 31 £500 -24.53% 31
North East -3 5 £600 - 14
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 49 (5.30%) Confluence
2 44 (4.76%) SharePoint
3 16 (1.73%) Apache
4 14 (1.51%) Apache Airflow
5 13 (1.41%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.54%) CMS
6 5 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.43%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.32%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.32%) Documentum
8 3 (0.32%) Sitecore CMS
9 2 (0.22%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.22%) IIS
9 2 (0.22%) Mule
10 1 (0.11%) Apache Synapse
10 1 (0.11%) Appian
10 1 (0.11%) HCL Notes
10 1 (0.11%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.11%) Kentico
10 1 (0.11%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 28 (3.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.30%) Microsoft Project
3 11 (1.19%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (0.97%) MS Visio
5 6 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.32%) Trello
7 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 34 (3.68%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (1.08%) Aladdin
3 9 (0.97%) Endur
4 5 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
5 3 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.22%) Maximo
6 2 (0.22%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.22%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.22%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.22%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.22%) Primavera
6 2 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.22%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.11%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.11%) SAP BPC
7 1 (0.11%) SAP MRS
7 1 (0.11%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 1 (0.11%) SAP PM
7 1 (0.11%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 924 (99.89%) Azure
2 201 (21.73%) GitHub
3 155 (16.76%) Power Platform
4 139 (15.03%) GitHub Actions
5 127 (13.73%) AWS
6 104 (11.24%) Azure AKS
7 98 (10.59%) Serverless
8 84 (9.08%) Azure Data Factory
8 84 (9.08%) Azure Monitor
9 82 (8.86%) Dynamics 365
10 76 (8.22%) Entra ID
11 66 (7.14%) Azure Logic Apps
12 64 (6.92%) PowerApps
13 60 (6.49%) Power Automate
14 56 (6.05%) GCP
15 53 (5.73%) Azure Functions
16 51 (5.51%) Azure Key Vault
16 51 (5.51%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 45 (4.86%) Azure Service Bus
18 42 (4.54%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 34 (3.68%) Firewall
2 19 (2.05%) DNS
2 19 (2.05%) Network Security
3 17 (1.84%) VPN
4 11 (1.19%) WAN
5 8 (0.86%) SD-WAN
6 6 (0.65%) LAN
7 5 (0.54%) DHCP
7 5 (0.54%) SSL
8 4 (0.43%) TCP/IP
9 3 (0.32%) HTTP
9 3 (0.32%) HTTPS
10 2 (0.22%) AMQP
10 2 (0.22%) DSL
10 2 (0.22%) MPLS
10 2 (0.22%) NGFW
10 2 (0.22%) Remote Desktop
10 2 (0.22%) VLAN
11 1 (0.11%) iSCSI
11 1 (0.11%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (10.38%) Power BI
2 54 (5.84%) SQL Server
3 41 (4.43%) PostgreSQL
4 38 (4.11%) Azure SQL Database
5 33 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
6 29 (3.14%) Data Lake
7 22 (2.38%) Delta Lake
8 21 (2.27%) Relational Database
9 20 (2.16%) MongoDB
9 20 (2.16%) NoSQL
9 20 (2.16%) Redis
10 12 (1.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 11 (1.19%) Metadata
11 11 (1.19%) MySQL
12 9 (0.97%) Elasticsearch
12 9 (0.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 8 (0.86%) Big Data
14 7 (0.76%) DynamoDB
15 6 (0.65%) Tableau
16 5 (0.54%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 176 (19.03%) JIRA
2 135 (14.59%) Git
3 83 (8.97%) Jenkins
4 57 (6.16%) GitLab
5 52 (5.62%) Selenium
6 36 (3.89%) Oracle APEX
7 33 (3.57%) Postman
8 27 (2.92%) SonarQube
9 21 (2.27%) JUnit
10 17 (1.84%) Cucumber
11 16 (1.73%) Cypress.io
12 15 (1.62%) JMeter
13 14 (1.51%) Bitbucket
13 14 (1.51%) SpecFlow
14 13 (1.41%) Gradle
14 13 (1.41%) Visual Studio
15 10 (1.08%) NUnit
15 10 (1.08%) TestRail
16 9 (0.97%) CircleCI
16 9 (0.97%) Maven
General
1 316 (34.16%) Social Skills
2 160 (17.30%) Finance
3 100 (10.81%) Public Sector
4 86 (9.30%) Analytical Skills
5 50 (5.41%) Banking
6 34 (3.68%) Documentation Skills
7 27 (2.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 26 (2.81%) Investment Banking
9 25 (2.70%) Retail
10 21 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
11 20 (2.16%) Law
12 15 (1.62%) Marketing
13 11 (1.19%) Billing
13 11 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
14 9 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
14 9 (0.97%) Telecoms
15 8 (0.86%) Back Office
15 8 (0.86%) Manufacturing
16 7 (0.76%) Military
17 6 (0.65%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 258 (27.89%) Developer
2 128 (13.84%) Senior
3 116 (12.54%) Azure Engineer
4 109 (11.78%) DevOps Engineer
5 88 (9.51%) Analyst
6 75 (8.11%) Lead
7 64 (6.92%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 62 (6.70%) Senior Developer
9 61 (6.59%) Architect
10 51 (5.51%) Business Analyst
11 42 (4.54%) Data Engineer
12 38 (4.11%) Azure Developer
13 32 (3.46%) Tester
14 31 (3.35%) Test Analyst
15 30 (3.24%) Azure Architect
16 26 (2.81%) Project Manager
17 25 (2.70%) .NET Developer
17 25 (2.70%) Platform Engineer
18 24 (2.59%) C# Developer
19 23 (2.49%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 180 (19.46%) .NET
2 87 (9.41%) REST
3 62 (6.70%) ADO
4 61 (6.59%) RESTful
5 55 (5.95%) ARM Templates
6 51 (5.51%) React
7 49 (5.30%) YAML
8 47 (5.08%) SOAP
9 44 (4.76%) Node.js
10 43 (4.65%) .NET Core
11 40 (4.32%) HTML
12 36 (3.89%) JSON
13 34 (3.68%) AngularJS
14 33 (3.57%) PySpark
15 32 (3.46%) .NET Framework
16 31 (3.35%) OAuth
17 28 (3.03%) Kafka
18 27 (2.92%) Playwright
19 26 (2.81%) CSS
20 25 (2.70%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 86 (9.30%) Cloud Native
2 47 (5.08%) Product Ownership
3 26 (2.81%) Distributed Systems
4 24 (2.59%) Legacy Systems
5 23 (2.49%) CMDB
6 20 (2.16%) Mobile App
7 19 (2.05%) Enterprise Software
8 18 (1.95%) Onboarding
9 15 (1.62%) Hybrid Cloud
10 14 (1.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 12 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
11 12 (1.30%) Linux Command Line
11 12 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
12 11 (1.19%) Fixed Income
13 10 (1.08%) AI Agents
13 10 (1.08%) Data Structures
13 10 (1.08%) Low-Code
13 10 (1.08%) Security Posture
14 9 (0.97%) Public Cloud
14 9 (0.97%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 43 (4.65%) Windows
2 42 (4.54%) Linux
3 18 (1.95%) Android
4 13 (1.41%) Apple iOS
5 10 (1.08%) VMS
5 10 (1.08%) Windows Server
6 8 (0.86%) Unix
7 7 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.32%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.22%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.11%) Robot Operating System
10 1 (0.11%) Solaris
10 1 (0.11%) SUSE
10 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.11%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 923 (99.78%) DevOps
2 479 (51.78%) CI/CD
3 459 (49.62%) Agile
4 218 (23.57%) Infrastructure as Code
5 203 (21.95%) Scrum
6 171 (18.49%) Problem-Solving
7 159 (17.19%) Test Automation
8 133 (14.38%) Analytics
9 109 (11.78%) Continuous Improvement
10 107 (11.57%) Containerisation
11 106 (11.46%) Validation
12 98 (10.59%) Migration
13 96 (10.38%) Business Intelligence
14 94 (10.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 93 (10.05%) AI
16 89 (9.62%) Microservices
17 80 (8.65%) Stakeholder Management
18 69 (7.46%) Data Engineering
18 69 (7.46%) Infrastructure Automation
19 64 (6.92%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 257 (27.78%) SQL
2 236 (25.51%) Python
3 192 (20.76%) C#
4 158 (17.08%) JavaScript
5 108 (11.68%) PowerShell
6 75 (8.11%) Bicep
7 74 (8.00%) Java
8 55 (5.95%) Bash
8 55 (5.95%) TypeScript
9 38 (4.11%) PL/SQL
10 12 (1.30%) Go
11 8 (0.86%) T-SQL
12 7 (0.76%) Korn
12 7 (0.76%) VBA
13 6 (0.65%) Kusto Query Language
13 6 (0.65%) VB
13 6 (0.65%) VB.NET
13 6 (0.65%) X++
14 5 (0.54%) Apex Code
14 5 (0.54%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 224 (24.22%) Security Cleared
2 187 (20.22%) SC Cleared
3 65 (7.03%) Azure Certification
4 61 (6.59%) Degree
5 31 (3.35%) Microsoft Certification
6 27 (2.92%) DV Cleared
7 24 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
8 18 (1.95%) ISTQB
9 13 (1.41%) AWS Certification
10 11 (1.19%) PMI Certification
11 10 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
12 8 (0.86%) Master's Degree
13 7 (0.76%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 7 (0.76%) CISSP
13 7 (0.76%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 7 (0.76%) Numerate Degree
13 7 (0.76%) PMP
14 6 (0.65%) ITIL Certification
15 5 (0.54%) CBAP
15 5 (0.54%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (8.11%) QA
2 37 (4.00%) Accessibility
3 32 (3.46%) Data Quality
4 30 (3.24%) GDPR
5 17 (1.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 17 (1.84%) NIST
6 12 (1.30%) NCSC
7 7 (0.76%) EU AI Act
8 5 (0.54%) WCAG
9 4 (0.43%) Government Security Classifications
9 4 (0.43%) PMO
10 3 (0.32%) PSD2
10 3 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.32%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.32%) Solvency II
11 2 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.22%) GRC
11 2 (0.22%) GxP
11 2 (0.22%) HL7
System Software
1 141 (15.24%) Docker
2 52 (5.62%) Active Directory
3 22 (2.38%) Virtual Machines
4 11 (1.19%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (0.54%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.22%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.11%) KVM
7 1 (0.11%) Squid
7 1 (0.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 244 (26.38%) Terraform
2 156 (16.86%) Kubernetes
3 66 (7.14%) Ansible
4 40 (4.32%) Grafana
5 38 (4.11%) Prometheus
6 13 (1.41%) Puppet
7 12 (1.30%) Progress Chef
8 9 (0.97%) Kibana
8 9 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
9 8 (0.86%) Microsoft Intune
10 7 (0.76%) Argo
10 7 (0.76%) HP ALM
10 7 (0.76%) Podman
11 5 (0.54%) Istio
12 4 (0.43%) ITRS Geneos
13 3 (0.32%) Packer
13 3 (0.32%) vCenter Server
14 2 (0.22%) Fluentd
14 2 (0.22%) Jamf Pro
14 2 (0.22%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 284 (30.70%) Microsoft
2 93 (10.05%) Databricks
3 67 (7.24%) Oracle
4 52 (5.62%) ServiceNow
5 32 (3.46%) Salesforce
6 22 (2.38%) OpenAI
7 19 (2.05%) SAP
8 17 (1.84%) Google
9 16 (1.73%) Splunk
10 15 (1.62%) MuleSoft
11 9 (0.97%) VMware
12 8 (0.86%) DocuSign
12 8 (0.86%) Murex
13 7 (0.76%) Guidewire
13 7 (0.76%) HP
13 7 (0.76%) NetApp
13 7 (0.76%) Sitecore
14 6 (0.65%) Brio
14 6 (0.65%) Cisco
14 6 (0.65%) UiPath
708 Azure DevOps jobs in England