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 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
20 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 83 81
Rank change year-on-year +2 -2 +8
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 982 809 997
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.12% 2.80% 2.68%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.18% 7.64% 7.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 706 544 769
10th Percentile £360 £375 £413
25th Percentile £413 £454 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £528 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.21% -4.09% -
75th Percentile £600 £635 £638
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 9
10th Percentile £45.84 £67.63 £54.25
25th Percentile £49.94 £69.69 £57.50
Median hourly rate £68.38 £73.75 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.28% +18.95% -5.76%
75th Percentile £79.69 £77.19 £77.50
90th Percentile £93.75 £78.88 -
UK median hourly rate £74.26 £73.75 £62.00
% change year-on-year +0.69% +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 12,009 10,593 12,994
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.14% 36.68% 34.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,248 7,079 9,495
10th Percentile £305 £313 £286
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 £613 £650 £638
90th Percentile £709 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 300 136 248
10th Percentile £14.75 £17.00 £14.36
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.41 £17.72
Median hourly rate £26.86 £29.00 £24.31
Median % change year-on-year -7.40% +19.32% +8.02%
75th Percentile £55.25 £49.06 £53.75
90th Percentile £75.17 £68.75 £77.65
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £27.50 £25.81
% change year-on-year -3.64% +6.55% +14.71%

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 20 December 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 20 December 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 20 December 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 +3 523 £520 -5.45% 114
South East -1 133 £525 -8.70% 104
North of England -28 101 £500 - 64
Midlands -7 83 £500 -4.53% 41
South West +38 78 £475 -2.56% 33
West Midlands -18 49 £575 +9.52% 22
North West -11 47 £405 -26.36% 36
Yorkshire -42 46 £513 +2.50% 15
East Midlands +5 34 £418 -12.11% 19
East of England -4 29 £531 -26.72% 22
North East -4 8 £525 - 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 59 (6.01%) SharePoint
2 47 (4.79%) Confluence
3 16 (1.63%) Apache Spark
4 12 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
5 11 (1.12%) Apache
6 7 (0.71%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.61%) HCL Notes
8 5 (0.51%) IIS
8 5 (0.51%) Mendix
8 5 (0.51%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.41%) CMS
10 3 (0.31%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.31%) Documentum
10 3 (0.31%) Sitecore CMS
11 2 (0.20%) Anypoint
11 2 (0.20%) Mule
12 1 (0.10%) Apache Synapse
12 1 (0.10%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.10%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.10%) Kentico
Applications
1 30 (3.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.22%) Microsoft Project
3 11 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
4 8 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (0.81%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.31%) Trello
6 1 (0.10%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 31 (3.16%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.81%) Aladdin
3 6 (0.61%) NEC Housing
3 6 (0.61%) Oracle EBS
4 5 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.41%) Endur
6 3 (0.31%) Oracle Assets
6 3 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.31%) Oracle General Ledger
6 3 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
6 3 (0.31%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.20%) Primavera
7 2 (0.20%) Workday HCM
8 1 (0.10%) Dynamics AX
8 1 (0.10%) NetSuite
8 1 (0.10%) Oracle Cash Management
8 1 (0.10%) SAP MRS
8 1 (0.10%) SAP PM
8 1 (0.10%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 1 (0.10%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 981 (99.90%) Azure
2 228 (23.22%) GitHub
3 174 (17.72%) Power Platform
4 166 (16.90%) GitHub Actions
5 137 (13.95%) AWS
6 118 (12.02%) Azure AKS
6 118 (12.02%) Serverless
7 98 (9.98%) Azure Data Factory
8 88 (8.96%) Dynamics 365
9 87 (8.86%) Azure Monitor
10 83 (8.45%) Entra ID
11 75 (7.64%) Azure Logic Apps
12 72 (7.33%) Azure Functions
13 69 (7.03%) GCP
14 63 (6.42%) Power Automate
15 61 (6.21%) PowerApps
16 57 (5.80%) Azure Key Vault
16 57 (5.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 48 (4.89%) Azure Service Bus
17 48 (4.89%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 34 (3.46%) Firewall
2 19 (1.93%) Network Security
3 17 (1.73%) DNS
3 17 (1.73%) VPN
4 10 (1.02%) WAN
5 9 (0.92%) SD-WAN
6 5 (0.51%) HTTP
6 5 (0.51%) LAN
7 4 (0.41%) DHCP
7 4 (0.41%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.20%) AMQP
8 2 (0.20%) DSL
8 2 (0.20%) FTP
8 2 (0.20%) IPsec
8 2 (0.20%) MPLS
8 2 (0.20%) NGFW
8 2 (0.20%) Remote Desktop
8 2 (0.20%) SSL
8 2 (0.20%) VLAN
9 1 (0.10%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (11.71%) Power BI
2 73 (7.43%) SQL Server
3 47 (4.79%) PostgreSQL
4 45 (4.58%) Azure SQL Database
5 42 (4.28%) Data Warehouse
6 34 (3.46%) Data Lake
7 26 (2.65%) NoSQL
8 25 (2.55%) MongoDB
9 24 (2.44%) Delta Lake
10 21 (2.14%) Relational Database
11 16 (1.63%) Oracle Database
11 16 (1.63%) Redis
12 15 (1.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 13 (1.32%) Tableau
14 12 (1.22%) MySQL
15 11 (1.12%) Metadata
16 10 (1.02%) Big Data
17 9 (0.92%) DynamoDB
17 9 (0.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 8 (0.81%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 176 (17.92%) JIRA
2 142 (14.46%) Git
3 108 (11.00%) Jenkins
4 67 (6.82%) GitLab
5 50 (5.09%) Selenium
6 37 (3.77%) Oracle APEX
6 37 (3.77%) Postman
7 26 (2.65%) SonarQube
8 20 (2.04%) Cypress.io
9 19 (1.93%) JUnit
10 17 (1.73%) Cucumber
11 15 (1.53%) Bitbucket
12 14 (1.43%) SpecFlow
13 13 (1.32%) Gradle
13 13 (1.32%) JMeter
14 12 (1.22%) Artifactory
15 10 (1.02%) CircleCI
15 10 (1.02%) Sonatype Nexus
15 10 (1.02%) TestRail
15 10 (1.02%) Zephyr
General
1 327 (33.30%) Social Skills
2 186 (18.94%) Finance
3 105 (10.69%) Public Sector
4 87 (8.86%) Analytical Skills
5 56 (5.70%) Banking
6 32 (3.26%) Documentation Skills
7 26 (2.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 25 (2.55%) Influencing Skills
9 23 (2.34%) Investment Banking
10 22 (2.24%) Retail
11 15 (1.53%) Financial Institution
11 15 (1.53%) Law
12 14 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
13 11 (1.12%) Back Office
13 11 (1.12%) Marketing
14 10 (1.02%) Billing
14 10 (1.02%) Front Office
15 9 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
16 8 (0.81%) Telecoms
17 7 (0.71%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 261 (26.58%) Developer
2 145 (14.77%) Senior
3 123 (12.53%) DevOps Engineer
4 121 (12.32%) Azure Engineer
5 83 (8.45%) Analyst
6 78 (7.94%) Lead
7 67 (6.82%) Architect
8 66 (6.72%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 65 (6.62%) Senior Developer
10 53 (5.40%) Data Engineer
11 47 (4.79%) Azure Developer
12 40 (4.07%) Business Analyst
13 32 (3.26%) Test Analyst
14 31 (3.16%) Project Manager
15 30 (3.05%) Azure Architect
16 29 (2.95%) .NET Developer
16 29 (2.95%) Tester
17 27 (2.75%) Platform Engineer
18 26 (2.65%) Software Engineer
19 25 (2.55%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 199 (20.26%) .NET
2 87 (8.86%) REST
3 64 (6.52%) RESTful
4 63 (6.42%) React
5 62 (6.31%) Node.js
6 61 (6.21%) ADO
7 51 (5.19%) .NET Core
8 49 (4.99%) YAML
9 46 (4.68%) ARM Templates
10 40 (4.07%) PySpark
11 38 (3.87%) JSON
11 38 (3.87%) SOAP
12 37 (3.77%) Kafka
13 36 (3.67%) AngularJS
14 33 (3.36%) OAuth
15 30 (3.05%) .NET Framework
15 30 (3.05%) HTML
16 27 (2.75%) Playwright
17 23 (2.34%) CSS
17 23 (2.34%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 102 (10.39%) Cloud Native
2 51 (5.19%) Product Ownership
3 34 (3.46%) Distributed Systems
4 27 (2.75%) Legacy Systems
5 24 (2.44%) CMDB
6 22 (2.24%) Enterprise Software
7 18 (1.83%) Onboarding
8 17 (1.73%) Low-Code
8 17 (1.73%) Mobile App
9 15 (1.53%) Hybrid Cloud
10 14 (1.43%) NHS
11 13 (1.32%) AI Agents
11 13 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
12 11 (1.12%) Linux Command Line
13 10 (1.02%) Security Posture
14 9 (0.92%) Fixed Income
14 9 (0.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 9 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
14 9 (0.92%) Public Cloud
15 8 (0.81%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 49 (4.99%) Windows
2 47 (4.79%) Linux
3 14 (1.43%) Android
4 13 (1.32%) Windows Server
5 12 (1.22%) VMS
6 10 (1.02%) Apple iOS
7 6 (0.61%) Unix
8 5 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.20%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.10%) Robot Operating System
11 1 (0.10%) Solaris
11 1 (0.10%) SUSE
11 1 (0.10%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.10%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 980 (99.80%) DevOps
2 529 (53.87%) CI/CD
3 466 (47.45%) Agile
4 232 (23.63%) Infrastructure as Code
5 203 (20.67%) Scrum
6 186 (18.94%) Problem-Solving
7 166 (16.90%) Test Automation
8 138 (14.05%) Analytics
9 130 (13.24%) Continuous Improvement
10 128 (13.03%) Containerisation
11 120 (12.22%) Validation
12 116 (11.81%) Business Intelligence
13 113 (11.51%) Microservices
14 105 (10.69%) Migration
15 104 (10.59%) AI
16 102 (10.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 92 (9.37%) Stakeholder Management
18 77 (7.84%) Data Engineering
19 75 (7.64%) Data Modelling
20 69 (7.03%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 284 (28.92%) SQL
2 250 (25.46%) Python
3 202 (20.57%) C#
4 159 (16.19%) JavaScript
5 115 (11.71%) PowerShell
6 84 (8.55%) Bicep
7 82 (8.35%) Java
8 62 (6.31%) TypeScript
9 60 (6.11%) Bash
10 54 (5.50%) PL/SQL
11 14 (1.43%) T-SQL
12 11 (1.12%) Go
13 9 (0.92%) Kusto Query Language
14 7 (0.71%) PHP
14 7 (0.71%) Scala
14 7 (0.71%) VBA
15 6 (0.61%) Formula Language
15 6 (0.61%) LotusScript
16 5 (0.51%) Korn
16 5 (0.51%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 239 (24.34%) Security Cleared
2 196 (19.96%) SC Cleared
3 76 (7.74%) Azure Certification
4 70 (7.13%) Degree
5 34 (3.46%) Microsoft Certification
6 30 (3.05%) Computer Science Degree
7 28 (2.85%) DV Cleared
8 14 (1.43%) AWS Certification
8 14 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
9 13 (1.32%) ISTQB
10 11 (1.12%) Master's Degree
10 11 (1.12%) PMI Certification
11 7 (0.71%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 7 (0.71%) PMP
12 6 (0.61%) CISSP
12 6 (0.61%) ITIL Certification
13 5 (0.51%) CBAP
13 5 (0.51%) ISEB
13 5 (0.51%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 4 (0.41%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (8.76%) QA
2 35 (3.56%) Accessibility
2 35 (3.56%) Data Quality
3 33 (3.36%) GDPR
4 21 (2.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 20 (2.04%) NIST
6 11 (1.12%) NCSC
7 8 (0.81%) PMO
8 7 (0.71%) EU AI Act
8 7 (0.71%) WCAG
9 5 (0.51%) HL7
9 5 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.31%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.31%) PSD2
10 3 (0.31%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.20%) Government Security Classifications
11 2 (0.20%) GRC
11 2 (0.20%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.20%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 176 (17.92%) Docker
2 52 (5.30%) Active Directory
3 17 (1.73%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (0.92%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (0.51%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.20%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.10%) KVM
7 1 (0.10%) Squid
7 1 (0.10%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 276 (28.11%) Terraform
2 189 (19.25%) Kubernetes
3 70 (7.13%) Ansible
4 43 (4.38%) Grafana
5 40 (4.07%) Prometheus
6 17 (1.73%) Puppet
7 15 (1.53%) Progress Chef
8 10 (1.02%) HP ALM
9 8 (0.81%) Istio
9 8 (0.81%) Kibana
9 8 (0.81%) Podman
10 7 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
11 6 (0.61%) Argo
12 5 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
13 4 (0.41%) Packer
14 3 (0.31%) Icinga
14 3 (0.31%) vCenter Server
15 2 (0.20%) Fluentd
15 2 (0.20%) Kubeflow
15 2 (0.20%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 301 (30.65%) Microsoft
2 108 (11.00%) Databricks
3 107 (10.90%) Oracle
4 58 (5.91%) ServiceNow
5 30 (3.05%) Salesforce
6 25 (2.55%) OpenAI
7 21 (2.14%) SAP
7 21 (2.14%) Splunk
8 16 (1.63%) Google
9 14 (1.43%) MuleSoft
10 11 (1.12%) VMware
11 10 (1.02%) HP
12 9 (0.92%) Dynatrace
13 8 (0.81%) DocuSign
14 7 (0.71%) Brio
14 7 (0.71%) Citrix
14 7 (0.71%) Murex
14 7 (0.71%) Sitecore
15 6 (0.61%) NEC
15 6 (0.61%) NetApp
321 Azure DevOps jobs in England