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

 6 months to
23 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 94 77
Rank change year-on-year +18 -17 -5
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,347 677 1,022
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.11% 2.71% 2.73%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.87% 7.19% 8.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 981 480 687
10th Percentile £375 £350 £400
25th Percentile £415 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.20% -2.62% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £688 £725 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
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 15,187 9,412 12,052
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.05% 37.68% 32.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,287 6,395 8,605
10th Percentile £325 £310 £306
25th Percentile £413 £413 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.49% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +2.40% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 540 235 338
10th Percentile £16.62 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.12 £17.33 £16.06
Median hourly rate £42.59 £25.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.03% +15.91% -31.89%
75th Percentile £70.00 £39.38 £43.75
90th Percentile £83.03 £69.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £28.60 £22.00
% change year-on-year +31.12% +30.00% -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 23 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 23 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 23 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 +13 754 £500 -4.76% 134
South East +3 179 £500 +9.29% 98
North of England +16 152 £485 -0.46% 69
Midlands 0 133 £465 -9.27% 48
West Midlands -6 92 £450 -14.29% 25
North West +8 73 £500 -4.76% 43
South West +8 68 £481 -12.50% 25
Yorkshire -19 58 £500 +11.11% 17
East Midlands -8 39 £525 +5.00% 23
East of England 0 33 £450 - 32
North East -15 21 £450 -18.18% 10
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 87 (6.46%) SharePoint
2 86 (6.38%) Confluence
3 38 (2.82%) Apache Spark
4 28 (2.08%) Apache
5 24 (1.78%) Apache Airflow
6 16 (1.19%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.45%) CMS
7 6 (0.45%) Mendix
8 5 (0.37%) HCL Notes
9 4 (0.30%) Documentum
9 4 (0.30%) Palantir Foundry
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 (0.074%) Apache Pulsar
12 1 (0.074%) IBM HTTP Server
12 1 (0.074%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.074%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 45 (3.34%) Microsoft Project
2 28 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (1.41%) MS Visio
4 10 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
5 8 (0.59%) CPLEX
6 7 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 5 (0.37%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.30%) Notion
9 3 (0.22%) Trello
10 2 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
11 1 (0.074%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.074%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 45 (3.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 17 (1.26%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.74%) 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 (0.074%) Loan IQ
8 1 (0.074%) Oracle Financials
8 1 (0.074%) SAP SD
8 1 (0.074%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 1,347 (100.00%) Azure
2 335 (24.87%) GitHub
3 222 (16.48%) Power Platform
4 221 (16.41%) GitHub Actions
5 183 (13.59%) AWS
6 124 (9.21%) Azure Data Factory
7 112 (8.31%) Azure AKS
7 112 (8.31%) Entra ID
8 105 (7.80%) Azure Monitor
9 103 (7.65%) Dynamics 365
9 103 (7.65%) Serverless
10 98 (7.28%) Power Automate
11 83 (6.16%) Azure Key Vault
12 77 (5.72%) PowerApps
13 75 (5.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 68 (5.05%) Azure Functions
14 68 (5.05%) Azure Logic Apps
15 65 (4.83%) Microsoft 365
16 62 (4.60%) GCP
17 58 (4.31%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 49 (3.64%) Firewall
2 24 (1.78%) Network Security
3 22 (1.63%) DNS
3 22 (1.63%) VPN
4 13 (0.97%) SD-WAN
5 12 (0.89%) WAN
6 8 (0.59%) Internet
7 7 (0.52%) DHCP
7 7 (0.52%) TCP/IP
8 6 (0.45%) VLAN
9 5 (0.37%) LAN
10 4 (0.30%) IPsec
11 3 (0.22%) MQTT
11 3 (0.22%) SSL
12 2 (0.15%) 4G
12 2 (0.15%) BGP
12 2 (0.15%) NAS
12 2 (0.15%) OSPF
12 2 (0.15%) Remote Desktop
12 2 (0.15%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (10.69%) Power BI
2 94 (6.98%) SQL Server
3 76 (5.64%) Data Lake
4 74 (5.49%) Azure SQL Database
5 66 (4.90%) Delta Lake
6 55 (4.08%) Data Warehouse
7 47 (3.49%) NoSQL
8 42 (3.12%) PostgreSQL
9 26 (1.93%) Relational Database
10 23 (1.71%) MongoDB
11 20 (1.48%) Snowflake Schema
11 20 (1.48%) Spark SQL
12 19 (1.41%) Redis
13 17 (1.26%) Oracle Database
14 15 (1.11%) Big Data
14 15 (1.11%) Metadata
15 14 (1.04%) Parquet
15 14 (1.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 13 (0.97%) Amazon Redshift
17 11 (0.82%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 265 (19.67%) JIRA
2 211 (15.66%) Git
3 122 (9.06%) Jenkins
4 94 (6.98%) GitLab
5 48 (3.56%) Selenium
6 28 (2.08%) Postman
7 24 (1.78%) REST Assured
8 23 (1.71%) SonarQube
8 23 (1.71%) Visual Studio
9 18 (1.34%) Cucumber
10 16 (1.19%) Cypress.io
11 15 (1.11%) TestRail
11 15 (1.11%) WebDriver
12 14 (1.04%) Gradle
12 14 (1.04%) Team Foundation Server
13 12 (0.89%) Bitbucket
14 11 (0.82%) JUnit
14 11 (0.82%) NUnit
15 10 (0.74%) fastlane
15 10 (0.74%) SpecFlow
General
1 324 (24.05%) Social Skills
2 281 (20.86%) Finance
3 150 (11.14%) Public Sector
4 129 (9.58%) Analytical Skills
5 64 (4.75%) Banking
6 47 (3.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 32 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
8 24 (1.78%) Legal
9 21 (1.56%) Retail
10 20 (1.48%) Documentation Skills
11 17 (1.26%) Influencing Skills
12 14 (1.04%) Aerospace
13 12 (0.89%) Marketing
14 11 (0.82%) Law
15 10 (0.74%) Front Office
15 10 (0.74%) Investment Banking
16 8 (0.59%) Financial Institution
16 8 (0.59%) Local Government
17 7 (0.52%) Back Office
17 7 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 248 (18.41%) Developer
2 221 (16.41%) Azure Engineer
3 191 (14.18%) DevOps Engineer
4 183 (13.59%) Senior
5 135 (10.02%) Data Engineer
6 122 (9.06%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 118 (8.76%) Analyst
8 103 (7.65%) Lead
9 100 (7.42%) Architect
10 60 (4.45%) Platform Engineer
11 55 (4.08%) Business Analyst
12 44 (3.27%) Solutions Architect
13 43 (3.19%) Test Analyst
14 41 (3.04%) Cloud Engineer
15 40 (2.97%) Project Manager
16 39 (2.90%) Tester
17 38 (2.82%) Cloud Platform Engineer
18 37 (2.75%) Test Engineer
19 36 (2.67%) Full-Stack Developer
19 36 (2.67%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 180 (13.36%) .NET
2 131 (9.73%) REST
3 82 (6.09%) PySpark
4 67 (4.97%) ADO
4 67 (4.97%) React
5 64 (4.75%) RESTful
6 60 (4.45%) ARM Templates
7 57 (4.23%) Kafka
7 57 (4.23%) YAML
8 51 (3.79%) JSON
9 49 (3.64%) .NET Framework
10 47 (3.49%) Playwright
11 38 (2.82%) Node.js
12 37 (2.75%) SOAP
13 36 (2.67%) .NET Core
13 36 (2.67%) HTML
14 35 (2.60%) CSS
15 29 (2.15%) OAuth
16 27 (2.00%) Middleware
16 27 (2.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 155 (11.51%) Cloud Native
2 82 (6.09%) Product Ownership
3 44 (3.27%) Distributed Systems
4 39 (2.90%) Legacy Systems
5 35 (2.60%) Onboarding
6 29 (2.15%) Reinsurance
7 27 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
8 23 (1.71%) Hybrid Cloud
9 22 (1.63%) Data Structures
9 22 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
10 19 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
11 18 (1.34%) Mobile App
12 15 (1.11%) AI Agents
12 15 (1.11%) Low-Code
13 13 (0.97%) Data Centre
13 13 (0.97%) Management Information System
14 12 (0.89%) Enterprise Cloud
15 11 (0.82%) Public Cloud
15 11 (0.82%) Virtual Team
16 10 (0.74%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 73 (5.42%) Windows
2 47 (3.49%) Linux
3 17 (1.26%) VMS
4 9 (0.67%) Unix
5 8 (0.59%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.45%) Android
6 6 (0.45%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.22%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.074%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,340 (99.48%) DevOps
2 738 (54.79%) CI/CD
3 512 (38.01%) Agile
4 319 (23.68%) Infrastructure as Code
5 234 (17.37%) Analytics
6 219 (16.26%) Test Automation
7 211 (15.66%) Problem-Solving
8 182 (13.51%) Migration
9 177 (13.14%) Scrum
10 173 (12.84%) Continuous Improvement
11 165 (12.25%) Containerisation
11 165 (12.25%) Stakeholder Management
12 162 (12.03%) Data Modelling
13 151 (11.21%) Business Intelligence
14 139 (10.32%) Data Pipeline
15 138 (10.24%) AI
16 135 (10.02%) ETL
17 132 (9.80%) Platform Engineering
18 122 (9.06%) Microservices
19 120 (8.91%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 395 (29.32%) SQL
2 342 (25.39%) Python
3 228 (16.93%) C#
4 132 (9.80%) PowerShell
5 131 (9.73%) JavaScript
6 124 (9.21%) Bicep
7 93 (6.90%) Java
8 92 (6.83%) Bash
9 77 (5.72%) TypeScript
10 22 (1.63%) Scala
11 21 (1.56%) T-SQL
12 17 (1.26%) Go
13 16 (1.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 12 (0.89%) Kusto Query Language
15 11 (0.82%) Apex Code
16 10 (0.74%) X++
17 8 (0.59%) PL/SQL
18 6 (0.45%) R
18 6 (0.45%) Shell Script
18 6 (0.45%) VB
Qualifications
1 370 (27.47%) Security Cleared
2 310 (23.01%) SC Cleared
3 102 (7.57%) Azure Certification
4 77 (5.72%) Degree
5 42 (3.12%) DV Cleared
6 37 (2.75%) Microsoft Certification
7 32 (2.38%) ISTQB
8 31 (2.30%) BPSS Clearance
9 27 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
10 17 (1.26%) AWS Certification
11 16 (1.19%) PMI Certification
12 15 (1.11%) PMP
13 10 (0.74%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 9 (0.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 9 (0.67%) DBS Check
15 8 (0.59%) CISSP
15 8 (0.59%) Master's Degree
16 7 (0.52%) Cisco Certification
17 6 (0.45%) CISM
18 5 (0.37%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 147 (10.91%) QA
2 108 (8.02%) Data Quality
3 60 (4.45%) Accessibility
4 39 (2.90%) GDPR
5 33 (2.45%) WCAG
6 22 (1.63%) NIST
7 21 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 18 (1.34%) NCSC
8 18 (1.34%) SLA
9 14 (1.04%) PMO
10 9 (0.67%) GRC
10 9 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 8 (0.59%) NIST 800
12 7 (0.52%) PCI DSS
13 3 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
14 2 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
14 2 (0.15%) Government Security Classifications
14 2 (0.15%) HIPAA
14 2 (0.15%) PSD2
14 2 (0.15%) SEPA
System Software
1 181 (13.44%) Docker
2 75 (5.57%) Active Directory
3 25 (1.86%) Virtual Machines
4 15 (1.11%) Virtual Desktop
5 10 (0.74%) 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 (0.074%) HDFS
8 1 (0.074%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.074%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.074%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 357 (26.50%) Terraform
2 228 (16.93%) Kubernetes
3 63 (4.68%) Ansible
4 44 (3.27%) Grafana
5 38 (2.82%) Prometheus
6 17 (1.26%) Argo
7 14 (1.04%) HP ALM
8 13 (0.97%) Microsoft Intune
8 13 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
9 12 (0.89%) Istio
9 12 (0.89%) Puppet
10 10 (0.74%) Packer
10 10 (0.74%) Progress Chef
11 6 (0.45%) HP Quality Center
11 6 (0.45%) Jamf Pro
12 3 (0.22%) Rancher
12 3 (0.22%) SCCM
13 2 (0.15%) HP Fortify
13 2 (0.15%) linkerd
13 2 (0.15%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 404 (29.99%) Microsoft
2 153 (11.36%) Databricks
3 71 (5.27%) Oracle
4 54 (4.01%) ServiceNow
5 43 (3.19%) Salesforce
5 43 (3.19%) SAP
6 24 (1.78%) OpenAI
7 23 (1.71%) Google
8 22 (1.63%) Informatica
9 21 (1.56%) Splunk
10 17 (1.26%) Dynatrace
11 16 (1.19%) VMware
12 15 (1.11%) HP
13 14 (1.04%) Foundry
14 12 (0.89%) IBM
15 10 (0.74%) Bloomberg
16 9 (0.67%) InterSystems
17 8 (0.59%) Red Hat
17 8 (0.59%) Refinitiv
18 7 (0.52%) MuleSoft
356 Azure DevOps jobs in England