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 28 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
28 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 96 75
Rank change year-on-year +22 -21 -3
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,302 646 1,036
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.12% 2.71% 2.83%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.87% 7.22% 8.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 956 452 695
10th Percentile £366 £360 £400
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £596 £625 £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 24 1 6
10th Percentile £25.38 - £64.50
25th Percentile £37.25 £30.25 £65.25
Median hourly rate £74.75 £31.50 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year +137.30% -51.91% -6.43%
75th Percentile £91.21 £32.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £104.00 - £68.50
UK median hourly rate £74.50 £85.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year -12.35% +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 14,671 8,950 11,740
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.13% 37.56% 32.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,994 6,159 8,486
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.44% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £748
UK median daily rate £508 £511 £525
% change year-on-year -0.72% -2.63% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 502 200 323
10th Percentile £15.64 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.35 £18.13 £15.95
Median hourly rate £39.50 £25.50 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +54.90% +19.33% -38.58%
75th Percentile £67.84 £37.75 £38.13
90th Percentile £81.00 £68.75 £66.75
UK median hourly rate £36.71 £28.00 £21.37
% change year-on-year +31.11% +31.02% -39.80%

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 28 May 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 28 May 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 28 May 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 +22 732 £500 -4.76% 138
South East +6 188 £500 - 89
North of England +4 137 £500 +5.26% 84
Midlands -13 124 £475 -7.32% 44
West Midlands -12 83 £475 -9.52% 23
North West +4 65 £500 -2.44% 49
South West +10 64 £500 -4.76% 23
Yorkshire -28 54 £500 +17.65% 20
East Midlands -11 39 £488 -2.50% 21
East of England -9 26 £450 -5.26% 28
North East -13 18 £453 -17.64% 15
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 90 (6.91%) SharePoint
2 72 (5.53%) Confluence
3 42 (3.23%) Apache Spark
4 27 (2.07%) Apache
5 22 (1.69%) Apache Airflow
6 14 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
7 10 (0.77%) HCL Notes
7 10 (0.77%) Mendix
8 5 (0.38%) CMS
9 4 (0.31%) IIS
9 4 (0.31%) Palantir Foundry
10 2 (0.15%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.15%) Kentico
10 2 (0.15%) Umbraco
11 1 (0.077%) IBM HTTP Server
11 1 (0.077%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.077%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.077%) SAS
11 1 (0.077%) WebLogic
Applications
1 41 (3.15%) Microsoft Project
2 25 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (1.31%) MS Visio
4 10 (0.77%) Microsoft Office
5 7 (0.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.31%) CPLEX
6 4 (0.31%) Notion
7 3 (0.23%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.23%) Trello
8 2 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.077%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 41 (3.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (1.08%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.61%) Maximo
4 7 (0.54%) Dynamics AX
5 4 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (0.31%) SAP BPC
6 3 (0.23%) Findur
6 3 (0.23%) NEC Housing
6 3 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
6 3 (0.23%) SAP MDG
6 3 (0.23%) SAP MM
6 3 (0.23%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 2 (0.15%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.15%) Dynamics GP
7 2 (0.15%) Endur
7 2 (0.15%) Unit4 Business World
8 1 (0.077%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.077%) Oracle Financials
8 1 (0.077%) SAP SD
8 1 (0.077%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 1,302 (100.00%) Azure
2 316 (24.27%) GitHub
3 216 (16.59%) Power Platform
4 207 (15.90%) GitHub Actions
5 177 (13.59%) AWS
6 133 (10.22%) Azure Data Factory
7 114 (8.76%) Azure AKS
8 111 (8.53%) Entra ID
9 105 (8.06%) Azure Monitor
10 103 (7.91%) Serverless
11 94 (7.22%) Dynamics 365
12 86 (6.61%) Power Automate
13 84 (6.45%) Azure Key Vault
14 78 (5.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 75 (5.76%) Azure Logic Apps
16 71 (5.45%) Azure Functions
17 69 (5.30%) GCP
18 67 (5.15%) Microsoft 365
19 62 (4.76%) Azure Service Bus
19 62 (4.76%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 47 (3.61%) Firewall
2 22 (1.69%) Network Security
3 21 (1.61%) VPN
4 19 (1.46%) DNS
5 14 (1.08%) SD-WAN
6 12 (0.92%) WAN
7 8 (0.61%) Internet
8 7 (0.54%) DHCP
8 7 (0.54%) TCP/IP
9 6 (0.46%) LAN
10 5 (0.38%) IPsec
10 5 (0.38%) VLAN
11 4 (0.31%) MQTT
12 3 (0.23%) HTTP
12 3 (0.23%) SSL
13 2 (0.15%) BGP
13 2 (0.15%) FTP
13 2 (0.15%) OSPF
13 2 (0.15%) SAN
13 2 (0.15%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 142 (10.91%) Power BI
2 111 (8.53%) SQL Server
3 80 (6.14%) Data Lake
4 79 (6.07%) Azure SQL Database
5 70 (5.38%) Delta Lake
6 59 (4.53%) Data Warehouse
7 47 (3.61%) NoSQL
8 42 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
9 25 (1.92%) MongoDB
9 25 (1.92%) Relational Database
10 24 (1.84%) Oracle Database
11 22 (1.69%) Spark SQL
12 21 (1.61%) Snowflake Schema
13 17 (1.31%) Redis
14 16 (1.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 16 (1.23%) Tableau
15 15 (1.15%) Big Data
16 14 (1.08%) Amazon Redshift
16 14 (1.08%) Metadata
16 14 (1.08%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 242 (18.59%) JIRA
2 195 (14.98%) Git
3 112 (8.60%) Jenkins
4 83 (6.37%) GitLab
5 44 (3.38%) Selenium
6 26 (2.00%) Postman
7 20 (1.54%) SonarQube
8 18 (1.38%) Visual Studio
9 17 (1.31%) Cypress.io
9 17 (1.31%) REST Assured
10 16 (1.23%) TestRail
11 14 (1.08%) Cucumber
12 13 (1.00%) Team Foundation Server
13 12 (0.92%) SpecFlow
14 11 (0.84%) Bitbucket
14 11 (0.84%) NUnit
15 10 (0.77%) WebDriver
15 10 (0.77%) Zephyr
16 9 (0.69%) Artifactory
16 9 (0.69%) JMeter
General
1 299 (22.96%) Social Skills
2 272 (20.89%) Finance
3 130 (9.98%) Public Sector
4 122 (9.37%) Analytical Skills
5 59 (4.53%) Banking
6 34 (2.61%) Organisational Skills
7 29 (2.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 25 (1.92%) Legal
9 20 (1.54%) Retail
10 19 (1.46%) Influencing Skills
11 17 (1.31%) Documentation Skills
12 15 (1.15%) Financial Institution
13 14 (1.08%) Front Office
14 13 (1.00%) Aerospace
15 12 (0.92%) Investment Banking
16 9 (0.69%) Marketing
17 7 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
18 6 (0.46%) Law
18 6 (0.46%) Local Government
19 5 (0.38%) Military
Job Titles
1 231 (17.74%) Developer
2 212 (16.28%) Azure Engineer
3 178 (13.67%) DevOps Engineer
4 177 (13.59%) Senior
5 136 (10.45%) Data Engineer
6 116 (8.91%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 112 (8.60%) Analyst
8 106 (8.14%) Lead
9 91 (6.99%) Architect
10 48 (3.69%) Platform Engineer
11 47 (3.61%) Business Analyst
12 43 (3.30%) Project Manager
12 43 (3.30%) Test Analyst
13 40 (3.07%) Tester
14 39 (3.00%) Cloud Engineer
15 36 (2.76%) Full-Stack Developer
15 36 (2.76%) Test Engineer
16 35 (2.69%) Consultant
16 35 (2.69%) Senior Developer
17 33 (2.53%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 190 (14.59%) .NET
2 106 (8.14%) REST
3 86 (6.61%) PySpark
4 71 (5.45%) React
5 64 (4.92%) ADO
6 63 (4.84%) ARM Templates
7 59 (4.53%) YAML
8 56 (4.30%) Kafka
9 52 (3.99%) RESTful
10 47 (3.61%) JSON
10 47 (3.61%) Node.js
11 43 (3.30%) Playwright
12 41 (3.15%) .NET Framework
13 35 (2.69%) .NET Core
14 34 (2.61%) SOAP
15 31 (2.38%) CSS
16 28 (2.15%) HTML
17 27 (2.07%) OAuth
18 26 (2.00%) AngularJS
19 25 (1.92%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 142 (10.91%) Cloud Native
2 69 (5.30%) Product Ownership
3 41 (3.15%) Distributed Systems
4 35 (2.69%) Legacy Systems
5 27 (2.07%) Reinsurance
6 26 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
7 25 (1.92%) Onboarding
8 20 (1.54%) Hybrid Cloud
8 20 (1.54%) Low-Code
9 19 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
10 16 (1.23%) AI Agents
10 16 (1.23%) Data Structures
10 16 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
11 14 (1.08%) Mobile App
12 13 (1.00%) Replication
13 10 (0.77%) Public Cloud
14 9 (0.69%) Management Information System
14 9 (0.69%) Virtual Team
15 8 (0.61%) Data Protection Act
15 8 (0.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 68 (5.22%) Windows
2 50 (3.84%) Linux
3 16 (1.23%) VMS
4 9 (0.69%) Windows Server
5 8 (0.61%) Unix
6 4 (0.31%) Android
6 4 (0.31%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.23%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.077%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,295 (99.46%) DevOps
2 698 (53.61%) CI/CD
3 470 (36.10%) Agile
4 297 (22.81%) Infrastructure as Code
5 215 (16.51%) Problem-Solving
6 214 (16.44%) Analytics
7 211 (16.21%) Test Automation
8 178 (13.67%) Migration
9 165 (12.67%) Continuous Improvement
10 160 (12.29%) Data Modelling
11 156 (11.98%) Scrum
12 152 (11.67%) Business Intelligence
13 145 (11.14%) Containerisation
14 144 (11.06%) Stakeholder Management
15 134 (10.29%) Data Pipeline
15 134 (10.29%) ETL
16 131 (10.06%) AI
17 122 (9.37%) Observability
18 115 (8.83%) Microservices
19 113 (8.68%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 406 (31.18%) SQL
2 330 (25.35%) Python
3 225 (17.28%) C#
4 137 (10.52%) PowerShell
5 123 (9.45%) JavaScript
6 113 (8.68%) Bicep
7 89 (6.84%) Java
8 88 (6.76%) Bash
9 68 (5.22%) TypeScript
10 27 (2.07%) T-SQL
11 25 (1.92%) Scala
12 16 (1.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 16 (1.23%) Go
12 16 (1.23%) PL/SQL
13 12 (0.92%) Kusto Query Language
14 10 (0.77%) Formula Language
14 10 (0.77%) LotusScript
15 7 (0.54%) Apex Code
15 7 (0.54%) VB
16 6 (0.46%) X++
Qualifications
1 342 (26.27%) Security Cleared
2 283 (21.74%) SC Cleared
3 101 (7.76%) Azure Certification
4 69 (5.30%) Degree
5 37 (2.84%) DV Cleared
6 35 (2.69%) BPSS Clearance
7 32 (2.46%) Microsoft Certification
8 31 (2.38%) ISTQB
9 23 (1.77%) Computer Science Degree
10 17 (1.31%) PMI Certification
10 17 (1.31%) PMP
11 10 (0.77%) DBS Check
12 9 (0.69%) AWS Certification
12 9 (0.69%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 6 (0.46%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 6 (0.46%) CISM
13 6 (0.46%) CISSP
14 5 (0.38%) Cisco Certification
14 5 (0.38%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
14 5 (0.38%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 149 (11.44%) QA
2 107 (8.22%) Data Quality
3 41 (3.15%) Accessibility
4 34 (2.61%) GDPR
5 22 (1.69%) WCAG
6 21 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 18 (1.38%) NIST
7 18 (1.38%) PMO
8 14 (1.08%) NCSC
8 14 (1.08%) SLA
9 10 (0.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 9 (0.69%) NIST 800
11 8 (0.61%) GRC
11 8 (0.61%) PCI DSS
12 3 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.15%) FedRAMP
13 2 (0.15%) Government Security Classifications
13 2 (0.15%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.15%) HL7
13 2 (0.15%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 167 (12.83%) Docker
2 75 (5.76%) Active Directory
3 26 (2.00%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (1.00%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.31%) 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 (0.077%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 347 (26.65%) Terraform
2 218 (16.74%) Kubernetes
3 58 (4.45%) Ansible
4 44 (3.38%) Grafana
5 37 (2.84%) Prometheus
6 16 (1.23%) Argo
7 15 (1.15%) HP ALM
8 13 (1.00%) Puppet
9 11 (0.84%) Istio
9 11 (0.84%) Microsoft Intune
9 11 (0.84%) Progress Chef
9 11 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
10 9 (0.69%) Packer
11 6 (0.46%) HP Quality Center
12 5 (0.38%) Jamf Pro
13 3 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (0.23%) Rancher
13 3 (0.23%) SCCM
14 2 (0.15%) Kubeflow
14 2 (0.15%) linkerd
Vendors
1 387 (29.72%) Microsoft
2 158 (12.14%) Databricks
3 95 (7.30%) Oracle
4 59 (4.53%) ServiceNow
5 40 (3.07%) SAP
6 34 (2.61%) Salesforce
7 25 (1.92%) OpenAI
8 24 (1.84%) Informatica
9 21 (1.61%) Splunk
10 19 (1.46%) Google
11 16 (1.23%) HP
12 15 (1.15%) Foundry
13 14 (1.08%) VMware
14 12 (0.92%) Dynatrace
14 12 (0.92%) IBM
15 10 (0.77%) Bloomberg
15 10 (0.77%) Kofax
15 10 (0.77%) Lotus
16 9 (0.69%) InterSystems
17 8 (0.61%) Red Hat
385 Azure DevOps jobs in England