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

 6 months to
24 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 94 77
Rank change year-on-year +17 -17 -4
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,354 678 1,019
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.12% 2.71% 2.73%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.90% 7.18% 8.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 987 480 685
10th Percentile £366 £350 £400
25th Percentile £415 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £689 £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 15,211 9,449 12,035
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.01% 37.73% 32.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,308 6,418 8,595
10th Percentile £325 £310 £306
25th Percentile £413 £413 £418
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 541 239 338
10th Percentile £16.62 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.16 £17.14 £16.06
Median hourly rate £42.69 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +69.72% +14.32% -31.89%
75th Percentile £70.00 £38.75 £43.75
90th Percentile £83.00 £68.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £28.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year +33.93% +27.27% -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 24 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 24 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 24 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 +16 757 £500 -4.76% 126
South East +1 178 £500 +5.26% 102
North of England +13 154 £483 -0.92% 67
Midlands +1 137 £458 -10.73% 45
West Midlands -3 96 £450 -14.29% 23
North West +2 75 £500 -4.76% 39
South West +9 68 £481 -12.50% 23
Yorkshire -20 58 £500 +11.11% 19
East Midlands -6 39 £525 +5.00% 22
East of England 0 33 £450 - 32
North East -15 21 £450 -18.18% 11
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 88 (6.50%) SharePoint
2 86 (6.35%) Confluence
3 38 (2.81%) Apache Spark
4 28 (2.07%) Apache
5 24 (1.77%) Apache Airflow
6 16 (1.18%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.44%) CMS
7 6 (0.44%) 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%) IBM HTTP Server
12 1 (0.074%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.074%) SharePoint 2013
12 1 (0.074%) WebLogic
Applications
1 45 (3.32%) Microsoft Project
2 28 (2.07%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (1.40%) 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 46 (3.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 17 (1.26%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.74%) Maximo
4 7 (0.52%) Dynamics AX
5 5 (0.37%) 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 1,354 (100.00%) Azure
2 337 (24.89%) GitHub
3 223 (16.47%) GitHub Actions
3 223 (16.47%) Power Platform
4 186 (13.74%) AWS
5 124 (9.16%) Azure Data Factory
6 113 (8.35%) Entra ID
7 111 (8.20%) Azure AKS
8 105 (7.75%) Azure Monitor
8 105 (7.75%) Dynamics 365
8 105 (7.75%) Serverless
9 101 (7.46%) Power Automate
10 83 (6.13%) Azure Key Vault
11 78 (5.76%) PowerApps
12 75 (5.54%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 70 (5.17%) Azure Functions
14 69 (5.10%) Azure Logic Apps
15 65 (4.80%) Microsoft 365
16 64 (4.73%) GCP
17 59 (4.36%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 49 (3.62%) Firewall
2 24 (1.77%) Network Security
3 22 (1.62%) DNS
3 22 (1.62%) VPN
4 13 (0.96%) 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 (0.44%) VLAN
9 5 (0.37%) LAN
10 4 (0.30%) IPsec
10 4 (0.30%) SSL
11 3 (0.22%) MQTT
12 2 (0.15%) 4G
12 2 (0.15%) BGP
12 2 (0.15%) NAS
12 2 (0.15%) OSPF
12 2 (0.15%) Wi-Fi
12 2 (0.15%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (10.64%) Power BI
2 96 (7.09%) SQL Server
3 76 (5.61%) Data Lake
4 75 (5.54%) Azure SQL Database
5 66 (4.87%) Delta Lake
6 55 (4.06%) Data Warehouse
7 47 (3.47%) NoSQL
8 42 (3.10%) PostgreSQL
9 26 (1.92%) Relational Database
10 23 (1.70%) MongoDB
11 20 (1.48%) Snowflake Schema
11 20 (1.48%) Spark SQL
12 19 (1.40%) Redis
13 17 (1.26%) Oracle Database
14 15 (1.11%) Big Data
14 15 (1.11%) Metadata
15 14 (1.03%) Parquet
15 14 (1.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 13 (0.96%) Amazon Redshift
17 11 (0.81%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 266 (19.65%) JIRA
2 214 (15.81%) Git
3 125 (9.23%) Jenkins
4 95 (7.02%) GitLab
5 50 (3.69%) Selenium
6 30 (2.22%) Postman
7 23 (1.70%) REST Assured
7 23 (1.70%) SonarQube
7 23 (1.70%) Visual Studio
8 19 (1.40%) Cucumber
9 17 (1.26%) Cypress.io
9 17 (1.26%) WebDriver
10 16 (1.18%) TestRail
11 14 (1.03%) Gradle
11 14 (1.03%) Team Foundation Server
12 12 (0.89%) Bitbucket
13 11 (0.81%) JUnit
13 11 (0.81%) NUnit
14 10 (0.74%) fastlane
14 10 (0.74%) SpecFlow
General
1 328 (24.22%) Social Skills
2 281 (20.75%) Finance
3 151 (11.15%) Public Sector
4 132 (9.75%) Analytical Skills
5 66 (4.87%) Banking
6 50 (3.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 31 (2.29%) Organisational Skills
8 25 (1.85%) Legal
9 21 (1.55%) Retail
10 20 (1.48%) Documentation Skills
11 17 (1.26%) Influencing Skills
12 14 (1.03%) Aerospace
13 12 (0.89%) Investment Banking
13 12 (0.89%) Marketing
14 11 (0.81%) Law
15 10 (0.74%) Front Office
16 8 (0.59%) Financial Institution
16 8 (0.59%) Local Government
17 7 (0.52%) Back Office
18 6 (0.44%) Billing
Job Titles
1 252 (18.61%) Developer
2 220 (16.25%) Azure Engineer
3 191 (14.11%) DevOps Engineer
4 185 (13.66%) Senior
5 135 (9.97%) Data Engineer
6 122 (9.01%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 120 (8.86%) Analyst
8 102 (7.53%) Lead
9 100 (7.39%) Architect
10 58 (4.28%) Platform Engineer
11 55 (4.06%) Business Analyst
12 45 (3.32%) Test Analyst
13 44 (3.25%) Solutions Architect
14 42 (3.10%) Cloud Engineer
15 40 (2.95%) Project Manager
15 40 (2.95%) Tester
16 36 (2.66%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 36 (2.66%) Full-Stack Developer
16 36 (2.66%) Senior DevOps
16 36 (2.66%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 180 (13.29%) .NET
2 133 (9.82%) REST
3 82 (6.06%) PySpark
4 67 (4.95%) React
5 65 (4.80%) ADO
5 65 (4.80%) RESTful
6 60 (4.43%) ARM Templates
7 58 (4.28%) Kafka
8 57 (4.21%) YAML
9 54 (3.99%) JSON
10 49 (3.62%) .NET Framework
11 47 (3.47%) Playwright
12 39 (2.88%) Node.js
13 38 (2.81%) SOAP
14 37 (2.73%) HTML
15 36 (2.66%) .NET Core
15 36 (2.66%) CSS
16 32 (2.36%) OAuth
17 28 (2.07%) AngularJS
17 28 (2.07%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 156 (11.52%) Cloud Native
2 83 (6.13%) Product Ownership
3 45 (3.32%) Distributed Systems
4 39 (2.88%) Legacy Systems
5 34 (2.51%) Onboarding
6 29 (2.14%) Reinsurance
7 27 (1.99%) Enterprise Software
8 23 (1.70%) Hybrid Cloud
9 22 (1.62%) Data Structures
9 22 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
10 19 (1.40%) Greenfield Project
11 18 (1.33%) Mobile App
12 15 (1.11%) AI Agents
12 15 (1.11%) Low-Code
12 15 (1.11%) Management Information System
13 13 (0.96%) Data Centre
14 12 (0.89%) Enterprise Cloud
14 12 (0.89%) Public Cloud
14 12 (0.89%) Virtual Team
15 11 (0.81%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 73 (5.39%) Windows
2 48 (3.55%) Linux
3 15 (1.11%) VMS
4 9 (0.66%) Unix
5 8 (0.59%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.44%) Android
6 6 (0.44%) 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 1,349 (99.63%) DevOps
2 743 (54.87%) CI/CD
3 517 (38.18%) Agile
4 322 (23.78%) Infrastructure as Code
5 234 (17.28%) Analytics
6 221 (16.32%) Test Automation
7 215 (15.88%) Problem-Solving
8 183 (13.52%) Migration
9 181 (13.37%) Scrum
10 175 (12.92%) Continuous Improvement
11 166 (12.26%) Stakeholder Management
12 163 (12.04%) Containerisation
12 163 (12.04%) Data Modelling
13 151 (11.15%) Business Intelligence
14 139 (10.27%) AI
14 139 (10.27%) Data Pipeline
15 136 (10.04%) ETL
16 131 (9.68%) Platform Engineering
17 123 (9.08%) Microservices
18 122 (9.01%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 398 (29.39%) SQL
2 344 (25.41%) Python
3 231 (17.06%) C#
4 135 (9.97%) JavaScript
4 135 (9.97%) PowerShell
5 127 (9.38%) Bicep
6 93 (6.87%) Java
7 92 (6.79%) Bash
8 79 (5.83%) TypeScript
9 22 (1.62%) Scala
10 21 (1.55%) T-SQL
11 18 (1.33%) Go
12 16 (1.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 12 (0.89%) Kusto Query Language
14 11 (0.81%) Apex Code
15 10 (0.74%) X++
16 9 (0.66%) PL/SQL
17 6 (0.44%) R
17 6 (0.44%) Shell Script
17 6 (0.44%) VB
Qualifications
1 372 (27.47%) Security Cleared
2 312 (23.04%) SC Cleared
3 103 (7.61%) Azure Certification
4 79 (5.83%) Degree
5 43 (3.18%) DV Cleared
6 39 (2.88%) Microsoft Certification
7 33 (2.44%) ISTQB
8 31 (2.29%) BPSS Clearance
9 28 (2.07%) Computer Science Degree
10 17 (1.26%) AWS Certification
11 16 (1.18%) PMI Certification
12 15 (1.11%) PMP
13 11 (0.81%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 9 (0.66%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 9 (0.66%) DBS Check
15 8 (0.59%) CISSP
15 8 (0.59%) Master's Degree
16 7 (0.52%) Cisco Certification
17 6 (0.44%) CISM
18 5 (0.37%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 148 (10.93%) QA
2 108 (7.98%) Data Quality
3 62 (4.58%) Accessibility
4 41 (3.03%) GDPR
5 34 (2.51%) WCAG
6 22 (1.62%) NIST
7 21 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 18 (1.33%) NCSC
8 18 (1.33%) SLA
9 14 (1.03%) PMO
10 9 (0.66%) GRC
10 9 (0.66%) 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%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 2 (0.15%) PSD2
14 2 (0.15%) SEPA
System Software
1 178 (13.15%) Docker
2 75 (5.54%) Active Directory
3 25 (1.85%) 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%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 1 (0.074%) HDFS
8 1 (0.074%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.074%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.074%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 361 (26.66%) Terraform
2 229 (16.91%) Kubernetes
3 65 (4.80%) Ansible
4 46 (3.40%) Grafana
5 40 (2.95%) Prometheus
6 18 (1.33%) Argo
7 15 (1.11%) HP ALM
8 13 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
8 13 (0.96%) Puppet
8 13 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
9 12 (0.89%) Istio
10 11 (0.81%) Progress Chef
11 10 (0.74%) Packer
12 6 (0.44%) HP Quality Center
12 6 (0.44%) Jamf Pro
13 3 (0.22%) Rancher
13 3 (0.22%) SCCM
14 2 (0.15%) HP Fortify
14 2 (0.15%) linkerd
14 2 (0.15%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 408 (30.13%) Microsoft
2 151 (11.15%) Databricks
3 74 (5.47%) Oracle
4 54 (3.99%) ServiceNow
5 44 (3.25%) Salesforce
6 43 (3.18%) SAP
7 25 (1.85%) OpenAI
8 24 (1.77%) Google
9 22 (1.62%) Informatica
9 22 (1.62%) Splunk
10 19 (1.40%) Dynatrace
11 16 (1.18%) HP
11 16 (1.18%) VMware
12 14 (1.03%) Foundry
13 12 (0.89%) IBM
14 10 (0.74%) Bloomberg
15 9 (0.66%) InterSystems
16 8 (0.59%) Red Hat
16 8 (0.59%) Refinitiv
17 7 (0.52%) Adobe
342 Azure DevOps jobs in England