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 10 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
10 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 92 77
Rank change year-on-year +15 -15 -6
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,409 746 1,043
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.14% 2.76% 2.81%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.98% 7.38% 8.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,009 530 694
10th Percentile £363 £350 £400
25th Percentile £415 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £504 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.74% -4.05% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £695 £738 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 3 6
10th Percentile £25.38 £36.45 £64.50
25th Percentile £37.25 £45.75 £65.25
Median hourly rate £72.25 £62.50 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.60% -4.58% -6.43%
75th Percentile £88.00 £76.25 £65.75
90th Percentile £103.85 £83.75 £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 15,698 10,109 12,184
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.03% 37.40% 32.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,559 6,818 8,683
10th Percentile £325 £313 £310
25th Percentile £416 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +2.49% -4.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 558 269 330
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.00 £14.16
25th Percentile £22.50 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.75 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +58.05% +14.32% -33.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.39 £43.75
90th Percentile £84.13 £67.10 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £27.76 £22.08
% change year-on-year +35.09% +25.75% -36.93%

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 10 July 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 10 July 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 10 July 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 +14 777 £500 -4.76% 158
South East -11 182 £500 +9.29% 110
North of England +8 163 £490 -2.05% 85
Midlands +9 154 £475 -5.00% 47
West Midlands -2 110 £450 -14.29% 27
North West +12 81 £500 -2.44% 48
South West +9 67 £475 -9.52% 32
Yorkshire -21 63 £500 +1.42% 25
East Midlands -1 42 £525 +5.00% 20
East of England -1 37 £438 -9.09% 37
North East -19 19 £450 -18.18% 13
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 98 (6.96%) Confluence
2 84 (5.96%) SharePoint
3 37 (2.63%) Apache Spark
4 29 (2.06%) Apache
5 25 (1.77%) Apache Airflow
6 14 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
7 7 (0.50%) CMS
8 6 (0.43%) Documentum
9 4 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (0.21%) IIS
10 3 (0.21%) Kentico
10 3 (0.21%) Mendix
10 3 (0.21%) SAS
11 2 (0.14%) HCL Notes
11 2 (0.14%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.071%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.071%) IBM HTTP Server
12 1 (0.071%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.071%) SharePoint 2013
12 1 (0.071%) WebLogic
Applications
1 51 (3.62%) Microsoft Project
2 35 (2.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 21 (1.49%) MS Visio
4 11 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
5 9 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 8 (0.57%) CPLEX
7 5 (0.35%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.28%) Notion
8 4 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.21%) Trello
10 1 (0.071%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.071%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 48 (3.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 19 (1.35%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.50%) Dynamics AX
4 6 (0.43%) Maximo
5 4 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.21%) Endur
6 3 (0.21%) Findur
6 3 (0.21%) SAP BPC
6 3 (0.21%) SAP MDG
6 3 (0.21%) SAP MM
6 3 (0.21%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 2 (0.14%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.14%) Dynamics GP
7 2 (0.14%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
7 2 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.14%) Unit4 Business World
8 1 (0.071%) Loan IQ
8 1 (0.071%) Oracle Financials
8 1 (0.071%) SAP SD
8 1 (0.071%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 1,409 (100.00%) Azure
2 351 (24.91%) GitHub
3 235 (16.68%) GitHub Actions
4 220 (15.61%) Power Platform
5 200 (14.19%) AWS
6 122 (8.66%) Azure Data Factory
7 113 (8.02%) Entra ID
8 109 (7.74%) Azure Monitor
9 108 (7.67%) Azure AKS
10 107 (7.59%) Dynamics 365
11 102 (7.24%) Power Automate
12 96 (6.81%) Serverless
13 81 (5.75%) Azure Key Vault
14 77 (5.46%) PowerApps
15 72 (5.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 70 (4.97%) GCP
17 66 (4.68%) Azure Logic Apps
18 61 (4.33%) Azure Functions
19 57 (4.05%) Microsoft 365
20 55 (3.90%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 47 (3.34%) Firewall
2 27 (1.92%) DNS
2 27 (1.92%) Network Security
3 19 (1.35%) VPN
4 14 (0.99%) SD-WAN
5 13 (0.92%) WAN
6 10 (0.71%) SSL
7 9 (0.64%) Internet
8 8 (0.57%) DHCP
8 8 (0.57%) TCP/IP
9 6 (0.43%) LAN
9 6 (0.43%) VLAN
10 4 (0.28%) IPsec
11 3 (0.21%) MQTT
12 2 (0.14%) 4G
12 2 (0.14%) BGP
12 2 (0.14%) NAS
12 2 (0.14%) OSPF
12 2 (0.14%) Wi-Fi
12 2 (0.14%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 140 (9.94%) Power BI
2 106 (7.52%) SQL Server
3 74 (5.25%) Data Lake
4 70 (4.97%) Azure SQL Database
5 64 (4.54%) Delta Lake
6 60 (4.26%) Data Warehouse
7 50 (3.55%) NoSQL
8 48 (3.41%) PostgreSQL
9 29 (2.06%) Relational Database
10 25 (1.77%) MongoDB
11 22 (1.56%) Snowflake Schema
12 20 (1.42%) Redis
12 20 (1.42%) Spark SQL
13 17 (1.21%) Metadata
13 17 (1.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 16 (1.14%) Oracle Database
15 15 (1.06%) Big Data
16 13 (0.92%) Amazon Redshift
17 12 (0.85%) Parquet
18 10 (0.71%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 287 (20.37%) JIRA
2 231 (16.39%) Git
3 141 (10.01%) Jenkins
4 105 (7.45%) GitLab
5 53 (3.76%) Selenium
6 32 (2.27%) Postman
7 24 (1.70%) SonarQube
8 23 (1.63%) REST Assured
8 23 (1.63%) Visual Studio
9 20 (1.42%) Cucumber
10 19 (1.35%) WebDriver
11 18 (1.28%) Cypress.io
12 15 (1.06%) Gradle
12 15 (1.06%) JUnit
12 15 (1.06%) Team Foundation Server
12 15 (1.06%) TestRail
13 13 (0.92%) Bitbucket
14 11 (0.78%) NUnit
14 11 (0.78%) SpecFlow
15 10 (0.71%) MSI
General
1 355 (25.20%) Social Skills
2 290 (20.58%) Finance
3 151 (10.72%) Public Sector
4 150 (10.65%) Analytical Skills
5 70 (4.97%) Banking
6 54 (3.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 32 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
8 28 (1.99%) Legal
9 26 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
10 24 (1.70%) Retail
11 19 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
12 14 (0.99%) Aerospace
13 12 (0.85%) Investment Banking
13 12 (0.85%) Marketing
14 11 (0.78%) Law
15 10 (0.71%) Front Office
16 9 (0.64%) Billing
16 9 (0.64%) Local Government
17 7 (0.50%) Back Office
17 7 (0.50%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 268 (19.02%) Developer
2 212 (15.05%) Azure Engineer
3 198 (14.05%) Senior
4 197 (13.98%) DevOps Engineer
5 133 (9.44%) Data Engineer
6 124 (8.80%) Analyst
7 120 (8.52%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 113 (8.02%) Lead
9 105 (7.45%) Architect
10 65 (4.61%) Business Analyst
11 55 (3.90%) Platform Engineer
12 48 (3.41%) Solutions Architect
13 44 (3.12%) Test Analyst
13 44 (3.12%) Tester
14 41 (2.91%) Project Manager
15 40 (2.84%) Consultant
16 38 (2.70%) Cloud Engineer
16 38 (2.70%) Full-Stack Developer
17 36 (2.56%) .NET Developer
17 36 (2.56%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 189 (13.41%) .NET
2 154 (10.93%) REST
3 79 (5.61%) PySpark
4 74 (5.25%) RESTful
5 70 (4.97%) ADO
6 64 (4.54%) React
6 64 (4.54%) YAML
7 61 (4.33%) JSON
7 61 (4.33%) Kafka
8 52 (3.69%) .NET Framework
9 51 (3.62%) ARM Templates
10 47 (3.34%) Playwright
11 44 (3.12%) SOAP
12 42 (2.98%) .NET Core
13 41 (2.91%) Node.js
14 39 (2.77%) HTML
15 38 (2.70%) CSS
16 34 (2.41%) OAuth
17 31 (2.20%) AngularJS
17 31 (2.20%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 168 (11.92%) Cloud Native
2 95 (6.74%) Product Ownership
3 50 (3.55%) Distributed Systems
4 44 (3.12%) Legacy Systems
5 41 (2.91%) Onboarding
6 29 (2.06%) Enterprise Software
7 27 (1.92%) Reinsurance
8 25 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
9 22 (1.56%) Data Structures
10 20 (1.42%) Hybrid Cloud
10 20 (1.42%) Mobile App
11 19 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
11 19 (1.35%) Management Information System
12 17 (1.21%) Replication
13 14 (0.99%) AI Agents
14 12 (0.85%) Enterprise Cloud
14 12 (0.85%) Low-Code
14 12 (0.85%) Virtual Team
15 11 (0.78%) Public Cloud
16 10 (0.71%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 84 (5.96%) Windows
2 53 (3.76%) Linux
3 14 (0.99%) Windows Server
4 13 (0.92%) VMS
5 9 (0.64%) Unix
6 6 (0.43%) Android
6 6 (0.43%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.28%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.071%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,406 (99.79%) DevOps
2 769 (54.58%) CI/CD
3 559 (39.67%) Agile
4 336 (23.85%) Infrastructure as Code
5 237 (16.82%) Test Automation
6 231 (16.39%) Problem-Solving
7 230 (16.32%) Analytics
8 202 (14.34%) Continuous Improvement
9 200 (14.19%) Scrum
10 189 (13.41%) Stakeholder Management
11 188 (13.34%) Migration
12 182 (12.92%) Containerisation
13 160 (11.36%) Data Modelling
14 148 (10.50%) Business Intelligence
15 140 (9.94%) AI
16 138 (9.79%) Microservices
17 136 (9.65%) User Acceptance Testing
18 134 (9.51%) Validation
19 133 (9.44%) Data Pipeline
19 133 (9.44%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 408 (28.96%) SQL
2 353 (25.05%) Python
3 240 (17.03%) C#
4 149 (10.57%) PowerShell
5 140 (9.94%) JavaScript
6 127 (9.01%) Bicep
7 101 (7.17%) Bash
7 101 (7.17%) Java
8 86 (6.10%) TypeScript
9 23 (1.63%) T-SQL
10 22 (1.56%) Scala
11 20 (1.42%) Go
12 15 (1.06%) Kusto Query Language
13 12 (0.85%) Apex Code
13 12 (0.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 10 (0.71%) PL/SQL
14 10 (0.71%) X++
15 6 (0.43%) R
15 6 (0.43%) Shell Script
15 6 (0.43%) VB
Qualifications
1 388 (27.54%) Security Cleared
2 319 (22.64%) SC Cleared
3 97 (6.88%) Azure Certification
4 90 (6.39%) Degree
5 48 (3.41%) DV Cleared
6 40 (2.84%) Microsoft Certification
7 37 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
8 36 (2.56%) ISTQB
9 30 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
10 18 (1.28%) AWS Certification
11 15 (1.06%) PMI Certification
11 15 (1.06%) PMP
12 12 (0.85%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 10 (0.71%) Master's Degree
14 9 (0.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 9 (0.64%) DBS Check
15 8 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
16 6 (0.43%) CISSP
17 4 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
17 4 (0.28%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 156 (11.07%) QA
2 101 (7.17%) Data Quality
3 72 (5.11%) Accessibility
4 46 (3.26%) GDPR
5 40 (2.84%) WCAG
6 19 (1.35%) PMO
7 17 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 17 (1.21%) NIST
8 16 (1.14%) SLA
9 15 (1.06%) NCSC
10 10 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 9 (0.64%) GRC
12 7 (0.50%) PCI DSS
13 3 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
13 3 (0.21%) Government Security Classifications
13 3 (0.21%) NIST 800
14 2 (0.14%) FedRAMP
14 2 (0.14%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 2 (0.14%) PSD2
14 2 (0.14%) SEPA
System Software
1 191 (13.56%) Docker
2 73 (5.18%) Active Directory
3 29 (2.06%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (0.99%) Virtual Desktop
5 11 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.21%) Firmware
7 2 (0.14%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 2 (0.14%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.14%) Microsoft App-V
7 2 (0.14%) OpenSSH
7 2 (0.14%) Postfix
8 1 (0.071%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (0.071%) HDFS
8 1 (0.071%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.071%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.071%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 375 (26.61%) Terraform
2 242 (17.18%) Kubernetes
3 73 (5.18%) Ansible
4 53 (3.76%) Grafana
5 47 (3.34%) Prometheus
6 19 (1.35%) Argo
7 15 (1.06%) HP ALM
7 15 (1.06%) Puppet
8 14 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
9 13 (0.92%) Microsoft Intune
9 13 (0.92%) Progress Chef
10 12 (0.85%) Istio
11 11 (0.78%) Packer
12 7 (0.50%) HP Quality Center
13 6 (0.43%) Jamf Pro
14 4 (0.28%) SCOM
15 3 (0.21%) Rancher
15 3 (0.21%) SCCM
16 2 (0.14%) linkerd
16 2 (0.14%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 432 (30.66%) Microsoft
2 142 (10.08%) Databricks
3 76 (5.39%) Oracle
4 58 (4.12%) ServiceNow
5 47 (3.34%) Salesforce
5 47 (3.34%) SAP
6 24 (1.70%) Google
6 24 (1.70%) Splunk
7 23 (1.63%) Informatica
8 21 (1.49%) OpenAI
9 20 (1.42%) Dynatrace
10 17 (1.21%) VMware
11 16 (1.14%) Foundry
11 16 (1.14%) HP
12 10 (0.71%) Bloomberg
12 10 (0.71%) IBM
12 10 (0.71%) MuleSoft
13 9 (0.64%) InterSystems
14 8 (0.57%) Refinitiv
15 7 (0.50%) Zscaler
418 Azure DevOps jobs in England