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

 6 months to
10 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 89 78
Rank change year-on-year +14 -11 -3
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,506 785 913
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.25% 2.82% 2.79%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.40% 7.53% 8.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,061 561 613
10th Percentile £363 £350 £380
25th Percentile £416 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £600
90th Percentile £675 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £523
% change year-on-year - -4.43% -4.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 2 0
10th Percentile £21.25 £63.75 -
25th Percentile £37.24 £67.50 -
Median hourly rate £46.80 £75.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -37.60% - -
75th Percentile £81.63 £82.50 -
90th Percentile £102.17 £86.25 -
UK median hourly rate £45.20 £85.00 -
% change year-on-year -46.82% - -

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 16,025 10,431 11,247
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.61% 37.53% 34.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,701 7,044 7,727
10th Percentile £322 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £644
90th Percentile £719 £729 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 556 259 186
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.45 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.92 £18.87 £19.96
Median hourly rate £33.99 £26.30 £30.73
Median % change year-on-year +29.24% -14.42% -6.87%
75th Percentile £70.00 £45.14 £60.95
90th Percentile £83.13 £71.56 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £29.63 £30.00
% change year-on-year +9.70% -1.25% -14.29%

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 September 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 September 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 September 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 +19 862 £500 -4.76% 246
North of England +7 172 £475 -5.00% 98
South East -25 170 £525 +10.53% 106
Midlands +15 156 £463 -9.76% 65
West Midlands +16 114 £450 -19.28% 35
North West -9 86 £494 -1.25% 57
South West -2 75 £475 -13.44% 42
Yorkshire -15 61 £478 -4.50% 31
East Midlands +1 41 £494 +6.76% 30
East of England -3 38 £425 -15.00% 30
North East - 25 £450 - 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
1 105 (6.97%) Confluence
2 95 (6.31%) SharePoint
3 40 (2.66%) Apache Spark
4 33 (2.19%) Apache Airflow
5 31 (2.06%) Apache
6 12 (0.80%) CMS
7 8 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.40%) Documentum
9 4 (0.27%) Mendix
10 3 (0.20%) IIS
10 3 (0.20%) Kentico
10 3 (0.20%) nginx
10 3 (0.20%) Palantir Foundry
11 2 (0.13%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.13%) OpenROAD
11 2 (0.13%) SAS
11 2 (0.13%) Smallworld
11 2 (0.13%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.066%) EPiServer
12 1 (0.066%) WebLogic
Applications
1 57 (3.78%) Microsoft Project
2 41 (2.72%) Microsoft Excel
3 22 (1.46%) MS Visio
4 15 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
5 13 (0.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 7 (0.46%) CPLEX
6 7 (0.46%) Trello
7 6 (0.40%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.33%) Notion
9 3 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.13%) Mingle
11 1 (0.066%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 53 (3.52%) Dynamics CRM
2 19 (1.26%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.33%) Dynamics AX
3 5 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.20%) Endur
5 3 (0.20%) Findur
5 3 (0.20%) Maximo
5 3 (0.20%) SAP MDG
5 3 (0.20%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 2 (0.13%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.13%) Dynamics GP
6 2 (0.13%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
6 2 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.13%) SAP BPC
6 2 (0.13%) SAP MM
6 2 (0.13%) Teamcenter
6 2 (0.13%) Unit4 Business World
7 1 (0.066%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 1,506 (100.00%) Azure
2 390 (25.90%) GitHub
3 268 (17.80%) Power Platform
4 266 (17.66%) GitHub Actions
5 224 (14.87%) AWS
6 138 (9.16%) Azure Data Factory
7 128 (8.50%) Entra ID
8 127 (8.43%) Dynamics 365
9 120 (7.97%) Azure AKS
10 119 (7.90%) Azure Monitor
11 113 (7.50%) Serverless
12 111 (7.37%) Power Automate
13 85 (5.64%) PowerApps
14 81 (5.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 80 (5.31%) Azure Functions
16 79 (5.25%) GCP
17 73 (4.85%) Azure Logic Apps
18 66 (4.38%) Microsoft 365
19 62 (4.12%) Azure Key Vault
20 61 (4.05%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 62 (4.12%) Firewall
2 39 (2.59%) DNS
3 36 (2.39%) Network Security
4 24 (1.59%) VPN
5 18 (1.20%) SSL
6 13 (0.86%) DHCP
6 13 (0.86%) WAN
7 10 (0.66%) SD-WAN
8 6 (0.40%) Internet
8 6 (0.40%) VLAN
9 5 (0.33%) TCP/IP
10 4 (0.27%) LAN
10 4 (0.27%) SAN
11 3 (0.20%) RS-232
11 3 (0.20%) RS-485
11 3 (0.20%) Wi-Fi
12 2 (0.13%) 4G
12 2 (0.13%) Cisco IOS
12 2 (0.13%) NAS
12 2 (0.13%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 174 (11.55%) Power BI
2 113 (7.50%) SQL Server
3 81 (5.38%) Data Lake
4 79 (5.25%) Data Warehouse
5 65 (4.32%) Azure SQL Database
6 50 (3.32%) Delta Lake
7 49 (3.25%) NoSQL
8 46 (3.05%) PostgreSQL
9 30 (1.99%) Metadata
9 30 (1.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 22 (1.46%) Relational Database
11 21 (1.39%) Big Data
12 20 (1.33%) MongoDB
12 20 (1.33%) Snowflake Schema
13 17 (1.13%) MySQL
13 17 (1.13%) Spark SQL
14 16 (1.06%) Star Schema
15 14 (0.93%) Parquet
15 14 (0.93%) Redis
16 13 (0.86%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 278 (18.46%) JIRA
2 254 (16.87%) Git
3 191 (12.68%) Jenkins
4 153 (10.16%) GitLab
5 74 (4.91%) Selenium
6 35 (2.32%) Postman
7 31 (2.06%) SonarQube
8 27 (1.79%) Cypress.io
8 27 (1.79%) WebDriver
9 26 (1.73%) Visual Studio
10 23 (1.53%) Cucumber
11 20 (1.33%) REST Assured
12 19 (1.26%) Gradle
13 17 (1.13%) JUnit
14 15 (1.00%) Bitbucket
14 15 (1.00%) Maven
14 15 (1.00%) TestRail
15 13 (0.86%) MSI
16 12 (0.80%) JMeter
16 12 (0.80%) Snyk
General
1 408 (27.09%) Social Skills
2 314 (20.85%) Finance
3 183 (12.15%) Public Sector
4 160 (10.62%) Analytical Skills
5 80 (5.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 79 (5.25%) Banking
7 35 (2.32%) Retail
8 29 (1.93%) Influencing Skills
9 26 (1.73%) Documentation Skills
9 26 (1.73%) Legal
10 24 (1.59%) Aerospace
11 22 (1.46%) Organisational Skills
12 20 (1.33%) Marketing
13 15 (1.00%) Investment Banking
14 14 (0.93%) Local Government
15 12 (0.80%) Law
16 11 (0.73%) Manufacturing
17 8 (0.53%) Billing
17 8 (0.53%) Pharmaceutical
17 8 (0.53%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 253 (16.80%) Developer
2 243 (16.14%) Senior
3 233 (15.47%) Azure Engineer
3 233 (15.47%) DevOps Engineer
4 141 (9.36%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 129 (8.57%) Lead
6 126 (8.37%) Data Engineer
7 123 (8.17%) Analyst
8 112 (7.44%) Architect
9 62 (4.12%) Business Analyst
10 55 (3.65%) Project Manager
11 53 (3.52%) Platform Engineer
12 51 (3.39%) Consultant
13 49 (3.25%) Cloud Engineer
14 44 (2.92%) Senior Developer
15 40 (2.66%) Solutions Architect
16 39 (2.59%) Dynamics 365 Developer
16 39 (2.59%) Test Analyst
17 38 (2.52%) Senior DevOps
18 37 (2.46%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 433 (28.75%) Terraform
2 202 (13.41%) .NET
3 179 (11.89%) REST
4 84 (5.58%) PySpark
5 81 (5.38%) RESTful
6 80 (5.31%) JSON
7 76 (5.05%) ADO
8 68 (4.52%) Kafka
9 64 (4.25%) ARM Templates
10 63 (4.18%) YAML
11 59 (3.92%) React
12 56 (3.72%) .NET Framework
13 52 (3.45%) .NET Core
13 52 (3.45%) Playwright
14 43 (2.86%) XML
15 40 (2.66%) HTML
15 40 (2.66%) OAuth
16 36 (2.39%) CSS
16 36 (2.39%) Middleware
17 34 (2.26%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 172 (11.42%) Cloud Native
2 122 (8.10%) Product Ownership
3 52 (3.45%) Onboarding
4 47 (3.12%) Legacy Systems
5 45 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
6 42 (2.79%) Distributed Systems
7 35 (2.32%) Management Information System
8 30 (1.99%) Hybrid Cloud
9 29 (1.93%) Self-Motivation
10 22 (1.46%) AI Agents
11 21 (1.39%) Data Structures
12 20 (1.33%) Replication
13 18 (1.20%) Low-Code
14 17 (1.13%) Linux Command Line
14 17 (1.13%) Mobile App
15 15 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
15 15 (1.00%) Enterprise Cloud
15 15 (1.00%) Reinsurance
16 14 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
16 14 (0.93%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 102 (6.77%) Windows
2 74 (4.91%) Linux
3 33 (2.19%) Windows Server
4 17 (1.13%) VMS
5 14 (0.93%) Unix
6 11 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (0.66%) Android
7 10 (0.66%) Apple iOS
8 6 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.20%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.20%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.066%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.066%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,506 (100.00%) DevOps
2 841 (55.84%) CI/CD
3 650 (43.16%) Agile
4 393 (26.10%) Infrastructure as Code
5 277 (18.39%) Test Automation
6 270 (17.93%) Stakeholder Management
7 246 (16.33%) Problem-Solving
8 242 (16.07%) Continuous Improvement
9 236 (15.67%) Analytics
10 233 (15.47%) Containerisation
11 219 (14.54%) Scrum
12 198 (13.15%) Migration
13 184 (12.22%) Business Intelligence
14 172 (11.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 168 (11.16%) Data Modelling
16 166 (11.02%) AI
17 164 (10.89%) User Acceptance Testing
18 158 (10.49%) Platform Engineering
18 158 (10.49%) Validation
19 154 (10.23%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 393 (26.10%) SQL
2 391 (25.96%) Python
3 256 (17.00%) C#
4 209 (13.88%) PowerShell
5 168 (11.16%) Bicep
6 156 (10.36%) JavaScript
7 132 (8.76%) Bash
8 119 (7.90%) Java
9 91 (6.04%) TypeScript
10 25 (1.66%) T-SQL
11 20 (1.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 18 (1.20%) Apex Code
13 16 (1.06%) Kusto Query Language
14 14 (0.93%) Go
14 14 (0.93%) X++
15 8 (0.53%) Shell Script
16 6 (0.40%) Kotlin
16 6 (0.40%) PL/SQL
16 6 (0.40%) R
16 6 (0.40%) Scala
Qualifications
1 446 (29.61%) Security Cleared
2 365 (24.24%) SC Cleared
3 119 (7.90%) Azure Certification
4 109 (7.24%) Degree
5 66 (4.38%) Microsoft Certification
6 54 (3.59%) DV Cleared
7 41 (2.72%) BPSS Clearance
8 38 (2.52%) ISTQB
9 31 (2.06%) Computer Science Degree
10 26 (1.73%) AWS Certification
11 18 (1.20%) PMI Certification
12 17 (1.13%) PMP
13 14 (0.93%) CISSP
14 12 (0.80%) Master's Degree
15 11 (0.73%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 10 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 10 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
16 10 (0.66%) DBS Check
17 9 (0.60%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 9 (0.60%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 179 (11.89%) QA
2 111 (7.37%) Data Quality
3 86 (5.71%) Accessibility
4 53 (3.52%) GDPR
5 51 (3.39%) WCAG
6 32 (2.12%) PMO
7 27 (1.79%) NIST
8 26 (1.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 19 (1.26%) NCSC
10 12 (0.80%) SLA
11 10 (0.66%) GRC
12 9 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 8 (0.53%) ISO 20022
14 7 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
15 5 (0.33%) SEPA
16 4 (0.27%) PSD2
17 3 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 3 (0.20%) Government Security Classifications
18 2 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
18 2 (0.13%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 247 (16.40%) Docker
2 76 (5.05%) Active Directory
3 31 (2.06%) Virtual Machines
4 17 (1.13%) VMware Infrastructure
5 16 (1.06%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.33%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.27%) Firmware
7 4 (0.27%) vSphere
8 3 (0.20%) Embedded Firmware
8 3 (0.20%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (0.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.13%) OpenSSH
9 2 (0.13%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.066%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.066%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 312 (20.72%) Kubernetes
2 98 (6.51%) Ansible
3 55 (3.65%) Grafana
4 47 (3.12%) Prometheus
5 26 (1.73%) Microsoft Intune
6 23 (1.53%) Progress Chef
7 20 (1.33%) Argo
7 20 (1.33%) Puppet
8 14 (0.93%) Packer
9 13 (0.86%) HP ALM
10 10 (0.66%) SCOM
11 9 (0.60%) SCCM
11 9 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
12 6 (0.40%) Istio
13 5 (0.33%) HP Quality Center
13 5 (0.33%) Jamf Pro
14 3 (0.20%) HP Fortify
14 3 (0.20%) Kibana
15 2 (0.13%) Docker Swarm
15 2 (0.13%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 537 (35.66%) Microsoft
2 141 (9.36%) Databricks
3 57 (3.78%) Salesforce
4 56 (3.72%) Oracle
5 52 (3.45%) ServiceNow
6 44 (2.92%) SAP
7 38 (2.52%) Google
8 30 (1.99%) Splunk
9 28 (1.86%) Dynatrace
10 22 (1.46%) VMware
11 17 (1.13%) Informatica
12 15 (1.00%) Foundry
12 15 (1.00%) MuleSoft
12 15 (1.00%) OpenAI
13 14 (0.93%) UiPath
14 13 (0.86%) HP
15 11 (0.73%) Cloudera
15 11 (0.73%) Red Hat
16 9 (0.60%) InterSystems
17 8 (0.53%) Guidewire
547 Azure DevOps jobs in England