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

 6 months to
23 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 90 74
Rank change year-on-year +14 -16 0
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,431 762 1,010
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.19% 2.79% 2.87%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.12% 7.46% 8.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,012 542 677
10th Percentile £363 £350 £400
25th Percentile £416 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -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 35 3 2
10th Percentile £20.05 £36.45 -
25th Percentile £25.38 £45.75 £65.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% -4.58% -6.43%
75th Percentile £86.50 £76.25 £65.75
90th Percentile £103.40 £83.75 -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £85.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year -35.29% +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 15,689 10,212 11,719
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.96% 37.35% 33.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,471 6,902 8,342
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £419 £409 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £519 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +3.70% -4.67% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 557 267 281
10th Percentile £16.70 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £22.50 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.00 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +55.07% +14.32% -37.14%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £46.18
90th Percentile £85.00 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.31 £27.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year +32.04% +25.00% -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 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 23 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 23 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 +14 787 £505 -3.81% 181
South East -22 183 £500 +9.71% 98
Midlands +22 162 £450 -10.00% 49
North of England +6 162 £478 -4.40% 80
West Midlands +10 116 £450 -12.20% 32
North West +8 83 £500 -4.76% 45
South West +4 75 £475 -15.37% 26
Yorkshire -25 60 £480 -4.00% 23
East Midlands +4 44 £525 +8.25% 17
East of England +3 35 £425 -11.69% 23
North East -20 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
1 108 (7.55%) Confluence
2 84 (5.87%) SharePoint
3 33 (2.31%) Apache Spark
4 28 (1.96%) Apache
5 26 (1.82%) Apache Airflow
6 14 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
7 7 (0.49%) CMS
8 6 (0.42%) Documentum
9 3 (0.21%) IIS
9 3 (0.21%) Kentico
9 3 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
9 3 (0.21%) SAS
10 2 (0.14%) Mendix
10 2 (0.14%) OpenROAD
10 2 (0.14%) Umbraco
11 1 (0.070%) HCL Notes
11 1 (0.070%) IBM HTTP Server
11 1 (0.070%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.070%) SharePoint Server
11 1 (0.070%) WebLogic
Applications
1 53 (3.70%) Microsoft Project
2 34 (2.38%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (1.40%) MS Visio
4 11 (0.77%) Microsoft Office
5 8 (0.56%) CPLEX
6 7 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 6 (0.42%) Trello
8 5 (0.35%) Chatbot
9 4 (0.28%) Notion
9 4 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.070%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.070%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 43 (3.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 20 (1.40%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.49%) Dynamics AX
4 6 (0.42%) 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
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%) SAP MM
7 2 (0.14%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 2 (0.14%) Unit4 Business World
8 1 (0.070%) Loan IQ
8 1 (0.070%) SAP CS
8 1 (0.070%) SDL Web 8
8 1 (0.070%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1,431 (100.00%) Azure
2 357 (24.95%) GitHub
3 242 (16.91%) GitHub Actions
4 220 (15.37%) Power Platform
5 206 (14.40%) AWS
6 122 (8.53%) Azure Data Factory
7 119 (8.32%) Entra ID
8 115 (8.04%) Azure Monitor
9 114 (7.97%) Azure AKS
10 104 (7.27%) Dynamics 365
11 98 (6.85%) Power Automate
12 88 (6.15%) Serverless
13 80 (5.59%) Azure Key Vault
14 78 (5.45%) GCP
14 78 (5.45%) PowerApps
15 72 (5.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 61 (4.26%) Azure Logic Apps
17 60 (4.19%) Microsoft 365
18 56 (3.91%) PaaS
19 54 (3.77%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 50 (3.49%) Firewall
2 30 (2.10%) DNS
3 29 (2.03%) Network Security
4 21 (1.47%) VPN
5 14 (0.98%) SD-WAN
5 14 (0.98%) WAN
6 11 (0.77%) SSL
7 10 (0.70%) DHCP
8 9 (0.63%) Internet
8 9 (0.63%) TCP/IP
9 6 (0.42%) LAN
9 6 (0.42%) VLAN
10 3 (0.21%) 4G
10 3 (0.21%) BGP
10 3 (0.21%) IPsec
10 3 (0.21%) OSPF
11 2 (0.14%) Cisco IOS
11 2 (0.14%) MQTT
11 2 (0.14%) NAS
11 2 (0.14%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 145 (10.13%) Power BI
2 106 (7.41%) SQL Server
3 74 (5.17%) Data Lake
4 69 (4.82%) Azure SQL Database
5 63 (4.40%) Data Warehouse
6 53 (3.70%) Delta Lake
6 53 (3.70%) NoSQL
7 46 (3.21%) PostgreSQL
8 26 (1.82%) Relational Database
9 23 (1.61%) MongoDB
10 22 (1.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 21 (1.47%) Snowflake Schema
12 19 (1.33%) Metadata
12 19 (1.33%) Spark SQL
13 17 (1.19%) Redis
14 15 (1.05%) Oracle Database
15 14 (0.98%) Big Data
16 13 (0.91%) Parquet
17 12 (0.84%) Amazon Redshift
18 9 (0.63%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 290 (20.27%) JIRA
2 234 (16.35%) Git
3 150 (10.48%) Jenkins
4 110 (7.69%) GitLab
5 57 (3.98%) Selenium
6 28 (1.96%) Postman
7 25 (1.75%) SonarQube
8 23 (1.61%) Visual Studio
9 22 (1.54%) Cucumber
9 22 (1.54%) Cypress.io
10 19 (1.33%) WebDriver
11 17 (1.19%) REST Assured
12 16 (1.12%) Gradle
12 16 (1.12%) JUnit
12 16 (1.12%) TestRail
13 14 (0.98%) Bitbucket
14 13 (0.91%) Team Foundation Server
15 12 (0.84%) MSI
16 11 (0.77%) NUnit
16 11 (0.77%) SpecFlow
General
1 366 (25.58%) Social Skills
2 295 (20.61%) Finance
3 171 (11.95%) Public Sector
4 149 (10.41%) Analytical Skills
5 70 (4.89%) Banking
6 60 (4.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 33 (2.31%) Organisational Skills
8 28 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
9 27 (1.89%) Legal
10 26 (1.82%) Retail
11 23 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
12 14 (0.98%) Aerospace
13 12 (0.84%) Law
14 11 (0.77%) Investment Banking
14 11 (0.77%) Local Government
14 11 (0.77%) Marketing
15 9 (0.63%) Billing
15 9 (0.63%) Front Office
16 8 (0.56%) Manufacturing
17 7 (0.49%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 266 (18.59%) Developer
2 213 (14.88%) Azure Engineer
3 207 (14.47%) DevOps Engineer
4 198 (13.84%) Senior
5 129 (9.01%) Analyst
5 129 (9.01%) Data Engineer
6 127 (8.87%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 123 (8.60%) Lead
8 96 (6.71%) Architect
9 67 (4.68%) Business Analyst
10 50 (3.49%) Platform Engineer
11 46 (3.21%) Project Manager
12 45 (3.14%) Test Analyst
13 44 (3.07%) Tester
14 43 (3.00%) Solutions Architect
15 40 (2.80%) .NET Developer
15 40 (2.80%) Full-Stack Developer
16 39 (2.73%) Cloud Engineer
16 39 (2.73%) Consultant
17 36 (2.52%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 188 (13.14%) .NET
2 158 (11.04%) REST
3 80 (5.59%) PySpark
4 78 (5.45%) RESTful
5 76 (5.31%) ADO
6 68 (4.75%) YAML
7 67 (4.68%) JSON
8 60 (4.19%) .NET Framework
9 59 (4.12%) Kafka
9 59 (4.12%) React
10 53 (3.70%) ARM Templates
11 51 (3.56%) .NET Core
12 48 (3.35%) Playwright
13 45 (3.14%) SOAP
14 39 (2.73%) HTML
14 39 (2.73%) OAuth
15 37 (2.59%) Node.js
16 36 (2.52%) CSS
17 31 (2.17%) AngularJS
17 31 (2.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 166 (11.60%) Cloud Native
2 99 (6.92%) Product Ownership
3 52 (3.63%) Distributed Systems
4 50 (3.49%) Legacy Systems
5 41 (2.87%) Onboarding
6 31 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
7 29 (2.03%) Self-Motivation
8 24 (1.68%) Management Information System
9 22 (1.54%) Data Structures
9 22 (1.54%) Hybrid Cloud
9 22 (1.54%) Reinsurance
10 19 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
11 18 (1.26%) Replication
12 17 (1.19%) Mobile App
13 14 (0.98%) Low-Code
14 13 (0.91%) AI Agents
14 13 (0.91%) Enterprise Cloud
15 12 (0.84%) Data Protection Act
16 11 (0.77%) Data Centre
16 11 (0.77%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 89 (6.22%) Windows
2 57 (3.98%) Linux
3 18 (1.26%) Windows Server
4 13 (0.91%) VMS
5 10 (0.70%) Unix
6 8 (0.56%) Android
6 8 (0.56%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (0.28%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.070%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,431 (100.00%) DevOps
2 766 (53.53%) CI/CD
3 585 (40.88%) Agile
4 338 (23.62%) Infrastructure as Code
5 245 (17.12%) Test Automation
6 232 (16.21%) Analytics
7 222 (15.51%) Problem-Solving
8 215 (15.02%) Continuous Improvement
9 213 (14.88%) Stakeholder Management
10 203 (14.19%) Scrum
11 195 (13.63%) Migration
12 189 (13.21%) Containerisation
13 162 (11.32%) Data Modelling
14 155 (10.83%) Business Intelligence
15 146 (10.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 141 (9.85%) Microservices
17 138 (9.64%) User Acceptance Testing
18 135 (9.43%) AI
19 131 (9.15%) Validation
20 130 (9.08%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 396 (27.67%) SQL
2 351 (24.53%) Python
3 237 (16.56%) C#
4 167 (11.67%) PowerShell
5 134 (9.36%) JavaScript
6 127 (8.87%) Bicep
7 108 (7.55%) Bash
8 106 (7.41%) Java
9 82 (5.73%) TypeScript
10 24 (1.68%) T-SQL
11 19 (1.33%) Go
12 15 (1.05%) Kusto Query Language
13 13 (0.91%) Scala
14 12 (0.84%) Apex Code
14 12 (0.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 10 (0.70%) PL/SQL
15 10 (0.70%) X++
16 7 (0.49%) VB
17 6 (0.42%) C
17 6 (0.42%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 408 (28.51%) Security Cleared
2 331 (23.13%) SC Cleared
3 104 (7.27%) Azure Certification
4 95 (6.64%) Degree
5 54 (3.77%) DV Cleared
6 42 (2.94%) Microsoft Certification
7 34 (2.38%) ISTQB
8 30 (2.10%) Computer Science Degree
9 29 (2.03%) BPSS Clearance
10 21 (1.47%) AWS Certification
11 15 (1.05%) PMP
12 14 (0.98%) PMI Certification
13 12 (0.84%) Master's Degree
14 11 (0.77%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 10 (0.70%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 9 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
16 9 (0.63%) DBS Check
17 7 (0.49%) CISSP
18 5 (0.35%) ITIL Certification
19 4 (0.28%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 153 (10.69%) QA
2 101 (7.06%) Data Quality
3 77 (5.38%) Accessibility
4 49 (3.42%) GDPR
5 45 (3.14%) WCAG
6 26 (1.82%) PMO
7 18 (1.26%) NIST
8 16 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 15 (1.05%) SLA
10 14 (0.98%) NCSC
11 11 (0.77%) GRC
12 9 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 5 (0.35%) PCI DSS
14 3 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
14 3 (0.21%) Government Security Classifications
15 2 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
15 2 (0.14%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 2 (0.14%) NIST 800
15 2 (0.14%) PSD2
15 2 (0.14%) SEPA
System Software
1 197 (13.77%) Docker
2 79 (5.52%) Active Directory
3 32 (2.24%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (0.98%) Virtual Desktop
4 14 (0.98%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.21%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.14%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 2 (0.14%) Embedded Firmware
6 2 (0.14%) Firmware
6 2 (0.14%) Microsoft App-V
6 2 (0.14%) OpenSSH
6 2 (0.14%) Postfix
6 2 (0.14%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.14%) vSphere
7 1 (0.070%) HDFS
7 1 (0.070%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 377 (26.35%) Terraform
2 250 (17.47%) Kubernetes
3 83 (5.80%) Ansible
4 56 (3.91%) Grafana
5 49 (3.42%) Prometheus
6 20 (1.40%) Argo
6 20 (1.40%) Progress Chef
6 20 (1.40%) Puppet
7 16 (1.12%) Microsoft Intune
8 13 (0.91%) Packer
8 13 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
9 12 (0.84%) HP ALM
9 12 (0.84%) Istio
10 6 (0.42%) Jamf Pro
11 5 (0.35%) SCOM
12 4 (0.28%) HP Quality Center
12 4 (0.28%) SCCM
13 3 (0.21%) Rancher
14 2 (0.14%) Docker Swarm
14 2 (0.14%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 450 (31.45%) Microsoft
2 131 (9.15%) Databricks
3 71 (4.96%) Oracle
4 60 (4.19%) ServiceNow
5 49 (3.42%) Salesforce
6 47 (3.28%) SAP
7 29 (2.03%) Google
8 25 (1.75%) Splunk
9 20 (1.40%) Dynatrace
10 19 (1.33%) VMware
11 18 (1.26%) Informatica
12 16 (1.12%) OpenAI
13 13 (0.91%) Foundry
13 13 (0.91%) HP
14 11 (0.77%) MuleSoft
15 10 (0.70%) Bloomberg
15 10 (0.70%) IBM
16 9 (0.63%) Guidewire
16 9 (0.63%) InterSystems
17 8 (0.56%) Cisco
416 Azure DevOps jobs in England