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

 6 months to
17 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 90 76
Rank change year-on-year +13 -14 -1
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,191 699 1,021
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.23% 2.85% 2.69%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.74% 7.52% 8.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 864 505 723
10th Percentile £363 £385 £408
25th Percentile £413 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £588 £629 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £688
UK median daily rate £492 £522 £525
% change year-on-year -5.70% -0.62% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 3 11
10th Percentile £25.38 £37.45 £55.00
25th Percentile £30.40 £48.25 £61.88
Median hourly rate £61.25 £67.50 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.26% +3.05% -3.53%
75th Percentile £75.00 £74.38 £68.50
90th Percentile £88.65 £77.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £68.50 £80.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year -14.38% +22.14% -4.73%

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 13,627 9,291 12,227
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.99% 37.82% 32.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,382 6,465 8,817
10th Percentile £313 £313 £275
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £638
90th Percentile £709 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 409 166 326
10th Percentile £15.60 £15.19 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.82 £18.50 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.58 £26.00 £21.19
Median % change year-on-year +44.54% +22.73% -15.26%
75th Percentile £60.00 £43.66 £42.06
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.88 £62.50
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £25.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +47.06% +19.33% -14.52%

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 17 March 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 17 March 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 17 March 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 +23 669 £500 -8.68% 140
South East -19 146 £505 -8.18% 100
North of England -16 121 £500 - 86
Midlands 0 109 £469 -6.25% 58
South West +21 84 £475 -8.21% 30
West Midlands -22 72 £475 -7.32% 38
North West +3 63 £480 -12.82% 51
Yorkshire -42 45 £500 +11.11% 26
East Midlands -16 36 £418 -14.36% 20
East of England -9 29 £554 -7.71% 23
North East -2 13 £513 -4.65% 10
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 75 (6.30%) SharePoint
2 67 (5.63%) Confluence
3 31 (2.60%) Apache Spark
4 22 (1.85%) Apache
5 15 (1.26%) Apache Airflow
5 15 (1.26%) Microsoft Exchange
6 11 (0.92%) HCL Notes
7 10 (0.84%) Mendix
8 8 (0.67%) IIS
9 4 (0.34%) CMS
10 3 (0.25%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.25%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.25%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.084%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.084%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.084%) IBM HTTP Server
11 1 (0.084%) Kentico
11 1 (0.084%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.084%) SAS
11 1 (0.084%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 28 (2.35%) Microsoft Excel
1 28 (2.35%) Microsoft Project
2 17 (1.43%) MS Visio
3 10 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.25%) Trello
6 2 (0.17%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.17%) CPLEX
7 1 (0.084%) InDesign
7 1 (0.084%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 46 (3.86%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.67%) Maximo
2 8 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.59%) NEC Housing
4 4 (0.34%) Aladdin
4 4 (0.34%) Dynamics AX
4 4 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (0.25%) SAP BPC
6 2 (0.17%) Findur
6 2 (0.17%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.17%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.17%) Primavera
6 2 (0.17%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.084%) Endur
7 1 (0.084%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.084%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 1,191 (100.00%) Azure
2 304 (25.52%) GitHub
3 208 (17.46%) GitHub Actions
4 205 (17.21%) Power Platform
5 146 (12.26%) AWS
6 137 (11.50%) Serverless
7 132 (11.08%) Azure Data Factory
8 128 (10.75%) Azure Monitor
9 115 (9.66%) Azure AKS
10 114 (9.57%) Entra ID
11 102 (8.56%) Dynamics 365
12 92 (7.72%) Azure Functions
13 90 (7.56%) Azure Key Vault
14 80 (6.72%) Azure Logic Apps
14 80 (6.72%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 79 (6.63%) Power Automate
16 69 (5.79%) Azure Service Bus
17 66 (5.54%) GCP
17 66 (5.54%) Microsoft 365
18 63 (5.29%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 49 (4.11%) Firewall
2 24 (2.02%) Network Security
3 22 (1.85%) DNS
4 21 (1.76%) VPN
5 15 (1.26%) SD-WAN
6 14 (1.18%) WAN
7 8 (0.67%) TCP/IP
8 7 (0.59%) LAN
9 6 (0.50%) DHCP
10 5 (0.42%) HTTP
11 4 (0.34%) Internet
11 4 (0.34%) IPsec
11 4 (0.34%) MQTT
12 3 (0.25%) FTP
12 3 (0.25%) MPLS
12 3 (0.25%) Remote Desktop
12 3 (0.25%) SSL
12 3 (0.25%) VLAN
13 2 (0.17%) BGP
13 2 (0.17%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (10.50%) Power BI
2 98 (8.23%) SQL Server
3 77 (6.47%) Azure SQL Database
4 68 (5.71%) Data Lake
5 56 (4.70%) Delta Lake
6 47 (3.95%) Data Warehouse
7 38 (3.19%) PostgreSQL
8 36 (3.02%) NoSQL
9 28 (2.35%) Oracle Database
10 22 (1.85%) Relational Database
11 21 (1.76%) Redis
12 19 (1.60%) Spark SQL
13 18 (1.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 17 (1.43%) MongoDB
15 15 (1.26%) Tableau
16 12 (1.01%) DynamoDB
17 11 (0.92%) Metadata
17 11 (0.92%) Snowflake Schema
18 10 (0.84%) Data Vault
18 10 (0.84%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 226 (18.98%) JIRA
2 172 (14.44%) Git
3 115 (9.66%) Jenkins
4 63 (5.29%) GitLab
5 55 (4.62%) Selenium
6 37 (3.11%) Postman
7 34 (2.85%) Oracle APEX
8 23 (1.93%) Cypress.io
9 19 (1.60%) TestRail
9 19 (1.60%) Visual Studio
10 18 (1.51%) SonarQube
11 16 (1.34%) Cucumber
11 16 (1.34%) JMeter
11 16 (1.34%) Team Foundation Server
12 15 (1.26%) REST Assured
13 14 (1.18%) JUnit
13 14 (1.18%) Zephyr
14 12 (1.01%) SpecFlow
15 11 (0.92%) Artifactory
15 11 (0.92%) MLflow
General
1 331 (27.79%) Social Skills
2 245 (20.57%) Finance
3 144 (12.09%) Public Sector
4 129 (10.83%) Analytical Skills
5 59 (4.95%) Banking
6 29 (2.43%) Organisational Skills
7 28 (2.35%) Documentation Skills
8 26 (2.18%) Influencing Skills
9 24 (2.02%) Retail
10 17 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 16 (1.34%) Financial Institution
12 14 (1.18%) Front Office
12 14 (1.18%) Investment Banking
13 13 (1.09%) Law
13 13 (1.09%) Legal
14 12 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
15 9 (0.76%) Telecoms
16 8 (0.67%) Back Office
16 8 (0.67%) Marketing
17 7 (0.59%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 265 (22.25%) Developer
2 178 (14.95%) Azure Engineer
3 171 (14.36%) Senior
4 146 (12.26%) DevOps Engineer
5 104 (8.73%) Lead
6 98 (8.23%) Analyst
7 97 (8.14%) Data Engineer
8 90 (7.56%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 85 (7.14%) Architect
10 56 (4.70%) Senior Developer
11 48 (4.03%) Platform Engineer
12 47 (3.95%) Azure Developer
13 44 (3.69%) Test Analyst
13 44 (3.69%) Tester
14 38 (3.19%) Business Analyst
15 36 (3.02%) Azure Architect
16 34 (2.85%) Cloud Engineer
16 34 (2.85%) Full-Stack Developer
17 32 (2.69%) Test Engineer
18 31 (2.60%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 194 (16.29%) .NET
2 114 (9.57%) REST
3 73 (6.13%) React
4 71 (5.96%) Node.js
5 70 (5.88%) PySpark
6 69 (5.79%) ARM Templates
7 55 (4.62%) ADO
8 54 (4.53%) YAML
9 46 (3.86%) .NET Core
10 40 (3.36%) RESTful
11 39 (3.27%) .NET Framework
11 39 (3.27%) Kafka
11 39 (3.27%) Playwright
11 39 (3.27%) SOAP
12 38 (3.19%) JSON
13 37 (3.11%) CSS
13 37 (3.11%) HTML
14 34 (2.85%) OAuth
15 33 (2.77%) AngularJS
16 27 (2.27%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 127 (10.66%) Cloud Native
2 70 (5.88%) Product Ownership
3 37 (3.11%) Legacy Systems
4 36 (3.02%) Distributed Systems
5 29 (2.43%) Enterprise Software
6 21 (1.76%) Low-Code
7 20 (1.68%) Hybrid Cloud
8 19 (1.60%) AI Agents
9 17 (1.43%) Onboarding
9 17 (1.43%) Reinsurance
10 16 (1.34%) Data Structures
11 15 (1.26%) CMDB
12 14 (1.18%) NHS
12 14 (1.18%) Public Cloud
13 13 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
14 11 (0.92%) Security Posture
15 10 (0.84%) Data Centre
15 10 (0.84%) Replication
16 9 (0.76%) Enterprise Cloud
16 9 (0.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 54 (4.53%) Windows
2 49 (4.11%) Linux
3 15 (1.26%) VMS
4 9 (0.76%) Windows Server
5 5 (0.42%) Unix
6 3 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.084%) Android
8 1 (0.084%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.084%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.084%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,183 (99.33%) DevOps
2 646 (54.24%) CI/CD
3 468 (39.29%) Agile
4 283 (23.76%) Infrastructure as Code
5 228 (19.14%) Problem-Solving
6 212 (17.80%) Analytics
7 200 (16.79%) Test Automation
8 183 (15.37%) Scrum
9 179 (15.03%) Continuous Improvement
10 149 (12.51%) AI
11 142 (11.92%) Business Intelligence
12 138 (11.59%) Containerisation
13 135 (11.34%) Migration
14 133 (11.17%) Stakeholder Management
15 130 (10.92%) Data Modelling
16 129 (10.83%) Validation
17 123 (10.33%) Observability
18 118 (9.91%) Microservices
19 100 (8.40%) Data Pipeline
20 99 (8.31%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 399 (33.50%) SQL
2 333 (27.96%) Python
3 220 (18.47%) C#
4 183 (15.37%) JavaScript
5 133 (11.17%) PowerShell
6 111 (9.32%) Bicep
7 81 (6.80%) Bash
8 78 (6.55%) Java
9 74 (6.21%) TypeScript
10 54 (4.53%) PL/SQL
11 28 (2.35%) T-SQL
12 27 (2.27%) Scala
13 18 (1.51%) Kusto Query Language
14 14 (1.18%) Go
15 11 (0.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 11 (0.92%) Formula Language
15 11 (0.92%) LotusScript
16 6 (0.50%) PHP
16 6 (0.50%) X++
17 5 (0.42%) XPath
Qualifications
1 337 (28.30%) Security Cleared
2 281 (23.59%) SC Cleared
3 105 (8.82%) Azure Certification
4 79 (6.63%) Degree
5 35 (2.94%) ISTQB
6 34 (2.85%) Microsoft Certification
7 32 (2.69%) Computer Science Degree
8 30 (2.52%) DV Cleared
9 26 (2.18%) BPSS Clearance
10 17 (1.43%) PMI Certification
11 16 (1.34%) AWS Certification
12 15 (1.26%) PMP
13 13 (1.09%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 8 (0.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 8 (0.67%) CISSP
14 8 (0.67%) Master's Degree
15 7 (0.59%) CISM
16 5 (0.42%) ISEB
16 5 (0.42%) ITIL Certification
16 5 (0.42%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 133 (11.17%) QA
2 80 (6.72%) Data Quality
3 32 (2.69%) Accessibility
4 29 (2.43%) GDPR
5 24 (2.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 21 (1.76%) NIST
7 18 (1.51%) NCSC
8 15 (1.26%) PMO
9 11 (0.92%) WCAG
10 9 (0.76%) NIST 800
11 8 (0.67%) SLA
12 7 (0.59%) EU AI Act
12 7 (0.59%) PCI DSS
12 7 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 6 (0.50%) HL7
14 4 (0.34%) GRC
14 4 (0.34%) HIPAA
14 4 (0.34%) SOC 2
15 3 (0.25%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 2 (0.17%) FedRAMP
System Software
1 183 (15.37%) Docker
2 69 (5.79%) Active Directory
3 24 (2.02%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (0.84%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.34%) Firmware
7 2 (0.17%) Postfix
8 1 (0.084%) HDFS
8 1 (0.084%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.084%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.084%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 338 (28.38%) Terraform
2 201 (16.88%) Kubernetes
3 58 (4.87%) Ansible
4 48 (4.03%) Grafana
5 41 (3.44%) Prometheus
6 14 (1.18%) HP ALM
7 12 (1.01%) Istio
7 12 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
8 11 (0.92%) Argo
9 7 (0.59%) Puppet
10 6 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
10 6 (0.50%) Podman
11 5 (0.42%) Progress Chef
12 4 (0.34%) HP Quality Center
12 4 (0.34%) Packer
13 3 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (0.25%) Icinga
13 3 (0.25%) Kubeflow
14 2 (0.17%) Opsgenie
14 2 (0.17%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 379 (31.82%) Microsoft
2 152 (12.76%) Databricks
3 132 (11.08%) Oracle
4 64 (5.37%) ServiceNow
5 37 (3.11%) OpenAI
6 31 (2.60%) SAP
7 27 (2.27%) Salesforce
8 24 (2.02%) Splunk
9 18 (1.51%) Google
10 17 (1.43%) Informatica
11 15 (1.26%) HP
12 14 (1.18%) VMware
13 11 (0.92%) Foundry
13 11 (0.92%) Lotus
13 11 (0.92%) NEC
14 10 (0.84%) Kofax
15 9 (0.76%) Dynatrace
15 9 (0.76%) IBM
16 8 (0.67%) Cisco
16 8 (0.67%) MuleSoft
402 Azure DevOps jobs in England