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

 6 months to
13 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 89 77
Rank change year-on-year +11 -12 -3
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,500 790 911
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.25% 2.85% 2.77%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.41% 7.58% 8.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,055 562 613
10th Percentile £363 £350 £380
25th Percentile £416 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £600
90th Percentile £675 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 2 0
10th Percentile £21.25 £63.75 -
25th Percentile £37.24 £67.50 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £75.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% - -
75th Percentile £83.25 £82.50 -
90th Percentile £102.50 £86.25 -
UK median hourly rate £46.80 £85.00 -
% change year-on-year -44.94% - -

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 15,946 10,424 11,360
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.52% 37.57% 34.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,641 7,046 7,788
10th Percentile £320 £307 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.95% -4.71% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £719 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 544 257 182
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.40 £14.27
25th Percentile £17.92 £18.87 £20.00
Median hourly rate £33.99 £26.30 £31.75
Median % change year-on-year +29.24% -17.17% -3.79%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £62.14
90th Percentile £82.81 £69.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £29.25 £30.88
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -11.79%

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 13 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 13 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 13 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 +14 851 £500 -4.76% 337
South East -26 170 £525 +14.60% 117
North of England +6 168 £475 -5.00% 113
Midlands +20 159 £460 -8.00% 66
West Midlands +17 117 £450 -19.28% 33
North West -12 83 £494 +9.72% 66
South West +2 80 £475 -13.44% 47
Yorkshire -10 62 £490 -2.00% 34
East Midlands -1 41 £494 +6.76% 33
East of England +3 37 £425 -15.00% 41
North East - 23 £450 - 14
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 (7.20%) Confluence
2 103 (6.87%) SharePoint
3 36 (2.40%) Apache Spark
4 30 (2.00%) Apache Airflow
5 28 (1.87%) 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 (0.067%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.067%) WebLogic
Applications
1 57 (3.80%) Microsoft Project
2 43 (2.87%) Microsoft Excel
3 24 (1.60%) MS Visio
4 16 (1.07%) Microsoft Office
5 13 (0.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 8 (0.53%) Chatbot
7 7 (0.47%) CPLEX
7 7 (0.47%) Trello
8 5 (0.33%) Notion
9 3 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.13%) Mingle
11 1 (0.067%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 55 (3.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 20 (1.33%) 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 (0.067%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 1,500 (100.00%) Azure
2 383 (25.53%) GitHub
3 268 (17.87%) Power Platform
4 264 (17.60%) GitHub Actions
5 226 (15.07%) AWS
6 131 (8.73%) Azure Data Factory
7 129 (8.60%) Dynamics 365
8 127 (8.47%) Entra ID
9 124 (8.27%) Azure AKS
10 117 (7.80%) Serverless
11 116 (7.73%) Azure Monitor
11 116 (7.73%) Power Automate
12 87 (5.80%) PowerApps
13 85 (5.67%) Azure Functions
14 83 (5.53%) GCP
15 78 (5.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 76 (5.07%) Azure Logic Apps
17 65 (4.33%) Microsoft 365
18 61 (4.07%) Azure Key Vault
18 61 (4.07%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 62 (4.13%) Firewall
2 38 (2.53%) DNS
3 36 (2.40%) Network Security
4 23 (1.53%) VPN
5 18 (1.20%) SSL
6 13 (0.87%) DHCP
6 13 (0.87%) WAN
7 10 (0.67%) SD-WAN
8 6 (0.40%) VLAN
9 5 (0.33%) Internet
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%) Cisco IOS
12 2 (0.13%) Reverse Proxy
12 2 (0.13%) SSH
12 2 (0.13%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 171 (11.40%) Power BI
2 115 (7.67%) SQL Server
3 78 (5.20%) Data Warehouse
4 74 (4.93%) Data Lake
5 62 (4.13%) Azure SQL Database
6 47 (3.13%) NoSQL
7 46 (3.07%) Delta Lake
7 46 (3.07%) PostgreSQL
8 30 (2.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 27 (1.80%) Metadata
10 22 (1.47%) Relational Database
11 21 (1.40%) Big Data
12 20 (1.33%) MongoDB
13 19 (1.27%) Snowflake Schema
14 17 (1.13%) MySQL
15 16 (1.07%) Spark SQL
16 15 (1.00%) Star Schema
17 13 (0.87%) Amazon Redshift
17 13 (0.87%) Oracle Database
17 13 (0.87%) Redis
Development Applications
1 277 (18.47%) JIRA
2 261 (17.40%) Git
3 196 (13.07%) Jenkins
4 155 (10.33%) GitLab
5 73 (4.87%) Selenium
6 36 (2.40%) Postman
7 31 (2.07%) SonarQube
8 28 (1.87%) Cypress.io
8 28 (1.87%) WebDriver
9 27 (1.80%) Visual Studio
10 24 (1.60%) Cucumber
11 20 (1.33%) REST Assured
12 19 (1.27%) Gradle
13 17 (1.13%) JUnit
14 15 (1.00%) Bitbucket
14 15 (1.00%) Maven
14 15 (1.00%) TestRail
15 13 (0.87%) MSI
16 12 (0.80%) Snyk
16 12 (0.80%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 412 (27.47%) Social Skills
2 316 (21.07%) Finance
3 185 (12.33%) Public Sector
4 161 (10.73%) Analytical Skills
5 83 (5.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 81 (5.40%) Banking
7 36 (2.40%) Retail
8 29 (1.93%) Influencing Skills
9 26 (1.73%) Documentation Skills
10 25 (1.67%) Legal
11 24 (1.60%) Aerospace
12 22 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
13 20 (1.33%) Marketing
14 15 (1.00%) Investment Banking
15 13 (0.87%) Local Government
16 12 (0.80%) Manufacturing
17 11 (0.73%) Law
18 9 (0.60%) Pharmaceutical
19 8 (0.53%) Billing
19 8 (0.53%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 255 (17.00%) Developer
2 240 (16.00%) Senior
3 239 (15.93%) DevOps Engineer
4 228 (15.20%) Azure Engineer
5 143 (9.53%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 132 (8.80%) Lead
7 123 (8.20%) Analyst
8 119 (7.93%) Data Engineer
9 113 (7.53%) Architect
10 61 (4.07%) Business Analyst
11 54 (3.60%) Project Manager
12 53 (3.53%) Platform Engineer
13 51 (3.40%) Cloud Engineer
13 51 (3.40%) Consultant
14 45 (3.00%) Senior Developer
15 43 (2.87%) Dynamics 365 Developer
16 41 (2.73%) Test Analyst
17 40 (2.67%) Solutions Architect
18 37 (2.47%) Senior DevOps
19 35 (2.33%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 438 (29.20%) Terraform
2 200 (13.33%) .NET
3 182 (12.13%) REST
4 83 (5.53%) JSON
5 80 (5.33%) RESTful
6 78 (5.20%) PySpark
7 77 (5.13%) ADO
8 70 (4.67%) ARM Templates
9 68 (4.53%) Kafka
10 64 (4.27%) YAML
11 57 (3.80%) React
12 55 (3.67%) .NET Framework
13 53 (3.53%) Playwright
14 51 (3.40%) .NET Core
15 44 (2.93%) XML
16 41 (2.73%) OAuth
17 39 (2.60%) HTML
18 36 (2.40%) Middleware
19 35 (2.33%) SOAP
20 34 (2.27%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 164 (10.93%) Cloud Native
2 129 (8.60%) Product Ownership
3 54 (3.60%) Onboarding
4 47 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
5 44 (2.93%) Legacy Systems
6 40 (2.67%) Distributed Systems
7 37 (2.47%) Management Information System
8 30 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
9 25 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
10 23 (1.53%) AI Agents
11 20 (1.33%) Data Structures
11 20 (1.33%) Replication
12 18 (1.20%) Low-Code
13 17 (1.13%) Linux Command Line
13 17 (1.13%) Mobile App
14 16 (1.07%) Virtual Team
15 15 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
15 15 (1.00%) Enterprise Cloud
15 15 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
15 15 (1.00%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 102 (6.80%) Windows
2 72 (4.80%) Linux
3 33 (2.20%) Windows Server
4 17 (1.13%) VMS
5 12 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (0.67%) Android
6 10 (0.67%) Apple iOS
6 10 (0.67%) Unix
7 6 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (0.27%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.20%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.13%) CentOS
11 1 (0.067%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,500 (100.00%) DevOps
2 839 (55.93%) CI/CD
3 656 (43.73%) Agile
4 400 (26.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 279 (18.60%) Stakeholder Management
6 276 (18.40%) Test Automation
7 249 (16.60%) Problem-Solving
8 248 (16.53%) Continuous Improvement
9 236 (15.73%) Containerisation
10 231 (15.40%) Analytics
11 220 (14.67%) Scrum
12 190 (12.67%) Migration
13 179 (11.93%) Business Intelligence
14 171 (11.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 171 (11.40%) User Acceptance Testing
15 168 (11.20%) AI
16 164 (10.93%) Data Modelling
17 162 (10.80%) Platform Engineering
18 160 (10.67%) Deployment Automation
19 155 (10.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 380 (25.33%) Python
2 379 (25.27%) SQL
3 257 (17.13%) C#
4 215 (14.33%) PowerShell
5 171 (11.40%) Bicep
6 157 (10.47%) JavaScript
7 137 (9.13%) Bash
8 117 (7.80%) Java
9 92 (6.13%) TypeScript
10 25 (1.67%) T-SQL
11 19 (1.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 18 (1.20%) Apex Code
13 17 (1.13%) Kusto Query Language
14 14 (0.93%) Go
14 14 (0.93%) X++
15 6 (0.40%) C
15 6 (0.40%) Kotlin
15 6 (0.40%) PL/SQL
15 6 (0.40%) R
15 6 (0.40%) Scala
Qualifications
1 444 (29.60%) Security Cleared
2 361 (24.07%) SC Cleared
3 121 (8.07%) Azure Certification
4 110 (7.33%) Degree
5 70 (4.67%) Microsoft Certification
6 55 (3.67%) DV Cleared
7 41 (2.73%) BPSS Clearance
8 37 (2.47%) ISTQB
9 31 (2.07%) Computer Science Degree
10 26 (1.73%) AWS Certification
11 19 (1.27%) PMI Certification
12 18 (1.20%) PMP
13 14 (0.93%) CISSP
14 13 (0.87%) Master's Degree
15 11 (0.73%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 10 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 10 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
16 10 (0.67%) DBS Check
17 9 (0.60%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 9 (0.60%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 180 (12.00%) QA
2 104 (6.93%) Data Quality
3 90 (6.00%) Accessibility
4 57 (3.80%) GDPR
5 54 (3.60%) WCAG
6 32 (2.13%) PMO
7 27 (1.80%) NIST
8 25 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 19 (1.27%) NCSC
10 12 (0.80%) SLA
11 10 (0.67%) GRC
12 9 (0.60%) ISO 20022
12 9 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 7 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
14 6 (0.40%) SEPA
15 4 (0.27%) PSD2
16 3 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 3 (0.20%) Government Security Classifications
17 2 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
17 2 (0.13%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 250 (16.67%) Docker
2 75 (5.00%) Active Directory
3 32 (2.13%) Virtual Machines
4 17 (1.13%) VMware Infrastructure
5 15 (1.00%) 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 (0.067%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.067%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 316 (21.07%) Kubernetes
2 102 (6.80%) Ansible
3 57 (3.80%) Grafana
4 50 (3.33%) Prometheus
5 28 (1.87%) Microsoft Intune
6 25 (1.67%) Progress Chef
7 22 (1.47%) Puppet
8 18 (1.20%) Argo
9 14 (0.93%) Packer
10 13 (0.87%) HP ALM
11 10 (0.67%) SCOM
12 9 (0.60%) SCCM
12 9 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
13 6 (0.40%) Istio
14 5 (0.33%) HP Quality Center
14 5 (0.33%) Jamf Pro
15 3 (0.20%) HP Fortify
15 3 (0.20%) Kibana
16 2 (0.13%) systemd
16 2 (0.13%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 538 (35.87%) Microsoft
2 135 (9.00%) Databricks
3 57 (3.80%) Salesforce
4 56 (3.73%) Oracle
5 55 (3.67%) ServiceNow
6 45 (3.00%) SAP
7 38 (2.53%) Google
8 32 (2.13%) Dynatrace
9 30 (2.00%) Splunk
10 24 (1.60%) VMware
11 17 (1.13%) Foundry
11 17 (1.13%) OpenAI
12 16 (1.07%) Informatica
13 14 (0.93%) MuleSoft
13 14 (0.93%) UiPath
14 13 (0.87%) HP
15 11 (0.73%) Red Hat
16 9 (0.60%) InterSystems
16 9 (0.60%) Workday
17 8 (0.53%) Adobe
700 Azure DevOps jobs in England