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

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 89 79
Rank change year-on-year +8 -10 -6
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,107 722 1,001
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.13% 2.83% 2.64%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.35% 7.50% 8.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 800 498 733
10th Percentile £363 £383 £413
25th Percentile £413 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £600 £628 £638
90th Percentile £688 £707 £700
UK median daily rate £498 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -5.24% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 13
10th Percentile £45.95 £67.63 £56.00
25th Percentile £55.31 £69.69 £63.75
Median hourly rate £74.38 £73.75 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.85% +12.60% -3.53%
75th Percentile £76.31 £77.19 £77.50
90th Percentile £93.75 £78.88 -
UK median hourly rate £74.26 £82.50 £65.50
% change year-on-year -9.99% +25.95% -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 13,257 9,627 12,380
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.44% 37.71% 32.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,149 6,534 8,935
10th Percentile £310 £313 £275
25th Percentile £409 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £606 £638 £638
90th Percentile £707 £738 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 373 150 325
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.28 £14.18
25th Percentile £20.32 £21.05 £16.06
Median hourly rate £40.00 £27.50 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +45.45% +28.69% -14.52%
75th Percentile £60.00 £45.98 £43.75
90th Percentile £79.90 £73.93 £65.25
UK median hourly rate £39.75 £27.19 £21.37
% change year-on-year +46.21% +27.22% -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 1 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 1 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 1 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 +12 618 £500 -9.09% 149
South East -17 142 £514 -6.59% 132
Midlands -5 102 £480 -5.88% 54
North of England -34 98 £500 - 105
South West +24 86 £475 -5.94% 50
West Midlands -15 62 £500 -4.76% 34
North West -22 47 £463 -13.86% 56
East Midlands -8 40 £418 -14.36% 20
Yorkshire -59 40 £525 +16.67% 35
East of England -9 30 £538 -18.87% 31
North East -5 11 £513 -4.65% 16
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 69 (6.23%) SharePoint
2 63 (5.69%) Confluence
3 27 (2.44%) Apache Spark
4 17 (1.54%) Apache
5 14 (1.26%) Apache Airflow
6 11 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
7 10 (0.90%) HCL Notes
8 9 (0.81%) Mendix
9 7 (0.63%) IIS
10 4 (0.36%) CMS
11 3 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.27%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.27%) OpenStack
11 3 (0.27%) Sitecore CMS
12 1 (0.090%) Apache Synapse
12 1 (0.090%) Documentum
12 1 (0.090%) Kentico
12 1 (0.090%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.090%) SAS
12 1 (0.090%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 28 (2.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (1.63%) Microsoft Project
3 17 (1.54%) MS Visio
4 10 (0.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
6 3 (0.27%) Trello
7 2 (0.18%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.090%) CPLEX
8 1 (0.090%) InDesign
8 1 (0.090%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 39 (3.52%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.63%) Maximo
3 6 (0.54%) NEC Housing
3 6 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.45%) Aladdin
5 4 (0.36%) Endur
5 4 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.27%) Dynamics AX
6 3 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
6 3 (0.27%) SAP BPC
7 2 (0.18%) Oracle Assets
7 2 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.18%) Oracle General Ledger
7 2 (0.18%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.18%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.18%) Primavera
7 2 (0.18%) Workday HCM
8 1 (0.090%) Oracle Financials
8 1 (0.090%) SAP MM
8 1 (0.090%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 1,107 (100.00%) Azure
2 264 (23.85%) GitHub
3 193 (17.43%) Power Platform
4 187 (16.89%) GitHub Actions
5 137 (12.38%) AWS
6 130 (11.74%) Serverless
7 125 (11.29%) Azure Data Factory
8 119 (10.75%) Azure Monitor
9 117 (10.57%) Azure AKS
10 110 (9.94%) Entra ID
11 94 (8.49%) Dynamics 365
12 90 (8.13%) Azure Functions
13 83 (7.50%) Azure Key Vault
14 80 (7.23%) Azure Logic Apps
15 73 (6.59%) Power Automate
16 71 (6.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 65 (5.87%) GCP
18 63 (5.69%) Azure Service Bus
19 59 (5.33%) PowerApps
20 53 (4.79%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 38 (3.43%) Firewall
2 20 (1.81%) Network Security
3 17 (1.54%) DNS
4 16 (1.45%) VPN
5 10 (0.90%) SD-WAN
6 9 (0.81%) WAN
7 6 (0.54%) TCP/IP
8 5 (0.45%) HTTP
9 4 (0.36%) DHCP
9 4 (0.36%) IPsec
9 4 (0.36%) LAN
9 4 (0.36%) MQTT
9 4 (0.36%) Remote Desktop
10 3 (0.27%) FTP
11 2 (0.18%) MPLS
11 2 (0.18%) SSL
11 2 (0.18%) VLAN
12 1 (0.090%) SMTP
12 1 (0.090%) VoIP
12 1 (0.090%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 123 (11.11%) Power BI
2 95 (8.58%) SQL Server
3 64 (5.78%) Azure SQL Database
4 57 (5.15%) Data Lake
5 47 (4.25%) Data Warehouse
6 45 (4.07%) Delta Lake
7 41 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
8 26 (2.35%) NoSQL
9 25 (2.26%) Oracle Database
10 20 (1.81%) Redis
10 20 (1.81%) Relational Database
11 18 (1.63%) MongoDB
12 17 (1.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 16 (1.45%) Tableau
14 15 (1.36%) Spark SQL
15 12 (1.08%) DynamoDB
16 11 (0.99%) Oracle Reports
16 11 (0.99%) Snowflake Schema
17 10 (0.90%) Data Vault
17 10 (0.90%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 209 (18.88%) JIRA
2 159 (14.36%) Git
3 109 (9.85%) Jenkins
4 62 (5.60%) GitLab
5 52 (4.70%) Selenium
6 35 (3.16%) Oracle APEX
6 35 (3.16%) Postman
7 23 (2.08%) Cypress.io
8 21 (1.90%) SonarQube
9 19 (1.72%) TestRail
10 18 (1.63%) Visual Studio
11 16 (1.45%) Team Foundation Server
12 15 (1.36%) Cucumber
12 15 (1.36%) JMeter
12 15 (1.36%) REST Assured
13 14 (1.26%) JUnit
14 13 (1.17%) Zephyr
15 12 (1.08%) SpecFlow
16 11 (0.99%) MLflow
17 10 (0.90%) Artifactory
General
1 335 (30.26%) Social Skills
2 213 (19.24%) Finance
3 124 (11.20%) Public Sector
4 116 (10.48%) Analytical Skills
5 50 (4.52%) Banking
6 29 (2.62%) Documentation Skills
6 29 (2.62%) Organisational Skills
7 26 (2.35%) Influencing Skills
8 22 (1.99%) Retail
9 20 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 15 (1.36%) Financial Institution
11 14 (1.26%) Front Office
11 14 (1.26%) Investment Banking
12 13 (1.17%) Law
12 13 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
13 11 (0.99%) Back Office
14 10 (0.90%) Billing
14 10 (0.90%) Legal
15 9 (0.81%) Telecoms
16 8 (0.72%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 250 (22.58%) Developer
2 171 (15.45%) Azure Engineer
3 153 (13.82%) Senior
4 148 (13.37%) DevOps Engineer
5 96 (8.67%) Analyst
6 95 (8.58%) Lead
7 91 (8.22%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 86 (7.77%) Data Engineer
9 80 (7.23%) Architect
10 53 (4.79%) Senior Developer
11 44 (3.97%) Azure Developer
12 43 (3.88%) Test Analyst
13 42 (3.79%) Platform Engineer
14 39 (3.52%) Business Analyst
15 38 (3.43%) Tester
16 33 (2.98%) Azure Architect
17 30 (2.71%) Cloud Engineer
18 29 (2.62%) Full-Stack Developer
19 27 (2.44%) Consultant
19 27 (2.44%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 194 (17.52%) .NET
2 103 (9.30%) REST
3 74 (6.68%) React
4 71 (6.41%) ARM Templates
5 67 (6.05%) Node.js
6 64 (5.78%) ADO
7 63 (5.69%) PySpark
8 48 (4.34%) .NET Core
9 47 (4.25%) YAML
10 44 (3.97%) RESTful
11 39 (3.52%) HTML
12 36 (3.25%) Playwright
13 35 (3.16%) .NET Framework
14 34 (3.07%) CSS
15 33 (2.98%) OAuth
16 31 (2.80%) JSON
16 31 (2.80%) Kafka
16 31 (2.80%) SOAP
17 29 (2.62%) AngularJS
18 21 (1.90%) HTML5 Canvas
Miscellaneous
1 120 (10.84%) Cloud Native
2 62 (5.60%) Product Ownership
3 31 (2.80%) Legacy Systems
4 30 (2.71%) Distributed Systems
5 27 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
6 21 (1.90%) Low-Code
7 18 (1.63%) Hybrid Cloud
7 18 (1.63%) Reinsurance
8 16 (1.45%) Onboarding
9 15 (1.36%) AI Agents
9 15 (1.36%) CMDB
9 15 (1.36%) Public Cloud
10 14 (1.26%) Data Structures
10 14 (1.26%) NHS
11 11 (0.99%) Linux Command Line
11 11 (0.99%) Replication
11 11 (0.99%) Security Posture
12 10 (0.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 10 (0.90%) Virtual Team
13 9 (0.81%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 48 (4.34%) Windows
2 43 (3.88%) Linux
3 15 (1.36%) VMS
4 7 (0.63%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.18%) Android
6 2 (0.18%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.18%) Unix
7 1 (0.090%) Solaris
7 1 (0.090%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,099 (99.28%) DevOps
2 604 (54.56%) CI/CD
3 442 (39.93%) Agile
4 273 (24.66%) Infrastructure as Code
5 220 (19.87%) Problem-Solving
6 196 (17.71%) Analytics
7 185 (16.71%) Test Automation
8 175 (15.81%) Scrum
9 172 (15.54%) Continuous Improvement
10 139 (12.56%) AI
10 139 (12.56%) Business Intelligence
11 136 (12.29%) Containerisation
12 124 (11.20%) Data Modelling
13 119 (10.75%) Validation
14 116 (10.48%) Stakeholder Management
15 110 (9.94%) Migration
16 107 (9.67%) Microservices
17 95 (8.58%) Observability
17 95 (8.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 91 (8.22%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 363 (32.79%) SQL
2 307 (27.73%) Python
3 211 (19.06%) C#
4 183 (16.53%) JavaScript
5 119 (10.75%) PowerShell
6 101 (9.12%) Bicep
7 75 (6.78%) TypeScript
8 71 (6.41%) Bash
8 71 (6.41%) Java
9 56 (5.06%) PL/SQL
10 26 (2.35%) Scala
11 25 (2.26%) T-SQL
12 14 (1.26%) Go
13 13 (1.17%) Kusto Query Language
14 10 (0.90%) Formula Language
14 10 (0.90%) LotusScript
15 9 (0.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 6 (0.54%) PHP
16 6 (0.54%) X++
17 5 (0.45%) XPath
Qualifications
1 306 (27.64%) Security Cleared
2 257 (23.22%) SC Cleared
3 104 (9.39%) Azure Certification
4 71 (6.41%) Degree
5 36 (3.25%) Microsoft Certification
6 33 (2.98%) DV Cleared
7 28 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
7 28 (2.53%) ISTQB
8 24 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
9 15 (1.36%) AWS Certification
9 15 (1.36%) PMI Certification
10 12 (1.08%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 11 (0.99%) PMP
12 10 (0.90%) Master's Degree
13 8 (0.72%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 8 (0.72%) CISSP
14 7 (0.63%) CISM
15 5 (0.45%) ISEB
15 5 (0.45%) ITIL Certification
15 5 (0.45%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 117 (10.57%) QA
2 64 (5.78%) Data Quality
3 32 (2.89%) Accessibility
4 27 (2.44%) GDPR
5 21 (1.90%) NIST
6 18 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 18 (1.63%) NCSC
7 15 (1.36%) PMO
8 12 (1.08%) WCAG
9 9 (0.81%) NIST 800
10 8 (0.72%) SLA
11 7 (0.63%) EU AI Act
11 7 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 6 (0.54%) HL7
12 6 (0.54%) PCI DSS
13 4 (0.36%) HIPAA
13 4 (0.36%) SOC 2
14 2 (0.18%) FedRAMP
14 2 (0.18%) GRC
14 2 (0.18%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 180 (16.26%) Docker
2 65 (5.87%) Active Directory
3 21 (1.90%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (0.90%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.36%) Firmware
7 2 (0.18%) Postfix
8 1 (0.090%) HDFS
8 1 (0.090%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.090%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 321 (29.00%) Terraform
2 188 (16.98%) Kubernetes
3 52 (4.70%) Ansible
4 44 (3.97%) Grafana
5 38 (3.43%) Prometheus
6 13 (1.17%) HP ALM
7 11 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
8 10 (0.90%) Istio
9 9 (0.81%) Argo
10 7 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
10 7 (0.63%) Puppet
11 6 (0.54%) Podman
12 5 (0.45%) Progress Chef
13 4 (0.36%) HP Quality Center
14 3 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 3 (0.27%) Icinga
14 3 (0.27%) Kibana
14 3 (0.27%) Kubeflow
15 2 (0.18%) Opsgenie
15 2 (0.18%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 342 (30.89%) Microsoft
2 144 (13.01%) Databricks
3 126 (11.38%) Oracle
4 62 (5.60%) ServiceNow
5 35 (3.16%) OpenAI
6 31 (2.80%) Salesforce
7 24 (2.17%) SAP
8 21 (1.90%) Splunk
9 16 (1.45%) Google
10 13 (1.17%) HP
10 13 (1.17%) VMware
11 11 (0.99%) Foundry
12 10 (0.90%) Lotus
12 10 (0.90%) MuleSoft
12 10 (0.90%) NEC
13 9 (0.81%) Informatica
13 9 (0.81%) Kofax
14 8 (0.72%) Brio
14 8 (0.72%) Citrix
14 8 (0.72%) IBM