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

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 97 72
Rank change year-on-year +24 -25 0
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,269 657 1,054
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.14% 2.70% 2.84%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.87% 7.24% 8.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 934 471 712
10th Percentile £363 £375 £400
25th Percentile £413 £433 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £688 £725 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £520
% change year-on-year -1.96% -1.92% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 2 6
10th Percentile £25.38 £33.85 £64.50
25th Percentile £28.35 £39.25 £65.25
Median hourly rate £49.65 £49.50 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.30% -24.43% -6.43%
75th Percentile £89.50 £59.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £102.95 £65.15 £68.50
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £76.25 £65.50
% change year-on-year -31.15% +16.41% -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 14,310 9,071 11,836
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.35% 37.21% 31.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,845 6,350 8,547
10th Percentile £315 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £744 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 448 194 318
10th Percentile £15.98 £15.03 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £18.13 £15.86
Median hourly rate £46.90 £25.98 £20.77
Median % change year-on-year +80.56% +25.06% -31.90%
75th Percentile £68.07 £39.69 £31.75
90th Percentile £81.38 £73.38 £61.60
UK median hourly rate £42.69 £27.43 £20.97
% change year-on-year +55.64% +30.78% -40.09%

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 3 May 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 3 May 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 3 May 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 +23 716 £500 -6.54% 153
South East -11 171 £500 - 98
Midlands -10 123 £450 -14.29% 47
North of England +2 122 £500 - 80
South West +24 85 £475 -9.52% 21
West Midlands -15 72 £450 -14.29% 24
North West +3 63 £500 -4.76% 43
East Midlands -9 49 £488 -2.50% 23
Yorkshire -25 47 £525 +16.67% 20
East of England -22 21 £438 -7.89% 28
North East -11 12 £475 -11.63% 17
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 85 (6.70%) SharePoint
2 70 (5.52%) Confluence
3 39 (3.07%) Apache Spark
4 28 (2.21%) Apache
5 15 (1.18%) Apache Airflow
5 15 (1.18%) Microsoft Exchange
6 11 (0.87%) HCL Notes
7 10 (0.79%) Mendix
8 6 (0.47%) IIS
9 5 (0.39%) CMS
10 3 (0.24%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
11 2 (0.16%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.079%) Apache Synapse
12 1 (0.079%) IBM HTTP Server
12 1 (0.079%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.079%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.079%) Palantir Foundry
12 1 (0.079%) SAS
12 1 (0.079%) WebLogic
Applications
1 43 (3.39%) Microsoft Project
2 27 (2.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 18 (1.42%) MS Visio
4 10 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
5 8 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.24%) CPLEX
6 3 (0.24%) Trello
7 2 (0.16%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.079%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 37 (2.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.63%) Maximo
4 7 (0.55%) NEC Housing
5 6 (0.47%) Dynamics AX
6 4 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.32%) Payment Gateway
6 4 (0.32%) SAP BPC
7 3 (0.24%) Findur
7 3 (0.24%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 2 (0.16%) Aladdin
8 2 (0.16%) SAP MM
9 1 (0.079%) Endur
9 1 (0.079%) OpenText VIM for SAP
9 1 (0.079%) Oracle ERP
9 1 (0.079%) Oracle Financials
9 1 (0.079%) Primavera
9 1 (0.079%) SAP SD
9 1 (0.079%) SDL Web 8
9 1 (0.079%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 1,269 (100.00%) Azure
2 304 (23.96%) GitHub
3 201 (15.84%) GitHub Actions
4 195 (15.37%) Power Platform
5 158 (12.45%) AWS
6 132 (10.40%) Azure Data Factory
7 128 (10.09%) Azure AKS
8 116 (9.14%) Entra ID
9 115 (9.06%) Serverless
10 110 (8.67%) Azure Monitor
11 93 (7.33%) Dynamics 365
12 90 (7.09%) Azure Key Vault
13 80 (6.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 77 (6.07%) Azure Functions
15 76 (5.99%) Power Automate
16 71 (5.59%) Azure Logic Apps
17 66 (5.20%) Azure Service Bus
18 65 (5.12%) Microsoft 365
19 64 (5.04%) GCP
20 56 (4.41%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 53 (4.18%) Firewall
2 24 (1.89%) Network Security
3 21 (1.65%) DNS
4 19 (1.50%) VPN
5 14 (1.10%) SD-WAN
6 13 (1.02%) WAN
7 7 (0.55%) DHCP
7 7 (0.55%) LAN
7 7 (0.55%) TCP/IP
8 6 (0.47%) Internet
9 5 (0.39%) IPsec
9 5 (0.39%) VLAN
10 4 (0.32%) HTTP
10 4 (0.32%) MQTT
11 3 (0.24%) FTP
11 3 (0.24%) Remote Desktop
11 3 (0.24%) SSL
12 2 (0.16%) MPLS
12 2 (0.16%) OSPF
12 2 (0.16%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (10.24%) Power BI
2 112 (8.83%) SQL Server
3 78 (6.15%) Azure SQL Database
4 75 (5.91%) Data Lake
5 65 (5.12%) Delta Lake
6 56 (4.41%) Data Warehouse
7 44 (3.47%) NoSQL
8 38 (2.99%) PostgreSQL
9 29 (2.29%) Oracle Database
10 26 (2.05%) MongoDB
11 25 (1.97%) Relational Database
12 21 (1.65%) Spark SQL
13 18 (1.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 17 (1.34%) Tableau
15 16 (1.26%) Snowflake Schema
16 15 (1.18%) Metadata
16 15 (1.18%) Redis
17 13 (1.02%) Big Data
18 12 (0.95%) Amazon Redshift
19 11 (0.87%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 240 (18.91%) JIRA
2 185 (14.58%) Git
3 117 (9.22%) Jenkins
4 76 (5.99%) GitLab
5 49 (3.86%) Selenium
6 29 (2.29%) Postman
7 21 (1.65%) SonarQube
8 20 (1.58%) Cypress.io
9 19 (1.50%) TestRail
10 17 (1.34%) REST Assured
11 15 (1.18%) Oracle APEX
12 14 (1.10%) Cucumber
12 14 (1.10%) SpecFlow
12 14 (1.10%) Team Foundation Server
13 13 (1.02%) Bitbucket
13 13 (1.02%) Visual Studio
14 12 (0.95%) Artifactory
14 12 (0.95%) JUnit
14 12 (0.95%) Zephyr
15 10 (0.79%) NUnit
General
1 302 (23.80%) Social Skills
2 259 (20.41%) Finance
3 131 (10.32%) Public Sector
4 129 (10.17%) Analytical Skills
5 60 (4.73%) Banking
6 34 (2.68%) Organisational Skills
7 23 (1.81%) Documentation Skills
8 22 (1.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 19 (1.50%) Legal
10 18 (1.42%) Financial Institution
11 16 (1.26%) Front Office
11 16 (1.26%) Influencing Skills
11 16 (1.26%) Retail
12 12 (0.95%) Investment Banking
13 9 (0.71%) Law
13 9 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
14 8 (0.63%) Aerospace
14 8 (0.63%) Local Government
15 7 (0.55%) Back Office
15 7 (0.55%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 245 (19.31%) Developer
2 208 (16.39%) Azure Engineer
3 178 (14.03%) Senior
4 176 (13.87%) DevOps Engineer
5 122 (9.61%) Data Engineer
6 113 (8.90%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 109 (8.59%) Lead
8 104 (8.20%) Analyst
9 84 (6.62%) Architect
10 52 (4.10%) Platform Engineer
11 47 (3.70%) Senior Developer
12 46 (3.62%) Test Analyst
13 44 (3.47%) Tester
14 41 (3.23%) Azure Developer
15 39 (3.07%) Business Analyst
15 39 (3.07%) Cloud Engineer
16 37 (2.92%) Project Manager
17 36 (2.84%) Full-Stack Developer
17 36 (2.84%) Test Engineer
18 33 (2.60%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 193 (15.21%) .NET
2 97 (7.64%) REST
3 80 (6.30%) PySpark
4 71 (5.59%) React
5 63 (4.96%) ARM Templates
6 62 (4.89%) ADO
7 61 (4.81%) Node.js
8 57 (4.49%) Kafka
9 53 (4.18%) YAML
10 51 (4.02%) RESTful
11 46 (3.62%) .NET Framework
11 46 (3.62%) Playwright
12 44 (3.47%) .NET Core
13 38 (2.99%) JSON
14 32 (2.52%) AngularJS
14 32 (2.52%) CSS
15 31 (2.44%) SOAP
16 29 (2.29%) HTML
17 28 (2.21%) OAuth
18 27 (2.13%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 140 (11.03%) Cloud Native
2 67 (5.28%) Product Ownership
3 39 (3.07%) Distributed Systems
4 35 (2.76%) Enterprise Software
5 34 (2.68%) Legacy Systems
6 25 (1.97%) Onboarding
7 21 (1.65%) Reinsurance
8 17 (1.34%) Hybrid Cloud
8 17 (1.34%) Low-Code
8 17 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
9 16 (1.26%) AI Agents
9 16 (1.26%) Data Structures
10 12 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
11 11 (0.87%) NHS
11 11 (0.87%) Replication
11 11 (0.87%) Virtual Team
12 9 (0.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 9 (0.71%) Management Information System
12 9 (0.71%) Mobile App
12 9 (0.71%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 66 (5.20%) Windows
2 48 (3.78%) Linux
3 14 (1.10%) VMS
4 10 (0.79%) Windows Server
5 9 (0.71%) Unix
6 3 (0.24%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.16%) Android
7 2 (0.16%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.079%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,262 (99.45%) DevOps
2 683 (53.82%) CI/CD
3 468 (36.88%) Agile
4 300 (23.64%) Infrastructure as Code
5 216 (17.02%) Problem-Solving
6 208 (16.39%) Test Automation
7 201 (15.84%) Analytics
8 163 (12.84%) Continuous Improvement
9 162 (12.77%) Scrum
10 160 (12.61%) Migration
11 150 (11.82%) Containerisation
12 147 (11.58%) Data Modelling
13 142 (11.19%) Business Intelligence
14 131 (10.32%) Stakeholder Management
15 128 (10.09%) AI
16 127 (10.01%) Microservices
17 124 (9.77%) Observability
18 121 (9.54%) Data Pipeline
19 119 (9.38%) ETL
20 114 (8.98%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 404 (31.84%) SQL
2 326 (25.69%) Python
3 236 (18.60%) C#
4 145 (11.43%) JavaScript
5 130 (10.24%) PowerShell
6 114 (8.98%) Bicep
7 87 (6.86%) Bash
7 87 (6.86%) Java
8 71 (5.59%) TypeScript
9 36 (2.84%) PL/SQL
10 27 (2.13%) T-SQL
11 26 (2.05%) Scala
12 16 (1.26%) Kusto Query Language
13 15 (1.18%) Go
14 13 (1.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 11 (0.87%) Formula Language
15 11 (0.87%) LotusScript
16 7 (0.55%) R
17 6 (0.47%) VB
18 5 (0.39%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 355 (27.97%) Security Cleared
2 299 (23.56%) SC Cleared
3 103 (8.12%) Azure Certification
4 75 (5.91%) Degree
5 36 (2.84%) ISTQB
6 35 (2.76%) DV Cleared
7 28 (2.21%) BPSS Clearance
7 28 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
8 27 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
9 17 (1.34%) PMI Certification
9 17 (1.34%) PMP
10 10 (0.79%) AWS Certification
10 10 (0.79%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 7 (0.55%) Master's Degree
12 6 (0.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 6 (0.47%) CISM
12 6 (0.47%) CISSP
13 5 (0.39%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
13 5 (0.39%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 5 (0.39%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 149 (11.74%) QA
2 96 (7.57%) Data Quality
3 34 (2.68%) Accessibility
4 27 (2.13%) GDPR
5 20 (1.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 18 (1.42%) PMO
7 17 (1.34%) NIST
8 16 (1.26%) NCSC
9 15 (1.18%) WCAG
10 9 (0.71%) NIST 800
10 9 (0.71%) PCI DSS
10 9 (0.71%) SLA
11 8 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 7 (0.55%) GRC
13 6 (0.47%) HL7
14 3 (0.24%) HIPAA
15 2 (0.16%) FedRAMP
15 2 (0.16%) Government Security Classifications
15 2 (0.16%) GxP
15 2 (0.16%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 183 (14.42%) Docker
2 71 (5.59%) Active Directory
3 24 (1.89%) Virtual Machines
4 11 (0.87%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.32%) Firmware
5 4 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.16%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.16%) Microsoft App-V
6 2 (0.16%) OpenSSH
6 2 (0.16%) Postfix
7 1 (0.079%) HDFS
7 1 (0.079%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.079%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 347 (27.34%) Terraform
2 229 (18.05%) Kubernetes
3 60 (4.73%) Ansible
4 42 (3.31%) Grafana
5 36 (2.84%) Prometheus
6 17 (1.34%) Argo
7 15 (1.18%) HP ALM
8 14 (1.10%) Istio
8 14 (1.10%) Puppet
9 11 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
10 10 (0.79%) Progress Chef
11 8 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
12 7 (0.55%) Packer
13 4 (0.32%) HP Quality Center
14 3 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 3 (0.24%) Icinga
14 3 (0.24%) Kubeflow
14 3 (0.24%) Rancher
14 3 (0.24%) SCCM
15 2 (0.16%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 380 (29.94%) Microsoft
2 155 (12.21%) Databricks
3 112 (8.83%) Oracle
4 57 (4.49%) ServiceNow
5 35 (2.76%) SAP
6 32 (2.52%) Salesforce
7 31 (2.44%) OpenAI
8 23 (1.81%) Splunk
9 22 (1.73%) Informatica
10 16 (1.26%) HP
11 15 (1.18%) Google
12 13 (1.02%) Dynatrace
12 13 (1.02%) VMware
13 12 (0.95%) Foundry
14 11 (0.87%) IBM
14 11 (0.87%) Lotus
14 11 (0.87%) NEC
15 10 (0.79%) Kofax
16 9 (0.71%) Citrix
17 8 (0.63%) Red Hat