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 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
29 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 84 80 75
Rank change year-on-year -4 -5 +16
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 949 850 1,077
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.09% 2.74% 2.76%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.02% 7.60% 7.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 680 570 832
10th Percentile £353 £380 £411
25th Percentile £413 £463 £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 £700 £706
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 9
10th Percentile £45.84 £67.63 £54.25
25th Percentile £57.44 £69.69 £57.50
Median hourly rate £74.63 £73.75 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.19% +18.95% -5.76%
75th Percentile £90.00 £77.19 £77.50
90th Percentile £93.75 £78.88 -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £73.75 £62.00
% change year-on-year +1.69% +18.95% -5.76%

All Cloud 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 11,826 11,181 13,712
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.50% 36.09% 35.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,083 7,436 10,014
10th Percentile £305 £313 £288
25th Percentile £406 £425 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £618 £650 £649
90th Percentile £715 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 292 152 276
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.04 £14.36
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.75
Median hourly rate £25.47 £32.75 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.23% +23.58% +17.78%
75th Percentile £51.13 £58.95 £58.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £70.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £30.00 £27.00
% change year-on-year -13.33% +11.11% +22.73%

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 29 November 2025.

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 29 November 2025.

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 29 November 2025. 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 -4 507 £520 -5.45% 146
South East -2 121 £500 -9.09% 145
North of England -24 101 £500 -3.61% 47
Midlands +2 85 £500 -2.20% 52
South West +46 75 £475 -3.55% 36
West Midlands -10 52 £575 +9.52% 32
North West -11 48 £403 -26.82% 20
Yorkshire -20 48 £513 +2.50% 12
East Midlands +11 33 £434 -8.68% 19
East of England +3 30 £525 -20.75% 17
North East -3 5 £600 +23.08% 15
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 50 (5.27%) Confluence
1 50 (5.27%) SharePoint
2 13 (1.37%) Apache Spark
3 12 (1.26%) Apache
3 12 (1.26%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (0.53%) CMS
6 4 (0.42%) IIS
6 4 (0.42%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.32%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.32%) Documentum
7 3 (0.32%) Sitecore CMS
8 2 (0.21%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.21%) Mule
9 1 (0.11%) Apache Synapse
9 1 (0.11%) Appian
9 1 (0.11%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.11%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.11%) Kentico
9 1 (0.11%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 30 (3.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.16%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (1.16%) Microsoft Project
3 10 (1.05%) MS Visio
4 7 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.32%) Trello
6 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 32 (3.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (1.05%) Aladdin
3 7 (0.74%) Endur
4 5 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.42%) NEC Housing
6 3 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.21%) Oracle Assets
7 2 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.21%) Oracle General Ledger
7 2 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.21%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.21%) Primavera
7 2 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.21%) Workday HCM
8 1 (0.11%) Dynamics AX
8 1 (0.11%) Orchestrade
8 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.11%) SAP BPC
8 1 (0.11%) SAP MRS
8 1 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 948 (99.89%) Azure
2 215 (22.66%) GitHub
3 161 (16.97%) Power Platform
4 157 (16.54%) GitHub Actions
5 130 (13.70%) AWS
6 111 (11.70%) Azure AKS
7 104 (10.96%) Serverless
8 88 (9.27%) Azure Data Factory
9 86 (9.06%) Azure Monitor
10 85 (8.96%) Dynamics 365
11 78 (8.22%) Entra ID
12 68 (7.17%) Azure Logic Apps
13 63 (6.64%) PowerApps
14 60 (6.32%) Power Automate
15 59 (6.22%) Azure Functions
16 58 (6.11%) Azure Key Vault
16 58 (6.11%) GCP
17 52 (5.48%) Azure Service Bus
18 51 (5.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 42 (4.43%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 32 (3.37%) Firewall
2 21 (2.21%) Network Security
3 18 (1.90%) DNS
4 16 (1.69%) VPN
5 11 (1.16%) WAN
6 8 (0.84%) SD-WAN
7 6 (0.63%) LAN
8 5 (0.53%) DHCP
9 4 (0.42%) TCP/IP
10 3 (0.32%) HTTP
11 2 (0.21%) AMQP
11 2 (0.21%) DSL
11 2 (0.21%) MPLS
11 2 (0.21%) NGFW
11 2 (0.21%) Remote Desktop
11 2 (0.21%) SSL
11 2 (0.21%) VLAN
12 1 (0.11%) BGP
12 1 (0.11%) FTP
12 1 (0.11%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (10.85%) Power BI
2 56 (5.90%) SQL Server
3 41 (4.32%) Azure SQL Database
3 41 (4.32%) PostgreSQL
4 37 (3.90%) Data Warehouse
5 31 (3.27%) Data Lake
6 23 (2.42%) NoSQL
7 20 (2.11%) Delta Lake
7 20 (2.11%) MongoDB
8 19 (2.00%) Redis
8 19 (2.00%) Relational Database
9 12 (1.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 11 (1.16%) MySQL
11 10 (1.05%) Big Data
12 9 (0.95%) Metadata
12 9 (0.95%) Oracle Database
12 9 (0.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 9 (0.95%) Tableau
13 8 (0.84%) DynamoDB
13 8 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 175 (18.44%) JIRA
2 139 (14.65%) Git
3 101 (10.64%) Jenkins
4 65 (6.85%) GitLab
5 50 (5.27%) Selenium
6 36 (3.79%) Oracle APEX
7 34 (3.58%) Postman
8 27 (2.85%) SonarQube
9 19 (2.00%) JUnit
10 18 (1.90%) Cypress.io
11 17 (1.79%) Cucumber
12 16 (1.69%) Bitbucket
13 14 (1.48%) JMeter
14 13 (1.37%) SpecFlow
15 12 (1.26%) Gradle
16 11 (1.16%) Artifactory
17 9 (0.95%) CircleCI
17 9 (0.95%) REST Assured
17 9 (0.95%) Sonatype Nexus
17 9 (0.95%) TestRail
General
1 325 (34.25%) Social Skills
2 176 (18.55%) Finance
3 109 (11.49%) Public Sector
4 86 (9.06%) Analytical Skills
5 54 (5.69%) Banking
6 32 (3.37%) Documentation Skills
7 30 (3.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 25 (2.63%) Investment Banking
9 24 (2.53%) Retail
10 22 (2.32%) Influencing Skills
11 19 (2.00%) Law
12 13 (1.37%) Marketing
13 12 (1.26%) Organisational Skills
14 11 (1.16%) Back Office
14 11 (1.16%) Billing
14 11 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
15 9 (0.95%) Financial Institution
15 9 (0.95%) Telecoms
16 7 (0.74%) Front Office
16 7 (0.74%) Military
Job Titles
1 263 (27.71%) Developer
2 135 (14.23%) Senior
3 119 (12.54%) Azure Engineer
4 116 (12.22%) DevOps Engineer
5 89 (9.38%) Analyst
6 77 (8.11%) Lead
7 63 (6.64%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 62 (6.53%) Senior Developer
9 59 (6.22%) Architect
10 47 (4.95%) Business Analyst
11 46 (4.85%) Data Engineer
12 41 (4.32%) Azure Developer
13 35 (3.69%) Test Analyst
14 29 (3.06%) Platform Engineer
15 28 (2.95%) .NET Developer
16 27 (2.85%) Azure Architect
16 27 (2.85%) Project Manager
16 27 (2.85%) Tester
17 25 (2.63%) C# Developer
18 24 (2.53%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 188 (19.81%) .NET
2 88 (9.27%) REST
3 63 (6.64%) RESTful
4 62 (6.53%) ADO
5 55 (5.80%) React
6 51 (5.37%) Node.js
6 51 (5.37%) YAML
7 50 (5.27%) ARM Templates
8 46 (4.85%) .NET Core
9 45 (4.74%) SOAP
10 36 (3.79%) AngularJS
11 35 (3.69%) JSON
11 35 (3.69%) PySpark
12 34 (3.58%) HTML
12 34 (3.58%) Kafka
13 33 (3.48%) .NET Framework
13 33 (3.48%) OAuth
14 27 (2.85%) Playwright
15 24 (2.53%) CSS
16 23 (2.42%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 94 (9.91%) Cloud Native
2 53 (5.58%) Product Ownership
3 31 (3.27%) Distributed Systems
4 24 (2.53%) CMDB
5 22 (2.32%) Legacy Systems
6 21 (2.21%) Enterprise Software
7 19 (2.00%) Mobile App
8 18 (1.90%) Onboarding
9 15 (1.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 15 (1.58%) Hybrid Cloud
10 12 (1.26%) AI Agents
10 12 (1.26%) Greenfield Project
10 12 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
11 11 (1.16%) Fixed Income
11 11 (1.16%) Linux Command Line
11 11 (1.16%) Low-Code
11 11 (1.16%) NHS
12 10 (1.05%) Public Cloud
12 10 (1.05%) Security Posture
13 8 (0.84%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 48 (5.06%) Windows
2 42 (4.43%) Linux
3 17 (1.79%) Android
4 13 (1.37%) Apple iOS
5 12 (1.26%) Windows Server
6 10 (1.05%) VMS
7 7 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.74%) Unix
8 3 (0.32%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.21%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.11%) Robot Operating System
10 1 (0.11%) Solaris
10 1 (0.11%) SUSE
10 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.11%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 947 (99.79%) DevOps
2 506 (53.32%) CI/CD
3 465 (49.00%) Agile
4 227 (23.92%) Infrastructure as Code
5 205 (21.60%) Scrum
6 183 (19.28%) Problem-Solving
7 159 (16.75%) Test Automation
8 134 (14.12%) Analytics
9 121 (12.75%) Containerisation
10 118 (12.43%) Continuous Improvement
11 116 (12.22%) Validation
12 105 (11.06%) Microservices
13 104 (10.96%) Business Intelligence
14 101 (10.64%) AI
15 98 (10.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 95 (10.01%) Migration
17 87 (9.17%) Stakeholder Management
18 73 (7.69%) Infrastructure Automation
19 71 (7.48%) Data Engineering
20 69 (7.27%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 263 (27.71%) SQL
2 249 (26.24%) Python
3 202 (21.29%) C#
4 158 (16.65%) JavaScript
5 114 (12.01%) PowerShell
6 78 (8.22%) Bicep
7 75 (7.90%) Java
8 61 (6.43%) Bash
9 55 (5.80%) TypeScript
10 44 (4.64%) PL/SQL
11 12 (1.26%) Go
12 8 (0.84%) Kusto Query Language
12 8 (0.84%) T-SQL
13 7 (0.74%) PHP
13 7 (0.74%) VBA
14 6 (0.63%) VB
14 6 (0.63%) VB.NET
14 6 (0.63%) X++
15 5 (0.53%) Korn
15 5 (0.53%) Scala
Qualifications
1 230 (24.24%) Security Cleared
2 190 (20.02%) SC Cleared
3 68 (7.17%) Degree
4 66 (6.95%) Azure Certification
5 30 (3.16%) Microsoft Certification
6 28 (2.95%) Computer Science Degree
6 28 (2.95%) DV Cleared
7 15 (1.58%) ISTQB
8 14 (1.48%) AWS Certification
9 10 (1.05%) Master's Degree
10 9 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
10 9 (0.95%) PMI Certification
11 7 (0.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 6 (0.63%) CISSP
12 6 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
12 6 (0.63%) Numerate Degree
13 5 (0.53%) CBAP
13 5 (0.53%) ISEB
13 5 (0.53%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 5 (0.53%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (8.32%) QA
2 39 (4.11%) Accessibility
3 33 (3.48%) GDPR
4 31 (3.27%) Data Quality
5 18 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 18 (1.90%) NIST
6 12 (1.26%) NCSC
7 7 (0.74%) EU AI Act
7 7 (0.74%) WCAG
8 5 (0.53%) PMO
8 5 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (0.42%) HL7
10 3 (0.32%) Government Security Classifications
10 3 (0.32%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.32%) PSD2
10 3 (0.32%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.21%) GRC
11 2 (0.21%) HIPAA
System Software
1 161 (16.97%) Docker
2 50 (5.27%) Active Directory
3 21 (2.21%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (1.05%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.21%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.11%) KVM
7 1 (0.11%) Squid
7 1 (0.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 254 (26.77%) Terraform
2 170 (17.91%) Kubernetes
3 71 (7.48%) Ansible
4 39 (4.11%) Grafana
5 37 (3.90%) Prometheus
6 16 (1.69%) Puppet
7 13 (1.37%) Progress Chef
8 8 (0.84%) HP ALM
8 8 (0.84%) Istio
8 8 (0.84%) Kibana
8 8 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
9 7 (0.74%) Argo
9 7 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
9 7 (0.74%) Podman
10 4 (0.42%) Packer
11 3 (0.32%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (0.32%) vCenter Server
12 2 (0.21%) Fluentd
12 2 (0.21%) Opsgenie
12 2 (0.21%) SCCM
Vendors
1 290 (30.56%) Microsoft
2 101 (10.64%) Databricks
3 77 (8.11%) Oracle
4 58 (6.11%) ServiceNow
5 32 (3.37%) Salesforce
6 25 (2.63%) OpenAI
7 20 (2.11%) SAP
7 20 (2.11%) Splunk
8 17 (1.79%) Google
9 16 (1.69%) MuleSoft
10 10 (1.05%) VMware
11 8 (0.84%) DocuSign
11 8 (0.84%) Dynatrace
11 8 (0.84%) HP
11 8 (0.84%) Murex
12 7 (0.74%) Brio
12 7 (0.74%) Cisco
12 7 (0.74%) Sitecore
13 6 (0.63%) Citrix
13 6 (0.63%) NetApp
348 Azure DevOps jobs in England