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 25 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
25 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 92 76
Rank change year-on-year +21 -16 -1
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,534 772 921
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.36% 2.80% 2.77%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.66% 7.51% 8.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,080 550 617
10th Percentile £363 £350 £378
25th Percentile £419 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -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 47 3 0
10th Percentile £21.25 £36.45 -
25th Percentile £36.12 £45.75 -
Median hourly rate £46.80 £62.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -25.12% - -
75th Percentile £79.50 £76.25 -
90th Percentile £101.51 £83.75 -
UK median hourly rate £50.90 £73.75 -
% change year-on-year -30.98% - -

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 15,873 10,277 11,237
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.74% 37.31% 33.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,602 6,951 7,884
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £644
90th Percentile £719 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 546 274 198
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.25 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.25 £18.51 £17.69
Median hourly rate £35.00 £26.15 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.84% -3.15% -18.18%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £83.13 £67.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £33.99 £28.00 £27.00
% change year-on-year +21.39% +3.70% -22.86%

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 25 August 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 25 August 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 25 August 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 +25 875 £500 -4.76% 151
South East -19 179 £525 +10.53% 97
North of England +14 173 £482 -3.70% 72
Midlands +32 169 £450 -12.20% 56
West Midlands +24 123 £450 -18.74% 27
North West +9 89 £500 -0.99% 47
South West -7 72 £475 -6.86% 34
Yorkshire -13 59 £478 -4.50% 19
East Midlands +8 44 £494 +3.95% 29
East of England +6 36 £425 -13.92% 25
North East -15 25 £450 -18.18% 6
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
1 104 (6.78%) Confluence
2 97 (6.32%) SharePoint
3 37 (2.41%) Apache Spark
4 30 (1.96%) Apache
5 28 (1.83%) Apache Airflow
6 13 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
7 11 (0.72%) CMS
8 6 (0.39%) Documentum
9 5 (0.33%) IIS
10 4 (0.26%) Mendix
11 3 (0.20%) Kentico
11 3 (0.20%) Palantir Foundry
12 2 (0.13%) nginx
12 2 (0.13%) OpenROAD
12 2 (0.13%) SAS
12 2 (0.13%) Smallworld
12 2 (0.13%) Umbraco
13 1 (0.065%) ArcGIS
13 1 (0.065%) HCL Notes
13 1 (0.065%) WebLogic
Applications
1 57 (3.72%) Microsoft Project
2 38 (2.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (1.24%) MS Visio
4 14 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
5 11 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 7 (0.46%) CPLEX
7 6 (0.39%) Chatbot
7 6 (0.39%) Trello
8 5 (0.33%) Notion
9 3 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.065%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.065%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 50 (3.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 20 (1.30%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.52%) Dynamics AX
4 4 (0.26%) Maximo
4 4 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (0.20%) Endur
5 3 (0.20%) Findur
5 3 (0.20%) SAP MDG
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 MM
6 2 (0.13%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 2 (0.13%) Teamcenter
6 2 (0.13%) Unit4 Business World
7 1 (0.065%) OpenText VIM for SAP
7 1 (0.065%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 1,534 (100.00%) Azure
2 399 (26.01%) GitHub
3 270 (17.60%) GitHub Actions
4 262 (17.08%) Power Platform
5 231 (15.06%) AWS
6 137 (8.93%) Azure Data Factory
7 135 (8.80%) Entra ID
8 130 (8.47%) Azure AKS
8 130 (8.47%) Dynamics 365
9 120 (7.82%) Azure Monitor
9 120 (7.82%) Power Automate
10 106 (6.91%) Serverless
11 94 (6.13%) PowerApps
12 84 (5.48%) GCP
13 77 (5.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 73 (4.76%) Azure Logic Apps
14 73 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
15 71 (4.63%) Azure Key Vault
16 69 (4.50%) Azure Functions
17 66 (4.30%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 66 (4.30%) Firewall
2 38 (2.48%) DNS
3 36 (2.35%) Network Security
4 27 (1.76%) VPN
5 16 (1.04%) WAN
6 15 (0.98%) SSL
7 14 (0.91%) DHCP
8 13 (0.85%) SD-WAN
9 9 (0.59%) Internet
10 7 (0.46%) LAN
10 7 (0.46%) TCP/IP
10 7 (0.46%) VLAN
11 4 (0.26%) SAN
11 4 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
12 3 (0.20%) 4G
12 3 (0.20%) BGP
12 3 (0.20%) OSPF
12 3 (0.20%) RS-232
12 3 (0.20%) RS-485
13 2 (0.13%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 170 (11.08%) Power BI
2 107 (6.98%) SQL Server
3 73 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
4 72 (4.69%) Azure SQL Database
4 72 (4.69%) Data Lake
5 58 (3.78%) NoSQL
6 46 (3.00%) Delta Lake
7 45 (2.93%) PostgreSQL
8 28 (1.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 26 (1.69%) Metadata
10 24 (1.56%) Relational Database
11 22 (1.43%) MongoDB
12 20 (1.30%) Big Data
13 19 (1.24%) Snowflake Schema
14 18 (1.17%) Spark SQL
15 16 (1.04%) Redis
16 14 (0.91%) Oracle Database
17 12 (0.78%) Amazon Redshift
17 12 (0.78%) Parquet
17 12 (0.78%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 288 (18.77%) JIRA
2 253 (16.49%) Git
3 191 (12.45%) Jenkins
4 146 (9.52%) GitLab
5 75 (4.89%) Selenium
6 37 (2.41%) Postman
7 29 (1.89%) SonarQube
8 28 (1.83%) Cypress.io
9 26 (1.69%) Visual Studio
9 26 (1.69%) WebDriver
10 23 (1.50%) Cucumber
11 19 (1.24%) Gradle
11 19 (1.24%) REST Assured
12 17 (1.11%) JUnit
13 16 (1.04%) Bitbucket
14 15 (0.98%) Maven
14 15 (0.98%) TestRail
15 14 (0.91%) MSI
16 12 (0.78%) Sonatype Nexus
17 11 (0.72%) Snyk
General
1 409 (26.66%) Social Skills
2 318 (20.73%) Finance
3 193 (12.58%) Public Sector
4 162 (10.56%) Analytical Skills
5 86 (5.61%) Banking
6 76 (4.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 31 (2.02%) Retail
8 28 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
8 28 (1.83%) Legal
9 24 (1.56%) Aerospace
9 24 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
9 24 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
10 17 (1.11%) Marketing
11 14 (0.91%) Investment Banking
11 14 (0.91%) Local Government
12 13 (0.85%) Law
13 10 (0.65%) Manufacturing
14 9 (0.59%) Billing
15 8 (0.52%) Pharmaceutical
15 8 (0.52%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 276 (17.99%) Developer
2 232 (15.12%) Senior
3 228 (14.86%) Azure Engineer
3 228 (14.86%) DevOps Engineer
4 134 (8.74%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 132 (8.60%) Lead
6 123 (8.02%) Data Engineer
7 121 (7.89%) Analyst
8 109 (7.11%) Architect
9 60 (3.91%) Business Analyst
10 55 (3.59%) Platform Engineer
11 52 (3.39%) Cloud Engineer
11 52 (3.39%) Project Manager
12 48 (3.13%) Consultant
13 43 (2.80%) Senior Developer
14 41 (2.67%) .NET Developer
14 41 (2.67%) Solutions Architect
14 41 (2.67%) Test Analyst
15 40 (2.61%) Tester
16 38 (2.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 438 (28.55%) Terraform
2 211 (13.75%) .NET
3 183 (11.93%) REST
4 82 (5.35%) PySpark
5 79 (5.15%) RESTful
6 78 (5.08%) ADO
7 77 (5.02%) JSON
8 71 (4.63%) YAML
9 65 (4.24%) Kafka
10 63 (4.11%) ARM Templates
11 61 (3.98%) .NET Framework
12 55 (3.59%) React
13 53 (3.46%) Playwright
14 51 (3.32%) .NET Core
15 41 (2.67%) OAuth
15 41 (2.67%) SOAP
16 40 (2.61%) HTML
17 38 (2.48%) Middleware
17 38 (2.48%) XML
18 35 (2.28%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 179 (11.67%) Cloud Native
2 118 (7.69%) Product Ownership
3 51 (3.32%) Legacy Systems
4 50 (3.26%) Onboarding
5 47 (3.06%) Distributed Systems
6 41 (2.67%) Enterprise Software
7 31 (2.02%) Management Information System
8 30 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
9 29 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
10 23 (1.50%) AI Agents
10 23 (1.50%) Data Structures
11 19 (1.24%) Low-Code
12 17 (1.11%) Mobile App
13 16 (1.04%) Replication
14 15 (0.98%) Data Protection Act
14 15 (0.98%) Greenfield Project
14 15 (0.98%) Linux Command Line
14 15 (0.98%) Reinsurance
15 14 (0.91%) Enterprise Cloud
16 11 (0.72%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 101 (6.58%) Windows
2 69 (4.50%) Linux
3 29 (1.89%) Windows Server
4 18 (1.17%) VMS
5 12 (0.78%) Unix
6 10 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (0.59%) Android
7 9 (0.59%) Apple iOS
8 5 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (0.26%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.26%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.065%) Amazon Linux
10 1 (0.065%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,534 (100.00%) DevOps
2 847 (55.22%) CI/CD
3 656 (42.76%) Agile
4 399 (26.01%) Infrastructure as Code
5 277 (18.06%) Test Automation
6 260 (16.95%) Stakeholder Management
7 249 (16.23%) Problem-Solving
8 246 (16.04%) Continuous Improvement
9 235 (15.32%) Analytics
10 230 (14.99%) Containerisation
11 221 (14.41%) Scrum
12 211 (13.75%) Migration
13 178 (11.60%) Business Intelligence
14 175 (11.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 165 (10.76%) User Acceptance Testing
16 159 (10.37%) Data Modelling
17 154 (10.04%) Microservices
18 153 (9.97%) Platform Engineering
19 151 (9.84%) AI
20 149 (9.71%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 412 (26.86%) SQL
2 380 (24.77%) Python
3 263 (17.14%) C#
4 211 (13.75%) PowerShell
5 170 (11.08%) Bicep
6 154 (10.04%) JavaScript
7 130 (8.47%) Bash
8 123 (8.02%) Java
9 87 (5.67%) TypeScript
10 23 (1.50%) T-SQL
11 19 (1.24%) Kusto Query Language
12 17 (1.11%) Go
13 16 (1.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 15 (0.98%) Apex Code
14 15 (0.98%) X++
15 8 (0.52%) PL/SQL
15 8 (0.52%) Scala
15 8 (0.52%) Shell Script
16 6 (0.39%) Kotlin
16 6 (0.39%) R
Qualifications
1 472 (30.77%) Security Cleared
2 389 (25.36%) SC Cleared
3 115 (7.50%) Azure Certification
4 102 (6.65%) Degree
5 59 (3.85%) Microsoft Certification
6 53 (3.46%) DV Cleared
7 40 (2.61%) ISTQB
8 35 (2.28%) BPSS Clearance
9 32 (2.09%) Computer Science Degree
10 27 (1.76%) AWS Certification
11 15 (0.98%) PMI Certification
11 15 (0.98%) PMP
12 14 (0.91%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 13 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
13 13 (0.85%) CISSP
14 11 (0.72%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 11 (0.72%) Master's Degree
15 10 (0.65%) DBS Check
16 9 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 6 (0.39%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 174 (11.34%) QA
2 110 (7.17%) Data Quality
3 84 (5.48%) Accessibility
4 49 (3.19%) GDPR
5 45 (2.93%) WCAG
6 28 (1.83%) PMO
7 26 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 24 (1.56%) NIST
9 19 (1.24%) NCSC
10 14 (0.91%) SLA
11 11 (0.72%) GRC
11 11 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 8 (0.52%) ISO 20022
13 6 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
14 5 (0.33%) SEPA
15 4 (0.26%) PSD2
16 3 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 3 (0.20%) Government Security Classifications
16 3 (0.20%) PCI DSS
17 2 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 240 (15.65%) Docker
2 80 (5.22%) Active Directory
3 31 (2.02%) Virtual Machines
4 18 (1.17%) VMware Infrastructure
5 14 (0.91%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (0.39%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.26%) Firmware
7 4 (0.26%) 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 (0.065%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.065%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 312 (20.34%) Kubernetes
2 99 (6.45%) Ansible
3 60 (3.91%) Grafana
4 50 (3.26%) Prometheus
5 22 (1.43%) Argo
5 22 (1.43%) Microsoft Intune
6 21 (1.37%) Progress Chef
7 20 (1.30%) Puppet
8 15 (0.98%) Packer
9 12 (0.78%) HP ALM
10 11 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
11 10 (0.65%) Istio
12 9 (0.59%) SCCM
13 6 (0.39%) Jamf Pro
13 6 (0.39%) SCOM
14 4 (0.26%) HP Quality Center
15 3 (0.20%) HP Fortify
16 2 (0.13%) linkerd
16 2 (0.13%) systemd
16 2 (0.13%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 536 (34.94%) Microsoft
2 138 (9.00%) Databricks
3 58 (3.78%) Oracle
4 56 (3.65%) ServiceNow
5 51 (3.32%) Salesforce
6 46 (3.00%) SAP
7 38 (2.48%) Google
8 35 (2.28%) Splunk
9 28 (1.83%) Dynatrace
10 22 (1.43%) VMware
11 19 (1.24%) Informatica
12 14 (0.91%) OpenAI
12 14 (0.91%) UiPath
13 13 (0.85%) Foundry
13 13 (0.85%) HP
13 13 (0.85%) MuleSoft
14 10 (0.65%) IBM
15 9 (0.59%) Adobe
15 9 (0.59%) Cisco
15 9 (0.59%) Red Hat
387 Azure DevOps jobs in England