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 28 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
28 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 91 73
Rank change year-on-year +19 -18 +2
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,463 766 994
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.25% 2.79% 2.90%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.26% 7.47% 8.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,034 546 667
10th Percentile £363 £350 £400
25th Percentile £416 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £688 £725 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 3 0
10th Percentile £20.85 £36.45 -
25th Percentile £25.38 £45.75 -
Median hourly rate £46.80 £62.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -25.12% - -
75th Percentile £84.13 £76.25 -
90th Percentile £102.80 £83.75 -
UK median hourly rate £50.90 £85.00 -
% change year-on-year -40.12% - -

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 15,795 10,260 11,455
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.04% 37.39% 33.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,541 6,939 8,158
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £420 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £519 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.80% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 562 270 261
10th Percentile £16.70 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.27 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.50 £25.58 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +46.63% +16.25% -33.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £84.88 £67.05 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.71 £27.50 £22.33
% change year-on-year +29.85% +23.18% -36.21%

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 28 July 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 28 July 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 28 July 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 +18 809 £500 -4.76% 188
South East -20 183 £505 +12.22% 107
Midlands +30 168 £450 -9.55% 55
North of England +11 166 £483 -3.40% 90
West Midlands +19 121 £450 -13.25% 36
North West +9 84 £500 -4.76% 53
South West +6 73 £475 -13.24% 29
Yorkshire -17 60 £480 -4.00% 26
East Midlands +5 45 £525 +12.00% 19
East of England +8 36 £425 -12.82% 30
North East -20 22 £450 -18.18% 12
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
1 107 (7.31%) Confluence
2 87 (5.95%) SharePoint
3 33 (2.26%) Apache Spark
4 28 (1.91%) Apache
5 26 (1.78%) Apache Airflow
6 14 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
7 8 (0.55%) CMS
8 6 (0.41%) Documentum
9 4 (0.27%) IIS
10 3 (0.21%) Kentico
10 3 (0.21%) Mendix
10 3 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (0.21%) SAS
11 2 (0.14%) OpenROAD
11 2 (0.14%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.068%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.068%) HCL Notes
12 1 (0.068%) IBM HTTP Server
12 1 (0.068%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.068%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 53 (3.62%) Microsoft Project
2 32 (2.19%) Microsoft Excel
3 18 (1.23%) MS Visio
4 11 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
5 8 (0.55%) CPLEX
6 7 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 6 (0.41%) Trello
8 5 (0.34%) Chatbot
9 4 (0.27%) Notion
9 4 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.068%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.068%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 45 (3.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 20 (1.37%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.48%) Dynamics AX
4 6 (0.41%) Maximo
5 4 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.21%) Endur
6 3 (0.21%) Findur
6 3 (0.21%) SAP BPC
6 3 (0.21%) SAP MDG
7 2 (0.14%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.14%) Dynamics GP
7 2 (0.14%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
7 2 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.14%) SAP MM
7 2 (0.14%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 2 (0.14%) Teamcenter
7 2 (0.14%) Unit4 Business World
8 1 (0.068%) Oracle Financials
8 1 (0.068%) SAP SD
8 1 (0.068%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 1,463 (100.00%) Azure
2 373 (25.50%) GitHub
3 250 (17.09%) GitHub Actions
4 226 (15.45%) Power Platform
5 215 (14.70%) AWS
6 123 (8.41%) Azure Data Factory
7 122 (8.34%) Entra ID
8 119 (8.13%) Azure AKS
9 116 (7.93%) Azure Monitor
10 109 (7.45%) Dynamics 365
11 104 (7.11%) Power Automate
12 92 (6.29%) Serverless
13 83 (5.67%) PowerApps
14 81 (5.54%) GCP
15 80 (5.47%) Azure Key Vault
16 72 (4.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 64 (4.37%) Azure Logic Apps
18 63 (4.31%) Microsoft 365
19 58 (3.96%) Azure Functions
20 54 (3.69%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 55 (3.76%) Firewall
2 31 (2.12%) Network Security
3 30 (2.05%) DNS
4 22 (1.50%) VPN
5 15 (1.03%) WAN
6 13 (0.89%) SD-WAN
6 13 (0.89%) SSL
7 9 (0.62%) DHCP
7 9 (0.62%) Internet
7 9 (0.62%) TCP/IP
8 6 (0.41%) LAN
8 6 (0.41%) VLAN
9 3 (0.21%) 4G
9 3 (0.21%) BGP
9 3 (0.21%) OSPF
9 3 (0.21%) RS-232
9 3 (0.21%) RS-485
10 2 (0.14%) MPLS
10 2 (0.14%) NAS
10 2 (0.14%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 148 (10.12%) Power BI
2 110 (7.52%) SQL Server
3 74 (5.06%) Data Lake
4 69 (4.72%) Azure SQL Database
5 64 (4.37%) Data Warehouse
6 53 (3.62%) Delta Lake
6 53 (3.62%) NoSQL
7 46 (3.14%) PostgreSQL
8 26 (1.78%) Relational Database
9 24 (1.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 23 (1.57%) MongoDB
11 21 (1.44%) Snowflake Schema
12 20 (1.37%) Metadata
13 19 (1.30%) Spark SQL
14 17 (1.16%) Redis
15 14 (0.96%) Big Data
15 14 (0.96%) Oracle Database
16 13 (0.89%) Parquet
17 12 (0.82%) Amazon Redshift
18 10 (0.68%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 289 (19.75%) JIRA
2 235 (16.06%) Git
3 159 (10.87%) Jenkins
4 115 (7.86%) GitLab
5 60 (4.10%) Selenium
6 29 (1.98%) Postman
7 28 (1.91%) SonarQube
8 23 (1.57%) Cucumber
8 23 (1.57%) Cypress.io
8 23 (1.57%) Visual Studio
9 20 (1.37%) WebDriver
10 17 (1.16%) REST Assured
11 16 (1.09%) Gradle
11 16 (1.09%) JUnit
11 16 (1.09%) TestRail
12 14 (0.96%) Bitbucket
12 14 (0.96%) Team Foundation Server
13 13 (0.89%) Maven
14 12 (0.82%) MSI
15 11 (0.75%) SpecFlow
General
1 377 (25.77%) Social Skills
2 296 (20.23%) Finance
3 180 (12.30%) Public Sector
4 150 (10.25%) Analytical Skills
5 73 (4.99%) Banking
6 64 (4.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 31 (2.12%) Organisational Skills
8 28 (1.91%) Legal
9 26 (1.78%) Documentation Skills
9 26 (1.78%) Retail
10 22 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
11 15 (1.03%) Aerospace
12 12 (0.82%) Investment Banking
12 12 (0.82%) Law
12 12 (0.82%) Marketing
13 11 (0.75%) Local Government
14 9 (0.62%) Billing
14 9 (0.62%) Manufacturing
15 8 (0.55%) Front Office
16 7 (0.48%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 274 (18.73%) Developer
2 215 (14.70%) Azure Engineer
3 207 (14.15%) DevOps Engineer
4 203 (13.88%) Senior
5 131 (8.95%) Data Engineer
6 128 (8.75%) Lead
7 126 (8.61%) Analyst
8 125 (8.54%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 99 (6.77%) Architect
10 64 (4.37%) Business Analyst
11 57 (3.90%) Platform Engineer
12 46 (3.14%) Project Manager
13 45 (3.08%) Test Analyst
14 43 (2.94%) Solutions Architect
14 43 (2.94%) Tester
15 42 (2.87%) Cloud Engineer
15 42 (2.87%) Consultant
16 41 (2.80%) Full-Stack Developer
17 40 (2.73%) .NET Developer
18 36 (2.46%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 196 (13.40%) .NET
2 160 (10.94%) REST
3 81 (5.54%) PySpark
4 80 (5.47%) RESTful
5 75 (5.13%) ADO
6 71 (4.85%) YAML
7 68 (4.65%) JSON
8 62 (4.24%) .NET Framework
9 59 (4.03%) Kafka
9 59 (4.03%) React
10 52 (3.55%) .NET Core
11 50 (3.42%) ARM Templates
12 49 (3.35%) Playwright
13 46 (3.14%) SOAP
14 39 (2.67%) OAuth
15 37 (2.53%) HTML
16 36 (2.46%) Node.js
17 34 (2.32%) CSS
18 33 (2.26%) AngularJS
19 31 (2.12%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 168 (11.48%) Cloud Native
2 104 (7.11%) Product Ownership
3 51 (3.49%) Distributed Systems
4 50 (3.42%) Legacy Systems
5 43 (2.94%) Onboarding
6 32 (2.19%) Enterprise Software
7 29 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
8 25 (1.71%) Management Information System
9 24 (1.64%) Hybrid Cloud
10 23 (1.57%) Reinsurance
11 22 (1.50%) Data Structures
12 19 (1.30%) Replication
13 18 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
14 16 (1.09%) Low-Code
14 16 (1.09%) Mobile App
15 14 (0.96%) AI Agents
15 14 (0.96%) Enterprise Cloud
16 12 (0.82%) Data Protection Act
17 11 (0.75%) Data Centre
17 11 (0.75%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 89 (6.08%) Windows
2 59 (4.03%) Linux
3 20 (1.37%) Windows Server
4 13 (0.89%) VMS
5 10 (0.68%) Unix
6 7 (0.48%) Android
6 7 (0.48%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (0.27%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,463 (100.00%) DevOps
2 782 (53.45%) CI/CD
3 601 (41.08%) Agile
4 349 (23.86%) Infrastructure as Code
5 248 (16.95%) Test Automation
6 236 (16.13%) Analytics
7 228 (15.58%) Problem-Solving
8 227 (15.52%) Continuous Improvement
9 221 (15.11%) Stakeholder Management
10 209 (14.29%) Scrum
11 202 (13.81%) Containerisation
12 199 (13.60%) Migration
13 165 (11.28%) Data Modelling
14 159 (10.87%) Business Intelligence
15 152 (10.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 144 (9.84%) Microservices
17 142 (9.71%) User Acceptance Testing
18 141 (9.64%) AI
19 137 (9.36%) Platform Engineering
20 132 (9.02%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 399 (27.27%) SQL
2 359 (24.54%) Python
3 246 (16.81%) C#
4 170 (11.62%) PowerShell
5 140 (9.57%) JavaScript
6 134 (9.16%) Bicep
7 110 (7.52%) Bash
8 108 (7.38%) Java
9 83 (5.67%) TypeScript
10 25 (1.71%) T-SQL
11 19 (1.30%) Go
12 15 (1.03%) Kusto Query Language
13 13 (0.89%) Scala
14 12 (0.82%) Apex Code
14 12 (0.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 11 (0.75%) X++
16 10 (0.68%) PL/SQL
17 7 (0.48%) C
17 7 (0.48%) VB
18 6 (0.41%) VB6
Qualifications
1 423 (28.91%) Security Cleared
2 342 (23.38%) SC Cleared
3 105 (7.18%) Azure Certification
4 96 (6.56%) Degree
5 55 (3.76%) DV Cleared
6 46 (3.14%) Microsoft Certification
7 35 (2.39%) ISTQB
8 32 (2.19%) BPSS Clearance
9 30 (2.05%) Computer Science Degree
10 24 (1.64%) AWS Certification
11 14 (0.96%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 14 (0.96%) PMP
12 13 (0.89%) Master's Degree
12 13 (0.89%) PMI Certification
13 10 (0.68%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 9 (0.62%) Cisco Certification
14 9 (0.62%) DBS Check
15 7 (0.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 7 (0.48%) CISSP
16 5 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 158 (10.80%) QA
2 101 (6.90%) Data Quality
3 79 (5.40%) Accessibility
4 51 (3.49%) GDPR
5 45 (3.08%) WCAG
6 26 (1.78%) PMO
7 18 (1.23%) NIST
8 16 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 13 (0.89%) NCSC
9 13 (0.89%) SLA
10 12 (0.82%) GRC
11 9 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 5 (0.34%) PCI DSS
13 4 (0.27%) PSD2
13 4 (0.27%) SEPA
14 3 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
14 3 (0.21%) Government Security Classifications
15 2 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
15 2 (0.14%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 1 (0.068%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 209 (14.29%) Docker
2 78 (5.33%) Active Directory
3 33 (2.26%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (0.96%) Virtual Desktop
4 14 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.27%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.21%) Embedded Firmware
6 3 (0.21%) Firmware
7 2 (0.14%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 2 (0.14%) Microsoft App-V
7 2 (0.14%) OpenSSH
7 2 (0.14%) Postfix
7 2 (0.14%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.14%) vSphere
8 1 (0.068%) HDFS
8 1 (0.068%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 392 (26.79%) Terraform
2 265 (18.11%) Kubernetes
3 88 (6.02%) Ansible
4 61 (4.17%) Grafana
5 51 (3.49%) Prometheus
6 22 (1.50%) Argo
7 20 (1.37%) Progress Chef
7 20 (1.37%) Puppet
8 17 (1.16%) Microsoft Intune
9 13 (0.89%) Packer
10 12 (0.82%) HP ALM
10 12 (0.82%) Istio
11 11 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
12 6 (0.41%) Jamf Pro
13 5 (0.34%) SCCM
13 5 (0.34%) SCOM
14 4 (0.27%) HP Quality Center
15 3 (0.21%) Rancher
16 2 (0.14%) Docker Swarm
16 2 (0.14%) linkerd
Vendors
1 463 (31.65%) Microsoft
2 133 (9.09%) Databricks
3 67 (4.58%) Oracle
4 63 (4.31%) ServiceNow
5 50 (3.42%) Salesforce
6 47 (3.21%) SAP
7 32 (2.19%) Google
8 30 (2.05%) Splunk
9 23 (1.57%) Dynatrace
10 20 (1.37%) VMware
11 18 (1.23%) Informatica
12 16 (1.09%) OpenAI
13 14 (0.96%) Foundry
14 13 (0.89%) HP
15 11 (0.75%) MuleSoft
16 10 (0.68%) Bloomberg
16 10 (0.68%) IBM
17 9 (0.62%) Guidewire
17 9 (0.62%) InterSystems
18 8 (0.55%) Refinitiv
455 Azure DevOps jobs in England