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 30 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
30 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 94 78
Rank change year-on-year +16 -16 -7
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,363 691 1,014
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.11% 2.71% 2.73%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.89% 7.20% 8.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 978 486 674
10th Percentile £373 £350 £400
25th Percentile £415 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.20% -2.62% -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 31 2 6
10th Percentile £25.38 £35.85 £64.50
25th Percentile £37.75 £44.25 £65.25
Median hourly rate £74.50 £59.50 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year +25.21% -9.16% -6.43%
75th Percentile £88.00 £74.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £104.00 £83.15 £68.50
UK median hourly rate £72.25 £85.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year -15.00% +29.77% -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 15,331 9,600 12,044
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.03% 37.64% 32.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,333 6,486 8,597
10th Percentile £325 £311 £306
25th Percentile £415 £413 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.68% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £625 £638
90th Percentile £715 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £514 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.78% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 549 247 331
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.21 £17.33 £16.06
Median hourly rate £41.06 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +63.26% +14.32% -31.89%
75th Percentile £70.00 £40.73 £43.75
90th Percentile £83.35 £69.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £28.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year +33.93% +27.27% -37.14%

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 30 June 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 30 June 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 30 June 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 +16 759 £500 -4.76% 128
South East -6 175 £500 +7.24% 108
North of England +19 160 £490 +0.46% 66
Midlands 0 142 £470 -6.00% 39
West Midlands +4 99 £450 -14.29% 21
North West +8 79 £500 -4.76% 36
South West +8 64 £475 -9.52% 24
Yorkshire -18 61 £500 +11.11% 21
East Midlands -2 41 £525 +5.00% 18
East of England +2 34 £438 -9.09% 32
North East -15 20 £450 -18.18% 10
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 86 (6.31%) Confluence
1 86 (6.31%) SharePoint
2 37 (2.71%) Apache Spark
3 28 (2.05%) Apache
4 24 (1.76%) Apache Airflow
5 15 (1.10%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (0.44%) CMS
7 5 (0.37%) Mendix
8 4 (0.29%) Documentum
8 4 (0.29%) HCL Notes
8 4 (0.29%) Palantir Foundry
9 3 (0.22%) IIS
9 3 (0.22%) Kentico
9 3 (0.22%) SAS
10 2 (0.15%) Umbraco
11 1 (0.073%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.073%) IBM HTTP Server
11 1 (0.073%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.073%) SharePoint 2013
11 1 (0.073%) WebLogic
Applications
1 46 (3.37%) Microsoft Project
2 31 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (1.47%) MS Visio
4 11 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
5 8 (0.59%) CPLEX
5 8 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 5 (0.37%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.29%) Notion
8 3 (0.22%) Trello
9 2 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.073%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.073%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 47 (3.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 17 (1.25%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.59%) Maximo
4 7 (0.51%) Dynamics AX
5 5 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.22%) Endur
6 3 (0.22%) Findur
6 3 (0.22%) SAP BPC
6 3 (0.22%) SAP MDG
6 3 (0.22%) SAP MM
6 3 (0.22%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 2 (0.15%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.15%) Dynamics GP
7 2 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.15%) Unit4 Business World
8 1 (0.073%) Loan IQ
8 1 (0.073%) Oracle Financials
8 1 (0.073%) SAP SD
8 1 (0.073%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 1,363 (100.00%) Azure
2 337 (24.72%) GitHub
3 224 (16.43%) GitHub Actions
4 222 (16.29%) Power Platform
5 188 (13.79%) AWS
6 124 (9.10%) Azure Data Factory
7 110 (8.07%) Azure AKS
7 110 (8.07%) Entra ID
8 106 (7.78%) Azure Monitor
9 105 (7.70%) Dynamics 365
10 102 (7.48%) Serverless
11 99 (7.26%) Power Automate
12 81 (5.94%) Azure Key Vault
13 76 (5.58%) PowerApps
14 71 (5.21%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 67 (4.92%) Azure Functions
16 66 (4.84%) Azure Logic Apps
16 66 (4.84%) GCP
17 62 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
18 57 (4.18%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 47 (3.45%) Firewall
2 25 (1.83%) Network Security
3 22 (1.61%) DNS
4 19 (1.39%) VPN
5 13 (0.95%) SD-WAN
6 12 (0.88%) WAN
7 8 (0.59%) Internet
7 8 (0.59%) SSL
8 7 (0.51%) DHCP
8 7 (0.51%) TCP/IP
9 6 (0.44%) VLAN
10 5 (0.37%) LAN
11 4 (0.29%) IPsec
12 3 (0.22%) MQTT
13 2 (0.15%) 4G
13 2 (0.15%) BGP
13 2 (0.15%) NAS
13 2 (0.15%) OSPF
13 2 (0.15%) Wi-Fi
13 2 (0.15%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 145 (10.64%) Power BI
2 103 (7.56%) SQL Server
3 75 (5.50%) Data Lake
4 73 (5.36%) Azure SQL Database
5 65 (4.77%) Delta Lake
6 58 (4.26%) Data Warehouse
7 49 (3.60%) NoSQL
8 46 (3.37%) PostgreSQL
9 27 (1.98%) Relational Database
10 24 (1.76%) MongoDB
11 21 (1.54%) Snowflake Schema
11 21 (1.54%) Spark SQL
12 20 (1.47%) Redis
13 18 (1.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 16 (1.17%) Oracle Database
15 15 (1.10%) Big Data
15 15 (1.10%) Metadata
16 13 (0.95%) Amazon Redshift
16 13 (0.95%) Parquet
17 11 (0.81%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 266 (19.52%) JIRA
2 217 (15.92%) Git
3 127 (9.32%) Jenkins
4 96 (7.04%) GitLab
5 50 (3.67%) Selenium
6 30 (2.20%) Postman
7 24 (1.76%) Visual Studio
8 23 (1.69%) REST Assured
8 23 (1.69%) SonarQube
9 19 (1.39%) Cucumber
10 17 (1.25%) Cypress.io
10 17 (1.25%) WebDriver
11 15 (1.10%) TestRail
12 14 (1.03%) Gradle
12 14 (1.03%) Team Foundation Server
13 13 (0.95%) JUnit
14 12 (0.88%) Bitbucket
15 11 (0.81%) NUnit
15 11 (0.81%) SpecFlow
16 10 (0.73%) fastlane
General
1 330 (24.21%) Social Skills
2 285 (20.91%) Finance
3 146 (10.71%) Public Sector
4 138 (10.12%) Analytical Skills
5 68 (4.99%) Banking
6 50 (3.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 31 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
8 26 (1.91%) Legal
9 21 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
9 21 (1.54%) Retail
10 20 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
11 13 (0.95%) Aerospace
12 12 (0.88%) Investment Banking
12 12 (0.88%) Marketing
13 11 (0.81%) Law
14 10 (0.73%) Front Office
15 8 (0.59%) Billing
15 8 (0.59%) Local Government
16 7 (0.51%) Back Office
16 7 (0.51%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 257 (18.86%) Developer
2 216 (15.85%) Azure Engineer
3 190 (13.94%) DevOps Engineer
4 189 (13.87%) Senior
5 133 (9.76%) Data Engineer
6 120 (8.80%) Analyst
7 119 (8.73%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 106 (7.78%) Lead
9 100 (7.34%) Architect
10 58 (4.26%) Business Analyst
10 58 (4.26%) Platform Engineer
11 45 (3.30%) Solutions Architect
12 44 (3.23%) Test Analyst
13 41 (3.01%) Project Manager
13 41 (3.01%) Tester
14 39 (2.86%) Cloud Engineer
15 38 (2.79%) Full-Stack Developer
16 36 (2.64%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 36 (2.64%) Consultant
16 36 (2.64%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 187 (13.72%) .NET
2 138 (10.12%) REST
3 81 (5.94%) PySpark
4 68 (4.99%) ADO
4 68 (4.99%) RESTful
5 66 (4.84%) React
6 57 (4.18%) Kafka
6 57 (4.18%) YAML
7 56 (4.11%) ARM Templates
8 55 (4.04%) JSON
9 50 (3.67%) .NET Framework
10 47 (3.45%) Playwright
11 40 (2.93%) SOAP
12 39 (2.86%) Node.js
13 38 (2.79%) .NET Core
13 38 (2.79%) HTML
14 37 (2.71%) CSS
15 32 (2.35%) OAuth
16 31 (2.27%) AngularJS
17 29 (2.13%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 160 (11.74%) Cloud Native
2 86 (6.31%) Product Ownership
3 47 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
4 40 (2.93%) Legacy Systems
5 35 (2.57%) Onboarding
6 28 (2.05%) Reinsurance
7 26 (1.91%) Enterprise Software
8 23 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
9 22 (1.61%) Data Structures
10 20 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
11 19 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
12 18 (1.32%) Mobile App
13 16 (1.17%) Management Information System
14 15 (1.10%) Replication
15 14 (1.03%) AI Agents
15 14 (1.03%) Low-Code
16 12 (0.88%) Enterprise Cloud
16 12 (0.88%) Virtual Team
17 11 (0.81%) Data Centre
17 11 (0.81%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 77 (5.65%) Windows
2 49 (3.60%) Linux
3 15 (1.10%) VMS
4 13 (0.95%) Windows Server
5 9 (0.66%) Unix
6 6 (0.44%) Android
6 6 (0.44%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.22%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.073%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,358 (99.63%) DevOps
2 744 (54.59%) CI/CD
3 526 (38.59%) Agile
4 322 (23.62%) Infrastructure as Code
5 228 (16.73%) Analytics
6 224 (16.43%) Test Automation
7 223 (16.36%) Problem-Solving
8 187 (13.72%) Scrum
9 185 (13.57%) Migration
10 184 (13.50%) Continuous Improvement
11 172 (12.62%) Containerisation
12 170 (12.47%) Stakeholder Management
13 161 (11.81%) Data Modelling
14 151 (11.08%) Business Intelligence
15 137 (10.05%) AI
16 134 (9.83%) Data Pipeline
17 133 (9.76%) ETL
18 132 (9.68%) Platform Engineering
19 130 (9.54%) Microservices
20 125 (9.17%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 404 (29.64%) SQL
2 344 (25.24%) Python
3 234 (17.17%) C#
4 139 (10.20%) PowerShell
5 134 (9.83%) JavaScript
6 125 (9.17%) Bicep
7 95 (6.97%) Bash
7 95 (6.97%) Java
8 83 (6.09%) TypeScript
9 24 (1.76%) T-SQL
10 22 (1.61%) Scala
11 18 (1.32%) Go
12 13 (0.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 12 (0.88%) Kusto Query Language
14 11 (0.81%) Apex Code
15 10 (0.73%) X++
16 9 (0.66%) PL/SQL
17 6 (0.44%) R
17 6 (0.44%) Shell Script
17 6 (0.44%) VB
Qualifications
1 369 (27.07%) Security Cleared
2 308 (22.60%) SC Cleared
3 98 (7.19%) Azure Certification
4 85 (6.24%) Degree
5 41 (3.01%) DV Cleared
6 38 (2.79%) Microsoft Certification
7 33 (2.42%) BPSS Clearance
7 33 (2.42%) ISTQB
8 30 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
9 17 (1.25%) AWS Certification
10 16 (1.17%) PMI Certification
11 15 (1.10%) PMP
12 11 (0.81%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 9 (0.66%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 9 (0.66%) DBS Check
14 8 (0.59%) Master's Degree
15 7 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
16 5 (0.37%) CISSP
17 4 (0.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 3 (0.22%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 151 (11.08%) QA
2 103 (7.56%) Data Quality
3 62 (4.55%) Accessibility
4 41 (3.01%) GDPR
5 34 (2.49%) WCAG
6 19 (1.39%) NIST
7 18 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 17 (1.25%) SLA
9 15 (1.10%) NCSC
10 14 (1.03%) PMO
11 9 (0.66%) GRC
11 9 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 7 (0.51%) PCI DSS
13 5 (0.37%) NIST 800
14 3 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
15 2 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
15 2 (0.15%) Government Security Classifications
15 2 (0.15%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 2 (0.15%) PSD2
15 2 (0.15%) SEPA
System Software
1 187 (13.72%) Docker
2 73 (5.36%) Active Directory
3 29 (2.13%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (1.03%) Virtual Desktop
5 10 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.22%) Firmware
7 2 (0.15%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.15%) Microsoft App-V
7 2 (0.15%) OpenSSH
7 2 (0.15%) Postfix
8 1 (0.073%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 1 (0.073%) HDFS
8 1 (0.073%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.073%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.073%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 363 (26.63%) Terraform
2 232 (17.02%) Kubernetes
3 67 (4.92%) Ansible
4 47 (3.45%) Grafana
5 41 (3.01%) Prometheus
6 18 (1.32%) Argo
7 15 (1.10%) HP ALM
8 13 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
8 13 (0.95%) Puppet
8 13 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
9 12 (0.88%) Istio
10 11 (0.81%) Progress Chef
11 10 (0.73%) Packer
12 6 (0.44%) HP Quality Center
12 6 (0.44%) Jamf Pro
13 4 (0.29%) SCOM
14 3 (0.22%) Rancher
14 3 (0.22%) SCCM
15 2 (0.15%) HP Fortify
15 2 (0.15%) linkerd
Vendors
1 413 (30.30%) Microsoft
2 148 (10.86%) Databricks
3 75 (5.50%) Oracle
4 57 (4.18%) ServiceNow
5 45 (3.30%) Salesforce
6 43 (3.15%) SAP
7 24 (1.76%) Google
8 23 (1.69%) OpenAI
9 22 (1.61%) Informatica
9 22 (1.61%) Splunk
10 19 (1.39%) Dynatrace
11 16 (1.17%) HP
11 16 (1.17%) VMware
12 14 (1.03%) Foundry
13 10 (0.73%) Bloomberg
13 10 (0.73%) IBM
14 9 (0.66%) InterSystems
15 8 (0.59%) MuleSoft
15 8 (0.59%) Refinitiv
16 6 (0.44%) Zscaler
342 Azure DevOps jobs in England