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 8 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 90 80
Rank change year-on-year +14 -10 -6
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,502 824 887
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.25% 2.94% 2.75%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.42% 7.67% 7.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,038 584 585
10th Percentile £363 £355 £382
25th Percentile £420 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £613
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 2 0
10th Percentile £21.25 £63.75 -
25th Percentile £37.75 £67.50 -
Median hourly rate £68.22 £75.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -9.05% - -
75th Percentile £79.50 £82.50 -
90th Percentile £101.51 £86.25 -
UK median hourly rate £66.66 £85.00 -
% change year-on-year -21.58% - -

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 15,939 10,738 11,261
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.46% 38.37% 34.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,607 7,248 7,525
10th Percentile £322 £303 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £503 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.48% -4.29% -3.67%
75th Percentile £631 £625 £640
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 570 253 161
10th Percentile £15.37 £15.04 £16.00
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £22.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +8.29%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £68.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +19.28% -28.14% +6.06%

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 8 October 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 8 October 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 8 October 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 +19 847 £520 -0.95% 437
North of England +9 180 £475 -3.65% 197
South East -19 175 £500 +9.14% 164
Midlands -7 139 £460 -9.14% 91
West Midlands +10 114 £460 -20.00% 56
North West -3 85 £500 +20.48% 93
South West 0 79 £525 -4.55% 58
Yorkshire -5 72 £474 -5.25% 81
East of England -10 44 £450 -10.00% 49
East Midlands -17 25 £465 +0.54% 35
North East - 23 £450 - 25
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
1 120 (7.99%) Confluence
2 107 (7.12%) SharePoint
3 38 (2.53%) Apache Spark
4 29 (1.93%) Apache Airflow
5 25 (1.66%) Apache
6 12 (0.80%) CMS
7 9 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.40%) Documentum
9 5 (0.33%) IIS
10 4 (0.27%) Mendix
10 4 (0.27%) nginx
11 3 (0.20%) Kentico
11 3 (0.20%) Palantir Foundry
11 3 (0.20%) SAS
12 2 (0.13%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.13%) OpenROAD
12 2 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
12 2 (0.13%) Smallworld
12 2 (0.13%) Umbraco
13 1 (0.067%) EPiServer
Applications
1 52 (3.46%) Microsoft Project
2 46 (3.06%) Microsoft Excel
3 29 (1.93%) MS Visio
4 18 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
5 16 (1.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 9 (0.60%) Chatbot
7 6 (0.40%) CPLEX
8 5 (0.33%) Notion
8 5 (0.33%) Trello
9 3 (0.20%) Mingle
10 2 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
11 1 (0.067%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.067%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 59 (3.93%) Dynamics CRM
2 22 (1.46%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.33%) SAP MDG
4 4 (0.27%) Dynamics AX
4 4 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (0.20%) Aladdin
5 3 (0.20%) Maximo
5 3 (0.20%) Teamcenter
5 3 (0.20%) Workday HCM
6 2 (0.13%) Dynamics GP
6 2 (0.13%) Endur
6 2 (0.13%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
6 2 (0.13%) NEC Housing
6 2 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.13%) SAP HCM
6 2 (0.13%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.067%) ResourceLink
7 1 (0.067%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 1,502 (100.00%) Azure
2 385 (25.63%) GitHub
3 284 (18.91%) Power Platform
4 257 (17.11%) GitHub Actions
5 232 (15.45%) AWS
6 138 (9.19%) Dynamics 365
6 138 (9.19%) Entra ID
7 133 (8.85%) Azure Monitor
8 127 (8.46%) Azure AKS
8 127 (8.46%) Azure Data Factory
9 123 (8.19%) Serverless
10 119 (7.92%) Power Automate
11 99 (6.59%) Azure Functions
12 94 (6.26%) GCP
13 90 (5.99%) PowerApps
14 84 (5.59%) Azure Logic Apps
15 79 (5.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 68 (4.53%) PaaS
17 67 (4.46%) Azure Key Vault
18 66 (4.39%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 62 (4.13%) Firewall
2 44 (2.93%) DNS
3 38 (2.53%) Network Security
4 21 (1.40%) VPN
5 16 (1.07%) SSL
6 12 (0.80%) DHCP
7 8 (0.53%) WAN
8 5 (0.33%) VLAN
9 4 (0.27%) Internet
9 4 (0.27%) LAN
9 4 (0.27%) SAN
9 4 (0.27%) SD-WAN
10 3 (0.20%) Reverse Proxy
10 3 (0.20%) RS-232
10 3 (0.20%) RS-485
10 3 (0.20%) TCP/IP
10 3 (0.20%) Wi-Fi
11 2 (0.13%) NAS
11 2 (0.13%) Software-Defined Networking
11 2 (0.13%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 173 (11.52%) Power BI
2 120 (7.99%) SQL Server
3 78 (5.19%) Data Warehouse
4 76 (5.06%) Data Lake
5 71 (4.73%) Azure SQL Database
6 44 (2.93%) NoSQL
7 43 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
8 42 (2.80%) Delta Lake
9 37 (2.46%) Metadata
10 31 (2.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 20 (1.33%) Big Data
12 19 (1.26%) Relational Database
13 18 (1.20%) Snowflake Schema
14 17 (1.13%) MySQL
15 15 (1.00%) Data Vault
15 15 (1.00%) MongoDB
15 15 (1.00%) Oracle Database
15 15 (1.00%) Redis
16 14 (0.93%) Geospatial Data
16 14 (0.93%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 283 (18.84%) Git
2 275 (18.31%) JIRA
3 202 (13.45%) Jenkins
4 149 (9.92%) GitLab
5 78 (5.19%) Selenium
6 42 (2.80%) Postman
7 36 (2.40%) Visual Studio
8 33 (2.20%) Cypress.io
9 32 (2.13%) Cucumber
10 27 (1.80%) SonarQube
10 27 (1.80%) WebDriver
11 23 (1.53%) REST Assured
12 18 (1.20%) JUnit
13 17 (1.13%) Gradle
13 17 (1.13%) TestRail
14 15 (1.00%) JMeter
15 14 (0.93%) Maven
15 14 (0.93%) Team Foundation Server
16 13 (0.87%) MSI
17 12 (0.80%) Bitbucket
General
1 434 (28.89%) Social Skills
2 334 (22.24%) Finance
3 193 (12.85%) Public Sector
4 159 (10.59%) Analytical Skills
5 89 (5.93%) Banking
6 82 (5.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 38 (2.53%) Retail
8 31 (2.06%) Influencing Skills
9 30 (2.00%) Aerospace
10 27 (1.80%) Documentation Skills
11 23 (1.53%) Legal
12 22 (1.46%) Organisational Skills
13 20 (1.33%) Marketing
14 19 (1.26%) Investment Banking
15 17 (1.13%) Manufacturing
16 14 (0.93%) Local Government
17 13 (0.87%) Law
17 13 (0.87%) Police
18 11 (0.73%) Billing
19 10 (0.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 256 (17.04%) Developer
2 247 (16.44%) Senior
3 234 (15.58%) DevOps Engineer
4 229 (15.25%) Azure Engineer
5 140 (9.32%) Lead
6 138 (9.19%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 129 (8.59%) Analyst
8 122 (8.12%) Architect
9 113 (7.52%) Data Engineer
10 68 (4.53%) Business Analyst
11 57 (3.79%) Consultant
11 57 (3.79%) Project Manager
12 51 (3.40%) Cloud Engineer
13 47 (3.13%) Dynamics 365 Developer
14 46 (3.06%) Platform Engineer
15 43 (2.86%) Senior Developer
15 43 (2.86%) Senior DevOps
16 40 (2.66%) Solutions Architect
16 40 (2.66%) Test Analyst
17 39 (2.60%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 444 (29.56%) Terraform
2 217 (14.45%) REST
3 208 (13.85%) .NET
4 83 (5.53%) JSON
5 79 (5.26%) ADO
6 77 (5.13%) RESTful
7 73 (4.86%) PySpark
8 70 (4.66%) ARM Templates
9 66 (4.39%) YAML
10 65 (4.33%) React
11 60 (3.99%) .NET Framework
11 60 (3.99%) Kafka
12 57 (3.79%) Playwright
13 55 (3.66%) .NET Core
14 48 (3.20%) OAuth
15 45 (3.00%) XML
16 43 (2.86%) Middleware
17 41 (2.73%) HTML
18 36 (2.40%) CSS
18 36 (2.40%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 160 (10.65%) Cloud Native
2 132 (8.79%) Product Ownership
3 58 (3.86%) Onboarding
4 53 (3.53%) Enterprise Software
5 51 (3.40%) Management Information System
6 49 (3.26%) Legacy Systems
7 42 (2.80%) Distributed Systems
8 30 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
9 29 (1.93%) AI Agents
10 25 (1.66%) Low-Code
11 23 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
12 21 (1.40%) Replication
13 20 (1.33%) Data Structures
14 19 (1.26%) Greenfield Project
15 18 (1.20%) Linux Command Line
16 17 (1.13%) Data Protection Act
16 17 (1.13%) Mobile App
17 16 (1.07%) Data Centre
18 15 (1.00%) Taxonomies
19 14 (0.93%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 103 (6.86%) Windows
2 80 (5.33%) Linux
3 34 (2.26%) Windows Server
4 18 (1.20%) VMS
5 14 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (0.67%) Unix
7 9 (0.60%) Android
7 9 (0.60%) Apple iOS
8 7 (0.47%) Ubuntu
9 6 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (0.27%) CentOS
10 4 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.067%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.067%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.067%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,502 (100.00%) DevOps
2 846 (56.32%) CI/CD
3 651 (43.34%) Agile
4 401 (26.70%) Infrastructure as Code
5 301 (20.04%) Stakeholder Management
6 298 (19.84%) Test Automation
7 265 (17.64%) Continuous Improvement
8 253 (16.84%) Problem-Solving
9 245 (16.31%) Analytics
10 229 (15.25%) Scrum
11 226 (15.05%) Containerisation
12 212 (14.11%) Migration
13 196 (13.05%) AI
14 186 (12.38%) Business Intelligence
15 175 (11.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 170 (11.32%) Deployment Automation
17 168 (11.19%) Data Modelling
17 168 (11.19%) User Acceptance Testing
18 160 (10.65%) Validation
19 158 (10.52%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 383 (25.50%) Python
2 367 (24.43%) SQL
3 268 (17.84%) C#
4 218 (14.51%) PowerShell
5 183 (12.18%) Bicep
6 169 (11.25%) JavaScript
7 135 (8.99%) Bash
8 114 (7.59%) Java
9 102 (6.79%) TypeScript
10 26 (1.73%) T-SQL
11 19 (1.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 19 (1.26%) Kusto Query Language
12 18 (1.20%) Apex Code
13 13 (0.87%) X++
14 12 (0.80%) Go
15 10 (0.67%) C++
16 8 (0.53%) Scala
17 7 (0.47%) C
17 7 (0.47%) PL/SQL
17 7 (0.47%) VB
Qualifications
1 451 (30.03%) Security Cleared
2 367 (24.43%) SC Cleared
3 128 (8.52%) Azure Certification
4 124 (8.26%) Degree
5 73 (4.86%) Microsoft Certification
6 57 (3.79%) DV Cleared
7 41 (2.73%) ISTQB
8 40 (2.66%) BPSS Clearance
9 37 (2.46%) Computer Science Degree
10 29 (1.93%) PMI Certification
11 28 (1.86%) AWS Certification
12 27 (1.80%) PMP
13 16 (1.07%) Master's Degree
14 14 (0.93%) CISSP
15 11 (0.73%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 10 (0.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 10 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
16 10 (0.67%) DBS Check
17 9 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 9 (0.60%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 192 (12.78%) QA
2 107 (7.12%) Data Quality
3 98 (6.52%) Accessibility
4 60 (3.99%) GDPR
5 54 (3.60%) WCAG
6 32 (2.13%) PMO
7 25 (1.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 25 (1.66%) NIST
8 18 (1.20%) NCSC
9 12 (0.80%) SLA
10 9 (0.60%) GRC
10 9 (0.60%) ISO 20022
11 7 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
11 7 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 7 (0.47%) SEPA
12 5 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
13 4 (0.27%) PSD2
14 3 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 3 (0.20%) Government Security Classifications
14 3 (0.20%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 248 (16.51%) Docker
2 63 (4.19%) Active Directory
3 29 (1.93%) Virtual Machines
4 18 (1.20%) Virtual Desktop
4 18 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.33%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.33%) vSphere
6 4 (0.27%) Firmware
7 3 (0.20%) Embedded Firmware
7 3 (0.20%) Microsoft App-V
7 3 (0.20%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 2 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.067%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 310 (20.64%) Kubernetes
2 99 (6.59%) Ansible
3 61 (4.06%) Grafana
4 51 (3.40%) Prometheus
5 31 (2.06%) Microsoft Intune
6 21 (1.40%) Progress Chef
7 16 (1.07%) Argo
8 15 (1.00%) Puppet
9 13 (0.87%) HP ALM
9 13 (0.87%) Packer
10 10 (0.67%) SCOM
11 9 (0.60%) SCCM
12 6 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
13 5 (0.33%) HP Quality Center
13 5 (0.33%) Jamf Pro
14 4 (0.27%) Istio
15 3 (0.20%) HP Fortify
15 3 (0.20%) Kibana
16 2 (0.13%) Docker Swarm
16 2 (0.13%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 573 (38.15%) Microsoft
2 136 (9.05%) Databricks
3 61 (4.06%) Salesforce
4 58 (3.86%) Oracle
5 57 (3.79%) ServiceNow
6 47 (3.13%) SAP
7 42 (2.80%) Google
8 39 (2.60%) Dynatrace
9 33 (2.20%) Splunk
10 26 (1.73%) VMware
11 22 (1.46%) OpenAI
12 21 (1.40%) Foundry
13 19 (1.26%) MuleSoft
14 18 (1.20%) UiPath
15 14 (0.93%) HP
16 12 (0.80%) Workday
17 11 (0.73%) IBM
17 11 (0.73%) Informatica
18 10 (0.67%) Red Hat
19 9 (0.60%) Adobe