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

 6 months to
8 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 92 77
Rank change year-on-year +10 -15 -5
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,135 711 1,017
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.14% 2.82% 2.68%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.44% 7.45% 8.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 822 503 732
10th Percentile £363 £386 £413
25th Percentile £413 £450 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £588 £637 £633
90th Percentile £688 £718 £700
UK median daily rate £492 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -6.29% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 3 12
10th Percentile £27.39 £37.45 £55.50
25th Percentile £45.87 £48.25 £62.81
Median hourly rate £72.13 £67.50 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.86% +3.05% -3.53%
75th Percentile £75.44 £74.38 £72.81
90th Percentile £92.05 £77.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £80.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year -12.50% +22.14% -4.73%

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 13,440 9,545 12,304
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.19% 37.89% 32.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,253 6,551 8,871
10th Percentile £310 £313 £275
25th Percentile £410 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £606 £638 £638
90th Percentile £708 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 384 156 330
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.46 £19.12 £16.06
Median hourly rate £38.54 £26.81 £21.19
Median % change year-on-year +43.74% +26.56% -15.26%
75th Percentile £60.00 £43.39 £43.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £71.25 £64.63
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £26.00 £21.37
% change year-on-year +44.23% +21.67% -14.52%

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 March 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 March 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 March 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 +19 633 £500 -9.09% 144
South East -16 144 £523 -5.00% 105
North of England -24 107 £500 - 89
Midlands -15 103 £475 -5.00% 57
South West +29 88 £475 -8.21% 34
West Midlands -18 65 £500 -4.76% 38
North West -10 51 £476 -13.45% 53
Yorkshire -49 45 £521 +15.83% 25
East Midlands -13 38 £418 -14.36% 19
East of England -8 28 £554 -7.71% 27
North East -2 11 £513 -4.65% 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 77 (6.78%) SharePoint
2 62 (5.46%) Confluence
3 27 (2.38%) Apache Spark
4 17 (1.50%) Apache
4 17 (1.50%) Microsoft Exchange
5 14 (1.23%) Apache Airflow
6 11 (0.97%) HCL Notes
7 10 (0.88%) Mendix
8 8 (0.70%) IIS
9 4 (0.35%) CMS
10 3 (0.26%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.26%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.26%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.088%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.088%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.088%) Kentico
11 1 (0.088%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.088%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.088%) SAS
11 1 (0.088%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 28 (2.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (1.67%) Microsoft Project
3 17 (1.50%) MS Visio
4 10 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
6 3 (0.26%) Trello
7 2 (0.18%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.088%) CPLEX
8 1 (0.088%) InDesign
8 1 (0.088%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 45 (3.96%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.70%) Maximo
3 6 (0.53%) NEC Housing
3 6 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.44%) Aladdin
5 4 (0.35%) Dynamics AX
5 4 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
6 3 (0.26%) SAP BPC
7 2 (0.18%) Oracle Assets
7 2 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.18%) Oracle General Ledger
7 2 (0.18%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.18%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.18%) Primavera
7 2 (0.18%) Workday HCM
8 1 (0.088%) Endur
8 1 (0.088%) Oracle Financials
8 1 (0.088%) SAP MM
8 1 (0.088%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 1,135 (100.00%) Azure
2 276 (24.32%) GitHub
3 198 (17.44%) Power Platform
4 196 (17.27%) GitHub Actions
5 143 (12.60%) AWS
6 133 (11.72%) Serverless
7 126 (11.10%) Azure Data Factory
7 126 (11.10%) Azure Monitor
8 121 (10.66%) Azure AKS
9 119 (10.48%) Entra ID
10 103 (9.07%) Dynamics 365
11 91 (8.02%) Azure Functions
11 91 (8.02%) Azure Key Vault
12 80 (7.05%) Azure Logic Apps
12 80 (7.05%) Power Automate
13 70 (6.17%) Azure Service Bus
14 69 (6.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 66 (5.81%) GCP
16 64 (5.64%) PowerApps
17 61 (5.37%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 41 (3.61%) Firewall
2 21 (1.85%) Network Security
3 19 (1.67%) DNS
4 18 (1.59%) VPN
5 11 (0.97%) SD-WAN
6 10 (0.88%) WAN
7 7 (0.62%) TCP/IP
8 5 (0.44%) DHCP
8 5 (0.44%) HTTP
8 5 (0.44%) LAN
9 4 (0.35%) IPsec
9 4 (0.35%) MQTT
9 4 (0.35%) Remote Desktop
10 3 (0.26%) FTP
10 3 (0.26%) MPLS
10 3 (0.26%) VLAN
11 2 (0.18%) Internet
11 2 (0.18%) SSL
12 1 (0.088%) VoIP
12 1 (0.088%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (10.57%) Power BI
2 97 (8.55%) SQL Server
3 68 (5.99%) Azure SQL Database
4 58 (5.11%) Data Lake
5 47 (4.14%) Delta Lake
6 46 (4.05%) Data Warehouse
7 42 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
8 26 (2.29%) NoSQL
9 25 (2.20%) Oracle Database
10 22 (1.94%) Relational Database
11 21 (1.85%) Redis
12 18 (1.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 17 (1.50%) MongoDB
14 16 (1.41%) Tableau
15 15 (1.32%) Spark SQL
16 12 (1.06%) DynamoDB
17 11 (0.97%) Snowflake Schema
18 10 (0.88%) Data Vault
18 10 (0.88%) Metadata
18 10 (0.88%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 207 (18.24%) JIRA
2 163 (14.36%) Git
3 111 (9.78%) Jenkins
4 63 (5.55%) GitLab
5 51 (4.49%) Selenium
6 35 (3.08%) Oracle APEX
7 34 (3.00%) Postman
8 21 (1.85%) Cypress.io
9 19 (1.67%) Visual Studio
10 18 (1.59%) SonarQube
11 17 (1.50%) TestRail
12 16 (1.41%) Team Foundation Server
13 15 (1.32%) Cucumber
13 15 (1.32%) REST Assured
14 14 (1.23%) JMeter
14 14 (1.23%) JUnit
14 14 (1.23%) Zephyr
15 12 (1.06%) SpecFlow
16 11 (0.97%) MLflow
17 10 (0.88%) Bitbucket
General
1 329 (28.99%) Social Skills
2 222 (19.56%) Finance
3 131 (11.54%) Public Sector
4 120 (10.57%) Analytical Skills
5 53 (4.67%) Banking
6 29 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
7 28 (2.47%) Documentation Skills
8 26 (2.29%) Influencing Skills
9 22 (1.94%) Retail
10 18 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 16 (1.41%) Financial Institution
12 14 (1.23%) Front Office
12 14 (1.23%) Investment Banking
12 14 (1.23%) Law
13 12 (1.06%) Legal
13 12 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
14 9 (0.79%) Billing
14 9 (0.79%) Telecoms
15 8 (0.70%) Back Office
15 8 (0.70%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 267 (23.52%) Developer
2 171 (15.07%) Azure Engineer
3 158 (13.92%) Senior
4 149 (13.13%) DevOps Engineer
5 96 (8.46%) Lead
6 95 (8.37%) Analyst
7 90 (7.93%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 86 (7.58%) Data Engineer
9 78 (6.87%) Architect
10 54 (4.76%) Senior Developer
11 49 (4.32%) Azure Developer
12 46 (4.05%) Platform Engineer
13 42 (3.70%) Test Analyst
14 39 (3.44%) Tester
15 38 (3.35%) Business Analyst
16 34 (3.00%) Azure Architect
17 32 (2.82%) Full-Stack Developer
18 31 (2.73%) Cloud Engineer
19 29 (2.56%) .NET Developer
20 28 (2.47%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 197 (17.36%) .NET
2 110 (9.69%) REST
3 76 (6.70%) React
4 72 (6.34%) ARM Templates
4 72 (6.34%) Node.js
5 62 (5.46%) PySpark
6 61 (5.37%) ADO
7 51 (4.49%) YAML
8 48 (4.23%) .NET Core
9 41 (3.61%) RESTful
10 40 (3.52%) .NET Framework
11 39 (3.44%) HTML
12 38 (3.35%) SOAP
13 37 (3.26%) CSS
14 36 (3.17%) Playwright
15 33 (2.91%) OAuth
16 32 (2.82%) JSON
17 31 (2.73%) AngularJS
18 30 (2.64%) Kafka
19 24 (2.11%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 123 (10.84%) Cloud Native
2 65 (5.73%) Product Ownership
3 32 (2.82%) Legacy Systems
4 30 (2.64%) Distributed Systems
5 27 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
6 23 (2.03%) Low-Code
7 19 (1.67%) Hybrid Cloud
7 19 (1.67%) Onboarding
8 18 (1.59%) AI Agents
8 18 (1.59%) Reinsurance
9 15 (1.32%) CMDB
9 15 (1.32%) Public Cloud
10 14 (1.23%) Data Structures
10 14 (1.23%) NHS
11 12 (1.06%) Security Posture
12 11 (0.97%) Linux Command Line
12 11 (0.97%) Replication
13 10 (0.88%) Virtual Team
14 9 (0.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 9 (0.79%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 52 (4.58%) Windows
2 45 (3.96%) Linux
3 16 (1.41%) VMS
4 8 (0.70%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.18%) Unix
7 1 (0.088%) Android
7 1 (0.088%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.088%) Solaris
7 1 (0.088%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,127 (99.30%) DevOps
2 614 (54.10%) CI/CD
3 443 (39.03%) Agile
4 276 (24.32%) Infrastructure as Code
5 223 (19.65%) Problem-Solving
6 202 (17.80%) Analytics
7 188 (16.56%) Test Automation
8 179 (15.77%) Scrum
9 172 (15.15%) Continuous Improvement
10 143 (12.60%) AI
11 137 (12.07%) Containerisation
12 135 (11.89%) Business Intelligence
13 120 (10.57%) Stakeholder Management
14 119 (10.48%) Data Modelling
15 117 (10.31%) Validation
16 114 (10.04%) Migration
17 112 (9.87%) Microservices
18 106 (9.34%) Observability
19 95 (8.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 92 (8.11%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 371 (32.69%) SQL
2 312 (27.49%) Python
3 219 (19.30%) C#
4 184 (16.21%) JavaScript
5 131 (11.54%) PowerShell
6 104 (9.16%) Bicep
7 77 (6.78%) TypeScript
8 74 (6.52%) Bash
9 72 (6.34%) Java
10 55 (4.85%) PL/SQL
11 27 (2.38%) Scala
12 26 (2.29%) T-SQL
13 19 (1.67%) Kusto Query Language
14 15 (1.32%) Go
15 11 (0.97%) Formula Language
15 11 (0.97%) LotusScript
16 10 (0.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 6 (0.53%) PHP
17 6 (0.53%) X++
18 5 (0.44%) XPath
Qualifications
1 318 (28.02%) Security Cleared
2 269 (23.70%) SC Cleared
3 103 (9.07%) Azure Certification
4 75 (6.61%) Degree
5 37 (3.26%) Microsoft Certification
6 32 (2.82%) DV Cleared
7 30 (2.64%) Computer Science Degree
7 30 (2.64%) ISTQB
8 25 (2.20%) BPSS Clearance
9 16 (1.41%) PMI Certification
10 15 (1.32%) AWS Certification
11 13 (1.15%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 12 (1.06%) PMP
13 10 (0.88%) Master's Degree
14 8 (0.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 8 (0.70%) CISSP
15 7 (0.62%) CISM
16 5 (0.44%) ISEB
16 5 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
16 5 (0.44%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 119 (10.48%) QA
2 66 (5.81%) Data Quality
3 32 (2.82%) Accessibility
4 26 (2.29%) GDPR
5 21 (1.85%) NIST
6 18 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 18 (1.59%) NCSC
7 15 (1.32%) PMO
8 12 (1.06%) WCAG
9 9 (0.79%) NIST 800
10 8 (0.70%) SLA
11 7 (0.62%) EU AI Act
11 7 (0.62%) PCI DSS
11 7 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 6 (0.53%) HL7
13 4 (0.35%) GRC
13 4 (0.35%) HIPAA
13 4 (0.35%) SOC 2
14 2 (0.18%) FedRAMP
14 2 (0.18%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 181 (15.95%) Docker
2 68 (5.99%) Active Directory
3 23 (2.03%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (0.88%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.35%) Firmware
7 2 (0.18%) Postfix
8 1 (0.088%) HDFS
8 1 (0.088%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.088%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 327 (28.81%) Terraform
2 197 (17.36%) Kubernetes
3 54 (4.76%) Ansible
4 46 (4.05%) Grafana
5 40 (3.52%) Prometheus
6 14 (1.23%) HP ALM
7 12 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
8 11 (0.97%) Istio
9 10 (0.88%) Argo
10 7 (0.62%) Microsoft Intune
10 7 (0.62%) Puppet
11 6 (0.53%) Podman
12 5 (0.44%) Progress Chef
13 4 (0.35%) HP Quality Center
13 4 (0.35%) Packer
14 3 (0.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 3 (0.26%) Icinga
14 3 (0.26%) Kibana
14 3 (0.26%) Kubeflow
15 2 (0.18%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 360 (31.72%) Microsoft
2 144 (12.69%) Databricks
3 127 (11.19%) Oracle
4 63 (5.55%) ServiceNow
5 36 (3.17%) OpenAI
6 30 (2.64%) Salesforce
7 25 (2.20%) SAP
8 23 (2.03%) Splunk
9 16 (1.41%) Google
10 15 (1.32%) HP
11 13 (1.15%) VMware
12 11 (0.97%) Foundry
12 11 (0.97%) Lotus
13 10 (0.88%) Kofax
13 10 (0.88%) MuleSoft
13 10 (0.88%) NEC
14 9 (0.79%) IBM
14 9 (0.79%) Informatica
15 8 (0.70%) Cisco
15 8 (0.70%) Citrix
412 Azure DevOps jobs in England