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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 87 78
Rank change year-on-year +9 -9 -4
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,494 815 903
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.21% 2.91% 2.78%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.32% 7.61% 8.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,035 576 596
10th Percentile £361 £352 £386
25th Percentile £418 £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 £614
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 16,031 10,713 11,289
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.46% 38.23% 34.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,669 7,252 7,558
10th Percentile £321 £305 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £505 £530
Median % change year-on-year +3.96% -4.72% -2.75%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £645
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 569 253 165
10th Percentile £15.30 £15.30 £15.99
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £21.37
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +6.06%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £66.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £31.50 £26.30 £35.00
% change year-on-year +19.77% -24.86% +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 3 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 3 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 3 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 +22 834 £500 -4.76% 517
South East -17 178 £525 +14.44% 226
North of England 0 175 £478 -2.25% 228
Midlands +2 147 £460 -8.00% 135
West Midlands +17 119 £455 -20.87% 80
North West -9 83 £500 +20.48% 106
South West 0 78 £495 -9.59% 79
Yorkshire -7 70 £475 -5.00% 96
East of England +2 45 £438 -12.50% 73
East Midlands -18 28 £500 +8.11% 55
North East - 22 £450 - 29
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
1 119 (7.97%) Confluence
2 105 (7.03%) SharePoint
3 38 (2.54%) Apache Spark
4 30 (2.01%) Apache Airflow
5 25 (1.67%) Apache
6 12 (0.80%) CMS
7 8 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.40%) Documentum
9 4 (0.27%) IIS
9 4 (0.27%) Mendix
9 4 (0.27%) nginx
10 3 (0.20%) Kentico
10 3 (0.20%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (0.20%) SAS
11 2 (0.13%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.13%) OpenROAD
11 2 (0.13%) Smallworld
11 2 (0.13%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.067%) EPiServer
12 1 (0.067%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 50 (3.35%) Microsoft Project
2 43 (2.88%) Microsoft Excel
3 28 (1.87%) MS Visio
4 16 (1.07%) Microsoft Office
5 13 (0.87%) 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 57 (3.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 22 (1.47%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.33%) Dynamics AX
3 5 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (0.33%) SAP MDG
4 4 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
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%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.13%) SAP HCM
6 2 (0.13%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.067%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.067%) SDL Web 8
7 1 (0.067%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 1,494 (100.00%) Azure
2 373 (24.97%) GitHub
3 279 (18.67%) Power Platform
4 254 (17.00%) GitHub Actions
5 232 (15.53%) AWS
6 135 (9.04%) Dynamics 365
6 135 (9.04%) Entra ID
7 126 (8.43%) Azure Data Factory
8 125 (8.37%) Azure Monitor
9 122 (8.17%) Azure AKS
10 121 (8.10%) Serverless
11 119 (7.97%) Power Automate
12 96 (6.43%) Azure Functions
13 93 (6.22%) GCP
14 89 (5.96%) PowerApps
15 83 (5.56%) Azure Logic Apps
16 77 (5.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 68 (4.55%) PaaS
18 66 (4.42%) Azure Key Vault
18 66 (4.42%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 61 (4.08%) Firewall
2 44 (2.95%) DNS
3 37 (2.48%) Network Security
4 22 (1.47%) VPN
5 18 (1.20%) SSL
6 13 (0.87%) DHCP
7 9 (0.60%) WAN
8 5 (0.33%) Internet
8 5 (0.33%) LAN
8 5 (0.33%) SD-WAN
8 5 (0.33%) TCP/IP
8 5 (0.33%) VLAN
9 4 (0.27%) SAN
10 3 (0.20%) Reverse Proxy
10 3 (0.20%) RS-232
10 3 (0.20%) RS-485
10 3 (0.20%) Wi-Fi
11 2 (0.13%) Cisco IOS
11 2 (0.13%) NAS
11 2 (0.13%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 173 (11.58%) Power BI
2 120 (8.03%) SQL Server
3 79 (5.29%) Data Warehouse
4 75 (5.02%) Data Lake
5 64 (4.28%) Azure SQL Database
6 44 (2.95%) NoSQL
7 43 (2.88%) PostgreSQL
8 41 (2.74%) Delta Lake
9 34 (2.28%) Metadata
10 31 (2.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 20 (1.34%) Big Data
12 19 (1.27%) Snowflake Schema
13 18 (1.20%) Relational Database
14 17 (1.14%) MySQL
15 15 (1.00%) Data Vault
15 15 (1.00%) MongoDB
15 15 (1.00%) Star Schema
16 14 (0.94%) Geospatial Data
16 14 (0.94%) Parquet
17 13 (0.87%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 281 (18.81%) Git
2 277 (18.54%) JIRA
3 196 (13.12%) Jenkins
4 150 (10.04%) GitLab
5 77 (5.15%) Selenium
6 41 (2.74%) Postman
7 35 (2.34%) Visual Studio
8 32 (2.14%) Cucumber
9 31 (2.07%) Cypress.io
10 27 (1.81%) SonarQube
10 27 (1.81%) WebDriver
11 24 (1.61%) REST Assured
12 19 (1.27%) JUnit
13 18 (1.20%) Gradle
14 17 (1.14%) TestRail
15 15 (1.00%) JMeter
15 15 (1.00%) Maven
16 14 (0.94%) Team Foundation Server
17 13 (0.87%) Bitbucket
17 13 (0.87%) MSI
General
1 422 (28.25%) Social Skills
2 325 (21.75%) Finance
3 184 (12.32%) Public Sector
4 160 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
5 87 (5.82%) Banking
6 83 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 39 (2.61%) Retail
8 31 (2.07%) Influencing Skills
9 27 (1.81%) Aerospace
10 25 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
11 23 (1.54%) Legal
12 21 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
13 20 (1.34%) Marketing
14 18 (1.20%) Investment Banking
15 17 (1.14%) Manufacturing
16 13 (0.87%) Local Government
17 12 (0.80%) Law
18 11 (0.74%) Billing
18 11 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
19 10 (0.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 256 (17.14%) Developer
2 239 (16.00%) Senior
3 236 (15.80%) DevOps Engineer
4 231 (15.46%) Azure Engineer
5 141 (9.44%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 139 (9.30%) Lead
7 131 (8.77%) Analyst
8 115 (7.70%) Architect
9 113 (7.56%) Data Engineer
10 70 (4.69%) Business Analyst
11 55 (3.68%) Consultant
11 55 (3.68%) Project Manager
12 51 (3.41%) Cloud Engineer
13 47 (3.15%) Dynamics 365 Developer
13 47 (3.15%) Platform Engineer
14 43 (2.88%) Senior DevOps
15 42 (2.81%) Senior Developer
15 42 (2.81%) Test Analyst
16 39 (2.61%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 37 (2.48%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 438 (29.32%) Terraform
2 207 (13.86%) REST
3 202 (13.52%) .NET
4 84 (5.62%) JSON
5 80 (5.35%) RESTful
6 76 (5.09%) ADO
7 73 (4.89%) PySpark
8 69 (4.62%) ARM Templates
9 66 (4.42%) YAML
10 63 (4.22%) Kafka
10 63 (4.22%) React
11 59 (3.95%) .NET Framework
12 55 (3.68%) .NET Core
12 55 (3.68%) Playwright
13 46 (3.08%) OAuth
14 45 (3.01%) XML
15 41 (2.74%) HTML
16 40 (2.68%) Middleware
17 36 (2.41%) CSS
17 36 (2.41%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 164 (10.98%) Cloud Native
2 130 (8.70%) Product Ownership
3 59 (3.95%) Onboarding
4 47 (3.15%) Enterprise Software
4 47 (3.15%) Legacy Systems
5 42 (2.81%) Management Information System
6 39 (2.61%) Distributed Systems
7 30 (2.01%) Hybrid Cloud
8 29 (1.94%) AI Agents
9 25 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
10 22 (1.47%) Low-Code
11 20 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
11 20 (1.34%) Replication
12 19 (1.27%) Data Structures
13 18 (1.20%) Linux Command Line
14 16 (1.07%) Data Centre
14 16 (1.07%) Data Protection Act
14 16 (1.07%) Mobile App
14 16 (1.07%) Virtual Team
15 15 (1.00%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 103 (6.89%) Windows
2 76 (5.09%) Linux
3 33 (2.21%) Windows Server
4 18 (1.20%) VMS
5 14 (0.94%) 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 3 (0.20%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.067%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,494 (100.00%) DevOps
2 838 (56.09%) CI/CD
3 654 (43.78%) Agile
4 396 (26.51%) Infrastructure as Code
5 291 (19.48%) Test Automation
6 287 (19.21%) Stakeholder Management
7 255 (17.07%) Continuous Improvement
8 250 (16.73%) Problem-Solving
9 234 (15.66%) Analytics
10 228 (15.26%) Containerisation
11 227 (15.19%) Scrum
12 209 (13.99%) Migration
13 190 (12.72%) AI
14 186 (12.45%) Business Intelligence
15 174 (11.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 169 (11.31%) User Acceptance Testing
17 165 (11.04%) Data Modelling
18 161 (10.78%) Deployment Automation
19 158 (10.58%) Platform Engineering
20 156 (10.44%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 381 (25.50%) Python
2 367 (24.56%) SQL
3 265 (17.74%) C#
4 215 (14.39%) PowerShell
5 177 (11.85%) Bicep
6 164 (10.98%) JavaScript
7 133 (8.90%) Bash
8 115 (7.70%) Java
9 95 (6.36%) TypeScript
10 27 (1.81%) T-SQL
11 20 (1.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 19 (1.27%) Kusto Query Language
13 17 (1.14%) Apex Code
14 14 (0.94%) Go
15 13 (0.87%) X++
16 10 (0.67%) C++
17 7 (0.47%) C
17 7 (0.47%) PL/SQL
17 7 (0.47%) Scala
17 7 (0.47%) VB
Qualifications
1 444 (29.72%) Security Cleared
2 359 (24.03%) SC Cleared
3 125 (8.37%) Azure Certification
4 120 (8.03%) Degree
5 73 (4.89%) Microsoft Certification
6 59 (3.95%) DV Cleared
7 41 (2.74%) ISTQB
8 37 (2.48%) BPSS Clearance
9 34 (2.28%) Computer Science Degree
10 27 (1.81%) PMI Certification
11 26 (1.74%) AWS Certification
12 25 (1.67%) PMP
13 16 (1.07%) Master's Degree
14 14 (0.94%) CISSP
15 10 (0.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 10 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
15 10 (0.67%) DBS Check
15 10 (0.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 9 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 9 (0.60%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 184 (12.32%) QA
2 106 (7.10%) Data Quality
3 94 (6.29%) Accessibility
4 60 (4.02%) GDPR
5 54 (3.61%) WCAG
6 31 (2.07%) PMO
7 28 (1.87%) NIST
8 24 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 18 (1.20%) NCSC
10 12 (0.80%) SLA
11 10 (0.67%) ISO 20022
12 9 (0.60%) GRC
13 8 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 7 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
14 7 (0.47%) SEPA
15 5 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
16 4 (0.27%) PSD2
17 3 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 3 (0.20%) Government Security Classifications
17 3 (0.20%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 243 (16.27%) Docker
2 66 (4.42%) Active Directory
3 29 (1.94%) Virtual Machines
4 18 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
5 17 (1.14%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.33%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.33%) vSphere
7 4 (0.27%) Firmware
8 3 (0.20%) Embedded Firmware
8 3 (0.20%) Microsoft App-V
8 3 (0.20%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.13%) OpenSSH
9 2 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.067%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 309 (20.68%) Kubernetes
2 99 (6.63%) Ansible
3 54 (3.61%) Grafana
4 50 (3.35%) Prometheus
5 31 (2.07%) Microsoft Intune
6 21 (1.41%) 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 7 (0.47%) 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%) Nagios
16 2 (0.13%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 560 (37.48%) Microsoft
2 135 (9.04%) Databricks
3 59 (3.95%) Salesforce
4 56 (3.75%) Oracle
5 54 (3.61%) ServiceNow
6 46 (3.08%) SAP
7 42 (2.81%) Google
8 34 (2.28%) Splunk
9 32 (2.14%) Dynatrace
10 26 (1.74%) VMware
11 22 (1.47%) Foundry
11 22 (1.47%) OpenAI
12 17 (1.14%) MuleSoft
12 17 (1.14%) UiPath
13 14 (0.94%) HP
14 12 (0.80%) Workday
15 11 (0.74%) IBM
15 11 (0.74%) Informatica
16 10 (0.67%) Red Hat
17 8 (0.54%) Adobe