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

 6 months to
2 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 92 76
Rank change year-on-year +20 -16 0
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,521 765 923
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.34% 2.79% 2.79%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.60% 7.48% 8.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,076 546 626
10th Percentile £363 £350 £375
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 £675 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 3 0
10th Percentile £21.25 £36.45 -
25th Percentile £36.68 £45.75 -
Median hourly rate £43.15 £62.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -30.96% - -
75th Percentile £80.81 £76.25 -
90th Percentile £102.00 £83.75 -
UK median hourly rate £43.15 £73.75 -
% change year-on-year -41.49% - -

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 15,844 10,233 11,266
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.74% 37.37% 34.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,600 6,926 7,845
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £644
90th Percentile £718 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 547 265 196
10th Percentile £15.42 £15.15 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.51 £18.42
Median hourly rate £34.13 £26.30 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.75% -12.33% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £59.66
90th Percentile £82.62 £69.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £28.75 £30.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% -4.17% -14.29%

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 2 September 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 2 September 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 2 September 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 +23 868 £500 -4.76% 425
South East -19 174 £513 +7.89% 152
North of England +7 173 £475 -5.00% 137
Midlands +33 170 £460 -9.14% 81
West Midlands +26 125 £450 -18.74% 38
North West -2 88 £500 - 74
South West -5 69 £475 -13.44% 60
Yorkshire -11 60 £480 -4.00% 45
East Midlands +10 43 £500 +6.67% 43
East of England +1 36 £425 -15.00% 52
North East - 25 £450 - 18
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 (7.03%) Confluence
2 94 (6.18%) SharePoint
3 38 (2.50%) Apache Spark
4 31 (2.04%) Apache
5 30 (1.97%) Apache Airflow
6 12 (0.79%) CMS
7 8 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.39%) Documentum
9 5 (0.33%) Mendix
10 4 (0.26%) IIS
11 3 (0.20%) Kentico
11 3 (0.20%) nginx
11 3 (0.20%) Palantir Foundry
12 2 (0.13%) OpenROAD
12 2 (0.13%) SAS
12 2 (0.13%) Smallworld
12 2 (0.13%) Umbraco
13 1 (0.066%) ArcGIS
13 1 (0.066%) HCL Notes
13 1 (0.066%) WebLogic
Applications
1 59 (3.88%) Microsoft Project
2 41 (2.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 22 (1.45%) MS Visio
4 15 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
5 13 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 7 (0.46%) CPLEX
6 7 (0.46%) Trello
7 6 (0.39%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.33%) Notion
9 3 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.066%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.066%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 51 (3.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 19 (1.25%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.39%) Dynamics AX
4 5 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
5 4 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.20%) Endur
6 3 (0.20%) Findur
6 3 (0.20%) Maximo
6 3 (0.20%) SAP MDG
7 2 (0.13%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.13%) Dynamics GP
7 2 (0.13%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
7 2 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.13%) SAP MM
7 2 (0.13%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 2 (0.13%) Teamcenter
7 2 (0.13%) Unit4 Business World
8 1 (0.066%) Oracle Assets
8 1 (0.066%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,521 (100.00%) Azure
2 391 (25.71%) GitHub
3 271 (17.82%) Power Platform
4 265 (17.42%) GitHub Actions
5 225 (14.79%) AWS
6 139 (9.14%) Azure Data Factory
7 129 (8.48%) Entra ID
8 127 (8.35%) Dynamics 365
9 124 (8.15%) Azure AKS
10 118 (7.76%) Azure Monitor
11 116 (7.63%) Power Automate
12 113 (7.43%) Serverless
13 90 (5.92%) PowerApps
14 80 (5.26%) GCP
15 79 (5.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 75 (4.93%) Azure Functions
16 75 (4.93%) Azure Logic Apps
17 70 (4.60%) Microsoft 365
18 61 (4.01%) Azure Key Vault
19 58 (3.81%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 68 (4.47%) Firewall
2 40 (2.63%) DNS
3 39 (2.56%) Network Security
4 27 (1.78%) VPN
5 19 (1.25%) SSL
6 16 (1.05%) WAN
7 15 (0.99%) DHCP
8 13 (0.85%) SD-WAN
9 8 (0.53%) Internet
10 7 (0.46%) LAN
10 7 (0.46%) TCP/IP
10 7 (0.46%) VLAN
11 4 (0.26%) SAN
11 4 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
12 3 (0.20%) 4G
12 3 (0.20%) BGP
12 3 (0.20%) OSPF
12 3 (0.20%) RS-232
12 3 (0.20%) RS-485
13 2 (0.13%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 177 (11.64%) Power BI
2 115 (7.56%) SQL Server
3 77 (5.06%) Data Warehouse
4 76 (5.00%) Data Lake
5 68 (4.47%) Azure SQL Database
6 55 (3.62%) NoSQL
7 50 (3.29%) Delta Lake
8 48 (3.16%) PostgreSQL
9 31 (2.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 29 (1.91%) Metadata
11 24 (1.58%) Relational Database
12 22 (1.45%) MongoDB
13 20 (1.31%) Snowflake Schema
14 19 (1.25%) Big Data
15 17 (1.12%) MySQL
16 16 (1.05%) Oracle Database
16 16 (1.05%) Redis
16 16 (1.05%) Spark SQL
17 14 (0.92%) Star Schema
18 13 (0.85%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 285 (18.74%) JIRA
2 253 (16.63%) Git
3 192 (12.62%) Jenkins
4 149 (9.80%) GitLab
5 75 (4.93%) Selenium
6 38 (2.50%) Postman
7 29 (1.91%) SonarQube
8 28 (1.84%) Cypress.io
9 27 (1.78%) Visual Studio
9 27 (1.78%) WebDriver
10 23 (1.51%) Cucumber
11 20 (1.31%) REST Assured
12 19 (1.25%) Gradle
13 17 (1.12%) JUnit
14 16 (1.05%) TestRail
15 15 (0.99%) Bitbucket
15 15 (0.99%) Maven
16 13 (0.85%) MSI
17 12 (0.79%) Sonatype Nexus
18 11 (0.72%) Snyk
General
1 409 (26.89%) Social Skills
2 322 (21.17%) Finance
3 187 (12.29%) Public Sector
4 163 (10.72%) Analytical Skills
5 82 (5.39%) Banking
6 78 (5.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 31 (2.04%) Retail
8 27 (1.78%) Influencing Skills
9 26 (1.71%) Documentation Skills
9 26 (1.71%) Legal
10 24 (1.58%) Aerospace
11 22 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
12 19 (1.25%) Marketing
13 15 (0.99%) Investment Banking
13 15 (0.99%) Local Government
14 12 (0.79%) Law
15 10 (0.66%) Manufacturing
16 8 (0.53%) Billing
16 8 (0.53%) Telecoms
17 7 (0.46%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 266 (17.49%) Developer
2 235 (15.45%) Senior
3 228 (14.99%) Azure Engineer
4 225 (14.79%) DevOps Engineer
5 135 (8.88%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 128 (8.42%) Lead
7 126 (8.28%) Analyst
8 125 (8.22%) Data Engineer
9 112 (7.36%) Architect
10 63 (4.14%) Business Analyst
11 55 (3.62%) Project Manager
12 54 (3.55%) Platform Engineer
13 52 (3.42%) Cloud Engineer
14 47 (3.09%) Consultant
15 44 (2.89%) Senior Developer
16 41 (2.70%) Test Analyst
17 40 (2.63%) Solutions Architect
18 37 (2.43%) .NET Developer
18 37 (2.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 37 (2.43%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 434 (28.53%) Terraform
2 207 (13.61%) .NET
3 180 (11.83%) REST
4 84 (5.52%) PySpark
5 83 (5.46%) RESTful
6 80 (5.26%) JSON
7 77 (5.06%) ADO
8 69 (4.54%) Kafka
8 69 (4.54%) YAML
9 63 (4.14%) ARM Templates
9 63 (4.14%) React
10 56 (3.68%) .NET Framework
11 54 (3.55%) Playwright
12 52 (3.42%) .NET Core
13 41 (2.70%) OAuth
13 41 (2.70%) XML
14 40 (2.63%) HTML
15 39 (2.56%) CSS
16 37 (2.43%) Middleware
17 33 (2.17%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 178 (11.70%) Cloud Native
2 121 (7.96%) Product Ownership
3 54 (3.55%) Onboarding
4 48 (3.16%) Distributed Systems
4 48 (3.16%) Legacy Systems
5 46 (3.02%) Enterprise Software
6 33 (2.17%) Management Information System
7 31 (2.04%) Hybrid Cloud
8 30 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
9 24 (1.58%) AI Agents
10 21 (1.38%) Data Structures
11 20 (1.31%) Low-Code
11 20 (1.31%) Replication
12 17 (1.12%) Linux Command Line
12 17 (1.12%) Mobile App
13 16 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
14 15 (0.99%) Reinsurance
15 14 (0.92%) Clustering
15 14 (0.92%) Enterprise Cloud
16 13 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 106 (6.97%) Windows
2 73 (4.80%) Linux
3 35 (2.30%) Windows Server
4 18 (1.18%) VMS
5 13 (0.85%) Unix
6 12 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (0.66%) Android
7 10 (0.66%) Apple iOS
8 6 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (0.26%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.26%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.066%) Amazon Linux
10 1 (0.066%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,521 (100.00%) DevOps
2 851 (55.95%) CI/CD
3 659 (43.33%) Agile
4 394 (25.90%) Infrastructure as Code
5 277 (18.21%) Test Automation
6 268 (17.62%) Stakeholder Management
7 244 (16.04%) Problem-Solving
8 241 (15.84%) Continuous Improvement
9 235 (15.45%) Analytics
10 232 (15.25%) Containerisation
11 223 (14.66%) Scrum
12 201 (13.21%) Migration
13 187 (12.29%) Business Intelligence
14 174 (11.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 166 (10.91%) AI
15 166 (10.91%) User Acceptance Testing
16 164 (10.78%) Data Modelling
17 159 (10.45%) Validation
18 156 (10.26%) Microservices
19 155 (10.19%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 411 (27.02%) SQL
2 392 (25.77%) Python
3 258 (16.96%) C#
4 208 (13.68%) PowerShell
5 166 (10.91%) Bicep
6 159 (10.45%) JavaScript
7 132 (8.68%) Bash
8 124 (8.15%) Java
9 93 (6.11%) TypeScript
10 26 (1.71%) T-SQL
11 18 (1.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 17 (1.12%) Go
13 15 (0.99%) Apex Code
14 14 (0.92%) Kusto Query Language
14 14 (0.92%) X++
15 8 (0.53%) Shell Script
16 7 (0.46%) Scala
17 6 (0.39%) Kotlin
17 6 (0.39%) PL/SQL
17 6 (0.39%) R
Qualifications
1 454 (29.85%) Security Cleared
2 373 (24.52%) SC Cleared
3 117 (7.69%) Azure Certification
4 112 (7.36%) Degree
5 66 (4.34%) Microsoft Certification
6 53 (3.48%) DV Cleared
7 42 (2.76%) BPSS Clearance
8 38 (2.50%) ISTQB
9 35 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
10 26 (1.71%) AWS Certification
11 17 (1.12%) PMI Certification
12 16 (1.05%) PMP
13 14 (0.92%) CISSP
14 12 (0.79%) Master's Degree
15 11 (0.72%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 10 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 10 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
16 10 (0.66%) DBS Check
17 9 (0.59%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 9 (0.59%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 174 (11.44%) QA
2 110 (7.23%) Data Quality
3 86 (5.65%) Accessibility
4 52 (3.42%) GDPR
5 49 (3.22%) WCAG
6 32 (2.10%) PMO
7 28 (1.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 27 (1.78%) NIST
9 19 (1.25%) NCSC
10 12 (0.79%) SLA
11 11 (0.72%) GRC
12 9 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 8 (0.53%) ISO 20022
14 7 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
15 5 (0.33%) SEPA
16 4 (0.26%) PSD2
17 3 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 3 (0.20%) Government Security Classifications
17 3 (0.20%) PCI DSS
18 2 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 247 (16.24%) Docker
2 80 (5.26%) Active Directory
3 33 (2.17%) Virtual Machines
4 18 (1.18%) VMware Infrastructure
5 14 (0.92%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (0.39%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.26%) Firmware
7 4 (0.26%) vSphere
8 3 (0.20%) Embedded Firmware
8 3 (0.20%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (0.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.13%) OpenSSH
9 2 (0.13%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.066%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.066%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 317 (20.84%) Kubernetes
2 98 (6.44%) Ansible
3 57 (3.75%) Grafana
4 49 (3.22%) Prometheus
5 25 (1.64%) Microsoft Intune
6 23 (1.51%) Progress Chef
7 20 (1.31%) Argo
7 20 (1.31%) Puppet
8 15 (0.99%) Packer
9 12 (0.79%) HP ALM
10 11 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
11 10 (0.66%) SCOM
12 9 (0.59%) SCCM
13 8 (0.53%) Istio
14 5 (0.33%) Jamf Pro
15 4 (0.26%) HP Quality Center
16 3 (0.20%) HP Fortify
16 3 (0.20%) Kibana
17 2 (0.13%) systemd
17 2 (0.13%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 543 (35.70%) Microsoft
2 140 (9.20%) Databricks
3 59 (3.88%) Oracle
4 54 (3.55%) ServiceNow
5 52 (3.42%) Salesforce
6 45 (2.96%) SAP
7 39 (2.56%) Google
8 30 (1.97%) Splunk
9 28 (1.84%) Dynatrace
10 23 (1.51%) VMware
11 19 (1.25%) Informatica
12 17 (1.12%) OpenAI
13 14 (0.92%) Foundry
13 14 (0.92%) UiPath
14 13 (0.85%) HP
14 13 (0.85%) MuleSoft
15 11 (0.72%) Red Hat
16 10 (0.66%) Cloudera
17 9 (0.59%) Cisco
17 9 (0.59%) InterSystems
862 Azure DevOps jobs in England