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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 87 77
Rank change year-on-year +10 -10 -2
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,499 815 882
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.24% 2.94% 2.74%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.40% 7.68% 7.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,039 579 582
10th Percentile £363 £353 £384
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 15,949 10,616 11,189
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.43% 38.24% 34.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,607 7,183 7,470
10th Percentile £320 £304 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -3.67%
75th Percentile £632 £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 574 254 165
10th Percentile £15.42 £15.50 £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% +7.99%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £66.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £26.00 £34.47
% change year-on-year +15.38% -24.56% +4.44%

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 6 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 6 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 6 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 +22 841 £520 -0.95% 506
North of England 0 177 £478 -3.04% 247
South East -21 177 £525 +14.44% 234
Midlands +1 143 £463 -8.64% 137
West Midlands +10 115 £460 -20.00% 81
North West -2 86 £500 +20.48% 115
South West +2 79 £498 -9.34% 86
Yorkshire -9 69 £475 -5.00% 102
East of England -1 44 £450 -10.00% 80
East Midlands -8 28 £500 +8.11% 56
North East - 22 £450 - 34
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 (8.01%) Confluence
2 105 (7.00%) SharePoint
3 38 (2.54%) Apache Spark
4 30 (2.00%) Apache Airflow
5 25 (1.67%) Apache
6 12 (0.80%) CMS
7 10 (0.67%) 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 50 (3.34%) Microsoft Project
2 43 (2.87%) 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 58 (3.87%) Dynamics CRM
2 22 (1.47%) 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%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.13%) SAP HCM
6 2 (0.13%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.067%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.067%) ResourceLink
7 1 (0.067%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 1,499 (100.00%) Azure
2 383 (25.55%) GitHub
3 281 (18.75%) Power Platform
4 256 (17.08%) GitHub Actions
5 236 (15.74%) AWS
6 140 (9.34%) Entra ID
7 135 (9.01%) Dynamics 365
8 132 (8.81%) Azure Monitor
9 126 (8.41%) Azure AKS
10 125 (8.34%) Azure Data Factory
11 123 (8.21%) Serverless
12 119 (7.94%) Power Automate
13 98 (6.54%) Azure Functions
14 94 (6.27%) GCP
15 89 (5.94%) PowerApps
16 84 (5.60%) Azure Logic Apps
17 77 (5.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 70 (4.67%) Azure Key Vault
19 68 (4.54%) PaaS
20 65 (4.34%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 61 (4.07%) Firewall
2 44 (2.94%) DNS
3 37 (2.47%) 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
9 4 (0.27%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (0.20%) Reverse Proxy
10 3 (0.20%) RS-232
10 3 (0.20%) RS-485
10 3 (0.20%) TCP/IP
11 2 (0.13%) 4G
11 2 (0.13%) Cisco IOS
11 2 (0.13%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 172 (11.47%) Power BI
2 121 (8.07%) SQL Server
3 78 (5.20%) Data Warehouse
4 74 (4.94%) Data Lake
5 68 (4.54%) Azure SQL Database
6 45 (3.00%) PostgreSQL
7 44 (2.94%) NoSQL
8 42 (2.80%) Delta Lake
9 36 (2.40%) Metadata
10 32 (2.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 20 (1.33%) Big Data
11 20 (1.33%) Relational Database
12 18 (1.20%) Snowflake Schema
13 17 (1.13%) MySQL
14 15 (1.00%) Data Vault
14 15 (1.00%) MongoDB
14 15 (1.00%) Oracle Database
14 15 (1.00%) Redis
15 14 (0.93%) Geospatial Data
15 14 (0.93%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 283 (18.88%) Git
2 274 (18.28%) JIRA
3 199 (13.28%) Jenkins
4 149 (9.94%) GitLab
5 77 (5.14%) Selenium
6 40 (2.67%) Postman
7 36 (2.40%) Visual Studio
8 32 (2.13%) Cucumber
9 31 (2.07%) Cypress.io
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 14 (0.93%) JMeter
14 14 (0.93%) Maven
14 14 (0.93%) Team Foundation Server
15 13 (0.87%) Bitbucket
15 13 (0.87%) MSI
General
1 429 (28.62%) Social Skills
2 327 (21.81%) Finance
3 190 (12.68%) Public Sector
4 159 (10.61%) Analytical Skills
5 88 (5.87%) Banking
6 82 (5.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 38 (2.54%) Retail
8 31 (2.07%) Influencing Skills
9 28 (1.87%) Aerospace
9 28 (1.87%) Documentation Skills
10 23 (1.53%) Legal
11 21 (1.40%) Organisational Skills
12 20 (1.33%) Marketing
13 18 (1.20%) Investment Banking
14 17 (1.13%) Manufacturing
15 13 (0.87%) Law
15 13 (0.87%) Local Government
15 13 (0.87%) Police
16 11 (0.73%) Billing
17 10 (0.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 257 (17.14%) Developer
2 243 (16.21%) Senior
3 239 (15.94%) DevOps Engineer
4 231 (15.41%) Azure Engineer
5 141 (9.41%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 139 (9.27%) Lead
7 130 (8.67%) Analyst
8 122 (8.14%) Architect
9 110 (7.34%) Data Engineer
10 70 (4.67%) Business Analyst
11 56 (3.74%) Consultant
12 55 (3.67%) Project Manager
13 51 (3.40%) Cloud Engineer
14 47 (3.14%) Dynamics 365 Developer
14 47 (3.14%) Platform Engineer
15 43 (2.87%) Senior DevOps
16 42 (2.80%) Senior Developer
17 40 (2.67%) Solutions Architect
17 40 (2.67%) Test Analyst
18 39 (2.60%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 447 (29.82%) Terraform
2 214 (14.28%) REST
3 205 (13.68%) .NET
4 85 (5.67%) JSON
5 79 (5.27%) RESTful
6 76 (5.07%) ADO
7 73 (4.87%) PySpark
8 69 (4.60%) ARM Templates
9 68 (4.54%) YAML
10 63 (4.20%) React
11 61 (4.07%) Kafka
12 60 (4.00%) .NET Framework
13 55 (3.67%) .NET Core
14 54 (3.60%) Playwright
15 48 (3.20%) OAuth
16 45 (3.00%) XML
17 43 (2.87%) Middleware
18 41 (2.74%) HTML
19 36 (2.40%) CSS
19 36 (2.40%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 165 (11.01%) Cloud Native
2 127 (8.47%) Product Ownership
3 58 (3.87%) Onboarding
4 51 (3.40%) Enterprise Software
5 49 (3.27%) Legacy Systems
5 49 (3.27%) Management Information System
6 42 (2.80%) Distributed Systems
7 31 (2.07%) Hybrid Cloud
8 29 (1.93%) AI Agents
9 23 (1.53%) Low-Code
9 23 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
10 21 (1.40%) Replication
11 20 (1.33%) Data Structures
11 20 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
12 18 (1.20%) Linux Command Line
13 17 (1.13%) Mobile App
14 16 (1.07%) Data Centre
14 16 (1.07%) Data Protection Act
15 15 (1.00%) Taxonomies
15 15 (1.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 102 (6.80%) Windows
2 79 (5.27%) Linux
3 34 (2.27%) 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 1,499 (100.00%) DevOps
2 843 (56.24%) CI/CD
3 650 (43.36%) Agile
4 404 (26.95%) Infrastructure as Code
5 296 (19.75%) Stakeholder Management
6 293 (19.55%) Test Automation
7 258 (17.21%) Continuous Improvement
8 250 (16.68%) Problem-Solving
9 242 (16.14%) Analytics
10 230 (15.34%) Containerisation
11 227 (15.14%) Scrum
12 214 (14.28%) Migration
13 192 (12.81%) AI
14 185 (12.34%) Business Intelligence
15 175 (11.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 169 (11.27%) Data Modelling
17 168 (11.21%) Deployment Automation
18 166 (11.07%) User Acceptance Testing
19 161 (10.74%) Platform Engineering
20 158 (10.54%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 384 (25.62%) Python
2 366 (24.42%) SQL
3 264 (17.61%) C#
4 220 (14.68%) PowerShell
5 184 (12.27%) Bicep
6 164 (10.94%) JavaScript
7 138 (9.21%) Bash
8 115 (7.67%) Java
9 97 (6.47%) TypeScript
10 26 (1.73%) T-SQL
11 19 (1.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 19 (1.27%) Kusto Query Language
12 18 (1.20%) Apex Code
13 14 (0.93%) Go
14 13 (0.87%) X++
15 10 (0.67%) C++
16 7 (0.47%) C
16 7 (0.47%) PL/SQL
16 7 (0.47%) Scala
16 7 (0.47%) VB
Qualifications
1 450 (30.02%) Security Cleared
2 366 (24.42%) SC Cleared
3 126 (8.41%) Azure Certification
4 120 (8.01%) Degree
5 74 (4.94%) Microsoft Certification
6 59 (3.94%) DV Cleared
7 40 (2.67%) BPSS Clearance
7 40 (2.67%) ISTQB
8 35 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
9 28 (1.87%) AWS Certification
10 27 (1.80%) PMI Certification
11 25 (1.67%) PMP
12 16 (1.07%) Master's Degree
13 14 (0.93%) CISSP
14 10 (0.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 10 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
14 10 (0.67%) DBS Check
14 10 (0.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 9 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 9 (0.60%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 185 (12.34%) QA
2 107 (7.14%) Data Quality
3 96 (6.40%) Accessibility
4 59 (3.94%) GDPR
5 54 (3.60%) WCAG
6 32 (2.13%) PMO
7 27 (1.80%) NIST
8 24 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 18 (1.20%) NCSC
10 12 (0.80%) SLA
11 9 (0.60%) GRC
11 9 (0.60%) ISO 20022
12 7 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
12 7 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 7 (0.47%) SEPA
13 5 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
14 4 (0.27%) PSD2
15 3 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 3 (0.20%) Government Security Classifications
15 3 (0.20%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 248 (16.54%) Docker
2 64 (4.27%) 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%) OpenSSH
8 2 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.067%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 315 (21.01%) Kubernetes
2 101 (6.74%) Ansible
3 61 (4.07%) Grafana
4 51 (3.40%) Prometheus
5 32 (2.13%) 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%) Nagios
Vendors
1 568 (37.89%) Microsoft
2 135 (9.01%) Databricks
3 60 (4.00%) Salesforce
4 58 (3.87%) Oracle
5 54 (3.60%) ServiceNow
6 46 (3.07%) SAP
7 42 (2.80%) Google
8 38 (2.54%) Dynatrace
9 32 (2.13%) Splunk
10 26 (1.73%) VMware
11 22 (1.47%) Foundry
11 22 (1.47%) OpenAI
12 18 (1.20%) MuleSoft
12 18 (1.20%) UiPath
13 14 (0.93%) HP
14 12 (0.80%) Workday
15 11 (0.73%) IBM
15 11 (0.73%) Informatica
16 10 (0.67%) Red Hat
17 9 (0.60%) Adobe