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

 6 months to
1 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 93 74
Rank change year-on-year +21 -19 +2
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,492 756 973
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.28% 2.74% 2.88%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.35% 7.35% 8.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,061 545 653
10th Percentile £363 £350 £382
25th Percentile £416 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £680 £723 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £520
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 3 0
10th Percentile £21.05 £36.45 -
25th Percentile £25.38 £45.75 -
Median hourly rate £43.15 £62.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -30.96% - -
75th Percentile £83.69 £76.25 -
90th Percentile £102.65 £83.75 -
UK median hourly rate £46.80 £73.75 -
% change year-on-year -36.54% - -

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 15,958 10,279 11,326
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.07% 37.24% 33.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,654 6,968 8,061
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £423 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.34% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £719 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £519 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.75% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 568 267 246
10th Percentile £16.62 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.13 £16.10
Median hourly rate £37.37 £26.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +43.73% +18.18% -33.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £51.43
90th Percentile £85.00 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £27.50 £23.80
% change year-on-year +29.09% +15.55% -32.00%

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 1 August 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 1 August 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 1 August 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 +20 833 £500 -4.76% 235
South East -13 184 £505 +12.22% 126
Midlands +25 173 £450 -10.00% 59
North of England +20 167 £480 -4.00% 89
West Midlands +14 126 £450 -14.29% 37
North West +8 86 £500 -4.76% 53
South West +3 71 £475 -5.00% 31
Yorkshire -13 59 £475 -4.95% 27
East Midlands +4 45 £525 +12.00% 22
East of England +11 36 £425 -12.82% 30
North East -18 22 £450 -18.18% 10
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
1 106 (7.10%) Confluence
2 87 (5.83%) SharePoint
3 35 (2.35%) Apache Spark
4 33 (2.21%) Apache Airflow
5 31 (2.08%) Apache
6 14 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
7 8 (0.54%) CMS
8 6 (0.40%) Documentum
9 4 (0.27%) IIS
10 3 (0.20%) Kentico
10 3 (0.20%) Mendix
10 3 (0.20%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (0.20%) SAS
11 2 (0.13%) OpenROAD
11 2 (0.13%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.067%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.067%) HCL Notes
12 1 (0.067%) IBM HTTP Server
12 1 (0.067%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.067%) WebLogic
Applications
1 53 (3.55%) Microsoft Project
2 35 (2.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 18 (1.21%) MS Visio
4 11 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
5 8 (0.54%) CPLEX
6 7 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 7 (0.47%) Trello
7 5 (0.34%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.27%) Notion
8 4 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.067%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.067%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 47 (3.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 20 (1.34%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.47%) Dynamics AX
4 6 (0.40%) Maximo
5 4 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.20%) Endur
6 3 (0.20%) Findur
6 3 (0.20%) SAP BPC
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%) Salesforce CRM
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 (0.067%) Loan IQ
8 1 (0.067%) ResourceLink
8 1 (0.067%) SAP CS
Cloud Services
1 1,492 (100.00%) Azure
2 392 (26.27%) GitHub
3 268 (17.96%) GitHub Actions
4 234 (15.68%) Power Platform
5 223 (14.95%) AWS
6 134 (8.98%) Azure Data Factory
7 127 (8.51%) Entra ID
8 124 (8.31%) Azure AKS
9 118 (7.91%) Azure Monitor
10 114 (7.64%) Dynamics 365
11 111 (7.44%) Power Automate
12 95 (6.37%) Serverless
13 89 (5.97%) PowerApps
14 85 (5.70%) GCP
15 79 (5.29%) Azure Key Vault
16 78 (5.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 65 (4.36%) Microsoft 365
18 64 (4.29%) Azure Logic Apps
19 61 (4.09%) Azure Functions
20 60 (4.02%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 59 (3.95%) Firewall
2 36 (2.41%) DNS
3 31 (2.08%) Network Security
4 25 (1.68%) VPN
5 15 (1.01%) SSL
5 15 (1.01%) WAN
6 13 (0.87%) SD-WAN
7 12 (0.80%) DHCP
8 9 (0.60%) Internet
8 9 (0.60%) TCP/IP
9 7 (0.47%) VLAN
10 6 (0.40%) LAN
11 3 (0.20%) 4G
11 3 (0.20%) BGP
11 3 (0.20%) OSPF
11 3 (0.20%) RS-232
11 3 (0.20%) RS-485
11 3 (0.20%) SAN
11 3 (0.20%) Wi-Fi
12 2 (0.13%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 156 (10.46%) Power BI
2 111 (7.44%) SQL Server
3 75 (5.03%) Data Lake
4 71 (4.76%) Azure SQL Database
5 70 (4.69%) Data Warehouse
6 54 (3.62%) NoSQL
7 53 (3.55%) Delta Lake
8 46 (3.08%) PostgreSQL
9 27 (1.81%) Relational Database
10 26 (1.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 23 (1.54%) MongoDB
12 22 (1.47%) Metadata
12 22 (1.47%) Snowflake Schema
13 18 (1.21%) Redis
13 18 (1.21%) Spark SQL
14 16 (1.07%) Big Data
15 15 (1.01%) Amazon Redshift
16 13 (0.87%) Data Vault
16 13 (0.87%) Parquet
17 12 (0.80%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 287 (19.24%) JIRA
2 237 (15.88%) Git
3 170 (11.39%) Jenkins
4 127 (8.51%) GitLab
5 61 (4.09%) Selenium
6 31 (2.08%) Postman
6 31 (2.08%) SonarQube
7 25 (1.68%) Cypress.io
7 25 (1.68%) Visual Studio
8 23 (1.54%) Cucumber
9 21 (1.41%) WebDriver
10 18 (1.21%) REST Assured
11 17 (1.14%) Gradle
11 17 (1.14%) TestRail
12 16 (1.07%) JUnit
13 15 (1.01%) Bitbucket
13 15 (1.01%) Maven
14 12 (0.80%) MSI
14 12 (0.80%) Sonatype Nexus
14 12 (0.80%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 384 (25.74%) Social Skills
2 302 (20.24%) Finance
3 184 (12.33%) Public Sector
4 157 (10.52%) Analytical Skills
5 75 (5.03%) Banking
6 66 (4.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 30 (2.01%) Organisational Skills
7 30 (2.01%) Retail
8 29 (1.94%) Legal
9 25 (1.68%) Documentation Skills
10 22 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
11 17 (1.14%) Aerospace
12 15 (1.01%) Marketing
13 13 (0.87%) Investment Banking
13 13 (0.87%) Law
13 13 (0.87%) Local Government
14 9 (0.60%) Billing
14 9 (0.60%) Manufacturing
15 8 (0.54%) Front Office
16 7 (0.47%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 278 (18.63%) Developer
2 216 (14.48%) Azure Engineer
3 215 (14.41%) Senior
4 210 (14.08%) DevOps Engineer
5 134 (8.98%) Lead
6 131 (8.78%) Data Engineer
7 127 (8.51%) Analyst
7 127 (8.51%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 102 (6.84%) Architect
9 64 (4.29%) Business Analyst
10 56 (3.75%) Platform Engineer
11 47 (3.15%) Project Manager
12 46 (3.08%) Test Analyst
13 44 (2.95%) Cloud Engineer
14 42 (2.82%) Consultant
14 42 (2.82%) Full-Stack Developer
14 42 (2.82%) Solutions Architect
14 42 (2.82%) Tester
15 41 (2.75%) .NET Developer
16 39 (2.61%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 199 (13.34%) .NET
2 163 (10.92%) REST
3 85 (5.70%) PySpark
4 81 (5.43%) RESTful
5 77 (5.16%) ADO
6 72 (4.83%) YAML
7 68 (4.56%) JSON
8 62 (4.16%) .NET Framework
9 60 (4.02%) Kafka
10 58 (3.89%) React
11 52 (3.49%) ARM Templates
12 51 (3.42%) .NET Core
12 51 (3.42%) Playwright
13 45 (3.02%) SOAP
14 40 (2.68%) OAuth
15 35 (2.35%) HTML
16 34 (2.28%) XML
17 33 (2.21%) AngularJS
17 33 (2.21%) Node.js
18 32 (2.14%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 173 (11.60%) Cloud Native
2 104 (6.97%) Product Ownership
3 52 (3.49%) Distributed Systems
4 49 (3.28%) Legacy Systems
5 45 (3.02%) Onboarding
6 31 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
7 29 (1.94%) Self-Motivation
8 27 (1.81%) Management Information System
9 25 (1.68%) Hybrid Cloud
10 24 (1.61%) Data Structures
11 21 (1.41%) Reinsurance
12 18 (1.21%) Replication
13 17 (1.14%) Low-Code
14 16 (1.07%) AI Agents
14 16 (1.07%) Greenfield Project
14 16 (1.07%) Mobile App
15 14 (0.94%) Enterprise Cloud
16 12 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
16 12 (0.80%) Virtual Team
17 11 (0.74%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 92 (6.17%) Windows
2 63 (4.22%) Linux
3 25 (1.68%) Windows Server
4 13 (0.87%) VMS
5 10 (0.67%) Unix
6 8 (0.54%) Android
6 8 (0.54%) Apple iOS
7 6 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (0.27%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.20%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.067%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,492 (100.00%) DevOps
2 807 (54.09%) CI/CD
3 613 (41.09%) Agile
4 365 (24.46%) Infrastructure as Code
5 257 (17.23%) Test Automation
6 241 (16.15%) Analytics
7 232 (15.55%) Problem-Solving
8 228 (15.28%) Stakeholder Management
9 225 (15.08%) Continuous Improvement
10 215 (14.41%) Scrum
11 211 (14.14%) Containerisation
12 203 (13.61%) Migration
13 170 (11.39%) Data Modelling
14 166 (11.13%) Business Intelligence
15 160 (10.72%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 147 (9.85%) AI
17 145 (9.72%) Microservices
18 144 (9.65%) Platform Engineering
18 144 (9.65%) User Acceptance Testing
19 136 (9.12%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 411 (27.55%) SQL
2 368 (24.66%) Python
3 249 (16.69%) C#
4 182 (12.20%) PowerShell
5 150 (10.05%) JavaScript
6 141 (9.45%) Bicep
7 117 (7.84%) Bash
8 110 (7.37%) Java
9 83 (5.56%) TypeScript
10 24 (1.61%) T-SQL
11 19 (1.27%) Go
12 15 (1.01%) Kusto Query Language
13 14 (0.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 12 (0.80%) Apex Code
14 12 (0.80%) X++
15 11 (0.74%) Scala
16 10 (0.67%) PL/SQL
17 7 (0.47%) C
17 7 (0.47%) Shell Script
18 6 (0.40%) VB
Qualifications
1 434 (29.09%) Security Cleared
2 353 (23.66%) SC Cleared
3 107 (7.17%) Azure Certification
4 98 (6.57%) Degree
5 53 (3.55%) DV Cleared
6 52 (3.49%) Microsoft Certification
7 37 (2.48%) ISTQB
8 33 (2.21%) BPSS Clearance
9 32 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
10 24 (1.61%) AWS Certification
11 14 (0.94%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 14 (0.94%) PMP
12 13 (0.87%) PMI Certification
13 12 (0.80%) Master's Degree
14 10 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
14 10 (0.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 9 (0.60%) DBS Check
16 8 (0.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 8 (0.54%) CISSP
17 5 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 162 (10.86%) QA
2 105 (7.04%) Data Quality
3 80 (5.36%) Accessibility
4 51 (3.42%) GDPR
5 46 (3.08%) WCAG
6 26 (1.74%) PMO
7 19 (1.27%) NIST
8 18 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 15 (1.01%) NCSC
10 14 (0.94%) SLA
11 12 (0.80%) GRC
12 9 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 5 (0.34%) PCI DSS
14 4 (0.27%) PSD2
14 4 (0.27%) SEPA
15 3 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
15 3 (0.20%) Government Security Classifications
16 2 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
16 2 (0.13%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 2 (0.13%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 221 (14.81%) Docker
2 84 (5.63%) Active Directory
3 33 (2.21%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (1.07%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.87%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (0.40%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.27%) vSphere
8 3 (0.20%) Embedded Firmware
8 3 (0.20%) Firmware
9 2 (0.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.13%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (0.13%) OpenSSH
9 2 (0.13%) Postfix
9 2 (0.13%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.067%) HDFS
10 1 (0.067%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.067%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 409 (27.41%) Terraform
2 278 (18.63%) Kubernetes
3 94 (6.30%) Ansible
4 62 (4.16%) Grafana
5 52 (3.49%) Prometheus
6 22 (1.47%) Argo
7 20 (1.34%) Progress Chef
7 20 (1.34%) Puppet
8 19 (1.27%) Microsoft Intune
9 13 (0.87%) Packer
10 12 (0.80%) HP ALM
10 12 (0.80%) Istio
11 11 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
12 8 (0.54%) SCCM
13 6 (0.40%) Jamf Pro
13 6 (0.40%) SCOM
14 4 (0.27%) HP Quality Center
15 3 (0.20%) Rancher
16 2 (0.13%) Docker Swarm
16 2 (0.13%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 478 (32.04%) Microsoft
2 138 (9.25%) Databricks
3 66 (4.42%) Oracle
4 65 (4.36%) ServiceNow
5 50 (3.35%) Salesforce
6 48 (3.22%) SAP
7 36 (2.41%) Google
8 30 (2.01%) Splunk
9 26 (1.74%) Dynatrace
10 21 (1.41%) VMware
11 19 (1.27%) Informatica
12 13 (0.87%) HP
13 12 (0.80%) OpenAI
14 11 (0.74%) Foundry
15 10 (0.67%) Bloomberg
15 10 (0.67%) IBM
15 10 (0.67%) MuleSoft
16 9 (0.60%) InterSystems
17 8 (0.54%) Cisco
17 8 (0.54%) Citrix
530 Azure DevOps jobs in England