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

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 86 80
Rank change year-on-year +8 -6 -6
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,485 821 893
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.21% 2.92% 2.76%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.32% 7.65% 7.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,027 583 589
10th Percentile £363 £354 £383
25th Percentile £419 £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 15,941 10,729 11,282
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.41% 38.21% 34.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,608 7,259 7,549
10th Percentile £322 £305 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.96% -3.81% -3.67%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £643
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 568 256 166
10th Percentile £15.36 £15.38 £15.99
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £21.53
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 £65.68
90th Percentile £81.25 £67.13 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £31.13 £26.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +19.71% -25.71% +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 4 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 4 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 4 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 +16 829 £506 -3.57% 504
South East -17 179 £525 +14.44% 224
North of England +2 175 £475 -3.65% 237
Midlands +6 143 £463 -8.64% 136
West Midlands +9 115 £460 -20.00% 81
North West +1 84 £500 +20.48% 110
South West +3 78 £495 -9.59% 74
Yorkshire -10 69 £475 -5.00% 99
East of England +4 44 £450 -10.00% 78
East Midlands -9 28 £500 +8.11% 55
North East - 22 £450 - 32
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
1 118 (7.95%) Confluence
2 104 (7.00%) SharePoint
3 38 (2.56%) Apache Spark
4 30 (2.02%) Apache Airflow
5 25 (1.68%) Apache
6 12 (0.81%) 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 51 (3.43%) Microsoft Project
2 43 (2.90%) Microsoft Excel
3 28 (1.89%) MS Visio
4 16 (1.08%) Microsoft Office
5 13 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 9 (0.61%) Chatbot
7 6 (0.40%) CPLEX
8 5 (0.34%) Notion
8 5 (0.34%) 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 56 (3.77%) Dynamics CRM
2 22 (1.48%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.34%) 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%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.067%) SDL Web 8
7 1 (0.067%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 1,485 (100.00%) Azure
2 373 (25.12%) GitHub
3 277 (18.65%) Power Platform
4 254 (17.10%) GitHub Actions
5 232 (15.62%) AWS
6 133 (8.96%) Dynamics 365
6 133 (8.96%) Entra ID
7 125 (8.42%) Azure Data Factory
7 125 (8.42%) Azure Monitor
8 123 (8.28%) Azure AKS
9 120 (8.08%) Serverless
10 117 (7.88%) Power Automate
11 95 (6.40%) Azure Functions
12 93 (6.26%) GCP
13 88 (5.93%) PowerApps
14 83 (5.59%) Azure Logic Apps
15 76 (5.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 67 (4.51%) PaaS
17 66 (4.44%) Azure Key Vault
18 64 (4.31%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 60 (4.04%) Firewall
2 43 (2.90%) DNS
3 36 (2.42%) Network Security
4 20 (1.35%) VPN
5 16 (1.08%) SSL
6 11 (0.74%) DHCP
7 7 (0.47%) WAN
8 5 (0.34%) VLAN
9 4 (0.27%) SAN
10 3 (0.20%) Internet
10 3 (0.20%) LAN
10 3 (0.20%) Reverse Proxy
10 3 (0.20%) RS-232
10 3 (0.20%) RS-485
10 3 (0.20%) SD-WAN
10 3 (0.20%) TCP/IP
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
1 171 (11.52%) Power BI
2 118 (7.95%) SQL Server
3 78 (5.25%) Data Warehouse
4 74 (4.98%) Data Lake
5 65 (4.38%) Azure SQL Database
6 44 (2.96%) NoSQL
7 43 (2.90%) PostgreSQL
8 41 (2.76%) Delta Lake
9 34 (2.29%) Metadata
10 30 (2.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 20 (1.35%) Big Data
12 18 (1.21%) Relational Database
12 18 (1.21%) Snowflake Schema
13 17 (1.14%) MySQL
14 15 (1.01%) Data Vault
14 15 (1.01%) MongoDB
15 14 (0.94%) Geospatial Data
15 14 (0.94%) Parquet
15 14 (0.94%) Star Schema
16 13 (0.88%) Redis
Development Applications
1 281 (18.92%) Git
2 274 (18.45%) JIRA
3 195 (13.13%) Jenkins
4 149 (10.03%) GitLab
5 76 (5.12%) Selenium
6 40 (2.69%) Postman
7 35 (2.36%) Visual Studio
8 31 (2.09%) Cucumber
8 31 (2.09%) Cypress.io
9 27 (1.82%) SonarQube
9 27 (1.82%) WebDriver
10 23 (1.55%) REST Assured
11 18 (1.21%) JUnit
12 17 (1.14%) Gradle
12 17 (1.14%) TestRail
13 14 (0.94%) JMeter
13 14 (0.94%) Maven
13 14 (0.94%) Team Foundation Server
14 13 (0.88%) Bitbucket
14 13 (0.88%) MSI
General
1 420 (28.28%) Social Skills
2 323 (21.75%) Finance
3 182 (12.26%) Public Sector
4 157 (10.57%) Analytical Skills
5 86 (5.79%) Banking
6 82 (5.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 39 (2.63%) Retail
8 31 (2.09%) Influencing Skills
9 28 (1.89%) Aerospace
10 26 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
11 23 (1.55%) Legal
12 21 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
13 20 (1.35%) Marketing
14 17 (1.14%) Investment Banking
14 17 (1.14%) Manufacturing
15 13 (0.88%) Law
15 13 (0.88%) Local Government
16 11 (0.74%) Billing
16 11 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
17 10 (0.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 256 (17.24%) Developer
2 238 (16.03%) Senior
3 236 (15.89%) DevOps Engineer
4 231 (15.56%) Azure Engineer
5 141 (9.49%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 138 (9.29%) Lead
7 129 (8.69%) Analyst
8 114 (7.68%) Architect
9 111 (7.47%) Data Engineer
10 70 (4.71%) Business Analyst
11 56 (3.77%) Project Manager
12 55 (3.70%) Consultant
13 51 (3.43%) Cloud Engineer
14 47 (3.16%) Dynamics 365 Developer
14 47 (3.16%) Platform Engineer
15 43 (2.90%) Senior DevOps
16 42 (2.83%) Senior Developer
17 40 (2.69%) Test Analyst
18 39 (2.63%) Senior DevOps Engineer
19 37 (2.49%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 437 (29.43%) Terraform
2 206 (13.87%) REST
3 202 (13.60%) .NET
4 84 (5.66%) JSON
5 79 (5.32%) RESTful
6 75 (5.05%) ADO
7 73 (4.92%) PySpark
8 68 (4.58%) ARM Templates
8 68 (4.58%) YAML
9 63 (4.24%) React
10 61 (4.11%) Kafka
11 59 (3.97%) .NET Framework
12 55 (3.70%) .NET Core
13 54 (3.64%) Playwright
14 46 (3.10%) OAuth
15 45 (3.03%) XML
16 41 (2.76%) HTML
17 40 (2.69%) Middleware
18 36 (2.42%) CSS
19 35 (2.36%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 164 (11.04%) Cloud Native
2 127 (8.55%) Product Ownership
3 58 (3.91%) Onboarding
4 47 (3.16%) Legacy Systems
5 45 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
6 42 (2.83%) Management Information System
7 39 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
8 30 (2.02%) Hybrid Cloud
9 29 (1.95%) AI Agents
10 23 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
11 22 (1.48%) Low-Code
12 20 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
12 20 (1.35%) Replication
13 19 (1.28%) Data Structures
14 18 (1.21%) Linux Command Line
15 16 (1.08%) Data Centre
15 16 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
15 16 (1.08%) Mobile App
15 16 (1.08%) Virtual Team
16 15 (1.01%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 101 (6.80%) Windows
2 76 (5.12%) Linux
3 33 (2.22%) Windows Server
4 18 (1.21%) VMS
5 14 (0.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (0.67%) Unix
7 9 (0.61%) Android
7 9 (0.61%) 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
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,485 (100.00%) DevOps
2 835 (56.23%) CI/CD
3 650 (43.77%) Agile
4 396 (26.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 290 (19.53%) Test Automation
6 288 (19.39%) Stakeholder Management
7 252 (16.97%) Continuous Improvement
8 248 (16.70%) Problem-Solving
9 234 (15.76%) Analytics
10 227 (15.29%) Scrum
11 226 (15.22%) Containerisation
12 207 (13.94%) Migration
13 189 (12.73%) AI
14 184 (12.39%) Business Intelligence
15 173 (11.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 166 (11.18%) Data Modelling
16 166 (11.18%) User Acceptance Testing
17 162 (10.91%) Deployment Automation
18 158 (10.64%) Platform Engineering
19 155 (10.44%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 381 (25.66%) Python
2 364 (24.51%) SQL
3 264 (17.78%) C#
4 215 (14.48%) PowerShell
5 177 (11.92%) Bicep
6 163 (10.98%) JavaScript
7 134 (9.02%) Bash
8 113 (7.61%) Java
9 95 (6.40%) TypeScript
10 26 (1.75%) T-SQL
11 19 (1.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 19 (1.28%) Kusto Query Language
12 17 (1.14%) Apex Code
13 14 (0.94%) Go
14 13 (0.88%) 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
1 440 (29.63%) Security Cleared
2 356 (23.97%) SC Cleared
3 122 (8.22%) Azure Certification
4 119 (8.01%) Degree
5 73 (4.92%) Microsoft Certification
6 59 (3.97%) DV Cleared
7 40 (2.69%) ISTQB
8 38 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
9 34 (2.29%) Computer Science Degree
10 28 (1.89%) PMI Certification
11 26 (1.75%) AWS Certification
11 26 (1.75%) PMP
12 16 (1.08%) Master's Degree
13 14 (0.94%) 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 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 9 (0.61%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 184 (12.39%) QA
2 105 (7.07%) Data Quality
3 94 (6.33%) Accessibility
4 60 (4.04%) GDPR
5 54 (3.64%) WCAG
6 31 (2.09%) PMO
7 28 (1.89%) NIST
8 24 (1.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 18 (1.21%) NCSC
10 12 (0.81%) SLA
11 9 (0.61%) GRC
11 9 (0.61%) ISO 20022
12 8 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 7 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
13 7 (0.47%) SEPA
14 5 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
15 4 (0.27%) PSD2
16 3 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 3 (0.20%) Government Security Classifications
16 3 (0.20%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 241 (16.23%) Docker
2 64 (4.31%) Active Directory
3 29 (1.95%) Virtual Machines
4 18 (1.21%) VMware Infrastructure
5 17 (1.14%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.34%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.34%) 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
1 307 (20.67%) Kubernetes
2 99 (6.67%) Ansible
3 54 (3.64%) Grafana
4 50 (3.37%) Prometheus
5 31 (2.09%) Microsoft Intune
6 21 (1.41%) Progress Chef
7 16 (1.08%) Argo
8 15 (1.01%) Puppet
9 13 (0.88%) HP ALM
9 13 (0.88%) Packer
10 10 (0.67%) SCOM
11 9 (0.61%) SCCM
12 5 (0.34%) HP Quality Center
12 5 (0.34%) Jamf Pro
12 5 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
13 4 (0.27%) Istio
14 3 (0.20%) HP Fortify
14 3 (0.20%) Kibana
15 2 (0.13%) Nagios
15 2 (0.13%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 559 (37.64%) Microsoft
2 135 (9.09%) Databricks
3 59 (3.97%) Salesforce
4 56 (3.77%) Oracle
5 54 (3.64%) ServiceNow
6 46 (3.10%) SAP
7 42 (2.83%) Google
8 33 (2.22%) Splunk
9 32 (2.15%) Dynatrace
10 26 (1.75%) VMware
11 22 (1.48%) Foundry
11 22 (1.48%) OpenAI
12 17 (1.14%) MuleSoft
12 17 (1.14%) UiPath
13 14 (0.94%) HP
14 12 (0.81%) Workday
15 11 (0.74%) IBM
15 11 (0.74%) Informatica
16 10 (0.67%) Red Hat
17 8 (0.54%) Adobe