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

 6 months to
6 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 92 76
Rank change year-on-year +17 -16 -5
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,309 663 1,053
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.10% 2.74% 2.85%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.84% 7.27% 8.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 957 467 701
10th Percentile £375 £356 £400
25th Percentile £415 £419 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £517 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.29% -1.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £624 £600
90th Percentile £688 £730 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £523
% change year-on-year - -4.43% -4.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 1 6
10th Percentile £25.38 - £64.50
25th Percentile £37.50 £30.25 £65.25
Median hourly rate £72.25 £31.50 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year +129.37% -51.91% -6.43%
75th Percentile £86.81 £32.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £104.00 - £68.50
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £85.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year -17.65% +29.77% -6.43%

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 14,812 9,123 11,826
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.12% 37.73% 32.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,071 6,234 8,479
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £715 £738 £748
UK median daily rate £510 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +1.49% -4.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 511 218 328
10th Percentile £15.93 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £17.88 £16.05
Median hourly rate £42.69 £25.50 £21.46
Median % change year-on-year +67.39% +18.83% -38.69%
75th Percentile £68.75 £37.75 £41.19
90th Percentile £82.25 £68.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £28.21 £21.50
% change year-on-year +31.18% +31.19% -42.67%

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 June 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 June 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 June 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 +13 730 £500 -4.76% 144
South East +5 185 £500 +7.24% 108
North of England +12 145 £490 +3.11% 78
Midlands -4 126 £475 -7.32% 49
West Midlands -8 85 £475 -9.52% 30
North West +4 67 £500 -2.44% 44
South West +11 63 £500 -4.76% 26
Yorkshire -32 57 £500 +11.11% 18
East Midlands -10 39 £506 +1.25% 19
East of England -5 27 £450 -5.26% 32
North East -6 21 £452 -17.91% 16
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 87 (6.65%) SharePoint
2 74 (5.65%) Confluence
3 40 (3.06%) Apache Spark
4 28 (2.14%) Apache
5 23 (1.76%) Apache Airflow
6 15 (1.15%) Microsoft Exchange
7 8 (0.61%) HCL Notes
7 8 (0.61%) Mendix
8 6 (0.46%) CMS
9 4 (0.31%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (0.23%) IIS
10 3 (0.23%) Kentico
11 2 (0.15%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.15%) Documentum
11 2 (0.15%) SAS
11 2 (0.15%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.076%) IBM HTTP Server
12 1 (0.076%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.076%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.076%) WebLogic
Applications
1 42 (3.21%) Microsoft Project
2 26 (1.99%) Microsoft Excel
3 18 (1.38%) MS Visio
4 10 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
5 7 (0.53%) CPLEX
6 6 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 4 (0.31%) Notion
8 3 (0.23%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.23%) Trello
9 2 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.076%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 43 (3.28%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (1.07%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.61%) Maximo
4 7 (0.53%) Dynamics AX
5 4 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.23%) Findur
6 3 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
6 3 (0.23%) SAP BPC
6 3 (0.23%) SAP MDG
6 3 (0.23%) SAP MM
6 3 (0.23%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 2 (0.15%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.15%) Dynamics GP
7 2 (0.15%) Endur
7 2 (0.15%) NEC Housing
7 2 (0.15%) Unit4 Business World
8 1 (0.076%) Loan IQ
8 1 (0.076%) Oracle Financials
8 1 (0.076%) SAP SD
8 1 (0.076%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 1,309 (100.00%) Azure
2 322 (24.60%) GitHub
3 216 (16.50%) Power Platform
4 209 (15.97%) GitHub Actions
5 182 (13.90%) AWS
6 128 (9.78%) Azure Data Factory
7 115 (8.79%) Entra ID
8 112 (8.56%) Azure AKS
9 102 (7.79%) Azure Monitor
9 102 (7.79%) Serverless
10 96 (7.33%) Dynamics 365
11 90 (6.88%) Power Automate
12 83 (6.34%) Azure Key Vault
13 77 (5.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 71 (5.42%) Azure Logic Apps
15 70 (5.35%) GCP
16 69 (5.27%) Azure Functions
17 66 (5.04%) PowerApps
18 64 (4.89%) Microsoft 365
19 58 (4.43%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 49 (3.74%) Firewall
2 23 (1.76%) Network Security
3 21 (1.60%) VPN
4 20 (1.53%) DNS
5 14 (1.07%) SD-WAN
6 13 (0.99%) WAN
7 8 (0.61%) Internet
8 7 (0.53%) DHCP
8 7 (0.53%) TCP/IP
9 6 (0.46%) LAN
9 6 (0.46%) VLAN
10 5 (0.38%) IPsec
11 4 (0.31%) MQTT
12 3 (0.23%) SSL
13 2 (0.15%) BGP
13 2 (0.15%) FTP
13 2 (0.15%) HTTP
13 2 (0.15%) OSPF
13 2 (0.15%) SAN
13 2 (0.15%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 139 (10.62%) Power BI
2 108 (8.25%) SQL Server
3 80 (6.11%) Data Lake
4 77 (5.88%) Azure SQL Database
5 69 (5.27%) Delta Lake
6 56 (4.28%) Data Warehouse
7 45 (3.44%) NoSQL
8 44 (3.36%) PostgreSQL
9 26 (1.99%) Relational Database
10 24 (1.83%) MongoDB
11 22 (1.68%) Spark SQL
12 21 (1.60%) Oracle Database
13 20 (1.53%) Snowflake Schema
14 17 (1.30%) Redis
15 16 (1.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 15 (1.15%) Metadata
17 14 (1.07%) Big Data
17 14 (1.07%) Parquet
17 14 (1.07%) Tableau
18 13 (0.99%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 241 (18.41%) JIRA
2 197 (15.05%) Git
3 111 (8.48%) Jenkins
4 88 (6.72%) GitLab
5 44 (3.36%) Selenium
6 26 (1.99%) Postman
7 21 (1.60%) SonarQube
8 19 (1.45%) REST Assured
8 19 (1.45%) Visual Studio
9 16 (1.22%) Cypress.io
10 14 (1.07%) TestRail
11 13 (0.99%) Team Foundation Server
12 12 (0.92%) Cucumber
13 11 (0.84%) Bitbucket
13 11 (0.84%) NUnit
13 11 (0.84%) WebDriver
14 10 (0.76%) Artifactory
14 10 (0.76%) Gradle
14 10 (0.76%) SpecFlow
15 9 (0.69%) JUnit
General
1 308 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 269 (20.55%) Finance
3 137 (10.47%) Public Sector
4 121 (9.24%) Analytical Skills
5 56 (4.28%) Banking
6 35 (2.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 32 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
8 25 (1.91%) Legal
9 20 (1.53%) Retail
10 19 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
11 17 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
12 13 (0.99%) Aerospace
13 12 (0.92%) Front Office
13 12 (0.92%) Investment Banking
14 11 (0.84%) Financial Institution
15 9 (0.69%) Marketing
16 8 (0.61%) Law
17 7 (0.53%) Presentation Skills
18 6 (0.46%) Back Office
18 6 (0.46%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 234 (17.88%) Developer
2 216 (16.50%) Azure Engineer
3 182 (13.90%) DevOps Engineer
4 180 (13.75%) Senior
5 133 (10.16%) Data Engineer
6 121 (9.24%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 114 (8.71%) Analyst
8 105 (8.02%) Lead
9 95 (7.26%) Architect
10 52 (3.97%) Platform Engineer
11 50 (3.82%) Business Analyst
12 42 (3.21%) Test Analyst
13 40 (3.06%) Project Manager
14 39 (2.98%) Cloud Engineer
15 38 (2.90%) Solutions Architect
16 37 (2.83%) Full-Stack Developer
16 37 (2.83%) Tester
17 36 (2.75%) Senior Developer
17 36 (2.75%) Test Engineer
18 35 (2.67%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 183 (13.98%) .NET
2 112 (8.56%) REST
3 85 (6.49%) PySpark
4 70 (5.35%) React
5 65 (4.97%) ADO
6 64 (4.89%) ARM Templates
7 60 (4.58%) YAML
8 57 (4.35%) Kafka
9 55 (4.20%) RESTful
10 48 (3.67%) JSON
11 42 (3.21%) Node.js
11 42 (3.21%) Playwright
12 40 (3.06%) .NET Framework
13 34 (2.60%) SOAP
14 32 (2.44%) .NET Core
15 30 (2.29%) CSS
16 28 (2.14%) HTML
16 28 (2.14%) OAuth
17 27 (2.06%) AngularJS
18 26 (1.99%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 146 (11.15%) Cloud Native
2 72 (5.50%) Product Ownership
3 39 (2.98%) Distributed Systems
4 37 (2.83%) Legacy Systems
5 27 (2.06%) Reinsurance
6 25 (1.91%) Enterprise Software
6 25 (1.91%) Onboarding
7 21 (1.60%) Hybrid Cloud
8 19 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
9 18 (1.38%) Low-Code
10 17 (1.30%) Data Structures
10 17 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
11 16 (1.22%) Mobile App
12 15 (1.15%) AI Agents
13 12 (0.92%) Replication
14 10 (0.76%) Data Centre
14 10 (0.76%) Public Cloud
15 9 (0.69%) Enterprise Cloud
15 9 (0.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 9 (0.69%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 68 (5.19%) Windows
2 53 (4.05%) Linux
3 17 (1.30%) VMS
4 8 (0.61%) Unix
4 8 (0.61%) Windows Server
5 5 (0.38%) Android
5 5 (0.38%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.23%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.076%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,302 (99.47%) DevOps
2 709 (54.16%) CI/CD
3 475 (36.29%) Agile
4 308 (23.53%) Infrastructure as Code
5 218 (16.65%) Analytics
6 212 (16.20%) Test Automation
7 209 (15.97%) Problem-Solving
8 179 (13.67%) Migration
9 167 (12.76%) Continuous Improvement
10 162 (12.38%) Scrum
11 156 (11.92%) Data Modelling
12 150 (11.46%) Containerisation
13 149 (11.38%) Stakeholder Management
14 148 (11.31%) Business Intelligence
15 136 (10.39%) ETL
16 135 (10.31%) Data Pipeline
17 133 (10.16%) AI
18 122 (9.32%) Observability
19 120 (9.17%) Platform Engineering
20 115 (8.79%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 400 (30.56%) SQL
2 330 (25.21%) Python
3 220 (16.81%) C#
4 135 (10.31%) PowerShell
5 122 (9.32%) JavaScript
6 114 (8.71%) Bicep
7 92 (7.03%) Java
8 88 (6.72%) Bash
9 68 (5.19%) TypeScript
10 26 (1.99%) T-SQL
11 23 (1.76%) Scala
12 16 (1.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 16 (1.22%) Go
13 14 (1.07%) PL/SQL
14 11 (0.84%) Kusto Query Language
15 8 (0.61%) Formula Language
15 8 (0.61%) LotusScript
16 7 (0.53%) Apex Code
16 7 (0.53%) VB
16 7 (0.53%) X++
Qualifications
1 349 (26.66%) Security Cleared
2 290 (22.15%) SC Cleared
3 103 (7.87%) Azure Certification
4 70 (5.35%) Degree
5 39 (2.98%) DV Cleared
6 36 (2.75%) BPSS Clearance
7 34 (2.60%) Microsoft Certification
8 31 (2.37%) ISTQB
9 23 (1.76%) Computer Science Degree
10 18 (1.38%) PMI Certification
10 18 (1.38%) PMP
11 13 (0.99%) AWS Certification
12 9 (0.69%) DBS Check
12 9 (0.69%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 7 (0.53%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 7 (0.53%) CISSP
14 6 (0.46%) CISM
15 5 (0.38%) Cisco Certification
15 5 (0.38%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
15 5 (0.38%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 147 (11.23%) QA
2 105 (8.02%) Data Quality
3 46 (3.51%) Accessibility
4 35 (2.67%) GDPR
5 25 (1.91%) WCAG
6 21 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 19 (1.45%) NIST
8 17 (1.30%) PMO
9 15 (1.15%) SLA
10 14 (1.07%) NCSC
11 9 (0.69%) NIST 800
11 9 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 8 (0.61%) GRC
13 7 (0.53%) PCI DSS
14 3 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
15 2 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
15 2 (0.15%) FedRAMP
15 2 (0.15%) Government Security Classifications
15 2 (0.15%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 2 (0.15%) PSD2
System Software
1 175 (13.37%) Docker
2 76 (5.81%) Active Directory
3 26 (1.99%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (1.07%) Virtual Desktop
5 8 (0.61%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.31%) Firmware
7 2 (0.15%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.15%) Microsoft App-V
7 2 (0.15%) OpenSSH
7 2 (0.15%) Postfix
8 1 (0.076%) HDFS
8 1 (0.076%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.076%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.076%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 353 (26.97%) Terraform
2 222 (16.96%) Kubernetes
3 61 (4.66%) Ansible
4 44 (3.36%) Grafana
5 37 (2.83%) Prometheus
6 17 (1.30%) Argo
7 15 (1.15%) HP ALM
8 13 (0.99%) Puppet
9 12 (0.92%) Istio
9 12 (0.92%) Microsoft Intune
9 12 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
10 11 (0.84%) Progress Chef
11 9 (0.69%) Packer
12 6 (0.46%) HP Quality Center
12 6 (0.46%) Jamf Pro
13 3 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (0.23%) Rancher
13 3 (0.23%) SCCM
14 2 (0.15%) linkerd
14 2 (0.15%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 392 (29.95%) Microsoft
2 158 (12.07%) Databricks
3 84 (6.42%) Oracle
4 55 (4.20%) ServiceNow
5 38 (2.90%) SAP
6 35 (2.67%) Salesforce
7 24 (1.83%) Informatica
7 24 (1.83%) OpenAI
8 21 (1.60%) Google
9 20 (1.53%) Splunk
10 16 (1.22%) HP
11 15 (1.15%) Foundry
11 15 (1.15%) VMware
12 14 (1.07%) Dynatrace
13 12 (0.92%) IBM
14 10 (0.76%) Bloomberg
15 9 (0.69%) InterSystems
16 8 (0.61%) Kofax
16 8 (0.61%) Lotus
16 8 (0.61%) Red Hat
415 Azure DevOps jobs in England