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

 6 months to
31 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 92 71
Rank change year-on-year +18 -21 +4
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,477 753 982
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.26% 2.74% 2.89%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.31% 7.34% 8.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,052 542 657
10th Percentile £363 £350 £381
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 £725 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £520
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 3 0
10th Percentile £20.85 £36.45 -
25th Percentile £25.38 £45.75 -
Median hourly rate £46.80 £62.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -25.12% - -
75th Percentile £84.13 £76.25 -
90th Percentile £102.80 £83.75 -
UK median hourly rate £50.90 £73.75 -
% change year-on-year -30.98% - -

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 15,864 10,262 11,377
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.00% 37.29% 33.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,589 6,956 8,088
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £423 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £718 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £519 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.80% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 567 267 250
10th Percentile £16.62 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.24 £26.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +43.23% +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 £23.15
% change year-on-year +29.09% +18.79% -33.86%

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 31 July 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 31 July 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 31 July 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 +23 826 £500 -4.76% 205
South East -21 183 £505 +12.22% 116
Midlands +24 168 £450 -10.00% 58
North of England +17 166 £480 -4.00% 85
West Midlands +12 121 £450 -14.29% 37
North West +3 85 £500 -4.76% 50
South West -1 70 £475 -9.52% 29
Yorkshire -25 59 £475 -4.95% 26
East Midlands +8 45 £525 +12.00% 21
East of England +9 36 £425 -12.82% 29
North East -22 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
1 105 (7.11%) Confluence
2 87 (5.89%) SharePoint
3 35 (2.37%) Apache Spark
4 31 (2.10%) Apache
4 31 (2.10%) Apache Airflow
5 14 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
6 8 (0.54%) CMS
7 6 (0.41%) Documentum
8 4 (0.27%) IIS
9 3 (0.20%) Kentico
9 3 (0.20%) Mendix
9 3 (0.20%) Palantir Foundry
9 3 (0.20%) SAS
10 2 (0.14%) OpenROAD
10 2 (0.14%) Umbraco
11 1 (0.068%) IBM HTTP Server
11 1 (0.068%) nginx
11 1 (0.068%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.068%) SharePoint Server
11 1 (0.068%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 53 (3.59%) Microsoft Project
2 35 (2.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 18 (1.22%) MS Visio
4 11 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
5 8 (0.54%) CPLEX
6 7 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 6 (0.41%) Trello
8 5 (0.34%) Chatbot
9 4 (0.27%) Notion
9 4 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.068%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.068%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 46 (3.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 20 (1.35%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.47%) Dynamics AX
4 6 (0.41%) 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 (0.14%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.14%) Dynamics GP
7 2 (0.14%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
7 2 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.14%) SAP MM
7 2 (0.14%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 2 (0.14%) Teamcenter
7 2 (0.14%) Unit4 Business World
8 1 (0.068%) Loan IQ
8 1 (0.068%) OpenText VIM for SAP
8 1 (0.068%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 1,477 (100.00%) Azure
2 386 (26.13%) GitHub
3 262 (17.74%) GitHub Actions
4 230 (15.57%) Power Platform
5 222 (15.03%) AWS
6 131 (8.87%) Azure Data Factory
7 126 (8.53%) Entra ID
8 121 (8.19%) Azure AKS
9 117 (7.92%) Azure Monitor
10 111 (7.52%) Dynamics 365
11 108 (7.31%) Power Automate
12 92 (6.23%) Serverless
13 87 (5.89%) PowerApps
14 85 (5.75%) GCP
15 78 (5.28%) Azure Key Vault
16 76 (5.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 65 (4.40%) Microsoft 365
18 62 (4.20%) Azure Logic Apps
19 59 (3.99%) PaaS
20 58 (3.93%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 59 (3.99%) Firewall
2 36 (2.44%) DNS
3 31 (2.10%) Network Security
4 25 (1.69%) VPN
5 15 (1.02%) WAN
6 14 (0.95%) SSL
7 13 (0.88%) SD-WAN
8 12 (0.81%) DHCP
9 9 (0.61%) Internet
9 9 (0.61%) TCP/IP
10 7 (0.47%) VLAN
11 6 (0.41%) LAN
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
12 3 (0.20%) SAN
12 3 (0.20%) Wi-Fi
13 2 (0.14%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 153 (10.36%) Power BI
2 110 (7.45%) SQL Server
3 74 (5.01%) Data Lake
4 71 (4.81%) Azure SQL Database
5 70 (4.74%) Data Warehouse
6 54 (3.66%) NoSQL
7 52 (3.52%) Delta Lake
8 46 (3.11%) PostgreSQL
9 27 (1.83%) Relational Database
10 25 (1.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 23 (1.56%) MongoDB
12 22 (1.49%) Metadata
12 22 (1.49%) Snowflake Schema
13 18 (1.22%) Redis
13 18 (1.22%) Spark SQL
14 16 (1.08%) Big Data
15 13 (0.88%) Amazon Redshift
15 13 (0.88%) Data Vault
15 13 (0.88%) Oracle Database
15 13 (0.88%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 284 (19.23%) JIRA
2 233 (15.78%) Git
3 168 (11.37%) Jenkins
4 126 (8.53%) GitLab
5 59 (3.99%) Selenium
6 30 (2.03%) Postman
7 29 (1.96%) SonarQube
8 25 (1.69%) Visual Studio
9 24 (1.62%) Cypress.io
10 22 (1.49%) Cucumber
11 20 (1.35%) WebDriver
12 18 (1.22%) REST Assured
13 17 (1.15%) TestRail
14 16 (1.08%) Gradle
14 16 (1.08%) JUnit
15 15 (1.02%) Bitbucket
16 14 (0.95%) Maven
17 12 (0.81%) MSI
17 12 (0.81%) Sonatype Nexus
17 12 (0.81%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 378 (25.59%) Social Skills
2 300 (20.31%) Finance
3 182 (12.32%) Public Sector
4 155 (10.49%) Analytical Skills
5 74 (5.01%) Banking
6 64 (4.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 30 (2.03%) Organisational Skills
7 30 (2.03%) Retail
8 29 (1.96%) Legal
9 25 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
10 22 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
11 16 (1.08%) Aerospace
12 15 (1.02%) Marketing
13 13 (0.88%) Investment Banking
13 13 (0.88%) Law
13 13 (0.88%) Local Government
14 9 (0.61%) Billing
14 9 (0.61%) Manufacturing
15 8 (0.54%) Front Office
16 7 (0.47%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 277 (18.75%) Developer
2 214 (14.49%) Azure Engineer
3 212 (14.35%) Senior
4 208 (14.08%) DevOps Engineer
5 130 (8.80%) Lead
6 129 (8.73%) Data Engineer
7 126 (8.53%) Analyst
8 125 (8.46%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 100 (6.77%) Architect
10 64 (4.33%) Business Analyst
11 56 (3.79%) Platform Engineer
12 46 (3.11%) Project Manager
13 45 (3.05%) Test Analyst
14 44 (2.98%) Cloud Engineer
15 43 (2.91%) Solutions Architect
15 43 (2.91%) Tester
16 42 (2.84%) Consultant
16 42 (2.84%) Full-Stack Developer
17 41 (2.78%) .NET Developer
18 39 (2.64%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 199 (13.47%) .NET
2 161 (10.90%) REST
3 82 (5.55%) PySpark
4 81 (5.48%) RESTful
5 77 (5.21%) ADO
6 72 (4.87%) YAML
7 65 (4.40%) JSON
8 63 (4.27%) .NET Framework
9 59 (3.99%) React
10 58 (3.93%) Kafka
11 52 (3.52%) .NET Core
11 52 (3.52%) ARM Templates
12 51 (3.45%) Playwright
13 45 (3.05%) SOAP
14 40 (2.71%) OAuth
15 36 (2.44%) HTML
16 33 (2.23%) AngularJS
16 33 (2.23%) CSS
16 33 (2.23%) Node.js
17 32 (2.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 173 (11.71%) Cloud Native
2 102 (6.91%) Product Ownership
3 52 (3.52%) Distributed Systems
4 50 (3.39%) Legacy Systems
5 45 (3.05%) Onboarding
6 31 (2.10%) Enterprise Software
7 29 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
8 26 (1.76%) Management Information System
9 25 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
10 23 (1.56%) Data Structures
11 21 (1.42%) Reinsurance
12 17 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
12 17 (1.15%) Low-Code
12 17 (1.15%) Replication
13 16 (1.08%) AI Agents
13 16 (1.08%) Mobile App
14 14 (0.95%) Enterprise Cloud
15 12 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
15 12 (0.81%) Virtual Team
16 11 (0.74%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 91 (6.16%) Windows
2 62 (4.20%) Linux
3 24 (1.62%) Windows Server
4 13 (0.88%) VMS
5 10 (0.68%) Unix
6 8 (0.54%) Android
6 8 (0.54%) Apple iOS
7 6 (0.41%) 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 (0.068%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,477 (100.00%) DevOps
2 798 (54.03%) CI/CD
3 606 (41.03%) Agile
4 360 (24.37%) Infrastructure as Code
5 255 (17.26%) Test Automation
6 238 (16.11%) Analytics
7 229 (15.50%) Problem-Solving
8 224 (15.17%) Stakeholder Management
9 223 (15.10%) Continuous Improvement
10 211 (14.29%) Scrum
11 207 (14.01%) Containerisation
12 201 (13.61%) Migration
13 168 (11.37%) Data Modelling
14 163 (11.04%) Business Intelligence
15 156 (10.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 145 (9.82%) Microservices
17 144 (9.75%) AI
18 141 (9.55%) User Acceptance Testing
19 140 (9.48%) Platform Engineering
20 134 (9.07%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 405 (27.42%) SQL
2 365 (24.71%) Python
3 246 (16.66%) C#
4 180 (12.19%) PowerShell
5 146 (9.88%) JavaScript
6 139 (9.41%) Bicep
7 117 (7.92%) Bash
8 109 (7.38%) Java
9 84 (5.69%) TypeScript
10 23 (1.56%) T-SQL
11 19 (1.29%) Go
12 15 (1.02%) Kusto Query Language
13 14 (0.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 12 (0.81%) Apex Code
14 12 (0.81%) X++
15 11 (0.74%) Scala
16 10 (0.68%) PL/SQL
17 7 (0.47%) C
17 7 (0.47%) Shell Script
18 6 (0.41%) VB
Qualifications
1 428 (28.98%) Security Cleared
2 348 (23.56%) SC Cleared
3 106 (7.18%) Azure Certification
4 96 (6.50%) Degree
5 53 (3.59%) DV Cleared
6 48 (3.25%) Microsoft Certification
7 35 (2.37%) ISTQB
8 32 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
8 32 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
9 24 (1.62%) AWS Certification
10 14 (0.95%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 14 (0.95%) PMP
11 13 (0.88%) PMI Certification
12 12 (0.81%) Master's Degree
13 10 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
14 9 (0.61%) DBS Check
14 9 (0.61%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 8 (0.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 8 (0.54%) CISSP
16 5 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 160 (10.83%) QA
2 104 (7.04%) Data Quality
3 78 (5.28%) Accessibility
4 50 (3.39%) GDPR
5 45 (3.05%) WCAG
6 26 (1.76%) PMO
7 19 (1.29%) NIST
8 18 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 15 (1.02%) NCSC
10 14 (0.95%) SLA
11 12 (0.81%) GRC
12 9 (0.61%) 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 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
16 2 (0.14%) HMG Security Policy Framework
17 1 (0.068%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 217 (14.69%) Docker
2 84 (5.69%) Active Directory
3 32 (2.17%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (1.08%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.88%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (0.41%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.27%) vSphere
8 3 (0.20%) Embedded Firmware
8 3 (0.20%) Firmware
9 2 (0.14%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.14%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (0.14%) OpenSSH
9 2 (0.14%) Postfix
9 2 (0.14%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.068%) HDFS
10 1 (0.068%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.068%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 404 (27.35%) Terraform
2 274 (18.55%) Kubernetes
3 94 (6.36%) Ansible
4 62 (4.20%) Grafana
5 52 (3.52%) Prometheus
6 22 (1.49%) Argo
7 20 (1.35%) Progress Chef
7 20 (1.35%) Puppet
8 19 (1.29%) Microsoft Intune
9 13 (0.88%) Packer
10 12 (0.81%) HP ALM
10 12 (0.81%) Istio
11 11 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
12 8 (0.54%) SCCM
13 6 (0.41%) Jamf Pro
14 5 (0.34%) SCOM
15 4 (0.27%) HP Quality Center
16 3 (0.20%) Rancher
17 2 (0.14%) Docker Swarm
17 2 (0.14%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 474 (32.09%) Microsoft
2 135 (9.14%) Databricks
3 65 (4.40%) Oracle
4 64 (4.33%) ServiceNow
5 50 (3.39%) Salesforce
6 47 (3.18%) SAP
7 36 (2.44%) Google
8 30 (2.03%) Splunk
9 26 (1.76%) Dynatrace
10 21 (1.42%) VMware
11 19 (1.29%) Informatica
12 13 (0.88%) HP
13 12 (0.81%) OpenAI
14 11 (0.74%) Foundry
15 10 (0.68%) Bloomberg
15 10 (0.68%) IBM
15 10 (0.68%) MuleSoft
16 9 (0.61%) InterSystems
17 8 (0.54%) Cisco
17 8 (0.54%) Guidewire
475 Azure DevOps jobs in England