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

 6 months to
12 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 92 73
Rank change year-on-year +20 -19 0
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,515 762 948
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.32% 2.75% 2.84%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.50% 7.41% 8.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,073 553 631
10th Percentile £363 £350 £381
25th Percentile £415 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £724 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 3 0
10th Percentile £21.25 £36.45 -
25th Percentile £35.00 £45.75 -
Median hourly rate £46.80 £62.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -25.12% - -
75th Percentile £80.00 £76.25 -
90th Percentile £101.84 £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 15,950 10,289 11,214
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.99% 37.17% 33.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,644 6,980 7,945
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.84% -2.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £644
90th Percentile £719 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 559 270 232
10th Percentile £15.99 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.68 £18.13 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.50 £26.15 £24.59
Median % change year-on-year +35.76% +6.34% -23.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.66 £55.00
90th Percentile £83.64 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £28.00 £24.84
% change year-on-year +25.00% +12.72% -29.03%

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 12 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 12 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 12 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 +19 848 £500 -4.76% 413
South East -18 184 £500 +11.11% 162
Midlands +37 175 £450 -11.11% 81
North of England +13 171 £482 -4.42% 132
West Midlands +31 130 £450 -14.29% 47
North West +8 86 £500 -3.38% 78
South West 0 74 £475 -6.86% 47
Yorkshire -16 61 £478 -4.50% 35
East Midlands +13 43 £506 +6.58% 34
East of England +9 35 £425 -12.82% 54
North East -19 24 £450 -18.18% 20
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
1 107 (7.06%) Confluence
2 88 (5.81%) SharePoint
3 37 (2.44%) Apache Spark
4 33 (2.18%) Apache Airflow
5 31 (2.05%) Apache
6 13 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
7 9 (0.59%) CMS
8 6 (0.40%) Documentum
9 4 (0.26%) IIS
9 4 (0.26%) Mendix
10 3 (0.20%) Kentico
10 3 (0.20%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (0.20%) SAS
11 2 (0.13%) nginx
11 2 (0.13%) OpenROAD
11 2 (0.13%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.066%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.066%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.066%) Smallworld
12 1 (0.066%) WebLogic
Applications
1 58 (3.83%) Microsoft Project
2 35 (2.31%) Microsoft Excel
3 18 (1.19%) MS Visio
4 12 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
5 8 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 7 (0.46%) Chatbot
6 7 (0.46%) CPLEX
6 7 (0.46%) Trello
7 5 (0.33%) Notion
8 4 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.066%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.066%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 48 (3.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 20 (1.32%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.46%) Dynamics AX
4 5 (0.33%) Maximo
5 4 (0.26%) 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 (0.066%) ResourceLink
8 1 (0.066%) SAP CS
8 1 (0.066%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 1,515 (100.00%) Azure
2 401 (26.47%) GitHub
3 275 (18.15%) GitHub Actions
4 244 (16.11%) Power Platform
5 230 (15.18%) AWS
6 140 (9.24%) Azure Data Factory
7 134 (8.84%) Entra ID
8 121 (7.99%) Azure AKS
9 118 (7.79%) Dynamics 365
10 115 (7.59%) Azure Monitor
11 111 (7.33%) Power Automate
12 97 (6.40%) Serverless
13 89 (5.87%) PowerApps
14 87 (5.74%) GCP
15 78 (5.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 76 (5.02%) Azure Key Vault
17 68 (4.49%) Azure Logic Apps
18 67 (4.42%) Microsoft 365
19 64 (4.22%) PaaS
20 63 (4.16%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 60 (3.96%) Firewall
2 35 (2.31%) DNS
3 33 (2.18%) Network Security
4 26 (1.72%) VPN
5 15 (0.99%) SSL
5 15 (0.99%) WAN
6 13 (0.86%) DHCP
6 13 (0.86%) SD-WAN
7 9 (0.59%) Internet
8 7 (0.46%) TCP/IP
8 7 (0.46%) VLAN
9 6 (0.40%) LAN
10 3 (0.20%) 4G
10 3 (0.20%) BGP
10 3 (0.20%) OSPF
10 3 (0.20%) RS-232
10 3 (0.20%) RS-485
10 3 (0.20%) SAN
10 3 (0.20%) Wi-Fi
11 2 (0.13%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 161 (10.63%) Power BI
2 108 (7.13%) SQL Server
3 75 (4.95%) Data Lake
4 71 (4.69%) Azure SQL Database
5 70 (4.62%) Data Warehouse
6 54 (3.56%) Delta Lake
7 53 (3.50%) NoSQL
8 43 (2.84%) PostgreSQL
9 26 (1.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 25 (1.65%) Relational Database
11 23 (1.52%) Metadata
12 21 (1.39%) MongoDB
13 20 (1.32%) Snowflake Schema
14 19 (1.25%) Big Data
15 18 (1.19%) Redis
15 18 (1.19%) Spark SQL
16 14 (0.92%) Amazon Redshift
17 13 (0.86%) Data Vault
18 12 (0.79%) Geospatial Data
18 12 (0.79%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 290 (19.14%) JIRA
2 240 (15.84%) Git
3 178 (11.75%) Jenkins
4 137 (9.04%) GitLab
5 63 (4.16%) Selenium
6 33 (2.18%) Postman
7 32 (2.11%) SonarQube
8 27 (1.78%) Visual Studio
9 25 (1.65%) Cypress.io
10 23 (1.52%) Cucumber
10 23 (1.52%) WebDriver
11 18 (1.19%) Gradle
12 17 (1.12%) REST Assured
12 17 (1.12%) TestRail
13 16 (1.06%) JUnit
13 16 (1.06%) Maven
14 15 (0.99%) Bitbucket
15 14 (0.92%) MSI
16 12 (0.79%) Sonatype Nexus
17 11 (0.73%) Snyk
General
1 394 (26.01%) Social Skills
2 309 (20.40%) Finance
3 191 (12.61%) Public Sector
4 157 (10.36%) Analytical Skills
5 80 (5.28%) Banking
6 71 (4.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 33 (2.18%) Retail
8 29 (1.91%) Legal
9 26 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
10 25 (1.65%) Documentation Skills
11 24 (1.58%) Influencing Skills
12 21 (1.39%) Aerospace
13 15 (0.99%) Marketing
14 13 (0.86%) Investment Banking
14 13 (0.86%) Law
14 13 (0.86%) Local Government
15 10 (0.66%) Manufacturing
16 9 (0.59%) Billing
17 8 (0.53%) Pharmaceutical
18 7 (0.46%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 276 (18.22%) Developer
2 226 (14.92%) Senior
3 219 (14.46%) Azure Engineer
4 212 (13.99%) DevOps Engineer
5 137 (9.04%) Lead
6 129 (8.51%) Data Engineer
7 127 (8.38%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 124 (8.18%) Analyst
9 103 (6.80%) Architect
10 64 (4.22%) Business Analyst
11 56 (3.70%) Platform Engineer
12 52 (3.43%) Project Manager
13 46 (3.04%) Cloud Engineer
14 44 (2.90%) Test Analyst
15 42 (2.77%) Consultant
15 42 (2.77%) Solutions Architect
15 42 (2.77%) Tester
16 41 (2.71%) .NET Developer
17 40 (2.64%) Senior DevOps
18 39 (2.57%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 205 (13.53%) .NET
2 171 (11.29%) REST
3 83 (5.48%) PySpark
4 80 (5.28%) RESTful
5 79 (5.21%) ADO
6 73 (4.82%) YAML
7 71 (4.69%) JSON
8 62 (4.09%) Kafka
9 61 (4.03%) .NET Framework
10 57 (3.76%) React
11 55 (3.63%) ARM Templates
12 53 (3.50%) Playwright
13 51 (3.37%) .NET Core
14 44 (2.90%) SOAP
15 40 (2.64%) OAuth
16 37 (2.44%) HTML
16 37 (2.44%) XML
17 35 (2.31%) Middleware
18 33 (2.18%) AngularJS
18 33 (2.18%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 180 (11.88%) Cloud Native
2 108 (7.13%) Product Ownership
3 51 (3.37%) Distributed Systems
3 51 (3.37%) Legacy Systems
4 47 (3.10%) Onboarding
5 37 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
6 29 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
7 28 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
8 26 (1.72%) Management Information System
9 23 (1.52%) Data Structures
10 18 (1.19%) AI Agents
10 18 (1.19%) Low-Code
11 17 (1.12%) Reinsurance
11 17 (1.12%) Replication
12 16 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
12 16 (1.06%) Mobile App
13 13 (0.86%) Data Protection Act
13 13 (0.86%) Enterprise Cloud
14 12 (0.79%) Security Posture
14 12 (0.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 97 (6.40%) Windows
2 69 (4.55%) Linux
3 27 (1.78%) Windows Server
4 15 (0.99%) VMS
5 11 (0.73%) Unix
6 8 (0.53%) Android
6 8 (0.53%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.26%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (0.20%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.066%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,515 (100.00%) DevOps
2 832 (54.92%) CI/CD
3 633 (41.78%) Agile
4 381 (25.15%) Infrastructure as Code
5 267 (17.62%) Test Automation
6 239 (15.78%) Analytics
6 239 (15.78%) Problem-Solving
7 236 (15.58%) Stakeholder Management
8 231 (15.25%) Continuous Improvement
9 214 (14.13%) Containerisation
9 214 (14.13%) Scrum
10 205 (13.53%) Migration
11 170 (11.22%) Business Intelligence
12 167 (11.02%) Data Modelling
13 165 (10.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 151 (9.97%) Microservices
15 149 (9.83%) User Acceptance Testing
16 147 (9.70%) AI
16 147 (9.70%) Platform Engineering
17 143 (9.44%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 412 (27.19%) SQL
2 381 (25.15%) Python
3 258 (17.03%) C#
4 196 (12.94%) PowerShell
5 157 (10.36%) JavaScript
6 150 (9.90%) Bicep
7 122 (8.05%) Bash
8 113 (7.46%) Java
9 86 (5.68%) TypeScript
10 24 (1.58%) T-SQL
11 19 (1.25%) Go
12 17 (1.12%) Kusto Query Language
13 15 (0.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 13 (0.86%) Apex Code
14 13 (0.86%) X++
15 10 (0.66%) Scala
16 8 (0.53%) PL/SQL
17 7 (0.46%) Shell Script
18 6 (0.40%) Kotlin
18 6 (0.40%) R
Qualifications
1 449 (29.64%) Security Cleared
2 366 (24.16%) SC Cleared
3 105 (6.93%) Azure Certification
4 98 (6.47%) Degree
5 52 (3.43%) DV Cleared
5 52 (3.43%) Microsoft Certification
6 39 (2.57%) ISTQB
7 35 (2.31%) BPSS Clearance
8 31 (2.05%) Computer Science Degree
9 25 (1.65%) AWS Certification
10 16 (1.06%) PMI Certification
10 16 (1.06%) PMP
11 15 (0.99%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 12 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
13 11 (0.73%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 11 (0.73%) Master's Degree
14 10 (0.66%) CISSP
15 9 (0.59%) DBS Check
16 8 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 5 (0.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 166 (10.96%) QA
2 109 (7.19%) Data Quality
3 84 (5.54%) Accessibility
4 53 (3.50%) GDPR
5 48 (3.17%) WCAG
6 26 (1.72%) PMO
7 23 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 23 (1.52%) NIST
8 19 (1.25%) NCSC
9 13 (0.86%) SLA
10 12 (0.79%) GRC
11 10 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 5 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
12 5 (0.33%) ISO 20022
12 5 (0.33%) PCI DSS
12 5 (0.33%) SEPA
13 4 (0.26%) PSD2
14 3 (0.20%) Government Security Classifications
15 2 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
15 2 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 221 (14.59%) Docker
2 84 (5.54%) Active Directory
3 31 (2.05%) Virtual Machines
4 17 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
5 16 (1.06%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (0.40%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.26%) Firmware
7 4 (0.26%) vSphere
8 3 (0.20%) Embedded Firmware
8 3 (0.20%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (0.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.13%) OpenSSH
9 2 (0.13%) Postfix
9 2 (0.13%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.066%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.066%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 424 (27.99%) Terraform
2 292 (19.27%) Kubernetes
3 95 (6.27%) Ansible
4 62 (4.09%) Grafana
5 52 (3.43%) Prometheus
6 21 (1.39%) Argo
7 20 (1.32%) Microsoft Intune
7 20 (1.32%) Progress Chef
7 20 (1.32%) Puppet
8 13 (0.86%) Packer
9 12 (0.79%) Istio
9 12 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
10 10 (0.66%) HP ALM
11 8 (0.53%) SCCM
12 6 (0.40%) Jamf Pro
12 6 (0.40%) SCOM
13 4 (0.26%) HP Quality Center
14 3 (0.20%) HP Fortify
14 3 (0.20%) Rancher
15 2 (0.13%) systemd
Vendors
1 500 (33.00%) Microsoft
2 138 (9.11%) Databricks
3 63 (4.16%) ServiceNow
4 62 (4.09%) Oracle
5 53 (3.50%) Salesforce
6 48 (3.17%) SAP
7 36 (2.38%) Google
8 32 (2.11%) Splunk
9 27 (1.78%) Dynatrace
10 21 (1.39%) VMware
11 20 (1.32%) Informatica
12 12 (0.79%) MuleSoft
13 11 (0.73%) Foundry
13 11 (0.73%) HP
13 11 (0.73%) OpenAI
14 10 (0.66%) IBM
14 10 (0.66%) UiPath
15 9 (0.59%) Bloomberg
15 9 (0.59%) Cisco
15 9 (0.59%) InterSystems
852 Azure DevOps jobs in England