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

 6 months to
8 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 90 74
Rank change year-on-year +18 -16 0
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,519 754 959
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.32% 2.73% 2.88%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.47% 7.34% 8.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,078 546 634
10th Percentile £363 £350 £382
25th Percentile £415 £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 £677 £723 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £521
% change year-on-year - -4.10% -5.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 3 0
10th Percentile £21.25 £36.45 -
25th Percentile £30.19 £45.75 -
Median hourly rate £46.80 £62.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -25.12% - -
75th Percentile £81.63 £76.25 -
90th Percentile £102.17 £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 16,045 10,267 11,244
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.05% 37.19% 33.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,703 6,965 7,967
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £421 £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 £644
90th Percentile £719 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 569 267 241
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.13 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.50 £26.00 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +36.54% +9.24% -29.79%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £53.00
90th Percentile £83.64 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £27.63 £24.17
% change year-on-year +26.67% +14.34% -30.96%

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 8 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 8 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 8 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 +21 850 £500 -4.76% 272
South East -17 185 £503 +11.67% 133
Midlands +33 175 £450 -11.11% 61
North of England +7 171 £483 -3.40% 99
West Midlands +27 129 £450 -14.29% 34
North West +11 88 £500 -4.76% 59
South West -3 74 £475 -5.94% 27
Yorkshire -17 60 £480 -3.32% 28
East Midlands +13 44 £506 +6.58% 27
East of England +11 35 £425 -12.82% 32
North East -21 23 £450 -18.18% 13
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
1 110 (7.24%) Confluence
2 88 (5.79%) SharePoint
3 36 (2.37%) Apache Spark
4 32 (2.11%) Apache Airflow
5 31 (2.04%) Apache
6 13 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
7 9 (0.59%) CMS
8 6 (0.39%) 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 (3.82%) Microsoft Project
2 36 (2.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 18 (1.18%) MS Visio
4 11 (0.72%) 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 (3.16%) 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%) Loan IQ
8 1 (0.066%) ResourceLink
8 1 (0.066%) SAP CS
Cloud Services
1 1,519 (100.00%) Azure
2 405 (26.66%) GitHub
3 277 (18.24%) GitHub Actions
4 236 (15.54%) Power Platform
5 229 (15.08%) AWS
6 136 (8.95%) Azure Data Factory
7 133 (8.76%) Entra ID
8 125 (8.23%) Azure AKS
9 120 (7.90%) Azure Monitor
10 116 (7.64%) Dynamics 365
11 111 (7.31%) Power Automate
12 96 (6.32%) Serverless
13 90 (5.92%) GCP
14 89 (5.86%) PowerApps
15 79 (5.20%) Azure Key Vault
15 79 (5.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 67 (4.41%) Microsoft 365
17 66 (4.34%) Azure Logic Apps
17 66 (4.34%) PaaS
18 61 (4.02%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 60 (3.95%) Firewall
2 37 (2.44%) DNS
3 31 (2.04%) Network Security
4 26 (1.71%) 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
7 9 (0.59%) TCP/IP
8 7 (0.46%) VLAN
9 6 (0.39%) 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
1 157 (10.34%) Power BI
2 111 (7.31%) SQL Server
3 75 (4.94%) Data Lake
4 74 (4.87%) Azure SQL Database
5 72 (4.74%) Data Warehouse
6 55 (3.62%) NoSQL
7 53 (3.49%) Delta Lake
8 43 (2.83%) PostgreSQL
9 27 (1.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 26 (1.71%) Relational Database
11 22 (1.45%) Metadata
12 21 (1.38%) MongoDB
12 21 (1.38%) Snowflake Schema
13 19 (1.25%) Big Data
14 18 (1.18%) Redis
14 18 (1.18%) Spark SQL
15 14 (0.92%) Amazon Redshift
16 13 (0.86%) Data Vault
16 13 (0.86%) Oracle Database
16 13 (0.86%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 294 (19.35%) JIRA
2 241 (15.87%) Git
3 176 (11.59%) Jenkins
4 136 (8.95%) GitLab
5 63 (4.15%) Selenium
6 33 (2.17%) Postman
6 33 (2.17%) SonarQube
7 27 (1.78%) Visual Studio
8 26 (1.71%) Cypress.io
9 23 (1.51%) Cucumber
9 23 (1.51%) WebDriver
10 18 (1.18%) Gradle
10 18 (1.18%) REST Assured
11 17 (1.12%) TestRail
12 16 (1.05%) JUnit
12 16 (1.05%) Maven
13 15 (0.99%) Bitbucket
14 14 (0.92%) MSI
15 12 (0.79%) Sonatype Nexus
15 12 (0.79%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 394 (25.94%) Social Skills
2 311 (20.47%) Finance
3 189 (12.44%) Public Sector
4 158 (10.40%) Analytical Skills
5 80 (5.27%) Banking
6 70 (4.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 33 (2.17%) Retail
8 29 (1.91%) Organisational Skills
9 28 (1.84%) Legal
10 25 (1.65%) Documentation Skills
11 23 (1.51%) Influencing Skills
12 20 (1.32%) Aerospace
13 15 (0.99%) Marketing
14 14 (0.92%) Investment Banking
15 13 (0.86%) Law
15 13 (0.86%) Local Government
16 10 (0.66%) Manufacturing
17 9 (0.59%) Billing
18 8 (0.53%) Front Office
18 8 (0.53%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 282 (18.56%) Developer
2 222 (14.61%) Senior
3 218 (14.35%) Azure Engineer
4 211 (13.89%) DevOps Engineer
5 135 (8.89%) Lead
6 129 (8.49%) Data Engineer
7 126 (8.29%) Analyst
8 125 (8.23%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 105 (6.91%) Architect
10 65 (4.28%) Business Analyst
11 56 (3.69%) Platform Engineer
12 52 (3.42%) Project Manager
13 47 (3.09%) Cloud Engineer
14 45 (2.96%) Test Analyst
15 44 (2.90%) Solutions Architect
16 43 (2.83%) Consultant
17 42 (2.76%) .NET Developer
17 42 (2.76%) Full-Stack Developer
17 42 (2.76%) Tester
18 39 (2.57%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 204 (13.43%) .NET
2 173 (11.39%) REST
3 84 (5.53%) PySpark
4 81 (5.33%) RESTful
5 75 (4.94%) ADO
6 72 (4.74%) JSON
7 71 (4.67%) YAML
8 63 (4.15%) .NET Framework
9 61 (4.02%) Kafka
10 58 (3.82%) React
11 53 (3.49%) .NET Core
11 53 (3.49%) Playwright
12 52 (3.42%) ARM Templates
13 44 (2.90%) SOAP
14 40 (2.63%) OAuth
15 38 (2.50%) HTML
16 36 (2.37%) XML
17 34 (2.24%) CSS
18 33 (2.17%) AngularJS
18 33 (2.17%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 179 (11.78%) Cloud Native
2 108 (7.11%) Product Ownership
3 52 (3.42%) Distributed Systems
4 51 (3.36%) Legacy Systems
5 47 (3.09%) Onboarding
6 35 (2.30%) Enterprise Software
7 29 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
8 27 (1.78%) Hybrid Cloud
9 26 (1.71%) Management Information System
10 23 (1.51%) Data Structures
11 21 (1.38%) Reinsurance
12 18 (1.18%) AI Agents
12 18 (1.18%) Low-Code
12 18 (1.18%) Replication
13 17 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
14 16 (1.05%) Mobile App
15 13 (0.86%) Data Protection Act
15 13 (0.86%) Enterprise Cloud
16 12 (0.79%) Security Posture
16 12 (0.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 95 (6.25%) Windows
2 68 (4.48%) Linux
3 26 (1.71%) Windows Server
4 15 (0.99%) VMS
5 10 (0.66%) 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 1,519 (100.00%) DevOps
2 834 (54.90%) CI/CD
3 627 (41.28%) Agile
4 377 (24.82%) Infrastructure as Code
5 265 (17.45%) Test Automation
6 243 (16.00%) Analytics
7 237 (15.60%) Problem-Solving
8 236 (15.54%) Stakeholder Management
9 229 (15.08%) Continuous Improvement
10 217 (14.29%) Containerisation
10 217 (14.29%) Scrum
11 204 (13.43%) Migration
12 173 (11.39%) Data Modelling
13 167 (10.99%) Business Intelligence
14 165 (10.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 153 (10.07%) Microservices
16 150 (9.87%) AI
17 148 (9.74%) Platform Engineering
18 146 (9.61%) User Acceptance Testing
19 143 (9.41%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 415 (27.32%) SQL
2 382 (25.15%) Python
3 260 (17.12%) C#
4 189 (12.44%) PowerShell
5 159 (10.47%) JavaScript
6 147 (9.68%) Bicep
7 121 (7.97%) Bash
8 114 (7.50%) Java
9 91 (5.99%) TypeScript
10 25 (1.65%) 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 11 (0.72%) Scala
16 8 (0.53%) PL/SQL
17 7 (0.46%) C
17 7 (0.46%) Shell Script
18 6 (0.39%) R
Qualifications
1 448 (29.49%) Security Cleared
2 363 (23.90%) SC Cleared
3 109 (7.18%) Azure Certification
4 99 (6.52%) Degree
5 53 (3.49%) DV Cleared
6 52 (3.42%) Microsoft Certification
7 38 (2.50%) ISTQB
8 34 (2.24%) BPSS Clearance
9 32 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
10 25 (1.65%) AWS Certification
11 16 (1.05%) PMI Certification
11 16 (1.05%) PMP
12 15 (0.99%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 12 (0.79%) Master's Degree
14 11 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
15 9 (0.59%) CISSP
15 9 (0.59%) DBS Check
15 9 (0.59%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 8 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 5 (0.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 166 (10.93%) QA
2 108 (7.11%) Data Quality
3 84 (5.53%) Accessibility
4 53 (3.49%) GDPR
5 48 (3.16%) WCAG
6 27 (1.78%) PMO
7 21 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 21 (1.38%) NIST
8 18 (1.18%) NCSC
9 13 (0.86%) SLA
10 12 (0.79%) GRC
11 10 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 5 (0.33%) PCI DSS
12 5 (0.33%) SEPA
13 4 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
13 4 (0.26%) ISO 20022
13 4 (0.26%) PSD2
14 3 (0.20%) Government Security Classifications
15 2 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
15 2 (0.13%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 227 (14.94%) Docker
2 85 (5.60%) Active Directory
3 32 (2.11%) Virtual Machines
4 17 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
5 14 (0.92%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (0.39%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.26%) Firmware
7 4 (0.26%) vSphere
8 3 (0.20%) Embedded 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 (0.066%) HDFS
10 1 (0.066%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.066%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 421 (27.72%) Terraform
2 290 (19.09%) Kubernetes
3 95 (6.25%) Ansible
4 62 (4.08%) Grafana
5 52 (3.42%) Prometheus
6 21 (1.38%) Argo
7 20 (1.32%) Progress Chef
7 20 (1.32%) Puppet
8 19 (1.25%) Microsoft Intune
9 13 (0.86%) Packer
10 12 (0.79%) Istio
11 11 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
12 10 (0.66%) HP ALM
13 8 (0.53%) SCCM
14 6 (0.39%) Jamf Pro
14 6 (0.39%) SCOM
15 4 (0.26%) HP Quality Center
16 3 (0.20%) HP Fortify
16 3 (0.20%) Rancher
17 2 (0.13%) systemd
Vendors
1 492 (32.39%) Microsoft
2 140 (9.22%) Databricks
3 66 (4.34%) Oracle
4 64 (4.21%) ServiceNow
5 52 (3.42%) Salesforce
6 48 (3.16%) SAP
7 36 (2.37%) Google
8 32 (2.11%) Splunk
9 27 (1.78%) Dynatrace
10 22 (1.45%) VMware
11 20 (1.32%) Informatica
12 13 (0.86%) OpenAI
13 12 (0.79%) Foundry
14 11 (0.72%) HP
14 11 (0.72%) MuleSoft
15 10 (0.66%) Bloomberg
15 10 (0.66%) IBM
16 9 (0.59%) Cisco
16 9 (0.59%) InterSystems
17 8 (0.53%) Adobe
594 Azure DevOps jobs in England