Azure Pipelines Contract Job Trends in England

Azure Pipelines
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Azure Pipelines skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 575 462 507
Rank change year-on-year -113 +45 +93
Contract jobs citing Azure Pipelines 5 16 34
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.012% 0.066% 0.093%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.035% 0.18% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 20
10th Percentile £358 £502 £425
25th Percentile £369 £575 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year -29.17% +20.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £484 £625 £591
90th Percentile £498 £628 £658
UK median daily rate £425 £565 £500
% change year-on-year -24.78% +13.00% -9.09%

All Cloud Computing Skills
England

Azure Pipelines 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 14,284 8,966 11,674
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.16% 37.17% 31.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,786 6,222 8,419
10th Percentile £319 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £635 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £744
UK median daily rate £501 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -2.82% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 467 194 323
10th Percentile £15.57 £15.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.40 £18.13 £15.85
Median hourly rate £42.69 £25.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.39% +21.43% -34.98%
75th Percentile £67.67 £37.50 £34.38
90th Percentile £81.00 £72.13 £65.10
UK median hourly rate £37.58 £27.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +36.65% +28.69% -38.94%

Azure Pipelines
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure Pipelines relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Azure Pipelines job vacancy trend in England

Azure Pipelines
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Azure Pipelines.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Azure Pipelines

Azure Pipelines
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 Pipelines within the England region over the 6 months to 14 May 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 -60 4 £425 -29.17% 3
South East -59 1 - -
Azure Pipelines
UK

Azure Pipelines
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 1 (20.00%) Apache
1 1 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (20.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (20.00%) CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (20.00%) AWS
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Big Data
1 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) GitLab
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (20.00%) NUnit
1 1 (20.00%) Selenium
1 1 (20.00%) TeamCity
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Senior
2 2 (40.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Applications Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Web Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Python Developer
3 1 (20.00%) QA Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Applications Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Web Applications Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Web Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Web Applications Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) .NET
2 2 (40.00%) SOAP
3 1 (20.00%) .NET Framework
3 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC 5
3 1 (20.00%) Autofac
3 1 (20.00%) Beautiful Soup
3 1 (20.00%) CSS3
3 1 (20.00%) Entity Framework
3 1 (20.00%) HTML5
3 1 (20.00%) jQuery
3 1 (20.00%) Ninject
3 1 (20.00%) NumPy
3 1 (20.00%) Pandas
3 1 (20.00%) Playwright
3 1 (20.00%) React
3 1 (20.00%) REST
3 1 (20.00%) RESTful
3 1 (20.00%) Web Services
3 1 (20.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (20.00%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (40.00%) Scrum
4 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (20.00%) Database Tuning
4 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (20.00%) Inversion of Control
4 1 (20.00%) Log Analytics
4 1 (20.00%) Risk Analysis
4 1 (20.00%) Secrets Management
4 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (20.00%) Test Scripting
4 1 (20.00%) Test Strategy
4 1 (20.00%) Unit Testing
4 1 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) C#
2 2 (40.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) Java
3 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (20.00%) XPath
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) ISEB
1 1 (20.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Databricks
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) Splunk