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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 496 489 537
Rank change year-on-year -7 +48 +132
Contract jobs citing Azure Pipelines 18 39 56
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.065% 0.12% 0.13%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.17% 0.35% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 28 34
10th Percentile £320 £424 £506
25th Percentile £379 £455 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -13.04% +9.52%
75th Percentile £629 £561 £722
90th Percentile £875 £681 £825
UK median daily rate £575 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% +4.76%

All Cloud 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 10,343 11,232 15,310
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.56% 34.55% 35.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,002 7,648 11,230
10th Percentile £306 £313 £313
25th Percentile £406 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 247 176 306
10th Percentile £15.40 £14.33 £14.57
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.38 £18.50
Median hourly rate £26.30 £32.75 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.69% -0.76% +53.49%
75th Percentile £43.75 £63.99 £68.31
90th Percentile £67.25 £70.00 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £29.04 £31.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -6.34% -11.43% +62.79%

Azure Pipelines
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Azure Pipelines as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Pipelines 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
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Pipelines in England over the 6 months to 16 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Pipelines in England

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 16 September 2025. 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 +7 12 £550 +10.00% 6
South West +22 1 - -
North of England -13 1 £500 -23.08% 2
Yorkshire - 1 £500 -
South East - 1 £320 -
Azure Pipelines
UK

Azure Pipelines
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 18 (100.00%) Azure
2 6 (33.33%) AWS
2 6 (33.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 6 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (22.22%) Azure Service Bus
3 4 (22.22%) GCP
3 4 (22.22%) Serverless
4 3 (16.67%) Azure Functions
4 3 (16.67%) GitHub
4 3 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (16.67%) OpenShift
4 3 (16.67%) PaaS
5 1 (5.56%) Azure AKS
5 1 (5.56%) Cloud Run
5 1 (5.56%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (5.56%) Google Compute Engine
5 1 (5.56%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (38.89%) NoSQL
2 4 (22.22%) Relational Database
2 4 (22.22%) SQL Server
3 3 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (11.11%) InterSystems Cache
5 1 (5.56%) BigQuery
5 1 (5.56%) MongoDB
5 1 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (5.56%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) CircleCI
1 3 (16.67%) Git
1 3 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 2 (11.11%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (5.56%) git-flow
General
1 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Pharmaceutical
2 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.56%) Finance
3 1 (5.56%) Legal
3 1 (5.56%) Military
Job Titles
1 8 (44.44%) Developer
2 7 (38.89%) Full-Stack Developer
3 4 (22.22%) Platform Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) .NET Developer
4 3 (16.67%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Angular Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Azure Architect
6 1 (5.56%) Azure Software Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) C# .NET Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Cloud Architect
6 1 (5.56%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Full-Stack C# Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) GCP Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Product Owner
6 1 (5.56%) Senior
6 1 (5.56%) Senior Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (38.89%) .NET
2 6 (33.33%) AngularJS
3 5 (27.78%) .NET Core
4 3 (16.67%) CSS
4 3 (16.67%) HTML
4 3 (16.67%) RESTful
5 1 (5.56%) FastAPI
5 1 (5.56%) JSON
5 1 (5.56%) mypy
5 1 (5.56%) Next.js
5 1 (5.56%) Node.js
5 1 (5.56%) pytest
5 1 (5.56%) Razor View Engine
5 1 (5.56%) React
5 1 (5.56%) REST
5 1 (5.56%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Biopharmaceutical
1 2 (11.11%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (5.56%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (5.56%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Linux
1 1 (5.56%) Windows
1 1 (5.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (55.56%) DevOps
2 9 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 8 (44.44%) CI/CD
4 7 (38.89%) Microservices
5 5 (27.78%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (27.78%) Software Engineering
6 4 (22.22%) Observability
6 4 (22.22%) Platform Engineering
7 3 (16.67%) Computer Science
7 3 (16.67%) Incident Response
7 3 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
7 3 (16.67%) Service-Level Objective
8 2 (11.11%) Agile
8 2 (11.11%) Deployment Automation
8 2 (11.11%) High Availability
8 2 (11.11%) Responsive Web Design
8 2 (11.11%) Scrum
8 2 (11.11%) User Experience
8 2 (11.11%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 7 (38.89%) Python
2 6 (33.33%) SQL
3 5 (27.78%) C#
3 5 (27.78%) JavaScript
4 4 (22.22%) TypeScript
5 3 (16.67%) Ruby
6 2 (11.11%) VB
6 2 (11.11%) VB6
7 1 (5.56%) Bash
7 1 (5.56%) Korn
7 1 (5.56%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) Accessibility
1 1 (5.56%) GDPR
1 1 (5.56%) HIPAA
1 1 (5.56%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (22.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (27.78%) Kubernetes
2 4 (22.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (16.67%) Google
2 2 (11.11%) InterSystems
2 2 (11.11%) Microsoft