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 20 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 570 461 523
Rank change year-on-year -109 +62 +77
Contract jobs citing Azure Pipelines 6 21 34
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.017% 0.081% 0.090%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.046% 0.22% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 12 22
10th Percentile £356 £510 £428
25th Percentile £366 £609 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £658 £538
Median % change year-on-year -41.06% +22.33% -2.71%
75th Percentile £516 £696 £634
90th Percentile £589 £700 £649
UK median daily rate £538 £638 £556
% change year-on-year -15.69% +14.61% -3.26%

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 13,090 9,729 12,448
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.57% 37.49% 32.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,022 6,531 9,016
10th Percentile £306 £313 £275
25th Percentile £406 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 364 147 309
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.44 £14.10
25th Percentile £19.00 £21.25 £16.14
Median hourly rate £37.50 £27.50 £21.64
Median % change year-on-year +36.36% +27.08% -13.44%
75th Percentile £60.00 £48.38 £48.75
90th Percentile £79.28 £74.45 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £37.25 £27.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year +35.45% +25.00% -12.00%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Pipelines in England over the 6 months to 20 February 2026.

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 20 February 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 -56 6 £388 -41.73% 6
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 3 (50.00%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) AWS
2 3 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
2 3 (50.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Cognitive Search
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Cognitive Services
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Machine Learning
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Power BI
1 3 (50.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (16.67%) Data Lake
2 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (16.67%) MLflow
2 1 (16.67%) NUnit
General
1 3 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Banking
2 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Investment Banking
3 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Developer
2 3 (50.00%) Python Developer
3 2 (33.33%) Senior
3 2 (33.33%) Senior Developer
3 2 (33.33%) Senior Python Developer
4 1 (16.67%) .NET Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) REST
2 3 (50.00%) NumPy
2 3 (50.00%) Pandas
2 3 (50.00%) Plotly
2 3 (50.00%) scikit-learn
2 3 (50.00%) Web Services
3 2 (33.33%) .NET
3 2 (33.33%) SciPy
3 2 (33.33%) Statsmodels
4 1 (16.67%) Playwright
4 1 (16.67%) PyTorch
4 1 (16.67%) SOAP
4 1 (16.67%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Hedge funds
2 1 (16.67%) Algorithms
2 1 (16.67%) Credit Risk
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (50.00%) Analytics
2 3 (50.00%) Data Analysis
2 3 (50.00%) Data Analytics
2 3 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
2 3 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 3 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 3 (50.00%) IT Strategy
2 3 (50.00%) Mathematics
2 3 (50.00%) OO
2 3 (50.00%) OOP
2 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (50.00%) Technology Strategy
2 3 (50.00%) Unit Testing
2 3 (50.00%) Visualisation
3 2 (33.33%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) Data Science
3 2 (33.33%) DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) Econometrics
3 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) SQL
2 4 (66.67%) Python
3 1 (16.67%) C#
3 1 (16.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) ISEB
1 1 (16.67%) ISTQB
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Dataiku
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft