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 3 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 634 504 485
Rank change year-on-year -130 -19 +41
Contract jobs citing Azure Pipelines 10 15 39
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.021% 0.054% 0.12%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.062% 0.14% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 12 29
10th Percentile £399 £320 £424
25th Percentile £438 £346 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -11.36% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £599 £648 £638
90th Percentile £721 £925 £695
UK median daily rate £481 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -16.30% +9.52% -4.55%

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 16,031 10,713 11,289
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.46% 38.23% 34.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,669 7,252 7,558
10th Percentile £321 £305 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £505 £530
Median % change year-on-year +3.96% -4.72% -2.75%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £645
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 569 253 165
10th Percentile £15.30 £15.30 £15.99
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £21.37
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +6.06%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £66.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £31.50 £26.30 £35.00
% change year-on-year +19.77% -24.86% +6.06%

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 3 October 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 3 October 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 -78 8 £481 -12.50% 9
South East -61 1 £525 +64.06% 2
North of England -74 1 - - 1
North East - 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 (10.00%) Apache
1 1 (10.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (10.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (10.00%) CMS
1 1 (10.00%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (40.00%) Serverless
3 2 (20.00%) AWS
3 2 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (20.00%) Azure API Management
3 2 (20.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 2 (20.00%) Azure Databricks
3 2 (20.00%) Azure Functions
3 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Copilot
3 2 (20.00%) Power Automate
3 2 (20.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
4 1 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (10.00%) Kong
4 1 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (20.00%) Power BI
2 1 (10.00%) Big Data
2 1 (10.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (50.00%) Git
2 3 (30.00%) Visual Studio
3 2 (20.00%) GitLab
3 2 (20.00%) Selenium
4 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
4 1 (10.00%) SonarQube
4 1 (10.00%) TeamCity
General
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Back Office
2 2 (20.00%) Health Technology
2 2 (20.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Developer
2 3 (30.00%) Senior
3 2 (20.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Power Platform Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Applications Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) DevOps Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Lead
4 1 (10.00%) Python Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Applications Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Test Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Web Applications Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Web Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Test Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Web Applications Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) .NET
1 4 (40.00%) React
2 2 (20.00%) .NET Core
2 2 (20.00%) ASP.NET
2 2 (20.00%) NumPy
2 2 (20.00%) Pandas
3 1 (10.00%) .NET Framework
3 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (10.00%) CSS
3 1 (10.00%) Entity Framework
3 1 (10.00%) HTML
3 1 (10.00%) HTML5
3 1 (10.00%) jQuery
3 1 (10.00%) Matplotlib
3 1 (10.00%) Node.js
3 1 (10.00%) RESTful
3 1 (10.00%) SOAP
3 1 (10.00%) Web Services
3 1 (10.00%) XML
3 1 (10.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (10.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Unix
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
1 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 7 (70.00%) Agile
3 5 (50.00%) DevOps
4 4 (40.00%) Scrum
4 4 (40.00%) Test Automation
5 3 (30.00%) API Integration
5 3 (30.00%) Deployment Automation
5 3 (30.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 3 (30.00%) Microservices
6 2 (20.00%) API Management
6 2 (20.00%) B2C
6 2 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (20.00%) Code Quality
6 2 (20.00%) ETL
6 2 (20.00%) Kanban
6 2 (20.00%) Machine Learning
6 2 (20.00%) Release Management
6 2 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (20.00%) Workflow
7 1 (10.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) C#
2 2 (20.00%) Python
3 1 (10.00%) Java
3 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (10.00%) SQL
3 1 (10.00%) XPath
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (10.00%) QA
2 1 (10.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (10.00%) Ansible
2 1 (10.00%) Grafana
2 1 (10.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Databricks
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle