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 10 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 536 476 512
Rank change year-on-year -60 +36 +85
Contract jobs citing Azure Pipelines 12 23 43
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.038% 0.085% 0.12%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.10% 0.23% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 16 25
10th Percentile £369 £476 £418
25th Percentile £453 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £638 £563
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +13.33% +2.27%
75th Percentile £825 £696 £625
90th Percentile £950 £700 £645
UK median daily rate £663 £625 £550
% change year-on-year +6.00% +13.64% -4.31%

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 11,923 9,924 12,404
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.08% 36.69% 34.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,251 6,616 9,068
10th Percentile £304 £313 £275
25th Percentile £406 £425 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £644 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 273 131 235
10th Percentile £14.25 £16.26 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £27.50 £28.41 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.20% +26.27% -0.03%
75th Percentile £56.50 £46.18 £50.79
90th Percentile £78.45 £65.00 £76.50
UK median hourly rate £27.36 £27.50 £23.22
% change year-on-year -0.53% +18.46% +3.18%

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 10 January 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 10 January 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 -18 12 £625 - 2
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 (25.00%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 12 (100.00%) Azure
2 6 (50.00%) AWS
3 3 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (25.00%) GCP
3 3 (25.00%) GitHub
3 3 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
3 3 (25.00%) OpenShift
3 3 (25.00%) Power Platform
4 2 (16.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 2 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (16.67%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (8.33%) Azure Cognitive Search
5 1 (8.33%) Azure Cognitive Services
5 1 (8.33%) Azure Functions
5 1 (8.33%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (8.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (8.33%) PaaS
5 1 (8.33%) SaaS
5 1 (8.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) Relational Database
2 3 (25.00%) Power BI
3 2 (16.67%) NoSQL
4 1 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (8.33%) Data Lake
4 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) CircleCI
1 3 (25.00%) Git
1 3 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (8.33%) MLflow
2 1 (8.33%) NUnit
General
1 4 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Banking
3 2 (16.67%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (8.33%) Finance
4 1 (8.33%) Investment Banking
4 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Developer
2 4 (33.33%) Python Developer
3 3 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Senior
3 3 (25.00%) Senior Developer
3 3 (25.00%) Senior Python Developer
4 2 (16.67%) .NET Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Angular Developer
5 1 (8.33%) C# .NET Developer
5 1 (8.33%) C# Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Full-Stack C# Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Product Owner
5 1 (8.33%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (41.67%) REST
2 3 (25.00%) .NET
2 3 (25.00%) NumPy
2 3 (25.00%) Pandas
2 3 (25.00%) Plotly
2 3 (25.00%) scikit-learn
2 3 (25.00%) Web Services
3 2 (16.67%) SciPy
3 2 (16.67%) Statsmodels
4 1 (8.33%) .NET Core
4 1 (8.33%) AngularJS
4 1 (8.33%) FastAPI
4 1 (8.33%) JSON
4 1 (8.33%) Playwright
4 1 (8.33%) pytest
4 1 (8.33%) PyTorch
4 1 (8.33%) RESTful
4 1 (8.33%) SOAP
4 1 (8.33%) SQLAlchemy
4 1 (8.33%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Biopharmaceutical
1 2 (16.67%) Hedge funds
2 1 (8.33%) Algorithms
2 1 (8.33%) Credit Risk
2 1 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) DevOps
2 4 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 3 (25.00%) Agile
3 3 (25.00%) Data Analysis
3 3 (25.00%) Data Visualisation
3 3 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 3 (25.00%) IT Strategy
3 3 (25.00%) Mathematics
3 3 (25.00%) Observability
3 3 (25.00%) OO
3 3 (25.00%) OOP
3 3 (25.00%) Scrum
3 3 (25.00%) Service-Level Objective
3 3 (25.00%) Unit Testing
3 3 (25.00%) User Experience
3 3 (25.00%) UX Design
3 3 (25.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) Python
2 7 (58.33%) SQL
3 4 (33.33%) TypeScript
4 3 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 3 (25.00%) Ruby
5 2 (16.67%) C#
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) ISEB
2 1 (8.33%) ISTQB
2 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Dataiku
1 3 (25.00%) Google
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft