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 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 502 497 534
Rank change year-on-year -5 +37 +85
Contract jobs citing Azure Pipelines 17 26 58
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.060% 0.082% 0.14%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.16% 0.23% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 21 37
10th Percentile £320 £456 £450
25th Percentile £355 £495 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £673 £650
90th Percentile £900 £695 £738
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £535
% change year-on-year +4.76% -1.87% -3.17%

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 10,870 11,139 14,558
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.60% 35.26% 35.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,331 7,414 10,676
10th Percentile £303 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £538
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -1.40% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £644 £650
90th Percentile £725 £749 £743
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 269 152 292
10th Percentile £15.20 £16.41 £14.64
25th Percentile £18.51 £23.80 £17.94
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% +27.27% +22.22%
75th Percentile £43.75 £66.69 £60.47
90th Percentile £67.05 £70.00 £78.68
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £32.15
% change year-on-year -28.14% +8.86% +42.89%

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 October 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 20 October 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 +11 15 £550 +4.76% 5
North of England -24 1 £500 -23.08% 6
Yorkshire - 1 £500 -
South East - 1 £320 - 4
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 2 (11.76%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 17 (100.00%) Azure
2 8 (47.06%) AWS
3 4 (23.53%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 4 (23.53%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (23.53%) GCP
4 3 (17.65%) GitHub
4 3 (17.65%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (17.65%) OpenShift
5 2 (11.76%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (11.76%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (11.76%) Power Platform
5 2 (11.76%) Serverless
6 1 (5.88%) Azure AKS
6 1 (5.88%) Azure Cognitive Search
6 1 (5.88%) Azure Cognitive Services
6 1 (5.88%) Azure Functions
6 1 (5.88%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (5.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (5.88%) Cloud Run
6 1 (5.88%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (29.41%) NoSQL
2 4 (23.53%) Relational Database
3 3 (17.65%) SQL Server
4 2 (11.76%) Power BI
5 1 (5.88%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (5.88%) BigQuery
5 1 (5.88%) Data Lake
5 1 (5.88%) MongoDB
5 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (5.88%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (17.65%) CircleCI
1 3 (17.65%) Git
1 3 (17.65%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.88%) git-flow
2 1 (5.88%) MLflow
General
1 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Pharmaceutical
3 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.88%) Banking
4 1 (5.88%) Finance
4 1 (5.88%) Investment Banking
4 1 (5.88%) Legal
Job Titles
1 8 (47.06%) Developer
2 4 (23.53%) .NET Developer
2 4 (23.53%) Full-Stack Developer
2 4 (23.53%) Platform Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
3 3 (17.65%) Python Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Angular Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Senior
4 2 (11.76%) Senior Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Senior Python Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Software Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) C# .NET Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Full-Stack C# Developer
5 1 (5.88%) GCP Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Lead
5 1 (5.88%) Machine Learning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (35.29%) .NET
2 4 (23.53%) .NET Core
2 4 (23.53%) AngularJS
3 3 (17.65%) CSS
3 3 (17.65%) HTML
3 3 (17.65%) REST
4 2 (11.76%) NumPy
4 2 (11.76%) Pandas
4 2 (11.76%) Plotly
4 2 (11.76%) scikit-learn
4 2 (11.76%) Web Services
5 1 (5.88%) FastAPI
5 1 (5.88%) mypy
5 1 (5.88%) Next.js
5 1 (5.88%) Node.js
5 1 (5.88%) pytest
5 1 (5.88%) PyTorch
5 1 (5.88%) Razor View Engine
5 1 (5.88%) Statsmodels
5 1 (5.88%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Biopharmaceutical
1 2 (11.76%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.88%) Algorithms
2 1 (5.88%) Credit Risk
2 1 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (5.88%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (5.88%) Hedge funds
2 1 (5.88%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Linux
1 1 (5.88%) Windows
1 1 (5.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (47.06%) DevOps
2 6 (35.29%) CI/CD
3 5 (29.41%) Full-Stack Development
3 5 (29.41%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (29.41%) Microservices
3 5 (29.41%) Software Engineering
4 4 (23.53%) Observability
4 4 (23.53%) Platform Engineering
4 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (17.65%) Agile
5 3 (17.65%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (17.65%) Computer Science
5 3 (17.65%) Incident Response
5 3 (17.65%) Service-Level Objective
6 2 (11.76%) Design Patterns
6 2 (11.76%) Immunology
6 2 (11.76%) OO
6 2 (11.76%) OOP
6 2 (11.76%) Scrum
6 2 (11.76%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (47.06%) Python
1 8 (47.06%) SQL
2 5 (29.41%) C#
2 5 (29.41%) JavaScript
3 4 (23.53%) TypeScript
4 3 (17.65%) Ruby
5 1 (5.88%) Bash
5 1 (5.88%) Korn
5 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (17.65%) Degree
2 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) Accessibility
1 1 (5.88%) GDPR
1 1 (5.88%) HIPAA
1 1 (5.88%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (23.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (29.41%) Kubernetes
2 4 (23.53%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) Google
2 2 (11.76%) Dataiku
2 2 (11.76%) Microsoft