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

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 526 480 515
Rank change year-on-year -46 +35 +115
Contract jobs citing Azure Pipelines 18 27 56
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.058% 0.089% 0.15%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.15% 0.24% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 23 35
10th Percentile £320 £458 £435
25th Percentile £350 £500 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £638 £685 £588
90th Percentile £900 £700 £633
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £535
% change year-on-year -12.50% +12.15% -6.92%

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 11,806 11,023 13,516
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.13% 36.35% 35.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,086 7,372 9,861
10th Percentile £304 £313 £290
25th Percentile £406 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £650 £645
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 294 142 270
10th Percentile £14.83 £17.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.47 £31.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.84% +24.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £50.94 £55.00 £53.75
90th Percentile £78.38 £69.98 £77.55
UK median hourly rate £25.74 £29.00 £25.69
% change year-on-year -11.26% +12.88% +14.18%

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 9 December 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 9 December 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 -9 16 £550 -2.22% 10
North of England -41 1 £500 -23.08% 1
Yorkshire - 1 £500 - 1
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 3 (16.67%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 18 (100.00%) Azure
2 9 (50.00%) AWS
3 5 (27.78%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 4 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (22.22%) GCP
5 3 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (16.67%) GitHub
5 3 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (16.67%) OpenShift
5 3 (16.67%) Power Platform
6 2 (11.11%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (5.56%) Azure Cognitive Search
7 1 (5.56%) Azure Cognitive Services
7 1 (5.56%) Azure Functions
7 1 (5.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (5.56%) Cloud Run
7 1 (5.56%) PaaS
7 1 (5.56%) SaaS
7 1 (5.56%) Serverless
7 1 (5.56%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (33.33%) NoSQL
2 5 (27.78%) Relational Database
3 3 (16.67%) Power BI
3 3 (16.67%) SQL Server
4 1 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (5.56%) BigQuery
4 1 (5.56%) Data Lake
4 1 (5.56%) MongoDB
4 1 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (5.56%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (22.22%) Git
2 3 (16.67%) CircleCI
2 3 (16.67%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.56%) git-flow
3 1 (5.56%) MLflow
3 1 (5.56%) NUnit
General
1 4 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Banking
2 2 (11.11%) Pharmaceutical
2 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.56%) Finance
3 1 (5.56%) Investment Banking
3 1 (5.56%) Legal
Job Titles
1 9 (50.00%) Developer
2 4 (22.22%) .NET Developer
2 4 (22.22%) Full-Stack Developer
2 4 (22.22%) Platform Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) Python Developer
3 3 (16.67%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
3 3 (16.67%) Senior
3 3 (16.67%) Senior Developer
3 3 (16.67%) Senior Python Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Angular Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Software Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) C# .NET Developer
5 1 (5.56%) C# Developer
5 1 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Product Owner
5 1 (5.56%) QA Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Software Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (38.89%) .NET
2 5 (27.78%) REST
3 4 (22.22%) .NET Core
3 4 (22.22%) AngularJS
4 3 (16.67%) CSS
4 3 (16.67%) HTML
4 3 (16.67%) NumPy
4 3 (16.67%) Pandas
4 3 (16.67%) Plotly
4 3 (16.67%) scikit-learn
4 3 (16.67%) Web Services
5 2 (11.11%) SciPy
5 2 (11.11%) Statsmodels
6 1 (5.56%) FastAPI
6 1 (5.56%) mypy
6 1 (5.56%) Next.js
6 1 (5.56%) Playwright
6 1 (5.56%) PyTorch
6 1 (5.56%) Razor View Engine
6 1 (5.56%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Biopharmaceutical
1 2 (11.11%) Hedge funds
1 2 (11.11%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.56%) Algorithms
2 1 (5.56%) Credit Risk
2 1 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
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 9 (50.00%) DevOps
2 7 (38.89%) CI/CD
3 5 (27.78%) Full-Stack Development
3 5 (27.78%) Microservices
3 5 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (27.78%) Software Engineering
4 4 (22.22%) Agile
4 4 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (22.22%) Computer Science
4 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (22.22%) Platform Engineering
5 3 (16.67%) Data Science
5 3 (16.67%) Decision-Making
5 3 (16.67%) Design Patterns
5 3 (16.67%) Incident Response
5 3 (16.67%) IT Strategy
5 3 (16.67%) Observability
5 3 (16.67%) Scrum
5 3 (16.67%) Service-Level Objective
5 3 (16.67%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 10 (55.56%) SQL
2 9 (50.00%) Python
3 6 (33.33%) C#
4 5 (27.78%) JavaScript
4 5 (27.78%) TypeScript
5 3 (16.67%) Ruby
6 1 (5.56%) Bash
6 1 (5.56%) Korn
6 1 (5.56%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (22.22%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (22.22%) Degree
2 1 (5.56%) ISEB
2 1 (5.56%) ISTQB
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
1 1 (5.56%) QA
System Software
1 4 (22.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (22.22%) Kubernetes
2 3 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (16.67%) Dataiku
1 3 (16.67%) Google
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft