Azure DevOps Engineer Contract Job Trends in London

DevOps Engineer - Microsoft Azure
England > London

The median DevOps Engineer - Microsoft Azure daily rate in London is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 316 334 308
Rank change year-on-year +18 -26 +62
Contract jobs requiring an Azure DevOps Engineer 46 54 138
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.34% 0.33% 0.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% 0.36% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 44 105
10th Percentile £392 £413 £450
25th Percentile £400 £509 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £550 £650 £650
90th Percentile £655 £675 £692
England median daily rate £471 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -14.41% - -8.33%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in London with a recognized job title 12,450 15,190 20,706
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.69% 94.06% 94.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,342 10,172 15,099
10th Percentile £331 £340 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £690
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 205 181 231
10th Percentile £17.00 £17.50 £18.16
25th Percentile £23.00 £23.80 £22.39
Median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £37.34
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -6.27% +14.89%
75th Percentile £50.75 £56.00 £63.13
90th Percentile £66.73 £71.88 £76.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £44.75
% change year-on-year -45.54% +3.20% +71.00%

Azure DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Azure DevOps Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Azure DevOps Engineer in London

Azure DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Azure DevOps Engineer job vacancies in London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Azure DevOps Engineer job vacancies in London

Azure DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure DevOps Engineer in London over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure DevOps Engineer in London

Azure DevOps Engineer
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure DevOps Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 17 September 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
Central London -2 3 £550 -12.00% 3
Azure DevOps Engineer
England

Azure DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 17 September 2025, Azure DevOps Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Azure DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 46 (100.00%) Azure
1 46 (100.00%) DevOps
2 40 (86.96%) Azure DevOps
3 34 (73.91%) Terraform
3 34 (73.91%) CI/CD
4 29 (63.04%) Infrastructure as Code
5 18 (39.13%) PowerShell
6 17 (36.96%) Kubernetes
7 14 (30.43%) Azure AKS
8 13 (28.26%) ARM Templates
8 13 (28.26%) Python
9 12 (26.09%) Infrastructure Automation
10 11 (23.91%) Azure Monitor
10 11 (23.91%) Databricks
10 11 (23.91%) Finance
11 10 (21.74%) Linux
11 10 (21.74%) Bash
11 10 (21.74%) Azure Data Factory
12 9 (19.57%) Migration
13 8 (17.39%) Microsoft
13 8 (17.39%) YAML
13 8 (17.39%) Entra ID
13 8 (17.39%) GitLab
13 8 (17.39%) Social Skills
14 7 (15.22%) Serverless
14 7 (15.22%) Problem-Solving
14 7 (15.22%) Docker
14 7 (15.22%) C#
14 7 (15.22%) SQL
14 7 (15.22%) Continuous Integration

Azure DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (6.52%) Apache Spark
2 2 (4.35%) Apache
3 1 (2.17%) JBoss
3 1 (2.17%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 46 (100.00%) Azure
2 40 (86.96%) Azure DevOps
3 14 (30.43%) Azure AKS
4 11 (23.91%) Azure Monitor
5 10 (21.74%) Azure Data Factory
6 8 (17.39%) Entra ID
7 7 (15.22%) Serverless
8 6 (13.04%) PaaS
9 5 (10.87%) AWS
9 5 (10.87%) Azure Key Vault
9 5 (10.87%) GitHub
10 4 (8.70%) Azure Storage
10 4 (8.70%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (8.70%) IaaS
11 3 (6.52%) Azure API Management
12 2 (4.35%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 2 (4.35%) Azure Functions
12 2 (4.35%) Azure Logic Apps
12 2 (4.35%) Azure Service Bus
12 2 (4.35%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.35%) Network Security
2 1 (2.17%) DHCP
2 1 (2.17%) DNS
2 1 (2.17%) VPN
2 1 (2.17%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.70%) Data Lake
2 3 (6.52%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (4.35%) Big Data
3 2 (4.35%) Power BI
4 1 (2.17%) Apache Hive
4 1 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.17%) Delta Lake
4 1 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (17.39%) GitLab
2 6 (13.04%) Git
2 6 (13.04%) Jenkins
2 6 (13.04%) Sonatype Nexus
3 5 (10.87%) Maven
4 4 (8.70%) Gradle
5 3 (6.52%) TeamCity
6 1 (2.17%) Ant
6 1 (2.17%) Artifactory
6 1 (2.17%) git-flow
6 1 (2.17%) JIRA
6 1 (2.17%) Terragrunt
General
1 11 (23.91%) Finance
2 8 (17.39%) Social Skills
3 5 (10.87%) Public Sector
4 4 (8.70%) Banking
5 3 (6.52%) Investment Banking
6 2 (4.35%) Law
7 1 (2.17%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.17%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.17%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (28.26%) ARM Templates
2 8 (17.39%) YAML
3 5 (10.87%) ADO
4 2 (4.35%) Kafka
5 1 (2.17%) .NET
5 1 (2.17%) .NET Core
5 1 (2.17%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (2.17%) Middleware
5 1 (2.17%) PySpark
5 1 (2.17%) REST
5 1 (2.17%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.04%) Cloud Native
2 2 (4.35%) Legacy Code
3 1 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.17%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (2.17%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.17%) Reinsurance
3 1 (2.17%) Security Posture
3 1 (2.17%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (21.74%) Linux
2 4 (8.70%) Unix
2 4 (8.70%) Windows
3 3 (6.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (4.35%) VMS
5 1 (2.17%) Solaris
5 1 (2.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (100.00%) DevOps
2 34 (73.91%) CI/CD
3 29 (63.04%) Infrastructure as Code
4 12 (26.09%) Infrastructure Automation
5 9 (19.57%) Migration
6 7 (15.22%) Continuous Integration
6 7 (15.22%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (13.04%) Agile
7 6 (13.04%) Containerisation
7 6 (13.04%) Microservices
7 6 (13.04%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 5 (10.87%) DevSecOps
8 5 (10.87%) Knowledge Transfer
9 4 (8.70%) Analytics
9 4 (8.70%) Data Engineering
9 4 (8.70%) Test Automation
10 3 (6.52%) Data Pipeline
10 3 (6.52%) ETL
10 3 (6.52%) GitOps
10 3 (6.52%) Log Analytics
Programming Languages
1 18 (39.13%) PowerShell
2 13 (28.26%) Python
3 10 (21.74%) Bash
4 7 (15.22%) C#
4 7 (15.22%) SQL
5 6 (13.04%) Bicep
6 4 (8.70%) Java
7 2 (4.35%) JavaScript
8 1 (2.17%) C++
8 1 (2.17%) Go
8 1 (2.17%) Groovy
8 1 (2.17%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 6 (13.04%) SC Cleared
1 6 (13.04%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.52%) Azure Certification
3 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.17%) Data Quality
1 1 (2.17%) QA
System Software
1 7 (15.22%) Docker
2 4 (8.70%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (4.35%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 34 (73.91%) Terraform
2 17 (36.96%) Kubernetes
3 6 (13.04%) Ansible
4 4 (8.70%) Progress Chef
5 2 (4.35%) Argo
5 2 (4.35%) Grafana
5 2 (4.35%) Istio
5 2 (4.35%) Packer
5 2 (4.35%) Prometheus
6 1 (2.17%) Fluentd
6 1 (2.17%) Podman
6 1 (2.17%) Puppet
Vendors
1 11 (23.91%) Databricks
2 8 (17.39%) Microsoft
3 4 (8.70%) Cloudera
3 4 (8.70%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.17%) Dynatrace
4 1 (2.17%) OpenAI
4 1 (2.17%) Oracle
4 1 (2.17%) Red Hat