Azure DevOps Contract Job Trends in London

Microsoft Azure DevOps
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Azure DevOps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 84 63
Rank change year-on-year +22 -21 +8
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 841 461 585
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.15% 3.46% 3.65%
As % of the Cloud Services category 10.16% 7.94% 8.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 600 321 396
10th Percentile £364 £350 £388
25th Percentile £425 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £626 £663 £625
90th Percentile £688 £750 £695
England median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £39.00 - -
25th Percentile £45.00 £86.25 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £87.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -37.14% - -
75th Percentile - £88.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £68.22 £75.00 -
% change year-on-year -9.05% - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
London

Azure DevOps 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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 8,276 5,804 6,560
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 40.88% 43.60% 40.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,708 3,935 4,517
10th Percentile £360 £347 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% -3.64% -2.96%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 96 41
10th Percentile £17.60 £22.50 £23.80
25th Percentile £22.50 £25.12 £24.15
Median hourly rate £28.55 £27.95 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.15% -9.84% -23.46%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £44.61
90th Percentile £78.75 £79.38 £66.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +7.99%

Azure DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure DevOps relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Azure DevOps job vacancy trend in London

Azure DevOps
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Azure DevOps.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Azure DevOps

Azure DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure DevOps in London over the 6 months to 6 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure DevOps in London

Azure DevOps
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Azure DevOps.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Azure DevOps

Azure DevOps
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Azure DevOps in London over the 6 months to 6 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Azure DevOps in London

Azure DevOps
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 within the London region over the 6 months to 6 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
Central London +16 100 £545 -0.91% 53
South London -3 9 £525 - 6
North London +2 3 £550 +25.00% 1
West London -20 2 £625 +20.19% 9
East London -2 1 - - 2
Azure DevOps
England

Azure DevOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 53 (6.30%) Confluence
2 48 (5.71%) SharePoint
3 31 (3.69%) Apache Spark
4 27 (3.21%) Apache Airflow
5 19 (2.26%) Apache
6 10 (1.19%) CMS
7 8 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.36%) IIS
8 3 (0.36%) Kentico
8 3 (0.36%) Mendix
9 2 (0.24%) nginx
10 1 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.12%) Apache Pulsar
10 1 (0.12%) Camunda
10 1 (0.12%) EPiServer
10 1 (0.12%) GeoServer
10 1 (0.12%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 30 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 27 (3.21%) Microsoft Project
3 17 (2.02%) MS Visio
4 11 (1.31%) Microsoft Office
5 7 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 5 (0.59%) Notion
7 4 (0.48%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.36%) Mingle
9 2 (0.24%) CPLEX
9 2 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.12%) Trello
10 1 (0.12%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 35 (4.16%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (1.31%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.48%) Dynamics AX
3 4 (0.48%) Payment Gateway
4 3 (0.36%) Aladdin
4 3 (0.36%) SAP MDG
5 2 (0.24%) Endur
5 2 (0.24%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
5 2 (0.24%) Maximo
5 2 (0.24%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.24%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.12%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.12%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.12%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.12%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.12%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.12%) SDL Web 8
6 1 (0.12%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 841 (100.00%) Azure
2 260 (30.92%) GitHub
3 164 (19.50%) GitHub Actions
4 154 (18.31%) Power Platform
5 152 (18.07%) AWS
6 87 (10.34%) Azure Data Factory
7 85 (10.11%) Entra ID
8 78 (9.27%) Azure Monitor
9 76 (9.04%) Serverless
10 73 (8.68%) Azure AKS
11 65 (7.73%) Dynamics 365
12 60 (7.13%) Azure Functions
12 60 (7.13%) Power Automate
13 52 (6.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 50 (5.95%) GCP
15 49 (5.83%) PowerApps
16 48 (5.71%) Azure Logic Apps
17 45 (5.35%) PaaS
18 44 (5.23%) Snowflake
19 41 (4.88%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 25 (2.97%) DNS
2 24 (2.85%) Firewall
3 19 (2.26%) Network Security
4 16 (1.90%) VPN
5 8 (0.95%) DHCP
6 4 (0.48%) SAN
6 4 (0.48%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.36%) Internet
8 2 (0.24%) 4G
8 2 (0.24%) Cisco IOS
8 2 (0.24%) NAS
8 2 (0.24%) Reverse Proxy
8 2 (0.24%) SSH
8 2 (0.24%) SSL
8 2 (0.24%) VLAN
8 2 (0.24%) WAN
8 2 (0.24%) X.509
9 1 (0.12%) LAN
9 1 (0.12%) SMTP
9 1 (0.12%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (12.01%) Power BI
2 59 (7.02%) SQL Server
3 58 (6.90%) Data Lake
4 54 (6.42%) Data Warehouse
5 42 (4.99%) Azure SQL Database
6 30 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
7 28 (3.33%) Metadata
8 27 (3.21%) Delta Lake
9 24 (2.85%) NoSQL
10 17 (2.02%) Snowflake Schema
11 16 (1.90%) Big Data
12 15 (1.78%) Relational Database
13 13 (1.55%) Star Schema
14 12 (1.43%) Redis
14 12 (1.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 11 (1.31%) Spark SQL
16 9 (1.07%) Data Vault
16 9 (1.07%) Oracle Database
17 8 (0.95%) Amazon Redshift
17 8 (0.95%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 151 (17.95%) Git
2 145 (17.24%) JIRA
3 112 (13.32%) Jenkins
4 89 (10.58%) GitLab
5 46 (5.47%) Selenium
6 21 (2.50%) SonarQube
7 16 (1.90%) Cypress.io
7 16 (1.90%) Visual Studio
8 14 (1.66%) Postman
9 12 (1.43%) Cucumber
10 11 (1.31%) REST Assured
10 11 (1.31%) TestRail
11 10 (1.19%) Maven
12 9 (1.07%) JUnit
12 9 (1.07%) SpecFlow
12 9 (1.07%) WebDriver
13 8 (0.95%) Gradle
13 8 (0.95%) JMeter
13 8 (0.95%) Snyk
14 7 (0.83%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 239 (28.42%) Finance
2 234 (27.82%) Social Skills
3 84 (9.99%) Analytical Skills
4 81 (9.63%) Public Sector
5 73 (8.68%) Banking
6 27 (3.21%) Retail
7 22 (2.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 19 (2.26%) Influencing Skills
9 18 (2.14%) Marketing
10 17 (2.02%) Documentation Skills
10 17 (2.02%) Investment Banking
11 11 (1.31%) Legal
12 10 (1.19%) Local Government
13 8 (0.95%) Law
13 8 (0.95%) Police
14 7 (0.83%) Manufacturing
14 7 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
14 7 (0.83%) Pharmaceutical
14 7 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (0.59%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 150 (17.84%) DevOps Engineer
2 148 (17.60%) Senior
3 143 (17.00%) Azure Engineer
4 120 (14.27%) Developer
5 90 (10.70%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 77 (9.16%) Architect
7 74 (8.80%) Analyst
7 74 (8.80%) Data Engineer
8 64 (7.61%) Lead
9 42 (4.99%) Business Analyst
10 39 (4.64%) Consultant
11 32 (3.80%) Project Manager
12 28 (3.33%) Cloud Engineer
12 28 (3.33%) Platform Engineer
13 27 (3.21%) Senior DevOps
14 26 (3.09%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 23 (2.73%) Solutions Architect
16 22 (2.62%) Test Analyst
17 21 (2.50%) Databricks Engineer
17 21 (2.50%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 256 (30.44%) Terraform
2 130 (15.46%) REST
3 118 (14.03%) .NET
4 58 (6.90%) PySpark
5 54 (6.42%) ADO
6 43 (5.11%) Kafka
6 43 (5.11%) React
7 41 (4.88%) JSON
8 37 (4.40%) YAML
9 34 (4.04%) RESTful
10 32 (3.80%) Middleware
11 30 (3.57%) Playwright
12 27 (3.21%) ARM Templates
12 27 (3.21%) XML
13 26 (3.09%) OAuth
14 24 (2.85%) .NET Core
14 24 (2.85%) .NET Framework
15 23 (2.73%) HTML
16 22 (2.62%) AngularJS
17 20 (2.38%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 102 (12.13%) Cloud Native
2 53 (6.30%) Product Ownership
3 34 (4.04%) Enterprise Software
4 33 (3.92%) Distributed Systems
5 30 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
6 24 (2.85%) Management Information System
7 22 (2.62%) Onboarding
8 21 (2.50%) AI Agents
9 19 (2.26%) Hybrid Cloud
10 17 (2.02%) Greenfield Project
11 14 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
12 13 (1.55%) Reinsurance
13 12 (1.43%) Low-Code
14 11 (1.31%) Enterprise Cloud
15 10 (1.19%) Data Structures
16 9 (1.07%) Linux Command Line
16 9 (1.07%) Public Cloud
17 8 (0.95%) Data Centre
17 8 (0.95%) Replication
18 7 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 43 (5.11%) Windows
2 35 (4.16%) Linux
3 14 (1.66%) VMS
3 14 (1.66%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.83%) Unix
5 6 (0.71%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (0.48%) Android
6 4 (0.48%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.48%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.12%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 841 (100.00%) DevOps
2 468 (55.65%) CI/CD
3 343 (40.78%) Agile
4 223 (26.52%) Infrastructure as Code
5 168 (19.98%) Stakeholder Management
6 162 (19.26%) Test Automation
7 149 (17.72%) Analytics
8 144 (17.12%) Problem-Solving
9 136 (16.17%) Migration
10 121 (14.39%) AI
11 113 (13.44%) Continuous Improvement
12 110 (13.08%) Business Intelligence
13 109 (12.96%) Containerisation
14 104 (12.37%) Data Modelling
15 101 (12.01%) Scrum
16 97 (11.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 96 (11.41%) Microservices
18 92 (10.94%) Validation
19 88 (10.46%) User Acceptance Testing
20 84 (9.99%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 242 (28.78%) Python
2 241 (28.66%) SQL
3 145 (17.24%) C#
4 106 (12.60%) PowerShell
5 95 (11.30%) Bicep
6 84 (9.99%) JavaScript
7 73 (8.68%) Bash
8 67 (7.97%) TypeScript
9 61 (7.25%) Java
10 15 (1.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 13 (1.55%) Apex Code
12 9 (1.07%) T-SQL
13 6 (0.71%) Kusto Query Language
14 5 (0.59%) Go
14 5 (0.59%) Shell Script
15 4 (0.48%) ABAP
15 4 (0.48%) C
15 4 (0.48%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.48%) VB.NET
16 3 (0.36%) X++
Qualifications
1 213 (25.33%) Security Cleared
2 185 (22.00%) SC Cleared
3 69 (8.20%) Azure Certification
4 55 (6.54%) Degree
5 29 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 26 (3.09%) Microsoft Certification
7 23 (2.73%) DV Cleared
8 16 (1.90%) PMI Certification
9 15 (1.78%) ISTQB
10 14 (1.66%) AWS Certification
10 14 (1.66%) PMP
11 10 (1.19%) DBS Check
12 8 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
13 7 (0.83%) Master's Degree
13 7 (0.83%) PRINCE2 Certification
14 6 (0.71%) TOGAF Certification
15 5 (0.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 5 (0.59%) CBAP
15 5 (0.59%) ISEB
15 5 (0.59%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (13.08%) QA
2 69 (8.20%) Data Quality
3 27 (3.21%) GDPR
4 22 (2.62%) Accessibility
5 19 (2.26%) NIST
6 14 (1.66%) PMO
7 11 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 8 (0.95%) ISO 20022
8 8 (0.95%) WCAG
9 7 (0.83%) SLA
10 6 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 6 (0.71%) SEPA
11 4 (0.48%) PSD2
12 3 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
12 3 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.36%) GRC
13 2 (0.24%) Government Security Classifications
13 2 (0.24%) PCI DSS
14 1 (0.12%) ISO 15022
14 1 (0.12%) P3O
System Software
1 136 (16.17%) Docker
2 36 (4.28%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.19%) Virtual Desktop
4 10 (1.19%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.59%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.48%) vSphere
7 2 (0.24%) Microsoft App-V
7 2 (0.24%) OpenSSH
8 1 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 166 (19.74%) Kubernetes
2 49 (5.83%) Ansible
3 34 (4.04%) Grafana
4 27 (3.21%) Prometheus
5 13 (1.55%) Microsoft Intune
6 8 (0.95%) Argo
6 8 (0.95%) Packer
6 8 (0.95%) SCCM
7 7 (0.83%) Progress Chef
8 6 (0.71%) HP ALM
8 6 (0.71%) Puppet
9 5 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.36%) HP Fortify
10 3 (0.36%) Kibana
11 2 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.24%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (0.24%) Nagios
12 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Clustering
12 1 (0.12%) PowerCLI
12 1 (0.12%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 309 (36.74%) Microsoft
2 92 (10.94%) Databricks
3 42 (4.99%) Salesforce
4 28 (3.33%) Oracle
5 26 (3.09%) SAP
6 22 (2.62%) ServiceNow
7 21 (2.50%) VMware
8 19 (2.26%) Google
9 18 (2.14%) Dynatrace
9 18 (2.14%) OpenAI
10 17 (2.02%) Splunk
11 15 (1.78%) Foundry
12 14 (1.66%) UiPath
13 9 (1.07%) IBM
13 9 (1.07%) Workday
14 8 (0.95%) Cloudera
14 8 (0.95%) Informatica
15 7 (0.83%) HP
15 7 (0.83%) Okta
16 6 (0.71%) CA Agile Central