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 8 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 89 69
Rank change year-on-year +19 -20 +11
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 633 398 566
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.93% 3.02% 3.10%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.95% 7.19% 8.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 452 290 389
10th Percentile £358 £405 £425
25th Percentile £413 £466 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £556
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -1.08% -3.30%
75th Percentile £591 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £703
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £47.58 - -
25th Percentile £49.94 - -
Median hourly rate £61.25 - -
75th Percentile £73.56 - -
90th Percentile £75.48 - -
England median hourly rate £72.13 £67.50 £65.50
% change year-on-year +6.86% +3.05% -3.53%

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 7,069 5,534 6,773
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.85% 41.99% 37.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,849 3,787 4,975
10th Percentile £350 £356 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £768
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 44 77
10th Percentile £18.00 £22.27 £17.00
25th Percentile £21.46 £24.09 £21.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £29.07 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year +20.40% -4.69% -11.59%
75th Percentile £51.10 £55.38 £53.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £71.88 £63.00
England median hourly rate £38.54 £26.81 £21.19
% change year-on-year +43.74% +26.56% -15.26%

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 8 March 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 8 March 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 8 March 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 -5 72 £528 -2.99% 40
South London +1 16 £500 +1.01% 3
West London -23 4 £375 -21.05% 6
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 42 (6.64%) SharePoint
2 31 (4.90%) Confluence
3 23 (3.63%) Apache Spark
4 14 (2.21%) Apache
5 13 (2.05%) Apache Airflow
6 12 (1.90%) Microsoft Exchange
7 11 (1.74%) HCL Notes
8 10 (1.58%) Mendix
9 3 (0.47%) CMS
9 3 (0.47%) IIS
10 2 (0.32%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.16%) Kentico
11 1 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.16%) SAS
Applications
1 12 (1.90%) Microsoft Project
1 12 (1.90%) MS Visio
2 6 (0.95%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.32%) Trello
Business Applications
1 36 (5.69%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.79%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.47%) Dynamics AX
3 3 (0.47%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.16%) Endur
4 1 (0.16%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.16%) Maximo
4 1 (0.16%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.16%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.16%) Orchestrade
4 1 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.16%) SAP CS
4 1 (0.16%) SAP GTS
4 1 (0.16%) SAP LE
4 1 (0.16%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.16%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 1 (0.16%) SAP SD
4 1 (0.16%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 633 (100.00%) Azure
2 173 (27.33%) GitHub
3 131 (20.70%) Power Platform
4 113 (17.85%) GitHub Actions
5 86 (13.59%) Azure Data Factory
6 78 (12.32%) AWS
7 76 (12.01%) Serverless
8 73 (11.53%) Azure Monitor
9 65 (10.27%) Entra ID
10 64 (10.11%) Azure AKS
11 63 (9.95%) Dynamics 365
12 58 (9.16%) Azure Logic Apps
13 57 (9.00%) Power Automate
14 56 (8.85%) Azure Key Vault
15 54 (8.53%) Azure Service Bus
16 53 (8.37%) Azure Functions
17 49 (7.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 42 (6.64%) PowerApps
19 36 (5.69%) Microsoft 365
20 35 (5.53%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 25 (3.95%) Firewall
2 12 (1.90%) DNS
3 11 (1.74%) Network Security
4 9 (1.42%) VPN
5 7 (1.11%) WAN
6 5 (0.79%) SD-WAN
7 4 (0.63%) Remote Desktop
7 4 (0.63%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.47%) FTP
9 2 (0.32%) HTTP
9 2 (0.32%) LAN
9 2 (0.32%) MPLS
10 1 (0.16%) Internet
10 1 (0.16%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (12.16%) SQL Server
2 72 (11.37%) Power BI
3 44 (6.95%) Data Lake
4 42 (6.64%) Azure SQL Database
5 39 (6.16%) Delta Lake
6 35 (5.53%) Data Warehouse
7 21 (3.32%) NoSQL
8 19 (3.00%) Oracle Database
8 19 (3.00%) PostgreSQL
9 14 (2.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 11 (1.74%) Relational Database
10 11 (1.74%) Tableau
11 10 (1.58%) MongoDB
11 10 (1.58%) Redis
12 9 (1.42%) Data Vault
12 9 (1.42%) Snowflake Schema
12 9 (1.42%) Spark SQL
13 8 (1.26%) DynamoDB
14 7 (1.11%) Amazon Redshift
14 7 (1.11%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 128 (20.22%) JIRA
2 89 (14.06%) Git
3 59 (9.32%) Jenkins
4 34 (5.37%) GitLab
5 31 (4.90%) Selenium
6 19 (3.00%) Postman
7 16 (2.53%) Cypress.io
8 14 (2.21%) Team Foundation Server
9 12 (1.90%) REST Assured
10 11 (1.74%) MLflow
10 11 (1.74%) TestRail
11 10 (1.58%) SpecFlow
11 10 (1.58%) Zephyr
12 9 (1.42%) Cucumber
12 9 (1.42%) JUnit
12 9 (1.42%) Visual Studio
13 7 (1.11%) JMeter
14 6 (0.95%) Liquibase
14 6 (0.95%) Mockito
14 6 (0.95%) webpack
General
1 175 (27.65%) Social Skills
2 170 (26.86%) Finance
3 73 (11.53%) Analytical Skills
4 64 (10.11%) Public Sector
5 45 (7.11%) Banking
6 16 (2.53%) Documentation Skills
6 16 (2.53%) Financial Institution
7 14 (2.21%) Front Office
8 13 (2.05%) Influencing Skills
8 13 (2.05%) Investment Banking
9 12 (1.90%) Retail
10 10 (1.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 10 (1.58%) Presentation Skills
11 9 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (0.95%) Law
13 5 (0.79%) Marketing
14 4 (0.63%) Back Office
14 4 (0.63%) Military
15 3 (0.47%) General Ledger
15 3 (0.47%) Legal
Job Titles
1 143 (22.59%) Developer
2 93 (14.69%) Azure Engineer
3 78 (12.32%) Senior
4 67 (10.58%) Data Engineer
5 65 (10.27%) DevOps Engineer
6 50 (7.90%) Analyst
6 50 (7.90%) Lead
7 46 (7.27%) Architect
8 44 (6.95%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 34 (5.37%) Azure Developer
10 27 (4.27%) Platform Engineer
10 27 (4.27%) Tester
11 26 (4.11%) Business Analyst
12 25 (3.95%) Azure Architect
13 19 (3.00%) Test Analyst
14 18 (2.84%) Consultant
15 17 (2.69%) .NET Developer
15 17 (2.69%) Automation Engineer
15 17 (2.69%) Azure Data Engineer
15 17 (2.69%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 126 (19.91%) .NET
2 52 (8.21%) REST
3 48 (7.58%) React
4 47 (7.42%) Node.js
5 46 (7.27%) PySpark
6 30 (4.74%) Playwright
7 29 (4.58%) ARM Templates
8 26 (4.11%) HTML
9 25 (3.95%) .NET Core
9 25 (3.95%) CSS
10 24 (3.79%) Kafka
11 23 (3.63%) .NET Framework
11 23 (3.63%) ADO
12 22 (3.48%) AngularJS
12 22 (3.48%) RESTful
12 22 (3.48%) SOAP
13 21 (3.32%) YAML
14 18 (2.84%) OAuth
15 17 (2.69%) Microsoft Graph
16 16 (2.53%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 73 (11.53%) Cloud Native
2 36 (5.69%) Product Ownership
3 24 (3.79%) Legacy Systems
4 22 (3.48%) Distributed Systems
5 17 (2.69%) Low-Code
6 16 (2.53%) Reinsurance
7 15 (2.37%) AI Agents
7 15 (2.37%) Enterprise Software
8 13 (2.05%) Public Cloud
9 11 (1.74%) Replication
10 10 (1.58%) CMDB
11 9 (1.42%) Data Structures
12 8 (1.26%) NHS
13 7 (1.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 7 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
14 6 (0.95%) Linux Command Line
14 6 (0.95%) Virtual Team
15 5 (0.79%) Data Centre
15 5 (0.79%) Enterprise Cloud
16 4 (0.63%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 28 (4.42%) Windows
2 15 (2.37%) Linux
3 10 (1.58%) VMS
4 4 (0.63%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.16%) Solaris
5 1 (0.16%) Unix
5 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 626 (98.89%) DevOps
2 354 (55.92%) CI/CD
3 250 (39.49%) Agile
4 157 (24.80%) Infrastructure as Code
5 130 (20.54%) Analytics
6 128 (20.22%) Problem-Solving
7 114 (18.01%) Test Automation
8 100 (15.80%) Continuous Improvement
9 99 (15.64%) AI
10 91 (14.38%) Scrum
11 86 (13.59%) Business Intelligence
12 83 (13.11%) Data Modelling
12 83 (13.11%) Migration
13 76 (12.01%) Microservices
14 74 (11.69%) Stakeholder Management
15 72 (11.37%) Containerisation
16 69 (10.90%) Observability
17 66 (10.43%) Data Pipeline
18 59 (9.32%) Data Engineering
19 54 (8.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 229 (36.18%) SQL
2 183 (28.91%) Python
3 146 (23.06%) C#
4 96 (15.17%) JavaScript
5 59 (9.32%) Bicep
5 59 (9.32%) TypeScript
6 58 (9.16%) PowerShell
7 50 (7.90%) Java
8 30 (4.74%) Bash
9 25 (3.95%) Scala
10 16 (2.53%) T-SQL
11 14 (2.21%) Kusto Query Language
12 11 (1.74%) Formula Language
12 11 (1.74%) LotusScript
12 11 (1.74%) PL/SQL
13 5 (0.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 4 (0.63%) C
14 4 (0.63%) R
14 4 (0.63%) X++
15 3 (0.47%) XPath
Qualifications
1 148 (23.38%) Security Cleared
2 131 (20.70%) SC Cleared
3 60 (9.48%) Azure Certification
4 38 (6.00%) Degree
5 20 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (2.84%) Microsoft Certification
7 16 (2.53%) BPSS Clearance
7 16 (2.53%) ISTQB
8 9 (1.42%) Master's Degree
9 7 (1.11%) PMI Certification
10 5 (0.79%) ISEB
10 5 (0.79%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 5 (0.79%) PMP
11 3 (0.47%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.32%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.32%) CBAP
12 2 (0.32%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.32%) MBA
13 1 (0.16%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (10.58%) QA
2 48 (7.58%) Data Quality
3 17 (2.69%) GDPR
4 15 (2.37%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.58%) WCAG
6 8 (1.26%) PMO
7 6 (0.95%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 4 (0.63%) HIPAA
8 4 (0.63%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.47%) HL7
9 3 (0.47%) NCSC
9 3 (0.47%) SLA
10 2 (0.32%) EU AI Act
10 2 (0.32%) FedRAMP
10 2 (0.32%) NIST
10 2 (0.32%) Software Quality Assurance
11 1 (0.16%) EMIR
11 1 (0.16%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 1 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 1 (0.16%) MiFID
System Software
1 102 (16.11%) Docker
2 36 (5.69%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.26%) Virtual Desktop
3 8 (1.26%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.16%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 187 (29.54%) Terraform
2 109 (17.22%) Kubernetes
3 25 (3.95%) Ansible
4 13 (2.05%) Grafana
5 10 (1.58%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.79%) HP ALM
7 4 (0.63%) Argo
7 4 (0.63%) Packer
8 3 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.32%) Kibana
9 2 (0.32%) Kubeflow
9 2 (0.32%) Opsgenie
10 1 (0.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.16%) CASB
10 1 (0.16%) Fluentd
10 1 (0.16%) Icinga
10 1 (0.16%) Istio
10 1 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 208 (32.86%) Microsoft
2 100 (15.80%) Databricks
3 56 (8.85%) Oracle
4 38 (6.00%) ServiceNow
5 27 (4.27%) OpenAI
6 19 (3.00%) Salesforce
7 14 (2.21%) SAP
8 11 (1.74%) Lotus
9 10 (1.58%) Foundry
9 10 (1.58%) Kofax
9 10 (1.58%) VMware
10 8 (1.26%) Informatica
11 7 (1.11%) Splunk
12 6 (0.95%) Cisco
12 6 (0.95%) Citrix
13 5 (0.79%) Aruba
13 5 (0.79%) Charles River
13 5 (0.79%) HP
14 4 (0.63%) Fortinet
14 4 (0.63%) Planview