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 22 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 76 58
Rank change year-on-year +14 -18 +20
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 788 459 675
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.98% 3.38% 3.99%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.60% 7.91% 9.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 545 326 439
10th Percentile £385 £350 £400
25th Percentile £425 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £607
90th Percentile £725 £750 £688
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £55.00 £86.25 -
Median hourly rate £62.50 £87.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% - -
75th Percentile £73.56 £88.75 -
90th Percentile £75.48 - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £65.50
% change year-on-year -12.00% -4.58% -6.43%

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 8,211 5,805 6,851
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.44% 42.80% 40.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,603 3,962 5,014
10th Percentile £363 £345 £350
25th Percentile £445 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.47% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 79 60
10th Percentile £19.50 £22.50 £20.00
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.89 £22.24
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.99
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +7.73% -50.94%
75th Percentile £55.00 £47.50 £40.75
90th Percentile £74.75 £67.50 £66.10
England median hourly rate £39.27 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +56.14% +14.32% -37.14%

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 22 July 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 22 July 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 22 July 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 73 £525 +2.44% 35
South London -7 10 £513 -2.38% 1
West London -9 4 £625 +14.16% 2
East London 0 3 £604 +9.23% 5
North London -1 2 £600 +36.36% 3
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 44 (5.58%) SharePoint
2 40 (5.08%) Confluence
3 27 (3.43%) Apache Spark
4 23 (2.92%) Apache
4 23 (2.92%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (1.14%) Microsoft Exchange
6 5 (0.63%) CMS
7 3 (0.38%) Kentico
8 1 (0.13%) Apache Pulsar
8 1 (0.13%) HCL Notes
8 1 (0.13%) IBM HTTP Server
8 1 (0.13%) IIS
8 1 (0.13%) Mendix
8 1 (0.13%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.13%) SAS
Applications
1 26 (3.30%) Microsoft Project
2 14 (1.78%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (1.40%) MS Visio
4 6 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.51%) Notion
7 2 (0.25%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.25%) CPLEX
7 2 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 26 (3.30%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (1.14%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.89%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (0.38%) Endur
4 3 (0.38%) Findur
4 3 (0.38%) Maximo
4 3 (0.38%) SAP BPC
4 3 (0.38%) SAP MM
4 3 (0.38%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 2 (0.25%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.25%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
5 2 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.13%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.13%) PeopleSoft HCM
6 1 (0.13%) SAP GTS
6 1 (0.13%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.13%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.13%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 788 (100.00%) Azure
2 241 (30.58%) GitHub
3 148 (18.78%) GitHub Actions
4 125 (15.86%) AWS
5 114 (14.47%) Power Platform
6 91 (11.55%) Azure Data Factory
7 69 (8.76%) Azure AKS
8 67 (8.50%) Entra ID
9 65 (8.25%) Azure Monitor
10 59 (7.49%) Power Automate
11 54 (6.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 50 (6.35%) Dynamics 365
13 47 (5.96%) Serverless
14 43 (5.46%) PowerApps
15 38 (4.82%) Azure Key Vault
15 38 (4.82%) GCP
16 37 (4.70%) Azure Logic Apps
17 36 (4.57%) Snowflake
18 33 (4.19%) Azure Service Bus
19 32 (4.06%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.16%) Firewall
2 13 (1.65%) VPN
3 11 (1.40%) DNS
4 10 (1.27%) Network Security
5 5 (0.63%) SD-WAN
5 5 (0.63%) WAN
6 4 (0.51%) Internet
7 2 (0.25%) 4G
7 2 (0.25%) Cisco IOS
7 2 (0.25%) NAS
7 2 (0.25%) Remote Desktop
7 2 (0.25%) SAN
7 2 (0.25%) SSH
7 2 (0.25%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.25%) X.509
8 1 (0.13%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (0.13%) DHCP
8 1 (0.13%) FTP
8 1 (0.13%) VSAN
8 1 (0.13%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (9.14%) Power BI
2 66 (8.38%) Data Lake
3 61 (7.74%) SQL Server
4 45 (5.71%) Azure SQL Database
5 42 (5.33%) Data Warehouse
6 36 (4.57%) Delta Lake
7 31 (3.93%) NoSQL
8 19 (2.41%) PostgreSQL
8 19 (2.41%) Snowflake Schema
9 17 (2.16%) Relational Database
10 16 (2.03%) Metadata
11 13 (1.65%) Big Data
11 13 (1.65%) Spark SQL
12 11 (1.40%) Redis
13 9 (1.14%) MongoDB
13 9 (1.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 8 (1.02%) Amazon Redshift
15 7 (0.89%) BigQuery
15 7 (0.89%) Oracle Database
15 7 (0.89%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 155 (19.67%) JIRA
2 133 (16.88%) Git
3 79 (10.03%) Jenkins
4 56 (7.11%) GitLab
5 29 (3.68%) Selenium
6 14 (1.78%) SonarQube
7 11 (1.40%) Cucumber
8 10 (1.27%) Cypress.io
8 10 (1.27%) Visual Studio
9 9 (1.14%) JUnit
10 8 (1.02%) REST Assured
10 8 (1.02%) SpecFlow
10 8 (1.02%) Team Foundation Server
10 8 (1.02%) TestRail
11 6 (0.76%) Appium
11 6 (0.76%) Bitbucket
11 6 (0.76%) Gradle
11 6 (0.76%) Snyk
11 6 (0.76%) Zephyr
12 5 (0.63%) Maven
General
1 218 (27.66%) Finance
2 199 (25.25%) Social Skills
3 75 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
4 70 (8.88%) Public Sector
5 54 (6.85%) Banking
6 18 (2.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 16 (2.03%) Documentation Skills
7 16 (2.03%) Retail
8 12 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
8 12 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
9 11 (1.40%) Investment Banking
9 11 (1.40%) Legal
10 9 (1.14%) Front Office
10 9 (1.14%) Marketing
11 7 (0.89%) Law
11 7 (0.89%) Local Government
12 6 (0.76%) Back Office
12 6 (0.76%) Pharmaceutical
12 6 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.51%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 129 (16.37%) Azure Engineer
2 121 (15.36%) Developer
3 118 (14.97%) Senior
4 113 (14.34%) DevOps Engineer
5 96 (12.18%) Data Engineer
6 68 (8.63%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 65 (8.25%) Lead
8 58 (7.36%) Architect
9 55 (6.98%) Analyst
10 34 (4.31%) Business Analyst
11 32 (4.06%) Platform Engineer
12 30 (3.81%) Consultant
13 28 (3.55%) Cloud Engineer
14 24 (3.05%) Azure Data Engineer
14 24 (3.05%) Solutions Architect
15 23 (2.92%) IT Support
15 23 (2.92%) Tester
16 21 (2.66%) Project Manager
16 21 (2.66%) Senior Data Engineer
16 21 (2.66%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (12.94%) .NET
2 79 (10.03%) REST
3 58 (7.36%) PySpark
4 49 (6.22%) ADO
5 41 (5.20%) JSON
6 40 (5.08%) React
7 33 (4.19%) YAML
8 31 (3.93%) Kafka
9 27 (3.43%) .NET Framework
9 27 (3.43%) AngularJS
9 27 (3.43%) RESTful
10 25 (3.17%) HTML
11 24 (3.05%) ARM Templates
11 24 (3.05%) Playwright
12 23 (2.92%) .NET Core
13 22 (2.79%) XML
14 21 (2.66%) CSS
14 21 (2.66%) SOAP
15 19 (2.41%) Middleware
15 19 (2.41%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 98 (12.44%) Cloud Native
2 36 (4.57%) Legacy Systems
3 33 (4.19%) Distributed Systems
4 31 (3.93%) Product Ownership
5 20 (2.54%) Reinsurance
6 17 (2.16%) Greenfield Project
6 17 (2.16%) Onboarding
7 16 (2.03%) Management Information System
7 16 (2.03%) Self-Motivation
8 13 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
9 11 (1.40%) Hybrid Cloud
9 11 (1.40%) Replication
10 9 (1.14%) AI Agents
10 9 (1.14%) Data Structures
11 8 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
11 8 (1.02%) Enterprise Cloud
12 7 (0.89%) FMCG
12 7 (0.89%) Public Cloud
13 6 (0.76%) Data Centre
13 6 (0.76%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 41 (5.20%) Windows
2 20 (2.54%) Linux
3 9 (1.14%) VMS
4 8 (1.02%) Windows Server
5 7 (0.89%) Unix
6 3 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.25%) Android
7 2 (0.25%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 788 (100.00%) DevOps
2 428 (54.31%) CI/CD
3 308 (39.09%) Agile
4 196 (24.87%) Infrastructure as Code
5 137 (17.39%) Test Automation
6 135 (17.13%) Analytics
7 127 (16.12%) Migration
8 116 (14.72%) Problem-Solving
9 110 (13.96%) Continuous Improvement
10 106 (13.45%) Stakeholder Management
11 100 (12.69%) Data Modelling
12 99 (12.56%) Scrum
13 97 (12.31%) Containerisation
14 93 (11.80%) Data Pipeline
15 87 (11.04%) AI
16 86 (10.91%) Microservices
17 85 (10.79%) Business Intelligence
18 84 (10.66%) ETL
19 82 (10.41%) Data Engineering
19 82 (10.41%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 263 (33.38%) SQL
2 221 (28.05%) Python
3 137 (17.39%) C#
4 92 (11.68%) PowerShell
5 68 (8.63%) Bicep
6 63 (7.99%) Bash
7 58 (7.36%) TypeScript
8 57 (7.23%) JavaScript
9 46 (5.84%) Java
10 13 (1.65%) T-SQL
11 10 (1.27%) Apex Code
11 10 (1.27%) Scala
12 9 (1.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 7 (0.89%) Kusto Query Language
14 6 (0.76%) Shell Script
15 4 (0.51%) Go
15 4 (0.51%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.51%) VB.NET
16 3 (0.38%) ABAP
16 3 (0.38%) C
Qualifications
1 199 (25.25%) Security Cleared
2 177 (22.46%) SC Cleared
3 60 (7.61%) Azure Certification
4 44 (5.58%) Degree
5 24 (3.05%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (2.41%) Microsoft Certification
7 18 (2.28%) DV Cleared
8 12 (1.52%) AWS Certification
9 11 (1.40%) ISTQB
10 9 (1.14%) DBS Check
11 6 (0.76%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 5 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (0.63%) Master's Degree
12 5 (0.63%) PMI Certification
13 4 (0.51%) PMP
14 3 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
14 3 (0.38%) CCNA
14 3 (0.38%) CISSP
14 3 (0.38%) GIAC
14 3 (0.38%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (11.93%) QA
2 69 (8.76%) Data Quality
3 22 (2.79%) GDPR
4 19 (2.41%) Accessibility
5 15 (1.90%) NIST
6 12 (1.52%) PMO
7 9 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (1.14%) WCAG
8 7 (0.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 6 (0.76%) SLA
10 3 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.25%) Government Security Classifications
11 2 (0.25%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 2 (0.25%) NCSC
11 2 (0.25%) PSD2
11 2 (0.25%) SEPA
12 1 (0.13%) EMIR
12 1 (0.13%) IFRS
12 1 (0.13%) IFRS 9
12 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 107 (13.58%) Docker
2 42 (5.33%) Active Directory
3 11 (1.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.02%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.89%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.38%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.25%) Microsoft App-V
7 2 (0.25%) OpenSSH
7 2 (0.25%) vSphere
8 1 (0.13%) HDFS
8 1 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.13%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 218 (27.66%) Terraform
2 127 (16.12%) Kubernetes
3 43 (5.46%) Ansible
4 22 (2.79%) Grafana
5 18 (2.28%) Prometheus
6 11 (1.40%) Packer
7 8 (1.02%) Microsoft Intune
7 8 (1.02%) Progress Chef
7 8 (1.02%) Puppet
8 6 (0.76%) HP ALM
9 5 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.38%) Argo
10 3 (0.38%) SCCM
11 2 (0.25%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (0.25%) HP Fortify
12 1 (0.13%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.13%) Istio
12 1 (0.13%) PowerCLI
12 1 (0.13%) RSA Archer
12 1 (0.13%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 240 (30.46%) Microsoft
2 94 (11.93%) Databricks
3 36 (4.57%) Salesforce
4 32 (4.06%) Oracle
5 27 (3.43%) ServiceNow
6 25 (3.17%) SAP
7 17 (2.16%) VMware
8 14 (1.78%) Informatica
8 14 (1.78%) OpenAI
9 10 (1.27%) Bloomberg
10 9 (1.14%) Foundry
11 8 (1.02%) Google
11 8 (1.02%) Guidewire
11 8 (1.02%) Refinitiv
11 8 (1.02%) Splunk
12 6 (0.76%) Dynatrace
12 6 (0.76%) HP
12 6 (0.76%) IBM
13 5 (0.63%) Cisco
13 5 (0.63%) Workday