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

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 75 60
Rank change year-on-year +13 -15 +15
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 763 448 672
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.95% 3.42% 3.81%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.44% 7.96% 9.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 539 316 433
10th Percentile £380 £350 £401
25th Percentile £425 £419 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £601
90th Percentile £725 £750 £685
England median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -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 £74.50 £62.50 £65.50
% change year-on-year +19.20% -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 8,085 5,630 7,030
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.85% 42.97% 39.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,562 3,813 5,163
10th Percentile £360 £350 £350
25th Percentile £438 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £788
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 77 66
10th Percentile £19.50 £22.80 £18.89
25th Percentile £26.19 £25.15 £22.08
Median hourly rate £35.50 £31.50 £26.97
Median % change year-on-year +12.70% +16.80% -50.96%
75th Percentile £55.19 £48.75 £38.75
90th Percentile £76.93 £67.50 £56.25
England median hourly rate £40.53 £25.33 £22.00
% change year-on-year +60.04% +15.11% -31.89%

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 3 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 3 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 3 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 -12 70 £525 -3.67% 43
South London +1 10 £513 -2.38%
West London -17 6 £375 -31.51% 4
East London -1 3 £604 +3.16% 4
North London +2 2 £600 +36.36% 1
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 (5.77%) SharePoint
2 37 (4.85%) Confluence
3 31 (4.06%) Apache Spark
4 24 (3.15%) Apache
5 21 (2.75%) Apache Airflow
6 9 (1.18%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.66%) CMS
8 3 (0.39%) HCL Notes
8 3 (0.39%) Kentico
8 3 (0.39%) Mendix
9 2 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.13%) Apache Pulsar
10 1 (0.13%) IBM HTTP Server
10 1 (0.13%) SAS
Applications
1 27 (3.54%) Microsoft Project
2 11 (1.44%) MS Visio
3 10 (1.31%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.52%) Notion
5 2 (0.26%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.26%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 33 (4.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (1.18%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.92%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (0.39%) Endur
4 3 (0.39%) Findur
4 3 (0.39%) Maximo
4 3 (0.39%) SAP BPC
4 3 (0.39%) SAP MM
4 3 (0.39%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 2 (0.26%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.13%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.13%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.13%) PeopleSoft HCM
6 1 (0.13%) SAP CS
6 1 (0.13%) SAP LE
6 1 (0.13%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 763 (100.00%) Azure
2 226 (29.62%) GitHub
3 140 (18.35%) GitHub Actions
4 121 (15.86%) Power Platform
5 120 (15.73%) AWS
6 89 (11.66%) Azure Data Factory
7 70 (9.17%) Azure AKS
8 63 (8.26%) Power Automate
9 62 (8.13%) Azure Monitor
10 61 (7.99%) Entra ID
11 59 (7.73%) Dynamics 365
12 53 (6.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 53 (6.95%) Serverless
13 43 (5.64%) Azure Key Vault
13 43 (5.64%) Azure Logic Apps
14 41 (5.37%) PowerApps
15 38 (4.98%) Azure Service Bus
16 37 (4.85%) Snowflake
17 33 (4.33%) PaaS
18 31 (4.06%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.23%) Firewall
2 11 (1.44%) VPN
3 10 (1.31%) DNS
3 10 (1.31%) Network Security
4 5 (0.66%) SD-WAN
4 5 (0.66%) WAN
5 4 (0.52%) Internet
6 2 (0.26%) NAS
6 2 (0.26%) Remote Desktop
6 2 (0.26%) SAN
6 2 (0.26%) SSH
6 2 (0.26%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.26%) X.509
7 1 (0.13%) 4G
7 1 (0.13%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (0.13%) Cisco Firepower
7 1 (0.13%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (0.13%) IPsec
7 1 (0.13%) VSAN
7 1 (0.13%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (9.44%) Power BI
2 66 (8.65%) Data Lake
3 64 (8.39%) SQL Server
4 46 (6.03%) Azure SQL Database
4 46 (6.03%) Delta Lake
5 40 (5.24%) Data Warehouse
6 33 (4.33%) NoSQL
7 20 (2.62%) Snowflake Schema
8 18 (2.36%) PostgreSQL
9 16 (2.10%) Relational Database
10 14 (1.83%) Big Data
10 14 (1.83%) Metadata
10 14 (1.83%) Spark SQL
11 13 (1.70%) Redis
12 10 (1.31%) MongoDB
13 9 (1.18%) Amazon Redshift
13 9 (1.18%) Oracle Database
14 8 (1.05%) Data Vault
14 8 (1.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 7 (0.92%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 153 (20.05%) JIRA
2 132 (17.30%) Git
3 71 (9.31%) Jenkins
4 54 (7.08%) GitLab
5 27 (3.54%) Selenium
6 14 (1.83%) SonarQube
7 13 (1.70%) REST Assured
8 11 (1.44%) Postman
9 10 (1.31%) Cucumber
10 9 (1.18%) Cypress.io
10 9 (1.18%) JUnit
11 8 (1.05%) SpecFlow
11 8 (1.05%) Team Foundation Server
11 8 (1.05%) Visual Studio
12 6 (0.79%) Bitbucket
12 6 (0.79%) Gradle
12 6 (0.79%) MLflow
12 6 (0.79%) Snyk
12 6 (0.79%) TestRail
12 6 (0.79%) WebDriver
General
1 216 (28.31%) Finance
2 193 (25.29%) Social Skills
3 75 (9.83%) Analytical Skills
4 63 (8.26%) Public Sector
5 53 (6.95%) Banking
6 16 (2.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (1.83%) Retail
8 13 (1.70%) Documentation Skills
9 12 (1.57%) Investment Banking
10 11 (1.44%) Organisational Skills
11 10 (1.31%) Front Office
12 9 (1.18%) Legal
12 9 (1.18%) Marketing
13 8 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
14 6 (0.79%) Back Office
14 6 (0.79%) Financial Institution
14 6 (0.79%) Law
14 6 (0.79%) Pharmaceutical
14 6 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (0.66%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 120 (15.73%) Azure Engineer
1 120 (15.73%) Developer
2 113 (14.81%) Senior
3 101 (13.24%) Data Engineer
4 99 (12.98%) DevOps Engineer
5 60 (7.86%) Architect
6 57 (7.47%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 56 (7.34%) Lead
8 51 (6.68%) Analyst
9 36 (4.72%) Platform Engineer
10 31 (4.06%) Business Analyst
11 28 (3.67%) Cloud Engineer
11 28 (3.67%) Consultant
12 24 (3.15%) Solutions Architect
12 24 (3.15%) Tester
13 23 (3.01%) IT Support
14 22 (2.88%) Azure Data Engineer
15 21 (2.75%) Senior DevOps
16 20 (2.62%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 20 (2.62%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (13.11%) .NET
2 77 (10.09%) REST
3 57 (7.47%) PySpark
4 42 (5.50%) React
5 41 (5.37%) ADO
6 37 (4.85%) JSON
7 32 (4.19%) Kafka
7 32 (4.19%) YAML
8 27 (3.54%) AngularJS
9 25 (3.28%) .NET Framework
9 25 (3.28%) HTML
9 25 (3.28%) RESTful
10 24 (3.15%) Playwright
11 23 (3.01%) ARM Templates
12 21 (2.75%) CSS
13 20 (2.62%) Middleware
13 20 (2.62%) Node.js
13 20 (2.62%) OAuth
13 20 (2.62%) SOAP
14 18 (2.36%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 98 (12.84%) Cloud Native
2 34 (4.46%) Legacy Systems
3 30 (3.93%) Distributed Systems
4 29 (3.80%) Product Ownership
5 25 (3.28%) Reinsurance
6 17 (2.23%) Greenfield Project
7 16 (2.10%) Onboarding
8 13 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
9 11 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
9 11 (1.44%) Management Information System
10 10 (1.31%) Hybrid Cloud
11 9 (1.18%) Public Cloud
11 9 (1.18%) Replication
12 8 (1.05%) AI Agents
12 8 (1.05%) Data Structures
12 8 (1.05%) Low-Code
13 7 (0.92%) FMCG
14 6 (0.79%) Data Protection Act
14 6 (0.79%) Enterprise Cloud
14 6 (0.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 40 (5.24%) Windows
2 18 (2.36%) Linux
3 8 (1.05%) VMS
4 7 (0.92%) Unix
4 7 (0.92%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 760 (99.61%) DevOps
2 424 (55.57%) CI/CD
3 286 (37.48%) Agile
4 197 (25.82%) Infrastructure as Code
5 137 (17.96%) Analytics
6 125 (16.38%) Test Automation
7 123 (16.12%) Migration
7 123 (16.12%) Problem-Solving
8 106 (13.89%) Continuous Improvement
9 102 (13.37%) Scrum
10 100 (13.11%) Data Modelling
11 97 (12.71%) Data Pipeline
12 96 (12.58%) Containerisation
13 94 (12.32%) Stakeholder Management
14 91 (11.93%) ETL
14 91 (11.93%) Platform Engineering
15 90 (11.80%) AI
16 82 (10.75%) Business Intelligence
17 79 (10.35%) Microservices
18 77 (10.09%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 265 (34.73%) SQL
2 225 (29.49%) Python
3 140 (18.35%) C#
4 82 (10.75%) PowerShell
5 70 (9.17%) Bicep
6 62 (8.13%) TypeScript
7 61 (7.99%) JavaScript
8 57 (7.47%) Bash
9 43 (5.64%) Java
10 18 (2.36%) Scala
11 13 (1.70%) T-SQL
12 10 (1.31%) Apex Code
13 8 (1.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 7 (0.92%) Kusto Query Language
15 6 (0.79%) Shell Script
16 4 (0.52%) Go
17 3 (0.39%) ABAP
17 3 (0.39%) Formula Language
17 3 (0.39%) LotusScript
17 3 (0.39%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 188 (24.64%) Security Cleared
2 169 (22.15%) SC Cleared
3 57 (7.47%) Azure Certification
4 43 (5.64%) Degree
5 22 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (2.36%) Microsoft Certification
7 13 (1.70%) ISTQB
8 12 (1.57%) DV Cleared
9 11 (1.44%) BPSS Clearance
10 9 (1.18%) AWS Certification
10 9 (1.18%) DBS Check
11 7 (0.92%) PMI Certification
12 6 (0.79%) PMP
13 5 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
13 5 (0.66%) Master's Degree
14 3 (0.39%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 3 (0.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 3 (0.39%) CISSP
14 3 (0.39%) GIAC
14 3 (0.39%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (11.93%) QA
2 67 (8.78%) Data Quality
3 21 (2.75%) GDPR
4 17 (2.23%) Accessibility
5 14 (1.83%) NIST
6 9 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (1.05%) PMO
7 8 (1.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 7 (0.92%) SLA
8 7 (0.92%) WCAG
9 3 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.39%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.26%) FedRAMP
10 2 (0.26%) Government Security Classifications
10 2 (0.26%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.26%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 2 (0.26%) NCSC
10 2 (0.26%) PSD2
10 2 (0.26%) SEPA
11 1 (0.13%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 108 (14.15%) Docker
2 38 (4.98%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.92%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.26%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.26%) Microsoft App-V
6 2 (0.26%) OpenSSH
7 1 (0.13%) HDFS
7 1 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.13%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 219 (28.70%) Terraform
2 129 (16.91%) Kubernetes
3 37 (4.85%) Ansible
4 20 (2.62%) Grafana
5 17 (2.23%) Prometheus
6 8 (1.05%) Packer
7 6 (0.79%) HP ALM
7 6 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (0.66%) Progress Chef
8 5 (0.66%) Puppet
8 5 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.39%) Argo
10 2 (0.26%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.26%) SCCM
11 1 (0.13%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.13%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.13%) Istio
11 1 (0.13%) PowerCLI
11 1 (0.13%) RSA Archer
11 1 (0.13%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 223 (29.23%) Microsoft
2 100 (13.11%) Databricks
3 38 (4.98%) Oracle
4 36 (4.72%) Salesforce
5 27 (3.54%) ServiceNow
6 25 (3.28%) SAP
7 19 (2.49%) Informatica
8 16 (2.10%) OpenAI
9 15 (1.97%) VMware
10 11 (1.44%) Foundry
11 10 (1.31%) Bloomberg
12 8 (1.05%) Refinitiv
13 7 (0.92%) Splunk
14 6 (0.79%) Dynatrace
14 6 (0.79%) HP
15 5 (0.66%) ION Trading
15 5 (0.66%) OpenLink
16 4 (0.52%) CA Agile Central
16 4 (0.52%) Cloudera
16 4 (0.52%) Hortonworks