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 9 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 79 59
Rank change year-on-year +18 -20 +18
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 735 418 677
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.93% 3.42% 3.86%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.30% 7.92% 9.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 528 291 431
10th Percentile £375 £356 £406
25th Percentile £416 £431 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -7.08%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £613
90th Percentile £725 £750 £688
England median daily rate £500 £516 £525
% change year-on-year -3.10% -1.71% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 0
10th Percentile £52.75 - -
25th Percentile - £86.25 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £87.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -37.14% - -
75th Percentile £72.50 £88.75 -
90th Percentile £75.05 - -
England median hourly rate £74.50 £59.50 £65.50
% change year-on-year +25.21% -9.16% -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 7,907 5,279 6,859
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.29% 43.18% 39.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,459 3,570 5,043
10th Percentile £354 £356 £350
25th Percentile £429 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £664 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £513 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 64 69
10th Percentile £20.82 £22.34 £17.47
25th Percentile £26.52 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +11.81% -50.48%
75th Percentile £55.00 £44.69 £38.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £67.50 £58.50
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.01 £21.46
% change year-on-year +69.97% +16.52% -38.69%

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 9 June 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 9 June 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 9 June 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 -2 70 £538 +2.38% 34
South London -5 8 £513 -2.38% 1
West London -12 6 £375 -27.88% 4
North London +2 2 £600 +36.36% 1
East London -6 2 £604 +3.16% 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 48 (6.53%) SharePoint
2 34 (4.63%) Apache Spark
3 33 (4.49%) Confluence
4 24 (3.27%) Apache
5 21 (2.86%) Apache Airflow
6 10 (1.36%) Microsoft Exchange
7 8 (1.09%) HCL Notes
7 8 (1.09%) Mendix
8 4 (0.54%) CMS
9 3 (0.41%) Kentico
10 2 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.14%) IBM HTTP Server
11 1 (0.14%) SAS
Applications
1 26 (3.54%) Microsoft Project
2 9 (1.22%) MS Visio
3 8 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.54%) Notion
5 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
6 2 (0.27%) CPLEX
6 2 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 32 (4.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.95%) Dynamics AX
3 6 (0.82%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.41%) Findur
4 3 (0.41%) Maximo
4 3 (0.41%) SAP BPC
4 3 (0.41%) SAP MM
4 3 (0.41%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 2 (0.27%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.27%) Endur
6 1 (0.14%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.14%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.14%) SAP CS
6 1 (0.14%) SAP GTS
6 1 (0.14%) SAP LE
6 1 (0.14%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.14%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.14%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 735 (100.00%) Azure
2 216 (29.39%) GitHub
3 129 (17.55%) GitHub Actions
4 128 (17.41%) Power Platform
5 113 (15.37%) AWS
6 89 (12.11%) Azure Data Factory
7 68 (9.25%) Azure AKS
8 65 (8.84%) Power Automate
9 61 (8.30%) Dynamics 365
9 61 (8.30%) Entra ID
10 58 (7.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 57 (7.76%) Azure Monitor
12 56 (7.62%) Serverless
13 50 (6.80%) Azure Logic Apps
14 42 (5.71%) Azure Key Vault
15 41 (5.58%) Azure Service Bus
16 39 (5.31%) Snowflake
17 38 (5.17%) PowerApps
18 36 (4.90%) Azure Functions
18 36 (4.90%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.45%) Firewall
2 9 (1.22%) Network Security
2 9 (1.22%) VPN
3 8 (1.09%) DNS
4 5 (0.68%) SD-WAN
4 5 (0.68%) WAN
5 4 (0.54%) Internet
6 2 (0.27%) FTP
6 2 (0.27%) NAS
6 2 (0.27%) Remote Desktop
6 2 (0.27%) SAN
6 2 (0.27%) SSH
6 2 (0.27%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.27%) X.509
7 1 (0.14%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (0.14%) Cisco Firepower
7 1 (0.14%) IPsec
7 1 (0.14%) VSAN
7 1 (0.14%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (10.34%) Power BI
2 75 (10.20%) SQL Server
3 67 (9.12%) Data Lake
4 51 (6.94%) Delta Lake
5 46 (6.26%) Azure SQL Database
6 39 (5.31%) Data Warehouse
7 29 (3.95%) NoSQL
8 18 (2.45%) PostgreSQL
8 18 (2.45%) Snowflake Schema
9 16 (2.18%) Spark SQL
10 13 (1.77%) Big Data
10 13 (1.77%) Oracle Database
10 13 (1.77%) Relational Database
11 12 (1.63%) Redis
12 11 (1.50%) Metadata
12 11 (1.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 10 (1.36%) Amazon Redshift
14 9 (1.22%) Data Vault
15 8 (1.09%) MongoDB
16 7 (0.95%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 134 (18.23%) JIRA
2 117 (15.92%) Git
3 56 (7.62%) Jenkins
4 43 (5.85%) GitLab
5 24 (3.27%) Selenium
6 13 (1.77%) Postman
7 11 (1.50%) Cypress.io
7 11 (1.50%) REST Assured
7 11 (1.50%) SonarQube
8 8 (1.09%) Team Foundation Server
9 7 (0.95%) SpecFlow
9 7 (0.95%) TestRail
10 6 (0.82%) Artifactory
10 6 (0.82%) Cucumber
10 6 (0.82%) MLflow
10 6 (0.82%) Visual Studio
10 6 (0.82%) Zephyr
11 5 (0.68%) JMeter
12 4 (0.54%) JUnit
12 4 (0.54%) Liquibase
General
1 204 (27.76%) Finance
2 178 (24.22%) Social Skills
3 66 (8.98%) Analytical Skills
4 62 (8.44%) Public Sector
5 45 (6.12%) Banking
6 15 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (1.50%) Front Office
7 11 (1.50%) Investment Banking
7 11 (1.50%) Retail
8 10 (1.36%) Documentation Skills
8 10 (1.36%) Financial Institution
9 9 (1.22%) Legal
9 9 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (0.95%) Marketing
10 7 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (0.54%) Back Office
11 4 (0.54%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (0.41%) Local Government
13 2 (0.27%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 119 (16.19%) Developer
2 116 (15.78%) Azure Engineer
2 116 (15.78%) Senior
3 102 (13.88%) Data Engineer
4 87 (11.84%) DevOps Engineer
5 56 (7.62%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 55 (7.48%) Lead
7 54 (7.35%) Architect
8 51 (6.94%) Analyst
9 32 (4.35%) Platform Engineer
10 26 (3.54%) Cloud Engineer
11 24 (3.27%) Business Analyst
11 24 (3.27%) Consultant
12 23 (3.13%) IT Support
12 23 (3.13%) Senior Data Engineer
13 22 (2.99%) Azure Architect
13 22 (2.99%) Senior Developer
14 20 (2.72%) Azure Data Engineer
14 20 (2.72%) Project Manager
14 20 (2.72%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (14.15%) .NET
2 61 (8.30%) PySpark
3 59 (8.03%) REST
4 47 (6.39%) React
5 37 (5.03%) ADO
6 33 (4.49%) JSON
6 33 (4.49%) Kafka
7 29 (3.95%) YAML
8 26 (3.54%) ARM Templates
9 23 (3.13%) .NET Framework
9 23 (3.13%) AngularJS
9 23 (3.13%) Playwright
10 22 (2.99%) HTML
11 21 (2.86%) CSS
11 21 (2.86%) RESTful
12 20 (2.72%) Node.js
13 19 (2.59%) .NET Core
14 17 (2.31%) Middleware
14 17 (2.31%) OAuth
15 14 (1.90%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 87 (11.84%) Cloud Native
2 33 (4.49%) Legacy Systems
3 26 (3.54%) Reinsurance
4 25 (3.40%) Product Ownership
5 23 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
6 17 (2.31%) Greenfield Project
7 13 (1.77%) Low-Code
7 13 (1.77%) Onboarding
8 11 (1.50%) Replication
9 10 (1.36%) AI Agents
10 9 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
11 8 (1.09%) Hybrid Cloud
11 8 (1.09%) Public Cloud
12 7 (0.95%) Data Structures
12 7 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
12 7 (0.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 7 (0.95%) Management Information System
13 5 (0.68%) Data Centre
13 5 (0.68%) NHS
14 4 (0.54%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 41 (5.58%) Windows
2 20 (2.72%) Linux
3 10 (1.36%) VMS
4 6 (0.82%) Unix
4 6 (0.82%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 729 (99.18%) DevOps
2 406 (55.24%) CI/CD
3 258 (35.10%) Agile
4 184 (25.03%) Infrastructure as Code
5 128 (17.41%) Analytics
6 123 (16.73%) Migration
6 123 (16.73%) Test Automation
7 113 (15.37%) Problem-Solving
8 103 (14.01%) Data Modelling
9 102 (13.88%) Data Pipeline
10 94 (12.79%) Continuous Improvement
11 92 (12.52%) Scrum
12 91 (12.38%) AI
13 90 (12.24%) ETL
14 87 (11.84%) Business Intelligence
15 84 (11.43%) Platform Engineering
16 81 (11.02%) Data Engineering
16 81 (11.02%) Stakeholder Management
17 80 (10.88%) Containerisation
18 74 (10.07%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 270 (36.73%) SQL
2 218 (29.66%) Python
3 139 (18.91%) C#
4 79 (10.75%) PowerShell
5 65 (8.84%) Bicep
6 64 (8.71%) JavaScript
7 55 (7.48%) TypeScript
8 49 (6.67%) Bash
9 46 (6.26%) Java
10 20 (2.72%) Scala
11 14 (1.90%) T-SQL
12 9 (1.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 8 (1.09%) Formula Language
13 8 (1.09%) LotusScript
14 6 (0.82%) Apex Code
14 6 (0.82%) Kusto Query Language
14 6 (0.82%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.68%) PL/SQL
16 3 (0.41%) C
16 3 (0.41%) Go
Qualifications
1 185 (25.17%) Security Cleared
2 165 (22.45%) SC Cleared
3 64 (8.71%) Azure Certification
4 32 (4.35%) Degree
5 20 (2.72%) Microsoft Certification
6 17 (2.31%) BPSS Clearance
7 15 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (1.90%) ISTQB
9 9 (1.22%) DBS Check
10 7 (0.95%) DV Cleared
10 7 (0.95%) PMI Certification
10 7 (0.95%) PMP
11 5 (0.68%) AWS Certification
12 3 (0.41%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (0.41%) Master's Degree
12 3 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
13 2 (0.27%) CCNA
13 2 (0.27%) ISEB
13 2 (0.27%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.27%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (11.29%) QA
2 70 (9.52%) Data Quality
3 19 (2.59%) GDPR
4 15 (2.04%) Accessibility
5 9 (1.22%) NIST
5 9 (1.22%) PMO
6 8 (1.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 8 (1.09%) WCAG
7 7 (0.95%) SLA
8 6 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.41%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.27%) FedRAMP
10 2 (0.27%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.27%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 2 (0.27%) NCSC
10 2 (0.27%) PSD2
10 2 (0.27%) SEPA
11 1 (0.14%) EU AI Act
11 1 (0.14%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 101 (13.74%) Docker
2 40 (5.44%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.09%) Virtual Desktop
4 7 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.27%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.27%) Microsoft App-V
6 2 (0.27%) OpenSSH
7 1 (0.14%) HDFS
7 1 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.14%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 212 (28.84%) Terraform
2 120 (16.33%) Kubernetes
3 34 (4.63%) Ansible
4 16 (2.18%) Grafana
5 13 (1.77%) Prometheus
6 7 (0.95%) Packer
7 5 (0.68%) HP ALM
7 5 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (0.68%) Progress Chef
7 5 (0.68%) Puppet
8 4 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.41%) Argo
10 2 (0.27%) Istio
10 2 (0.27%) SCCM
11 1 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.14%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.14%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.14%) PowerCLI
11 1 (0.14%) RSA Archer
11 1 (0.14%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 221 (30.07%) Microsoft
2 110 (14.97%) Databricks
3 46 (6.26%) Oracle
4 28 (3.81%) Salesforce
4 28 (3.81%) ServiceNow
5 21 (2.86%) SAP
6 20 (2.72%) Informatica
7 17 (2.31%) OpenAI
8 14 (1.90%) VMware
9 11 (1.50%) Foundry
10 10 (1.36%) Bloomberg
11 8 (1.09%) Kofax
11 8 (1.09%) Lotus
11 8 (1.09%) Refinitiv
12 5 (0.68%) HP
12 5 (0.68%) Splunk
13 4 (0.54%) IBM
13 4 (0.54%) InterSystems
13 4 (0.54%) OpenLink
13 4 (0.54%) Planview