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 26 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 79 60
Rank change year-on-year +17 -19 +16
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 721 390 657
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.96% 3.22% 3.77%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.41% 7.55% 9.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 524 271 423
10th Percentile £375 £363 £400
25th Percentile £415 £436 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -6.17%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £624
90th Percentile £725 £750 £688
England median daily rate £500 £522 £525
% change year-on-year -4.12% -0.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £54.50 - -
25th Percentile £59.38 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
75th Percentile £74.63 - -
90th Percentile £75.90 - -
England median hourly rate £74.50 £31.50 £65.50
% change year-on-year +136.51% -51.91% -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 7,665 5,164 6,774
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.10% 42.67% 38.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,305 3,535 5,006
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £430 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £513 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -1.44% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 54 67
10th Percentile £20.86 £22.71 £17.16
25th Percentile £26.76 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.04 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.27% +11.67% -50.48%
75th Percentile £54.13 £42.81 £38.75
90th Percentile £74.25 £67.50 £56.00
England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +54.90% +19.33% -38.76%

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 26 May 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 26 May 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 26 May 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 73 £550 +10.00% 40
South London -5 11 £513 -2.38% 1
West London -23 7 £388 -25.48% 2
East London -6 2 £604 +3.16% 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 45 (6.24%) SharePoint
2 35 (4.85%) Apache Spark
3 29 (4.02%) Confluence
4 22 (3.05%) Apache
5 21 (2.91%) Apache Airflow
6 10 (1.39%) HCL Notes
6 10 (1.39%) Mendix
7 8 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.28%) CMS
8 2 (0.28%) IIS
8 2 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.14%) IBM HTTP Server
9 1 (0.14%) Kentico
9 1 (0.14%) SAS
Applications
1 23 (3.19%) Microsoft Project
2 8 (1.11%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.55%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.42%) Notion
5 2 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 28 (3.88%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.97%) Dynamics AX
3 5 (0.69%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.55%) SAP BPC
5 3 (0.42%) Findur
5 3 (0.42%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 2 (0.28%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.28%) Endur
6 2 (0.28%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.14%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.14%) Maximo
7 1 (0.14%) NEC Housing
7 1 (0.14%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle Financials
7 1 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.14%) SAP CS
7 1 (0.14%) SAP GTS
7 1 (0.14%) SAP LE
7 1 (0.14%) SAP SD
7 1 (0.14%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 721 (100.00%) Azure
2 218 (30.24%) GitHub
3 132 (18.31%) GitHub Actions
4 121 (16.78%) Power Platform
5 112 (15.53%) AWS
6 94 (13.04%) Azure Data Factory
7 70 (9.71%) Azure AKS
8 62 (8.60%) Power Automate
9 61 (8.46%) Entra ID
10 59 (8.18%) Azure Monitor
10 59 (8.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 59 (8.18%) Serverless
11 56 (7.77%) Dynamics 365
12 53 (7.35%) Azure Logic Apps
13 45 (6.24%) Azure Key Vault
14 44 (6.10%) Azure Service Bus
15 40 (5.55%) Azure Functions
16 37 (5.13%) GCP
16 37 (5.13%) PowerApps
16 37 (5.13%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.22%) Firewall
2 9 (1.25%) Network Security
3 8 (1.11%) DNS
4 6 (0.83%) VPN
5 5 (0.69%) SD-WAN
5 5 (0.69%) WAN
6 4 (0.55%) Internet
7 2 (0.28%) FTP
7 2 (0.28%) NAS
7 2 (0.28%) Remote Desktop
7 2 (0.28%) SAN
7 2 (0.28%) SSH
7 2 (0.28%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.28%) X.509
8 1 (0.14%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (0.14%) Cisco Firepower
8 1 (0.14%) HTTP
8 1 (0.14%) IPsec
8 1 (0.14%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (11.10%) SQL Server
2 71 (9.85%) Power BI
3 65 (9.02%) Data Lake
4 51 (7.07%) Delta Lake
5 45 (6.24%) Azure SQL Database
6 42 (5.83%) Data Warehouse
7 32 (4.44%) NoSQL
8 20 (2.77%) PostgreSQL
9 19 (2.64%) Snowflake Schema
10 17 (2.36%) Oracle Database
11 15 (2.08%) Spark SQL
12 13 (1.80%) Big Data
13 12 (1.66%) MongoDB
13 12 (1.66%) Relational Database
14 11 (1.53%) Metadata
14 11 (1.53%) Redis
14 11 (1.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 10 (1.39%) Amazon Redshift
16 9 (1.25%) Data Vault
17 8 (1.11%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 131 (18.17%) JIRA
2 116 (16.09%) Git
3 64 (8.88%) Jenkins
4 42 (5.83%) GitLab
5 25 (3.47%) Selenium
6 14 (1.94%) Postman
7 12 (1.66%) Cypress.io
8 11 (1.53%) REST Assured
8 11 (1.53%) SonarQube
9 9 (1.25%) SpecFlow
9 9 (1.25%) TestRail
10 8 (1.11%) Cucumber
10 8 (1.11%) MLflow
10 8 (1.11%) Team Foundation Server
10 8 (1.11%) Zephyr
11 6 (0.83%) Artifactory
12 5 (0.69%) JMeter
13 4 (0.55%) Bitbucket
13 4 (0.55%) TeamCity
13 4 (0.55%) Visual Studio
General
1 202 (28.02%) Finance
2 161 (22.33%) Social Skills
3 67 (9.29%) Analytical Skills
4 58 (8.04%) Public Sector
5 49 (6.80%) Banking
6 17 (2.36%) Financial Institution
7 14 (1.94%) Front Office
8 13 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (1.53%) Investment Banking
10 10 (1.39%) Retail
11 8 (1.11%) Legal
11 8 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (0.97%) Documentation Skills
12 7 (0.97%) Marketing
12 7 (0.97%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.42%) Pharmaceutical
15 2 (0.28%) Back Office
15 2 (0.28%) Military
15 2 (0.28%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 124 (17.20%) Developer
2 111 (15.40%) Azure Engineer
3 107 (14.84%) Senior
4 101 (14.01%) Data Engineer
5 82 (11.37%) DevOps Engineer
6 56 (7.77%) Lead
7 51 (7.07%) Architect
8 50 (6.93%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 43 (5.96%) Analyst
10 29 (4.02%) Platform Engineer
11 27 (3.74%) Cloud Engineer
12 23 (3.19%) Consultant
12 23 (3.19%) IT Support
13 22 (3.05%) Azure Architect
13 22 (3.05%) Azure Developer
13 22 (3.05%) Tester
14 21 (2.91%) Senior Data Engineer
15 20 (2.77%) Azure Data Engineer
15 20 (2.77%) Senior Developer
15 20 (2.77%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 112 (15.53%) .NET
2 63 (8.74%) PySpark
3 53 (7.35%) REST
4 49 (6.80%) React
5 36 (4.99%) Kafka
6 34 (4.72%) ADO
7 33 (4.58%) JSON
8 27 (3.74%) Node.js
8 27 (3.74%) YAML
9 26 (3.61%) ARM Templates
10 25 (3.47%) Playwright
11 24 (3.33%) .NET Framework
12 23 (3.19%) .NET Core
12 23 (3.19%) RESTful
13 22 (3.05%) AngularJS
14 21 (2.91%) CSS
14 21 (2.91%) HTML
15 17 (2.36%) Middleware
16 16 (2.22%) XML
17 15 (2.08%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 83 (11.51%) Cloud Native
2 29 (4.02%) Legacy Systems
3 25 (3.47%) Distributed Systems
4 24 (3.33%) Product Ownership
4 24 (3.33%) Reinsurance
5 15 (2.08%) Low-Code
6 14 (1.94%) Greenfield Project
7 13 (1.80%) Replication
8 12 (1.66%) Onboarding
9 11 (1.53%) AI Agents
10 9 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
11 8 (1.11%) Data Structures
11 8 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
12 7 (0.97%) Public Cloud
13 6 (0.83%) NHS
14 5 (0.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 5 (0.69%) Hybrid Cloud
14 5 (0.69%) Management Information System
15 4 (0.55%) Data Centre
15 4 (0.55%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 44 (6.10%) Windows
2 23 (3.19%) Linux
3 11 (1.53%) VMS
4 8 (1.11%) Windows Server
5 6 (0.83%) Unix
6 2 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 715 (99.17%) DevOps
2 401 (55.62%) CI/CD
3 249 (34.54%) Agile
4 179 (24.83%) Infrastructure as Code
5 123 (17.06%) Analytics
5 123 (17.06%) Test Automation
6 115 (15.95%) Migration
6 115 (15.95%) Problem-Solving
7 107 (14.84%) Data Modelling
8 101 (14.01%) Data Pipeline
9 94 (13.04%) AI
10 91 (12.62%) Continuous Improvement
11 86 (11.93%) ETL
12 85 (11.79%) Business Intelligence
13 82 (11.37%) Scrum
14 81 (11.23%) Data Engineering
15 78 (10.82%) Containerisation
16 77 (10.68%) Platform Engineering
17 75 (10.40%) Observability
17 75 (10.40%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 274 (38.00%) SQL
2 216 (29.96%) Python
3 145 (20.11%) C#
4 77 (10.68%) PowerShell
5 67 (9.29%) JavaScript
6 66 (9.15%) Bicep
7 54 (7.49%) TypeScript
8 48 (6.66%) Java
9 47 (6.52%) Bash
10 22 (3.05%) Scala
11 16 (2.22%) T-SQL
12 10 (1.39%) Formula Language
12 10 (1.39%) LotusScript
13 9 (1.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 8 (1.11%) PL/SQL
15 7 (0.97%) Kusto Query Language
16 5 (0.69%) Shell Script
17 4 (0.55%) Apex Code
17 4 (0.55%) C
18 3 (0.42%) XPath
Qualifications
1 182 (25.24%) Security Cleared
2 162 (22.47%) SC Cleared
3 63 (8.74%) Azure Certification
4 29 (4.02%) Degree
5 19 (2.64%) Microsoft Certification
6 17 (2.36%) BPSS Clearance
7 15 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (1.94%) ISTQB
9 10 (1.39%) DBS Check
10 7 (0.97%) DV Cleared
11 6 (0.83%) PMI Certification
11 6 (0.83%) PMP
12 4 (0.55%) AWS Certification
12 4 (0.55%) Master's Degree
13 3 (0.42%) TOGAF Certification
14 2 (0.28%) Cisco Certification
14 2 (0.28%) ISEB
14 2 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
15 1 (0.14%) CCIE
15 1 (0.14%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (11.93%) QA
2 71 (9.85%) Data Quality
3 17 (2.36%) GDPR
4 15 (2.08%) Accessibility
5 9 (1.25%) PMO
5 9 (1.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 9 (1.25%) WCAG
6 7 (0.97%) NIST
7 6 (0.83%) SLA
8 5 (0.69%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 2 (0.28%) FedRAMP
10 2 (0.28%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.28%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 2 (0.28%) NCSC
10 2 (0.28%) PSD2
10 2 (0.28%) SEPA
11 1 (0.14%) GRC
11 1 (0.14%) ITGC
11 1 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 102 (14.15%) Docker
2 40 (5.55%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.11%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.28%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.28%) Microsoft App-V
6 2 (0.28%) OpenSSH
7 1 (0.14%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 213 (29.54%) Terraform
2 125 (17.34%) Kubernetes
3 33 (4.58%) Ansible
4 15 (2.08%) Grafana
5 12 (1.66%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.83%) Packer
7 5 (0.69%) HP ALM
7 5 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (0.69%) Progress Chef
7 5 (0.69%) Puppet
8 3 (0.42%) Argo
8 3 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.28%) Istio
9 2 (0.28%) SCCM
10 1 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.14%) CASB
10 1 (0.14%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.14%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.14%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 216 (29.96%) Microsoft
2 110 (15.26%) Databricks
3 55 (7.63%) Oracle
4 32 (4.44%) ServiceNow
5 26 (3.61%) Salesforce
6 19 (2.64%) Informatica
6 19 (2.64%) OpenAI
7 18 (2.50%) SAP
8 12 (1.66%) VMware
9 11 (1.53%) Foundry
10 10 (1.39%) Bloomberg
10 10 (1.39%) Kofax
10 10 (1.39%) Lotus
11 9 (1.25%) Splunk
12 8 (1.11%) Refinitiv
13 6 (0.83%) Dynatrace
14 5 (0.69%) HP
14 5 (0.69%) Workday
15 4 (0.55%) Cisco
15 4 (0.55%) IBM