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

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 85 57
Rank change year-on-year +24 -28 +19
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 716 391 659
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.04% 3.11% 3.70%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.42% 7.34% 9.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 513 277 428
10th Percentile £363 £377 £409
25th Percentile £415 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £725 £750 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% 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 £49.65 £49.50 £65.50
% change year-on-year +0.30% -24.43% -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 7,600 5,326 6,754
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.84% 42.33% 37.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,241 3,696 4,985
10th Percentile £350 £357 £350
25th Percentile £425 £440 £445
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 £775
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 51 72
10th Percentile £19.21 £22.27 £17.78
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.66 £21.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +16.28% -37.50%
75th Percentile £52.16 £53.75 £38.28
90th Percentile £71.50 £73.75 £58.75
England median hourly rate £46.40 £25.50 £20.77
% change year-on-year +81.96% +22.77% -35.70%

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 2 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 2 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 2 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 -3 75 £525 -2.78% 40
South London -1 16 £506 +2.27% 2
West London -25 6 £375 -24.62% 5
East London -5 2 £604 +16.90% 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 (6.15%) SharePoint
2 33 (4.61%) Apache Spark
3 29 (4.05%) Confluence
4 23 (3.21%) Apache
5 14 (1.96%) Apache Airflow
6 11 (1.54%) HCL Notes
6 11 (1.54%) Microsoft Exchange
7 10 (1.40%) Mendix
8 3 (0.42%) CMS
8 3 (0.42%) IIS
9 2 (0.28%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.14%) IBM HTTP Server
10 1 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.14%) SAS
Applications
1 25 (3.49%) Microsoft Project
2 9 (1.26%) MS Visio
3 6 (0.84%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 28 (3.91%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.84%) Dynamics AX
3 5 (0.70%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.56%) SAP BPC
5 3 (0.42%) Findur
5 3 (0.42%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 2 (0.28%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.28%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.14%) Endur
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
1 716 (100.00%) Azure
2 212 (29.61%) GitHub
3 129 (18.02%) GitHub Actions
4 117 (16.34%) Power Platform
5 98 (13.69%) AWS
6 92 (12.85%) Azure Data Factory
7 73 (10.20%) Azure AKS
8 68 (9.50%) Azure Monitor
9 65 (9.08%) Entra ID
10 64 (8.94%) Serverless
11 62 (8.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 58 (8.10%) Power Automate
13 57 (7.96%) Dynamics 365
14 54 (7.54%) Azure Key Vault
15 50 (6.98%) Azure Logic Apps
16 49 (6.84%) Azure Service Bus
17 41 (5.73%) Azure Functions
18 38 (5.31%) GCP
19 37 (5.17%) Microsoft 365
19 37 (5.17%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 24 (3.35%) Firewall
2 12 (1.68%) DNS
3 11 (1.54%) Network Security
4 8 (1.12%) VPN
5 6 (0.84%) WAN
6 5 (0.70%) SD-WAN
7 3 (0.42%) FTP
7 3 (0.42%) Remote Desktop
8 2 (0.28%) HTTP
8 2 (0.28%) Internet
8 2 (0.28%) SSH
8 2 (0.28%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.28%) X.509
9 1 (0.14%) Cisco ASA
9 1 (0.14%) Cisco Firepower
9 1 (0.14%) IPsec
9 1 (0.14%) LAN
9 1 (0.14%) MPLS
9 1 (0.14%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (11.17%) SQL Server
2 68 (9.50%) Power BI
3 60 (8.38%) Data Lake
4 48 (6.70%) Azure SQL Database
4 48 (6.70%) Delta Lake
5 42 (5.87%) Data Warehouse
6 31 (4.33%) NoSQL
7 19 (2.65%) Oracle Database
8 16 (2.23%) PostgreSQL
9 15 (2.09%) Spark SQL
10 14 (1.96%) Snowflake Schema
11 13 (1.82%) Big Data
11 13 (1.82%) MongoDB
11 13 (1.82%) Relational Database
12 12 (1.68%) Metadata
12 12 (1.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 10 (1.40%) Redis
13 10 (1.40%) Tableau
14 9 (1.26%) Amazon Redshift
15 7 (0.98%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 134 (18.72%) JIRA
2 112 (15.64%) Git
3 68 (9.50%) Jenkins
4 40 (5.59%) GitLab
5 31 (4.33%) Selenium
6 17 (2.37%) Postman
7 15 (2.09%) Cypress.io
8 12 (1.68%) REST Assured
9 11 (1.54%) SpecFlow
9 11 (1.54%) TestRail
10 10 (1.40%) Cucumber
10 10 (1.40%) MLflow
10 10 (1.40%) SonarQube
10 10 (1.40%) Zephyr
11 9 (1.26%) Team Foundation Server
12 7 (0.98%) Artifactory
12 7 (0.98%) JUnit
13 5 (0.70%) Liquibase
13 5 (0.70%) webpack
14 4 (0.56%) git-flow
General
1 197 (27.51%) Finance
2 163 (22.77%) Social Skills
3 77 (10.75%) Analytical Skills
4 62 (8.66%) Public Sector
5 50 (6.98%) Banking
6 18 (2.51%) Financial Institution
7 16 (2.23%) Front Office
8 13 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (1.68%) Investment Banking
10 11 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
11 9 (1.26%) Organisational Skills
11 9 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
12 8 (1.12%) Retail
13 6 (0.84%) Legal
14 5 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (0.70%) Marketing
15 3 (0.42%) Local Government
15 3 (0.42%) Pharmaceutical
16 2 (0.28%) Military
16 2 (0.28%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 134 (18.72%) Developer
2 109 (15.22%) Senior
3 108 (15.08%) Azure Engineer
4 94 (13.13%) Data Engineer
5 78 (10.89%) DevOps Engineer
6 59 (8.24%) Lead
7 50 (6.98%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 49 (6.84%) Architect
9 47 (6.56%) Analyst
10 29 (4.05%) Azure Developer
10 29 (4.05%) Platform Engineer
11 26 (3.63%) Tester
12 23 (3.21%) Azure Architect
12 23 (3.21%) IT Support
12 23 (3.21%) Test Analyst
13 22 (3.07%) Senior Developer
14 21 (2.93%) Cloud Engineer
15 20 (2.79%) Senior Data Engineer
15 20 (2.79%) Support Engineer
16 19 (2.65%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 119 (16.62%) .NET
2 59 (8.24%) PySpark
3 51 (7.12%) React
4 49 (6.84%) REST
5 36 (5.03%) Kafka
5 36 (5.03%) Node.js
6 33 (4.61%) ADO
7 29 (4.05%) .NET Framework
7 29 (4.05%) JSON
7 29 (4.05%) Playwright
8 28 (3.91%) .NET Core
8 28 (3.91%) AngularJS
9 25 (3.49%) ARM Templates
9 25 (3.49%) YAML
10 24 (3.35%) CSS
10 24 (3.35%) HTML
10 24 (3.35%) RESTful
11 18 (2.51%) OAuth
12 16 (2.23%) Middleware
12 16 (2.23%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 82 (11.45%) Cloud Native
2 30 (4.19%) Product Ownership
3 29 (4.05%) Legacy Systems
4 25 (3.49%) Distributed Systems
5 19 (2.65%) Reinsurance
6 15 (2.09%) Enterprise Software
6 15 (2.09%) Low-Code
7 13 (1.82%) AI Agents
7 13 (1.82%) Onboarding
8 11 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
8 11 (1.54%) Replication
9 8 (1.12%) Data Structures
9 8 (1.12%) NHS
9 8 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (0.98%) Public Cloud
11 6 (0.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 6 (0.84%) Management Information System
12 5 (0.70%) Enterprise Cloud
13 4 (0.56%) Hybrid Cloud
13 4 (0.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 45 (6.28%) Windows
2 21 (2.93%) Linux
3 9 (1.26%) VMS
3 9 (1.26%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.84%) Unix
5 2 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 710 (99.16%) DevOps
2 403 (56.28%) CI/CD
3 264 (36.87%) Agile
4 176 (24.58%) Infrastructure as Code
5 127 (17.74%) Test Automation
6 124 (17.32%) Analytics
7 119 (16.62%) Problem-Solving
8 106 (14.80%) Migration
9 101 (14.11%) Data Modelling
10 93 (12.99%) AI
10 93 (12.99%) Data Pipeline
11 92 (12.85%) Continuous Improvement
12 86 (12.01%) Scrum
13 82 (11.45%) Business Intelligence
13 82 (11.45%) Observability
14 81 (11.31%) Microservices
15 80 (11.17%) Containerisation
16 76 (10.61%) ETL
17 75 (10.47%) Data Engineering
18 74 (10.34%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 267 (37.29%) SQL
2 210 (29.33%) Python
3 155 (21.65%) C#
4 77 (10.75%) JavaScript
5 70 (9.78%) PowerShell
6 66 (9.22%) Bicep
7 57 (7.96%) TypeScript
8 54 (7.54%) Java
9 44 (6.15%) Bash
10 24 (3.35%) Scala
11 16 (2.23%) T-SQL
12 11 (1.54%) Formula Language
12 11 (1.54%) Kusto Query Language
12 11 (1.54%) LotusScript
13 9 (1.26%) PL/SQL
14 8 (1.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 5 (0.70%) Go
15 5 (0.70%) Shell Script
16 4 (0.56%) R
16 4 (0.56%) XPath
Qualifications
1 182 (25.42%) Security Cleared
2 162 (22.63%) SC Cleared
3 64 (8.94%) Azure Certification
4 34 (4.75%) Degree
5 18 (2.51%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (2.37%) BPSS Clearance
6 17 (2.37%) ISTQB
7 14 (1.96%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (0.98%) PMI Certification
8 7 (0.98%) PMP
9 6 (0.84%) DV Cleared
9 6 (0.84%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.56%) AWS Certification
10 4 (0.56%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.28%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.28%) ISEB
11 2 (0.28%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.28%) MBA
12 1 (0.14%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (12.43%) QA
2 67 (9.36%) Data Quality
3 15 (2.09%) GDPR
4 14 (1.96%) Accessibility
5 9 (1.26%) PMO
5 9 (1.26%) WCAG
6 7 (0.98%) NIST
6 7 (0.98%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 5 (0.70%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.56%) NCSC
8 4 (0.56%) SLA
9 3 (0.42%) HIPAA
9 3 (0.42%) HL7
9 3 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 2 (0.28%) FedRAMP
10 2 (0.28%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 1 (0.14%) Government Security Classifications
11 1 (0.14%) IFRS
11 1 (0.14%) IFRS 9
11 1 (0.14%) PSD2
System Software
1 106 (14.80%) Docker
2 41 (5.73%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.26%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.42%) 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
1 207 (28.91%) Terraform
2 127 (17.74%) Kubernetes
3 29 (4.05%) Ansible
4 16 (2.23%) Grafana
5 12 (1.68%) Prometheus
6 7 (0.98%) HP ALM
7 6 (0.84%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (0.84%) Packer
8 5 (0.70%) Progress Chef
8 5 (0.70%) Puppet
9 4 (0.56%) Argo
10 2 (0.28%) Istio
10 2 (0.28%) Kubeflow
10 2 (0.28%) Opsgenie
10 2 (0.28%) SCCM
10 2 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.14%) CASB
11 1 (0.14%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.14%) Icinga
Vendors
1 224 (31.28%) Microsoft
2 107 (14.94%) Databricks
3 56 (7.82%) Oracle
4 33 (4.61%) ServiceNow
5 24 (3.35%) Salesforce
6 23 (3.21%) OpenAI
7 18 (2.51%) Informatica
8 16 (2.23%) SAP
9 11 (1.54%) Lotus
9 11 (1.54%) VMware
10 10 (1.40%) Foundry
10 10 (1.40%) Kofax
10 10 (1.40%) Splunk
11 8 (1.12%) Bloomberg
12 7 (0.98%) HP
13 6 (0.84%) Dynatrace
13 6 (0.84%) Refinitiv
14 5 (0.70%) Citrix
15 4 (0.56%) Cisco
15 4 (0.56%) InterSystems