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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 80 58
Rank change year-on-year +21 -22 +18
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 733 403 667
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.97% 3.31% 3.82%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.37% 7.72% 9.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 533 282 429
10th Percentile £375 £363 £400
25th Percentile £415 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £531 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +1.19% -7.08%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £613
90th Percentile £725 £750 £688
England median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -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 £74.75 £31.50 £65.50
% change year-on-year +137.30% -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 7,820 5,219 6,812
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.33% 42.89% 38.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,409 3,554 5,027
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% -6.78%
75th Percentile £638 £671 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
England median daily rate £513 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -1.44% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 59 67
10th Percentile £20.88 £22.27 £17.16
25th Percentile £27.06 £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 £55.94 £45.63 £38.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £67.50 £56.00
England median hourly rate £39.75 £25.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +55.88% +19.33% -38.94%

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 30 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 30 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 30 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 -6 74 £525 - 28
South London -5 10 £513 -2.38% 1
West London -23 7 £388 -25.48% 3
East London -8 2 £604 +3.16%
North London -1 1 £650 +47.73% 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 50 (6.82%) SharePoint
2 35 (4.77%) Apache Spark
3 30 (4.09%) Confluence
4 24 (3.27%) Apache
5 21 (2.86%) Apache Airflow
6 10 (1.36%) HCL Notes
6 10 (1.36%) Mendix
6 10 (1.36%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.41%) CMS
8 2 (0.27%) Kentico
8 2 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.14%) IBM HTTP Server
9 1 (0.14%) IIS
9 1 (0.14%) SAS
Applications
1 24 (3.27%) Microsoft Project
2 8 (1.09%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.95%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.55%) Notion
5 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
6 2 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 30 (4.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.95%) Dynamics AX
3 6 (0.82%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.41%) Findur
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%) Maximo
6 1 (0.14%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.14%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle Financials
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
1 733 (100.00%) Azure
2 221 (30.15%) GitHub
3 134 (18.28%) GitHub Actions
4 126 (17.19%) Power Platform
5 111 (15.14%) AWS
6 91 (12.41%) Azure Data Factory
7 70 (9.55%) Azure AKS
8 65 (8.87%) Power Automate
9 61 (8.32%) Azure Monitor
9 61 (8.32%) Entra ID
10 60 (8.19%) Serverless
11 58 (7.91%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 58 (7.91%) Dynamics 365
12 55 (7.50%) Azure Logic Apps
13 44 (6.00%) Azure Service Bus
14 43 (5.87%) Azure Key Vault
15 41 (5.59%) Snowflake
16 40 (5.46%) Azure Functions
17 38 (5.18%) Microsoft 365
17 38 (5.18%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.46%) Firewall
2 10 (1.36%) Network Security
3 9 (1.23%) VPN
4 8 (1.09%) DNS
5 5 (0.68%) SD-WAN
5 5 (0.68%) WAN
6 4 (0.55%) Internet
7 2 (0.27%) FTP
7 2 (0.27%) NAS
7 2 (0.27%) Remote Desktop
7 2 (0.27%) SAN
7 2 (0.27%) SSH
7 2 (0.27%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.27%) 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%) VSAN
8 1 (0.14%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (10.64%) SQL Server
2 74 (10.10%) Power BI
3 67 (9.14%) Data Lake
4 51 (6.96%) Delta Lake
5 46 (6.28%) Azure SQL Database
6 41 (5.59%) Data Warehouse
7 32 (4.37%) NoSQL
8 20 (2.73%) PostgreSQL
9 19 (2.59%) Snowflake Schema
10 16 (2.18%) Oracle Database
10 16 (2.18%) Spark SQL
11 13 (1.77%) Big Data
12 12 (1.64%) Redis
12 12 (1.64%) Relational Database
13 11 (1.50%) Metadata
13 11 (1.50%) MongoDB
13 11 (1.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 10 (1.36%) Amazon Redshift
15 9 (1.23%) Data Vault
16 8 (1.09%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 132 (18.01%) JIRA
2 117 (15.96%) Git
3 60 (8.19%) Jenkins
4 42 (5.73%) GitLab
5 25 (3.41%) Selenium
6 14 (1.91%) Postman
7 11 (1.50%) Cypress.io
7 11 (1.50%) SonarQube
8 10 (1.36%) REST Assured
9 9 (1.23%) SpecFlow
9 9 (1.23%) TestRail
10 8 (1.09%) Cucumber
10 8 (1.09%) Team Foundation Server
10 8 (1.09%) Zephyr
11 7 (0.95%) MLflow
12 6 (0.82%) Artifactory
13 5 (0.68%) JMeter
13 5 (0.68%) Visual Studio
14 4 (0.55%) JUnit
14 4 (0.55%) TeamCity
General
1 204 (27.83%) Finance
2 172 (23.47%) Social Skills
3 68 (9.28%) Analytical Skills
4 59 (8.05%) Public Sector
5 46 (6.28%) Banking
6 15 (2.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (1.77%) Financial Institution
7 13 (1.77%) Front Office
8 12 (1.64%) Investment Banking
9 11 (1.50%) Retail
10 9 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
10 9 (1.23%) Legal
11 8 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (0.95%) Marketing
12 7 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (0.55%) Pharmaceutical
15 3 (0.41%) Back Office
15 3 (0.41%) Local Government
16 2 (0.27%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 123 (16.78%) Developer
2 114 (15.55%) Senior
3 111 (15.14%) Azure Engineer
4 103 (14.05%) Data Engineer
5 82 (11.19%) DevOps Engineer
6 55 (7.50%) Lead
7 54 (7.37%) Architect
8 52 (7.09%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 48 (6.55%) Analyst
10 30 (4.09%) Platform Engineer
11 27 (3.68%) Cloud Engineer
12 24 (3.27%) Consultant
13 23 (3.14%) IT Support
13 23 (3.14%) Senior Data Engineer
14 22 (3.00%) Azure Architect
14 22 (3.00%) Business Analyst
14 22 (3.00%) Senior Developer
14 22 (3.00%) Tester
15 21 (2.86%) Azure Developer
16 20 (2.73%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (15.14%) .NET
2 60 (8.19%) PySpark
3 58 (7.91%) REST
4 50 (6.82%) React
5 37 (5.05%) ADO
6 35 (4.77%) Kafka
7 34 (4.64%) JSON
8 29 (3.96%) YAML
9 27 (3.68%) ARM Templates
10 25 (3.41%) Node.js
10 25 (3.41%) Playwright
11 23 (3.14%) .NET Framework
11 23 (3.14%) AngularJS
12 22 (3.00%) HTML
13 21 (2.86%) CSS
13 21 (2.86%) RESTful
14 20 (2.73%) .NET Core
15 18 (2.46%) Middleware
16 16 (2.18%) OAuth
16 16 (2.18%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 86 (11.73%) Cloud Native
2 32 (4.37%) Legacy Systems
3 25 (3.41%) Reinsurance
4 24 (3.27%) Distributed Systems
4 24 (3.27%) Product Ownership
5 16 (2.18%) Greenfield Project
6 15 (2.05%) Low-Code
7 13 (1.77%) Onboarding
7 13 (1.77%) Replication
8 11 (1.50%) AI Agents
9 9 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
10 8 (1.09%) Data Structures
10 8 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
10 8 (1.09%) Hybrid Cloud
11 7 (0.95%) Management Information System
11 7 (0.95%) Public Cloud
12 6 (0.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 5 (0.68%) NHS
14 4 (0.55%) Data Protection Act
14 4 (0.55%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 41 (5.59%) Windows
2 22 (3.00%) Linux
3 11 (1.50%) VMS
4 7 (0.95%) Windows Server
5 6 (0.82%) Unix
6 2 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 727 (99.18%) DevOps
2 408 (55.66%) CI/CD
3 257 (35.06%) Agile
4 180 (24.56%) Infrastructure as Code
5 129 (17.60%) Analytics
6 126 (17.19%) Test Automation
7 120 (16.37%) Migration
8 117 (15.96%) Problem-Solving
9 104 (14.19%) Data Modelling
10 102 (13.92%) Data Pipeline
11 93 (12.69%) AI
12 92 (12.55%) Continuous Improvement
13 90 (12.28%) ETL
14 87 (11.87%) Scrum
15 86 (11.73%) Business Intelligence
16 83 (11.32%) Data Engineering
17 81 (11.05%) Platform Engineering
18 80 (10.91%) Containerisation
19 78 (10.64%) Observability
19 78 (10.64%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 278 (37.93%) SQL
2 220 (30.01%) Python
3 146 (19.92%) C#
4 80 (10.91%) PowerShell
5 67 (9.14%) JavaScript
6 66 (9.00%) Bicep
7 56 (7.64%) TypeScript
8 50 (6.82%) Java
9 49 (6.68%) Bash
10 21 (2.86%) Scala
11 15 (2.05%) T-SQL
12 10 (1.36%) Formula Language
12 10 (1.36%) LotusScript
13 9 (1.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 7 (0.95%) Kusto Query Language
14 7 (0.95%) PL/SQL
15 6 (0.82%) Shell Script
16 5 (0.68%) Apex Code
17 4 (0.55%) C
18 3 (0.41%) XPath
Qualifications
1 182 (24.83%) Security Cleared
2 162 (22.10%) SC Cleared
3 62 (8.46%) Azure Certification
4 30 (4.09%) Degree
5 20 (2.73%) Microsoft Certification
6 17 (2.32%) BPSS Clearance
7 15 (2.05%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (1.91%) ISTQB
9 10 (1.36%) DBS Check
10 7 (0.95%) DV Cleared
10 7 (0.95%) PMI Certification
10 7 (0.95%) PMP
11 4 (0.55%) Master's Degree
12 3 (0.41%) AWS Certification
12 3 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
13 2 (0.27%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.27%) ISEB
13 2 (0.27%) ITIL Certification
14 1 (0.14%) CCIE
14 1 (0.14%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (11.46%) QA
2 71 (9.69%) Data Quality
3 18 (2.46%) GDPR
4 15 (2.05%) Accessibility
5 9 (1.23%) PMO
6 8 (1.09%) NIST
6 8 (1.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 8 (1.09%) WCAG
7 6 (0.82%) SLA
8 5 (0.68%) 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%) ITGC
11 1 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 102 (13.92%) Docker
2 41 (5.59%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.09%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.27%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.27%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (0.27%) OpenSSH
6 1 (0.14%) HDFS
6 1 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.14%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 211 (28.79%) Terraform
2 125 (17.05%) Kubernetes
3 32 (4.37%) Ansible
4 17 (2.32%) Grafana
5 14 (1.91%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.82%) 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 3 (0.41%) Argo
8 3 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.27%) Istio
9 2 (0.27%) SCCM
10 1 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.14%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.14%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.14%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.14%) RSA Archer
10 1 (0.14%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 224 (30.56%) Microsoft
2 110 (15.01%) Databricks
3 53 (7.23%) Oracle
4 28 (3.82%) ServiceNow
5 27 (3.68%) Salesforce
6 20 (2.73%) Informatica
7 19 (2.59%) SAP
8 18 (2.46%) OpenAI
9 13 (1.77%) VMware
10 11 (1.50%) Foundry
11 10 (1.36%) Bloomberg
11 10 (1.36%) Kofax
11 10 (1.36%) Lotus
12 8 (1.09%) Refinitiv
13 6 (0.82%) Splunk
14 5 (0.68%) HP
14 5 (0.68%) Workday
15 4 (0.55%) IBM
15 4 (0.55%) InterSystems
15 4 (0.55%) OpenLink