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 17 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 86 60
Rank change year-on-year +22 -26 +20
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 704 401 631
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.06% 3.17% 3.51%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.36% 7.44% 9.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 500 288 413
10th Percentile £363 £383 £413
25th Percentile £413 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £588 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £700
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 £46.00 £67.50 £65.50
% change year-on-year -31.85% +3.05% -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 7,520 5,393 6,747
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.37% 42.58% 37.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,177 3,742 4,948
10th Percentile £350 £356 £331
25th Percentile £425 £440 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 52 78
10th Percentile £19.68 £22.27 £17.55
25th Percentile £25.42 £24.66 £21.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +11.81% -25.71%
75th Percentile £52.56 £54.13 £40.72
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.13 £60.75
England median hourly rate £45.23 £26.81 £20.77
% change year-on-year +68.69% +29.09% -24.47%

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 17 April 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 17 April 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 17 April 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 74 £525 -3.23% 50
South London +3 17 £500 +1.01% 3
West London -22 6 £375 -21.05% 10
East London -7 2 £604 +12.28% 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 (6.39%) SharePoint
2 31 (4.40%) Confluence
3 30 (4.26%) Apache Spark
4 22 (3.13%) Apache
5 14 (1.99%) Apache Airflow
6 12 (1.70%) Microsoft Exchange
7 11 (1.56%) HCL Notes
8 10 (1.42%) Mendix
9 3 (0.43%) IIS
10 2 (0.28%) CMS
10 2 (0.28%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.14%) IBM HTTP Server
11 1 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.14%) SAS
Applications
1 22 (3.13%) Microsoft Project
2 11 (1.56%) MS Visio
3 6 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.14%) Trello
Business Applications
1 35 (4.97%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.71%) Dynamics AX
2 5 (0.71%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.57%) Aladdin
3 4 (0.57%) SAP BPC
4 3 (0.43%) Findur
4 3 (0.43%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 2 (0.28%) Endur
5 2 (0.28%) SAP MM
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%) Orchestrade
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 SD
Cloud Services
1 704 (100.00%) Azure
2 201 (28.55%) GitHub
3 126 (17.90%) Power Platform
4 122 (17.33%) GitHub Actions
5 96 (13.64%) Azure Data Factory
6 92 (13.07%) AWS
7 73 (10.37%) Azure Monitor
8 72 (10.23%) Azure AKS
8 72 (10.23%) Serverless
9 70 (9.94%) Entra ID
10 64 (9.09%) Dynamics 365
11 63 (8.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 58 (8.24%) Power Automate
13 56 (7.95%) Azure Logic Apps
14 55 (7.81%) Azure Key Vault
15 52 (7.39%) Azure Service Bus
16 45 (6.39%) Azure Functions
17 40 (5.68%) Microsoft 365
17 40 (5.68%) PowerApps
18 33 (4.69%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (2.98%) Firewall
2 12 (1.70%) Network Security
3 11 (1.56%) DNS
4 7 (0.99%) VPN
5 6 (0.85%) WAN
6 5 (0.71%) SD-WAN
7 3 (0.43%) FTP
7 3 (0.43%) 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 78 (11.08%) SQL Server
2 68 (9.66%) Power BI
3 56 (7.95%) Data Lake
4 48 (6.82%) Azure SQL Database
5 46 (6.53%) Delta Lake
6 45 (6.39%) Data Warehouse
7 30 (4.26%) NoSQL
8 19 (2.70%) Oracle Database
9 17 (2.41%) PostgreSQL
10 15 (2.13%) Spark SQL
11 13 (1.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 12 (1.70%) MongoDB
12 12 (1.70%) Relational Database
12 12 (1.70%) Snowflake Schema
13 11 (1.56%) Big Data
14 10 (1.42%) Metadata
14 10 (1.42%) Redis
14 10 (1.42%) Tableau
15 9 (1.28%) DynamoDB
16 8 (1.14%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 137 (19.46%) JIRA
2 108 (15.34%) Git
3 64 (9.09%) Jenkins
4 33 (4.69%) GitLab
5 31 (4.40%) Selenium
6 17 (2.41%) Postman
7 15 (2.13%) Cypress.io
8 12 (1.70%) REST Assured
9 11 (1.56%) SpecFlow
9 11 (1.56%) TestRail
9 11 (1.56%) Zephyr
10 10 (1.42%) MLflow
10 10 (1.42%) Team Foundation Server
11 9 (1.28%) Cucumber
11 9 (1.28%) SonarQube
12 8 (1.14%) JUnit
13 6 (0.85%) Artifactory
13 6 (0.85%) Liquibase
13 6 (0.85%) Visual Studio
14 5 (0.71%) webpack
General
1 195 (27.70%) Finance
2 168 (23.86%) Social Skills
3 75 (10.65%) Analytical Skills
4 64 (9.09%) Public Sector
5 49 (6.96%) Banking
6 18 (2.56%) Financial Institution
7 16 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
7 16 (2.27%) Front Office
8 12 (1.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (1.70%) Investment Banking
9 11 (1.56%) Retail
10 9 (1.28%) Organisational Skills
10 9 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
11 8 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
12 6 (0.85%) Legal
13 5 (0.71%) Marketing
14 3 (0.43%) Law
14 3 (0.43%) Local Government
14 3 (0.43%) Pharmaceutical
15 2 (0.28%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 137 (19.46%) Developer
2 106 (15.06%) Azure Engineer
3 99 (14.06%) Senior
4 87 (12.36%) Data Engineer
5 76 (10.80%) DevOps Engineer
6 57 (8.10%) Lead
7 51 (7.24%) Architect
8 49 (6.96%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 44 (6.25%) Analyst
10 29 (4.12%) Azure Developer
10 29 (4.12%) Platform Engineer
11 28 (3.98%) Tester
12 26 (3.69%) Azure Architect
13 23 (3.27%) IT Support
14 20 (2.84%) Business Analyst
14 20 (2.84%) Support Engineer
14 20 (2.84%) Test Analyst
15 19 (2.70%) Consultant
15 19 (2.70%) IT Support Engineer
15 19 (2.70%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 118 (16.76%) .NET
2 58 (8.24%) PySpark
3 46 (6.53%) React
3 46 (6.53%) REST
4 45 (6.39%) Node.js
5 33 (4.69%) Kafka
6 30 (4.26%) Playwright
7 29 (4.12%) YAML
8 28 (3.98%) ADO
9 26 (3.69%) AngularJS
10 25 (3.55%) .NET Core
10 25 (3.55%) ARM Templates
11 24 (3.41%) .NET Framework
11 24 (3.41%) CSS
11 24 (3.41%) HTML
11 24 (3.41%) JSON
11 24 (3.41%) OAuth
12 21 (2.98%) RESTful
13 18 (2.56%) Microsoft Graph
14 17 (2.41%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 78 (11.08%) Cloud Native
2 39 (5.54%) Product Ownership
3 29 (4.12%) Legacy Systems
4 25 (3.55%) Distributed Systems
5 18 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
5 18 (2.56%) Reinsurance
6 16 (2.27%) AI Agents
6 16 (2.27%) Low-Code
7 10 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
7 10 (1.42%) Onboarding
7 10 (1.42%) Replication
8 8 (1.14%) Data Structures
8 8 (1.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 8 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
9 7 (0.99%) NHS
9 7 (0.99%) Public Cloud
10 6 (0.85%) Management Information System
11 5 (0.71%) Enterprise Cloud
11 5 (0.71%) Virtual Team
12 4 (0.57%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 41 (5.82%) Windows
2 20 (2.84%) Linux
3 9 (1.28%) VMS
4 7 (0.99%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.57%) Unix
6 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.14%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 697 (99.01%) DevOps
2 395 (56.11%) CI/CD
3 263 (37.36%) Agile
4 169 (24.01%) Infrastructure as Code
5 131 (18.61%) Analytics
6 121 (17.19%) Problem-Solving
7 120 (17.05%) Test Automation
8 103 (14.63%) Migration
9 101 (14.35%) Continuous Improvement
9 101 (14.35%) Data Modelling
10 100 (14.20%) AI
11 87 (12.36%) Data Pipeline
12 85 (12.07%) Microservices
13 83 (11.79%) Business Intelligence
14 82 (11.65%) Scrum
15 81 (11.51%) Observability
16 80 (11.36%) Containerisation
17 76 (10.80%) Stakeholder Management
18 70 (9.94%) Data Engineering
19 69 (9.80%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 270 (38.35%) SQL
2 213 (30.26%) Python
3 152 (21.59%) C#
4 80 (11.36%) JavaScript
5 69 (9.80%) PowerShell
6 64 (9.09%) Bicep
7 59 (8.38%) TypeScript
8 52 (7.39%) Java
9 42 (5.97%) Bash
10 25 (3.55%) Scala
11 18 (2.56%) T-SQL
12 13 (1.85%) Kusto Query Language
13 12 (1.70%) PL/SQL
14 11 (1.56%) Formula Language
14 11 (1.56%) LotusScript
15 6 (0.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 5 (0.71%) Go
17 4 (0.57%) Shell Script
18 3 (0.43%) Apex Code
18 3 (0.43%) R
Qualifications
1 175 (24.86%) Security Cleared
2 158 (22.44%) SC Cleared
3 65 (9.23%) Azure Certification
4 37 (5.26%) Degree
5 19 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (2.56%) ISTQB
7 17 (2.41%) BPSS Clearance
8 14 (1.99%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (0.85%) Master's Degree
9 6 (0.85%) PMI Certification
9 6 (0.85%) PMP
10 4 (0.57%) AWS Certification
10 4 (0.57%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.43%) DV Cleared
11 3 (0.43%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.28%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.28%) ISEB
12 2 (0.28%) MBA
13 1 (0.14%) CCIE
13 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (11.65%) QA
2 66 (9.38%) Data Quality
3 15 (2.13%) GDPR
4 13 (1.85%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 8 (1.14%) WCAG
6 7 (0.99%) PMO
7 6 (0.85%) NIST
8 4 (0.57%) NCSC
8 4 (0.57%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.57%) SLA
9 3 (0.43%) HIPAA
9 3 (0.43%) HL7
10 2 (0.28%) FedRAMP
10 2 (0.28%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 2 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 2 (0.28%) Software Quality Assurance
11 1 (0.14%) GRC
11 1 (0.14%) GxP
11 1 (0.14%) MiFID
System Software
1 108 (15.34%) Docker
2 46 (6.53%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.14%) Virtual Desktop
4 7 (0.99%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.28%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.28%) OpenSSH
7 1 (0.14%) HDFS
7 1 (0.14%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 202 (28.69%) Terraform
2 123 (17.47%) Kubernetes
3 32 (4.55%) Ansible
4 16 (2.27%) Grafana
5 11 (1.56%) Prometheus
6 7 (0.99%) HP ALM
7 6 (0.85%) Packer
8 5 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (0.71%) Progress Chef
8 5 (0.71%) Puppet
9 3 (0.43%) Argo
10 2 (0.28%) Istio
10 2 (0.28%) Kubeflow
10 2 (0.28%) Opsgenie
10 2 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.14%) CASB
11 1 (0.14%) Fluentd
11 1 (0.14%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.14%) Icinga
11 1 (0.14%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 228 (32.39%) Microsoft
2 113 (16.05%) Databricks
3 60 (8.52%) Oracle
4 34 (4.83%) ServiceNow
5 27 (3.84%) OpenAI
6 20 (2.84%) Salesforce
7 17 (2.41%) SAP
8 15 (2.13%) Informatica
9 13 (1.85%) VMware
10 11 (1.56%) Lotus
11 10 (1.42%) Foundry
11 10 (1.42%) Kofax
12 9 (1.28%) Splunk
13 7 (0.99%) Bloomberg
13 7 (0.99%) HP
14 5 (0.71%) Charles River
14 5 (0.71%) Citrix
14 5 (0.71%) Refinitiv
15 4 (0.57%) Dynatrace
15 4 (0.57%) Planview