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 12 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 90 70
Rank change year-on-year +23 -20 +9
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 647 386 577
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.00% 2.99% 3.16%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.11% 7.11% 8.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 462 285 394
10th Percentile £360 £406 £425
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -3.30%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £700
England median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.41% -3.18%
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 £70.00 £67.50 £65.50
% change year-on-year +3.70% +3.05% -3.53%

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 7,099 5,426 6,772
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.83% 42.03% 37.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,876 3,750 4,969
10th Percentile £350 £356 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £441
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 £768
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 43 79
10th Percentile £18.08 £22.27 £17.00
25th Percentile £22.02 £23.99 £20.88
Median hourly rate £35.25 £29.07 £26.24
Median % change year-on-year +21.26% +10.79% -23.94%
75th Percentile £52.56 £55.50 £49.67
90th Percentile £72.50 £72.50 £62.75
England median hourly rate £39.50 £26.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +49.06% +26.19% -16.00%

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 12 March 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 12 March 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 12 March 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 -8 75 £528 -2.99% 48
South London +3 15 £500 +1.01% 5
West London -19 4 £375 -21.05% 6
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 40 (6.18%) SharePoint
2 31 (4.79%) Confluence
3 25 (3.86%) Apache Spark
4 15 (2.32%) Apache
5 13 (2.01%) Apache Airflow
6 11 (1.70%) HCL Notes
6 11 (1.70%) Microsoft Exchange
7 10 (1.55%) Mendix
8 3 (0.46%) CMS
8 3 (0.46%) IIS
9 2 (0.31%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.15%) Kentico
10 1 (0.15%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.15%) SAS
Applications
1 13 (2.01%) Microsoft Project
2 12 (1.85%) MS Visio
3 6 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.31%) Trello
Business Applications
1 36 (5.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.93%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.77%) Aladdin
4 3 (0.46%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (0.46%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.15%) Endur
5 1 (0.15%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.15%) Maximo
5 1 (0.15%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.15%) Orchestrade
5 1 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.15%) SAP CS
5 1 (0.15%) SAP GTS
5 1 (0.15%) SAP LE
5 1 (0.15%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.15%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.15%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 647 (100.00%) Azure
2 183 (28.28%) GitHub
3 132 (20.40%) Power Platform
4 117 (18.08%) GitHub Actions
5 90 (13.91%) Azure Data Factory
6 79 (12.21%) AWS
7 76 (11.75%) Serverless
8 74 (11.44%) Azure Monitor
9 63 (9.74%) Azure AKS
10 62 (9.58%) Dynamics 365
11 61 (9.43%) Entra ID
12 58 (8.96%) Azure Logic Apps
12 58 (8.96%) Power Automate
13 55 (8.50%) Azure Key Vault
14 54 (8.35%) Azure Service Bus
15 53 (8.19%) Azure Functions
16 51 (7.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 41 (6.34%) PowerApps
18 36 (5.56%) GCP
18 36 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 27 (4.17%) Firewall
2 12 (1.85%) DNS
3 11 (1.70%) Network Security
3 11 (1.70%) VPN
4 7 (1.08%) WAN
5 5 (0.77%) SD-WAN
6 4 (0.62%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.46%) FTP
7 3 (0.46%) Remote Desktop
8 2 (0.31%) HTTP
8 2 (0.31%) Internet
8 2 (0.31%) LAN
8 2 (0.31%) MPLS
9 1 (0.15%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (11.90%) SQL Server
2 73 (11.28%) Power BI
3 47 (7.26%) Data Lake
4 41 (6.34%) Azure SQL Database
5 40 (6.18%) Delta Lake
6 36 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
7 23 (3.55%) NoSQL
8 19 (2.94%) Oracle Database
9 16 (2.47%) PostgreSQL
10 14 (2.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 11 (1.70%) Redis
11 11 (1.70%) Relational Database
11 11 (1.70%) Tableau
12 10 (1.55%) MongoDB
12 10 (1.55%) Snowflake Schema
12 10 (1.55%) Spark SQL
13 9 (1.39%) Data Vault
14 8 (1.24%) DynamoDB
14 8 (1.24%) Star Schema
15 7 (1.08%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 130 (20.09%) JIRA
2 93 (14.37%) Git
3 61 (9.43%) Jenkins
4 33 (5.10%) Selenium
5 31 (4.79%) GitLab
6 20 (3.09%) Postman
7 16 (2.47%) Cypress.io
8 14 (2.16%) Team Foundation Server
9 12 (1.85%) REST Assured
10 11 (1.70%) MLflow
10 11 (1.70%) TestRail
11 10 (1.55%) Cucumber
11 10 (1.55%) SpecFlow
12 9 (1.39%) JMeter
12 9 (1.39%) JUnit
12 9 (1.39%) Visual Studio
12 9 (1.39%) Zephyr
13 6 (0.93%) Liquibase
13 6 (0.93%) Mockito
13 6 (0.93%) webpack
General
1 175 (27.05%) Finance
1 175 (27.05%) Social Skills
2 73 (11.28%) Analytical Skills
3 63 (9.74%) Public Sector
4 47 (7.26%) Banking
5 16 (2.47%) Documentation Skills
5 16 (2.47%) Financial Institution
6 14 (2.16%) Front Office
7 13 (2.01%) Influencing Skills
7 13 (2.01%) Investment Banking
7 13 (2.01%) Retail
8 10 (1.55%) Presentation Skills
9 9 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (0.77%) Law
10 5 (0.77%) Marketing
11 4 (0.62%) Back Office
11 4 (0.62%) Legal
11 4 (0.62%) Military
12 3 (0.46%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 142 (21.95%) Developer
2 97 (14.99%) Azure Engineer
3 85 (13.14%) Senior
4 69 (10.66%) Data Engineer
5 65 (10.05%) DevOps Engineer
6 51 (7.88%) Analyst
7 50 (7.73%) Architect
7 50 (7.73%) Lead
8 44 (6.80%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 33 (5.10%) Azure Developer
10 29 (4.48%) Tester
11 28 (4.33%) Azure Architect
12 27 (4.17%) Platform Engineer
13 26 (4.02%) Business Analyst
14 19 (2.94%) Test Analyst
15 18 (2.78%) Cloud Engineer
15 18 (2.78%) Consultant
16 17 (2.63%) .NET Developer
16 17 (2.63%) Automation Engineer
16 17 (2.63%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (19.78%) .NET
2 54 (8.35%) REST
3 49 (7.57%) PySpark
4 46 (7.11%) React
5 45 (6.96%) Node.js
6 29 (4.48%) ARM Templates
6 29 (4.48%) Playwright
7 26 (4.02%) Kafka
8 25 (3.86%) .NET Core
8 25 (3.86%) CSS
8 25 (3.86%) HTML
9 24 (3.71%) YAML
10 23 (3.55%) .NET Framework
10 23 (3.55%) ADO
10 23 (3.55%) AngularJS
11 22 (3.40%) RESTful
11 22 (3.40%) SOAP
12 19 (2.94%) OAuth
13 17 (2.63%) Microsoft Graph
14 16 (2.47%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 78 (12.06%) Cloud Native
2 36 (5.56%) Product Ownership
3 26 (4.02%) Legacy Systems
4 25 (3.86%) Distributed Systems
5 17 (2.63%) Low-Code
6 16 (2.47%) AI Agents
6 16 (2.47%) Enterprise Software
7 15 (2.32%) Reinsurance
8 12 (1.85%) Public Cloud
9 10 (1.55%) CMDB
9 10 (1.55%) Replication
10 9 (1.39%) Data Structures
11 8 (1.24%) NHS
12 7 (1.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 7 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
13 6 (0.93%) Virtual Team
14 5 (0.77%) Data Centre
14 5 (0.77%) Enterprise Cloud
15 4 (0.62%) Derivative
15 4 (0.62%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 29 (4.48%) Windows
2 17 (2.63%) Linux
3 9 (1.39%) VMS
4 5 (0.77%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.31%) Unix
6 1 (0.15%) Solaris
6 1 (0.15%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 640 (98.92%) DevOps
2 369 (57.03%) CI/CD
3 256 (39.57%) Agile
4 162 (25.04%) Infrastructure as Code
5 136 (21.02%) Analytics
6 126 (19.47%) Problem-Solving
7 118 (18.24%) Test Automation
8 103 (15.92%) Continuous Improvement
9 102 (15.77%) AI
10 93 (14.37%) Scrum
11 91 (14.06%) Migration
12 88 (13.60%) Data Modelling
13 87 (13.45%) Business Intelligence
14 79 (12.21%) Microservices
15 77 (11.90%) Observability
15 77 (11.90%) Stakeholder Management
16 72 (11.13%) Containerisation
17 67 (10.36%) Data Pipeline
18 62 (9.58%) Data Engineering
19 56 (8.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 238 (36.79%) SQL
2 193 (29.83%) Python
3 149 (23.03%) C#
4 96 (14.84%) JavaScript
5 61 (9.43%) Bicep
6 59 (9.12%) PowerShell
7 57 (8.81%) TypeScript
8 52 (8.04%) Java
9 31 (4.79%) Bash
10 25 (3.86%) Scala
11 16 (2.47%) T-SQL
12 14 (2.16%) Kusto Query Language
13 11 (1.70%) Formula Language
13 11 (1.70%) LotusScript
13 11 (1.70%) PL/SQL
14 6 (0.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 4 (0.62%) C
15 4 (0.62%) Go
15 4 (0.62%) R
15 4 (0.62%) X++
Qualifications
1 148 (22.87%) Security Cleared
2 132 (20.40%) SC Cleared
3 64 (9.89%) Azure Certification
4 40 (6.18%) Degree
5 22 (3.40%) Computer Science Degree
6 20 (3.09%) Microsoft Certification
7 18 (2.78%) ISTQB
8 16 (2.47%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (1.39%) Master's Degree
10 7 (1.08%) PMI Certification
11 5 (0.77%) ISEB
11 5 (0.77%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 5 (0.77%) PMP
12 3 (0.46%) DBS Check
12 3 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.31%) AWS Certification
13 2 (0.31%) CBAP
13 2 (0.31%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.31%) MBA
14 1 (0.15%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (10.82%) QA
2 51 (7.88%) Data Quality
3 17 (2.63%) GDPR
4 14 (2.16%) Accessibility
5 9 (1.39%) WCAG
6 8 (1.24%) PMO
7 6 (0.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 4 (0.62%) HIPAA
8 4 (0.62%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.46%) HL7
9 3 (0.46%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 3 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.46%) NCSC
9 3 (0.46%) SLA
10 2 (0.31%) EU AI Act
10 2 (0.31%) FedRAMP
10 2 (0.31%) NIST
10 2 (0.31%) Software Quality Assurance
11 1 (0.15%) EMIR
11 1 (0.15%) MiFID
System Software
1 102 (15.77%) Docker
2 34 (5.26%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.24%) Virtual Desktop
3 8 (1.24%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.15%) HDFS
5 1 (0.15%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 196 (30.29%) Terraform
2 109 (16.85%) Kubernetes
3 26 (4.02%) Ansible
4 14 (2.16%) Grafana
5 10 (1.55%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.77%) HP ALM
7 4 (0.62%) Argo
7 4 (0.62%) Packer
8 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.31%) Istio
9 2 (0.31%) Kubeflow
9 2 (0.31%) Opsgenie
10 1 (0.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.15%) CASB
10 1 (0.15%) Fluentd
10 1 (0.15%) Icinga
10 1 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 214 (33.08%) Microsoft
2 102 (15.77%) Databricks
3 56 (8.66%) Oracle
4 37 (5.72%) ServiceNow
5 28 (4.33%) OpenAI
6 19 (2.94%) Salesforce
7 15 (2.32%) SAP
8 11 (1.70%) Lotus
8 11 (1.70%) VMware
9 10 (1.55%) Foundry
9 10 (1.55%) Kofax
10 8 (1.24%) Informatica
11 7 (1.08%) Splunk
12 6 (0.93%) Cisco
13 5 (0.77%) Aruba
13 5 (0.77%) Charles River
13 5 (0.77%) Citrix
13 5 (0.77%) HP
14 4 (0.62%) Fortinet
14 4 (0.62%) Google