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

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 77 60
Rank change year-on-year +23 -17 +14
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 871 468 634
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.34% 3.50% 3.90%
As % of the Cloud Services category 10.51% 8.09% 9.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 615 330 413
10th Percentile £381 £344 £384
25th Percentile £425 £413 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £600
90th Percentile £691 £750 £675
England median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 0
10th Percentile £43.00 - -
25th Percentile - £86.25 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £87.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -37.14% - -
75th Percentile £72.50 £88.75 -
90th Percentile £75.05 - -
England median hourly rate £46.80 £62.50 -
% change year-on-year -25.12% - -

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 8,291 5,782 6,643
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.30% 43.23% 40.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,664 3,958 4,756
10th Percentile £363 £338 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.89% -3.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £644 £652 £675
90th Percentile £749 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 89 46
10th Percentile £19.25 £22.90 £21.00
25th Percentile £23.50 £25.01 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £28.25
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +2.90% -43.50%
75th Percentile £57.50 £43.75 £40.25
90th Percentile £78.55 £68.40 £61.75
England median hourly rate £35.00 £26.15 £27.50
% change year-on-year +33.84% -4.91% -16.67%

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 August 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 August 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 August 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 +1 94 £530 +6.00% 26
South London -1 11 £525 -1.18% 3
West London -12 5 £625 +14.16% 13
East London 0 3 £604 +16.06% 8
North London -1 2 £600 +36.36% 2
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 54 (6.20%) SharePoint
2 41 (4.71%) Confluence
3 31 (3.56%) Apache Spark
4 25 (2.87%) Apache
4 25 (2.87%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (1.03%) CMS
5 9 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.34%) Kentico
6 3 (0.34%) Mendix
7 2 (0.23%) IIS
8 1 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.11%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.11%) EPiServer
8 1 (0.11%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.11%) HCL Notes
8 1 (0.11%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.11%) IBM HTTP Server
8 1 (0.11%) nginx
8 1 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 29 (3.33%) Microsoft Project
2 25 (2.87%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (1.26%) MS Visio
4 8 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
5 7 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 5 (0.57%) Notion
7 4 (0.46%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.23%) CPLEX
8 2 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.11%) Trello
Business Applications
1 34 (3.90%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (1.15%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.92%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (0.34%) Endur
4 3 (0.34%) Findur
4 3 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.23%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.23%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
5 2 (0.23%) Maximo
5 2 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.23%) SAP MM
5 2 (0.23%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.11%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.11%) SAP CS
6 1 (0.11%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.11%) SAP LE
6 1 (0.11%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.11%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 871 (100.00%) Azure
2 264 (30.31%) GitHub
3 163 (18.71%) GitHub Actions
4 146 (16.76%) Power Platform
5 142 (16.30%) AWS
6 101 (11.60%) Azure Data Factory
7 79 (9.07%) Azure AKS
8 78 (8.96%) Entra ID
9 73 (8.38%) Power Automate
10 72 (8.27%) Azure Monitor
11 71 (8.15%) Dynamics 365
12 63 (7.23%) Serverless
13 57 (6.54%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 55 (6.31%) PowerApps
15 44 (5.05%) Azure Logic Apps
16 43 (4.94%) GCP
16 43 (4.94%) PaaS
17 42 (4.82%) Azure Functions
17 42 (4.82%) Microsoft 365
18 38 (4.36%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 27 (3.10%) Firewall
2 19 (2.18%) VPN
3 17 (1.95%) DNS
4 16 (1.84%) Network Security
5 7 (0.80%) DHCP
6 6 (0.69%) WAN
7 5 (0.57%) SD-WAN
8 4 (0.46%) Internet
8 4 (0.46%) SAN
9 3 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (0.23%) 4G
10 2 (0.23%) Cisco IOS
10 2 (0.23%) NAS
10 2 (0.23%) SSH
10 2 (0.23%) SSL
10 2 (0.23%) VLAN
10 2 (0.23%) X.509
11 1 (0.11%) Cisco ASA
11 1 (0.11%) Reverse Proxy
11 1 (0.11%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (10.68%) Power BI
2 63 (7.23%) Data Lake
3 54 (6.20%) SQL Server
4 51 (5.86%) Data Warehouse
5 46 (5.28%) Azure SQL Database
6 31 (3.56%) NoSQL
7 28 (3.21%) Delta Lake
8 24 (2.76%) PostgreSQL
9 21 (2.41%) Metadata
10 18 (2.07%) Snowflake Schema
11 16 (1.84%) Relational Database
12 15 (1.72%) Big Data
13 13 (1.49%) Spark SQL
14 11 (1.26%) Redis
14 11 (1.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 11 (1.26%) Star Schema
15 10 (1.15%) MongoDB
16 8 (0.92%) Amazon Redshift
17 7 (0.80%) BigQuery
18 6 (0.69%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 156 (17.91%) JIRA
2 143 (16.42%) Git
3 108 (12.40%) Jenkins
4 83 (9.53%) GitLab
5 44 (5.05%) Selenium
6 22 (2.53%) SonarQube
7 14 (1.61%) Cypress.io
7 14 (1.61%) Visual Studio
8 11 (1.26%) Cucumber
8 11 (1.26%) Postman
9 10 (1.15%) JUnit
9 10 (1.15%) Maven
9 10 (1.15%) REST Assured
10 9 (1.03%) Snyk
10 9 (1.03%) WebDriver
11 8 (0.92%) Bitbucket
11 8 (0.92%) Gradle
11 8 (0.92%) TestRail
12 7 (0.80%) JMeter
13 6 (0.69%) SpecFlow
General
1 236 (27.10%) Finance
2 228 (26.18%) Social Skills
3 86 (9.87%) Analytical Skills
4 80 (9.18%) Public Sector
5 68 (7.81%) Banking
6 25 (2.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 24 (2.76%) Retail
8 17 (1.95%) Documentation Skills
9 15 (1.72%) Legal
9 15 (1.72%) Marketing
10 14 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
10 14 (1.61%) Investment Banking
11 9 (1.03%) Local Government
12 8 (0.92%) Law
13 7 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
13 7 (0.80%) Pharmaceutical
13 7 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (0.57%) Back Office
15 4 (0.46%) Financial Institution
15 4 (0.46%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 142 (16.30%) Azure Engineer
2 141 (16.19%) DevOps Engineer
3 134 (15.38%) Senior
4 128 (14.70%) Developer
5 89 (10.22%) Data Engineer
6 83 (9.53%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 70 (8.04%) Lead
8 67 (7.69%) Architect
9 61 (7.00%) Analyst
10 37 (4.25%) Consultant
11 36 (4.13%) Platform Engineer
12 32 (3.67%) Business Analyst
12 32 (3.67%) Cloud Engineer
13 27 (3.10%) Project Manager
14 23 (2.64%) Senior DevOps
15 22 (2.53%) Senior Developer
15 22 (2.53%) Test Analyst
16 21 (2.41%) Azure Data Engineer
16 21 (2.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 21 (2.41%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 251 (28.82%) Terraform
2 116 (13.32%) .NET
3 105 (12.06%) REST
4 62 (7.12%) PySpark
5 56 (6.43%) ADO
6 46 (5.28%) JSON
7 40 (4.59%) YAML
8 39 (4.48%) Kafka
9 37 (4.25%) React
10 30 (3.44%) RESTful
11 29 (3.33%) ARM Templates
11 29 (3.33%) XML
12 28 (3.21%) Playwright
13 27 (3.10%) .NET Framework
13 27 (3.10%) AngularJS
13 27 (3.10%) Middleware
14 23 (2.64%) .NET Core
15 22 (2.53%) OAuth
15 22 (2.53%) SOAP
16 20 (2.30%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 103 (11.83%) Cloud Native
2 48 (5.51%) Product Ownership
3 33 (3.79%) Distributed Systems
3 33 (3.79%) Legacy Systems
4 23 (2.64%) Onboarding
5 22 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
6 20 (2.30%) Management Information System
7 19 (2.18%) AI Agents
8 17 (1.95%) Self-Motivation
9 16 (1.84%) Hybrid Cloud
10 15 (1.72%) Reinsurance
11 11 (1.26%) Greenfield Project
12 10 (1.15%) Enterprise Cloud
12 10 (1.15%) Low-Code
13 9 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
14 8 (0.92%) Data Structures
14 8 (0.92%) Public Cloud
15 7 (0.80%) Data Centre
15 7 (0.80%) Linux Command Line
15 7 (0.80%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 49 (5.63%) Windows
2 29 (3.33%) Linux
3 15 (1.72%) Windows Server
4 14 (1.61%) VMS
5 9 (1.03%) Unix
6 5 (0.57%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (0.46%) Android
7 4 (0.46%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.23%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 871 (100.00%) DevOps
2 474 (54.42%) CI/CD
3 354 (40.64%) Agile
4 222 (25.49%) Infrastructure as Code
5 161 (18.48%) Test Automation
6 149 (17.11%) Stakeholder Management
7 143 (16.42%) Analytics
8 140 (16.07%) Problem-Solving
9 127 (14.58%) Migration
10 119 (13.66%) Continuous Improvement
11 114 (13.09%) Containerisation
12 102 (11.71%) Scrum
13 101 (11.60%) Data Modelling
14 100 (11.48%) Business Intelligence
15 97 (11.14%) AI
15 97 (11.14%) Microservices
15 97 (11.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 93 (10.68%) User Acceptance Testing
17 92 (10.56%) Data Pipeline
18 89 (10.22%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 271 (31.11%) SQL
2 239 (27.44%) Python
3 144 (16.53%) C#
4 118 (13.55%) PowerShell
5 85 (9.76%) Bicep
6 71 (8.15%) Bash
6 71 (8.15%) JavaScript
7 60 (6.89%) TypeScript
8 59 (6.77%) Java
9 13 (1.49%) Apex Code
9 13 (1.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 8 (0.92%) T-SQL
11 7 (0.80%) Shell Script
12 6 (0.69%) Kusto Query Language
13 5 (0.57%) Go
14 4 (0.46%) PL/SQL
14 4 (0.46%) VB.NET
14 4 (0.46%) X++
15 3 (0.34%) ABAP
15 3 (0.34%) Korn
Qualifications
1 235 (26.98%) Security Cleared
2 209 (24.00%) SC Cleared
3 68 (7.81%) Azure Certification
4 49 (5.63%) Degree
5 27 (3.10%) Computer Science Degree
5 27 (3.10%) Microsoft Certification
6 22 (2.53%) DV Cleared
7 16 (1.84%) ISTQB
8 13 (1.49%) AWS Certification
9 10 (1.15%) DBS Check
10 8 (0.92%) PMI Certification
11 6 (0.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 6 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
12 5 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (0.57%) PMP
13 4 (0.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.46%) CISSP
13 4 (0.46%) ISEB
13 4 (0.46%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 4 (0.46%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (12.74%) QA
2 74 (8.50%) Data Quality
3 24 (2.76%) GDPR
4 19 (2.18%) Accessibility
5 17 (1.95%) NIST
6 14 (1.61%) PMO
7 10 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 9 (1.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 8 (0.92%) SLA
10 7 (0.80%) ISO 20022
10 7 (0.80%) WCAG
11 5 (0.57%) SEPA
12 4 (0.46%) PSD2
13 3 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
14 2 (0.23%) Government Security Classifications
14 2 (0.23%) GRC
14 2 (0.23%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 2 (0.23%) NCSC
15 1 (0.11%) ISO 15022
15 1 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 132 (15.15%) Docker
2 48 (5.51%) Active Directory
3 14 (1.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (1.26%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.69%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.69%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.46%) vSphere
7 2 (0.23%) Microsoft App-V
7 2 (0.23%) OpenSSH
8 1 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 162 (18.60%) Kubernetes
2 51 (5.86%) Ansible
3 26 (2.99%) Grafana
4 21 (2.41%) Prometheus
5 11 (1.26%) Microsoft Intune
5 11 (1.26%) Packer
6 8 (0.92%) HP ALM
6 8 (0.92%) Progress Chef
6 8 (0.92%) Puppet
6 8 (0.92%) SCCM
7 5 (0.57%) Argo
7 5 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.34%) HP Fortify
9 2 (0.23%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (0.23%) Kibana
10 1 (0.11%) Istio
10 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Clustering
10 1 (0.11%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.11%) RSA Archer
10 1 (0.11%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 304 (34.90%) Microsoft
2 96 (11.02%) Databricks
3 35 (4.02%) Salesforce
4 30 (3.44%) Oracle
5 27 (3.10%) ServiceNow
6 26 (2.99%) SAP
7 18 (2.07%) VMware
8 14 (1.61%) Google
8 14 (1.61%) Informatica
8 14 (1.61%) OpenAI
8 14 (1.61%) Splunk
9 10 (1.15%) Dynatrace
9 10 (1.15%) UiPath
10 9 (1.03%) Cloudera
11 8 (0.92%) Foundry
11 8 (0.92%) HP
12 7 (0.80%) Bloomberg
12 7 (0.80%) Guidewire
12 7 (0.80%) IBM
13 6 (0.69%) Cisco