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

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 85 79
Rank change year-on-year +9 -6 +3
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 590 413 520
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.78% 3.05% 2.85%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.60% 7.34% 7.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 423 283 380
10th Percentile £358 £400 £425
25th Percentile £413 £463 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £570
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -3.51% -0.87%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £46.53 - -
25th Percentile £47.31 - -
Median hourly rate £49.25 - -
75th Percentile £51.81 - -
90th Percentile £52.98 - -
England median hourly rate £74.63 £73.75 £65.50
% change year-on-year +1.19% +12.60% -0.44%

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 6,858 5,626 6,798
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.00% 41.54% 37.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,692 3,778 5,007
10th Percentile £348 £355 £325
25th Percentile £424 £450 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £673
90th Percentile £750 £788 £763
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 99 51 79
10th Percentile £18.20 £22.27 £17.62
25th Percentile £21.84 £23.99 £21.63
Median hourly rate £34.00 £34.00 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year - +11.48% -10.29%
75th Percentile £52.96 £57.25 £53.63
90th Percentile £70.50 £73.75 £62.75
England median hourly rate £37.50 £27.50 £21.64
% change year-on-year +36.36% +27.08% -13.44%

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 19 February 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
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 19 February 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 -12 69 £540 -1.82% 35
South London -3 14 £500 +31.28%
West London -27 3 £375 -21.05% 7
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 37 (6.27%) SharePoint
2 32 (5.42%) Confluence
3 21 (3.56%) Apache Spark
4 14 (2.37%) Apache
5 10 (1.69%) HCL Notes
6 9 (1.53%) Apache Airflow
6 9 (1.53%) Mendix
7 8 (1.36%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.51%) CMS
8 3 (0.51%) IIS
9 2 (0.34%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.17%) Kentico
10 1 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 10 (1.69%) Microsoft Project
1 10 (1.69%) MS Visio
2 8 (1.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.34%) Trello
5 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 33 (5.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.68%) Aladdin
2 4 (0.68%) Endur
2 4 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.17%) Loan IQ
3 1 (0.17%) Maximo
3 1 (0.17%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.17%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.17%) Orchestrade
3 1 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.17%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.17%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.17%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 590 (100.00%) Azure
2 161 (27.29%) GitHub
3 133 (22.54%) Power Platform
4 107 (18.14%) GitHub Actions
5 85 (14.41%) Azure Data Factory
6 75 (12.71%) Serverless
7 66 (11.19%) AWS
7 66 (11.19%) Azure Monitor
8 62 (10.51%) Azure AKS
9 59 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
10 58 (9.83%) Azure Logic Apps
11 55 (9.32%) Entra ID
12 54 (9.15%) Azure Functions
13 53 (8.98%) Power Automate
14 51 (8.64%) Azure Key Vault
15 49 (8.31%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 47 (7.97%) Azure Service Bus
17 43 (7.29%) PowerApps
18 33 (5.59%) PaaS
19 32 (5.42%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 26 (4.41%) Firewall
2 12 (2.03%) Network Security
3 11 (1.86%) DNS
4 9 (1.53%) VPN
5 7 (1.19%) WAN
6 5 (0.85%) SD-WAN
7 4 (0.68%) Remote Desktop
7 4 (0.68%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.34%) FTP
8 2 (0.34%) HTTP
8 2 (0.34%) LAN
8 2 (0.34%) MPLS
9 1 (0.17%) BGP
9 1 (0.17%) IPsec
9 1 (0.17%) VLAN
9 1 (0.17%) VRRP
9 1 (0.17%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (13.39%) Power BI
2 73 (12.37%) SQL Server
3 39 (6.61%) Data Lake
4 36 (6.10%) Azure SQL Database
5 35 (5.93%) Data Warehouse
6 32 (5.42%) Delta Lake
7 18 (3.05%) Oracle Database
7 18 (3.05%) PostgreSQL
8 17 (2.88%) NoSQL
9 14 (2.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 11 (1.86%) Tableau
11 10 (1.69%) MongoDB
12 9 (1.53%) Data Vault
12 9 (1.53%) Redis
12 9 (1.53%) Relational Database
12 9 (1.53%) Snowflake Schema
13 8 (1.36%) DynamoDB
14 7 (1.19%) Spark SQL
15 6 (1.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 6 (1.02%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 116 (19.66%) JIRA
2 84 (14.24%) Git
3 53 (8.98%) Jenkins
4 33 (5.59%) GitLab
5 31 (5.25%) Selenium
6 21 (3.56%) Postman
7 16 (2.71%) Cypress.io
8 14 (2.37%) Team Foundation Server
9 12 (2.03%) REST Assured
10 10 (1.69%) TestRail
11 9 (1.53%) MLflow
11 9 (1.53%) Visual Studio
12 8 (1.36%) JMeter
12 8 (1.36%) JUnit
12 8 (1.36%) Zephyr
13 7 (1.19%) SonarQube
13 7 (1.19%) SpecFlow
14 6 (1.02%) Cucumber
14 6 (1.02%) Liquibase
14 6 (1.02%) Mockito
General
1 179 (30.34%) Social Skills
2 153 (25.93%) Finance
3 69 (11.69%) Analytical Skills
4 60 (10.17%) Public Sector
5 40 (6.78%) Banking
6 15 (2.54%) Documentation Skills
6 15 (2.54%) Financial Institution
6 15 (2.54%) Influencing Skills
7 14 (2.37%) Investment Banking
8 12 (2.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (1.86%) Front Office
9 11 (1.86%) Retail
10 9 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
11 8 (1.36%) Marketing
11 8 (1.36%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (1.19%) Back Office
13 6 (1.02%) Law
14 4 (0.68%) Military
15 3 (0.51%) General Ledger
16 2 (0.34%) Billing
Job Titles
1 132 (22.37%) Developer
2 91 (15.42%) Azure Engineer
3 72 (12.20%) DevOps Engineer
4 70 (11.86%) Senior
5 61 (10.34%) Data Engineer
6 50 (8.47%) Analyst
7 49 (8.31%) Architect
7 49 (8.31%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 42 (7.12%) Lead
9 32 (5.42%) Azure Developer
10 24 (4.07%) Azure Architect
10 24 (4.07%) Business Analyst
11 23 (3.90%) Tester
12 22 (3.73%) Platform Engineer
13 18 (3.05%) Test Analyst
14 16 (2.71%) Consultant
15 15 (2.54%) Automation Engineer
15 15 (2.54%) Cloud Engineer
15 15 (2.54%) Senior Developer
16 14 (2.37%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 123 (20.85%) .NET
2 49 (8.31%) React
2 49 (8.31%) REST
3 45 (7.63%) Node.js
4 44 (7.46%) PySpark
5 30 (5.08%) ARM Templates
6 25 (4.24%) .NET Core
6 25 (4.24%) Kafka
6 25 (4.24%) RESTful
7 23 (3.90%) CSS
7 23 (3.90%) Playwright
8 22 (3.73%) HTML
8 22 (3.73%) YAML
9 21 (3.56%) .NET Framework
9 21 (3.56%) ADO
10 18 (3.05%) SOAP
11 17 (2.88%) OAuth
12 16 (2.71%) AngularJS
13 13 (2.20%) JSON
13 13 (2.20%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 58 (9.83%) Cloud Native
2 32 (5.42%) Product Ownership
3 24 (4.07%) Distributed Systems
4 23 (3.90%) Legacy Systems
5 17 (2.88%) Reinsurance
6 15 (2.54%) AI Agents
6 15 (2.54%) Enterprise Software
6 15 (2.54%) Low-Code
7 13 (2.20%) Public Cloud
8 11 (1.86%) Replication
9 10 (1.69%) CMDB
9 10 (1.69%) Data Structures
10 8 (1.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 8 (1.36%) NHS
11 6 (1.02%) Linux Command Line
11 6 (1.02%) Virtual Team
12 5 (0.85%) Data Centre
12 5 (0.85%) Derivative
12 5 (0.85%) Enterprise Cloud
12 5 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 22 (3.73%) Windows
2 16 (2.71%) Linux
3 9 (1.53%) VMS
4 3 (0.51%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.17%) Android
5 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.17%) Solaris
5 1 (0.17%) Unix
5 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 583 (98.81%) DevOps
2 336 (56.95%) CI/CD
3 251 (42.54%) Agile
4 157 (26.61%) Infrastructure as Code
5 128 (21.69%) Problem-Solving
6 118 (20.00%) Analytics
7 107 (18.14%) Test Automation
8 97 (16.44%) Continuous Improvement
9 96 (16.27%) AI
10 93 (15.76%) Business Intelligence
11 85 (14.41%) Scrum
12 80 (13.56%) Data Modelling
13 79 (13.39%) Migration
14 74 (12.54%) Containerisation
15 73 (12.37%) Microservices
16 70 (11.86%) Stakeholder Management
17 60 (10.17%) Data Pipeline
17 60 (10.17%) Observability
18 55 (9.32%) Data Engineering
19 54 (9.15%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 205 (34.75%) SQL
2 178 (30.17%) Python
3 134 (22.71%) C#
4 94 (15.93%) JavaScript
5 58 (9.83%) Bicep
6 55 (9.32%) PowerShell
6 55 (9.32%) TypeScript
7 48 (8.14%) Java
8 31 (5.25%) Bash
9 22 (3.73%) Scala
10 17 (2.88%) T-SQL
11 10 (1.69%) Formula Language
11 10 (1.69%) Kusto Query Language
11 10 (1.69%) LotusScript
11 10 (1.69%) PL/SQL
12 4 (0.68%) C
12 4 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 4 (0.68%) R
13 3 (0.51%) Go
13 3 (0.51%) XPath
Qualifications
1 132 (22.37%) Security Cleared
2 115 (19.49%) SC Cleared
3 61 (10.34%) Azure Certification
4 38 (6.44%) Degree
5 19 (3.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (3.22%) Microsoft Certification
6 16 (2.71%) BPSS Clearance
7 14 (2.37%) ISTQB
8 9 (1.53%) Master's Degree
9 7 (1.19%) PMI Certification
10 5 (0.85%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 5 (0.85%) PMP
11 4 (0.68%) ISEB
11 4 (0.68%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (0.51%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.34%) AWS Certification
13 2 (0.34%) CBAP
13 2 (0.34%) MBA
14 1 (0.17%) DV Cleared
14 1 (0.17%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (10.00%) QA
2 43 (7.29%) Data Quality
3 22 (3.73%) GDPR
4 14 (2.37%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.36%) PMO
5 8 (1.36%) WCAG
6 6 (1.02%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (0.68%) HIPAA
7 4 (0.68%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.51%) EU AI Act
8 3 (0.51%) HL7
8 3 (0.51%) NIST
9 2 (0.34%) FedRAMP
9 2 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.34%) NCSC
9 2 (0.34%) SLA
9 2 (0.34%) Software Quality Assurance
10 1 (0.17%) EMIR
10 1 (0.17%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (0.17%) MiFID
System Software
1 103 (17.46%) Docker
2 32 (5.42%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.53%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (1.19%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.51%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.17%) HDFS
6 1 (0.17%) KVM
6 1 (0.17%) Squid
Systems Management
1 186 (31.53%) Terraform
2 104 (17.63%) Kubernetes
3 25 (4.24%) Ansible
4 12 (2.03%) Grafana
5 9 (1.53%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.68%) Argo
6 4 (0.68%) HP ALM
7 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (0.51%) Packer
8 2 (0.34%) Fluentd
8 2 (0.34%) Kibana
8 2 (0.34%) Kubeflow
8 2 (0.34%) Opsgenie
9 1 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.17%) CASB
9 1 (0.17%) Icinga
9 1 (0.17%) Istio
9 1 (0.17%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 195 (33.05%) Microsoft
2 93 (15.76%) Databricks
3 52 (8.81%) Oracle
4 28 (4.75%) ServiceNow
5 26 (4.41%) OpenAI
6 19 (3.22%) Salesforce
7 10 (1.69%) Lotus
7 10 (1.69%) SAP
7 10 (1.69%) VMware
8 9 (1.53%) Kofax
9 8 (1.36%) Foundry
10 7 (1.19%) Informatica
11 6 (1.02%) Splunk
12 5 (0.85%) Aruba
12 5 (0.85%) Cisco
12 5 (0.85%) Citrix
12 5 (0.85%) Sitecore
13 4 (0.68%) Charles River
13 4 (0.68%) Google
13 4 (0.68%) HP