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

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 89 58
Rank change year-on-year +27 -31 +21
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 707 401 635
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.07% 3.16% 3.55%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.40% 7.42% 9.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 503 289 417
10th Percentile £363 £374 £413
25th Percentile £414 £440 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
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 7,525 5,407 6,717
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.33% 42.58% 37.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,175 3,760 4,950
10th Percentile £350 £356 £331
25th Percentile £425 £439 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £664 £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 106 53 77
10th Percentile £20.01 £22.27 £17.78
25th Percentile £25.31 £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 £51.81 £53.75 £40.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £72.50 £61.00
England median hourly rate £45.00 £26.75 £20.77
% change year-on-year +68.22% +28.79% -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 18 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 18 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 18 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 -9 74 £525 -3.23% 37
South London 0 17 £500 +1.01% 3
West London -25 6 £375 -21.05% 10
East London -8 2 £604 +16.34% 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 46 (6.51%) SharePoint
2 31 (4.38%) Confluence
3 30 (4.24%) Apache Spark
4 22 (3.11%) Apache
5 14 (1.98%) Apache Airflow
6 12 (1.70%) Microsoft Exchange
7 11 (1.56%) HCL Notes
8 10 (1.41%) Mendix
9 3 (0.42%) 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 (3.11%) 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 36 (5.09%) 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 (0.42%) Findur
4 3 (0.42%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 2 (0.28%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.14%) 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%) 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
6 1 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 707 (100.00%) Azure
2 201 (28.43%) GitHub
3 128 (18.10%) Power Platform
4 122 (17.26%) GitHub Actions
5 97 (13.72%) Azure Data Factory
6 92 (13.01%) AWS
7 73 (10.33%) Azure Monitor
7 73 (10.33%) Serverless
8 72 (10.18%) Azure AKS
9 70 (9.90%) Entra ID
10 65 (9.19%) Dynamics 365
11 64 (9.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 59 (8.35%) Power Automate
13 57 (8.06%) Azure Logic Apps
14 55 (7.78%) Azure Key Vault
15 52 (7.36%) Azure Service Bus
16 46 (6.51%) Azure Functions
17 40 (5.66%) Microsoft 365
17 40 (5.66%) PowerApps
18 33 (4.67%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (2.97%) 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 (0.42%) FTP
7 3 (0.42%) 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 (11.03%) SQL Server
2 69 (9.76%) Power BI
3 57 (8.06%) Data Lake
4 48 (6.79%) Azure SQL Database
5 46 (6.51%) Data Warehouse
5 46 (6.51%) Delta Lake
6 30 (4.24%) NoSQL
7 19 (2.69%) Oracle Database
8 17 (2.40%) PostgreSQL
9 15 (2.12%) Spark SQL
10 14 (1.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 13 (1.84%) Snowflake Schema
12 12 (1.70%) MongoDB
12 12 (1.70%) Relational Database
13 11 (1.56%) Big Data
14 10 (1.41%) Metadata
14 10 (1.41%) Redis
14 10 (1.41%) Tableau
15 9 (1.27%) DynamoDB
15 9 (1.27%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 138 (19.52%) JIRA
2 108 (15.28%) Git
3 64 (9.05%) Jenkins
4 33 (4.67%) GitLab
5 31 (4.38%) Selenium
6 17 (2.40%) Postman
7 15 (2.12%) 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 (1.41%) MLflow
10 10 (1.41%) Team Foundation Server
11 9 (1.27%) Cucumber
11 9 (1.27%) SonarQube
12 8 (1.13%) 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 (27.58%) Finance
2 168 (23.76%) Social Skills
3 76 (10.75%) Analytical Skills
4 66 (9.34%) Public Sector
5 49 (6.93%) Banking
6 18 (2.55%) Financial Institution
7 16 (2.26%) Documentation Skills
7 16 (2.26%) Front Office
8 13 (1.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (1.70%) Investment Banking
10 11 (1.56%) Retail
11 9 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
11 9 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
12 7 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
13 6 (0.85%) Legal
14 5 (0.71%) Marketing
15 3 (0.42%) Law
15 3 (0.42%) Local Government
15 3 (0.42%) Pharmaceutical
16 2 (0.28%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 137 (19.38%) Developer
2 107 (15.13%) Azure Engineer
3 101 (14.29%) Senior
4 88 (12.45%) Data Engineer
5 78 (11.03%) DevOps Engineer
6 58 (8.20%) Lead
7 51 (7.21%) Architect
8 50 (7.07%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 44 (6.22%) Analyst
10 29 (4.10%) Azure Developer
10 29 (4.10%) Platform Engineer
11 28 (3.96%) Tester
12 26 (3.68%) Azure Architect
13 23 (3.25%) IT Support
14 20 (2.83%) Business Analyst
14 20 (2.83%) Support Engineer
14 20 (2.83%) Test Analyst
15 19 (2.69%) Consultant
15 19 (2.69%) IT Support Engineer
15 19 (2.69%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 119 (16.83%) .NET
2 58 (8.20%) PySpark
3 47 (6.65%) REST
4 46 (6.51%) React
5 45 (6.36%) Node.js
6 33 (4.67%) Kafka
7 30 (4.24%) Playwright
8 29 (4.10%) YAML
9 28 (3.96%) ADO
10 26 (3.68%) .NET Core
10 26 (3.68%) AngularJS
10 26 (3.68%) JSON
11 25 (3.54%) ARM Templates
12 24 (3.39%) .NET Framework
12 24 (3.39%) CSS
12 24 (3.39%) HTML
12 24 (3.39%) OAuth
13 21 (2.97%) RESTful
14 18 (2.55%) Microsoft Graph
15 17 (2.40%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 78 (11.03%) Cloud Native
2 38 (5.37%) Product Ownership
3 29 (4.10%) Legacy Systems
4 25 (3.54%) Distributed Systems
5 19 (2.69%) Enterprise Software
6 18 (2.55%) Reinsurance
7 16 (2.26%) AI Agents
7 16 (2.26%) Low-Code
8 11 (1.56%) Onboarding
9 10 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
9 10 (1.41%) Replication
10 8 (1.13%) Data Structures
10 8 (1.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 8 (1.13%) NHS
10 8 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
11 7 (0.99%) Public Cloud
12 6 (0.85%) Management Information System
13 5 (0.71%) Enterprise Cloud
13 5 (0.71%) Virtual Team
14 4 (0.57%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 41 (5.80%) Windows
2 20 (2.83%) Linux
3 9 (1.27%) 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
1 700 (99.01%) DevOps
2 397 (56.15%) CI/CD
3 262 (37.06%) Agile
4 169 (23.90%) Infrastructure as Code
5 131 (18.53%) Analytics
6 122 (17.26%) Problem-Solving
7 121 (17.11%) Test Automation
8 104 (14.71%) Migration
9 102 (14.43%) Data Modelling
10 101 (14.29%) AI
11 100 (14.14%) Continuous Improvement
12 88 (12.45%) Data Pipeline
13 86 (12.16%) Microservices
14 84 (11.88%) Business Intelligence
15 81 (11.46%) Observability
15 81 (11.46%) Scrum
16 80 (11.32%) Containerisation
17 75 (10.61%) Stakeholder Management
18 70 (9.90%) Data Engineering
18 70 (9.90%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 271 (38.33%) SQL
2 213 (30.13%) Python
3 153 (21.64%) C#
4 81 (11.46%) JavaScript
5 69 (9.76%) PowerShell
6 64 (9.05%) Bicep
7 59 (8.35%) TypeScript
8 52 (7.36%) Java
9 42 (5.94%) Bash
10 25 (3.54%) Scala
11 18 (2.55%) T-SQL
12 13 (1.84%) Kusto Query Language
13 12 (1.70%) PL/SQL
14 11 (1.56%) Formula Language
14 11 (1.56%) LotusScript
15 7 (0.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 5 (0.71%) Go
17 4 (0.57%) Shell Script
18 3 (0.42%) Apex Code
18 3 (0.42%) C
Qualifications
1 176 (24.89%) Security Cleared
2 159 (22.49%) SC Cleared
3 66 (9.34%) Azure Certification
4 37 (5.23%) Degree
5 19 (2.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (2.55%) ISTQB
7 17 (2.40%) BPSS Clearance
8 15 (2.12%) 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 (0.42%) DV Cleared
11 3 (0.42%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.28%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.28%) ISEB
12 2 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.28%) MBA
13 1 (0.14%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (11.60%) QA
2 66 (9.34%) Data Quality
3 16 (2.26%) GDPR
4 15 (2.12%) Accessibility
5 9 (1.27%) WCAG
6 8 (1.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 7 (0.99%) PMO
8 6 (0.85%) NIST
9 4 (0.57%) NCSC
9 4 (0.57%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.57%) SLA
10 3 (0.42%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.42%) HL7
11 2 (0.28%) FedRAMP
11 2 (0.28%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 2 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 2 (0.28%) Software Quality Assurance
12 1 (0.14%) EU AI Act
12 1 (0.14%) GRC
12 1 (0.14%) ITGC
System Software
1 108 (15.28%) Docker
2 46 (6.51%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.13%) 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
1 203 (28.71%) Terraform
2 123 (17.40%) Kubernetes
3 33 (4.67%) Ansible
4 16 (2.26%) 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 (0.42%) 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
1 231 (32.67%) Microsoft
2 113 (15.98%) Databricks
3 59 (8.35%) Oracle
4 34 (4.81%) ServiceNow
5 27 (3.82%) OpenAI
6 20 (2.83%) Salesforce
7 17 (2.40%) SAP
8 15 (2.12%) Informatica
9 13 (1.84%) VMware
10 11 (1.56%) Lotus
11 10 (1.41%) Foundry
11 10 (1.41%) Kofax
12 9 (1.27%) 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%) Adobe
15 4 (0.57%) Cisco