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

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 84 75
Rank change year-on-year +11 -9 +5
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 571 426 522
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.89% 3.12% 2.80%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.81% 7.52% 7.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 409 286 389
10th Percentile £358 £394 £425
25th Percentile £413 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% -
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 6,484 5,667 6,936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.23% 41.44% 37.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,443 3,750 5,147
10th Percentile £350 £356 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.56%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
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 92 47 79
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £17.62
25th Percentile £21.35 £23.99 £21.25
Median hourly rate £29.69 £31.35 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.28% +2.77% -5.43%
75th Percentile £54.31 £54.75 £53.38
90th Percentile £76.50 £68.50 £62.75
England median hourly rate £33.73 £27.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +22.65% +22.22% -10.00%

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 2 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 2 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 -7 70 £550 - 46
South London +4 12 £500 +31.28%
West London -27 3 £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 36 (6.30%) SharePoint
2 28 (4.90%) Confluence
3 20 (3.50%) Apache Spark
4 12 (2.10%) Apache
5 10 (1.75%) HCL Notes
6 9 (1.58%) Mendix
7 7 (1.23%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (1.05%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.53%) CMS
9 3 (0.53%) IIS
10 2 (0.35%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.18%) Kentico
11 1 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 11 (1.93%) Microsoft Project
2 10 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (1.75%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.35%) Trello
Business Applications
1 33 (5.78%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.88%) Aladdin
3 4 (0.70%) Endur
3 4 (0.70%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.18%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.18%) Orchestrade
4 1 (0.18%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.18%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.18%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 1 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 571 (100.00%) Azure
2 145 (25.39%) GitHub
3 135 (23.64%) Power Platform
4 97 (16.99%) GitHub Actions
5 79 (13.84%) Serverless
6 78 (13.66%) Azure Data Factory
7 63 (11.03%) AWS
7 63 (11.03%) Azure AKS
7 63 (11.03%) Dynamics 365
8 62 (10.86%) Azure Logic Apps
9 61 (10.68%) Azure Monitor
10 58 (10.16%) Azure Functions
11 55 (9.63%) Entra ID
12 53 (9.28%) Power Automate
13 47 (8.23%) Azure Key Vault
14 45 (7.88%) Azure Service Bus
15 44 (7.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 44 (7.71%) PowerApps
16 36 (6.30%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 32 (5.60%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 27 (4.73%) Firewall
2 12 (2.10%) Network Security
3 11 (1.93%) VPN
4 9 (1.58%) DNS
5 7 (1.23%) WAN
6 5 (0.88%) SD-WAN
7 3 (0.53%) Remote Desktop
8 2 (0.35%) FTP
8 2 (0.35%) HTTP
8 2 (0.35%) LAN
8 2 (0.35%) MPLS
8 2 (0.35%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.18%) BGP
9 1 (0.18%) DHCP
9 1 (0.18%) IPsec
9 1 (0.18%) VLAN
9 1 (0.18%) VRRP
9 1 (0.18%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (14.36%) Power BI
2 66 (11.56%) SQL Server
3 35 (6.13%) Data Warehouse
4 34 (5.95%) Azure SQL Database
5 32 (5.60%) Data Lake
6 27 (4.73%) Delta Lake
7 21 (3.68%) NoSQL
8 17 (2.98%) PostgreSQL
9 16 (2.80%) Oracle Database
10 15 (2.63%) MongoDB
11 14 (2.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 12 (2.10%) Tableau
13 9 (1.58%) Relational Database
14 8 (1.40%) Data Vault
14 8 (1.40%) DynamoDB
15 7 (1.23%) Snowflake Schema
15 7 (1.23%) Spark SQL
15 7 (1.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 6 (1.05%) Redis
16 6 (1.05%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 111 (19.44%) JIRA
2 81 (14.19%) Git
3 49 (8.58%) Jenkins
4 28 (4.90%) GitLab
5 27 (4.73%) Selenium
6 21 (3.68%) Postman
7 13 (2.28%) Cypress.io
7 13 (2.28%) Team Foundation Server
8 10 (1.75%) REST Assured
9 9 (1.58%) SonarQube
10 8 (1.40%) JUnit
10 8 (1.40%) MLflow
10 8 (1.40%) Visual Studio
11 7 (1.23%) JMeter
11 7 (1.23%) TestRail
11 7 (1.23%) Zephyr
12 6 (1.05%) Cucumber
12 6 (1.05%) Liquibase
12 6 (1.05%) Mockito
12 6 (1.05%) TeamCity
General
1 181 (31.70%) Social Skills
2 145 (25.39%) Finance
3 68 (11.91%) Analytical Skills
4 57 (9.98%) Public Sector
5 43 (7.53%) Banking
6 17 (2.98%) Documentation Skills
7 16 (2.80%) Influencing Skills
7 16 (2.80%) Investment Banking
8 15 (2.63%) Financial Institution
9 13 (2.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 12 (2.10%) Retail
11 11 (1.93%) Front Office
12 9 (1.58%) Marketing
12 9 (1.58%) Presentation Skills
13 7 (1.23%) Law
14 6 (1.05%) Back Office
15 5 (0.88%) Military
16 4 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
17 3 (0.53%) General Ledger
18 2 (0.35%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 140 (24.52%) Developer
2 86 (15.06%) Azure Engineer
3 72 (12.61%) DevOps Engineer
4 60 (10.51%) Senior
5 55 (9.63%) Data Engineer
6 47 (8.23%) Analyst
6 47 (8.23%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 43 (7.53%) Architect
8 38 (6.65%) Lead
9 33 (5.78%) Azure Developer
10 24 (4.20%) Azure Architect
11 22 (3.85%) Business Analyst
11 22 (3.85%) Tester
12 19 (3.33%) Platform Engineer
13 16 (2.80%) Consultant
13 16 (2.80%) Senior Developer
13 16 (2.80%) Test Analyst
14 15 (2.63%) Automation Engineer
14 15 (2.63%) C# Developer
14 15 (2.63%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (22.42%) .NET
2 55 (9.63%) REST
3 49 (8.58%) Node.js
4 46 (8.06%) React
5 39 (6.83%) PySpark
6 28 (4.90%) ARM Templates
6 28 (4.90%) Kafka
7 27 (4.73%) .NET Core
8 26 (4.55%) SOAP
9 25 (4.38%) RESTful
10 21 (3.68%) ADO
10 21 (3.68%) CSS
10 21 (3.68%) HTML
11 20 (3.50%) YAML
12 19 (3.33%) Playwright
13 18 (3.15%) .NET Framework
14 17 (2.98%) AngularJS
15 16 (2.80%) ASP.NET
15 16 (2.80%) JSON
16 15 (2.63%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 58 (10.16%) Cloud Native
2 31 (5.43%) Product Ownership
3 25 (4.38%) Distributed Systems
4 21 (3.68%) Legacy Systems
5 19 (3.33%) CMDB
6 15 (2.63%) AI Agents
6 15 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
6 15 (2.63%) Low-Code
7 13 (2.28%) Public Cloud
7 13 (2.28%) Reinsurance
8 10 (1.75%) Data Structures
9 9 (1.58%) Replication
10 8 (1.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 8 (1.40%) NHS
11 6 (1.05%) Virtual Team
12 5 (0.88%) Data Centre
12 5 (0.88%) Derivative
12 5 (0.88%) Linux Command Line
12 5 (0.88%) Security Posture
12 5 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 22 (3.85%) Windows
2 16 (2.80%) Linux
3 8 (1.40%) VMS
4 4 (0.70%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.18%) Android
5 1 (0.18%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.18%) Solaris
5 1 (0.18%) Unix
5 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 564 (98.77%) DevOps
2 321 (56.22%) CI/CD
3 255 (44.66%) Agile
4 146 (25.57%) Infrastructure as Code
5 125 (21.89%) Problem-Solving
6 118 (20.67%) Analytics
7 101 (17.69%) Test Automation
8 93 (16.29%) Business Intelligence
9 91 (15.94%) Scrum
10 90 (15.76%) AI
11 87 (15.24%) Continuous Improvement
12 79 (13.84%) Data Modelling
13 76 (13.31%) Microservices
14 73 (12.78%) Migration
15 66 (11.56%) Containerisation
16 65 (11.38%) Stakeholder Management
17 57 (9.98%) Data Pipeline
18 56 (9.81%) Observability
18 56 (9.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 55 (9.63%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 197 (34.50%) SQL
2 161 (28.20%) Python
3 131 (22.94%) C#
4 99 (17.34%) JavaScript
5 57 (9.98%) Bicep
5 57 (9.98%) PowerShell
6 49 (8.58%) TypeScript
7 45 (7.88%) Java
8 26 (4.55%) Bash
9 18 (3.15%) Scala
10 15 (2.63%) T-SQL
11 10 (1.75%) Formula Language
11 10 (1.75%) LotusScript
11 10 (1.75%) PL/SQL
12 9 (1.58%) Kusto Query Language
13 4 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 4 (0.70%) R
14 3 (0.53%) Go
14 3 (0.53%) X++
14 3 (0.53%) XPath
Qualifications
1 130 (22.77%) Security Cleared
2 115 (20.14%) SC Cleared
3 59 (10.33%) Azure Certification
4 40 (7.01%) Degree
5 19 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
6 16 (2.80%) BPSS Clearance
7 13 (2.28%) ISTQB
8 10 (1.75%) Master's Degree
9 9 (1.58%) PMI Certification
10 7 (1.23%) PMP
11 5 (0.88%) ISEB
11 5 (0.88%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 4 (0.70%) ITIL Certification
13 3 (0.53%) CBAP
13 3 (0.53%) DBS Check
14 2 (0.35%) AWS Certification
14 2 (0.35%) CISSP
14 2 (0.35%) MBA
15 1 (0.18%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (8.58%) QA
2 42 (7.36%) Data Quality
3 20 (3.50%) GDPR
4 13 (2.28%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.23%) WCAG
6 6 (1.05%) PMO
6 6 (1.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (0.70%) HIPAA
7 4 (0.70%) NIST
7 4 (0.70%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.53%) HL7
8 3 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.53%) NCSC
9 2 (0.35%) EU AI Act
9 2 (0.35%) FedRAMP
9 2 (0.35%) SLA
9 2 (0.35%) Software Quality Assurance
10 1 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.18%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 98 (17.16%) Docker
2 32 (5.60%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.40%) Virtual Desktop
4 7 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.18%) KVM
6 1 (0.18%) Squid
Systems Management
1 170 (29.77%) Terraform
2 101 (17.69%) Kubernetes
3 25 (4.38%) Ansible
4 11 (1.93%) Grafana
5 8 (1.40%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.70%) Packer
7 3 (0.53%) Argo
7 3 (0.53%) HP ALM
7 3 (0.53%) Kibana
8 2 (0.35%) Fluentd
8 2 (0.35%) Kubeflow
8 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.35%) Opsgenie
8 2 (0.35%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.18%) CASB
9 1 (0.18%) Icinga
9 1 (0.18%) Istio
Vendors
1 196 (34.33%) Microsoft
2 87 (15.24%) Databricks
3 46 (8.06%) Oracle
4 32 (5.60%) ServiceNow
5 25 (4.38%) OpenAI
6 17 (2.98%) Salesforce
7 10 (1.75%) Lotus
7 10 (1.75%) SAP
8 9 (1.58%) Kofax
9 8 (1.40%) Foundry
9 8 (1.40%) Informatica
9 8 (1.40%) VMware
10 6 (1.05%) DocuSign
10 6 (1.05%) Splunk
11 5 (0.88%) Aruba
11 5 (0.88%) Cisco
11 5 (0.88%) Citrix
11 5 (0.88%) Sitecore
12 4 (0.70%) Charles River
12 4 (0.70%) Google