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

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 76 78
Rank change year-on-year +5 +2 +2
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 559 439 512
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.83% 3.16% 2.81%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.65% 7.67% 7.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 409 296 377
10th Percentile £357 £386 £425
25th Percentile £406 £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 £696 £725 £719
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% +8.45%

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 6,463 5,724 6,809
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.33% 41.23% 37.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,447 3,832 5,017
10th Percentile £349 £351 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £780 £763
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 45 70
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £17.70
25th Percentile £21.65 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £27.61 £31.35 £33.25
Median % change year-on-year -11.93% -5.73% +28.65%
75th Percentile £56.38 £48.75 £57.88
90th Percentile £78.75 £64.50 £67.30
England median hourly rate £30.00 £28.41 £23.23
% change year-on-year +5.60% +22.31% +0.33%

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 21 January 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 21 January 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 -11 72 £550 -0.68% 35
South London -1 12 £500 +31.58% 3
West London -23 3 £375 -21.05% 5
East London -8 1 £360 -27.64% 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 36 (6.44%) SharePoint
2 27 (4.83%) Confluence
3 20 (3.58%) Apache Spark
4 12 (2.15%) Apache
5 10 (1.79%) HCL Notes
6 9 (1.61%) Mendix
7 7 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (1.07%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.54%) CMS
9 3 (0.54%) IIS
10 2 (0.36%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.18%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.18%) Kentico
Applications
1 11 (1.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (1.79%) Microsoft Project
3 8 (1.43%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
6 2 (0.36%) Trello
Business Applications
1 32 (5.72%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.89%) Aladdin
3 4 (0.72%) Endur
3 4 (0.72%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.18%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.18%) Orchestrade
4 1 (0.18%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 559 (100.00%) Azure
2 145 (25.94%) GitHub
3 138 (24.69%) Power Platform
4 102 (18.25%) GitHub Actions
5 80 (14.31%) Serverless
6 77 (13.77%) Azure Data Factory
7 69 (12.34%) Azure AKS
8 66 (11.81%) AWS
9 64 (11.45%) Dynamics 365
10 61 (10.91%) Azure Logic Apps
11 57 (10.20%) Azure Monitor
12 56 (10.02%) Azure Functions
12 56 (10.02%) Entra ID
12 56 (10.02%) Power Automate
13 46 (8.23%) PowerApps
14 45 (8.05%) Azure Service Bus
15 42 (7.51%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 41 (7.33%) Azure Key Vault
17 36 (6.44%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 34 (6.08%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 26 (4.65%) Firewall
2 12 (2.15%) Network Security
2 12 (2.15%) VPN
3 9 (1.61%) DNS
4 7 (1.25%) WAN
5 5 (0.89%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.36%) FTP
6 2 (0.36%) HTTP
6 2 (0.36%) LAN
6 2 (0.36%) MPLS
6 2 (0.36%) Remote Desktop
6 2 (0.36%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.18%) BGP
7 1 (0.18%) DHCP
7 1 (0.18%) IPsec
7 1 (0.18%) VLAN
7 1 (0.18%) VRRP
7 1 (0.18%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (15.21%) Power BI
2 60 (10.73%) SQL Server
3 35 (6.26%) Data Warehouse
4 33 (5.90%) Azure SQL Database
5 30 (5.37%) Data Lake
6 24 (4.29%) Delta Lake
7 23 (4.11%) NoSQL
8 18 (3.22%) PostgreSQL
9 16 (2.86%) MongoDB
10 13 (2.33%) Oracle Database
10 13 (2.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 12 (2.15%) Tableau
12 9 (1.61%) Relational Database
13 8 (1.43%) Data Vault
13 8 (1.43%) DynamoDB
14 7 (1.25%) Spark SQL
14 7 (1.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 6 (1.07%) Snowflake Schema
15 6 (1.07%) Star Schema
16 5 (0.89%) GIS
Development Applications
1 103 (18.43%) JIRA
2 75 (13.42%) Git
3 52 (9.30%) Jenkins
4 31 (5.55%) GitLab
5 28 (5.01%) Selenium
6 23 (4.11%) Postman
7 13 (2.33%) Cypress.io
8 11 (1.97%) REST Assured
9 10 (1.79%) JUnit
9 10 (1.79%) SonarQube
9 10 (1.79%) Team Foundation Server
10 8 (1.43%) MLflow
10 8 (1.43%) Mockito
10 8 (1.43%) TeamCity
10 8 (1.43%) Visual Studio
11 7 (1.25%) Cucumber
11 7 (1.25%) JMeter
11 7 (1.25%) SpecFlow
11 7 (1.25%) TestRail
11 7 (1.25%) Zephyr
General
1 174 (31.13%) Social Skills
2 137 (24.51%) Finance
3 62 (11.09%) Analytical Skills
4 55 (9.84%) Public Sector
5 44 (7.87%) Banking
6 17 (3.04%) Documentation Skills
6 17 (3.04%) Investment Banking
7 15 (2.68%) Financial Institution
7 15 (2.68%) Influencing Skills
8 13 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (2.15%) Retail
10 10 (1.79%) Front Office
11 9 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
12 8 (1.43%) Marketing
13 6 (1.07%) Back Office
13 6 (1.07%) Law
14 5 (0.89%) Military
15 3 (0.54%) General Ledger
15 3 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
16 2 (0.36%) Billing
Job Titles
1 137 (24.51%) Developer
2 86 (15.38%) Azure Engineer
3 76 (13.60%) DevOps Engineer
4 57 (10.20%) Senior
5 53 (9.48%) Data Engineer
6 49 (8.77%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 43 (7.69%) Analyst
8 40 (7.16%) Architect
9 37 (6.62%) Lead
10 30 (5.37%) Azure Developer
11 23 (4.11%) Azure Architect
12 21 (3.76%) Tester
13 19 (3.40%) Consultant
14 18 (3.22%) Business Analyst
14 18 (3.22%) Platform Engineer
15 16 (2.86%) Azure Data Engineer
15 16 (2.86%) Senior Developer
15 16 (2.86%) Test Analyst
16 15 (2.68%) ServiceNow Developer
17 14 (2.50%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 125 (22.36%) .NET
2 52 (9.30%) REST
3 45 (8.05%) Node.js
4 43 (7.69%) React
5 37 (6.62%) PySpark
6 29 (5.19%) ARM Templates
7 28 (5.01%) Kafka
7 28 (5.01%) RESTful
8 25 (4.47%) SOAP
9 24 (4.29%) .NET Core
10 23 (4.11%) YAML
11 21 (3.76%) Playwright
12 19 (3.40%) HTML
13 18 (3.22%) ADO
14 17 (3.04%) AngularJS
14 17 (3.04%) CSS
15 16 (2.86%) ASP.NET
15 16 (2.86%) OAuth
16 15 (2.68%) .NET Framework
16 15 (2.68%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 58 (10.38%) Cloud Native
2 29 (5.19%) Product Ownership
3 26 (4.65%) Distributed Systems
4 19 (3.40%) CMDB
5 18 (3.22%) Legacy Systems
6 15 (2.68%) AI Agents
6 15 (2.68%) Low-Code
7 14 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
8 13 (2.33%) Public Cloud
9 10 (1.79%) Reinsurance
10 9 (1.61%) Data Structures
11 8 (1.43%) NHS
12 7 (1.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 6 (1.07%) Mobile App
13 6 (1.07%) Replication
13 6 (1.07%) Virtual Team
14 5 (0.89%) Data Centre
14 5 (0.89%) Enterprise Cloud
14 5 (0.89%) Linux Command Line
14 5 (0.89%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 20 (3.58%) Windows
2 15 (2.68%) Linux
3 8 (1.43%) VMS
4 5 (0.89%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.54%) Android
5 3 (0.54%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.18%) Solaris
6 1 (0.18%) Unix
6 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 552 (98.75%) DevOps
2 323 (57.78%) CI/CD
3 252 (45.08%) Agile
4 149 (26.65%) Infrastructure as Code
5 121 (21.65%) Problem-Solving
6 113 (20.21%) Analytics
7 100 (17.89%) Test Automation
8 92 (16.46%) Business Intelligence
9 90 (16.10%) Scrum
10 81 (14.49%) AI
11 80 (14.31%) Microservices
12 79 (14.13%) Continuous Improvement
13 76 (13.60%) Data Modelling
14 72 (12.88%) Migration
15 69 (12.34%) Containerisation
16 58 (10.38%) Data Pipeline
17 57 (10.20%) Stakeholder Management
18 54 (9.66%) Observability
19 53 (9.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 53 (9.48%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 192 (34.35%) SQL
2 157 (28.09%) Python
3 126 (22.54%) C#
4 100 (17.89%) JavaScript
5 60 (10.73%) Bicep
6 59 (10.55%) PowerShell
7 49 (8.77%) Java
8 45 (8.05%) TypeScript
9 28 (5.01%) Bash
10 14 (2.50%) Scala
11 12 (2.15%) T-SQL
12 10 (1.79%) Formula Language
12 10 (1.79%) LotusScript
12 10 (1.79%) PL/SQL
13 9 (1.61%) Kusto Query Language
14 4 (0.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 4 (0.72%) R
15 3 (0.54%) Go
15 3 (0.54%) X++
15 3 (0.54%) XPath
Qualifications
1 128 (22.90%) Security Cleared
2 114 (20.39%) SC Cleared
3 55 (9.84%) Azure Certification
4 39 (6.98%) Degree
5 20 (3.58%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (3.40%) Microsoft Certification
7 16 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
8 13 (2.33%) ISTQB
9 10 (1.79%) Master's Degree
10 8 (1.43%) PMI Certification
11 6 (1.07%) PMP
12 5 (0.89%) ISEB
12 5 (0.89%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 4 (0.72%) ITIL Certification
14 3 (0.54%) CBAP
14 3 (0.54%) DBS Check
15 2 (0.36%) CISSP
15 2 (0.36%) MBA
16 1 (0.18%) CISA
16 1 (0.18%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (8.59%) QA
2 38 (6.80%) Data Quality
3 20 (3.58%) GDPR
4 14 (2.50%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.43%) WCAG
6 6 (1.07%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 5 (0.89%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.72%) HIPAA
8 4 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.72%) NIST
8 4 (0.72%) PMO
9 3 (0.54%) HL7
9 3 (0.54%) NCSC
10 2 (0.36%) EU AI Act
10 2 (0.36%) FedRAMP
10 2 (0.36%) SLA
10 2 (0.36%) Software Quality Assurance
11 1 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.18%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 1 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 102 (18.25%) Docker
2 33 (5.90%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.25%) Virtual Desktop
3 7 (1.25%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.54%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.18%) KVM
5 1 (0.18%) Squid
Systems Management
1 170 (30.41%) Terraform
2 107 (19.14%) Kubernetes
3 29 (5.19%) Ansible
4 13 (2.33%) Grafana
5 10 (1.79%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.89%) Kibana
7 4 (0.72%) Packer
7 4 (0.72%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.54%) Argo
8 3 (0.54%) HP ALM
8 3 (0.54%) Istio
9 2 (0.36%) Fluentd
9 2 (0.36%) Kubeflow
9 2 (0.36%) Opsgenie
10 1 (0.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.18%) CASB
10 1 (0.18%) Icinga
10 1 (0.18%) linkerd
10 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.18%) Puppet
Vendors
1 198 (35.42%) Microsoft
2 85 (15.21%) Databricks
3 42 (7.51%) Oracle
4 33 (5.90%) ServiceNow
5 21 (3.76%) OpenAI
6 17 (3.04%) Salesforce
7 10 (1.79%) Lotus
7 10 (1.79%) SAP
8 9 (1.61%) Kofax
9 8 (1.43%) Informatica
10 6 (1.07%) DocuSign
10 6 (1.07%) Splunk
11 5 (0.89%) Aruba
11 5 (0.89%) Cisco
11 5 (0.89%) Citrix
11 5 (0.89%) Foundry
11 5 (0.89%) Sitecore
11 5 (0.89%) VMware
12 4 (0.72%) Charles River
12 4 (0.72%) Google