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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 76 57
Rank change year-on-year +20 -19 +16
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 864 474 644
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.30% 3.52% 3.98%
As % of the Cloud Services category 10.38% 8.17% 9.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 609 338 419
10th Percentile £375 £348 £387
25th Percentile £425 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £600
90th Percentile £706 £750 £676
England median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -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 8,327 5,801 6,589
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.44% 43.09% 40.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,683 3,974 4,771
10th Percentile £363 £338 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £536 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.75% -2.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £656 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 88 49
10th Percentile £18.90 £22.85 £20.40
25th Percentile £23.14 £24.77 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.04 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.27% +7.54% -50.91%
75th Percentile £57.50 £40.94 £38.75
90th Percentile £76.93 £68.85 £59.20
England median hourly rate £35.50 £26.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +36.54% +4.00% -22.65%

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 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 18 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 18 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 +2 91 £525 +2.44% 40
South London -1 11 £525 - 1
West London -17 5 £625 +14.16% 5
East London -3 3 £604 +16.06% 7
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 51 (5.90%) SharePoint
2 37 (4.28%) Confluence
3 32 (3.70%) Apache Spark
4 29 (3.36%) Apache Airflow
5 25 (2.89%) Apache
6 8 (0.93%) CMS
6 8 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.35%) Kentico
7 3 (0.35%) Mendix
8 2 (0.23%) IIS
9 1 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.12%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.12%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.12%) HCL Notes
9 1 (0.12%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.12%) IBM HTTP Server
9 1 (0.12%) nginx
9 1 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.12%) SAS
9 1 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 30 (3.47%) Microsoft Project
2 24 (2.78%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (1.04%) MS Visio
4 6 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.58%) Notion
6 4 (0.46%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.23%) CPLEX
7 2 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 30 (3.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (1.04%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.81%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (0.35%) Aladdin
4 3 (0.35%) Endur
4 3 (0.35%) Findur
4 3 (0.35%) SAP BPC
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%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.23%) SAP MM
5 2 (0.23%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.12%) SAP CS
6 1 (0.12%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.12%) SAP LE
6 1 (0.12%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 864 (100.00%) Azure
2 264 (30.56%) GitHub
3 166 (19.21%) GitHub Actions
4 146 (16.90%) AWS
5 137 (15.86%) Power Platform
6 103 (11.92%) Azure Data Factory
7 80 (9.26%) Entra ID
8 77 (8.91%) Azure AKS
9 69 (7.99%) Power Automate
10 67 (7.75%) Azure Monitor
11 62 (7.18%) Dynamics 365
12 59 (6.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 54 (6.25%) Serverless
14 52 (6.02%) PowerApps
15 46 (5.32%) GCP
16 45 (5.21%) Azure Logic Apps
17 43 (4.98%) PaaS
18 40 (4.63%) Microsoft 365
18 40 (4.63%) Snowflake
19 35 (4.05%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 26 (3.01%) Firewall
2 18 (2.08%) VPN
3 17 (1.97%) DNS
4 14 (1.62%) Network Security
5 6 (0.69%) DHCP
5 6 (0.69%) WAN
6 5 (0.58%) SD-WAN
7 4 (0.46%) Internet
7 4 (0.46%) SAN
8 3 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.23%) 4G
9 2 (0.23%) Cisco IOS
9 2 (0.23%) NAS
9 2 (0.23%) SSH
9 2 (0.23%) SSL
9 2 (0.23%) VLAN
9 2 (0.23%) X.509
10 1 (0.12%) Cisco ASA
10 1 (0.12%) Remote Desktop
10 1 (0.12%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (10.30%) Power BI
2 64 (7.41%) Data Lake
3 56 (6.48%) SQL Server
4 48 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
5 46 (5.32%) Azure SQL Database
6 33 (3.82%) NoSQL
7 32 (3.70%) Delta Lake
8 21 (2.43%) PostgreSQL
9 20 (2.31%) Metadata
10 18 (2.08%) Snowflake Schema
11 16 (1.85%) Big Data
11 16 (1.85%) Relational Database
12 14 (1.62%) Spark SQL
13 10 (1.16%) Amazon Redshift
13 10 (1.16%) Redis
13 10 (1.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 10 (1.16%) Star Schema
14 9 (1.04%) MongoDB
15 8 (0.93%) BigQuery
16 6 (0.69%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 151 (17.48%) JIRA
2 140 (16.20%) Git
3 102 (11.81%) Jenkins
4 79 (9.14%) GitLab
5 38 (4.40%) Selenium
6 23 (2.66%) SonarQube
7 13 (1.50%) Visual Studio
8 11 (1.27%) Cucumber
8 11 (1.27%) Cypress.io
9 10 (1.16%) JUnit
9 10 (1.16%) Maven
9 10 (1.16%) TestRail
10 9 (1.04%) REST Assured
10 9 (1.04%) Snyk
11 8 (0.93%) Gradle
11 8 (0.93%) Postman
11 8 (0.93%) WebDriver
12 7 (0.81%) Bitbucket
12 7 (0.81%) SpecFlow
13 6 (0.69%) TeamCity
General
1 236 (27.31%) Finance
2 219 (25.35%) Social Skills
3 81 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
4 74 (8.56%) Public Sector
5 68 (7.87%) Banking
6 24 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 24 (2.78%) Retail
7 17 (1.97%) Documentation Skills
8 15 (1.74%) Investment Banking
8 15 (1.74%) Legal
9 13 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
10 12 (1.39%) Marketing
11 8 (0.93%) Law
11 8 (0.93%) Local Government
12 7 (0.81%) Front Office
12 7 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (0.81%) Pharmaceutical
12 7 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (0.58%) Back Office
14 4 (0.46%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 146 (16.90%) Azure Engineer
2 132 (15.28%) DevOps Engineer
2 132 (15.28%) Senior
3 128 (14.81%) Developer
4 95 (11.00%) Data Engineer
5 80 (9.26%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 71 (8.22%) Lead
7 63 (7.29%) Architect
8 57 (6.60%) Analyst
9 37 (4.28%) Consultant
9 37 (4.28%) Platform Engineer
10 32 (3.70%) Cloud Engineer
11 29 (3.36%) Business Analyst
12 26 (3.01%) Project Manager
13 25 (2.89%) Azure Data Engineer
14 23 (2.66%) Senior DevOps
15 22 (2.55%) Solutions Architect
15 22 (2.55%) Test Analyst
15 22 (2.55%) Tester
16 21 (2.43%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (13.19%) .NET
2 97 (11.23%) REST
3 63 (7.29%) PySpark
4 54 (6.25%) ADO
5 43 (4.98%) JSON
6 38 (4.40%) Kafka
7 37 (4.28%) YAML
8 36 (4.17%) React
9 30 (3.47%) RESTful
10 29 (3.36%) AngularJS
11 28 (3.24%) Playwright
11 28 (3.24%) XML
12 25 (2.89%) .NET Framework
12 25 (2.89%) ARM Templates
12 25 (2.89%) Middleware
13 24 (2.78%) .NET Core
14 21 (2.43%) HTML
15 20 (2.31%) SOAP
16 19 (2.20%) OAuth
17 16 (1.85%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 110 (12.73%) Cloud Native
2 38 (4.40%) Product Ownership
3 33 (3.82%) Legacy Systems
4 32 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
5 20 (2.31%) Enterprise Software
5 20 (2.31%) Onboarding
6 18 (2.08%) Management Information System
7 16 (1.85%) Reinsurance
7 16 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
8 15 (1.74%) AI Agents
8 15 (1.74%) Hybrid Cloud
9 14 (1.62%) Greenfield Project
10 10 (1.16%) Enterprise Cloud
10 10 (1.16%) Low-Code
11 9 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
11 9 (1.04%) Data Structures
12 8 (0.93%) Public Cloud
12 8 (0.93%) Replication
13 7 (0.81%) FMCG
14 6 (0.69%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 49 (5.67%) Windows
2 29 (3.36%) Linux
3 14 (1.62%) Windows Server
4 11 (1.27%) VMS
5 9 (1.04%) Unix
6 4 (0.46%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.23%) Android
7 2 (0.23%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.23%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 864 (100.00%) DevOps
2 474 (54.86%) CI/CD
3 340 (39.35%) Agile
4 221 (25.58%) Infrastructure as Code
5 154 (17.82%) Test Automation
6 142 (16.44%) Analytics
7 131 (15.16%) Problem-Solving
7 131 (15.16%) Stakeholder Management
8 130 (15.05%) Migration
9 114 (13.19%) Continuous Improvement
10 110 (12.73%) Containerisation
11 107 (12.38%) Data Modelling
12 98 (11.34%) Data Pipeline
13 97 (11.23%) Business Intelligence
14 96 (11.11%) AI
14 96 (11.11%) Scrum
15 95 (11.00%) Microservices
16 94 (10.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 93 (10.76%) Data Engineering
18 90 (10.42%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 275 (31.83%) SQL
2 237 (27.43%) Python
3 147 (17.01%) C#
4 113 (13.08%) PowerShell
5 80 (9.26%) Bicep
6 70 (8.10%) JavaScript
7 65 (7.52%) Bash
8 59 (6.83%) TypeScript
9 58 (6.71%) Java
10 13 (1.50%) Apex Code
11 12 (1.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 9 (1.04%) T-SQL
13 7 (0.81%) Shell Script
14 6 (0.69%) Kusto Query Language
15 4 (0.46%) Go
15 4 (0.46%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.46%) Scala
15 4 (0.46%) VB.NET
16 3 (0.35%) ABAP
16 3 (0.35%) X++
Qualifications
1 228 (26.39%) Security Cleared
2 204 (23.61%) SC Cleared
3 66 (7.64%) Azure Certification
4 46 (5.32%) Degree
5 26 (3.01%) Computer Science Degree
6 22 (2.55%) Microsoft Certification
7 20 (2.31%) DV Cleared
8 17 (1.97%) ISTQB
9 11 (1.27%) AWS Certification
10 9 (1.04%) DBS Check
11 7 (0.81%) PMI Certification
12 6 (0.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 5 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
13 5 (0.58%) Cisco Certification
13 5 (0.58%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 5 (0.58%) PMP
14 4 (0.46%) CISSP
14 4 (0.46%) ISEB
14 4 (0.46%) PRINCE2 Certification
15 3 (0.35%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (11.92%) QA
2 75 (8.68%) Data Quality
3 25 (2.89%) GDPR
4 20 (2.31%) Accessibility
5 17 (1.97%) NIST
6 12 (1.39%) PMO
7 10 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 9 (1.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 8 (0.93%) SLA
9 8 (0.93%) WCAG
10 6 (0.69%) ISO 20022
11 5 (0.58%) SEPA
12 4 (0.46%) PSD2
13 3 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
14 2 (0.23%) Government Security Classifications
14 2 (0.23%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 2 (0.23%) NCSC
15 1 (0.12%) ISO 15022
15 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 1 (0.12%) P3O
System Software
1 125 (14.47%) Docker
2 49 (5.67%) Active Directory
3 14 (1.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.93%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (0.69%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.46%) vSphere
8 2 (0.23%) Microsoft App-V
8 2 (0.23%) OpenSSH
9 1 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 250 (28.94%) Terraform
2 159 (18.40%) Kubernetes
3 50 (5.79%) Ansible
4 24 (2.78%) Grafana
5 20 (2.31%) Prometheus
6 11 (1.27%) Microsoft Intune
6 11 (1.27%) Packer
7 8 (0.93%) Progress Chef
7 8 (0.93%) Puppet
7 8 (0.93%) SCCM
8 7 (0.81%) HP ALM
9 5 (0.58%) Argo
9 5 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.35%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.23%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.12%) Istio
12 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Clustering
12 1 (0.12%) PowerCLI
12 1 (0.12%) RSA Archer
12 1 (0.12%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 287 (33.22%) Microsoft
2 97 (11.23%) Databricks
3 35 (4.05%) Salesforce
4 32 (3.70%) ServiceNow
5 28 (3.24%) Oracle
6 27 (3.13%) SAP
7 18 (2.08%) VMware
8 15 (1.74%) Informatica
9 14 (1.62%) Google
10 13 (1.50%) Splunk
11 12 (1.39%) OpenAI
12 10 (1.16%) Dynatrace
12 10 (1.16%) Foundry
13 9 (1.04%) Bloomberg
14 8 (0.93%) Cloudera
14 8 (0.93%) UiPath
15 7 (0.81%) Guidewire
15 7 (0.81%) HP
15 7 (0.81%) Refinitiv
16 6 (0.69%) Cisco