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

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 82 58
Rank change year-on-year +20 -24 +19
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 713 401 645
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.95% 3.21% 3.69%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.34% 7.54% 9.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 515 280 413
10th Percentile £363 £375 £400
25th Percentile £415 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £641 £623
90th Percentile £719 £750 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £54.50 - -
25th Percentile £59.38 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
75th Percentile £74.63 - -
90th Percentile £75.90 - -
England median hourly rate £61.25 £31.50 £65.50
% change year-on-year +94.44% -51.91% -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 7,637 5,315 6,729
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.36% 42.49% 38.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,279 3,669 4,962
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 53 70
10th Percentile £20.84 £22.57 £17.63
25th Percentile £26.52 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +11.81% -45.26%
75th Percentile £53.75 £48.75 £38.75
90th Percentile £72.90 £72.50 £59.13
England median hourly rate £41.06 £25.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +61.02% +19.33% -34.04%

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 17 May 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 17 May 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 17 May 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 -3 75 £525 -1.41% 38
South London -1 12 £513 -2.38% 1
West London -20 6 £375 -31.51% 5
East London -8 2 £604 +3.16% 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 44 (6.17%) SharePoint
2 34 (4.77%) Apache Spark
3 29 (4.07%) Confluence
4 20 (2.81%) Apache
5 15 (2.10%) Apache Airflow
6 10 (1.40%) HCL Notes
6 10 (1.40%) Mendix
6 10 (1.40%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.42%) IIS
8 2 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.14%) CMS
9 1 (0.14%) IBM HTTP Server
9 1 (0.14%) SAS
Applications
1 24 (3.37%) Microsoft Project
2 8 (1.12%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 28 (3.93%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.98%) Dynamics AX
3 5 (0.70%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.56%) SAP BPC
5 3 (0.42%) Findur
5 3 (0.42%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 2 (0.28%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.28%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.14%) Endur
7 1 (0.14%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.14%) Maximo
7 1 (0.14%) NEC Housing
7 1 (0.14%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle Financials
7 1 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.14%) SAP CS
7 1 (0.14%) SAP GTS
7 1 (0.14%) SAP LE
7 1 (0.14%) SAP SD
7 1 (0.14%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 713 (100.00%) Azure
2 216 (30.29%) GitHub
3 132 (18.51%) GitHub Actions
4 118 (16.55%) Power Platform
5 104 (14.59%) AWS
6 93 (13.04%) Azure Data Factory
7 66 (9.26%) Azure AKS
8 63 (8.84%) Power Automate
9 61 (8.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 61 (8.56%) Entra ID
10 60 (8.42%) Azure Monitor
11 58 (8.13%) Serverless
12 55 (7.71%) Dynamics 365
13 51 (7.15%) Azure Logic Apps
14 46 (6.45%) Azure Key Vault
14 46 (6.45%) Azure Service Bus
15 39 (5.47%) GCP
16 38 (5.33%) Azure Functions
16 38 (5.33%) PowerApps
17 35 (4.91%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.52%) Firewall
2 10 (1.40%) Network Security
3 8 (1.12%) DNS
4 6 (0.84%) VPN
5 5 (0.70%) SD-WAN
5 5 (0.70%) WAN
6 3 (0.42%) FTP
6 3 (0.42%) Internet
7 2 (0.28%) Remote Desktop
7 2 (0.28%) SSH
7 2 (0.28%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.28%) X.509
8 1 (0.14%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (0.14%) Cisco Firepower
8 1 (0.14%) HTTP
8 1 (0.14%) IPsec
8 1 (0.14%) NAS
8 1 (0.14%) SAN
8 1 (0.14%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (10.94%) SQL Server
2 69 (9.68%) Power BI
3 63 (8.84%) Data Lake
4 49 (6.87%) Delta Lake
5 45 (6.31%) Azure SQL Database
6 42 (5.89%) Data Warehouse
7 33 (4.63%) NoSQL
8 19 (2.66%) PostgreSQL
9 18 (2.52%) Oracle Database
10 16 (2.24%) Snowflake Schema
11 14 (1.96%) Spark SQL
12 13 (1.82%) Relational Database
13 12 (1.68%) Big Data
13 12 (1.68%) MongoDB
14 11 (1.54%) Metadata
14 11 (1.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 10 (1.40%) Redis
16 9 (1.26%) Amazon Redshift
16 9 (1.26%) Tableau
17 7 (0.98%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 130 (18.23%) JIRA
2 112 (15.71%) Git
3 67 (9.40%) Jenkins
4 42 (5.89%) GitLab
5 26 (3.65%) Selenium
6 14 (1.96%) Postman
7 13 (1.82%) Cypress.io
8 11 (1.54%) REST Assured
8 11 (1.54%) SonarQube
9 9 (1.26%) MLflow
9 9 (1.26%) SpecFlow
9 9 (1.26%) Team Foundation Server
9 9 (1.26%) TestRail
9 9 (1.26%) Zephyr
10 8 (1.12%) Cucumber
11 6 (0.84%) Artifactory
12 4 (0.56%) JMeter
12 4 (0.56%) Spinnaker
12 4 (0.56%) TeamCity
12 4 (0.56%) webpack
General
1 197 (27.63%) Finance
2 155 (21.74%) Social Skills
3 73 (10.24%) Analytical Skills
4 58 (8.13%) Public Sector
5 47 (6.59%) Banking
6 18 (2.52%) Financial Institution
7 14 (1.96%) Front Office
8 13 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (1.26%) Investment Banking
9 9 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
10 8 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
11 7 (0.98%) Retail
12 6 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (0.84%) Legal
13 5 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (0.70%) Marketing
14 3 (0.42%) Pharmaceutical
15 2 (0.28%) Military
15 2 (0.28%) Publishing
15 2 (0.28%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 129 (18.09%) Developer
2 111 (15.57%) Senior
3 110 (15.43%) Azure Engineer
4 101 (14.17%) Data Engineer
5 79 (11.08%) DevOps Engineer
6 54 (7.57%) Lead
7 50 (7.01%) Architect
8 47 (6.59%) Analyst
8 47 (6.59%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 29 (4.07%) Platform Engineer
10 25 (3.51%) Azure Developer
11 23 (3.23%) Azure Data Engineer
11 23 (3.23%) IT Support
11 23 (3.23%) Test Analyst
12 22 (3.09%) Azure Architect
12 22 (3.09%) Cloud Engineer
12 22 (3.09%) Senior Developer
12 22 (3.09%) Tester
13 21 (2.95%) Consultant
14 20 (2.81%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (15.99%) .NET
2 62 (8.70%) PySpark
3 50 (7.01%) React
4 49 (6.87%) REST
5 36 (5.05%) Kafka
6 35 (4.91%) ADO
7 31 (4.35%) JSON
8 29 (4.07%) Node.js
9 27 (3.79%) .NET Framework
10 26 (3.65%) ARM Templates
11 25 (3.51%) .NET Core
11 25 (3.51%) Playwright
11 25 (3.51%) RESTful
11 25 (3.51%) YAML
12 24 (3.37%) AngularJS
13 21 (2.95%) CSS
13 21 (2.95%) HTML
14 19 (2.66%) Middleware
15 15 (2.10%) Microsoft Graph
15 15 (2.10%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 81 (11.36%) Cloud Native
2 30 (4.21%) Legacy Systems
3 28 (3.93%) Product Ownership
4 25 (3.51%) Distributed Systems
5 22 (3.09%) Reinsurance
6 15 (2.10%) Low-Code
7 14 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
7 14 (1.96%) Replication
8 12 (1.68%) Onboarding
9 11 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
10 10 (1.40%) AI Agents
11 8 (1.12%) Data Structures
12 7 (0.98%) NHS
12 7 (0.98%) Public Cloud
12 7 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
13 6 (0.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 5 (0.70%) Management Information System
15 4 (0.56%) Data Protection Act
15 4 (0.56%) FMCG
15 4 (0.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 45 (6.31%) Windows
2 22 (3.09%) Linux
3 10 (1.40%) VMS
4 9 (1.26%) Windows Server
5 6 (0.84%) Unix
6 2 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 707 (99.16%) DevOps
2 397 (55.68%) CI/CD
3 250 (35.06%) Agile
4 175 (24.54%) Infrastructure as Code
5 121 (16.97%) Analytics
5 121 (16.97%) Test Automation
6 114 (15.99%) Problem-Solving
7 110 (15.43%) Migration
8 105 (14.73%) Data Modelling
9 96 (13.46%) Data Pipeline
10 87 (12.20%) AI
11 86 (12.06%) Scrum
12 84 (11.78%) Continuous Improvement
13 83 (11.64%) Business Intelligence
13 83 (11.64%) ETL
14 81 (11.36%) Containerisation
15 77 (10.80%) Observability
16 75 (10.52%) Data Engineering
16 75 (10.52%) Microservices
17 73 (10.24%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 271 (38.01%) SQL
2 211 (29.59%) Python
3 147 (20.62%) C#
4 75 (10.52%) PowerShell
5 68 (9.54%) JavaScript
6 62 (8.70%) Bicep
7 52 (7.29%) TypeScript
8 49 (6.87%) Java
9 47 (6.59%) Bash
10 23 (3.23%) Scala
11 17 (2.38%) T-SQL
12 10 (1.40%) Formula Language
12 10 (1.40%) LotusScript
13 9 (1.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 9 (1.26%) Kusto Query Language
13 9 (1.26%) PL/SQL
14 5 (0.70%) Shell Script
15 3 (0.42%) Apex Code
15 3 (0.42%) C
15 3 (0.42%) XPath
Qualifications
1 182 (25.53%) Security Cleared
2 162 (22.72%) SC Cleared
3 62 (8.70%) Azure Certification
4 30 (4.21%) Degree
5 17 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
5 17 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
6 15 (2.10%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (2.10%) ISTQB
7 7 (0.98%) DV Cleared
8 6 (0.84%) Master's Degree
8 6 (0.84%) PMI Certification
8 6 (0.84%) PMP
9 5 (0.70%) DBS Check
10 4 (0.56%) AWS Certification
11 3 (0.42%) TOGAF 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 85 (11.92%) QA
2 69 (9.68%) Data Quality
3 16 (2.24%) GDPR
4 14 (1.96%) Accessibility
5 9 (1.26%) PMO
5 9 (1.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 9 (1.26%) WCAG
6 7 (0.98%) NIST
7 5 (0.70%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.56%) SLA
9 3 (0.42%) HIPAA
9 3 (0.42%) HL7
9 3 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 2 (0.28%) FedRAMP
10 2 (0.28%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 2 (0.28%) NCSC
10 2 (0.28%) PSD2
10 2 (0.28%) SEPA
11 1 (0.14%) GRC
11 1 (0.14%) ITGC
System Software
1 106 (14.87%) Docker
2 40 (5.61%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.12%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.28%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.28%) Microsoft App-V
6 2 (0.28%) OpenSSH
7 1 (0.14%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 206 (28.89%) Terraform
2 124 (17.39%) Kubernetes
3 31 (4.35%) Ansible
4 15 (2.10%) Grafana
5 12 (1.68%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.84%) HP ALM
6 6 (0.84%) Packer
7 5 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (0.70%) Progress Chef
7 5 (0.70%) Puppet
8 3 (0.42%) Argo
9 2 (0.28%) Istio
9 2 (0.28%) Kubeflow
9 2 (0.28%) SCCM
9 2 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.14%) CASB
10 1 (0.14%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.14%) Icinga
10 1 (0.14%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 213 (29.87%) Microsoft
2 106 (14.87%) Databricks
3 55 (7.71%) Oracle
4 32 (4.49%) ServiceNow
5 26 (3.65%) Salesforce
6 19 (2.66%) OpenAI
7 18 (2.52%) Informatica
7 18 (2.52%) SAP
8 12 (1.68%) Foundry
9 11 (1.54%) VMware
10 10 (1.40%) Bloomberg
10 10 (1.40%) Kofax
10 10 (1.40%) Lotus
11 9 (1.26%) Splunk
12 8 (1.12%) Refinitiv
13 6 (0.84%) Dynatrace
13 6 (0.84%) HP
14 5 (0.70%) Workday
15 4 (0.56%) Cloudera
15 4 (0.56%) Hortonworks