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

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 89 82
Rank change year-on-year +16 -7 -1
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 576 407 527
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.78% 3.02% 2.85%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.56% 7.28% 7.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 415 280 387
10th Percentile £358 £399 £425
25th Percentile £413 £463 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £573
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -3.93% -0.43%
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 6,731 5,593 6,919
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.15% 41.52% 37.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,614 3,741 5,109
10th Percentile £350 £355 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
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 99 49 78
10th Percentile £18.20 £22.07 £17.55
25th Percentile £21.84 £23.80 £21.44
Median hourly rate £34.00 £31.50 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.94% +3.28% -10.29%
75th Percentile £52.96 £55.75 £53.69
90th Percentile £70.50 £68.75 £62.88
England median hourly rate £37.00 £27.50 £22.30
% change year-on-year +34.55% +23.32% -10.80%

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 16 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 16 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 -5 69 £540 -1.82% 29
South London 0 14 £500 +31.28%
West London -24 3 £375 -21.05% 8
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 37 (6.42%) SharePoint
2 29 (5.03%) Confluence
3 21 (3.65%) Apache Spark
4 14 (2.43%) Apache
5 10 (1.74%) HCL Notes
6 9 (1.56%) Mendix
7 8 (1.39%) Apache Airflow
7 8 (1.39%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.52%) CMS
8 3 (0.52%) IIS
9 2 (0.35%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.17%) Kentico
10 1 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 11 (1.91%) Microsoft Project
2 10 (1.74%) MS Visio
3 8 (1.39%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.35%) Trello
6 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 33 (5.73%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.69%) Aladdin
2 4 (0.69%) Endur
2 4 (0.69%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.17%) Loan IQ
3 1 (0.17%) Maximo
3 1 (0.17%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.17%) Orchestrade
3 1 (0.17%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.17%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.17%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 576 (100.00%) Azure
2 158 (27.43%) GitHub
3 133 (23.09%) Power Platform
4 106 (18.40%) GitHub Actions
5 82 (14.24%) Azure Data Factory
6 74 (12.85%) Serverless
7 65 (11.28%) AWS
8 64 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
9 62 (10.76%) Azure AKS
10 60 (10.42%) Dynamics 365
11 58 (10.07%) Azure Logic Apps
12 54 (9.38%) Entra ID
13 53 (9.20%) Azure Functions
13 53 (9.20%) Power Automate
14 50 (8.68%) Azure Key Vault
15 47 (8.16%) Azure Service Bus
15 47 (8.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 43 (7.47%) PowerApps
17 33 (5.73%) PaaS
18 32 (5.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 25 (4.34%) Firewall
2 12 (2.08%) Network Security
3 10 (1.74%) DNS
4 9 (1.56%) VPN
5 7 (1.22%) WAN
6 5 (0.87%) SD-WAN
7 4 (0.69%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.52%) Remote Desktop
9 2 (0.35%) FTP
9 2 (0.35%) HTTP
9 2 (0.35%) LAN
9 2 (0.35%) MPLS
10 1 (0.17%) BGP
10 1 (0.17%) IPsec
10 1 (0.17%) VLAN
10 1 (0.17%) VRRP
10 1 (0.17%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (13.72%) Power BI
2 69 (11.98%) SQL Server
3 37 (6.42%) Data Lake
4 35 (6.08%) Azure SQL Database
5 34 (5.90%) Data Warehouse
6 30 (5.21%) Delta Lake
7 18 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
8 17 (2.95%) NoSQL
8 17 (2.95%) Oracle Database
9 14 (2.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 11 (1.91%) Tableau
11 10 (1.74%) MongoDB
12 8 (1.39%) Data Vault
12 8 (1.39%) DynamoDB
12 8 (1.39%) Redis
12 8 (1.39%) Relational Database
12 8 (1.39%) Snowflake Schema
13 7 (1.22%) Spark SQL
14 6 (1.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 6 (1.04%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 110 (19.10%) JIRA
2 83 (14.41%) Git
3 53 (9.20%) Jenkins
4 33 (5.73%) GitLab
5 31 (5.38%) Selenium
6 21 (3.65%) Postman
7 16 (2.78%) Cypress.io
8 13 (2.26%) Team Foundation Server
9 12 (2.08%) REST Assured
10 10 (1.74%) TestRail
11 9 (1.56%) Visual Studio
12 8 (1.39%) JMeter
12 8 (1.39%) JUnit
12 8 (1.39%) MLflow
12 8 (1.39%) Zephyr
13 7 (1.22%) SonarQube
13 7 (1.22%) SpecFlow
14 6 (1.04%) Cucumber
14 6 (1.04%) Mockito
14 6 (1.04%) webpack
General
1 177 (30.73%) Social Skills
2 146 (25.35%) Finance
3 67 (11.63%) Analytical Skills
4 58 (10.07%) Public Sector
5 40 (6.94%) Banking
6 15 (2.60%) Documentation Skills
6 15 (2.60%) Financial Institution
6 15 (2.60%) Influencing Skills
7 14 (2.43%) Investment Banking
8 12 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (1.91%) Front Office
9 11 (1.91%) Retail
10 9 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
11 8 (1.39%) Marketing
12 7 (1.22%) Back Office
12 7 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (1.04%) Law
14 4 (0.69%) Military
15 3 (0.52%) General Ledger
16 2 (0.35%) Billing
Job Titles
1 128 (22.22%) Developer
2 88 (15.28%) Azure Engineer
3 71 (12.33%) DevOps Engineer
4 66 (11.46%) Senior
5 60 (10.42%) Data Engineer
6 48 (8.33%) Architect
6 48 (8.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 47 (8.16%) Analyst
8 39 (6.77%) Lead
9 30 (5.21%) Azure Developer
10 24 (4.17%) Azure Architect
11 22 (3.82%) Business Analyst
11 22 (3.82%) Platform Engineer
11 22 (3.82%) Tester
12 17 (2.95%) Test Analyst
13 16 (2.78%) Consultant
14 15 (2.60%) Automation Engineer
14 15 (2.60%) Cloud Engineer
14 15 (2.60%) Senior Developer
15 14 (2.43%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 122 (21.18%) .NET
2 49 (8.51%) REST
3 47 (8.16%) React
4 44 (7.64%) Node.js
5 43 (7.47%) PySpark
6 30 (5.21%) ARM Templates
7 25 (4.34%) Kafka
7 25 (4.34%) RESTful
8 24 (4.17%) .NET Core
9 23 (3.99%) Playwright
10 22 (3.82%) CSS
11 21 (3.65%) ADO
11 21 (3.65%) HTML
11 21 (3.65%) YAML
12 20 (3.47%) .NET Framework
13 18 (3.13%) SOAP
14 17 (2.95%) OAuth
15 16 (2.78%) AngularJS
16 13 (2.26%) JSON
16 13 (2.26%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 57 (9.90%) Cloud Native
2 32 (5.56%) Product Ownership
3 24 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
4 22 (3.82%) Legacy Systems
5 16 (2.78%) Reinsurance
6 15 (2.60%) AI Agents
6 15 (2.60%) Enterprise Software
6 15 (2.60%) Low-Code
7 13 (2.26%) Public Cloud
8 10 (1.74%) CMDB
8 10 (1.74%) Data Structures
8 10 (1.74%) Replication
9 8 (1.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 8 (1.39%) NHS
10 6 (1.04%) Linux Command Line
10 6 (1.04%) Virtual Team
11 5 (0.87%) Data Centre
11 5 (0.87%) Derivative
11 5 (0.87%) Enterprise Cloud
11 5 (0.87%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 21 (3.65%) Windows
2 16 (2.78%) Linux
3 9 (1.56%) VMS
4 3 (0.52%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.17%) Android
5 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.17%) Solaris
5 1 (0.17%) Unix
5 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 569 (98.78%) DevOps
2 332 (57.64%) CI/CD
3 244 (42.36%) Agile
4 154 (26.74%) Infrastructure as Code
5 125 (21.70%) Problem-Solving
6 116 (20.14%) Analytics
7 105 (18.23%) Test Automation
8 95 (16.49%) AI
8 95 (16.49%) Continuous Improvement
9 92 (15.97%) Business Intelligence
10 84 (14.58%) Scrum
11 78 (13.54%) Data Modelling
12 77 (13.37%) Migration
13 74 (12.85%) Containerisation
14 73 (12.67%) Microservices
15 70 (12.15%) Stakeholder Management
16 59 (10.24%) Data Pipeline
16 59 (10.24%) Observability
17 54 (9.38%) Data Engineering
18 53 (9.20%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 201 (34.90%) SQL
2 172 (29.86%) Python
3 133 (23.09%) C#
4 93 (16.15%) JavaScript
5 58 (10.07%) Bicep
6 54 (9.38%) PowerShell
6 54 (9.38%) TypeScript
7 48 (8.33%) Java
8 30 (5.21%) Bash
9 21 (3.65%) Scala
10 16 (2.78%) T-SQL
11 10 (1.74%) Formula Language
11 10 (1.74%) Kusto Query Language
11 10 (1.74%) LotusScript
11 10 (1.74%) PL/SQL
12 4 (0.69%) C
12 4 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 4 (0.69%) R
13 3 (0.52%) Go
13 3 (0.52%) X++
Qualifications
1 131 (22.74%) Security Cleared
2 115 (19.97%) SC Cleared
3 61 (10.59%) Azure Certification
4 39 (6.77%) Degree
5 20 (3.47%) Microsoft Certification
6 19 (3.30%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
8 14 (2.43%) ISTQB
9 9 (1.56%) Master's Degree
10 8 (1.39%) PMI Certification
11 6 (1.04%) PMP
12 5 (0.87%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 4 (0.69%) ISEB
13 4 (0.69%) ITIL Certification
14 3 (0.52%) DBS Check
15 2 (0.35%) AWS Certification
15 2 (0.35%) CBAP
15 2 (0.35%) MBA
16 1 (0.17%) CAPM
16 1 (0.17%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (9.90%) QA
2 42 (7.29%) Data Quality
3 19 (3.30%) GDPR
4 14 (2.43%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.39%) WCAG
6 7 (1.22%) PMO
7 6 (1.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 4 (0.69%) HIPAA
8 4 (0.69%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.52%) EU AI Act
9 3 (0.52%) HL7
9 3 (0.52%) NIST
10 2 (0.35%) FedRAMP
10 2 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 2 (0.35%) NCSC
10 2 (0.35%) SLA
10 2 (0.35%) Software Quality Assurance
11 1 (0.17%) EMIR
11 1 (0.17%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 1 (0.17%) MiFID
System Software
1 102 (17.71%) Docker
2 31 (5.38%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.56%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (1.04%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.52%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.17%) HDFS
6 1 (0.17%) KVM
6 1 (0.17%) Squid
Systems Management
1 182 (31.60%) Terraform
2 102 (17.71%) Kubernetes
3 25 (4.34%) Ansible
4 12 (2.08%) Grafana
5 9 (1.56%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.69%) Argo
6 4 (0.69%) HP ALM
7 3 (0.52%) Packer
8 2 (0.35%) Fluentd
8 2 (0.35%) Kibana
8 2 (0.35%) Kubeflow
8 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.35%) Opsgenie
9 1 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.17%) CASB
9 1 (0.17%) Icinga
9 1 (0.17%) Istio
9 1 (0.17%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 196 (34.03%) Microsoft
2 91 (15.80%) Databricks
3 48 (8.33%) Oracle
4 28 (4.86%) ServiceNow
5 26 (4.51%) OpenAI
6 16 (2.78%) Salesforce
7 10 (1.74%) Lotus
7 10 (1.74%) SAP
8 9 (1.56%) Kofax
8 9 (1.56%) VMware
9 8 (1.39%) Foundry
10 7 (1.22%) Informatica
11 6 (1.04%) Splunk
12 5 (0.87%) Aruba
12 5 (0.87%) Cisco
12 5 (0.87%) Citrix
12 5 (0.87%) Sitecore
13 4 (0.69%) Charles River
13 4 (0.69%) Google
13 4 (0.69%) HP