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

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 76 80
Rank change year-on-year +4 +4 +5
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 534 459 510
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.71% 3.22% 2.83%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.39% 7.86% 7.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 381 311 380
10th Percentile £350 £385 £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 £625 £638 £646
90th Percentile £700 £725 £713
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 £74.26 £73.75 £62.00
% change year-on-year +0.69% +18.95% +12.73%

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 6,367 5,840 6,823
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.24% 40.99% 37.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,355 3,944 5,031
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £425 £455 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.56%
75th Percentile £639 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £768
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 43 65
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.45 £18.00
25th Percentile £22.75 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £26.30 £31.00 £35.63
Median % change year-on-year -15.16% -12.99% +34.85%
75th Percentile £54.31 £49.18 £58.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £64.75 £71.50
England median hourly rate £27.50 £28.46 £22.50
% change year-on-year -3.36% +26.47% -0.57%

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 7 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 7 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 £528 -4.09% 41
South London -2 10 £500 +31.58% 3
East London -3 2 £440 -11.56% 3
West London -23 1 £400 -15.79% 4
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 34 (6.37%) SharePoint
2 28 (5.24%) Confluence
3 14 (2.62%) Apache Spark
4 9 (1.69%) Apache
4 9 (1.69%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (1.50%) HCL Notes
6 7 (1.31%) Mendix
6 7 (1.31%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.56%) CMS
7 3 (0.56%) IIS
8 2 (0.37%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.19%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.19%) Kentico
Applications
1 12 (2.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (1.87%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (1.31%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
6 2 (0.37%) Trello
Business Applications
1 26 (4.87%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (1.31%) Aladdin
3 4 (0.75%) Endur
3 4 (0.75%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.19%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.19%) Orchestrade
4 1 (0.19%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 534 (100.00%) Azure
2 141 (26.40%) GitHub
3 130 (24.34%) Power Platform
4 100 (18.73%) GitHub Actions
5 76 (14.23%) Serverless
6 73 (13.67%) Azure Data Factory
7 70 (13.11%) Azure AKS
8 69 (12.92%) AWS
9 57 (10.67%) Azure Logic Apps
9 57 (10.67%) Azure Monitor
9 57 (10.67%) Dynamics 365
10 55 (10.30%) Azure Functions
10 55 (10.30%) Entra ID
11 49 (9.18%) Power Automate
12 47 (8.80%) PowerApps
13 45 (8.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 42 (7.87%) Azure Service Bus
15 37 (6.93%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 36 (6.74%) Azure Key Vault
17 35 (6.55%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 27 (5.06%) Firewall
2 13 (2.43%) VPN
3 12 (2.25%) Network Security
4 11 (2.06%) DNS
5 7 (1.31%) WAN
6 5 (0.94%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.37%) FTP
7 2 (0.37%) HTTP
7 2 (0.37%) LAN
7 2 (0.37%) MPLS
7 2 (0.37%) Remote Desktop
7 2 (0.37%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.19%) BGP
8 1 (0.19%) DHCP
8 1 (0.19%) IPsec
8 1 (0.19%) NGFW
8 1 (0.19%) VLAN
8 1 (0.19%) VRRP
8 1 (0.19%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (15.36%) Power BI
2 56 (10.49%) SQL Server
3 31 (5.81%) Data Warehouse
4 30 (5.62%) Azure SQL Database
5 26 (4.87%) Data Lake
6 22 (4.12%) NoSQL
7 21 (3.93%) PostgreSQL
8 19 (3.56%) Delta Lake
9 18 (3.37%) MongoDB
10 13 (2.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 11 (2.06%) Oracle Database
12 10 (1.87%) Tableau
13 8 (1.50%) Relational Database
14 7 (1.31%) DynamoDB
14 7 (1.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 6 (1.12%) Elasticsearch
15 6 (1.12%) Snowflake Schema
15 6 (1.12%) Spark SQL
15 6 (1.12%) Star Schema
16 5 (0.94%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 98 (18.35%) JIRA
2 70 (13.11%) Git
3 52 (9.74%) Jenkins
4 31 (5.81%) GitLab
5 23 (4.31%) Selenium
6 19 (3.56%) Postman
7 11 (2.06%) Cypress.io
8 10 (1.87%) Cucumber
8 10 (1.87%) JUnit
8 10 (1.87%) SonarQube
9 9 (1.69%) Team Foundation Server
9 9 (1.69%) TeamCity
10 8 (1.50%) Mockito
11 7 (1.31%) JMeter
11 7 (1.31%) MLflow
11 7 (1.31%) REST Assured
11 7 (1.31%) SpecFlow
11 7 (1.31%) TestRail
11 7 (1.31%) Visual Studio
11 7 (1.31%) Zephyr
General
1 164 (30.71%) Social Skills
2 127 (23.78%) Finance
3 56 (10.49%) Public Sector
4 50 (9.36%) Analytical Skills
5 43 (8.05%) Banking
6 19 (3.56%) Investment Banking
7 18 (3.37%) Documentation Skills
8 17 (3.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 15 (2.81%) Influencing Skills
10 13 (2.43%) Financial Institution
10 13 (2.43%) Retail
11 9 (1.69%) Front Office
12 8 (1.50%) Marketing
12 8 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (1.12%) Back Office
13 6 (1.12%) Law
14 5 (0.94%) Military
15 3 (0.56%) General Ledger
15 3 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
16 2 (0.37%) Billing
Job Titles
1 136 (25.47%) Developer
2 80 (14.98%) Azure Engineer
3 72 (13.48%) DevOps Engineer
4 54 (10.11%) Senior
5 46 (8.61%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 43 (8.05%) Data Engineer
7 41 (7.68%) Analyst
8 37 (6.93%) Architect
8 37 (6.93%) Lead
9 31 (5.81%) Azure Developer
10 20 (3.75%) Azure Architect
11 19 (3.56%) Business Analyst
12 18 (3.37%) Senior Developer
12 18 (3.37%) Tester
13 17 (3.18%) Consultant
13 17 (3.18%) Platform Engineer
14 15 (2.81%) C# Developer
14 15 (2.81%) Cloud Engineer
14 15 (2.81%) Project Manager
14 15 (2.81%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 127 (23.78%) .NET
2 50 (9.36%) REST
3 44 (8.24%) Node.js
4 40 (7.49%) React
5 33 (6.18%) PySpark
6 32 (5.99%) RESTful
7 30 (5.62%) Kafka
8 28 (5.24%) SOAP
9 26 (4.87%) .NET Core
9 26 (4.87%) ARM Templates
10 25 (4.68%) YAML
11 19 (3.56%) ADO
12 18 (3.37%) AngularJS
13 17 (3.18%) .NET Framework
13 17 (3.18%) HTML
13 17 (3.18%) Playwright
14 16 (3.00%) CSS
15 15 (2.81%) ASP.NET
15 15 (2.81%) Next.js
15 15 (2.81%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 57 (10.67%) Cloud Native
2 27 (5.06%) Product Ownership
3 26 (4.87%) Distributed Systems
4 19 (3.56%) CMDB
5 18 (3.37%) Legacy Systems
6 15 (2.81%) AI Agents
6 15 (2.81%) Enterprise Software
7 12 (2.25%) Low-Code
8 9 (1.69%) Public Cloud
9 7 (1.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 7 (1.31%) NHS
9 7 (1.31%) Reinsurance
10 6 (1.12%) Data Structures
10 6 (1.12%) Replication
11 5 (0.94%) Data Centre
11 5 (0.94%) Data Fabric
11 5 (0.94%) Enterprise Cloud
11 5 (0.94%) Hybrid Cloud
11 5 (0.94%) Linux Command Line
11 5 (0.94%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 22 (4.12%) Windows
2 15 (2.81%) Linux
3 8 (1.50%) VMS
4 5 (0.94%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.56%) Android
5 3 (0.56%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.37%) Unix
7 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.19%) Solaris
7 1 (0.19%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.19%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 530 (99.25%) DevOps
2 310 (58.05%) CI/CD
3 248 (46.44%) Agile
4 142 (26.59%) Infrastructure as Code
5 106 (19.85%) Problem-Solving
6 103 (19.29%) Analytics
7 98 (18.35%) Test Automation
8 89 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
9 84 (15.73%) Scrum
10 82 (15.36%) Microservices
11 73 (13.67%) AI
12 72 (13.48%) Continuous Improvement
13 71 (13.30%) Migration
14 68 (12.73%) Containerisation
15 67 (12.55%) Data Modelling
16 56 (10.49%) Stakeholder Management
17 55 (10.30%) Data Pipeline
18 52 (9.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 51 (9.55%) Data Engineering
19 51 (9.55%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 173 (32.40%) SQL
2 145 (27.15%) Python
3 126 (23.60%) C#
4 97 (18.16%) JavaScript
5 61 (11.42%) PowerShell
6 57 (10.67%) Bicep
7 52 (9.74%) Java
8 40 (7.49%) TypeScript
9 28 (5.24%) Bash
10 11 (2.06%) PL/SQL
10 11 (2.06%) T-SQL
11 9 (1.69%) Kusto Query Language
12 8 (1.50%) Formula Language
12 8 (1.50%) LotusScript
13 7 (1.31%) Scala
14 4 (0.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 4 (0.75%) VB.NET
15 3 (0.56%) Go
15 3 (0.56%) R
15 3 (0.56%) XPath
Qualifications
1 118 (22.10%) Security Cleared
2 104 (19.48%) SC Cleared
3 53 (9.93%) Azure Certification
4 42 (7.87%) Degree
5 22 (4.12%) Computer Science Degree
6 20 (3.75%) Microsoft Certification
7 11 (2.06%) Master's Degree
8 10 (1.87%) ISTQB
9 9 (1.69%) PMI Certification
10 8 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (0.94%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 5 (0.94%) PMP
12 4 (0.75%) CBAP
12 4 (0.75%) ISEB
12 4 (0.75%) ITIL Certification
13 3 (0.56%) DBS Check
14 2 (0.37%) CISSP
14 2 (0.37%) DV Cleared
14 2 (0.37%) MBA
15 1 (0.19%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (7.49%) QA
2 31 (5.81%) Data Quality
3 20 (3.75%) GDPR
4 13 (2.43%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.31%) WCAG
6 6 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (1.12%) NIST
7 5 (0.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 4 (0.75%) PMO
9 3 (0.56%) NCSC
9 3 (0.56%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.37%) EU AI Act
10 2 (0.37%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.37%) HL7
10 2 (0.37%) SLA
10 2 (0.37%) Software Quality Assurance
11 1 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.19%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 102 (19.10%) Docker
2 34 (6.37%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.31%) Virtual Desktop
3 7 (1.31%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.19%) KVM
5 1 (0.19%) Squid
Systems Management
1 159 (29.78%) Terraform
2 106 (19.85%) Kubernetes
3 29 (5.43%) Ansible
4 16 (3.00%) Grafana
5 11 (2.06%) Prometheus
6 6 (1.12%) Kibana
7 4 (0.75%) Packer
7 4 (0.75%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.56%) Argo
8 3 (0.56%) HP ALM
8 3 (0.56%) Istio
9 2 (0.37%) Fluentd
9 2 (0.37%) Kubeflow
9 2 (0.37%) Opsgenie
10 1 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.19%) CASB
10 1 (0.19%) Icinga
10 1 (0.19%) linkerd
10 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.19%) SCCM
Vendors
1 190 (35.58%) Microsoft
2 83 (15.54%) Databricks
3 35 (6.55%) Oracle
4 33 (6.18%) ServiceNow
5 22 (4.12%) OpenAI
6 17 (3.18%) Salesforce
7 10 (1.87%) SAP
8 8 (1.50%) Lotus
9 7 (1.31%) Kofax
10 6 (1.12%) DocuSign
10 6 (1.12%) Splunk
11 5 (0.94%) Aruba
11 5 (0.94%) Cisco
11 5 (0.94%) Citrix
11 5 (0.94%) Google
11 5 (0.94%) Sitecore
11 5 (0.94%) VMware
12 4 (0.75%) Charles River
12 4 (0.75%) Palo Alto
12 4 (0.75%) UiPath