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

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 86 80
Rank change year-on-year +12 -6 +3
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 605 413 525
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.82% 3.07% 2.90%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.69% 7.38% 7.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 436 290 378
10th Percentile £358 £400 £425
25th Percentile £410 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £568
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -3.08% -1.30%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £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% -3.53%

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 6,964 5,600 6,733
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.96% 41.60% 37.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,783 3,783 4,972
10th Percentile £350 £356 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £445
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 £765
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 52 79
10th Percentile £17.99 £22.27 £17.00
25th Percentile £21.46 £24.54 £21.63
Median hourly rate £33.75 £32.75 £29.72
Median % change year-on-year +3.05% +10.20% -2.56%
75th Percentile £51.81 £56.50 £53.38
90th Percentile £70.75 £73.13 £62.75
England median hourly rate £39.50 £27.50 £21.46
% change year-on-year +43.64% +28.15% -14.16%

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 26 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 26 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 -2 68 £530 -2.75% 33
South London -5 14 £500 +28.06%
West London -21 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 35 (5.79%) SharePoint
2 33 (5.45%) Confluence
3 23 (3.80%) Apache Spark
4 14 (2.31%) Apache
5 13 (2.15%) Apache Airflow
6 10 (1.65%) HCL Notes
7 9 (1.49%) Mendix
8 8 (1.32%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.50%) CMS
9 3 (0.50%) IIS
10 2 (0.33%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.17%) Kentico
11 1 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.17%) SAS
Applications
1 11 (1.82%) Microsoft Project
1 11 (1.82%) MS Visio
2 7 (1.16%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.33%) Trello
5 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 32 (5.29%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.83%) Aladdin
3 4 (0.66%) Endur
3 4 (0.66%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.50%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.17%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.17%) Maximo
5 1 (0.17%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.17%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.17%) Orchestrade
5 1 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.17%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.17%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 605 (100.00%) Azure
2 165 (27.27%) GitHub
3 129 (21.32%) Power Platform
4 110 (18.18%) GitHub Actions
5 86 (14.21%) Azure Data Factory
6 75 (12.40%) Serverless
7 72 (11.90%) AWS
8 68 (11.24%) Azure Monitor
9 61 (10.08%) Azure AKS
10 58 (9.59%) Azure Logic Apps
10 58 (9.59%) Entra ID
11 56 (9.26%) Dynamics 365
12 54 (8.93%) Azure Functions
13 51 (8.43%) Azure Key Vault
14 50 (8.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 50 (8.26%) Power Automate
15 49 (8.10%) Azure Service Bus
16 40 (6.61%) PowerApps
17 34 (5.62%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 33 (5.45%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 25 (4.13%) Firewall
2 12 (1.98%) Network Security
3 11 (1.82%) DNS
4 9 (1.49%) VPN
5 7 (1.16%) WAN
6 5 (0.83%) SD-WAN
7 4 (0.66%) Remote Desktop
7 4 (0.66%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.50%) FTP
9 2 (0.33%) HTTP
9 2 (0.33%) LAN
9 2 (0.33%) MPLS
10 1 (0.17%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (12.56%) Power BI
1 76 (12.56%) SQL Server
2 41 (6.78%) Data Lake
3 37 (6.12%) Azure SQL Database
4 36 (5.95%) Delta Lake
5 34 (5.62%) Data Warehouse
6 21 (3.47%) NoSQL
7 18 (2.98%) Oracle Database
7 18 (2.98%) PostgreSQL
8 13 (2.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 11 (1.82%) Tableau
10 10 (1.65%) MongoDB
11 9 (1.49%) Data Vault
11 9 (1.49%) Redis
11 9 (1.49%) Relational Database
11 9 (1.49%) Snowflake Schema
11 9 (1.49%) Spark SQL
12 8 (1.32%) DynamoDB
13 7 (1.16%) Amazon Redshift
13 7 (1.16%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 124 (20.50%) JIRA
2 88 (14.55%) Git
3 55 (9.09%) Jenkins
4 33 (5.45%) GitLab
5 31 (5.12%) Selenium
6 21 (3.47%) Postman
7 16 (2.64%) Cypress.io
8 14 (2.31%) Team Foundation Server
9 12 (1.98%) REST Assured
9 12 (1.98%) TestRail
10 11 (1.82%) MLflow
11 9 (1.49%) SpecFlow
11 9 (1.49%) Visual Studio
11 9 (1.49%) Zephyr
12 8 (1.32%) JMeter
12 8 (1.32%) JUnit
12 8 (1.32%) SonarQube
13 7 (1.16%) Cucumber
14 6 (0.99%) Mockito
14 6 (0.99%) webpack
General
1 181 (29.92%) Social Skills
2 160 (26.45%) Finance
3 69 (11.40%) Analytical Skills
4 58 (9.59%) Public Sector
5 42 (6.94%) Banking
6 15 (2.48%) Documentation Skills
6 15 (2.48%) Financial Institution
6 15 (2.48%) Influencing Skills
7 14 (2.31%) Front Office
8 13 (2.15%) Investment Banking
8 13 (2.15%) Retail
9 12 (1.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
10 9 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
11 7 (1.16%) Back Office
12 6 (0.99%) Law
12 6 (0.99%) Marketing
13 4 (0.66%) Military
14 3 (0.50%) General Ledger
15 2 (0.33%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 134 (22.15%) Developer
2 93 (15.37%) Azure Engineer
3 72 (11.90%) Senior
4 66 (10.91%) DevOps Engineer
5 64 (10.58%) Data Engineer
6 50 (8.26%) Analyst
7 48 (7.93%) Lead
8 46 (7.60%) Architect
9 45 (7.44%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 32 (5.29%) Azure Developer
11 26 (4.30%) Tester
12 25 (4.13%) Business Analyst
13 24 (3.97%) Azure Architect
14 23 (3.80%) Platform Engineer
15 19 (3.14%) Test Analyst
16 17 (2.81%) Azure Data Engineer
17 16 (2.64%) Automation Engineer
17 16 (2.64%) Consultant
18 15 (2.48%) Cloud Engineer
18 15 (2.48%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (21.16%) .NET
2 49 (8.10%) React
3 48 (7.93%) REST
4 46 (7.60%) PySpark
5 45 (7.44%) Node.js
6 29 (4.79%) ARM Templates
7 28 (4.63%) Playwright
8 25 (4.13%) .NET Core
8 25 (4.13%) HTML
8 25 (4.13%) Kafka
8 25 (4.13%) RESTful
9 23 (3.80%) CSS
10 22 (3.64%) ADO
11 21 (3.47%) .NET Framework
12 20 (3.31%) AngularJS
12 20 (3.31%) YAML
13 18 (2.98%) OAuth
14 17 (2.81%) SOAP
15 13 (2.15%) Web Services
15 13 (2.15%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 67 (11.07%) Cloud Native
2 33 (5.45%) Product Ownership
3 24 (3.97%) Distributed Systems
4 22 (3.64%) Legacy Systems
5 17 (2.81%) Reinsurance
6 15 (2.48%) Enterprise Software
6 15 (2.48%) Low-Code
7 13 (2.15%) AI Agents
7 13 (2.15%) Public Cloud
8 11 (1.82%) Replication
9 10 (1.65%) CMDB
9 10 (1.65%) Data Structures
10 8 (1.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 8 (1.32%) NHS
11 7 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
12 6 (0.99%) Linux Command Line
12 6 (0.99%) Virtual Team
13 5 (0.83%) Data Centre
13 5 (0.83%) Derivative
13 5 (0.83%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 25 (4.13%) Windows
2 16 (2.64%) Linux
3 9 (1.49%) VMS
4 3 (0.50%) 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
1 598 (98.84%) DevOps
2 349 (57.69%) CI/CD
3 253 (41.82%) Agile
4 156 (25.79%) Infrastructure as Code
5 126 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
6 124 (20.50%) Analytics
7 112 (18.51%) Test Automation
8 99 (16.36%) Continuous Improvement
9 96 (15.87%) AI
10 90 (14.88%) Business Intelligence
10 90 (14.88%) Scrum
11 87 (14.38%) Data Modelling
12 77 (12.73%) Migration
13 75 (12.40%) Containerisation
14 73 (12.07%) Microservices
15 71 (11.74%) Stakeholder Management
16 64 (10.58%) Data Pipeline
17 62 (10.25%) Observability
18 61 (10.08%) Data Engineering
19 56 (9.26%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 220 (36.36%) SQL
2 182 (30.08%) Python
3 141 (23.31%) C#
4 99 (16.36%) JavaScript
5 58 (9.59%) Bicep
6 55 (9.09%) TypeScript
7 53 (8.76%) PowerShell
8 50 (8.26%) Java
9 30 (4.96%) Bash
10 23 (3.80%) Scala
11 17 (2.81%) T-SQL
12 10 (1.65%) Formula Language
12 10 (1.65%) Kusto Query Language
12 10 (1.65%) LotusScript
12 10 (1.65%) PL/SQL
13 4 (0.66%) C
13 4 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 4 (0.66%) R
14 3 (0.50%) Go
14 3 (0.50%) XPath
Qualifications
1 135 (22.31%) Security Cleared
2 118 (19.50%) SC Cleared
3 61 (10.08%) Azure Certification
4 37 (6.12%) Degree
5 19 (3.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (3.14%) Microsoft Certification
6 16 (2.64%) BPSS Clearance
6 16 (2.64%) ISTQB
7 9 (1.49%) Master's Degree
8 7 (1.16%) PMI Certification
9 6 (0.99%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 5 (0.83%) ISEB
10 5 (0.83%) PMP
11 4 (0.66%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (0.50%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.33%) AWS Certification
13 2 (0.33%) CBAP
13 2 (0.33%) MBA
14 1 (0.17%) DV Cleared
14 1 (0.17%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (10.41%) QA
2 45 (7.44%) Data Quality
3 19 (3.14%) GDPR
4 16 (2.64%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.65%) WCAG
6 8 (1.32%) PMO
7 6 (0.99%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 4 (0.66%) HIPAA
8 4 (0.66%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.50%) HL7
10 2 (0.33%) EU AI Act
10 2 (0.33%) FedRAMP
10 2 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 2 (0.33%) NCSC
10 2 (0.33%) NIST
10 2 (0.33%) SLA
10 2 (0.33%) Software Quality Assurance
11 1 (0.17%) EMIR
11 1 (0.17%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 1 (0.17%) MiFID
System Software
1 104 (17.19%) Docker
2 34 (5.62%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.32%) Virtual Desktop
3 8 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.17%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 185 (30.58%) Terraform
2 106 (17.52%) Kubernetes
3 23 (3.80%) Ansible
4 13 (2.15%) Grafana
5 10 (1.65%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.66%) Argo
6 4 (0.66%) HP ALM
7 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.33%) Kibana
8 2 (0.33%) Kubeflow
8 2 (0.33%) Opsgenie
8 2 (0.33%) Packer
9 1 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.17%) CASB
9 1 (0.17%) Fluentd
9 1 (0.17%) Icinga
9 1 (0.17%) Istio
9 1 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 196 (32.40%) Microsoft
2 96 (15.87%) Databricks
3 54 (8.93%) Oracle
4 32 (5.29%) ServiceNow
5 25 (4.13%) OpenAI
6 21 (3.47%) Salesforce
7 12 (1.98%) SAP
8 10 (1.65%) Foundry
8 10 (1.65%) Lotus
8 10 (1.65%) VMware
9 9 (1.49%) Kofax
10 8 (1.32%) Informatica
11 6 (0.99%) Citrix
11 6 (0.99%) Splunk
12 5 (0.83%) Aruba
12 5 (0.83%) Charles River
12 5 (0.83%) Cisco
12 5 (0.83%) Sitecore
13 4 (0.66%) HP
13 4 (0.66%) Planview