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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 76 58
Rank change year-on-year +15 -18 +17
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 790 461 681
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.99% 3.40% 3.96%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.62% 7.96% 9.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 550 327 442
10th Percentile £390 £350 £400
25th Percentile £425 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £644 £613
90th Percentile £725 £750 £688
England median daily rate £500 £504 £525
% change year-on-year -0.74% -4.05% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £55.00 £86.25 -
Median hourly rate £62.50 £87.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% - -
75th Percentile £73.56 £88.75 -
90th Percentile £75.48 - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £65.50
% change year-on-year -12.00% -4.58% -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 8,216 5,790 6,944
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.51% 42.69% 40.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,621 3,951 5,076
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £445 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.76% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £523 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +1.95% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 81 62
10th Percentile £19.50 £22.50 £20.05
25th Percentile £25.25 £25.01 £22.68
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +7.67% -53.04%
75th Percentile £55.00 £47.50 £40.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £67.50 £65.65
England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +57.06% +14.32% -36.77%

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 July 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 July 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 July 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 -10 71 £525 - 25
South London -4 12 £513 -2.38% 1
West London -10 5 £500 -8.68% 4
East London +1 3 £604 +9.23% 4
North London 0 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 43 (5.44%) SharePoint
2 39 (4.94%) Confluence
3 29 (3.67%) Apache Spark
4 25 (3.16%) Apache
5 23 (2.91%) Apache Airflow
6 9 (1.14%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.63%) CMS
8 3 (0.38%) Kentico
9 1 (0.13%) Apache Pulsar
9 1 (0.13%) HCL Notes
9 1 (0.13%) IBM HTTP Server
9 1 (0.13%) IIS
9 1 (0.13%) Mendix
9 1 (0.13%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.13%) SAS
Applications
1 27 (3.42%) Microsoft Project
2 14 (1.77%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (1.39%) MS Visio
4 6 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.51%) Notion
7 2 (0.25%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.25%) CPLEX
7 2 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 31 (3.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (1.14%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.89%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (0.38%) Endur
4 3 (0.38%) Findur
4 3 (0.38%) Maximo
4 3 (0.38%) SAP BPC
4 3 (0.38%) SAP MM
4 3 (0.38%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 2 (0.25%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.25%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
5 2 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.13%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.13%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.13%) PeopleSoft HCM
6 1 (0.13%) SAP CS
6 1 (0.13%) SAP LE
6 1 (0.13%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 790 (100.00%) Azure
2 242 (30.63%) GitHub
3 148 (18.73%) GitHub Actions
4 126 (15.95%) AWS
5 118 (14.94%) Power Platform
6 88 (11.14%) Azure Data Factory
7 67 (8.48%) Azure AKS
8 65 (8.23%) Entra ID
9 64 (8.10%) Azure Monitor
10 62 (7.85%) Power Automate
11 57 (7.22%) Dynamics 365
12 54 (6.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 48 (6.08%) Serverless
14 41 (5.19%) Azure Key Vault
14 41 (5.19%) PowerApps
15 38 (4.81%) GCP
16 37 (4.68%) Azure Logic Apps
16 37 (4.68%) Snowflake
17 34 (4.30%) PaaS
18 33 (4.18%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.28%) Firewall
2 12 (1.52%) VPN
3 11 (1.39%) DNS
4 10 (1.27%) Network Security
5 5 (0.63%) SD-WAN
5 5 (0.63%) WAN
6 4 (0.51%) Internet
7 2 (0.25%) NAS
7 2 (0.25%) Remote Desktop
7 2 (0.25%) SAN
7 2 (0.25%) SSH
7 2 (0.25%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.25%) X.509
8 1 (0.13%) 4G
8 1 (0.13%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (0.13%) Cisco Firepower
8 1 (0.13%) Cisco IOS
8 1 (0.13%) DHCP
8 1 (0.13%) FTP
8 1 (0.13%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (9.11%) Power BI
2 67 (8.48%) Data Lake
3 61 (7.72%) SQL Server
4 47 (5.95%) Azure SQL Database
5 42 (5.32%) Data Warehouse
6 37 (4.68%) Delta Lake
7 30 (3.80%) NoSQL
8 20 (2.53%) Snowflake Schema
9 19 (2.41%) PostgreSQL
10 17 (2.15%) Relational Database
11 15 (1.90%) Metadata
12 13 (1.65%) Big Data
12 13 (1.65%) Spark SQL
13 12 (1.52%) Redis
14 9 (1.14%) Amazon Redshift
14 9 (1.14%) MongoDB
14 9 (1.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 7 (0.89%) BigQuery
15 7 (0.89%) Oracle Database
15 7 (0.89%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 154 (19.49%) JIRA
2 139 (17.59%) Git
3 79 (10.00%) Jenkins
4 57 (7.22%) GitLab
5 33 (4.18%) Selenium
6 14 (1.77%) SonarQube
7 13 (1.65%) Cypress.io
8 12 (1.52%) REST Assured
9 11 (1.39%) Cucumber
10 10 (1.27%) Visual Studio
11 9 (1.14%) JUnit
11 9 (1.14%) Postman
12 8 (1.01%) SpecFlow
12 8 (1.01%) Team Foundation Server
13 6 (0.76%) Appium
13 6 (0.76%) Bitbucket
13 6 (0.76%) Gradle
13 6 (0.76%) Snyk
13 6 (0.76%) TestRail
13 6 (0.76%) WebDriver
General
1 217 (27.47%) Finance
2 197 (24.94%) Social Skills
3 81 (10.25%) Analytical Skills
4 68 (8.61%) Public Sector
5 51 (6.46%) Banking
6 18 (2.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 15 (1.90%) Documentation Skills
7 15 (1.90%) Retail
8 12 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
9 11 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
9 11 (1.39%) Investment Banking
10 10 (1.27%) Legal
11 9 (1.14%) Front Office
11 9 (1.14%) Marketing
12 7 (0.89%) Law
12 7 (0.89%) Local Government
13 6 (0.76%) Back Office
13 6 (0.76%) Pharmaceutical
13 6 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.51%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 129 (16.33%) Azure Engineer
2 125 (15.82%) Developer
3 117 (14.81%) Senior
4 112 (14.18%) DevOps Engineer
5 97 (12.28%) Data Engineer
6 67 (8.48%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 65 (8.23%) Lead
8 56 (7.09%) Architect
9 53 (6.71%) Analyst
10 34 (4.30%) Platform Engineer
11 33 (4.18%) Business Analyst
12 29 (3.67%) Consultant
13 28 (3.54%) Cloud Engineer
14 25 (3.16%) Tester
15 24 (3.04%) Solutions Architect
16 23 (2.91%) IT Support
17 22 (2.78%) Azure Data Engineer
17 22 (2.78%) Project Manager
18 21 (2.66%) Senior Data Engineer
18 21 (2.66%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (12.91%) .NET
2 83 (10.51%) REST
3 55 (6.96%) PySpark
4 46 (5.82%) ADO
5 42 (5.32%) React
6 41 (5.19%) JSON
7 32 (4.05%) YAML
8 31 (3.92%) Kafka
9 27 (3.42%) .NET Framework
9 27 (3.42%) AngularJS
9 27 (3.42%) Playwright
9 27 (3.42%) RESTful
10 26 (3.29%) HTML
11 24 (3.04%) ARM Templates
12 23 (2.91%) .NET Core
13 22 (2.78%) XML
14 21 (2.66%) CSS
14 21 (2.66%) SOAP
15 20 (2.53%) Middleware
16 19 (2.41%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 98 (12.41%) Cloud Native
2 36 (4.56%) Legacy Systems
3 33 (4.18%) Distributed Systems
4 30 (3.80%) Product Ownership
5 20 (2.53%) Reinsurance
6 18 (2.28%) Onboarding
7 17 (2.15%) Greenfield Project
8 15 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
9 13 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
9 13 (1.65%) Management Information System
10 11 (1.39%) Replication
11 10 (1.27%) Hybrid Cloud
12 9 (1.14%) AI Agents
13 8 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
14 7 (0.89%) Enterprise Cloud
14 7 (0.89%) FMCG
15 6 (0.76%) Data Centre
15 6 (0.76%) Data Structures
15 6 (0.76%) Distributed Architecture
15 6 (0.76%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 41 (5.19%) Windows
2 19 (2.41%) Linux
3 8 (1.01%) VMS
3 8 (1.01%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.89%) Unix
5 3 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.25%) Android
6 2 (0.25%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 790 (100.00%) DevOps
2 434 (54.94%) CI/CD
3 306 (38.73%) Agile
4 198 (25.06%) Infrastructure as Code
5 140 (17.72%) Test Automation
6 132 (16.71%) Analytics
7 128 (16.20%) Migration
8 124 (15.70%) Problem-Solving
9 109 (13.80%) Continuous Improvement
10 104 (13.16%) Stakeholder Management
11 101 (12.78%) Scrum
12 97 (12.28%) Containerisation
13 96 (12.15%) Data Modelling
14 93 (11.77%) AI
15 92 (11.65%) Data Pipeline
16 88 (11.14%) ETL
17 87 (11.01%) Microservices
18 84 (10.63%) Platform Engineering
19 83 (10.51%) Business Intelligence
20 81 (10.25%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 268 (33.92%) SQL
2 221 (27.97%) Python
3 139 (17.59%) C#
4 89 (11.27%) PowerShell
5 66 (8.35%) Bicep
6 61 (7.72%) Bash
7 60 (7.59%) TypeScript
8 57 (7.22%) JavaScript
9 46 (5.82%) Java
10 16 (2.03%) Scala
11 14 (1.77%) T-SQL
12 10 (1.27%) Apex Code
13 9 (1.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 7 (0.89%) Kusto Query Language
15 6 (0.76%) Shell Script
16 4 (0.51%) Go
16 4 (0.51%) PL/SQL
16 4 (0.51%) VB.NET
17 3 (0.38%) ABAP
17 3 (0.38%) C
Qualifications
1 204 (25.82%) Security Cleared
2 182 (23.04%) SC Cleared
3 59 (7.47%) Azure Certification
4 43 (5.44%) Degree
5 23 (2.91%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (2.41%) Microsoft Certification
7 15 (1.90%) DV Cleared
8 12 (1.52%) AWS Certification
8 12 (1.52%) ISTQB
9 9 (1.14%) DBS Check
10 8 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
11 6 (0.76%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 5 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (0.63%) Master's Degree
12 5 (0.63%) PMI Certification
12 5 (0.63%) PMP
13 3 (0.38%) CCNA
13 3 (0.38%) CISSP
13 3 (0.38%) GIAC
13 3 (0.38%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (12.28%) QA
2 64 (8.10%) Data Quality
3 22 (2.78%) GDPR
4 21 (2.66%) Accessibility
5 14 (1.77%) NIST
6 11 (1.39%) PMO
7 10 (1.27%) WCAG
8 9 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 7 (0.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 6 (0.76%) SLA
11 3 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.25%) Government Security Classifications
12 2 (0.25%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 2 (0.25%) NCSC
12 2 (0.25%) PSD2
12 2 (0.25%) SEPA
13 1 (0.13%) EMIR
13 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 1 (0.13%) MiFID
13 1 (0.13%) P3O
System Software
1 106 (13.42%) Docker
2 41 (5.19%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.89%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.38%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.25%) Microsoft App-V
7 2 (0.25%) OpenSSH
7 2 (0.25%) vSphere
8 1 (0.13%) HDFS
8 1 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.13%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 219 (27.72%) Terraform
2 126 (15.95%) Kubernetes
3 42 (5.32%) Ansible
4 22 (2.78%) Grafana
5 18 (2.28%) Prometheus
6 10 (1.27%) Packer
7 8 (1.01%) Progress Chef
7 8 (1.01%) Puppet
8 7 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
9 6 (0.76%) HP ALM
10 5 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.38%) Argo
11 3 (0.38%) SCCM
12 2 (0.25%) HP Fortify
13 1 (0.13%) Docker Swarm
13 1 (0.13%) FortiGate
13 1 (0.13%) Istio
13 1 (0.13%) PowerCLI
13 1 (0.13%) RSA Archer
13 1 (0.13%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 236 (29.87%) Microsoft
2 94 (11.90%) Databricks
3 36 (4.56%) Salesforce
4 32 (4.05%) Oracle
5 27 (3.42%) ServiceNow
6 25 (3.16%) SAP
7 16 (2.03%) VMware
8 15 (1.90%) OpenAI
9 14 (1.77%) Informatica
10 10 (1.27%) Bloomberg
10 10 (1.27%) Foundry
11 8 (1.01%) Google
11 8 (1.01%) Guidewire
11 8 (1.01%) Refinitiv
11 8 (1.01%) Splunk
12 6 (0.76%) Dynatrace
12 6 (0.76%) HP
12 6 (0.76%) IBM
13 5 (0.63%) ION Trading
13 5 (0.63%) Workday