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

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 87 61
Rank change year-on-year +25 -26 +19
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 712 401 628
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.07% 3.15% 3.54%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.40% 7.42% 9.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 508 284 405
10th Percentile £363 £380 £410
25th Percentile £415 £440 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £695
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £47.58 - -
25th Percentile £49.94 - -
Median hourly rate £61.25 - -
75th Percentile £73.56 - -
90th Percentile £75.48 - -
England median hourly rate £46.40 £67.50 £65.50
% change year-on-year -31.26% +3.05% -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 7,572 5,407 6,672
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.33% 42.53% 37.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,217 3,756 4,907
10th Percentile £350 £357 £325
25th Percentile £425 £440 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £664 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £502 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.48% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 53 74
10th Percentile £18.98 £22.27 £17.78
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.66 £21.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +11.81% -28.77%
75th Percentile £52.56 £53.75 £40.72
90th Percentile £72.50 £72.50 £61.75
England median hourly rate £45.00 £26.50 £20.77
% change year-on-year +69.81% +27.59% -30.77%

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 22 April 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 22 April 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 22 April 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 -6 73 £525 -3.00% 33
South London -1 17 £500 +1.01% 3
West London -26 6 £375 -21.05% 10
East London -5 2 £604 +12.28% 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 46 (6.46%) SharePoint
2 32 (4.49%) Apache Spark
3 29 (4.07%) Confluence
4 23 (3.23%) Apache
5 15 (2.11%) Apache Airflow
6 12 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
7 11 (1.54%) HCL Notes
8 10 (1.40%) Mendix
9 3 (0.42%) IIS
10 2 (0.28%) CMS
10 2 (0.28%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.14%) IBM HTTP Server
11 1 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.14%) SAS
Applications
1 22 (3.09%) Microsoft Project
2 9 (1.26%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.14%) Trello
Business Applications
1 35 (4.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.70%) Dynamics AX
2 5 (0.70%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.56%) SAP BPC
4 3 (0.42%) Findur
4 3 (0.42%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 2 (0.28%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.28%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.14%) Endur
6 1 (0.14%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.14%) Maximo
6 1 (0.14%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.14%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.14%) SAP CS
6 1 (0.14%) SAP GTS
6 1 (0.14%) SAP LE
6 1 (0.14%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 712 (100.00%) Azure
2 207 (29.07%) GitHub
3 128 (17.98%) Power Platform
4 125 (17.56%) GitHub Actions
5 97 (13.62%) Azure Data Factory
6 96 (13.48%) AWS
7 75 (10.53%) Azure AKS
8 74 (10.39%) Azure Monitor
9 73 (10.25%) Serverless
10 71 (9.97%) Entra ID
11 64 (8.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 64 (8.99%) Dynamics 365
12 59 (8.29%) Power Automate
13 58 (8.15%) Azure Logic Apps
14 57 (8.01%) Azure Key Vault
15 53 (7.44%) Azure Service Bus
16 45 (6.32%) Azure Functions
17 40 (5.62%) Microsoft 365
17 40 (5.62%) PowerApps
18 33 (4.63%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 21 (2.95%) Firewall
2 11 (1.54%) DNS
2 11 (1.54%) Network Security
3 7 (0.98%) VPN
4 6 (0.84%) WAN
5 5 (0.70%) SD-WAN
6 3 (0.42%) FTP
6 3 (0.42%) Remote Desktop
7 2 (0.28%) HTTP
7 2 (0.28%) Internet
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%) IPsec
8 1 (0.14%) LAN
8 1 (0.14%) MPLS
8 1 (0.14%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (11.24%) SQL Server
2 69 (9.69%) Power BI
3 58 (8.15%) Data Lake
4 48 (6.74%) Azure SQL Database
5 47 (6.60%) Data Warehouse
5 47 (6.60%) Delta Lake
6 30 (4.21%) NoSQL
7 19 (2.67%) Oracle Database
8 15 (2.11%) PostgreSQL
8 15 (2.11%) Spark SQL
8 15 (2.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 13 (1.83%) MongoDB
9 13 (1.83%) Relational Database
9 13 (1.83%) Snowflake Schema
10 12 (1.69%) Big Data
11 11 (1.54%) Metadata
12 10 (1.40%) Redis
12 10 (1.40%) Tableau
13 9 (1.26%) Amazon Redshift
13 9 (1.26%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 137 (19.24%) JIRA
2 108 (15.17%) Git
3 66 (9.27%) Jenkins
4 34 (4.78%) GitLab
5 31 (4.35%) Selenium
6 17 (2.39%) Postman
7 15 (2.11%) Cypress.io
8 12 (1.69%) REST Assured
9 11 (1.54%) TestRail
9 11 (1.54%) Zephyr
10 10 (1.40%) MLflow
10 10 (1.40%) SpecFlow
10 10 (1.40%) Team Foundation Server
11 9 (1.26%) Cucumber
11 9 (1.26%) SonarQube
12 7 (0.98%) JUnit
13 6 (0.84%) Artifactory
13 6 (0.84%) Visual Studio
14 5 (0.70%) JMeter
14 5 (0.70%) webpack
General
1 195 (27.39%) Finance
2 168 (23.60%) Social Skills
3 78 (10.96%) Analytical Skills
4 65 (9.13%) Public Sector
5 48 (6.74%) Banking
6 18 (2.53%) Financial Institution
7 16 (2.25%) Front Office
8 15 (2.11%) Documentation Skills
9 13 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 12 (1.69%) Investment Banking
11 11 (1.54%) Retail
12 9 (1.26%) Organisational Skills
12 9 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
13 6 (0.84%) Legal
14 5 (0.70%) Marketing
15 3 (0.42%) Law
15 3 (0.42%) Local Government
15 3 (0.42%) Pharmaceutical
16 2 (0.28%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 136 (19.10%) Developer
2 107 (15.03%) Azure Engineer
3 103 (14.47%) Senior
4 90 (12.64%) Data Engineer
5 79 (11.10%) DevOps Engineer
6 58 (8.15%) Lead
7 50 (7.02%) Architect
7 50 (7.02%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 45 (6.32%) Analyst
9 30 (4.21%) Azure Developer
10 29 (4.07%) Platform Engineer
11 28 (3.93%) Tester
12 25 (3.51%) Azure Architect
13 23 (3.23%) IT Support
14 21 (2.95%) Test Analyst
15 20 (2.81%) Business Analyst
15 20 (2.81%) Cloud Engineer
15 20 (2.81%) Support Engineer
16 19 (2.67%) IT Engineer
16 19 (2.67%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 124 (17.42%) .NET
2 59 (8.29%) PySpark
3 49 (6.88%) REST
4 47 (6.60%) React
5 44 (6.18%) Node.js
6 33 (4.63%) Kafka
7 29 (4.07%) ADO
8 28 (3.93%) JSON
8 28 (3.93%) Playwright
8 28 (3.93%) YAML
9 27 (3.79%) .NET Core
9 27 (3.79%) AngularJS
10 25 (3.51%) .NET Framework
10 25 (3.51%) ARM Templates
10 25 (3.51%) OAuth
11 24 (3.37%) CSS
11 24 (3.37%) HTML
12 21 (2.95%) RESTful
13 19 (2.67%) Microsoft Graph
14 17 (2.39%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 79 (11.10%) Cloud Native
2 36 (5.06%) Product Ownership
3 31 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
4 27 (3.79%) Distributed Systems
5 20 (2.81%) Enterprise Software
6 18 (2.53%) Reinsurance
7 16 (2.25%) Low-Code
8 15 (2.11%) AI Agents
9 12 (1.69%) Onboarding
10 10 (1.40%) Greenfield Project
10 10 (1.40%) Replication
11 9 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
12 8 (1.12%) Data Structures
12 8 (1.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 8 (1.12%) NHS
13 7 (0.98%) Public Cloud
14 6 (0.84%) Management Information System
15 5 (0.70%) Enterprise Cloud
15 5 (0.70%) Virtual Team
16 4 (0.56%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 44 (6.18%) Windows
2 21 (2.95%) Linux
3 9 (1.26%) VMS
3 9 (1.26%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.70%) Unix
5 2 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 706 (99.16%) DevOps
2 404 (56.74%) CI/CD
3 264 (37.08%) Agile
4 172 (24.16%) Infrastructure as Code
5 134 (18.82%) Analytics
6 122 (17.13%) Problem-Solving
7 121 (16.99%) Test Automation
8 105 (14.75%) Migration
9 103 (14.47%) Data Modelling
10 101 (14.19%) AI
11 100 (14.04%) Continuous Improvement
12 90 (12.64%) Data Pipeline
13 88 (12.36%) Microservices
14 84 (11.80%) Business Intelligence
15 82 (11.52%) Observability
15 82 (11.52%) Scrum
16 81 (11.38%) Containerisation
17 77 (10.81%) Stakeholder Management
18 72 (10.11%) Data Engineering
18 72 (10.11%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 272 (38.20%) SQL
2 214 (30.06%) Python
3 157 (22.05%) C#
4 80 (11.24%) JavaScript
5 70 (9.83%) PowerShell
6 67 (9.41%) Bicep
7 58 (8.15%) TypeScript
8 51 (7.16%) Java
9 42 (5.90%) Bash
10 25 (3.51%) Scala
11 18 (2.53%) T-SQL
12 13 (1.83%) Kusto Query Language
13 11 (1.54%) Formula Language
13 11 (1.54%) LotusScript
13 11 (1.54%) PL/SQL
14 7 (0.98%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 5 (0.70%) Go
15 5 (0.70%) Shell Script
16 4 (0.56%) R
17 3 (0.42%) C
Qualifications
1 180 (25.28%) Security Cleared
2 163 (22.89%) SC Cleared
3 65 (9.13%) Azure Certification
4 36 (5.06%) Degree
5 19 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (2.53%) ISTQB
7 17 (2.39%) BPSS Clearance
8 15 (2.11%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (0.84%) Master's Degree
9 6 (0.84%) PMI Certification
9 6 (0.84%) PMP
10 4 (0.56%) AWS Certification
10 4 (0.56%) DBS Check
10 4 (0.56%) DV Cleared
11 3 (0.42%) ISTQB Foundation 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 82 (11.52%) QA
2 67 (9.41%) Data Quality
3 16 (2.25%) GDPR
4 15 (2.11%) Accessibility
5 9 (1.26%) WCAG
6 7 (0.98%) PMO
6 7 (0.98%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 6 (0.84%) NIST
8 4 (0.56%) NCSC
8 4 (0.56%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.56%) SLA
9 3 (0.42%) HIPAA
9 3 (0.42%) HL7
10 2 (0.28%) FedRAMP
10 2 (0.28%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 2 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 2 (0.28%) Software Quality Assurance
11 1 (0.14%) EU AI Act
11 1 (0.14%) GRC
11 1 (0.14%) ITGC
System Software
1 111 (15.59%) Docker
2 47 (6.60%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.26%) Virtual Desktop
4 7 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.56%) 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
1 207 (29.07%) Terraform
2 126 (17.70%) Kubernetes
3 34 (4.78%) Ansible
4 16 (2.25%) Grafana
5 11 (1.54%) Prometheus
6 7 (0.98%) HP ALM
6 7 (0.98%) Packer
7 6 (0.84%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (0.70%) Progress Chef
8 5 (0.70%) Puppet
9 3 (0.42%) Argo
10 2 (0.28%) Istio
10 2 (0.28%) Kubeflow
10 2 (0.28%) Opsgenie
10 2 (0.28%) SCCM
10 2 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.14%) CASB
11 1 (0.14%) Fluentd
11 1 (0.14%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.14%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 230 (32.30%) Microsoft
2 112 (15.73%) Databricks
3 58 (8.15%) Oracle
4 34 (4.78%) ServiceNow
5 27 (3.79%) OpenAI
6 21 (2.95%) Salesforce
7 16 (2.25%) SAP
8 15 (2.11%) Informatica
9 12 (1.69%) VMware
10 11 (1.54%) Lotus
11 10 (1.40%) Foundry
11 10 (1.40%) Kofax
12 9 (1.26%) Splunk
13 7 (0.98%) Bloomberg
13 7 (0.98%) HP
14 5 (0.70%) Citrix
14 5 (0.70%) Dynatrace
14 5 (0.70%) Refinitiv
15 4 (0.56%) Cloudera
15 4 (0.56%) Hortonworks