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

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 84 82
Rank change year-on-year +10 -2 +2
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 579 432 519
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.91% 3.12% 2.79%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.82% 7.53% 7.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 417 289 384
10th Percentile £358 £400 £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 £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £725 £709
England median daily rate £500 £528 £550
% change year-on-year -5.21% -4.09% -
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 6,563 5,738 6,914
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.31% 41.47% 37.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,497 3,810 5,124
10th Percentile £350 £356 £325
25th Percentile £425 £451 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.03%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £763
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 47 79
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £17.62
25th Percentile £21.46 £23.99 £21.25
Median hourly rate £28.88 £31.35 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.86% +2.77% -
75th Percentile £53.75 £54.75 £53.38
90th Percentile £76.34 £68.50 £62.75
England median hourly rate £33.00 £27.50 £22.75
% change year-on-year +20.00% +20.88% -9.00%

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 31 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 31 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 -9 73 £550 - 42
South London +4 12 £500 +31.28%
West London -26 3 £375 -21.05% 5
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 36 (6.22%) SharePoint
2 29 (5.01%) Confluence
3 21 (3.63%) Apache Spark
4 12 (2.07%) Apache
5 10 (1.73%) HCL Notes
6 9 (1.55%) Mendix
7 7 (1.21%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (1.04%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.52%) CMS
9 3 (0.52%) IIS
10 2 (0.35%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.17%) Kentico
11 1 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 11 (1.90%) Microsoft Excel
1 11 (1.90%) Microsoft Project
2 10 (1.73%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.35%) Trello
Business Applications
1 33 (5.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.86%) Aladdin
3 4 (0.69%) Endur
3 4 (0.69%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.17%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.17%) Orchestrade
4 1 (0.17%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.17%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.17%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 1 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 579 (100.00%) Azure
2 149 (25.73%) GitHub
3 138 (23.83%) Power Platform
4 101 (17.44%) GitHub Actions
5 80 (13.82%) Azure Data Factory
6 79 (13.64%) Serverless
7 65 (11.23%) AWS
7 65 (11.23%) Azure AKS
8 64 (11.05%) Dynamics 365
9 62 (10.71%) Azure Logic Apps
10 61 (10.54%) Azure Monitor
11 58 (10.02%) Azure Functions
12 55 (9.50%) Entra ID
13 53 (9.15%) Power Automate
14 47 (8.12%) Azure Key Vault
15 45 (7.77%) Azure Service Bus
15 45 (7.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 44 (7.60%) PowerApps
17 37 (6.39%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 32 (5.53%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 27 (4.66%) Firewall
2 12 (2.07%) Network Security
3 11 (1.90%) VPN
4 9 (1.55%) DNS
5 7 (1.21%) WAN
6 5 (0.86%) SD-WAN
7 3 (0.52%) Remote Desktop
8 2 (0.35%) FTP
8 2 (0.35%) HTTP
8 2 (0.35%) LAN
8 2 (0.35%) MPLS
8 2 (0.35%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.17%) BGP
9 1 (0.17%) DHCP
9 1 (0.17%) IPsec
9 1 (0.17%) VLAN
9 1 (0.17%) VRRP
9 1 (0.17%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (14.34%) Power BI
2 65 (11.23%) SQL Server
3 36 (6.22%) Data Warehouse
4 35 (6.04%) Azure SQL Database
5 33 (5.70%) Data Lake
6 27 (4.66%) Delta Lake
7 21 (3.63%) NoSQL
8 17 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
9 15 (2.59%) MongoDB
9 15 (2.59%) Oracle Database
10 14 (2.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 12 (2.07%) Tableau
12 9 (1.55%) Relational Database
13 8 (1.38%) Data Vault
13 8 (1.38%) DynamoDB
14 7 (1.21%) Snowflake Schema
14 7 (1.21%) Spark SQL
14 7 (1.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 6 (1.04%) Redis
15 6 (1.04%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 111 (19.17%) JIRA
2 81 (13.99%) Git
3 51 (8.81%) Jenkins
4 30 (5.18%) GitLab
5 28 (4.84%) Selenium
6 22 (3.80%) Postman
7 13 (2.25%) Cypress.io
7 13 (2.25%) Team Foundation Server
8 10 (1.73%) REST Assured
8 10 (1.73%) SonarQube
9 8 (1.38%) JUnit
9 8 (1.38%) MLflow
9 8 (1.38%) Visual Studio
10 7 (1.21%) JMeter
10 7 (1.21%) TeamCity
10 7 (1.21%) TestRail
10 7 (1.21%) Zephyr
11 6 (1.04%) Cucumber
11 6 (1.04%) Liquibase
11 6 (1.04%) webpack
General
1 183 (31.61%) Social Skills
2 147 (25.39%) Finance
3 68 (11.74%) Analytical Skills
4 57 (9.84%) Public Sector
5 43 (7.43%) Banking
6 17 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
7 16 (2.76%) Influencing Skills
7 16 (2.76%) Investment Banking
8 15 (2.59%) Financial Institution
9 13 (2.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 12 (2.07%) Retail
11 11 (1.90%) Front Office
12 9 (1.55%) Marketing
12 9 (1.55%) Presentation Skills
13 7 (1.21%) Law
14 6 (1.04%) Back Office
15 5 (0.86%) Military
16 4 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
17 3 (0.52%) General Ledger
18 2 (0.35%) Billing
Job Titles
1 139 (24.01%) Developer
2 88 (15.20%) Azure Engineer
3 74 (12.78%) DevOps Engineer
4 60 (10.36%) Senior
5 57 (9.84%) Data Engineer
6 48 (8.29%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 47 (8.12%) Analyst
8 42 (7.25%) Architect
9 38 (6.56%) Lead
10 33 (5.70%) Azure Developer
11 24 (4.15%) Azure Architect
12 22 (3.80%) Business Analyst
12 22 (3.80%) Tester
13 19 (3.28%) Platform Engineer
14 18 (3.11%) Consultant
15 16 (2.76%) Senior Developer
15 16 (2.76%) Test Analyst
16 15 (2.59%) Automation Engineer
16 15 (2.59%) Azure Data Engineer
16 15 (2.59%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 127 (21.93%) .NET
2 55 (9.50%) REST
3 49 (8.46%) Node.js
4 45 (7.77%) React
5 40 (6.91%) PySpark
6 29 (5.01%) ARM Templates
7 28 (4.84%) Kafka
8 26 (4.49%) .NET Core
8 26 (4.49%) RESTful
8 26 (4.49%) SOAP
9 21 (3.63%) ADO
9 21 (3.63%) HTML
10 20 (3.45%) CSS
10 20 (3.45%) Playwright
10 20 (3.45%) YAML
11 17 (2.94%) .NET Framework
11 17 (2.94%) AngularJS
12 16 (2.76%) ASP.NET
12 16 (2.76%) JSON
13 15 (2.59%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 58 (10.02%) Cloud Native
2 31 (5.35%) Product Ownership
3 25 (4.32%) Distributed Systems
4 20 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
5 19 (3.28%) CMDB
6 15 (2.59%) AI Agents
6 15 (2.59%) Enterprise Software
6 15 (2.59%) Low-Code
7 13 (2.25%) Public Cloud
7 13 (2.25%) Reinsurance
8 10 (1.73%) Data Structures
9 9 (1.55%) Replication
10 8 (1.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 8 (1.38%) NHS
11 6 (1.04%) Virtual Team
12 5 (0.86%) Data Centre
12 5 (0.86%) Derivative
12 5 (0.86%) Linux Command Line
12 5 (0.86%) Mobile App
12 5 (0.86%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 22 (3.80%) Windows
2 16 (2.76%) Linux
3 8 (1.38%) VMS
4 4 (0.69%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.35%) Android
5 2 (0.35%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.17%) Solaris
6 1 (0.17%) Unix
6 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 572 (98.79%) DevOps
2 328 (56.65%) CI/CD
3 258 (44.56%) Agile
4 149 (25.73%) Infrastructure as Code
5 126 (21.76%) Problem-Solving
6 120 (20.73%) Analytics
7 102 (17.62%) Test Automation
8 94 (16.23%) Business Intelligence
9 91 (15.72%) Scrum
10 89 (15.37%) AI
11 87 (15.03%) Continuous Improvement
12 81 (13.99%) Data Modelling
13 76 (13.13%) Microservices
14 74 (12.78%) Migration
15 67 (11.57%) Containerisation
16 65 (11.23%) Stakeholder Management
17 60 (10.36%) Data Pipeline
18 57 (9.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 56 (9.67%) Observability
19 56 (9.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 200 (34.54%) SQL
2 163 (28.15%) Python
3 132 (22.80%) C#
4 99 (17.10%) JavaScript
5 58 (10.02%) PowerShell
6 57 (9.84%) Bicep
7 48 (8.29%) TypeScript
8 46 (7.94%) Java
9 26 (4.49%) Bash
10 18 (3.11%) Scala
11 15 (2.59%) T-SQL
12 10 (1.73%) Formula Language
12 10 (1.73%) LotusScript
12 10 (1.73%) PL/SQL
13 9 (1.55%) Kusto Query Language
14 4 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 4 (0.69%) R
15 3 (0.52%) Go
15 3 (0.52%) X++
15 3 (0.52%) XPath
Qualifications
1 131 (22.63%) Security Cleared
2 116 (20.03%) SC Cleared
3 59 (10.19%) Azure Certification
4 40 (6.91%) Degree
5 19 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (3.28%) Microsoft Certification
6 16 (2.76%) BPSS Clearance
7 13 (2.25%) ISTQB
8 10 (1.73%) Master's Degree
9 9 (1.55%) PMI Certification
10 7 (1.21%) PMP
11 5 (0.86%) ISEB
11 5 (0.86%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 4 (0.69%) ITIL Certification
13 3 (0.52%) CBAP
13 3 (0.52%) DBS Check
14 2 (0.35%) AWS Certification
14 2 (0.35%) CISSP
14 2 (0.35%) MBA
15 1 (0.17%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (8.64%) QA
2 43 (7.43%) Data Quality
3 20 (3.45%) GDPR
4 14 (2.42%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.38%) WCAG
6 6 (1.04%) PMO
6 6 (1.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (0.69%) HIPAA
7 4 (0.69%) NIST
7 4 (0.69%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.52%) HL7
8 3 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.52%) NCSC
9 2 (0.35%) EU AI Act
9 2 (0.35%) FedRAMP
9 2 (0.35%) SLA
9 2 (0.35%) Software Quality Assurance
10 1 (0.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.17%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 99 (17.10%) Docker
2 32 (5.53%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.38%) Virtual Desktop
4 7 (1.21%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.52%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.17%) KVM
6 1 (0.17%) Squid
Systems Management
1 172 (29.71%) Terraform
2 102 (17.62%) Kubernetes
3 26 (4.49%) Ansible
4 12 (2.07%) Grafana
5 9 (1.55%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.69%) Packer
7 3 (0.52%) Argo
7 3 (0.52%) HP ALM
7 3 (0.52%) Kibana
8 2 (0.35%) Fluentd
8 2 (0.35%) Istio
8 2 (0.35%) Kubeflow
8 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.35%) Opsgenie
8 2 (0.35%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.17%) CASB
9 1 (0.17%) Icinga
9 1 (0.17%) Puppet
Vendors
1 201 (34.72%) Microsoft
2 90 (15.54%) Databricks
3 45 (7.77%) Oracle
4 33 (5.70%) ServiceNow
5 25 (4.32%) OpenAI
6 18 (3.11%) Salesforce
7 11 (1.90%) SAP
8 10 (1.73%) Lotus
9 9 (1.55%) Kofax
10 8 (1.38%) Foundry
10 8 (1.38%) Informatica
10 8 (1.38%) VMware
11 6 (1.04%) DocuSign
11 6 (1.04%) Splunk
12 5 (0.86%) Aruba
12 5 (0.86%) Cisco
12 5 (0.86%) Citrix
12 5 (0.86%) Sitecore
13 4 (0.69%) Charles River
13 4 (0.69%) Google