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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 79 64
Rank change year-on-year +18 -15 +8
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 840 466 582
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.16% 3.47% 3.60%
As % of the Cloud Services category 10.17% 7.92% 8.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 601 327 393
10th Percentile £363 £350 £388
25th Percentile £425 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.43% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £625 £656 £625
90th Percentile £688 £750 £698
England median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £39.00 - -
25th Percentile £45.00 £86.25 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £87.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -37.14% - -
75th Percentile - £88.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £68.22 £75.00 -
% change year-on-year -9.05% - -

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 8,261 5,881 6,627
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 40.88% 43.77% 40.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,715 3,981 4,565
10th Percentile £361 £350 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% -3.64% -2.83%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +4.48% -4.29% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 99 41
10th Percentile £17.60 £22.50 £23.80
25th Percentile £21.75 £24.77 £24.15
Median hourly rate £29.28 £27.00 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.43% -12.90% -23.46%
75th Percentile £58.31 £47.13 £44.61
90th Percentile £78.75 £79.00 £66.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +8.29%

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 9 October 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 9 October 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 9 October 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 +12 102 £535 -2.73% 61
South London -5 9 £525 - 9
North London +2 3 £550 +25.00% 2
West London -15 2 £625 +20.19% 7
East London 0 1 - - 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 53 (6.31%) Confluence
2 46 (5.48%) SharePoint
3 31 (3.69%) Apache Spark
4 27 (3.21%) Apache Airflow
5 19 (2.26%) Apache
6 10 (1.19%) CMS
7 7 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.36%) IIS
8 3 (0.36%) Kentico
8 3 (0.36%) Mendix
9 2 (0.24%) nginx
10 1 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.12%) Apache Pulsar
10 1 (0.12%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.12%) Camunda
10 1 (0.12%) EPiServer
10 1 (0.12%) GeoServer
10 1 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.12%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 32 (3.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 26 (3.10%) Microsoft Project
3 16 (1.90%) MS Visio
4 13 (1.55%) Microsoft Office
5 9 (1.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 5 (0.60%) Notion
7 4 (0.48%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.36%) Mingle
9 2 (0.24%) CPLEX
9 2 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.12%) Trello
10 1 (0.12%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 36 (4.29%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (1.31%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.48%) Dynamics AX
3 4 (0.48%) Payment Gateway
4 3 (0.36%) Aladdin
4 3 (0.36%) SAP MDG
5 2 (0.24%) Endur
5 2 (0.24%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
5 2 (0.24%) Maximo
5 2 (0.24%) NEC Housing
5 2 (0.24%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.24%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.12%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.12%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.12%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.12%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.12%) SDL Web 8
6 1 (0.12%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 840 (100.00%) Azure
2 257 (30.60%) GitHub
3 165 (19.64%) GitHub Actions
4 154 (18.33%) Power Platform
5 145 (17.26%) AWS
6 89 (10.60%) Azure Data Factory
7 86 (10.24%) Entra ID
8 79 (9.40%) Azure Monitor
9 76 (9.05%) Serverless
10 75 (8.93%) Azure AKS
11 67 (7.98%) Dynamics 365
12 60 (7.14%) Azure Functions
12 60 (7.14%) Power Automate
13 52 (6.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 49 (5.83%) Azure Logic Apps
15 48 (5.71%) PowerApps
16 47 (5.60%) GCP
17 46 (5.48%) PaaS
18 41 (4.88%) Azure Service Bus
19 40 (4.76%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 25 (2.98%) DNS
2 24 (2.86%) Firewall
3 19 (2.26%) Network Security
4 16 (1.90%) VPN
5 8 (0.95%) DHCP
6 4 (0.48%) SAN
7 3 (0.36%) Internet
7 3 (0.36%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.24%) 4G
8 2 (0.24%) Cisco IOS
8 2 (0.24%) NAS
8 2 (0.24%) Reverse Proxy
8 2 (0.24%) SSL
8 2 (0.24%) VLAN
8 2 (0.24%) WAN
9 1 (0.12%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.12%) LAN
9 1 (0.12%) MQTT
9 1 (0.12%) SMTP
9 1 (0.12%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (11.90%) Power BI
2 59 (7.02%) SQL Server
3 58 (6.90%) Data Lake
4 51 (6.07%) Data Warehouse
5 43 (5.12%) Azure SQL Database
6 30 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
7 29 (3.45%) Metadata
8 25 (2.98%) Delta Lake
9 24 (2.86%) NoSQL
10 17 (2.02%) Big Data
11 15 (1.79%) Relational Database
11 15 (1.79%) Snowflake Schema
12 13 (1.55%) Star Schema
13 12 (1.43%) Redis
13 12 (1.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 10 (1.19%) Spark SQL
15 9 (1.07%) Data Vault
15 9 (1.07%) Oracle Database
16 8 (0.95%) Amazon Redshift
16 8 (0.95%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 148 (17.62%) Git
2 144 (17.14%) JIRA
3 113 (13.45%) Jenkins
4 88 (10.48%) GitLab
5 48 (5.71%) Selenium
6 20 (2.38%) SonarQube
7 19 (2.26%) Cypress.io
8 17 (2.02%) Postman
9 16 (1.90%) Visual Studio
10 12 (1.43%) Cucumber
11 11 (1.31%) REST Assured
11 11 (1.31%) TestRail
12 10 (1.19%) Maven
13 9 (1.07%) JMeter
13 9 (1.07%) JUnit
13 9 (1.07%) SpecFlow
13 9 (1.07%) WebDriver
14 8 (0.95%) Gradle
15 7 (0.83%) Snyk
15 7 (0.83%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 240 (28.57%) Finance
2 236 (28.10%) Social Skills
3 85 (10.12%) Analytical Skills
4 83 (9.88%) Public Sector
5 72 (8.57%) Banking
6 27 (3.21%) Retail
7 20 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 20 (2.38%) Marketing
8 19 (2.26%) Influencing Skills
9 18 (2.14%) Documentation Skills
10 17 (2.02%) Investment Banking
11 11 (1.31%) Legal
11 11 (1.31%) Local Government
12 8 (0.95%) Law
12 8 (0.95%) Pharmaceutical
12 8 (0.95%) Police
13 7 (0.83%) Manufacturing
13 7 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (0.60%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 148 (17.62%) DevOps Engineer
2 147 (17.50%) Senior
3 144 (17.14%) Azure Engineer
4 121 (14.40%) Developer
5 90 (10.71%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 77 (9.17%) Architect
7 74 (8.81%) Analyst
7 74 (8.81%) Data Engineer
8 65 (7.74%) Lead
9 42 (5.00%) Business Analyst
10 39 (4.64%) Consultant
11 31 (3.69%) Project Manager
12 28 (3.33%) Cloud Engineer
12 28 (3.33%) Platform Engineer
13 26 (3.10%) Senior DevOps
14 25 (2.98%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 23 (2.74%) Solutions Architect
16 22 (2.62%) Test Analyst
17 21 (2.50%) Senior Developer
18 20 (2.38%) Databricks Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 252 (30.00%) Terraform
2 131 (15.60%) REST
3 121 (14.40%) .NET
4 59 (7.02%) PySpark
5 52 (6.19%) ADO
6 45 (5.36%) React
7 43 (5.12%) Kafka
8 38 (4.52%) JSON
9 35 (4.17%) YAML
10 33 (3.93%) RESTful
11 32 (3.81%) Middleware
11 32 (3.81%) Playwright
12 27 (3.21%) ARM Templates
13 26 (3.10%) OAuth
13 26 (3.10%) XML
14 24 (2.86%) .NET Core
15 23 (2.74%) .NET Framework
15 23 (2.74%) AngularJS
15 23 (2.74%) HTML
16 20 (2.38%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 100 (11.90%) Cloud Native
2 55 (6.55%) Product Ownership
3 36 (4.29%) Enterprise Software
4 33 (3.93%) Distributed Systems
5 30 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
6 24 (2.86%) Management Information System
7 21 (2.50%) AI Agents
8 20 (2.38%) Onboarding
9 18 (2.14%) Hybrid Cloud
10 16 (1.90%) Greenfield Project
11 14 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
12 13 (1.55%) Low-Code
13 12 (1.43%) Reinsurance
14 11 (1.31%) Enterprise Cloud
15 10 (1.19%) Data Structures
16 9 (1.07%) Linux Command Line
16 9 (1.07%) Public Cloud
17 8 (0.95%) Data Centre
17 8 (0.95%) Replication
18 7 (0.83%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 41 (4.88%) Windows
2 34 (4.05%) Linux
3 14 (1.67%) VMS
3 14 (1.67%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.83%) Unix
5 6 (0.71%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (0.48%) Android
6 4 (0.48%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.48%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.12%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 840 (100.00%) DevOps
2 470 (55.95%) CI/CD
3 341 (40.60%) Agile
4 219 (26.07%) Infrastructure as Code
5 170 (20.24%) Stakeholder Management
6 164 (19.52%) Test Automation
7 149 (17.74%) Analytics
8 141 (16.79%) Problem-Solving
9 133 (15.83%) Migration
10 122 (14.52%) AI
11 114 (13.57%) Continuous Improvement
12 108 (12.86%) Business Intelligence
12 108 (12.86%) Containerisation
13 104 (12.38%) Scrum
14 101 (12.02%) Data Modelling
15 97 (11.55%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 96 (11.43%) Microservices
17 93 (11.07%) Validation
18 89 (10.60%) User Acceptance Testing
19 84 (10.00%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 239 (28.45%) Python
2 235 (27.98%) SQL
3 148 (17.62%) C#
4 105 (12.50%) PowerShell
5 96 (11.43%) Bicep
6 87 (10.36%) JavaScript
7 71 (8.45%) TypeScript
8 69 (8.21%) Bash
9 60 (7.14%) Java
10 15 (1.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 13 (1.55%) Apex Code
12 8 (0.95%) T-SQL
13 7 (0.83%) Kusto Query Language
14 5 (0.60%) Shell Script
15 4 (0.48%) ABAP
15 4 (0.48%) C
15 4 (0.48%) VB.NET
16 3 (0.36%) Korn
16 3 (0.36%) PL/SQL
16 3 (0.36%) VBA
Qualifications
1 210 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 183 (21.79%) SC Cleared
3 69 (8.21%) Azure Certification
4 55 (6.55%) Degree
5 29 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 25 (2.98%) Microsoft Certification
7 21 (2.50%) DV Cleared
8 17 (2.02%) ISTQB
8 17 (2.02%) PMI Certification
9 15 (1.79%) PMP
10 14 (1.67%) AWS Certification
11 9 (1.07%) DBS Check
12 8 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
13 7 (0.83%) Master's Degree
13 7 (0.83%) PRINCE2 Certification
14 6 (0.71%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 6 (0.71%) TOGAF Certification
15 5 (0.60%) CBAP
15 5 (0.60%) CISSP
15 5 (0.60%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 113 (13.45%) QA
2 69 (8.21%) Data Quality
3 27 (3.21%) GDPR
4 23 (2.74%) Accessibility
5 16 (1.90%) NIST
6 14 (1.67%) PMO
7 11 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 8 (0.95%) ISO 20022
8 8 (0.95%) WCAG
9 6 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 6 (0.71%) SEPA
9 6 (0.71%) SLA
10 4 (0.48%) PSD2
11 3 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.24%) Government Security Classifications
12 2 (0.24%) GRC
12 2 (0.24%) PCI DSS
13 1 (0.12%) SNOMED CT
13 1 (0.12%) WAI
System Software
1 136 (16.19%) Docker
2 37 (4.40%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (1.31%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (1.19%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.48%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.48%) vSphere
7 2 (0.24%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 166 (19.76%) Kubernetes
2 46 (5.48%) Ansible
3 34 (4.05%) Grafana
4 27 (3.21%) Prometheus
5 13 (1.55%) Microsoft Intune
6 8 (0.95%) Argo
6 8 (0.95%) SCCM
7 7 (0.83%) Packer
7 7 (0.83%) Progress Chef
8 6 (0.71%) HP ALM
8 6 (0.71%) Puppet
9 5 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.36%) HP Fortify
10 3 (0.36%) Kibana
11 2 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.24%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (0.24%) Nagios
12 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Clustering
12 1 (0.12%) PowerCLI
12 1 (0.12%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 315 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 90 (10.71%) Databricks
3 42 (5.00%) Salesforce
4 28 (3.33%) Oracle
4 28 (3.33%) SAP
5 24 (2.86%) ServiceNow
6 19 (2.26%) Google
6 19 (2.26%) VMware
7 18 (2.14%) Dynatrace
7 18 (2.14%) OpenAI
7 18 (2.14%) Splunk
8 15 (1.79%) Foundry
9 14 (1.67%) UiPath
10 9 (1.07%) IBM
10 9 (1.07%) Workday
11 8 (0.95%) Cloudera
11 8 (0.95%) Informatica
12 7 (0.83%) HP
12 7 (0.83%) Okta
13 6 (0.71%) CA Agile Central