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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 75 57
Rank change year-on-year +19 -18 +18
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 790 463 677
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.00% 3.41% 3.90%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.62% 7.98% 9.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 549 328 440
10th Percentile £385 £350 £400
25th Percentile £425 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £613
90th Percentile £725 £750 £688
England median daily rate £500 £509 £525
% change year-on-year -1.72% -3.10% -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 8,210 5,799 6,982
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.55% 42.76% 40.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,621 3,948 5,111
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £440 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.77% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £520 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 81 65
10th Percentile £19.50 £22.50 £20.00
25th Percentile £25.25 £25.01 £22.30
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.97
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +7.79% -50.96%
75th Percentile £55.00 £47.50 £38.75
90th Percentile £76.40 £67.50 £64.60
England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +57.06% +14.32% -33.33%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 -18 72 £525 - 23
South London -3 12 £513 -2.38% 1
West London -11 5 £500 -8.68% 3
East London +1 3 £604 +9.23% 4
North London -1 2 £600 +36.36% 1
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 44 (5.57%) SharePoint
2 39 (4.94%) Confluence
3 30 (3.80%) Apache Spark
4 26 (3.29%) Apache
5 23 (2.91%) Apache Airflow
6 9 (1.14%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.63%) CMS
8 3 (0.38%) Kentico
9 2 (0.25%) HCL Notes
9 2 (0.25%) Mendix
9 2 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.13%) Apache Pulsar
10 1 (0.13%) IBM HTTP Server
10 1 (0.13%) IIS
10 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%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.13%) PeopleSoft HCM
6 1 (0.13%) SAP CS
6 1 (0.13%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.13%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.13%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 790 (100.00%) Azure
2 241 (30.51%) GitHub
3 147 (18.61%) GitHub Actions
4 126 (15.95%) AWS
5 119 (15.06%) 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 63 (7.97%) Power Automate
11 57 (7.22%) Dynamics 365
12 54 (6.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 50 (6.33%) Serverless
14 42 (5.32%) PowerApps
15 41 (5.19%) Azure Key Vault
16 38 (4.81%) Azure Logic Apps
16 38 (4.81%) GCP
17 36 (4.56%) Snowflake
18 34 (4.30%) Azure Service Bus
18 34 (4.30%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.28%) Firewall
2 12 (1.52%) VPN
3 10 (1.27%) DNS
3 10 (1.27%) Network Security
4 5 (0.63%) SD-WAN
4 5 (0.63%) WAN
5 4 (0.51%) Internet
6 2 (0.25%) NAS
6 2 (0.25%) Remote Desktop
6 2 (0.25%) SAN
6 2 (0.25%) SSH
6 2 (0.25%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.25%) X.509
7 1 (0.13%) 4G
7 1 (0.13%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (0.13%) Cisco Firepower
7 1 (0.13%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (0.13%) IPsec
7 1 (0.13%) VSAN
7 1 (0.13%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (9.24%) Power BI
2 67 (8.48%) Data Lake
3 63 (7.97%) SQL Server
4 47 (5.95%) Azure SQL Database
5 42 (5.32%) Data Warehouse
6 39 (4.94%) 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 8 (1.01%) Oracle Database
16 7 (0.89%) BigQuery
16 7 (0.89%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 156 (19.75%) JIRA
2 141 (17.85%) Git
3 78 (9.87%) Jenkins
4 57 (7.22%) GitLab
5 33 (4.18%) Selenium
6 14 (1.77%) SonarQube
7 12 (1.52%) Cypress.io
7 12 (1.52%) REST Assured
8 11 (1.39%) Cucumber
9 10 (1.27%) Visual Studio
10 9 (1.14%) JUnit
10 9 (1.14%) Postman
11 8 (1.01%) SpecFlow
11 8 (1.01%) Team Foundation Server
12 6 (0.76%) Appium
12 6 (0.76%) Bitbucket
12 6 (0.76%) Gradle
12 6 (0.76%) Snyk
12 6 (0.76%) TestRail
12 6 (0.76%) WebDriver
General
1 218 (27.59%) Finance
2 198 (25.06%) Social Skills
3 81 (10.25%) Analytical Skills
4 67 (8.48%) 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%) Marketing
12 8 (1.01%) Front Office
13 7 (0.89%) Law
13 7 (0.89%) Local Government
14 6 (0.76%) Back Office
14 6 (0.76%) Pharmaceutical
14 6 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (0.63%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 129 (16.33%) Azure Engineer
2 125 (15.82%) Developer
3 117 (14.81%) Senior
4 111 (14.05%) DevOps Engineer
5 99 (12.53%) Data Engineer
6 66 (8.35%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 64 (8.10%) Lead
8 56 (7.09%) Architect
9 52 (6.58%) Analyst
10 35 (4.43%) Platform Engineer
11 32 (4.05%) Business Analyst
12 29 (3.67%) Consultant
13 28 (3.54%) Cloud Engineer
14 24 (3.04%) Solutions Architect
14 24 (3.04%) Tester
15 23 (2.91%) IT Support
16 22 (2.78%) Azure Data Engineer
16 22 (2.78%) Project Manager
17 21 (2.66%) Senior Data Engineer
17 21 (2.66%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (13.04%) .NET
2 83 (10.51%) REST
3 56 (7.09%) PySpark
4 46 (5.82%) ADO
5 43 (5.44%) 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
10 26 (3.29%) Playwright
10 26 (3.29%) RESTful
11 25 (3.16%) HTML
12 24 (3.04%) ARM Templates
13 23 (2.91%) .NET Core
14 22 (2.78%) XML
15 21 (2.66%) SOAP
16 20 (2.53%) CSS
16 20 (2.53%) Middleware
17 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 22 (2.78%) 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
14 7 (0.89%) Public Cloud
15 6 (0.76%) Data Centre
15 6 (0.76%) Data Structures
15 6 (0.76%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 40 (5.06%) Windows
2 18 (2.28%) Linux
3 8 (1.01%) VMS
4 7 (0.89%) Unix
4 7 (0.89%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.25%) Android
5 2 (0.25%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 790 (100.00%) DevOps
2 436 (55.19%) CI/CD
3 305 (38.61%) Agile
4 199 (25.19%) Infrastructure as Code
5 139 (17.59%) Test Automation
6 132 (16.71%) Analytics
7 127 (16.08%) Migration
8 125 (15.82%) Problem-Solving
9 107 (13.54%) Continuous Improvement
10 102 (12.91%) Scrum
10 102 (12.91%) Stakeholder Management
11 98 (12.41%) Data Modelling
12 97 (12.28%) Containerisation
13 94 (11.90%) AI
14 93 (11.77%) Data Pipeline
15 89 (11.27%) ETL
16 86 (10.89%) Microservices
17 85 (10.76%) Platform Engineering
18 83 (10.51%) Business Intelligence
19 81 (10.25%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 272 (34.43%) SQL
2 225 (28.48%) Python
3 140 (17.72%) C#
4 88 (11.14%) PowerShell
5 66 (8.35%) Bicep
6 62 (7.85%) Bash
7 60 (7.59%) TypeScript
8 57 (7.22%) JavaScript
9 46 (5.82%) Java
10 17 (2.15%) 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
1 202 (25.57%) Security Cleared
2 180 (22.78%) SC Cleared
3 60 (7.59%) 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 10 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
10 9 (1.14%) DBS Check
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 98 (12.41%) QA
2 65 (8.23%) Data Quality
3 22 (2.78%) GDPR
4 20 (2.53%) Accessibility
5 14 (1.77%) NIST
6 10 (1.27%) PMO
7 9 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (1.14%) WCAG
8 7 (0.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 6 (0.76%) SLA
10 3 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.25%) Government Security Classifications
11 2 (0.25%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 2 (0.25%) NCSC
11 2 (0.25%) PSD2
11 2 (0.25%) SEPA
12 1 (0.13%) EMIR
12 1 (0.13%) IFRS
12 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 1 (0.13%) P3O
System Software
1 106 (13.42%) Docker
2 40 (5.06%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.89%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.25%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.25%) Microsoft App-V
6 2 (0.25%) OpenSSH
7 1 (0.13%) HDFS
7 1 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.13%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 220 (27.85%) Terraform
2 126 (15.95%) Kubernetes
3 41 (5.19%) 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 6 (0.76%) HP ALM
8 6 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
9 5 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.38%) Argo
11 2 (0.25%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.25%) SCCM
12 1 (0.13%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.13%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.13%) Istio
12 1 (0.13%) PowerCLI
12 1 (0.13%) RSA Archer
12 1 (0.13%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 236 (29.87%) Microsoft
2 96 (12.15%) Databricks
3 36 (4.56%) Salesforce
4 35 (4.43%) Oracle
5 27 (3.42%) ServiceNow
6 25 (3.16%) SAP
7 16 (2.03%) Informatica
8 15 (1.90%) OpenAI
8 15 (1.90%) VMware
9 11 (1.39%) Foundry
10 10 (1.27%) Bloomberg
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%) OpenLink