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

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 84 57
Rank change year-on-year +22 -27 +18
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 712 396 649
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.96% 3.20% 3.71%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.38% 7.52% 9.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 514 276 415
10th Percentile £363 £375 £400
25th Percentile £415 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £641 £624
90th Percentile £725 £750 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £54.50 - -
25th Percentile £59.38 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
75th Percentile £74.63 - -
90th Percentile £75.90 - -
England median hourly rate £61.25 £31.50 £65.50
% change year-on-year +94.44% -51.91% -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 7,589 5,263 6,754
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.16% 42.48% 38.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,251 3,628 4,979
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £638 £671 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 54 70
10th Percentile £20.88 £22.71 £17.63
25th Percentile £27.06 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £30.21 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.52% +16.18% -35.80%
75th Percentile £53.35 £48.75 £38.75
90th Percentile £73.08 £71.88 £59.13
England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +54.90% +19.33% -35.73%

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 20 May 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 20 May 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 20 May 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 -2 75 £525 +2.44% 43
South London -7 11 £513 -2.38% 1
West London -20 6 £375 -27.88% 2
East London -8 2 £604 +3.16%
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 (6.18%) SharePoint
2 35 (4.92%) Apache Spark
3 28 (3.93%) Confluence
4 21 (2.95%) Apache
5 16 (2.25%) Apache Airflow
6 10 (1.40%) HCL Notes
6 10 (1.40%) Mendix
7 8 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.42%) IIS
9 2 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.14%) CMS
10 1 (0.14%) IBM HTTP Server
10 1 (0.14%) SAS
Applications
1 24 (3.37%) Microsoft Project
2 8 (1.12%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.14%) Notion
Business Applications
1 30 (4.21%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.98%) Dynamics AX
3 5 (0.70%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.56%) SAP BPC
5 3 (0.42%) Findur
5 3 (0.42%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 2 (0.28%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.28%) Endur
6 2 (0.28%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.14%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.14%) Maximo
7 1 (0.14%) NEC Housing
7 1 (0.14%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle Financials
7 1 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.14%) SAP CS
7 1 (0.14%) SAP GTS
7 1 (0.14%) SAP LE
7 1 (0.14%) SAP SD
7 1 (0.14%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 712 (100.00%) Azure
2 212 (29.78%) GitHub
3 127 (17.84%) GitHub Actions
4 120 (16.85%) Power Platform
5 105 (14.75%) AWS
6 93 (13.06%) Azure Data Factory
7 68 (9.55%) Azure AKS
8 65 (9.13%) Power Automate
9 60 (8.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 59 (8.29%) Entra ID
10 59 (8.29%) Serverless
11 57 (8.01%) Azure Monitor
11 57 (8.01%) Dynamics 365
12 52 (7.30%) Azure Logic Apps
13 45 (6.32%) Azure Key Vault
14 44 (6.18%) Azure Service Bus
15 40 (5.62%) Azure Functions
16 39 (5.48%) PowerApps
17 38 (5.34%) GCP
18 34 (4.78%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.39%) Firewall
2 10 (1.40%) Network Security
3 8 (1.12%) DNS
4 6 (0.84%) VPN
5 5 (0.70%) SD-WAN
5 5 (0.70%) WAN
6 3 (0.42%) Internet
7 2 (0.28%) FTP
7 2 (0.28%) Remote Desktop
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%) HTTP
8 1 (0.14%) IPsec
8 1 (0.14%) NAS
8 1 (0.14%) SAN
8 1 (0.14%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (11.24%) SQL Server
2 70 (9.83%) Power BI
3 63 (8.85%) Data Lake
4 50 (7.02%) Delta Lake
5 47 (6.60%) Azure SQL Database
6 40 (5.62%) Data Warehouse
7 34 (4.78%) NoSQL
8 19 (2.67%) PostgreSQL
9 18 (2.53%) Oracle Database
10 15 (2.11%) Snowflake Schema
10 15 (2.11%) Spark SQL
11 13 (1.83%) Big Data
11 13 (1.83%) Relational Database
12 12 (1.69%) Metadata
12 12 (1.69%) MongoDB
13 11 (1.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 10 (1.40%) Redis
15 9 (1.26%) Amazon Redshift
15 9 (1.26%) Tableau
16 7 (0.98%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 129 (18.12%) JIRA
2 115 (16.15%) Git
3 67 (9.41%) Jenkins
4 42 (5.90%) GitLab
5 26 (3.65%) Selenium
6 14 (1.97%) Postman
7 13 (1.83%) Cypress.io
8 11 (1.54%) REST Assured
8 11 (1.54%) SonarQube
9 9 (1.26%) MLflow
9 9 (1.26%) SpecFlow
9 9 (1.26%) TestRail
10 8 (1.12%) Cucumber
10 8 (1.12%) Team Foundation Server
10 8 (1.12%) Zephyr
11 6 (0.84%) Artifactory
12 4 (0.56%) Bitbucket
12 4 (0.56%) JMeter
12 4 (0.56%) TeamCity
12 4 (0.56%) Visual Studio
General
1 197 (27.67%) Finance
2 159 (22.33%) Social Skills
3 72 (10.11%) Analytical Skills
4 59 (8.29%) Public Sector
5 47 (6.60%) Banking
6 18 (2.53%) Financial Institution
7 14 (1.97%) Front Office
8 11 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (1.26%) Investment Banking
9 9 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
10 8 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
10 8 (1.12%) Retail
11 6 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
11 6 (0.84%) Legal
11 6 (0.84%) Marketing
12 5 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.42%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (0.28%) Local Government
14 2 (0.28%) Military
14 2 (0.28%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 128 (17.98%) Developer
2 109 (15.31%) Azure Engineer
2 109 (15.31%) Senior
3 97 (13.62%) Data Engineer
4 80 (11.24%) DevOps Engineer
5 54 (7.58%) Lead
6 51 (7.16%) Architect
7 48 (6.74%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 44 (6.18%) Analyst
9 28 (3.93%) Platform Engineer
10 23 (3.23%) Azure Developer
10 23 (3.23%) Cloud Engineer
10 23 (3.23%) Consultant
10 23 (3.23%) IT Support
11 22 (3.09%) Azure Architect
11 22 (3.09%) Tester
12 21 (2.95%) Azure Data Engineer
13 20 (2.81%) Senior Data Engineer
13 20 (2.81%) Senior Developer
13 20 (2.81%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (15.87%) .NET
2 62 (8.71%) PySpark
3 50 (7.02%) React
4 48 (6.74%) REST
5 37 (5.20%) Kafka
6 34 (4.78%) ADO
7 32 (4.49%) JSON
8 28 (3.93%) Node.js
9 27 (3.79%) YAML
10 26 (3.65%) ARM Templates
11 25 (3.51%) .NET Framework
11 25 (3.51%) Playwright
11 25 (3.51%) RESTful
12 24 (3.37%) .NET Core
13 23 (3.23%) AngularJS
14 21 (2.95%) CSS
14 21 (2.95%) HTML
15 18 (2.53%) Middleware
16 16 (2.25%) XML
17 13 (1.83%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 80 (11.24%) Cloud Native
2 29 (4.07%) Legacy Systems
3 27 (3.79%) Product Ownership
4 24 (3.37%) Distributed Systems
5 22 (3.09%) Reinsurance
6 15 (2.11%) Low-Code
7 14 (1.97%) Greenfield Project
8 13 (1.83%) Replication
9 12 (1.69%) Onboarding
10 10 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
11 9 (1.26%) AI Agents
12 8 (1.12%) Data Structures
12 8 (1.12%) NHS
13 7 (0.98%) Public Cloud
13 7 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
14 6 (0.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 5 (0.70%) Hybrid Cloud
15 5 (0.70%) Management Information System
16 4 (0.56%) Data Centre
16 4 (0.56%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 44 (6.18%) Windows
2 22 (3.09%) Linux
3 11 (1.54%) VMS
4 9 (1.26%) Windows Server
5 6 (0.84%) Unix
6 2 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 706 (99.16%) DevOps
2 398 (55.90%) CI/CD
3 251 (35.25%) Agile
4 176 (24.72%) Infrastructure as Code
5 120 (16.85%) Test Automation
6 116 (16.29%) Analytics
7 114 (16.01%) Problem-Solving
8 111 (15.59%) Migration
9 106 (14.89%) Data Modelling
10 95 (13.34%) Data Pipeline
11 89 (12.50%) AI
12 86 (12.08%) Scrum
13 85 (11.94%) Continuous Improvement
14 84 (11.80%) Business Intelligence
14 84 (11.80%) ETL
15 81 (11.38%) Containerisation
16 76 (10.67%) Data Engineering
16 76 (10.67%) Platform Engineering
17 75 (10.53%) Observability
18 74 (10.39%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 270 (37.92%) SQL
2 209 (29.35%) Python
3 147 (20.65%) C#
4 75 (10.53%) PowerShell
5 69 (9.69%) JavaScript
6 64 (8.99%) Bicep
7 52 (7.30%) TypeScript
8 48 (6.74%) Java
9 46 (6.46%) Bash
10 23 (3.23%) Scala
11 17 (2.39%) T-SQL
12 10 (1.40%) Formula Language
12 10 (1.40%) LotusScript
13 9 (1.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 9 (1.26%) PL/SQL
14 7 (0.98%) Kusto Query Language
15 5 (0.70%) Shell Script
16 3 (0.42%) Apex Code
16 3 (0.42%) R
16 3 (0.42%) XPath
Qualifications
1 181 (25.42%) Security Cleared
2 160 (22.47%) SC Cleared
3 62 (8.71%) Azure Certification
4 30 (4.21%) Degree
5 18 (2.53%) Microsoft Certification
6 17 (2.39%) BPSS Clearance
7 15 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (2.11%) ISTQB
8 7 (0.98%) DV Cleared
9 6 (0.84%) Master's Degree
9 6 (0.84%) PMI Certification
9 6 (0.84%) PMP
10 5 (0.70%) DBS Check
11 4 (0.56%) AWS Certification
12 3 (0.42%) TOGAF Certification
13 2 (0.28%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.28%) ISEB
13 2 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.28%) MBA
14 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (12.08%) QA
2 69 (9.69%) Data Quality
3 17 (2.39%) GDPR
4 15 (2.11%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.40%) WCAG
6 9 (1.26%) PMO
6 9 (1.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 7 (0.98%) NIST
8 5 (0.70%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.56%) SLA
10 3 (0.42%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.42%) HL7
10 3 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 2 (0.28%) FedRAMP
11 2 (0.28%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 2 (0.28%) NCSC
11 2 (0.28%) PSD2
11 2 (0.28%) SEPA
12 1 (0.14%) Government Security Classifications
12 1 (0.14%) ITGC
System Software
1 105 (14.75%) Docker
2 40 (5.62%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.12%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.42%) 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
1 208 (29.21%) Terraform
2 126 (17.70%) Kubernetes
3 32 (4.49%) Ansible
4 15 (2.11%) Grafana
5 12 (1.69%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.84%) HP ALM
6 6 (0.84%) Packer
7 5 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (0.70%) Progress Chef
7 5 (0.70%) Puppet
8 3 (0.42%) Argo
8 3 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.28%) Istio
9 2 (0.28%) Kubeflow
9 2 (0.28%) SCCM
10 1 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.14%) CASB
10 1 (0.14%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.14%) Icinga
10 1 (0.14%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 216 (30.34%) Microsoft
2 108 (15.17%) Databricks
3 55 (7.72%) Oracle
4 33 (4.63%) ServiceNow
5 26 (3.65%) Salesforce
6 19 (2.67%) Informatica
7 18 (2.53%) OpenAI
7 18 (2.53%) SAP
8 12 (1.69%) Foundry
9 11 (1.54%) VMware
10 10 (1.40%) Bloomberg
10 10 (1.40%) Kofax
10 10 (1.40%) Lotus
11 9 (1.26%) Splunk
12 8 (1.12%) Refinitiv
13 6 (0.84%) Dynatrace
13 6 (0.84%) HP
14 5 (0.70%) Workday
15 4 (0.56%) Cisco
15 4 (0.56%) Citrix