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

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 82 59
Rank change year-on-year +22 -23 +16
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 721 390 656
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.96% 3.22% 3.77%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.39% 7.54% 9.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 524 271 421
10th Percentile £370 £363 £400
25th Percentile £415 £439 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £644 £625
90th Percentile £725 £750 £688
England median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.40% -0.38% -4.55%
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 £72.25 £31.50 £65.50
% change year-on-year +129.37% -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 7,680 5,172 6,767
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.15% 42.65% 38.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,313 3,553 4,993
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 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £513 £521 £525
% change year-on-year -1.54% -0.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 53 68
10th Percentile £20.87 £22.57 £17.32
25th Percentile £26.88 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +11.81% -50.48%
75th Percentile £53.94 £43.75 £38.28
90th Percentile £73.23 £67.50 £55.75
England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +54.90% +19.33% -37.15%

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 23 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 23 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 23 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 +4 75 £550 +10.00% 48
South London -9 11 £513 -2.38%
West London -24 7 £388 -25.48% 3
East London -7 2 £604 +3.16% 3
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 (6.10%) SharePoint
2 36 (4.99%) Apache Spark
3 30 (4.16%) Confluence
4 22 (3.05%) Apache
5 19 (2.64%) Apache Airflow
6 10 (1.39%) HCL Notes
6 10 (1.39%) Mendix
7 8 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.28%) CMS
8 2 (0.28%) IIS
8 2 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.14%) IBM HTTP Server
9 1 (0.14%) Kentico
9 1 (0.14%) SAS
Applications
1 23 (3.19%) Microsoft Project
2 8 (1.11%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.55%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.42%) Notion
5 2 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 30 (4.16%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.97%) Dynamics AX
3 5 (0.69%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.55%) 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
1 721 (100.00%) Azure
2 219 (30.37%) GitHub
3 132 (18.31%) GitHub Actions
4 119 (16.50%) Power Platform
5 110 (15.26%) AWS
6 95 (13.18%) Azure Data Factory
7 68 (9.43%) Azure AKS
8 63 (8.74%) Power Automate
9 60 (8.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 60 (8.32%) Entra ID
10 59 (8.18%) Serverless
11 58 (8.04%) Azure Monitor
12 57 (7.91%) Dynamics 365
13 52 (7.21%) Azure Logic Apps
14 45 (6.24%) Azure Key Vault
15 43 (5.96%) Azure Service Bus
16 40 (5.55%) Azure Functions
17 38 (5.27%) GCP
18 36 (4.99%) PowerApps
19 35 (4.85%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.36%) Firewall
2 10 (1.39%) Network Security
3 8 (1.11%) DNS
4 6 (0.83%) VPN
5 5 (0.69%) SD-WAN
5 5 (0.69%) 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 (11.10%) SQL Server
2 70 (9.71%) Power BI
3 66 (9.15%) Data Lake
4 51 (7.07%) Delta Lake
5 46 (6.38%) Azure SQL Database
6 42 (5.83%) Data Warehouse
7 32 (4.44%) NoSQL
8 20 (2.77%) PostgreSQL
9 17 (2.36%) Oracle Database
9 17 (2.36%) Snowflake Schema
10 15 (2.08%) Spark SQL
11 14 (1.94%) Big Data
12 12 (1.66%) MongoDB
12 12 (1.66%) Relational Database
13 11 (1.53%) Metadata
13 11 (1.53%) Redis
13 11 (1.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 10 (1.39%) Amazon Redshift
15 8 (1.11%) Data Vault
15 8 (1.11%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 131 (18.17%) JIRA
2 116 (16.09%) Git
3 66 (9.15%) Jenkins
4 43 (5.96%) GitLab
5 26 (3.61%) Selenium
6 14 (1.94%) Postman
7 13 (1.80%) Cypress.io
8 11 (1.53%) REST Assured
8 11 (1.53%) SonarQube
9 9 (1.25%) MLflow
9 9 (1.25%) SpecFlow
9 9 (1.25%) TestRail
10 8 (1.11%) Cucumber
10 8 (1.11%) Team Foundation Server
10 8 (1.11%) Zephyr
11 6 (0.83%) Artifactory
12 4 (0.55%) Bitbucket
12 4 (0.55%) Spinnaker
12 4 (0.55%) TeamCity
12 4 (0.55%) webpack
General
1 201 (27.88%) Finance
2 161 (22.33%) Social Skills
3 71 (9.85%) Analytical Skills
4 56 (7.77%) Public Sector
5 47 (6.52%) Banking
6 17 (2.36%) Financial Institution
7 14 (1.94%) Front Office
8 12 (1.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (1.39%) Investment Banking
10 9 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
10 9 (1.25%) Retail
11 8 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (0.97%) Documentation Skills
12 7 (0.97%) Legal
13 6 (0.83%) Marketing
14 5 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (0.42%) Pharmaceutical
16 2 (0.28%) Back Office
16 2 (0.28%) Military
16 2 (0.28%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 125 (17.34%) Developer
2 110 (15.26%) Azure Engineer
3 109 (15.12%) Senior
4 100 (13.87%) Data Engineer
5 80 (11.10%) DevOps Engineer
6 55 (7.63%) Lead
7 51 (7.07%) Architect
8 48 (6.66%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 46 (6.38%) Analyst
10 29 (4.02%) Platform Engineer
11 25 (3.47%) Cloud Engineer
12 23 (3.19%) Azure Developer
12 23 (3.19%) Consultant
12 23 (3.19%) IT Support
13 22 (3.05%) Azure Architect
13 22 (3.05%) Tester
14 21 (2.91%) Azure Data Engineer
14 21 (2.91%) Test Analyst
15 20 (2.77%) Senior Developer
15 20 (2.77%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (15.40%) .NET
2 63 (8.74%) PySpark
3 51 (7.07%) REST
4 49 (6.80%) React
5 37 (5.13%) Kafka
6 34 (4.72%) ADO
7 32 (4.44%) JSON
8 28 (3.88%) Node.js
9 26 (3.61%) ARM Templates
9 26 (3.61%) YAML
10 25 (3.47%) Playwright
11 24 (3.33%) .NET Framework
11 24 (3.33%) RESTful
12 23 (3.19%) .NET Core
13 22 (3.05%) AngularJS
14 21 (2.91%) CSS
14 21 (2.91%) HTML
15 18 (2.50%) Middleware
16 16 (2.22%) XML
17 14 (1.94%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 83 (11.51%) Cloud Native
2 29 (4.02%) Legacy Systems
3 26 (3.61%) Product Ownership
4 24 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
5 23 (3.19%) Reinsurance
6 15 (2.08%) Low-Code
7 14 (1.94%) Greenfield Project
8 13 (1.80%) Replication
9 12 (1.66%) Onboarding
10 10 (1.39%) AI Agents
11 9 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
12 8 (1.11%) Data Structures
13 7 (0.97%) NHS
13 7 (0.97%) Public Cloud
13 7 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
14 5 (0.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 5 (0.69%) Hybrid Cloud
14 5 (0.69%) Management Information System
15 4 (0.55%) Data Centre
15 4 (0.55%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 43 (5.96%) Windows
2 22 (3.05%) Linux
3 11 (1.53%) VMS
4 8 (1.11%) Windows Server
5 6 (0.83%) 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
1 715 (99.17%) DevOps
2 400 (55.48%) CI/CD
3 249 (34.54%) Agile
4 177 (24.55%) Infrastructure as Code
5 123 (17.06%) Test Automation
6 121 (16.78%) Analytics
7 115 (15.95%) Problem-Solving
8 114 (15.81%) Migration
9 106 (14.70%) Data Modelling
10 99 (13.73%) Data Pipeline
11 93 (12.90%) AI
12 89 (12.34%) Continuous Improvement
13 86 (11.93%) ETL
14 84 (11.65%) Business Intelligence
14 84 (11.65%) Scrum
15 81 (11.23%) Containerisation
16 80 (11.10%) Data Engineering
17 77 (10.68%) Platform Engineering
18 76 (10.54%) Observability
19 75 (10.40%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 275 (38.14%) SQL
2 214 (29.68%) Python
3 146 (20.25%) C#
4 76 (10.54%) PowerShell
5 67 (9.29%) JavaScript
6 65 (9.02%) Bicep
7 53 (7.35%) TypeScript
8 49 (6.80%) Java
9 47 (6.52%) Bash
10 22 (3.05%) Scala
11 16 (2.22%) T-SQL
12 10 (1.39%) Formula Language
12 10 (1.39%) LotusScript
13 9 (1.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 8 (1.11%) PL/SQL
15 7 (0.97%) Kusto Query Language
16 5 (0.69%) Shell Script
17 3 (0.42%) Apex Code
17 3 (0.42%) C
17 3 (0.42%) XPath
Qualifications
1 181 (25.10%) Security Cleared
2 160 (22.19%) SC Cleared
3 62 (8.60%) Azure Certification
4 30 (4.16%) Degree
5 18 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
6 17 (2.36%) BPSS Clearance
7 15 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (1.94%) ISTQB
9 8 (1.11%) DBS Check
10 7 (0.97%) DV Cleared
11 6 (0.83%) Master's Degree
11 6 (0.83%) PMI Certification
11 6 (0.83%) PMP
12 4 (0.55%) AWS Certification
13 3 (0.42%) TOGAF Certification
14 2 (0.28%) Cisco Certification
14 2 (0.28%) ISEB
14 2 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
14 2 (0.28%) MBA
15 1 (0.14%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (12.21%) QA
2 70 (9.71%) Data Quality
3 18 (2.50%) GDPR
4 15 (2.08%) Accessibility
5 9 (1.25%) PMO
5 9 (1.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 9 (1.25%) WCAG
6 7 (0.97%) NIST
7 5 (0.69%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.55%) SLA
9 3 (0.42%) HIPAA
9 3 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 2 (0.28%) FedRAMP
10 2 (0.28%) HL7
10 2 (0.28%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 2 (0.28%) NCSC
10 2 (0.28%) PSD2
10 2 (0.28%) SEPA
11 1 (0.14%) ITGC
11 1 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 104 (14.42%) Docker
2 40 (5.55%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.11%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (0.83%) 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
1 212 (29.40%) Terraform
2 125 (17.34%) Kubernetes
3 32 (4.44%) Ansible
4 15 (2.08%) Grafana
5 12 (1.66%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.83%) HP ALM
6 6 (0.83%) Packer
7 5 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (0.69%) Progress Chef
7 5 (0.69%) 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 (29.96%) Microsoft
2 110 (15.26%) Databricks
3 54 (7.49%) Oracle
4 33 (4.58%) ServiceNow
5 25 (3.47%) Salesforce
6 19 (2.64%) Informatica
6 19 (2.64%) OpenAI
7 18 (2.50%) SAP
8 12 (1.66%) Foundry
9 11 (1.53%) VMware
10 10 (1.39%) Bloomberg
10 10 (1.39%) Kofax
10 10 (1.39%) Lotus
11 9 (1.25%) Splunk
12 8 (1.11%) Refinitiv
13 6 (0.83%) Dynatrace
13 6 (0.83%) HP
14 5 (0.69%) Workday
15 4 (0.55%) Cloudera
15 4 (0.55%) Hortonworks