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 30 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 92 66
Rank change year-on-year +33 -26 +13
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 706 387 598
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.20% 3.04% 3.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.60% 7.16% 8.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 503 288 401
10th Percentile £363 £382 £413
25th Percentile £415 £455 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £700
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £47.58 - -
25th Percentile £49.94 - -
Median hourly rate £61.25 - -
75th Percentile £73.56 - -
90th Percentile £75.48 - -
England median hourly rate £49.25 £67.50 £65.50
% change year-on-year -27.04% +3.05% -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 7,354 5,405 6,766
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.73% 42.51% 37.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,037 3,785 4,958
10th Percentile £350 £356 £325
25th Percentile £425 £440 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 52 80
10th Percentile £18.08 £22.27 £17.70
25th Percentile £23.55 £24.66 £21.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.12
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +11.29% -25.37%
75th Percentile £51.10 £54.13 £51.06
90th Percentile £72.50 £67.50 £62.63
England median hourly rate £40.25 £27.13 £21.00
% change year-on-year +48.39% +29.17% -16.00%

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 30 March 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 30 March 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 30 March 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 80 £550 +1.85% 37
South London -2 15 £500 +1.01% 2
West London -21 5 £375 -21.05% 7
East London -2 2 £604 +12.28% 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 39 (5.52%) SharePoint
2 34 (4.82%) Confluence
3 28 (3.97%) Apache Spark
4 21 (2.97%) Apache
5 15 (2.12%) Apache Airflow
6 11 (1.56%) HCL Notes
6 11 (1.56%) Microsoft Exchange
7 10 (1.42%) Mendix
8 3 (0.42%) CMS
8 3 (0.42%) IIS
9 2 (0.28%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.14%) IBM HTTP Server
10 1 (0.14%) Kentico
10 1 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.14%) SAS
Applications
1 19 (2.69%) Microsoft Project
2 12 (1.70%) MS Visio
3 6 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.14%) Trello
Business Applications
1 35 (4.96%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.85%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.57%) Aladdin
4 3 (0.42%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (0.42%) Findur
4 3 (0.42%) SAP BPC
4 3 (0.42%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 2 (0.28%) Endur
5 2 (0.28%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.14%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.14%) Maximo
6 1 (0.14%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.14%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.14%) Orchestrade
6 1 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.14%) SAP CS
6 1 (0.14%) SAP GTS
6 1 (0.14%) SAP LE
6 1 (0.14%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 706 (100.00%) Azure
2 206 (29.18%) GitHub
3 128 (18.13%) GitHub Actions
3 128 (18.13%) Power Platform
4 97 (13.74%) Azure Data Factory
5 88 (12.46%) AWS
6 77 (10.91%) Serverless
7 75 (10.62%) Azure Monitor
8 69 (9.77%) Azure AKS
9 67 (9.49%) Entra ID
10 62 (8.78%) Dynamics 365
11 60 (8.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 58 (8.22%) Azure Logic Apps
13 55 (7.79%) Azure Service Bus
13 55 (7.79%) Power Automate
14 53 (7.51%) Azure Key Vault
15 52 (7.37%) Azure Functions
16 39 (5.52%) Microsoft 365
17 38 (5.38%) PowerApps
18 36 (5.10%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 28 (3.97%) Firewall
2 13 (1.84%) VPN
3 12 (1.70%) DNS
3 12 (1.70%) Network Security
3 12 (1.70%) WAN
4 10 (1.42%) SD-WAN
5 4 (0.57%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.42%) FTP
6 3 (0.42%) Remote Desktop
7 2 (0.28%) HTTP
7 2 (0.28%) Internet
7 2 (0.28%) LAN
7 2 (0.28%) MPLS
8 1 (0.14%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (11.05%) SQL Server
2 69 (9.77%) Power BI
3 58 (8.22%) Data Lake
4 47 (6.66%) Azure SQL Database
5 46 (6.52%) Delta Lake
6 39 (5.52%) Data Warehouse
7 27 (3.82%) NoSQL
8 19 (2.69%) Oracle Database
9 16 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
10 14 (1.98%) Spark SQL
10 14 (1.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 12 (1.70%) MongoDB
11 12 (1.70%) Relational Database
12 11 (1.56%) Redis
12 11 (1.56%) Tableau
13 10 (1.42%) Metadata
14 9 (1.27%) Big Data
14 9 (1.27%) Snowflake Schema
15 8 (1.13%) Data Vault
15 8 (1.13%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 141 (19.97%) JIRA
2 101 (14.31%) Git
3 70 (9.92%) Jenkins
4 37 (5.24%) GitLab
5 33 (4.67%) Selenium
6 19 (2.69%) Postman
7 16 (2.27%) Cypress.io
8 13 (1.84%) MLflow
8 13 (1.84%) Team Foundation Server
9 12 (1.70%) REST Assured
10 11 (1.56%) Cucumber
10 11 (1.56%) SpecFlow
10 11 (1.56%) TestRail
11 10 (1.42%) Zephyr
12 9 (1.27%) JUnit
13 8 (1.13%) JMeter
13 8 (1.13%) Visual Studio
14 7 (0.99%) SonarQube
15 6 (0.85%) Liquibase
15 6 (0.85%) webpack
General
1 195 (27.62%) Finance
2 179 (25.35%) Social Skills
3 77 (10.91%) Analytical Skills
4 67 (9.49%) Public Sector
5 51 (7.22%) Banking
6 17 (2.41%) Financial Institution
7 16 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
8 15 (2.12%) Front Office
9 13 (1.84%) Investment Banking
9 13 (1.84%) Retail
10 12 (1.70%) Influencing Skills
11 11 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 11 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
12 9 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
13 7 (0.99%) Marketing
14 4 (0.57%) Back Office
14 4 (0.57%) Legal
15 3 (0.42%) Law
15 3 (0.42%) Local Government
16 2 (0.28%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 141 (19.97%) Developer
2 104 (14.73%) Azure Engineer
3 99 (14.02%) Senior
4 82 (11.61%) Data Engineer
5 77 (10.91%) DevOps Engineer
6 56 (7.93%) Lead
7 51 (7.22%) Analyst
7 51 (7.22%) Architect
8 48 (6.80%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 31 (4.39%) Platform Engineer
10 30 (4.25%) Azure Developer
10 30 (4.25%) Tester
11 26 (3.68%) Business Analyst
12 25 (3.54%) Azure Architect
13 20 (2.83%) IT Support
13 20 (2.83%) Test Analyst
14 19 (2.69%) Cloud Engineer
14 19 (2.69%) Consultant
14 19 (2.69%) Senior Developer
14 19 (2.69%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (18.13%) .NET
2 56 (7.93%) PySpark
3 52 (7.37%) REST
4 48 (6.80%) React
5 45 (6.37%) Node.js
6 32 (4.53%) Kafka
6 32 (4.53%) Playwright
7 31 (4.39%) ARM Templates
8 29 (4.11%) YAML
9 27 (3.82%) AngularJS
10 26 (3.68%) .NET Core
10 26 (3.68%) ADO
10 26 (3.68%) CSS
10 26 (3.68%) HTML
11 25 (3.54%) .NET Framework
12 23 (3.26%) JSON
13 22 (3.12%) OAuth
14 20 (2.83%) RESTful
15 18 (2.55%) SOAP
15 18 (2.55%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 75 (10.62%) Cloud Native
2 39 (5.52%) Product Ownership
3 29 (4.11%) Legacy Systems
4 26 (3.68%) Distributed Systems
5 18 (2.55%) Enterprise Software
6 16 (2.27%) AI Agents
6 16 (2.27%) Low-Code
7 15 (2.12%) Reinsurance
8 12 (1.70%) Public Cloud
9 10 (1.42%) Replication
10 9 (1.27%) Data Structures
11 8 (1.13%) NHS
12 7 (0.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 7 (0.99%) Greenfield Project
12 7 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
13 6 (0.85%) CMDB
13 6 (0.85%) Enterprise Cloud
13 6 (0.85%) FMCG
14 5 (0.71%) Data Protection Act
14 5 (0.71%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 34 (4.82%) Windows
2 19 (2.69%) Linux
3 11 (1.56%) VMS
4 6 (0.85%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.57%) Unix
6 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.14%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 699 (99.01%) DevOps
2 398 (56.37%) CI/CD
3 273 (38.67%) Agile
4 173 (24.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 132 (18.70%) Analytics
6 129 (18.27%) Problem-Solving
7 126 (17.85%) Test Automation
8 107 (15.16%) Continuous Improvement
9 103 (14.59%) AI
10 96 (13.60%) Migration
11 95 (13.46%) Data Modelling
12 87 (12.32%) Scrum
13 85 (12.04%) Business Intelligence
14 84 (11.90%) Microservices
15 83 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
16 82 (11.61%) Data Pipeline
16 82 (11.61%) Observability
17 80 (11.33%) Containerisation
18 71 (10.06%) Data Engineering
19 65 (9.21%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 264 (37.39%) SQL
2 214 (30.31%) Python
3 155 (21.95%) C#
4 90 (12.75%) JavaScript
5 67 (9.49%) PowerShell
6 64 (9.07%) Bicep
7 58 (8.22%) TypeScript
8 54 (7.65%) Java
9 40 (5.67%) Bash
10 25 (3.54%) Scala
11 17 (2.41%) T-SQL
12 13 (1.84%) Kusto Query Language
13 11 (1.56%) Formula Language
13 11 (1.56%) LotusScript
13 11 (1.56%) PL/SQL
14 5 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 4 (0.57%) C
15 4 (0.57%) Shell Script
16 3 (0.42%) Apex Code
16 3 (0.42%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 172 (24.36%) Security Cleared
2 154 (21.81%) SC Cleared
3 66 (9.35%) Azure Certification
4 37 (5.24%) Degree
5 20 (2.83%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (2.83%) ISTQB
6 17 (2.41%) BPSS Clearance
7 16 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (0.85%) Master's Degree
8 6 (0.85%) PMI Certification
9 5 (0.71%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 5 (0.71%) PMP
10 4 (0.57%) AWS Certification
10 4 (0.57%) ISEB
11 3 (0.42%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.28%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.28%) MBA
13 1 (0.14%) CCIE
13 1 (0.14%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (11.90%) QA
2 63 (8.92%) Data Quality
3 16 (2.27%) GDPR
4 14 (1.98%) Accessibility
5 9 (1.27%) PMO
5 9 (1.27%) WCAG
6 7 (0.99%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (0.57%) HIPAA
7 4 (0.57%) NCSC
7 4 (0.57%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.42%) HL7
8 3 (0.42%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 3 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.42%) SLA
9 2 (0.28%) FedRAMP
9 2 (0.28%) NIST
9 2 (0.28%) Software Quality Assurance
10 1 (0.14%) EMIR
10 1 (0.14%) EU AI Act
10 1 (0.14%) MiFID
System Software
1 113 (16.01%) Docker
2 42 (5.95%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.13%) Virtual Desktop
3 8 (1.13%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.14%) HDFS
5 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 207 (29.32%) Terraform
2 119 (16.86%) Kubernetes
3 34 (4.82%) Ansible
4 19 (2.69%) Grafana
5 13 (1.84%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.85%) HP ALM
7 5 (0.71%) Progress Chef
7 5 (0.71%) Puppet
8 4 (0.57%) Packer
9 3 (0.42%) Argo
9 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.28%) Istio
10 2 (0.28%) Kubeflow
10 2 (0.28%) Opsgenie
10 2 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.14%) CASB
11 1 (0.14%) Fluentd
11 1 (0.14%) Icinga
11 1 (0.14%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 229 (32.44%) Microsoft
2 114 (16.15%) Databricks
3 60 (8.50%) Oracle
4 37 (5.24%) ServiceNow
5 28 (3.97%) OpenAI
6 23 (3.26%) Salesforce
7 17 (2.41%) SAP
8 15 (2.12%) Informatica
9 11 (1.56%) Lotus
9 11 (1.56%) VMware
10 10 (1.42%) Foundry
10 10 (1.42%) Kofax
11 8 (1.13%) Splunk
12 7 (0.99%) Cisco
13 6 (0.85%) HP
14 5 (0.71%) Aruba
14 5 (0.71%) Bloomberg
14 5 (0.71%) Charles River
14 5 (0.71%) Citrix
15 4 (0.57%) Fortinet