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

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 79 61
Rank change year-on-year +17 -18 +15
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 764 448 677
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.95% 3.39% 3.84%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.43% 7.89% 9.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 539 316 437
10th Percentile £380 £350 £403
25th Percentile £425 £419 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £613
90th Percentile £725 £750 £688
England median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -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 £74.50 £62.50 £65.50
% change year-on-year +19.20% -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 8,100 5,680 7,027
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.87% 42.97% 39.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,561 3,850 5,155
10th Percentile £360 £350 £350
25th Percentile £438 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £788
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 77 66
10th Percentile £19.50 £22.80 £18.89
25th Percentile £26.19 £25.15 £22.08
Median hourly rate £35.50 £31.50 £26.97
Median % change year-on-year +12.70% +16.80% -49.82%
75th Percentile £55.19 £48.75 £38.75
90th Percentile £76.93 £67.50 £56.25
England median hourly rate £40.53 £25.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year +58.94% +15.91% -31.89%

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 4 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 4 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 4 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 -21 68 £525 -3.67% 43
South London +2 10 £513 -2.38%
West London -15 6 £375 -31.51% 4
East London 0 3 £604 +3.16% 4
North London +2 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 45 (5.89%) SharePoint
2 37 (4.84%) Confluence
3 32 (4.19%) Apache Spark
4 25 (3.27%) Apache
5 22 (2.88%) Apache Airflow
6 9 (1.18%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.65%) CMS
8 3 (0.39%) HCL Notes
8 3 (0.39%) Kentico
8 3 (0.39%) Mendix
9 2 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.13%) Apache Pulsar
10 1 (0.13%) IBM HTTP Server
10 1 (0.13%) SAS
Applications
1 25 (3.27%) Microsoft Project
2 11 (1.44%) MS Visio
3 10 (1.31%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.52%) Notion
5 2 (0.26%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.26%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 33 (4.32%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (1.18%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.92%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (0.39%) Endur
4 3 (0.39%) Findur
4 3 (0.39%) Maximo
4 3 (0.39%) SAP BPC
4 3 (0.39%) SAP MM
4 3 (0.39%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 2 (0.26%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.13%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.13%) PeopleSoft HCM
6 1 (0.13%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.13%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.13%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 764 (100.00%) Azure
2 229 (29.97%) GitHub
3 141 (18.46%) GitHub Actions
4 120 (15.71%) AWS
4 120 (15.71%) Power Platform
5 88 (11.52%) Azure Data Factory
6 70 (9.16%) Azure AKS
7 64 (8.38%) Azure Monitor
7 64 (8.38%) Entra ID
8 63 (8.25%) Power Automate
9 58 (7.59%) Dynamics 365
10 53 (6.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 53 (6.94%) Serverless
11 43 (5.63%) Azure Key Vault
12 42 (5.50%) Azure Logic Apps
13 41 (5.37%) PowerApps
14 38 (4.97%) Azure Service Bus
15 36 (4.71%) Snowflake
16 35 (4.58%) PaaS
17 31 (4.06%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.23%) Firewall
2 12 (1.57%) VPN
3 10 (1.31%) DNS
3 10 (1.31%) Network Security
4 5 (0.65%) SD-WAN
4 5 (0.65%) WAN
5 4 (0.52%) Internet
6 2 (0.26%) NAS
6 2 (0.26%) Remote Desktop
6 2 (0.26%) SAN
6 2 (0.26%) SSH
6 2 (0.26%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.26%) 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 72 (9.42%) Power BI
2 66 (8.64%) Data Lake
3 65 (8.51%) SQL Server
4 48 (6.28%) Azure SQL Database
5 47 (6.15%) Delta Lake
6 40 (5.24%) Data Warehouse
7 33 (4.32%) NoSQL
8 20 (2.62%) Snowflake Schema
9 18 (2.36%) PostgreSQL
10 17 (2.23%) Relational Database
11 14 (1.83%) Big Data
11 14 (1.83%) Metadata
11 14 (1.83%) Spark SQL
12 13 (1.70%) Redis
13 10 (1.31%) MongoDB
14 9 (1.18%) Amazon Redshift
14 9 (1.18%) Oracle Database
15 8 (1.05%) Data Vault
15 8 (1.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 7 (0.92%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 152 (19.90%) JIRA
2 133 (17.41%) Git
3 72 (9.42%) Jenkins
4 54 (7.07%) GitLab
5 27 (3.53%) Selenium
6 14 (1.83%) SonarQube
7 13 (1.70%) REST Assured
8 11 (1.44%) Postman
9 10 (1.31%) Cucumber
10 9 (1.18%) Cypress.io
10 9 (1.18%) JUnit
10 9 (1.18%) Visual Studio
11 8 (1.05%) SpecFlow
11 8 (1.05%) Team Foundation Server
12 6 (0.79%) Bitbucket
12 6 (0.79%) Gradle
12 6 (0.79%) MLflow
12 6 (0.79%) Snyk
12 6 (0.79%) TestRail
12 6 (0.79%) WebDriver
General
1 217 (28.40%) Finance
2 191 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 76 (9.95%) Analytical Skills
4 62 (8.12%) Public Sector
5 53 (6.94%) Banking
6 16 (2.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (1.83%) Retail
8 12 (1.57%) Documentation Skills
8 12 (1.57%) Investment Banking
9 11 (1.44%) Organisational Skills
10 10 (1.31%) Front Office
11 9 (1.18%) Legal
11 9 (1.18%) Marketing
12 8 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
13 6 (0.79%) Back Office
13 6 (0.79%) Financial Institution
13 6 (0.79%) Law
13 6 (0.79%) Local Government
13 6 (0.79%) Pharmaceutical
14 5 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 121 (15.84%) Developer
2 120 (15.71%) Azure Engineer
3 115 (15.05%) Senior
4 103 (13.48%) Data Engineer
5 98 (12.83%) DevOps Engineer
6 60 (7.85%) Architect
7 56 (7.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 55 (7.20%) Lead
9 51 (6.68%) Analyst
10 36 (4.71%) Platform Engineer
11 31 (4.06%) Business Analyst
12 28 (3.66%) Cloud Engineer
12 28 (3.66%) Consultant
13 24 (3.14%) Solutions Architect
13 24 (3.14%) Tester
14 23 (3.01%) IT Support
15 22 (2.88%) Azure Data Engineer
15 22 (2.88%) Senior Data Engineer
16 21 (2.75%) Senior DevOps
17 20 (2.62%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (13.22%) .NET
2 80 (10.47%) REST
3 58 (7.59%) PySpark
4 43 (5.63%) React
5 40 (5.24%) ADO
6 37 (4.84%) JSON
7 32 (4.19%) Kafka
7 32 (4.19%) YAML
8 27 (3.53%) AngularJS
9 26 (3.40%) .NET Framework
10 25 (3.27%) HTML
10 25 (3.27%) RESTful
11 24 (3.14%) Playwright
12 23 (3.01%) ARM Templates
13 21 (2.75%) CSS
13 21 (2.75%) Middleware
13 21 (2.75%) OAuth
13 21 (2.75%) SOAP
14 20 (2.62%) Node.js
15 19 (2.49%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 98 (12.83%) Cloud Native
2 34 (4.45%) Legacy Systems
3 30 (3.93%) Distributed Systems
4 29 (3.80%) Product Ownership
5 25 (3.27%) Reinsurance
6 17 (2.23%) Greenfield Project
7 16 (2.09%) Onboarding
8 13 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
9 12 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
10 11 (1.44%) Management Information System
11 10 (1.31%) Hybrid Cloud
11 10 (1.31%) Replication
12 8 (1.05%) AI Agents
12 8 (1.05%) Data Structures
12 8 (1.05%) Low-Code
12 8 (1.05%) Public Cloud
13 7 (0.92%) FMCG
14 6 (0.79%) Data Protection Act
14 6 (0.79%) Enterprise Cloud
14 6 (0.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 39 (5.10%) Windows
2 18 (2.36%) Linux
3 8 (1.05%) VMS
4 7 (0.92%) Unix
4 7 (0.92%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 761 (99.61%) DevOps
2 428 (56.02%) CI/CD
3 285 (37.30%) Agile
4 197 (25.79%) Infrastructure as Code
5 136 (17.80%) Analytics
6 127 (16.62%) Test Automation
7 123 (16.10%) Problem-Solving
8 122 (15.97%) Migration
9 105 (13.74%) Continuous Improvement
10 102 (13.35%) Scrum
11 100 (13.09%) Data Modelling
12 98 (12.83%) Data Pipeline
13 96 (12.57%) Containerisation
14 92 (12.04%) ETL
15 91 (11.91%) Stakeholder Management
16 90 (11.78%) AI
16 90 (11.78%) Platform Engineering
17 81 (10.60%) Business Intelligence
18 79 (10.34%) Microservices
19 78 (10.21%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 269 (35.21%) SQL
2 227 (29.71%) Python
3 141 (18.46%) C#
4 83 (10.86%) PowerShell
5 72 (9.42%) Bicep
6 63 (8.25%) TypeScript
7 61 (7.98%) JavaScript
8 58 (7.59%) Bash
9 43 (5.63%) Java
10 18 (2.36%) Scala
11 13 (1.70%) T-SQL
12 10 (1.31%) Apex Code
13 8 (1.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 7 (0.92%) Kusto Query Language
15 6 (0.79%) Shell Script
16 4 (0.52%) Go
17 3 (0.39%) ABAP
17 3 (0.39%) Formula Language
17 3 (0.39%) LotusScript
17 3 (0.39%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 187 (24.48%) Security Cleared
2 168 (21.99%) SC Cleared
3 57 (7.46%) Azure Certification
4 42 (5.50%) Degree
5 22 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (2.36%) Microsoft Certification
7 13 (1.70%) ISTQB
8 12 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
8 12 (1.57%) DV Cleared
9 9 (1.18%) AWS Certification
9 9 (1.18%) DBS Check
10 6 (0.79%) PMI Certification
11 5 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
11 5 (0.65%) Master's Degree
11 5 (0.65%) PMP
12 3 (0.39%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 3 (0.39%) CCNA
12 3 (0.39%) CISSP
12 3 (0.39%) GIAC
12 3 (0.39%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (11.91%) QA
2 67 (8.77%) Data Quality
3 21 (2.75%) GDPR
4 17 (2.23%) Accessibility
5 14 (1.83%) NIST
6 9 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (1.05%) PMO
7 8 (1.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 7 (0.92%) WCAG
9 6 (0.79%) SLA
10 3 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.39%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.26%) FedRAMP
11 2 (0.26%) Government Security Classifications
11 2 (0.26%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.26%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 2 (0.26%) NCSC
11 2 (0.26%) PSD2
11 2 (0.26%) SEPA
12 1 (0.13%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 109 (14.27%) Docker
2 39 (5.10%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.92%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.26%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.26%) Microsoft App-V
6 2 (0.26%) 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
1 222 (29.06%) Terraform
2 130 (17.02%) Kubernetes
3 37 (4.84%) Ansible
4 20 (2.62%) Grafana
5 17 (2.23%) Prometheus
6 8 (1.05%) Packer
7 6 (0.79%) HP ALM
7 6 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (0.65%) Progress Chef
8 5 (0.65%) Puppet
8 5 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.39%) Argo
10 2 (0.26%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.26%) SCCM
11 1 (0.13%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.13%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.13%) Istio
11 1 (0.13%) PowerCLI
11 1 (0.13%) RSA Archer
11 1 (0.13%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 225 (29.45%) Microsoft
2 101 (13.22%) Databricks
3 39 (5.10%) Oracle
4 36 (4.71%) Salesforce
5 27 (3.53%) ServiceNow
6 25 (3.27%) SAP
7 19 (2.49%) Informatica
8 16 (2.09%) OpenAI
9 15 (1.96%) VMware
10 11 (1.44%) Foundry
11 10 (1.31%) Bloomberg
12 8 (1.05%) Refinitiv
13 7 (0.92%) Splunk
14 6 (0.79%) Dynatrace
14 6 (0.79%) HP
15 5 (0.65%) ION Trading
15 5 (0.65%) OpenLink
16 4 (0.52%) CA Agile Central
16 4 (0.52%) Cloudera
16 4 (0.52%) Hortonworks