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

6 months to
23 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 84 71
Rank change year-on-year +11 -13 +8
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 591 411 535
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.80% 3.06% 2.91%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.70% 7.38% 7.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 425 287 385
10th Percentile £358 £400 £425
25th Percentile £413 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £568
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -3.08% -1.30%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £720 £730 £708
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £46.53 - -
25th Percentile £47.31 - -
Median hourly rate £49.25 - -
75th Percentile £51.81 - -
90th Percentile £52.98 - -
England median hourly rate £74.63 £73.75 £65.50
% change year-on-year +1.19% +12.60% -3.53%

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 6,796 5,572 6,866
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.74% 41.55% 37.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,664 3,752 5,063
10th Percentile £350 £356 £325
25th Percentile £424 £450 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £763
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 52 81
10th Percentile £17.99 £22.27 £17.00
25th Percentile £21.46 £24.42 £21.25
Median hourly rate £32.50 £32.75 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.76% +7.38% -10.29%
75th Percentile £52.16 £56.50 £53.25
90th Percentile £71.00 £73.13 £62.50
England median hourly rate £39.50 £27.63 £21.50
% change year-on-year +42.96% +28.51% -14.00%

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 23 February 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
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 February 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 -9 66 £530 -2.53% 35
South London -5 14 £500 +28.06%
West London -22 3 £375 -21.05% 8
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 35 (5.92%) SharePoint
2 32 (5.41%) Confluence
3 21 (3.55%) Apache Spark
4 14 (2.37%) Apache
5 13 (2.20%) Apache Airflow
6 10 (1.69%) HCL Notes
7 9 (1.52%) Mendix
8 8 (1.35%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.51%) CMS
9 3 (0.51%) IIS
10 2 (0.34%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.17%) Kentico
11 1 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.17%) SAS
Applications
1 10 (1.69%) Microsoft Project
1 10 (1.69%) MS Visio
2 6 (1.02%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.34%) Trello
5 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 33 (5.58%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.68%) Aladdin
2 4 (0.68%) Endur
2 4 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.51%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.17%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.17%) Maximo
4 1 (0.17%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.17%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.17%) Orchestrade
4 1 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.17%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.17%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 1 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 591 (100.00%) Azure
2 164 (27.75%) GitHub
3 128 (21.66%) Power Platform
4 109 (18.44%) GitHub Actions
5 86 (14.55%) Azure Data Factory
6 75 (12.69%) Serverless
7 71 (12.01%) AWS
8 68 (11.51%) Azure Monitor
9 61 (10.32%) Azure AKS
10 58 (9.81%) Azure Logic Apps
11 57 (9.64%) Dynamics 365
12 55 (9.31%) Entra ID
13 54 (9.14%) Azure Functions
14 51 (8.63%) Azure Key Vault
14 51 (8.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 51 (8.63%) Power Automate
15 48 (8.12%) Azure Service Bus
16 41 (6.94%) PowerApps
17 33 (5.58%) GCP
18 32 (5.41%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (4.23%) Firewall
2 12 (2.03%) Network Security
3 11 (1.86%) DNS
4 9 (1.52%) VPN
5 7 (1.18%) WAN
6 5 (0.85%) SD-WAN
7 4 (0.68%) Remote Desktop
7 4 (0.68%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.51%) FTP
9 2 (0.34%) HTTP
9 2 (0.34%) LAN
9 2 (0.34%) MPLS
10 1 (0.17%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (12.52%) Power BI
1 74 (12.52%) SQL Server
2 42 (7.11%) Data Lake
3 37 (6.26%) Azure SQL Database
4 35 (5.92%) Delta Lake
5 33 (5.58%) Data Warehouse
6 18 (3.05%) Oracle Database
6 18 (3.05%) PostgreSQL
7 17 (2.88%) NoSQL
8 13 (2.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 11 (1.86%) Tableau
10 10 (1.69%) MongoDB
11 9 (1.52%) Data Vault
11 9 (1.52%) Redis
11 9 (1.52%) Relational Database
11 9 (1.52%) Snowflake Schema
12 8 (1.35%) DynamoDB
13 7 (1.18%) Amazon Redshift
13 7 (1.18%) Spark SQL
14 6 (1.02%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 119 (20.14%) JIRA
2 86 (14.55%) Git
3 54 (9.14%) Jenkins
4 33 (5.58%) GitLab
5 31 (5.25%) Selenium
6 21 (3.55%) Postman
7 16 (2.71%) Cypress.io
8 14 (2.37%) Team Foundation Server
9 12 (2.03%) REST Assured
9 12 (2.03%) TestRail
10 11 (1.86%) MLflow
11 9 (1.52%) Visual Studio
11 9 (1.52%) Zephyr
12 8 (1.35%) JMeter
12 8 (1.35%) JUnit
12 8 (1.35%) SonarQube
13 7 (1.18%) SpecFlow
14 6 (1.02%) Cucumber
14 6 (1.02%) Mockito
14 6 (1.02%) webpack
General
1 177 (29.95%) Social Skills
2 152 (25.72%) Finance
3 69 (11.68%) Analytical Skills
4 59 (9.98%) Public Sector
5 39 (6.60%) Banking
6 15 (2.54%) Documentation Skills
6 15 (2.54%) Financial Institution
6 15 (2.54%) Influencing Skills
7 14 (2.37%) Investment Banking
8 13 (2.20%) Retail
9 12 (2.03%) Front Office
9 12 (2.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
10 9 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
11 7 (1.18%) Back Office
11 7 (1.18%) Marketing
12 6 (1.02%) Law
13 4 (0.68%) Military
14 3 (0.51%) General Ledger
15 2 (0.34%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 131 (22.17%) Developer
2 93 (15.74%) Azure Engineer
3 71 (12.01%) Senior
4 69 (11.68%) DevOps Engineer
5 61 (10.32%) Data Engineer
6 50 (8.46%) Analyst
7 48 (8.12%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 47 (7.95%) Architect
9 43 (7.28%) Lead
10 32 (5.41%) Azure Developer
11 25 (4.23%) Business Analyst
12 24 (4.06%) Azure Architect
12 24 (4.06%) Tester
13 23 (3.89%) Platform Engineer
14 19 (3.21%) Test Analyst
15 16 (2.71%) Automation Engineer
15 16 (2.71%) Consultant
16 15 (2.54%) Azure Data Engineer
17 14 (2.37%) Cloud Engineer
17 14 (2.37%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 122 (20.64%) .NET
2 49 (8.29%) React
2 49 (8.29%) REST
3 45 (7.61%) Node.js
4 44 (7.45%) PySpark
5 29 (4.91%) ARM Templates
6 25 (4.23%) .NET Core
6 25 (4.23%) Kafka
6 25 (4.23%) Playwright
6 25 (4.23%) RESTful
7 23 (3.89%) CSS
8 22 (3.72%) ADO
8 22 (3.72%) HTML
9 21 (3.55%) .NET Framework
9 21 (3.55%) YAML
10 18 (3.05%) SOAP
11 17 (2.88%) OAuth
12 16 (2.71%) AngularJS
13 13 (2.20%) Web Services
13 13 (2.20%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 61 (10.32%) Cloud Native
2 32 (5.41%) Product Ownership
3 24 (4.06%) Distributed Systems
4 22 (3.72%) Legacy Systems
5 17 (2.88%) Reinsurance
6 15 (2.54%) Enterprise Software
6 15 (2.54%) Low-Code
7 13 (2.20%) AI Agents
7 13 (2.20%) Public Cloud
8 11 (1.86%) Data Structures
8 11 (1.86%) Replication
9 10 (1.69%) CMDB
10 8 (1.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 8 (1.35%) NHS
11 6 (1.02%) Linux Command Line
11 6 (1.02%) Virtual Team
12 5 (0.85%) Data Centre
12 5 (0.85%) Derivative
12 5 (0.85%) Enterprise Cloud
12 5 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 22 (3.72%) Windows
2 16 (2.71%) Linux
3 9 (1.52%) VMS
4 3 (0.51%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.17%) Android
5 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.17%) Solaris
5 1 (0.17%) Unix
5 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 584 (98.82%) DevOps
2 339 (57.36%) CI/CD
3 244 (41.29%) Agile
4 156 (26.40%) Infrastructure as Code
5 125 (21.15%) Problem-Solving
6 122 (20.64%) Analytics
7 109 (18.44%) Test Automation
8 97 (16.41%) Continuous Improvement
9 95 (16.07%) AI
10 88 (14.89%) Business Intelligence
11 86 (14.55%) Scrum
12 83 (14.04%) Data Modelling
13 76 (12.86%) Migration
14 75 (12.69%) Containerisation
15 73 (12.35%) Microservices
16 70 (11.84%) Stakeholder Management
17 62 (10.49%) Observability
18 61 (10.32%) Data Pipeline
19 59 (9.98%) Data Engineering
20 55 (9.31%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 209 (35.36%) SQL
2 177 (29.95%) Python
3 132 (22.34%) C#
4 94 (15.91%) JavaScript
5 58 (9.81%) Bicep
6 54 (9.14%) PowerShell
7 53 (8.97%) TypeScript
8 48 (8.12%) Java
9 30 (5.08%) Bash
10 23 (3.89%) Scala
11 17 (2.88%) T-SQL
12 10 (1.69%) Formula Language
12 10 (1.69%) Kusto Query Language
12 10 (1.69%) LotusScript
12 10 (1.69%) PL/SQL
13 4 (0.68%) C
13 4 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 4 (0.68%) R
14 3 (0.51%) Go
14 3 (0.51%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 132 (22.34%) Security Cleared
2 115 (19.46%) SC Cleared
3 59 (9.98%) Azure Certification
4 37 (6.26%) Degree
5 19 (3.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (3.21%) Microsoft Certification
6 16 (2.71%) BPSS Clearance
6 16 (2.71%) ISTQB
7 9 (1.52%) Master's Degree
8 7 (1.18%) PMI Certification
9 6 (1.02%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 5 (0.85%) ISEB
10 5 (0.85%) PMP
11 4 (0.68%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (0.51%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.34%) AWS Certification
13 2 (0.34%) CBAP
13 2 (0.34%) MBA
14 1 (0.17%) DV Cleared
14 1 (0.17%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (10.32%) QA
2 42 (7.11%) Data Quality
3 19 (3.21%) GDPR
4 15 (2.54%) Accessibility
5 9 (1.52%) WCAG
6 8 (1.35%) PMO
7 6 (1.02%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 4 (0.68%) HIPAA
8 4 (0.68%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.51%) HL7
10 2 (0.34%) EU AI Act
10 2 (0.34%) FedRAMP
10 2 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 2 (0.34%) NCSC
10 2 (0.34%) NIST
10 2 (0.34%) SLA
10 2 (0.34%) Software Quality Assurance
11 1 (0.17%) EMIR
11 1 (0.17%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 1 (0.17%) MiFID
System Software
1 104 (17.60%) Docker
2 31 (5.25%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (1.35%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.51%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.17%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 186 (31.47%) Terraform
2 107 (18.10%) Kubernetes
3 25 (4.23%) Ansible
4 13 (2.20%) Grafana
5 10 (1.69%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.68%) Argo
6 4 (0.68%) HP ALM
7 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (0.51%) Packer
8 2 (0.34%) Fluentd
8 2 (0.34%) Kibana
8 2 (0.34%) Kubeflow
8 2 (0.34%) Opsgenie
9 1 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.17%) CASB
9 1 (0.17%) Icinga
9 1 (0.17%) Istio
9 1 (0.17%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 193 (32.66%) Microsoft
2 96 (16.24%) Databricks
3 52 (8.80%) Oracle
4 29 (4.91%) ServiceNow
5 25 (4.23%) OpenAI
6 21 (3.55%) Salesforce
7 12 (2.03%) SAP
8 10 (1.69%) Lotus
8 10 (1.69%) VMware
9 9 (1.52%) Kofax
10 8 (1.35%) Foundry
11 7 (1.18%) Informatica
12 6 (1.02%) Citrix
12 6 (1.02%) Splunk
13 5 (0.85%) Aruba
13 5 (0.85%) Cisco
13 5 (0.85%) Sitecore
14 4 (0.68%) Charles River
14 4 (0.68%) HP
14 4 (0.68%) UiPath