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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 76 59
Rank change year-on-year +14 -17 +16
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 745 423 677
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.93% 3.40% 3.81%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.36% 7.92% 9.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 540 298 433
10th Percentile £375 £353 £405
25th Percentile £425 £421 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -6.87%
75th Percentile £619 £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 £72.25 £59.50 £65.50
% change year-on-year +21.43% -9.16% -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 7,961 5,341 6,947
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.04% 42.99% 39.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,464 3,627 5,108
10th Percentile £356 £350 £350
25th Percentile £430 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -5.17%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £788
England median daily rate £513 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 68 70
10th Percentile £20.85 £22.50 £17.63
25th Percentile £26.52 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £30.54 £26.49
Median % change year-on-year +16.26% +15.29% -49.55%
75th Percentile £55.38 £48.75 £38.75
90th Percentile £76.05 £69.38 £55.25
England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.08 £21.50
% change year-on-year +57.50% +16.65% -36.10%

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 18 June 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 18 June 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 18 June 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 -18 69 £538 -0.46% 32
South London -2 8 £513 -2.38% 1
West London -20 6 £375 -31.51% 6
North London +3 2 £600 +36.36% 1
East London -3 2 £604 +3.16% 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 47 (6.31%) SharePoint
2 38 (5.10%) Confluence
3 33 (4.43%) Apache Spark
4 24 (3.22%) Apache
5 21 (2.82%) Apache Airflow
6 11 (1.48%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.81%) HCL Notes
7 6 (0.81%) Mendix
8 4 (0.54%) CMS
9 3 (0.40%) Kentico
10 2 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.13%) Apache Pulsar
11 1 (0.13%) IBM HTTP Server
11 1 (0.13%) SAS
Applications
1 26 (3.49%) Microsoft Project
2 10 (1.34%) MS Visio
3 8 (1.07%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.54%) Notion
5 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
6 2 (0.27%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.27%) CPLEX
6 2 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 30 (4.03%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.94%) Dynamics AX
3 6 (0.81%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.40%) Endur
4 3 (0.40%) Findur
4 3 (0.40%) Maximo
4 3 (0.40%) SAP BPC
4 3 (0.40%) SAP MM
4 3 (0.40%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 2 (0.27%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.13%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.13%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.13%) SAP CS
6 1 (0.13%) SAP GTS
6 1 (0.13%) SAP LE
6 1 (0.13%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.13%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.13%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 745 (100.00%) Azure
2 226 (30.34%) GitHub
3 141 (18.93%) GitHub Actions
4 124 (16.64%) Power Platform
5 110 (14.77%) AWS
6 90 (12.08%) Azure Data Factory
7 70 (9.40%) Azure AKS
8 62 (8.32%) Power Automate
9 60 (8.05%) Entra ID
10 58 (7.79%) Azure Monitor
11 57 (7.65%) Dynamics 365
12 56 (7.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 54 (7.25%) Serverless
14 46 (6.17%) Azure Logic Apps
15 44 (5.91%) Azure Key Vault
16 41 (5.50%) PowerApps
17 38 (5.10%) Snowflake
18 37 (4.97%) Azure Service Bus
19 35 (4.70%) Microsoft 365
20 33 (4.43%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.42%) Firewall
2 12 (1.61%) Network Security
3 10 (1.34%) VPN
4 9 (1.21%) DNS
5 5 (0.67%) SD-WAN
5 5 (0.67%) WAN
6 4 (0.54%) Internet
7 2 (0.27%) FTP
7 2 (0.27%) NAS
7 2 (0.27%) Remote Desktop
7 2 (0.27%) SAN
7 2 (0.27%) SSH
7 2 (0.27%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.27%) X.509
8 1 (0.13%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (0.13%) Cisco Firepower
8 1 (0.13%) IPsec
8 1 (0.13%) VSAN
8 1 (0.13%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (10.07%) Power BI
2 68 (9.13%) Data Lake
3 67 (8.99%) SQL Server
4 52 (6.98%) Delta Lake
5 43 (5.77%) Azure SQL Database
6 37 (4.97%) Data Warehouse
7 31 (4.16%) NoSQL
8 18 (2.42%) Snowflake Schema
9 15 (2.01%) PostgreSQL
9 15 (2.01%) Spark SQL
10 14 (1.88%) Big Data
11 13 (1.74%) Redis
12 12 (1.61%) Relational Database
13 11 (1.48%) Metadata
13 11 (1.48%) Oracle Database
14 10 (1.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 9 (1.21%) Amazon Redshift
15 9 (1.21%) MongoDB
16 8 (1.07%) Data Vault
17 7 (0.94%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 147 (19.73%) JIRA
2 122 (16.38%) Git
3 62 (8.32%) Jenkins
4 49 (6.58%) GitLab
5 26 (3.49%) Selenium
6 14 (1.88%) REST Assured
7 13 (1.74%) SonarQube
8 12 (1.61%) Postman
9 10 (1.34%) Cypress.io
10 9 (1.21%) Cucumber
11 7 (0.94%) SpecFlow
11 7 (0.94%) Team Foundation Server
11 7 (0.94%) TestRail
12 6 (0.81%) Bitbucket
12 6 (0.81%) JUnit
12 6 (0.81%) MLflow
12 6 (0.81%) Snyk
12 6 (0.81%) Visual Studio
12 6 (0.81%) WebDriver
12 6 (0.81%) Zephyr
General
1 213 (28.59%) Finance
2 183 (24.56%) Social Skills
3 67 (8.99%) Analytical Skills
4 64 (8.59%) Public Sector
5 47 (6.31%) Banking
6 15 (2.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
8 11 (1.48%) Retail
9 10 (1.34%) Front Office
9 10 (1.34%) Investment Banking
9 10 (1.34%) Organisational Skills
10 9 (1.21%) Legal
11 8 (1.07%) Financial Institution
11 8 (1.07%) Marketing
12 7 (0.94%) Influencing Skills
12 7 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (0.81%) Law
14 5 (0.67%) Back Office
14 5 (0.67%) Local Government
15 4 (0.54%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 122 (16.38%) Azure Engineer
2 115 (15.44%) Senior
3 112 (15.03%) Developer
4 103 (13.83%) Data Engineer
5 95 (12.75%) DevOps Engineer
6 58 (7.79%) Architect
6 58 (7.79%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 55 (7.38%) Lead
8 54 (7.25%) Analyst
9 38 (5.10%) Platform Engineer
10 28 (3.76%) Business Analyst
10 28 (3.76%) Cloud Engineer
11 24 (3.22%) Consultant
12 23 (3.09%) IT Support
12 23 (3.09%) Senior Data Engineer
13 22 (2.95%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 22 (2.95%) Solutions Architect
14 21 (2.82%) Azure Data Engineer
14 21 (2.82%) Test Analyst
14 21 (2.82%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (12.21%) .NET
2 66 (8.86%) REST
3 59 (7.92%) PySpark
4 43 (5.77%) React
5 40 (5.37%) ADO
6 34 (4.56%) JSON
6 34 (4.56%) Kafka
7 31 (4.16%) YAML
8 25 (3.36%) ARM Templates
9 24 (3.22%) Playwright
10 23 (3.09%) .NET Framework
10 23 (3.09%) AngularJS
11 21 (2.82%) HTML
12 19 (2.55%) CSS
12 19 (2.55%) Node.js
12 19 (2.55%) RESTful
13 18 (2.42%) Middleware
14 17 (2.28%) OAuth
15 16 (2.15%) SOAP
16 15 (2.01%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 91 (12.21%) Cloud Native
2 31 (4.16%) Legacy Systems
3 27 (3.62%) Distributed Systems
3 27 (3.62%) Reinsurance
4 25 (3.36%) Product Ownership
5 17 (2.28%) Greenfield Project
6 14 (1.88%) Onboarding
7 12 (1.61%) Low-Code
8 10 (1.34%) AI Agents
8 10 (1.34%) Hybrid Cloud
8 10 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
9 9 (1.21%) Public Cloud
9 9 (1.21%) Replication
10 8 (1.07%) Data Structures
10 8 (1.07%) Management Information System
11 7 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
12 6 (0.81%) Data Centre
12 6 (0.81%) Distributed Architecture
12 6 (0.81%) Enterprise Cloud
12 6 (0.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 41 (5.50%) Windows
2 15 (2.01%) Linux
3 11 (1.48%) VMS
4 6 (0.81%) Unix
4 6 (0.81%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 739 (99.19%) DevOps
2 413 (55.44%) CI/CD
3 267 (35.84%) Agile
4 192 (25.77%) Infrastructure as Code
5 134 (17.99%) Analytics
6 122 (16.38%) Test Automation
7 119 (15.97%) Migration
8 113 (15.17%) Problem-Solving
9 102 (13.69%) Data Modelling
10 101 (13.56%) Data Pipeline
11 98 (13.15%) Continuous Improvement
12 96 (12.89%) Scrum
13 94 (12.62%) AI
14 93 (12.48%) Platform Engineering
15 91 (12.21%) ETL
16 88 (11.81%) Containerisation
17 87 (11.68%) Stakeholder Management
18 85 (11.41%) Business Intelligence
19 81 (10.87%) Data Engineering
20 73 (9.80%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 263 (35.30%) SQL
2 224 (30.07%) Python
3 130 (17.45%) C#
4 81 (10.87%) PowerShell
5 70 (9.40%) Bicep
6 58 (7.79%) JavaScript
7 53 (7.11%) Bash
7 53 (7.11%) TypeScript
8 41 (5.50%) Java
9 19 (2.55%) Scala
10 13 (1.74%) T-SQL
11 9 (1.21%) Apex Code
11 9 (1.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 7 (0.94%) Kusto Query Language
13 6 (0.81%) Formula Language
13 6 (0.81%) LotusScript
13 6 (0.81%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.40%) C
14 3 (0.40%) Go
14 3 (0.40%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 189 (25.37%) Security Cleared
2 169 (22.68%) SC Cleared
3 64 (8.59%) Azure Certification
4 36 (4.83%) Degree
5 21 (2.82%) Microsoft Certification
6 17 (2.28%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (1.74%) ISTQB
8 11 (1.48%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (1.21%) AWS Certification
9 9 (1.21%) DBS Check
9 9 (1.21%) DV Cleared
10 8 (1.07%) PMI Certification
11 7 (0.94%) PMP
12 5 (0.67%) Master's Degree
13 4 (0.54%) Cisco Certification
14 3 (0.40%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 3 (0.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 3 (0.40%) CCNA
14 3 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
15 2 (0.27%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (10.74%) QA
2 70 (9.40%) Data Quality
3 20 (2.68%) GDPR
4 17 (2.28%) Accessibility
5 12 (1.61%) NIST
6 9 (1.21%) PMO
7 8 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (1.07%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 7 (0.94%) SLA
8 7 (0.94%) WCAG
9 3 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.40%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.27%) FedRAMP
10 2 (0.27%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.27%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 2 (0.27%) NCSC
10 2 (0.27%) PSD2
10 2 (0.27%) SEPA
11 1 (0.13%) GRC
11 1 (0.13%) ITGC
System Software
1 105 (14.09%) Docker
2 40 (5.37%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.21%) Virtual Desktop
4 8 (1.07%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.27%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.27%) Microsoft App-V
6 2 (0.27%) 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
1 215 (28.86%) Terraform
2 119 (15.97%) Kubernetes
3 37 (4.97%) Ansible
4 17 (2.28%) Grafana
5 14 (1.88%) Prometheus
6 8 (1.07%) Packer
7 6 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (0.67%) HP ALM
8 5 (0.67%) Progress Chef
8 5 (0.67%) Puppet
8 5 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.40%) Argo
10 2 (0.27%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.27%) Istio
10 2 (0.27%) SCCM
11 1 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.13%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.13%) PowerCLI
11 1 (0.13%) RSA Archer
11 1 (0.13%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 217 (29.13%) Microsoft
2 110 (14.77%) Databricks
3 37 (4.97%) Oracle
4 34 (4.56%) Salesforce
5 28 (3.76%) ServiceNow
6 22 (2.95%) SAP
7 19 (2.55%) Informatica
8 17 (2.28%) OpenAI
9 14 (1.88%) VMware
10 10 (1.34%) Bloomberg
10 10 (1.34%) Foundry
11 8 (1.07%) Refinitiv
12 6 (0.81%) Kofax
12 6 (0.81%) Lotus
13 5 (0.67%) Dynatrace
13 5 (0.67%) HP
13 5 (0.67%) OpenLink
13 5 (0.67%) Splunk
14 4 (0.54%) CA Agile Central
14 4 (0.54%) Workday