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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 76 59
Rank change year-on-year +18 -17 +17
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 861 456 618
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.29% 3.45% 3.85%
As % of the Cloud Services category 10.41% 7.96% 9.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 612 318 412
10th Percentile £375 £344 £381
25th Percentile £425 £408 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -6.46%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £600
90th Percentile £693 £750 £680
England median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £39.00 - -
25th Percentile £45.00 £86.25 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £87.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -37.14% - -
75th Percentile - £88.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £46.80 £75.00 -
% change year-on-year -37.60% - -

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 8,272 5,730 6,584
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.23% 43.37% 41.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,666 3,912 4,684
10th Percentile £360 £340 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £541 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -3.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £647 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 94 51
10th Percentile £19.13 £23.00 £20.00
25th Percentile £23.14 £25.15 £23.80
Median hourly rate £34.62 £31.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.66% +3.33% -36.84%
75th Percentile £55.63 £47.50 £44.56
90th Percentile £78.65 £78.75 £66.00
England median hourly rate £34.18 £26.45 £30.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -11.83% -9.09%

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 September 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 September 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 September 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 +6 96 £545 +3.81% 28
South London -3 9 £525 -1.18% 3
West London -16 4 £625 +20.19% 14
East London +1 3 £604 +16.06% 6
North London +2 2 £600 +36.36% 2
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 49 (5.69%) SharePoint
2 43 (4.99%) Confluence
3 33 (3.83%) Apache Spark
4 30 (3.48%) Apache Airflow
5 25 (2.90%) Apache
6 10 (1.16%) CMS
7 6 (0.70%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.35%) Kentico
8 3 (0.35%) Mendix
9 2 (0.23%) IIS
10 1 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.12%) Apache Pulsar
10 1 (0.12%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.12%) EPiServer
10 1 (0.12%) GeoServer
10 1 (0.12%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.12%) IBM HTTP Server
10 1 (0.12%) nginx
10 1 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 29 (3.37%) Microsoft Project
2 26 (3.02%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (1.28%) MS Visio
4 9 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
5 7 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 5 (0.58%) Notion
7 4 (0.46%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.23%) CPLEX
8 2 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.12%) Mingle
9 1 (0.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 32 (3.72%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (1.05%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.58%) Dynamics AX
4 4 (0.46%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (0.35%) Endur
5 3 (0.35%) Findur
5 3 (0.35%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 2 (0.23%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.23%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
6 2 (0.23%) Maximo
6 2 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.23%) SAP BPC
6 2 (0.23%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.12%) PeopleSoft HCM
7 1 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.12%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.12%) Shopify
7 1 (0.12%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 861 (100.00%) Azure
2 266 (30.89%) GitHub
3 167 (19.40%) GitHub Actions
4 145 (16.84%) Power Platform
5 143 (16.61%) AWS
6 106 (12.31%) Azure Data Factory
7 78 (9.06%) Azure AKS
8 74 (8.59%) Entra ID
9 71 (8.25%) Azure Monitor
10 67 (7.78%) Serverless
11 64 (7.43%) Dynamics 365
12 61 (7.08%) Power Automate
13 59 (6.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 48 (5.57%) PowerApps
15 46 (5.34%) Azure Functions
16 45 (5.23%) Snowflake
17 43 (4.99%) GCP
18 42 (4.88%) Azure Logic Apps
18 42 (4.88%) PaaS
19 37 (4.30%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 28 (3.25%) Firewall
2 19 (2.21%) VPN
3 18 (2.09%) Network Security
4 17 (1.97%) DNS
5 7 (0.81%) DHCP
6 6 (0.70%) WAN
7 5 (0.58%) SD-WAN
8 4 (0.46%) SAN
9 3 (0.35%) Internet
9 3 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (0.23%) 4G
10 2 (0.23%) Cisco IOS
10 2 (0.23%) NAS
10 2 (0.23%) SSH
10 2 (0.23%) SSL
10 2 (0.23%) VLAN
10 2 (0.23%) X.509
11 1 (0.12%) Cisco ASA
11 1 (0.12%) HTTPS
11 1 (0.12%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (11.38%) Power BI
2 69 (8.01%) Data Lake
3 56 (6.50%) Data Warehouse
4 54 (6.27%) SQL Server
5 44 (5.11%) Azure SQL Database
6 34 (3.95%) Delta Lake
7 31 (3.60%) NoSQL
8 27 (3.14%) PostgreSQL
9 23 (2.67%) Metadata
10 19 (2.21%) Snowflake Schema
11 16 (1.86%) Big Data
12 14 (1.63%) Relational Database
12 14 (1.63%) Spark SQL
12 14 (1.63%) Star Schema
13 11 (1.28%) Redis
14 10 (1.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 9 (1.05%) Amazon Redshift
15 9 (1.05%) MongoDB
16 8 (0.93%) BigQuery
17 7 (0.81%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 148 (17.19%) JIRA
2 144 (16.72%) Git
3 110 (12.78%) Jenkins
4 87 (10.10%) GitLab
5 44 (5.11%) Selenium
6 24 (2.79%) SonarQube
7 14 (1.63%) Cypress.io
7 14 (1.63%) Visual Studio
8 12 (1.39%) Postman
9 10 (1.16%) Cucumber
9 10 (1.16%) Maven
9 10 (1.16%) REST Assured
9 10 (1.16%) Snyk
10 9 (1.05%) JUnit
10 9 (1.05%) TestRail
10 9 (1.05%) WebDriver
11 8 (0.93%) Gradle
11 8 (0.93%) JMeter
12 7 (0.81%) Bitbucket
12 7 (0.81%) Terragrunt
General
1 235 (27.29%) Finance
2 230 (26.71%) Social Skills
3 86 (9.99%) Analytical Skills
4 74 (8.59%) Public Sector
5 68 (7.90%) Banking
6 28 (3.25%) Retail
7 25 (2.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 18 (2.09%) Influencing Skills
8 18 (2.09%) Marketing
9 15 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
9 15 (1.74%) Investment Banking
10 14 (1.63%) Legal
11 9 (1.05%) Local Government
12 8 (0.93%) Law
12 8 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (0.70%) Pharmaceutical
14 5 (0.58%) Back Office
14 5 (0.58%) Front Office
15 3 (0.35%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 145 (16.84%) Azure Engineer
2 143 (16.61%) DevOps Engineer
2 143 (16.61%) Senior
3 122 (14.17%) Developer
4 94 (10.92%) Data Engineer
5 85 (9.87%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 67 (7.78%) Lead
7 66 (7.67%) Architect
8 64 (7.43%) Analyst
9 35 (4.07%) Consultant
10 34 (3.95%) Platform Engineer
11 33 (3.83%) Business Analyst
12 30 (3.48%) Cloud Engineer
13 28 (3.25%) Project Manager
14 24 (2.79%) Databricks Engineer
15 23 (2.67%) Senior Developer
15 23 (2.67%) Test Analyst
16 22 (2.56%) Azure Data Engineer
16 22 (2.56%) Senior DevOps
17 21 (2.44%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 254 (29.50%) Terraform
2 116 (13.47%) .NET
3 106 (12.31%) REST
4 67 (7.78%) PySpark
5 55 (6.39%) ADO
6 46 (5.34%) JSON
7 43 (4.99%) React
8 42 (4.88%) Kafka
9 41 (4.76%) YAML
10 33 (3.83%) RESTful
11 29 (3.37%) Playwright
11 29 (3.37%) XML
12 28 (3.25%) ARM Templates
13 26 (3.02%) Middleware
14 25 (2.90%) AngularJS
15 24 (2.79%) .NET Core
15 24 (2.79%) .NET Framework
15 24 (2.79%) OAuth
16 22 (2.56%) HTML
17 18 (2.09%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 103 (11.96%) Cloud Native
2 50 (5.81%) Product Ownership
3 33 (3.83%) Distributed Systems
4 30 (3.48%) Legacy Systems
5 27 (3.14%) Enterprise Software
6 24 (2.79%) Onboarding
7 19 (2.21%) AI Agents
8 18 (2.09%) Hybrid Cloud
8 18 (2.09%) Management Information System
9 17 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
10 15 (1.74%) Reinsurance
11 12 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
12 11 (1.28%) Enterprise Cloud
13 9 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
13 9 (1.05%) Low-Code
14 8 (0.93%) Data Centre
14 8 (0.93%) Data Structures
14 8 (0.93%) Linux Command Line
14 8 (0.93%) Public Cloud
15 7 (0.81%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 46 (5.34%) Windows
2 31 (3.60%) Linux
3 15 (1.74%) Windows Server
4 13 (1.51%) VMS
5 9 (1.05%) Unix
6 6 (0.70%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (0.46%) Android
7 4 (0.46%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.23%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 861 (100.00%) DevOps
2 482 (55.98%) CI/CD
3 353 (41.00%) Agile
4 221 (25.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 160 (18.58%) Test Automation
6 153 (17.77%) Stakeholder Management
7 148 (17.19%) Analytics
8 138 (16.03%) Problem-Solving
9 122 (14.17%) Migration
10 118 (13.70%) Containerisation
11 113 (13.12%) Continuous Improvement
12 111 (12.89%) Data Modelling
13 107 (12.43%) AI
13 107 (12.43%) Business Intelligence
14 101 (11.73%) Scrum
15 97 (11.27%) ETL
15 97 (11.27%) Microservices
16 96 (11.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 95 (11.03%) Data Engineering
18 94 (10.92%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 273 (31.71%) SQL
2 260 (30.20%) Python
3 142 (16.49%) C#
4 113 (13.12%) PowerShell
5 85 (9.87%) Bicep
6 79 (9.18%) JavaScript
7 77 (8.94%) Bash
8 65 (7.55%) TypeScript
9 61 (7.08%) Java
10 16 (1.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 13 (1.51%) Apex Code
12 9 (1.05%) T-SQL
13 7 (0.81%) Shell Script
14 6 (0.70%) Go
15 4 (0.46%) Kusto Query Language
15 4 (0.46%) VB.NET
16 3 (0.35%) Korn
16 3 (0.35%) PL/SQL
16 3 (0.35%) X++
17 2 (0.23%) XPath
Qualifications
1 220 (25.55%) Security Cleared
2 192 (22.30%) SC Cleared
3 70 (8.13%) Azure Certification
4 49 (5.69%) Degree
5 27 (3.14%) Computer Science Degree
6 26 (3.02%) Microsoft Certification
7 23 (2.67%) DV Cleared
8 16 (1.86%) ISTQB
9 14 (1.63%) AWS Certification
10 10 (1.16%) DBS Check
11 9 (1.05%) PMI Certification
12 7 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
13 6 (0.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 6 (0.70%) PMP
14 5 (0.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 5 (0.58%) Master's Degree
14 5 (0.58%) PRINCE2 Certification
15 4 (0.46%) Cisco Certification
15 4 (0.46%) CISSP
15 4 (0.46%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (13.01%) QA
2 76 (8.83%) Data Quality
3 26 (3.02%) GDPR
4 19 (2.21%) Accessibility
4 19 (2.21%) NIST
5 15 (1.74%) PMO
6 12 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (0.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 7 (0.81%) ISO 20022
8 7 (0.81%) SLA
8 7 (0.81%) WCAG
9 5 (0.58%) SEPA
10 4 (0.46%) PSD2
11 3 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.35%) GRC
12 2 (0.23%) Government Security Classifications
12 2 (0.23%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 1 (0.12%) Disclosure Scotland
13 1 (0.12%) ISO 15022
13 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 141 (16.38%) Docker
2 47 (5.46%) Active Directory
3 14 (1.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (1.28%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.70%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.70%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.46%) vSphere
7 2 (0.23%) Microsoft App-V
7 2 (0.23%) OpenSSH
8 1 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 167 (19.40%) Kubernetes
2 51 (5.92%) Ansible
3 25 (2.90%) Grafana
4 21 (2.44%) Prometheus
5 11 (1.28%) Microsoft Intune
6 9 (1.05%) Packer
7 8 (0.93%) Progress Chef
7 8 (0.93%) Puppet
7 8 (0.93%) SCCM
8 7 (0.81%) HP ALM
9 6 (0.70%) Argo
10 5 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.35%) HP Fortify
11 3 (0.35%) Kibana
12 2 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.23%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (0.23%) Nagios
13 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Clustering
13 1 (0.12%) PowerCLI
13 1 (0.12%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 304 (35.31%) Microsoft
2 100 (11.61%) Databricks
3 37 (4.30%) Salesforce
4 30 (3.48%) Oracle
5 25 (2.90%) SAP
6 21 (2.44%) ServiceNow
7 19 (2.21%) VMware
8 15 (1.74%) Google
8 15 (1.74%) OpenAI
9 14 (1.63%) Informatica
9 14 (1.63%) Splunk
10 11 (1.28%) Foundry
11 10 (1.16%) Cloudera
11 10 (1.16%) Dynatrace
11 10 (1.16%) UiPath
12 7 (0.81%) Bloomberg
12 7 (0.81%) Guidewire
12 7 (0.81%) HP
13 6 (0.70%) IBM
13 6 (0.70%) Okta