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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 77 59
Rank change year-on-year +17 -18 +16
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 749 429 677
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.93% 3.43% 3.81%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.36% 7.99% 9.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 539 303 432
10th Percentile £381 £350 £405
25th Percentile £425 £420 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -6.46%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £601
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 8,002 5,367 6,978
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.04% 42.92% 39.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,496 3,644 5,122
10th Percentile £358 £350 £350
25th Percentile £431 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -5.17%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £788
England median daily rate £515 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 67 70
10th Percentile £21.55 £22.80 £17.63
25th Percentile £27.75 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.61 £32.00 £26.49
Median % change year-on-year +11.27% +20.82% -49.55%
75th Percentile £56.19 £48.75 £38.75
90th Percentile £77.65 £70.00 £55.25
England median hourly rate £42.69 £25.33 £21.50
% change year-on-year +68.55% +17.79% -33.85%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 -17 71 £525 -2.78% 27
South London -1 8 £513 -2.38% 1
West London -23 6 £375 -31.51% 6
East London -1 3 £604 +3.16% 3
North London +3 2 £600 +36.36%
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 46 (6.14%) SharePoint
2 36 (4.81%) Confluence
3 33 (4.41%) Apache Spark
4 24 (3.20%) Apache
5 21 (2.80%) Apache Airflow
6 11 (1.47%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.67%) HCL Notes
7 5 (0.67%) Mendix
8 4 (0.53%) 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 28 (3.74%) Microsoft Project
2 10 (1.34%) MS Visio
3 9 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.53%) Notion
5 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.27%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.27%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 30 (4.01%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.93%) Dynamics AX
2 7 (0.93%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.40%) Endur
3 3 (0.40%) Findur
3 3 (0.40%) Maximo
3 3 (0.40%) SAP BPC
3 3 (0.40%) SAP MM
3 3 (0.40%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 2 (0.27%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.13%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.13%) NEC Housing
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.13%) SAP CS
5 1 (0.13%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.13%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.13%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 749 (100.00%) Azure
2 225 (30.04%) GitHub
3 140 (18.69%) GitHub Actions
4 124 (16.56%) Power Platform
5 112 (14.95%) AWS
6 88 (11.75%) Azure Data Factory
7 70 (9.35%) Azure AKS
8 63 (8.41%) Power Automate
9 61 (8.14%) Entra ID
10 59 (7.88%) Azure Monitor
11 57 (7.61%) Dynamics 365
12 55 (7.34%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 54 (7.21%) Serverless
14 45 (6.01%) Azure Logic Apps
15 44 (5.87%) Azure Key Vault
16 41 (5.47%) PowerApps
17 38 (5.07%) Snowflake
18 37 (4.94%) Azure Service Bus
19 34 (4.54%) Microsoft 365
19 34 (4.54%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (2.54%) Firewall
2 12 (1.60%) Network Security
3 11 (1.47%) VPN
4 10 (1.34%) DNS
5 5 (0.67%) SD-WAN
5 5 (0.67%) WAN
6 4 (0.53%) Internet
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%) 4G
8 1 (0.13%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (0.13%) Cisco IOS
8 1 (0.13%) FTP
8 1 (0.13%) IPsec
8 1 (0.13%) VSAN
8 1 (0.13%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (10.01%) Power BI
2 66 (8.81%) Data Lake
3 64 (8.54%) SQL Server
4 50 (6.68%) Delta Lake
5 44 (5.87%) Azure SQL Database
6 37 (4.94%) Data Warehouse
7 31 (4.14%) NoSQL
8 18 (2.40%) Snowflake Schema
9 14 (1.87%) Big Data
9 14 (1.87%) PostgreSQL
9 14 (1.87%) Relational Database
9 14 (1.87%) Spark SQL
10 13 (1.74%) Redis
11 11 (1.47%) Metadata
12 10 (1.34%) Oracle Database
13 9 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
13 9 (1.20%) MongoDB
14 8 (1.07%) Data Vault
14 8 (1.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 7 (0.93%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 151 (20.16%) JIRA
2 123 (16.42%) Git
3 63 (8.41%) Jenkins
4 50 (6.68%) GitLab
5 26 (3.47%) Selenium
6 14 (1.87%) REST Assured
7 13 (1.74%) SonarQube
8 12 (1.60%) Postman
9 10 (1.34%) Cypress.io
10 9 (1.20%) Cucumber
11 7 (0.93%) SpecFlow
11 7 (0.93%) Team Foundation Server
11 7 (0.93%) TestRail
11 7 (0.93%) Visual Studio
12 6 (0.80%) Bitbucket
12 6 (0.80%) JUnit
12 6 (0.80%) MLflow
12 6 (0.80%) Snyk
12 6 (0.80%) WebDriver
13 5 (0.67%) Artifactory
General
1 216 (28.84%) Finance
2 188 (25.10%) Social Skills
3 67 (8.95%) Analytical Skills
4 66 (8.81%) Public Sector
5 49 (6.54%) Banking
6 16 (2.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
8 12 (1.60%) Retail
9 10 (1.34%) Front Office
9 10 (1.34%) Investment Banking
9 10 (1.34%) Organisational Skills
10 9 (1.20%) Legal
11 8 (1.07%) Marketing
12 7 (0.93%) Financial Institution
12 7 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
12 7 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (0.80%) Back Office
13 6 (0.80%) Law
14 5 (0.67%) Local Government
15 4 (0.53%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 124 (16.56%) Azure Engineer
2 113 (15.09%) Developer
3 112 (14.95%) Senior
4 101 (13.48%) Data Engineer
5 96 (12.82%) DevOps Engineer
6 59 (7.88%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 58 (7.74%) Architect
8 53 (7.08%) Analyst
8 53 (7.08%) Lead
9 38 (5.07%) Platform Engineer
10 29 (3.87%) Business Analyst
11 28 (3.74%) Cloud Engineer
12 24 (3.20%) Consultant
13 23 (3.07%) IT Support
14 22 (2.94%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 22 (2.94%) Senior Data Engineer
14 22 (2.94%) Solutions Architect
14 22 (2.94%) Tester
15 21 (2.80%) Azure Data Engineer
15 21 (2.80%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (12.28%) .NET
2 67 (8.95%) REST
3 58 (7.74%) PySpark
4 44 (5.87%) React
5 38 (5.07%) ADO
6 35 (4.67%) JSON
7 33 (4.41%) Kafka
8 31 (4.14%) YAML
9 25 (3.34%) ARM Templates
10 24 (3.20%) .NET Framework
10 24 (3.20%) Playwright
11 23 (3.07%) AngularJS
12 22 (2.94%) HTML
13 20 (2.67%) RESTful
14 19 (2.54%) CSS
14 19 (2.54%) Middleware
15 18 (2.40%) Node.js
16 17 (2.27%) OAuth
17 16 (2.14%) .NET Core
17 16 (2.14%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 92 (12.28%) Cloud Native
2 32 (4.27%) Legacy Systems
3 27 (3.60%) Distributed Systems
3 27 (3.60%) Product Ownership
3 27 (3.60%) Reinsurance
4 17 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
5 15 (2.00%) Onboarding
6 12 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
7 10 (1.34%) AI Agents
7 10 (1.34%) Hybrid Cloud
7 10 (1.34%) Low-Code
8 9 (1.20%) Data Structures
8 9 (1.20%) Management Information System
8 9 (1.20%) Public Cloud
8 9 (1.20%) Replication
9 8 (1.07%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (0.80%) Data Centre
10 6 (0.80%) Distributed Architecture
10 6 (0.80%) Enterprise Cloud
10 6 (0.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 40 (5.34%) Windows
2 15 (2.00%) Linux
3 11 (1.47%) VMS
4 6 (0.80%) Unix
4 6 (0.80%) 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
1 743 (99.20%) DevOps
2 416 (55.54%) CI/CD
3 276 (36.85%) Agile
4 193 (25.77%) Infrastructure as Code
5 136 (18.16%) Analytics
6 121 (16.15%) Migration
6 121 (16.15%) Test Automation
7 114 (15.22%) Problem-Solving
8 104 (13.89%) Data Modelling
9 101 (13.48%) Data Pipeline
10 100 (13.35%) Continuous Improvement
11 97 (12.95%) Scrum
12 93 (12.42%) AI
13 92 (12.28%) Platform Engineering
13 92 (12.28%) Stakeholder Management
14 90 (12.02%) Containerisation
15 89 (11.88%) ETL
16 84 (11.21%) Business Intelligence
17 79 (10.55%) Data Engineering
18 73 (9.75%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 262 (34.98%) SQL
2 222 (29.64%) Python
3 133 (17.76%) C#
4 79 (10.55%) PowerShell
5 68 (9.08%) Bicep
6 59 (7.88%) JavaScript
7 56 (7.48%) TypeScript
8 52 (6.94%) Bash
9 39 (5.21%) Java
10 19 (2.54%) Scala
11 11 (1.47%) T-SQL
12 9 (1.20%) Apex Code
12 9 (1.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 7 (0.93%) Kusto Query Language
14 6 (0.80%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.67%) Formula Language
15 5 (0.67%) LotusScript
16 3 (0.40%) C
16 3 (0.40%) Go
17 2 (0.27%) Rust
Qualifications
1 191 (25.50%) Security Cleared
2 171 (22.83%) SC Cleared
3 62 (8.28%) Azure Certification
4 38 (5.07%) Degree
5 20 (2.67%) Microsoft Certification
6 18 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (1.87%) ISTQB
8 10 (1.34%) BPSS Clearance
8 10 (1.34%) DV Cleared
9 9 (1.20%) AWS Certification
9 9 (1.20%) DBS Check
10 8 (1.07%) PMI Certification
11 7 (0.93%) PMP
12 5 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (0.67%) Master's Degree
13 3 (0.40%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 3 (0.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 3 (0.40%) CCNA
13 3 (0.40%) CISSP
13 3 (0.40%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (11.21%) QA
2 71 (9.48%) Data Quality
3 20 (2.67%) GDPR
4 16 (2.14%) Accessibility
5 14 (1.87%) NIST
6 9 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (1.20%) PMO
7 8 (1.07%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 8 (1.07%) SLA
8 7 (0.93%) 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 (14.02%) Docker
2 40 (5.34%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.20%) Virtual Desktop
3 9 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.27%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.27%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (0.27%) OpenSSH
6 1 (0.13%) HDFS
6 1 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.13%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 214 (28.57%) Terraform
2 121 (16.15%) Kubernetes
3 37 (4.94%) Ansible
4 18 (2.40%) Grafana
5 15 (2.00%) Prometheus
6 8 (1.07%) Packer
7 6 (0.80%) HP ALM
7 6 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
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%) 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
1 220 (29.37%) Microsoft
2 106 (14.15%) Databricks
3 35 (4.67%) Oracle
3 35 (4.67%) Salesforce
4 28 (3.74%) ServiceNow
5 23 (3.07%) SAP
6 19 (2.54%) Informatica
7 17 (2.27%) OpenAI
8 15 (2.00%) VMware
9 10 (1.34%) Bloomberg
9 10 (1.34%) Foundry
10 8 (1.07%) Refinitiv
11 6 (0.80%) HP
11 6 (0.80%) Splunk
12 5 (0.67%) Dynatrace
12 5 (0.67%) ION Trading
12 5 (0.67%) Kofax
12 5 (0.67%) Lotus
12 5 (0.67%) OpenLink
13 4 (0.53%) CA Agile Central