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 22 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 70 77
Rank change year-on-year -10 +7 +10
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 503 525 585
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.55% 3.32% 2.92%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.02% 8.13% 7.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 352 360 427
10th Percentile £350 £381 £425
25th Percentile £413 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £700 £725
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 £50.03 - -
25th Percentile £56.06 - -
Median hourly rate £66.75 - -
75th Percentile £78.06 - -
90th Percentile £84.48 - -
England median hourly rate £74.63 £73.75 £62.00
% change year-on-year +1.19% +18.95% -5.76%

All Cloud 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 6,273 6,454 7,722
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.32% 40.81% 38.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,247 4,391 5,668
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 124 35 68
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.04 £18.65
25th Percentile £22.88 £23.80 £21.81
Median hourly rate £25.74 £35.00 £39.63
Median % change year-on-year -26.47% -11.67% +48.56%
75th Percentile £42.96 £57.25 £62.81
90th Percentile £76.88 £72.15 £85.47
England median hourly rate £25.47 £33.27 £27.25
% change year-on-year -23.44% +22.09% +21.11%

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 22 November 2025.

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 22 November 2025.

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 22 November 2025. 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 £550 - 109
South London -5 7 £500 +31.58% 1
East London -3 2 £440 - 5
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 30 (5.96%) Confluence
2 28 (5.57%) SharePoint
3 13 (2.58%) Apache
4 10 (1.99%) Apache Spark
5 8 (1.59%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (1.19%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.80%) CMS
8 2 (0.40%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.20%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.20%) Appian
9 1 (0.20%) HCL Notes
9 1 (0.20%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.20%) IIS
9 1 (0.20%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.20%) Kentico
9 1 (0.20%) Mule
Applications
1 13 (2.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.79%) Microsoft Project
3 8 (1.59%) MS Visio
4 7 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.60%) Trello
Business Applications
1 25 (4.97%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (1.99%) Aladdin
3 7 (1.39%) Endur
4 4 (0.80%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.20%) Orchestrade
6 1 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 503 (100.00%) Azure
2 112 (22.27%) GitHub
3 111 (22.07%) Power Platform
4 79 (15.71%) GitHub Actions
5 67 (13.32%) AWS
6 62 (12.33%) Serverless
7 61 (12.13%) Azure Data Factory
8 60 (11.93%) Azure AKS
8 60 (11.93%) Azure Monitor
9 53 (10.54%) Dynamics 365
10 49 (9.74%) Entra ID
11 47 (9.34%) Azure Logic Apps
12 45 (8.95%) PowerApps
13 43 (8.55%) Azure Service Bus
13 43 (8.55%) Power Automate
14 40 (7.95%) Azure Functions
15 38 (7.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 34 (6.76%) Azure Key Vault
17 30 (5.96%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 30 (5.96%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 26 (5.17%) Firewall
2 14 (2.78%) DNS
2 14 (2.78%) Network Security
3 13 (2.58%) VPN
4 8 (1.59%) WAN
5 5 (0.99%) SD-WAN
6 3 (0.60%) LAN
7 2 (0.40%) DHCP
7 2 (0.40%) MPLS
7 2 (0.40%) Remote Desktop
7 2 (0.40%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.20%) AMQP
8 1 (0.20%) BGP
8 1 (0.20%) DSL
8 1 (0.20%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.20%) IPsec
8 1 (0.20%) NGFW
8 1 (0.20%) SSL
8 1 (0.20%) VLAN
8 1 (0.20%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (13.52%) Power BI
2 37 (7.36%) SQL Server
3 25 (4.97%) Azure SQL Database
4 24 (4.77%) Data Warehouse
5 22 (4.37%) Data Lake
6 18 (3.58%) Delta Lake
7 17 (3.38%) NoSQL
7 17 (3.38%) PostgreSQL
8 14 (2.78%) MongoDB
9 11 (2.19%) Redis
10 9 (1.79%) Relational Database
11 8 (1.59%) Metadata
11 8 (1.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 7 (1.39%) DynamoDB
12 7 (1.39%) Elasticsearch
12 7 (1.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 6 (1.19%) Star Schema
14 5 (0.99%) Tableau
15 4 (0.80%) Data Mart
15 4 (0.80%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 99 (19.68%) JIRA
2 74 (14.71%) Git
3 46 (9.15%) Jenkins
4 34 (6.76%) GitLab
5 25 (4.97%) Selenium
6 16 (3.18%) Postman
7 12 (2.39%) Cucumber
7 12 (2.39%) JUnit
7 12 (2.39%) SonarQube
8 9 (1.79%) SpecFlow
9 8 (1.59%) Appium
9 8 (1.59%) JMeter
9 8 (1.59%) Mockito
9 8 (1.59%) Team Foundation Server
9 8 (1.59%) TeamCity
10 7 (1.39%) Bitbucket
10 7 (1.39%) NUnit
10 7 (1.39%) WebDriver
10 7 (1.39%) Zephyr
11 6 (1.19%) Liquibase
General
1 171 (34.00%) Social Skills
2 117 (23.26%) Finance
3 56 (11.13%) Analytical Skills
4 50 (9.94%) Public Sector
5 41 (8.15%) Banking
6 25 (4.97%) Investment Banking
7 24 (4.77%) Documentation Skills
7 24 (4.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 15 (2.98%) Retail
9 14 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
9 14 (2.78%) Law
10 11 (2.19%) Marketing
11 8 (1.59%) Back Office
12 6 (1.19%) Front Office
13 5 (0.99%) Financial Institution
13 5 (0.99%) Military
13 5 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.60%) Billing
14 3 (0.60%) General Ledger
14 3 (0.60%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 136 (27.04%) Developer
2 70 (13.92%) Azure Engineer
3 62 (12.33%) DevOps Engineer
4 50 (9.94%) Senior
5 46 (9.15%) Analyst
6 39 (7.75%) Lead
7 37 (7.36%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 35 (6.96%) Data Engineer
9 34 (6.76%) Architect
10 33 (6.56%) Business Analyst
11 24 (4.77%) Azure Developer
12 19 (3.78%) Azure Architect
12 19 (3.78%) Tester
13 18 (3.58%) Senior Developer
13 18 (3.58%) Test Engineer
14 17 (3.38%) Platform Engineer
15 16 (3.18%) Azure Data Engineer
15 16 (3.18%) C# Developer
15 16 (3.18%) ServiceNow Developer
16 14 (2.78%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (23.26%) .NET
2 56 (11.13%) REST
3 42 (8.35%) SOAP
4 34 (6.76%) Node.js
5 32 (6.36%) React
5 32 (6.36%) RESTful
6 31 (6.16%) YAML
7 29 (5.77%) ARM Templates
8 26 (5.17%) Kafka
9 25 (4.97%) .NET Core
9 25 (4.97%) .NET Framework
10 24 (4.77%) PySpark
11 22 (4.37%) HTML
12 21 (4.17%) ADO
13 18 (3.58%) AngularJS
14 17 (3.38%) ASP.NET
14 17 (3.38%) CSS
15 16 (3.18%) Web Services
16 15 (2.98%) Microsoft Graph
16 15 (2.98%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 44 (8.75%) Cloud Native
2 26 (5.17%) Product Ownership
3 21 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
4 19 (3.78%) CMDB
5 15 (2.98%) Legacy Systems
6 14 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
7 12 (2.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 11 (2.19%) AI Agents
8 11 (2.19%) Fixed Income
9 9 (1.79%) Reinsurance
10 8 (1.59%) Data Structures
10 8 (1.59%) Mobile App
11 7 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
11 7 (1.39%) Hybrid Cloud
11 7 (1.39%) Public Cloud
12 6 (1.19%) Derivative
13 5 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
13 5 (0.99%) Enterprise Cloud
13 5 (0.99%) PMI
13 5 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 18 (3.58%) Windows
2 17 (3.38%) Linux
3 7 (1.39%) Android
3 7 (1.39%) Apple iOS
3 7 (1.39%) Unix
4 4 (0.80%) VMS
4 4 (0.80%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.20%) Solaris
6 1 (0.20%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.20%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 502 (99.80%) DevOps
2 272 (54.08%) CI/CD
3 266 (52.88%) Agile
4 135 (26.84%) Infrastructure as Code
5 109 (21.67%) Problem-Solving
6 100 (19.88%) Analytics
7 97 (19.28%) Scrum
8 90 (17.89%) Test Automation
9 72 (14.31%) Business Intelligence
10 66 (13.12%) Microservices
11 58 (11.53%) Containerisation
12 57 (11.33%) Migration
13 56 (11.13%) AI
13 56 (11.13%) Continuous Improvement
14 50 (9.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 49 (9.74%) Data Modelling
16 48 (9.54%) Data Engineering
17 47 (9.34%) Stakeholder Management
17 47 (9.34%) TDD
18 45 (8.95%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 154 (30.62%) SQL
2 147 (29.22%) Python
3 128 (25.45%) C#
4 94 (18.69%) JavaScript
5 64 (12.72%) PowerShell
6 54 (10.74%) Java
7 50 (9.94%) Bicep
8 33 (6.56%) Bash
8 33 (6.56%) TypeScript
9 8 (1.59%) Kusto Query Language
10 7 (1.39%) T-SQL
11 6 (1.19%) VB.NET
12 5 (0.99%) PL/SQL
13 4 (0.80%) Go
13 4 (0.80%) Korn
13 4 (0.80%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.60%) R
14 3 (0.60%) Scala
14 3 (0.60%) X++
15 2 (0.40%) VB
Qualifications
1 105 (20.87%) Security Cleared
2 91 (18.09%) SC Cleared
3 47 (9.34%) Degree
4 41 (8.15%) Azure Certification
5 22 (4.37%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (3.78%) Microsoft Certification
7 15 (2.98%) ISTQB
8 9 (1.79%) PMI Certification
9 8 (1.59%) Master's Degree
10 7 (1.39%) Numerate Degree
11 5 (0.99%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 5 (0.99%) PMP
12 4 (0.80%) CBAP
12 4 (0.80%) CISSP
12 4 (0.80%) DV Cleared
12 4 (0.80%) ISEB
12 4 (0.80%) ITIL Certification
13 3 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
14 2 (0.40%) CISM
14 2 (0.40%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (7.55%) QA
2 26 (5.17%) Data Quality
3 19 (3.78%) GDPR
4 17 (3.38%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (1.39%) NIST
7 5 (0.99%) NCSC
7 5 (0.99%) WCAG
8 3 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.60%) Solvency II
9 2 (0.40%) EU AI Act
9 2 (0.40%) Government Security Classifications
9 2 (0.40%) PMO
10 1 (0.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.20%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.20%) SEPA
10 1 (0.20%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 80 (15.90%) Docker
2 32 (6.36%) Active Directory
3 12 (2.39%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.99%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.20%) KVM
6 1 (0.20%) Squid
Systems Management
1 138 (27.44%) Terraform
2 81 (16.10%) Kubernetes
3 33 (6.56%) Ansible
4 16 (3.18%) Grafana
5 14 (2.78%) Prometheus
6 7 (1.39%) Kibana
6 7 (1.39%) Progress Chef
7 5 (0.99%) Argo
7 5 (0.99%) Puppet
8 4 (0.80%) Istio
8 4 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (0.60%) ITRS Geneos
9 3 (0.60%) Packer
10 2 (0.40%) Fluentd
10 2 (0.40%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.40%) Opsgenie
11 1 (0.20%) HP ALM
11 1 (0.20%) linkerd
11 1 (0.20%) SCCM
11 1 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 169 (33.60%) Microsoft
2 67 (13.32%) Databricks
3 30 (5.96%) ServiceNow
4 19 (3.78%) OpenAI
5 18 (3.58%) Salesforce
6 15 (2.98%) Oracle
7 10 (1.99%) SAP
8 8 (1.59%) Murex
9 7 (1.39%) DocuSign
9 7 (1.39%) Guidewire
10 6 (1.19%) Duck Creek
10 6 (1.19%) Google
10 6 (1.19%) UiPath
11 5 (0.99%) Aruba
11 5 (0.99%) Cisco
11 5 (0.99%) Sitecore
12 3 (0.60%) Citrix
12 3 (0.60%) Fortinet
12 3 (0.60%) Marketo
12 3 (0.60%) Splunk