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 7 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 77 80
Rank change year-on-year -1 +3 +6
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 502 499 547
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.51% 3.20% 2.80%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.04% 7.80% 7.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 351 343 407
10th Percentile £350 £380 £425
25th Percentile £400 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £573
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% -3.93% -0.43%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £725 £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 6,245 6,397 7,485
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.69% 41.00% 38.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,258 4,362 5,513
10th Percentile £349 £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 117 38 65
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.81 £18.37
25th Percentile £23.00 £23.98 £21.25
Median hourly rate £26.00 £35.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% -6.67% +22.95%
75th Percentile £46.75 £58.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £65.30 £74.50
England median hourly rate £25.47 £31.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -17.84% +24.00% +11.11%

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 7 December 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 7 December 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 7 December 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 -15 66 £550 - 35
South London -2 10 £500 +31.58% 3
East London -5 2 £440 - 9
West London -17 1 £400 -15.79% 6
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 28 (5.58%) Confluence
2 27 (5.38%) SharePoint
3 11 (2.19%) Apache Spark
4 9 (1.79%) Apache
4 9 (1.79%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.60%) CMS
6 3 (0.60%) HCL Notes
6 3 (0.60%) IIS
7 2 (0.40%) Mendix
7 2 (0.40%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.20%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.20%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.20%) Kentico
8 1 (0.20%) Mule
Applications
1 12 (2.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.59%) MS Visio
3 7 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (1.39%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.60%) Trello
Business Applications
1 23 (4.58%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (1.79%) Aladdin
3 4 (0.80%) Endur
3 4 (0.80%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.20%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.20%) Orchestrade
5 1 (0.20%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 502 (100.00%) Azure
2 121 (24.10%) GitHub
3 108 (21.51%) Power Platform
4 90 (17.93%) GitHub Actions
5 65 (12.95%) Azure Data Factory
5 65 (12.95%) Serverless
6 63 (12.55%) AWS
6 63 (12.55%) Azure AKS
7 59 (11.75%) Azure Monitor
8 53 (10.56%) Dynamics 365
9 51 (10.16%) Entra ID
10 48 (9.56%) Azure Logic Apps
11 45 (8.96%) Azure Functions
11 45 (8.96%) PowerApps
12 42 (8.37%) Azure Service Bus
12 42 (8.37%) Power Automate
13 38 (7.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 37 (7.37%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 33 (6.57%) Azure Key Vault
16 28 (5.58%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 26 (5.18%) Firewall
2 13 (2.59%) VPN
3 12 (2.39%) DNS
3 12 (2.39%) Network Security
4 7 (1.39%) WAN
5 5 (1.00%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.40%) HTTP
6 2 (0.40%) LAN
6 2 (0.40%) MPLS
6 2 (0.40%) Remote Desktop
6 2 (0.40%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.20%) AMQP
7 1 (0.20%) BGP
7 1 (0.20%) DHCP
7 1 (0.20%) DSL
7 1 (0.20%) FTP
7 1 (0.20%) IPsec
7 1 (0.20%) VLAN
7 1 (0.20%) VRRP
7 1 (0.20%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (13.15%) Power BI
2 39 (7.77%) SQL Server
3 28 (5.58%) Azure SQL Database
4 25 (4.98%) Data Warehouse
5 21 (4.18%) NoSQL
6 18 (3.59%) Data Lake
7 17 (3.39%) MongoDB
8 16 (3.19%) Delta Lake
8 16 (3.19%) PostgreSQL
9 8 (1.59%) Redis
9 8 (1.59%) Relational Database
9 8 (1.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 7 (1.39%) DynamoDB
10 7 (1.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 7 (1.39%) Tableau
11 6 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
11 6 (1.20%) Oracle Database
11 6 (1.20%) Star Schema
12 5 (1.00%) Big Data
12 5 (1.00%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 97 (19.32%) JIRA
2 74 (14.74%) Git
3 56 (11.16%) Jenkins
4 38 (7.57%) GitLab
5 27 (5.38%) Selenium
6 19 (3.78%) Postman
7 14 (2.79%) Cucumber
8 12 (2.39%) SonarQube
9 11 (2.19%) JUnit
9 11 (2.19%) SpecFlow
10 9 (1.79%) Cypress.io
11 8 (1.59%) Appium
11 8 (1.59%) JMeter
11 8 (1.59%) Mockito
11 8 (1.59%) Team Foundation Server
11 8 (1.59%) TeamCity
12 7 (1.39%) Bitbucket
12 7 (1.39%) MLflow
12 7 (1.39%) TestRail
12 7 (1.39%) Zephyr
General
1 171 (34.06%) Social Skills
2 128 (25.50%) Finance
3 53 (10.56%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (9.56%) Public Sector
5 46 (9.16%) Banking
6 23 (4.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 23 (4.58%) Investment Banking
7 20 (3.98%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (2.79%) Influencing Skills
8 14 (2.79%) Retail
9 12 (2.39%) Financial Institution
10 10 (1.99%) Marketing
11 8 (1.59%) Back Office
11 8 (1.59%) Front Office
11 8 (1.59%) Law
12 6 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.00%) Military
14 3 (0.60%) Billing
14 3 (0.60%) General Ledger
14 3 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 135 (26.89%) Developer
2 68 (13.55%) Azure Engineer
3 60 (11.95%) DevOps Engineer
4 50 (9.96%) Senior
5 44 (8.76%) Analyst
6 38 (7.57%) Lead
7 36 (7.17%) Data Engineer
8 33 (6.57%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 30 (5.98%) Architect
10 28 (5.58%) Azure Developer
11 27 (5.38%) Business Analyst
12 20 (3.98%) Tester
13 18 (3.59%) Azure Architect
13 18 (3.59%) Platform Engineer
13 18 (3.59%) Test Engineer
14 17 (3.39%) Senior Developer
15 16 (3.19%) ServiceNow Developer
16 15 (2.99%) Azure Data Engineer
16 15 (2.99%) C# Developer
16 15 (2.99%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 123 (24.50%) .NET
2 49 (9.76%) REST
3 40 (7.97%) Node.js
4 38 (7.57%) SOAP
5 35 (6.97%) React
6 32 (6.37%) RESTful
7 28 (5.58%) Kafka
8 26 (5.18%) .NET Core
8 26 (5.18%) YAML
9 24 (4.78%) PySpark
10 23 (4.58%) .NET Framework
11 20 (3.98%) AngularJS
11 20 (3.98%) ARM Templates
12 18 (3.59%) Playwright
13 16 (3.19%) ASP.NET
13 16 (3.19%) HTML
14 15 (2.99%) ADO
14 15 (2.99%) XML
15 14 (2.79%) CSS
15 14 (2.79%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 48 (9.56%) Cloud Native
2 27 (5.38%) Product Ownership
3 26 (5.18%) Distributed Systems
4 20 (3.98%) CMDB
5 15 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
6 13 (2.59%) AI Agents
7 12 (2.39%) Legacy Systems
8 11 (2.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 10 (1.99%) Fixed Income
10 8 (1.59%) Mobile App
11 7 (1.39%) Derivative
11 7 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
11 7 (1.39%) Hybrid Cloud
11 7 (1.39%) Public Cloud
11 7 (1.39%) Reinsurance
12 6 (1.20%) Low-Code
13 5 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
13 5 (1.00%) Enterprise Cloud
13 5 (1.00%) Linux Command Line
13 5 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 23 (4.58%) Windows
2 15 (2.99%) Linux
3 7 (1.39%) Android
3 7 (1.39%) Apple iOS
4 6 (1.20%) Unix
4 6 (1.20%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.80%) VMS
6 3 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.20%) Solaris
7 1 (0.20%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.20%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 501 (99.80%) DevOps
2 285 (56.77%) CI/CD
3 260 (51.79%) Agile
4 129 (25.70%) Infrastructure as Code
5 110 (21.91%) Problem-Solving
6 99 (19.72%) Scrum
7 94 (18.73%) Test Automation
8 93 (18.53%) Analytics
9 74 (14.74%) Microservices
10 71 (14.14%) Business Intelligence
11 63 (12.55%) Containerisation
12 62 (12.35%) AI
12 62 (12.35%) Continuous Improvement
13 55 (10.96%) Migration
14 52 (10.36%) Data Modelling
14 52 (10.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 51 (10.16%) Validation
16 50 (9.96%) Data Engineering
16 50 (9.96%) Stakeholder Management
17 47 (9.36%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 157 (31.27%) SQL
2 141 (28.09%) Python
3 134 (26.69%) C#
4 94 (18.73%) JavaScript
5 61 (12.15%) PowerShell
6 53 (10.56%) Java
7 48 (9.56%) Bicep
8 34 (6.77%) TypeScript
9 29 (5.78%) Bash
10 9 (1.79%) Kusto Query Language
11 8 (1.59%) T-SQL
12 7 (1.39%) PL/SQL
13 6 (1.20%) VB.NET
14 5 (1.00%) Scala
15 4 (0.80%) Shell Script
16 3 (0.60%) Formula Language
16 3 (0.60%) Korn
16 3 (0.60%) LotusScript
16 3 (0.60%) R
16 3 (0.60%) X++
Qualifications
1 103 (20.52%) Security Cleared
2 90 (17.93%) SC Cleared
3 47 (9.36%) Degree
4 43 (8.57%) Azure Certification
5 24 (4.78%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (3.78%) Microsoft Certification
7 13 (2.59%) ISTQB
8 10 (1.99%) Master's Degree
9 8 (1.59%) PMI Certification
10 5 (1.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 4 (0.80%) CBAP
11 4 (0.80%) DV Cleared
11 4 (0.80%) ISEB
11 4 (0.80%) ITIL Certification
11 4 (0.80%) Numerate Degree
11 4 (0.80%) PMP
12 2 (0.40%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.40%) CISSP
12 2 (0.40%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.40%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (8.57%) QA
2 24 (4.78%) Data Quality
3 22 (4.38%) GDPR
4 15 (2.99%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (1.59%) NIST
6 6 (1.20%) WCAG
7 5 (1.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.60%) NCSC
8 3 (0.60%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.40%) EU AI Act
9 2 (0.40%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.40%) HL7
9 2 (0.40%) PMO
10 1 (0.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.20%) HMG Security Policy Framework
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 86 (17.13%) Docker
2 31 (6.18%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.59%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (1.00%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.20%) KVM
6 1 (0.20%) Squid
Systems Management
1 140 (27.89%) Terraform
2 88 (17.53%) Kubernetes
3 33 (6.57%) Ansible
4 16 (3.19%) Grafana
5 14 (2.79%) Prometheus
6 7 (1.39%) Progress Chef
7 6 (1.20%) Kibana
8 4 (0.80%) Argo
8 4 (0.80%) Packer
8 4 (0.80%) Puppet
9 2 (0.40%) Fluentd
9 2 (0.40%) HP ALM
9 2 (0.40%) Istio
9 2 (0.40%) Kubeflow
9 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.40%) Opsgenie
10 1 (0.20%) CASB
10 1 (0.20%) Icinga
10 1 (0.20%) linkerd
10 1 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 174 (34.66%) Microsoft
2 72 (14.34%) Databricks
3 34 (6.77%) ServiceNow
4 21 (4.18%) OpenAI
4 21 (4.18%) Oracle
5 18 (3.59%) Salesforce
6 11 (2.19%) SAP
7 8 (1.59%) Murex
8 7 (1.39%) DocuSign
8 7 (1.39%) Splunk
9 6 (1.20%) UiPath
10 5 (1.00%) Aruba
10 5 (1.00%) Cisco
10 5 (1.00%) Citrix
10 5 (1.00%) Sitecore
11 4 (0.80%) Charles River
11 4 (0.80%) Google
11 4 (0.80%) VMware
12 3 (0.60%) Brio
12 3 (0.60%) Fortinet