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

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 83 59
Rank change year-on-year +25 -24 +20
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 719 396 653
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.03% 3.16% 3.66%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.44% 7.44% 9.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 515 280 422
10th Percentile £363 £365 £406
25th Percentile £415 £437 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £624
90th Percentile £725 £750 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £54.50 - -
25th Percentile £59.38 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
75th Percentile £74.63 - -
90th Percentile £75.90 - -
England median hourly rate £52.50 £49.50 £65.50
% change year-on-year +6.06% -24.43% -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 7,615 5,326 6,811
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.65% 42.46% 38.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,245 3,705 5,029
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £438 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £671 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £507 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.52% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 53 69
10th Percentile £19.12 £22.58 £17.47
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £31.35 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.26% +25.38% -42.70%
75th Percentile £53.94 £48.75 £38.13
90th Percentile £72.55 £72.50 £59.50
England median hourly rate £45.00 £26.45 £20.77
% change year-on-year +70.13% +27.35% -31.90%

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 May 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 7 May 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 7 May 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 0 72 £525 -1.41% 44
South London -2 15 £513 -0.73% 1
West London -22 6 £375 -31.51% 4
East London -4 2 £604 +12.28% 3
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 42 (5.84%) SharePoint
2 34 (4.73%) Apache Spark
3 29 (4.03%) Confluence
4 22 (3.06%) Apache
5 15 (2.09%) Apache Airflow
6 10 (1.39%) HCL Notes
6 10 (1.39%) Mendix
6 10 (1.39%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.42%) IIS
8 1 (0.14%) CMS
8 1 (0.14%) IBM HTTP Server
8 1 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.14%) SAS
Applications
1 25 (3.48%) Microsoft Project
2 9 (1.25%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.97%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 27 (3.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.83%) Dynamics AX
3 5 (0.70%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.56%) SAP BPC
5 3 (0.42%) Findur
5 3 (0.42%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 2 (0.28%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.28%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.14%) Endur
7 1 (0.14%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.14%) Maximo
7 1 (0.14%) NEC Housing
7 1 (0.14%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle Financials
7 1 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.14%) SAP CS
7 1 (0.14%) SAP GTS
7 1 (0.14%) SAP LE
7 1 (0.14%) SAP SD
7 1 (0.14%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 719 (100.00%) Azure
2 215 (29.90%) GitHub
3 130 (18.08%) GitHub Actions
4 114 (15.86%) Power Platform
5 103 (14.33%) AWS
6 94 (13.07%) Azure Data Factory
7 71 (9.87%) Azure AKS
8 64 (8.90%) Azure Monitor
8 64 (8.90%) Entra ID
9 61 (8.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 61 (8.48%) Serverless
10 57 (7.93%) Power Automate
11 54 (7.51%) Dynamics 365
12 51 (7.09%) Azure Key Vault
13 50 (6.95%) Azure Logic Apps
14 47 (6.54%) Azure Service Bus
15 39 (5.42%) Azure Functions
15 39 (5.42%) GCP
16 35 (4.87%) PowerApps
16 35 (4.87%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 21 (2.92%) Firewall
2 11 (1.53%) Network Security
3 10 (1.39%) DNS
4 7 (0.97%) VPN
5 6 (0.83%) WAN
6 5 (0.70%) SD-WAN
7 3 (0.42%) FTP
7 3 (0.42%) Remote Desktop
8 2 (0.28%) HTTP
8 2 (0.28%) Internet
8 2 (0.28%) SSH
8 2 (0.28%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.28%) X.509
9 1 (0.14%) Cisco ASA
9 1 (0.14%) Cisco Firepower
9 1 (0.14%) IPsec
9 1 (0.14%) LAN
9 1 (0.14%) MPLS
9 1 (0.14%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (11.13%) SQL Server
2 68 (9.46%) Power BI
3 62 (8.62%) Data Lake
4 49 (6.82%) Delta Lake
5 48 (6.68%) Azure SQL Database
6 43 (5.98%) Data Warehouse
7 32 (4.45%) NoSQL
8 18 (2.50%) Oracle Database
8 18 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
9 16 (2.23%) Snowflake Schema
10 15 (2.09%) Spark SQL
11 14 (1.95%) Relational Database
12 13 (1.81%) Big Data
12 13 (1.81%) MongoDB
13 12 (1.67%) Metadata
14 11 (1.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 10 (1.39%) Redis
15 10 (1.39%) Tableau
16 9 (1.25%) Amazon Redshift
17 7 (0.97%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 133 (18.50%) JIRA
2 114 (15.86%) Git
3 70 (9.74%) Jenkins
4 44 (6.12%) GitLab
5 29 (4.03%) Selenium
6 15 (2.09%) Postman
7 14 (1.95%) Cypress.io
8 11 (1.53%) REST Assured
8 11 (1.53%) SonarQube
8 11 (1.53%) SpecFlow
8 11 (1.53%) TestRail
9 10 (1.39%) Zephyr
10 9 (1.25%) Cucumber
10 9 (1.25%) MLflow
10 9 (1.25%) Team Foundation Server
11 7 (0.97%) Artifactory
12 5 (0.70%) JUnit
12 5 (0.70%) webpack
13 4 (0.56%) JMeter
13 4 (0.56%) Visual Studio
General
1 198 (27.54%) Finance
2 162 (22.53%) Social Skills
3 78 (10.85%) Analytical Skills
4 58 (8.07%) Public Sector
5 48 (6.68%) Banking
6 18 (2.50%) Financial Institution
7 15 (2.09%) Front Office
8 14 (1.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (1.39%) Investment Banking
10 9 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
11 8 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
11 8 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (0.97%) Retail
13 6 (0.83%) Legal
14 5 (0.70%) Marketing
15 4 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
16 3 (0.42%) Local Government
16 3 (0.42%) Pharmaceutical
17 2 (0.28%) Law
17 2 (0.28%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 129 (17.94%) Developer
2 113 (15.72%) Senior
3 111 (15.44%) Azure Engineer
4 99 (13.77%) Data Engineer
5 79 (10.99%) DevOps Engineer
6 56 (7.79%) Lead
7 49 (6.82%) Architect
8 48 (6.68%) Analyst
8 48 (6.68%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 29 (4.03%) Platform Engineer
10 28 (3.89%) Azure Developer
11 27 (3.76%) Tester
12 24 (3.34%) Test Analyst
13 23 (3.20%) Azure Architect
13 23 (3.20%) IT Support
13 23 (3.20%) Senior Developer
14 22 (3.06%) Azure Data Engineer
14 22 (3.06%) Cloud Engineer
15 20 (2.78%) Senior Data Engineer
15 20 (2.78%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (15.86%) .NET
2 61 (8.48%) PySpark
3 52 (7.23%) React
4 50 (6.95%) REST
5 38 (5.29%) Kafka
6 34 (4.73%) Node.js
7 32 (4.45%) ADO
8 30 (4.17%) JSON
9 29 (4.03%) .NET Framework
10 28 (3.89%) .NET Core
10 28 (3.89%) Playwright
11 27 (3.76%) AngularJS
11 27 (3.76%) ARM Templates
11 27 (3.76%) YAML
12 24 (3.34%) RESTful
13 23 (3.20%) CSS
13 23 (3.20%) HTML
14 18 (2.50%) Middleware
15 16 (2.23%) OAuth
16 15 (2.09%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 84 (11.68%) Cloud Native
2 30 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
2 30 (4.17%) Product Ownership
3 24 (3.34%) Distributed Systems
4 21 (2.92%) Reinsurance
5 15 (2.09%) Low-Code
6 13 (1.81%) Enterprise Software
6 13 (1.81%) Replication
7 12 (1.67%) AI Agents
7 12 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
7 12 (1.67%) Onboarding
8 8 (1.11%) Data Structures
9 7 (0.97%) NHS
9 7 (0.97%) Public Cloud
9 7 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (0.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 5 (0.70%) Management Information System
12 4 (0.56%) Data Protection Act
12 4 (0.56%) Derivative
12 4 (0.56%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 45 (6.26%) Windows
2 21 (2.92%) Linux
3 10 (1.39%) VMS
4 9 (1.25%) Windows Server
5 6 (0.83%) Unix
6 2 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 713 (99.17%) DevOps
2 405 (56.33%) CI/CD
3 259 (36.02%) Agile
4 177 (24.62%) Infrastructure as Code
5 128 (17.80%) Test Automation
6 123 (17.11%) Analytics
7 120 (16.69%) Problem-Solving
8 106 (14.74%) Migration
9 104 (14.46%) Data Modelling
10 97 (13.49%) Data Pipeline
11 90 (12.52%) AI
12 88 (12.24%) Continuous Improvement
13 85 (11.82%) Scrum
14 82 (11.40%) Business Intelligence
14 82 (11.40%) Containerisation
15 80 (11.13%) ETL
15 80 (11.13%) Microservices
16 79 (10.99%) Observability
17 76 (10.57%) Data Engineering
18 73 (10.15%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 272 (37.83%) SQL
2 213 (29.62%) Python
3 149 (20.72%) C#
4 75 (10.43%) JavaScript
5 72 (10.01%) PowerShell
6 65 (9.04%) Bicep
7 57 (7.93%) TypeScript
8 53 (7.37%) Java
9 45 (6.26%) Bash
10 24 (3.34%) Scala
11 16 (2.23%) T-SQL
12 10 (1.39%) Formula Language
12 10 (1.39%) LotusScript
13 9 (1.25%) Kusto Query Language
13 9 (1.25%) PL/SQL
14 8 (1.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 5 (0.70%) Go
15 5 (0.70%) Shell Script
16 4 (0.56%) R
16 4 (0.56%) XPath
Qualifications
1 187 (26.01%) Security Cleared
2 168 (23.37%) SC Cleared
3 64 (8.90%) Azure Certification
4 32 (4.45%) Degree
5 17 (2.36%) BPSS Clearance
6 16 (2.23%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (2.23%) ISTQB
7 15 (2.09%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (0.97%) DV Cleared
8 7 (0.97%) PMI Certification
8 7 (0.97%) PMP
9 6 (0.83%) Master's Degree
10 5 (0.70%) DBS Check
11 4 (0.56%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.28%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.28%) ISEB
12 2 (0.28%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.28%) MBA
12 2 (0.28%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (11.96%) QA
2 68 (9.46%) Data Quality
3 15 (2.09%) GDPR
4 14 (1.95%) Accessibility
5 9 (1.25%) PMO
5 9 (1.25%) WCAG
6 8 (1.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 7 (0.97%) NIST
8 5 (0.70%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.56%) SLA
10 3 (0.42%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.42%) HL7
10 3 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 2 (0.28%) FedRAMP
11 2 (0.28%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 2 (0.28%) NCSC
11 2 (0.28%) PSD2
11 2 (0.28%) SEPA
12 1 (0.14%) ITGC
12 1 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 107 (14.88%) Docker
2 42 (5.84%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.25%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.28%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.28%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (0.28%) OpenSSH
5 2 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.14%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 209 (29.07%) Terraform
2 126 (17.52%) Kubernetes
3 29 (4.03%) Ansible
4 17 (2.36%) Grafana
5 13 (1.81%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.83%) HP ALM
6 6 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (0.83%) Packer
7 5 (0.70%) Argo
7 5 (0.70%) Progress Chef
7 5 (0.70%) Puppet
8 2 (0.28%) Istio
8 2 (0.28%) Kubeflow
8 2 (0.28%) Opsgenie
8 2 (0.28%) SCCM
8 2 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.14%) CASB
9 1 (0.14%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.14%) Icinga
9 1 (0.14%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 215 (29.90%) Microsoft
2 108 (15.02%) Databricks
3 55 (7.65%) Oracle
4 33 (4.59%) ServiceNow
5 25 (3.48%) Salesforce
6 21 (2.92%) OpenAI
7 18 (2.50%) Informatica
8 16 (2.23%) SAP
9 11 (1.53%) Splunk
10 10 (1.39%) Foundry
10 10 (1.39%) Kofax
10 10 (1.39%) Lotus
10 10 (1.39%) VMware
11 9 (1.25%) Bloomberg
12 7 (0.97%) Refinitiv
13 6 (0.83%) Dynatrace
13 6 (0.83%) HP
14 5 (0.70%) Citrix
15 4 (0.56%) Cisco
15 4 (0.56%) InterSystems