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

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 75 59
Rank change year-on-year +22 -16 +14
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 882 467 640
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.37% 3.48% 3.94%
As % of the Cloud Services category 10.50% 8.06% 9.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 625 330 419
10th Percentile £378 £344 £387
25th Percentile £425 £413 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £600
90th Percentile £704 £750 £676
England median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 0
10th Percentile £43.00 - -
25th Percentile - £86.25 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £87.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -37.14% - -
75th Percentile £72.50 £88.75 -
90th Percentile £75.05 - -
England median hourly rate £46.80 £62.50 -
% change year-on-year -25.12% - -

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 8,399 5,797 6,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.65% 43.20% 40.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,741 3,967 4,767
10th Percentile £363 £337 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.89% -3.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £645 £651 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 99 90 49
10th Percentile £19.20 £22.95 £20.40
25th Percentile £23.33 £24.83 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.04 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.27% +7.54% -50.91%
75th Percentile £57.50 £42.81 £38.75
90th Percentile £78.59 £67.95 £59.20
England median hourly rate £35.00 £26.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +34.62% +4.00% -24.24%

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 August 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 22 August 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 22 August 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 -2 94 £525 - 39
South London +5 11 £525 -1.18% 2
West London -19 5 £625 +14.16% 13
East London 0 3 £604 +16.06% 9
North London -1 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 54 (6.12%) SharePoint
2 39 (4.42%) Confluence
3 33 (3.74%) Apache Spark
4 25 (2.83%) Apache
4 25 (2.83%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (1.02%) CMS
6 8 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.34%) Kentico
7 3 (0.34%) Mendix
8 2 (0.23%) IIS
9 1 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.11%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.11%) EPiServer
9 1 (0.11%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.11%) HCL Notes
9 1 (0.11%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.11%) IBM HTTP Server
9 1 (0.11%) nginx
9 1 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 30 (3.40%) Microsoft Project
2 26 (2.95%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (1.25%) MS Visio
4 8 (0.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
6 5 (0.57%) Notion
7 4 (0.45%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.23%) CPLEX
8 2 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.11%) Trello
Business Applications
1 33 (3.74%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (1.02%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.91%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (0.34%) Aladdin
4 3 (0.34%) Endur
4 3 (0.34%) Findur
4 3 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.23%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
5 2 (0.23%) Maximo
5 2 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.23%) SAP MM
5 2 (0.23%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.11%) SAP CS
6 1 (0.11%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.11%) SAP LE
6 1 (0.11%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.11%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 882 (100.00%) Azure
2 265 (30.05%) GitHub
3 163 (18.48%) GitHub Actions
4 146 (16.55%) Power Platform
5 144 (16.33%) AWS
6 102 (11.56%) Azure Data Factory
7 80 (9.07%) Azure AKS
7 80 (9.07%) Entra ID
8 72 (8.16%) Azure Monitor
9 71 (8.05%) Power Automate
10 69 (7.82%) Dynamics 365
11 62 (7.03%) Serverless
12 57 (6.46%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 54 (6.12%) PowerApps
14 45 (5.10%) Azure Logic Apps
15 44 (4.99%) PaaS
16 43 (4.88%) GCP
17 41 (4.65%) Azure Functions
17 41 (4.65%) Microsoft 365
18 39 (4.42%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 26 (2.95%) Firewall
2 18 (2.04%) VPN
3 16 (1.81%) DNS
3 16 (1.81%) Network Security
4 6 (0.68%) DHCP
4 6 (0.68%) WAN
5 5 (0.57%) SD-WAN
6 4 (0.45%) Internet
6 4 (0.45%) SAN
7 3 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.23%) 4G
8 2 (0.23%) Cisco IOS
8 2 (0.23%) NAS
8 2 (0.23%) SSH
8 2 (0.23%) SSL
8 2 (0.23%) VLAN
8 2 (0.23%) X.509
9 1 (0.11%) Cisco ASA
9 1 (0.11%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.11%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (10.66%) Power BI
2 63 (7.14%) Data Lake
3 56 (6.35%) SQL Server
4 52 (5.90%) Data Warehouse
5 46 (5.22%) Azure SQL Database
6 34 (3.85%) NoSQL
7 29 (3.29%) Delta Lake
8 23 (2.61%) PostgreSQL
9 21 (2.38%) Metadata
10 18 (2.04%) Snowflake Schema
11 17 (1.93%) Big Data
12 16 (1.81%) Relational Database
13 15 (1.70%) Spark SQL
14 11 (1.25%) Redis
14 11 (1.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 11 (1.25%) Star Schema
15 9 (1.02%) MongoDB
16 8 (0.91%) Amazon Redshift
17 7 (0.79%) BigQuery
18 6 (0.68%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 158 (17.91%) JIRA
2 145 (16.44%) Git
3 108 (12.24%) Jenkins
4 84 (9.52%) GitLab
5 44 (4.99%) Selenium
6 22 (2.49%) SonarQube
7 14 (1.59%) Cypress.io
7 14 (1.59%) Visual Studio
8 12 (1.36%) Cucumber
9 11 (1.25%) Postman
10 10 (1.13%) JUnit
10 10 (1.13%) Maven
10 10 (1.13%) REST Assured
11 9 (1.02%) Snyk
11 9 (1.02%) TestRail
11 9 (1.02%) WebDriver
12 8 (0.91%) Bitbucket
12 8 (0.91%) Gradle
12 8 (0.91%) SpecFlow
13 7 (0.79%) JMeter
General
1 244 (27.66%) Finance
2 230 (26.08%) Social Skills
3 85 (9.64%) Analytical Skills
4 77 (8.73%) Public Sector
5 71 (8.05%) Banking
6 25 (2.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 24 (2.72%) Retail
8 17 (1.93%) Documentation Skills
9 15 (1.70%) Legal
9 15 (1.70%) Marketing
10 14 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
10 14 (1.59%) Investment Banking
11 9 (1.02%) Local Government
12 8 (0.91%) Law
13 7 (0.79%) Pharmaceutical
13 7 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (0.68%) Front Office
14 6 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
15 5 (0.57%) Back Office
16 4 (0.45%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 145 (16.44%) Azure Engineer
2 141 (15.99%) DevOps Engineer
3 134 (15.19%) Senior
4 130 (14.74%) Developer
5 92 (10.43%) Data Engineer
6 83 (9.41%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 71 (8.05%) Lead
8 67 (7.60%) Architect
9 60 (6.80%) Analyst
10 37 (4.20%) Consultant
11 36 (4.08%) Platform Engineer
12 33 (3.74%) Cloud Engineer
13 30 (3.40%) Business Analyst
14 28 (3.17%) Project Manager
15 23 (2.61%) Azure Data Engineer
15 23 (2.61%) Senior DevOps
15 23 (2.61%) Test Analyst
16 22 (2.49%) Senior Developer
16 22 (2.49%) Tester
17 21 (2.38%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 253 (28.68%) Terraform
2 120 (13.61%) .NET
3 103 (11.68%) REST
4 64 (7.26%) PySpark
5 55 (6.24%) ADO
6 46 (5.22%) JSON
7 40 (4.54%) Kafka
7 40 (4.54%) YAML
8 36 (4.08%) React
9 32 (3.63%) Playwright
10 30 (3.40%) AngularJS
10 30 (3.40%) RESTful
11 29 (3.29%) ARM Templates
11 29 (3.29%) XML
12 28 (3.17%) Middleware
13 27 (3.06%) .NET Framework
14 23 (2.61%) .NET Core
15 22 (2.49%) HTML
15 22 (2.49%) OAuth
16 21 (2.38%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 108 (12.24%) Cloud Native
2 43 (4.88%) Product Ownership
3 33 (3.74%) Distributed Systems
3 33 (3.74%) Legacy Systems
4 22 (2.49%) Onboarding
5 21 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
6 20 (2.27%) Management Information System
7 19 (2.15%) AI Agents
8 17 (1.93%) Self-Motivation
9 16 (1.81%) Hybrid Cloud
10 15 (1.70%) Reinsurance
11 13 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
12 10 (1.13%) Enterprise Cloud
12 10 (1.13%) Low-Code
13 9 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
14 8 (0.91%) Data Structures
14 8 (0.91%) Public Cloud
15 7 (0.79%) Data Centre
15 7 (0.79%) FMCG
15 7 (0.79%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 51 (5.78%) Windows
2 29 (3.29%) Linux
3 15 (1.70%) Windows Server
4 14 (1.59%) VMS
5 9 (1.02%) Unix
6 5 (0.57%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (0.34%) Android
8 3 (0.34%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.23%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 882 (100.00%) DevOps
2 484 (54.88%) CI/CD
3 357 (40.48%) Agile
4 223 (25.28%) Infrastructure as Code
5 164 (18.59%) Test Automation
6 144 (16.33%) Analytics
7 143 (16.21%) Stakeholder Management
8 139 (15.76%) Problem-Solving
9 129 (14.63%) Migration
10 119 (13.49%) Continuous Improvement
11 114 (12.93%) Containerisation
12 105 (11.90%) Data Modelling
13 102 (11.56%) Scrum
14 101 (11.45%) AI
14 101 (11.45%) Business Intelligence
15 97 (11.00%) Microservices
15 97 (11.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 95 (10.77%) Data Pipeline
17 91 (10.32%) ETL
18 90 (10.20%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 280 (31.75%) SQL
2 244 (27.66%) Python
3 151 (17.12%) C#
4 117 (13.27%) PowerShell
5 85 (9.64%) Bicep
6 74 (8.39%) JavaScript
7 71 (8.05%) Bash
8 61 (6.92%) TypeScript
9 60 (6.80%) Java
10 13 (1.47%) Apex Code
10 13 (1.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 8 (0.91%) T-SQL
12 7 (0.79%) Shell Script
13 6 (0.68%) Kusto Query Language
14 5 (0.57%) Go
15 4 (0.45%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.45%) VB.NET
15 4 (0.45%) X++
16 3 (0.34%) ABAP
16 3 (0.34%) Korn
Qualifications
1 237 (26.87%) Security Cleared
2 211 (23.92%) SC Cleared
3 70 (7.94%) Azure Certification
4 49 (5.56%) Degree
5 27 (3.06%) Computer Science Degree
6 25 (2.83%) Microsoft Certification
7 22 (2.49%) DV Cleared
8 16 (1.81%) ISTQB
9 13 (1.47%) AWS Certification
10 10 (1.13%) DBS Check
11 7 (0.79%) PMI Certification
12 6 (0.68%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 5 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
13 5 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
13 5 (0.57%) PMP
14 4 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 4 (0.45%) CISSP
14 4 (0.45%) ISEB
14 4 (0.45%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 4 (0.45%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 113 (12.81%) QA
2 77 (8.73%) Data Quality
3 24 (2.72%) GDPR
4 19 (2.15%) Accessibility
5 17 (1.93%) NIST
6 13 (1.47%) PMO
7 10 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 9 (1.02%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 8 (0.91%) SLA
10 7 (0.79%) ISO 20022
10 7 (0.79%) WCAG
11 5 (0.57%) SEPA
12 4 (0.45%) PSD2
13 3 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
14 2 (0.23%) Government Security Classifications
14 2 (0.23%) GRC
14 2 (0.23%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 2 (0.23%) NCSC
15 1 (0.11%) ISO 15022
15 1 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 131 (14.85%) Docker
2 50 (5.67%) Active Directory
3 14 (1.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (1.25%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.68%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.68%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.45%) vSphere
7 2 (0.23%) Microsoft App-V
7 2 (0.23%) OpenSSH
8 1 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 162 (18.37%) Kubernetes
2 51 (5.78%) Ansible
3 26 (2.95%) Grafana
4 20 (2.27%) Prometheus
5 11 (1.25%) Packer
6 10 (1.13%) Microsoft Intune
7 8 (0.91%) Progress Chef
7 8 (0.91%) Puppet
7 8 (0.91%) SCCM
8 7 (0.79%) HP ALM
9 5 (0.57%) Argo
9 5 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.34%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.23%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 1 (0.11%) Istio
12 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Clustering
12 1 (0.11%) PowerCLI
12 1 (0.11%) RSA Archer
12 1 (0.11%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 304 (34.47%) Microsoft
2 97 (11.00%) Databricks
3 36 (4.08%) Salesforce
4 31 (3.51%) Oracle
5 30 (3.40%) ServiceNow
6 25 (2.83%) SAP
7 18 (2.04%) VMware
8 15 (1.70%) Informatica
9 14 (1.59%) Google
9 14 (1.59%) OpenAI
9 14 (1.59%) Splunk
10 10 (1.13%) Dynatrace
10 10 (1.13%) Foundry
10 10 (1.13%) UiPath
11 9 (1.02%) Bloomberg
11 9 (1.02%) Cloudera
12 7 (0.79%) Guidewire
12 7 (0.79%) HP
12 7 (0.79%) IBM
12 7 (0.79%) Refinitiv