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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 79 59
Rank change year-on-year +14 -20 +16
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 832 461 618
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.12% 3.42% 3.79%
As % of the Cloud Services category 10.05% 7.90% 9.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 592 319 413
10th Percentile £372 £343 £380
25th Percentile £425 £406 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.62% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £622
90th Percentile £705 £750 £688
England median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £39.00 - -
25th Percentile £45.00 £86.25 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £87.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -37.14% - -
75th Percentile - £88.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £66.66 £75.00 -
% change year-on-year -11.12% - -

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 8,280 5,834 6,731
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 40.99% 43.32% 41.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,684 3,973 4,699
10th Percentile £360 £340 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.83% -3.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 94 46
10th Percentile £17.88 £23.00 £22.00
25th Percentile £23.08 £25.15 £24.16
Median hourly rate £30.00 £31.00 £30.80
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +0.67% -23.49%
75th Percentile £57.50 £51.00 £52.50
90th Percentile £78.75 £78.75 £71.13
England median hourly rate £33.99 £26.30 £33.00
% change year-on-year +29.24% -20.30% -

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 18 September 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 +6 96 £548 -0.45% 60
South London -2 9 £525 - 5
North London +2 3 £550 +25.00% 1
East London 0 3 £604 +16.06% 5
West London -19 3 £625 +20.19% 12
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 50 (6.01%) SharePoint
2 44 (5.29%) Confluence
3 31 (3.73%) Apache Spark
4 28 (3.37%) Apache Airflow
5 21 (2.52%) Apache
6 10 (1.20%) CMS
7 6 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.36%) Kentico
8 3 (0.36%) Mendix
9 2 (0.24%) IIS
10 1 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.12%) Apache Pulsar
10 1 (0.12%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.12%) EPiServer
10 1 (0.12%) GeoServer
10 1 (0.12%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.12%) nginx
10 1 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 27 (3.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 26 (3.13%) Microsoft Project
3 13 (1.56%) MS Visio
4 9 (1.08%) Microsoft Office
5 7 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 5 (0.60%) Notion
7 4 (0.48%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.24%) CPLEX
8 2 (0.24%) Mingle
8 2 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 35 (4.21%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (1.32%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.60%) Dynamics AX
4 4 (0.48%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (0.36%) Aladdin
5 3 (0.36%) SAP MDG
6 2 (0.24%) Endur
6 2 (0.24%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
6 2 (0.24%) Maximo
6 2 (0.24%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.24%) SAP BPC
6 2 (0.24%) SAP MM
6 2 (0.24%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 1 (0.12%) FLEXCUBE
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.12%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.12%) SDL Web 8
7 1 (0.12%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 832 (100.00%) Azure
2 251 (30.17%) GitHub
3 165 (19.83%) GitHub Actions
4 147 (17.67%) Power Platform
5 145 (17.43%) AWS
6 96 (11.54%) Azure Data Factory
7 77 (9.25%) Entra ID
8 76 (9.13%) Azure AKS
9 70 (8.41%) Azure Monitor
10 68 (8.17%) Dynamics 365
11 67 (8.05%) Serverless
12 61 (7.33%) Power Automate
13 53 (6.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 49 (5.89%) Azure Functions
14 49 (5.89%) PowerApps
15 47 (5.65%) GCP
15 47 (5.65%) Snowflake
16 43 (5.17%) Azure Logic Apps
17 42 (5.05%) PaaS
18 37 (4.45%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 24 (2.88%) Firewall
2 21 (2.52%) DNS
3 17 (2.04%) Network Security
3 17 (2.04%) VPN
4 7 (0.84%) DHCP
5 4 (0.48%) SAN
5 4 (0.48%) WAN
6 3 (0.36%) SD-WAN
6 3 (0.36%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.24%) 4G
7 2 (0.24%) Cisco IOS
7 2 (0.24%) Internet
7 2 (0.24%) NAS
7 2 (0.24%) SSH
7 2 (0.24%) SSL
7 2 (0.24%) VLAN
7 2 (0.24%) X.509
8 1 (0.12%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (0.12%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.12%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (12.02%) Power BI
2 59 (7.09%) Data Lake
3 54 (6.49%) Data Warehouse
4 53 (6.37%) SQL Server
5 38 (4.57%) Azure SQL Database
6 29 (3.49%) Delta Lake
7 28 (3.37%) PostgreSQL
8 26 (3.13%) NoSQL
9 23 (2.76%) Metadata
10 18 (2.16%) Big Data
10 18 (2.16%) Snowflake Schema
11 14 (1.68%) Star Schema
12 13 (1.56%) Relational Database
12 13 (1.56%) Spark SQL
13 11 (1.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 10 (1.20%) Redis
15 9 (1.08%) Amazon Redshift
16 8 (0.96%) BigQuery
16 8 (0.96%) Data Vault
17 7 (0.84%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 144 (17.31%) JIRA
2 141 (16.95%) Git
3 111 (13.34%) Jenkins
4 92 (11.06%) GitLab
5 45 (5.41%) Selenium
6 24 (2.88%) SonarQube
7 15 (1.80%) Cypress.io
7 15 (1.80%) Visual Studio
8 13 (1.56%) Postman
9 10 (1.20%) Cucumber
9 10 (1.20%) Maven
9 10 (1.20%) REST Assured
9 10 (1.20%) Snyk
10 9 (1.08%) JUnit
10 9 (1.08%) TestRail
10 9 (1.08%) WebDriver
11 8 (0.96%) Gradle
12 7 (0.84%) Bitbucket
12 7 (0.84%) SpecFlow
12 7 (0.84%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 234 (28.13%) Social Skills
2 227 (27.28%) Finance
3 82 (9.86%) Analytical Skills
4 72 (8.65%) Public Sector
5 69 (8.29%) Banking
6 28 (3.37%) Retail
7 25 (3.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 19 (2.28%) Influencing Skills
9 18 (2.16%) Marketing
10 15 (1.80%) Documentation Skills
10 15 (1.80%) Investment Banking
11 13 (1.56%) Legal
12 8 (0.96%) Law
12 8 (0.96%) Local Government
12 8 (0.96%) Pharmaceutical
13 7 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
15 5 (0.60%) Back Office
15 5 (0.60%) Front Office
15 5 (0.60%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 148 (17.79%) DevOps Engineer
2 140 (16.83%) Azure Engineer
3 138 (16.59%) Senior
4 115 (13.82%) Developer
5 87 (10.46%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 80 (9.62%) Data Engineer
7 72 (8.65%) Architect
8 66 (7.93%) Analyst
8 66 (7.93%) Lead
9 40 (4.81%) Consultant
10 35 (4.21%) Business Analyst
11 30 (3.61%) Platform Engineer
12 29 (3.49%) Project Manager
13 28 (3.37%) Cloud Engineer
14 24 (2.88%) Test Analyst
15 23 (2.76%) Senior DevOps
16 22 (2.64%) Databricks Engineer
16 22 (2.64%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 21 (2.52%) Senior Data Engineer
17 21 (2.52%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 251 (30.17%) Terraform
2 112 (13.46%) .NET
3 111 (13.34%) REST
4 60 (7.21%) PySpark
5 56 (6.73%) ADO
6 42 (5.05%) Kafka
7 41 (4.93%) React
8 39 (4.69%) JSON
8 39 (4.69%) YAML
9 32 (3.85%) RESTful
10 28 (3.37%) ARM Templates
10 28 (3.37%) Playwright
11 26 (3.13%) Middleware
11 26 (3.13%) XML
12 24 (2.88%) .NET Framework
12 24 (2.88%) OAuth
13 23 (2.76%) .NET Core
14 21 (2.52%) AngularJS
14 21 (2.52%) HTML
15 19 (2.28%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 95 (11.42%) Cloud Native
2 50 (6.01%) Product Ownership
3 29 (3.49%) Distributed Systems
4 27 (3.25%) Legacy Systems
5 26 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
6 25 (3.00%) Onboarding
7 18 (2.16%) AI Agents
8 17 (2.04%) Hybrid Cloud
9 16 (1.92%) Management Information System
10 15 (1.80%) Reinsurance
11 14 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
12 13 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
13 11 (1.32%) Enterprise Cloud
14 9 (1.08%) Data Structures
14 9 (1.08%) Low-Code
14 9 (1.08%) Public Cloud
15 8 (0.96%) Data Centre
15 8 (0.96%) Linux Command Line
16 7 (0.84%) Data Protection Act
16 7 (0.84%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 46 (5.53%) Windows
2 29 (3.49%) Linux
3 14 (1.68%) VMS
3 14 (1.68%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.72%) Unix
4 6 (0.72%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (0.48%) Android
5 4 (0.48%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.48%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 832 (100.00%) DevOps
2 463 (55.65%) CI/CD
3 339 (40.75%) Agile
4 218 (26.20%) Infrastructure as Code
5 155 (18.63%) Stakeholder Management
6 152 (18.27%) Test Automation
7 140 (16.83%) Analytics
8 139 (16.71%) Problem-Solving
9 119 (14.30%) Migration
10 114 (13.70%) Containerisation
11 110 (13.22%) AI
12 108 (12.98%) Business Intelligence
12 108 (12.98%) Continuous Improvement
13 103 (12.38%) Data Modelling
14 101 (12.14%) Scrum
15 92 (11.06%) Microservices
16 91 (10.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 88 (10.58%) ETL
18 86 (10.34%) User Acceptance Testing
18 86 (10.34%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 243 (29.21%) SQL
2 240 (28.85%) Python
3 138 (16.59%) C#
4 107 (12.86%) PowerShell
5 85 (10.22%) Bicep
6 78 (9.38%) JavaScript
7 72 (8.65%) Bash
8 64 (7.69%) TypeScript
9 59 (7.09%) Java
10 16 (1.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 12 (1.44%) Apex Code
12 8 (0.96%) T-SQL
13 5 (0.60%) Go
13 5 (0.60%) Kusto Query Language
14 4 (0.48%) ABAP
14 4 (0.48%) Shell Script
14 4 (0.48%) VB.NET
15 3 (0.36%) C
15 3 (0.36%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.36%) X++
Qualifications
1 209 (25.12%) Security Cleared
2 182 (21.88%) SC Cleared
3 70 (8.41%) Azure Certification
4 48 (5.77%) Degree
5 25 (3.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (3.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 23 (2.76%) DV Cleared
7 14 (1.68%) ISTQB
8 13 (1.56%) AWS Certification
9 12 (1.44%) PMI Certification
10 10 (1.20%) DBS Check
11 9 (1.08%) PMP
12 7 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
13 6 (0.72%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 6 (0.72%) Master's Degree
13 6 (0.72%) PRINCE2 Certification
14 4 (0.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 4 (0.48%) Cisco Certification
14 4 (0.48%) CISSP
14 4 (0.48%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 108 (12.98%) QA
2 68 (8.17%) Data Quality
3 28 (3.37%) GDPR
4 20 (2.40%) Accessibility
5 19 (2.28%) NIST
6 15 (1.80%) PMO
7 10 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 8 (0.96%) ISO 20022
8 8 (0.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 7 (0.84%) SLA
9 7 (0.84%) WCAG
10 6 (0.72%) SEPA
11 4 (0.48%) PSD2
12 3 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.36%) GRC
13 2 (0.24%) Government Security Classifications
14 1 (0.12%) Disclosure Scotland
14 1 (0.12%) ISO 15022
14 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 1 (0.12%) P3O
System Software
1 134 (16.11%) Docker
2 42 (5.05%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.96%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.60%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.48%) vSphere
8 2 (0.24%) Microsoft App-V
8 2 (0.24%) OpenSSH
9 1 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 163 (19.59%) Kubernetes
2 52 (6.25%) Ansible
3 27 (3.25%) Grafana
4 25 (3.00%) Prometheus
5 12 (1.44%) Microsoft Intune
6 11 (1.32%) Progress Chef
6 11 (1.32%) Puppet
7 9 (1.08%) Packer
8 8 (0.96%) SCCM
9 7 (0.84%) HP ALM
10 6 (0.72%) Argo
11 5 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (0.36%) HP Fortify
12 3 (0.36%) Kibana
13 2 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 2 (0.24%) Docker Swarm
13 2 (0.24%) Nagios
14 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Clustering
14 1 (0.12%) PowerCLI
14 1 (0.12%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 291 (34.98%) Microsoft
2 96 (11.54%) Databricks
3 38 (4.57%) Salesforce
4 27 (3.25%) Oracle
4 27 (3.25%) SAP
5 23 (2.76%) ServiceNow
6 21 (2.52%) VMware
7 17 (2.04%) Splunk
8 14 (1.68%) Google
8 14 (1.68%) OpenAI
9 12 (1.44%) Dynatrace
9 12 (1.44%) Foundry
10 10 (1.20%) UiPath
11 9 (1.08%) Informatica
12 8 (0.96%) Cloudera
12 8 (0.96%) HP
13 7 (0.84%) Okta
13 7 (0.84%) Workday
14 6 (0.72%) Guidewire
14 6 (0.72%) IBM