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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 81 55
Rank change year-on-year +21 -26 +21
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 826 457 658
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.13% 3.36% 4.04%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.96% 7.82% 9.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 582 330 424
10th Percentile £381 £350 £388
25th Percentile £425 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £600
90th Percentile £706 £750 £685
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -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 £50.90 £62.50 -
% change year-on-year -18.56% - -

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 8,295 5,846 6,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.46% 42.92% 40.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,667 4,015 4,830
10th Percentile £363 £339 £350
25th Percentile £448 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £645 £660 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 85 52
10th Percentile £19.40 £22.70 £20.65
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.77 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £27.75
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +4.76% -48.37%
75th Percentile £56.63 £46.75 £41.19
90th Percentile £75.70 £67.50 £65.65
England median hourly rate £37.24 £25.15 £23.80
% change year-on-year +48.07% +5.67% -29.79%

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 4 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 4 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 4 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 -3 82 £525 +5.00% 50
South London -7 10 £513 -2.38% 6
West London -18 4 £625 +14.16% 5
East London +1 3 £604 +16.06% 9
North London -1 2 £600 +36.36% 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 47 (5.69%) SharePoint
2 38 (4.60%) Confluence
3 31 (3.75%) Apache Spark
4 30 (3.63%) Apache Airflow
5 26 (3.15%) Apache
6 8 (0.97%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.73%) CMS
8 3 (0.36%) Kentico
9 2 (0.24%) IIS
9 2 (0.24%) Mendix
10 1 (0.12%) Apache Pulsar
10 1 (0.12%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.12%) GeoServer
10 1 (0.12%) HCL Notes
10 1 (0.12%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.12%) IBM HTTP Server
10 1 (0.12%) nginx
10 1 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.12%) SAS
10 1 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 27 (3.27%) Microsoft Project
2 20 (2.42%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (1.09%) MS Visio
4 6 (0.73%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.48%) Notion
7 3 (0.36%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.24%) CPLEX
8 2 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 28 (3.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (1.09%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.85%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (0.36%) Endur
4 3 (0.36%) Findur
4 3 (0.36%) Maximo
4 3 (0.36%) SAP BPC
5 2 (0.24%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.24%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
5 2 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.24%) SAP MM
5 2 (0.24%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.12%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.12%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.12%) SAP LE
6 1 (0.12%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.12%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.12%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 826 (100.00%) Azure
2 259 (31.36%) GitHub
3 161 (19.49%) GitHub Actions
4 134 (16.22%) AWS
5 122 (14.77%) Power Platform
6 100 (12.11%) Azure Data Factory
7 75 (9.08%) Azure AKS
7 75 (9.08%) Entra ID
8 67 (8.11%) Azure Monitor
9 63 (7.63%) Power Automate
10 58 (7.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 53 (6.42%) Dynamics 365
12 49 (5.93%) Serverless
13 47 (5.69%) PowerApps
14 42 (5.08%) GCP
15 40 (4.84%) PaaS
16 39 (4.72%) Snowflake
17 37 (4.48%) Azure Logic Apps
18 36 (4.36%) Azure Key Vault
18 36 (4.36%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 23 (2.78%) Firewall
2 18 (2.18%) DNS
3 16 (1.94%) VPN
4 11 (1.33%) Network Security
5 6 (0.73%) WAN
6 5 (0.61%) DHCP
6 5 (0.61%) SD-WAN
7 4 (0.48%) Internet
8 3 (0.36%) SAN
9 2 (0.24%) 4G
9 2 (0.24%) Cisco IOS
9 2 (0.24%) NAS
9 2 (0.24%) SSH
9 2 (0.24%) SSL
9 2 (0.24%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.24%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.24%) X.509
10 1 (0.12%) Remote Desktop
10 1 (0.12%) Reverse Proxy
10 1 (0.12%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (9.93%) Power BI
2 65 (7.87%) Data Lake
3 60 (7.26%) SQL Server
4 48 (5.81%) Data Warehouse
5 46 (5.57%) Azure SQL Database
6 35 (4.24%) Delta Lake
7 32 (3.87%) NoSQL
8 20 (2.42%) PostgreSQL
9 19 (2.30%) Snowflake Schema
10 18 (2.18%) Metadata
10 18 (2.18%) Relational Database
11 16 (1.94%) Big Data
12 13 (1.57%) Spark SQL
13 12 (1.45%) Redis
14 11 (1.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 10 (1.21%) Amazon Redshift
16 9 (1.09%) MongoDB
16 9 (1.09%) Star Schema
17 8 (0.97%) BigQuery
18 7 (0.85%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 151 (18.28%) JIRA
2 135 (16.34%) Git
3 94 (11.38%) Jenkins
4 70 (8.47%) GitLab
5 30 (3.63%) Selenium
6 21 (2.54%) SonarQube
7 11 (1.33%) Cucumber
7 11 (1.33%) Visual Studio
8 10 (1.21%) Cypress.io
9 9 (1.09%) JUnit
9 9 (1.09%) Maven
9 9 (1.09%) REST Assured
9 9 (1.09%) TestRail
10 8 (0.97%) SpecFlow
11 7 (0.85%) Bitbucket
11 7 (0.85%) Gradle
11 7 (0.85%) Snyk
12 6 (0.73%) Appium
12 6 (0.73%) TeamCity
12 6 (0.73%) Zephyr
General
1 224 (27.12%) Finance
2 206 (24.94%) Social Skills
3 80 (9.69%) Analytical Skills
4 75 (9.08%) Public Sector
5 60 (7.26%) Banking
6 21 (2.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 20 (2.42%) Retail
8 15 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
9 14 (1.69%) Investment Banking
9 14 (1.69%) Legal
10 12 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
10 12 (1.45%) Marketing
11 9 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
12 8 (0.97%) Front Office
12 8 (0.97%) Law
12 8 (0.97%) Local Government
13 7 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (0.73%) Back Office
14 6 (0.73%) Pharmaceutical
15 4 (0.48%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 137 (16.59%) Azure Engineer
2 128 (15.50%) Senior
3 124 (15.01%) Developer
4 122 (14.77%) DevOps Engineer
5 98 (11.86%) Data Engineer
6 74 (8.96%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 69 (8.35%) Lead
8 61 (7.38%) Architect
9 56 (6.78%) Analyst
10 37 (4.48%) Platform Engineer
11 32 (3.87%) Business Analyst
11 32 (3.87%) Consultant
12 30 (3.63%) Cloud Engineer
13 25 (3.03%) Azure Data Engineer
14 24 (2.91%) Solutions Architect
15 22 (2.66%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 22 (2.66%) Project Manager
16 21 (2.54%) Senior DevOps
16 21 (2.54%) Tester
17 20 (2.42%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (12.95%) .NET
2 83 (10.05%) REST
3 62 (7.51%) PySpark
4 50 (6.05%) ADO
5 40 (4.84%) JSON
6 39 (4.72%) React
7 37 (4.48%) YAML
8 33 (4.00%) Kafka
9 29 (3.51%) AngularJS
9 29 (3.51%) RESTful
10 27 (3.27%) .NET Framework
11 26 (3.15%) Playwright
12 25 (3.03%) ARM Templates
12 25 (3.03%) XML
13 23 (2.78%) .NET Core
14 22 (2.66%) Middleware
15 21 (2.54%) HTML
16 19 (2.30%) OAuth
16 19 (2.30%) SOAP
17 17 (2.06%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 103 (12.47%) Cloud Native
2 34 (4.12%) Legacy Systems
3 33 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
3 33 (4.00%) Product Ownership
4 20 (2.42%) Onboarding
5 19 (2.30%) Reinsurance
6 17 (2.06%) Management Information System
7 16 (1.94%) Self-Motivation
8 14 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
8 14 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
8 14 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
9 11 (1.33%) AI Agents
10 9 (1.09%) Data Structures
10 9 (1.09%) Replication
11 8 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
11 8 (0.97%) Enterprise Cloud
11 8 (0.97%) Low-Code
12 7 (0.85%) FMCG
12 7 (0.85%) Public Cloud
13 6 (0.73%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 45 (5.45%) Windows
2 26 (3.15%) Linux
3 14 (1.69%) Windows Server
4 9 (1.09%) VMS
5 7 (0.85%) Unix
6 4 (0.48%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (0.48%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.24%) Android
7 2 (0.24%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.24%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 826 (100.00%) DevOps
2 453 (54.84%) CI/CD
3 323 (39.10%) Agile
4 214 (25.91%) Infrastructure as Code
5 144 (17.43%) Analytics
6 142 (17.19%) Test Automation
7 130 (15.74%) Migration
8 127 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
9 114 (13.80%) Stakeholder Management
10 109 (13.20%) Containerisation
11 107 (12.95%) Continuous Improvement
11 107 (12.95%) Data Modelling
12 100 (12.11%) Data Pipeline
12 100 (12.11%) Scrum
13 92 (11.14%) AI
14 91 (11.02%) Business Intelligence
14 91 (11.02%) Data Engineering
15 90 (10.90%) ETL
16 88 (10.65%) Microservices
17 87 (10.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 269 (32.57%) SQL
2 230 (27.85%) Python
3 138 (16.71%) C#
4 105 (12.71%) PowerShell
5 79 (9.56%) Bicep
6 68 (8.23%) Bash
7 65 (7.87%) JavaScript
8 59 (7.14%) TypeScript
9 49 (5.93%) Java
10 11 (1.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 10 (1.21%) Apex Code
11 10 (1.21%) T-SQL
12 7 (0.85%) Scala
12 7 (0.85%) Shell Script
13 6 (0.73%) Kusto Query Language
14 4 (0.48%) Go
14 4 (0.48%) PL/SQL
14 4 (0.48%) VB.NET
15 3 (0.36%) ABAP
15 3 (0.36%) C
Qualifications
1 217 (26.27%) Security Cleared
2 194 (23.49%) SC Cleared
3 62 (7.51%) Azure Certification
4 45 (5.45%) Degree
5 26 (3.15%) Computer Science Degree
6 22 (2.66%) Microsoft Certification
7 18 (2.18%) DV Cleared
8 12 (1.45%) ISTQB
9 11 (1.33%) AWS Certification
10 9 (1.09%) DBS Check
11 6 (0.73%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 5 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (0.61%) PMI Certification
13 4 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
13 4 (0.48%) Master's Degree
14 3 (0.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 3 (0.36%) CISSP
14 3 (0.36%) ITIL Certification
14 3 (0.36%) PMP
14 3 (0.36%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (11.86%) QA
2 73 (8.84%) Data Quality
3 24 (2.91%) GDPR
4 19 (2.30%) Accessibility
5 16 (1.94%) NIST
6 12 (1.45%) PMO
7 9 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (1.09%) WCAG
8 7 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 7 (0.85%) SLA
9 4 (0.48%) PSD2
9 4 (0.48%) SEPA
10 3 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.24%) Government Security Classifications
11 2 (0.24%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 2 (0.24%) NCSC
12 1 (0.12%) EMIR
12 1 (0.12%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 1 (0.12%) P3O
System Software
1 122 (14.77%) Docker
2 48 (5.81%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.21%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.73%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.73%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.48%) vSphere
7 2 (0.24%) Microsoft App-V
7 2 (0.24%) OpenSSH
8 1 (0.12%) HDFS
8 1 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 241 (29.18%) Terraform
2 146 (17.68%) Kubernetes
3 51 (6.17%) Ansible
4 24 (2.91%) Grafana
5 20 (2.42%) Prometheus
6 11 (1.33%) Packer
7 10 (1.21%) Microsoft Intune
8 8 (0.97%) Progress Chef
8 8 (0.97%) Puppet
9 7 (0.85%) SCCM
10 5 (0.61%) Argo
10 5 (0.61%) HP ALM
10 5 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.24%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (0.24%) HP Fortify
12 1 (0.12%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.12%) PowerCLI
12 1 (0.12%) RSA Archer
12 1 (0.12%) systemd
12 1 (0.12%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 260 (31.48%) Microsoft
2 100 (12.11%) Databricks
3 35 (4.24%) Salesforce
4 30 (3.63%) Oracle
5 29 (3.51%) ServiceNow
6 26 (3.15%) SAP
7 18 (2.18%) VMware
8 15 (1.82%) Informatica
9 12 (1.45%) Google
10 10 (1.21%) Bloomberg
10 10 (1.21%) OpenAI
11 9 (1.09%) Dynatrace
11 9 (1.09%) Splunk
12 8 (0.97%) Refinitiv
13 7 (0.85%) Cloudera
13 7 (0.85%) Foundry
13 7 (0.85%) Guidewire
14 6 (0.73%) IBM
14 6 (0.73%) UiPath
14 6 (0.73%) Workday