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

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 89 64
Rank change year-on-year +30 -25 +14
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 706 383 596
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.17% 3.04% 3.30%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.53% 7.14% 8.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 506 283 396
10th Percentile £363 £379 £413
25th Percentile £415 £453 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £700
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £47.58 - -
25th Percentile £49.94 - -
Median hourly rate £61.25 - -
75th Percentile £73.56 - -
90th Percentile £75.48 - -
England median hourly rate £49.25 £67.50 £65.50
% change year-on-year -27.04% +3.05% -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 7,405 5,361 6,757
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.72% 42.54% 37.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,090 3,752 4,943
10th Percentile £350 £356 £325
25th Percentile £425 £438 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 51 77
10th Percentile £18.03 £22.27 £17.47
25th Percentile £24.29 £24.66 £21.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +11.81% -25.71%
75th Percentile £50.75 £54.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.25 £67.50 £61.00
England median hourly rate £42.59 £26.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +60.73% +26.19% -18.75%

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 2 April 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 2 April 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 2 April 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 +7 82 £540 -0.23% 37
South London +1 16 £500 +1.01% 2
West London -21 6 £375 -21.05% 7
East London -3 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 40 (5.67%) SharePoint
2 33 (4.67%) Confluence
3 29 (4.11%) Apache Spark
4 22 (3.12%) Apache
5 14 (1.98%) Apache Airflow
6 11 (1.56%) HCL Notes
6 11 (1.56%) Microsoft Exchange
7 10 (1.42%) Mendix
8 3 (0.42%) IIS
9 2 (0.28%) CMS
9 2 (0.28%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.14%) IBM HTTP Server
10 1 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.14%) SAS
Applications
1 19 (2.69%) Microsoft Project
2 12 (1.70%) MS Visio
3 6 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.14%) Trello
Business Applications
1 35 (4.96%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.85%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.57%) Aladdin
3 4 (0.57%) SAP BPC
4 3 (0.42%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (0.42%) Findur
4 3 (0.42%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 2 (0.28%) Endur
5 2 (0.28%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.14%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.14%) Maximo
6 1 (0.14%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.14%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.14%) Orchestrade
6 1 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.14%) SAP CS
6 1 (0.14%) SAP GTS
6 1 (0.14%) SAP LE
6 1 (0.14%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 706 (100.00%) Azure
2 208 (29.46%) GitHub
3 131 (18.56%) Power Platform
4 127 (17.99%) GitHub Actions
5 97 (13.74%) Azure Data Factory
6 89 (12.61%) AWS
7 76 (10.76%) Serverless
8 73 (10.34%) Azure Monitor
9 71 (10.06%) Azure AKS
10 67 (9.49%) Entra ID
11 64 (9.07%) Dynamics 365
12 60 (8.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 57 (8.07%) Azure Logic Apps
13 57 (8.07%) Power Automate
14 54 (7.65%) Azure Key Vault
14 54 (7.65%) Azure Service Bus
15 49 (6.94%) Azure Functions
16 40 (5.67%) PowerApps
17 38 (5.38%) Microsoft 365
18 36 (5.10%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 28 (3.97%) Firewall
2 13 (1.84%) DNS
2 13 (1.84%) VPN
3 12 (1.70%) Network Security
4 11 (1.56%) WAN
5 10 (1.42%) SD-WAN
6 4 (0.57%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.42%) FTP
7 3 (0.42%) Remote Desktop
8 2 (0.28%) HTTP
8 2 (0.28%) Internet
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
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (10.76%) SQL Server
2 70 (9.92%) Power BI
3 56 (7.93%) Data Lake
4 47 (6.66%) Azure SQL Database
5 45 (6.37%) Delta Lake
6 41 (5.81%) Data Warehouse
7 27 (3.82%) NoSQL
8 19 (2.69%) Oracle Database
9 16 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
10 14 (1.98%) Spark SQL
11 13 (1.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 12 (1.70%) MongoDB
12 12 (1.70%) Relational Database
13 11 (1.56%) Tableau
14 10 (1.42%) Big Data
14 10 (1.42%) Metadata
15 9 (1.27%) DynamoDB
15 9 (1.27%) Redis
15 9 (1.27%) Snowflake Schema
16 8 (1.13%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 140 (19.83%) JIRA
2 99 (14.02%) Git
3 68 (9.63%) Jenkins
4 37 (5.24%) GitLab
5 33 (4.67%) Selenium
6 18 (2.55%) Postman
7 16 (2.27%) Cypress.io
8 12 (1.70%) REST Assured
8 12 (1.70%) Team Foundation Server
9 11 (1.56%) MLflow
9 11 (1.56%) SpecFlow
9 11 (1.56%) TestRail
9 11 (1.56%) Zephyr
10 10 (1.42%) Cucumber
11 9 (1.27%) JUnit
12 8 (1.13%) JMeter
12 8 (1.13%) SonarQube
12 8 (1.13%) Visual Studio
13 6 (0.85%) Liquibase
13 6 (0.85%) webpack
General
1 191 (27.05%) Finance
2 169 (23.94%) Social Skills
3 76 (10.76%) Analytical Skills
4 65 (9.21%) Public Sector
5 49 (6.94%) Banking
6 17 (2.41%) Financial Institution
7 16 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
8 15 (2.12%) Front Office
9 12 (1.70%) Investment Banking
10 11 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
10 11 (1.56%) Retail
11 10 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 10 (1.42%) Presentation Skills
12 9 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
13 7 (0.99%) Marketing
14 6 (0.85%) Legal
15 3 (0.42%) Back Office
15 3 (0.42%) Law
15 3 (0.42%) Local Government
16 2 (0.28%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 144 (20.40%) Developer
2 105 (14.87%) Azure Engineer
3 96 (13.60%) Senior
4 83 (11.76%) Data Engineer
5 77 (10.91%) DevOps Engineer
6 56 (7.93%) Lead
7 52 (7.37%) Architect
8 49 (6.94%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 47 (6.66%) Analyst
10 31 (4.39%) Platform Engineer
11 30 (4.25%) Azure Developer
11 30 (4.25%) Tester
12 26 (3.68%) Azure Architect
13 24 (3.40%) Business Analyst
14 20 (2.83%) IT Support
14 20 (2.83%) Test Analyst
15 19 (2.69%) Consultant
15 19 (2.69%) Senior Developer
16 18 (2.55%) .NET Developer
16 18 (2.55%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 126 (17.85%) .NET
2 56 (7.93%) PySpark
3 50 (7.08%) REST
4 48 (6.80%) React
5 46 (6.52%) Node.js
6 32 (4.53%) Kafka
7 31 (4.39%) Playwright
8 29 (4.11%) YAML
9 27 (3.82%) ARM Templates
10 25 (3.54%) .NET Core
10 25 (3.54%) ADO
10 25 (3.54%) AngularJS
11 24 (3.40%) .NET Framework
11 24 (3.40%) CSS
11 24 (3.40%) HTML
12 22 (3.12%) JSON
12 22 (3.12%) OAuth
13 20 (2.83%) RESTful
14 19 (2.69%) Web Services
15 17 (2.41%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 76 (10.76%) Cloud Native
2 39 (5.52%) Product Ownership
3 30 (4.25%) Legacy Systems
4 25 (3.54%) Distributed Systems
5 18 (2.55%) Enterprise Software
6 16 (2.27%) AI Agents
6 16 (2.27%) Low-Code
6 16 (2.27%) Reinsurance
7 12 (1.70%) Public Cloud
8 10 (1.42%) Replication
9 9 (1.27%) Data Structures
10 8 (1.13%) NHS
11 7 (0.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 7 (0.99%) Greenfield Project
11 7 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
12 6 (0.85%) Enterprise Cloud
12 6 (0.85%) FMCG
12 6 (0.85%) Management Information System
12 6 (0.85%) Onboarding
13 5 (0.71%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 34 (4.82%) Windows
2 19 (2.69%) Linux
3 11 (1.56%) VMS
4 6 (0.85%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.57%) Unix
6 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 699 (99.01%) DevOps
2 397 (56.23%) CI/CD
3 269 (38.10%) Agile
4 172 (24.36%) Infrastructure as Code
5 132 (18.70%) Analytics
6 125 (17.71%) Test Automation
7 123 (17.42%) Problem-Solving
8 106 (15.01%) Continuous Improvement
9 103 (14.59%) AI
10 97 (13.74%) Data Modelling
11 96 (13.60%) Migration
12 85 (12.04%) Business Intelligence
13 84 (11.90%) Data Pipeline
13 84 (11.90%) Microservices
14 83 (11.76%) Scrum
14 83 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
15 80 (11.33%) Observability
16 79 (11.19%) Containerisation
17 71 (10.06%) Data Engineering
18 66 (9.35%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 265 (37.54%) SQL
2 214 (30.31%) Python
3 154 (21.81%) C#
4 88 (12.46%) JavaScript
5 66 (9.35%) PowerShell
6 64 (9.07%) Bicep
7 59 (8.36%) TypeScript
8 54 (7.65%) Java
9 40 (5.67%) Bash
10 25 (3.54%) Scala
11 17 (2.41%) T-SQL
12 13 (1.84%) Kusto Query Language
13 11 (1.56%) Formula Language
13 11 (1.56%) LotusScript
13 11 (1.56%) PL/SQL
14 5 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 4 (0.57%) C
15 4 (0.57%) Shell Script
16 3 (0.42%) Apex Code
16 3 (0.42%) R
Qualifications
1 172 (24.36%) Security Cleared
2 155 (21.95%) SC Cleared
3 64 (9.07%) Azure Certification
4 40 (5.67%) Degree
5 22 (3.12%) Computer Science Degree
6 21 (2.97%) ISTQB
7 17 (2.41%) BPSS Clearance
8 16 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (0.85%) Master's Degree
9 6 (0.85%) PMI Certification
10 5 (0.71%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 5 (0.71%) PMP
11 4 (0.57%) AWS Certification
12 3 (0.42%) DBS Check
12 3 (0.42%) ISEB
13 2 (0.28%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.28%) MBA
14 1 (0.14%) CCIE
14 1 (0.14%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (11.90%) QA
2 64 (9.07%) Data Quality
3 16 (2.27%) GDPR
4 15 (2.12%) Accessibility
5 9 (1.27%) PMO
5 9 (1.27%) WCAG
6 7 (0.99%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (0.57%) HIPAA
7 4 (0.57%) NCSC
7 4 (0.57%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.42%) HL7
8 3 (0.42%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 3 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.42%) SLA
9 2 (0.28%) FedRAMP
9 2 (0.28%) NIST
9 2 (0.28%) Software Quality Assurance
10 1 (0.14%) EMIR
10 1 (0.14%) EU AI Act
10 1 (0.14%) MiFID
System Software
1 110 (15.58%) Docker
2 42 (5.95%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.13%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.99%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.14%) HDFS
6 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 205 (29.04%) Terraform
2 119 (16.86%) Kubernetes
3 35 (4.96%) Ansible
4 18 (2.55%) Grafana
5 13 (1.84%) Prometheus
6 7 (0.99%) HP ALM
7 5 (0.71%) Packer
7 5 (0.71%) Progress Chef
7 5 (0.71%) Puppet
8 3 (0.42%) Argo
8 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.28%) Istio
9 2 (0.28%) Kubeflow
9 2 (0.28%) Opsgenie
9 2 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.14%) CASB
10 1 (0.14%) Fluentd
10 1 (0.14%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.14%) Icinga
10 1 (0.14%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 226 (32.01%) Microsoft
2 115 (16.29%) Databricks
3 61 (8.64%) Oracle
4 34 (4.82%) ServiceNow
5 28 (3.97%) OpenAI
6 23 (3.26%) Salesforce
7 18 (2.55%) SAP
8 15 (2.12%) Informatica
9 11 (1.56%) Lotus
9 11 (1.56%) VMware
10 10 (1.42%) Foundry
10 10 (1.42%) Kofax
11 8 (1.13%) Cisco
11 8 (1.13%) Splunk
12 7 (0.99%) HP
13 5 (0.71%) Aruba
13 5 (0.71%) Bloomberg
13 5 (0.71%) Charles River
13 5 (0.71%) Citrix
13 5 (0.71%) Fortinet