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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 81 52
Rank change year-on-year +23 -29 +25
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 826 455 671
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.12% 3.34% 4.09%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.92% 7.81% 10.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 582 325 435
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 £709 £750 £688
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 £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 8,328 5,826 6,671
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.49% 42.83% 40.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,693 4,000 4,863
10th Percentile £363 £338 £350
25th Percentile £447 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £536 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.19% -2.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £644 £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 109 85 52
10th Percentile £19.20 £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% -44.50%
75th Percentile £55.00 £47.50 £41.19
90th Percentile £75.35 £67.50 £65.65
England median hourly rate £37.24 £26.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year +43.23% +18.18% -33.33%

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 31 July 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 31 July 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 31 July 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 -5 81 £525 +5.00% 39
South London -8 10 £513 -2.38% 3
West London -13 4 £625 +14.16% 3
East London 0 3 £604 +16.06% 7
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 49 (5.93%) SharePoint
2 38 (4.60%) Confluence
3 30 (3.63%) Apache Spark
4 28 (3.39%) Apache Airflow
5 26 (3.15%) Apache
6 9 (1.09%) 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 26 (3.15%) Microsoft Project
2 19 (2.30%) 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 2 (0.24%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.24%) CPLEX
7 2 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
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%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.12%) PeopleSoft HCM
6 1 (0.12%) SAP CS
6 1 (0.12%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.12%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 826 (100.00%) Azure
2 261 (31.60%) GitHub
3 162 (19.61%) GitHub Actions
4 135 (16.34%) AWS
5 125 (15.13%) Power Platform
6 99 (11.99%) Azure Data Factory
7 75 (9.08%) Azure AKS
7 75 (9.08%) Entra ID
8 68 (8.23%) Azure Monitor
9 66 (7.99%) Power Automate
10 57 (6.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 53 (6.42%) Dynamics 365
12 50 (6.05%) PowerApps
13 49 (5.93%) Serverless
14 42 (5.08%) GCP
15 40 (4.84%) Snowflake
16 38 (4.60%) PaaS
17 37 (4.48%) Azure Logic Apps
17 37 (4.48%) Microsoft 365
18 36 (4.36%) Azure Key Vault
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%) Cisco Firepower
10 1 (0.12%) Remote Desktop
10 1 (0.12%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (10.05%) Power BI
2 66 (7.99%) Data Lake
3 62 (7.51%) SQL Server
4 48 (5.81%) Data Warehouse
5 47 (5.69%) Azure SQL Database
6 35 (4.24%) Delta Lake
7 32 (3.87%) NoSQL
8 20 (2.42%) PostgreSQL
8 20 (2.42%) Snowflake Schema
9 19 (2.30%) Metadata
10 18 (2.18%) Relational Database
11 15 (1.82%) Big Data
12 13 (1.57%) Spark SQL
13 12 (1.45%) Redis
14 11 (1.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 9 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
15 9 (1.09%) MongoDB
15 9 (1.09%) Star Schema
16 8 (0.97%) BigQuery
17 7 (0.85%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 151 (18.28%) JIRA
2 136 (16.46%) Git
3 92 (11.14%) Jenkins
4 68 (8.23%) GitLab
5 30 (3.63%) Selenium
6 19 (2.30%) SonarQube
7 12 (1.45%) Visual Studio
8 11 (1.33%) Cucumber
8 11 (1.33%) Cypress.io
9 10 (1.21%) TestRail
10 9 (1.09%) JUnit
10 9 (1.09%) REST Assured
11 8 (0.97%) Maven
11 8 (0.97%) SpecFlow
12 7 (0.85%) Bitbucket
12 7 (0.85%) Snyk
13 6 (0.73%) Appium
13 6 (0.73%) Gradle
13 6 (0.73%) TeamCity
13 6 (0.73%) Zephyr
General
1 223 (27.00%) Finance
2 205 (24.82%) Social Skills
3 80 (9.69%) Analytical Skills
4 75 (9.08%) Public Sector
5 58 (7.02%) Banking
6 20 (2.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 20 (2.42%) Retail
7 15 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (1.69%) Legal
9 13 (1.57%) Investment Banking
10 12 (1.45%) Marketing
11 11 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
11 11 (1.33%) 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
1 135 (16.34%) Azure Engineer
2 127 (15.38%) Senior
3 126 (15.25%) Developer
4 119 (14.41%) DevOps Engineer
5 98 (11.86%) Data Engineer
6 73 (8.84%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 69 (8.35%) Lead
8 63 (7.63%) Architect
9 56 (6.78%) Analyst
10 37 (4.48%) Platform Engineer
11 32 (3.87%) Consultant
12 31 (3.75%) Business Analyst
13 30 (3.63%) Cloud Engineer
14 25 (3.03%) Azure Data Engineer
14 25 (3.03%) Solutions Architect
15 22 (2.66%) Tester
16 21 (2.54%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 21 (2.54%) Senior Data Engineer
16 21 (2.54%) Senior Developer
16 21 (2.54%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (13.20%) .NET
2 82 (9.93%) REST
3 61 (7.38%) PySpark
4 51 (6.17%) ADO
5 40 (4.84%) React
6 38 (4.60%) JSON
7 37 (4.48%) YAML
8 31 (3.75%) Kafka
9 29 (3.51%) .NET Framework
9 29 (3.51%) AngularJS
9 29 (3.51%) RESTful
10 26 (3.15%) Playwright
11 25 (3.03%) ARM Templates
12 24 (2.91%) .NET Core
13 23 (2.78%) XML
14 22 (2.66%) HTML
14 22 (2.66%) Middleware
15 20 (2.42%) OAuth
15 20 (2.42%) SOAP
16 18 (2.18%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 105 (12.71%) Cloud Native
2 35 (4.24%) Legacy Systems
3 33 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
4 32 (3.87%) Product Ownership
5 21 (2.54%) Onboarding
6 19 (2.30%) Reinsurance
7 17 (2.06%) Management Information System
8 16 (1.94%) Self-Motivation
9 15 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
10 14 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
10 14 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
11 11 (1.33%) AI Agents
12 9 (1.09%) Data Structures
12 9 (1.09%) Enterprise Cloud
12 9 (1.09%) Replication
13 8 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
13 8 (0.97%) Low-Code
14 7 (0.85%) FMCG
14 7 (0.85%) Public Cloud
15 6 (0.73%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 45 (5.45%) Windows
2 25 (3.03%) 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
2 452 (54.72%) CI/CD
3 322 (38.98%) Agile
4 214 (25.91%) Infrastructure as Code
5 144 (17.43%) Test Automation
6 143 (17.31%) Analytics
7 130 (15.74%) Migration
8 123 (14.89%) Problem-Solving
9 113 (13.68%) Stakeholder Management
10 109 (13.20%) Continuous Improvement
11 107 (12.95%) Containerisation
11 107 (12.95%) Data Modelling
12 100 (12.11%) Scrum
13 99 (11.99%) Data Pipeline
14 92 (11.14%) AI
14 92 (11.14%) Business Intelligence
15 91 (11.02%) ETL
16 89 (10.77%) Data Engineering
17 88 (10.65%) Microservices
17 88 (10.65%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 270 (32.69%) SQL
2 232 (28.09%) Python
3 141 (17.07%) C#
4 105 (12.71%) PowerShell
5 75 (9.08%) Bicep
6 70 (8.47%) Bash
7 66 (7.99%) JavaScript
8 60 (7.26%) 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 8 (0.97%) Scala
13 7 (0.85%) Kusto Query Language
13 7 (0.85%) Shell Script
14 4 (0.48%) Go
14 4 (0.48%) PL/SQL
14 4 (0.48%) VB.NET
15 3 (0.36%) C
15 3 (0.36%) Korn
Qualifications
1 217 (26.27%) Security Cleared
2 194 (23.49%) SC Cleared
3 62 (7.51%) Azure Certification
4 44 (5.33%) Degree
5 26 (3.15%) Computer Science Degree
6 22 (2.66%) Microsoft Certification
7 18 (2.18%) DV Cleared
8 11 (1.33%) AWS Certification
8 11 (1.33%) ISTQB
9 9 (1.09%) DBS Check
10 6 (0.73%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 5 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (0.48%) Master's Degree
12 4 (0.48%) PMI Certification
13 3 (0.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 3 (0.36%) GIAC
13 3 (0.36%) ITIL Certification
13 3 (0.36%) PMP
13 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/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 1 (0.12%) MiFID
12 1 (0.12%) P3O
System Software
1 121 (14.65%) Docker
2 49 (5.93%) 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
2 145 (17.55%) 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 6 (0.73%) HP ALM
11 5 (0.61%) Argo
11 5 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.24%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (0.24%) HP Fortify
13 1 (0.12%) FortiGate
13 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Clustering
13 1 (0.12%) RSA Archer
13 1 (0.12%) systemd
13 1 (0.12%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 261 (31.60%) Microsoft
2 98 (11.86%) Databricks
3 34 (4.12%) Salesforce
4 31 (3.75%) ServiceNow
5 29 (3.51%) Oracle
6 25 (3.03%) 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%) Foundry
13 7 (0.85%) Guidewire
14 6 (0.73%) Cloudera
14 6 (0.73%) HP
14 6 (0.73%) IBM
15 5 (0.61%) Cisco