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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 62 75
Rank change year-on-year -14 +13 +9
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 459 613 677
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 3.42% 3.80% 3.09%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.89% 9.20% 7.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 408 472
10th Percentile £342 £380 £413
25th Percentile £405 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% -
75th Percentile £650 £614 £650
90th Percentile £750 £688 £725
England median daily rate £511 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.62% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £86.25 - -
Median hourly rate £87.50 - £8.00
75th Percentile £88.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £75.00 - £71.00
% change year-on-year - - +17.07%

All Cloud 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 5,815 6,660 8,697
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.29% 41.24% 39.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,955 4,663 6,448
10th Percentile £340 £350 £358
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% -4.35% -1.03%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £782
England median daily rate £501 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.67% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 47 64
10th Percentile £23.00 £22.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.15 £23.98 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.00 £30.59 £40.25
Median % change year-on-year +1.34% -24.00% +15.00%
75th Percentile £47.50 £51.25 £69.06
90th Percentile £78.75 £70.10 £88.97
England median hourly rate £26.30 £32.75 £33.00
% change year-on-year -19.69% -0.76% +53.49%

Azure DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Azure DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Azure DevOps 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 17 September 2025.

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
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 17 September 2025. 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 -28 62 £525 - 19
East London -2 5 £520 +18.86% 4
South London -12 3 £525 +34.47% 1
West London -9 1 £520 +10.64% 6
North London - 1 £440 -
Azure DevOps
England

Azure DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 32 (6.97%) Confluence
2 17 (3.70%) SharePoint
3 10 (2.18%) Apache
3 10 (2.18%) Apache Spark
4 7 (1.53%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.65%) CMS
5 3 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.44%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.22%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.22%) Appian
7 1 (0.22%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.22%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.22%) Mule
7 1 (0.22%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 11 (2.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (1.96%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.65%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.44%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.22%) Trello
Business Applications
1 14 (3.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (2.83%) Endur
3 7 (1.53%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.44%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.22%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.22%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.22%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.22%) Temenos T24
5 1 (0.22%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 459 (100.00%) Azure
2 88 (19.17%) Power Platform
3 73 (15.90%) GitHub
4 72 (15.69%) AWS
5 48 (10.46%) Azure AKS
5 48 (10.46%) Azure Data Factory
6 47 (10.24%) Azure Monitor
6 47 (10.24%) GitHub Actions
6 47 (10.24%) Serverless
7 41 (8.93%) Entra ID
7 41 (8.93%) PowerApps
8 40 (8.71%) Dynamics 365
9 38 (8.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 38 (8.28%) Power Automate
10 35 (7.63%) PaaS
11 27 (5.88%) Azure Logic Apps
11 27 (5.88%) Azure Service Bus
11 27 (5.88%) GCP
12 26 (5.66%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 26 (5.66%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 28 (6.10%) Firewall
2 14 (3.05%) DNS
3 13 (2.83%) VPN
4 11 (2.40%) Network Security
4 11 (2.40%) SSL
5 9 (1.96%) HTTP
6 7 (1.53%) HTTPS
6 7 (1.53%) SMTP
7 6 (1.31%) FTP
7 6 (1.31%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.65%) LAN
8 3 (0.65%) Remote Desktop
8 3 (0.65%) WAN
9 2 (0.44%) DHCP
9 2 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.22%) BGP
10 1 (0.22%) DSL
10 1 (0.22%) IPsec
10 1 (0.22%) POP3
10 1 (0.22%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (12.20%) Power BI
2 27 (5.88%) SQL Server
3 21 (4.58%) Azure SQL Database
4 20 (4.36%) Data Lake
4 20 (4.36%) PostgreSQL
5 18 (3.92%) Redis
6 17 (3.70%) NoSQL
7 16 (3.49%) Delta Lake
8 14 (3.05%) Data Warehouse
8 14 (3.05%) MongoDB
9 11 (2.40%) Relational Database
10 9 (1.96%) Metadata
11 7 (1.53%) Big Data
12 6 (1.31%) Elasticsearch
13 4 (0.87%) Data Mart
14 3 (0.65%) MySQL
14 3 (0.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 2 (0.44%) BigQuery
15 2 (0.44%) Snowflake Schema
15 2 (0.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 80 (17.43%) JIRA
2 57 (12.42%) Git
3 44 (9.59%) Jenkins
4 33 (7.19%) GitLab
5 19 (4.14%) Selenium
6 16 (3.49%) Postman
7 15 (3.27%) SonarQube
8 12 (2.61%) TeamCity
9 9 (1.96%) Cucumber
10 8 (1.74%) Appium
10 8 (1.74%) Bitbucket
10 8 (1.74%) NUnit
10 8 (1.74%) Octopus Deploy
11 7 (1.53%) JMeter
11 7 (1.53%) JUnit
11 7 (1.53%) WebDriver
12 6 (1.31%) SpecFlow
13 5 (1.09%) Gradle
13 5 (1.09%) Maven
13 5 (1.09%) TestNG
General
1 154 (33.55%) Social Skills
2 111 (24.18%) Finance
3 50 (10.89%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (10.68%) Banking
5 30 (6.54%) Investment Banking
6 29 (6.32%) Public Sector
7 19 (4.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 16 (3.49%) Documentation Skills
9 15 (3.27%) Marketing
10 10 (2.18%) Law
10 10 (2.18%) Retail
11 8 (1.74%) Front Office
12 7 (1.53%) Back Office
13 4 (0.87%) Financial Institution
13 4 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.65%) Billing
14 3 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.65%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.65%) Telecoms
15 2 (0.44%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 111 (24.18%) Developer
2 73 (15.90%) Azure Engineer
3 53 (11.55%) DevOps Engineer
4 45 (9.80%) Senior
5 40 (8.71%) Analyst
5 40 (8.71%) Architect
5 40 (8.71%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 40 (8.71%) Lead
6 33 (7.19%) Data Engineer
7 27 (5.88%) Business Analyst
8 23 (5.01%) Senior Developer
9 22 (4.79%) Azure Developer
9 22 (4.79%) C# Developer
10 21 (4.58%) Project Manager
11 18 (3.92%) .NET Developer
11 18 (3.92%) Azure Architect
12 16 (3.49%) Lead Developer
13 15 (3.27%) Platform Engineer
14 14 (3.05%) Test Engineer
15 13 (2.83%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (19.61%) .NET
2 42 (9.15%) REST
3 31 (6.75%) SOAP
4 28 (6.10%) ARM Templates
5 27 (5.88%) RESTful
6 25 (5.45%) .NET Core
6 25 (5.45%) Kafka
6 25 (5.45%) React
7 24 (5.23%) YAML
8 22 (4.79%) ADO
8 22 (4.79%) PySpark
9 21 (4.58%) HTML
10 17 (3.70%) .NET Framework
10 17 (3.70%) ASP.NET
11 16 (3.49%) CSS
12 14 (3.05%) ActiveMQ
13 13 (2.83%) JSON
13 13 (2.83%) Node.js
14 12 (2.61%) XML
15 10 (2.18%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 31 (6.75%) Cloud Native
2 17 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (3.49%) Product Ownership
4 11 (2.40%) Greenfield Project
5 10 (2.18%) CMDB
5 10 (2.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 10 (2.18%) Mobile App
6 9 (1.96%) Data Structures
6 9 (1.96%) Fixed Income
6 9 (1.96%) Hybrid Cloud
7 8 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (1.74%) Reinsurance
8 7 (1.53%) Algorithms
8 7 (1.53%) Low-Code
8 7 (1.53%) Management Information System
9 6 (1.31%) Linux Command Line
10 5 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.09%) Derivative
10 5 (1.09%) Onboarding
10 5 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 21 (4.58%) Linux
2 19 (4.14%) Windows
3 12 (2.61%) Android
3 12 (2.61%) Apple iOS
4 9 (1.96%) Unix
5 3 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.65%) VMS
5 3 (0.65%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.22%) Solaris
6 1 (0.22%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.22%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 459 (100.00%) DevOps
2 234 (50.98%) Agile
3 219 (47.71%) CI/CD
4 113 (24.62%) Infrastructure as Code
5 88 (19.17%) Scrum
6 86 (18.74%) Problem-Solving
7 76 (16.56%) Test Automation
8 74 (16.12%) Analytics
9 58 (12.64%) Business Intelligence
10 52 (11.33%) Migration
11 50 (10.89%) Data Engineering
12 48 (10.46%) TDD
13 46 (10.02%) Microservices
14 44 (9.59%) Containerisation
15 41 (8.93%) Data Modelling
16 39 (8.50%) ETL
17 37 (8.06%) Continuous Integration
18 36 (7.84%) Artificial Intelligence
18 36 (7.84%) Stakeholder Management
19 35 (7.63%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 120 (26.14%) SQL
2 115 (25.05%) C#
3 114 (24.84%) Python
4 80 (17.43%) PowerShell
5 68 (14.81%) JavaScript
6 54 (11.76%) Bicep
7 47 (10.24%) Java
8 32 (6.97%) Bash
9 18 (3.92%) TypeScript
10 6 (1.31%) Kusto Query Language
11 4 (0.87%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.65%) Go
12 3 (0.65%) Groovy
12 3 (0.65%) Scala
12 3 (0.65%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.65%) VB.NET
13 2 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.44%) Haskell
13 2 (0.44%) Korn
13 2 (0.44%) VB
Qualifications
1 71 (15.47%) Security Cleared
2 59 (12.85%) SC Cleared
3 43 (9.37%) Degree
4 34 (7.41%) Azure Certification
5 14 (3.05%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (3.05%) Numerate Degree
6 13 (2.83%) Microsoft Certification
7 10 (2.18%) ISTQB
8 9 (1.96%) PMI Certification
9 7 (1.53%) Master's Degree
9 7 (1.53%) PMP
10 5 (1.09%) DV Cleared
11 4 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (0.87%) CISSP
12 2 (0.44%) CBAP
12 2 (0.44%) CISM
12 2 (0.44%) SAFe Agilist
12 2 (0.44%) TOGAF Certification
13 1 (0.22%) CAPM
13 1 (0.22%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (6.54%) QA
2 24 (5.23%) Data Quality
3 17 (3.70%) GDPR
4 15 (3.27%) Accessibility
5 10 (2.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (1.74%) NIST
7 3 (0.65%) NCSC
7 3 (0.65%) Solvency II
7 3 (0.65%) WCAG
8 2 (0.44%) Government Security Classifications
8 2 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 2 (0.44%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.22%) Dodd-Frank
9 1 (0.22%) EMIR
9 1 (0.22%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.22%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.22%) PMO
9 1 (0.22%) SEPA
System Software
1 59 (12.85%) Docker
2 28 (6.10%) Active Directory
3 14 (3.05%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (1.09%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.44%) OpenAM
5 2 (0.44%) OpenDJ
5 2 (0.44%) OpenIDM
6 1 (0.22%) KVM
6 1 (0.22%) Squid
Systems Management
1 114 (24.84%) Terraform
2 79 (17.21%) Kubernetes
3 25 (5.45%) Ansible
4 12 (2.61%) Grafana
5 11 (2.40%) Prometheus
6 9 (1.96%) ITRS Geneos
7 8 (1.74%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (1.53%) Kibana
8 7 (1.53%) Progress Chef
9 6 (1.31%) HP ALM
10 5 (1.09%) Microsoft Intune
10 5 (1.09%) Puppet
11 4 (0.87%) Istio
12 3 (0.65%) Argo
13 2 (0.44%) Jamf Pro
13 2 (0.44%) Packer
13 2 (0.44%) SCCM
14 1 (0.22%) Fluentd
14 1 (0.22%) Kustomize
14 1 (0.22%) linkerd
Vendors
1 137 (29.85%) Microsoft
2 51 (11.11%) Databricks
3 21 (4.58%) ServiceNow
4 15 (3.27%) Salesforce
5 8 (1.74%) Murex
6 7 (1.53%) DocuSign
6 7 (1.53%) Google
6 7 (1.53%) Guidewire
6 7 (1.53%) OpenAI
7 6 (1.31%) Duck Creek
7 6 (1.31%) HP
7 6 (1.31%) SAP
8 5 (1.09%) MuleSoft
8 5 (1.09%) Oracle
8 5 (1.09%) Workday
9 3 (0.65%) Cisco
9 3 (0.65%) Cloudera
9 3 (0.65%) UiPath
10 2 (0.44%) Dell
10 2 (0.44%) Sitecore