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

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 87 61
Rank change year-on-year +26 -26 +19
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 717 398 628
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.09% 3.12% 3.51%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.45% 7.37% 9.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 511 283 404
10th Percentile £363 £379 £410
25th Percentile £415 £445 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £535 £528
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +1.42% -4.09%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £625
90th Percentile £725 £750 £688
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 £42.75 £67.50 £65.50
% change year-on-year -36.67% +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 7,584 5,403 6,719
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.29% 42.41% 37.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,226 3,755 4,939
10th Percentile £350 £357 £331
25th Percentile £425 £440 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 54 76
10th Percentile £19.23 £22.27 £17.78
25th Percentile £25.36 £24.66 £21.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +11.81% -28.77%
75th Percentile £52.96 £53.75 £40.66
90th Percentile £72.50 £71.88 £61.25
England median hourly rate £45.00 £26.45 £20.97
% change year-on-year +70.13% +26.13% -28.92%

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 24 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 24 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 24 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 -3 77 £524 -3.23% 31
South London +5 17 £500 +1.01% 1
West London -22 6 £375 -21.05% 9
East London -5 2 £604 +12.28% 4
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 45 (6.28%) SharePoint
2 31 (4.32%) Apache Spark
3 28 (3.91%) Confluence
4 23 (3.21%) Apache
5 15 (2.09%) Apache Airflow
6 12 (1.67%) Microsoft Exchange
7 11 (1.53%) HCL Notes
8 10 (1.39%) Mendix
9 3 (0.42%) CMS
9 3 (0.42%) IIS
10 2 (0.28%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.14%) IBM HTTP Server
11 1 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.14%) SAS
Applications
1 24 (3.35%) Microsoft Project
2 9 (1.26%) MS Visio
3 6 (0.84%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.14%) Trello
Business Applications
1 35 (4.88%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.84%) Dynamics AX
3 5 (0.70%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.56%) SAP BPC
5 3 (0.42%) Findur
5 3 (0.42%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 2 (0.28%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.28%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.14%) Endur
7 1 (0.14%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.14%) Maximo
7 1 (0.14%) NEC Housing
7 1 (0.14%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle Financials
7 1 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.14%) SAP CS
7 1 (0.14%) SAP GTS
7 1 (0.14%) SAP LE
7 1 (0.14%) SAP SD
7 1 (0.14%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 717 (100.00%) Azure
2 207 (28.87%) GitHub
3 125 (17.43%) GitHub Actions
3 125 (17.43%) Power Platform
4 97 (13.53%) AWS
5 96 (13.39%) Azure Data Factory
6 76 (10.60%) Azure AKS
7 73 (10.18%) Azure Monitor
8 72 (10.04%) Serverless
9 69 (9.62%) Entra ID
10 65 (9.07%) Dynamics 365
11 64 (8.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 58 (8.09%) Azure Key Vault
12 58 (8.09%) Power Automate
13 57 (7.95%) Azure Logic Apps
14 52 (7.25%) Azure Service Bus
15 44 (6.14%) Azure Functions
16 39 (5.44%) Microsoft 365
17 38 (5.30%) PowerApps
18 33 (4.60%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 21 (2.93%) Firewall
2 12 (1.67%) Network Security
3 11 (1.53%) DNS
4 7 (0.98%) VPN
5 6 (0.84%) WAN
6 5 (0.70%) SD-WAN
7 3 (0.42%) FTP
7 3 (0.42%) Remote Desktop
8 2 (0.28%) HTTP
8 2 (0.28%) Internet
8 2 (0.28%) SSH
8 2 (0.28%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.28%) X.509
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
9 1 (0.14%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (11.44%) SQL Server
2 69 (9.62%) Power BI
3 58 (8.09%) Data Lake
4 47 (6.56%) Azure SQL Database
4 47 (6.56%) Delta Lake
5 46 (6.42%) Data Warehouse
6 30 (4.18%) NoSQL
7 19 (2.65%) Oracle Database
8 15 (2.09%) Spark SQL
8 15 (2.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 14 (1.95%) PostgreSQL
10 13 (1.81%) MongoDB
10 13 (1.81%) Snowflake Schema
11 12 (1.67%) Big Data
11 12 (1.67%) Relational Database
12 11 (1.53%) Metadata
13 10 (1.39%) Redis
13 10 (1.39%) Tableau
14 9 (1.26%) Amazon Redshift
14 9 (1.26%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 135 (18.83%) JIRA
2 107 (14.92%) Git
3 64 (8.93%) Jenkins
4 34 (4.74%) GitLab
5 29 (4.04%) Selenium
6 16 (2.23%) Postman
7 14 (1.95%) Cypress.io
8 11 (1.53%) REST Assured
8 11 (1.53%) TestRail
9 10 (1.39%) MLflow
9 10 (1.39%) SpecFlow
9 10 (1.39%) Team Foundation Server
9 10 (1.39%) Zephyr
10 9 (1.26%) Cucumber
10 9 (1.26%) SonarQube
11 7 (0.98%) JUnit
12 6 (0.84%) Artifactory
12 6 (0.84%) Visual Studio
13 5 (0.70%) webpack
14 4 (0.56%) Liquibase
General
1 197 (27.48%) Finance
2 169 (23.57%) Social Skills
3 79 (11.02%) Analytical Skills
4 65 (9.07%) Public Sector
5 48 (6.69%) Banking
6 18 (2.51%) Financial Institution
7 16 (2.23%) Front Office
8 15 (2.09%) Documentation Skills
9 13 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 12 (1.67%) Investment Banking
11 11 (1.53%) Retail
12 9 (1.26%) Organisational Skills
12 9 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
13 6 (0.84%) Legal
14 5 (0.70%) Marketing
15 3 (0.42%) Law
15 3 (0.42%) Local Government
15 3 (0.42%) Pharmaceutical
16 2 (0.28%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 136 (18.97%) Developer
2 107 (14.92%) Azure Engineer
3 103 (14.37%) Senior
4 90 (12.55%) Data Engineer
5 83 (11.58%) DevOps Engineer
6 58 (8.09%) Lead
7 52 (7.25%) Architect
8 50 (6.97%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 46 (6.42%) Analyst
10 30 (4.18%) Azure Developer
11 29 (4.04%) Platform Engineer
12 27 (3.77%) Azure Architect
13 26 (3.63%) Tester
14 23 (3.21%) IT Support
15 21 (2.93%) Test Analyst
16 20 (2.79%) Business Analyst
16 20 (2.79%) Cloud Engineer
16 20 (2.79%) Support Engineer
17 19 (2.65%) IT Engineer
17 19 (2.65%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 124 (17.29%) .NET
2 58 (8.09%) PySpark
3 48 (6.69%) React
3 48 (6.69%) REST
4 43 (6.00%) Node.js
5 32 (4.46%) Kafka
6 29 (4.04%) ADO
7 28 (3.91%) AngularJS
7 28 (3.91%) JSON
8 27 (3.77%) .NET Core
8 27 (3.77%) .NET Framework
8 27 (3.77%) Playwright
8 27 (3.77%) YAML
9 25 (3.49%) ARM Templates
10 24 (3.35%) CSS
10 24 (3.35%) HTML
10 24 (3.35%) OAuth
11 21 (2.93%) RESTful
12 18 (2.51%) XML
13 17 (2.37%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 81 (11.30%) Cloud Native
2 34 (4.74%) Product Ownership
3 31 (4.32%) Legacy Systems
4 27 (3.77%) Distributed Systems
5 20 (2.79%) Enterprise Software
6 18 (2.51%) Reinsurance
7 16 (2.23%) Low-Code
8 15 (2.09%) AI Agents
9 12 (1.67%) Onboarding
10 10 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
10 10 (1.39%) Replication
11 8 (1.12%) Data Structures
11 8 (1.12%) NHS
11 8 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
12 7 (0.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 7 (0.98%) Public Cloud
13 6 (0.84%) Management Information System
14 5 (0.70%) Enterprise Cloud
14 5 (0.70%) Virtual Team
15 4 (0.56%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 44 (6.14%) Windows
2 21 (2.93%) Linux
3 9 (1.26%) VMS
3 9 (1.26%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.70%) Unix
5 2 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 711 (99.16%) DevOps
2 405 (56.49%) CI/CD
3 263 (36.68%) Agile
4 175 (24.41%) Infrastructure as Code
5 134 (18.69%) Analytics
6 122 (17.02%) Problem-Solving
7 119 (16.60%) Test Automation
8 107 (14.92%) Migration
9 101 (14.09%) Data Modelling
10 99 (13.81%) AI
11 98 (13.67%) Continuous Improvement
12 89 (12.41%) Data Pipeline
13 85 (11.85%) Microservices
14 84 (11.72%) Business Intelligence
15 82 (11.44%) Observability
16 81 (11.30%) Containerisation
16 81 (11.30%) Scrum
17 77 (10.74%) Stakeholder Management
18 72 (10.04%) ETL
19 71 (9.90%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 268 (37.38%) SQL
2 212 (29.57%) Python
3 158 (22.04%) C#
4 79 (11.02%) JavaScript
5 70 (9.76%) PowerShell
6 69 (9.62%) Bicep
7 56 (7.81%) TypeScript
8 50 (6.97%) Java
9 42 (5.86%) Bash
10 24 (3.35%) Scala
11 18 (2.51%) T-SQL
12 12 (1.67%) Kusto Query Language
13 11 (1.53%) Formula Language
13 11 (1.53%) LotusScript
14 10 (1.39%) PL/SQL
15 7 (0.98%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 5 (0.70%) Go
16 5 (0.70%) Shell Script
17 4 (0.56%) R
17 4 (0.56%) XPath
Qualifications
1 183 (25.52%) Security Cleared
2 164 (22.87%) SC Cleared
3 64 (8.93%) Azure Certification
4 36 (5.02%) Degree
5 19 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (2.37%) BPSS Clearance
6 17 (2.37%) ISTQB
7 15 (2.09%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (0.98%) PMI Certification
8 7 (0.98%) PMP
9 6 (0.84%) DV Cleared
9 6 (0.84%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.56%) AWS Certification
10 4 (0.56%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.28%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.28%) ISEB
11 2 (0.28%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.28%) MBA
12 1 (0.14%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (11.30%) QA
2 66 (9.21%) Data Quality
3 16 (2.23%) GDPR
4 14 (1.95%) Accessibility
5 9 (1.26%) PMO
5 9 (1.26%) WCAG
6 7 (0.98%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 6 (0.84%) NIST
8 4 (0.56%) NCSC
8 4 (0.56%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.56%) SLA
9 3 (0.42%) HIPAA
9 3 (0.42%) HL7
10 2 (0.28%) FedRAMP
10 2 (0.28%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 2 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 1 (0.14%) EMIR
11 1 (0.14%) Government Security Classifications
11 1 (0.14%) MiFID
11 1 (0.14%) P3O
System Software
1 109 (15.20%) Docker
2 45 (6.28%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.26%) Virtual Desktop
4 7 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.28%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.28%) Microsoft App-V
6 2 (0.28%) OpenSSH
7 1 (0.14%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 208 (29.01%) Terraform
2 126 (17.57%) Kubernetes
3 35 (4.88%) Ansible
4 15 (2.09%) Grafana
5 11 (1.53%) Prometheus
6 7 (0.98%) HP ALM
6 7 (0.98%) Packer
7 6 (0.84%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (0.70%) Progress Chef
8 5 (0.70%) Puppet
9 3 (0.42%) Argo
10 2 (0.28%) Istio
10 2 (0.28%) Kubeflow
10 2 (0.28%) Opsgenie
10 2 (0.28%) SCCM
10 2 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.14%) CASB
11 1 (0.14%) Fluentd
11 1 (0.14%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.14%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 231 (32.22%) Microsoft
2 110 (15.34%) Databricks
3 57 (7.95%) Oracle
4 33 (4.60%) ServiceNow
5 26 (3.63%) OpenAI
6 21 (2.93%) Salesforce
7 16 (2.23%) SAP
8 15 (2.09%) Informatica
9 12 (1.67%) VMware
10 11 (1.53%) Lotus
11 10 (1.39%) Foundry
11 10 (1.39%) Kofax
12 9 (1.26%) Splunk
13 7 (0.98%) Bloomberg
13 7 (0.98%) HP
14 5 (0.70%) Citrix
14 5 (0.70%) Dynatrace
14 5 (0.70%) Refinitiv
15 4 (0.56%) Cloudera
15 4 (0.56%) Hortonworks