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 18 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 72 77
Rank change year-on-year -5 +5 +10
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 497 510 596
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.56% 3.29% 2.96%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.03% 8.04% 7.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 347 349 436
10th Percentile £350 £381 £425
25th Percentile £413 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £641 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £700 £731
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £50.03 - -
25th Percentile £56.06 - -
Median hourly rate £66.75 - -
75th Percentile £78.06 - -
90th Percentile £84.48 - -
England median hourly rate £74.63 £73.75 £62.00
% change year-on-year +1.19% +18.95% -5.76%

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 6,188 6,341 7,765
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.29% 40.90% 38.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,188 4,306 5,697
10th Percentile £350 £350 £330
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £500 £535 £525
% change year-on-year -6.54% +1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 124 34 68
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.78 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £25.74 £35.00 £38.38
Median % change year-on-year -26.47% -8.79% +51.98%
75th Percentile £42.44 £55.25 £60.94
90th Percentile £76.88 £65.33 £85.47
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £28.61
% change year-on-year -28.14% +22.33% +30.05%

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 18 November 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Azure DevOps in London over the 6 months to 18 November 2025.

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 18 November 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 -17 67 £550 - 126
South London -8 6 £500 +31.58% 1
East London -3 2 £440 - 7
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 29 (5.84%) Confluence
2 25 (5.03%) SharePoint
3 13 (2.62%) Apache
4 9 (1.81%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (1.81%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.80%) CMS
5 4 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.40%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.20%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.20%) Appian
7 1 (0.20%) HCL Notes
7 1 (0.20%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.20%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.20%) Kentico
7 1 (0.20%) Mule
Applications
1 12 (2.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.61%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (1.41%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (1.41%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.60%) Trello
Business Applications
1 25 (5.03%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (2.01%) Aladdin
3 9 (1.81%) Endur
4 4 (0.80%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.20%) Orchestrade
6 1 (0.20%) SAP BPC
6 1 (0.20%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 497 (100.00%) Azure
2 110 (22.13%) GitHub
3 109 (21.93%) Power Platform
4 76 (15.29%) GitHub Actions
5 69 (13.88%) AWS
6 62 (12.47%) Serverless
7 60 (12.07%) Azure Data Factory
8 59 (11.87%) Azure AKS
9 57 (11.47%) Azure Monitor
10 54 (10.87%) Dynamics 365
11 49 (9.86%) Entra ID
12 46 (9.26%) Azure Logic Apps
13 43 (8.65%) PowerApps
14 42 (8.45%) Power Automate
15 40 (8.05%) Azure Functions
16 39 (7.85%) Azure Service Bus
16 39 (7.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 31 (6.24%) Azure Key Vault
18 30 (6.04%) Azure Cosmos DB
19 29 (5.84%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 28 (5.63%) Firewall
2 14 (2.82%) DNS
2 14 (2.82%) Network Security
2 14 (2.82%) VPN
3 8 (1.61%) WAN
4 5 (1.01%) SD-WAN
5 3 (0.60%) HTTPS
5 3 (0.60%) LAN
5 3 (0.60%) SSL
6 2 (0.40%) DHCP
6 2 (0.40%) MPLS
6 2 (0.40%) Remote Desktop
6 2 (0.40%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.20%) BGP
7 1 (0.20%) DSL
7 1 (0.20%) HTTP
7 1 (0.20%) IPsec
7 1 (0.20%) VLAN
7 1 (0.20%) VRRP
7 1 (0.20%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (13.28%) Power BI
2 36 (7.24%) SQL Server
3 24 (4.83%) Azure SQL Database
4 23 (4.63%) Data Warehouse
5 22 (4.43%) Data Lake
6 17 (3.42%) Delta Lake
6 17 (3.42%) PostgreSQL
7 15 (3.02%) NoSQL
8 14 (2.82%) MongoDB
9 11 (2.21%) Redis
10 9 (1.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 8 (1.61%) Relational Database
12 7 (1.41%) DynamoDB
12 7 (1.41%) Elasticsearch
12 7 (1.41%) Metadata
12 7 (1.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 6 (1.21%) Star Schema
14 4 (0.80%) Data Mart
14 4 (0.80%) Snowflake Schema
14 4 (0.80%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 97 (19.52%) JIRA
2 73 (14.69%) Git
3 44 (8.85%) Jenkins
4 33 (6.64%) GitLab
5 25 (5.03%) Selenium
6 16 (3.22%) Postman
7 14 (2.82%) SonarQube
8 12 (2.41%) Cucumber
8 12 (2.41%) JUnit
9 9 (1.81%) SpecFlow
10 8 (1.61%) Appium
10 8 (1.61%) JMeter
10 8 (1.61%) Mockito
10 8 (1.61%) Team Foundation Server
10 8 (1.61%) TeamCity
11 7 (1.41%) Bitbucket
11 7 (1.41%) NUnit
11 7 (1.41%) WebDriver
12 6 (1.21%) Cypress.io
12 6 (1.21%) Visual Studio
General
1 169 (34.00%) Social Skills
2 114 (22.94%) Finance
3 53 (10.66%) Analytical Skills
4 47 (9.46%) Public Sector
5 40 (8.05%) Banking
6 25 (5.03%) Investment Banking
7 24 (4.83%) Documentation Skills
7 24 (4.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 16 (3.22%) Retail
9 14 (2.82%) Influencing Skills
9 14 (2.82%) Law
10 12 (2.41%) Marketing
11 8 (1.61%) Back Office
12 6 (1.21%) Front Office
12 6 (1.21%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.01%) Military
14 4 (0.80%) Financial Institution
15 3 (0.60%) Billing
15 3 (0.60%) General Ledger
15 3 (0.60%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 130 (26.16%) Developer
2 69 (13.88%) Azure Engineer
3 61 (12.27%) DevOps Engineer
4 46 (9.26%) Senior
5 44 (8.85%) Analyst
6 40 (8.05%) Lead
7 37 (7.44%) Architect
8 36 (7.24%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 35 (7.04%) Data Engineer
10 32 (6.44%) Business Analyst
11 22 (4.43%) Azure Developer
12 21 (4.23%) Azure Architect
13 19 (3.82%) Tester
14 17 (3.42%) Platform Engineer
14 17 (3.42%) Test Engineer
15 16 (3.22%) Azure Data Engineer
15 16 (3.22%) Senior Developer
15 16 (3.22%) ServiceNow Developer
16 14 (2.82%) C# Developer
17 13 (2.62%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (22.33%) .NET
2 56 (11.27%) REST
3 40 (8.05%) SOAP
4 33 (6.64%) Node.js
5 30 (6.04%) ARM Templates
5 30 (6.04%) React
5 30 (6.04%) RESTful
5 30 (6.04%) YAML
6 23 (4.63%) .NET Core
6 23 (4.63%) Kafka
6 23 (4.63%) PySpark
7 22 (4.43%) .NET Framework
7 22 (4.43%) HTML
8 20 (4.02%) ADO
9 17 (3.42%) CSS
10 16 (3.22%) AngularJS
10 16 (3.22%) ASP.NET
11 15 (3.02%) Playwright
12 14 (2.82%) Web Services
12 14 (2.82%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 42 (8.45%) Cloud Native
2 22 (4.43%) Product Ownership
3 20 (4.02%) Distributed Systems
4 19 (3.82%) CMDB
5 15 (3.02%) Legacy Systems
6 13 (2.62%) Enterprise Software
7 11 (2.21%) Fixed Income
7 11 (2.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 10 (2.01%) AI Agents
9 9 (1.81%) Data Structures
9 9 (1.81%) Reinsurance
10 8 (1.61%) Mobile App
11 7 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
11 7 (1.41%) Hybrid Cloud
11 7 (1.41%) Public Cloud
12 6 (1.21%) Derivative
13 5 (1.01%) Analytical Mindset
13 5 (1.01%) Linux Command Line
13 5 (1.01%) PMI
13 5 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 18 (3.62%) Linux
2 16 (3.22%) Windows
3 7 (1.41%) Android
3 7 (1.41%) Apple iOS
3 7 (1.41%) Unix
4 4 (0.80%) VMS
5 3 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.60%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.20%) Solaris
6 1 (0.20%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.20%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 496 (99.80%) DevOps
2 265 (53.32%) CI/CD
3 259 (52.11%) Agile
4 135 (27.16%) Infrastructure as Code
5 106 (21.33%) Problem-Solving
6 100 (20.12%) Analytics
7 97 (19.52%) Scrum
8 88 (17.71%) Test Automation
9 69 (13.88%) Business Intelligence
10 63 (12.68%) Microservices
11 58 (11.67%) Containerisation
11 58 (11.67%) Migration
12 56 (11.27%) Continuous Improvement
13 55 (11.07%) AI
14 49 (9.86%) Data Modelling
14 49 (9.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 48 (9.66%) Data Engineering
16 46 (9.26%) Stakeholder Management
16 46 (9.26%) TDD
17 44 (8.85%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 153 (30.78%) SQL
2 145 (29.18%) Python
3 123 (24.75%) C#
4 91 (18.31%) JavaScript
5 64 (12.88%) PowerShell
6 52 (10.46%) Java
7 50 (10.06%) Bicep
8 33 (6.64%) Bash
8 33 (6.64%) TypeScript
9 7 (1.41%) T-SQL
10 6 (1.21%) Kusto Query Language
10 6 (1.21%) VB.NET
11 4 (0.80%) Go
11 4 (0.80%) Korn
11 4 (0.80%) PL/SQL
11 4 (0.80%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.60%) X++
13 2 (0.40%) R
13 2 (0.40%) Ruby
13 2 (0.40%) Scala
Qualifications
1 102 (20.52%) Security Cleared
2 88 (17.71%) SC Cleared
3 46 (9.26%) Degree
4 41 (8.25%) Azure Certification
5 22 (4.43%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (3.82%) Microsoft Certification
7 14 (2.82%) ISTQB
8 10 (2.01%) PMI Certification
9 8 (1.61%) Master's Degree
10 7 (1.41%) Numerate Degree
11 6 (1.21%) PMP
12 5 (1.01%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 4 (0.80%) CBAP
13 4 (0.80%) CISSP
13 4 (0.80%) DV Cleared
13 4 (0.80%) ISEB
13 4 (0.80%) ITIL Certification
14 3 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
15 2 (0.40%) CISM
15 2 (0.40%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (7.44%) QA
2 25 (5.03%) Data Quality
3 19 (3.82%) GDPR
4 17 (3.42%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (1.41%) NIST
7 5 (1.01%) NCSC
8 4 (0.80%) WCAG
9 3 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.60%) Solvency II
10 2 (0.40%) EU AI Act
10 2 (0.40%) Government Security Classifications
10 2 (0.40%) PMO
11 1 (0.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.20%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 1 (0.20%) SEPA
11 1 (0.20%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 78 (15.69%) Docker
2 33 (6.64%) Active Directory
3 12 (2.41%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (1.01%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.20%) KVM
6 1 (0.20%) Squid
Systems Management
1 139 (27.97%) Terraform
2 80 (16.10%) Kubernetes
3 35 (7.04%) Ansible
4 16 (3.22%) Grafana
5 14 (2.82%) Prometheus
6 7 (1.41%) Kibana
6 7 (1.41%) Progress Chef
7 5 (1.01%) Argo
7 5 (1.01%) Puppet
8 4 (0.80%) Istio
8 4 (0.80%) ITRS Geneos
8 4 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (0.60%) Packer
10 2 (0.40%) Fluentd
10 2 (0.40%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.40%) Opsgenie
10 2 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.20%) HP ALM
11 1 (0.20%) linkerd
11 1 (0.20%) SCCM
Vendors
1 165 (33.20%) Microsoft
2 66 (13.28%) Databricks
3 30 (6.04%) ServiceNow
4 18 (3.62%) OpenAI
5 17 (3.42%) Salesforce
6 12 (2.41%) Oracle
7 11 (2.21%) SAP
8 8 (1.61%) Murex
9 7 (1.41%) DocuSign
9 7 (1.41%) Guidewire
10 6 (1.21%) Duck Creek
10 6 (1.21%) Google
10 6 (1.21%) UiPath
11 5 (1.01%) Aruba
11 5 (1.01%) Cisco
11 5 (1.01%) Sitecore
12 3 (0.60%) Brio
12 3 (0.60%) Charles River
12 3 (0.60%) OpenLink
12 3 (0.60%) VMware