Azure DevOps Contracts in London

Microsoft Azure DevOps
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Azure DevOps skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure DevOps over the 6 months leading up to 30 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 62 75
Rank change year-on-year -18 +13 -2
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 435 659 805
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 3.39% 3.77% 3.19%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.91% 9.50% 8.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 306 422 562
10th Percentile £350 £405 £425
25th Percentile £419 £455 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £659
90th Percentile £750 £675 £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 £59.50 £65.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -9.16% -6.43% +21.33%

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 5,496 6,939 9,979
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.84% 39.70% 39.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,724 5,096 7,361
10th Percentile £350 £350 £370
25th Percentile £425 £450 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £663 £675 £695
90th Percentile £788 £788 £788
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 63 74
10th Percentile £22.65 £18.22 £19.25
25th Percentile £24.75 £22.04 £25.00
Median hourly rate £32.25 £26.00 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +24.04% -53.78% +32.35%
75th Percentile £48.75 £38.44 £78.75
90th Percentile £67.50 £57.00 £89.49
England median hourly rate £25.15 £22.00 £32.30
% change year-on-year +14.32% -31.89% +52.81%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure DevOps in London.

Daily rate trend for Azure DevOps in London

Azure DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure DevOps in London over the 6 months to 30 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure DevOps in London

Azure DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure DevOps in London.

Hourly rate trend 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 30 June 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 -21 70 £543 +6.11% 107
East London +3 3 £585 +30.00% 42
South London -1 3 £525 +22.09% 8
West London +8 2 £548 +13.47% 28
North London - 1 £440 - 1
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 26 (5.98%) Confluence
2 17 (3.91%) SharePoint
3 14 (3.22%) Apache Spark
4 8 (1.84%) Apache
5 4 (0.92%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.69%) CMS
7 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.46%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.23%) Appian
8 1 (0.23%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.23%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.23%) IIS
8 1 (0.23%) nginx
8 1 (0.23%) SharePoint Server
8 1 (0.23%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (2.07%) Microsoft Project
2 6 (1.38%) MS Visio
3 5 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.46%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.46%) Trello
Business Applications
1 14 (3.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (2.30%) Endur
3 3 (0.69%) Aladdin
3 3 (0.69%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.69%) Unit4 Business World
4 2 (0.46%) Markit EDM
4 2 (0.46%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.46%) SAP BPC
4 2 (0.46%) Temenos T24
4 2 (0.46%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.23%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.23%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.23%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 435 (100.00%) Azure
2 68 (15.63%) AWS
3 62 (14.25%) Power Platform
4 55 (12.64%) GitHub
5 51 (11.72%) Azure Monitor
6 48 (11.03%) Azure Data Factory
7 43 (9.89%) Serverless
8 39 (8.97%) Azure AKS
9 36 (8.28%) Dynamics 365
10 34 (7.82%) PaaS
11 33 (7.59%) Entra ID
12 26 (5.98%) GitHub Actions
12 26 (5.98%) IaaS
12 26 (5.98%) Power Automate
12 26 (5.98%) PowerApps
13 25 (5.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 23 (5.29%) Azure Sentinel
14 23 (5.29%) Azure Service Bus
14 23 (5.29%) GCP
15 20 (4.60%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 32 (7.36%) Firewall
2 15 (3.45%) DNS
3 14 (3.22%) VPN
4 12 (2.76%) Network Security
4 12 (2.76%) SSL
5 11 (2.53%) HTTP
6 8 (1.84%) HTTPS
6 8 (1.84%) SMTP
7 7 (1.61%) FTP
7 7 (1.61%) TCP/IP
8 4 (0.92%) LAN
8 4 (0.92%) WAN
9 2 (0.46%) Remote Desktop
9 2 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.23%) DHCP
10 1 (0.23%) POP3
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (8.51%) Power BI
2 30 (6.90%) SQL Server
3 25 (5.75%) Azure SQL Database
4 24 (5.52%) PostgreSQL
4 24 (5.52%) Redis
5 22 (5.06%) Data Lake
6 13 (2.99%) NoSQL
7 11 (2.53%) Delta Lake
8 10 (2.30%) Big Data
8 10 (2.30%) Data Warehouse
9 9 (2.07%) Relational Database
10 7 (1.61%) Metadata
11 4 (0.92%) Apache Hive
11 4 (0.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (0.69%) Apache Cassandra
12 3 (0.69%) Hazelcast
12 3 (0.69%) MySQL
12 3 (0.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 2 (0.46%) Amazon Redshift
13 2 (0.46%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 59 (13.56%) JIRA
2 54 (12.41%) Jenkins
3 44 (10.11%) Git
4 34 (7.82%) GitLab
5 20 (4.60%) Selenium
6 16 (3.68%) JMeter
7 15 (3.45%) Postman
8 13 (2.99%) SonarQube
9 9 (2.07%) Appium
9 9 (2.07%) Octopus Deploy
9 9 (2.07%) TeamCity
10 8 (1.84%) Bitbucket
10 8 (1.84%) SpecFlow
11 7 (1.61%) LoadRunner
11 7 (1.61%) NUnit
11 7 (1.61%) Sonatype Nexus
12 6 (1.38%) JUnit
12 6 (1.38%) Maven
13 5 (1.15%) Cucumber
13 5 (1.15%) WebDriver
General
1 153 (35.17%) Social Skills
2 118 (27.13%) Finance
3 59 (13.56%) Analytical Skills
4 58 (13.33%) Banking
5 34 (7.82%) Investment Banking
6 24 (5.52%) Public Sector
7 19 (4.37%) Marketing
8 13 (2.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (2.53%) Documentation Skills
10 10 (2.30%) Front Office
10 10 (2.30%) Presentation Skills
11 7 (1.61%) Law
11 7 (1.61%) Retail
12 5 (1.15%) Back Office
12 5 (1.15%) Billing
12 5 (1.15%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.92%) Electronics
13 4 (0.92%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.69%) Private Banking
15 2 (0.46%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 96 (22.07%) Developer
2 75 (17.24%) Azure Engineer
3 49 (11.26%) DevOps Engineer
4 47 (10.80%) Senior
5 45 (10.34%) Lead
6 39 (8.97%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 38 (8.74%) Analyst
8 35 (8.05%) Architect
9 28 (6.44%) Data Engineer
10 23 (5.29%) Business Analyst
11 22 (5.06%) .NET Developer
11 22 (5.06%) Cloud Engineer
11 22 (5.06%) Lead Developer
12 21 (4.83%) Senior Developer
13 18 (4.14%) Project Manager
14 17 (3.91%) Azure Architect
14 17 (3.91%) C# Developer
14 17 (3.91%) Test Manager
15 15 (3.45%) Azure Developer
15 15 (3.45%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (17.93%) .NET
2 32 (7.36%) REST
3 27 (6.21%) ARM Templates
3 27 (6.21%) Kafka
4 25 (5.75%) .NET Core
5 22 (5.06%) ADO
6 20 (4.60%) HTML
6 20 (4.60%) YAML
7 19 (4.37%) SOAP
8 18 (4.14%) .NET Framework
8 18 (4.14%) ActiveMQ
8 18 (4.14%) CSS
9 17 (3.91%) PySpark
10 16 (3.68%) React
11 14 (3.22%) ASP.NET
11 14 (3.22%) JSON
12 12 (2.76%) AngularJS
13 11 (2.53%) RESTful
13 11 (2.53%) Web Services
14 10 (2.30%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 28 (6.44%) Product Ownership
2 22 (5.06%) Cloud Native
3 12 (2.76%) Greenfield Project
4 9 (2.07%) Algorithms
4 9 (2.07%) Derivative
4 9 (2.07%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (2.07%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (1.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 8 (1.84%) Low-Code
6 7 (1.61%) Data Structures
6 7 (1.61%) Market Risk
6 7 (1.61%) Mobile App
7 6 (1.38%) Fixed Income
7 6 (1.38%) Management Information System
8 5 (1.15%) Legacy Code
8 5 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (0.92%) Reinsurance
10 3 (0.69%) Clustering
10 3 (0.69%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 24 (5.52%) Linux
2 18 (4.14%) Windows
3 10 (2.30%) Android
3 10 (2.30%) Apple iOS
4 6 (1.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (1.38%) Unix
5 4 (0.92%) VMS
6 3 (0.69%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.46%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 435 (100.00%) DevOps
2 199 (45.75%) Agile
3 188 (43.22%) CI/CD
4 105 (24.14%) Infrastructure as Code
5 99 (22.76%) Problem-Solving
6 71 (16.32%) Scrum
7 67 (15.40%) Test Automation
8 66 (15.17%) Analytics
9 50 (11.49%) Stakeholder Management
10 44 (10.11%) Business Intelligence
10 44 (10.11%) Containerisation
11 43 (9.89%) Microservices
11 43 (9.89%) TDD
12 39 (8.97%) Data Engineering
12 39 (8.97%) Migration
13 34 (7.82%) Continuous Integration
14 33 (7.59%) BDD
14 33 (7.59%) Computer Science
15 31 (7.13%) Data Modelling
16 28 (6.44%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 118 (27.13%) Python
2 110 (25.29%) C#
2 110 (25.29%) SQL
3 88 (20.23%) PowerShell
4 73 (16.78%) JavaScript
5 70 (16.09%) Java
6 51 (11.72%) Bicep
7 32 (7.36%) Bash
8 15 (3.45%) TypeScript
9 13 (2.99%) Scala
10 10 (2.30%) Kusto Query Language
11 5 (1.15%) C++
11 5 (1.15%) Groovy
11 5 (1.15%) Ruby
12 4 (0.92%) Haskell
12 4 (0.92%) Perl
12 4 (0.92%) PHP
12 4 (0.92%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.46%) Korn
13 2 (0.46%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 58 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 47 (10.80%) SC Cleared
3 42 (9.66%) Degree
4 30 (6.90%) Azure Certification
5 19 (4.37%) Numerate Degree
6 10 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (2.07%) ISTQB
8 8 (1.84%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (1.38%) PMI Certification
9 6 (1.38%) PMP
10 3 (0.69%) CISSP
11 2 (0.46%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.46%) CISM
11 2 (0.46%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.46%) SAFe Agilist
11 2 (0.46%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.23%) CFA
12 1 (0.23%) CSPO
12 1 (0.23%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (8.74%) QA
2 19 (4.37%) Data Quality
3 9 (2.07%) Accessibility
4 8 (1.84%) GDPR
5 6 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.69%) NIST
6 3 (0.69%) Solvency II
7 2 (0.46%) EMIR
7 2 (0.46%) Government Security Classifications
7 2 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 2 (0.46%) NCSC
7 2 (0.46%) PMO
7 2 (0.46%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.23%) Dodd-Frank
8 1 (0.23%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.23%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.23%) SEPA
8 1 (0.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 48 (11.03%) Docker
2 25 (5.75%) Active Directory
3 16 (3.68%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.69%) OpenAM
4 3 (0.69%) OpenDJ
4 3 (0.69%) OpenIDM
4 3 (0.69%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.23%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 124 (28.51%) Terraform
2 74 (17.01%) Kubernetes
3 18 (4.14%) Ansible
4 13 (2.99%) Grafana
5 11 (2.53%) Prometheus
6 10 (2.30%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (2.07%) ITRS Geneos
8 7 (1.61%) HP ALM
8 7 (1.61%) Puppet
9 6 (1.38%) Microsoft Intune
10 5 (1.15%) Istio
11 4 (0.92%) Perfmon
11 4 (0.92%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.69%) Control-M
12 3 (0.69%) Rundeck
13 2 (0.46%) Argo
13 2 (0.46%) Jamf Pro
13 2 (0.46%) SCCM
14 1 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 1 (0.23%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 119 (27.36%) Microsoft
2 44 (10.11%) Databricks
3 13 (2.99%) ServiceNow
4 12 (2.76%) Workday
5 11 (2.53%) Google
6 10 (2.30%) SAP
7 8 (1.84%) HP
8 7 (1.61%) Cloudera
8 7 (1.61%) Oracle
9 6 (1.38%) Duck Creek
9 6 (1.38%) Guidewire
9 6 (1.38%) Salesforce
10 5 (1.15%) Cisco
10 5 (1.15%) Dynatrace
10 5 (1.15%) Red Hat
11 4 (0.92%) Murex
11 4 (0.92%) New Relic
12 3 (0.69%) Citrix
12 3 (0.69%) ForgeRock
13 2 (0.46%) MuleSoft