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 10 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 82 74
Rank change year-on-year +10 -8 +5
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 585 421 530
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.90% 3.13% 2.86%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.80% 7.50% 7.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 416 284 396
10th Percentile £358 £391 £425
25th Percentile £413 £462 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £573
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -3.93% -0.43%
75th Percentile £609 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
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 £46.53 - -
25th Percentile £47.31 - -
Median hourly rate £49.25 - -
75th Percentile £51.81 - -
90th Percentile £52.98 - -
England median hourly rate £74.63 £73.75 £65.50
% change year-on-year +1.19% +12.60% -0.44%

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 6,645 5,611 6,924
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.30% 41.69% 37.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,549 3,723 5,124
10th Percentile £347 £354 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £638 £673 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £763
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 48 77
10th Percentile £18.09 £22.27 £17.47
25th Percentile £21.23 £24.09 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.65 £32.75 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.36% +7.38% +3.39%
75th Percentile £55.88 £56.50 £53.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £69.38 £61.00
England median hourly rate £35.91 £27.50 £22.15
% change year-on-year +30.58% +24.15% -11.40%

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 10 February 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
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 10 February 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 -8 71 £550 - 41
South London 0 12 £500 +31.28%
West London -22 3 £375 -21.05% 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 38 (6.50%) SharePoint
2 29 (4.96%) Confluence
3 20 (3.42%) Apache Spark
4 13 (2.22%) Apache
5 10 (1.71%) HCL Notes
6 9 (1.54%) Mendix
7 8 (1.37%) Microsoft Exchange
8 7 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.51%) CMS
9 3 (0.51%) IIS
10 2 (0.34%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.17%) Kentico
11 1 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 11 (1.88%) Microsoft Project
2 10 (1.71%) MS Visio
3 9 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.34%) Trello
Business Applications
1 33 (5.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.68%) Aladdin
2 4 (0.68%) Endur
2 4 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.17%) Maximo
3 1 (0.17%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.17%) Orchestrade
3 1 (0.17%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.17%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.17%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 585 (100.00%) Azure
2 153 (26.15%) GitHub
3 138 (23.59%) Power Platform
4 101 (17.26%) GitHub Actions
5 82 (14.02%) Azure Data Factory
6 79 (13.50%) Serverless
7 65 (11.11%) Azure AKS
7 65 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
8 63 (10.77%) Azure Logic Apps
8 63 (10.77%) Dynamics 365
9 62 (10.60%) AWS
10 59 (10.09%) Azure Functions
11 57 (9.74%) Entra ID
12 56 (9.57%) Power Automate
13 50 (8.55%) Azure Key Vault
14 47 (8.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 47 (8.03%) PowerApps
15 46 (7.86%) Azure Service Bus
16 36 (6.15%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 32 (5.47%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 27 (4.62%) Firewall
2 12 (2.05%) Network Security
3 11 (1.88%) VPN
4 9 (1.54%) DNS
5 7 (1.20%) WAN
6 5 (0.85%) SD-WAN
7 3 (0.51%) Remote Desktop
8 2 (0.34%) FTP
8 2 (0.34%) HTTP
8 2 (0.34%) LAN
8 2 (0.34%) MPLS
8 2 (0.34%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.17%) BGP
9 1 (0.17%) DHCP
9 1 (0.17%) IPsec
9 1 (0.17%) VLAN
9 1 (0.17%) VRRP
9 1 (0.17%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (14.19%) Power BI
2 66 (11.28%) SQL Server
3 36 (6.15%) Azure SQL Database
3 36 (6.15%) Data Lake
4 34 (5.81%) Data Warehouse
5 29 (4.96%) Delta Lake
6 20 (3.42%) NoSQL
7 18 (3.08%) PostgreSQL
8 16 (2.74%) Oracle Database
9 14 (2.39%) MongoDB
9 14 (2.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 11 (1.88%) Tableau
11 8 (1.37%) Data Vault
11 8 (1.37%) DynamoDB
11 8 (1.37%) Snowflake Schema
12 7 (1.20%) Relational Database
12 7 (1.20%) Spark SQL
13 6 (1.03%) Redis
13 6 (1.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 6 (1.03%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 113 (19.32%) JIRA
2 86 (14.70%) Git
3 51 (8.72%) Jenkins
4 30 (5.13%) GitLab
4 30 (5.13%) Selenium
5 21 (3.59%) Postman
6 15 (2.56%) Cypress.io
7 14 (2.39%) Team Foundation Server
8 11 (1.88%) REST Assured
9 9 (1.54%) SonarQube
9 9 (1.54%) Visual Studio
10 8 (1.37%) JUnit
10 8 (1.37%) MLflow
10 8 (1.37%) TestRail
11 7 (1.20%) JMeter
11 7 (1.20%) Zephyr
12 6 (1.03%) Cucumber
12 6 (1.03%) Mockito
12 6 (1.03%) SpecFlow
12 6 (1.03%) webpack
General
1 181 (30.94%) Social Skills
2 146 (24.96%) Finance
3 69 (11.79%) Analytical Skills
4 58 (9.91%) Public Sector
5 41 (7.01%) Banking
6 16 (2.74%) Influencing Skills
7 15 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
7 15 (2.56%) Financial Institution
8 14 (2.39%) Investment Banking
9 12 (2.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (2.05%) Retail
10 11 (1.88%) Front Office
11 9 (1.54%) Marketing
11 9 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
12 7 (1.20%) Law
13 6 (1.03%) Back Office
13 6 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (0.85%) Military
15 3 (0.51%) General Ledger
16 2 (0.34%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 142 (24.27%) Developer
2 85 (14.53%) Azure Engineer
3 72 (12.31%) DevOps Engineer
4 63 (10.77%) Senior
5 59 (10.09%) Data Engineer
6 47 (8.03%) Analyst
6 47 (8.03%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 46 (7.86%) Architect
8 40 (6.84%) Lead
9 35 (5.98%) Azure Developer
10 24 (4.10%) Azure Architect
11 21 (3.59%) Business Analyst
11 21 (3.59%) Tester
12 20 (3.42%) Platform Engineer
13 17 (2.91%) Test Analyst
14 16 (2.74%) Senior Developer
15 15 (2.56%) Automation Engineer
15 15 (2.56%) Consultant
15 15 (2.56%) ServiceNow Developer
16 14 (2.39%) Azure Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (21.88%) .NET
2 57 (9.74%) REST
3 49 (8.38%) Node.js
4 46 (7.86%) React
5 43 (7.35%) PySpark
6 27 (4.62%) .NET Core
6 27 (4.62%) ARM Templates
6 27 (4.62%) Kafka
6 27 (4.62%) SOAP
7 24 (4.10%) RESTful
8 21 (3.59%) ADO
8 21 (3.59%) CSS
8 21 (3.59%) HTML
9 20 (3.42%) Playwright
9 20 (3.42%) YAML
10 18 (3.08%) .NET Framework
11 16 (2.74%) AngularJS
11 16 (2.74%) OAuth
12 15 (2.56%) ASP.NET
12 15 (2.56%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 61 (10.43%) Cloud Native
2 32 (5.47%) Product Ownership
3 25 (4.27%) Distributed Systems
4 21 (3.59%) Legacy Systems
5 19 (3.25%) CMDB
6 15 (2.56%) AI Agents
6 15 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
6 15 (2.56%) Low-Code
6 15 (2.56%) Reinsurance
7 13 (2.22%) Public Cloud
8 10 (1.71%) Data Structures
8 10 (1.71%) Replication
9 8 (1.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 8 (1.37%) NHS
10 7 (1.20%) Virtual Team
11 6 (1.03%) Linux Command Line
12 5 (0.85%) Data Centre
12 5 (0.85%) Enterprise Cloud
12 5 (0.85%) Onboarding
12 5 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 22 (3.76%) Windows
2 16 (2.74%) Linux
3 8 (1.37%) VMS
4 4 (0.68%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.17%) Android
5 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.17%) Solaris
5 1 (0.17%) Unix
5 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 578 (98.80%) DevOps
2 328 (56.07%) CI/CD
3 257 (43.93%) Agile
4 151 (25.81%) Infrastructure as Code
5 126 (21.54%) Problem-Solving
6 122 (20.85%) Analytics
7 103 (17.61%) Test Automation
8 95 (16.24%) Business Intelligence
9 94 (16.07%) Scrum
10 91 (15.56%) AI
10 91 (15.56%) Continuous Improvement
11 81 (13.85%) Data Modelling
12 74 (12.65%) Microservices
13 73 (12.48%) Migration
14 68 (11.62%) Containerisation
15 67 (11.45%) Stakeholder Management
16 59 (10.09%) Observability
17 58 (9.91%) Data Pipeline
18 55 (9.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 54 (9.23%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 204 (34.87%) SQL
2 166 (28.38%) Python
3 133 (22.74%) C#
4 102 (17.44%) JavaScript
5 59 (10.09%) PowerShell
6 58 (9.91%) Bicep
7 50 (8.55%) TypeScript
8 47 (8.03%) Java
9 28 (4.79%) Bash
10 20 (3.42%) Scala
11 16 (2.74%) T-SQL
12 10 (1.71%) Formula Language
12 10 (1.71%) Kusto Query Language
12 10 (1.71%) LotusScript
12 10 (1.71%) PL/SQL
13 4 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 4 (0.68%) R
14 3 (0.51%) Go
14 3 (0.51%) X++
14 3 (0.51%) XPath
Qualifications
1 137 (23.42%) Security Cleared
2 121 (20.68%) SC Cleared
3 59 (10.09%) Azure Certification
4 39 (6.67%) Degree
5 20 (3.42%) Microsoft Certification
6 18 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (2.74%) BPSS Clearance
8 13 (2.22%) ISTQB
9 9 (1.54%) Master's Degree
9 9 (1.54%) PMI Certification
10 7 (1.20%) PMP
11 5 (0.85%) ISEB
11 5 (0.85%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 4 (0.68%) ITIL Certification
13 3 (0.51%) CBAP
13 3 (0.51%) DBS Check
14 2 (0.34%) AWS Certification
14 2 (0.34%) CISSP
14 2 (0.34%) MBA
15 1 (0.17%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (8.72%) QA
2 41 (7.01%) Data Quality
3 20 (3.42%) GDPR
4 13 (2.22%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.20%) PMO
5 7 (1.20%) WCAG
6 6 (1.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (0.68%) HIPAA
7 4 (0.68%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.51%) HL7
8 3 (0.51%) NIST
9 2 (0.34%) EU AI Act
9 2 (0.34%) FedRAMP
9 2 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.34%) NCSC
9 2 (0.34%) SLA
9 2 (0.34%) Software Quality Assurance
10 1 (0.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.17%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 98 (16.75%) Docker
2 33 (5.64%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.37%) Virtual Desktop
4 7 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.51%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.17%) KVM
6 1 (0.17%) Squid
Systems Management
1 176 (30.09%) Terraform
2 101 (17.26%) Kubernetes
3 25 (4.27%) Ansible
4 12 (2.05%) Grafana
5 9 (1.54%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.68%) Argo
6 4 (0.68%) HP ALM
6 4 (0.68%) Packer
7 3 (0.51%) Kibana
8 2 (0.34%) Fluentd
8 2 (0.34%) Kubeflow
8 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.34%) Opsgenie
9 1 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.17%) CASB
9 1 (0.17%) Icinga
9 1 (0.17%) Istio
9 1 (0.17%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 201 (34.36%) Microsoft
2 91 (15.56%) Databricks
3 46 (7.86%) Oracle
4 35 (5.98%) ServiceNow
5 25 (4.27%) OpenAI
6 16 (2.74%) Salesforce
7 10 (1.71%) Lotus
7 10 (1.71%) SAP
8 9 (1.54%) Kofax
8 9 (1.54%) VMware
9 8 (1.37%) Foundry
9 8 (1.37%) Informatica
10 6 (1.03%) DocuSign
10 6 (1.03%) Splunk
11 5 (0.85%) Aruba
11 5 (0.85%) Cisco
11 5 (0.85%) Citrix
11 5 (0.85%) Sitecore
12 4 (0.68%) Charles River
12 4 (0.68%) Google