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 11 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 76 54
Rank change year-on-year +14 -22 +18
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 784 461 682
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.95% 3.41% 3.89%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.46% 7.95% 9.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 552 326 442
10th Percentile £381 £350 £400
25th Percentile £425 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £600
90th Percentile £725 £750 £688
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £55.00 £86.25 -
Median hourly rate £62.50 £87.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% - -
75th Percentile £73.56 £88.75 -
90th Percentile £75.48 - -
England median hourly rate £72.25 £62.50 £65.50
% change year-on-year +15.60% -4.58% -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 8,291 5,797 7,043
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.75% 42.86% 40.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,694 3,941 5,150
10th Percentile £359 £350 £350
25th Percentile £438 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £788
England median daily rate £520 £514 £525
% change year-on-year +1.17% -2.10% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 80 64
10th Percentile £19.50 £22.50 £20.00
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.92 £22.24
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.54 £26.97
Median % change year-on-year +20.20% +9.51% -52.05%
75th Percentile £55.00 £47.81 £38.75
90th Percentile £76.40 £67.50 £61.00
England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +57.06% +14.32% -33.33%

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 11 July 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 11 July 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 11 July 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 -14 70 £525 - 31
South London -1 11 £513 -2.38% 1
West London -12 6 £375 -31.51% 2
East London 0 3 £604 +9.23% 4
North London -1 2 £600 +36.36% 3
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 (5.74%) SharePoint
2 40 (5.10%) Confluence
3 32 (4.08%) Apache Spark
4 25 (3.19%) Apache
5 22 (2.81%) Apache Airflow
6 9 (1.15%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.64%) CMS
8 3 (0.38%) Kentico
9 2 (0.26%) HCL Notes
9 2 (0.26%) Mendix
9 2 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.13%) Apache Pulsar
10 1 (0.13%) IBM HTTP Server
10 1 (0.13%) IIS
10 1 (0.13%) SAS
Applications
1 27 (3.44%) Microsoft Project
2 14 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (1.40%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.64%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.51%) Notion
6 2 (0.26%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.26%) CPLEX
6 2 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 33 (4.21%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (1.15%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.89%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (0.38%) Endur
4 3 (0.38%) Findur
4 3 (0.38%) Maximo
4 3 (0.38%) SAP BPC
4 3 (0.38%) SAP MM
4 3 (0.38%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 2 (0.26%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.26%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
5 2 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.13%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.13%) PeopleSoft HCM
6 1 (0.13%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.13%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.13%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 784 (100.00%) Azure
2 236 (30.10%) GitHub
3 143 (18.24%) GitHub Actions
4 124 (15.82%) AWS
5 121 (15.43%) Power Platform
6 91 (11.61%) Azure Data Factory
7 68 (8.67%) Azure AKS
8 65 (8.29%) Azure Monitor
8 65 (8.29%) Entra ID
9 64 (8.16%) Power Automate
10 59 (7.53%) Dynamics 365
11 55 (7.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 52 (6.63%) Serverless
13 43 (5.48%) Azure Key Vault
14 41 (5.23%) Azure Logic Apps
14 41 (5.23%) PowerApps
15 37 (4.72%) Azure Service Bus
16 35 (4.46%) PaaS
16 35 (4.46%) Snowflake
17 33 (4.21%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.17%) Firewall
2 12 (1.53%) VPN
3 10 (1.28%) DNS
3 10 (1.28%) Network Security
4 5 (0.64%) SD-WAN
4 5 (0.64%) WAN
5 4 (0.51%) Internet
6 2 (0.26%) NAS
6 2 (0.26%) Remote Desktop
6 2 (0.26%) SAN
6 2 (0.26%) SSH
6 2 (0.26%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.26%) X.509
7 1 (0.13%) 4G
7 1 (0.13%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (0.13%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (0.13%) FTP
7 1 (0.13%) IPsec
7 1 (0.13%) VSAN
7 1 (0.13%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (9.31%) Power BI
2 67 (8.55%) Data Lake
3 66 (8.42%) SQL Server
4 49 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
5 46 (5.87%) Delta Lake
6 41 (5.23%) Data Warehouse
7 33 (4.21%) NoSQL
8 20 (2.55%) Snowflake Schema
9 19 (2.42%) PostgreSQL
10 18 (2.30%) Relational Database
11 15 (1.91%) Metadata
12 14 (1.79%) Big Data
12 14 (1.79%) Spark SQL
13 13 (1.66%) Redis
14 10 (1.28%) MongoDB
15 9 (1.15%) Amazon Redshift
15 9 (1.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 8 (1.02%) Data Vault
16 8 (1.02%) Oracle Database
17 7 (0.89%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 160 (20.41%) JIRA
2 137 (17.47%) Git
3 75 (9.57%) Jenkins
4 55 (7.02%) GitLab
5 27 (3.44%) Selenium
6 14 (1.79%) SonarQube
7 13 (1.66%) REST Assured
8 11 (1.40%) Postman
9 10 (1.28%) Cucumber
9 10 (1.28%) Visual Studio
10 9 (1.15%) Cypress.io
10 9 (1.15%) JUnit
10 9 (1.15%) Team Foundation Server
11 8 (1.02%) SpecFlow
12 6 (0.77%) Bitbucket
12 6 (0.77%) Gradle
12 6 (0.77%) MLflow
12 6 (0.77%) Snyk
12 6 (0.77%) TestRail
12 6 (0.77%) WebDriver
General
1 220 (28.06%) Finance
2 202 (25.77%) Social Skills
3 79 (10.08%) Analytical Skills
4 64 (8.16%) Public Sector
5 53 (6.76%) Banking
6 18 (2.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 15 (1.91%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (1.79%) Retail
9 12 (1.53%) Investment Banking
9 12 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
10 10 (1.28%) Front Office
11 9 (1.15%) Legal
11 9 (1.15%) Marketing
12 8 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
13 7 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (0.77%) Back Office
14 6 (0.77%) Law
14 6 (0.77%) Local Government
14 6 (0.77%) Pharmaceutical
15 5 (0.64%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 126 (16.07%) Developer
2 124 (15.82%) Azure Engineer
3 116 (14.80%) Senior
4 105 (13.39%) Data Engineer
5 103 (13.14%) DevOps Engineer
6 60 (7.65%) Architect
6 60 (7.65%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 60 (7.65%) Lead
7 52 (6.63%) Analyst
8 36 (4.59%) Platform Engineer
9 33 (4.21%) Business Analyst
10 29 (3.70%) Consultant
11 28 (3.57%) Cloud Engineer
12 24 (3.06%) Solutions Architect
12 24 (3.06%) Tester
13 23 (2.93%) IT Support
14 22 (2.81%) Azure Data Engineer
15 21 (2.68%) Senior Data Engineer
15 21 (2.68%) Senior DevOps
16 20 (2.55%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (13.39%) .NET
2 83 (10.59%) REST
3 60 (7.65%) PySpark
4 44 (5.61%) React
5 41 (5.23%) ADO
5 41 (5.23%) JSON
6 33 (4.21%) Kafka
7 32 (4.08%) YAML
8 27 (3.44%) .NET Framework
8 27 (3.44%) AngularJS
8 27 (3.44%) HTML
8 27 (3.44%) RESTful
9 24 (3.06%) Playwright
10 22 (2.81%) .NET Core
10 22 (2.81%) ARM Templates
10 22 (2.81%) CSS
10 22 (2.81%) XML
11 21 (2.68%) Middleware
11 21 (2.68%) SOAP
12 20 (2.55%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 101 (12.88%) Cloud Native
2 37 (4.72%) Legacy Systems
3 31 (3.95%) Distributed Systems
3 31 (3.95%) Product Ownership
4 25 (3.19%) Reinsurance
5 18 (2.30%) Onboarding
6 17 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
7 13 (1.66%) Management Information System
7 13 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
8 12 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
9 11 (1.40%) Replication
10 10 (1.28%) Hybrid Cloud
11 9 (1.15%) AI Agents
11 9 (1.15%) Data Structures
11 9 (1.15%) Public Cloud
12 7 (0.89%) Enterprise Cloud
12 7 (0.89%) FMCG
12 7 (0.89%) Low-Code
13 6 (0.77%) Data Protection Act
13 6 (0.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 41 (5.23%) Windows
2 19 (2.42%) Linux
3 8 (1.02%) VMS
4 7 (0.89%) Unix
4 7 (0.89%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 781 (99.62%) DevOps
2 433 (55.23%) CI/CD
3 298 (38.01%) Agile
4 201 (25.64%) Infrastructure as Code
5 138 (17.60%) Analytics
6 130 (16.58%) Test Automation
7 124 (15.82%) Problem-Solving
8 123 (15.69%) Migration
9 108 (13.78%) Continuous Improvement
10 107 (13.65%) Scrum
11 104 (13.27%) Data Modelling
12 99 (12.63%) Data Pipeline
13 96 (12.24%) Containerisation
13 96 (12.24%) Stakeholder Management
14 92 (11.73%) ETL
15 90 (11.48%) AI
15 90 (11.48%) Platform Engineering
16 83 (10.59%) Business Intelligence
17 81 (10.33%) Data Engineering
18 80 (10.20%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 277 (35.33%) SQL
2 231 (29.46%) Python
3 144 (18.37%) C#
4 83 (10.59%) PowerShell
5 70 (8.93%) Bicep
6 64 (8.16%) TypeScript
7 61 (7.78%) JavaScript
8 58 (7.40%) Bash
9 43 (5.48%) Java
10 19 (2.42%) Scala
11 14 (1.79%) T-SQL
12 10 (1.28%) Apex Code
13 9 (1.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 7 (0.89%) Kusto Query Language
15 6 (0.77%) Shell Script
16 4 (0.51%) Go
16 4 (0.51%) PL/SQL
16 4 (0.51%) VB.NET
17 3 (0.38%) ABAP
17 3 (0.38%) C
Qualifications
1 196 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 174 (22.19%) SC Cleared
3 59 (7.53%) Azure Certification
4 44 (5.61%) Degree
5 23 (2.93%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (2.42%) Microsoft Certification
7 13 (1.66%) DV Cleared
7 13 (1.66%) ISTQB
8 12 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (1.15%) AWS Certification
9 9 (1.15%) DBS Check
10 6 (0.77%) PMI Certification
11 5 (0.64%) Cisco Certification
11 5 (0.64%) Master's Degree
11 5 (0.64%) PMP
12 3 (0.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 3 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.38%) CCNA
12 3 (0.38%) CISSP
12 3 (0.38%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (11.61%) QA
2 69 (8.80%) Data Quality
3 23 (2.93%) GDPR
4 18 (2.30%) Accessibility
5 14 (1.79%) NIST
6 10 (1.28%) PMO
7 9 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 8 (1.02%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 8 (1.02%) WCAG
9 6 (0.77%) SLA
10 3 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.38%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.26%) FedRAMP
11 2 (0.26%) Government Security Classifications
11 2 (0.26%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.26%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 2 (0.26%) NCSC
11 2 (0.26%) PSD2
11 2 (0.26%) SEPA
12 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 107 (13.65%) Docker
2 39 (4.97%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.89%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.26%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.26%) Microsoft App-V
6 2 (0.26%) OpenSSH
7 1 (0.13%) HDFS
7 1 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.13%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 223 (28.44%) Terraform
2 129 (16.45%) Kubernetes
3 38 (4.85%) Ansible
4 20 (2.55%) Grafana
5 17 (2.17%) Prometheus
6 9 (1.15%) Packer
7 6 (0.77%) HP ALM
7 6 (0.77%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (0.64%) Progress Chef
8 5 (0.64%) Puppet
8 5 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.38%) Argo
10 2 (0.26%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.26%) SCCM
11 1 (0.13%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.13%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.13%) Istio
11 1 (0.13%) PowerCLI
11 1 (0.13%) RSA Archer
11 1 (0.13%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 232 (29.59%) Microsoft
2 102 (13.01%) Databricks
3 39 (4.97%) Oracle
4 36 (4.59%) Salesforce
5 27 (3.44%) ServiceNow
6 25 (3.19%) SAP
7 19 (2.42%) Informatica
8 16 (2.04%) OpenAI
9 15 (1.91%) VMware
10 12 (1.53%) Foundry
11 10 (1.28%) Bloomberg
12 8 (1.02%) Refinitiv
13 7 (0.89%) Splunk
14 6 (0.77%) Dynatrace
14 6 (0.77%) HP
14 6 (0.77%) IBM
15 5 (0.64%) Guidewire
15 5 (0.64%) ION Trading
15 5 (0.64%) OpenLink
15 5 (0.64%) Workday