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 27 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 74 79
Rank change year-on-year -2 +5 +9
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 526 492 529
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.64% 3.31% 2.85%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.26% 8.07% 7.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 371 339 391
10th Percentile £356 £381 £425
25th Percentile £413 £459 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% -4.35% +0.66%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
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 £68.38 £73.75 £62.00
% change year-on-year -7.28% +18.95% +2.66%

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 6,371 6,094 7,081
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.10% 41.04% 38.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,349 4,121 5,226
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £425 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.17%
75th Percentile £641 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £770
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 43 65
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £17.40
25th Percentile £23.25 £23.80 £20.50
Median hourly rate £26.30 £31.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.51% -16.00% +22.95%
75th Percentile £47.31 £54.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.71 £65.00 £73.25
England median hourly rate £27.21 £29.00 £23.43
% change year-on-year -6.17% +23.80% +4.11%

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 27 December 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
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 27 December 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 -16 67 £528 -4.09% 126
South London +2 10 £500 +31.58% 7
East London -8 2 £440 - 3
West London -24 1 £400 -15.79% 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 30 (5.70%) SharePoint
2 28 (5.32%) Confluence
3 13 (2.47%) Apache Spark
4 9 (1.71%) Apache
4 9 (1.71%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (1.33%) HCL Notes
6 6 (1.14%) Mendix
6 6 (1.14%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.57%) CMS
7 3 (0.57%) IIS
8 2 (0.38%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.19%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.19%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.19%) Kentico
9 1 (0.19%) Mule
Applications
1 12 (2.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.71%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (1.33%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.95%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.57%) Trello
Business Applications
1 25 (4.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (1.33%) Aladdin
3 4 (0.76%) Endur
3 4 (0.76%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.19%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.19%) Orchestrade
4 1 (0.19%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 526 (100.00%) Azure
2 137 (26.05%) GitHub
3 121 (23.00%) Power Platform
4 98 (18.63%) GitHub Actions
5 75 (14.26%) Serverless
6 74 (14.07%) AWS
7 71 (13.50%) Azure Data Factory
8 66 (12.55%) Azure AKS
9 58 (11.03%) Azure Monitor
10 57 (10.84%) Azure Logic Apps
11 56 (10.65%) Dynamics 365
12 55 (10.46%) Entra ID
13 54 (10.27%) Azure Functions
14 47 (8.94%) Power Automate
15 45 (8.56%) PowerApps
16 44 (8.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 42 (7.98%) Azure Service Bus
18 37 (7.03%) GCP
19 36 (6.84%) Azure Cosmos DB
20 35 (6.65%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 26 (4.94%) Firewall
2 13 (2.47%) VPN
3 12 (2.28%) Network Security
4 11 (2.09%) DNS
5 7 (1.33%) WAN
6 5 (0.95%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.38%) FTP
7 2 (0.38%) HTTP
7 2 (0.38%) LAN
7 2 (0.38%) MPLS
7 2 (0.38%) Remote Desktop
7 2 (0.38%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.19%) AMQP
8 1 (0.19%) BGP
8 1 (0.19%) DHCP
8 1 (0.19%) DSL
8 1 (0.19%) IPsec
8 1 (0.19%) NGFW
8 1 (0.19%) VRRP
8 1 (0.19%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (14.45%) Power BI
2 54 (10.27%) SQL Server
3 30 (5.70%) Data Warehouse
4 28 (5.32%) Azure SQL Database
5 24 (4.56%) Data Lake
6 22 (4.18%) NoSQL
6 22 (4.18%) PostgreSQL
7 19 (3.61%) Delta Lake
8 18 (3.42%) MongoDB
9 12 (2.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 10 (1.90%) Oracle Database
11 9 (1.71%) Tableau
12 8 (1.52%) Relational Database
13 7 (1.33%) DynamoDB
13 7 (1.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 6 (1.14%) Elasticsearch
14 6 (1.14%) Snowflake Schema
14 6 (1.14%) Star Schema
15 5 (0.95%) Big Data
15 5 (0.95%) Redis
Development Applications
1 98 (18.63%) JIRA
2 73 (13.88%) Git
3 59 (11.22%) Jenkins
4 38 (7.22%) GitLab
5 23 (4.37%) Selenium
6 19 (3.61%) Postman
7 11 (2.09%) Cypress.io
8 10 (1.90%) Cucumber
8 10 (1.90%) JUnit
8 10 (1.90%) SonarQube
9 9 (1.71%) SpecFlow
9 9 (1.71%) Team Foundation Server
9 9 (1.71%) TeamCity
10 8 (1.52%) Mockito
11 7 (1.33%) JMeter
11 7 (1.33%) MLflow
11 7 (1.33%) REST Assured
11 7 (1.33%) Zephyr
12 6 (1.14%) Liquibase
12 6 (1.14%) TestRail
General
1 169 (32.13%) Social Skills
2 126 (23.95%) Finance
3 52 (9.89%) Public Sector
4 51 (9.70%) Analytical Skills
5 44 (8.37%) Banking
6 20 (3.80%) Investment Banking
7 18 (3.42%) Documentation Skills
8 17 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 15 (2.85%) Influencing Skills
10 14 (2.66%) Financial Institution
11 13 (2.47%) Retail
12 9 (1.71%) Front Office
13 8 (1.52%) Marketing
14 7 (1.33%) Law
14 7 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
15 6 (1.14%) Back Office
16 5 (0.95%) Military
17 3 (0.57%) General Ledger
17 3 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
18 2 (0.38%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 137 (26.05%) Developer
2 73 (13.88%) Azure Engineer
3 68 (12.93%) DevOps Engineer
4 52 (9.89%) Senior
5 41 (7.79%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 41 (7.79%) Data Engineer
6 40 (7.60%) Analyst
7 39 (7.41%) Architect
7 39 (7.41%) Lead
8 31 (5.89%) Azure Developer
9 22 (4.18%) Business Analyst
10 21 (3.99%) Azure Architect
11 19 (3.61%) Senior Developer
12 18 (3.42%) Test Engineer
12 18 (3.42%) Tester
13 16 (3.04%) Consultant
14 15 (2.85%) C# Developer
14 15 (2.85%) Cloud Engineer
14 15 (2.85%) Platform Engineer
14 15 (2.85%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (24.33%) .NET
2 49 (9.32%) REST
3 44 (8.37%) Node.js
4 38 (7.22%) React
5 34 (6.46%) RESTful
6 31 (5.89%) Kafka
6 31 (5.89%) PySpark
7 29 (5.51%) SOAP
8 27 (5.13%) YAML
9 26 (4.94%) .NET Core
10 25 (4.75%) ARM Templates
11 19 (3.61%) AngularJS
12 18 (3.42%) .NET Framework
13 17 (3.23%) ADO
13 17 (3.23%) Playwright
14 16 (3.04%) HTML
15 15 (2.85%) ASP.NET
15 15 (2.85%) CSS
15 15 (2.85%) XML
16 14 (2.66%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 55 (10.46%) Cloud Native
2 27 (5.13%) Distributed Systems
3 26 (4.94%) Product Ownership
4 19 (3.61%) CMDB
5 17 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
6 15 (2.85%) Enterprise Software
7 14 (2.66%) AI Agents
8 11 (2.09%) Low-Code
9 8 (1.52%) Public Cloud
9 8 (1.52%) Reinsurance
10 7 (1.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 7 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
10 7 (1.33%) NHS
11 6 (1.14%) Fixed Income
11 6 (1.14%) Replication
12 5 (0.95%) Data Structures
12 5 (0.95%) Derivative
12 5 (0.95%) Enterprise Cloud
12 5 (0.95%) Hedge funds
12 5 (0.95%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 23 (4.37%) Windows
2 18 (3.42%) Linux
3 6 (1.14%) VMS
3 6 (1.14%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.95%) Unix
5 3 (0.57%) Android
5 3 (0.57%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.19%) Solaris
6 1 (0.19%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.19%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 524 (99.62%) DevOps
2 305 (57.98%) CI/CD
3 252 (47.91%) Agile
4 139 (26.43%) Infrastructure as Code
5 110 (20.91%) Problem-Solving
6 99 (18.82%) Analytics
6 99 (18.82%) Test Automation
7 89 (16.92%) Scrum
8 82 (15.59%) Business Intelligence
8 82 (15.59%) Microservices
9 70 (13.31%) Continuous Improvement
10 69 (13.12%) AI
11 68 (12.93%) Containerisation
11 68 (12.93%) Migration
12 62 (11.79%) Data Modelling
13 55 (10.46%) Stakeholder Management
14 53 (10.08%) Data Engineering
15 52 (9.89%) Data Pipeline
15 52 (9.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 48 (9.13%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 169 (32.13%) SQL
2 142 (27.00%) Python
3 127 (24.14%) C#
4 93 (17.68%) JavaScript
5 62 (11.79%) PowerShell
6 56 (10.65%) Bicep
7 54 (10.27%) Java
8 39 (7.41%) TypeScript
9 27 (5.13%) Bash
10 11 (2.09%) PL/SQL
10 11 (2.09%) T-SQL
11 9 (1.71%) Kusto Query Language
12 7 (1.33%) Formula Language
12 7 (1.33%) LotusScript
13 6 (1.14%) Scala
14 4 (0.76%) Shell Script
14 4 (0.76%) VB.NET
15 3 (0.57%) R
15 3 (0.57%) X++
15 3 (0.57%) XPath
Qualifications
1 112 (21.29%) Security Cleared
2 97 (18.44%) SC Cleared
3 52 (9.89%) Azure Certification
4 44 (8.37%) Degree
5 24 (4.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (3.61%) Microsoft Certification
7 11 (2.09%) Master's Degree
8 10 (1.90%) ISTQB
9 9 (1.71%) PMI Certification
10 8 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (0.95%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 5 (0.95%) PMP
12 4 (0.76%) CBAP
12 4 (0.76%) ISEB
12 4 (0.76%) ITIL Certification
13 3 (0.57%) DBS Check
13 3 (0.57%) DV Cleared
14 2 (0.38%) CISSP
14 2 (0.38%) MBA
14 2 (0.38%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (8.17%) QA
2 28 (5.32%) Data Quality
3 22 (4.18%) GDPR
4 13 (2.47%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (1.52%) NIST
6 7 (1.33%) WCAG
7 5 (0.95%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.57%) NCSC
8 3 (0.57%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.57%) PMO
9 2 (0.38%) EU AI Act
9 2 (0.38%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.38%) HL7
9 2 (0.38%) Software Quality Assurance
10 1 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.19%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.19%) SLA
System Software
1 99 (18.82%) Docker
2 33 (6.27%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (1.14%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.19%) KVM
6 1 (0.19%) Squid
Systems Management
1 156 (29.66%) Terraform
2 105 (19.96%) Kubernetes
3 34 (6.46%) Ansible
4 16 (3.04%) Grafana
5 14 (2.66%) Prometheus
6 7 (1.33%) Progress Chef
7 6 (1.14%) Kibana
8 4 (0.76%) Packer
8 4 (0.76%) Puppet
9 3 (0.57%) Argo
9 3 (0.57%) Istio
10 2 (0.38%) Fluentd
10 2 (0.38%) HP ALM
10 2 (0.38%) Kubeflow
10 2 (0.38%) Opsgenie
11 1 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.19%) CASB
11 1 (0.19%) linkerd
11 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.19%) SCCM
Vendors
1 189 (35.93%) Microsoft
2 81 (15.40%) Databricks
3 34 (6.46%) Oracle
4 32 (6.08%) ServiceNow
5 23 (4.37%) OpenAI
6 17 (3.23%) Salesforce
7 11 (2.09%) SAP
8 7 (1.33%) DocuSign
8 7 (1.33%) Lotus
9 6 (1.14%) Kofax
9 6 (1.14%) Splunk
10 5 (0.95%) Aruba
10 5 (0.95%) Cisco
10 5 (0.95%) Citrix
10 5 (0.95%) Google
10 5 (0.95%) Sitecore
10 5 (0.95%) VMware
11 4 (0.76%) Charles River
11 4 (0.76%) Murex
11 4 (0.76%) UiPath