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 19 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 78 57
Rank change year-on-year +24 -21 +16
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 869 471 644
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.33% 3.50% 3.97%
As % of the Cloud Services category 10.43% 8.14% 9.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 615 335 419
10th Percentile £378 £346 £387
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 £650 £600
90th Percentile £704 £750 £676
England median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 0
10th Percentile £43.00 - -
25th Percentile - £86.25 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £87.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -37.14% - -
75th Percentile £72.50 £88.75 -
90th Percentile £75.05 - -
England median hourly rate £46.80 £62.50 -
% change year-on-year -25.12% - -

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 8,334 5,789 6,607
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.51% 43.06% 40.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,701 3,968 4,770
10th Percentile £363 £337 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.93% -2.73% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £656 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 88 49
10th Percentile £18.90 £22.85 £20.40
25th Percentile £23.14 £24.77 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.04 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.27% +7.54% -50.91%
75th Percentile £57.50 £40.94 £38.75
90th Percentile £76.93 £68.85 £59.20
England median hourly rate £35.11 £26.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +35.04% +4.00% -22.86%

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 19 August 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 19 August 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 19 August 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 -1 91 £525 +2.44% 42
South London +2 11 £525 - 2
West London -21 5 £625 +14.16% 5
East London -3 3 £604 +16.06% 6
North London -1 2 £600 +36.36% 2
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 52 (5.98%) SharePoint
2 38 (4.37%) Confluence
3 33 (3.80%) Apache Spark
4 29 (3.34%) Apache Airflow
5 25 (2.88%) Apache
6 8 (0.92%) CMS
6 8 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.35%) Kentico
7 3 (0.35%) Mendix
8 2 (0.23%) IIS
9 1 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.12%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.12%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.12%) HCL Notes
9 1 (0.12%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.12%) IBM HTTP Server
9 1 (0.12%) nginx
9 1 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.12%) SAS
9 1 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 30 (3.45%) Microsoft Project
2 25 (2.88%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (1.04%) MS Visio
4 7 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
6 5 (0.58%) Notion
7 4 (0.46%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.23%) CPLEX
8 2 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 30 (3.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (1.04%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.81%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (0.35%) Aladdin
4 3 (0.35%) Endur
4 3 (0.35%) Findur
4 3 (0.35%) SAP BPC
5 2 (0.23%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
5 2 (0.23%) Maximo
5 2 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.23%) SAP MM
5 2 (0.23%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.12%) SAP CS
6 1 (0.12%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.12%) SAP LE
6 1 (0.12%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 869 (100.00%) Azure
2 265 (30.49%) GitHub
3 166 (19.10%) GitHub Actions
4 148 (17.03%) AWS
5 138 (15.88%) Power Platform
6 102 (11.74%) Azure Data Factory
7 79 (9.09%) Entra ID
8 78 (8.98%) Azure AKS
9 70 (8.06%) Power Automate
10 68 (7.83%) Azure Monitor
11 62 (7.13%) Dynamics 365
12 58 (6.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 56 (6.44%) Serverless
14 53 (6.10%) PowerApps
15 46 (5.29%) Azure Logic Apps
15 46 (5.29%) GCP
16 44 (5.06%) PaaS
17 41 (4.72%) Microsoft 365
18 40 (4.60%) Snowflake
19 36 (4.14%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 26 (2.99%) Firewall
2 18 (2.07%) VPN
3 16 (1.84%) DNS
3 16 (1.84%) Network Security
4 6 (0.69%) DHCP
4 6 (0.69%) WAN
5 5 (0.58%) SD-WAN
6 4 (0.46%) Internet
6 4 (0.46%) SAN
7 3 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.23%) 4G
8 2 (0.23%) Cisco IOS
8 2 (0.23%) NAS
8 2 (0.23%) SSH
8 2 (0.23%) SSL
8 2 (0.23%) VLAN
8 2 (0.23%) X.509
9 1 (0.12%) Cisco ASA
9 1 (0.12%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.12%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (10.36%) Power BI
2 64 (7.36%) Data Lake
3 54 (6.21%) SQL Server
4 48 (5.52%) Data Warehouse
5 46 (5.29%) Azure SQL Database
6 34 (3.91%) NoSQL
7 32 (3.68%) Delta Lake
8 21 (2.42%) PostgreSQL
9 20 (2.30%) Metadata
10 18 (2.07%) Snowflake Schema
11 17 (1.96%) Big Data
12 16 (1.84%) Relational Database
13 14 (1.61%) Spark SQL
14 11 (1.27%) Redis
15 10 (1.15%) Amazon Redshift
15 10 (1.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 10 (1.15%) Star Schema
16 9 (1.04%) MongoDB
17 8 (0.92%) BigQuery
18 6 (0.69%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 152 (17.49%) JIRA
2 143 (16.46%) Git
3 105 (12.08%) Jenkins
4 83 (9.55%) GitLab
5 40 (4.60%) Selenium
6 23 (2.65%) SonarQube
7 14 (1.61%) Cypress.io
8 13 (1.50%) Visual Studio
9 12 (1.38%) Cucumber
10 10 (1.15%) JUnit
10 10 (1.15%) Maven
10 10 (1.15%) Postman
10 10 (1.15%) REST Assured
10 10 (1.15%) TestRail
11 9 (1.04%) Snyk
12 8 (0.92%) Bitbucket
12 8 (0.92%) Gradle
12 8 (0.92%) SpecFlow
12 8 (0.92%) WebDriver
13 6 (0.69%) TeamCity
General
1 236 (27.16%) Finance
2 225 (25.89%) Social Skills
3 83 (9.55%) Analytical Skills
4 76 (8.75%) Public Sector
5 68 (7.83%) Banking
6 24 (2.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 24 (2.76%) Retail
7 17 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
8 15 (1.73%) Investment Banking
8 15 (1.73%) Legal
9 14 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
10 12 (1.38%) Marketing
11 9 (1.04%) Local Government
12 8 (0.92%) Law
13 7 (0.81%) Front Office
13 7 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
13 7 (0.81%) Pharmaceutical
13 7 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (0.58%) Back Office
15 4 (0.46%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 145 (16.69%) Azure Engineer
2 135 (15.54%) DevOps Engineer
3 133 (15.30%) Senior
4 128 (14.73%) Developer
5 95 (10.93%) Data Engineer
6 80 (9.21%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 70 (8.06%) Lead
8 62 (7.13%) Architect
9 59 (6.79%) Analyst
10 37 (4.26%) Consultant
10 37 (4.26%) Platform Engineer
11 33 (3.80%) Cloud Engineer
12 30 (3.45%) Business Analyst
13 27 (3.11%) Project Manager
14 25 (2.88%) Azure Data Engineer
15 23 (2.65%) Senior DevOps
15 23 (2.65%) Test Analyst
16 21 (2.42%) Senior Developer
16 21 (2.42%) Solutions Architect
16 21 (2.42%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (13.12%) .NET
2 98 (11.28%) REST
3 63 (7.25%) PySpark
4 54 (6.21%) ADO
5 43 (4.95%) JSON
6 39 (4.49%) Kafka
7 38 (4.37%) YAML
8 35 (4.03%) React
9 31 (3.57%) RESTful
10 30 (3.45%) Playwright
11 29 (3.34%) AngularJS
12 28 (3.22%) XML
13 26 (2.99%) ARM Templates
14 25 (2.88%) Middleware
15 24 (2.76%) .NET Framework
16 23 (2.65%) .NET Core
17 20 (2.30%) HTML
17 20 (2.30%) OAuth
17 20 (2.30%) SOAP
18 15 (1.73%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 110 (12.66%) Cloud Native
2 40 (4.60%) Product Ownership
3 33 (3.80%) Distributed Systems
4 32 (3.68%) Legacy Systems
5 21 (2.42%) Enterprise Software
6 20 (2.30%) Onboarding
7 18 (2.07%) Management Information System
8 17 (1.96%) AI Agents
9 16 (1.84%) Hybrid Cloud
9 16 (1.84%) Self-Motivation
10 15 (1.73%) Reinsurance
11 13 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
12 11 (1.27%) Low-Code
13 10 (1.15%) Enterprise Cloud
14 9 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
14 9 (1.04%) Data Structures
15 8 (0.92%) Public Cloud
16 7 (0.81%) Data Centre
16 7 (0.81%) FMCG
16 7 (0.81%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 49 (5.64%) Windows
2 30 (3.45%) Linux
3 15 (1.73%) Windows Server
4 12 (1.38%) VMS
5 9 (1.04%) Unix
6 5 (0.58%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.23%) Android
8 2 (0.23%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.23%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 869 (100.00%) DevOps
2 478 (55.01%) CI/CD
3 342 (39.36%) Agile
4 222 (25.55%) Infrastructure as Code
5 156 (17.95%) Test Automation
6 144 (16.57%) Analytics
7 135 (15.54%) Stakeholder Management
8 134 (15.42%) Problem-Solving
9 129 (14.84%) Migration
10 116 (13.35%) Continuous Improvement
11 113 (13.00%) Containerisation
12 107 (12.31%) Data Modelling
13 98 (11.28%) AI
13 98 (11.28%) Data Pipeline
13 98 (11.28%) Scrum
14 97 (11.16%) Business Intelligence
15 96 (11.05%) Microservices
16 95 (10.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 93 (10.70%) Data Engineering
18 91 (10.47%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 277 (31.88%) SQL
2 239 (27.50%) Python
3 147 (16.92%) C#
4 114 (13.12%) PowerShell
5 81 (9.32%) Bicep
6 71 (8.17%) JavaScript
7 67 (7.71%) Bash
8 59 (6.79%) TypeScript
9 58 (6.67%) Java
10 13 (1.50%) Apex Code
11 12 (1.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 8 (0.92%) T-SQL
13 7 (0.81%) Shell Script
14 6 (0.69%) Kusto Query Language
15 5 (0.58%) Go
16 4 (0.46%) PL/SQL
16 4 (0.46%) Scala
16 4 (0.46%) VB.NET
17 3 (0.35%) ABAP
17 3 (0.35%) X++
Qualifications
1 232 (26.70%) Security Cleared
2 208 (23.94%) SC Cleared
3 66 (7.59%) Azure Certification
4 47 (5.41%) Degree
5 27 (3.11%) Computer Science Degree
6 22 (2.53%) DV Cleared
6 22 (2.53%) Microsoft Certification
7 18 (2.07%) ISTQB
8 13 (1.50%) AWS Certification
9 9 (1.04%) DBS Check
10 7 (0.81%) PMI Certification
11 6 (0.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 5 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
12 5 (0.58%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (0.58%) ISEB
12 5 (0.58%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 5 (0.58%) PMP
13 4 (0.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.46%) CISSP
13 4 (0.46%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 106 (12.20%) QA
2 75 (8.63%) Data Quality
3 25 (2.88%) GDPR
4 20 (2.30%) Accessibility
5 17 (1.96%) NIST
6 12 (1.38%) PMO
7 10 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 9 (1.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 8 (0.92%) SLA
9 8 (0.92%) WCAG
10 6 (0.69%) ISO 20022
11 5 (0.58%) SEPA
12 4 (0.46%) PSD2
13 3 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
14 2 (0.23%) Government Security Classifications
14 2 (0.23%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 2 (0.23%) NCSC
15 1 (0.12%) ISO 15022
15 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 1 (0.12%) P3O
System Software
1 129 (14.84%) Docker
2 48 (5.52%) Active Directory
3 14 (1.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (0.69%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.46%) vSphere
8 2 (0.23%) Microsoft App-V
8 2 (0.23%) OpenSSH
9 1 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 251 (28.88%) Terraform
2 162 (18.64%) Kubernetes
3 51 (5.87%) Ansible
4 25 (2.88%) Grafana
5 21 (2.42%) Prometheus
6 11 (1.27%) Packer
7 10 (1.15%) Microsoft Intune
8 8 (0.92%) Progress Chef
8 8 (0.92%) Puppet
8 8 (0.92%) SCCM
9 7 (0.81%) HP ALM
10 5 (0.58%) Argo
10 5 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.35%) HP Fortify
12 2 (0.23%) Docker Swarm
13 1 (0.12%) Istio
13 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Clustering
13 1 (0.12%) PowerCLI
13 1 (0.12%) RSA Archer
13 1 (0.12%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 292 (33.60%) Microsoft
2 96 (11.05%) Databricks
3 36 (4.14%) Salesforce
4 32 (3.68%) ServiceNow
5 28 (3.22%) Oracle
6 27 (3.11%) SAP
7 18 (2.07%) VMware
8 15 (1.73%) Informatica
9 14 (1.61%) Google
9 14 (1.61%) Splunk
10 12 (1.38%) OpenAI
11 10 (1.15%) Dynatrace
11 10 (1.15%) Foundry
12 9 (1.04%) Bloomberg
12 9 (1.04%) Cloudera
13 8 (0.92%) UiPath
14 7 (0.81%) Guidewire
14 7 (0.81%) HP
14 7 (0.81%) Refinitiv
15 6 (0.69%) Cisco