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

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 79 59
Rank change year-on-year +25 -20 +13
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 874 466 629
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.35% 3.48% 3.87%
As % of the Cloud Services category 10.54% 8.06% 9.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 619 330 412
10th Percentile £381 £344 £383
25th Percentile £425 £413 £437
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £600
90th Percentile £689 £750 £675
England median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £39.00 - -
25th Percentile £45.00 £86.25 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £87.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -37.14% - -
75th Percentile - £88.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £39.50 £62.50 -
% change year-on-year -36.80% - -

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 8,295 5,785 6,647
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.26% 43.22% 40.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,669 3,961 4,763
10th Percentile £363 £340 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.89% -3.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £644 £650 £675
90th Percentile £749 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +3.96% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 90 48
10th Percentile £19.18 £22.95 £20.00
25th Percentile £23.25 £25.05 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.00 £29.54 £28.25
Median % change year-on-year +18.50% +4.55% -43.50%
75th Percentile £55.00 £46.00 £40.75
90th Percentile £76.06 £67.95 £60.05
England median hourly rate £34.38 £26.30 £28.00
% change year-on-year +30.70% -6.07% -15.15%

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 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 27 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 27 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 94 £535 +7.00% 38
South London -3 11 £525 -1.18% 4
West London -17 5 £625 +14.16% 13
East London +1 3 £604 +16.06% 7
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 53 (6.06%) SharePoint
2 43 (4.92%) Confluence
3 31 (3.55%) Apache Spark
4 25 (2.86%) Apache
4 25 (2.86%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (1.03%) CMS
5 9 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.34%) Kentico
6 3 (0.34%) Mendix
7 2 (0.23%) IIS
8 1 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.11%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.11%) EPiServer
8 1 (0.11%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.11%) HCL Notes
8 1 (0.11%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.11%) IBM HTTP Server
8 1 (0.11%) nginx
8 1 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 29 (3.32%) Microsoft Project
2 25 (2.86%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (1.37%) MS Visio
4 9 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
5 7 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 5 (0.57%) Notion
7 4 (0.46%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.23%) CPLEX
8 2 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.11%) Trello
Business Applications
1 34 (3.89%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (1.26%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.80%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (0.34%) Endur
4 3 (0.34%) Findur
4 3 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.23%) Aladdin
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%) SAP MM
5 2 (0.23%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.11%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.11%) SAP CS
6 1 (0.11%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.11%) SAP LE
6 1 (0.11%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.11%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 874 (100.00%) Azure
2 266 (30.43%) GitHub
3 165 (18.88%) GitHub Actions
4 147 (16.82%) Power Platform
5 141 (16.13%) AWS
6 102 (11.67%) Azure Data Factory
7 81 (9.27%) Azure AKS
8 79 (9.04%) Entra ID
9 73 (8.35%) Azure Monitor
10 71 (8.12%) Power Automate
11 70 (8.01%) Dynamics 365
12 64 (7.32%) Serverless
13 57 (6.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 55 (6.29%) PowerApps
15 44 (5.03%) Azure Logic Apps
15 44 (5.03%) PaaS
16 43 (4.92%) Azure Functions
17 42 (4.81%) GCP
17 42 (4.81%) Microsoft 365
18 39 (4.46%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 27 (3.09%) Firewall
2 19 (2.17%) VPN
3 17 (1.95%) DNS
3 17 (1.95%) Network Security
4 7 (0.80%) DHCP
5 6 (0.69%) WAN
6 5 (0.57%) SD-WAN
7 4 (0.46%) Internet
7 4 (0.46%) SAN
8 3 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.23%) 4G
9 2 (0.23%) Cisco IOS
9 2 (0.23%) NAS
9 2 (0.23%) SSH
9 2 (0.23%) SSL
9 2 (0.23%) VLAN
9 2 (0.23%) X.509
10 1 (0.11%) Cisco ASA
10 1 (0.11%) Reverse Proxy
10 1 (0.11%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (10.76%) Power BI
2 63 (7.21%) Data Lake
3 53 (6.06%) SQL Server
4 51 (5.84%) Data Warehouse
5 47 (5.38%) Azure SQL Database
6 31 (3.55%) NoSQL
7 28 (3.20%) Delta Lake
8 24 (2.75%) PostgreSQL
9 21 (2.40%) Metadata
10 19 (2.17%) Snowflake Schema
11 16 (1.83%) Relational Database
12 15 (1.72%) Big Data
13 13 (1.49%) Spark SQL
14 11 (1.26%) Redis
14 11 (1.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 11 (1.26%) Star Schema
15 10 (1.14%) MongoDB
16 8 (0.92%) Amazon Redshift
17 7 (0.80%) BigQuery
18 6 (0.69%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 156 (17.85%) JIRA
2 144 (16.48%) Git
3 109 (12.47%) Jenkins
4 85 (9.73%) GitLab
5 44 (5.03%) Selenium
6 22 (2.52%) SonarQube
7 14 (1.60%) Cypress.io
7 14 (1.60%) Visual Studio
8 11 (1.26%) Postman
9 10 (1.14%) Cucumber
9 10 (1.14%) Maven
9 10 (1.14%) REST Assured
10 9 (1.03%) JUnit
10 9 (1.03%) Snyk
10 9 (1.03%) TestRail
10 9 (1.03%) WebDriver
11 8 (0.92%) Bitbucket
11 8 (0.92%) Gradle
12 7 (0.80%) JMeter
13 6 (0.69%) Zephyr
General
1 236 (27.00%) Finance
2 228 (26.09%) Social Skills
3 86 (9.84%) Analytical Skills
4 78 (8.92%) Public Sector
5 67 (7.67%) Banking
6 25 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 24 (2.75%) Retail
8 16 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
9 15 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
9 15 (1.72%) Legal
9 15 (1.72%) Marketing
10 14 (1.60%) Investment Banking
11 9 (1.03%) Local Government
12 8 (0.92%) Law
13 7 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
13 7 (0.80%) Pharmaceutical
14 6 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (0.57%) Back Office
16 4 (0.46%) Financial Institution
16 4 (0.46%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 145 (16.59%) Azure Engineer
2 143 (16.36%) DevOps Engineer
3 135 (15.45%) Senior
4 129 (14.76%) Developer
5 89 (10.18%) Data Engineer
6 84 (9.61%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 68 (7.78%) Lead
8 67 (7.67%) Architect
9 63 (7.21%) Analyst
10 36 (4.12%) Consultant
10 36 (4.12%) Platform Engineer
11 34 (3.89%) Business Analyst
12 32 (3.66%) Cloud Engineer
13 27 (3.09%) Project Manager
14 22 (2.52%) Senior Developer
14 22 (2.52%) Senior DevOps
14 22 (2.52%) Test Analyst
15 21 (2.40%) Azure Data Engineer
15 21 (2.40%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 21 (2.40%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 253 (28.95%) Terraform
2 116 (13.27%) .NET
3 105 (12.01%) REST
4 62 (7.09%) PySpark
5 56 (6.41%) ADO
6 46 (5.26%) JSON
7 42 (4.81%) YAML
8 41 (4.69%) React
9 39 (4.46%) Kafka
10 31 (3.55%) RESTful
11 29 (3.32%) ARM Templates
11 29 (3.32%) XML
12 28 (3.20%) Playwright
13 27 (3.09%) .NET Framework
13 27 (3.09%) Middleware
14 26 (2.97%) AngularJS
15 23 (2.63%) .NET Core
16 22 (2.52%) OAuth
16 22 (2.52%) SOAP
17 19 (2.17%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 102 (11.67%) Cloud Native
2 50 (5.72%) Product Ownership
3 33 (3.78%) Distributed Systems
3 33 (3.78%) Legacy Systems
4 23 (2.63%) Onboarding
5 22 (2.52%) Enterprise Software
6 19 (2.17%) AI Agents
6 19 (2.17%) Management Information System
7 17 (1.95%) Hybrid Cloud
7 17 (1.95%) Self-Motivation
8 15 (1.72%) Reinsurance
9 11 (1.26%) Greenfield Project
10 10 (1.14%) Enterprise Cloud
10 10 (1.14%) Low-Code
11 9 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
12 8 (0.92%) Data Centre
12 8 (0.92%) Data Structures
12 8 (0.92%) Public Cloud
13 7 (0.80%) Linux Command Line
13 7 (0.80%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 50 (5.72%) Windows
2 30 (3.43%) Linux
3 16 (1.83%) Windows Server
4 14 (1.60%) VMS
5 9 (1.03%) Unix
6 6 (0.69%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (0.46%) Android
7 4 (0.46%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.23%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 874 (100.00%) DevOps
2 480 (54.92%) CI/CD
3 352 (40.27%) Agile
4 222 (25.40%) Infrastructure as Code
5 159 (18.19%) Test Automation
6 150 (17.16%) Stakeholder Management
7 143 (16.36%) Analytics
8 140 (16.02%) Problem-Solving
9 128 (14.65%) Migration
10 119 (13.62%) Continuous Improvement
11 116 (13.27%) Containerisation
12 103 (11.78%) Data Modelling
13 101 (11.56%) Business Intelligence
13 101 (11.56%) Scrum
14 100 (11.44%) AI
15 99 (11.33%) Microservices
16 97 (11.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 94 (10.76%) User Acceptance Testing
18 93 (10.64%) Data Pipeline
19 90 (10.30%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 273 (31.24%) SQL
2 244 (27.92%) Python
3 144 (16.48%) C#
4 118 (13.50%) PowerShell
5 87 (9.95%) Bicep
6 72 (8.24%) Bash
6 72 (8.24%) JavaScript
7 61 (6.98%) TypeScript
8 59 (6.75%) Java
9 13 (1.49%) Apex Code
9 13 (1.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 8 (0.92%) T-SQL
11 7 (0.80%) Shell Script
12 6 (0.69%) Go
12 6 (0.69%) Kusto Query Language
13 4 (0.46%) PL/SQL
13 4 (0.46%) VB.NET
13 4 (0.46%) X++
14 3 (0.34%) ABAP
14 3 (0.34%) Korn
Qualifications
1 233 (26.66%) Security Cleared
2 207 (23.68%) SC Cleared
3 68 (7.78%) Azure Certification
4 49 (5.61%) Degree
5 27 (3.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 27 (3.09%) Microsoft Certification
6 23 (2.63%) DV Cleared
7 17 (1.95%) ISTQB
8 14 (1.60%) AWS Certification
9 10 (1.14%) DBS Check
10 8 (0.92%) PMI Certification
11 6 (0.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 6 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
12 5 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 5 (0.57%) PMP
13 4 (0.46%) Cisco Certification
13 4 (0.46%) CISSP
13 4 (0.46%) ISEB
13 4 (0.46%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 4 (0.46%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (12.81%) QA
2 74 (8.47%) Data Quality
3 25 (2.86%) GDPR
4 19 (2.17%) Accessibility
5 18 (2.06%) NIST
6 15 (1.72%) PMO
7 11 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 9 (1.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 7 (0.80%) ISO 20022
9 7 (0.80%) SLA
9 7 (0.80%) WCAG
10 5 (0.57%) SEPA
11 4 (0.46%) PSD2
12 3 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.23%) Government Security Classifications
13 2 (0.23%) GRC
13 2 (0.23%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 1 (0.11%) ISO 15022
14 1 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 1 (0.11%) P3O
System Software
1 136 (15.56%) Docker
2 48 (5.49%) Active Directory
3 14 (1.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (1.26%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.69%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.69%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.46%) vSphere
7 2 (0.23%) Microsoft App-V
7 2 (0.23%) OpenSSH
8 1 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 166 (18.99%) Kubernetes
2 51 (5.84%) Ansible
3 26 (2.97%) Grafana
4 22 (2.52%) Prometheus
5 11 (1.26%) Microsoft Intune
5 11 (1.26%) Packer
6 8 (0.92%) HP ALM
6 8 (0.92%) Progress Chef
6 8 (0.92%) Puppet
6 8 (0.92%) SCCM
7 6 (0.69%) Argo
8 5 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.34%) HP Fortify
9 3 (0.34%) Kibana
10 2 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.23%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.23%) Nagios
11 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Clustering
11 1 (0.11%) RSA Archer
11 1 (0.11%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 307 (35.13%) Microsoft
2 95 (10.87%) Databricks
3 36 (4.12%) Salesforce
4 30 (3.43%) Oracle
5 27 (3.09%) SAP
5 27 (3.09%) ServiceNow
6 19 (2.17%) VMware
7 14 (1.60%) Google
7 14 (1.60%) Informatica
7 14 (1.60%) OpenAI
7 14 (1.60%) Splunk
8 10 (1.14%) Dynatrace
8 10 (1.14%) UiPath
9 9 (1.03%) Cloudera
9 9 (1.03%) Foundry
10 8 (0.92%) HP
11 7 (0.80%) Bloomberg
11 7 (0.80%) Guidewire
11 7 (0.80%) IBM
12 6 (0.69%) Cisco