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

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 79 59
Rank change year-on-year +15 -20 +16
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 842 461 618
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.14% 3.42% 3.79%
As % of the Cloud Services category 10.09% 7.90% 9.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 600 319 413
10th Percentile £375 £343 £380
25th Percentile £425 £406 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.19% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £622
90th Percentile £706 £750 £688
England median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -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 £67.44 £75.00 -
% change year-on-year -10.08% - -

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 8,348 5,834 6,731
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.00% 43.32% 41.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,734 3,973 4,699
10th Percentile £360 £340 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.83% -3.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 94 46
10th Percentile £17.60 £23.00 £22.00
25th Percentile £23.08 £25.15 £24.16
Median hourly rate £29.28 £31.00 £30.80
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +0.67% -23.49%
75th Percentile £57.50 £51.00 £52.50
90th Percentile £78.75 £78.75 £71.13
England median hourly rate £33.99 £26.30 £33.00
% change year-on-year +29.24% -20.30% -

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 September 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 September 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 September 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 +5 99 £550 - 62
South London -2 9 £525 - 5
North London +2 3 £550 +25.00% 1
East London 0 3 £604 +16.06% 6
West London -20 3 £625 +20.19% 11
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 51 (6.06%) SharePoint
2 44 (5.23%) Confluence
3 31 (3.68%) Apache Spark
4 28 (3.33%) Apache Airflow
5 21 (2.49%) Apache
6 10 (1.19%) CMS
7 6 (0.71%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.36%) Kentico
8 3 (0.36%) Mendix
9 2 (0.24%) IIS
10 1 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.12%) Apache Pulsar
10 1 (0.12%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.12%) Camunda
10 1 (0.12%) EPiServer
10 1 (0.12%) GeoServer
10 1 (0.12%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.12%) nginx
10 1 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 28 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 27 (3.21%) Microsoft Project
3 13 (1.54%) MS Visio
4 9 (1.07%) Microsoft Office
5 7 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 5 (0.59%) Notion
7 4 (0.48%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.24%) CPLEX
8 2 (0.24%) Mingle
8 2 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 35 (4.16%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (1.31%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.59%) Dynamics AX
4 4 (0.48%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (0.36%) Aladdin
5 3 (0.36%) SAP MDG
6 2 (0.24%) Endur
6 2 (0.24%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
6 2 (0.24%) Maximo
6 2 (0.24%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.24%) SAP BPC
6 2 (0.24%) SAP MM
6 2 (0.24%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 1 (0.12%) FLEXCUBE
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.12%) Shopify
7 1 (0.12%) SimCorp Dimension
7 1 (0.12%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 842 (100.00%) Azure
2 255 (30.29%) GitHub
3 165 (19.60%) GitHub Actions
4 149 (17.70%) AWS
5 148 (17.58%) Power Platform
6 96 (11.40%) Azure Data Factory
7 80 (9.50%) Entra ID
8 76 (9.03%) Azure AKS
9 71 (8.43%) Serverless
10 70 (8.31%) Azure Monitor
11 68 (8.08%) Dynamics 365
12 61 (7.24%) Power Automate
13 53 (6.29%) Azure Functions
13 53 (6.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 50 (5.94%) GCP
15 49 (5.82%) PowerApps
16 47 (5.58%) Snowflake
17 46 (5.46%) Azure Logic Apps
18 43 (5.11%) PaaS
19 37 (4.39%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 24 (2.85%) Firewall
2 21 (2.49%) DNS
3 17 (2.02%) Network Security
3 17 (2.02%) VPN
4 7 (0.83%) DHCP
5 4 (0.48%) SAN
5 4 (0.48%) WAN
6 3 (0.36%) SD-WAN
6 3 (0.36%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.24%) 4G
7 2 (0.24%) Cisco IOS
7 2 (0.24%) Internet
7 2 (0.24%) NAS
7 2 (0.24%) SSH
7 2 (0.24%) SSL
7 2 (0.24%) VLAN
7 2 (0.24%) X.509
8 1 (0.12%) Cisco Firepower
8 1 (0.12%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.12%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (11.88%) Power BI
2 60 (7.13%) Data Lake
3 54 (6.41%) Data Warehouse
4 53 (6.29%) SQL Server
5 38 (4.51%) Azure SQL Database
6 29 (3.44%) Delta Lake
7 28 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
8 26 (3.09%) NoSQL
9 23 (2.73%) Metadata
10 18 (2.14%) Big Data
10 18 (2.14%) Snowflake Schema
11 14 (1.66%) Star Schema
12 13 (1.54%) Relational Database
12 13 (1.54%) Spark SQL
13 11 (1.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 10 (1.19%) Redis
15 9 (1.07%) Amazon Redshift
16 8 (0.95%) BigQuery
16 8 (0.95%) Data Vault
17 7 (0.83%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 144 (17.10%) JIRA
2 143 (16.98%) Git
3 111 (13.18%) Jenkins
4 92 (10.93%) GitLab
5 45 (5.34%) Selenium
6 24 (2.85%) SonarQube
7 15 (1.78%) Cypress.io
7 15 (1.78%) Visual Studio
8 13 (1.54%) Postman
9 10 (1.19%) Cucumber
9 10 (1.19%) Maven
9 10 (1.19%) REST Assured
9 10 (1.19%) Snyk
10 9 (1.07%) JUnit
10 9 (1.07%) TestRail
10 9 (1.07%) WebDriver
11 8 (0.95%) Gradle
12 7 (0.83%) JMeter
12 7 (0.83%) Terragrunt
12 7 (0.83%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 236 (28.03%) Social Skills
2 230 (27.32%) Finance
3 82 (9.74%) Analytical Skills
4 72 (8.55%) Public Sector
5 70 (8.31%) Banking
6 28 (3.33%) Retail
7 25 (2.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 20 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
9 18 (2.14%) Marketing
10 15 (1.78%) Documentation Skills
10 15 (1.78%) Investment Banking
11 13 (1.54%) Legal
12 8 (0.95%) Law
12 8 (0.95%) Local Government
12 8 (0.95%) Pharmaceutical
13 7 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
15 5 (0.59%) Back Office
15 5 (0.59%) Front Office
15 5 (0.59%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 150 (17.81%) DevOps Engineer
2 142 (16.86%) Senior
3 141 (16.75%) Azure Engineer
4 116 (13.78%) Developer
5 88 (10.45%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 81 (9.62%) Data Engineer
7 72 (8.55%) Architect
8 67 (7.96%) Analyst
8 67 (7.96%) Lead
9 40 (4.75%) Consultant
10 36 (4.28%) Business Analyst
11 30 (3.56%) Platform Engineer
11 30 (3.56%) Project Manager
12 28 (3.33%) Cloud Engineer
13 24 (2.85%) Senior DevOps
13 24 (2.85%) Test Analyst
14 23 (2.73%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 22 (2.61%) Databricks Engineer
15 22 (2.61%) Senior Data Engineer
16 21 (2.49%) Azure Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 252 (29.93%) Terraform
2 114 (13.54%) .NET
2 114 (13.54%) REST
3 61 (7.24%) PySpark
4 57 (6.77%) ADO
5 42 (4.99%) Kafka
5 42 (4.99%) React
6 39 (4.63%) JSON
6 39 (4.63%) YAML
7 33 (3.92%) RESTful
8 29 (3.44%) Middleware
9 28 (3.33%) ARM Templates
9 28 (3.33%) Playwright
10 26 (3.09%) XML
11 24 (2.85%) .NET Framework
11 24 (2.85%) OAuth
12 23 (2.73%) .NET Core
13 22 (2.61%) HTML
14 21 (2.49%) AngularJS
15 19 (2.26%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 97 (11.52%) Cloud Native
2 51 (6.06%) Product Ownership
3 29 (3.44%) Distributed Systems
4 27 (3.21%) Legacy Systems
5 26 (3.09%) Enterprise Software
6 25 (2.97%) Onboarding
7 21 (2.49%) AI Agents
8 17 (2.02%) Hybrid Cloud
9 16 (1.90%) Management Information System
10 15 (1.78%) Reinsurance
11 14 (1.66%) Greenfield Project
11 14 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
12 12 (1.43%) Low-Code
13 11 (1.31%) Enterprise Cloud
14 9 (1.07%) Data Structures
14 9 (1.07%) Public Cloud
15 8 (0.95%) Data Centre
15 8 (0.95%) Linux Command Line
16 7 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
16 7 (0.83%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 46 (5.46%) Windows
2 29 (3.44%) Linux
3 14 (1.66%) VMS
3 14 (1.66%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.71%) Unix
4 6 (0.71%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (0.48%) Android
5 4 (0.48%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.48%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 842 (100.00%) DevOps
2 467 (55.46%) CI/CD
3 341 (40.50%) Agile
4 218 (25.89%) Infrastructure as Code
5 156 (18.53%) Stakeholder Management
5 156 (18.53%) Test Automation
6 142 (16.86%) Problem-Solving
7 140 (16.63%) Analytics
8 121 (14.37%) Migration
9 116 (13.78%) Containerisation
10 114 (13.54%) AI
11 109 (12.95%) Continuous Improvement
12 108 (12.83%) Business Intelligence
13 104 (12.35%) Data Modelling
14 102 (12.11%) Scrum
15 92 (10.93%) Microservices
16 91 (10.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 88 (10.45%) ETL
18 87 (10.33%) User Acceptance Testing
18 87 (10.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 246 (29.22%) SQL
2 243 (28.86%) Python
3 140 (16.63%) C#
4 107 (12.71%) PowerShell
5 85 (10.10%) Bicep
6 81 (9.62%) JavaScript
7 72 (8.55%) Bash
8 67 (7.96%) TypeScript
9 61 (7.24%) Java
10 16 (1.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 12 (1.43%) Apex Code
12 8 (0.95%) T-SQL
13 5 (0.59%) Go
13 5 (0.59%) Kusto Query Language
14 4 (0.48%) ABAP
14 4 (0.48%) Shell Script
14 4 (0.48%) VB.NET
15 3 (0.36%) C
15 3 (0.36%) Korn
15 3 (0.36%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 210 (24.94%) Security Cleared
2 183 (21.73%) SC Cleared
3 70 (8.31%) Azure Certification
4 50 (5.94%) Degree
5 25 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (2.97%) Microsoft Certification
6 23 (2.73%) DV Cleared
7 15 (1.78%) ISTQB
8 13 (1.54%) AWS Certification
8 13 (1.54%) PMI Certification
9 10 (1.19%) DBS Check
9 10 (1.19%) PMP
10 7 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
10 7 (0.83%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 6 (0.71%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 6 (0.71%) Master's Degree
12 4 (0.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (0.48%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (0.48%) CISSP
12 4 (0.48%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (13.06%) QA
2 68 (8.08%) Data Quality
3 28 (3.33%) GDPR
4 20 (2.38%) Accessibility
5 19 (2.26%) NIST
6 15 (1.78%) PMO
7 10 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 8 (0.95%) ISO 20022
8 8 (0.95%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 7 (0.83%) SLA
9 7 (0.83%) WCAG
10 6 (0.71%) SEPA
11 4 (0.48%) PSD2
12 3 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.36%) GRC
13 2 (0.24%) Government Security Classifications
14 1 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
14 1 (0.12%) ITGC
14 1 (0.12%) NCSC
14 1 (0.12%) P3O
System Software
1 136 (16.15%) Docker
2 42 (4.99%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.19%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.95%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.59%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.48%) vSphere
8 2 (0.24%) Microsoft App-V
8 2 (0.24%) OpenSSH
9 1 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 165 (19.60%) Kubernetes
2 52 (6.18%) Ansible
3 27 (3.21%) Grafana
4 25 (2.97%) Prometheus
5 12 (1.43%) Microsoft Intune
6 11 (1.31%) Progress Chef
6 11 (1.31%) Puppet
7 9 (1.07%) Packer
8 8 (0.95%) SCCM
9 7 (0.83%) HP ALM
10 6 (0.71%) Argo
11 5 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (0.36%) HP Fortify
12 3 (0.36%) Kibana
13 2 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 2 (0.24%) Docker Swarm
13 2 (0.24%) Nagios
14 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Clustering
14 1 (0.12%) RSA Archer
14 1 (0.12%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 297 (35.27%) Microsoft
2 97 (11.52%) Databricks
3 40 (4.75%) Salesforce
4 27 (3.21%) Oracle
4 27 (3.21%) SAP
5 24 (2.85%) ServiceNow
6 21 (2.49%) VMware
7 17 (2.02%) Google
7 17 (2.02%) OpenAI
7 17 (2.02%) Splunk
8 15 (1.78%) Foundry
9 13 (1.54%) UiPath
10 12 (1.43%) Dynatrace
11 9 (1.07%) IBM
11 9 (1.07%) Informatica
12 8 (0.95%) Cloudera
12 8 (0.95%) HP
12 8 (0.95%) Workday
13 7 (0.83%) Okta
14 6 (0.71%) Guidewire