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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 80 56
Rank change year-on-year +20 -24 +22
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 833 459 662
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.13% 3.37% 4.05%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.95% 7.86% 9.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 587 329 430
10th Percentile £379 £350 £388
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 £601
90th Percentile £707 £750 £688
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -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 £43.15 £62.50 -
% change year-on-year -30.96% - -

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 8,370 5,843 6,643
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.53% 42.85% 40.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,722 4,012 4,849
10th Percentile £363 £338 £350
25th Percentile £446 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £536 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.19% -2.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £645 £659 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.34% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 85 52
10th Percentile £19.23 £22.70 £20.65
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.77 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £27.75
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +4.76% -47.14%
75th Percentile £55.56 £47.50 £41.19
90th Percentile £75.18 £67.50 £65.65
England median hourly rate £37.37 £26.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year +43.73% +18.18% -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 1 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 1 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 1 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 -2 83 £525 +2.44% 48
South London -7 10 £513 -2.38% 5
West London -14 4 £625 +14.16% 4
East London 0 3 £604 +16.06% 9
North London -1 2 £600 +36.36% 4
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 49 (5.88%) SharePoint
2 39 (4.68%) Confluence
3 30 (3.60%) Apache Airflow
3 30 (3.60%) Apache Spark
4 26 (3.12%) Apache
5 9 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (0.72%) CMS
7 3 (0.36%) Kentico
8 2 (0.24%) IIS
8 2 (0.24%) Mendix
9 1 (0.12%) Apache Pulsar
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 26 (3.12%) Microsoft Project
2 19 (2.28%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (1.08%) MS Visio
4 6 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.48%) Notion
7 2 (0.24%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.24%) CPLEX
7 2 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 28 (3.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (1.08%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.84%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (0.36%) Endur
4 3 (0.36%) Findur
4 3 (0.36%) Maximo
4 3 (0.36%) SAP BPC
5 2 (0.24%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.24%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
5 2 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.24%) SAP MM
5 2 (0.24%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.12%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.12%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.12%) SAP LE
6 1 (0.12%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.12%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.12%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 833 (100.00%) Azure
2 264 (31.69%) GitHub
3 165 (19.81%) GitHub Actions
4 135 (16.21%) AWS
5 126 (15.13%) Power Platform
6 102 (12.24%) Azure Data Factory
7 76 (9.12%) Entra ID
8 75 (9.00%) Azure AKS
9 68 (8.16%) Azure Monitor
10 66 (7.92%) Power Automate
11 59 (7.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 53 (6.36%) Dynamics 365
13 50 (6.00%) PowerApps
13 50 (6.00%) Serverless
14 42 (5.04%) GCP
15 40 (4.80%) Snowflake
16 39 (4.68%) PaaS
17 38 (4.56%) Azure Logic Apps
18 37 (4.44%) Azure Key Vault
18 37 (4.44%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 23 (2.76%) Firewall
2 18 (2.16%) DNS
3 16 (1.92%) VPN
4 11 (1.32%) Network Security
5 6 (0.72%) WAN
6 5 (0.60%) DHCP
6 5 (0.60%) SD-WAN
7 4 (0.48%) Internet
8 3 (0.36%) SAN
9 2 (0.24%) 4G
9 2 (0.24%) Cisco IOS
9 2 (0.24%) NAS
9 2 (0.24%) SSH
9 2 (0.24%) SSL
9 2 (0.24%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.24%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.24%) X.509
10 1 (0.12%) Remote Desktop
10 1 (0.12%) Reverse Proxy
10 1 (0.12%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (10.08%) Power BI
2 67 (8.04%) Data Lake
3 61 (7.32%) SQL Server
4 48 (5.76%) Data Warehouse
5 47 (5.64%) Azure SQL Database
6 36 (4.32%) Delta Lake
7 32 (3.84%) NoSQL
8 20 (2.40%) PostgreSQL
8 20 (2.40%) Snowflake Schema
9 19 (2.28%) Metadata
10 18 (2.16%) Relational Database
11 15 (1.80%) Big Data
12 13 (1.56%) Spark SQL
13 12 (1.44%) Redis
14 11 (1.32%) Amazon Redshift
14 11 (1.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 9 (1.08%) MongoDB
15 9 (1.08%) Star Schema
16 8 (0.96%) BigQuery
17 7 (0.84%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 153 (18.37%) JIRA
2 137 (16.45%) Git
3 94 (11.28%) Jenkins
4 69 (8.28%) GitLab
5 31 (3.72%) Selenium
6 21 (2.52%) SonarQube
7 12 (1.44%) Visual Studio
8 11 (1.32%) Cucumber
8 11 (1.32%) Cypress.io
9 10 (1.20%) TestRail
10 9 (1.08%) JUnit
10 9 (1.08%) Maven
10 9 (1.08%) REST Assured
11 8 (0.96%) SpecFlow
12 7 (0.84%) Bitbucket
12 7 (0.84%) Gradle
12 7 (0.84%) Snyk
13 6 (0.72%) Appium
13 6 (0.72%) TeamCity
13 6 (0.72%) Zephyr
General
1 225 (27.01%) Finance
2 208 (24.97%) Social Skills
3 81 (9.72%) Analytical Skills
4 75 (9.00%) Public Sector
5 59 (7.08%) Banking
6 20 (2.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 20 (2.40%) Retail
7 15 (1.80%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (1.68%) Legal
9 13 (1.56%) Investment Banking
10 12 (1.44%) Marketing
11 11 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
11 11 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
12 8 (0.96%) Front Office
12 8 (0.96%) Law
12 8 (0.96%) Local Government
13 7 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (0.72%) Back Office
14 6 (0.72%) Pharmaceutical
15 4 (0.48%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 136 (16.33%) Azure Engineer
2 128 (15.37%) Senior
3 125 (15.01%) Developer
4 120 (14.41%) DevOps Engineer
5 100 (12.00%) Data Engineer
6 74 (8.88%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 71 (8.52%) Lead
8 62 (7.44%) Architect
9 56 (6.72%) Analyst
10 37 (4.44%) Platform Engineer
11 32 (3.84%) Consultant
12 31 (3.72%) Business Analyst
13 30 (3.60%) Cloud Engineer
14 25 (3.00%) Azure Data Engineer
15 24 (2.88%) Solutions Architect
16 21 (2.52%) Project Manager
16 21 (2.52%) Senior Data Engineer
16 21 (2.52%) Senior Developer
16 21 (2.52%) Test Analyst
16 21 (2.52%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 108 (12.97%) .NET
2 84 (10.08%) REST
3 64 (7.68%) PySpark
4 51 (6.12%) ADO
5 40 (4.80%) JSON
6 39 (4.68%) React
7 37 (4.44%) YAML
8 33 (3.96%) Kafka
9 29 (3.48%) AngularJS
9 29 (3.48%) RESTful
10 28 (3.36%) .NET Framework
11 26 (3.12%) Playwright
12 25 (3.00%) ARM Templates
12 25 (3.00%) XML
13 23 (2.76%) .NET Core
14 22 (2.64%) Middleware
15 21 (2.52%) HTML
16 20 (2.40%) OAuth
16 20 (2.40%) SOAP
17 17 (2.04%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 105 (12.61%) Cloud Native
2 34 (4.08%) Legacy Systems
3 33 (3.96%) Distributed Systems
4 32 (3.84%) Product Ownership
5 21 (2.52%) Onboarding
6 19 (2.28%) Reinsurance
7 17 (2.04%) Management Information System
8 16 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
9 14 (1.68%) Enterprise Software
9 14 (1.68%) Greenfield Project
9 14 (1.68%) Hybrid Cloud
10 11 (1.32%) AI Agents
11 9 (1.08%) Data Structures
11 9 (1.08%) Enterprise Cloud
11 9 (1.08%) Replication
12 8 (0.96%) Data Protection Act
12 8 (0.96%) Low-Code
13 7 (0.84%) FMCG
13 7 (0.84%) Public Cloud
14 6 (0.72%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 45 (5.40%) Windows
2 26 (3.12%) Linux
3 14 (1.68%) Windows Server
4 9 (1.08%) VMS
5 7 (0.84%) Unix
6 4 (0.48%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (0.48%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.24%) Android
7 2 (0.24%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.24%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 833 (100.00%) DevOps
2 456 (54.74%) CI/CD
3 325 (39.02%) Agile
4 216 (25.93%) Infrastructure as Code
5 146 (17.53%) Analytics
6 145 (17.41%) Test Automation
7 131 (15.73%) Migration
8 125 (15.01%) Problem-Solving
9 115 (13.81%) Stakeholder Management
10 109 (13.09%) Continuous Improvement
10 109 (13.09%) Data Modelling
11 108 (12.97%) Containerisation
12 101 (12.12%) Data Pipeline
12 101 (12.12%) Scrum
13 93 (11.16%) AI
13 93 (11.16%) Business Intelligence
14 91 (10.92%) Data Engineering
14 91 (10.92%) ETL
15 88 (10.56%) Microservices
15 88 (10.56%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 274 (32.89%) SQL
2 235 (28.21%) Python
3 141 (16.93%) C#
4 106 (12.73%) PowerShell
5 77 (9.24%) Bicep
6 70 (8.40%) Bash
7 67 (8.04%) JavaScript
8 59 (7.08%) TypeScript
9 50 (6.00%) Java
10 11 (1.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 10 (1.20%) Apex Code
11 10 (1.20%) T-SQL
12 8 (0.96%) Scala
13 7 (0.84%) Kusto Query Language
13 7 (0.84%) Shell Script
14 4 (0.48%) Go
14 4 (0.48%) PL/SQL
14 4 (0.48%) VB.NET
15 3 (0.36%) ABAP
15 3 (0.36%) C
Qualifications
1 220 (26.41%) Security Cleared
2 197 (23.65%) SC Cleared
3 62 (7.44%) Azure Certification
4 44 (5.28%) Degree
5 26 (3.12%) Computer Science Degree
6 22 (2.64%) Microsoft Certification
7 18 (2.16%) DV Cleared
8 12 (1.44%) ISTQB
9 11 (1.32%) AWS Certification
10 9 (1.08%) DBS Check
11 6 (0.72%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 5 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
13 4 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
13 4 (0.48%) Master's Degree
13 4 (0.48%) PMI Certification
14 3 (0.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 3 (0.36%) CISSP
14 3 (0.36%) ITIL Certification
14 3 (0.36%) PMP
14 3 (0.36%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (11.76%) QA
2 74 (8.88%) Data Quality
3 24 (2.88%) GDPR
4 19 (2.28%) Accessibility
5 16 (1.92%) NIST
6 12 (1.44%) PMO
7 9 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (1.08%) WCAG
8 7 (0.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 7 (0.84%) SLA
9 4 (0.48%) PSD2
9 4 (0.48%) SEPA
10 3 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.24%) Government Security Classifications
11 2 (0.24%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 2 (0.24%) NCSC
12 1 (0.12%) EMIR
12 1 (0.12%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 1 (0.12%) P3O
System Software
1 122 (14.65%) Docker
2 49 (5.88%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.72%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.72%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.48%) vSphere
7 2 (0.24%) Microsoft App-V
7 2 (0.24%) OpenSSH
8 1 (0.12%) HDFS
8 1 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 243 (29.17%) Terraform
2 146 (17.53%) Kubernetes
3 51 (6.12%) Ansible
4 24 (2.88%) Grafana
5 20 (2.40%) Prometheus
6 11 (1.32%) Packer
7 10 (1.20%) Microsoft Intune
8 8 (0.96%) Progress Chef
8 8 (0.96%) Puppet
9 7 (0.84%) SCCM
10 6 (0.72%) HP ALM
11 5 (0.60%) Argo
11 5 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.24%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (0.24%) HP Fortify
13 1 (0.12%) FortiGate
13 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Clustering
13 1 (0.12%) RSA Archer
13 1 (0.12%) systemd
13 1 (0.12%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 261 (31.33%) Microsoft
2 101 (12.12%) Databricks
3 34 (4.08%) Salesforce
4 31 (3.72%) ServiceNow
5 30 (3.60%) Oracle
6 26 (3.12%) SAP
7 18 (2.16%) VMware
8 15 (1.80%) Informatica
9 12 (1.44%) Google
10 10 (1.20%) Bloomberg
10 10 (1.20%) OpenAI
11 9 (1.08%) Dynatrace
11 9 (1.08%) Splunk
12 8 (0.96%) Refinitiv
13 7 (0.84%) Foundry
13 7 (0.84%) Guidewire
14 6 (0.72%) Cloudera
14 6 (0.72%) HP
14 6 (0.72%) IBM
14 6 (0.72%) Workday