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 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 75 74
Rank change year-on-year -4 -1 +15
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 507 524 573
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.58% 3.31% 2.90%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.08% 8.12% 7.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 355 356 424
10th Percentile £343 £382 £425
25th Percentile £400 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £704 £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 £50.03 - -
25th Percentile £56.06 - -
Median hourly rate £66.75 - -
75th Percentile £78.06 - -
90th Percentile £84.48 - -
England median hourly rate £74.63 £73.75 £62.00
% change year-on-year +1.19% +18.95% -5.76%

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 6,276 6,454 7,634
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.26% 40.73% 38.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,264 4,387 5,619
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% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 119 40 68
10th Percentile £18.25 £23.33 £18.65
25th Percentile £22.75 £24.33 £21.25
Median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £37.75
Median % change year-on-year -27.23% -7.28% +37.27%
75th Percentile £45.88 £59.25 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.03 £74.13
England median hourly rate £25.47 £32.75 £26.50
% change year-on-year -22.23% +23.58% +17.78%

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 29 November 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Azure DevOps in London over the 6 months to 29 November 2025.

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 29 November 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 -13 70 £550 - 26
South London -3 8 £500 +31.58%
East London -5 2 £440 - 7
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 28 (5.52%) Confluence
2 26 (5.13%) SharePoint
3 10 (1.97%) Apache
3 10 (1.97%) Apache Spark
4 9 (1.78%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (1.18%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.79%) CMS
7 2 (0.39%) IIS
7 2 (0.39%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.20%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.20%) Appian
8 1 (0.20%) HCL Notes
8 1 (0.20%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.20%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.20%) Kentico
8 1 (0.20%) Mule
Applications
1 12 (2.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.58%) MS Visio
3 7 (1.38%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (1.38%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.59%) Trello
Business Applications
1 25 (4.93%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (1.97%) Aladdin
3 7 (1.38%) Endur
4 4 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.39%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.20%) Orchestrade
6 1 (0.20%) SAP BPC
6 1 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 507 (100.00%) Azure
2 118 (23.27%) GitHub
3 109 (21.50%) Power Platform
4 85 (16.77%) GitHub Actions
5 69 (13.61%) AWS
6 63 (12.43%) Azure Data Factory
7 62 (12.23%) Serverless
8 60 (11.83%) Azure AKS
8 60 (11.83%) Azure Monitor
9 53 (10.45%) Dynamics 365
10 50 (9.86%) Entra ID
11 48 (9.47%) Azure Logic Apps
12 44 (8.68%) Azure Service Bus
12 44 (8.68%) PowerApps
13 42 (8.28%) Power Automate
14 41 (8.09%) Azure Functions
15 38 (7.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 37 (7.30%) Azure Key Vault
17 33 (6.51%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 30 (5.92%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 26 (5.13%) Firewall
2 16 (3.16%) Network Security
3 13 (2.56%) DNS
3 13 (2.56%) VPN
4 8 (1.58%) WAN
5 5 (0.99%) SD-WAN
6 3 (0.59%) LAN
7 2 (0.39%) DHCP
7 2 (0.39%) MPLS
7 2 (0.39%) Remote Desktop
7 2 (0.39%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.20%) AMQP
8 1 (0.20%) BGP
8 1 (0.20%) DSL
8 1 (0.20%) FTP
8 1 (0.20%) HTTP
8 1 (0.20%) IPsec
8 1 (0.20%) NGFW
8 1 (0.20%) VLAN
8 1 (0.20%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (13.02%) Power BI
2 38 (7.50%) SQL Server
3 27 (5.33%) Azure SQL Database
4 24 (4.73%) Data Warehouse
5 21 (4.14%) Data Lake
6 19 (3.75%) NoSQL
7 17 (3.35%) PostgreSQL
8 16 (3.16%) Delta Lake
9 15 (2.96%) MongoDB
10 10 (1.97%) Redis
11 9 (1.78%) Relational Database
12 8 (1.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 7 (1.38%) DynamoDB
13 7 (1.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 6 (1.18%) Elasticsearch
14 6 (1.18%) Star Schema
14 6 (1.18%) Tableau
15 5 (0.99%) Big Data
15 5 (0.99%) Metadata
16 4 (0.79%) Data Mart
Development Applications
1 96 (18.93%) JIRA
2 74 (14.60%) Git
3 53 (10.45%) Jenkins
4 39 (7.69%) GitLab
5 25 (4.93%) Selenium
6 17 (3.35%) Postman
7 12 (2.37%) Cucumber
7 12 (2.37%) SonarQube
8 11 (2.17%) JUnit
9 9 (1.78%) Cypress.io
9 9 (1.78%) SpecFlow
10 8 (1.58%) Appium
10 8 (1.58%) JMeter
10 8 (1.58%) Mockito
10 8 (1.58%) Team Foundation Server
10 8 (1.58%) TeamCity
11 7 (1.38%) Bitbucket
12 6 (1.18%) Liquibase
12 6 (1.18%) MLflow
12 6 (1.18%) NUnit
General
1 174 (34.32%) Social Skills
2 125 (24.65%) Finance
3 54 (10.65%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (10.26%) Public Sector
5 45 (8.88%) Banking
6 24 (4.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 24 (4.73%) Investment Banking
7 20 (3.94%) Documentation Skills
8 15 (2.96%) Retail
9 14 (2.76%) Influencing Skills
10 12 (2.37%) Law
11 11 (2.17%) Marketing
12 9 (1.78%) Financial Institution
13 8 (1.58%) Back Office
14 7 (1.38%) Front Office
14 7 (1.38%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (0.99%) Military
16 3 (0.59%) Billing
16 3 (0.59%) Organisational Skills
16 3 (0.59%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 138 (27.22%) Developer
2 70 (13.81%) Azure Engineer
3 63 (12.43%) DevOps Engineer
4 50 (9.86%) Senior
5 43 (8.48%) Analyst
6 41 (8.09%) Lead
7 36 (7.10%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 34 (6.71%) Data Engineer
9 32 (6.31%) Architect
10 27 (5.33%) Business Analyst
11 26 (5.13%) Azure Developer
12 18 (3.55%) Azure Architect
12 18 (3.55%) Senior Developer
12 18 (3.55%) Test Engineer
13 17 (3.35%) Platform Engineer
13 17 (3.35%) Tester
14 16 (3.16%) Azure Data Engineer
14 16 (3.16%) C# Developer
14 16 (3.16%) ServiceNow Developer
15 15 (2.96%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 119 (23.47%) .NET
2 51 (10.06%) REST
3 39 (7.69%) SOAP
4 36 (7.10%) Node.js
5 33 (6.51%) RESTful
6 32 (6.31%) React
7 31 (6.11%) YAML
8 29 (5.72%) Kafka
9 26 (5.13%) ARM Templates
10 25 (4.93%) .NET Core
11 24 (4.73%) .NET Framework
11 24 (4.73%) PySpark
12 20 (3.94%) ADO
13 19 (3.75%) AngularJS
13 19 (3.75%) HTML
14 16 (3.16%) ASP.NET
14 16 (3.16%) CSS
14 16 (3.16%) Playwright
15 15 (2.96%) Microsoft Graph
16 14 (2.76%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 46 (9.07%) Cloud Native
2 28 (5.52%) Product Ownership
3 24 (4.73%) Distributed Systems
4 20 (3.94%) CMDB
5 14 (2.76%) Enterprise Software
6 12 (2.37%) AI Agents
6 12 (2.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 12 (2.37%) Legacy Systems
7 11 (2.17%) Fixed Income
8 8 (1.58%) Mobile App
8 8 (1.58%) Public Cloud
9 7 (1.38%) Greenfield Project
9 7 (1.38%) Hybrid Cloud
9 7 (1.38%) Reinsurance
10 6 (1.18%) Derivative
11 5 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
11 5 (0.99%) Data Structures
11 5 (0.99%) Enterprise Cloud
11 5 (0.99%) NHS
11 5 (0.99%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 22 (4.34%) Windows
2 16 (3.16%) Linux
3 7 (1.38%) Android
3 7 (1.38%) Apple iOS
4 6 (1.18%) Unix
5 5 (0.99%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.79%) VMS
7 3 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.20%) Solaris
8 1 (0.20%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.20%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 506 (99.80%) DevOps
2 285 (56.21%) CI/CD
3 264 (52.07%) Agile
4 137 (27.02%) Infrastructure as Code
5 114 (22.49%) Problem-Solving
6 102 (20.12%) Scrum
7 96 (18.93%) Analytics
8 92 (18.15%) Test Automation
9 72 (14.20%) Microservices
10 71 (14.00%) Business Intelligence
11 63 (12.43%) Containerisation
11 63 (12.43%) Continuous Improvement
12 61 (12.03%) AI
13 55 (10.85%) Migration
14 51 (10.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 50 (9.86%) Data Modelling
15 50 (9.86%) Stakeholder Management
16 49 (9.66%) Data Engineering
17 48 (9.47%) Validation
18 46 (9.07%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 154 (30.37%) SQL
2 147 (28.99%) Python
3 130 (25.64%) C#
4 92 (18.15%) JavaScript
5 65 (12.82%) PowerShell
6 52 (10.26%) Java
7 51 (10.06%) Bicep
8 33 (6.51%) Bash
9 32 (6.31%) TypeScript
10 8 (1.58%) Kusto Query Language
11 7 (1.38%) T-SQL
12 6 (1.18%) PL/SQL
12 6 (1.18%) VB.NET
13 4 (0.79%) Go
13 4 (0.79%) Scala
13 4 (0.79%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.59%) Korn
14 3 (0.59%) R
14 3 (0.59%) X++
15 2 (0.39%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 103 (20.32%) Security Cleared
2 89 (17.55%) SC Cleared
3 49 (9.66%) Degree
4 41 (8.09%) Azure Certification
5 24 (4.73%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (3.55%) Microsoft Certification
7 13 (2.56%) ISTQB
8 10 (1.97%) Master's Degree
9 8 (1.58%) PMI Certification
10 6 (1.18%) Numerate Degree
11 5 (0.99%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 4 (0.79%) CBAP
12 4 (0.79%) DV Cleared
12 4 (0.79%) ISEB
12 4 (0.79%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (0.79%) PMP
13 3 (0.59%) CISSP
14 2 (0.39%) AWS Certification
14 2 (0.39%) Cisco Certification
14 2 (0.39%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (8.09%) QA
2 24 (4.73%) Data Quality
3 22 (4.34%) GDPR
4 18 (3.55%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (1.58%) NIST
6 6 (1.18%) WCAG
7 5 (0.99%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 4 (0.79%) NCSC
9 3 (0.59%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.39%) EU AI Act
10 2 (0.39%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.39%) HL7
10 2 (0.39%) PMO
11 1 (0.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.20%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 1 (0.20%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 86 (16.96%) Docker
2 31 (6.11%) Active Directory
3 12 (2.37%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.99%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.20%) KVM
6 1 (0.20%) Squid
Systems Management
1 142 (28.01%) Terraform
2 86 (16.96%) Kubernetes
3 35 (6.90%) Ansible
4 15 (2.96%) Grafana
5 13 (2.56%) Prometheus
6 7 (1.38%) Progress Chef
7 6 (1.18%) Kibana
8 5 (0.99%) Argo
8 5 (0.99%) Puppet
9 4 (0.79%) Packer
10 3 (0.59%) Istio
10 3 (0.59%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (0.59%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.39%) Fluentd
11 2 (0.39%) HP ALM
11 2 (0.39%) Opsgenie
12 1 (0.20%) CASB
12 1 (0.20%) Icinga
12 1 (0.20%) linkerd
12 1 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 173 (34.12%) Microsoft
2 72 (14.20%) Databricks
3 35 (6.90%) ServiceNow
4 21 (4.14%) OpenAI
5 18 (3.55%) Salesforce
6 16 (3.16%) Oracle
7 11 (2.17%) SAP
8 8 (1.58%) Murex
9 7 (1.38%) DocuSign
10 6 (1.18%) Cisco
10 6 (1.18%) Google
10 6 (1.18%) Splunk
10 6 (1.18%) UiPath
11 5 (0.99%) Aruba
11 5 (0.99%) Sitecore
12 4 (0.79%) Charles River
12 4 (0.79%) Citrix
12 4 (0.79%) VMware
13 3 (0.59%) Brio
13 3 (0.59%) OpenLink