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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 81 55
Rank change year-on-year +24 -26 +23
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 845 450 655
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.18% 3.32% 4.04%
As % of the Cloud Services category 10.09% 7.74% 9.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 595 325 418
10th Percentile £378 £346 £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 £613
90th Percentile £708 £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 £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 8,371 5,814 6,600
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.44% 42.87% 40.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,717 3,991 4,796
10th Percentile £363 £337 £350
25th Percentile £447 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.47% -2.73% -4.35%
75th Percentile £645 £660 £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 106 86 51
10th Percentile £19.38 £22.75 £20.50
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.77 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +2.00% -46.98%
75th Percentile £55.00 £46.00 £41.63
90th Percentile £75.88 £69.75 £66.00
England median hourly rate £35.71 £26.00 £23.80
% change year-on-year +37.35% +9.24% -27.88%

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 7 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 7 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 7 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 -4 85 £525 +5.00% 50
South London -10 10 £513 -2.38% 6
West London -16 4 £625 +14.16% 5
East London -1 3 £604 +16.06% 8
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 49 (5.80%) SharePoint
2 40 (4.73%) Confluence
3 31 (3.67%) Apache Spark
4 29 (3.43%) Apache Airflow
5 25 (2.96%) Apache
6 8 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
7 7 (0.83%) CMS
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%) GeoServer
10 1 (0.12%) HCL Notes
10 1 (0.12%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.12%) IBM HTTP Server
10 1 (0.12%) nginx
10 1 (0.12%) SAS
10 1 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 30 (3.55%) Microsoft Project
2 22 (2.60%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (1.07%) MS Visio
4 6 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.59%) Notion
6 4 (0.47%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.24%) CPLEX
7 2 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 29 (3.43%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (1.07%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.83%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (0.36%) Endur
4 3 (0.36%) Findur
4 3 (0.36%) SAP BPC
5 2 (0.24%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.24%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
5 2 (0.24%) Maximo
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 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%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.12%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 845 (100.00%) Azure
2 267 (31.60%) GitHub
3 168 (19.88%) GitHub Actions
4 136 (16.09%) AWS
5 126 (14.91%) Power Platform
6 101 (11.95%) Azure Data Factory
7 76 (8.99%) Entra ID
8 75 (8.88%) Azure AKS
9 68 (8.05%) Azure Monitor
10 65 (7.69%) Power Automate
11 59 (6.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 55 (6.51%) Dynamics 365
13 49 (5.80%) PowerApps
13 49 (5.80%) Serverless
14 44 (5.21%) GCP
15 41 (4.85%) PaaS
16 39 (4.62%) Snowflake
17 38 (4.50%) Azure Logic Apps
17 38 (4.50%) Microsoft 365
18 36 (4.26%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 23 (2.72%) Firewall
2 18 (2.13%) DNS
3 17 (2.01%) VPN
4 11 (1.30%) Network Security
5 6 (0.71%) WAN
6 5 (0.59%) DHCP
6 5 (0.59%) SD-WAN
7 4 (0.47%) 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%) Cisco ASA
10 1 (0.12%) Remote Desktop
10 1 (0.12%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (10.06%) Power BI
2 67 (7.93%) Data Lake
3 60 (7.10%) SQL Server
4 49 (5.80%) Data Warehouse
5 47 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
6 35 (4.14%) Delta Lake
7 33 (3.91%) NoSQL
8 20 (2.37%) PostgreSQL
9 19 (2.25%) Metadata
9 19 (2.25%) Snowflake Schema
10 18 (2.13%) Relational Database
11 16 (1.89%) Big Data
12 13 (1.54%) Spark SQL
13 12 (1.42%) Redis
14 11 (1.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 10 (1.18%) Amazon Redshift
15 10 (1.18%) Star Schema
16 9 (1.07%) MongoDB
17 8 (0.95%) BigQuery
18 7 (0.83%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 156 (18.46%) JIRA
2 137 (16.21%) Git
3 97 (11.48%) Jenkins
4 73 (8.64%) GitLab
5 32 (3.79%) Selenium
6 23 (2.72%) SonarQube
7 13 (1.54%) Visual Studio
8 11 (1.30%) Cucumber
8 11 (1.30%) Cypress.io
9 10 (1.18%) Maven
9 10 (1.18%) TestRail
10 9 (1.07%) JUnit
10 9 (1.07%) REST Assured
10 9 (1.07%) Snyk
11 8 (0.95%) Gradle
11 8 (0.95%) SpecFlow
12 7 (0.83%) Bitbucket
12 7 (0.83%) Zephyr
13 6 (0.71%) Appium
13 6 (0.71%) TeamCity
General
1 233 (27.57%) Finance
2 210 (24.85%) Social Skills
3 81 (9.59%) Analytical Skills
4 76 (8.99%) Public Sector
5 64 (7.57%) Banking
6 23 (2.72%) Retail
7 21 (2.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 15 (1.78%) Documentation Skills
9 14 (1.66%) Investment Banking
9 14 (1.66%) Legal
10 12 (1.42%) Influencing Skills
10 12 (1.42%) Marketing
11 9 (1.07%) Organisational Skills
12 8 (0.95%) Front Office
12 8 (0.95%) Law
12 8 (0.95%) Local Government
13 7 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (0.71%) Back Office
14 6 (0.71%) Pharmaceutical
15 4 (0.47%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 139 (16.45%) Azure Engineer
2 131 (15.50%) Senior
3 127 (15.03%) Developer
4 123 (14.56%) DevOps Engineer
5 97 (11.48%) Data Engineer
6 75 (8.88%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 71 (8.40%) Lead
8 62 (7.34%) Architect
9 57 (6.75%) Analyst
10 37 (4.38%) Platform Engineer
11 33 (3.91%) Consultant
12 32 (3.79%) Business Analyst
13 31 (3.67%) Cloud Engineer
14 26 (3.08%) Project Manager
15 25 (2.96%) Azure Data Engineer
16 24 (2.84%) Solutions Architect
17 22 (2.60%) Cloud Platform Engineer
17 22 (2.60%) Senior DevOps
18 21 (2.49%) Test Analyst
18 21 (2.49%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (13.02%) .NET
2 90 (10.65%) REST
3 63 (7.46%) PySpark
4 50 (5.92%) ADO
5 41 (4.85%) JSON
6 39 (4.62%) React
7 36 (4.26%) YAML
8 35 (4.14%) Kafka
9 29 (3.43%) AngularJS
9 29 (3.43%) RESTful
10 27 (3.20%) .NET Framework
10 27 (3.20%) Playwright
10 27 (3.20%) XML
11 25 (2.96%) ARM Templates
12 23 (2.72%) .NET Core
12 23 (2.72%) Middleware
13 22 (2.60%) HTML
14 19 (2.25%) OAuth
14 19 (2.25%) SOAP
15 17 (2.01%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 106 (12.54%) Cloud Native
2 36 (4.26%) Product Ownership
3 34 (4.02%) Legacy Systems
4 33 (3.91%) Distributed Systems
5 20 (2.37%) Onboarding
6 19 (2.25%) Reinsurance
7 17 (2.01%) Management Information System
8 16 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
8 16 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
9 15 (1.78%) Greenfield Project
10 13 (1.54%) Hybrid Cloud
11 11 (1.30%) AI Agents
12 9 (1.07%) Data Structures
12 9 (1.07%) Low-Code
12 9 (1.07%) Replication
13 8 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
13 8 (0.95%) Enterprise Cloud
14 7 (0.83%) FMCG
14 7 (0.83%) Public Cloud
15 6 (0.71%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 45 (5.33%) Windows
2 27 (3.20%) Linux
3 14 (1.66%) Windows Server
4 9 (1.07%) VMS
5 7 (0.83%) Unix
6 4 (0.47%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (0.47%) 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
1 845 (100.00%) DevOps
2 464 (54.91%) CI/CD
3 331 (39.17%) Agile
4 214 (25.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 147 (17.40%) Test Automation
6 146 (17.28%) Analytics
7 130 (15.38%) Migration
8 128 (15.15%) Problem-Solving
9 121 (14.32%) Stakeholder Management
10 110 (13.02%) Containerisation
11 109 (12.90%) Continuous Improvement
11 109 (12.90%) Data Modelling
12 101 (11.95%) Data Pipeline
12 101 (11.95%) Scrum
13 94 (11.12%) Business Intelligence
14 93 (11.01%) AI
15 92 (10.89%) Data Engineering
16 91 (10.77%) ETL
16 91 (10.77%) Microservices
17 87 (10.30%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 273 (32.31%) SQL
2 238 (28.17%) Python
3 142 (16.80%) C#
4 106 (12.54%) PowerShell
5 78 (9.23%) Bicep
6 71 (8.40%) JavaScript
7 69 (8.17%) Bash
8 63 (7.46%) TypeScript
9 52 (6.15%) Java
10 12 (1.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 11 (1.30%) Apex Code
12 10 (1.18%) T-SQL
13 7 (0.83%) Scala
13 7 (0.83%) Shell Script
14 6 (0.71%) Kusto Query Language
15 4 (0.47%) Go
15 4 (0.47%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.47%) VB.NET
16 3 (0.36%) ABAP
16 3 (0.36%) C
Qualifications
1 221 (26.15%) Security Cleared
2 197 (23.31%) SC Cleared
3 65 (7.69%) Azure Certification
4 47 (5.56%) Degree
5 26 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
6 22 (2.60%) Microsoft Certification
7 18 (2.13%) DV Cleared
8 14 (1.66%) ISTQB
9 11 (1.30%) AWS Certification
10 9 (1.07%) DBS Check
11 7 (0.83%) PMI Certification
12 6 (0.71%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 5 (0.59%) Cisco Certification
13 5 (0.59%) PMP
14 4 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
14 4 (0.47%) Master's Degree
14 4 (0.47%) PRINCE2 Certification
15 3 (0.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 3 (0.36%) ITIL Certification
15 3 (0.36%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (11.95%) QA
2 75 (8.88%) Data Quality
3 25 (2.96%) GDPR
4 20 (2.37%) Accessibility
5 16 (1.89%) NIST
6 12 (1.42%) PMO
7 9 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (1.07%) WCAG
8 8 (0.95%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 7 (0.83%) SLA
10 5 (0.59%) SEPA
11 4 (0.47%) PSD2
12 3 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.36%) ISO 20022
13 2 (0.24%) Government Security Classifications
13 2 (0.24%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 2 (0.24%) NCSC
14 1 (0.12%) IFRS
14 1 (0.12%) IFRS 9
14 1 (0.12%) ITGC
System Software
1 126 (14.91%) Docker
2 48 (5.68%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.71%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.71%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.47%) 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 (28.76%) Terraform
2 150 (17.75%) Kubernetes
3 51 (6.04%) Ansible
4 23 (2.72%) Grafana
5 19 (2.25%) Prometheus
6 11 (1.30%) Packer
7 10 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
8 8 (0.95%) Progress Chef
8 8 (0.95%) Puppet
9 7 (0.83%) SCCM
10 5 (0.59%) HP ALM
10 5 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.47%) Argo
12 3 (0.36%) HP Fortify
13 2 (0.24%) Docker Swarm
14 1 (0.12%) Istio
14 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Clustering
14 1 (0.12%) PowerCLI
14 1 (0.12%) RSA Archer
14 1 (0.12%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 270 (31.95%) Microsoft
2 99 (11.72%) Databricks
3 36 (4.26%) Salesforce
4 32 (3.79%) Oracle
5 30 (3.55%) ServiceNow
6 26 (3.08%) SAP
7 18 (2.13%) VMware
8 15 (1.78%) Informatica
9 12 (1.42%) Google
10 11 (1.30%) OpenAI
11 10 (1.18%) Bloomberg
12 9 (1.07%) Dynatrace
12 9 (1.07%) Splunk
13 8 (0.95%) Refinitiv
14 7 (0.83%) Cloudera
14 7 (0.83%) Foundry
14 7 (0.83%) Guidewire
15 6 (0.71%) Cisco
15 6 (0.71%) IBM
15 6 (0.71%) Workday