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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 59 75
Rank change year-on-year -20 +16 +11
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 461 618 674
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 3.42% 3.79% 3.08%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.91% 9.18% 7.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 319 413 469
10th Percentile £343 £380 £413
25th Percentile £406 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% -
75th Percentile £650 £622 £650
90th Percentile £750 £688 £725
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £86.25 - -
Median hourly rate £87.50 - £8.00
75th Percentile £88.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £75.00 - £71.00
% change year-on-year - - +17.07%

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 5,831 6,730 8,683
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.30% 41.28% 39.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,970 4,699 6,436
10th Percentile £340 £350 £356
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -4.35% -1.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £775
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 45 63
10th Percentile £23.00 £22.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.15 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.00 £30.59 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.34% -24.47% +15.71%
75th Percentile £51.00 £53.75 £69.38
90th Percentile £78.75 £72.15 £89.31
England median hourly rate £26.00 £33.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -21.21% - +53.49%

Azure DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Azure DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Azure DevOps 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 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
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 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 -26 61 £550 +4.76% 18
East London -3 5 £520 +18.86% 3
South London -11 3 £525 +34.47% 1
West London -10 1 £520 +10.64% 6
North London - 1 £440 -
Azure DevOps
England

Azure DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 32 (6.94%) Confluence
2 17 (3.69%) SharePoint
3 10 (2.17%) Apache
3 10 (2.17%) Apache Spark
4 7 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.65%) CMS
5 3 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.43%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.22%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.22%) Appian
7 1 (0.22%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.22%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.22%) Mule
7 1 (0.22%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 11 (2.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.95%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (1.95%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.65%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.43%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.43%) Trello
Business Applications
1 14 (3.04%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (2.82%) Endur
3 7 (1.52%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.43%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.22%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.22%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.22%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.22%) Temenos T24
5 1 (0.22%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 461 (100.00%) Azure
2 89 (19.31%) Power Platform
3 75 (16.27%) GitHub
4 72 (15.62%) AWS
5 49 (10.63%) Azure AKS
5 49 (10.63%) GitHub Actions
6 48 (10.41%) Azure Data Factory
6 48 (10.41%) Azure Monitor
7 47 (10.20%) Serverless
8 42 (9.11%) Entra ID
9 41 (8.89%) PowerApps
10 40 (8.68%) Dynamics 365
11 38 (8.24%) Power Automate
12 37 (8.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 36 (7.81%) PaaS
14 28 (6.07%) Azure Service Bus
15 27 (5.86%) Azure Logic Apps
15 27 (5.86%) GCP
16 26 (5.64%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 26 (5.64%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 28 (6.07%) Firewall
2 14 (3.04%) DNS
3 13 (2.82%) VPN
4 11 (2.39%) Network Security
4 11 (2.39%) SSL
5 9 (1.95%) HTTP
6 7 (1.52%) HTTPS
6 7 (1.52%) SMTP
7 6 (1.30%) FTP
7 6 (1.30%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.65%) LAN
8 3 (0.65%) Remote Desktop
8 3 (0.65%) WAN
9 2 (0.43%) DHCP
9 2 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.22%) BGP
10 1 (0.22%) DSL
10 1 (0.22%) IPsec
10 1 (0.22%) POP3
10 1 (0.22%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (12.36%) Power BI
2 27 (5.86%) SQL Server
3 21 (4.56%) Azure SQL Database
4 20 (4.34%) PostgreSQL
5 19 (4.12%) Data Lake
6 18 (3.90%) Redis
7 17 (3.69%) NoSQL
8 16 (3.47%) Delta Lake
9 14 (3.04%) Data Warehouse
9 14 (3.04%) MongoDB
10 11 (2.39%) Relational Database
11 9 (1.95%) Metadata
12 7 (1.52%) Big Data
13 6 (1.30%) Elasticsearch
14 4 (0.87%) Data Mart
15 3 (0.65%) MySQL
15 3 (0.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 2 (0.43%) BigQuery
16 2 (0.43%) Snowflake Schema
16 2 (0.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 82 (17.79%) JIRA
2 57 (12.36%) Git
3 44 (9.54%) Jenkins
4 33 (7.16%) GitLab
5 19 (4.12%) Selenium
6 16 (3.47%) Postman
7 15 (3.25%) SonarQube
8 12 (2.60%) TeamCity
9 9 (1.95%) Cucumber
10 8 (1.74%) Appium
10 8 (1.74%) Bitbucket
10 8 (1.74%) NUnit
10 8 (1.74%) Octopus Deploy
11 7 (1.52%) JMeter
11 7 (1.52%) JUnit
11 7 (1.52%) WebDriver
12 6 (1.30%) SpecFlow
13 5 (1.08%) Gradle
13 5 (1.08%) TestNG
13 5 (1.08%) Zephyr
General
1 157 (34.06%) Social Skills
2 113 (24.51%) Finance
3 50 (10.85%) Analytical Skills
3 50 (10.85%) Banking
4 30 (6.51%) Investment Banking
5 29 (6.29%) Public Sector
6 19 (4.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 17 (3.69%) Documentation Skills
8 15 (3.25%) Marketing
9 11 (2.39%) Retail
10 10 (2.17%) Law
11 8 (1.74%) Front Office
12 7 (1.52%) Back Office
13 4 (0.87%) Financial Institution
13 4 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.65%) Billing
14 3 (0.65%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.65%) Telecoms
15 2 (0.43%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 112 (24.30%) Developer
2 74 (16.05%) Azure Engineer
3 54 (11.71%) DevOps Engineer
4 44 (9.54%) Senior
5 41 (8.89%) Architect
5 41 (8.89%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 41 (8.89%) Lead
6 39 (8.46%) Analyst
7 32 (6.94%) Data Engineer
8 27 (5.86%) Business Analyst
9 23 (4.99%) Azure Developer
9 23 (4.99%) Senior Developer
10 22 (4.77%) C# Developer
10 22 (4.77%) Project Manager
11 19 (4.12%) .NET Developer
11 19 (4.12%) Azure Architect
12 16 (3.47%) Lead Developer
13 15 (3.25%) Platform Engineer
14 14 (3.04%) Azure Data Engineer
14 14 (3.04%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (19.96%) .NET
2 42 (9.11%) REST
3 31 (6.72%) SOAP
4 29 (6.29%) ARM Templates
5 28 (6.07%) RESTful
6 25 (5.42%) .NET Core
6 25 (5.42%) Kafka
6 25 (5.42%) React
7 24 (5.21%) YAML
8 22 (4.77%) ADO
8 22 (4.77%) PySpark
9 21 (4.56%) HTML
10 18 (3.90%) ASP.NET
11 17 (3.69%) .NET Framework
12 16 (3.47%) CSS
13 14 (3.04%) ActiveMQ
14 13 (2.82%) JSON
14 13 (2.82%) Node.js
15 12 (2.60%) XML
16 10 (2.17%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 33 (7.16%) Cloud Native
2 17 (3.69%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (3.47%) Product Ownership
4 11 (2.39%) Greenfield Project
5 10 (2.17%) CMDB
5 10 (2.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 10 (2.17%) Mobile App
6 9 (1.95%) Data Structures
6 9 (1.95%) Fixed Income
6 9 (1.95%) Hybrid Cloud
6 9 (1.95%) Reinsurance
7 8 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (1.52%) Algorithms
8 7 (1.52%) Low-Code
8 7 (1.52%) Management Information System
9 6 (1.30%) Linux Command Line
10 5 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.08%) Derivative
10 5 (1.08%) Onboarding
10 5 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 21 (4.56%) Linux
2 19 (4.12%) Windows
3 12 (2.60%) Android
3 12 (2.60%) Apple iOS
4 9 (1.95%) Unix
5 3 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.65%) VMS
5 3 (0.65%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.22%) Solaris
6 1 (0.22%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.22%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 461 (100.00%) DevOps
2 237 (51.41%) Agile
3 219 (47.51%) CI/CD
4 114 (24.73%) Infrastructure as Code
5 90 (19.52%) Scrum
6 87 (18.87%) Problem-Solving
7 76 (16.49%) Analytics
7 76 (16.49%) Test Automation
8 59 (12.80%) Business Intelligence
9 53 (11.50%) Migration
10 50 (10.85%) Data Engineering
11 47 (10.20%) Microservices
11 47 (10.20%) TDD
12 46 (9.98%) Containerisation
13 41 (8.89%) Data Modelling
14 39 (8.46%) ETL
14 39 (8.46%) Stakeholder Management
15 37 (8.03%) Continuous Integration
16 36 (7.81%) Artificial Intelligence
16 36 (7.81%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 121 (26.25%) SQL
2 116 (25.16%) C#
3 113 (24.51%) Python
4 80 (17.35%) PowerShell
5 69 (14.97%) JavaScript
6 56 (12.15%) Bicep
7 47 (10.20%) Java
8 32 (6.94%) Bash
9 19 (4.12%) TypeScript
10 6 (1.30%) Kusto Query Language
11 4 (0.87%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.65%) Go
12 3 (0.65%) Groovy
12 3 (0.65%) Scala
12 3 (0.65%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.65%) VB.NET
13 2 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.43%) Haskell
13 2 (0.43%) Korn
13 2 (0.43%) VB
Qualifications
1 71 (15.40%) Security Cleared
2 59 (12.80%) SC Cleared
3 44 (9.54%) Degree
4 35 (7.59%) Azure Certification
5 15 (3.25%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (3.04%) Microsoft Certification
6 14 (3.04%) Numerate Degree
7 10 (2.17%) ISTQB
7 10 (2.17%) PMI Certification
8 8 (1.74%) Master's Degree
9 7 (1.52%) PMP
10 5 (1.08%) DV Cleared
11 4 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (0.87%) CISSP
12 2 (0.43%) CBAP
12 2 (0.43%) CISM
12 2 (0.43%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.43%) SAFe Agilist
12 2 (0.43%) TOGAF Certification
13 1 (0.22%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (6.72%) QA
2 24 (5.21%) Data Quality
3 17 (3.69%) GDPR
4 15 (3.25%) Accessibility
5 10 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (1.74%) NIST
7 3 (0.65%) NCSC
7 3 (0.65%) Solvency II
7 3 (0.65%) WCAG
8 2 (0.43%) Government Security Classifications
8 2 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 2 (0.43%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.22%) Dodd-Frank
9 1 (0.22%) EMIR
9 1 (0.22%) EU AI Act
9 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.22%) PMO
System Software
1 60 (13.02%) Docker
2 29 (6.29%) Active Directory
3 14 (3.04%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (1.08%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.43%) OpenAM
5 2 (0.43%) OpenDJ
5 2 (0.43%) OpenIDM
6 1 (0.22%) KVM
6 1 (0.22%) Squid
Systems Management
1 116 (25.16%) Terraform
2 80 (17.35%) Kubernetes
3 25 (5.42%) Ansible
4 12 (2.60%) Grafana
5 11 (2.39%) Prometheus
6 9 (1.95%) ITRS Geneos
7 8 (1.74%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (1.52%) Kibana
8 7 (1.52%) Progress Chef
9 6 (1.30%) HP ALM
10 5 (1.08%) Microsoft Intune
10 5 (1.08%) Puppet
11 4 (0.87%) Istio
12 3 (0.65%) Argo
13 2 (0.43%) Jamf Pro
13 2 (0.43%) Packer
13 2 (0.43%) SCCM
14 1 (0.22%) Fluentd
14 1 (0.22%) Kustomize
14 1 (0.22%) linkerd
Vendors
1 138 (29.93%) Microsoft
2 51 (11.06%) Databricks
3 21 (4.56%) ServiceNow
4 16 (3.47%) Salesforce
5 8 (1.74%) Murex
6 7 (1.52%) DocuSign
6 7 (1.52%) Google
6 7 (1.52%) Guidewire
6 7 (1.52%) OpenAI
6 7 (1.52%) SAP
7 6 (1.30%) Duck Creek
7 6 (1.30%) HP
8 5 (1.08%) MuleSoft
8 5 (1.08%) Oracle
8 5 (1.08%) Workday
9 3 (0.65%) Cisco
9 3 (0.65%) Cloudera
9 3 (0.65%) UiPath
10 2 (0.43%) Dell
10 2 (0.43%) Red Hat