Azure DevOps Contract Job Trends in the South East

Microsoft Azure DevOps
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Azure DevOps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 79 74
Rank change year-on-year +13 -5 0
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 121 99 151
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 3.22% 2.37% 2.76%
As % of the Cloud Services category 10.03% 8.26% 9.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 71 128
10th Percentile £393 £413 £450
25th Percentile £413 £481 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.87% -1.82% -
75th Percentile £550 £625 £641
90th Percentile £600 £653 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £51.88
25th Percentile - - £52.81
Median hourly rate £75.00 - £56.25
75th Percentile - - £60.31
90th Percentile - - £61.63
England median hourly rate £74.63 £80.00 £68.50
% change year-on-year -6.71% +16.79% +4.12%

All Cloud Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,206 1,198 1,575
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 32.05% 28.72% 28.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 809 810 1,109
10th Percentile £204 £262 £212
25th Percentile £363 £402 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -2.38% +4.06%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £625
90th Percentile £650 £663 £700
England median daily rate £500 £535 £534
% change year-on-year -6.45% +0.09% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 22 48
10th Percentile £12.50 £19.45 £16.25
25th Percentile £14.75 £23.44 £19.25
Median hourly rate £18.16 £47.50 £25.48
Median % change year-on-year -61.77% +86.46% +25.12%
75th Percentile £27.56 £60.95 £52.12
90th Percentile £40.65 £64.73 £70.60
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% +27.27% +22.22%

Azure DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure DevOps relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Azure DevOps job vacancy trend in the South East

Azure DevOps
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Azure DevOps.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Azure DevOps

Azure DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure DevOps in the South East over the 6 months to 31 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure DevOps in the South East

Azure DevOps
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Azure DevOps.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Azure DevOps

Azure DevOps
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 31 October 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
Thames Valley +21 96 £475 -13.64% 48
Berkshire +16 80 £475 -13.64% 36
Hampshire +5 23 £525 -4.55% 18
Buckinghamshire +13 13 £419 -12.99% 12
Surrey +11 11 £550 +15.79% 8
Oxfordshire -11 3 £550 +54.93%
Kent - 1 - - 3
Azure DevOps
England

Azure DevOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 8 (6.61%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.48%) Documentum
3 2 (1.65%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.65%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.65%) Confluence
4 1 (0.83%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 7 (5.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.83%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (2.48%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.83%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 121 (100.00%) Azure
2 20 (16.53%) GitHub
3 18 (14.88%) Azure AKS
4 15 (12.40%) AWS
5 12 (9.92%) Azure Data Factory
5 12 (9.92%) Azure Monitor
5 12 (9.92%) GitHub Actions
5 12 (9.92%) OCI
5 12 (9.92%) SaaS
6 9 (7.44%) Azure Storage
6 9 (7.44%) IaaS
6 9 (7.44%) Power Platform
7 8 (6.61%) PaaS
7 8 (6.61%) Serverless
8 7 (5.79%) Azure Key Vault
8 7 (5.79%) Entra ID
8 7 (5.79%) GCP
8 7 (5.79%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (4.96%) Azure Logic Apps
10 5 (4.13%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.65%) Network Security
1 2 (1.65%) SD-WAN
1 2 (1.65%) SSL
2 1 (0.83%) DNS
2 1 (0.83%) Firewall
2 1 (0.83%) SMS
2 1 (0.83%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (9.92%) Azure SQL Database
2 9 (7.44%) Power BI
3 5 (4.13%) Big Data
3 5 (4.13%) SQL Server
4 4 (3.31%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (2.48%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.65%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.65%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.83%) Data Vault
7 1 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.83%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.83%) Metadata
7 1 (0.83%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.83%) MySQL
7 1 (0.83%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.83%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.83%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 22 (18.18%) JIRA
2 12 (9.92%) Git
3 8 (6.61%) Selenium
4 7 (5.79%) Jenkins
5 3 (2.48%) NUnit
5 3 (2.48%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (1.65%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.65%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.65%) Cypress.io
6 2 (1.65%) GitLab
6 2 (1.65%) SpecFlow
6 2 (1.65%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.83%) Browser DevTools
7 1 (0.83%) MLflow
7 1 (0.83%) MSTest
7 1 (0.83%) Oracle APEX
7 1 (0.83%) Pylint
7 1 (0.83%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.83%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.83%) WebDriver
General
1 42 (34.71%) Social Skills
2 14 (11.57%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (7.44%) Billing
4 7 (5.79%) Finance
5 6 (4.96%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.13%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (4.13%) Retail
7 4 (3.31%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.83%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.83%) Automotive
8 1 (0.83%) Law
8 1 (0.83%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (19.01%) Analyst
2 21 (17.36%) Developer
3 20 (16.53%) Azure Engineer
4 16 (13.22%) DevOps Engineer
4 16 (13.22%) Test Analyst
5 15 (12.40%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 15 (12.40%) Senior
6 11 (9.09%) Lead
7 9 (7.44%) Architect
8 8 (6.61%) Site Engineer
8 8 (6.61%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 7 (5.79%) Azure Developer
9 7 (5.79%) Business Analyst
9 7 (5.79%) Cloud Developer
10 6 (4.96%) .NET Developer
10 6 (4.96%) C# .NET Developer
10 6 (4.96%) C# Developer
10 6 (4.96%) Solutions Architect
11 5 (4.13%) Senior Developer
11 5 (4.13%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (22.31%) ADO
2 19 (15.70%) .NET
3 9 (7.44%) RESTful
4 7 (5.79%) .NET Core
4 7 (5.79%) REST
5 6 (4.96%) ARM Templates
6 5 (4.13%) FastAPI
7 4 (3.31%) .NET Framework
7 4 (3.31%) GraphQL
7 4 (3.31%) Hugging Face
7 4 (3.31%) JSON
7 4 (3.31%) NumPy
7 4 (3.31%) OAuth
7 4 (3.31%) Pandas
7 4 (3.31%) PyTorch
7 4 (3.31%) scikit-learn
7 4 (3.31%) WebdriverIO
8 3 (2.48%) jQuery
8 3 (2.48%) Kafka
8 3 (2.48%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.79%) Cloud Native
2 5 (4.13%) Product Ownership
2 5 (4.13%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (3.31%) Linux Command Line
3 4 (3.31%) Smart Meter
4 3 (2.48%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.65%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.65%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.65%) Operational Technology
5 2 (1.65%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.83%) Life Science
6 1 (0.83%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 8 (6.61%) Windows
2 2 (1.65%) Linux
3 1 (0.83%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (100.00%) DevOps
2 49 (40.50%) Agile
3 47 (38.84%) CI/CD
4 19 (15.70%) Scrum
5 17 (14.05%) Problem-Solving
6 16 (13.22%) Test Automation
7 13 (10.74%) Analytics
8 12 (9.92%) Infrastructure as Code
8 12 (9.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 12 (9.92%) Test Scripting
9 11 (9.09%) AI
9 11 (9.09%) Software Testing
9 11 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
9 11 (9.09%) Test Management
9 11 (9.09%) Waterfall
10 9 (7.44%) CRM
10 9 (7.44%) Migration
10 9 (7.44%) SDLC
10 9 (7.44%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 8 (6.61%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 33 (27.27%) SQL
2 23 (19.01%) C#
3 22 (18.18%) Python
4 9 (7.44%) Bicep
4 9 (7.44%) JavaScript
5 8 (6.61%) Java
5 8 (6.61%) PowerShell
6 4 (3.31%) Bash
6 4 (3.31%) VB
7 3 (2.48%) Apex Code
7 3 (2.48%) PHP
7 3 (2.48%) SOQL
8 2 (1.65%) Korn
8 2 (1.65%) X++
9 1 (0.83%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.83%) Scala
9 1 (0.83%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.83%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (9.09%) Security Cleared
2 6 (4.96%) DV Cleared
3 5 (4.13%) Degree
4 4 (3.31%) SC Cleared
5 3 (2.48%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.65%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.79%) QA
2 5 (4.13%) GDPR
3 4 (3.31%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.65%) GRC
5 1 (0.83%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.83%) GxP
5 1 (0.83%) HL7
5 1 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.83%) JSP 440
5 1 (0.83%) NCSC
5 1 (0.83%) NIST
5 1 (0.83%) PMO
5 1 (0.83%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (6.61%) Docker
2 5 (4.13%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (18.18%) Terraform
2 17 (14.05%) Kubernetes
3 4 (3.31%) Ansible
4 3 (2.48%) HP ALM
5 2 (1.65%) Grafana
5 2 (1.65%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.83%) Podman
6 1 (0.83%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 19 (15.70%) Oracle
2 18 (14.88%) Microsoft
3 10 (8.26%) Salesforce
4 9 (7.44%) Databricks
5 6 (4.96%) MuleSoft
6 4 (3.31%) Virgin Media
7 3 (2.48%) HP
7 3 (2.48%) Sage
8 1 (0.83%) Google
8 1 (0.83%) Micro Focus
8 1 (0.83%) SAP
8 1 (0.83%) Splunk
8 1 (0.83%) Zscaler