Azure Pipelines Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Azure Pipelines
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Azure Pipelines skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 115 -
Rank change year-on-year -37 - -
Contract jobs citing Azure Pipelines 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.033% 0.059% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.11% 0.14% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £320 -
Median % change year-on-year +64.06% - -
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £525 £320 -
% change year-on-year +64.06% - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
Thames Valley

Azure Pipelines 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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 910 690 696
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 30.02% 40.61% 31.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 577 426 463
10th Percentile £343 £245 £363
25th Percentile £438 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £638
90th Percentile £675 £663 £660
South East median daily rate £500 £475 £513
% change year-on-year +5.26% -7.32% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 19 20
10th Percentile £17.70 £14.45 £18.50
25th Percentile £30.81 £14.75 £21.13
Median hourly rate £71.43 £18.87 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +278.54% -55.60% +55.11%
75th Percentile £87.98 £32.18 £60.72
90th Percentile £109.65 £42.02 £64.73
South East median hourly rate £52.50 £18.82 £42.50
% change year-on-year +178.96% -55.72% +77.45%

Azure Pipelines
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure Pipelines relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Azure Pipelines job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Azure Pipelines
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Azure Pipelines.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Azure Pipelines

Azure Pipelines
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Pipelines within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 3 October 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
Buckinghamshire - 1 £525 - 1
Azure Pipelines
South East

Azure Pipelines
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 1 (100.00%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (100.00%) Release Management
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) Static Code Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes