Microsoft Azure DevOps
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Azure DevOps skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Azure DevOps over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 123 96 116
Rank change year-on-year -27 +20 -13
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 2,276 3,427 5,266
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.26% 3.48% 3.21%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.40% 8.09% 6.63%
Number of salaries quoted 1,743 2,111 3,321
10th Percentile £42,279 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £49,250 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.38% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £76,250 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £88,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% +10.00%

All Cloud Skills
UK

Azure DevOps is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 35,563 42,373 79,478
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.24% 43.02% 48.52%
Number of salaries quoted 26,731 27,774 41,270
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,750 £33,980
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £102,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

Azure DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure DevOps in the UK

Azure DevOps
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Azure DevOps.

Salary trend for Azure DevOps in the UK

Azure DevOps
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure DevOps over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Azure DevOps in the UK

Azure DevOps
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure DevOps within the UK over the 6 months to 23 May 2024. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -20 2,040 £61,500 -5.38% 479
UK excluding London -28 1,547 £60,000 - 371
Work from Home -19 1,001 £60,000 -7.69% 301
London -28 593 £72,500 - 195
North of England -1 432 £60,000 -4.00% 106
South East -11 429 £57,500 -11.54% 109
North West +12 280 £60,000 -7.69% 45
Midlands 0 254 £58,500 +6.36% 60
South West -1 242 £62,500 +0.20% 33
West Midlands +23 185 £58,500 +6.36% 45
Yorkshire -25 128 £55,000 -10.10% 43
East of England -35 73 £50,000 -14.89% 19
East Midlands -21 69 £60,000 - 15
Wales -33 56 £62,500 +38.89% 20
Scotland -147 55 £65,000 +15.56% 17
North East +4 26 £55,000 -15.38% 18
Northern Ireland -14 4 £65,000 -11.86% 10
Isle of Man - 3 - -

Azure DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 105 (4.61%) IIS
2 86 (3.78%) SharePoint
3 69 (3.03%) CMS
4 55 (2.42%) Umbraco
5 40 (1.76%) Sitecore CMS
6 38 (1.67%) Kentico
7 36 (1.58%) Headless CMS
8 33 (1.45%) Confluence
9 22 (0.97%) Microsoft Exchange
10 21 (0.92%) Apache Spark
11 10 (0.44%) EPiServer
12 9 (0.40%) Apache
12 9 (0.40%) Apache Solr
13 5 (0.22%) IBM Notes
13 5 (0.22%) NServiceBus
14 4 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
15 3 (0.13%) SharePoint Server
16 2 (0.088%) Moodle
16 2 (0.088%) SAS
16 2 (0.088%) WebSphere
Applications
1 30 (1.32%) Microsoft Office
2 22 (0.97%) Microsoft Excel
3 14 (0.62%) Microsoft Project
4 9 (0.40%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.35%) Photoshop
6 7 (0.31%) Trello
7 6 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 5 (0.22%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.088%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.088%) Sketch
10 1 (0.044%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.044%) GNU Octave
10 1 (0.044%) MicroStation
10 1 (0.044%) PTC Creo
10 1 (0.044%) Revit
10 1 (0.044%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 78 (3.43%) Dynamics CRM
2 26 (1.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 10 (0.44%) Dynamics NAV
4 8 (0.35%) Dynamics AX
5 4 (0.18%) Elite 3E
5 4 (0.18%) Visualfiles
6 3 (0.13%) Maximo
6 3 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
7 2 (0.088%) Dynamics GP
7 2 (0.088%) NEC Housing
7 2 (0.088%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.088%) SystmOne
8 1 (0.044%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.044%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 2,276 (100.00%) Azure
2 355 (15.60%) AWS
3 315 (13.84%) Power Platform
4 299 (13.14%) Serverless
5 254 (11.16%) Azure Service Bus
6 228 (10.02%) Azure Logic Apps
7 222 (9.75%) Azure Functions
8 206 (9.05%) Dynamics 365
9 185 (8.13%) PaaS
10 167 (7.34%) IBM Cloud
11 165 (7.25%) Azure API Management
12 162 (7.12%) GCP
13 160 (7.03%) Microsoft 365
14 152 (6.68%) GitHub
15 128 (5.62%) SaaS
16 124 (5.45%) IaaS
17 111 (4.88%) Azure Data Factory
18 102 (4.48%) PowerApps
19 95 (4.17%) Power Automate
20 87 (3.82%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 90 (3.95%) Firewall
2 64 (2.81%) DNS
3 63 (2.77%) Network Security
4 36 (1.58%) WAN
5 32 (1.41%) LAN
5 32 (1.41%) VPN
6 31 (1.36%) TCP/IP
7 18 (0.79%) HTTP
8 14 (0.62%) Internet
8 14 (0.62%) Wireshark
8 14 (0.62%) WLAN
9 9 (0.40%) Intranet
9 9 (0.40%) NGFW
9 9 (0.40%) Wireless
10 7 (0.31%) IPv4
11 4 (0.18%) BGP
11 4 (0.18%) MQTT
11 4 (0.18%) Remote Desktop
11 4 (0.18%) SAN
12 3 (0.13%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 588 (25.83%) SQL Server
2 184 (8.08%) Relational Database
3 175 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
4 174 (7.64%) NoSQL
5 162 (7.12%) Data Warehouse
6 157 (6.90%) Power BI
7 156 (6.85%) MongoDB
8 140 (6.15%) Azure SQL Database
9 125 (5.49%) DB2
10 78 (3.43%) BigQuery
11 73 (3.21%) Looker
12 52 (2.28%) Data Lake
13 51 (2.24%) Data Vault
14 49 (2.15%) MySQL
15 46 (2.02%) Delta Lake
16 31 (1.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 24 (1.05%) Big Data
17 24 (1.05%) SQL Server Analysis Services
18 21 (0.92%) Elasticsearch
19 20 (0.88%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 402 (17.66%) Git
2 178 (7.82%) JIRA
3 164 (7.21%) Jenkins
3 164 (7.21%) Visual Studio
4 83 (3.65%) Team Foundation Server
5 59 (2.59%) Selenium
6 54 (2.37%) GitLab
7 53 (2.33%) NUnit
8 51 (2.24%) Postman
9 41 (1.80%) Jasmine
10 36 (1.58%) TeamCity
11 28 (1.23%) Karma Test Runner
11 28 (1.23%) Visual Studio Code
12 27 (1.19%) Octopus Deploy
13 23 (1.01%) SonarQube
14 18 (0.79%) Bitbucket
14 18 (0.79%) JMeter
14 18 (0.79%) SoapUI
15 17 (0.75%) Moq
16 15 (0.66%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 470 (20.65%) Social Skills
2 333 (14.63%) Finance
3 227 (9.97%) Public Sector
4 185 (8.13%) Analytical Skills
5 99 (4.35%) Retail
6 73 (3.21%) Billing
7 71 (3.12%) Law
8 66 (2.90%) Marketing
9 59 (2.59%) Legal
10 57 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 46 (2.02%) Manufacturing
12 39 (1.71%) Banking
13 36 (1.58%) Back Office
14 34 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
15 33 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
16 23 (1.01%) Local Government
17 21 (0.92%) Police
18 20 (0.88%) Electronics
18 20 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
19 19 (0.83%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 905 (39.76%) Developer
2 456 (20.04%) Senior
3 252 (11.07%) Lead
4 251 (11.03%) .NET Developer
5 215 (9.45%) Full Stack Developer
6 203 (8.92%) Senior Developer
7 195 (8.57%) DevOps Engineer
8 194 (8.52%) Azure Engineer
9 184 (8.08%) Azure Developer
10 179 (7.86%) C# Developer
11 143 (6.28%) Architect
11 143 (6.28%) Software Developer
12 119 (5.23%) Analyst
13 115 (5.05%) Cloud Engineer
13 115 (5.05%) Data Engineer
14 114 (5.01%) C# .NET Developer
15 108 (4.75%) Senior .NET Developer
16 107 (4.70%) Azure DevOps Engineer
17 104 (4.57%) Software Engineer
18 84 (3.69%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,024 (44.99%) .NET
2 481 (21.13%) ASP.NET
3 418 (18.37%) HTML
4 408 (17.93%) CSS
5 406 (17.84%) AngularJS
6 387 (17.00%) React
7 337 (14.81%) .NET Framework
8 333 (14.63%) .NET Core
9 300 (13.18%) REST
10 259 (11.38%) Web Services
11 210 (9.23%) Vue
12 207 (9.09%) jQuery
13 198 (8.70%) Node.js
14 195 (8.57%) Entity Framework
15 191 (8.39%) Twitter Bootstrap
16 182 (8.00%) RESTful
17 174 (7.64%) ASP.NET Core
18 167 (7.34%) JSON
19 136 (5.98%) XML
20 125 (5.49%) Ember.js
Miscellaneous
1 205 (9.01%) Data Structures
2 198 (8.70%) Product Ownership
3 191 (8.39%) Hybrid Cloud
4 169 (7.43%) Blockchain
5 135 (5.93%) Algorithms
6 105 (4.61%) Public Cloud
7 77 (3.38%) Cloud Native
8 65 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
9 56 (2.46%) Management Information System
10 53 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
11 49 (2.15%) Onboarding
12 47 (2.07%) Greenfield Project
13 45 (1.98%) Reinsurance
14 42 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
15 40 (1.76%) Virtual Team
16 29 (1.27%) Low-Code
17 27 (1.19%) Mobile App
18 22 (0.97%) Data Centre
19 17 (0.75%) FMCG
19 17 (0.75%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 309 (13.58%) Windows
2 257 (11.29%) Linux
3 154 (6.77%) Android
4 144 (6.33%) Apple iOS
5 58 (2.55%) Windows Server
6 50 (2.20%) CentOS
7 47 (2.07%) Debian
8 40 (1.76%) Alpine Linux
9 24 (1.05%) VMS
10 13 (0.57%) Windows 10
11 10 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
12 7 (0.31%) SUSE
13 5 (0.22%) Windows Server 2008
14 4 (0.18%) AIX
14 4 (0.18%) Mac OS
15 3 (0.13%) Unix
15 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
16 2 (0.088%) Ubuntu
16 2 (0.088%) Windows Server 2019
17 1 (0.044%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,251 (98.90%) DevOps
2 1,088 (47.80%) Agile
3 880 (38.66%) CI/CD
4 476 (20.91%) Scrum
5 390 (17.14%) MVC
6 385 (16.92%) Problem-Solving
7 345 (15.16%) Full Stack Development
8 329 (14.46%) Software Engineering
9 309 (13.58%) Infrastructure as Code
10 277 (12.17%) Web Development
11 255 (11.20%) Continuous Integration
12 252 (11.07%) Artificial Intelligence
13 248 (10.90%) Test Automation
14 231 (10.15%) ETL
14 231 (10.15%) Microservices
15 220 (9.67%) API Management
15 220 (9.67%) Design Patterns
16 210 (9.23%) SOLID
17 208 (9.14%) Data Modelling
18 202 (8.88%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 1,014 (44.55%) C#
2 781 (34.31%) SQL
3 689 (30.27%) JavaScript
4 435 (19.11%) Python
5 293 (12.87%) PowerShell
6 206 (9.05%) Java
7 195 (8.57%) TypeScript
8 110 (4.83%) T-SQL
9 104 (4.57%) Bicep
10 94 (4.13%) Bash
11 54 (2.37%) VB.NET
12 37 (1.63%) Go
13 36 (1.58%) C++
14 32 (1.41%) VB
15 30 (1.32%) Ruby
16 29 (1.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 28 (1.23%) VB6
18 25 (1.10%) PHP
19 23 (1.01%) C
20 18 (0.79%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 246 (10.81%) Degree
2 174 (7.64%) Security Cleared
3 157 (6.90%) Azure Certification
4 135 (5.93%) SC Cleared
5 98 (4.31%) Microsoft Certification
6 60 (2.64%) Computer Science Degree
7 50 (2.20%) BPSS Clearance
8 41 (1.80%) MCSA
8 41 (1.80%) MCSE
9 26 (1.14%) TOGAF Certification
10 25 (1.10%) DBS Check
11 21 (0.92%) ISTQB
12 19 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
13 18 (0.79%) CTC Cleared
14 14 (0.62%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 14 (0.62%) CCSP
14 14 (0.62%) CEH
14 14 (0.62%) CISSP
14 14 (0.62%) SANS
14 14 (0.62%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 305 (13.40%) QA
2 70 (3.08%) Data Quality
3 40 (1.76%) Accessibility
4 28 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 19 (0.83%) PCI DSS
6 18 (0.79%) GDPR
7 16 (0.70%) PMO
7 16 (0.70%) SLA
8 15 (0.66%) NIST
9 10 (0.44%) NCSC
10 8 (0.35%) ISO 9001
11 4 (0.18%) HIPAA
11 4 (0.18%) WCAG
12 2 (0.088%) EMIR
12 2 (0.088%) IEC 61508
12 2 (0.088%) ISO/IEC 12207
12 2 (0.088%) MiFID
13 1 (0.044%) ISO 15022
13 1 (0.044%) ISO 20022
13 1 (0.044%) Solvency II
System Software
1 338 (14.85%) Docker
2 109 (4.79%) Active Directory
3 69 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
4 40 (1.76%) Virtual Desktop
5 26 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
6 16 (0.70%) Firmware
7 12 (0.53%) vSphere
8 11 (0.48%) VMware ESXi
9 10 (0.44%) Hyper-V
10 7 (0.31%) Embedded Firmware
11 4 (0.18%) VMware Server
12 3 (0.13%) VirtualBox
12 3 (0.13%) XenApp
12 3 (0.13%) XenDesktop
13 1 (0.044%) NFS
Systems Management
1 431 (18.94%) Terraform
2 370 (16.26%) Kubernetes
3 93 (4.09%) Ansible
4 30 (1.32%) Progress Chef
4 30 (1.32%) Prometheus
5 27 (1.19%) Puppet
6 23 (1.01%) Grafana
7 22 (0.97%) Microsoft Intune
8 14 (0.62%) Nmap
9 12 (0.53%) MIIS
10 11 (0.48%) Istio
11 8 (0.35%) Docker Swarm
11 8 (0.35%) Kibana
12 7 (0.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 7 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
13 5 (0.22%) HP Quality Center
13 5 (0.22%) logstash
13 5 (0.22%) Packer
14 3 (0.13%) Nagios
14 3 (0.13%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 855 (37.57%) Microsoft
2 175 (7.69%) IBM
3 168 (7.38%) Red Hat
4 134 (5.89%) Google
5 124 (5.45%) Databricks
6 100 (4.39%) Oracle
7 53 (2.33%) Informatica
8 48 (2.11%) VMware
9 40 (1.76%) Sitecore
10 39 (1.71%) Citrix
11 37 (1.63%) Optimizely
12 26 (1.14%) Cisco
12 26 (1.14%) Sparx
13 25 (1.10%) Splunk
14 23 (1.01%) SAP
15 19 (0.83%) Zscaler
16 18 (0.79%) SolarWinds
17 14 (0.62%) Atlassian
17 14 (0.62%) Qualys
17 14 (0.62%) ServiceNow