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 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 121 95 119
Rank change year-on-year -26 +24 -16
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 2,294 3,413 5,330
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.24% 3.51% 3.19%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.40% 8.11% 6.57%
Number of salaries quoted 1,753 2,107 3,330
10th Percentile £42,002 £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 £93,500 £95,000 £90,000
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 35,821 42,083 81,137
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.91% 43.23% 48.60%
Number of salaries quoted 26,874 27,585 41,557
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,723 £34,000
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% +7.76%
75th Percentile £76,250 £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 28 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 28 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 -17 2,058 £61,500 -5.89% 462
UK excluding London -27 1,560 £60,000 - 324
Work from Home -22 1,007 £60,000 -7.69% 296
London -29 595 £72,500 - 161
North of England -4 438 £60,000 -4.00% 107
South East -15 430 £57,500 -11.54% 54
North West +18 282 £60,000 -8.19% 45
Midlands +10 256 £58,500 +6.36% 62
South West +3 245 £62,500 +0.40% 36
West Midlands +20 184 £58,500 +6.36% 49
Yorkshire -20 129 £55,000 -10.10% 44
East Midlands -28 72 £60,000 - 13
East of England -42 72 £50,000 -16.67% 24
Scotland -147 57 £65,000 +15.56% 17
Wales -37 56 £62,500 +38.89% 16
North East +7 29 £55,000 -15.38% 18
Northern Ireland -20 4 £65,000 -13.33% 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
1 106 (4.62%) IIS
2 86 (3.75%) SharePoint
3 69 (3.01%) CMS
4 54 (2.35%) Umbraco
5 39 (1.70%) Sitecore CMS
6 38 (1.66%) Kentico
7 36 (1.57%) Confluence
7 36 (1.57%) Headless CMS
8 21 (0.92%) Apache Spark
8 21 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
9 10 (0.44%) EPiServer
10 9 (0.39%) Apache
10 9 (0.39%) Apache Solr
11 5 (0.22%) IBM Notes
11 5 (0.22%) NServiceBus
12 4 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
13 2 (0.087%) Moodle
13 2 (0.087%) SAS
13 2 (0.087%) SharePoint Server
13 2 (0.087%) WebSphere
Applications
1 30 (1.31%) Microsoft Office
2 22 (0.96%) Microsoft Excel
3 14 (0.61%) Microsoft Project
4 9 (0.39%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.35%) Photoshop
6 6 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 6 (0.26%) Trello
7 5 (0.22%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.087%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.087%) Sketch
9 1 (0.044%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.044%) GNU Octave
9 1 (0.044%) MicroStation
9 1 (0.044%) PTC Creo
9 1 (0.044%) Revit
9 1 (0.044%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 79 (3.44%) Dynamics CRM
2 26 (1.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 10 (0.44%) Dynamics NAV
4 8 (0.35%) Dynamics AX
5 4 (0.17%) Elite 3E
5 4 (0.17%) Visualfiles
6 3 (0.13%) Maximo
6 3 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
7 2 (0.087%) Dynamics GP
7 2 (0.087%) NEC Housing
7 2 (0.087%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.087%) SystmOne
8 1 (0.044%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.044%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 2,294 (100.00%) Azure
2 356 (15.52%) AWS
3 317 (13.82%) Power Platform
4 301 (13.12%) Serverless
5 256 (11.16%) Azure Service Bus
6 233 (10.16%) Azure Logic Apps
7 223 (9.72%) Azure Functions
8 207 (9.02%) Dynamics 365
9 184 (8.02%) PaaS
10 167 (7.28%) IBM Cloud
11 164 (7.15%) Azure API Management
12 162 (7.06%) GCP
13 155 (6.76%) Microsoft 365
14 152 (6.63%) GitHub
15 125 (5.45%) SaaS
16 123 (5.36%) IaaS
17 109 (4.75%) Azure Data Factory
18 101 (4.40%) PowerApps
19 97 (4.23%) Power Automate
20 88 (3.84%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 90 (3.92%) Firewall
2 65 (2.83%) DNS
2 65 (2.83%) Network Security
3 37 (1.61%) WAN
4 33 (1.44%) LAN
5 31 (1.35%) TCP/IP
5 31 (1.35%) VPN
6 18 (0.78%) HTTP
7 14 (0.61%) Wireshark
7 14 (0.61%) WLAN
8 13 (0.57%) Internet
9 9 (0.39%) Intranet
10 8 (0.35%) NGFW
10 8 (0.35%) Wireless
11 7 (0.31%) IPv4
12 4 (0.17%) BGP
12 4 (0.17%) Remote Desktop
12 4 (0.17%) SAN
13 3 (0.13%) MQTT
13 3 (0.13%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 588 (25.63%) SQL Server
2 186 (8.11%) Relational Database
3 175 (7.63%) PostgreSQL
4 174 (7.59%) NoSQL
5 162 (7.06%) Data Warehouse
6 156 (6.80%) MongoDB
7 155 (6.76%) Power BI
8 139 (6.06%) Azure SQL Database
9 125 (5.45%) DB2
10 77 (3.36%) BigQuery
11 73 (3.18%) Looker
12 51 (2.22%) Data Lake
12 51 (2.22%) Data Vault
13 49 (2.14%) MySQL
14 45 (1.96%) Delta Lake
15 30 (1.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 24 (1.05%) Big Data
16 24 (1.05%) SQL Server Analysis Services
17 21 (0.92%) Elasticsearch
18 20 (0.87%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 408 (17.79%) Git
2 180 (7.85%) JIRA
3 165 (7.19%) Visual Studio
4 163 (7.11%) Jenkins
5 85 (3.71%) Team Foundation Server
6 61 (2.66%) Selenium
7 54 (2.35%) NUnit
8 53 (2.31%) GitLab
9 50 (2.18%) Postman
10 42 (1.83%) Jasmine
11 36 (1.57%) TeamCity
12 29 (1.26%) Octopus Deploy
12 29 (1.26%) Visual Studio Code
13 28 (1.22%) Karma Test Runner
14 24 (1.05%) SonarQube
15 18 (0.78%) SoapUI
16 17 (0.74%) Bitbucket
16 17 (0.74%) JMeter
16 17 (0.74%) Moq
17 16 (0.70%) Cypress.io
General
1 479 (20.88%) Social Skills
2 341 (14.86%) Finance
3 228 (9.94%) Public Sector
4 185 (8.06%) Analytical Skills
5 97 (4.23%) Retail
6 73 (3.18%) Billing
6 73 (3.18%) Law
7 67 (2.92%) Marketing
8 60 (2.62%) Legal
9 59 (2.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 47 (2.05%) Manufacturing
11 38 (1.66%) Banking
12 37 (1.61%) Back Office
13 34 (1.48%) Presentation Skills
14 33 (1.44%) Organisational Skills
15 23 (1.00%) Local Government
16 21 (0.92%) Police
17 20 (0.87%) Automotive
17 20 (0.87%) Electronics
17 20 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 910 (39.67%) Developer
2 462 (20.14%) Senior
3 254 (11.07%) .NET Developer
3 254 (11.07%) Lead
4 216 (9.42%) Full Stack Developer
5 206 (8.98%) Senior Developer
6 197 (8.59%) Azure Engineer
7 196 (8.54%) DevOps Engineer
8 184 (8.02%) Azure Developer
9 180 (7.85%) C# Developer
10 146 (6.36%) Software Developer
11 141 (6.15%) Architect
12 120 (5.23%) Cloud Engineer
13 118 (5.14%) Analyst
14 117 (5.10%) C# .NET Developer
15 113 (4.93%) Data Engineer
16 111 (4.84%) Senior .NET Developer
17 110 (4.80%) Software Engineer
18 108 (4.71%) Azure DevOps Engineer
19 83 (3.62%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,032 (44.99%) .NET
2 485 (21.14%) ASP.NET
3 420 (18.31%) HTML
4 411 (17.92%) CSS
5 410 (17.87%) AngularJS
6 390 (17.00%) React
7 341 (14.86%) .NET Framework
8 337 (14.69%) .NET Core
9 298 (12.99%) REST
10 259 (11.29%) Web Services
11 211 (9.20%) Vue
12 208 (9.07%) jQuery
13 201 (8.76%) Node.js
14 200 (8.72%) Entity Framework
15 191 (8.33%) Twitter Bootstrap
16 182 (7.93%) RESTful
17 175 (7.63%) ASP.NET Core
18 166 (7.24%) JSON
19 135 (5.88%) XML
20 125 (5.45%) Backbone.js
Miscellaneous
1 205 (8.94%) Data Structures
2 201 (8.76%) Product Ownership
3 191 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
4 169 (7.37%) Blockchain
5 135 (5.88%) Algorithms
6 103 (4.49%) Public Cloud
7 81 (3.53%) Cloud Native
8 65 (2.83%) Self-Motivation
9 54 (2.35%) Management Information System
10 53 (2.31%) Distributed Systems
11 48 (2.09%) Onboarding
12 46 (2.01%) Greenfield Project
13 44 (1.92%) Reinsurance
14 41 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
15 38 (1.66%) Virtual Team
16 27 (1.18%) Low-Code
16 27 (1.18%) Mobile App
17 22 (0.96%) Data Centre
18 17 (0.74%) FMCG
18 17 (0.74%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 308 (13.43%) Windows
2 255 (11.12%) Linux
3 154 (6.71%) Android
4 144 (6.28%) Apple iOS
5 55 (2.40%) Windows Server
6 49 (2.14%) CentOS
7 47 (2.05%) Debian
8 40 (1.74%) Alpine Linux
9 26 (1.13%) 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 (0.17%) AIX
14 4 (0.17%) Mac OS
15 3 (0.13%) Unix
15 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
16 2 (0.087%) Ubuntu
16 2 (0.087%) Windows Server 2019
17 1 (0.044%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,270 (98.95%) DevOps
2 1,096 (47.78%) Agile
3 895 (39.01%) CI/CD
4 474 (20.66%) Scrum
5 391 (17.04%) Problem-Solving
6 390 (17.00%) MVC
7 349 (15.21%) Full Stack Development
8 338 (14.73%) Software Engineering
9 311 (13.56%) Infrastructure as Code
10 275 (11.99%) Web Development
11 262 (11.42%) Continuous Integration
12 252 (10.99%) Test Automation
13 251 (10.94%) Artificial Intelligence
14 232 (10.11%) Microservices
15 230 (10.03%) ETL
16 225 (9.81%) API Management
17 220 (9.59%) Design Patterns
18 215 (9.37%) SOLID
19 207 (9.02%) Data Modelling
20 200 (8.72%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 1,024 (44.64%) C#
2 787 (34.31%) SQL
3 692 (30.17%) JavaScript
4 437 (19.05%) Python
5 299 (13.03%) PowerShell
6 209 (9.11%) Java
7 198 (8.63%) TypeScript
8 110 (4.80%) T-SQL
9 109 (4.75%) Bicep
10 94 (4.10%) Bash
11 55 (2.40%) VB.NET
12 38 (1.66%) Go
13 37 (1.61%) C++
14 32 (1.39%) Ruby
14 32 (1.39%) VB
15 29 (1.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 28 (1.22%) VB6
17 25 (1.09%) PHP
18 24 (1.05%) C
19 18 (0.78%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 246 (10.72%) Degree
2 175 (7.63%) Security Cleared
3 159 (6.93%) Azure Certification
4 137 (5.97%) SC Cleared
5 99 (4.32%) Microsoft Certification
6 61 (2.66%) Computer Science Degree
7 49 (2.14%) BPSS Clearance
8 42 (1.83%) MCSA
9 41 (1.79%) MCSE
10 26 (1.13%) DBS Check
10 26 (1.13%) TOGAF Certification
11 22 (0.96%) ISTQB
12 19 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
13 16 (0.70%) CTC Cleared
14 14 (0.61%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 14 (0.61%) CCSP
14 14 (0.61%) CEH
14 14 (0.61%) CISSP
14 14 (0.61%) SANS
14 14 (0.61%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 307 (13.38%) QA
2 70 (3.05%) Data Quality
3 38 (1.66%) Accessibility
4 28 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 18 (0.78%) GDPR
5 18 (0.78%) PCI DSS
6 16 (0.70%) PMO
6 16 (0.70%) SLA
7 15 (0.65%) NIST
8 10 (0.44%) NCSC
9 8 (0.35%) ISO 9001
10 4 (0.17%) HIPAA
10 4 (0.17%) WCAG
11 2 (0.087%) EMIR
11 2 (0.087%) IEC 61508
11 2 (0.087%) ISO/IEC 12207
11 2 (0.087%) MiFID
12 1 (0.044%) ISO 15022
12 1 (0.044%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.044%) Solvency II
System Software
1 340 (14.82%) Docker
2 107 (4.66%) Active Directory
3 72 (3.14%) Virtual Machines
4 41 (1.79%) Virtual Desktop
5 24 (1.05%) VMware Infrastructure
6 16 (0.70%) Firmware
7 11 (0.48%) vSphere
8 10 (0.44%) Hyper-V
8 10 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
9 7 (0.31%) Embedded Firmware
10 4 (0.17%) VMware Server
11 3 (0.13%) VirtualBox
11 3 (0.13%) XenApp
11 3 (0.13%) XenDesktop
12 1 (0.044%) NFS
Systems Management
1 438 (19.09%) Terraform
2 374 (16.30%) Kubernetes
3 95 (4.14%) Ansible
4 31 (1.35%) Progress Chef
5 30 (1.31%) Prometheus
6 28 (1.22%) Puppet
7 23 (1.00%) Grafana
8 22 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
9 14 (0.61%) Nmap
10 12 (0.52%) Istio
10 12 (0.52%) MIIS
11 8 (0.35%) Docker Swarm
11 8 (0.35%) Kibana
12 7 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
13 6 (0.26%) Packer
14 5 (0.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 5 (0.22%) HP Quality Center
14 5 (0.22%) logstash
15 3 (0.13%) Nagios
15 3 (0.13%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 859 (37.45%) Microsoft
2 175 (7.63%) IBM
3 168 (7.32%) Red Hat
4 134 (5.84%) Google
5 122 (5.32%) Databricks
6 98 (4.27%) Oracle
7 53 (2.31%) Informatica
8 46 (2.01%) VMware
9 39 (1.70%) Sitecore
10 37 (1.61%) Citrix
10 37 (1.61%) Optimizely
11 26 (1.13%) Cisco
11 26 (1.13%) Sparx
12 25 (1.09%) Splunk
13 23 (1.00%) SAP
14 19 (0.83%) Zscaler
15 17 (0.74%) SolarWinds
16 15 (0.65%) ServiceNow
17 14 (0.61%) Atlassian
17 14 (0.61%) Rapid7