DevOps Engineer - Microsoft Azure
UK

The median DevOps Engineer - Microsoft Azure salary in the UK is £70,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 740 679 789
Rank change year-on-year -61 +110 -280
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure DevOps Engineer 148 325 473
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.32% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.35% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 126 249 406
10th Percentile £50,750 £55,000 £53,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £65,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +14.29% +7.69%
75th Percentile £78,750 £92,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £93,125 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% +16.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 93,864 92,882 151,282
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.64% 91.46% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,182 58,425 84,716
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,517
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Azure DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Azure DevOps Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Azure DevOps Engineer in the UK

Azure DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Azure DevOps Engineer in the UK

Azure DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure DevOps Engineer over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Azure DevOps Engineer in the UK

Azure DevOps Engineer
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure DevOps Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 8 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 -78 135 £70,000 -12.50% 24
UK excluding London -67 87 £70,000 -6.67% 12
Work from Home -39 72 £70,576 -11.78% 9
London +24 51 £74,137 -10.14% 11
South East -6 37 £72,500 -3.33% 5
North of England +22 26 £56,250 -29.69% 4
North West +1 16 £53,750 -32.81% 2
Midlands +7 13 £55,000 -21.43% 3
Yorkshire +63 7 £70,576 +17.63% 2
East Midlands - 7 £55,000 - 2
West Midlands +8 6 £82,500 +17.86% 1
East of England +13 4 £66,250 -5.36%
South West -36 3 £58,750 -18.97%
North East - 3 £55,000 -
Scotland -60 2 - -
Northern Ireland +19 1 - -
Wales +9 1 - -

Azure DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 8 May 2024, Azure DevOps Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Azure DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 148 (100.00%) Azure
1 148 (100.00%) DevOps
2 125 (84.46%) Azure DevOps
3 92 (62.16%) CI/CD
4 88 (59.46%) Terraform
4 88 (59.46%) Kubernetes
5 73 (49.32%) Infrastructure as Code
6 69 (46.62%) PowerShell
7 66 (44.59%) Docker
8 55 (37.16%) Agile
9 53 (35.81%) Python
10 48 (32.43%) Containerisation
11 43 (29.05%) Git
12 41 (27.70%) Microsoft
13 38 (25.68%) Bash
14 37 (25.00%) Jenkins
15 34 (22.97%) SaaS
16 33 (22.30%) Linux
16 33 (22.30%) Social Skills
16 33 (22.30%) Problem-Solving
17 32 (21.62%) Analytics
17 32 (21.62%) Ansible
18 30 (20.27%) SQL
19 26 (17.57%) Scrum
19 26 (17.57%) PaaS
19 26 (17.57%) Software Engineering
20 25 (16.89%) Windows
21 24 (16.22%) Finance
22 23 (15.54%) Prometheus
23 22 (14.86%) Platform Engineering

Azure DevOps Engineer Skill Set
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 4 (2.70%) IIS
2 1 (0.68%) Confluence
2 1 (0.68%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 148 (100.00%) Azure
2 125 (84.46%) Azure DevOps
3 34 (22.97%) SaaS
4 26 (17.57%) PaaS
5 20 (13.51%) Azure AKS
6 19 (12.84%) AWS CloudFormation
7 16 (10.81%) Entra ID
7 16 (10.81%) GitHub
8 13 (8.78%) IaaS
8 13 (8.78%) Power Platform
9 11 (7.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 11 (7.43%) GitHub Actions
10 10 (6.76%) AWS
10 10 (6.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 9 (6.08%) Azure Data Factory
12 8 (5.41%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
13 7 (4.73%) Serverless
14 6 (4.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 6 (4.05%) Azure Pipelines
15 5 (3.38%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 18 (12.16%) Network Security
2 17 (11.49%) Firewall
3 15 (10.14%) DNS
4 10 (6.76%) TCP/IP
5 9 (6.08%) VPN
6 8 (5.41%) LAN
6 8 (5.41%) WAN
7 4 (2.70%) IPv4
7 4 (2.70%) WLAN
8 1 (0.68%) HTTP
8 1 (0.68%) Internet
8 1 (0.68%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (12.84%) Azure SQL Database
1 19 (12.84%) SQL Server
2 12 (8.11%) InfluxDB
3 11 (7.43%) Power BI
4 9 (6.08%) Data Lake
4 9 (6.08%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (5.41%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 7 (4.73%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (3.38%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (2.03%) MariaDB
8 3 (2.03%) MongoDB
8 3 (2.03%) MySQL
8 3 (2.03%) Redis
9 2 (1.35%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.68%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 43 (29.05%) Git
2 37 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 20 (13.51%) GitLab
4 12 (8.11%) SonarQube
4 12 (8.11%) TeamCity
5 8 (5.41%) MSBuild
6 5 (3.38%) Octopus Deploy
7 4 (2.70%) git-flow
7 4 (2.70%) JIRA
7 4 (2.70%) Subversion
7 4 (2.70%) Team Foundation Server
7 4 (2.70%) Visual Studio Team System
8 2 (1.35%) Bitbucket
8 2 (1.35%) Maven
9 1 (0.68%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.68%) Vagrant
General
1 33 (22.30%) Social Skills
2 24 (16.22%) Finance
3 11 (7.43%) Public Sector
4 8 (5.41%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (3.38%) Banking
5 5 (3.38%) Electronics
5 5 (3.38%) Manufacturing
5 5 (3.38%) Marketing
5 5 (3.38%) Telecoms
6 4 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.35%) Tech for Good
8 1 (0.68%) Games
8 1 (0.68%) Law
8 1 (0.68%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (14.86%) .NET
2 17 (11.49%) YAML
3 15 (10.14%) ARM Templates
4 13 (8.78%) Elastic Stack
5 11 (7.43%) JSON
6 9 (6.08%) Node.js
7 8 (5.41%) React
8 6 (4.05%) .NET Core
9 5 (3.38%) LDAP
9 5 (3.38%) REST
9 5 (3.38%) XML
10 3 (2.03%) .NET Framework
10 3 (2.03%) SAML
11 2 (1.35%) ADO
11 2 (1.35%) ASP.NET
11 2 (1.35%) OAuth
12 1 (0.68%) CSS
12 1 (0.68%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (10.81%) Distributed Systems
2 15 (10.14%) Public Cloud
3 9 (6.08%) Cloud Native
4 8 (5.41%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (3.38%) Client/Server
6 4 (2.70%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 4 (2.70%) Private Cloud
6 4 (2.70%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 2 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.68%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.68%) IoT
8 1 (0.68%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.68%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.68%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.68%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.68%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.68%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 33 (22.30%) Linux
2 25 (16.89%) Windows
3 8 (5.41%) VMS
4 3 (2.03%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.68%) CentOS
5 1 (0.68%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.68%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (100.00%) DevOps
2 92 (62.16%) CI/CD
3 73 (49.32%) Infrastructure as Code
4 55 (37.16%) Agile
5 48 (32.43%) Containerisation
6 33 (22.30%) Problem-Solving
7 32 (21.62%) Analytics
8 26 (17.57%) Scrum
8 26 (17.57%) Software Engineering
9 22 (14.86%) Platform Engineering
10 21 (14.19%) Data Analytics
10 21 (14.19%) Microservices
11 18 (12.16%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 16 (10.81%) Continuous Integration
13 15 (10.14%) Business Intelligence
14 14 (9.46%) Kanban
15 13 (8.78%) Infrastructure Automation
16 12 (8.11%) Actionable Insight
16 12 (8.11%) Data Analysis
16 12 (8.11%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 69 (46.62%) PowerShell
2 53 (35.81%) Python
3 38 (25.68%) Bash
4 30 (20.27%) SQL
5 19 (12.84%) C#
6 13 (8.78%) Bicep
7 10 (6.76%) Go
8 8 (5.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 8 (5.41%) Java
8 8 (5.41%) Ruby
8 8 (5.41%) U-SQL
9 7 (4.73%) JavaScript
10 2 (1.35%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.68%) Groovy
11 1 (0.68%) PHP
11 1 (0.68%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (8.11%) Microsoft Certification
2 10 (6.76%) Azure Certification
3 9 (6.08%) Security Cleared
4 7 (4.73%) Degree
5 5 (3.38%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.41%) QA
2 1 (0.68%) SLA
System Software
1 66 (44.59%) Docker
2 9 (6.08%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.70%) Hyper-V
4 3 (2.03%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.68%) NFS
Systems Management
1 88 (59.46%) Kubernetes
1 88 (59.46%) Terraform
2 32 (21.62%) Ansible
3 23 (15.54%) Prometheus
4 21 (14.19%) Grafana
5 8 (5.41%) Progress Chef
5 8 (5.41%) Puppet
6 6 (4.05%) Docker Swarm
7 4 (2.70%) Istio
8 3 (2.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.68%) Consul
10 1 (0.68%) Packer
10 1 (0.68%) Podman
10 1 (0.68%) Salt
Vendors
1 41 (27.70%) Microsoft
2 9 (6.08%) Databricks
3 6 (4.05%) Zscaler
4 5 (3.38%) SAP
5 4 (2.70%) Cisco
5 4 (2.70%) Meraki
6 3 (2.03%) Splunk
6 3 (2.03%) Veeam
7 2 (1.35%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.35%) ForgeRock
7 2 (1.35%) Oracle
8 1 (0.68%) Google
8 1 (0.68%) New Relic
8 1 (0.68%) SaltStack