Azure DevOps Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Azure DevOps
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Azure DevOps skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 102 132
Rank change year-on-year -33 +30 -19
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 702 848 1,165
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.42% 2.75% 2.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.55% 8.15% 6.45%
Number of salaries quoted 403 504 1,007
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £43,875 £50,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +11.11% -2.50%
75th Percentile £69,500 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £86,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -3.85%

All Cloud Computing Skills
UK excluding London

Azure DevOps falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 15,437 10,403 18,075
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.14% 33.72% 35.59%
Number of salaries quoted 7,668 6,051 14,787
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £34,828 £41,250 £36,365
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,800 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £64,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% +11.30% -11.54%

Azure DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Azure DevOps relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Azure DevOps job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Azure DevOps
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Azure DevOps.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Azure DevOps

Azure DevOps
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure DevOps in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 25 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure DevOps in the UK excluding London

Azure DevOps
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 25 February 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East -9 250 £50,000 -25.93% 98
Scotland +55 157 £57,000 +8.57% 25
North of England -47 109 £52,500 -22.22% 86
Midlands -60 79 £60,000 -7.69% 53
South West -79 72 £47,500 -28.30% 30
West Midlands -48 55 £58,000 -12.45% 35
Yorkshire -44 39 £52,500 -25.00% 25
North West -33 37 £64,000 -1.54% 48
North East +14 33 £50,000 -27.27% 15
East Midlands -24 21 £65,000 - 18
Wales -15 18 £55,000 -15.38% 5
East of England -50 14 £65,000 +30.00% 15
Northern Ireland -28 3 £56,250 +12.50% 1
Azure DevOps
UK

Azure DevOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 25 (3.56%) Confluence
1 25 (3.56%) IIS
2 15 (2.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 11 (1.57%) SharePoint
4 6 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.57%) Apache
6 3 (0.43%) Appian
7 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.14%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.14%) nginx
Applications
1 20 (2.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (2.56%) MS Visio
3 11 (1.57%) Microsoft Project
4 7 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (0.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.28%) Trello
7 1 (0.14%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 69 (9.83%) SAP S/4HANA
2 33 (4.70%) Oracle ERP
3 27 (3.85%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.43%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.28%) Markit EDM
6 1 (0.14%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 1 (0.14%) Primavera
6 1 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 633 (90.17%) Azure
2 226 (32.19%) GitHub
3 129 (18.38%) Power Platform
4 109 (15.53%) AWS
5 105 (14.96%) GitHub Actions
6 61 (8.69%) GitHub Copilot
7 56 (7.98%) Microsoft 365
8 54 (7.69%) Entra ID
9 52 (7.41%) Snowflake
10 48 (6.84%) Azure Logic Apps
11 43 (6.13%) dbt
12 42 (5.98%) Azure Data Factory
13 41 (5.84%) Azure Monitor
14 38 (5.41%) SaaS
14 38 (5.41%) Serverless
15 36 (5.13%) PaaS
15 36 (5.13%) Power Automate
16 34 (4.84%) GCP
17 33 (4.70%) OCI
18 29 (4.13%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 39 (5.56%) Firewall
2 36 (5.13%) DNS
3 18 (2.56%) HTTP
3 18 (2.56%) TCP/IP
4 9 (1.28%) VPN
5 5 (0.71%) WAN
6 4 (0.57%) BGP
6 4 (0.57%) VLAN
7 3 (0.43%) DHCP
7 3 (0.43%) Network Security
7 3 (0.43%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.28%) IPsec
8 2 (0.28%) OSPF
8 2 (0.28%) SSL
8 2 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.28%) Wireshark
9 1 (0.14%) AMQP
9 1 (0.14%) IP Telephony
9 1 (0.14%) MPLS
9 1 (0.14%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (10.54%) Power BI
2 72 (10.26%) SQL Server
3 41 (5.84%) Data Warehouse
4 23 (3.28%) Tableau
5 20 (2.85%) Azure SQL Database
6 19 (2.71%) NoSQL
7 18 (2.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 18 (2.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 14 (1.99%) PostgreSQL
9 13 (1.85%) DynamoDB
9 13 (1.85%) Relational Database
10 12 (1.71%) Snowflake Schema
11 8 (1.14%) Metadata
12 7 (1.00%) Data Lake
13 6 (0.85%) MongoDB
14 5 (0.71%) Power Query
15 4 (0.57%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
16 3 (0.43%) Airbyte
16 3 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
16 3 (0.43%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 152 (21.65%) JIRA
2 95 (13.53%) Git
3 89 (12.68%) Jenkins
4 69 (9.83%) eCATT
5 39 (5.56%) Selenium
6 38 (5.41%) NeoLoad
7 33 (4.70%) Oracle Forms
8 21 (2.99%) Cypress.io
9 20 (2.85%) GitLab
9 20 (2.85%) Robot Framework
10 19 (2.71%) Snyk
11 7 (1.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 7 (1.00%) Visual Studio
12 5 (0.71%) TeamCity
13 4 (0.57%) Octopus Deploy
13 4 (0.57%) Postman
14 3 (0.43%) git-flow
14 3 (0.43%) MLflow
14 3 (0.43%) NUnit
14 3 (0.43%) Zephyr
General
1 319 (45.44%) Finance
2 154 (21.94%) Social Skills
3 124 (17.66%) Analytical Skills
4 88 (12.54%) Marketing
5 75 (10.68%) Manufacturing
6 52 (7.41%) Presentation Skills
7 46 (6.55%) Influencing Skills
8 29 (4.13%) Law
9 24 (3.42%) Billing
10 23 (3.28%) Public Sector
11 17 (2.42%) Telecoms
12 11 (1.57%) Retail
13 10 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 8 (1.14%) Banking
14 8 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
14 8 (1.14%) Legal
15 4 (0.57%) Advertising
15 4 (0.57%) Front Office
15 4 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
16 3 (0.43%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 149 (21.23%) Senior
2 131 (18.66%) Developer
3 100 (14.25%) Analyst
4 94 (13.39%) Lead
5 77 (10.97%) DevOps Engineer
6 69 (9.83%) Azure Engineer
7 66 (9.40%) Cloud Engineer
8 40 (5.70%) Applications Engineer
9 35 (4.99%) Software Engineer
9 35 (4.99%) Test Leader
10 27 (3.85%) Power Platform Developer
11 26 (3.70%) .NET Developer
12 24 (3.42%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 24 (3.42%) Platform Engineer
13 23 (3.28%) Business Analyst
13 23 (3.28%) Test Analyst
14 22 (3.13%) Senior Cloud Engineer
15 20 (2.85%) Architect
16 19 (2.71%) Applications Developer
17 17 (2.42%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 156 (22.22%) .NET
2 76 (10.83%) RESTful
3 59 (8.40%) React
4 51 (7.26%) OAuth
5 50 (7.12%) ASP.NET
6 45 (6.41%) SOAP
7 41 (5.84%) .NET Core
8 40 (5.70%) JSON
9 37 (5.27%) REST
10 36 (5.13%) .NET Framework
11 34 (4.84%) OAuth2
12 33 (4.70%) YAML
13 32 (4.56%) CSS
13 32 (4.56%) HTML
14 26 (3.70%) ASP.NET Core
14 26 (3.70%) Lightning Web Components
15 24 (3.42%) Playwright
16 22 (3.13%) AngularJS
17 21 (2.99%) Blazor
18 20 (2.85%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 107 (15.24%) Cloud Native
2 90 (12.82%) Product Ownership
3 48 (6.84%) Enterprise Software
4 31 (4.42%) Low-Code
5 24 (3.42%) Management Information System
6 22 (3.13%) Mobile App
7 18 (2.56%) Analytical Mindset
8 15 (2.14%) Legacy Systems
9 11 (1.57%) Onboarding
9 11 (1.57%) Security Posture
10 8 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
11 7 (1.00%) Hybrid Cloud
12 6 (0.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 5 (0.71%) Distributed Systems
13 5 (0.71%) Linux Command Line
13 5 (0.71%) Virtual Team
14 4 (0.57%) Data Centre
14 4 (0.57%) Legacy Applications
15 3 (0.43%) AI Agents
15 3 (0.43%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 49 (6.98%) Windows
2 36 (5.13%) Linux
3 11 (1.57%) Ubuntu
4 9 (1.28%) VMS
5 4 (0.57%) Android
6 3 (0.43%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.28%) Unix
7 2 (0.28%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.14%) CentOS
8 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 633 (90.17%) DevOps
2 382 (54.42%) CI/CD
3 361 (51.42%) Agile
4 195 (27.78%) Test Automation
5 182 (25.93%) Infrastructure as Code
6 172 (24.50%) Continuous Improvement
7 171 (24.36%) Coaching
8 144 (20.51%) Asset Management
8 144 (20.51%) Problem-Solving
9 120 (17.09%) Mentoring
10 119 (16.95%) AI
11 108 (15.38%) Roadmaps
12 94 (13.39%) ERP
13 91 (12.96%) Containerisation
13 91 (12.96%) Test Management
14 85 (12.11%) Data Modelling
15 83 (11.82%) Software Engineering
16 82 (11.68%) Clean Code
17 81 (11.54%) Observability
18 76 (10.83%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 216 (30.77%) SQL
2 162 (23.08%) Python
3 141 (20.09%) C#
4 99 (14.10%) PowerShell
5 69 (9.83%) Bash
6 68 (9.69%) JavaScript
7 50 (7.12%) Bicep
8 41 (5.84%) Java
9 34 (4.84%) Shell Script
9 34 (4.84%) TypeScript
10 33 (4.70%) PL/SQL
11 26 (3.70%) Apex Code
12 20 (2.85%) Go
13 18 (2.56%) T-SQL
14 6 (0.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 5 (0.71%) C++
16 4 (0.57%) VB
17 3 (0.43%) VB.NET
18 2 (0.28%) Delphi
18 2 (0.28%) VB6
Qualifications
1 66 (9.40%) Degree
2 45 (6.41%) Security Cleared
3 32 (4.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 27 (3.85%) DV Cleared
5 24 (3.42%) Azure Certification
6 18 (2.56%) ISTQB
7 15 (2.14%) SC Cleared
8 14 (1.99%) Microsoft Certification
9 13 (1.85%) AWS Certification
9 13 (1.85%) HND
10 11 (1.57%) AWS Certified Developer
11 9 (1.28%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 9 (1.28%) Master's Degree
12 8 (1.14%) PMI Certification
13 6 (0.85%) PMP
14 4 (0.57%) BC Cleared
15 3 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
16 2 (0.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 2 (0.28%) CCNP
16 2 (0.28%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (12.11%) QA
2 46 (6.55%) Accessibility
3 19 (2.71%) GDPR
4 14 (1.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (1.71%) SLA
6 11 (1.57%) PMO
7 6 (0.85%) Data Quality
8 5 (0.71%) NCSC
8 5 (0.71%) NIST
9 2 (0.28%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 2 (0.28%) WCAG
10 1 (0.14%) GRC
10 1 (0.14%) HL7
10 1 (0.14%) P3O
10 1 (0.14%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.14%) SOC 2
System Software
1 78 (11.11%) Docker
2 38 (5.41%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.71%) Virtual Machines
4 11 (1.57%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.43%) Firmware
7 1 (0.14%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 1 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.14%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 222 (31.62%) Terraform
2 69 (9.83%) HP ALM
3 65 (9.26%) Kubernetes
4 59 (8.40%) Ansible
5 34 (4.84%) Single Sign-On
6 30 (4.27%) Grafana
6 30 (4.27%) Prometheus
7 10 (1.42%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.28%) Dell DRAC
8 2 (0.28%) Nessus
8 2 (0.28%) Puppet
9 1 (0.14%) Argo
9 1 (0.14%) CASB
9 1 (0.14%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.14%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.14%) Proxmox
9 1 (0.14%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 202 (28.77%) Microsoft
2 69 (9.83%) HP
2 69 (9.83%) SAP
3 36 (5.13%) Oracle
4 30 (4.27%) Salesforce
5 19 (2.71%) Okta
6 18 (2.56%) Black Duck
6 18 (2.56%) Coverity
7 15 (2.14%) Databricks
7 15 (2.14%) Red Hat
8 14 (1.99%) Ab Initio
9 12 (1.71%) Adobe
9 12 (1.71%) Freshdesk
9 12 (1.71%) Nintex
9 12 (1.71%) Sage
9 12 (1.71%) Xamarin
10 8 (1.14%) VMware
11 7 (1.00%) Google
11 7 (1.00%) SolarWinds
12 6 (0.85%) ServiceNow