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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 129 107 91
Rank change year-on-year -22 -16 +1
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 665 1,086 959
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.79% 2.30% 3.23%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.03% 7.84% 8.14%
Number of salaries quoted 403 627 820
10th Percentile £39,250 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £63,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.45% +5.83% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,818 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £80,575
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -

All Cloud 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 11,027 13,853 11,788
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.75% 29.39% 39.68%
Number of salaries quoted 6,886 7,761 9,847
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +2.80% -2.73%
75th Percentile £68,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% -0.79%

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 November 2025.

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 November 2025. 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 +1 232 £60,000 -11.11% 149
Scotland +60 135 £65,000 +15.56% 29
North of England -52 98 £60,000 -4.76% 55
Midlands -34 84 £57,500 -11.54% 54
West Midlands -11 71 £60,000 -7.69% 35
South West -59 54 £55,000 -15.38% 42
North West -18 43 £65,000 +7.44% 26
Yorkshire -23 33 £55,000 -18.35% 15
Wales +8 31 £55,000 -2.22% 12
East of England -24 28 £65,000 +30.00% 18
North East +7 22 £50,000 -9.09% 14
East Midlands +4 12 £54,500 +14.74% 17
Northern Ireland +2 2 £56,250 - 4
Isle of Man - 1 £52,500 -
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 28 (4.21%) Confluence
2 24 (3.61%) IIS
3 12 (1.80%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 8 (1.20%) SharePoint
5 7 (1.05%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (0.90%) Apache
6 6 (0.90%) Appian
7 5 (0.75%) nginx
8 3 (0.45%) BizTalk Server
9 2 (0.30%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.30%) Tomcat
Applications
1 22 (3.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (1.65%) Microsoft Project
4 7 (1.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.75%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.30%) Trello
7 1 (0.15%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 69 (10.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 38 (5.71%) Dynamics CRM
3 27 (4.06%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.30%) Markit EDM
4 2 (0.30%) Shopify
5 1 (0.15%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 596 (89.62%) Azure
2 194 (29.17%) GitHub
3 112 (16.84%) Power Platform
4 93 (13.98%) GitHub Actions
5 89 (13.38%) AWS
6 52 (7.82%) Dynamics 365
7 50 (7.52%) Power Automate
8 48 (7.22%) Snowflake
9 47 (7.07%) GitHub Copilot
10 44 (6.62%) Azure Monitor
10 44 (6.62%) SaaS
11 42 (6.32%) Entra ID
12 41 (6.17%) Azure Logic Apps
13 38 (5.71%) Azure Data Factory
14 36 (5.41%) Microsoft 365
15 34 (5.11%) dbt
16 33 (4.96%) Azure Service Bus
17 32 (4.81%) PaaS
18 31 (4.66%) Serverless
19 28 (4.21%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 23 (3.46%) DNS
2 22 (3.31%) Firewall
3 13 (1.95%) VPN
4 7 (1.05%) Network Security
5 5 (0.75%) HTTP
5 5 (0.75%) VLAN
5 5 (0.75%) WAN
6 4 (0.60%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.45%) BGP
7 3 (0.45%) DHCP
7 3 (0.45%) IPsec
7 3 (0.45%) OSPF
7 3 (0.45%) SD-WAN
7 3 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.45%) Wireshark
8 2 (0.30%) SSL
9 1 (0.15%) AMQP
9 1 (0.15%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.15%) NetScaler
9 1 (0.15%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (13.83%) SQL Server
2 63 (9.47%) Power BI
3 45 (6.77%) Data Warehouse
4 31 (4.66%) Tableau
5 30 (4.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 20 (3.01%) Relational Database
6 20 (3.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 19 (2.86%) Azure SQL Database
8 13 (1.95%) Snowflake Schema
9 9 (1.35%) PostgreSQL
10 7 (1.05%) Metadata
10 7 (1.05%) MySQL
11 6 (0.90%) DynamoDB
11 6 (0.90%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 5 (0.75%) Airbyte
12 5 (0.75%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 5 (0.75%) Data Lake
12 5 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
12 5 (0.75%) NoSQL
13 4 (0.60%) Looker
Development Applications
1 149 (22.41%) JIRA
2 89 (13.38%) Git
3 69 (10.38%) eCATT
4 64 (9.62%) Jenkins
5 38 (5.71%) NeoLoad
6 32 (4.81%) Selenium
7 28 (4.21%) Octopus Deploy
8 27 (4.06%) Oracle Forms
9 20 (3.01%) Robot Framework
9 20 (3.01%) Snyk
10 15 (2.26%) TeamCity
11 14 (2.11%) GitLab
12 9 (1.35%) Cypress.io
12 9 (1.35%) Visual Studio
13 8 (1.20%) NUnit
14 6 (0.90%) Cucumber
14 6 (0.90%) MSBuild
14 6 (0.90%) MSTest
14 6 (0.90%) Postman
14 6 (0.90%) REST Assured
General
1 291 (43.76%) Finance
2 143 (21.50%) Social Skills
3 90 (13.53%) Marketing
4 89 (13.38%) Analytical Skills
5 74 (11.13%) Manufacturing
6 52 (7.82%) Presentation Skills
7 40 (6.02%) Influencing Skills
8 29 (4.36%) Law
9 21 (3.16%) Retail
10 13 (1.95%) Public Sector
11 8 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (1.05%) Legal
13 6 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
14 5 (0.75%) Back Office
14 5 (0.75%) Banking
14 5 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 4 (0.60%) Advertising
15 4 (0.60%) Aerospace
15 4 (0.60%) Automotive
15 4 (0.60%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 139 (20.90%) Senior
2 109 (16.39%) Developer
3 107 (16.09%) Analyst
4 106 (15.94%) Lead
5 75 (11.28%) DevOps Engineer
6 57 (8.57%) Azure Engineer
7 52 (7.82%) Cloud Engineer
8 38 (5.71%) Software Engineer
9 33 (4.96%) Applications Engineer
10 32 (4.81%) Test Analyst
10 32 (4.81%) Test Leader
11 30 (4.51%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 28 (4.21%) Platform Engineer
13 25 (3.76%) Business Analyst
14 22 (3.31%) Automation Test Lead
14 22 (3.31%) Senior Cloud Engineer
15 20 (3.01%) Dynamics 365 Developer
15 20 (3.01%) Software Developer
16 19 (2.86%) Architect
17 18 (2.71%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 192 (28.87%) .NET
2 65 (9.77%) RESTful
3 52 (7.82%) .NET Framework
4 49 (7.37%) React
5 39 (5.86%) REST
6 37 (5.56%) ASP.NET
7 36 (5.41%) JSON
8 35 (5.26%) OAuth
9 33 (4.96%) ARM Templates
9 33 (4.96%) SOAP
10 31 (4.66%) .NET Core
10 31 (4.66%) AngularJS
11 30 (4.51%) YAML
12 27 (4.06%) Entity Framework
13 26 (3.91%) Blazor
14 25 (3.76%) OAuth2
15 23 (3.46%) XML
16 20 (3.01%) CSS
16 20 (3.01%) HTML
17 17 (2.56%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 116 (17.44%) Cloud Native
2 95 (14.29%) Product Ownership
3 42 (6.32%) Enterprise Software
4 29 (4.36%) Onboarding
5 19 (2.86%) Analytical Mindset
5 19 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
6 16 (2.41%) Hybrid Cloud
7 15 (2.26%) Low-Code
8 13 (1.95%) Distributed Systems
8 13 (1.95%) Mobile App
9 12 (1.80%) Virtual Team
10 11 (1.65%) Security Posture
11 10 (1.50%) Data Centre
11 10 (1.50%) Management Information System
12 9 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
13 7 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
14 6 (0.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 6 (0.90%) Linux Command Line
15 5 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
15 5 (0.75%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 59 (8.87%) Windows
2 23 (3.46%) Linux
3 13 (1.95%) VMS
4 7 (1.05%) Android
5 6 (0.90%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.75%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.45%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.30%) AIX
9 2 (0.30%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.15%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 596 (89.62%) DevOps
2 352 (52.93%) CI/CD
3 339 (50.98%) Agile
4 177 (26.62%) Test Automation
5 171 (25.71%) Continuous Improvement
6 155 (23.31%) Infrastructure as Code
7 143 (21.50%) Coaching
8 134 (20.15%) Mentoring
9 128 (19.25%) Problem-Solving
10 118 (17.74%) AI
10 118 (17.74%) Asset Management
11 100 (15.04%) Roadmaps
12 95 (14.29%) ERP
13 93 (13.98%) Test Management
14 82 (12.33%) Software Engineering
15 76 (11.43%) Microservices
16 75 (11.28%) Analytics
17 74 (11.13%) Containerisation
18 69 (10.38%) Source to Pay
19 68 (10.23%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 225 (33.83%) SQL
2 172 (25.86%) C#
3 145 (21.80%) Python
4 119 (17.89%) PowerShell
5 64 (9.62%) Bicep
6 62 (9.32%) JavaScript
7 54 (8.12%) Bash
8 41 (6.17%) TypeScript
9 36 (5.41%) Java
10 29 (4.36%) Shell Script
11 27 (4.06%) PL/SQL
12 22 (3.31%) T-SQL
13 16 (2.41%) Apex Code
14 9 (1.35%) Go
15 6 (0.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 4 (0.60%) C++
16 4 (0.60%) VB
16 4 (0.60%) VB.NET
17 3 (0.45%) Korn
17 3 (0.45%) Scala
Qualifications
1 54 (8.12%) Degree
2 42 (6.32%) Security Cleared
3 38 (5.71%) Azure Certification
4 31 (4.66%) Computer Science Degree
5 29 (4.36%) ISTQB
6 22 (3.31%) SC Cleared
7 21 (3.16%) DV Cleared
8 16 (2.41%) Microsoft Certification
9 12 (1.80%) ISEB
10 8 (1.20%) AWS Certification
10 8 (1.20%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 8 (1.20%) Master's Degree
10 8 (1.20%) PMI Certification
10 8 (1.20%) PMP
11 6 (0.90%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (0.75%) AWS Certified Developer
13 3 (0.45%) CCNA
13 3 (0.45%) CCNP
14 2 (0.30%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 2 (0.30%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (12.63%) QA
2 23 (3.46%) Accessibility
3 22 (3.31%) GDPR
4 16 (2.41%) PMO
5 9 (1.35%) Software Quality Assurance
6 8 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (1.05%) NCSC
7 7 (1.05%) NIST
8 5 (0.75%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.15%) COBIT
9 1 (0.15%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.15%) HL7
9 1 (0.15%) P3O
9 1 (0.15%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.15%) WCAG
System Software
1 94 (14.14%) Docker
2 31 (4.66%) Active Directory
3 23 (3.46%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (2.41%) Virtual Desktop
5 11 (1.65%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.45%) Firmware
6 3 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.15%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 1 (0.15%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.15%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.15%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 197 (29.62%) Terraform
2 90 (13.53%) Kubernetes
3 69 (10.38%) HP ALM
4 35 (5.26%) Ansible
5 27 (4.06%) Single Sign-On
6 18 (2.71%) Grafana
6 18 (2.71%) Prometheus
7 13 (1.95%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (0.45%) Dell DRAC
9 2 (0.30%) Argo
9 2 (0.30%) Nessus
9 2 (0.30%) Red Hat Satellite
9 2 (0.30%) ZABBIX
10 1 (0.15%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.15%) Puppet
10 1 (0.15%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 187 (28.12%) Microsoft
2 72 (10.83%) SAP
3 69 (10.38%) HP
4 32 (4.81%) Oracle
5 24 (3.61%) Salesforce
6 18 (2.71%) Black Duck
7 17 (2.56%) Coverity
8 16 (2.41%) Okta
8 16 (2.41%) VMware
9 15 (2.26%) Databricks
10 14 (2.11%) Xamarin
11 13 (1.95%) Google
12 12 (1.80%) Sage
13 9 (1.35%) Ab Initio
13 9 (1.35%) Rackspace
13 9 (1.35%) Zoho
14 7 (1.05%) OpenAI
14 7 (1.05%) SolarWinds
15 6 (0.90%) BiZZdesign
15 6 (0.90%) UiPath