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 1 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 149 201 117
Rank change year-on-year +52 -84 -15
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 957 494 1,223
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.19% 1.42% 2.10%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.44% 5.27% 7.51%
Number of salaries quoted 786 352 787
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,375 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,500
Median % change year-on-year - -0.83% +0.83%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £83,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000

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 17,581 9,380 16,287
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 21.87% 26.91% 27.95%
Number of salaries quoted 11,958 6,431 10,685
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,375 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £91,250 £82,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.00%

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 1 September 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 1 September 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
North of England +89 286 £60,500 -6.92% 141
South East +1 230 £62,500 - 152
North West +82 171 £65,000 - 77
Midlands +34 164 £62,500 +4.17% 84
South West -11 95 £55,000 +4.76% 59
West Midlands +8 92 £62,500 +4.17% 43
Wales -15 89 £53,171 -3.33% 12
East of England +17 79 £55,000 -12.00% 42
East Midlands +31 72 £57,500 +4.55% 41
Yorkshire -5 66 £69,305 +15.51% 49
North East -20 49 £52,000 -0.95% 15
Scotland -28 19 £55,000 -14.73% 38
Northern Ireland - 1 £72,500 - 24
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 54 (5.64%) SharePoint
2 49 (5.12%) Confluence
3 28 (2.93%) Microsoft Exchange
4 19 (1.99%) IIS
5 11 (1.15%) nginx
6 7 (0.73%) SharePoint Server
7 6 (0.63%) Anypoint
7 6 (0.63%) CICS
8 5 (0.52%) Apache
8 5 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
8 5 (0.52%) CMS
9 4 (0.42%) Apache Spark
10 3 (0.31%) BizTalk Server
10 3 (0.31%) WordPress
11 2 (0.21%) Luigi
11 2 (0.21%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.10%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.10%) Drupal
12 1 (0.10%) Oracle HTTP Server
12 1 (0.10%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 11 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.84%) Chatbot
2 8 (0.84%) Microsoft Project
2 8 (0.84%) MS Visio
2 8 (0.84%) Trello
3 6 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.10%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.10%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 15 (1.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.63%) SAP IBP
2 6 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.52%) Visualfiles
4 4 (0.42%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.31%) Shopify
6 2 (0.21%) JDE EnterpriseOne
6 2 (0.21%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.10%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.10%) Infor M3
7 1 (0.10%) Magento
7 1 (0.10%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 957 (100.00%) Azure
2 147 (15.36%) GitHub
3 136 (14.21%) Power Platform
4 123 (12.85%) AWS
5 86 (8.99%) Azure AI
6 85 (8.88%) GitHub Actions
7 74 (7.73%) Serverless
8 71 (7.42%) Dynamics 365
9 65 (6.79%) Azure Monitor
10 62 (6.48%) Azure Functions
11 60 (6.27%) Azure Service Bus
12 58 (6.06%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 55 (5.75%) Power Automate
14 53 (5.54%) Microsoft 365
14 53 (5.54%) PaaS
15 51 (5.33%) Azure AKS
15 51 (5.33%) Azure Key Vault
16 49 (5.12%) Entra ID
17 43 (4.49%) SaaS
18 41 (4.28%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 19 (1.99%) VPN
2 18 (1.88%) Firewall
3 11 (1.15%) Internet
3 11 (1.15%) Network Security
4 8 (0.84%) HTTP
5 6 (0.63%) DNS
5 6 (0.63%) MQTT
5 6 (0.63%) TCP/IP
5 6 (0.63%) Wi-Fi
5 6 (0.63%) Wireless
5 6 (0.63%) ZigBee
6 5 (0.52%) SAN
7 4 (0.42%) Bluetooth
8 3 (0.31%) HTTPS
9 2 (0.21%) LoRaWAN
9 2 (0.21%) VLAN
10 1 (0.10%) BGP
10 1 (0.10%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 199 (20.79%) Azure SQL Database
2 162 (16.93%) MongoDB
3 123 (12.85%) SQL Server
4 60 (6.27%) Power BI
5 41 (4.28%) Elasticsearch
6 37 (3.87%) PostgreSQL
7 33 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
8 32 (3.34%) Relational Database
9 17 (1.78%) MySQL
9 17 (1.78%) NoSQL
9 17 (1.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 16 (1.67%) Metadata
11 14 (1.46%) Data Lake
11 14 (1.46%) Redis
12 11 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
12 11 (1.15%) NonStop SQL
13 9 (0.94%) Spark SQL
13 9 (0.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 9 (0.94%) Star Schema
14 7 (0.73%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 185 (19.33%) Git
2 139 (14.52%) JIRA
3 86 (8.99%) Jenkins
4 60 (6.27%) GitLab
5 42 (4.39%) Selenium
6 35 (3.66%) Postman
7 31 (3.24%) Cypress.io
8 17 (1.78%) JMeter
8 17 (1.78%) REST Assured
9 16 (1.67%) Visual Studio
10 15 (1.57%) NUnit
11 14 (1.46%) fastlane
11 14 (1.46%) Zephyr
12 11 (1.15%) Octopus Deploy
13 9 (0.94%) Cucumber
13 9 (0.94%) MSI
13 9 (0.94%) SonarQube
13 9 (0.94%) TestRail
14 8 (0.84%) Visual Studio Code
14 8 (0.84%) Xcode
General
1 234 (24.45%) Social Skills
2 139 (14.52%) Finance
3 96 (10.03%) Public Sector
4 95 (9.93%) Analytical Skills
4 95 (9.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 43 (4.49%) Retail
6 42 (4.39%) Marketing
7 29 (3.03%) Advertising
8 21 (2.19%) Games
8 21 (2.19%) Law
9 15 (1.57%) Manufacturing
10 12 (1.25%) Legal
11 11 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
12 10 (1.04%) Automotive
12 10 (1.04%) Banking
13 8 (0.84%) Aviation
13 8 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
14 6 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
15 5 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
16 4 (0.42%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 385 (40.23%) Developer
2 194 (20.27%) .NET Developer
3 191 (19.96%) Senior
4 139 (14.52%) DevOps Engineer
5 104 (10.87%) Azure Engineer
6 96 (10.03%) Lead
7 68 (7.11%) Senior Developer
8 62 (6.48%) Analyst
9 53 (5.54%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 47 (4.91%) Senior DevOps
11 46 (4.81%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 45 (4.70%) Platform Engineer
13 42 (4.39%) Data Engineer
14 41 (4.28%) Cloud Engineer
15 39 (4.08%) Software Developer
16 38 (3.97%) Software Engineer
17 27 (2.82%) Lead Developer
18 26 (2.72%) Full-Stack Developer
19 23 (2.40%) Business Analyst
20 22 (2.30%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 362 (37.83%) .NET
2 226 (23.62%) Terraform
3 221 (23.09%) ASP.NET
4 196 (20.48%) .NET Core
5 194 (20.27%) ASP.NET Core
6 141 (14.73%) React
7 140 (14.63%) HTML
8 138 (14.42%) CSS
9 136 (14.21%) RESTful
10 109 (11.39%) Entity Framework
11 102 (10.66%) Blazor
12 99 (10.34%) REST
13 83 (8.67%) Node.js
14 81 (8.46%) ML.NET
15 48 (5.02%) Playwright
16 46 (4.81%) ARM Templates
17 43 (4.49%) .NET Framework
18 40 (4.18%) YAML
19 35 (3.66%) JSON
19 35 (3.66%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 103 (10.76%) Product Ownership
2 73 (7.63%) Cloud Native
3 50 (5.22%) Enterprise Software
4 49 (5.12%) Mobile App
5 47 (4.91%) Legacy Systems
6 33 (3.45%) Greenfield Project
7 31 (3.24%) Onboarding
8 23 (2.40%) Hybrid Cloud
9 22 (2.30%) Legacy Applications
10 17 (1.78%) BBC
10 17 (1.78%) iPhone
10 17 (1.78%) Social Media
11 16 (1.67%) Mainframe
11 16 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
12 15 (1.57%) Public Cloud
13 12 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
13 12 (1.25%) Low-Code
13 12 (1.25%) Podcast
13 12 (1.25%) Security Posture
13 12 (1.25%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 86 (8.99%) Linux
2 79 (8.25%) Windows
3 24 (2.51%) Android
4 19 (1.99%) Unix
5 13 (1.36%) VMS
6 12 (1.25%) Apple iOS
6 12 (1.25%) Ubuntu
7 10 (1.04%) Windows Server
8 5 (0.52%) Kali Linux
9 3 (0.31%) Embedded Linux
9 3 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.31%) Solaris
10 2 (0.21%) Debian
10 2 (0.21%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 957 (100.00%) DevOps
2 522 (54.55%) CI/CD
3 513 (53.61%) Agile
4 232 (24.24%) AI
5 228 (23.82%) Full-Stack Development
6 201 (21.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 198 (20.69%) Infrastructure as Code
8 187 (19.54%) Scrum
9 169 (17.66%) Test Automation
10 167 (17.45%) Problem-Solving
11 134 (14.00%) Mentoring
12 119 (12.43%) Machine Learning
13 104 (10.87%) SDLC
14 102 (10.66%) Software Engineering
15 100 (10.45%) Analytics
16 98 (10.24%) Microservices
17 97 (10.14%) Observability
18 93 (9.72%) Platform Engineering
19 92 (9.61%) Stakeholder Management
20 87 (9.09%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 369 (38.56%) C#
2 363 (37.93%) SQL
3 195 (20.38%) JavaScript
4 170 (17.76%) Python
5 105 (10.97%) PowerShell
6 100 (10.45%) Bash
7 80 (8.36%) Bicep
8 72 (7.52%) Java
9 39 (4.08%) TypeScript
10 33 (3.45%) T-SQL
11 15 (1.57%) C++
12 13 (1.36%) Kusto Query Language
13 11 (1.15%) JCL
13 11 (1.15%) Swift
14 10 (1.04%) COBOL
15 9 (0.94%) Go
16 8 (0.84%) Kotlin
17 7 (0.73%) C
17 7 (0.73%) Ruby
18 6 (0.63%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 80 (8.36%) Degree
2 76 (7.94%) Security Cleared
3 67 (7.00%) SC Cleared
4 43 (4.49%) Azure Certification
5 30 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
6 23 (2.40%) ISTQB
7 21 (2.19%) Microsoft Certification
8 15 (1.57%) PMI Certification
9 11 (1.15%) AWS Certification
10 10 (1.04%) Master's Degree
11 8 (0.84%) PMP
12 7 (0.73%) DV Cleared
13 6 (0.63%) CBAP
13 6 (0.63%) ISEB
14 5 (0.52%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
15 4 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
16 3 (0.31%) CSPO
16 3 (0.31%) IIBA
16 3 (0.31%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 3 (0.31%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 127 (13.27%) QA
2 47 (4.91%) Accessibility
3 33 (3.45%) WCAG
4 28 (2.93%) Data Quality
5 21 (2.19%) GDPR
6 15 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 12 (1.25%) TickIT
8 9 (0.94%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 9 (0.94%) PMO
9 8 (0.84%) NCSC
10 6 (0.63%) JTAG
11 5 (0.52%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 4 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
12 4 (0.42%) SLA
12 4 (0.42%) Software Quality Assurance
13 3 (0.31%) IFRS
13 3 (0.31%) NIST
14 2 (0.21%) IFRS 17
14 2 (0.21%) Solvency II
15 1 (0.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 121 (12.64%) Docker
2 46 (4.81%) Active Directory
3 20 (2.09%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (1.36%) Virtual Desktop
5 12 (1.25%) vSphere
6 10 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.31%) Firmware
8 2 (0.21%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.21%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.21%) Xen
9 1 (0.10%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.10%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 98 (10.24%) Kubernetes
2 45 (4.70%) Grafana
3 41 (4.28%) Ansible
4 37 (3.87%) Prometheus
5 19 (1.99%) Argo
6 12 (1.25%) Microsoft Intune
7 10 (1.04%) Puppet
8 5 (0.52%) HP Fortify
9 3 (0.31%) HP ALM
9 3 (0.31%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.31%) Scalr
10 2 (0.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.21%) FlexNet
10 2 (0.21%) MIIS
10 2 (0.21%) Nessus
10 2 (0.21%) Rancher
10 2 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.21%) ZABBIX
11 1 (0.10%) Consul
11 1 (0.10%) linkerd
Vendors
1 435 (45.45%) Microsoft
2 51 (5.33%) Google
3 38 (3.97%) Facebook
4 32 (3.34%) Databricks
5 28 (2.93%) Apple
6 22 (2.30%) VMware
7 21 (2.19%) Salesforce
7 21 (2.19%) YouTube
8 20 (2.09%) Red Hat
9 17 (1.78%) Dynatrace
9 17 (1.78%) Sony
9 17 (1.78%) Yahoo!
10 14 (1.46%) Oracle
11 12 (1.25%) ScienceLogic
12 10 (1.04%) ServiceNow
13 9 (0.94%) HP
13 9 (0.94%) MuleSoft
13 9 (0.94%) SAP
14 8 (0.84%) Foundry
15 7 (0.73%) Veracode