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

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 157 181 122
Rank change year-on-year +24 -59 -28
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 956 528 1,066
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.12% 1.55% 1.97%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.45% 5.80% 7.16%
Number of salaries quoted 769 364 626
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £47,750 £50,688 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £83,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £66,250
% change year-on-year - -1.89% +1.92%

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 17,557 9,110 14,883
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 20.62% 26.70% 27.52%
Number of salaries quoted 12,074 6,177 8,928
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,533 £41,250
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 £70,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £82,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
% 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 22 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 22 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 +72 288 £60,000 -0.83% 193
South East +1 225 £62,500 - 166
North West +66 174 £65,000 - 108
Midlands +28 171 £62,500 +4.17% 101
West Midlands -15 101 £65,000 +8.33% 53
South West -20 93 £57,500 +4.55% 58
Wales -19 92 £53,171 -3.33% 23
East of England +6 74 £55,000 -12.00% 51
East Midlands +21 70 £55,000 +0.92% 48
Yorkshire -9 68 £67,750 +12.92% 66
North East -29 46 £52,250 +4.50% 20
Scotland -44 18 £55,000 -14.73% 36
Northern Ireland - 1 £72,500 - 19
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 62 (6.49%) SharePoint
2 47 (4.92%) Confluence
3 28 (2.93%) Microsoft Exchange
4 17 (1.78%) IIS
5 10 (1.05%) nginx
6 7 (0.73%) SharePoint Server
7 6 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
7 6 (0.63%) CMS
8 5 (0.52%) Apache
8 5 (0.52%) Apache Spark
8 5 (0.52%) CICS
9 4 (0.42%) Anypoint
10 3 (0.31%) BizTalk Server
10 3 (0.31%) Umbraco
11 2 (0.21%) Luigi
11 2 (0.21%) WordPress
12 1 (0.10%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.10%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.10%) Oracle HTTP Server
12 1 (0.10%) Tomcat
Applications
1 14 (1.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.26%) Microsoft Project
3 11 (1.15%) MS Visio
4 8 (0.84%) Trello
5 7 (0.73%) Microsoft Office
5 7 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 6 (0.63%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 24 (2.51%) 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
4 4 (0.42%) Shopify
5 2 (0.21%) JDE EnterpriseOne
5 2 (0.21%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.10%) Infor M3
6 1 (0.10%) Magento
6 1 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.10%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 956 (100.00%) Azure
2 153 (16.00%) Power Platform
3 147 (15.38%) GitHub
4 118 (12.34%) AWS
5 84 (8.79%) Dynamics 365
6 82 (8.58%) Azure AI
7 80 (8.37%) GitHub Actions
8 77 (8.05%) Serverless
9 68 (7.11%) Azure Monitor
10 67 (7.01%) Azure Functions
11 63 (6.59%) Power Automate
12 61 (6.38%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 59 (6.17%) Azure Service Bus
14 55 (5.75%) Azure Key Vault
14 55 (5.75%) Entra ID
14 55 (5.75%) PaaS
15 53 (5.54%) Microsoft 365
16 51 (5.33%) Azure AKS
17 46 (4.81%) PowerApps
18 44 (4.60%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (2.20%) VPN
2 19 (1.99%) Firewall
3 11 (1.15%) Internet
4 9 (0.94%) Network Security
5 7 (0.73%) TCP/IP
6 6 (0.63%) HTTP
6 6 (0.63%) MQTT
6 6 (0.63%) Wi-Fi
6 6 (0.63%) Wireless
6 6 (0.63%) ZigBee
7 5 (0.52%) DNS
7 5 (0.52%) SAN
8 4 (0.42%) Bluetooth
9 3 (0.31%) HTTPS
10 2 (0.21%) LoRaWAN
10 2 (0.21%) VLAN
10 2 (0.21%) WAN
11 1 (0.10%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 197 (20.61%) Azure SQL Database
2 159 (16.63%) MongoDB
3 129 (13.49%) SQL Server
4 70 (7.32%) Power BI
5 39 (4.08%) Data Warehouse
5 39 (4.08%) Elasticsearch
6 35 (3.66%) PostgreSQL
7 34 (3.56%) Relational Database
8 22 (2.30%) Metadata
9 21 (2.20%) Data Lake
9 21 (2.20%) NoSQL
10 17 (1.78%) MySQL
10 17 (1.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 13 (1.36%) Delta Lake
11 13 (1.36%) Redis
11 13 (1.36%) Star Schema
12 11 (1.15%) NonStop SQL
13 9 (0.94%) Amazon QuickSight
13 9 (0.94%) DynamoDB
13 9 (0.94%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 194 (20.29%) Git
2 139 (14.54%) JIRA
3 82 (8.58%) Jenkins
4 61 (6.38%) GitLab
5 36 (3.77%) Selenium
6 28 (2.93%) Cypress.io
6 28 (2.93%) Postman
7 15 (1.57%) Visual Studio
8 14 (1.46%) JMeter
9 11 (1.15%) fastlane
9 11 (1.15%) NUnit
9 11 (1.15%) Octopus Deploy
9 11 (1.15%) REST Assured
9 11 (1.15%) Zephyr
10 9 (0.94%) MSI
11 8 (0.84%) Cucumber
11 8 (0.84%) SonarQube
12 7 (0.73%) Burp Suite
12 7 (0.73%) TestRail
12 7 (0.73%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 255 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 146 (15.27%) Finance
3 102 (10.67%) Public Sector
4 101 (10.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 97 (10.15%) Analytical Skills
6 42 (4.39%) Retail
7 37 (3.87%) Marketing
8 29 (3.03%) Advertising
9 21 (2.20%) Games
10 18 (1.88%) Law
11 17 (1.78%) Manufacturing
12 13 (1.36%) Documentation Skills
13 10 (1.05%) Legal
14 8 (0.84%) Aviation
14 8 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
15 7 (0.73%) Automotive
15 7 (0.73%) Banking
15 7 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
16 6 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
17 4 (0.42%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 374 (39.12%) Developer
2 193 (20.19%) Senior
3 190 (19.87%) .NET Developer
4 135 (14.12%) DevOps Engineer
5 105 (10.98%) Azure Engineer
6 91 (9.52%) Lead
7 69 (7.22%) Analyst
8 65 (6.80%) Senior Developer
9 50 (5.23%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 49 (5.13%) Data Engineer
11 47 (4.92%) Senior DevOps
12 46 (4.81%) Platform Engineer
12 46 (4.81%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 43 (4.50%) Cloud Engineer
14 38 (3.97%) Software Engineer
15 35 (3.66%) Software Developer
16 28 (2.93%) Lead Developer
17 27 (2.82%) Business Analyst
18 25 (2.62%) Dynamics 365 Developer
18 25 (2.62%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 353 (36.92%) .NET
2 220 (23.01%) Terraform
3 211 (22.07%) ASP.NET
4 189 (19.77%) .NET Core
5 186 (19.46%) ASP.NET Core
6 130 (13.60%) HTML
6 130 (13.60%) React
7 128 (13.39%) CSS
8 123 (12.87%) RESTful
9 107 (11.19%) Entity Framework
10 97 (10.15%) Blazor
11 91 (9.52%) REST
12 77 (8.05%) ML.NET
12 77 (8.05%) Node.js
13 44 (4.60%) ARM Templates
14 43 (4.50%) Playwright
15 42 (4.39%) .NET Framework
16 38 (3.97%) JSON
17 36 (3.77%) YAML
18 35 (3.66%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 95 (9.94%) Product Ownership
2 77 (8.05%) Cloud Native
3 54 (5.65%) Enterprise Software
4 51 (5.33%) Legacy Systems
5 42 (4.39%) Mobile App
6 32 (3.35%) Greenfield Project
6 32 (3.35%) Onboarding
7 26 (2.72%) Hybrid Cloud
8 25 (2.62%) Legacy Applications
9 17 (1.78%) iPhone
9 17 (1.78%) Mainframe
10 16 (1.67%) BBC
10 16 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
10 16 (1.67%) Social Media
11 15 (1.57%) Low-Code
11 15 (1.57%) Public Cloud
12 12 (1.26%) Enterprise Cloud
12 12 (1.26%) Management Information System
12 12 (1.26%) Podcast
12 12 (1.26%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 83 (8.68%) Linux
1 83 (8.68%) Windows
2 23 (2.41%) Android
3 21 (2.20%) Unix
4 13 (1.36%) Ubuntu
4 13 (1.36%) VMS
5 11 (1.15%) Windows Server
6 7 (0.73%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.42%) Kali Linux
7 4 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.31%) Embedded Linux
8 3 (0.31%) Solaris
9 2 (0.21%) Debian
9 2 (0.21%) Rocky
10 1 (0.10%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 956 (100.00%) DevOps
2 510 (53.35%) Agile
2 510 (53.35%) CI/CD
3 243 (25.42%) AI
4 219 (22.91%) Full-Stack Development
5 212 (22.18%) Continuous Improvement
6 192 (20.08%) Infrastructure as Code
7 179 (18.72%) Scrum
8 174 (18.20%) Problem-Solving
9 156 (16.32%) Test Automation
10 141 (14.75%) Mentoring
11 115 (12.03%) Machine Learning
12 109 (11.40%) Analytics
13 104 (10.88%) Stakeholder Management
14 102 (10.67%) SDLC
15 101 (10.56%) Software Engineering
16 100 (10.46%) Platform Engineering
17 95 (9.94%) Microservices
18 91 (9.52%) Observability
19 87 (9.10%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 369 (38.60%) C#
2 366 (38.28%) SQL
3 187 (19.56%) JavaScript
4 181 (18.93%) Python
5 107 (11.19%) PowerShell
6 96 (10.04%) Bash
7 84 (8.79%) Bicep
8 69 (7.22%) Java
9 40 (4.18%) TypeScript
10 33 (3.45%) T-SQL
11 17 (1.78%) C++
12 13 (1.36%) COBOL
12 13 (1.36%) JCL
12 13 (1.36%) Kusto Query Language
13 7 (0.73%) C
13 7 (0.73%) Go
13 7 (0.73%) Kotlin
13 7 (0.73%) Ruby
13 7 (0.73%) Swift
14 6 (0.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 93 (9.73%) Degree
2 78 (8.16%) Security Cleared
3 69 (7.22%) SC Cleared
4 51 (5.33%) Azure Certification
5 33 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 31 (3.24%) Microsoft Certification
7 22 (2.30%) ISTQB
8 19 (1.99%) PMI Certification
9 12 (1.26%) PMP
10 10 (1.05%) AWS Certification
10 10 (1.05%) Master's Degree
11 7 (0.73%) CBAP
11 7 (0.73%) DV Cleared
11 7 (0.73%) ISEB
12 5 (0.52%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 4 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
14 3 (0.31%) IIBA
14 3 (0.31%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 3 (0.31%) OCP
14 3 (0.31%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 123 (12.87%) QA
2 44 (4.60%) Accessibility
3 40 (4.18%) Data Quality
4 36 (3.77%) WCAG
5 33 (3.45%) GDPR
6 15 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 12 (1.26%) TickIT
8 10 (1.05%) PMO
9 9 (0.94%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 9 (0.94%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 7 (0.73%) NCSC
11 6 (0.63%) JTAG
12 4 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
12 4 (0.42%) SLA
13 3 (0.31%) IFRS
13 3 (0.31%) NIST
13 3 (0.31%) Software Quality Assurance
14 2 (0.21%) IFRS 17
14 2 (0.21%) Solvency II
15 1 (0.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 116 (12.13%) Docker
2 48 (5.02%) Active Directory
3 20 (2.09%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (1.36%) Virtual Desktop
5 12 (1.26%) vSphere
6 11 (1.15%) 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 95 (9.94%) Kubernetes
2 39 (4.08%) Ansible
2 39 (4.08%) Grafana
3 33 (3.45%) Prometheus
4 19 (1.99%) Argo
5 17 (1.78%) Microsoft Intune
6 10 (1.05%) Puppet
7 4 (0.42%) HP Fortify
7 4 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.21%) FlexNet
8 2 (0.21%) HP ALM
8 2 (0.21%) Nessus
8 2 (0.21%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.21%) Rancher
8 2 (0.21%) ZABBIX
9 1 (0.10%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (0.10%) Istio
9 1 (0.10%) Oracle RMAN
9 1 (0.10%) Scalr
Vendors
1 452 (47.28%) Microsoft
2 49 (5.13%) Google
3 38 (3.97%) Databricks
4 37 (3.87%) Facebook
5 23 (2.41%) Apple
6 22 (2.30%) VMware
6 22 (2.30%) YouTube
7 20 (2.09%) Salesforce
8 17 (1.78%) Red Hat
9 16 (1.67%) Sony
9 16 (1.67%) Yahoo!
10 12 (1.26%) ScienceLogic
11 11 (1.15%) Dynatrace
11 11 (1.15%) HP
12 10 (1.05%) Oracle
13 9 (0.94%) Informatica
13 9 (0.94%) SAP
13 9 (0.94%) ServiceNow
13 9 (0.94%) Talend
14 8 (0.84%) Broadcom