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 10 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 96 115
Rank change year-on-year -29 +19 -18
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 684 968 920
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.62% 2.68% 2.70%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.03% 8.30% 7.33%
Number of salaries quoted 374 559 797
10th Percentile £38,750 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +9.20% -0.79%
75th Percentile £69,438 £73,875 £68,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £81,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -2.67%

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 13,605 11,669 12,550
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.28% 32.30% 36.78%
Number of salaries quoted 6,825 6,335 10,331
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £33,500 £41,250 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £64,550 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.05% +7.58% -7.69%

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 10 January 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 10 January 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 -3 231 £56,500 -14.72% 120
Scotland +75 169 £64,500 +25.85% 19
North of England -43 97 £57,500 -11.54% 96
Midlands -50 78 £60,000 -7.69% 53
South West -76 64 £47,500 -26.92% 42
West Midlands -47 61 £60,000 -7.69% 26
North West -24 36 £64,000 -1.54% 54
Yorkshire -43 35 £60,000 -10.75% 29
North East +7 26 £50,000 -23.08% 13
Wales +1 25 £55,000 -15.38% 14
East of England -42 18 £65,000 +30.00% 46
East Midlands -6 14 £62,500 +8.70% 26
Northern Ireland -9 2 £56,250 - 5
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 27 (3.95%) Confluence
2 21 (3.07%) IIS
3 17 (2.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 12 (1.75%) SharePoint
5 8 (1.17%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.73%) Apache
6 5 (0.73%) Appian
7 2 (0.29%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.15%) nginx
Applications
1 23 (3.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (2.34%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (1.61%) Microsoft Project
3 11 (1.61%) MS Visio
4 8 (1.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.29%) Trello
6 1 (0.15%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 69 (10.09%) SAP S/4HANA
2 37 (5.41%) Oracle ERP
3 34 (4.97%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.29%) Markit EDM
5 1 (0.15%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 615 (89.91%) Azure
2 222 (32.46%) GitHub
3 125 (18.27%) Power Platform
4 100 (14.62%) AWS
5 94 (13.74%) GitHub Actions
6 65 (9.50%) GitHub Copilot
7 61 (8.92%) Snowflake
8 52 (7.60%) Entra ID
9 48 (7.02%) dbt
10 44 (6.43%) Azure Data Factory
11 43 (6.29%) Azure Monitor
11 43 (6.29%) Microsoft 365
12 42 (6.14%) Power Automate
13 40 (5.85%) SaaS
14 39 (5.70%) Azure Logic Apps
15 37 (5.41%) OCI
15 37 (5.41%) Serverless
16 36 (5.26%) Dynamics 365
17 32 (4.68%) Azure Key Vault
17 32 (4.68%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 27 (3.95%) DNS
2 26 (3.80%) Firewall
3 13 (1.90%) VPN
4 6 (0.88%) HTTP
4 6 (0.88%) TCP/IP
4 6 (0.88%) VLAN
4 6 (0.88%) WAN
5 4 (0.58%) DHCP
5 4 (0.58%) Network Security
5 4 (0.58%) SD-WAN
6 3 (0.44%) BGP
6 3 (0.44%) IPsec
6 3 (0.44%) OSPF
6 3 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (0.44%) Wireshark
7 2 (0.29%) SSL
8 1 (0.15%) AMQP
8 1 (0.15%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.15%) MPLS
8 1 (0.15%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (11.26%) Power BI
1 77 (11.26%) SQL Server
2 51 (7.46%) Data Warehouse
3 34 (4.97%) Tableau
4 25 (3.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 22 (3.22%) Azure SQL Database
6 18 (2.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 16 (2.34%) NoSQL
8 15 (2.19%) PostgreSQL
9 14 (2.05%) Relational Database
9 14 (2.05%) Snowflake Schema
10 13 (1.90%) DynamoDB
11 8 (1.17%) Metadata
12 7 (1.02%) MongoDB
13 6 (0.88%) Data Lake
14 5 (0.73%) BigQuery
15 4 (0.58%) Amazon Redshift
15 4 (0.58%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
15 4 (0.58%) Looker
15 4 (0.58%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 154 (22.51%) JIRA
2 97 (14.18%) Git
3 76 (11.11%) Jenkins
4 69 (10.09%) eCATT
5 38 (5.56%) NeoLoad
6 37 (5.41%) Oracle Forms
7 36 (5.26%) Selenium
8 22 (3.22%) Robot Framework
9 21 (3.07%) Snyk
10 15 (2.19%) GitLab
11 14 (2.05%) Cypress.io
12 11 (1.61%) TeamCity
13 10 (1.46%) Octopus Deploy
14 7 (1.02%) NUnit
15 5 (0.73%) MSTest
15 5 (0.73%) Postman
15 5 (0.73%) Storybook
15 5 (0.73%) Visual Studio
16 4 (0.58%) REST Assured
17 3 (0.44%) MLflow
General
1 332 (48.54%) Finance
2 161 (23.54%) Social Skills
3 106 (15.50%) Analytical Skills
4 95 (13.89%) Marketing
5 71 (10.38%) Manufacturing
6 52 (7.60%) Presentation Skills
7 43 (6.29%) Influencing Skills
8 18 (2.63%) Law
9 17 (2.49%) Public Sector
10 14 (2.05%) Billing
11 9 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
11 9 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (1.32%) Legal
12 7 (1.02%) Retail
13 6 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (0.73%) Banking
14 5 (0.73%) Telecoms
15 4 (0.58%) Advertising
15 4 (0.58%) Front Office
16 3 (0.44%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 156 (22.81%) Senior
2 118 (17.25%) Developer
3 105 (15.35%) Analyst
4 94 (13.74%) Lead
5 64 (9.36%) Cloud Engineer
6 61 (8.92%) Azure Engineer
7 60 (8.77%) DevOps Engineer
8 44 (6.43%) Applications Engineer
9 36 (5.26%) Software Engineer
10 33 (4.82%) Test Leader
11 28 (4.09%) .NET Developer
11 28 (4.09%) Test Analyst
12 27 (3.95%) Platform Engineer
13 26 (3.80%) Senior Cloud Engineer
14 24 (3.51%) Business Analyst
15 21 (3.07%) Automation Test Lead
16 20 (2.92%) Applications Developer
17 19 (2.78%) Azure DevOps Engineer
17 19 (2.78%) Full-Stack Developer
17 19 (2.78%) Power Platform Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 171 (25.00%) .NET
2 87 (12.72%) RESTful
3 60 (8.77%) React
4 49 (7.16%) OAuth
5 47 (6.87%) SOAP
6 45 (6.58%) .NET Framework
7 43 (6.29%) ASP.NET
8 42 (6.14%) .NET Core
9 41 (5.99%) JSON
9 41 (5.99%) REST
10 35 (5.12%) OAuth2
11 33 (4.82%) YAML
12 28 (4.09%) AngularJS
12 28 (4.09%) Blazor
13 26 (3.80%) ARM Templates
13 26 (3.80%) Lightning Web Components
14 24 (3.51%) CSS
14 24 (3.51%) HTML
15 22 (3.22%) Entity Framework
15 22 (3.22%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 125 (18.27%) Cloud Native
2 99 (14.47%) Product Ownership
3 54 (7.89%) Enterprise Software
4 25 (3.65%) Low-Code
5 22 (3.22%) Onboarding
6 20 (2.92%) Mobile App
7 19 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
7 19 (2.78%) Management Information System
8 18 (2.63%) Analytical Mindset
9 12 (1.75%) Hybrid Cloud
10 11 (1.61%) Security Posture
10 11 (1.61%) Virtual Team
11 8 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
12 7 (1.02%) Data Centre
12 7 (1.02%) Distributed Systems
12 7 (1.02%) Greenfield Project
13 6 (0.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 6 (0.88%) Linux Command Line
14 5 (0.73%) Data Protection Act
15 4 (0.58%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 52 (7.60%) Windows
2 27 (3.95%) Linux
3 12 (1.75%) VMS
4 8 (1.17%) Android
5 7 (1.02%) Apple iOS
5 7 (1.02%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.29%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.15%) CentOS
7 1 (0.15%) Unix
7 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 615 (89.91%) DevOps
2 395 (57.75%) CI/CD
3 374 (54.68%) Agile
4 198 (28.95%) Test Automation
5 183 (26.75%) Coaching
6 179 (26.17%) Infrastructure as Code
7 173 (25.29%) Continuous Improvement
8 156 (22.81%) Asset Management
9 143 (20.91%) Problem-Solving
10 137 (20.03%) AI
11 130 (19.01%) Mentoring
12 107 (15.64%) Roadmaps
13 96 (14.04%) ERP
14 92 (13.45%) Test Management
15 85 (12.43%) Analytics
15 85 (12.43%) Clean Code
16 84 (12.28%) Software Engineering
17 83 (12.13%) Observability
18 79 (11.55%) Business Intelligence
19 78 (11.40%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 232 (33.92%) SQL
2 165 (24.12%) Python
3 149 (21.78%) C#
4 109 (15.94%) PowerShell
5 61 (8.92%) JavaScript
6 60 (8.77%) Bicep
7 53 (7.75%) Bash
8 47 (6.87%) Java
9 37 (5.41%) PL/SQL
9 37 (5.41%) Shell Script
9 37 (5.41%) TypeScript
10 26 (3.80%) Apex Code
11 18 (2.63%) T-SQL
12 9 (1.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 9 (1.32%) Go
13 4 (0.58%) C++
14 3 (0.44%) VB.NET
15 2 (0.29%) Scala
16 1 (0.15%) VB6
16 1 (0.15%) VBA
Qualifications
1 56 (8.19%) Degree
2 38 (5.56%) Security Cleared
3 31 (4.53%) Azure Certification
4 29 (4.24%) Computer Science Degree
5 24 (3.51%) DV Cleared
6 21 (3.07%) ISTQB
7 17 (2.49%) Microsoft Certification
8 15 (2.19%) SC Cleared
9 12 (1.75%) AWS Certification
10 11 (1.61%) AWS Certified Developer
11 9 (1.32%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 9 (1.32%) Master's Degree
12 8 (1.17%) PMI Certification
12 8 (1.17%) PMP
13 6 (0.88%) Cisco Certification
13 6 (0.88%) HND
13 6 (0.88%) ISEB
14 3 (0.44%) CCNA
14 3 (0.44%) CCNP
14 3 (0.44%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (13.01%) QA
2 36 (5.26%) Accessibility
3 20 (2.92%) GDPR
4 14 (2.05%) PMO
5 10 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (0.88%) Data Quality
6 6 (0.88%) SLA
6 6 (0.88%) Software Quality Assurance
7 5 (0.73%) NCSC
7 5 (0.73%) NIST
8 1 (0.15%) HL7
8 1 (0.15%) P3O
8 1 (0.15%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.15%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.15%) WCAG
System Software
1 83 (12.13%) Docker
2 38 (5.56%) Active Directory
3 15 (2.19%) Virtual Desktop
4 14 (2.05%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.58%) Firmware
7 1 (0.15%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 1 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.15%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.15%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 228 (33.33%) Terraform
2 73 (10.67%) Kubernetes
3 69 (10.09%) HP ALM
4 41 (5.99%) Ansible
5 37 (5.41%) Single Sign-On
6 16 (2.34%) Prometheus
7 14 (2.05%) Grafana
8 12 (1.75%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (0.44%) Dell DRAC
10 2 (0.29%) Argo
10 2 (0.29%) Nessus
11 1 (0.15%) CASB
11 1 (0.15%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.15%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.15%) Proxmox
11 1 (0.15%) Puppet
11 1 (0.15%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 190 (27.78%) Microsoft
2 69 (10.09%) HP
2 69 (10.09%) SAP
3 40 (5.85%) Oracle
4 32 (4.68%) Salesforce
5 21 (3.07%) Okta
6 20 (2.92%) Black Duck
7 19 (2.78%) Coverity
8 15 (2.19%) Databricks
9 14 (2.05%) Ab Initio
9 14 (2.05%) Xamarin
10 13 (1.90%) Google
11 12 (1.75%) Sage
12 11 (1.61%) VMware
13 9 (1.32%) Zoho
14 8 (1.17%) SolarWinds
15 7 (1.02%) Red Hat
16 6 (0.88%) Adobe
16 6 (0.88%) Freshdesk
16 6 (0.88%) Nintex