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

6 months to
9 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 135 111 92
Rank change year-on-year -24 -19 -3
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 643 1,041 1,023
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.82% 2.19% 3.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.42% 7.81% 8.36%
Number of salaries quoted 397 581 858
10th Percentile £39,250 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £63,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.94% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £70,750 £73,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £80,000
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 10,022 13,321 12,244
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 28.34% 28.05% 39.64%
Number of salaries quoted 6,704 7,359 10,208
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £41,352 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +1.85% -1.82%
75th Percentile £67,749 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +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 9 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 9 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 +17 240 £60,000 -11.11% 497
Scotland +52 115 £65,000 +13.04% 55
North of England -66 90 £60,000 -2.83% 176
Midlands -25 84 £59,500 -4.80% 130
West Midlands -21 69 £60,000 -7.69% 72
South West -68 48 £55,000 -15.38% 80
North West -41 45 £65,000 +6.56% 109
East of England -4 37 £62,500 +25.00% 65
Yorkshire -33 29 £55,000 -18.19% 44
Wales +8 28 £55,000 -15.38% 34
North East -11 16 £50,000 -9.09% 23
East Midlands -4 15 £55,000 +4.76% 51
Northern Ireland +1 2 £56,250 - 11
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 27 (4.20%) Confluence
2 22 (3.42%) IIS
3 11 (1.71%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (1.71%) Appian
4 10 (1.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 8 (1.24%) SharePoint
6 7 (1.09%) Apache
7 6 (0.93%) Apache Spark
8 5 (0.78%) nginx
9 4 (0.62%) BizTalk Server
10 2 (0.31%) Tomcat
Applications
1 20 (3.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (2.80%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (2.02%) Microsoft Project
4 5 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.47%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.16%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.16%) Trello
Business Applications
1 69 (10.73%) SAP S/4HANA
2 40 (6.22%) Dynamics CRM
3 23 (3.58%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.31%) Markit EDM
4 2 (0.31%) Shopify
5 1 (0.16%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 574 (89.27%) Azure
2 167 (25.97%) GitHub
3 116 (18.04%) Power Platform
4 85 (13.22%) AWS
5 81 (12.60%) GitHub Actions
6 53 (8.24%) Dynamics 365
7 52 (8.09%) Power Automate
8 45 (7.00%) SaaS
9 43 (6.69%) Azure Logic Apps
10 40 (6.22%) Azure Monitor
10 40 (6.22%) Snowflake
11 39 (6.07%) Entra ID
12 37 (5.75%) Microsoft 365
13 35 (5.44%) GitHub Copilot
14 33 (5.13%) Azure Service Bus
14 33 (5.13%) PaaS
15 30 (4.67%) Azure Data Factory
16 29 (4.51%) Serverless
17 26 (4.04%) dbt
18 25 (3.89%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 19 (2.95%) DNS
1 19 (2.95%) Firewall
2 13 (2.02%) VPN
3 7 (1.09%) Network Security
4 5 (0.78%) VLAN
4 5 (0.78%) WAN
5 3 (0.47%) BGP
5 3 (0.47%) DHCP
5 3 (0.47%) IPsec
5 3 (0.47%) OSPF
5 3 (0.47%) SD-WAN
5 3 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (0.47%) Wireshark
6 2 (0.31%) ADSL2
6 2 (0.31%) HTTP
7 1 (0.16%) AMQP
7 1 (0.16%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.16%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (14.00%) SQL Server
2 64 (9.95%) Power BI
3 41 (6.38%) Data Warehouse
4 30 (4.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 29 (4.51%) Tableau
6 21 (3.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 20 (3.11%) Relational Database
8 18 (2.80%) Azure SQL Database
9 11 (1.71%) Snowflake Schema
10 7 (1.09%) Elasticsearch
10 7 (1.09%) Metadata
10 7 (1.09%) MySQL
10 7 (1.09%) PostgreSQL
10 7 (1.09%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 6 (0.93%) Airbyte
12 5 (0.78%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
13 4 (0.62%) Amazon Redshift
13 4 (0.62%) BigQuery
13 4 (0.62%) DynamoDB
13 4 (0.62%) Looker
Development Applications
1 141 (21.93%) JIRA
2 89 (13.84%) Git
3 69 (10.73%) eCATT
4 54 (8.40%) Jenkins
5 38 (5.91%) NeoLoad
6 37 (5.75%) Selenium
7 31 (4.82%) Octopus Deploy
8 25 (3.89%) Snyk
9 24 (3.73%) Robot Framework
10 23 (3.58%) Oracle Forms
11 16 (2.49%) TeamCity
12 11 (1.71%) GitLab
12 11 (1.71%) Visual Studio
13 8 (1.24%) MSBuild
13 8 (1.24%) NUnit
14 7 (1.09%) Cucumber
14 7 (1.09%) Cypress.io
14 7 (1.09%) Postman
14 7 (1.09%) REST Assured
14 7 (1.09%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 267 (41.52%) Finance
2 134 (20.84%) Social Skills
3 88 (13.69%) Marketing
4 75 (11.66%) Analytical Skills
5 73 (11.35%) Manufacturing
6 51 (7.93%) Presentation Skills
7 42 (6.53%) Influencing Skills
8 30 (4.67%) Law
9 26 (4.04%) Retail
10 11 (1.71%) Public Sector
11 10 (1.56%) Legal
12 8 (1.24%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (0.93%) Banking
14 5 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
14 5 (0.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 4 (0.62%) Automotive
15 4 (0.62%) Back Office
15 4 (0.62%) Front Office
16 3 (0.47%) Aerospace
16 3 (0.47%) Military
Job Titles
1 128 (19.91%) Senior
2 104 (16.17%) Lead
3 103 (16.02%) Analyst
4 101 (15.71%) Developer
5 77 (11.98%) DevOps Engineer
6 56 (8.71%) Azure Engineer
7 47 (7.31%) Cloud Engineer
8 38 (5.91%) Software Engineer
9 34 (5.29%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 33 (5.13%) Test Analyst
10 33 (5.13%) Test Leader
11 27 (4.20%) Applications Engineer
11 27 (4.20%) Architect
11 27 (4.20%) Platform Engineer
12 23 (3.58%) Automation Test Lead
13 22 (3.42%) Business Analyst
14 21 (3.27%) Dynamics 365 Developer
15 20 (3.11%) Senior Cloud Engineer
16 19 (2.95%) Software Developer
17 18 (2.80%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 199 (30.95%) .NET
2 57 (8.86%) RESTful
3 52 (8.09%) React
4 51 (7.93%) .NET Framework
5 38 (5.91%) ASP.NET
6 37 (5.75%) REST
7 34 (5.29%) JSON
8 31 (4.82%) AngularJS
8 31 (4.82%) ARM Templates
9 30 (4.67%) YAML
10 29 (4.51%) .NET Core
11 28 (4.35%) Entity Framework
12 26 (4.04%) SOAP
13 25 (3.89%) Blazor
13 25 (3.89%) OAuth
14 23 (3.58%) XML
15 19 (2.95%) CSS
15 19 (2.95%) HTML
16 18 (2.80%) OAuth2
16 18 (2.80%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 111 (17.26%) Cloud Native
2 89 (13.84%) Product Ownership
3 37 (5.75%) Enterprise Software
4 30 (4.67%) Onboarding
5 23 (3.58%) Hybrid Cloud
6 18 (2.80%) Analytical Mindset
7 17 (2.64%) Legacy Systems
7 17 (2.64%) Low-Code
8 13 (2.02%) Distributed Systems
9 12 (1.87%) Virtual Team
10 11 (1.71%) Security Posture
11 10 (1.56%) Data Centre
11 10 (1.56%) Management Information System
11 10 (1.56%) Mobile App
12 8 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
13 6 (0.93%) Driving Licence
13 6 (0.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 6 (0.93%) Linux Command Line
14 5 (0.78%) Data Protection Act
14 5 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 59 (9.18%) Windows
2 23 (3.58%) Linux
3 12 (1.87%) VMS
4 7 (1.09%) Android
5 6 (0.93%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.78%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.47%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.31%) AIX
9 2 (0.31%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.16%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 574 (89.27%) DevOps
2 321 (49.92%) CI/CD
3 310 (48.21%) Agile
4 168 (26.13%) Test Automation
5 157 (24.42%) Continuous Improvement
6 143 (22.24%) Infrastructure as Code
7 126 (19.60%) Mentoring
8 124 (19.28%) Coaching
9 121 (18.82%) Problem-Solving
10 105 (16.33%) AI
11 98 (15.24%) Asset Management
12 96 (14.93%) Roadmaps
13 93 (14.46%) Test Management
14 90 (14.00%) ERP
15 83 (12.91%) Software Engineering
16 79 (12.29%) Microservices
17 69 (10.73%) Source to Pay
18 67 (10.42%) Containerisation
19 66 (10.26%) Analytics
20 65 (10.11%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 217 (33.75%) SQL
2 180 (27.99%) C#
3 136 (21.15%) Python
4 112 (17.42%) PowerShell
5 62 (9.64%) JavaScript
6 61 (9.49%) Bicep
7 49 (7.62%) Bash
8 42 (6.53%) TypeScript
9 33 (5.13%) Java
10 25 (3.89%) Shell Script
11 23 (3.58%) PL/SQL
12 21 (3.27%) T-SQL
13 13 (2.02%) Apex Code
14 7 (1.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 6 (0.93%) Go
16 4 (0.62%) C++
16 4 (0.62%) VB
16 4 (0.62%) VB.NET
17 3 (0.47%) Groovy
17 3 (0.47%) Perl
Qualifications
1 55 (8.55%) Degree
2 42 (6.53%) Security Cleared
3 38 (5.91%) Azure Certification
4 30 (4.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (3.89%) ISTQB
6 22 (3.42%) DV Cleared
6 22 (3.42%) SC Cleared
7 15 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
8 13 (2.02%) ISEB
9 10 (1.56%) Master's Degree
10 8 (1.24%) PMI Certification
10 8 (1.24%) PMP
11 6 (0.93%) AWS Certification
11 6 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (0.78%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 4 (0.62%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 3 (0.47%) AWS Certified Developer
14 3 (0.47%) CCNA
14 3 (0.47%) CCNP
15 2 (0.31%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (12.75%) QA
2 22 (3.42%) GDPR
3 21 (3.27%) Accessibility
4 18 (2.80%) PMO
5 10 (1.56%) Software Quality Assurance
6 9 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (1.24%) NCSC
7 8 (1.24%) NIST
8 4 (0.62%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.16%) COBIT
9 1 (0.16%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.16%) P3O
9 1 (0.16%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.16%) WCAG
System Software
1 91 (14.15%) Docker
2 28 (4.35%) Active Directory
3 23 (3.58%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (2.49%) Virtual Desktop
4 16 (2.49%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.47%) Firmware
5 3 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.16%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (0.16%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.16%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.16%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 190 (29.55%) Terraform
2 90 (14.00%) Kubernetes
3 69 (10.73%) HP ALM
4 38 (5.91%) Ansible
5 23 (3.58%) Single Sign-On
6 14 (2.18%) Grafana
6 14 (2.18%) Prometheus
7 13 (2.02%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (0.47%) Dell DRAC
9 2 (0.31%) Argo
9 2 (0.31%) Red Hat Satellite
9 2 (0.31%) ZABBIX
10 1 (0.16%) Nessus
10 1 (0.16%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.16%) Puppet
10 1 (0.16%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 182 (28.30%) Microsoft
2 72 (11.20%) SAP
3 69 (10.73%) HP
4 27 (4.20%) Oracle
5 23 (3.58%) Black Duck
6 22 (3.42%) Salesforce
6 22 (3.42%) VMware
7 18 (2.80%) Coverity
8 15 (2.33%) Databricks
9 14 (2.18%) Google
9 14 (2.18%) Okta
9 14 (2.18%) Xamarin
10 12 (1.87%) Sage
11 11 (1.71%) BiZZdesign
11 11 (1.71%) Rackspace
11 11 (1.71%) UiPath
12 9 (1.40%) IBM
12 9 (1.40%) Zoho
13 7 (1.09%) Ab Initio
13 7 (1.09%) SolarWinds