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 13 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 163 161 114
Rank change year-on-year -2 -47 -21
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 944 634 1,081
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.09% 1.85% 2.15%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.68% 6.87% 7.72%
Number of salaries quoted 740 379 584
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,688 £48,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £70,875 £72,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £78,000 £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 16,613 9,227 13,995
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 19.18% 26.87% 27.80%
Number of salaries quoted 11,843 6,204 7,875
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £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 £90,000 £82,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £58,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.76% -10.77% +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 13 October 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 13 October 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 +75 270 £60,000 - 170
South East -37 230 £64,500 +7.50% 182
Midlands +20 171 £60,000 - 77
North West +61 154 £60,000 -7.69% 73
West Midlands -4 106 £65,000 +8.33% 48
Wales -17 91 £53,171 -3.33% 29
South West -24 91 £60,000 +14.29% 53
East of England -2 76 £55,000 -12.00% 40
Yorkshire +2 67 £65,000 +18.18% 75
East Midlands +14 65 £54,500 - 29
North East -33 49 £52,000 +4.00% 24
Scotland -60 18 £55,000 -15.38% 38
Northern Ireland - 1 £72,500 - 16
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 64 (6.78%) SharePoint
2 42 (4.45%) Confluence
3 22 (2.33%) Microsoft Exchange
4 15 (1.59%) IIS
5 10 (1.06%) nginx
6 8 (0.85%) CICS
7 7 (0.74%) CMS
7 7 (0.74%) SharePoint Server
8 6 (0.64%) Apache Airflow
9 5 (0.53%) Apache
10 4 (0.42%) Apache Spark
10 4 (0.42%) Umbraco
11 3 (0.32%) Anypoint
11 3 (0.32%) BizTalk Server
12 2 (0.21%) Luigi
12 2 (0.21%) WordPress
13 1 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 1 (0.11%) Headless CMS
13 1 (0.11%) Oracle HTTP Server
13 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 21 (2.22%) Microsoft Project
2 15 (1.59%) Microsoft Excel
3 14 (1.48%) MS Visio
4 9 (0.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (0.95%) Trello
5 6 (0.64%) Microsoft Office
6 3 (0.32%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 23 (2.44%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.64%) SAP IBP
2 6 (0.64%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.42%) Dynamics NAV
3 4 (0.42%) Shopify
4 2 (0.21%) JDE EnterpriseOne
4 2 (0.21%) Oracle Applications
4 2 (0.21%) Sage 200
4 2 (0.21%) Visualfiles
5 1 (0.11%) Magento
5 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 944 (100.00%) Azure
2 151 (16.00%) Power Platform
3 141 (14.94%) GitHub
4 107 (11.33%) AWS
5 83 (8.79%) Dynamics 365
6 82 (8.69%) Azure AI
7 78 (8.26%) GitHub Actions
8 75 (7.94%) Serverless
9 68 (7.20%) Power Automate
10 65 (6.89%) Azure Functions
11 63 (6.67%) Azure Monitor
12 61 (6.46%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 58 (6.14%) Azure Service Bus
13 58 (6.14%) PaaS
14 55 (5.83%) Azure Key Vault
15 51 (5.40%) PowerApps
16 50 (5.30%) Entra ID
16 50 (5.30%) Microsoft 365
17 46 (4.87%) Azure AKS
18 42 (4.45%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (2.33%) VPN
2 19 (2.01%) Firewall
3 11 (1.17%) Internet
4 8 (0.85%) TCP/IP
5 7 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
6 6 (0.64%) HTTP
6 6 (0.64%) MQTT
6 6 (0.64%) Network Security
6 6 (0.64%) Wireless
6 6 (0.64%) ZigBee
7 5 (0.53%) DNS
7 5 (0.53%) SAN
8 4 (0.42%) Bluetooth
9 3 (0.32%) HTTPS
10 2 (0.21%) LoRaWAN
10 2 (0.21%) VLAN
10 2 (0.21%) WAN
11 1 (0.11%) DHCP
11 1 (0.11%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 197 (20.87%) Azure SQL Database
2 156 (16.53%) MongoDB
3 129 (13.67%) SQL Server
4 64 (6.78%) Power BI
5 39 (4.13%) Elasticsearch
6 36 (3.81%) Data Warehouse
7 35 (3.71%) Relational Database
8 30 (3.18%) PostgreSQL
9 23 (2.44%) NoSQL
10 22 (2.33%) Metadata
11 21 (2.22%) Data Lake
12 16 (1.69%) MySQL
13 13 (1.38%) Star Schema
14 12 (1.27%) Delta Lake
14 12 (1.27%) Redis
15 11 (1.17%) NonStop SQL
15 11 (1.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 9 (0.95%) Amazon QuickSight
16 9 (0.95%) DynamoDB
16 9 (0.95%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 190 (20.13%) Git
2 125 (13.24%) JIRA
3 88 (9.32%) Jenkins
4 62 (6.57%) GitLab
5 31 (3.28%) Selenium
6 27 (2.86%) Cypress.io
7 22 (2.33%) Postman
8 14 (1.48%) Visual Studio
9 13 (1.38%) JMeter
10 11 (1.17%) fastlane
11 10 (1.06%) NUnit
11 10 (1.06%) Octopus Deploy
11 10 (1.06%) REST Assured
12 9 (0.95%) MSI
13 8 (0.85%) Zephyr
14 7 (0.74%) Cucumber
14 7 (0.74%) JUnit
14 7 (0.74%) SonarQube
14 7 (0.74%) Visual Studio Code
15 6 (0.64%) GDB
General
1 256 (27.12%) Social Skills
2 149 (15.78%) Finance
3 111 (11.76%) Public Sector
4 100 (10.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 94 (9.96%) Analytical Skills
6 31 (3.28%) Marketing
6 31 (3.28%) Retail
7 29 (3.07%) Advertising
8 20 (2.12%) Law
9 19 (2.01%) Manufacturing
10 18 (1.91%) Games
11 15 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
12 11 (1.17%) Legal
13 10 (1.06%) Telecoms
14 8 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
15 7 (0.74%) Aviation
15 7 (0.74%) Banking
15 7 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
16 6 (0.64%) Presentation Skills
17 4 (0.42%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 372 (39.41%) Developer
2 196 (20.76%) .NET Developer
3 183 (19.39%) Senior
4 136 (14.41%) DevOps Engineer
5 108 (11.44%) Azure Engineer
6 75 (7.94%) Lead
7 70 (7.42%) Analyst
8 61 (6.46%) Senior Developer
9 57 (6.04%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 46 (4.87%) Data Engineer
11 43 (4.56%) Senior DevOps
12 42 (4.45%) Platform Engineer
12 42 (4.45%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 40 (4.24%) Software Engineer
14 38 (4.03%) Cloud Engineer
15 36 (3.81%) Software Developer
16 31 (3.28%) Business Analyst
17 27 (2.86%) Consultant
18 26 (2.75%) Dynamics 365 Developer
18 26 (2.75%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 354 (37.50%) .NET
2 212 (22.46%) ASP.NET
3 209 (22.14%) Terraform
4 189 (20.02%) ASP.NET Core
5 187 (19.81%) .NET Core
6 127 (13.45%) HTML
7 125 (13.24%) CSS
7 125 (13.24%) React
8 122 (12.92%) RESTful
9 108 (11.44%) Entity Framework
10 99 (10.49%) Blazor
11 82 (8.69%) REST
12 77 (8.16%) ML.NET
13 69 (7.31%) Node.js
14 42 (4.45%) .NET Framework
15 38 (4.03%) Playwright
16 37 (3.92%) ARM Templates
16 37 (3.92%) LINQ
17 34 (3.60%) YAML
18 30 (3.18%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 99 (10.49%) Product Ownership
2 74 (7.84%) Cloud Native
3 63 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
4 51 (5.40%) Legacy Systems
5 41 (4.34%) Mobile App
6 34 (3.60%) Onboarding
7 32 (3.39%) Greenfield Project
8 31 (3.28%) Legacy Applications
9 26 (2.75%) Hybrid Cloud
10 23 (2.44%) Mainframe
11 17 (1.80%) iPhone
11 17 (1.80%) Low-Code
12 16 (1.69%) BBC
12 16 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
12 16 (1.69%) Social Media
13 15 (1.59%) Public Cloud
14 12 (1.27%) Management Information System
14 12 (1.27%) Podcast
14 12 (1.27%) Security Posture
15 11 (1.17%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 77 (8.16%) Linux
1 77 (8.16%) Windows
2 23 (2.44%) Android
3 19 (2.01%) Unix
4 12 (1.27%) VMS
5 11 (1.17%) Ubuntu
6 10 (1.06%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.64%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.42%) Embedded Linux
8 4 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.32%) Kali Linux
9 3 (0.32%) Solaris
10 2 (0.21%) Debian
10 2 (0.21%) Rocky
11 1 (0.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 944 (100.00%) DevOps
2 504 (53.39%) Agile
3 498 (52.75%) CI/CD
4 234 (24.79%) AI
5 220 (23.31%) Continuous Improvement
6 218 (23.09%) Full-Stack Development
7 184 (19.49%) Infrastructure as Code
8 181 (19.17%) Problem-Solving
9 172 (18.22%) Scrum
10 135 (14.30%) Test Automation
11 134 (14.19%) Mentoring
12 111 (11.76%) Machine Learning
13 109 (11.55%) Stakeholder Management
14 108 (11.44%) Analytics
15 103 (10.91%) SDLC
16 98 (10.38%) Platform Engineering
17 96 (10.17%) Software Engineering
18 90 (9.53%) Microservices
19 87 (9.22%) Multithreading
20 83 (8.79%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 371 (39.30%) C#
2 352 (37.29%) SQL
3 190 (20.13%) JavaScript
4 169 (17.90%) Python
5 101 (10.70%) PowerShell
6 88 (9.32%) Bash
7 84 (8.90%) Bicep
8 75 (7.94%) Java
9 43 (4.56%) TypeScript
10 32 (3.39%) T-SQL
11 20 (2.12%) C++
12 19 (2.01%) COBOL
12 19 (2.01%) JCL
13 13 (1.38%) Kusto Query Language
14 8 (0.85%) C
15 7 (0.74%) Go
15 7 (0.74%) Kotlin
15 7 (0.74%) Ruby
16 6 (0.64%) Swift
17 5 (0.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 98 (10.38%) Degree
2 83 (8.79%) Security Cleared
3 72 (7.63%) SC Cleared
4 57 (6.04%) Azure Certification
5 34 (3.60%) Computer Science Degree
6 32 (3.39%) Microsoft Certification
7 24 (2.54%) PMI Certification
8 22 (2.33%) ISTQB
9 19 (2.01%) PMP
10 10 (1.06%) AWS Certification
10 10 (1.06%) Master's Degree
11 8 (0.85%) CBAP
12 7 (0.74%) ISEB
13 6 (0.64%) DV Cleared
14 5 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
15 4 (0.42%) CSPO
15 4 (0.42%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
16 3 (0.32%) DBS Check
16 3 (0.32%) IIBA
16 3 (0.32%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 115 (12.18%) QA
2 42 (4.45%) Accessibility
3 41 (4.34%) Data Quality
4 35 (3.71%) WCAG
5 30 (3.18%) GDPR
6 14 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 12 (1.27%) PMO
8 9 (0.95%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 8 (0.85%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 7 (0.74%) NCSC
11 6 (0.64%) JTAG
12 5 (0.53%) TickIT
13 4 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
13 4 (0.42%) SLA
14 3 (0.32%) NIST
15 2 (0.21%) IFRS
15 2 (0.21%) IFRS 17
15 2 (0.21%) Solvency II
16 1 (0.11%) SOC 2
16 1 (0.11%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 107 (11.33%) Docker
2 44 (4.66%) Active Directory
3 20 (2.12%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (1.27%) Virtual Desktop
4 12 (1.27%) vSphere
5 10 (1.06%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.32%) Firmware
7 2 (0.21%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.21%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 2 (0.21%) Xen
8 1 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 90 (9.53%) Kubernetes
2 37 (3.92%) Ansible
3 36 (3.81%) Grafana
4 31 (3.28%) Prometheus
5 18 (1.91%) Microsoft Intune
6 16 (1.69%) Argo
7 11 (1.17%) Puppet
8 4 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.32%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.21%) FlexNet
10 2 (0.21%) Nessus
10 2 (0.21%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.21%) Rancher
10 2 (0.21%) ZABBIX
11 1 (0.11%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (0.11%) Istio
11 1 (0.11%) linkerd
11 1 (0.11%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 444 (47.03%) Microsoft
2 49 (5.19%) Google
3 37 (3.92%) Databricks
3 37 (3.92%) Facebook
4 22 (2.33%) Apple
4 22 (2.33%) VMware
4 22 (2.33%) YouTube
5 16 (1.69%) Sony
5 16 (1.69%) Yahoo!
6 15 (1.59%) Red Hat
7 14 (1.48%) Salesforce
8 12 (1.27%) ScienceLogic
9 11 (1.17%) Broadcom
9 11 (1.17%) Dynatrace
9 11 (1.17%) Pega
10 10 (1.06%) Informatica
11 9 (0.95%) HP
11 9 (0.95%) Talend
12 8 (0.85%) Foundry
12 8 (0.85%) ServiceNow