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 18 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 100 132
Rank change year-on-year -33 +32 -18
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 710 898 1,133
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.47% 2.78% 2.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.70% 8.25% 6.38%
Number of salaries quoted 403 519 1,000
10th Percentile £37,750 £42,500 £39,166
25th Percentile £43,875 £50,750 £47,201
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £58,289
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +11.51% -2.85%
75th Percentile £69,000 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,050 £83,750 £84,775
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -3.85%

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 15,094 10,884 17,758
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.25% 33.69% 35.40%
Number of salaries quoted 7,512 6,075 14,683
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £34,000 £41,250 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,854 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,240 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%

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 18 February 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 18 February 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 -3 251 £50,000 -23.08% 111
Scotland +64 164 £57,000 +8.57% 26
North of England -51 109 £53,500 -20.74% 91
Midlands -50 80 £60,000 -7.69% 57
South West -68 71 £47,500 -26.92% 31
West Midlands -49 57 £58,000 -14.07% 36
Yorkshire -44 40 £53,750 -23.21% 28
North West -29 38 £63,000 -3.08% 50
North East +10 31 £50,000 -31.03% 14
East Midlands -10 20 £65,000 - 21
Wales -9 19 £55,000 -15.38% 9
East of England -45 13 £65,000 +30.00% 19
Northern Ireland -25 3 £56,250 +12.50% 2
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 (3.80%) Confluence
2 25 (3.52%) IIS
3 16 (2.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 12 (1.69%) SharePoint
5 6 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.56%) Apache
7 3 (0.42%) Appian
8 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.14%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.14%) nginx
Applications
1 23 (3.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (2.39%) MS Visio
3 12 (1.69%) Microsoft Project
4 9 (1.27%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.28%) Trello
7 1 (0.14%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 69 (9.72%) SAP S/4HANA
2 35 (4.93%) Oracle ERP
3 28 (3.94%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.28%) Markit EDM
5 1 (0.14%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.14%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 1 (0.14%) Primavera
5 1 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 641 (90.28%) Azure
2 225 (31.69%) GitHub
3 130 (18.31%) Power Platform
4 108 (15.21%) AWS
5 98 (13.80%) GitHub Actions
6 63 (8.87%) GitHub Copilot
7 57 (8.03%) Entra ID
8 55 (7.75%) Microsoft 365
8 55 (7.75%) Snowflake
9 49 (6.90%) Azure Logic Apps
10 44 (6.20%) Azure Monitor
10 44 (6.20%) dbt
11 43 (6.06%) Azure Data Factory
12 40 (5.63%) Serverless
13 39 (5.49%) SaaS
14 38 (5.35%) Power Automate
15 35 (4.93%) OCI
15 35 (4.93%) PaaS
16 32 (4.51%) GCP
17 30 (4.23%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 39 (5.49%) Firewall
2 36 (5.07%) DNS
3 16 (2.25%) HTTP
3 16 (2.25%) TCP/IP
4 11 (1.55%) VPN
5 6 (0.85%) WAN
6 5 (0.70%) BGP
6 5 (0.70%) VLAN
7 4 (0.56%) DHCP
7 4 (0.56%) Network Security
7 4 (0.56%) SD-WAN
8 3 (0.42%) IPsec
8 3 (0.42%) OSPF
8 3 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.42%) Wireshark
9 2 (0.28%) SSL
10 1 (0.14%) AMQP
10 1 (0.14%) HTTPS
10 1 (0.14%) IP Telephony
10 1 (0.14%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (10.85%) Power BI
2 76 (10.70%) SQL Server
3 44 (6.20%) Data Warehouse
4 26 (3.66%) Tableau
5 20 (2.82%) Azure SQL Database
5 20 (2.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 19 (2.68%) NoSQL
7 18 (2.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 14 (1.97%) PostgreSQL
9 13 (1.83%) DynamoDB
9 13 (1.83%) Relational Database
9 13 (1.83%) Snowflake Schema
10 8 (1.13%) Metadata
11 7 (0.99%) Data Lake
12 6 (0.85%) MongoDB
13 5 (0.70%) Power Query
14 4 (0.56%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
15 3 (0.42%) Airbyte
15 3 (0.42%) Amazon RDS
15 3 (0.42%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 156 (21.97%) JIRA
2 95 (13.38%) Git
3 87 (12.25%) Jenkins
4 69 (9.72%) eCATT
5 38 (5.35%) NeoLoad
5 38 (5.35%) Selenium
6 35 (4.93%) Oracle Forms
7 20 (2.82%) Robot Framework
8 19 (2.68%) Cypress.io
8 19 (2.68%) Snyk
9 18 (2.54%) GitLab
10 7 (0.99%) Visual Studio
11 6 (0.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 6 (0.85%) TeamCity
12 5 (0.70%) Octopus Deploy
12 5 (0.70%) Postman
13 4 (0.56%) NUnit
14 3 (0.42%) MLflow
14 3 (0.42%) MSTest
14 3 (0.42%) Storybook
General
1 327 (46.06%) Finance
2 157 (22.11%) Social Skills
3 126 (17.75%) Analytical Skills
4 89 (12.54%) Marketing
5 73 (10.28%) Manufacturing
6 52 (7.32%) Presentation Skills
7 45 (6.34%) Influencing Skills
8 25 (3.52%) Law
9 23 (3.24%) Billing
10 22 (3.10%) Public Sector
11 15 (2.11%) Telecoms
12 11 (1.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 9 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
13 9 (1.27%) Retail
14 7 (0.99%) Banking
14 7 (0.99%) Legal
15 4 (0.56%) Advertising
15 4 (0.56%) Front Office
15 4 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
16 3 (0.42%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 155 (21.83%) Senior
2 133 (18.73%) Developer
3 102 (14.37%) Analyst
4 91 (12.82%) Lead
5 74 (10.42%) DevOps Engineer
6 70 (9.86%) Azure Engineer
7 69 (9.72%) Cloud Engineer
8 42 (5.92%) Applications Engineer
9 37 (5.21%) Software Engineer
10 34 (4.79%) Test Leader
11 27 (3.80%) Power Platform Developer
12 25 (3.52%) .NET Developer
13 24 (3.38%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 24 (3.38%) Business Analyst
13 24 (3.38%) Platform Engineer
13 24 (3.38%) Senior Cloud Engineer
14 23 (3.24%) Test Analyst
15 20 (2.82%) Applications Developer
16 19 (2.68%) Software Developer
17 18 (2.54%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 163 (22.96%) .NET
2 79 (11.13%) RESTful
3 63 (8.87%) React
4 51 (7.18%) ASP.NET
5 50 (7.04%) OAuth
6 46 (6.48%) SOAP
7 41 (5.77%) JSON
8 40 (5.63%) .NET Core
9 39 (5.49%) .NET Framework
9 39 (5.49%) REST
10 35 (4.93%) OAuth2
11 34 (4.79%) YAML
12 32 (4.51%) CSS
12 32 (4.51%) HTML
13 26 (3.66%) AngularJS
13 26 (3.66%) ASP.NET Core
13 26 (3.66%) Lightning Web Components
14 23 (3.24%) Blazor
15 22 (3.10%) ARM Templates
15 22 (3.10%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 112 (15.77%) Cloud Native
2 93 (13.10%) Product Ownership
3 49 (6.90%) Enterprise Software
4 31 (4.37%) Low-Code
5 23 (3.24%) Management Information System
5 23 (3.24%) Mobile App
6 19 (2.68%) Analytical Mindset
7 16 (2.25%) Legacy Systems
8 15 (2.11%) Onboarding
9 11 (1.55%) Security Posture
10 8 (1.13%) Hybrid Cloud
10 8 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
11 6 (0.85%) Data Centre
11 6 (0.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 6 (0.85%) Virtual Team
12 5 (0.70%) Distributed Systems
12 5 (0.70%) Linux Command Line
13 4 (0.56%) AI Agents
13 4 (0.56%) Data Protection Act
13 4 (0.56%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 51 (7.18%) Windows
2 35 (4.93%) Linux
3 11 (1.55%) Ubuntu
4 10 (1.41%) VMS
5 5 (0.70%) Android
6 4 (0.56%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.28%) Unix
7 2 (0.28%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.14%) CentOS
8 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 641 (90.28%) DevOps
2 387 (54.51%) CI/CD
3 369 (51.97%) Agile
4 194 (27.32%) Test Automation
5 184 (25.92%) Infrastructure as Code
6 179 (25.21%) Coaching
7 176 (24.79%) Continuous Improvement
8 150 (21.13%) Asset Management
9 147 (20.70%) Problem-Solving
10 126 (17.75%) AI
11 123 (17.32%) Mentoring
12 107 (15.07%) Roadmaps
13 94 (13.24%) ERP
14 91 (12.82%) Test Management
15 87 (12.25%) Clean Code
15 87 (12.25%) Containerisation
16 86 (12.11%) Data Modelling
17 85 (11.97%) Software Engineering
18 79 (11.13%) Business Intelligence
18 79 (11.13%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 224 (31.55%) SQL
2 167 (23.52%) Python
3 147 (20.70%) C#
4 103 (14.51%) PowerShell
5 69 (9.72%) JavaScript
6 67 (9.44%) Bash
7 53 (7.46%) Bicep
8 44 (6.20%) Java
9 36 (5.07%) Shell Script
10 35 (4.93%) PL/SQL
10 35 (4.93%) TypeScript
11 26 (3.66%) Apex Code
12 18 (2.54%) Go
12 18 (2.54%) T-SQL
13 6 (0.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 5 (0.70%) C++
15 4 (0.56%) VB
16 3 (0.42%) VB.NET
17 2 (0.28%) Delphi
17 2 (0.28%) VB6
Qualifications
1 66 (9.30%) Degree
2 44 (6.20%) Security Cleared
3 32 (4.51%) Computer Science Degree
4 26 (3.66%) Azure Certification
4 26 (3.66%) DV Cleared
5 18 (2.54%) ISTQB
6 15 (2.11%) SC Cleared
7 14 (1.97%) Microsoft Certification
8 13 (1.83%) AWS Certification
9 12 (1.69%) HND
10 11 (1.55%) AWS Certified Developer
11 9 (1.27%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 9 (1.27%) Master's Degree
11 9 (1.27%) PMI Certification
12 7 (0.99%) PMP
13 4 (0.56%) BC Cleared
13 4 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
14 3 (0.42%) CCNP
15 2 (0.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 2 (0.28%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (11.97%) QA
2 45 (6.34%) Accessibility
3 19 (2.68%) GDPR
4 14 (1.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (1.69%) PMO
6 11 (1.55%) SLA
7 6 (0.85%) Data Quality
8 5 (0.70%) NCSC
8 5 (0.70%) NIST
9 2 (0.28%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 2 (0.28%) WCAG
10 1 (0.14%) GRC
10 1 (0.14%) HL7
10 1 (0.14%) P3O
10 1 (0.14%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.14%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 77 (10.85%) Docker
2 38 (5.35%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.83%) Virtual Desktop
3 13 (1.83%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.56%) Firmware
6 1 (0.14%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.14%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 227 (31.97%) Terraform
2 69 (9.72%) HP ALM
3 65 (9.15%) Kubernetes
4 55 (7.75%) Ansible
5 35 (4.93%) Single Sign-On
6 27 (3.80%) Prometheus
7 26 (3.66%) Grafana
8 11 (1.55%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (0.42%) Dell DRAC
10 2 (0.28%) Nessus
10 2 (0.28%) Puppet
11 1 (0.14%) Argo
11 1 (0.14%) CASB
11 1 (0.14%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.14%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.14%) Proxmox
11 1 (0.14%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 203 (28.59%) Microsoft
2 69 (9.72%) HP
2 69 (9.72%) SAP
3 38 (5.35%) Oracle
4 30 (4.23%) Salesforce
5 20 (2.82%) Okta
6 18 (2.54%) Black Duck
6 18 (2.54%) Coverity
7 15 (2.11%) Databricks
8 14 (1.97%) Ab Initio
9 13 (1.83%) Red Hat
10 12 (1.69%) Sage
10 12 (1.69%) Xamarin
11 11 (1.55%) Adobe
11 11 (1.55%) Freshdesk
11 11 (1.55%) Nintex
12 9 (1.27%) VMware
13 8 (1.13%) SolarWinds
14 7 (0.99%) Google
15 6 (0.85%) Cisco