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 20 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 147 202 123
Rank change year-on-year +55 -79 -18
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 884 501 1,437
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.22% 1.47% 2.07%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.04% 5.40% 6.88%
Number of salaries quoted 756 374 1,018
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,938 £72,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +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 17,556 9,282 20,874
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 24.26% 27.30% 30.03%
Number of salaries quoted 11,469 6,471 15,470
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £81,250
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £58,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +2.56% -6.40%

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 20 July 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 20 July 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 +93 260 £60,500 -6.92% 70
South East +4 225 £60,000 -6.98% 101
North West +77 140 £65,500 +0.77% 38
Midlands +13 129 £63,750 +6.25% 45
South West 0 98 £55,000 -4.35% 21
East of England +16 76 £56,000 +1.82% 18
Wales -6 71 £53,171 -9.50% 9
East Midlands +29 69 £60,000 +9.09% 17
Yorkshire +2 66 £69,305 +2.67% 24
West Midlands -21 60 £65,000 +8.33% 28
North East +1 54 £51,310 -6.71% 10
Scotland +13 25 £60,000 -6.98% 10
Northern Ireland -60 2 £72,500 +45.00% 3
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 43 (4.86%) SharePoint
2 42 (4.75%) Confluence
3 28 (3.17%) Microsoft Exchange
4 23 (2.60%) IIS
5 8 (0.90%) nginx
6 7 (0.79%) SharePoint Server
7 5 (0.57%) Anypoint
7 5 (0.57%) Apache
7 5 (0.57%) CMS
8 4 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.45%) Apache Spark
9 3 (0.34%) WordPress
10 2 (0.23%) BizTalk Server
10 2 (0.23%) CICS
10 2 (0.23%) Luigi
10 2 (0.23%) Umbraco
11 1 (0.11%) Drupal
11 1 (0.11%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 12 (1.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.24%) MS Visio
3 8 (0.90%) Microsoft Project
3 8 (0.90%) Trello
4 7 (0.79%) Chatbot
5 5 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
6 4 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.11%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.11%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 14 (1.58%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.68%) SAP IBP
2 6 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.57%) Visualfiles
4 4 (0.45%) Dynamics AX
4 4 (0.45%) Shopify
5 3 (0.34%) Dynamics NAV
6 2 (0.23%) Magento
7 1 (0.11%) Infor M3
7 1 (0.11%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 1 (0.11%) JDE EnterpriseOne
7 1 (0.11%) Sage 200
7 1 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 884 (100.00%) Azure
2 141 (15.95%) GitHub
3 127 (14.37%) Power Platform
4 119 (13.46%) AWS
5 89 (10.07%) GitHub Actions
6 83 (9.39%) Azure AI
7 63 (7.13%) Azure Monitor
8 61 (6.90%) Serverless
9 58 (6.56%) Microsoft 365
10 56 (6.33%) PaaS
11 54 (6.11%) Azure AKS
12 51 (5.77%) Azure Functions
12 51 (5.77%) Azure Service Bus
12 51 (5.77%) Dynamics 365
13 47 (5.32%) Power Automate
14 45 (5.09%) Entra ID
15 42 (4.75%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 40 (4.52%) Azure Logic Apps
16 40 (4.52%) GCP
17 38 (4.30%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 31 (3.51%) Firewall
2 17 (1.92%) VPN
3 16 (1.81%) DNS
4 14 (1.58%) HTTP
5 12 (1.36%) TCP/IP
6 10 (1.13%) Internet
6 10 (1.13%) Network Security
7 6 (0.68%) MQTT
7 6 (0.68%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (0.68%) Wireless
7 6 (0.68%) ZigBee
8 5 (0.57%) SAN
9 4 (0.45%) Bluetooth
10 3 (0.34%) BGP
10 3 (0.34%) HTTPS
11 2 (0.23%) LoRaWAN
11 2 (0.23%) VLAN
12 1 (0.11%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 188 (21.27%) Azure SQL Database
2 156 (17.65%) MongoDB
3 99 (11.20%) SQL Server
4 54 (6.11%) Power BI
5 33 (3.73%) Elasticsearch
6 31 (3.51%) PostgreSQL
7 19 (2.15%) Data Warehouse
8 17 (1.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 15 (1.70%) Relational Database
10 14 (1.58%) MySQL
11 13 (1.47%) NoSQL
11 13 (1.47%) Redis
12 11 (1.24%) NonStop SQL
13 9 (1.02%) Metadata
13 9 (1.02%) Spark SQL
14 8 (0.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 7 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
15 7 (0.79%) Data Lake
16 6 (0.68%) Delta Lake
17 5 (0.57%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 133 (15.05%) Git
2 118 (13.35%) JIRA
3 81 (9.16%) Jenkins
4 59 (6.67%) GitLab
5 41 (4.64%) Selenium
6 33 (3.73%) Cypress.io
7 28 (3.17%) Postman
8 17 (1.92%) Visual Studio
9 15 (1.70%) REST Assured
10 14 (1.58%) fastlane
11 13 (1.47%) JMeter
11 13 (1.47%) Zephyr
12 10 (1.13%) Octopus Deploy
13 9 (1.02%) TestRail
13 9 (1.02%) Xcode
14 8 (0.90%) NUnit
15 7 (0.79%) GDB
15 7 (0.79%) MSI
16 6 (0.68%) Gradle
16 6 (0.68%) LoadRunner
General
1 189 (21.38%) Social Skills
2 125 (14.14%) Finance
3 85 (9.62%) Analytical Skills
4 82 (9.28%) Public Sector
5 80 (9.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 46 (5.20%) Retail
7 43 (4.86%) Marketing
8 29 (3.28%) Law
9 27 (3.05%) Advertising
10 22 (2.49%) Games
11 15 (1.70%) Manufacturing
12 12 (1.36%) Legal
12 12 (1.36%) Telecoms
13 10 (1.13%) Automotive
13 10 (1.13%) Banking
14 9 (1.02%) Billing
14 9 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
14 9 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
15 6 (0.68%) Aviation
16 4 (0.45%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 345 (39.03%) Developer
2 175 (19.80%) .NET Developer
3 160 (18.10%) Senior
4 148 (16.74%) DevOps Engineer
5 103 (11.65%) Azure Engineer
6 94 (10.63%) Lead
7 60 (6.79%) Senior Developer
8 57 (6.45%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 55 (6.22%) Analyst
10 40 (4.52%) Cloud Engineer
10 40 (4.52%) Senior DevOps
11 39 (4.41%) Platform Engineer
11 39 (4.41%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 37 (4.19%) Software Engineer
13 32 (3.62%) Data Engineer
14 31 (3.51%) Software Developer
15 29 (3.28%) Architect
16 22 (2.49%) Systems Engineer
17 21 (2.38%) Full-Stack Developer
18 20 (2.26%) Azure Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 323 (36.54%) .NET
2 206 (23.30%) ASP.NET
3 183 (20.70%) .NET Core
4 182 (20.59%) ASP.NET Core
5 132 (14.93%) HTML
6 131 (14.82%) React
7 130 (14.71%) CSS
8 121 (13.69%) RESTful
9 99 (11.20%) Entity Framework
10 94 (10.63%) Blazor
11 80 (9.05%) ML.NET
12 78 (8.82%) Node.js
13 75 (8.48%) REST
14 47 (5.32%) ARM Templates
15 46 (5.20%) Playwright
16 39 (4.41%) YAML
17 35 (3.96%) LINQ
18 32 (3.62%) Middleware
19 31 (3.51%) .NET Framework
20 28 (3.17%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 86 (9.73%) Product Ownership
2 60 (6.79%) Cloud Native
3 51 (5.77%) Mobile App
4 38 (4.30%) Legacy Systems
5 34 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
6 32 (3.62%) Greenfield Project
7 21 (2.38%) Onboarding
8 20 (2.26%) Hybrid Cloud
9 17 (1.92%) BBC
9 17 (1.92%) iPhone
9 17 (1.92%) Social Media
10 16 (1.81%) Analytical Mindset
11 14 (1.58%) Low-Code
11 14 (1.58%) Self-Motivation
12 12 (1.36%) Distributed Systems
12 12 (1.36%) Management Information System
12 12 (1.36%) Podcast
12 12 (1.36%) Public Cloud
12 12 (1.36%) Security Posture
12 12 (1.36%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 84 (9.50%) Linux
2 66 (7.47%) Windows
3 24 (2.71%) Android
4 18 (2.04%) Unix
5 15 (1.70%) Ubuntu
6 13 (1.47%) Apple iOS
6 13 (1.47%) VMS
7 6 (0.68%) Windows Server
8 4 (0.45%) Kali Linux
9 3 (0.34%) Embedded Linux
10 2 (0.23%) Debian
10 2 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.23%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 884 (100.00%) DevOps
2 489 (55.32%) CI/CD
3 470 (53.17%) Agile
4 214 (24.21%) Full-Stack Development
5 211 (23.87%) AI
6 201 (22.74%) Infrastructure as Code
7 180 (20.36%) Scrum
8 170 (19.23%) Continuous Improvement
9 155 (17.53%) Test Automation
10 133 (15.05%) Problem-Solving
11 119 (13.46%) Mentoring
12 115 (13.01%) Machine Learning
13 94 (10.63%) SDLC
14 91 (10.29%) Observability
15 90 (10.18%) Analytics
16 84 (9.50%) Microservices
16 84 (9.50%) Multithreading
17 83 (9.39%) Kanban
18 81 (9.16%) Platform Engineering
18 81 (9.16%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 330 (37.33%) C#
2 329 (37.22%) SQL
3 187 (21.15%) JavaScript
4 157 (17.76%) Python
5 110 (12.44%) Bash
6 103 (11.65%) PowerShell
7 78 (8.82%) Bicep
8 53 (6.00%) Java
9 39 (4.41%) TypeScript
10 24 (2.71%) T-SQL
11 18 (2.04%) Go
12 16 (1.81%) C++
13 13 (1.47%) Kusto Query Language
14 12 (1.36%) Swift
15 8 (0.90%) Kotlin
16 7 (0.79%) VB.NET
17 6 (0.68%) C
17 6 (0.68%) Ruby
18 5 (0.57%) DataWeave
19 4 (0.45%) Scala
Qualifications
1 63 (7.13%) Degree
1 63 (7.13%) Security Cleared
2 50 (5.66%) SC Cleared
3 37 (4.19%) Azure Certification
4 28 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (2.60%) ISTQB
6 19 (2.15%) Microsoft Certification
7 12 (1.36%) PMI Certification
8 9 (1.02%) Master's Degree
9 7 (0.79%) DV Cleared
9 7 (0.79%) PMP
10 6 (0.68%) AWS Certification
10 6 (0.68%) HND
11 5 (0.57%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 3 (0.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.34%) CSPO
12 3 (0.34%) ISEB
13 2 (0.23%) CISSP
13 2 (0.23%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.23%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 106 (11.99%) QA
2 57 (6.45%) Accessibility
3 30 (3.39%) WCAG
4 17 (1.92%) GDPR
5 15 (1.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (1.47%) Data Quality
7 12 (1.36%) TickIT
8 8 (0.90%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 7 (0.79%) SLA
10 6 (0.68%) JTAG
10 6 (0.68%) NCSC
11 5 (0.57%) PMO
12 3 (0.34%) GRC
12 3 (0.34%) IFRS
12 3 (0.34%) Software Quality Assurance
13 2 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.23%) IFRS 17
13 2 (0.23%) Solvency II
14 1 (0.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 1 (0.11%) SOC 2
System Software
1 99 (11.20%) Docker
2 43 (4.86%) Active Directory
3 19 (2.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (1.47%) Virtual Desktop
5 12 (1.36%) vSphere
6 9 (1.02%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.34%) Firmware
8 2 (0.23%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.23%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.23%) Xen
Systems Management
1 221 (25.00%) Terraform
2 92 (10.41%) Kubernetes
3 57 (6.45%) Grafana
4 50 (5.66%) Ansible
5 49 (5.54%) Prometheus
6 19 (2.15%) Argo
7 5 (0.57%) Puppet
8 4 (0.45%) HP Fortify
8 4 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (0.34%) HP ALM
9 3 (0.34%) Scalr
10 2 (0.23%) FlexNet
10 2 (0.23%) MIIS
10 2 (0.23%) Rancher
10 2 (0.23%) ZABBIX
11 1 (0.11%) Consul
11 1 (0.11%) linkerd
11 1 (0.11%) Packer
11 1 (0.11%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 411 (46.49%) Microsoft
2 49 (5.54%) Google
3 38 (4.30%) Facebook
4 30 (3.39%) Databricks
5 28 (3.17%) Apple
6 23 (2.60%) Dynatrace
7 22 (2.49%) Red Hat
8 21 (2.38%) Salesforce
8 21 (2.38%) VMware
8 21 (2.38%) YouTube
9 17 (1.92%) Sony
9 17 (1.92%) Yahoo!
10 12 (1.36%) MuleSoft
10 12 (1.36%) ScienceLogic
11 9 (1.02%) Oracle
12 8 (0.90%) Foundry
12 8 (0.90%) ServiceNow
13 7 (0.79%) CrowdStrike
13 7 (0.79%) SAP
14 6 (0.68%) Adobe