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 2 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 182 165 123
Rank change year-on-year -17 -42 +3
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 639 490 1,567
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.98% 1.80% 2.30%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.35% 5.79% 6.91%
Number of salaries quoted 464 406 1,168
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,000 £52,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £73,813 £78,063 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £84,375 £84,050
UK median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £61,500
% change year-on-year - +9.76% -5.38%

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 19,062 8,467 22,671
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.19% 31.13% 33.31%
Number of salaries quoted 9,010 6,268 17,431
10th Percentile £28,500 £29,250 £27,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £74,987 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £86,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £61,182 £57,500
% change year-on-year +2.16% +6.40% -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 2 May 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 2 May 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 -40 158 £50,000 -28.57% 99
North of England -12 157 £65,000 -7.14% 74
Midlands -23 97 £65,000 - 46
Scotland +36 90 £62,500 +8.70% 21
South West -33 80 £52,500 -19.23% 20
North West +6 75 £70,000 +3.70% 41
West Midlands -37 54 £60,000 -7.69% 24
Yorkshire -57 49 £60,000 -14.29% 16
East Midlands -13 40 £67,500 +35.00% 22
North East -14 33 £50,000 -16.67% 17
Wales -20 29 £53,135 +1.03% 18
East of England -22 27 £70,000 +32.08% 32
Northern Ireland -40 3 £61,250 +22.50% 4
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 25 (3.91%) Confluence
2 21 (3.29%) SharePoint
3 17 (2.66%) IIS
4 13 (2.03%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (1.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 5 (0.78%) Apache
7 4 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.47%) Anypoint
8 3 (0.47%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.31%) CICS
10 1 (0.16%) Drupal
10 1 (0.16%) nginx
10 1 (0.16%) PegaRULES
10 1 (0.16%) WordPress
Applications
1 16 (2.50%) MS Visio
2 12 (1.88%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.94%) Microsoft Project
4 5 (0.78%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
6 3 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.16%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.16%) Sketch
7 1 (0.16%) Trello
Business Applications
1 16 (2.50%) Oracle ERP
2 9 (1.41%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.78%) Visualfiles
4 4 (0.63%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.31%) Magento
6 1 (0.16%) Infor M3
6 1 (0.16%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 1 (0.16%) Sage 200
6 1 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.16%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 639 (100.00%) Azure
2 180 (28.17%) GitHub
3 115 (18.00%) AWS
4 114 (17.84%) Power Platform
5 97 (15.18%) GitHub Actions
6 63 (9.86%) Microsoft 365
7 50 (7.82%) Azure Logic Apps
7 50 (7.82%) Entra ID
8 43 (6.73%) Azure Data Factory
8 43 (6.73%) Serverless
9 39 (6.10%) GCP
10 38 (5.95%) Azure AKS
11 37 (5.79%) GitHub Copilot
12 35 (5.48%) Azure Monitor
12 35 (5.48%) SaaS
13 33 (5.16%) Azure Service Bus
14 31 (4.85%) Snowflake
15 29 (4.54%) dbt
16 27 (4.23%) PaaS
17 26 (4.07%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 37 (5.79%) Firewall
2 22 (3.44%) DNS
3 19 (2.97%) HTTP
3 19 (2.97%) TCP/IP
4 11 (1.72%) Network Security
5 3 (0.47%) BGP
6 2 (0.31%) SSL
7 1 (0.16%) DHCP
7 1 (0.16%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.16%) IP Telephony
7 1 (0.16%) LTE
7 1 (0.16%) MPLS
7 1 (0.16%) NetScaler
7 1 (0.16%) SAN
7 1 (0.16%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.16%) VLAN
7 1 (0.16%) VPN
7 1 (0.16%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (11.42%) SQL Server
2 66 (10.33%) Power BI
3 30 (4.69%) Azure SQL Database
3 30 (4.69%) Data Warehouse
3 30 (4.69%) PostgreSQL
4 28 (4.38%) MongoDB
5 22 (3.44%) NoSQL
6 14 (2.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 11 (1.72%) Data Lake
7 11 (1.72%) DynamoDB
8 10 (1.56%) Metadata
8 10 (1.56%) Relational Database
9 9 (1.41%) Amazon RDS
9 9 (1.41%) Tableau
10 8 (1.25%) Spark SQL
10 8 (1.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 7 (1.10%) Power Query
12 4 (0.63%) MySQL
12 4 (0.63%) Snowflake Schema
13 3 (0.47%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 102 (15.96%) JIRA
2 93 (14.55%) Git
3 80 (12.52%) Jenkins
4 43 (6.73%) GitLab
5 37 (5.79%) Selenium
6 28 (4.38%) Cypress.io
7 19 (2.97%) Postman
8 16 (2.50%) Oracle Forms
9 10 (1.56%) Visual Studio
10 9 (1.41%) REST Assured
11 8 (1.25%) JMeter
11 8 (1.25%) Zephyr
12 7 (1.10%) TestRail
13 6 (0.94%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 6 (0.94%) NUnit
14 5 (0.78%) Cucumber
14 5 (0.78%) Gatling
14 5 (0.78%) LoadRunner
14 5 (0.78%) MLflow
14 5 (0.78%) XCUITest
General
1 172 (26.92%) Finance
2 142 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 108 (16.90%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (7.51%) Public Sector
5 32 (5.01%) Retail
6 28 (4.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 28 (4.38%) Marketing
7 25 (3.91%) Law
8 24 (3.76%) Billing
9 18 (2.82%) Telecoms
10 14 (2.19%) Legal
11 12 (1.88%) Influencing Skills
12 11 (1.72%) Automotive
13 8 (1.25%) Banking
13 8 (1.25%) Games
14 7 (1.10%) Manufacturing
15 5 (0.78%) Advertising
15 5 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
16 3 (0.47%) Aerospace
17 2 (0.31%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 155 (24.26%) Developer
2 146 (22.85%) Senior
3 120 (18.78%) DevOps Engineer
4 103 (16.12%) Azure Engineer
5 84 (13.15%) Lead
6 49 (7.67%) Cloud Engineer
7 48 (7.51%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 39 (6.10%) Analyst
9 37 (5.79%) Senior Developer
10 34 (5.32%) Senior DevOps
11 33 (5.16%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 32 (5.01%) .NET Developer
13 27 (4.23%) Architect
14 24 (3.76%) Full-Stack Developer
15 21 (3.29%) Data Engineer
15 21 (3.29%) Power Platform Developer
15 21 (3.29%) Software Developer
16 20 (3.13%) Applications Support
16 20 (3.13%) Support Analyst
16 20 (3.13%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 142 (22.22%) .NET
2 73 (11.42%) React
3 66 (10.33%) RESTful
4 63 (9.86%) REST
5 57 (8.92%) ASP.NET
6 50 (7.82%) CSS
6 50 (7.82%) HTML
7 49 (7.67%) SOAP
8 48 (7.51%) .NET Core
9 46 (7.20%) Node.js
10 41 (6.42%) OAuth
11 40 (6.26%) ASP.NET Core
12 37 (5.79%) Playwright
13 36 (5.63%) JSON
14 28 (4.38%) YAML
15 26 (4.07%) ARM Templates
16 25 (3.91%) Middleware
17 23 (3.60%) Blazor
17 23 (3.60%) OAuth2
18 22 (3.44%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 70 (10.95%) Cloud Native
2 67 (10.49%) Product Ownership
3 32 (5.01%) Enterprise Software
4 26 (4.07%) Mobile App
5 25 (3.91%) Low-Code
6 22 (3.44%) Management Information System
7 14 (2.19%) Legacy Systems
8 13 (2.03%) Analytical Mindset
9 9 (1.41%) Enterprise Cloud
10 8 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
11 5 (0.78%) PMI
12 4 (0.63%) Greenfield Project
12 4 (0.63%) Hybrid Cloud
12 4 (0.63%) Onboarding
12 4 (0.63%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (0.63%) Social Network
13 3 (0.47%) Data Structures
13 3 (0.47%) Life Science
13 3 (0.47%) Linux Command Line
13 3 (0.47%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 65 (10.17%) Linux
2 42 (6.57%) Windows
3 18 (2.82%) Unix
4 13 (2.03%) Ubuntu
5 8 (1.25%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.63%) Kali Linux
7 3 (0.47%) Android
7 3 (0.47%) VMS
7 3 (0.47%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 639 (100.00%) DevOps
2 391 (61.19%) CI/CD
3 312 (48.83%) Agile
4 180 (28.17%) Infrastructure as Code
5 172 (26.92%) Test Automation
6 126 (19.72%) Continuous Improvement
7 120 (18.78%) Problem-Solving
8 111 (17.37%) Coaching
9 105 (16.43%) AI
10 103 (16.12%) Scrum
11 100 (15.65%) Mentoring
12 88 (13.77%) Data Modelling
13 83 (12.99%) Containerisation
14 81 (12.68%) Observability
15 75 (11.74%) Asset Management
16 72 (11.27%) SDLC
17 71 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
18 68 (10.64%) Microservices
19 64 (10.02%) Roadmaps
20 63 (9.86%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 190 (29.73%) SQL
2 152 (23.79%) Python
3 126 (19.72%) C#
4 84 (13.15%) JavaScript
5 81 (12.68%) Bash
6 78 (12.21%) PowerShell
7 49 (7.67%) Java
8 38 (5.95%) Bicep
9 29 (4.54%) TypeScript
10 21 (3.29%) Go
11 20 (3.13%) PL/SQL
12 18 (2.82%) Shell Script
13 17 (2.66%) Apex Code
14 11 (1.72%) T-SQL
15 9 (1.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 7 (1.10%) Swift
17 4 (0.63%) C++
17 4 (0.63%) VB
17 4 (0.63%) VB.NET
18 3 (0.47%) PHP
Qualifications
1 59 (9.23%) Degree
2 44 (6.89%) Security Cleared
3 26 (4.07%) SC Cleared
4 22 (3.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (2.66%) Azure Certification
6 15 (2.35%) ISTQB
7 13 (2.03%) AWS Certification
7 13 (2.03%) HND
8 12 (1.88%) DV Cleared
9 11 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
10 9 (1.41%) AWS Certified Developer
11 7 (1.10%) PMI Certification
12 6 (0.94%) Master's Degree
13 5 (0.78%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 4 (0.63%) BC Cleared
15 3 (0.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 2 (0.31%) ITIL Certification
16 2 (0.31%) PMP
16 2 (0.31%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 1 (0.16%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (10.49%) QA
2 50 (7.82%) Accessibility
3 25 (3.91%) GDPR
4 12 (1.88%) SLA
4 12 (1.88%) TickIT
5 11 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (1.56%) Data Quality
7 6 (0.94%) WCAG
8 3 (0.47%) GRC
8 3 (0.47%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 3 (0.47%) IFRS
8 3 (0.47%) Software Quality Assurance
9 2 (0.31%) IFRS 17
9 2 (0.31%) PMO
9 2 (0.31%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.31%) Solvency II
10 1 (0.16%) HL7
10 1 (0.16%) NCSC
10 1 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 91 (14.24%) Docker
2 33 (5.16%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.16%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 212 (33.18%) Terraform
2 61 (9.55%) Kubernetes
3 49 (7.67%) Ansible
4 48 (7.51%) Grafana
5 41 (6.42%) Prometheus
6 17 (2.66%) Single Sign-On
7 15 (2.35%) Argo
8 4 (0.63%) HP Fortify
8 4 (0.63%) Puppet
9 3 (0.47%) HP ALM
9 3 (0.47%) Scalr
10 2 (0.31%) MIIS
11 1 (0.16%) CASB
11 1 (0.16%) Consul
11 1 (0.16%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.16%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.16%) Nessus
11 1 (0.16%) Packer
11 1 (0.16%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 227 (35.52%) Microsoft
2 28 (4.38%) Salesforce
3 25 (3.91%) Databricks
3 25 (3.91%) Oracle
4 22 (3.44%) Red Hat
5 13 (2.03%) Adobe
5 13 (2.03%) Dynatrace
6 12 (1.88%) Freshdesk
6 12 (1.88%) Nintex
7 11 (1.72%) CrowdStrike
8 10 (1.56%) MuleSoft
9 8 (1.25%) Ab Initio
9 8 (1.25%) Apple
9 8 (1.25%) Okta
10 5 (0.78%) Google
11 4 (0.63%) Fortinet
11 4 (0.63%) ServiceNow
11 4 (0.63%) Veracode
12 3 (0.47%) Black Duck
12 3 (0.47%) Palo Alto