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 15 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 178 146 121
Rank change year-on-year -32 -25 +5
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 613 504 1,550
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.99% 1.94% 2.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.30% 5.93% 6.95%
Number of salaries quoted 425 437 1,174
10th Percentile £40,750 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £64,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.73% +7.50% +0.80%
75th Percentile £70,750 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £66,750 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -1.11% +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 18,563 8,493 22,312
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 30.02% 32.66% 33.70%
Number of salaries quoted 8,739 6,312 17,332
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,760 £27,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £39,038 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,171 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £86,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -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 15 April 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 15 April 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 -46 161 £50,000 -28.57% 72
North of England -32 138 £60,000 -14.29% 66
Scotland +45 103 £62,500 +8.70% 20
Midlands -44 91 £63,750 -1.92% 37
South West -33 79 £51,250 -21.15% 26
North West -8 63 £68,750 +5.77% 37
West Midlands -50 52 £57,500 -13.21% 20
Yorkshire -59 44 £60,000 -14.29% 15
East Midlands -20 36 £67,000 +3.08% 17
North East -8 31 £50,000 -23.08% 14
East of England -36 24 £70,000 +32.08% 22
Wales -31 17 £53,135 -9.63% 15
Northern Ireland -41 2 £50,000 -
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 (4.08%) Confluence
2 20 (3.26%) IIS
3 17 (2.77%) SharePoint
4 8 (1.31%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (1.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 3 (0.49%) Anypoint
5 3 (0.49%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.33%) Apache
6 2 (0.33%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.33%) CICS
7 1 (0.16%) Drupal
7 1 (0.16%) nginx
7 1 (0.16%) PegaRULES
7 1 (0.16%) WordPress
Applications
1 16 (2.61%) MS Visio
2 12 (1.96%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (1.47%) Microsoft Project
4 5 (0.82%) Chatbot
4 5 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.33%) Trello
7 1 (0.16%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.16%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 16 (2.61%) Oracle ERP
2 11 (1.79%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.65%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (0.49%) Visualfiles
5 2 (0.33%) Magento
6 1 (0.16%) Infor M3
6 1 (0.16%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 1 (0.16%) Primavera
6 1 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.16%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 613 (100.00%) Azure
2 194 (31.65%) GitHub
3 108 (17.62%) AWS
4 105 (17.13%) Power Platform
5 104 (16.97%) GitHub Actions
6 59 (9.62%) Microsoft 365
7 49 (7.99%) Entra ID
8 47 (7.67%) Azure Logic Apps
9 45 (7.34%) Azure Data Factory
10 44 (7.18%) GitHub Copilot
10 44 (7.18%) Serverless
11 37 (6.04%) Azure Monitor
12 36 (5.87%) GCP
13 35 (5.71%) SaaS
14 34 (5.55%) Snowflake
15 33 (5.38%) dbt
16 29 (4.73%) PaaS
17 27 (4.40%) Dynamics 365
18 26 (4.24%) Azure AKS
18 26 (4.24%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 35 (5.71%) Firewall
2 27 (4.40%) DNS
3 19 (3.10%) HTTP
3 19 (3.10%) TCP/IP
4 8 (1.31%) Network Security
5 3 (0.49%) BGP
6 2 (0.33%) 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%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.16%) VLAN
7 1 (0.16%) VPN
7 1 (0.16%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (11.42%) SQL Server
2 62 (10.11%) Power BI
3 28 (4.57%) Azure SQL Database
3 28 (4.57%) Data Warehouse
4 23 (3.75%) NoSQL
5 21 (3.43%) PostgreSQL
6 15 (2.45%) MongoDB
7 13 (2.12%) DynamoDB
7 13 (2.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 12 (1.96%) Relational Database
9 11 (1.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 9 (1.47%) Tableau
11 8 (1.31%) Amazon RDS
11 8 (1.31%) Data Lake
12 7 (1.14%) Power Query
12 7 (1.14%) Spark SQL
13 6 (0.98%) Metadata
13 6 (0.98%) Snowflake Schema
14 4 (0.65%) MySQL
15 3 (0.49%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 95 (15.50%) JIRA
2 94 (15.33%) Git
3 76 (12.40%) Jenkins
4 42 (6.85%) Selenium
5 28 (4.57%) GitLab
6 27 (4.40%) Cypress.io
7 16 (2.61%) Oracle Forms
7 16 (2.61%) Postman
8 11 (1.79%) Visual Studio
9 10 (1.63%) Robot Framework
10 8 (1.31%) Snyk
10 8 (1.31%) TestRail
10 8 (1.31%) Zephyr
11 7 (1.14%) REST Assured
12 6 (0.98%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 6 (0.98%) JMeter
12 6 (0.98%) NUnit
13 5 (0.82%) XCUITest
14 4 (0.65%) Bitbucket
14 4 (0.65%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 185 (30.18%) Finance
2 142 (23.16%) Social Skills
3 117 (19.09%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (5.06%) Public Sector
5 27 (4.40%) Law
6 25 (4.08%) Marketing
6 25 (4.08%) Retail
7 24 (3.92%) Billing
8 20 (3.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 19 (3.10%) Telecoms
10 14 (2.28%) Legal
11 10 (1.63%) Influencing Skills
12 8 (1.31%) Automotive
12 8 (1.31%) Banking
13 7 (1.14%) Manufacturing
14 6 (0.98%) Games
15 5 (0.82%) Aerospace
15 5 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
16 3 (0.49%) Advertising
17 2 (0.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 146 (23.82%) Developer
2 125 (20.39%) Senior
3 95 (15.50%) Azure Engineer
4 92 (15.01%) DevOps Engineer
5 76 (12.40%) Lead
6 47 (7.67%) Cloud Engineer
7 41 (6.69%) Analyst
7 41 (6.69%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 32 (5.22%) .NET Developer
9 28 (4.57%) Senior Developer
10 24 (3.92%) Architect
11 23 (3.75%) Applications Engineer
12 21 (3.43%) Power Platform Developer
12 21 (3.43%) Software Engineer
13 20 (3.26%) Software Developer
14 19 (3.10%) Applications Support
14 19 (3.10%) Full-Stack Developer
14 19 (3.10%) Support Analyst
15 18 (2.94%) Applications Support Analyst
15 18 (2.94%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 139 (22.68%) .NET
2 72 (11.75%) React
3 71 (11.58%) RESTful
4 61 (9.95%) ASP.NET
5 58 (9.46%) REST
6 49 (7.99%) .NET Core
7 48 (7.83%) CSS
7 48 (7.83%) HTML
8 46 (7.50%) OAuth
8 46 (7.50%) SOAP
9 38 (6.20%) ASP.NET Core
10 35 (5.71%) Playwright
11 34 (5.55%) JSON
12 32 (5.22%) Node.js
13 29 (4.73%) YAML
14 25 (4.08%) .NET Framework
14 25 (4.08%) ARM Templates
14 25 (4.08%) Blazor
14 25 (4.08%) OAuth2
15 21 (3.43%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 74 (12.07%) Cloud Native
2 70 (11.42%) Product Ownership
3 31 (5.06%) Enterprise Software
4 28 (4.57%) Mobile App
5 26 (4.24%) Low-Code
6 23 (3.75%) Management Information System
7 15 (2.45%) Legacy Systems
8 13 (2.12%) Analytical Mindset
9 8 (1.31%) Distributed Systems
9 8 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (0.82%) Enterprise Cloud
10 5 (0.82%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (0.65%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (0.65%) Legacy Applications
11 4 (0.65%) PMI
11 4 (0.65%) Security Posture
11 4 (0.65%) Social Network
12 3 (0.49%) AI Agents
12 3 (0.49%) Data Structures
12 3 (0.49%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 50 (8.16%) Linux
2 41 (6.69%) Windows
3 11 (1.79%) Ubuntu
4 8 (1.31%) Apple iOS
5 5 (0.82%) Unix
6 3 (0.49%) Android
6 3 (0.49%) VMS
6 3 (0.49%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.33%) Kali Linux
8 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 613 (100.00%) DevOps
2 374 (61.01%) CI/CD
3 318 (51.88%) Agile
4 184 (30.02%) Infrastructure as Code
5 163 (26.59%) Test Automation
6 130 (21.21%) Problem-Solving
7 125 (20.39%) Continuous Improvement
8 107 (17.46%) Coaching
9 97 (15.82%) AI
10 90 (14.68%) Mentoring
11 89 (14.52%) Asset Management
12 85 (13.87%) Containerisation
13 84 (13.70%) Scrum
14 83 (13.54%) Data Modelling
15 80 (13.05%) Observability
16 74 (12.07%) Software Engineering
17 70 (11.42%) SDLC
18 64 (10.44%) Deployment Automation
18 64 (10.44%) Sprint Planning
19 63 (10.28%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 191 (31.16%) SQL
2 139 (22.68%) Python
3 131 (21.37%) C#
4 83 (13.54%) JavaScript
5 78 (12.72%) PowerShell
6 75 (12.23%) Bash
7 41 (6.69%) Bicep
8 36 (5.87%) Java
9 28 (4.57%) TypeScript
10 21 (3.43%) Go
11 20 (3.26%) PL/SQL
12 19 (3.10%) Apex Code
13 17 (2.77%) Shell Script
14 14 (2.28%) T-SQL
15 9 (1.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 7 (1.14%) Swift
17 5 (0.82%) C++
18 4 (0.65%) VB
18 4 (0.65%) VB.NET
19 3 (0.49%) Scala
Qualifications
1 64 (10.44%) Degree
2 43 (7.01%) Security Cleared
3 25 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
4 19 (3.10%) DV Cleared
4 19 (3.10%) SC Cleared
5 18 (2.94%) Azure Certification
5 18 (2.94%) ISTQB
6 14 (2.28%) AWS Certification
7 13 (2.12%) HND
8 12 (1.96%) Microsoft Certification
9 11 (1.79%) AWS Certified Developer
10 8 (1.31%) PMI Certification
11 6 (0.98%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 6 (0.98%) Master's Degree
12 4 (0.65%) BC Cleared
12 4 (0.65%) PMP
13 3 (0.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 2 (0.33%) ITIL Certification
14 2 (0.33%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 1 (0.16%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (10.93%) QA
2 51 (8.32%) Accessibility
3 23 (3.75%) GDPR
4 12 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (1.96%) SLA
5 8 (1.31%) Data Quality
6 7 (1.14%) TickIT
6 7 (1.14%) WCAG
7 3 (0.49%) GRC
7 3 (0.49%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 3 (0.49%) Software Quality Assurance
8 2 (0.33%) NCSC
8 2 (0.33%) PMO
8 2 (0.33%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.16%) HL7
9 1 (0.16%) IFRS
9 1 (0.16%) NIST
9 1 (0.16%) P3O
9 1 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 88 (14.36%) Docker
2 31 (5.06%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.65%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.16%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.16%) Firmware
5 1 (0.16%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 196 (31.97%) Terraform
2 57 (9.30%) Kubernetes
3 52 (8.48%) Ansible
4 44 (7.18%) Grafana
5 39 (6.36%) Prometheus
6 17 (2.77%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.49%) Argo
7 3 (0.49%) HP ALM
7 3 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (0.49%) Scalr
8 2 (0.33%) HP Fortify
8 2 (0.33%) MIIS
8 2 (0.33%) Nessus
8 2 (0.33%) Puppet
9 1 (0.16%) CASB
9 1 (0.16%) Consul
9 1 (0.16%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.16%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.16%) Packer
9 1 (0.16%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 216 (35.24%) Microsoft
2 29 (4.73%) Salesforce
3 25 (4.08%) Oracle
4 20 (3.26%) Red Hat
5 19 (3.10%) Databricks
6 13 (2.12%) Adobe
6 13 (2.12%) Dynatrace
7 12 (1.96%) Freshdesk
7 12 (1.96%) Nintex
8 10 (1.63%) Ab Initio
8 10 (1.63%) CrowdStrike
9 9 (1.47%) MuleSoft
10 8 (1.31%) Apple
10 8 (1.31%) Black Duck
10 8 (1.31%) Coverity
10 8 (1.31%) Okta
11 6 (0.98%) Google
12 4 (0.65%) Fortinet
12 4 (0.65%) Sage
12 4 (0.65%) Xamarin