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

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 168 188 122
Rank change year-on-year +20 -66 +3
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 695 489 1,547
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.07% 1.71% 2.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.87% 5.55% 6.84%
Number of salaries quoted 528 381 1,148
10th Percentile £41,978 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,625 £52,500 £47,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £78,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £84,825
UK median annual salary £65,500 £67,500 £61,500
% change year-on-year -2.96% +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 17,971 8,807 22,620
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 27.62% 30.78% 32.97%
Number of salaries quoted 9,277 6,097 17,382
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £39,238 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £86,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -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 13 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 13 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 -27 176 £50,000 -28.57% 95
North of England +33 175 £62,500 -10.71% 88
Midlands -7 110 £65,000 - 46
North West +40 88 £70,000 +3.70% 45
Scotland +59 81 £62,500 +8.70% 18
South West -32 74 £52,500 -19.23% 19
West Midlands -33 58 £60,000 -7.69% 22
East Midlands +14 49 £67,250 +16.96% 24
Yorkshire -55 49 £64,655 -7.64% 22
East of England -3 42 £60,000 +9.09% 27
North East -8 38 £50,000 -23.08% 22
Wales -12 37 £53,050 -9.77% 17
Northern Ireland -37 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 23 (3.31%) SharePoint
2 21 (3.02%) Confluence
3 19 (2.73%) IIS
4 14 (2.01%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (1.01%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 6 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (0.72%) Apache
8 3 (0.43%) Anypoint
8 3 (0.43%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.43%) WordPress
9 2 (0.29%) CICS
9 2 (0.29%) CMS
9 2 (0.29%) Luigi
9 2 (0.29%) Umbraco
10 1 (0.14%) Drupal
10 1 (0.14%) nginx
10 1 (0.14%) PegaRULES
10 1 (0.14%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 15 (2.16%) MS Visio
2 10 (1.44%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.86%) Chatbot
4 5 (0.72%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.43%) Trello
6 2 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.14%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.14%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 14 (2.01%) Oracle ERP
2 10 (1.44%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.72%) Visualfiles
4 4 (0.58%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.29%) Magento
6 1 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.14%) Infor M3
6 1 (0.14%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 1 (0.14%) Sage 200
6 1 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.14%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 695 (100.00%) Azure
2 170 (24.46%) GitHub
3 122 (17.55%) Power Platform
4 119 (17.12%) AWS
5 94 (13.53%) GitHub Actions
6 66 (9.50%) Microsoft 365
7 49 (7.05%) Azure Logic Apps
7 49 (7.05%) Entra ID
8 42 (6.04%) Serverless
9 41 (5.90%) Azure Data Factory
9 41 (5.90%) GCP
10 40 (5.76%) Azure AKS
11 37 (5.32%) Azure Monitor
12 35 (5.04%) SaaS
13 32 (4.60%) Azure Service Bus
14 30 (4.32%) GitHub Copilot
15 29 (4.17%) PaaS
16 28 (4.03%) Azure AI
16 28 (4.03%) Dynamics 365
17 26 (3.74%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 38 (5.47%) Firewall
2 23 (3.31%) DNS
3 19 (2.73%) TCP/IP
4 18 (2.59%) HTTP
5 11 (1.58%) Network Security
6 3 (0.43%) BGP
7 2 (0.29%) Bluetooth
7 2 (0.29%) HTTPS
7 2 (0.29%) Internet
7 2 (0.29%) MQTT
7 2 (0.29%) SAN
7 2 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.29%) Wireless
7 2 (0.29%) ZigBee
8 1 (0.14%) IP Telephony
8 1 (0.14%) LTE
8 1 (0.14%) NetScaler
8 1 (0.14%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.14%) VLAN
8 1 (0.14%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (11.22%) SQL Server
2 71 (10.22%) Power BI
3 70 (10.07%) Azure SQL Database
4 63 (9.06%) MongoDB
5 30 (4.32%) Data Warehouse
6 29 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
7 22 (3.17%) NoSQL
8 14 (2.01%) Relational Database
8 14 (2.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 12 (1.73%) Data Lake
10 11 (1.58%) Elasticsearch
11 10 (1.44%) Metadata
11 10 (1.44%) Spark SQL
12 9 (1.29%) Amazon RDS
12 9 (1.29%) DynamoDB
13 8 (1.15%) Tableau
14 7 (1.01%) Power Query
15 6 (0.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 5 (0.72%) MySQL
17 4 (0.58%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 104 (14.96%) Git
2 94 (13.53%) JIRA
3 87 (12.52%) Jenkins
4 48 (6.91%) GitLab
5 39 (5.61%) Selenium
6 28 (4.03%) Cypress.io
7 20 (2.88%) Postman
8 14 (2.01%) Oracle Forms
9 11 (1.58%) Visual Studio
10 10 (1.44%) REST Assured
11 9 (1.29%) JMeter
11 9 (1.29%) Zephyr
12 7 (1.01%) fastlane
13 6 (0.86%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 6 (0.86%) Cucumber
13 6 (0.86%) TestRail
14 5 (0.72%) Gatling
14 5 (0.72%) LoadRunner
14 5 (0.72%) NUnit
14 5 (0.72%) Xcode
General
1 166 (23.88%) Finance
2 141 (20.29%) Social Skills
3 102 (14.68%) Analytical Skills
4 55 (7.91%) Public Sector
5 34 (4.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 32 (4.60%) Retail
7 31 (4.46%) Marketing
8 24 (3.45%) Billing
8 24 (3.45%) Law
9 18 (2.59%) Telecoms
10 15 (2.16%) Legal
11 12 (1.73%) Influencing Skills
12 11 (1.58%) Advertising
12 11 (1.58%) Automotive
12 11 (1.58%) Games
13 10 (1.44%) Banking
14 8 (1.15%) Manufacturing
15 6 (0.86%) Documentation Skills
16 2 (0.29%) Aerospace
16 2 (0.29%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 204 (29.35%) Developer
2 149 (21.44%) Senior
3 127 (18.27%) DevOps Engineer
4 106 (15.25%) Azure Engineer
5 84 (12.09%) Lead
6 70 (10.07%) .NET Developer
7 50 (7.19%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 48 (6.91%) Cloud Engineer
9 43 (6.19%) Senior Developer
10 37 (5.32%) Analyst
11 35 (5.04%) Senior DevOps
12 34 (4.89%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 29 (4.17%) Data Engineer
14 27 (3.88%) Architect
15 26 (3.74%) Full-Stack Developer
16 23 (3.31%) Software Developer
17 21 (3.02%) Power Platform Developer
17 21 (3.02%) Software Engineer
17 21 (3.02%) Systems Engineer
18 20 (2.88%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 189 (27.19%) .NET
2 101 (14.53%) ASP.NET
3 93 (13.38%) React
4 85 (12.23%) .NET Core
5 83 (11.94%) RESTful
6 81 (11.65%) ASP.NET Core
7 77 (11.08%) HTML
8 76 (10.94%) CSS
9 68 (9.78%) REST
10 56 (8.06%) Node.js
11 47 (6.76%) SOAP
12 42 (6.04%) Blazor
13 38 (5.47%) OAuth
14 37 (5.32%) Playwright
15 36 (5.18%) Entity Framework
15 36 (5.18%) JSON
16 32 (4.60%) YAML
17 29 (4.17%) Middleware
18 27 (3.88%) ARM Templates
18 27 (3.88%) ML.NET
Miscellaneous
1 72 (10.36%) Product Ownership
2 65 (9.35%) Cloud Native
3 36 (5.18%) Enterprise Software
4 35 (5.04%) Mobile App
5 25 (3.60%) Low-Code
6 22 (3.17%) Management Information System
7 14 (2.01%) Legacy Systems
8 13 (1.87%) Analytical Mindset
9 9 (1.29%) Enterprise Cloud
9 9 (1.29%) Greenfield Project
10 8 (1.15%) Distributed Systems
11 7 (1.01%) iPhone
11 7 (1.01%) Social Network
12 6 (0.86%) BBC
12 6 (0.86%) Social Media
13 5 (0.72%) Hybrid Cloud
13 5 (0.72%) Onboarding
13 5 (0.72%) PMI
14 3 (0.43%) Data Structures
14 3 (0.43%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 68 (9.78%) Linux
2 40 (5.76%) Windows
3 18 (2.59%) Unix
4 14 (2.01%) Ubuntu
5 11 (1.58%) Android
6 10 (1.44%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.58%) Kali Linux
8 3 (0.43%) VMS
8 3 (0.43%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 695 (100.00%) DevOps
2 417 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 347 (49.93%) Agile
4 182 (26.19%) Infrastructure as Code
5 175 (25.18%) Test Automation
6 133 (19.14%) AI
7 125 (17.99%) Continuous Improvement
8 120 (17.27%) Problem-Solving
9 112 (16.12%) Scrum
10 105 (15.11%) Coaching
11 103 (14.82%) Mentoring
12 97 (13.96%) Full-Stack Development
13 90 (12.95%) Data Modelling
14 83 (11.94%) Observability
15 77 (11.08%) Containerisation
16 72 (10.36%) SDLC
17 70 (10.07%) Continuous Integration
18 69 (9.93%) Analytics
18 69 (9.93%) Deployment Automation
19 67 (9.64%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 229 (32.95%) SQL
2 176 (25.32%) C#
3 160 (23.02%) Python
4 110 (15.83%) JavaScript
5 88 (12.66%) Bash
6 78 (11.22%) PowerShell
7 53 (7.63%) Java
8 36 (5.18%) Bicep
9 28 (4.03%) TypeScript
10 21 (3.02%) Go
11 18 (2.59%) PL/SQL
12 17 (2.45%) Apex Code
13 16 (2.30%) Shell Script
14 11 (1.58%) T-SQL
15 9 (1.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 9 (1.29%) Swift
16 7 (1.01%) C++
17 5 (0.72%) Kotlin
17 5 (0.72%) Scala
18 4 (0.58%) VB
Qualifications
1 60 (8.63%) Degree
2 47 (6.76%) Security Cleared
3 29 (4.17%) SC Cleared
4 24 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (2.16%) Azure Certification
6 13 (1.87%) HND
6 13 (1.87%) ISTQB
6 13 (1.87%) Microsoft Certification
7 12 (1.73%) DV Cleared
8 11 (1.58%) AWS Certification
9 8 (1.15%) Master's Degree
10 7 (1.01%) AWS Certified Developer
11 6 (0.86%) PMI Certification
12 4 (0.58%) BC Cleared
12 4 (0.58%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 3 (0.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 2 (0.29%) ITIL Certification
14 2 (0.29%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 1 (0.14%) CISSP
15 1 (0.14%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (10.07%) QA
2 57 (8.20%) Accessibility
3 26 (3.74%) GDPR
4 14 (2.01%) Data Quality
5 12 (1.73%) SLA
5 12 (1.73%) TickIT
6 11 (1.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (1.58%) WCAG
7 3 (0.43%) GRC
7 3 (0.43%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 3 (0.43%) IFRS
7 3 (0.43%) Software Quality Assurance
8 2 (0.29%) IFRS 17
8 2 (0.29%) JTAG
8 2 (0.29%) PMO
8 2 (0.29%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.29%) Solvency II
9 1 (0.14%) HL7
9 1 (0.14%) NCSC
9 1 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 88 (12.66%) Docker
2 31 (4.46%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.14%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 216 (31.08%) Terraform
2 60 (8.63%) Kubernetes
3 50 (7.19%) Ansible
4 48 (6.91%) Grafana
5 41 (5.90%) Prometheus
6 16 (2.30%) Argo
7 15 (2.16%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (0.58%) HP Fortify
8 4 (0.58%) Puppet
9 3 (0.43%) HP ALM
9 3 (0.43%) Scalr
10 2 (0.29%) MIIS
11 1 (0.14%) CASB
11 1 (0.14%) Consul
11 1 (0.14%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.14%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.14%) Packer
11 1 (0.14%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 269 (38.71%) Microsoft
2 32 (4.60%) Salesforce
3 29 (4.17%) Databricks
4 23 (3.31%) Red Hat
5 22 (3.17%) Oracle
6 17 (2.45%) Dynatrace
6 17 (2.45%) Google
7 14 (2.01%) Apple
8 13 (1.87%) Adobe
9 12 (1.73%) Facebook
9 12 (1.73%) Freshdesk
9 12 (1.73%) Nintex
10 11 (1.58%) CrowdStrike
11 10 (1.44%) MuleSoft
12 7 (1.01%) Ab Initio
12 7 (1.01%) Okta
13 6 (0.86%) Sony
13 6 (0.86%) Yahoo!
13 6 (0.86%) YouTube
14 5 (0.72%) ServiceNow