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

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 185 169 120
Rank change year-on-year -16 -49 +6
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 632 484 1,561
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.97% 1.78% 2.30%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.32% 5.70% 6.91%
Number of salaries quoted 454 411 1,166
10th Percentile £42,000 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £52,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,250 £63,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.27% +5.83% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £84,250
UK median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +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 19,060 8,489 22,580
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.31% 31.27% 33.32%
Number of salaries quoted 8,957 6,298 17,375
10th Percentile £28,500 £29,500 £27,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £38,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £86,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £61,500 £62,373 £57,500
% change year-on-year -1.40% +8.47% -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 28 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 28 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 -46 157 £50,000 -28.57% 103
North of England -8 153 £60,000 -14.29% 76
Scotland +41 96 £62,500 +8.70% 14
Midlands -30 92 £65,000 - 51
South West -32 81 £53,750 -17.31% 27
North West -2 73 £70,000 +5.66% 46
West Midlands -40 55 £60,000 -7.69% 24
Yorkshire -56 49 £60,000 -14.29% 15
East Midlands -20 34 £67,250 +3.46% 26
North East -19 31 £50,000 -16.67% 15
Wales -25 26 £53,100 +0.97% 21
East of England -29 26 £70,000 +32.08% 28
Northern Ireland -38 3 £61,250 +22.50% 5
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 26 (4.11%) Confluence
2 20 (3.16%) SharePoint
3 18 (2.85%) IIS
4 12 (1.90%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (1.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 5 (0.79%) Apache
7 4 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.47%) Anypoint
8 3 (0.47%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.32%) CICS
10 1 (0.16%) Drupal
10 1 (0.16%) nginx
10 1 (0.16%) PegaRULES
10 1 (0.16%) WordPress
Applications
1 16 (2.53%) MS Visio
2 12 (1.90%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (1.11%) Microsoft Project
4 5 (0.79%) 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 (2.53%) Oracle ERP
2 9 (1.42%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.79%) Visualfiles
4 4 (0.63%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.32%) Magento
6 1 (0.16%) Infor M3
6 1 (0.16%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 1 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.16%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 632 (100.00%) Azure
2 189 (29.91%) GitHub
3 111 (17.56%) Power Platform
4 110 (17.41%) AWS
5 101 (15.98%) GitHub Actions
6 61 (9.65%) Microsoft 365
7 51 (8.07%) Entra ID
8 50 (7.91%) Azure Logic Apps
9 44 (6.96%) Azure Data Factory
10 43 (6.80%) Serverless
11 40 (6.33%) GitHub Copilot
12 37 (5.85%) Azure Monitor
12 37 (5.85%) GCP
13 36 (5.70%) Azure AKS
14 34 (5.38%) SaaS
15 33 (5.22%) Snowflake
16 32 (5.06%) Azure Service Bus
17 31 (4.91%) dbt
18 28 (4.43%) Dynamics 365
18 28 (4.43%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 35 (5.54%) Firewall
2 23 (3.64%) DNS
3 19 (3.01%) HTTP
3 19 (3.01%) TCP/IP
4 10 (1.58%) Network Security
5 3 (0.47%) BGP
6 2 (0.32%) 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 69 (10.92%) SQL Server
2 66 (10.44%) Power BI
3 30 (4.75%) Data Warehouse
4 29 (4.59%) Azure SQL Database
5 27 (4.27%) PostgreSQL
6 25 (3.96%) MongoDB
7 22 (3.48%) NoSQL
8 15 (2.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 11 (1.74%) DynamoDB
9 11 (1.74%) Relational Database
10 10 (1.58%) Data Lake
11 9 (1.42%) Metadata
11 9 (1.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 9 (1.42%) Tableau
12 8 (1.27%) Amazon RDS
13 7 (1.11%) Power Query
13 7 (1.11%) Spark SQL
14 5 (0.79%) Snowflake Schema
15 4 (0.63%) MySQL
16 3 (0.47%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 103 (16.30%) JIRA
2 94 (14.87%) Git
3 79 (12.50%) Jenkins
4 40 (6.33%) GitLab
5 38 (6.01%) Selenium
6 29 (4.59%) Cypress.io
7 19 (3.01%) Postman
8 16 (2.53%) Oracle Forms
9 10 (1.58%) Visual Studio
10 9 (1.42%) REST Assured
11 8 (1.27%) JMeter
11 8 (1.27%) Zephyr
12 7 (1.11%) TestRail
13 6 (0.95%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 6 (0.95%) NUnit
14 5 (0.79%) Cucumber
14 5 (0.79%) Gatling
14 5 (0.79%) LoadRunner
14 5 (0.79%) MLflow
14 5 (0.79%) Robot Framework
General
1 178 (28.16%) Finance
2 141 (22.31%) Social Skills
3 113 (17.88%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (6.96%) Public Sector
5 31 (4.91%) Retail
6 29 (4.59%) Marketing
7 26 (4.11%) Law
8 25 (3.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 24 (3.80%) Billing
10 18 (2.85%) Telecoms
11 13 (2.06%) Legal
12 12 (1.90%) Influencing Skills
13 10 (1.58%) Automotive
14 8 (1.27%) Banking
15 7 (1.11%) Games
16 6 (0.95%) Manufacturing
17 5 (0.79%) Documentation Skills
18 4 (0.63%) Advertising
19 3 (0.47%) Aerospace
20 2 (0.32%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 149 (23.58%) Developer
2 140 (22.15%) Senior
3 113 (17.88%) DevOps Engineer
4 102 (16.14%) Azure Engineer
5 81 (12.82%) Lead
6 47 (7.44%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 47 (7.44%) Cloud Engineer
7 40 (6.33%) Analyst
8 35 (5.54%) Senior Developer
9 30 (4.75%) .NET Developer
10 28 (4.43%) Senior DevOps
10 28 (4.43%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 27 (4.27%) Architect
12 21 (3.32%) Applications Engineer
12 21 (3.32%) Full-Stack Developer
12 21 (3.32%) Power Platform Developer
13 20 (3.16%) Applications Support
13 20 (3.16%) Data Engineer
13 20 (3.16%) Support Analyst
14 19 (3.01%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 138 (21.84%) .NET
2 71 (11.23%) React
3 67 (10.60%) RESTful
4 63 (9.97%) REST
5 57 (9.02%) ASP.NET
6 50 (7.91%) SOAP
7 48 (7.59%) CSS
7 48 (7.59%) HTML
8 47 (7.44%) .NET Core
9 43 (6.80%) Node.js
9 43 (6.80%) OAuth
10 38 (6.01%) ASP.NET Core
10 38 (6.01%) Playwright
11 37 (5.85%) JSON
12 30 (4.75%) YAML
13 26 (4.11%) ARM Templates
14 25 (3.96%) Middleware
15 24 (3.80%) OAuth2
16 23 (3.64%) Blazor
17 22 (3.48%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 72 (11.39%) Cloud Native
2 68 (10.76%) Product Ownership
3 32 (5.06%) Enterprise Software
4 27 (4.27%) Mobile App
5 25 (3.96%) Low-Code
6 22 (3.48%) Management Information System
7 13 (2.06%) Analytical Mindset
7 13 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
8 9 (1.42%) Enterprise Cloud
9 8 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
10 5 (0.79%) PMI
10 5 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (0.63%) Onboarding
11 4 (0.63%) Social Network
12 3 (0.47%) Data Structures
12 3 (0.47%) Distributed Computing
12 3 (0.47%) Hybrid Cloud
12 3 (0.47%) Legacy Applications
12 3 (0.47%) Linux Command Line
12 3 (0.47%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 61 (9.65%) Linux
2 42 (6.65%) Windows
3 15 (2.37%) Unix
4 12 (1.90%) Ubuntu
5 8 (1.27%) 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
1 632 (100.00%) DevOps
2 387 (61.23%) CI/CD
3 315 (49.84%) Agile
4 183 (28.96%) Infrastructure as Code
5 173 (27.37%) Test Automation
6 127 (20.09%) Continuous Improvement
7 122 (19.30%) Problem-Solving
8 113 (17.88%) Coaching
9 103 (16.30%) AI
10 99 (15.66%) Mentoring
11 98 (15.51%) Scrum
12 88 (13.92%) Data Modelling
13 85 (13.45%) Containerisation
14 81 (12.82%) Asset Management
14 81 (12.82%) Observability
15 72 (11.39%) SDLC
16 68 (10.76%) Continuous Integration
17 66 (10.44%) Microservices
18 65 (10.28%) Software Engineering
19 64 (10.13%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 191 (30.22%) SQL
2 148 (23.42%) Python
3 126 (19.94%) C#
4 82 (12.97%) JavaScript
5 81 (12.82%) Bash
6 78 (12.34%) PowerShell
7 47 (7.44%) Java
8 40 (6.33%) Bicep
9 28 (4.43%) TypeScript
10 21 (3.32%) Go
11 20 (3.16%) PL/SQL
12 18 (2.85%) Apex Code
12 18 (2.85%) Shell Script
13 12 (1.90%) T-SQL
14 9 (1.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 7 (1.11%) Swift
16 4 (0.63%) C++
16 4 (0.63%) VB
17 3 (0.47%) PHP
17 3 (0.47%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 58 (9.18%) Degree
2 42 (6.65%) Security Cleared
3 23 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
3 23 (3.64%) SC Cleared
4 18 (2.85%) Azure Certification
5 16 (2.53%) ISTQB
6 13 (2.06%) DV Cleared
6 13 (2.06%) HND
7 12 (1.90%) AWS Certification
8 11 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
9 9 (1.42%) AWS Certified Developer
10 8 (1.27%) PMI Certification
11 6 (0.95%) Master's Degree
12 5 (0.79%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 4 (0.63%) BC Cleared
14 3 (0.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 3 (0.47%) PMP
15 2 (0.32%) ITIL Certification
15 2 (0.32%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 1 (0.16%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (10.60%) QA
2 50 (7.91%) Accessibility
3 25 (3.96%) GDPR
4 12 (1.90%) SLA
4 12 (1.90%) TickIT
5 11 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (1.58%) Data Quality
7 6 (0.95%) 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 (0.32%) IFRS 17
9 2 (0.32%) PMO
9 2 (0.32%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.32%) Solvency II
10 1 (0.16%) HL7
10 1 (0.16%) NCSC
10 1 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 90 (14.24%) Docker
2 33 (5.22%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.16%) Firmware
5 1 (0.16%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 209 (33.07%) Terraform
2 61 (9.65%) Kubernetes
3 48 (7.59%) Ansible
4 47 (7.44%) Grafana
5 40 (6.33%) Prometheus
6 17 (2.69%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (2.06%) Argo
8 4 (0.63%) HP Fortify
9 3 (0.47%) HP ALM
9 3 (0.47%) Puppet
9 3 (0.47%) Scalr
10 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.32%) 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%) Nessus
11 1 (0.16%) Packer
11 1 (0.16%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 226 (35.76%) Microsoft
2 29 (4.59%) Salesforce
3 25 (3.96%) Oracle
4 23 (3.64%) Databricks
5 21 (3.32%) Red Hat
6 13 (2.06%) Adobe
6 13 (2.06%) Dynatrace
7 12 (1.90%) Freshdesk
7 12 (1.90%) Nintex
8 11 (1.74%) CrowdStrike
9 10 (1.58%) MuleSoft
10 9 (1.42%) Ab Initio
11 8 (1.27%) Apple
11 8 (1.27%) Okta
12 5 (0.79%) Google
13 4 (0.63%) Black Duck
13 4 (0.63%) Coverity
13 4 (0.63%) Fortinet
13 4 (0.63%) ServiceNow
13 4 (0.63%) Veracode