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

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 176 201 130
Rank change year-on-year +25 -71 -11
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 696 475 1,577
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.05% 1.60% 2.07%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.12% 5.56% 6.70%
Number of salaries quoted 566 354 1,149
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,875 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,000 £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 £77,500 £70,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £61,625
% change year-on-year -3.70% +9.53% -5.19%

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 16,890 8,543 23,521
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 25.36% 28.76% 30.88%
Number of salaries quoted 9,998 5,805 17,846
10th Percentile £29,425 £28,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £36,925
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -10.16%

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 8 June 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 8 June 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 +43 201 £65,000 -7.14% 81
South East -19 186 £56,250 -13.46% 105
Midlands +3 118 £65,000 +8.33% 52
North West +57 109 £69,310 +2.68% 44
South West -31 70 £55,000 -4.35% 26
West Midlands -28 64 £62,500 +4.17% 32
East Midlands +6 52 £65,500 +19.09% 20
Yorkshire -31 50 £69,305 -0.99% 21
East of England -16 48 £56,000 -2.61% 34
North East -5 42 £48,750 -11.36% 16
Scotland +23 37 £62,500 - 16
Wales -18 36 £53,000 -18.46% 12
Northern Ireland -34 2 £72,500 +45.00% 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 27 (3.88%) SharePoint
2 24 (3.45%) Confluence
3 17 (2.44%) Microsoft Exchange
4 16 (2.30%) IIS
5 7 (1.01%) SharePoint Server
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%) nginx
9 2 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.29%) Umbraco
10 1 (0.14%) Drupal
10 1 (0.14%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 13 (1.87%) MS Visio
2 9 (1.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (1.01%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.29%) Trello
6 1 (0.14%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.14%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 8 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.72%) Visualfiles
3 4 (0.57%) Dynamics AX
3 4 (0.57%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (0.43%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.29%) Magento
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
1 696 (100.00%) Azure
2 145 (20.83%) GitHub
3 118 (16.95%) Power Platform
4 115 (16.52%) AWS
5 89 (12.79%) GitHub Actions
6 62 (8.91%) Microsoft 365
7 47 (6.75%) Azure AKS
7 47 (6.75%) Entra ID
8 45 (6.47%) Serverless
9 42 (6.03%) Azure Logic Apps
9 42 (6.03%) PaaS
10 41 (5.89%) SaaS
11 40 (5.75%) Azure Monitor
12 37 (5.32%) GCP
13 35 (5.03%) Azure AI
14 32 (4.60%) Dynamics 365
15 31 (4.45%) Azure Functions
16 28 (4.02%) Azure Data Factory
16 28 (4.02%) Azure Service Bus
16 28 (4.02%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 36 (5.17%) Firewall
2 21 (3.02%) DNS
3 17 (2.44%) HTTP
4 16 (2.30%) TCP/IP
5 11 (1.58%) Network Security
6 6 (0.86%) VPN
7 4 (0.57%) Bluetooth
7 4 (0.57%) MQTT
7 4 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (0.57%) Wireless
7 4 (0.57%) ZigBee
8 3 (0.43%) BGP
8 3 (0.43%) HTTPS
8 3 (0.43%) SAN
9 2 (0.29%) Internet
9 2 (0.29%) VLAN
10 1 (0.14%) IP Telephony
10 1 (0.14%) LTE
10 1 (0.14%) MPLS
10 1 (0.14%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (13.65%) Azure SQL Database
2 82 (11.78%) SQL Server
3 73 (10.49%) MongoDB
4 68 (9.77%) Power BI
5 32 (4.60%) PostgreSQL
6 20 (2.87%) Data Warehouse
7 17 (2.44%) NoSQL
8 16 (2.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 15 (2.16%) Elasticsearch
10 14 (2.01%) Relational Database
11 11 (1.58%) Data Lake
12 10 (1.44%) Spark SQL
13 9 (1.29%) Amazon RDS
13 9 (1.29%) Metadata
14 7 (1.01%) MySQL
14 7 (1.01%) Power Query
15 6 (0.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 5 (0.72%) DynamoDB
16 5 (0.72%) Redis
16 5 (0.72%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 106 (15.23%) Git
2 86 (12.36%) JIRA
3 80 (11.49%) Jenkins
4 51 (7.33%) GitLab
5 39 (5.60%) Selenium
6 31 (4.45%) Cypress.io
7 21 (3.02%) Postman
8 13 (1.87%) fastlane
9 12 (1.72%) Visual Studio
9 12 (1.72%) Zephyr
10 11 (1.58%) REST Assured
11 9 (1.29%) JMeter
12 8 (1.15%) Xcode
13 7 (1.01%) TestRail
14 6 (0.86%) Android Studio
14 6 (0.86%) Crashlytics
14 6 (0.86%) Cucumber
14 6 (0.86%) Gradle
15 5 (0.72%) GDB
15 5 (0.72%) NUnit
General
1 131 (18.82%) Social Skills
2 119 (17.10%) Finance
3 85 (12.21%) Analytical Skills
4 66 (9.48%) Public Sector
5 42 (6.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 35 (5.03%) Retail
7 29 (4.17%) Marketing
8 22 (3.16%) Billing
8 22 (3.16%) Law
9 15 (2.16%) Telecoms
10 13 (1.87%) Legal
11 12 (1.72%) Advertising
11 12 (1.72%) Games
12 11 (1.58%) Automotive
13 10 (1.44%) Banking
13 10 (1.44%) Influencing Skills
14 8 (1.15%) Manufacturing
15 6 (0.86%) Documentation Skills
16 5 (0.72%) Aviation
17 2 (0.29%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 226 (32.47%) Developer
2 141 (20.26%) Senior
3 136 (19.54%) DevOps Engineer
4 105 (15.09%) Azure Engineer
5 83 (11.93%) .NET Developer
6 79 (11.35%) Lead
7 52 (7.47%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 48 (6.90%) Senior Developer
9 42 (6.03%) Cloud Engineer
10 36 (5.17%) Analyst
10 36 (5.17%) Senior DevOps
11 35 (5.03%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 31 (4.45%) Software Engineer
13 30 (4.31%) Data Engineer
14 27 (3.88%) Architect
14 27 (3.88%) Software Developer
15 24 (3.45%) Platform Engineer
16 23 (3.30%) Systems Engineer
17 20 (2.87%) Full-Stack Developer
18 19 (2.73%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 208 (29.89%) .NET
2 110 (15.80%) ASP.NET
3 93 (13.36%) .NET Core
4 92 (13.22%) React
5 90 (12.93%) ASP.NET Core
6 86 (12.36%) HTML
7 84 (12.07%) CSS
8 76 (10.92%) RESTful
9 64 (9.20%) REST
10 59 (8.48%) Node.js
11 46 (6.61%) Entity Framework
12 45 (6.47%) Blazor
13 40 (5.75%) Playwright
14 36 (5.17%) YAML
15 35 (5.03%) ARM Templates
16 33 (4.74%) ML.NET
17 31 (4.45%) Middleware
18 30 (4.31%) SOAP
19 27 (3.88%) JSON
20 21 (3.02%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 72 (10.34%) Product Ownership
2 49 (7.04%) Cloud Native
3 41 (5.89%) Mobile App
4 24 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
5 21 (3.02%) Legacy Systems
6 19 (2.73%) Management Information System
7 17 (2.44%) Low-Code
8 12 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
9 11 (1.58%) Greenfield Project
9 11 (1.58%) Hybrid Cloud
10 10 (1.44%) Distributed Systems
10 10 (1.44%) Enterprise Cloud
11 9 (1.29%) Onboarding
12 8 (1.15%) iPhone
12 8 (1.15%) Social Network
13 7 (1.01%) BBC
13 7 (1.01%) Legacy Applications
13 7 (1.01%) Social Media
14 5 (0.72%) Embedded Systems
14 5 (0.72%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 75 (10.78%) Linux
2 38 (5.46%) Windows
3 17 (2.44%) Ubuntu
3 17 (2.44%) Unix
4 15 (2.16%) Android
5 13 (1.87%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.57%) Kali Linux
6 4 (0.57%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.43%) VMS
8 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 696 (100.00%) DevOps
2 405 (58.19%) CI/CD
3 326 (46.84%) Agile
4 172 (24.71%) Infrastructure as Code
5 152 (21.84%) Test Automation
6 128 (18.39%) Scrum
7 127 (18.25%) AI
8 121 (17.39%) Continuous Improvement
9 118 (16.95%) Problem-Solving
10 115 (16.52%) Full-Stack Development
11 99 (14.22%) Mentoring
12 74 (10.63%) Coaching
12 74 (10.63%) SDLC
13 72 (10.34%) Observability
14 70 (10.06%) Analytics
14 70 (10.06%) Kanban
15 69 (9.91%) Containerisation
16 66 (9.48%) Data Modelling
17 65 (9.34%) Machine Learning
18 64 (9.20%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 230 (33.05%) SQL
2 198 (28.45%) C#
3 151 (21.70%) Python
4 122 (17.53%) JavaScript
5 97 (13.94%) Bash
6 80 (11.49%) PowerShell
7 53 (7.61%) Java
8 42 (6.03%) Bicep
9 28 (4.02%) TypeScript
10 18 (2.59%) Go
11 14 (2.01%) C++
11 14 (2.01%) T-SQL
12 12 (1.72%) Swift
13 8 (1.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 8 (1.15%) Kotlin
13 8 (1.15%) PL/SQL
14 7 (1.01%) Apex Code
15 6 (0.86%) Shell Script
16 5 (0.72%) Scala
17 4 (0.57%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 65 (9.34%) Degree
2 41 (5.89%) Security Cleared
3 28 (4.02%) SC Cleared
4 26 (3.74%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (2.73%) Azure Certification
6 13 (1.87%) Microsoft Certification
7 12 (1.72%) HND
7 12 (1.72%) ISTQB
8 9 (1.29%) Master's Degree
9 8 (1.15%) AWS Certification
9 8 (1.15%) DV Cleared
10 6 (0.86%) PMI Certification
11 3 (0.43%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (0.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.29%) BC Cleared
12 2 (0.29%) CISSP
12 2 (0.29%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.29%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 2 (0.29%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.29%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (10.78%) QA
2 58 (8.33%) Accessibility
3 20 (2.87%) GDPR
4 19 (2.73%) WCAG
5 16 (2.30%) Data Quality
6 12 (1.72%) TickIT
7 11 (1.58%) SLA
8 10 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (0.57%) JTAG
10 3 (0.43%) GRC
10 3 (0.43%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 3 (0.43%) IFRS
10 3 (0.43%) Software Quality Assurance
11 2 (0.29%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.29%) PMO
11 2 (0.29%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.29%) Solvency II
12 1 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.14%) NCSC
12 1 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 82 (11.78%) Docker
2 31 (4.45%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.57%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.29%) vSphere
7 1 (0.14%) Firmware
7 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 203 (29.17%) Terraform
2 62 (8.91%) Kubernetes
3 47 (6.75%) Ansible
4 46 (6.61%) Grafana
5 39 (5.60%) Prometheus
6 17 (2.44%) Argo
7 5 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (0.57%) HP Fortify
8 4 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (0.57%) 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%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.14%) Packer
11 1 (0.14%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 279 (40.09%) Microsoft
2 30 (4.31%) Databricks
3 26 (3.74%) Salesforce
4 24 (3.45%) Red Hat
5 22 (3.16%) Dynatrace
5 22 (3.16%) Google
6 18 (2.59%) Apple
7 15 (2.16%) Facebook
8 13 (1.87%) Oracle
9 12 (1.72%) Adobe
10 11 (1.58%) Freshdesk
10 11 (1.58%) Nintex
11 10 (1.44%) MuleSoft
12 9 (1.29%) CrowdStrike
12 9 (1.29%) VMware
13 8 (1.15%) ServiceNow
13 8 (1.15%) YouTube
14 7 (1.01%) Sony
14 7 (1.01%) Yahoo!
15 4 (0.57%) Fortinet