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

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 168 198 124
Rank change year-on-year +30 -74 -4
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 684 455 1,541
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.02% 1.60% 2.18%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.76% 5.56% 6.75%
Number of salaries quoted 532 340 1,141
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,000 £52,188 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £73,813 £77,688 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £66,000 £67,500 £61,500
% change year-on-year -2.22% +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 18,195 8,179 22,841
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 27.13% 28.72% 32.36%
Number of salaries quoted 9,669 5,551 17,529
10th Percentile £29,000 £28,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £39,238 £36,250 £36,365
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,688 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% +7.38% -9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £66,887
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% -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 25 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 25 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 -9 185 £55,000 -18.52% 80
North of England +47 184 £65,500 -4.73% 80
Midlands +3 109 £65,000 +4.00% 39
North West +54 98 £70,000 +15.70% 47
South West -33 71 £52,500 -8.70% 17
Scotland +41 61 £62,500 - 14
West Midlands -28 56 £62,000 +1.22% 22
East Midlands +13 51 £67,250 +3.46% 17
Yorkshire -40 47 £69,310 -0.99% 19
East of England -13 40 £60,000 +4.35% 28
North East -8 39 £50,000 -9.09% 15
Wales -14 34 £53,000 -18.46% 10
Northern Ireland -38 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 26 (3.80%) SharePoint
2 21 (3.07%) Confluence
3 18 (2.63%) IIS
4 15 (2.19%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (1.02%) SharePoint Server
6 6 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (0.73%) Apache
7 5 (0.73%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 3 (0.44%) Anypoint
8 3 (0.44%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.44%) WordPress
9 2 (0.29%) CICS
9 2 (0.29%) CMS
9 2 (0.29%) Luigi
9 2 (0.29%) Umbraco
10 1 (0.15%) Drupal
10 1 (0.15%) nginx
10 1 (0.15%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 14 (2.05%) MS Visio
2 9 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (1.02%) Chatbot
4 5 (0.73%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.29%) Trello
6 1 (0.15%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.15%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 10 (1.46%) Dynamics CRM
1 10 (1.46%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (0.73%) Visualfiles
3 4 (0.58%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (0.29%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.29%) Magento
5 1 (0.15%) Infor M3
5 1 (0.15%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 1 (0.15%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.15%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 684 (100.00%) Azure
2 152 (22.22%) GitHub
3 122 (17.84%) Power Platform
4 116 (16.96%) AWS
5 88 (12.87%) GitHub Actions
6 68 (9.94%) Microsoft 365
7 48 (7.02%) Entra ID
8 45 (6.58%) Azure Logic Apps
9 43 (6.29%) Azure AKS
10 41 (5.99%) Serverless
11 39 (5.70%) Azure Monitor
12 38 (5.56%) GCP
12 38 (5.56%) SaaS
13 34 (4.97%) Azure Data Factory
14 33 (4.82%) PaaS
15 29 (4.24%) Azure Service Bus
15 29 (4.24%) Dynamics 365
16 27 (3.95%) Azure AI
17 25 (3.65%) Azure Functions
18 23 (3.36%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 37 (5.41%) Firewall
2 21 (3.07%) DNS
3 16 (2.34%) TCP/IP
4 15 (2.19%) HTTP
5 11 (1.61%) Network Security
6 4 (0.58%) Bluetooth
6 4 (0.58%) MQTT
6 4 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (0.58%) Wireless
6 4 (0.58%) ZigBee
7 3 (0.44%) BGP
7 3 (0.44%) HTTPS
7 3 (0.44%) SAN
8 2 (0.29%) Internet
8 2 (0.29%) VPN
9 1 (0.15%) DHCP
9 1 (0.15%) IP Telephony
9 1 (0.15%) MPLS
9 1 (0.15%) VLAN
9 1 (0.15%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (11.84%) SQL Server
2 76 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
3 70 (10.23%) Power BI
4 63 (9.21%) MongoDB
5 30 (4.39%) PostgreSQL
6 24 (3.51%) Data Warehouse
7 21 (3.07%) NoSQL
8 15 (2.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 14 (2.05%) Relational Database
10 11 (1.61%) Elasticsearch
11 10 (1.46%) Data Lake
11 10 (1.46%) Spark SQL
12 9 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
13 8 (1.17%) DynamoDB
13 8 (1.17%) Metadata
14 7 (1.02%) Power Query
15 6 (0.88%) MySQL
15 6 (0.88%) Tableau
16 5 (0.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 4 (0.58%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 111 (16.23%) Git
2 87 (12.72%) JIRA
3 81 (11.84%) Jenkins
4 49 (7.16%) GitLab
5 40 (5.85%) Selenium
6 28 (4.09%) Cypress.io
7 20 (2.92%) Postman
8 11 (1.61%) Visual Studio
9 10 (1.46%) Oracle Forms
9 10 (1.46%) REST Assured
9 10 (1.46%) Zephyr
10 9 (1.32%) fastlane
10 9 (1.32%) JMeter
11 7 (1.02%) Robot Framework
12 6 (0.88%) Cucumber
12 6 (0.88%) TestRail
12 6 (0.88%) Xcode
13 5 (0.73%) Gatling
13 5 (0.73%) LoadRunner
13 5 (0.73%) NUnit
General
1 145 (21.20%) Finance
2 133 (19.44%) Social Skills
3 91 (13.30%) Analytical Skills
4 63 (9.21%) Public Sector
5 36 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 32 (4.68%) Retail
7 29 (4.24%) Marketing
8 23 (3.36%) Billing
9 20 (2.92%) Law
10 15 (2.19%) Telecoms
11 14 (2.05%) Legal
12 12 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
13 11 (1.61%) Automotive
13 11 (1.61%) Games
14 10 (1.46%) Advertising
14 10 (1.46%) Banking
15 7 (1.02%) Manufacturing
16 6 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
17 3 (0.44%) Aviation
18 2 (0.29%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 204 (29.82%) Developer
2 151 (22.08%) Senior
3 128 (18.71%) DevOps Engineer
4 108 (15.79%) Azure Engineer
5 80 (11.70%) Lead
6 68 (9.94%) .NET Developer
7 50 (7.31%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 47 (6.87%) Cloud Engineer
9 46 (6.73%) Senior Developer
10 36 (5.26%) Senior DevOps
11 35 (5.12%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 34 (4.97%) Analyst
13 32 (4.68%) Software Engineer
14 28 (4.09%) Data Engineer
15 27 (3.95%) Architect
16 23 (3.36%) Full-Stack Developer
16 23 (3.36%) Software Developer
17 22 (3.22%) Power Platform Developer
17 22 (3.22%) Systems Engineer
18 20 (2.92%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 193 (28.22%) .NET
2 99 (14.47%) ASP.NET
3 89 (13.01%) React
4 85 (12.43%) .NET Core
5 80 (11.70%) ASP.NET Core
5 80 (11.70%) HTML
6 78 (11.40%) CSS
6 78 (11.40%) RESTful
7 66 (9.65%) REST
8 56 (8.19%) Node.js
9 42 (6.14%) Blazor
10 40 (5.85%) SOAP
11 37 (5.41%) Entity Framework
11 37 (5.41%) Playwright
11 37 (5.41%) YAML
12 33 (4.82%) JSON
13 30 (4.39%) Middleware
13 30 (4.39%) OAuth
14 29 (4.24%) ARM Templates
15 27 (3.95%) ML.NET
Miscellaneous
1 72 (10.53%) Product Ownership
2 58 (8.48%) Cloud Native
3 35 (5.12%) Mobile App
4 31 (4.53%) Enterprise Software
5 23 (3.36%) Low-Code
6 22 (3.22%) Management Information System
7 20 (2.92%) Legacy Systems
8 12 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
9 9 (1.32%) Enterprise Cloud
10 8 (1.17%) Distributed Systems
10 8 (1.17%) Greenfield Project
10 8 (1.17%) Legacy Applications
11 7 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
11 7 (1.02%) iPhone
11 7 (1.02%) Social Network
12 6 (0.88%) BBC
12 6 (0.88%) Onboarding
12 6 (0.88%) Social Media
13 5 (0.73%) Embedded Systems
13 5 (0.73%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 73 (10.67%) Linux
2 39 (5.70%) Windows
3 18 (2.63%) Unix
4 15 (2.19%) Ubuntu
5 12 (1.75%) Android
6 11 (1.61%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.58%) Kali Linux
8 3 (0.44%) Windows Server
9 2 (0.29%) VMS
10 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 684 (100.00%) DevOps
2 405 (59.21%) CI/CD
3 322 (47.08%) Agile
4 174 (25.44%) Infrastructure as Code
5 165 (24.12%) Test Automation
6 127 (18.57%) AI
7 115 (16.81%) Problem-Solving
8 113 (16.52%) Continuous Improvement
9 111 (16.23%) Scrum
10 103 (15.06%) Full-Stack Development
11 102 (14.91%) Mentoring
12 93 (13.60%) Coaching
13 79 (11.55%) Data Modelling
14 78 (11.40%) Observability
15 73 (10.67%) Containerisation
16 69 (10.09%) Software Engineering
17 68 (9.94%) SDLC
18 66 (9.65%) Analytics
19 65 (9.50%) Continuous Integration
19 65 (9.50%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 221 (32.31%) SQL
2 181 (26.46%) C#
3 156 (22.81%) Python
4 115 (16.81%) JavaScript
5 94 (13.74%) Bash
6 79 (11.55%) PowerShell
7 56 (8.19%) Java
8 37 (5.41%) Bicep
9 25 (3.65%) TypeScript
10 18 (2.63%) Go
11 15 (2.19%) C++
12 14 (2.05%) PL/SQL
13 13 (1.90%) Apex Code
14 12 (1.75%) Shell Script
15 10 (1.46%) Swift
16 9 (1.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 9 (1.32%) T-SQL
17 6 (0.88%) Kotlin
18 4 (0.58%) C
18 4 (0.58%) Scala
Qualifications
1 64 (9.36%) Degree
2 45 (6.58%) Security Cleared
3 29 (4.24%) SC Cleared
4 24 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (2.34%) Azure Certification
6 13 (1.90%) HND
7 11 (1.61%) AWS Certification
7 11 (1.61%) ISTQB
7 11 (1.61%) Microsoft Certification
8 10 (1.46%) DV Cleared
8 10 (1.46%) Master's Degree
9 6 (0.88%) AWS Certified Developer
9 6 (0.88%) PMI Certification
10 4 (0.58%) BC Cleared
11 3 (0.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.29%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.29%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.29%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 1 (0.15%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 1 (0.15%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (10.09%) QA
2 57 (8.33%) Accessibility
3 23 (3.36%) GDPR
4 14 (2.05%) Data Quality
4 14 (2.05%) WCAG
5 12 (1.75%) SLA
5 12 (1.75%) TickIT
6 11 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.58%) JTAG
8 3 (0.44%) GRC
8 3 (0.44%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 3 (0.44%) IFRS
8 3 (0.44%) Software Quality Assurance
9 2 (0.29%) IFRS 17
9 2 (0.29%) PMO
9 2 (0.29%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.29%) Solvency II
10 1 (0.15%) NCSC
10 1 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 89 (13.01%) Docker
2 30 (4.39%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.15%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 210 (30.70%) Terraform
2 63 (9.21%) Kubernetes
3 50 (7.31%) Ansible
4 47 (6.87%) Grafana
5 40 (5.85%) Prometheus
6 17 (2.49%) Argo
7 11 (1.61%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (0.58%) HP Fortify
8 4 (0.58%) Puppet
9 3 (0.44%) HP ALM
9 3 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (0.44%) Scalr
10 2 (0.29%) MIIS
11 1 (0.15%) CASB
11 1 (0.15%) Consul
11 1 (0.15%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.15%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.15%) Packer
11 1 (0.15%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 265 (38.74%) Microsoft
2 32 (4.68%) Salesforce
3 27 (3.95%) Databricks
4 24 (3.51%) Red Hat
5 19 (2.78%) Dynatrace
5 19 (2.78%) Oracle
6 18 (2.63%) Google
7 15 (2.19%) Apple
8 13 (1.90%) Adobe
9 12 (1.75%) Facebook
9 12 (1.75%) Freshdesk
9 12 (1.75%) Nintex
10 11 (1.61%) CrowdStrike
11 10 (1.46%) MuleSoft
12 6 (0.88%) ServiceNow
12 6 (0.88%) Sony
12 6 (0.88%) Yahoo!
12 6 (0.88%) YouTube
13 5 (0.73%) Ab Initio
13 5 (0.73%) VMware