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

6 months to
22 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 155 198 133
Rank change year-on-year +43 -65 -8
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 792 473 1,575
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.16% 1.56% 1.98%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.79% 5.48% 6.57%
Number of salaries quoted 673 353 1,132
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,000 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £78,250 £70,800
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +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 16,543 8,635 23,962
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 24.30% 28.49% 30.07%
Number of salaries quoted 10,642 5,957 18,118
10th Percentile £29,750 £27,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £51,431
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +2.08% -6.49%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £66,778
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -8.73%

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 22 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 22 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 +69 227 £62,500 -7.41% 68
South East -4 212 £59,500 -8.46% 103
Midlands +16 129 £65,000 +8.33% 47
North West +76 126 £69,305 +4.61% 42
South West -16 90 £55,000 -4.35% 25
East of England +15 66 £55,500 -1.33% 30
West Midlands -13 65 £65,000 +8.33% 25
East Midlands +22 62 £64,050 +13.87% 22
Yorkshire -25 52 £69,305 -0.99% 17
North East -8 49 £50,000 -9.09% 10
Wales -15 43 £53,171 -18.20% 12
Scotland +18 25 £61,250 -3.54% 16
Northern Ireland -35 2 £72,500 +45.00% 2
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 37 (4.67%) Confluence
2 36 (4.55%) SharePoint
3 21 (2.65%) Microsoft Exchange
4 18 (2.27%) IIS
5 7 (0.88%) SharePoint Server
6 5 (0.63%) nginx
7 4 (0.51%) Apache
7 4 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.38%) Anypoint
8 3 (0.38%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.38%) WordPress
9 2 (0.25%) CICS
9 2 (0.25%) CMS
9 2 (0.25%) Luigi
9 2 (0.25%) Umbraco
10 1 (0.13%) Drupal
10 1 (0.13%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 15 (1.89%) MS Visio
2 11 (1.39%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.88%) Chatbot
4 5 (0.63%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.51%) Trello
6 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
6 3 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.13%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.13%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 9 (1.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.63%) Visualfiles
3 4 (0.51%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (0.38%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.25%) Magento
5 2 (0.25%) SAP IBP
5 2 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.13%) Infor M3
6 1 (0.13%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 1 (0.13%) Sage 200
6 1 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.13%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 792 (100.00%) Azure
2 142 (17.93%) GitHub
3 125 (15.78%) Power Platform
4 113 (14.27%) AWS
5 87 (10.98%) GitHub Actions
6 64 (8.08%) Azure AI
7 57 (7.20%) Microsoft 365
8 54 (6.82%) Azure AKS
9 53 (6.69%) Azure Monitor
9 53 (6.69%) Serverless
10 51 (6.44%) PaaS
11 45 (5.68%) Entra ID
12 43 (5.43%) Azure Functions
12 43 (5.43%) SaaS
13 42 (5.30%) Azure Logic Apps
14 41 (5.18%) Dynamics 365
15 38 (4.80%) Azure Service Bus
16 35 (4.42%) IaaS
17 34 (4.29%) GCP
17 34 (4.29%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 33 (4.17%) Firewall
2 18 (2.27%) DNS
3 16 (2.02%) HTTP
4 14 (1.77%) TCP/IP
5 12 (1.52%) VPN
6 10 (1.26%) Network Security
7 6 (0.76%) Internet
8 4 (0.51%) Bluetooth
8 4 (0.51%) MQTT
8 4 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (0.51%) Wireless
8 4 (0.51%) ZigBee
9 3 (0.38%) BGP
9 3 (0.38%) HTTPS
9 3 (0.38%) SAN
10 2 (0.25%) VLAN
11 1 (0.13%) IP Telephony
11 1 (0.13%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 151 (19.07%) Azure SQL Database
2 123 (15.53%) MongoDB
3 88 (11.11%) SQL Server
4 63 (7.95%) Power BI
5 29 (3.66%) PostgreSQL
6 26 (3.28%) Elasticsearch
7 18 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
8 17 (2.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 14 (1.77%) NoSQL
9 14 (1.77%) Relational Database
10 11 (1.39%) MySQL
11 10 (1.26%) Metadata
11 10 (1.26%) Spark SQL
12 9 (1.14%) Amazon RDS
12 9 (1.14%) Data Lake
13 8 (1.01%) Redis
14 7 (0.88%) NonStop SQL
15 6 (0.76%) Delta Lake
15 6 (0.76%) Power Query
15 6 (0.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 118 (14.90%) Git
2 98 (12.37%) JIRA
3 74 (9.34%) Jenkins
4 50 (6.31%) GitLab
5 41 (5.18%) Selenium
6 34 (4.29%) Cypress.io
7 23 (2.90%) Postman
8 14 (1.77%) fastlane
8 14 (1.77%) Visual Studio
9 13 (1.64%) REST Assured
10 12 (1.52%) JMeter
11 11 (1.39%) Zephyr
12 9 (1.14%) Xcode
13 7 (0.88%) NUnit
13 7 (0.88%) TestRail
14 6 (0.76%) Android Studio
14 6 (0.76%) Crashlytics
14 6 (0.76%) Gatling
14 6 (0.76%) Gradle
14 6 (0.76%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 149 (18.81%) Social Skills
2 115 (14.52%) Finance
3 83 (10.48%) Analytical Skills
4 73 (9.22%) Public Sector
5 64 (8.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 39 (4.92%) Retail
7 35 (4.42%) Marketing
8 27 (3.41%) Law
9 19 (2.40%) Advertising
9 19 (2.40%) Billing
9 19 (2.40%) Games
10 14 (1.77%) Telecoms
11 12 (1.52%) Legal
11 12 (1.52%) Manufacturing
12 10 (1.26%) Automotive
12 10 (1.26%) Banking
13 9 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
14 7 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
15 6 (0.76%) Aviation
16 3 (0.38%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 294 (37.12%) Developer
2 142 (17.93%) DevOps Engineer
3 140 (17.68%) Senior
4 137 (17.30%) .NET Developer
5 106 (13.38%) Azure Engineer
6 88 (11.11%) Lead
7 56 (7.07%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 52 (6.57%) Senior Developer
9 48 (6.06%) Analyst
10 37 (4.67%) Cloud Engineer
11 36 (4.55%) Senior DevOps
11 36 (4.55%) Software Engineer
12 35 (4.42%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 34 (4.29%) Platform Engineer
14 31 (3.91%) Data Engineer
15 29 (3.66%) Architect
15 29 (3.66%) Software Developer
16 23 (2.90%) Systems Engineer
17 21 (2.65%) Cloud Platform Engineer
18 20 (2.53%) Power Platform Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 276 (34.85%) .NET
2 167 (21.09%) ASP.NET
3 146 (18.43%) .NET Core
4 145 (18.31%) ASP.NET Core
5 115 (14.52%) HTML
5 115 (14.52%) React
6 113 (14.27%) CSS
7 97 (12.25%) RESTful
8 77 (9.72%) Entity Framework
9 72 (9.09%) Blazor
10 70 (8.84%) REST
11 68 (8.59%) Node.js
12 61 (7.70%) ML.NET
13 43 (5.43%) Playwright
14 40 (5.05%) ARM Templates
15 39 (4.92%) YAML
16 32 (4.04%) Middleware
17 29 (3.66%) .NET Framework
18 27 (3.41%) JSON
19 25 (3.16%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 72 (9.09%) Product Ownership
2 51 (6.44%) Cloud Native
3 50 (6.31%) Mobile App
4 29 (3.66%) Legacy Systems
5 27 (3.41%) Enterprise Software
6 23 (2.90%) Greenfield Project
7 17 (2.15%) Low-Code
7 17 (2.15%) Onboarding
8 16 (2.02%) Management Information System
9 14 (1.77%) Hybrid Cloud
9 14 (1.77%) iPhone
10 13 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
10 13 (1.64%) BBC
10 13 (1.64%) Social Media
11 12 (1.52%) Social Network
12 10 (1.26%) Distributed Systems
12 10 (1.26%) Enterprise Cloud
12 10 (1.26%) Security Posture
13 9 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
14 8 (1.01%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 79 (9.97%) Linux
2 51 (6.44%) Windows
3 21 (2.65%) Android
4 17 (2.15%) Unix
5 16 (2.02%) Ubuntu
6 13 (1.64%) Apple iOS
7 9 (1.14%) VMS
8 4 (0.51%) Kali Linux
8 4 (0.51%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 792 (100.00%) DevOps
2 450 (56.82%) CI/CD
3 397 (50.13%) Agile
4 181 (22.85%) Infrastructure as Code
5 176 (22.22%) Full-Stack Development
6 167 (21.09%) AI
7 149 (18.81%) Scrum
8 146 (18.43%) Test Automation
9 142 (17.93%) Continuous Improvement
10 118 (14.90%) Problem-Solving
11 105 (13.26%) Mentoring
12 90 (11.36%) Machine Learning
13 89 (11.24%) SDLC
14 84 (10.61%) Analytics
15 81 (10.23%) Kanban
15 81 (10.23%) Observability
16 73 (9.22%) Roadmaps
17 70 (8.84%) Microservices
17 70 (8.84%) Platform Engineering
18 68 (8.59%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 285 (35.98%) SQL
2 278 (35.10%) C#
3 161 (20.33%) JavaScript
4 148 (18.69%) Python
5 107 (13.51%) Bash
6 92 (11.62%) PowerShell
7 61 (7.70%) Bicep
8 51 (6.44%) Java
9 35 (4.42%) TypeScript
10 21 (2.65%) T-SQL
11 16 (2.02%) Go
12 14 (1.77%) C++
13 12 (1.52%) Swift
14 9 (1.14%) Kusto Query Language
15 8 (1.01%) Kotlin
16 7 (0.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 5 (0.63%) VB.NET
18 4 (0.51%) C
18 4 (0.51%) PHP
18 4 (0.51%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 65 (8.21%) Degree
2 53 (6.69%) Security Cleared
3 41 (5.18%) SC Cleared
4 28 (3.54%) Azure Certification
5 26 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
7 15 (1.89%) ISTQB
8 10 (1.26%) HND
9 8 (1.01%) DV Cleared
9 8 (1.01%) PMI Certification
10 7 (0.88%) Master's Degree
11 6 (0.76%) AWS Certification
12 3 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.38%) SAFe Agilist
13 2 (0.25%) BC Cleared
13 2 (0.25%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (0.25%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.25%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 2 (0.25%) PMP
13 2 (0.25%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (11.62%) QA
2 60 (7.58%) Accessibility
3 25 (3.16%) WCAG
4 17 (2.15%) GDPR
5 13 (1.64%) Data Quality
6 12 (1.52%) TickIT
7 11 (1.39%) SLA
8 10 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (0.51%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 4 (0.51%) JTAG
9 4 (0.51%) NCSC
9 4 (0.51%) PMO
10 3 (0.38%) GRC
10 3 (0.38%) IFRS
10 3 (0.38%) Software Quality Assurance
11 2 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.25%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.25%) Solvency II
12 1 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.13%) SOC 2
System Software
1 88 (11.11%) Docker
2 36 (4.55%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.14%) Virtual Desktop
5 8 (1.01%) vSphere
6 6 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.25%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 203 (25.63%) Terraform
2 73 (9.22%) Kubernetes
3 52 (6.57%) Grafana
4 46 (5.81%) Ansible
5 44 (5.56%) Prometheus
6 19 (2.40%) Argo
7 4 (0.51%) HP Fortify
7 4 (0.51%) Puppet
8 3 (0.38%) HP ALM
8 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (0.38%) Scalr
9 2 (0.25%) MIIS
10 1 (0.13%) Consul
10 1 (0.13%) Istio
10 1 (0.13%) linkerd
10 1 (0.13%) Packer
10 1 (0.13%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 354 (44.70%) Microsoft
2 35 (4.42%) Google
3 29 (3.66%) Databricks
4 28 (3.54%) Facebook
5 24 (3.03%) Apple
6 23 (2.90%) Dynatrace
6 23 (2.90%) Red Hat
7 21 (2.65%) Salesforce
8 15 (1.89%) VMware
8 15 (1.89%) YouTube
9 13 (1.64%) Sony
9 13 (1.64%) Yahoo!
10 10 (1.26%) Adobe
10 10 (1.26%) MuleSoft
11 9 (1.14%) Freshdesk
11 9 (1.14%) Nintex
12 8 (1.01%) CrowdStrike
12 8 (1.01%) Oracle
12 8 (1.01%) ScienceLogic
12 8 (1.01%) ServiceNow