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 26 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 153 109 92
Rank change year-on-year -44 -17 -2
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 659 1,047 1,043
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.91% 2.17% 3.28%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.00% 7.75% 8.38%
Number of salaries quoted 396 584 874
10th Percentile £39,875 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £48,826
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £72,313 £73,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -

All Cloud 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 9,416 13,511 12,443
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 27.35% 28.05% 39.16%
Number of salaries quoted 6,378 7,609 10,391
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £41,254 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% -

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 26 October 2025.

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 26 October 2025. 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 +2 269 £60,000 -11.11% 227
Scotland +41 98 £65,000 +13.04% 31
Midlands -38 90 £59,000 -3.67% 83
North of England -86 90 £60,000 -1.64% 96
West Midlands -19 70 £60,000 -4.00% 60
North West -59 46 £65,000 +7.88% 40
South West -64 42 £52,500 -19.23% 36
East of England -15 41 £62,500 +25.00% 30
Yorkshire -33 30 £55,000 -15.38% 32
Wales +15 29 £55,000 -9.09% 20
East Midlands -5 20 £55,000 +15.79% 23
North East -8 14 £50,000 -9.09% 24
Isle of Man - 1 £52,500 -
Northern Ireland - 1 £62,500 - 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 24 (3.64%) Confluence
2 22 (3.34%) IIS
3 12 (1.82%) Apache Airflow
4 11 (1.67%) Appian
5 9 (1.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 7 (1.06%) Apache
6 7 (1.06%) SharePoint
7 6 (0.91%) Apache Spark
8 5 (0.76%) BizTalk Server
8 5 (0.76%) nginx
9 3 (0.46%) Tomcat
Applications
1 19 (2.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (2.73%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (1.67%) Microsoft Project
4 5 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.46%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.15%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.15%) Trello
Business Applications
1 69 (10.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 43 (6.53%) Dynamics CRM
3 21 (3.19%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.30%) Markit EDM
4 2 (0.30%) Shopify
5 1 (0.15%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 590 (89.53%) Azure
2 143 (21.70%) GitHub
3 129 (19.58%) Power Platform
4 94 (14.26%) AWS
5 71 (10.77%) GitHub Actions
6 68 (10.32%) Power Automate
7 59 (8.95%) SaaS
8 57 (8.65%) Dynamics 365
9 52 (7.89%) PaaS
10 50 (7.59%) Azure Monitor
10 50 (7.59%) Entra ID
11 49 (7.44%) Azure Service Bus
12 44 (6.68%) Azure Logic Apps
13 39 (5.92%) Microsoft 365
14 36 (5.46%) Azure Key Vault
15 35 (5.31%) IaaS
16 32 (4.86%) Snowflake
17 25 (3.79%) GitHub Copilot
17 25 (3.79%) PowerApps
18 24 (3.64%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 34 (5.16%) Firewall
2 33 (5.01%) DNS
3 29 (4.40%) VPN
4 19 (2.88%) WAN
5 17 (2.58%) SD-WAN
6 7 (1.06%) Network Security
7 5 (0.76%) VLAN
8 4 (0.61%) DHCP
9 3 (0.46%) BGP
9 3 (0.46%) IPsec
9 3 (0.46%) OSPF
9 3 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (0.46%) Wireshark
10 2 (0.30%) ADSL2
11 1 (0.15%) AMQP
11 1 (0.15%) HTTP
11 1 (0.15%) TCP/IP
11 1 (0.15%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (14.11%) SQL Server
2 74 (11.23%) Power BI
3 38 (5.77%) Data Warehouse
4 28 (4.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 28 (4.25%) Tableau
5 24 (3.64%) Relational Database
6 20 (3.03%) MySQL
7 19 (2.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 17 (2.58%) Azure SQL Database
8 17 (2.58%) Data Lake
9 9 (1.37%) Elasticsearch
9 9 (1.37%) Snowflake Schema
10 7 (1.06%) Metadata
11 6 (0.91%) Airbyte
11 6 (0.91%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 5 (0.76%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 5 (0.76%) RDBMS
13 4 (0.61%) Amazon Redshift
13 4 (0.61%) BigQuery
13 4 (0.61%) Looker
Development Applications
1 135 (20.49%) JIRA
2 106 (16.08%) Git
3 69 (10.47%) eCATT
4 55 (8.35%) Jenkins
5 38 (5.77%) NeoLoad
6 36 (5.46%) Selenium
7 33 (5.01%) Octopus Deploy
8 24 (3.64%) Snyk
9 23 (3.49%) Robot Framework
10 21 (3.19%) Oracle Forms
11 16 (2.43%) TeamCity
12 13 (1.97%) Visual Studio
13 11 (1.67%) GitLab
13 11 (1.67%) Team Foundation Server
14 10 (1.52%) MSBuild
15 9 (1.37%) Postman
16 7 (1.06%) Cucumber
16 7 (1.06%) NUnit
16 7 (1.06%) REST Assured
17 6 (0.91%) JMeter
General
1 253 (38.39%) Finance
2 125 (18.97%) Social Skills
3 86 (13.05%) Marketing
4 79 (11.99%) Manufacturing
5 68 (10.32%) Analytical Skills
6 51 (7.74%) Presentation Skills
7 42 (6.37%) Influencing Skills
8 34 (5.16%) Law
9 26 (3.95%) Retail
10 23 (3.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 10 (1.52%) Legal
11 10 (1.52%) Public Sector
12 8 (1.21%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (0.91%) Banking
14 5 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (0.61%) Automotive
15 4 (0.61%) Back Office
15 4 (0.61%) Front Office
16 3 (0.46%) Military
17 2 (0.30%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 121 (18.36%) Senior
2 103 (15.63%) Analyst
3 102 (15.48%) Lead
4 98 (14.87%) Developer
5 95 (14.42%) DevOps Engineer
6 70 (10.62%) Azure Engineer
7 51 (7.74%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 47 (7.13%) Cloud Engineer
9 43 (6.53%) Architect
10 36 (5.46%) Software Engineer
11 33 (5.01%) Test Analyst
12 32 (4.86%) Test Leader
13 25 (3.79%) Platform Engineer
14 23 (3.49%) Applications Engineer
15 22 (3.34%) Automation Test Lead
15 22 (3.34%) Senior Cloud Engineer
16 21 (3.19%) Business Analyst
16 21 (3.19%) Dynamics 365 Developer
17 18 (2.73%) Software Developer
18 17 (2.58%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 198 (30.05%) .NET
2 53 (8.04%) React
3 49 (7.44%) .NET Framework
3 49 (7.44%) RESTful
4 40 (6.07%) REST
5 36 (5.46%) ASP.NET
6 34 (5.16%) JSON
7 31 (4.70%) ARM Templates
8 30 (4.55%) AngularJS
9 29 (4.40%) YAML
10 27 (4.10%) Entity Framework
11 24 (3.64%) .NET Core
11 24 (3.64%) SOAP
11 24 (3.64%) XML
12 22 (3.34%) Blazor
13 20 (3.03%) OAuth
14 19 (2.88%) CSS
14 19 (2.88%) HTML
15 18 (2.73%) WinForms
16 15 (2.28%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 100 (15.17%) Cloud Native
2 84 (12.75%) Product Ownership
3 43 (6.53%) Hybrid Cloud
4 36 (5.46%) Enterprise Software
5 31 (4.70%) Onboarding
6 24 (3.64%) Data Centre
7 18 (2.73%) Analytical Mindset
7 18 (2.73%) e-Learning
8 17 (2.58%) Legacy Systems
9 15 (2.28%) Low-Code
10 14 (2.12%) NHS
10 14 (2.12%) Virtual Team
11 13 (1.97%) Distributed Systems
11 13 (1.97%) Security Posture
12 10 (1.52%) Management Information System
13 9 (1.37%) Mobile App
14 8 (1.21%) Greenfield Project
15 7 (1.06%) Life Science
15 7 (1.06%) Operational Technology
15 7 (1.06%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 58 (8.80%) Windows
2 21 (3.19%) Linux
3 13 (1.97%) VMS
4 7 (1.06%) Android
4 7 (1.06%) Windows Server
5 6 (0.91%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.30%) AIX
7 2 (0.30%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 2 (0.30%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.15%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 590 (89.53%) DevOps
2 322 (48.86%) Agile
3 316 (47.95%) CI/CD
4 175 (26.56%) Test Automation
5 147 (22.31%) Infrastructure as Code
6 145 (22.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 144 (21.85%) Mentoring
8 129 (19.58%) Coaching
9 127 (19.27%) AI
10 114 (17.30%) Problem-Solving
11 110 (16.69%) Roadmaps
12 92 (13.96%) Test Management
13 88 (13.35%) ERP
14 82 (12.44%) Microservices
15 81 (12.29%) Asset Management
16 77 (11.68%) Containerisation
17 75 (11.38%) Software Engineering
18 73 (11.08%) Migration
19 72 (10.93%) Analytics
20 69 (10.47%) Source to Pay
Programming Languages
1 226 (34.29%) SQL
2 182 (27.62%) C#
3 134 (20.33%) Python
4 122 (18.51%) PowerShell
5 66 (10.02%) Bicep
5 66 (10.02%) JavaScript
6 45 (6.83%) Bash
7 41 (6.22%) TypeScript
8 30 (4.55%) Java
9 23 (3.49%) Shell Script
10 21 (3.19%) PL/SQL
11 19 (2.88%) T-SQL
12 10 (1.52%) Apex Code
13 8 (1.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 7 (1.06%) Go
15 5 (0.76%) X++
16 4 (0.61%) VB
17 3 (0.46%) C++
17 3 (0.46%) Groovy
17 3 (0.46%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 55 (8.35%) Degree
2 54 (8.19%) Azure Certification
3 39 (5.92%) Security Cleared
4 27 (4.10%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (3.34%) ISTQB
6 21 (3.19%) SC Cleared
7 20 (3.03%) DV Cleared
8 19 (2.88%) Microsoft Certification
9 15 (2.28%) DBS Check
10 13 (1.97%) ISEB
11 12 (1.82%) Master's Degree
12 6 (0.91%) Cisco Certification
12 6 (0.91%) PMI Certification
12 6 (0.91%) PMP
13 5 (0.76%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 4 (0.61%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 3 (0.46%) AWS Certification
15 3 (0.46%) CCNA
15 3 (0.46%) CCNP
16 2 (0.30%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (12.14%) QA
2 22 (3.34%) GDPR
3 21 (3.19%) Accessibility
4 17 (2.58%) PMO
5 11 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (1.52%) NCSC
6 10 (1.52%) NIST
6 10 (1.52%) Software Quality Assurance
7 5 (0.76%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.15%) COBIT
8 1 (0.15%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.15%) P3O
8 1 (0.15%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.15%) WCAG
System Software
1 87 (13.20%) Docker
2 39 (5.92%) Virtual Machines
3 27 (4.10%) Active Directory
4 18 (2.73%) VMware Infrastructure
5 15 (2.28%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.46%) Firmware
6 3 (0.46%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.30%) vSphere
8 1 (0.15%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.15%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 181 (27.47%) Terraform
2 89 (13.51%) Kubernetes
3 69 (10.47%) HP ALM
4 40 (6.07%) Ansible
5 35 (5.31%) Single Sign-On
6 15 (2.28%) Grafana
7 14 (2.12%) Prometheus
8 13 (1.97%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (0.46%) Dell DRAC
9 3 (0.46%) Puppet
10 2 (0.30%) Argo
10 2 (0.30%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.30%) Red Hat Satellite
10 2 (0.30%) ZABBIX
11 1 (0.15%) Nessus
11 1 (0.15%) Proxmox
11 1 (0.15%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 183 (27.77%) Microsoft
2 72 (10.93%) SAP
3 69 (10.47%) HP
4 30 (4.55%) Databricks
5 27 (4.10%) IBM
6 26 (3.95%) Oracle
7 24 (3.64%) VMware
8 22 (3.34%) Black Duck
8 22 (3.34%) Salesforce
9 21 (3.19%) Red Hat
10 18 (2.73%) Meraki
11 17 (2.58%) Coverity
12 15 (2.28%) Google
13 13 (1.97%) Okta
13 13 (1.97%) Xamarin
14 12 (1.82%) UiPath
15 11 (1.67%) BiZZdesign
15 11 (1.67%) Rackspace
15 11 (1.67%) Sage
16 9 (1.37%) Zoho