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

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 157 198 129
Rank change year-on-year +41 -69 -6
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 745 474 1,593
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.11% 1.60% 2.03%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.61% 5.55% 6.68%
Number of salaries quoted 624 351 1,150
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,000 £51,250 £46,563
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 £70,531
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £61,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +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 16,166 8,546 23,835
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 24.13% 28.77% 30.36%
Number of salaries quoted 10,289 5,879 17,989
10th Percentile £29,750 £27,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,500 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +2.94% -7.27%
75th Percentile £75,000 £69,625 £66,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £84,250 £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 15 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 15 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 +53 218 £62,500 -10.71% 54
South East -1 195 £57,500 -11.54% 100
Midlands +15 123 £65,000 +8.33% 51
North West +66 120 £69,308 +2.68% 31
South West -26 79 £55,000 -4.35% 23
West Midlands -18 62 £65,000 +8.33% 30
East Midlands +23 59 £65,000 +13.04% 21
East of England +4 59 £56,000 -2.61% 36
Yorkshire -26 51 £69,305 -0.99% 15
North East -6 47 £50,000 -9.09% 8
Wales -21 40 £53,135 -18.25% 9
Scotland +24 31 £62,500 -1.57% 18
Northern Ireland -32 2 £72,500 +45.00% 1
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 33 (4.43%) SharePoint
2 31 (4.16%) Confluence
3 18 (2.42%) Microsoft Exchange
4 17 (2.28%) IIS
5 7 (0.94%) SharePoint Server
6 5 (0.67%) Apache
7 4 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.54%) nginx
8 3 (0.40%) Anypoint
8 3 (0.40%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.40%) WordPress
9 2 (0.27%) CICS
9 2 (0.27%) CMS
9 2 (0.27%) Luigi
9 2 (0.27%) Umbraco
10 1 (0.13%) Drupal
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.13%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 15 (2.01%) MS Visio
2 10 (1.34%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.94%) Chatbot
4 5 (0.67%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
6 2 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.27%) Trello
7 1 (0.13%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.13%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 8 (1.07%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.67%) Visualfiles
3 4 (0.54%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (0.40%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.27%) Magento
5 2 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
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%) SAP IBP
6 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.13%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 745 (100.00%) Azure
2 143 (19.19%) GitHub
3 122 (16.38%) Power Platform
4 114 (15.30%) AWS
5 89 (11.95%) GitHub Actions
6 59 (7.92%) Microsoft 365
7 52 (6.98%) Azure AI
8 51 (6.85%) Azure AKS
9 48 (6.44%) Serverless
10 47 (6.31%) Azure Monitor
11 46 (6.17%) PaaS
12 45 (6.04%) Entra ID
13 44 (5.91%) SaaS
14 43 (5.77%) Azure Logic Apps
15 37 (4.97%) Dynamics 365
16 36 (4.83%) Azure Functions
16 36 (4.83%) GCP
17 34 (4.56%) Azure Service Bus
18 31 (4.16%) IaaS
19 28 (3.76%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 34 (4.56%) Firewall
2 19 (2.55%) DNS
3 17 (2.28%) HTTP
4 15 (2.01%) TCP/IP
5 10 (1.34%) Network Security
6 7 (0.94%) VPN
7 4 (0.54%) Bluetooth
7 4 (0.54%) Internet
7 4 (0.54%) MQTT
7 4 (0.54%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (0.54%) Wireless
7 4 (0.54%) ZigBee
8 3 (0.40%) BGP
8 3 (0.40%) HTTPS
8 3 (0.40%) SAN
9 1 (0.13%) IP Telephony
9 1 (0.13%) LTE
9 1 (0.13%) MPLS
9 1 (0.13%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (16.64%) Azure SQL Database
2 99 (13.29%) MongoDB
3 84 (11.28%) SQL Server
4 67 (8.99%) Power BI
5 30 (4.03%) PostgreSQL
6 21 (2.82%) Elasticsearch
7 19 (2.55%) Data Warehouse
8 16 (2.15%) NoSQL
8 16 (2.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 12 (1.61%) Relational Database
10 10 (1.34%) Data Lake
10 10 (1.34%) Spark SQL
11 9 (1.21%) Amazon RDS
11 9 (1.21%) Metadata
11 9 (1.21%) MySQL
12 7 (0.94%) Power Query
12 7 (0.94%) Redis
13 5 (0.67%) Delta Lake
13 5 (0.67%) NonStop SQL
13 5 (0.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 109 (14.63%) Git
2 90 (12.08%) JIRA
3 77 (10.34%) Jenkins
4 50 (6.71%) GitLab
5 39 (5.23%) Selenium
6 32 (4.30%) Cypress.io
7 21 (2.82%) Postman
8 14 (1.88%) fastlane
9 12 (1.61%) REST Assured
9 12 (1.61%) Visual Studio
10 11 (1.48%) Zephyr
11 10 (1.34%) JMeter
12 9 (1.21%) Xcode
13 7 (0.94%) TestRail
14 6 (0.81%) Android Studio
14 6 (0.81%) Crashlytics
14 6 (0.81%) Gradle
14 6 (0.81%) NUnit
15 5 (0.67%) Cucumber
15 5 (0.67%) GDB
General
1 137 (18.39%) Social Skills
2 115 (15.44%) Finance
3 84 (11.28%) Analytical Skills
4 71 (9.53%) Public Sector
5 54 (7.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 36 (4.83%) Retail
7 32 (4.30%) Marketing
8 24 (3.22%) Law
9 20 (2.68%) Billing
10 16 (2.15%) Advertising
10 16 (2.15%) Games
11 15 (2.01%) Telecoms
12 12 (1.61%) Legal
13 10 (1.34%) Automotive
13 10 (1.34%) Banking
14 9 (1.21%) Influencing Skills
14 9 (1.21%) Manufacturing
15 7 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
16 6 (0.81%) Aviation
17 3 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 262 (35.17%) Developer
2 141 (18.93%) DevOps Engineer
3 139 (18.66%) Senior
4 110 (14.77%) .NET Developer
5 107 (14.36%) Azure Engineer
6 83 (11.14%) Lead
7 55 (7.38%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 50 (6.71%) Senior Developer
9 42 (5.64%) Analyst
10 40 (5.37%) Cloud Engineer
11 37 (4.97%) Senior DevOps
12 36 (4.83%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 33 (4.43%) Software Engineer
14 32 (4.30%) Platform Engineer
15 29 (3.89%) Data Engineer
16 28 (3.76%) Software Developer
17 27 (3.62%) Architect
18 23 (3.09%) Systems Engineer
19 20 (2.68%) Full-Stack Developer
19 20 (2.68%) Power Platform Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 242 (32.48%) .NET
2 139 (18.66%) ASP.NET
3 120 (16.11%) .NET Core
4 118 (15.84%) ASP.NET Core
5 105 (14.09%) React
6 99 (13.29%) HTML
7 97 (13.02%) CSS
8 89 (11.95%) RESTful
9 68 (9.13%) REST
10 65 (8.72%) Node.js
11 61 (8.19%) Entity Framework
12 60 (8.05%) Blazor
13 49 (6.58%) ML.NET
14 41 (5.50%) Playwright
15 40 (5.37%) YAML
16 37 (4.97%) ARM Templates
17 31 (4.16%) Middleware
18 27 (3.62%) JSON
18 27 (3.62%) SOAP
19 24 (3.22%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 74 (9.93%) Product Ownership
2 51 (6.85%) Cloud Native
3 47 (6.31%) Mobile App
4 26 (3.49%) Enterprise Software
5 24 (3.22%) Legacy Systems
6 17 (2.28%) Greenfield Project
6 17 (2.28%) Low-Code
6 17 (2.28%) Management Information System
7 13 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
7 13 (1.74%) Hybrid Cloud
7 13 (1.74%) Onboarding
8 11 (1.48%) BBC
8 11 (1.48%) Distributed Systems
8 11 (1.48%) iPhone
8 11 (1.48%) Social Media
8 11 (1.48%) Social Network
9 10 (1.34%) Enterprise Cloud
10 7 (0.94%) Legacy Applications
11 6 (0.81%) Linux Command Line
11 6 (0.81%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 80 (10.74%) Linux
2 41 (5.50%) Windows
3 18 (2.42%) Android
4 17 (2.28%) Ubuntu
4 17 (2.28%) Unix
5 14 (1.88%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.67%) VMS
7 4 (0.54%) Kali Linux
7 4 (0.54%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 745 (100.00%) DevOps
2 428 (57.45%) CI/CD
3 360 (48.32%) Agile
4 176 (23.62%) Infrastructure as Code
5 149 (20.00%) Test Automation
6 148 (19.87%) AI
6 148 (19.87%) Full-Stack Development
7 137 (18.39%) Scrum
8 132 (17.72%) Continuous Improvement
9 117 (15.70%) Problem-Solving
10 101 (13.56%) Mentoring
11 81 (10.87%) SDLC
12 79 (10.60%) Machine Learning
12 79 (10.60%) Observability
13 78 (10.47%) Analytics
14 76 (10.20%) Kanban
15 71 (9.53%) Coaching
16 69 (9.26%) Containerisation
17 67 (8.99%) Microservices
17 67 (8.99%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 254 (34.09%) SQL
2 239 (32.08%) C#
3 149 (20.00%) Python
4 141 (18.93%) JavaScript
5 104 (13.96%) Bash
6 86 (11.54%) PowerShell
7 52 (6.98%) Bicep
8 51 (6.85%) Java
9 30 (4.03%) TypeScript
10 18 (2.42%) Go
11 15 (2.01%) T-SQL
12 14 (1.88%) C++
13 13 (1.74%) Swift
14 8 (1.07%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 8 (1.07%) Kotlin
15 6 (0.81%) PL/SQL
16 5 (0.67%) Apex Code
16 5 (0.67%) Kusto Query Language
17 4 (0.54%) Scala
17 4 (0.54%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 65 (8.72%) Degree
2 46 (6.17%) Security Cleared
3 34 (4.56%) SC Cleared
4 26 (3.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (3.09%) Azure Certification
6 14 (1.88%) ISTQB
6 14 (1.88%) Microsoft Certification
7 11 (1.48%) HND
8 8 (1.07%) Master's Degree
8 8 (1.07%) PMI Certification
9 7 (0.94%) AWS Certification
9 7 (0.94%) DV Cleared
10 3 (0.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.27%) BC Cleared
11 2 (0.27%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.27%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 2 (0.27%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.27%) PMP
11 2 (0.27%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 1 (0.13%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (11.01%) QA
2 59 (7.92%) Accessibility
3 22 (2.95%) WCAG
4 17 (2.28%) GDPR
5 13 (1.74%) Data Quality
6 12 (1.61%) TickIT
7 11 (1.48%) SLA
8 9 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (0.54%) JTAG
10 3 (0.40%) GRC
10 3 (0.40%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 3 (0.40%) IFRS
10 3 (0.40%) PMO
10 3 (0.40%) Software Quality Assurance
11 2 (0.27%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.27%) NCSC
11 2 (0.27%) Solvency II
12 1 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.13%) SOC 2
System Software
1 85 (11.41%) Docker
2 32 (4.30%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.21%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.67%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.54%) vSphere
6 1 (0.13%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 202 (27.11%) Terraform
2 69 (9.26%) Kubernetes
3 51 (6.85%) Grafana
4 46 (6.17%) Ansible
5 43 (5.77%) Prometheus
6 19 (2.55%) Argo
7 4 (0.54%) HP Fortify
7 4 (0.54%) Puppet
8 3 (0.40%) HP ALM
8 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (0.40%) Scalr
8 3 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.27%) MIIS
10 1 (0.13%) CASB
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
Vendors
1 319 (42.82%) Microsoft
2 30 (4.03%) Google
3 29 (3.89%) Databricks
4 24 (3.22%) Red Hat
5 23 (3.09%) Apple
5 23 (3.09%) Dynatrace
5 23 (3.09%) Facebook
5 23 (3.09%) Salesforce
6 12 (1.61%) YouTube
7 11 (1.48%) Adobe
7 11 (1.48%) Sony
7 11 (1.48%) VMware
7 11 (1.48%) Yahoo!
8 10 (1.34%) Freshdesk
8 10 (1.34%) MuleSoft
8 10 (1.34%) Nintex
8 10 (1.34%) Oracle
9 9 (1.21%) CrowdStrike
10 8 (1.07%) ServiceNow
11 4 (0.54%) Veracode