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 5 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 180 114 126
Rank change year-on-year -66 +12 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 604 644 1,499
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.04% 2.49% 2.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.46% 7.50% 6.82%
Number of salaries quoted 418 458 1,178
10th Percentile £39,775 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £52,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +8.33% +0.80%
75th Percentile £70,000 £77,188 £70,000
90th Percentile £84,125 £83,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £65,500 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -2.96% +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 17,475 8,591 21,993
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.96% 33.25% 34.19%
Number of salaries quoted 8,522 6,306 17,168
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £27,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £86,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -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 5 April 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 5 April 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 -34 170 £50,000 -28.57% 101
North of England -31 125 £57,500 -17.86% 74
Scotland +38 103 £62,500 +8.70% 22
Midlands -50 89 £63,500 -2.31% 60
South West -84 78 £50,000 -23.08% 34
North West -17 54 £67,500 +1.89% 41
West Midlands -53 53 £57,500 -14.81% 37
Yorkshire -56 39 £58,750 -16.07% 22
East Midlands -18 33 £65,250 +0.38% 23
North East 0 32 £50,000 -23.08% 11
East of England -44 24 £70,000 +32.08% 33
Wales -36 14 £53,171 -18.20% 21
Northern Ireland -40 3 £56,250 +12.50% 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 21 (3.48%) Confluence
1 21 (3.48%) IIS
2 14 (2.32%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.32%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 6 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.50%) Anypoint
6 3 (0.50%) Apache
7 2 (0.33%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.33%) CICS
8 1 (0.17%) Appian
8 1 (0.17%) Drupal
8 1 (0.17%) nginx
8 1 (0.17%) PegaRULES
8 1 (0.17%) WordPress
Applications
1 17 (2.81%) MS Visio
2 12 (1.99%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (1.49%) Microsoft Project
4 5 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.50%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.33%) Trello
8 1 (0.17%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.17%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 16 (2.65%) Oracle ERP
2 13 (2.15%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.66%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (0.33%) Magento
4 2 (0.33%) Visualfiles
5 1 (0.17%) Infor M3
5 1 (0.17%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 1 (0.17%) Primavera
5 1 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.17%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 604 (100.00%) Azure
2 192 (31.79%) GitHub
3 111 (18.38%) AWS
4 109 (18.05%) Power Platform
5 103 (17.05%) GitHub Actions
6 55 (9.11%) Microsoft 365
7 46 (7.62%) Azure Logic Apps
8 44 (7.28%) Entra ID
8 44 (7.28%) GitHub Copilot
9 43 (7.12%) Azure Data Factory
9 43 (7.12%) Serverless
10 38 (6.29%) GCP
11 36 (5.96%) SaaS
12 34 (5.63%) Snowflake
13 33 (5.46%) Azure Monitor
13 33 (5.46%) dbt
13 33 (5.46%) PaaS
14 27 (4.47%) IaaS
15 26 (4.30%) Dynamics 365
15 26 (4.30%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 35 (5.79%) Firewall
2 31 (5.13%) DNS
3 19 (3.15%) HTTP
3 19 (3.15%) TCP/IP
4 6 (0.99%) Network Security
5 3 (0.50%) BGP
6 2 (0.33%) SSL
6 2 (0.33%) VLAN
6 2 (0.33%) VPN
7 1 (0.17%) DHCP
7 1 (0.17%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.17%) IP Telephony
7 1 (0.17%) LTE
7 1 (0.17%) MPLS
7 1 (0.17%) NetScaler
7 1 (0.17%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.17%) VSAN
7 1 (0.17%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (11.26%) SQL Server
2 64 (10.60%) Power BI
3 28 (4.64%) Azure SQL Database
4 25 (4.14%) Data Warehouse
5 22 (3.64%) NoSQL
6 17 (2.81%) PostgreSQL
7 13 (2.15%) DynamoDB
7 13 (2.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 12 (1.99%) MongoDB
9 11 (1.82%) Relational Database
9 11 (1.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 9 (1.49%) Tableau
11 8 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
11 8 (1.32%) Data Lake
12 6 (0.99%) Power Query
12 6 (0.99%) Snowflake Schema
13 5 (0.83%) Metadata
13 5 (0.83%) Spark SQL
14 4 (0.66%) MySQL
15 3 (0.50%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 97 (16.06%) Git
2 84 (13.91%) JIRA
3 77 (12.75%) Jenkins
4 46 (7.62%) Selenium
5 27 (4.47%) Cypress.io
6 26 (4.30%) GitLab
7 16 (2.65%) Oracle Forms
7 16 (2.65%) Robot Framework
8 15 (2.48%) Postman
9 14 (2.32%) Snyk
10 11 (1.82%) Visual Studio
11 7 (1.16%) NUnit
11 7 (1.16%) REST Assured
11 7 (1.16%) TestRail
11 7 (1.16%) Zephyr
12 6 (0.99%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 6 (0.99%) JMeter
13 5 (0.83%) XCUITest
14 4 (0.66%) Bitbucket
14 4 (0.66%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 187 (30.96%) Finance
2 142 (23.51%) Social Skills
3 120 (19.87%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (4.80%) Public Sector
5 27 (4.47%) Law
6 24 (3.97%) Billing
7 22 (3.64%) Marketing
8 20 (3.31%) Retail
9 19 (3.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 19 (3.15%) Telecoms
10 14 (2.32%) Legal
11 10 (1.66%) Influencing Skills
12 8 (1.32%) Banking
13 7 (1.16%) Manufacturing
14 6 (0.99%) Automotive
15 5 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
16 4 (0.66%) Advertising
16 4 (0.66%) Aerospace
16 4 (0.66%) Games
17 2 (0.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 144 (23.84%) Developer
2 115 (19.04%) Senior
3 85 (14.07%) Azure Engineer
4 82 (13.58%) DevOps Engineer
5 75 (12.42%) Lead
6 47 (7.78%) Cloud Engineer
7 44 (7.28%) Analyst
8 35 (5.79%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 31 (5.13%) .NET Developer
10 25 (4.14%) Senior Developer
11 24 (3.97%) Architect
12 23 (3.81%) Applications Engineer
12 23 (3.81%) Software Engineer
13 22 (3.64%) Power Platform Developer
14 20 (3.31%) Full-Stack Developer
14 20 (3.31%) Software Developer
15 18 (2.98%) Applications Support
15 18 (2.98%) Salesforce Engineer
15 18 (2.98%) Support Analyst
16 17 (2.81%) Applications Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 139 (23.01%) .NET
2 71 (11.75%) RESTful
3 70 (11.59%) React
4 60 (9.93%) ASP.NET
5 52 (8.61%) REST
6 47 (7.78%) .NET Core
7 46 (7.62%) CSS
7 46 (7.62%) HTML
7 46 (7.62%) OAuth
8 43 (7.12%) SOAP
9 37 (6.13%) ASP.NET Core
10 35 (5.79%) Playwright
11 33 (5.46%) JSON
11 33 (5.46%) YAML
12 27 (4.47%) Node.js
13 26 (4.30%) .NET Framework
14 25 (4.14%) Blazor
14 25 (4.14%) OAuth2
15 21 (3.48%) ARM Templates
15 21 (3.48%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 74 (12.25%) Cloud Native
1 74 (12.25%) Product Ownership
2 32 (5.30%) Enterprise Software
3 29 (4.80%) Mobile App
4 28 (4.64%) Low-Code
5 22 (3.64%) Management Information System
6 14 (2.32%) Legacy Systems
7 13 (2.15%) Analytical Mindset
8 8 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
9 7 (1.16%) Security Posture
10 6 (0.99%) Distributed Systems
11 4 (0.66%) Enterprise Cloud
11 4 (0.66%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (0.66%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (0.66%) Legacy Applications
11 4 (0.66%) Social Network
12 3 (0.50%) Data Structures
12 3 (0.50%) Life Science
12 3 (0.50%) Linux Command Line
12 3 (0.50%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 49 (8.11%) Linux
2 44 (7.28%) Windows
3 12 (1.99%) Ubuntu
4 8 (1.32%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.50%) Android
5 3 (0.50%) VMS
5 3 (0.50%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.33%) Kali Linux
6 2 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.33%) Unix
7 1 (0.17%) CentOS
7 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 604 (100.00%) DevOps
2 371 (61.42%) CI/CD
3 321 (53.15%) Agile
4 185 (30.63%) Infrastructure as Code
5 164 (27.15%) Test Automation
6 132 (21.85%) Problem-Solving
7 120 (19.87%) Continuous Improvement
8 105 (17.38%) Coaching
9 94 (15.56%) AI
10 89 (14.74%) Asset Management
11 88 (14.57%) Mentoring
12 86 (14.24%) Containerisation
13 82 (13.58%) Scrum
14 81 (13.41%) Data Modelling
15 76 (12.58%) Observability
16 74 (12.25%) SDLC
17 72 (11.92%) Software Engineering
18 64 (10.60%) Business Intelligence
19 63 (10.43%) Clean Code
19 63 (10.43%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 188 (31.13%) SQL
2 137 (22.68%) Python
3 131 (21.69%) C#
4 82 (13.58%) JavaScript
5 77 (12.75%) PowerShell
6 72 (11.92%) Bash
7 40 (6.62%) Bicep
8 33 (5.46%) Java
9 28 (4.64%) TypeScript
10 21 (3.48%) Go
11 20 (3.31%) PL/SQL
12 19 (3.15%) Apex Code
13 17 (2.81%) Shell Script
14 15 (2.48%) T-SQL
15 8 (1.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 7 (1.16%) Swift
17 5 (0.83%) C++
18 4 (0.66%) VB
19 3 (0.50%) Scala
19 3 (0.50%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 64 (10.60%) Degree
2 48 (7.95%) Security Cleared
3 28 (4.64%) Computer Science Degree
4 25 (4.14%) DV Cleared
5 19 (3.15%) ISTQB
6 18 (2.98%) Azure Certification
6 18 (2.98%) SC Cleared
7 14 (2.32%) AWS Certification
8 13 (2.15%) HND
8 13 (2.15%) Microsoft Certification
9 11 (1.82%) AWS Certified Developer
10 9 (1.49%) Master's Degree
11 7 (1.16%) PMI Certification
12 6 (0.99%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 4 (0.66%) BC Cleared
13 4 (0.66%) PMP
14 3 (0.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 2 (0.33%) ITIL Certification
15 2 (0.33%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 1 (0.17%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (11.09%) QA
2 49 (8.11%) Accessibility
3 21 (3.48%) GDPR
4 15 (2.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (1.99%) SLA
6 8 (1.32%) Data Quality
7 6 (0.99%) WCAG
8 5 (0.83%) NCSC
9 4 (0.66%) NIST
9 4 (0.66%) PMO
9 4 (0.66%) TickIT
10 3 (0.50%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 2 (0.33%) GRC
11 2 (0.33%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.33%) Software Quality Assurance
12 1 (0.17%) HL7
12 1 (0.17%) IFRS
12 1 (0.17%) P3O
12 1 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 84 (13.91%) Docker
2 28 (4.64%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.17%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (0.17%) Firmware
6 1 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.17%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 193 (31.95%) Terraform
2 60 (9.93%) Ansible
3 57 (9.44%) Kubernetes
4 43 (7.12%) Grafana
5 38 (6.29%) Prometheus
6 17 (2.81%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (0.50%) Scalr
8 2 (0.33%) HP ALM
8 2 (0.33%) HP Fortify
8 2 (0.33%) MIIS
8 2 (0.33%) Nessus
8 2 (0.33%) Puppet
9 1 (0.17%) CASB
9 1 (0.17%) Consul
9 1 (0.17%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.17%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.17%) Packer
9 1 (0.17%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.17%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 209 (34.60%) Microsoft
2 28 (4.64%) Salesforce
3 24 (3.97%) Oracle
4 20 (3.31%) Red Hat
5 17 (2.81%) Databricks
6 14 (2.32%) Black Duck
6 14 (2.32%) Coverity
7 13 (2.15%) Adobe
7 13 (2.15%) Dynatrace
8 12 (1.99%) Freshdesk
8 12 (1.99%) Nintex
9 10 (1.66%) Ab Initio
10 9 (1.49%) CrowdStrike
11 8 (1.32%) Apple
11 8 (1.32%) MuleSoft
11 8 (1.32%) Okta
12 7 (1.16%) Google
13 6 (0.99%) Sage
13 6 (0.99%) Xamarin
14 5 (0.83%) Fortinet