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

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 177 174 122
Rank change year-on-year -3 -52 +2
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 641 489 1,563
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.98% 1.78% 2.30%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.36% 5.76% 6.90%
Number of salaries quoted 466 405 1,164
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,000 £52,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,750 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.40% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £78,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £84,500 £84,450
UK median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £61,500
% change year-on-year - +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 19,085 8,493 22,664
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.12% 30.93% 33.29%
Number of salaries quoted 9,030 6,254 17,423
10th Percentile £28,500 £29,250 £27,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,502 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £74,997 £71,622 £66,832
90th Percentile £90,000 £86,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £61,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +2.46% +6.09% -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 3 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 3 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 -36 158 £50,000 -28.57% 92
North of England -9 157 £65,000 -7.14% 76
Midlands -22 97 £65,000 - 44
Scotland +41 90 £62,500 +8.70% 20
South West -36 80 £52,500 -19.23% 21
North West +9 75 £70,000 +3.70% 40
West Midlands -35 54 £60,000 -7.69% 23
Yorkshire -54 49 £60,000 -14.29% 19
East Midlands -9 40 £67,500 +35.00% 21
North East -9 33 £50,000 -16.67% 17
Wales -20 30 £53,100 +0.97% 19
East of England -21 28 £66,250 +25.00% 23
Northern Ireland -33 3 £61,250 +22.50% 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 25 (3.90%) Confluence
2 21 (3.28%) SharePoint
3 17 (2.65%) IIS
4 13 (2.03%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (1.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 5 (0.78%) Apache
6 5 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.47%) Anypoint
7 3 (0.47%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.31%) CICS
9 1 (0.16%) Drupal
9 1 (0.16%) Luigi
9 1 (0.16%) nginx
9 1 (0.16%) PegaRULES
9 1 (0.16%) WordPress
Applications
1 16 (2.50%) MS Visio
2 12 (1.87%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.94%) Microsoft Project
4 5 (0.78%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.62%) Microsoft Office
6 3 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.16%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.16%) Sketch
7 1 (0.16%) Trello
Business Applications
1 16 (2.50%) Oracle ERP
2 9 (1.40%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.78%) Visualfiles
4 4 (0.62%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.31%) Magento
6 1 (0.16%) Infor M3
6 1 (0.16%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 1 (0.16%) Sage 200
6 1 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.16%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 641 (100.00%) Azure
2 180 (28.08%) GitHub
3 115 (17.94%) AWS
3 115 (17.94%) Power Platform
4 97 (15.13%) GitHub Actions
5 63 (9.83%) Microsoft 365
6 50 (7.80%) Azure Logic Apps
6 50 (7.80%) Entra ID
7 44 (6.86%) Azure Data Factory
8 43 (6.71%) Serverless
9 39 (6.08%) GCP
10 38 (5.93%) Azure AKS
11 37 (5.77%) GitHub Copilot
12 35 (5.46%) Azure Monitor
12 35 (5.46%) SaaS
13 33 (5.15%) Azure Service Bus
14 31 (4.84%) Snowflake
15 29 (4.52%) dbt
16 27 (4.21%) PaaS
17 26 (4.06%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 37 (5.77%) Firewall
2 22 (3.43%) DNS
3 19 (2.96%) HTTP
3 19 (2.96%) TCP/IP
4 11 (1.72%) Network Security
5 3 (0.47%) BGP
6 2 (0.31%) SSL
7 1 (0.16%) DHCP
7 1 (0.16%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.16%) IP Telephony
7 1 (0.16%) LTE
7 1 (0.16%) MPLS
7 1 (0.16%) NetScaler
7 1 (0.16%) SAN
7 1 (0.16%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.16%) VLAN
7 1 (0.16%) VPN
7 1 (0.16%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (11.39%) SQL Server
2 67 (10.45%) Power BI
3 31 (4.84%) Data Warehouse
4 30 (4.68%) Azure SQL Database
4 30 (4.68%) PostgreSQL
5 28 (4.37%) MongoDB
6 22 (3.43%) NoSQL
7 14 (2.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 11 (1.72%) Data Lake
8 11 (1.72%) DynamoDB
9 10 (1.56%) Metadata
9 10 (1.56%) Relational Database
10 9 (1.40%) Amazon RDS
10 9 (1.40%) Tableau
11 8 (1.25%) Spark SQL
11 8 (1.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 7 (1.09%) Power Query
13 4 (0.62%) MySQL
13 4 (0.62%) Snowflake Schema
14 3 (0.47%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 102 (15.91%) JIRA
2 93 (14.51%) Git
3 80 (12.48%) Jenkins
4 43 (6.71%) GitLab
5 37 (5.77%) Selenium
6 28 (4.37%) Cypress.io
7 19 (2.96%) Postman
8 16 (2.50%) Oracle Forms
9 10 (1.56%) Visual Studio
10 9 (1.40%) REST Assured
11 8 (1.25%) JMeter
11 8 (1.25%) Zephyr
12 7 (1.09%) TestRail
13 6 (0.94%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 6 (0.94%) NUnit
14 5 (0.78%) Cucumber
14 5 (0.78%) Gatling
14 5 (0.78%) LoadRunner
14 5 (0.78%) MLflow
14 5 (0.78%) XCUITest
General
1 172 (26.83%) Finance
2 142 (22.15%) Social Skills
3 108 (16.85%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (7.49%) Public Sector
5 32 (4.99%) Retail
6 28 (4.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 28 (4.37%) Marketing
7 25 (3.90%) Law
8 24 (3.74%) Billing
9 18 (2.81%) Telecoms
10 14 (2.18%) Legal
11 12 (1.87%) Influencing Skills
12 11 (1.72%) Automotive
13 8 (1.25%) Banking
13 8 (1.25%) Games
14 7 (1.09%) Manufacturing
15 5 (0.78%) Advertising
15 5 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
16 3 (0.47%) Aerospace
17 2 (0.31%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 155 (24.18%) Developer
2 146 (22.78%) Senior
3 121 (18.88%) DevOps Engineer
4 104 (16.22%) Azure Engineer
5 84 (13.10%) Lead
6 49 (7.64%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 49 (7.64%) Cloud Engineer
7 39 (6.08%) Analyst
8 37 (5.77%) Senior Developer
9 34 (5.30%) Senior DevOps
10 33 (5.15%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 32 (4.99%) .NET Developer
12 27 (4.21%) Architect
13 24 (3.74%) Full-Stack Developer
14 22 (3.43%) Data Engineer
15 21 (3.28%) Power Platform Developer
15 21 (3.28%) Software Developer
16 20 (3.12%) Applications Support
16 20 (3.12%) Support Analyst
16 20 (3.12%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 142 (22.15%) .NET
2 73 (11.39%) React
3 66 (10.30%) RESTful
4 63 (9.83%) REST
5 57 (8.89%) ASP.NET
6 50 (7.80%) CSS
6 50 (7.80%) HTML
7 49 (7.64%) SOAP
8 48 (7.49%) .NET Core
9 46 (7.18%) Node.js
10 41 (6.40%) OAuth
11 40 (6.24%) ASP.NET Core
12 37 (5.77%) Playwright
13 36 (5.62%) JSON
14 28 (4.37%) YAML
15 26 (4.06%) ARM Templates
16 25 (3.90%) Middleware
17 23 (3.59%) Blazor
17 23 (3.59%) OAuth2
18 22 (3.43%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 70 (10.92%) Cloud Native
2 67 (10.45%) Product Ownership
3 32 (4.99%) Enterprise Software
4 26 (4.06%) Mobile App
5 25 (3.90%) Low-Code
6 22 (3.43%) Management Information System
7 14 (2.18%) Legacy Systems
8 13 (2.03%) Analytical Mindset
9 9 (1.40%) Enterprise Cloud
10 8 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
11 5 (0.78%) PMI
12 4 (0.62%) Greenfield Project
12 4 (0.62%) Hybrid Cloud
12 4 (0.62%) Onboarding
12 4 (0.62%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (0.62%) Social Network
13 3 (0.47%) Data Structures
13 3 (0.47%) Distributed Computing
13 3 (0.47%) Linux Command Line
13 3 (0.47%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 65 (10.14%) Linux
2 42 (6.55%) Windows
3 18 (2.81%) Unix
4 13 (2.03%) Ubuntu
5 8 (1.25%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.62%) Kali Linux
7 3 (0.47%) Android
7 3 (0.47%) VMS
7 3 (0.47%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 641 (100.00%) DevOps
2 392 (61.15%) CI/CD
3 312 (48.67%) Agile
4 180 (28.08%) Infrastructure as Code
5 172 (26.83%) Test Automation
6 127 (19.81%) Continuous Improvement
7 120 (18.72%) Problem-Solving
8 112 (17.47%) Coaching
9 105 (16.38%) AI
10 103 (16.07%) Scrum
11 101 (15.76%) Mentoring
12 89 (13.88%) Data Modelling
13 83 (12.95%) Containerisation
14 82 (12.79%) Observability
15 75 (11.70%) Asset Management
16 72 (11.23%) SDLC
17 71 (11.08%) Continuous Integration
18 68 (10.61%) Microservices
19 64 (9.98%) Deployment Automation
19 64 (9.98%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 191 (29.80%) SQL
2 153 (23.87%) Python
3 126 (19.66%) C#
4 84 (13.10%) JavaScript
5 81 (12.64%) Bash
6 78 (12.17%) PowerShell
7 49 (7.64%) Java
8 38 (5.93%) Bicep
9 29 (4.52%) TypeScript
10 21 (3.28%) Go
11 20 (3.12%) PL/SQL
12 18 (2.81%) Shell Script
13 17 (2.65%) Apex Code
14 11 (1.72%) T-SQL
15 9 (1.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 7 (1.09%) Swift
17 4 (0.62%) C++
17 4 (0.62%) Scala
17 4 (0.62%) VB
17 4 (0.62%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 60 (9.36%) Degree
2 44 (6.86%) Security Cleared
3 26 (4.06%) SC Cleared
4 23 (3.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (2.65%) Azure Certification
6 15 (2.34%) ISTQB
7 13 (2.03%) AWS Certification
7 13 (2.03%) HND
8 12 (1.87%) DV Cleared
8 12 (1.87%) Microsoft Certification
9 9 (1.40%) AWS Certified Developer
10 7 (1.09%) PMI Certification
11 6 (0.94%) Master's Degree
12 5 (0.78%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 4 (0.62%) BC Cleared
14 3 (0.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 2 (0.31%) ITIL Certification
15 2 (0.31%) PMP
15 2 (0.31%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 1 (0.16%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (10.45%) QA
2 50 (7.80%) Accessibility
3 25 (3.90%) GDPR
4 12 (1.87%) SLA
4 12 (1.87%) TickIT
5 11 (1.72%) Data Quality
5 11 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (0.94%) WCAG
7 3 (0.47%) GRC
7 3 (0.47%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 3 (0.47%) IFRS
7 3 (0.47%) Software Quality Assurance
8 2 (0.31%) IFRS 17
8 2 (0.31%) PMO
8 2 (0.31%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.31%) Solvency II
9 1 (0.16%) HL7
9 1 (0.16%) NCSC
9 1 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 91 (14.20%) Docker
2 33 (5.15%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.16%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 212 (33.07%) Terraform
2 61 (9.52%) Kubernetes
3 49 (7.64%) Ansible
4 48 (7.49%) Grafana
5 41 (6.40%) Prometheus
6 17 (2.65%) Single Sign-On
7 15 (2.34%) Argo
8 4 (0.62%) HP Fortify
8 4 (0.62%) Puppet
9 3 (0.47%) HP ALM
9 3 (0.47%) Scalr
10 2 (0.31%) MIIS
11 1 (0.16%) CASB
11 1 (0.16%) Consul
11 1 (0.16%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.16%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.16%) Nessus
11 1 (0.16%) Packer
11 1 (0.16%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 228 (35.57%) Microsoft
2 28 (4.37%) Salesforce
3 26 (4.06%) Databricks
4 25 (3.90%) Oracle
5 22 (3.43%) Red Hat
6 13 (2.03%) Adobe
6 13 (2.03%) Dynatrace
7 12 (1.87%) Freshdesk
7 12 (1.87%) Nintex
8 11 (1.72%) CrowdStrike
9 10 (1.56%) MuleSoft
10 8 (1.25%) Ab Initio
10 8 (1.25%) Apple
10 8 (1.25%) Okta
11 5 (0.78%) Google
12 4 (0.62%) Fortinet
12 4 (0.62%) ServiceNow
12 4 (0.62%) Veracode
13 3 (0.47%) Black Duck
13 3 (0.47%) Palo Alto