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

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 175 156 123
Rank change year-on-year -19 -33 0
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 630 499 1,558
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.99% 1.88% 2.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.32% 5.85% 6.94%
Number of salaries quoted 444 431 1,169
10th Percentile £40,825 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £52,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +8.33% +0.80%
75th Percentile £71,313 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +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 19,002 8,531 22,463
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.86% 32.07% 33.49%
Number of salaries quoted 8,871 6,336 17,367
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,750 £27,000
25th Percentile £37,314 £38,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £72,500 £66,778
90th Percentile £90,000 £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 21 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 21 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 -46 160 £50,000 -28.57% 84
North of England -19 148 £60,000 -14.29% 81
Scotland +49 103 £62,500 +8.70% 23
Midlands -35 92 £64,000 -1.54% 54
South West -35 81 £52,500 -19.23% 36
North West -12 69 £70,000 +7.69% 46
West Midlands -53 53 £58,750 -9.62% 22
Yorkshire -54 47 £60,000 -14.29% 20
East Midlands -31 36 £67,000 +3.08% 32
North East -15 32 £50,000 -16.67% 15
East of England -44 24 £70,000 +32.08% 35
Wales -30 22 £53,000 -9.86% 16
Northern Ireland -43 2 £50,000 - 5
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 26 (4.13%) Confluence
2 20 (3.17%) SharePoint
3 18 (2.86%) IIS
4 10 (1.59%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (1.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 3 (0.48%) Anypoint
6 3 (0.48%) Apache
6 3 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.48%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.32%) CICS
8 1 (0.16%) Drupal
8 1 (0.16%) nginx
8 1 (0.16%) PegaRULES
8 1 (0.16%) WordPress
Applications
1 16 (2.54%) MS Visio
2 12 (1.90%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (1.11%) Microsoft Project
4 5 (0.79%) Chatbot
4 5 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.16%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.16%) Sketch
6 1 (0.16%) Trello
Business Applications
1 16 (2.54%) Oracle ERP
2 11 (1.75%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.63%) Dynamics AX
3 4 (0.63%) Visualfiles
4 2 (0.32%) Magento
5 1 (0.16%) Infor M3
5 1 (0.16%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 1 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.16%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 630 (100.00%) Azure
2 199 (31.59%) GitHub
3 111 (17.62%) Power Platform
4 109 (17.30%) AWS
5 105 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
6 61 (9.68%) Microsoft 365
7 51 (8.10%) Entra ID
8 49 (7.78%) Azure Logic Apps
9 46 (7.30%) Azure Data Factory
10 44 (6.98%) GitHub Copilot
10 44 (6.98%) Serverless
11 37 (5.87%) Azure Monitor
12 36 (5.71%) GCP
13 35 (5.56%) SaaS
13 35 (5.56%) Snowflake
14 33 (5.24%) dbt
15 31 (4.92%) Dynamics 365
16 29 (4.60%) Azure AKS
17 28 (4.44%) Azure Service Bus
17 28 (4.44%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 35 (5.56%) Firewall
2 25 (3.97%) DNS
3 19 (3.02%) HTTP
3 19 (3.02%) TCP/IP
4 9 (1.43%) Network Security
5 3 (0.48%) BGP
6 2 (0.32%) 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%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.16%) VLAN
7 1 (0.16%) VPN
7 1 (0.16%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (11.43%) SQL Server
2 66 (10.48%) Power BI
3 30 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
4 28 (4.44%) Azure SQL Database
5 24 (3.81%) PostgreSQL
6 23 (3.65%) NoSQL
7 18 (2.86%) MongoDB
8 14 (2.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 13 (2.06%) DynamoDB
10 12 (1.90%) Relational Database
11 11 (1.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 9 (1.43%) Data Lake
12 9 (1.43%) Tableau
13 8 (1.27%) Amazon RDS
13 8 (1.27%) Metadata
14 7 (1.11%) Power Query
14 7 (1.11%) Spark SQL
15 6 (0.95%) Snowflake Schema
16 4 (0.63%) MySQL
17 3 (0.48%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 100 (15.87%) JIRA
2 95 (15.08%) Git
3 77 (12.22%) Jenkins
4 40 (6.35%) Selenium
5 32 (5.08%) GitLab
6 28 (4.44%) Cypress.io
7 18 (2.86%) Postman
8 16 (2.54%) Oracle Forms
9 12 (1.90%) Visual Studio
10 8 (1.27%) REST Assured
10 8 (1.27%) Zephyr
11 7 (1.11%) JMeter
11 7 (1.11%) Robot Framework
11 7 (1.11%) TestRail
12 6 (0.95%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 6 (0.95%) NUnit
12 6 (0.95%) Snyk
13 5 (0.79%) XCUITest
14 4 (0.63%) Gatling
14 4 (0.63%) MLflow
General
1 186 (29.52%) Finance
2 144 (22.86%) Social Skills
3 117 (18.57%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (5.56%) Public Sector
5 29 (4.60%) Retail
6 28 (4.44%) Marketing
7 27 (4.29%) Law
8 24 (3.81%) Billing
9 22 (3.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 18 (2.86%) Telecoms
11 14 (2.22%) Legal
12 11 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
13 9 (1.43%) Automotive
14 8 (1.27%) Banking
15 7 (1.11%) Games
16 6 (0.95%) Manufacturing
17 5 (0.79%) Documentation Skills
18 4 (0.63%) Aerospace
19 3 (0.48%) Advertising
20 2 (0.32%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 152 (24.13%) Developer
2 132 (20.95%) Senior
3 101 (16.03%) DevOps Engineer
4 99 (15.71%) Azure Engineer
5 78 (12.38%) Lead
6 47 (7.46%) Cloud Engineer
7 45 (7.14%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 40 (6.35%) Analyst
9 32 (5.08%) .NET Developer
10 31 (4.92%) Senior Developer
11 25 (3.97%) Architect
12 23 (3.65%) Applications Engineer
13 22 (3.49%) Power Platform Developer
13 22 (3.49%) Senior DevOps
13 22 (3.49%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 20 (3.17%) Applications Support
14 20 (3.17%) Full-Stack Developer
14 20 (3.17%) Software Developer
14 20 (3.17%) Support Analyst
15 19 (3.02%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 143 (22.70%) .NET
2 73 (11.59%) React
3 71 (11.27%) RESTful
4 61 (9.68%) ASP.NET
4 61 (9.68%) REST
5 50 (7.94%) .NET Core
5 50 (7.94%) CSS
5 50 (7.94%) HTML
6 49 (7.78%) SOAP
7 46 (7.30%) OAuth
8 39 (6.19%) ASP.NET Core
9 38 (6.03%) JSON
10 37 (5.87%) Playwright
11 35 (5.56%) Node.js
12 30 (4.76%) YAML
13 25 (3.97%) ARM Templates
13 25 (3.97%) Blazor
13 25 (3.97%) OAuth2
14 23 (3.65%) .NET Framework
14 23 (3.65%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 74 (11.75%) Cloud Native
2 69 (10.95%) Product Ownership
3 31 (4.92%) Enterprise Software
4 28 (4.44%) Mobile App
5 26 (4.13%) Low-Code
6 23 (3.65%) Management Information System
7 14 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
8 13 (2.06%) Analytical Mindset
9 9 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
10 7 (1.11%) Enterprise Cloud
10 7 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (0.79%) PMI
12 4 (0.63%) Greenfield Project
12 4 (0.63%) Hybrid Cloud
12 4 (0.63%) Legacy Applications
12 4 (0.63%) Social Network
13 3 (0.48%) AI Agents
13 3 (0.48%) Linux Command Line
13 3 (0.48%) Onboarding
13 3 (0.48%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 54 (8.57%) Linux
2 40 (6.35%) Windows
3 11 (1.75%) Ubuntu
4 9 (1.43%) Unix
5 8 (1.27%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.48%) Android
6 3 (0.48%) Kali Linux
6 3 (0.48%) VMS
6 3 (0.48%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 630 (100.00%) DevOps
2 383 (60.79%) CI/CD
3 321 (50.95%) Agile
4 186 (29.52%) Infrastructure as Code
5 169 (26.83%) Test Automation
6 129 (20.48%) Problem-Solving
7 127 (20.16%) Continuous Improvement
8 112 (17.78%) Coaching
9 102 (16.19%) AI
10 96 (15.24%) Mentoring
11 90 (14.29%) Scrum
12 89 (14.13%) Asset Management
13 87 (13.81%) Containerisation
14 86 (13.65%) Data Modelling
15 79 (12.54%) Observability
16 73 (11.59%) Software Engineering
17 71 (11.27%) SDLC
18 65 (10.32%) Deployment Automation
19 64 (10.16%) Analytics
20 63 (10.00%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 195 (30.95%) SQL
2 145 (23.02%) Python
3 134 (21.27%) C#
4 86 (13.65%) JavaScript
5 81 (12.86%) PowerShell
6 79 (12.54%) Bash
7 42 (6.67%) Bicep
8 40 (6.35%) Java
9 30 (4.76%) TypeScript
10 21 (3.33%) Go
11 20 (3.17%) PL/SQL
12 19 (3.02%) Apex Code
13 18 (2.86%) Shell Script
14 13 (2.06%) T-SQL
15 9 (1.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 7 (1.11%) Swift
17 5 (0.79%) C++
18 4 (0.63%) VB
18 4 (0.63%) VB.NET
19 3 (0.48%) Scala
Qualifications
1 61 (9.68%) Degree
2 43 (6.83%) Security Cleared
3 23 (3.65%) Computer Science Degree
4 21 (3.33%) SC Cleared
5 17 (2.70%) ISTQB
6 16 (2.54%) Azure Certification
6 16 (2.54%) DV Cleared
7 13 (2.06%) AWS Certification
7 13 (2.06%) HND
8 12 (1.90%) Microsoft Certification
9 11 (1.75%) AWS Certified Developer
10 8 (1.27%) PMI Certification
11 6 (0.95%) Master's Degree
12 5 (0.79%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 4 (0.63%) BC Cleared
14 3 (0.48%) PMP
15 2 (0.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 2 (0.32%) ITIL Certification
15 2 (0.32%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 1 (0.16%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (10.63%) QA
2 51 (8.10%) Accessibility
3 24 (3.81%) GDPR
4 12 (1.90%) SLA
5 11 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (1.59%) TickIT
7 9 (1.43%) Data Quality
8 7 (1.11%) WCAG
9 3 (0.48%) GRC
9 3 (0.48%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 3 (0.48%) Software Quality Assurance
10 2 (0.32%) IFRS
10 2 (0.32%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.16%) HL7
11 1 (0.16%) IFRS 17
11 1 (0.16%) NCSC
11 1 (0.16%) PMO
11 1 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.16%) Solvency II
System Software
1 90 (14.29%) Docker
2 32 (5.08%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.63%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.16%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.16%) Firmware
5 1 (0.16%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 201 (31.90%) Terraform
2 58 (9.21%) Kubernetes
3 51 (8.10%) Ansible
4 45 (7.14%) Grafana
5 39 (6.19%) Prometheus
6 17 (2.70%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (0.95%) Argo
8 3 (0.48%) HP ALM
8 3 (0.48%) HP Fortify
8 3 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (0.48%) Puppet
8 3 (0.48%) Scalr
9 2 (0.32%) MIIS
10 1 (0.16%) CASB
10 1 (0.16%) Consul
10 1 (0.16%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.16%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.16%) Nessus
10 1 (0.16%) Packer
10 1 (0.16%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 225 (35.71%) Microsoft
2 30 (4.76%) Salesforce
3 25 (3.97%) Oracle
4 20 (3.17%) Databricks
4 20 (3.17%) Red Hat
5 13 (2.06%) Adobe
5 13 (2.06%) Dynatrace
6 12 (1.90%) Freshdesk
6 12 (1.90%) Nintex
7 10 (1.59%) Ab Initio
7 10 (1.59%) CrowdStrike
7 10 (1.59%) MuleSoft
8 8 (1.27%) Apple
8 8 (1.27%) Okta
9 6 (0.95%) Black Duck
9 6 (0.95%) Coverity
10 5 (0.79%) Google
11 4 (0.63%) Fortinet
11 4 (0.63%) LogicMonitor
11 4 (0.63%) ServiceNow