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

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 179 157 121
Rank change year-on-year -22 -36 +4
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 617 502 1,558
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.99% 1.91% 2.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.32% 5.92% 6.93%
Number of salaries quoted 428 435 1,179
10th Percentile £40,925 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.62% +8.33% +0.80%
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £67,250 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -0.37% +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 18,594 8,477 22,466
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.95% 32.22% 33.67%
Number of salaries quoted 8,752 6,295 17,450
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,750 £27,000
25th Percentile £36,500 £39,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £72,500 £67,500
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 16 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 16 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 -46 161 £50,000 -28.57% 88
North of England -20 141 £60,000 -14.29% 75
Scotland +46 103 £62,500 +8.70% 24
Midlands -46 91 £63,750 -1.92% 46
South West -37 80 £52,500 -19.23% 34
North West -8 66 £70,000 +7.69% 43
West Midlands -47 52 £57,500 -13.21% 23
Yorkshire -50 44 £60,000 -14.29% 18
East Midlands -26 36 £67,000 +3.08% 23
North East -12 31 £50,000 -23.08% 14
East of England -40 24 £70,000 +32.08% 30
Wales -34 17 £53,135 -9.63% 15
Northern Ireland -41 2 £50,000 - 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 25 (4.05%) Confluence
2 19 (3.08%) IIS
3 18 (2.92%) SharePoint
4 9 (1.46%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (1.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 3 (0.49%) Anypoint
6 3 (0.49%) Apache
6 3 (0.49%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.49%) 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 (2.59%) MS Visio
2 11 (1.78%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (1.30%) Microsoft Project
4 5 (0.81%) Chatbot
4 5 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.32%) Trello
7 1 (0.16%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.16%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 16 (2.59%) Oracle ERP
2 11 (1.78%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.65%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (0.49%) Visualfiles
5 2 (0.32%) Magento
6 1 (0.16%) Infor M3
6 1 (0.16%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 1 (0.16%) Primavera
6 1 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.16%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 617 (100.00%) Azure
2 197 (31.93%) GitHub
3 109 (17.67%) AWS
4 106 (17.18%) GitHub Actions
4 106 (17.18%) Power Platform
5 59 (9.56%) Microsoft 365
6 49 (7.94%) Entra ID
7 47 (7.62%) Azure Logic Apps
8 46 (7.46%) Azure Data Factory
9 44 (7.13%) GitHub Copilot
9 44 (7.13%) Serverless
10 37 (6.00%) Azure Monitor
10 37 (6.00%) GCP
11 35 (5.67%) SaaS
11 35 (5.67%) Snowflake
12 33 (5.35%) dbt
13 29 (4.70%) PaaS
14 28 (4.54%) Dynamics 365
15 26 (4.21%) Azure AKS
15 26 (4.21%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 36 (5.83%) Firewall
2 27 (4.38%) DNS
3 19 (3.08%) HTTP
3 19 (3.08%) TCP/IP
4 8 (1.30%) Network Security
5 3 (0.49%) 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 70 (11.35%) SQL Server
2 62 (10.05%) Power BI
3 29 (4.70%) Data Warehouse
4 28 (4.54%) Azure SQL Database
5 23 (3.73%) NoSQL
6 21 (3.40%) PostgreSQL
7 15 (2.43%) MongoDB
8 13 (2.11%) DynamoDB
8 13 (2.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 12 (1.94%) Relational Database
10 11 (1.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 9 (1.46%) Data Lake
11 9 (1.46%) Tableau
12 8 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
12 8 (1.30%) Metadata
13 7 (1.13%) Spark SQL
14 6 (0.97%) Power Query
14 6 (0.97%) Snowflake Schema
15 4 (0.65%) MySQL
16 3 (0.49%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 96 (15.56%) JIRA
2 94 (15.24%) Git
3 77 (12.48%) Jenkins
4 42 (6.81%) Selenium
5 29 (4.70%) GitLab
6 27 (4.38%) Cypress.io
7 17 (2.76%) Postman
8 16 (2.59%) Oracle Forms
9 11 (1.78%) Visual Studio
10 10 (1.62%) Robot Framework
11 8 (1.30%) Snyk
11 8 (1.30%) TestRail
11 8 (1.30%) Zephyr
12 7 (1.13%) REST Assured
13 6 (0.97%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 6 (0.97%) JMeter
13 6 (0.97%) NUnit
14 5 (0.81%) XCUITest
15 4 (0.65%) MLflow
15 4 (0.65%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 187 (30.31%) Finance
2 146 (23.66%) Social Skills
3 117 (18.96%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (5.02%) Public Sector
5 27 (4.38%) Law
6 26 (4.21%) Marketing
6 26 (4.21%) Retail
7 24 (3.89%) Billing
8 20 (3.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 19 (3.08%) Telecoms
10 14 (2.27%) Legal
11 11 (1.78%) Influencing Skills
12 8 (1.30%) Automotive
12 8 (1.30%) Banking
13 7 (1.13%) Manufacturing
14 6 (0.97%) Games
15 5 (0.81%) Aerospace
15 5 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
16 3 (0.49%) Advertising
17 2 (0.32%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 147 (23.82%) Developer
2 127 (20.58%) Senior
3 95 (15.40%) Azure Engineer
4 92 (14.91%) DevOps Engineer
5 77 (12.48%) Lead
6 47 (7.62%) Cloud Engineer
7 41 (6.65%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 40 (6.48%) Analyst
9 32 (5.19%) .NET Developer
10 29 (4.70%) Senior Developer
11 25 (4.05%) Architect
12 23 (3.73%) Applications Engineer
13 21 (3.40%) Power Platform Developer
14 20 (3.24%) Software Developer
14 20 (3.24%) Software Engineer
15 19 (3.08%) Applications Support
15 19 (3.08%) Data Engineer
15 19 (3.08%) Full-Stack Developer
15 19 (3.08%) Support Analyst
16 18 (2.92%) Applications Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 139 (22.53%) .NET
2 73 (11.83%) React
3 71 (11.51%) RESTful
4 61 (9.89%) ASP.NET
5 59 (9.56%) REST
6 49 (7.94%) .NET Core
7 48 (7.78%) CSS
7 48 (7.78%) HTML
8 47 (7.62%) SOAP
9 46 (7.46%) OAuth
10 39 (6.32%) ASP.NET Core
11 35 (5.67%) JSON
11 35 (5.67%) Playwright
12 32 (5.19%) Node.js
13 29 (4.70%) YAML
14 25 (4.05%) ARM Templates
14 25 (4.05%) Blazor
14 25 (4.05%) OAuth2
15 24 (3.89%) .NET Framework
16 22 (3.57%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 74 (11.99%) Cloud Native
2 71 (11.51%) Product Ownership
3 31 (5.02%) Enterprise Software
4 28 (4.54%) Mobile App
5 26 (4.21%) Low-Code
6 23 (3.73%) Management Information System
7 15 (2.43%) Legacy Systems
8 13 (2.11%) Analytical Mindset
9 8 (1.30%) Distributed Systems
10 7 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
11 6 (0.97%) Enterprise Cloud
12 5 (0.81%) Hybrid Cloud
13 4 (0.65%) Greenfield Project
13 4 (0.65%) Legacy Applications
13 4 (0.65%) PMI
13 4 (0.65%) Security Posture
13 4 (0.65%) Social Network
14 3 (0.49%) AI Agents
14 3 (0.49%) Life Science
14 3 (0.49%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 51 (8.27%) Linux
2 40 (6.48%) Windows
3 11 (1.78%) Ubuntu
4 8 (1.30%) Apple iOS
5 6 (0.97%) Unix
6 3 (0.49%) Android
6 3 (0.49%) VMS
6 3 (0.49%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.32%) Kali Linux
8 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 617 (100.00%) DevOps
2 379 (61.43%) CI/CD
3 319 (51.70%) Agile
4 187 (30.31%) Infrastructure as Code
5 165 (26.74%) Test Automation
6 130 (21.07%) Problem-Solving
7 127 (20.58%) Continuous Improvement
8 108 (17.50%) Coaching
9 97 (15.72%) AI
10 91 (14.75%) Mentoring
11 89 (14.42%) Asset Management
12 85 (13.78%) Containerisation
12 85 (13.78%) Scrum
13 83 (13.45%) Data Modelling
14 81 (13.13%) Observability
15 73 (11.83%) Software Engineering
16 71 (11.51%) SDLC
17 65 (10.53%) Deployment Automation
18 64 (10.37%) Analytics
18 64 (10.37%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 191 (30.96%) SQL
2 141 (22.85%) Python
3 131 (21.23%) C#
4 84 (13.61%) JavaScript
5 79 (12.80%) PowerShell
6 77 (12.48%) Bash
7 42 (6.81%) Bicep
8 36 (5.83%) Java
9 29 (4.70%) TypeScript
10 21 (3.40%) Go
11 20 (3.24%) PL/SQL
12 19 (3.08%) Apex Code
13 18 (2.92%) Shell Script
14 13 (2.11%) T-SQL
15 8 (1.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 7 (1.13%) Swift
17 5 (0.81%) C++
18 4 (0.65%) VB
18 4 (0.65%) VB.NET
19 3 (0.49%) Scala
Qualifications
1 62 (10.05%) Degree
2 44 (7.13%) Security Cleared
3 24 (3.89%) Computer Science Degree
4 19 (3.08%) DV Cleared
4 19 (3.08%) SC Cleared
5 18 (2.92%) Azure Certification
5 18 (2.92%) ISTQB
6 14 (2.27%) AWS Certification
7 13 (2.11%) HND
8 12 (1.94%) Microsoft Certification
9 11 (1.78%) AWS Certified Developer
10 7 (1.13%) PMI Certification
11 6 (0.97%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 6 (0.97%) Master's Degree
12 4 (0.65%) BC Cleared
13 3 (0.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 3 (0.49%) PMP
14 2 (0.32%) ITIL Certification
14 2 (0.32%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 1 (0.16%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (10.86%) QA
2 51 (8.27%) Accessibility
3 24 (3.89%) GDPR
4 12 (1.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (1.94%) SLA
5 9 (1.46%) Data Quality
6 8 (1.30%) TickIT
7 7 (1.13%) WCAG
8 3 (0.49%) GRC
8 3 (0.49%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 3 (0.49%) Software Quality Assurance
9 2 (0.32%) IFRS
9 2 (0.32%) NCSC
9 2 (0.32%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.16%) HL7
10 1 (0.16%) IFRS 17
10 1 (0.16%) NIST
10 1 (0.16%) PMO
10 1 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.16%) Solvency II
System Software
1 89 (14.42%) Docker
2 31 (5.02%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.13%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.65%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.16%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.16%) Firmware
5 1 (0.16%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 199 (32.25%) Terraform
2 58 (9.40%) Kubernetes
3 53 (8.59%) Ansible
4 45 (7.29%) Grafana
5 40 (6.48%) Prometheus
6 17 (2.76%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.49%) Argo
7 3 (0.49%) HP ALM
7 3 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (0.49%) Puppet
7 3 (0.49%) Scalr
8 2 (0.32%) HP Fortify
8 2 (0.32%) MIIS
8 2 (0.32%) Nessus
9 1 (0.16%) CASB
9 1 (0.16%) Consul
9 1 (0.16%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.16%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.16%) Packer
9 1 (0.16%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 219 (35.49%) Microsoft
2 30 (4.86%) Salesforce
3 25 (4.05%) Oracle
4 20 (3.24%) Databricks
4 20 (3.24%) Red Hat
5 13 (2.11%) Adobe
5 13 (2.11%) Dynatrace
6 12 (1.94%) Freshdesk
6 12 (1.94%) Nintex
7 10 (1.62%) Ab Initio
7 10 (1.62%) CrowdStrike
8 9 (1.46%) MuleSoft
9 8 (1.30%) Apple
9 8 (1.30%) Black Duck
9 8 (1.30%) Coverity
9 8 (1.30%) Okta
10 6 (0.97%) Google
11 4 (0.65%) Fortinet
11 4 (0.65%) LogicMonitor
11 4 (0.65%) ServiceNow