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 23 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 131 106 91
Rank change year-on-year -25 -15 -3
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 659 1,100 966
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.79% 2.28% 3.21%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.03% 7.85% 8.14%
Number of salaries quoted 399 638 823
10th Percentile £39,250 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £64,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.16% +6.67% -
75th Percentile £70,375 £74,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £80,400
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -

All Cloud 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 10,933 14,008 11,863
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.67% 28.98% 39.48%
Number of salaries quoted 6,889 7,960 9,901
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +2.80% -2.73%
75th Percentile £68,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% -0.15%

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 23 November 2025.

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 23 November 2025. 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 0 232 £60,000 -11.11% 131
Scotland +71 135 £65,000 +15.56% 24
North of England -58 97 £60,000 -7.69% 42
Midlands -27 83 £57,500 -11.54% 42
West Midlands -13 70 £60,000 -7.69% 29
South West -67 51 £55,000 -15.38% 41
North West -23 43 £65,000 +7.44% 23
Yorkshire -33 32 £55,000 -20.00% 12
Wales +6 30 £55,000 -2.22% 13
East of England -14 28 £65,000 +30.00% 14
North East +2 22 £50,000 -9.09% 7
East Midlands +2 12 £54,500 +14.74% 11
Northern Ireland +6 2 £56,250 - 5
Isle of Man - 1 £52,500 -
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 28 (4.25%) Confluence
2 24 (3.64%) IIS
3 12 (1.82%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 8 (1.21%) SharePoint
5 7 (1.06%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (0.91%) Apache
6 6 (0.91%) Appian
7 5 (0.76%) nginx
8 3 (0.46%) BizTalk Server
9 2 (0.30%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.30%) Tomcat
Applications
1 22 (3.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (2.88%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (1.67%) Microsoft Project
4 7 (1.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.76%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.30%) Trello
7 1 (0.15%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 69 (10.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 38 (5.77%) Dynamics CRM
3 27 (4.10%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.30%) Markit EDM
4 2 (0.30%) Shopify
5 1 (0.15%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 590 (89.53%) Azure
2 192 (29.14%) GitHub
3 112 (17.00%) Power Platform
4 92 (13.96%) GitHub Actions
5 88 (13.35%) AWS
6 52 (7.89%) Dynamics 365
7 50 (7.59%) Power Automate
8 48 (7.28%) Snowflake
9 47 (7.13%) GitHub Copilot
10 44 (6.68%) SaaS
11 43 (6.53%) Azure Monitor
12 41 (6.22%) Entra ID
13 40 (6.07%) Azure Logic Apps
14 38 (5.77%) Azure Data Factory
15 36 (5.46%) Microsoft 365
16 34 (5.16%) dbt
17 33 (5.01%) Azure Service Bus
18 32 (4.86%) PaaS
19 30 (4.55%) Serverless
20 27 (4.10%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 22 (3.34%) DNS
1 22 (3.34%) Firewall
2 13 (1.97%) VPN
3 7 (1.06%) Network Security
4 5 (0.76%) HTTP
4 5 (0.76%) VLAN
4 5 (0.76%) WAN
5 4 (0.61%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.46%) BGP
6 3 (0.46%) DHCP
6 3 (0.46%) IPsec
6 3 (0.46%) OSPF
6 3 (0.46%) SD-WAN
6 3 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (0.46%) Wireshark
7 2 (0.30%) SSL
8 1 (0.15%) AMQP
8 1 (0.15%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.15%) NetScaler
8 1 (0.15%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (13.81%) SQL Server
2 63 (9.56%) Power BI
3 45 (6.83%) Data Warehouse
4 31 (4.70%) Tableau
5 30 (4.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 20 (3.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 18 (2.73%) Azure SQL Database
7 18 (2.73%) Relational Database
8 13 (1.97%) Snowflake Schema
9 9 (1.37%) PostgreSQL
10 7 (1.06%) Metadata
10 7 (1.06%) MySQL
11 6 (0.91%) DynamoDB
11 6 (0.91%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 5 (0.76%) Airbyte
12 5 (0.76%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 5 (0.76%) Data Lake
12 5 (0.76%) Elasticsearch
12 5 (0.76%) NoSQL
13 4 (0.61%) Looker
Development Applications
1 149 (22.61%) JIRA
2 89 (13.51%) Git
3 69 (10.47%) eCATT
4 64 (9.71%) Jenkins
5 38 (5.77%) NeoLoad
6 32 (4.86%) Selenium
7 28 (4.25%) Octopus Deploy
8 27 (4.10%) Oracle Forms
9 20 (3.03%) Robot Framework
9 20 (3.03%) Snyk
10 15 (2.28%) TeamCity
11 14 (2.12%) GitLab
12 9 (1.37%) Visual Studio
13 8 (1.21%) Cypress.io
13 8 (1.21%) NUnit
14 6 (0.91%) Cucumber
14 6 (0.91%) MSBuild
14 6 (0.91%) MSTest
14 6 (0.91%) Postman
14 6 (0.91%) REST Assured
General
1 291 (44.16%) Finance
2 144 (21.85%) Social Skills
3 90 (13.66%) Marketing
4 88 (13.35%) Analytical Skills
5 74 (11.23%) Manufacturing
6 52 (7.89%) Presentation Skills
7 40 (6.07%) Influencing Skills
8 29 (4.40%) Law
9 21 (3.19%) Retail
10 13 (1.97%) Public Sector
11 8 (1.21%) Legal
11 8 (1.21%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
13 5 (0.76%) Banking
13 5 (0.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 4 (0.61%) Advertising
14 4 (0.61%) Aerospace
14 4 (0.61%) Automotive
14 4 (0.61%) Back Office
14 4 (0.61%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 139 (21.09%) Senior
2 107 (16.24%) Analyst
2 107 (16.24%) Lead
3 106 (16.08%) Developer
4 74 (11.23%) DevOps Engineer
5 56 (8.50%) Azure Engineer
6 52 (7.89%) Cloud Engineer
7 38 (5.77%) Software Engineer
8 33 (5.01%) Applications Engineer
8 33 (5.01%) Test Leader
9 32 (4.86%) Test Analyst
10 29 (4.40%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 28 (4.25%) Platform Engineer
12 25 (3.79%) Business Analyst
13 23 (3.49%) Automation Test Lead
14 22 (3.34%) Senior Cloud Engineer
15 20 (3.03%) Dynamics 365 Developer
15 20 (3.03%) Software Developer
16 19 (2.88%) Architect
17 18 (2.73%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 191 (28.98%) .NET
2 65 (9.86%) RESTful
3 51 (7.74%) .NET Framework
4 46 (6.98%) React
5 39 (5.92%) REST
6 37 (5.61%) ASP.NET
7 36 (5.46%) JSON
8 34 (5.16%) OAuth
9 33 (5.01%) ARM Templates
9 33 (5.01%) SOAP
10 31 (4.70%) .NET Core
10 31 (4.70%) AngularJS
11 30 (4.55%) YAML
12 27 (4.10%) Entity Framework
13 26 (3.95%) Blazor
14 24 (3.64%) OAuth2
15 23 (3.49%) XML
16 19 (2.88%) CSS
16 19 (2.88%) HTML
17 17 (2.58%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 116 (17.60%) Cloud Native
2 95 (14.42%) Product Ownership
3 42 (6.37%) Enterprise Software
4 29 (4.40%) Onboarding
5 19 (2.88%) Analytical Mindset
5 19 (2.88%) Legacy Systems
6 16 (2.43%) Hybrid Cloud
7 15 (2.28%) Low-Code
8 13 (1.97%) Distributed Systems
9 12 (1.82%) Virtual Team
10 11 (1.67%) Mobile App
10 11 (1.67%) Security Posture
11 10 (1.52%) Data Centre
11 10 (1.52%) Management Information System
12 9 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
13 7 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
14 6 (0.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 6 (0.91%) Linux Command Line
15 5 (0.76%) AI Agents
15 5 (0.76%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 59 (8.95%) Windows
2 23 (3.49%) Linux
3 12 (1.82%) VMS
4 7 (1.06%) Android
5 6 (0.91%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.76%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.46%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.30%) AIX
9 2 (0.30%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.15%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 590 (89.53%) DevOps
2 350 (53.11%) CI/CD
3 337 (51.14%) Agile
4 177 (26.86%) Test Automation
5 172 (26.10%) Continuous Improvement
6 154 (23.37%) Infrastructure as Code
7 143 (21.70%) Coaching
8 135 (20.49%) Mentoring
9 128 (19.42%) Problem-Solving
10 118 (17.91%) Asset Management
11 117 (17.75%) AI
12 100 (15.17%) Roadmaps
13 95 (14.42%) ERP
14 93 (14.11%) Test Management
15 81 (12.29%) Software Engineering
16 76 (11.53%) Microservices
17 75 (11.38%) Analytics
18 74 (11.23%) Containerisation
19 69 (10.47%) Source to Pay
20 68 (10.32%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 221 (33.54%) SQL
2 171 (25.95%) C#
3 145 (22.00%) Python
4 119 (18.06%) PowerShell
5 64 (9.71%) Bicep
6 61 (9.26%) JavaScript
7 54 (8.19%) Bash
8 38 (5.77%) TypeScript
9 36 (5.46%) Java
10 29 (4.40%) Shell Script
11 27 (4.10%) PL/SQL
12 21 (3.19%) T-SQL
13 16 (2.43%) Apex Code
14 9 (1.37%) Go
15 6 (0.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 4 (0.61%) C++
16 4 (0.61%) VB
16 4 (0.61%) VB.NET
17 3 (0.46%) Korn
17 3 (0.46%) Scala
Qualifications
1 53 (8.04%) Degree
2 42 (6.37%) Security Cleared
3 38 (5.77%) Azure Certification
4 30 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (3.95%) ISTQB
6 22 (3.34%) SC Cleared
7 21 (3.19%) DV Cleared
8 16 (2.43%) Microsoft Certification
9 12 (1.82%) ISEB
10 8 (1.21%) AWS Certification
10 8 (1.21%) Master's Degree
10 8 (1.21%) PMI Certification
10 8 (1.21%) PMP
11 6 (0.91%) Cisco Certification
11 6 (0.91%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 5 (0.76%) AWS Certified Developer
13 3 (0.46%) CCNA
13 3 (0.46%) CCNP
14 2 (0.30%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 2 (0.30%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (12.75%) QA
2 23 (3.49%) Accessibility
3 22 (3.34%) GDPR
4 16 (2.43%) PMO
5 9 (1.37%) Software Quality Assurance
6 8 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (1.06%) NCSC
7 7 (1.06%) NIST
8 5 (0.76%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.15%) COBIT
9 1 (0.15%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.15%) HL7
9 1 (0.15%) P3O
9 1 (0.15%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.15%) WCAG
System Software
1 94 (14.26%) Docker
2 31 (4.70%) Active Directory
3 23 (3.49%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (2.43%) Virtual Desktop
5 11 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.46%) Firmware
6 3 (0.46%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.15%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 1 (0.15%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.15%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.15%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 197 (29.89%) Terraform
2 90 (13.66%) Kubernetes
3 69 (10.47%) HP ALM
4 35 (5.31%) Ansible
5 27 (4.10%) Single Sign-On
6 18 (2.73%) Grafana
6 18 (2.73%) Prometheus
7 13 (1.97%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (0.46%) Dell DRAC
9 2 (0.30%) Argo
9 2 (0.30%) Nessus
9 2 (0.30%) Red Hat Satellite
9 2 (0.30%) ZABBIX
10 1 (0.15%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.15%) Puppet
10 1 (0.15%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 185 (28.07%) Microsoft
2 72 (10.93%) SAP
3 69 (10.47%) HP
4 32 (4.86%) Oracle
5 24 (3.64%) Salesforce
6 18 (2.73%) Black Duck
7 17 (2.58%) Coverity
8 16 (2.43%) Okta
8 16 (2.43%) VMware
9 15 (2.28%) Databricks
10 14 (2.12%) Xamarin
11 13 (1.97%) Google
12 12 (1.82%) Sage
13 9 (1.37%) Ab Initio
13 9 (1.37%) Rackspace
13 9 (1.37%) Zoho
14 7 (1.06%) OpenAI
14 7 (1.06%) SolarWinds
15 6 (0.91%) BiZZdesign
15 6 (0.91%) UiPath