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 8 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 97 133
Rank change year-on-year -30 +36 -22
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 705 925 1,125
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.52% 2.76% 2.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.88% 8.29% 6.43%
Number of salaries quoted 393 530 992
10th Percentile £39,250 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +9.20% -0.79%
75th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £82,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -5.30%

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 14,447 11,162 17,501
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.14% 33.27% 35.29%
Number of salaries quoted 7,178 6,136 14,615
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £33,750 £41,250 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -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 8 February 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 8 February 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 -5 244 £50,000 -23.08% 101
Scotland +61 170 £56,000 +1.82% 26
North of England -39 107 £55,000 -18.35% 96
Midlands -56 76 £60,000 -7.69% 44
South West -65 69 £47,500 -26.92% 28
West Midlands -55 55 £58,000 -12.12% 28
Yorkshire -46 41 £55,000 -21.43% 31
North West -22 36 £64,000 -1.54% 56
North East +9 30 £50,000 -27.27% 10
Wales -2 22 £55,000 -15.38% 13
East Midlands -13 18 £65,000 - 16
East of England -42 14 £65,000 +30.00% 20
Northern Ireland -21 3 £56,250 +12.50% 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 29 (4.11%) Confluence
2 25 (3.55%) IIS
3 17 (2.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 12 (1.70%) SharePoint
5 6 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.57%) Apache
7 3 (0.43%) Appian
8 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.14%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.14%) nginx
Applications
1 24 (3.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (2.27%) MS Visio
3 12 (1.70%) Microsoft Project
4 11 (1.56%) Microsoft Office
5 7 (0.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.28%) Trello
7 1 (0.14%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 69 (9.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 37 (5.25%) Oracle ERP
3 29 (4.11%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.28%) Markit EDM
5 1 (0.14%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 1 (0.14%) Primavera
5 1 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 636 (90.21%) Azure
2 226 (32.06%) GitHub
3 127 (18.01%) Power Platform
4 108 (15.32%) AWS
5 95 (13.48%) GitHub Actions
6 65 (9.22%) GitHub Copilot
7 58 (8.23%) Snowflake
8 57 (8.09%) Entra ID
9 50 (7.09%) Microsoft 365
10 46 (6.52%) Azure Logic Apps
10 46 (6.52%) Azure Monitor
11 45 (6.38%) Azure Data Factory
11 45 (6.38%) dbt
12 40 (5.67%) Serverless
13 38 (5.39%) SaaS
14 37 (5.25%) OCI
15 36 (5.11%) Power Automate
16 35 (4.96%) PaaS
17 34 (4.82%) GCP
18 31 (4.40%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 38 (5.39%) Firewall
2 35 (4.96%) DNS
3 14 (1.99%) HTTP
3 14 (1.99%) TCP/IP
4 12 (1.70%) VPN
5 6 (0.85%) WAN
6 5 (0.71%) BGP
6 5 (0.71%) VLAN
7 4 (0.57%) DHCP
7 4 (0.57%) Network Security
7 4 (0.57%) SD-WAN
8 3 (0.43%) IPsec
8 3 (0.43%) OSPF
8 3 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.43%) Wireshark
9 2 (0.28%) SSL
10 1 (0.14%) AMQP
10 1 (0.14%) HTTPS
10 1 (0.14%) IP Telephony
10 1 (0.14%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (11.21%) Power BI
2 76 (10.78%) SQL Server
3 47 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
4 29 (4.11%) Tableau
5 22 (3.12%) Azure SQL Database
6 21 (2.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 19 (2.70%) NoSQL
8 18 (2.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 14 (1.99%) PostgreSQL
9 14 (1.99%) Snowflake Schema
10 13 (1.84%) DynamoDB
10 13 (1.84%) Relational Database
11 8 (1.13%) Metadata
12 7 (0.99%) Data Lake
12 7 (0.99%) MongoDB
13 5 (0.71%) Power Query
14 4 (0.57%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
15 3 (0.43%) Airbyte
15 3 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
15 3 (0.43%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 159 (22.55%) JIRA
2 97 (13.76%) Git
3 86 (12.20%) Jenkins
4 69 (9.79%) eCATT
5 38 (5.39%) NeoLoad
6 37 (5.25%) Oracle Forms
6 37 (5.25%) Selenium
7 20 (2.84%) Robot Framework
8 19 (2.70%) Snyk
9 18 (2.55%) Cypress.io
10 15 (2.13%) GitLab
11 7 (0.99%) TeamCity
12 6 (0.85%) Octopus Deploy
12 6 (0.85%) Visual Studio
13 5 (0.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 5 (0.71%) Postman
14 4 (0.57%) NUnit
15 3 (0.43%) git-flow
15 3 (0.43%) MSTest
15 3 (0.43%) Zephyr
General
1 330 (46.81%) Finance
2 153 (21.70%) Social Skills
3 123 (17.45%) Analytical Skills
4 91 (12.91%) Marketing
5 72 (10.21%) Manufacturing
6 52 (7.38%) Presentation Skills
7 44 (6.24%) Influencing Skills
8 22 (3.12%) Billing
8 22 (3.12%) Law
9 20 (2.84%) Public Sector
10 13 (1.84%) Telecoms
11 11 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 8 (1.13%) Documentation Skills
13 6 (0.85%) Banking
13 6 (0.85%) Retail
14 5 (0.71%) Legal
15 4 (0.57%) Advertising
15 4 (0.57%) Front Office
15 4 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
16 3 (0.43%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 161 (22.84%) Senior
2 132 (18.72%) Developer
3 103 (14.61%) Analyst
4 89 (12.62%) Lead
5 71 (10.07%) Cloud Engineer
6 69 (9.79%) Azure Engineer
6 69 (9.79%) DevOps Engineer
7 44 (6.24%) Applications Engineer
8 37 (5.25%) Software Engineer
9 33 (4.68%) Test Leader
10 27 (3.83%) .NET Developer
11 26 (3.69%) Platform Engineer
11 26 (3.69%) Senior Cloud Engineer
12 25 (3.55%) Business Analyst
13 24 (3.40%) Power Platform Developer
13 24 (3.40%) Test Analyst
14 23 (3.26%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 20 (2.84%) Applications Developer
15 20 (2.84%) Full-Stack Developer
16 19 (2.70%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 168 (23.83%) .NET
2 83 (11.77%) RESTful
3 67 (9.50%) React
4 51 (7.23%) ASP.NET
5 49 (6.95%) OAuth
6 47 (6.67%) SOAP
7 42 (5.96%) .NET Framework
7 42 (5.96%) JSON
8 41 (5.82%) REST
9 40 (5.67%) .NET Core
10 36 (5.11%) OAuth2
11 35 (4.96%) YAML
12 32 (4.54%) CSS
12 32 (4.54%) HTML
13 28 (3.97%) AngularJS
14 26 (3.69%) ASP.NET Core
14 26 (3.69%) Lightning Web Components
15 25 (3.55%) Blazor
16 22 (3.12%) ARM Templates
16 22 (3.12%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 118 (16.74%) Cloud Native
2 97 (13.76%) Product Ownership
3 50 (7.09%) Enterprise Software
4 29 (4.11%) Low-Code
5 24 (3.40%) Mobile App
6 23 (3.26%) Management Information System
7 20 (2.84%) Analytical Mindset
8 19 (2.70%) Onboarding
9 17 (2.41%) Legacy Systems
10 11 (1.56%) Security Posture
11 8 (1.13%) Hybrid Cloud
11 8 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
12 7 (0.99%) Virtual Team
13 6 (0.85%) Data Centre
13 6 (0.85%) Distributed Systems
13 6 (0.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 5 (0.71%) Greenfield Project
14 5 (0.71%) Linux Command Line
15 4 (0.57%) Data Protection Act
15 4 (0.57%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 51 (7.23%) Windows
2 35 (4.96%) Linux
3 11 (1.56%) VMS
4 10 (1.42%) Ubuntu
5 6 (0.85%) Android
6 5 (0.71%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.28%) Unix
7 2 (0.28%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.14%) CentOS
8 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 636 (90.21%) DevOps
2 388 (55.04%) CI/CD
3 375 (53.19%) Agile
4 195 (27.66%) Test Automation
5 186 (26.38%) Coaching
6 185 (26.24%) Infrastructure as Code
7 175 (24.82%) Continuous Improvement
8 157 (22.27%) Asset Management
9 146 (20.71%) Problem-Solving
10 132 (18.72%) AI
11 127 (18.01%) Mentoring
12 106 (15.04%) Roadmaps
13 95 (13.48%) ERP
14 91 (12.91%) Test Management
15 89 (12.62%) Clean Code
16 86 (12.20%) Data Modelling
17 84 (11.91%) Software Engineering
18 83 (11.77%) Containerisation
19 81 (11.49%) Business Intelligence
20 80 (11.35%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 231 (32.77%) SQL
2 173 (24.54%) Python
3 150 (21.28%) C#
4 105 (14.89%) PowerShell
5 69 (9.79%) JavaScript
6 66 (9.36%) Bash
7 54 (7.66%) Bicep
8 47 (6.67%) Java
9 38 (5.39%) Shell Script
10 37 (5.25%) PL/SQL
10 37 (5.25%) TypeScript
11 26 (3.69%) Apex Code
12 19 (2.70%) T-SQL
13 18 (2.55%) Go
14 6 (0.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 5 (0.71%) C++
16 4 (0.57%) VB
17 3 (0.43%) VB.NET
18 2 (0.28%) Scala
18 2 (0.28%) VB6
Qualifications
1 65 (9.22%) Degree
2 41 (5.82%) Security Cleared
3 31 (4.40%) Computer Science Degree
4 25 (3.55%) Azure Certification
4 25 (3.55%) DV Cleared
5 18 (2.55%) ISTQB
6 15 (2.13%) SC Cleared
7 13 (1.84%) Microsoft Certification
8 12 (1.70%) AWS Certification
9 11 (1.56%) AWS Certified Developer
9 11 (1.56%) HND
10 9 (1.28%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 9 (1.28%) Master's Degree
10 9 (1.28%) PMI Certification
11 8 (1.13%) PMP
12 4 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.43%) BC Cleared
13 3 (0.43%) CCNP
14 2 (0.28%) ISEB
14 2 (0.28%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (11.63%) QA
2 44 (6.24%) Accessibility
3 20 (2.84%) GDPR
4 13 (1.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (1.84%) PMO
5 10 (1.42%) SLA
6 6 (0.85%) Data Quality
7 5 (0.71%) NCSC
7 5 (0.71%) NIST
8 2 (0.28%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 2 (0.28%) Software Quality Assurance
8 2 (0.28%) WCAG
9 1 (0.14%) GRC
9 1 (0.14%) HL7
9 1 (0.14%) P3O
9 1 (0.14%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.14%) SOC 2
System Software
1 78 (11.06%) Docker
2 38 (5.39%) Active Directory
3 14 (1.99%) Virtual Desktop
3 14 (1.99%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.57%) Firmware
6 1 (0.14%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.14%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 231 (32.77%) Terraform
2 69 (9.79%) HP ALM
3 68 (9.65%) Kubernetes
4 51 (7.23%) Ansible
5 37 (5.25%) Single Sign-On
6 24 (3.40%) Prometheus
7 23 (3.26%) Grafana
8 12 (1.70%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (0.43%) Dell DRAC
10 2 (0.28%) Argo
10 2 (0.28%) Nessus
10 2 (0.28%) Puppet
11 1 (0.14%) CASB
11 1 (0.14%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.14%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.14%) Proxmox
11 1 (0.14%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 195 (27.66%) Microsoft
2 69 (9.79%) HP
2 69 (9.79%) SAP
3 40 (5.67%) Oracle
4 29 (4.11%) Salesforce
5 21 (2.98%) Okta
6 18 (2.55%) Black Duck
6 18 (2.55%) Coverity
7 16 (2.27%) Databricks
8 14 (1.99%) Ab Initio
9 13 (1.84%) Xamarin
10 12 (1.70%) Sage
11 10 (1.42%) Adobe
11 10 (1.42%) Freshdesk
11 10 (1.42%) Nintex
11 10 (1.42%) Red Hat
12 9 (1.28%) VMware
13 8 (1.13%) Google
14 7 (0.99%) SolarWinds
15 6 (0.85%) Cisco