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 29 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 170 113 125
Rank change year-on-year -57 +12 0
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 622 658 1,487
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.11% 2.53% 2.36%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.66% 7.57% 6.86%
Number of salaries quoted 402 472 1,188
10th Percentile £39,250 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +8.33% +0.80%
75th Percentile £70,000 £76,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £87,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +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 16,990 8,694 21,679
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 30.19% 33.41% 34.46%
Number of salaries quoted 8,291 6,315 17,008
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £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 29 March 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 29 March 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 -15 200 £50,000 -27.27% 101
Scotland +49 113 £62,500 +8.70% 22
North of England -34 113 £55,000 -18.52% 74
Midlands -49 86 £63,500 -2.31% 60
South West -92 75 £50,000 -23.08% 34
West Midlands -53 53 £60,000 -12.73% 37
North West -27 41 £65,000 - 41
Yorkshire -55 40 £55,000 -21.43% 22
North East 0 32 £50,000 -23.08% 11
East Midlands -18 30 £65,000 - 23
East of England -51 22 £70,000 +32.08% 33
Wales -34 10 £53,171 -18.20% 21
Northern Ireland -36 3 £56,250 +12.50% 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 23 (3.70%) Confluence
1 23 (3.70%) IIS
2 14 (2.25%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 4 (0.64%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.48%) Anypoint
5 3 (0.48%) Apache
6 2 (0.32%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.32%) CICS
6 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.16%) Appian
7 1 (0.16%) Drupal
7 1 (0.16%) nginx
7 1 (0.16%) PegaRULES
7 1 (0.16%) WordPress
Applications
1 17 (2.73%) MS Visio
2 12 (1.93%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (1.45%) Microsoft Project
4 6 (0.96%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.48%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.32%) Trello
8 1 (0.16%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.16%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 27 (4.34%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (3.05%) Oracle ERP
3 13 (2.09%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.64%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.32%) Magento
5 2 (0.32%) Markit EDM
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
6 1 (0.16%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 595 (95.66%) Azure
2 192 (30.87%) GitHub
3 109 (17.52%) AWS
4 107 (17.20%) Power Platform
5 101 (16.24%) GitHub Actions
6 55 (8.84%) Microsoft 365
7 47 (7.56%) GitHub Copilot
8 46 (7.40%) Azure Logic Apps
9 44 (7.07%) Entra ID
10 42 (6.75%) Azure Data Factory
11 41 (6.59%) Serverless
12 39 (6.27%) GCP
13 37 (5.95%) Snowflake
14 35 (5.63%) dbt
14 35 (5.63%) SaaS
15 34 (5.47%) Azure Monitor
16 33 (5.31%) PaaS
17 27 (4.34%) Power Automate
18 26 (4.18%) IaaS
19 24 (3.86%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 35 (5.63%) Firewall
2 32 (5.14%) DNS
3 19 (3.05%) HTTP
3 19 (3.05%) TCP/IP
4 5 (0.80%) Network Security
5 3 (0.48%) BGP
5 3 (0.48%) VPN
6 2 (0.32%) SSL
6 2 (0.32%) VLAN
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%) VSAN
7 1 (0.16%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (11.09%) SQL Server
2 62 (9.97%) Power BI
3 29 (4.66%) Data Warehouse
4 28 (4.50%) Azure SQL Database
5 22 (3.54%) NoSQL
6 16 (2.57%) PostgreSQL
7 13 (2.09%) DynamoDB
7 13 (2.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 13 (2.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 12 (1.93%) MongoDB
9 11 (1.77%) Relational Database
9 11 (1.77%) Tableau
10 8 (1.29%) Data Lake
11 7 (1.13%) Amazon RDS
11 7 (1.13%) Snowflake Schema
12 6 (0.96%) Metadata
12 6 (0.96%) Power Query
13 4 (0.64%) MySQL
13 4 (0.64%) Spark SQL
13 4 (0.64%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 107 (17.20%) JIRA
2 95 (15.27%) Git
3 77 (12.38%) Jenkins
4 45 (7.23%) Selenium
5 27 (4.34%) Cypress.io
5 27 (4.34%) eCATT
6 26 (4.18%) GitLab
7 19 (3.05%) Oracle Forms
8 18 (2.89%) NeoLoad
8 18 (2.89%) Robot Framework
9 16 (2.57%) Snyk
10 12 (1.93%) Postman
11 11 (1.77%) Visual Studio
12 7 (1.13%) REST Assured
13 6 (0.96%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 6 (0.96%) JMeter
13 6 (0.96%) NUnit
13 6 (0.96%) Zephyr
14 4 (0.64%) TestRail
14 4 (0.64%) XCUITest
General
1 220 (35.37%) Finance
2 139 (22.35%) Social Skills
3 118 (18.97%) Analytical Skills
4 45 (7.23%) Marketing
5 34 (5.47%) Manufacturing
6 31 (4.98%) Influencing Skills
7 29 (4.66%) Public Sector
8 27 (4.34%) Law
9 24 (3.86%) Billing
10 23 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
11 19 (3.05%) Telecoms
12 15 (2.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 14 (2.25%) Retail
14 13 (2.09%) Legal
15 8 (1.29%) Banking
16 5 (0.80%) Automotive
16 5 (0.80%) Documentation Skills
17 4 (0.64%) Games
18 3 (0.48%) Aerospace
18 3 (0.48%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 137 (22.03%) Developer
2 117 (18.81%) Senior
3 82 (13.18%) Azure Engineer
4 80 (12.86%) DevOps Engineer
5 74 (11.90%) Lead
6 67 (10.77%) Analyst
7 47 (7.56%) Cloud Engineer
8 34 (5.47%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 31 (4.98%) .NET Developer
10 26 (4.18%) Applications Engineer
11 25 (4.02%) Software Engineer
12 23 (3.70%) Architect
13 22 (3.54%) Power Platform Developer
14 19 (3.05%) Full-Stack Developer
14 19 (3.05%) Senior Developer
15 18 (2.89%) Software Developer
16 17 (2.73%) Applications Support
16 17 (2.73%) Support Analyst
16 17 (2.73%) Test Leader
17 16 (2.57%) QA Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 134 (21.54%) .NET
2 71 (11.41%) RESTful
3 66 (10.61%) React
4 59 (9.49%) ASP.NET
5 48 (7.72%) OAuth
6 47 (7.56%) REST
7 46 (7.40%) .NET Core
8 45 (7.23%) CSS
8 45 (7.23%) HTML
9 42 (6.75%) SOAP
10 36 (5.79%) ASP.NET Core
11 34 (5.47%) YAML
12 32 (5.14%) JSON
13 31 (4.98%) Playwright
14 27 (4.34%) .NET Framework
14 27 (4.34%) OAuth2
15 24 (3.86%) Blazor
15 24 (3.86%) Node.js
16 21 (3.38%) Elastic Stack
17 20 (3.22%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 77 (12.38%) Cloud Native
1 77 (12.38%) Product Ownership
2 35 (5.63%) Enterprise Software
3 28 (4.50%) Low-Code
3 28 (4.50%) Mobile App
4 21 (3.38%) Management Information System
5 14 (2.25%) Legacy Systems
6 13 (2.09%) Analytical Mindset
7 9 (1.45%) Security Posture
8 8 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (0.64%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (0.64%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (0.64%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (0.64%) Legacy Applications
9 4 (0.64%) Social Network
10 3 (0.48%) Data Structures
10 3 (0.48%) Life Science
10 3 (0.48%) PMI
11 2 (0.32%) BBC
11 2 (0.32%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 49 (7.88%) Linux
2 48 (7.72%) Windows
3 12 (1.93%) Ubuntu
4 7 (1.13%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.48%) Android
5 3 (0.48%) VMS
5 3 (0.48%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.32%) Kali Linux
6 2 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.32%) Unix
7 1 (0.16%) CentOS
7 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 595 (95.66%) DevOps
2 365 (58.68%) CI/CD
3 323 (51.93%) Agile
4 183 (29.42%) Infrastructure as Code
5 167 (26.85%) Test Automation
6 136 (21.86%) Continuous Improvement
7 130 (20.90%) Problem-Solving
8 116 (18.65%) Coaching
9 99 (15.92%) Asset Management
10 95 (15.27%) Mentoring
11 93 (14.95%) AI
12 83 (13.34%) Containerisation
12 83 (13.34%) Data Modelling
13 79 (12.70%) Scrum
14 75 (12.06%) Observability
15 74 (11.90%) Roadmaps
16 71 (11.41%) SDLC
17 70 (11.25%) Software Engineering
18 66 (10.61%) Clean Code
18 66 (10.61%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 191 (30.71%) SQL
2 136 (21.86%) Python
3 129 (20.74%) C#
4 81 (13.02%) JavaScript
5 76 (12.22%) PowerShell
6 68 (10.93%) Bash
7 41 (6.59%) Bicep
8 36 (5.79%) Java
9 27 (4.34%) TypeScript
10 23 (3.70%) PL/SQL
11 21 (3.38%) Go
12 20 (3.22%) Apex Code
12 20 (3.22%) Shell Script
13 17 (2.73%) T-SQL
14 8 (1.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 6 (0.96%) Swift
16 5 (0.80%) C++
17 4 (0.64%) VB
18 3 (0.48%) Scala
18 3 (0.48%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 64 (10.29%) Degree
2 46 (7.40%) Security Cleared
3 30 (4.82%) Computer Science Degree
4 26 (4.18%) DV Cleared
5 19 (3.05%) ISTQB
6 18 (2.89%) Azure Certification
7 15 (2.41%) SC Cleared
8 14 (2.25%) AWS Certification
9 13 (2.09%) HND
9 13 (2.09%) Microsoft Certification
10 11 (1.77%) AWS Certified Developer
11 10 (1.61%) Master's Degree
12 7 (1.13%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 7 (1.13%) PMI Certification
13 4 (0.64%) BC Cleared
13 4 (0.64%) PMP
14 3 (0.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 2 (0.32%) ITIL Certification
15 2 (0.32%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 1 (0.16%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (11.74%) QA
2 48 (7.72%) Accessibility
3 20 (3.22%) GDPR
4 15 (2.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (1.93%) SLA
6 8 (1.29%) Data Quality
7 6 (0.96%) NCSC
8 5 (0.80%) NIST
8 5 (0.80%) PMO
8 5 (0.80%) WCAG
9 2 (0.32%) GRC
9 2 (0.32%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 2 (0.32%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.16%) HL7
10 1 (0.16%) P3O
10 1 (0.16%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 77 (12.38%) Docker
2 29 (4.66%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.64%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.16%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (0.16%) Firmware
6 1 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.16%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.16%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 194 (31.19%) Terraform
2 61 (9.81%) Ansible
3 56 (9.00%) Kubernetes
4 41 (6.59%) Grafana
5 36 (5.79%) Prometheus
6 28 (4.50%) HP ALM
7 20 (3.22%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.32%) HP Fortify
9 2 (0.32%) MIIS
9 2 (0.32%) Nessus
9 2 (0.32%) Puppet
9 2 (0.32%) Scalr
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%) Packer
10 1 (0.16%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.16%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 203 (32.64%) Microsoft
2 28 (4.50%) HP
2 28 (4.50%) SAP
3 26 (4.18%) Oracle
3 26 (4.18%) Salesforce
4 19 (3.05%) Red Hat
5 16 (2.57%) Black Duck
5 16 (2.57%) Coverity
6 15 (2.41%) Databricks
7 13 (2.09%) Adobe
7 13 (2.09%) Dynatrace
8 12 (1.93%) Freshdesk
8 12 (1.93%) Nintex
9 11 (1.77%) Ab Initio
10 10 (1.61%) Okta
11 9 (1.45%) CrowdStrike
12 8 (1.29%) Google
12 8 (1.29%) Sage
12 8 (1.29%) Xamarin
13 7 (1.13%) Apple