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

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 99 135
Rank change year-on-year -31 +36 -24
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 704 926 1,103
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.53% 2.74% 2.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.91% 8.27% 6.43%
Number of salaries quoted 392 528 971
10th Percentile £39,250 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £44,750 £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 £68,875 £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% -4.58%

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 14,330 11,193 17,159
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.23% 33.08% 35.37%
Number of salaries quoted 7,167 6,166 14,332
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £33,750 £41,250 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,396
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +9.14% -8.37%
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 5 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 5 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 +1 244 £50,000 -23.08% 106
Scotland +63 171 £57,000 +3.64% 24
North of England -38 104 £55,000 -18.19% 77
Midlands -52 76 £60,000 -7.69% 42
South West -68 69 £47,500 -26.92% 29
West Midlands -54 55 £58,000 -10.77% 26
Yorkshire -38 40 £53,750 -23.21% 24
North West -36 35 £65,000 - 45
North East +1 29 £50,000 -27.27% 8
Wales -3 23 £55,000 -15.38% 15
East Midlands -12 18 £65,000 - 16
East of England -43 14 £65,000 +30.00% 24
Northern Ireland -17 3 £56,250 - 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 (4.12%) Confluence
2 25 (3.55%) IIS
3 17 (2.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 13 (1.85%) 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 25 (3.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (2.27%) MS Visio
3 13 (1.85%) Microsoft Project
4 12 (1.70%) Microsoft Office
5 8 (1.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.28%) Trello
7 1 (0.14%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 69 (9.80%) SAP S/4HANA
2 37 (5.26%) Oracle ERP
3 30 (4.26%) 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
1 635 (90.20%) Azure
2 224 (31.82%) GitHub
3 127 (18.04%) Power Platform
4 105 (14.91%) AWS
5 93 (13.21%) GitHub Actions
6 65 (9.23%) GitHub Copilot
7 58 (8.24%) Entra ID
8 57 (8.10%) Snowflake
9 50 (7.10%) Microsoft 365
10 46 (6.53%) Azure Monitor
11 45 (6.39%) Azure Logic Apps
11 45 (6.39%) dbt
12 44 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
13 40 (5.68%) Serverless
14 38 (5.40%) SaaS
15 37 (5.26%) OCI
16 36 (5.11%) Power Automate
17 35 (4.97%) PaaS
18 32 (4.55%) Azure Key Vault
19 31 (4.40%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 36 (5.11%) Firewall
2 33 (4.69%) DNS
3 12 (1.70%) HTTP
3 12 (1.70%) TCP/IP
3 12 (1.70%) VPN
4 6 (0.85%) WAN
5 5 (0.71%) BGP
5 5 (0.71%) VLAN
6 4 (0.57%) DHCP
6 4 (0.57%) Network Security
6 4 (0.57%) SD-WAN
7 3 (0.43%) IPsec
7 3 (0.43%) OSPF
7 3 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.43%) Wireshark
8 2 (0.28%) SSL
9 1 (0.14%) AMQP
9 1 (0.14%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.14%) IP Telephony
9 1 (0.14%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (11.36%) Power BI
2 77 (10.94%) SQL Server
3 47 (6.68%) Data Warehouse
4 29 (4.12%) Tableau
5 22 (3.13%) Azure SQL Database
5 22 (3.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 19 (2.70%) NoSQL
7 18 (2.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 14 (1.99%) PostgreSQL
8 14 (1.99%) Relational Database
8 14 (1.99%) Snowflake Schema
9 13 (1.85%) DynamoDB
10 8 (1.14%) Metadata
11 7 (0.99%) Data Lake
11 7 (0.99%) MongoDB
12 5 (0.71%) Power Query
13 4 (0.57%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
14 3 (0.43%) Airbyte
14 3 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
14 3 (0.43%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 159 (22.59%) JIRA
2 98 (13.92%) Git
3 84 (11.93%) Jenkins
4 69 (9.80%) eCATT
5 38 (5.40%) NeoLoad
6 37 (5.26%) Oracle Forms
6 37 (5.26%) Selenium
7 20 (2.84%) Robot Framework
8 19 (2.70%) Snyk
9 18 (2.56%) Cypress.io
10 15 (2.13%) GitLab
11 8 (1.14%) TeamCity
12 7 (0.99%) Octopus Deploy
13 6 (0.85%) Visual Studio
14 5 (0.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 5 (0.71%) Postman
15 4 (0.57%) NUnit
16 3 (0.43%) git-flow
16 3 (0.43%) MSTest
16 3 (0.43%) Zephyr
General
1 330 (46.88%) Finance
2 154 (21.88%) Social Skills
3 121 (17.19%) Analytical Skills
4 91 (12.93%) Marketing
5 72 (10.23%) Manufacturing
6 52 (7.39%) Presentation Skills
7 44 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
8 22 (3.13%) Billing
9 20 (2.84%) Law
9 20 (2.84%) Public Sector
10 11 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (1.56%) Telecoms
11 8 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (0.85%) Banking
12 6 (0.85%) Retail
13 5 (0.71%) Legal
14 4 (0.57%) Advertising
14 4 (0.57%) Front Office
14 4 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (0.43%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 161 (22.87%) Senior
2 131 (18.61%) Developer
3 103 (14.63%) Analyst
4 89 (12.64%) Lead
5 70 (9.94%) Azure Engineer
5 70 (9.94%) Cloud Engineer
6 69 (9.80%) DevOps Engineer
7 44 (6.25%) Applications Engineer
8 37 (5.26%) Software Engineer
9 33 (4.69%) Test Leader
10 27 (3.84%) .NET Developer
10 27 (3.84%) Platform Engineer
11 26 (3.69%) Senior Cloud Engineer
12 25 (3.55%) Business Analyst
13 24 (3.41%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 24 (3.41%) Test Analyst
14 23 (3.27%) Power Platform Developer
15 20 (2.84%) Applications Developer
15 20 (2.84%) Full-Stack Developer
16 19 (2.70%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 169 (24.01%) .NET
2 83 (11.79%) RESTful
3 67 (9.52%) React
4 51 (7.24%) ASP.NET
5 49 (6.96%) OAuth
6 47 (6.68%) SOAP
7 42 (5.97%) .NET Framework
7 42 (5.97%) JSON
8 41 (5.82%) REST
9 40 (5.68%) .NET Core
10 36 (5.11%) OAuth2
11 35 (4.97%) YAML
12 32 (4.55%) CSS
12 32 (4.55%) HTML
13 28 (3.98%) AngularJS
14 26 (3.69%) ASP.NET Core
14 26 (3.69%) Lightning Web Components
15 25 (3.55%) Blazor
16 23 (3.27%) ARM Templates
17 22 (3.13%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 118 (16.76%) Cloud Native
2 97 (13.78%) Product Ownership
3 50 (7.10%) Enterprise Software
4 28 (3.98%) Low-Code
5 24 (3.41%) Mobile App
6 23 (3.27%) Management Information System
7 21 (2.98%) Onboarding
8 19 (2.70%) Analytical Mindset
9 18 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
10 11 (1.56%) Security Posture
11 9 (1.28%) Hybrid Cloud
12 8 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
12 8 (1.14%) Virtual Team
13 6 (0.85%) Data Centre
13 6 (0.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 6 (0.85%) Linux Command Line
14 5 (0.71%) Distributed Systems
14 5 (0.71%) Greenfield Project
15 4 (0.57%) AI Agents
15 4 (0.57%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 51 (7.24%) Windows
2 35 (4.97%) Linux
3 12 (1.70%) 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
1 635 (90.20%) DevOps
2 387 (54.97%) CI/CD
3 375 (53.27%) Agile
4 196 (27.84%) Test Automation
5 186 (26.42%) Coaching
6 183 (25.99%) Infrastructure as Code
7 175 (24.86%) Continuous Improvement
8 157 (22.30%) Asset Management
9 144 (20.45%) Problem-Solving
10 133 (18.89%) AI
11 125 (17.76%) Mentoring
12 106 (15.06%) Roadmaps
13 95 (13.49%) ERP
14 91 (12.93%) Test Management
15 89 (12.64%) Clean Code
16 86 (12.22%) Data Modelling
17 84 (11.93%) Software Engineering
18 82 (11.65%) Business Intelligence
18 82 (11.65%) Containerisation
18 82 (11.65%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 232 (32.95%) SQL
2 168 (23.86%) Python
3 149 (21.16%) C#
4 107 (15.20%) PowerShell
5 67 (9.52%) JavaScript
6 65 (9.23%) Bash
7 54 (7.67%) Bicep
8 46 (6.53%) Java
9 38 (5.40%) Shell Script
10 37 (5.26%) PL/SQL
10 37 (5.26%) TypeScript
11 26 (3.69%) Apex Code
12 19 (2.70%) T-SQL
13 15 (2.13%) Go
14 6 (0.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 4 (0.57%) C++
15 4 (0.57%) VB
16 3 (0.43%) VB.NET
17 2 (0.28%) Delphi
17 2 (0.28%) Scala
Qualifications
1 66 (9.38%) 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 (2.56%) ISTQB
6 15 (2.13%) SC Cleared
7 13 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
8 12 (1.70%) AWS Certification
9 11 (1.56%) AWS Certified Developer
9 11 (1.56%) HND
10 10 (1.42%) PMI Certification
11 9 (1.28%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 9 (1.28%) Master's Degree
11 9 (1.28%) 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 83 (11.79%) QA
2 44 (6.25%) Accessibility
3 20 (2.84%) GDPR
4 14 (1.99%) PMO
5 13 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (1.42%) SLA
7 6 (0.85%) Data Quality
8 5 (0.71%) NCSC
8 5 (0.71%) NIST
9 2 (0.28%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 2 (0.28%) Software Quality Assurance
9 2 (0.28%) WCAG
10 1 (0.14%) GRC
10 1 (0.14%) HL7
10 1 (0.14%) P3O
10 1 (0.14%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.14%) SOC 2
System Software
1 80 (11.36%) Docker
2 39 (5.54%) 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 (32.81%) Terraform
2 69 (9.80%) HP ALM
2 69 (9.80%) Kubernetes
3 49 (6.96%) Ansible
4 37 (5.26%) Single Sign-On
5 22 (3.13%) Prometheus
6 21 (2.98%) Grafana
7 12 (1.70%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (0.43%) Dell DRAC
9 2 (0.28%) Argo
9 2 (0.28%) Nessus
9 2 (0.28%) Puppet
10 1 (0.14%) CASB
10 1 (0.14%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.14%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.14%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.14%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 196 (27.84%) Microsoft
2 69 (9.80%) HP
2 69 (9.80%) SAP
3 40 (5.68%) Oracle
4 29 (4.12%) Salesforce
5 21 (2.98%) Okta
6 18 (2.56%) Black Duck
6 18 (2.56%) Coverity
7 16 (2.27%) Databricks
8 14 (1.99%) Ab Initio
9 13 (1.85%) 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 (1.14%) Google
14 7 (0.99%) SolarWinds
15 6 (0.85%) Cisco