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 21 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 98 119
Rank change year-on-year -30 +21 -19
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 685 952 1,006
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.57% 2.68% 2.49%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.94% 8.24% 6.89%
Number of salaries quoted 377 544 874
10th Percentile £38,750 £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 £83,000 £83,750 £81,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -2.67%

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 13,856 11,550 14,594
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.84% 32.57% 36.19%
Number of salaries quoted 6,942 6,281 12,055
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £33,750 £41,250 £37,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £84,964 £81,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £64,900 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.55% +8.17% -7.69%

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 21 January 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 21 January 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 0 231 £50,000 -23.08% 162
Scotland +68 167 £56,000 +6.67% 24
North of England -41 100 £55,000 -18.35% 109
Midlands -56 76 £60,000 -7.69% 70
South West -69 68 £47,500 -26.92% 65
West Midlands -48 57 £60,000 -7.69% 33
Yorkshire -37 37 £55,000 -21.43% 42
North West -25 36 £65,000 - 53
North East +12 27 £50,000 -27.27% 14
Wales +3 24 £55,000 -15.38% 30
East of England -43 17 £65,000 +30.00% 68
East Midlands -13 16 £65,000 +4.00% 34
Northern Ireland -8 2 £56,250 - 9
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 (4.23%) Confluence
2 23 (3.36%) IIS
3 17 (2.48%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 12 (1.75%) SharePoint
5 6 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.58%) Apache
7 3 (0.44%) Appian
8 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.15%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.15%) nginx
Applications
1 23 (3.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (2.19%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (1.75%) MS Visio
4 11 (1.61%) Microsoft Project
5 8 (1.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.29%) Trello
7 1 (0.15%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 69 (10.07%) SAP S/4HANA
2 37 (5.40%) Oracle ERP
3 34 (4.96%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.29%) Markit EDM
5 1 (0.15%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 616 (89.93%) Azure
2 225 (32.85%) GitHub
3 127 (18.54%) Power Platform
4 101 (14.74%) AWS
5 95 (13.87%) GitHub Actions
6 65 (9.49%) GitHub Copilot
7 61 (8.91%) Snowflake
8 54 (7.88%) Entra ID
9 49 (7.15%) dbt
10 45 (6.57%) Microsoft 365
11 44 (6.42%) Azure Data Factory
12 43 (6.28%) Azure Logic Apps
12 43 (6.28%) Azure Monitor
13 41 (5.99%) SaaS
14 40 (5.84%) Power Automate
15 38 (5.55%) Serverless
16 37 (5.40%) OCI
17 36 (5.26%) Dynamics 365
18 33 (4.82%) PaaS
19 32 (4.67%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 29 (4.23%) DNS
1 29 (4.23%) Firewall
2 13 (1.90%) VPN
3 8 (1.17%) HTTP
3 8 (1.17%) TCP/IP
4 6 (0.88%) WAN
5 5 (0.73%) VLAN
6 4 (0.58%) DHCP
6 4 (0.58%) Network Security
6 4 (0.58%) SD-WAN
7 3 (0.44%) BGP
7 3 (0.44%) IPsec
7 3 (0.44%) OSPF
7 3 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.44%) Wireshark
8 2 (0.29%) SSL
9 1 (0.15%) AMQP
9 1 (0.15%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.15%) IP Telephony
9 1 (0.15%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (11.53%) Power BI
1 79 (11.53%) SQL Server
2 51 (7.45%) Data Warehouse
3 33 (4.82%) Tableau
4 25 (3.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 23 (3.36%) Azure SQL Database
6 18 (2.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 17 (2.48%) NoSQL
8 15 (2.19%) PostgreSQL
9 14 (2.04%) Relational Database
9 14 (2.04%) Snowflake Schema
10 13 (1.90%) DynamoDB
11 8 (1.17%) Metadata
12 7 (1.02%) Data Lake
12 7 (1.02%) MongoDB
13 5 (0.73%) BigQuery
13 5 (0.73%) Power Query
14 4 (0.58%) Amazon Redshift
14 4 (0.58%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
14 4 (0.58%) Looker
Development Applications
1 155 (22.63%) JIRA
2 99 (14.45%) Git
3 77 (11.24%) Jenkins
4 69 (10.07%) eCATT
5 38 (5.55%) NeoLoad
6 37 (5.40%) Oracle Forms
7 34 (4.96%) Selenium
8 20 (2.92%) Robot Framework
9 19 (2.77%) Snyk
10 15 (2.19%) Cypress.io
11 14 (2.04%) GitLab
12 10 (1.46%) TeamCity
13 9 (1.31%) Octopus Deploy
14 5 (0.73%) NUnit
14 5 (0.73%) Postman
14 5 (0.73%) Visual Studio
15 4 (0.58%) MSTest
16 3 (0.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 3 (0.44%) MLflow
16 3 (0.44%) REST Assured
General
1 334 (48.76%) Finance
2 156 (22.77%) Social Skills
3 113 (16.50%) Analytical Skills
4 95 (13.87%) Marketing
5 71 (10.36%) Manufacturing
6 52 (7.59%) Presentation Skills
7 43 (6.28%) Influencing Skills
8 19 (2.77%) Law
9 17 (2.48%) Public Sector
10 15 (2.19%) Billing
11 8 (1.17%) Documentation Skills
11 8 (1.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 7 (1.02%) Retail
12 7 (1.02%) Telecoms
13 6 (0.88%) Banking
13 6 (0.88%) Legal
14 5 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
15 4 (0.58%) Advertising
15 4 (0.58%) Front Office
16 3 (0.44%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 158 (23.07%) Senior
2 125 (18.25%) Developer
3 105 (15.33%) Analyst
4 90 (13.14%) Lead
5 66 (9.64%) Cloud Engineer
6 63 (9.20%) Azure Engineer
7 62 (9.05%) DevOps Engineer
8 44 (6.42%) Applications Engineer
9 36 (5.26%) Software Engineer
10 31 (4.53%) Test Leader
11 29 (4.23%) .NET Developer
12 27 (3.94%) Platform Engineer
12 27 (3.94%) Test Analyst
13 26 (3.80%) Senior Cloud Engineer
14 24 (3.50%) Business Analyst
15 21 (3.07%) Applications Developer
15 21 (3.07%) Power Platform Developer
16 20 (2.92%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 20 (2.92%) Full-Stack Developer
17 18 (2.63%) Automation Test Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 170 (24.82%) .NET
2 86 (12.55%) RESTful
3 63 (9.20%) React
4 49 (7.15%) OAuth
5 48 (7.01%) ASP.NET
6 47 (6.86%) SOAP
7 45 (6.57%) .NET Framework
8 40 (5.84%) JSON
8 40 (5.84%) REST
9 39 (5.69%) .NET Core
10 36 (5.26%) OAuth2
11 34 (4.96%) YAML
12 29 (4.23%) CSS
12 29 (4.23%) HTML
13 28 (4.09%) AngularJS
14 26 (3.80%) Blazor
14 26 (3.80%) Lightning Web Components
15 24 (3.50%) ARM Templates
15 24 (3.50%) ASP.NET Core
16 22 (3.21%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 119 (17.37%) Cloud Native
2 97 (14.16%) Product Ownership
3 53 (7.74%) Enterprise Software
4 26 (3.80%) Low-Code
5 22 (3.21%) Mobile App
5 22 (3.21%) Onboarding
6 20 (2.92%) Management Information System
7 19 (2.77%) Legacy Systems
8 18 (2.63%) Analytical Mindset
9 11 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
9 11 (1.61%) Security Posture
10 10 (1.46%) Virtual Team
11 8 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
12 6 (0.88%) Data Centre
12 6 (0.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 6 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
12 6 (0.88%) Linux Command Line
13 4 (0.58%) AI Agents
13 4 (0.58%) Data Protection Act
13 4 (0.58%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 52 (7.59%) Windows
2 31 (4.53%) Linux
3 12 (1.75%) VMS
4 8 (1.17%) Ubuntu
5 7 (1.02%) Android
6 6 (0.88%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.29%) Unix
7 2 (0.29%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.15%) CentOS
8 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 616 (89.93%) DevOps
2 388 (56.64%) CI/CD
3 371 (54.16%) Agile
4 195 (28.47%) Test Automation
5 184 (26.86%) Coaching
6 176 (25.69%) Infrastructure as Code
7 170 (24.82%) Continuous Improvement
8 156 (22.77%) Asset Management
9 145 (21.17%) Problem-Solving
10 135 (19.71%) AI
11 125 (18.25%) Mentoring
12 106 (15.47%) Roadmaps
13 95 (13.87%) ERP
14 91 (13.28%) Test Management
15 87 (12.70%) Clean Code
16 83 (12.12%) Analytics
16 83 (12.12%) Software Engineering
17 82 (11.97%) Observability
18 81 (11.82%) Business Intelligence
19 80 (11.68%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 236 (34.45%) SQL
2 166 (24.23%) Python
3 147 (21.46%) C#
4 109 (15.91%) PowerShell
5 64 (9.34%) JavaScript
6 57 (8.32%) Bash
6 57 (8.32%) Bicep
7 46 (6.72%) Java
8 38 (5.55%) Shell Script
9 37 (5.40%) PL/SQL
9 37 (5.40%) TypeScript
10 26 (3.80%) Apex Code
11 19 (2.77%) T-SQL
12 11 (1.61%) Go
13 10 (1.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 4 (0.58%) C++
14 4 (0.58%) VB
15 3 (0.44%) VB.NET
16 2 (0.29%) Delphi
16 2 (0.29%) VB6
Qualifications
1 58 (8.47%) Degree
2 39 (5.69%) Security Cleared
3 30 (4.38%) Azure Certification
3 30 (4.38%) Computer Science Degree
4 24 (3.50%) DV Cleared
5 20 (2.92%) ISTQB
6 15 (2.19%) SC Cleared
7 14 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
8 12 (1.75%) AWS Certification
9 11 (1.61%) AWS Certified Developer
10 9 (1.31%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 9 (1.31%) Master's Degree
10 9 (1.31%) PMI Certification
11 8 (1.17%) PMP
12 7 (1.02%) HND
13 5 (0.73%) Cisco Certification
13 5 (0.73%) ISEB
14 3 (0.44%) CCNP
15 2 (0.29%) BC Cleared
15 2 (0.29%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (12.12%) QA
2 37 (5.40%) Accessibility
3 20 (2.92%) GDPR
4 14 (2.04%) PMO
5 10 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (1.02%) SLA
7 6 (0.88%) Data Quality
8 5 (0.73%) NCSC
8 5 (0.73%) NIST
8 5 (0.73%) Software Quality Assurance
9 1 (0.15%) HL7
9 1 (0.15%) P3O
9 1 (0.15%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.15%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.15%) WCAG
System Software
1 83 (12.12%) Docker
2 40 (5.84%) Active Directory
3 15 (2.19%) Virtual Desktop
4 14 (2.04%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.58%) Firmware
7 1 (0.15%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 1 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.15%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.15%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 225 (32.85%) Terraform
2 71 (10.36%) Kubernetes
3 69 (10.07%) HP ALM
4 43 (6.28%) Ansible
5 37 (5.40%) Single Sign-On
6 19 (2.77%) Prometheus
7 16 (2.34%) Grafana
8 12 (1.75%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (0.44%) Dell DRAC
10 2 (0.29%) Argo
10 2 (0.29%) Nessus
10 2 (0.29%) Puppet
11 1 (0.15%) CASB
11 1 (0.15%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.15%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.15%) Proxmox
11 1 (0.15%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 189 (27.59%) Microsoft
2 69 (10.07%) HP
2 69 (10.07%) SAP
3 40 (5.84%) Oracle
4 32 (4.67%) Salesforce
5 21 (3.07%) Okta
6 18 (2.63%) Black Duck
6 18 (2.63%) Coverity
7 16 (2.34%) Databricks
8 14 (2.04%) Ab Initio
8 14 (2.04%) Xamarin
9 12 (1.75%) Google
9 12 (1.75%) Sage
10 9 (1.31%) VMware
10 9 (1.31%) Zoho
11 8 (1.17%) Red Hat
12 7 (1.02%) Adobe
12 7 (1.02%) Freshdesk
12 7 (1.02%) Nintex
12 7 (1.02%) SolarWinds