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

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 128 102 104
Rank change year-on-year -26 +2 -14
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 677 986 906
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.61% 2.64% 2.94%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.97% 8.19% 7.75%
Number of salaries quoted 370 573 779
10th Percentile £38,750 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £49,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,250 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.92% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £69,500 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £82,500
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 13,634 12,040 11,694
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.38% 32.20% 37.89%
Number of salaries quoted 6,840 6,609 9,585
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £33,125 £41,250 £40,000
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 £69,550
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £82,548
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,000 £60,249
% change year-on-year -4.76% +4.57% -7.31%

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 December 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 29 December 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 -7 226 £58,750 -12.96% 390
Scotland +70 167 £64,500 +22.86% 90
North of England -57 97 £60,000 -7.69% 337
Midlands -51 77 £60,000 -7.69% 274
West Midlands -47 61 £60,000 -7.69% 145
South West -70 60 £50,000 -23.08% 159
North West -30 36 £65,000 +1.56% 169
Yorkshire -28 35 £60,000 -7.69% 143
Wales +3 29 £55,000 -15.38% 41
North East +12 26 £50,000 -16.67% 26
East of England -27 19 £62,500 +25.00% 222
East Midlands -21 14 £60,000 +17.07% 117
Northern Ireland -7 2 £56,250 - 26
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 27 (3.99%) Confluence
2 23 (3.40%) IIS
3 17 (2.51%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 12 (1.77%) SharePoint
5 9 (1.33%) Apache Airflow
6 7 (1.03%) Apache
7 6 (0.89%) Appian
8 2 (0.30%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.30%) nginx
9 1 (0.15%) BizTalk Server
9 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
Applications
1 23 (3.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (2.66%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (1.62%) Microsoft Project
4 9 (1.33%) MS Visio
5 8 (1.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.30%) Trello
7 1 (0.15%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 69 (10.19%) SAP S/4HANA
2 37 (5.47%) Oracle ERP
3 34 (5.02%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.30%) Markit EDM
5 1 (0.15%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 608 (89.81%) Azure
2 221 (32.64%) GitHub
3 124 (18.32%) Power Platform
4 101 (14.92%) AWS
5 95 (14.03%) GitHub Actions
6 65 (9.60%) GitHub Copilot
7 61 (9.01%) Snowflake
8 49 (7.24%) Entra ID
9 48 (7.09%) dbt
10 46 (6.79%) Azure Data Factory
10 46 (6.79%) Power Automate
11 45 (6.65%) Microsoft 365
12 41 (6.06%) Azure Monitor
13 39 (5.76%) Azure Logic Apps
13 39 (5.76%) SaaS
14 38 (5.61%) Serverless
15 37 (5.47%) OCI
16 36 (5.32%) Dynamics 365
17 33 (4.87%) Azure Key Vault
18 30 (4.43%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 27 (3.99%) DNS
2 24 (3.55%) Firewall
3 13 (1.92%) VPN
4 6 (0.89%) HTTP
4 6 (0.89%) TCP/IP
4 6 (0.89%) VLAN
4 6 (0.89%) WAN
5 4 (0.59%) DHCP
5 4 (0.59%) Network Security
5 4 (0.59%) SD-WAN
6 3 (0.44%) BGP
6 3 (0.44%) IPsec
6 3 (0.44%) OSPF
6 3 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (0.44%) Wireshark
7 2 (0.30%) SSL
8 1 (0.15%) AMQP
8 1 (0.15%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.15%) MPLS
8 1 (0.15%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (11.96%) SQL Server
2 73 (10.78%) Power BI
3 51 (7.53%) Data Warehouse
4 34 (5.02%) Tableau
5 26 (3.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 19 (2.81%) Azure SQL Database
7 18 (2.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 16 (2.36%) NoSQL
8 16 (2.36%) Relational Database
9 15 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
10 14 (2.07%) DynamoDB
10 14 (2.07%) Snowflake Schema
11 8 (1.18%) Metadata
12 7 (1.03%) Data Lake
13 6 (0.89%) MySQL
14 5 (0.74%) Airbyte
14 5 (0.74%) BigQuery
15 4 (0.59%) Amazon Redshift
15 4 (0.59%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
15 4 (0.59%) Looker
Development Applications
1 154 (22.75%) JIRA
2 98 (14.48%) Git
3 76 (11.23%) Jenkins
4 69 (10.19%) eCATT
5 38 (5.61%) NeoLoad
6 37 (5.47%) Oracle Forms
7 34 (5.02%) Selenium
8 23 (3.40%) Robot Framework
9 22 (3.25%) Snyk
10 16 (2.36%) GitLab
11 14 (2.07%) Octopus Deploy
12 13 (1.92%) TeamCity
13 11 (1.62%) Cypress.io
14 8 (1.18%) NUnit
15 6 (0.89%) MSTest
15 6 (0.89%) Visual Studio
16 5 (0.74%) Postman
16 5 (0.74%) Storybook
17 4 (0.59%) Cucumber
17 4 (0.59%) REST Assured
General
1 330 (48.74%) Finance
2 160 (23.63%) Social Skills
3 103 (15.21%) Analytical Skills
4 95 (14.03%) Marketing
5 71 (10.49%) Manufacturing
6 52 (7.68%) Presentation Skills
7 43 (6.35%) Influencing Skills
8 19 (2.81%) Law
9 15 (2.22%) Public Sector
10 10 (1.48%) Retail
11 9 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
11 9 (1.33%) Legal
12 8 (1.18%) Billing
13 6 (0.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 5 (0.74%) Banking
14 5 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (0.74%) Telecoms
15 4 (0.59%) Advertising
15 4 (0.59%) Front Office
16 3 (0.44%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 156 (23.04%) Senior
2 112 (16.54%) Developer
3 104 (15.36%) Analyst
4 93 (13.74%) Lead
5 63 (9.31%) DevOps Engineer
6 62 (9.16%) Azure Engineer
6 62 (9.16%) Cloud Engineer
7 44 (6.50%) Applications Engineer
8 36 (5.32%) Software Engineer
9 31 (4.58%) Test Leader
10 29 (4.28%) Test Analyst
11 27 (3.99%) Platform Engineer
12 26 (3.84%) Senior Cloud Engineer
13 24 (3.55%) Business Analyst
14 23 (3.40%) .NET Developer
15 21 (3.10%) Automation Test Lead
16 20 (2.95%) Architect
16 20 (2.95%) Azure DevOps Engineer
17 19 (2.81%) Applications Developer
17 19 (2.81%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 170 (25.11%) .NET
2 84 (12.41%) RESTful
3 55 (8.12%) React
4 49 (7.24%) OAuth
5 47 (6.94%) .NET Framework
5 47 (6.94%) SOAP
6 42 (6.20%) JSON
6 42 (6.20%) REST
7 39 (5.76%) ASP.NET
8 38 (5.61%) .NET Core
9 35 (5.17%) OAuth2
10 34 (5.02%) YAML
11 28 (4.14%) ARM Templates
12 27 (3.99%) AngularJS
13 26 (3.84%) Lightning Web Components
14 24 (3.55%) Blazor
14 24 (3.55%) CSS
14 24 (3.55%) HTML
14 24 (3.55%) XML
15 23 (3.40%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 134 (19.79%) Cloud Native
2 98 (14.48%) Product Ownership
3 54 (7.98%) Enterprise Software
4 23 (3.40%) Low-Code
4 23 (3.40%) Onboarding
5 20 (2.95%) Legacy Systems
6 18 (2.66%) Analytical Mindset
6 18 (2.66%) Mobile App
7 17 (2.51%) Management Information System
8 13 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
9 12 (1.77%) Virtual Team
10 10 (1.48%) Security Posture
11 8 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
11 8 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
12 7 (1.03%) Data Centre
12 7 (1.03%) Distributed Systems
13 6 (0.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 6 (0.89%) Linux Command Line
14 5 (0.74%) Data Protection Act
15 4 (0.59%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 55 (8.12%) Windows
2 27 (3.99%) Linux
3 12 (1.77%) VMS
4 7 (1.03%) Android
4 7 (1.03%) Apple iOS
5 5 (0.74%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.44%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.15%) CentOS
8 1 (0.15%) Unix
8 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 608 (89.81%) DevOps
2 387 (57.16%) CI/CD
3 366 (54.06%) Agile
4 196 (28.95%) Test Automation
5 179 (26.44%) Coaching
5 179 (26.44%) Infrastructure as Code
6 175 (25.85%) Continuous Improvement
7 156 (23.04%) Asset Management
8 143 (21.12%) Problem-Solving
9 135 (19.94%) AI
10 134 (19.79%) Mentoring
11 106 (15.66%) Roadmaps
12 98 (14.48%) ERP
13 93 (13.74%) Test Management
14 85 (12.56%) Analytics
14 85 (12.56%) Observability
14 85 (12.56%) Software Engineering
15 84 (12.41%) Clean Code
16 79 (11.67%) Data Modelling
17 77 (11.37%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 232 (34.27%) SQL
2 164 (24.22%) Python
3 145 (21.42%) C#
4 111 (16.40%) PowerShell
5 63 (9.31%) Bicep
6 57 (8.42%) JavaScript
7 51 (7.53%) Bash
8 46 (6.79%) Java
9 39 (5.76%) TypeScript
10 37 (5.47%) PL/SQL
10 37 (5.47%) Shell Script
11 26 (3.84%) Apex Code
12 19 (2.81%) T-SQL
13 10 (1.48%) Go
14 8 (1.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 5 (0.74%) C++
16 3 (0.44%) Scala
16 3 (0.44%) VB.NET
17 2 (0.30%) Perl
17 2 (0.30%) VB
Qualifications
1 55 (8.12%) Degree
2 42 (6.20%) Security Cleared
3 32 (4.73%) Azure Certification
4 29 (4.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 24 (3.55%) DV Cleared
6 23 (3.40%) ISTQB
7 18 (2.66%) SC Cleared
8 17 (2.51%) Microsoft Certification
9 13 (1.92%) AWS Certification
10 11 (1.62%) AWS Certified Developer
11 9 (1.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 9 (1.33%) Master's Degree
12 8 (1.18%) PMI Certification
12 8 (1.18%) PMP
13 7 (1.03%) ISEB
14 6 (0.89%) Cisco Certification
15 4 (0.59%) HND
16 3 (0.44%) CCNA
16 3 (0.44%) CCNP
16 3 (0.44%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (12.41%) QA
2 32 (4.73%) Accessibility
3 22 (3.25%) GDPR
4 14 (2.07%) PMO
5 10 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (1.03%) Data Quality
6 7 (1.03%) Software Quality Assurance
7 5 (0.74%) NCSC
7 5 (0.74%) NIST
8 4 (0.59%) SLA
9 1 (0.15%) COBIT
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 88 (13.00%) Docker
2 39 (5.76%) Active Directory
3 16 (2.36%) Virtual Machines
4 15 (2.22%) Virtual Desktop
5 9 (1.33%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.59%) 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
1 229 (33.83%) Terraform
2 78 (11.52%) Kubernetes
3 69 (10.19%) HP ALM
4 41 (6.06%) Ansible
5 37 (5.47%) Single Sign-On
6 17 (2.51%) Prometheus
7 15 (2.22%) Grafana
8 12 (1.77%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (0.44%) Dell DRAC
10 2 (0.30%) Argo
10 2 (0.30%) Nessus
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%) Puppet
11 1 (0.15%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 186 (27.47%) Microsoft
2 69 (10.19%) HP
2 69 (10.19%) SAP
3 41 (6.06%) Oracle
4 32 (4.73%) Salesforce
5 21 (3.10%) Black Duck
5 21 (3.10%) Okta
6 20 (2.95%) Coverity
7 16 (2.36%) Databricks
8 14 (2.07%) Ab Initio
8 14 (2.07%) VMware
8 14 (2.07%) Xamarin
9 12 (1.77%) Sage
10 11 (1.62%) Google
11 9 (1.33%) Zoho
12 8 (1.18%) SolarWinds
13 7 (1.03%) Rackspace
14 6 (0.89%) Blue Prism
14 6 (0.89%) LogicMonitor
14 6 (0.89%) UiPath