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

6 months to
5 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 181 178 122
Rank change year-on-year -3 -56 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 646 489 1,559
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.98% 1.76% 2.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.38% 5.71% 6.89%
Number of salaries quoted 471 405 1,158
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,000 £52,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £73,875 £78,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £84,500 £84,825
UK median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £61,500
% change year-on-year - +9.76% -5.38%

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 19,127 8,563 22,641
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 28.99% 30.76% 33.25%
Number of salaries quoted 9,073 6,258 17,395
10th Percentile £28,500 £29,250 £27,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £86,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £61,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +2.46% +6.09% -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 May 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 May 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 -43 160 £50,000 -28.57% 97
North of England -13 158 £65,000 -7.14% 87
Midlands -19 100 £65,250 +0.38% 43
Scotland +47 90 £62,500 +8.70% 24
South West -31 79 £52,500 -19.23% 21
North West +8 76 £70,000 +3.70% 41
West Midlands -38 55 £60,000 -7.69% 19
Yorkshire -55 49 £60,000 -14.29% 18
East Midlands -11 42 £67,500 +35.00% 24
North East -7 33 £50,000 -16.67% 28
Wales -21 30 £53,100 +0.97% 18
East of England -15 29 £70,000 +32.08% 29
Northern Ireland -39 2 £72,500 +45.00% 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 24 (3.72%) Confluence
2 21 (3.25%) SharePoint
3 17 (2.63%) IIS
4 13 (2.01%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (1.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 5 (0.77%) Apache
6 5 (0.77%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.46%) Anypoint
7 3 (0.46%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.31%) CICS
9 1 (0.15%) Drupal
9 1 (0.15%) Luigi
9 1 (0.15%) nginx
9 1 (0.15%) PegaRULES
9 1 (0.15%) WordPress
Applications
1 16 (2.48%) MS Visio
2 11 (1.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.93%) Microsoft Project
4 5 (0.77%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.62%) Microsoft Office
6 3 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.15%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.15%) Sketch
7 1 (0.15%) Trello
Business Applications
1 16 (2.48%) Oracle ERP
2 9 (1.39%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.77%) Visualfiles
4 4 (0.62%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.31%) Magento
6 1 (0.15%) Infor M3
6 1 (0.15%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 1 (0.15%) Sage 200
6 1 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.15%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 646 (100.00%) Azure
2 180 (27.86%) GitHub
3 116 (17.96%) AWS
4 114 (17.65%) Power Platform
5 98 (15.17%) GitHub Actions
6 63 (9.75%) Microsoft 365
7 50 (7.74%) Azure Logic Apps
7 50 (7.74%) Entra ID
8 43 (6.66%) Serverless
9 42 (6.50%) Azure Data Factory
10 39 (6.04%) GCP
11 38 (5.88%) Azure AKS
12 37 (5.73%) GitHub Copilot
13 35 (5.42%) Azure Monitor
13 35 (5.42%) SaaS
14 33 (5.11%) Azure Service Bus
15 31 (4.80%) Snowflake
16 29 (4.49%) dbt
17 28 (4.33%) PaaS
18 26 (4.02%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 37 (5.73%) Firewall
2 22 (3.41%) DNS
3 19 (2.94%) HTTP
3 19 (2.94%) TCP/IP
4 11 (1.70%) Network Security
5 3 (0.46%) BGP
6 2 (0.31%) SSL
7 1 (0.15%) DHCP
7 1 (0.15%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.15%) IP Telephony
7 1 (0.15%) LTE
7 1 (0.15%) MPLS
7 1 (0.15%) NetScaler
7 1 (0.15%) SAN
7 1 (0.15%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.15%) VLAN
7 1 (0.15%) VPN
7 1 (0.15%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (11.15%) SQL Server
2 66 (10.22%) Power BI
3 32 (4.95%) Azure SQL Database
4 31 (4.80%) Data Warehouse
5 30 (4.64%) MongoDB
5 30 (4.64%) PostgreSQL
6 22 (3.41%) NoSQL
7 13 (2.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 11 (1.70%) Data Lake
8 11 (1.70%) DynamoDB
9 10 (1.55%) Metadata
9 10 (1.55%) Relational Database
10 9 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
10 9 (1.39%) Tableau
11 8 (1.24%) Spark SQL
12 7 (1.08%) Power Query
12 7 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 4 (0.62%) Snowflake Schema
14 3 (0.46%) MySQL
14 3 (0.46%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 101 (15.63%) JIRA
2 93 (14.40%) Git
3 80 (12.38%) Jenkins
4 43 (6.66%) GitLab
5 37 (5.73%) Selenium
6 28 (4.33%) Cypress.io
7 19 (2.94%) Postman
8 16 (2.48%) Oracle Forms
9 10 (1.55%) Visual Studio
10 9 (1.39%) REST Assured
11 8 (1.24%) JMeter
11 8 (1.24%) Zephyr
12 7 (1.08%) TestRail
13 6 (0.93%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 6 (0.93%) NUnit
14 5 (0.77%) Cucumber
14 5 (0.77%) Gatling
14 5 (0.77%) LoadRunner
14 5 (0.77%) MLflow
14 5 (0.77%) XCUITest
General
1 171 (26.47%) Finance
2 143 (22.14%) Social Skills
3 109 (16.87%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (7.43%) Public Sector
5 33 (5.11%) Retail
6 29 (4.49%) Marketing
7 28 (4.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 25 (3.87%) Law
9 24 (3.72%) Billing
10 18 (2.79%) Telecoms
11 14 (2.17%) Legal
12 12 (1.86%) Influencing Skills
13 11 (1.70%) Automotive
14 8 (1.24%) Banking
14 8 (1.24%) Games
14 8 (1.24%) Manufacturing
15 5 (0.77%) Advertising
15 5 (0.77%) Documentation Skills
16 3 (0.46%) Aerospace
17 2 (0.31%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 156 (24.15%) Developer
2 147 (22.76%) Senior
3 125 (19.35%) DevOps Engineer
4 107 (16.56%) Azure Engineer
5 85 (13.16%) Lead
6 52 (8.05%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 49 (7.59%) Cloud Engineer
8 39 (6.04%) Analyst
9 37 (5.73%) Senior Developer
10 34 (5.26%) .NET Developer
10 34 (5.26%) Senior DevOps
11 33 (5.11%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 27 (4.18%) Architect
13 24 (3.72%) Full-Stack Developer
14 23 (3.56%) Data Engineer
15 21 (3.25%) Power Platform Developer
15 21 (3.25%) Software Developer
15 21 (3.25%) Systems Engineer
16 20 (3.10%) Applications Support
16 20 (3.10%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 143 (22.14%) .NET
2 75 (11.61%) React
3 68 (10.53%) RESTful
4 63 (9.75%) REST
5 60 (9.29%) ASP.NET
6 50 (7.74%) .NET Core
6 50 (7.74%) CSS
6 50 (7.74%) HTML
7 49 (7.59%) SOAP
8 46 (7.12%) Node.js
9 43 (6.66%) ASP.NET Core
10 41 (6.35%) OAuth
11 37 (5.73%) Playwright
12 36 (5.57%) JSON
13 29 (4.49%) YAML
14 26 (4.02%) ARM Templates
15 25 (3.87%) Blazor
15 25 (3.87%) Middleware
16 23 (3.56%) OAuth2
17 22 (3.41%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 70 (10.84%) Cloud Native
2 67 (10.37%) Product Ownership
3 32 (4.95%) Enterprise Software
4 26 (4.02%) Mobile App
5 25 (3.87%) Low-Code
6 22 (3.41%) Management Information System
7 14 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
8 13 (2.01%) Analytical Mindset
9 9 (1.39%) Enterprise Cloud
10 8 (1.24%) Distributed Systems
11 5 (0.77%) Onboarding
11 5 (0.77%) PMI
12 4 (0.62%) Greenfield Project
12 4 (0.62%) Hybrid Cloud
12 4 (0.62%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (0.62%) Social Network
13 3 (0.46%) Data Structures
13 3 (0.46%) Distributed Computing
13 3 (0.46%) Linux Command Line
13 3 (0.46%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 66 (10.22%) Linux
2 41 (6.35%) Windows
3 18 (2.79%) Unix
4 14 (2.17%) Ubuntu
5 8 (1.24%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.62%) Kali Linux
7 3 (0.46%) Android
7 3 (0.46%) VMS
7 3 (0.46%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 646 (100.00%) DevOps
2 394 (60.99%) CI/CD
3 311 (48.14%) Agile
4 183 (28.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 172 (26.63%) Test Automation
6 126 (19.50%) Continuous Improvement
7 120 (18.58%) Problem-Solving
8 112 (17.34%) Coaching
9 107 (16.56%) AI
10 103 (15.94%) Scrum
11 101 (15.63%) Mentoring
12 89 (13.78%) Data Modelling
13 83 (12.85%) Containerisation
13 83 (12.85%) Observability
14 75 (11.61%) Asset Management
15 72 (11.15%) SDLC
16 71 (10.99%) Continuous Integration
17 68 (10.53%) Microservices
18 64 (9.91%) Deployment Automation
18 64 (9.91%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 193 (29.88%) SQL
2 153 (23.68%) Python
3 128 (19.81%) C#
4 86 (13.31%) JavaScript
5 83 (12.85%) Bash
6 78 (12.07%) PowerShell
7 48 (7.43%) Java
8 38 (5.88%) Bicep
9 29 (4.49%) TypeScript
10 21 (3.25%) Go
11 20 (3.10%) PL/SQL
12 18 (2.79%) Shell Script
13 17 (2.63%) Apex Code
14 10 (1.55%) T-SQL
15 9 (1.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 7 (1.08%) Swift
17 4 (0.62%) C++
17 4 (0.62%) Scala
17 4 (0.62%) VB
18 3 (0.46%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 58 (8.98%) Degree
2 44 (6.81%) Security Cleared
3 26 (4.02%) SC Cleared
4 22 (3.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (2.63%) Azure Certification
6 15 (2.32%) ISTQB
7 13 (2.01%) AWS Certification
7 13 (2.01%) HND
8 12 (1.86%) DV Cleared
8 12 (1.86%) Microsoft Certification
9 9 (1.39%) AWS Certified Developer
10 7 (1.08%) PMI Certification
11 6 (0.93%) Master's Degree
12 5 (0.77%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 4 (0.62%) BC Cleared
14 3 (0.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 2 (0.31%) ITIL Certification
15 2 (0.31%) PMP
15 2 (0.31%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 1 (0.15%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (10.37%) QA
2 50 (7.74%) Accessibility
3 25 (3.87%) GDPR
4 12 (1.86%) SLA
4 12 (1.86%) TickIT
5 11 (1.70%) Data Quality
5 11 (1.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (0.93%) WCAG
7 3 (0.46%) GRC
7 3 (0.46%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 3 (0.46%) IFRS
7 3 (0.46%) Software Quality Assurance
8 2 (0.31%) IFRS 17
8 2 (0.31%) PMO
8 2 (0.31%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.31%) Solvency II
9 1 (0.15%) HL7
9 1 (0.15%) NCSC
9 1 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 91 (14.09%) Docker
2 33 (5.11%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.15%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 216 (33.44%) Terraform
2 61 (9.44%) Kubernetes
3 51 (7.89%) Ansible
4 48 (7.43%) Grafana
5 41 (6.35%) Prometheus
6 17 (2.63%) Single Sign-On
7 15 (2.32%) Argo
8 4 (0.62%) HP Fortify
8 4 (0.62%) Puppet
9 3 (0.46%) HP ALM
9 3 (0.46%) Scalr
10 2 (0.31%) MIIS
11 1 (0.15%) CASB
11 1 (0.15%) Consul
11 1 (0.15%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.15%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.15%) Nessus
11 1 (0.15%) Packer
11 1 (0.15%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 228 (35.29%) Microsoft
2 29 (4.49%) Salesforce
3 25 (3.87%) Databricks
3 25 (3.87%) Oracle
4 23 (3.56%) Red Hat
5 13 (2.01%) Adobe
5 13 (2.01%) Dynatrace
6 12 (1.86%) Freshdesk
6 12 (1.86%) Nintex
7 11 (1.70%) CrowdStrike
8 10 (1.55%) MuleSoft
9 9 (1.39%) Apple
10 8 (1.24%) Ab Initio
10 8 (1.24%) Okta
11 6 (0.93%) Google
12 4 (0.62%) Fortinet
12 4 (0.62%) ServiceNow
12 4 (0.62%) Veracode
13 3 (0.46%) Black Duck
13 3 (0.46%) Palo Alto