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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 212 113
Rank change year-on-year +64 -99 -13
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 951 482 1,243
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.22% 1.39% 2.09%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.32% 5.13% 7.44%
Number of salaries quoted 791 352 833
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,625 £41,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,688 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +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 17,884 9,388 16,718
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 22.87% 27.01% 28.16%
Number of salaries quoted 11,916 6,499 11,558
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £29,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -6.25%

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 18 August 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 18 August 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
North of England +95 282 £60,000 -7.69% 72
South East +10 224 £62,500 - 111
North West +93 165 £65,000 - 47
Midlands +42 159 £63,000 +5.00% 53
South West 0 101 £55,000 -4.35% 32
West Midlands +4 87 £65,000 +8.33% 29
Wales -9 87 £53,171 -5.47% 13
East of England +10 81 £55,000 -12.00% 29
East Midlands +28 72 £60,000 +9.09% 24
Yorkshire 0 66 £69,305 +10.89% 19
North East -16 51 £52,000 -5.45% 6
Scotland -12 20 £55,000 -14.73% 9
Northern Ireland - 1 £72,500 -
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 48 (5.05%) Confluence
1 48 (5.05%) SharePoint
2 28 (2.94%) Microsoft Exchange
3 20 (2.10%) IIS
4 11 (1.16%) nginx
5 7 (0.74%) SharePoint Server
6 6 (0.63%) Anypoint
6 6 (0.63%) CICS
7 5 (0.53%) Apache
7 5 (0.53%) CMS
8 4 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.42%) Apache Spark
9 3 (0.32%) BizTalk Server
9 3 (0.32%) WordPress
10 2 (0.21%) Luigi
10 2 (0.21%) Umbraco
11 1 (0.11%) Drupal
11 1 (0.11%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 1 (0.11%) PegaRULES
11 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (0.95%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (0.95%) MS Visio
2 8 (0.84%) Chatbot
2 8 (0.84%) Microsoft Project
2 8 (0.84%) Trello
3 5 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.11%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.11%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 13 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.63%) SAP IBP
2 6 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.53%) Visualfiles
4 4 (0.42%) Dynamics NAV
4 4 (0.42%) Shopify
5 3 (0.32%) Dynamics AX
6 2 (0.21%) JDE EnterpriseOne
6 2 (0.21%) Magento
6 2 (0.21%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.11%) Infor M3
7 1 (0.11%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 951 (100.00%) Azure
2 152 (15.98%) GitHub
3 135 (14.20%) Power Platform
4 122 (12.83%) AWS
5 91 (9.57%) GitHub Actions
6 86 (9.04%) Azure AI
7 73 (7.68%) Serverless
8 66 (6.94%) Dynamics 365
9 64 (6.73%) Azure Monitor
10 62 (6.52%) Azure Service Bus
11 61 (6.41%) Azure Functions
12 56 (5.89%) Microsoft 365
12 56 (5.89%) PaaS
13 54 (5.68%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 54 (5.68%) Power Automate
14 51 (5.36%) Azure AKS
15 48 (5.05%) Entra ID
16 45 (4.73%) Azure Key Vault
17 44 (4.63%) SaaS
18 40 (4.21%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (2.21%) Firewall
2 19 (2.00%) VPN
3 12 (1.26%) Network Security
4 11 (1.16%) Internet
5 10 (1.05%) HTTP
6 8 (0.84%) DNS
7 7 (0.74%) TCP/IP
8 6 (0.63%) MQTT
8 6 (0.63%) Wi-Fi
8 6 (0.63%) Wireless
8 6 (0.63%) ZigBee
9 5 (0.53%) SAN
10 4 (0.42%) Bluetooth
11 3 (0.32%) HTTPS
12 2 (0.21%) LoRaWAN
12 2 (0.21%) VLAN
13 1 (0.11%) BGP
13 1 (0.11%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 195 (20.50%) Azure SQL Database
2 159 (16.72%) MongoDB
3 116 (12.20%) SQL Server
4 57 (5.99%) Power BI
5 40 (4.21%) Elasticsearch
6 37 (3.89%) PostgreSQL
7 30 (3.15%) Relational Database
8 28 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
9 17 (1.79%) MySQL
9 17 (1.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 15 (1.58%) NoSQL
11 14 (1.47%) Redis
12 13 (1.37%) Metadata
13 11 (1.16%) Amazon RDS
13 11 (1.16%) NonStop SQL
14 9 (0.95%) Data Lake
14 9 (0.95%) Spark SQL
14 9 (0.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 7 (0.74%) Geospatial Data
16 6 (0.63%) Db2
Development Applications
1 173 (18.19%) Git
2 134 (14.09%) JIRA
3 86 (9.04%) Jenkins
4 60 (6.31%) GitLab
5 42 (4.42%) Selenium
6 35 (3.68%) Cypress.io
7 33 (3.47%) Postman
8 17 (1.79%) REST Assured
9 16 (1.68%) Visual Studio
10 15 (1.58%) JMeter
10 15 (1.58%) NUnit
11 14 (1.47%) fastlane
12 12 (1.26%) Zephyr
13 10 (1.05%) Octopus Deploy
14 9 (0.95%) MSI
14 9 (0.95%) SonarQube
14 9 (0.95%) TestRail
14 9 (0.95%) Xcode
15 8 (0.84%) Visual Studio Code
16 7 (0.74%) Gatling
General
1 226 (23.76%) Social Skills
2 135 (14.20%) Finance
3 94 (9.88%) Analytical Skills
4 91 (9.57%) Public Sector
5 89 (9.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 45 (4.73%) Retail
7 44 (4.63%) Marketing
8 29 (3.05%) Advertising
9 24 (2.52%) Law
10 21 (2.21%) Games
11 17 (1.79%) Manufacturing
12 15 (1.58%) Legal
13 11 (1.16%) Banking
13 11 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
14 10 (1.05%) Automotive
15 9 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
16 8 (0.84%) Aviation
17 6 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
18 5 (0.53%) Presentation Skills
19 4 (0.42%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 378 (39.75%) Developer
2 191 (20.08%) .NET Developer
3 187 (19.66%) Senior
4 142 (14.93%) DevOps Engineer
5 103 (10.83%) Azure Engineer
6 97 (10.20%) Lead
7 68 (7.15%) Senior Developer
8 60 (6.31%) Analyst
9 55 (5.78%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 45 (4.73%) Senior DevOps
11 44 (4.63%) Platform Engineer
11 44 (4.63%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 41 (4.31%) Cloud Engineer
13 39 (4.10%) Software Developer
14 38 (4.00%) Data Engineer
14 38 (4.00%) Software Engineer
15 27 (2.84%) Architect
16 25 (2.63%) Lead Developer
17 24 (2.52%) Full-Stack Developer
18 22 (2.31%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 360 (37.85%) .NET
2 217 (22.82%) ASP.NET
3 199 (20.93%) .NET Core
4 191 (20.08%) ASP.NET Core
5 142 (14.93%) React
6 138 (14.51%) HTML
7 136 (14.30%) CSS
8 135 (14.20%) RESTful
9 107 (11.25%) Entity Framework
10 101 (10.62%) Blazor
11 96 (10.09%) REST
12 84 (8.83%) Node.js
13 81 (8.52%) ML.NET
14 50 (5.26%) Playwright
15 46 (4.84%) ARM Templates
16 44 (4.63%) .NET Framework
17 41 (4.31%) YAML
18 35 (3.68%) LINQ
19 31 (3.26%) JSON
20 29 (3.05%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 99 (10.41%) Product Ownership
2 74 (7.78%) Cloud Native
3 50 (5.26%) Mobile App
4 48 (5.05%) Enterprise Software
5 46 (4.84%) Legacy Systems
6 32 (3.36%) Greenfield Project
7 30 (3.15%) Onboarding
8 23 (2.42%) Hybrid Cloud
9 20 (2.10%) Legacy Applications
10 17 (1.79%) BBC
10 17 (1.79%) iPhone
10 17 (1.79%) Social Media
11 16 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
12 15 (1.58%) Analytical Mindset
13 14 (1.47%) Mainframe
13 14 (1.47%) Public Cloud
14 12 (1.26%) Low-Code
14 12 (1.26%) Podcast
14 12 (1.26%) Security Posture
14 12 (1.26%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 87 (9.15%) Linux
2 78 (8.20%) Windows
3 24 (2.52%) Android
4 18 (1.89%) Unix
5 13 (1.37%) Apple iOS
5 13 (1.37%) VMS
6 12 (1.26%) Ubuntu
7 10 (1.05%) Windows Server
8 5 (0.53%) Kali Linux
9 3 (0.32%) Embedded Linux
9 3 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.32%) Solaris
10 2 (0.21%) Debian
10 2 (0.21%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 951 (100.00%) DevOps
2 522 (54.89%) CI/CD
3 508 (53.42%) Agile
4 231 (24.29%) AI
5 225 (23.66%) Full-Stack Development
6 203 (21.35%) Infrastructure as Code
7 199 (20.93%) Continuous Improvement
8 183 (19.24%) Scrum
9 169 (17.77%) Test Automation
10 161 (16.93%) Problem-Solving
11 130 (13.67%) Mentoring
12 119 (12.51%) Machine Learning
13 105 (11.04%) SDLC
14 101 (10.62%) Software Engineering
15 98 (10.30%) Microservices
16 96 (10.09%) Analytics
16 96 (10.09%) Observability
17 89 (9.36%) Platform Engineering
18 88 (9.25%) Stakeholder Management
19 87 (9.15%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 359 (37.75%) C#
2 358 (37.64%) SQL
3 192 (20.19%) JavaScript
4 164 (17.25%) Python
5 108 (11.36%) PowerShell
6 103 (10.83%) Bash
7 80 (8.41%) Bicep
8 68 (7.15%) Java
9 40 (4.21%) TypeScript
10 34 (3.58%) T-SQL
11 15 (1.58%) C++
12 13 (1.37%) Kusto Query Language
13 12 (1.26%) Swift
14 11 (1.16%) Go
15 9 (0.95%) JCL
16 8 (0.84%) COBOL
16 8 (0.84%) Kotlin
17 7 (0.74%) C
17 7 (0.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 7 (0.74%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 77 (8.10%) Degree
2 75 (7.89%) Security Cleared
3 65 (6.83%) SC Cleared
4 42 (4.42%) Azure Certification
5 31 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 22 (2.31%) ISTQB
7 20 (2.10%) Microsoft Certification
8 15 (1.58%) PMI Certification
9 11 (1.16%) AWS Certification
10 10 (1.05%) Master's Degree
11 8 (0.84%) DV Cleared
11 8 (0.84%) PMP
12 6 (0.63%) CBAP
13 5 (0.53%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
14 4 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
15 3 (0.32%) IIBA
15 3 (0.32%) ISEB
15 3 (0.32%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 3 (0.32%) OCP
15 3 (0.32%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 127 (13.35%) QA
2 49 (5.15%) Accessibility
3 31 (3.26%) WCAG
4 23 (2.42%) Data Quality
5 18 (1.89%) GDPR
6 16 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 12 (1.26%) TickIT
8 9 (0.95%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 9 (0.95%) PMO
9 8 (0.84%) NCSC
10 6 (0.63%) JTAG
11 5 (0.53%) SLA
12 4 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
13 3 (0.32%) IFRS
13 3 (0.32%) NIST
13 3 (0.32%) Software Quality Assurance
14 2 (0.21%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 2 (0.21%) GRC
14 2 (0.21%) IFRS 17
14 2 (0.21%) Solvency II
System Software
1 123 (12.93%) Docker
2 48 (5.05%) Active Directory
3 20 (2.10%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (1.37%) Virtual Desktop
5 12 (1.26%) vSphere
6 9 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.32%) Firmware
8 2 (0.21%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.21%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.21%) Xen
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 231 (24.29%) Terraform
2 100 (10.52%) Kubernetes
3 49 (5.15%) Grafana
4 44 (4.63%) Ansible
5 41 (4.31%) Prometheus
6 19 (2.00%) Argo
7 11 (1.16%) Microsoft Intune
8 9 (0.95%) Puppet
9 5 (0.53%) HP Fortify
10 3 (0.32%) HP ALM
10 3 (0.32%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.32%) Scalr
10 3 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.21%) FlexNet
11 2 (0.21%) MIIS
11 2 (0.21%) Nessus
11 2 (0.21%) Rancher
11 2 (0.21%) ZABBIX
12 1 (0.11%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 426 (44.79%) Microsoft
2 51 (5.36%) Google
3 38 (4.00%) Facebook
4 31 (3.26%) Databricks
5 28 (2.94%) Apple
6 23 (2.42%) Red Hat
7 22 (2.31%) VMware
8 21 (2.21%) Salesforce
8 21 (2.21%) YouTube
9 20 (2.10%) Dynatrace
10 17 (1.79%) Sony
10 17 (1.79%) Yahoo!
11 14 (1.47%) Oracle
12 12 (1.26%) ScienceLogic
13 10 (1.05%) ServiceNow
14 9 (0.95%) MuleSoft
15 8 (0.84%) Foundry
16 7 (0.74%) CrowdStrike
16 7 (0.74%) SAP
16 7 (0.74%) Veracode