DevOps Engineer - Microsoft Azure
UK

The median DevOps Engineer - Microsoft Azure salary in the UK is £72,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 December 2023.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 526 758 645
Rank change year-on-year +232 -113 -172
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure DevOps Engineer 217 327 492
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.41% 0.26% 0.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.43% 0.28% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 186 246 446
10th Percentile £56,250 £53,750 £52,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £60,313 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £68,750
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +9.09% +13.64%
75th Percentile £81,250 £90,000 £79,625
90th Percentile £90,000 £97,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +7.69% +8.33%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 50,797 118,142 122,028
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.42% 95.32% 95.15%
Number of salaries quoted 37,144 73,821 84,079
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,750 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £98,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +5.26%

Azure DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Azure DevOps Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Azure DevOps Engineer in the UK

Azure DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Azure DevOps Engineer.

Salary trend for Azure DevOps Engineer in the UK

Azure DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure DevOps Engineer over the 6 months to 4 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Azure DevOps Engineer in the UK

Azure DevOps Engineer
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure DevOps Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 4 December 2023. 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
England +225 193 £72,500 -3.33% 54
UK excluding London +207 109 £70,000 - 40
Work from Home +181 89 £70,000 -12.50% 30
London +192 86 £75,000 -6.25% 16
North of England +140 30 £70,000 - 12
South East +158 24 £72,500 - 18
Midlands +106 23 £63,250 -9.64% 1
East Midlands +45 22 £64,000 -8.57%
South West +89 17 £65,000 +52.94% 2
North West +115 15 £72,500 -3.33% 8
Yorkshire +85 15 £68,750 +1.85% 2
East of England +118 6 £90,000 +50.00% 7
Scotland +54 6 £70,000 -6.67%
Wales +23 3 £66,250 -17.19% 2
West Midlands +112 1 £56,000 -25.33% 1
Northern Ireland +34 1 - -

Azure DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 4 December 2023, Azure DevOps Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Azure DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 217 (100.00%) DevOps
2 216 (99.54%) Azure
3 189 (87.10%) Azure DevOps
4 158 (72.81%) Terraform
5 137 (63.13%) Kubernetes
6 122 (56.22%) PowerShell
7 112 (51.61%) CI/CD
8 110 (50.69%) Infrastructure as Code
9 109 (50.23%) Docker
10 89 (41.01%) Agile
11 71 (32.72%) Jenkins
12 69 (31.80%) Containerisation
13 65 (29.95%) Bash
14 59 (27.19%) Python
15 58 (26.73%) Ansible
16 44 (20.28%) Azure AKS
17 40 (18.43%) Prometheus
17 40 (18.43%) Linux
18 38 (17.51%) Git
18 38 (17.51%) Grafana
18 38 (17.51%) ARM Templates
19 37 (17.05%) Windows
20 35 (16.13%) Continuous Integration
20 35 (16.13%) Analytics
21 33 (15.21%) GitLab
21 33 (15.21%) AWS
21 33 (15.21%) Scrum
22 31 (14.29%) Microsoft
22 31 (14.29%) Microservices
23 30 (13.82%) Configuration Management

Azure DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 9 (4.15%) Confluence
2 3 (1.38%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.38%) nginx
3 1 (0.46%) CMS
3 1 (0.46%) IIS
3 1 (0.46%) NServiceBus
3 1 (0.46%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.46%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 216 (99.54%) Azure
2 189 (87.10%) Azure DevOps
3 44 (20.28%) Azure AKS
4 33 (15.21%) AWS
5 28 (12.90%) Serverless
6 26 (11.98%) GitHub
6 26 (11.98%) PaaS
7 24 (11.06%) Azure Monitor
8 21 (9.68%) IaaS
9 20 (9.22%) SaaS
10 18 (8.29%) AWS CloudFormation
11 17 (7.83%) Datadog
12 15 (6.91%) Pulumi
13 11 (5.07%) Entra ID
13 11 (5.07%) GCP
14 10 (4.61%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 10 (4.61%) GitHub Actions
15 8 (3.69%) Cloud Computing
16 7 (3.23%) Azure Functions
16 7 (3.23%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 16 (7.37%) DNS
2 3 (1.38%) Network Security
2 3 (1.38%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.92%) Firewall
3 2 (0.92%) HTTP
3 2 (0.92%) VPN
4 1 (0.46%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (5.53%) InfluxDB
2 11 (5.07%) Azure SQL Database
3 10 (4.61%) SQL Server
4 3 (1.38%) MongoDB
4 3 (1.38%) NoSQL
4 3 (1.38%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.92%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (0.92%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (0.92%) Big Data
6 1 (0.46%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.46%) Power BI
6 1 (0.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 71 (32.72%) Jenkins
2 38 (17.51%) Git
3 33 (15.21%) GitLab
4 14 (6.45%) SonarQube
4 14 (6.45%) TeamCity
5 13 (5.99%) Team Foundation Server
6 11 (5.07%) Sonatype Nexus
7 10 (4.61%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 10 (4.61%) Bitbucket
7 10 (4.61%) JIRA
8 9 (4.15%) Octopus Deploy
9 7 (3.23%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.92%) Chocolatey
10 2 (0.92%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.92%) Visual Studio Team System
11 1 (0.46%) Axure RP
11 1 (0.46%) git-flow
General
1 28 (12.90%) Finance
2 21 (9.68%) Social Skills
3 19 (8.76%) Public Sector
4 11 (5.07%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (5.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (4.15%) Banking
6 4 (1.84%) Games
7 3 (1.38%) Aerospace
7 3 (1.38%) Automotive
7 3 (1.38%) Pharmaceutical
7 3 (1.38%) Retail
8 2 (0.92%) Cantonese Language
8 2 (0.92%) Health Technology
8 2 (0.92%) Mandarin Language
9 1 (0.46%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.46%) French Language
9 1 (0.46%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.46%) Law
9 1 (0.46%) Marketing
9 1 (0.46%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (17.51%) ARM Templates
2 28 (12.90%) Elastic Stack
3 24 (11.06%) YAML
4 18 (8.29%) .NET
5 9 (4.15%) ADO
5 9 (4.15%) Node.js
6 8 (3.69%) JSON
6 8 (3.69%) React
7 6 (2.76%) .NET Core
8 5 (2.30%) REST
9 4 (1.84%) Web Services
10 3 (1.38%) SAML
11 2 (0.92%) .NET Framework
11 2 (0.92%) ASP.NET
11 2 (0.92%) OAuth
11 2 (0.92%) OpenID
12 1 (0.46%) CSS
12 1 (0.46%) HTML
12 1 (0.46%) RabbitMQ
12 1 (0.46%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (11.98%) Linux Command Line
2 15 (6.91%) Public Cloud
3 13 (5.99%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (3.23%) Cloud Native
4 7 (3.23%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 4 (1.84%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (1.84%) Private Cloud
6 2 (0.92%) Data Centre
6 2 (0.92%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (0.92%) IoT
6 2 (0.92%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.46%) Cybercrime
7 1 (0.46%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.46%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.46%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 40 (18.43%) Linux
2 37 (17.05%) Windows
3 5 (2.30%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.38%) Unix
5 2 (0.92%) VMS
5 2 (0.92%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.46%) Debian
6 1 (0.46%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.46%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 217 (100.00%) DevOps
2 112 (51.61%) CI/CD
3 110 (50.69%) Infrastructure as Code
4 89 (41.01%) Agile
5 69 (31.80%) Containerisation
6 35 (16.13%) Analytics
6 35 (16.13%) Continuous Integration
7 33 (15.21%) Scrum
8 31 (14.29%) Microservices
9 30 (13.82%) Configuration Management
9 30 (13.82%) Software Engineering
10 25 (11.52%) Problem-Solving
11 21 (9.68%) Kanban
11 21 (9.68%) Platform Engineering
12 18 (8.29%) Continuous Delivery
12 18 (8.29%) Log Analytics
13 17 (7.83%) Mentoring
14 16 (7.37%) Continuous Deployment
15 15 (6.91%) Computer Science
16 14 (6.45%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 122 (56.22%) PowerShell
2 65 (29.95%) Bash
3 59 (27.19%) Python
4 27 (12.44%) Bicep
4 27 (12.44%) Ruby
5 21 (9.68%) C#
6 17 (7.83%) Groovy
7 16 (7.37%) SQL
8 7 (3.23%) Java
9 3 (1.38%) JavaScript
9 3 (1.38%) Perl
9 3 (1.38%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.46%) C++
10 1 (0.46%) Go
10 1 (0.46%) R
10 1 (0.46%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.46%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 24 (11.06%) Security Cleared
2 18 (8.29%) Degree
3 17 (7.83%) Azure Certification
4 16 (7.37%) SC Cleared
5 12 (5.53%) BPSS Clearance
6 9 (4.15%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (2.30%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.92%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.92%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (0.92%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.92%) MCSA
8 2 (0.92%) MCSE
8 2 (0.92%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.23%) QA
2 4 (1.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.92%) GDPR
4 1 (0.46%) Data Quality
System Software
1 109 (50.23%) Docker
2 16 (7.37%) Active Directory
3 10 (4.61%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (2.30%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 158 (72.81%) Terraform
2 137 (63.13%) Kubernetes
3 58 (26.73%) Ansible
4 40 (18.43%) Prometheus
5 38 (17.51%) Grafana
6 22 (10.14%) Puppet
7 20 (9.22%) Progress Chef
8 8 (3.69%) Packer
9 6 (2.76%) Istio
10 4 (1.84%) Nagios
11 3 (1.38%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.92%) Check_MK
12 2 (0.92%) SCOM
13 1 (0.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 1 (0.46%) Argo
13 1 (0.46%) Kibana
13 1 (0.46%) logstash
Vendors
1 31 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 14 (6.45%) New Relic
3 13 (5.99%) SaltStack
4 12 (5.53%) Atlassian
5 5 (2.30%) Google
5 5 (2.30%) VMware
6 4 (1.84%) Sonatype
7 2 (0.92%) Splunk
7 2 (0.92%) Veracode
8 1 (0.46%) Databricks
8 1 (0.46%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.46%) Oracle