Azure DevOps Engineer Jobs

DevOps Engineer - Microsoft Azure
UK

The median DevOps Engineer - Microsoft Azure salary in the UK is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 636 750 671
Rank change year-on-year +114 -79 +93
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure DevOps Engineer 56 146 328
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.15% 0.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.16% 0.34%
Number of salaries quoted 39 125 249
10th Percentile £46,750 £50,650 £55,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% -12.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £92,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £93,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £66,250 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -5.36% -6.67% +7.14%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 46,902 93,183 95,132
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.12% 94.62% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 27,275 66,883 59,840
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,777 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% +5.00%

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 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Azure DevOps Engineer in the UK

Azure DevOps Engineer
Top 12 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 1 May 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
England +92 51 £67,500 -3.57% 36
UK excluding London +153 32 £66,250 -5.36% 28
Work from Home +151 27 £65,000 -7.90% 18
London +79 17 £85,000 +14.65% 9
South East +89 16 £60,000 -17.24% 15
North of England +65 6 £93,750 +66.67% 6
North West +22 6 £93,750 +74.42% 4
Midlands +72 5 £85,000 +47.83% 2
South West +108 4 £75,000 +27.66% 4
West Midlands +47 3 £85,000 +3.03%
East Midlands +43 2 - - 2
Scotland +131 1 - - 1

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 56 (100.00%) Azure
1 56 (100.00%) DevOps
2 46 (82.14%) Azure DevOps
3 40 (71.43%) CI/CD
4 35 (62.50%) Kubernetes
5 34 (60.71%) Terraform
6 25 (44.64%) Infrastructure as Code
7 22 (39.29%) Containerisation
7 22 (39.29%) Python
8 21 (37.50%) Docker
8 21 (37.50%) PowerShell
9 17 (30.36%) Azure AKS
10 16 (28.57%) AWS
10 16 (28.57%) Microsoft
11 15 (26.79%) Agile
12 14 (25.00%) Finance
12 14 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 13 (23.21%) Jenkins
14 12 (21.43%) Mentoring
14 12 (21.43%) Bash
15 11 (19.64%) Test Automation
15 11 (19.64%) Artificial Intelligence
15 11 (19.64%) Cloud Security
15 11 (19.64%) Social Skills
16 10 (17.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 10 (17.86%) Git
17 9 (16.07%) Network Security
18 8 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
18 8 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
18 8 (14.29%) Bicep

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 2 (3.57%) Apache
1 2 (3.57%) Apache Spark
1 2 (3.57%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 56 (100.00%) Azure
2 46 (82.14%) Azure DevOps
3 17 (30.36%) Azure AKS
4 16 (28.57%) AWS
5 6 (10.71%) GCP
5 6 (10.71%) GitHub
5 6 (10.71%) SaaS
6 5 (8.93%) Azure Functions
6 5 (8.93%) PaaS
6 5 (8.93%) Serverless
7 3 (5.36%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (5.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 3 (5.36%) Entra ID
7 3 (5.36%) IaaS
8 2 (3.57%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (3.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (3.57%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 2 (3.57%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.79%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 9 (16.07%) Network Security
2 6 (10.71%) Firewall
3 2 (3.57%) LAN
3 2 (3.57%) SD-WAN
3 2 (3.57%) VPN
3 2 (3.57%) WAN
4 1 (1.79%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.57%) Big Data
1 2 (3.57%) Data Lake
1 2 (3.57%) MongoDB
1 2 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.79%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (1.79%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (1.79%) MariaDB
2 1 (1.79%) MySQL
2 1 (1.79%) Redis
2 1 (1.79%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (23.21%) Jenkins
2 10 (17.86%) Git
3 5 (8.93%) Selenium
4 2 (3.57%) GitLab
4 2 (3.57%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (3.57%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.79%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.79%) CircleCI
5 1 (1.79%) IBM UrbanCode
5 1 (1.79%) JMeter
5 1 (1.79%) Locust
5 1 (1.79%) Postman
5 1 (1.79%) Robot Framework
5 1 (1.79%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (1.79%) TeamCity
5 1 (1.79%) Travis CI
General
1 14 (25.00%) Finance
2 11 (19.64%) Social Skills
3 10 (17.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (7.14%) Automotive
4 4 (7.14%) Manufacturing
5 3 (5.36%) Health Technology
6 2 (3.57%) Legal
7 1 (1.79%) Advertising
7 1 (1.79%) Digital Health
7 1 (1.79%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.79%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (12.50%) Azure Blueprints
2 4 (7.14%) YAML
3 3 (5.36%) ARM Templates
4 2 (3.57%) PySpark
5 1 (1.79%) .NET
5 1 (1.79%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.79%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (1.79%) Node.js
5 1 (1.79%) pytest
5 1 (1.79%) React
5 1 (1.79%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
2 7 (12.50%) e-Learning
3 5 (8.93%) Life Science
4 4 (7.14%) Security Posture
5 3 (5.36%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (5.36%) Management Information System
6 2 (3.57%) Cloud Native
6 2 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.79%) IoT
7 1 (1.79%) NHS
7 1 (1.79%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (12.50%) Windows
2 3 (5.36%) Linux
2 3 (5.36%) VMS
3 2 (3.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (100.00%) DevOps
2 40 (71.43%) CI/CD
3 25 (44.64%) Infrastructure as Code
4 22 (39.29%) Containerisation
5 15 (26.79%) Agile
6 14 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 12 (21.43%) Mentoring
8 11 (19.64%) Artificial Intelligence
8 11 (19.64%) Cloud Security
8 11 (19.64%) Test Automation
9 8 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (12.50%) Coaching
10 7 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
10 7 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
11 6 (10.71%) Cost Optimisation
11 6 (10.71%) Deployment Automation
11 6 (10.71%) DevSecOps
11 6 (10.71%) Identity Access Management
11 6 (10.71%) Network Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 22 (39.29%) Python
2 21 (37.50%) PowerShell
3 12 (21.43%) Bash
4 8 (14.29%) Bicep
5 4 (7.14%) Java
6 2 (3.57%) C#
6 2 (3.57%) JavaScript
6 2 (3.57%) SQL
7 1 (1.79%) C++
7 1 (1.79%) Go
7 1 (1.79%) PHP
7 1 (1.79%) Scala
7 1 (1.79%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (12.50%) Azure Certification
2 4 (7.14%) AWS Certification
2 4 (7.14%) SC Cleared
2 4 (7.14%) Security Cleared
3 3 (5.36%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 3 (5.36%) CCSP
3 3 (5.36%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (5.36%) CISSP
4 1 (1.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.79%) Degree
4 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.36%) GDPR
1 3 (5.36%) NIST
1 3 (5.36%) PCI DSS
1 3 (5.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (1.79%) QA
System Software
1 21 (37.50%) Docker
2 3 (5.36%) Active Directory
2 3 (5.36%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 35 (62.50%) Kubernetes
2 34 (60.71%) Terraform
3 6 (10.71%) Ansible
4 3 (5.36%) CASB
4 3 (5.36%) Istio
4 3 (5.36%) linkerd
5 1 (1.79%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (1.79%) Automic
5 1 (1.79%) Consul
5 1 (1.79%) Rancher
5 1 (1.79%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 7 (12.50%) IBM
2 7 (12.50%) Red Hat
3 5 (8.93%) Hitachi
4 3 (5.36%) Databricks
4 3 (5.36%) Google