Azure DevOps Engineer Job Trends

DevOps Engineer - Microsoft Azure
UK

The median DevOps Engineer - Microsoft Azure salary in the UK is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 8 May 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 560 601 730
Rank change year-on-year +41 +129 -71
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure DevOps Engineer 148 63 137
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.15% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.16% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 125 37 125
10th Percentile £46,850 £46,000 £50,650
25th Percentile £64,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -3.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £113,500 £88,750 £93,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -3.57% -6.67%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 84,240 38,844 90,932
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.95% 89.44% 94.56%
Number of salaries quoted 54,564 23,127 66,916
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,033 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.23% +9.50% -11.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -5.66%

Azure DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Azure DevOps Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Azure DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK

Azure DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for Azure DevOps Engineer job vacancies in the UK.

Salary distribution trend for Azure DevOps Engineer job vacancies in the UK

Azure DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure DevOps Engineer over the 6 months to 8 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure DevOps Engineer in the UK

Azure DevOps Engineer
Top 14 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 8 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
England +26 131 £75,000 +11.11% 15
UK excluding London -16 92 £75,000 +11.11% 13
London +16 42 £93,750 +10.29% 7
Midlands +10 40 £75,000 -11.76% 4
East Midlands 0 31 £70,000 - 4
South East -39 18 £75,000 +25.00% 5
Work from Home +7 17 £61,250 -9.26% 8
South West -39 16 £75,000 - 2
West Midlands -18 9 £85,000 -
Wales - 9 £45,000 - 2
East of England - 5 £75,000 -
North of England -55 4 £41,750 -38.15%
North West -25 2 £48,500 -28.15%
North East - 2 £35,000 -

Azure DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 8 May 2026, Azure DevOps Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Azure DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 148 (100.00%) Azure
1 148 (100.00%) DevOps
2 93 (62.84%) Azure DevOps
3 76 (51.35%) Terraform
4 65 (43.92%) Infrastructure as Code
5 59 (39.86%) CI/CD
6 32 (21.62%) Kubernetes
7 25 (16.89%) Continuous Improvement
7 25 (16.89%) GitHub
7 25 (16.89%) PowerShell
8 24 (16.22%) Microsoft
9 23 (15.54%) Azure AKS
9 23 (15.54%) GitHub Actions
10 22 (14.86%) Observability
11 20 (13.51%) YAML
12 19 (12.84%) Ansible
12 19 (12.84%) Identity Management
12 19 (12.84%) SQL
13 18 (12.16%) Platform Engineering
14 17 (11.49%) Analytics
14 17 (11.49%) Containerisation
14 17 (11.49%) DevSecOps
14 17 (11.49%) Docker
14 17 (11.49%) Linux
15 16 (10.81%) Active Directory
15 16 (10.81%) Azure Certification
15 16 (10.81%) Firewall
16 15 (10.14%) AWS
16 15 (10.14%) Bash
16 15 (10.14%) Windows

Azure DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 8 (5.41%) IIS
2 2 (1.35%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.68%) Apache
3 1 (0.68%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (0.68%) Confluence
3 1 (0.68%) Drupal
3 1 (0.68%) nginx
3 1 (0.68%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.68%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 148 (100.00%) Azure
2 93 (62.84%) Azure DevOps
3 25 (16.89%) GitHub
4 23 (15.54%) Azure AKS
4 23 (15.54%) GitHub Actions
5 15 (10.14%) AWS
6 13 (8.78%) Azure Monitor
7 12 (8.11%) Azure Key Vault
7 12 (8.11%) Entra ID
8 11 (7.43%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 11 (7.43%) Datadog
9 7 (4.73%) npm
9 7 (4.73%) NuGet
9 7 (4.73%) PaaS
9 7 (4.73%) SonarCloud
10 6 (4.05%) Azure App Service
10 6 (4.05%) Azure Pipelines
10 6 (4.05%) Azure Service Bus
11 5 (3.38%) Amazon EKS
11 5 (3.38%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 16 (10.81%) Firewall
2 9 (6.08%) VPN
3 8 (5.41%) WAN
4 5 (3.38%) DNS
4 5 (3.38%) TCP/IP
5 3 (2.03%) DHCP
6 2 (1.35%) BGP
6 2 (1.35%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (8.11%) SQL Server
2 8 (5.41%) Azure SQL Database
3 7 (4.73%) NoSQL
4 4 (2.70%) MongoDB
4 4 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.68%) InterSystems Cache
5 1 (0.68%) Redis
Development Applications
1 9 (6.08%) Git
2 6 (4.05%) GitLab
3 4 (2.70%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.68%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.68%) Gatling
4 1 (0.68%) JIRA
4 1 (0.68%) JMeter
4 1 (0.68%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (0.68%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.68%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.68%) Vagrant
4 1 (0.68%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 28 (18.92%) Finance
2 9 (6.08%) Social Skills
3 7 (4.73%) Retail
4 4 (2.70%) Health Technology
5 3 (2.03%) Banking
5 3 (2.03%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.35%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.35%) Law
6 2 (1.35%) Public Sector
7 1 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (13.51%) YAML
2 14 (9.46%) Node.js
3 13 (8.78%) .NET
3 13 (8.78%) ADO
4 10 (6.76%) React
5 8 (5.41%) OAuth
5 8 (5.41%) SAML
6 6 (4.05%) .NET Framework
7 5 (3.38%) .NET Core
7 5 (3.38%) ARM Templates
8 4 (2.70%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (1.35%) ASP.NET
9 2 (1.35%) ASP.NET Core
9 2 (1.35%) JSON
9 2 (1.35%) OpenTelemetry
9 2 (1.35%) WAMP
10 1 (0.68%) Kafka
10 1 (0.68%) Memcached
10 1 (0.68%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 5 (3.38%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (2.70%) Cloud Native
3 3 (2.03%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (1.35%) Mobile App
4 2 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.68%) Private Cloud
5 1 (0.68%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.68%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 17 (11.49%) Linux
2 15 (10.14%) Windows
3 10 (6.76%) VMS
4 6 (4.05%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.35%) Debian
5 2 (1.35%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (100.00%) DevOps
2 65 (43.92%) Infrastructure as Code
3 59 (39.86%) CI/CD
4 25 (16.89%) Continuous Improvement
5 22 (14.86%) Observability
6 19 (12.84%) Identity Management
7 18 (12.16%) Platform Engineering
8 17 (11.49%) Analytics
8 17 (11.49%) Containerisation
8 17 (11.49%) DevSecOps
9 13 (8.78%) Agile
10 12 (8.11%) Disaster Recovery
10 12 (8.11%) Microservices
10 12 (8.11%) RBAC
10 12 (8.11%) Test Automation
11 11 (7.43%) API Management
12 10 (6.76%) Log Analytics
13 9 (6.08%) Cloud Security
13 9 (6.08%) Cost Management
13 9 (6.08%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 25 (16.89%) PowerShell
2 19 (12.84%) SQL
3 15 (10.14%) Bash
4 13 (8.78%) Bicep
5 12 (8.11%) Python
6 9 (6.08%) C#
7 8 (5.41%) Kusto Query Language
8 4 (2.70%) Java
9 2 (1.35%) Go
10 1 (0.68%) PHP
Qualifications
1 16 (10.81%) Azure Certification
2 14 (9.46%) Security Cleared
3 9 (6.08%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.03%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.35%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (1.35%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.68%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.68%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.41%) GDPR
1 8 (5.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 8 (5.41%) SOC 2
2 2 (1.35%) QA
3 1 (0.68%) NCSC
System Software
1 17 (11.49%) Docker
2 16 (10.81%) Active Directory
3 8 (5.41%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 76 (51.35%) Terraform
2 32 (21.62%) Kubernetes
3 19 (12.84%) Ansible
4 11 (7.43%) Grafana
5 7 (4.73%) Prometheus
6 4 (2.70%) Argo
6 4 (2.70%) logstash
7 3 (2.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (1.35%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.68%) Consul
9 1 (0.68%) Packer
9 1 (0.68%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.68%) Puppet
Vendors
1 24 (16.22%) Microsoft
2 10 (6.76%) Palo Alto
3 8 (5.41%) Zscaler
4 7 (4.73%) CrowdStrike
5 4 (2.70%) Okta
6 3 (2.03%) OneLogin
7 2 (1.35%) Cisco
7 2 (1.35%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.35%) Fortinet
7 2 (1.35%) LogicMonitor
8 1 (0.68%) Google
8 1 (0.68%) Pega
8 1 (0.68%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.68%) SAP
8 1 (0.68%) SolarWinds
8 1 (0.68%) Splunk
8 1 (0.68%) TOWER Software
8 1 (0.68%) VMware