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 12 September 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 622 595 684
Rank change year-on-year -27 +89 -149
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure DevOps Engineer 182 80 117
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.16% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.18% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 129 43 87
10th Percentile £60,000 £48,650 £55,750
25th Percentile £66,500 £55,000 £61,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £90,000 £72,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £91,000 £83,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +15.38% -7.14% -6.04%

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 105,974 44,478 74,870
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 89.66% 95.26%
Number of salaries quoted 73,002 26,192 45,789
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.45% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £98,750 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -4.76%

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 12 September 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 12 September 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 -34 160 £75,000 +15.38% 54
UK excluding London -72 109 £75,000 +15.38% 27
London -4 60 £90,000 +35.85% 21
Midlands +12 52 £85,000 +39.92% 4
East Midlands +1 37 £75,000 +38.89% 2
Work from Home -22 37 £75,000 +11.11% 27
South East -35 25 £75,000 +7.14% 5
West Midlands -26 15 £90,000 +33.33% 2
South West -72 10 £75,000 +15.38% 3
Wales -62 9 £45,000 -25.00%
Scotland +10 5 - -
North West -21 5 £70,000 +7.69% 9
North of England -60 5 £70,000 +11.55% 14
East of England -34 3 £75,000 +15.38% 2

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

For the 6 months to 12 September 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.

1 182 (100.00%) Azure
1 182 (100.00%) DevOps
2 102 (56.04%) Azure DevOps
3 86 (47.25%) Terraform
4 72 (39.56%) Infrastructure as Code
5 67 (36.81%) CI/CD
6 34 (18.68%) SQL
7 33 (18.13%) Kubernetes
8 30 (16.48%) PowerShell
9 29 (15.93%) Azure SQL Database
9 29 (15.93%) Microsoft
10 28 (15.38%) Cybersecurity
11 25 (13.74%) Platform Engineering
12 23 (12.64%) Docker
12 23 (12.64%) Infrastructure Automation
13 22 (12.09%) Azure Service Bus
14 20 (10.99%) Azure Certification
15 19 (10.44%) Azure Key Vault
15 19 (10.44%) YAML
16 18 (9.89%) Analytics
16 18 (9.89%) Azure Monitor
17 17 (9.34%) Azure AKS
17 17 (9.34%) PaaS
18 16 (8.79%) Cloud Security
19 15 (8.24%) API Management
20 14 (7.69%) Agile
20 14 (7.69%) Ansible
20 14 (7.69%) Azure App Service
20 14 (7.69%) Linux
20 14 (7.69%) Microservices

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 (4.40%) IIS
2 7 (3.85%) nginx
3 1 (0.55%) Apache
3 1 (0.55%) Confluence
3 1 (0.55%) Drupal
3 1 (0.55%) Oracle HTTP Server
3 1 (0.55%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.55%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (0.55%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 182 (100.00%) Azure
2 102 (56.04%) Azure DevOps
3 22 (12.09%) Azure Service Bus
4 19 (10.44%) Azure Key Vault
5 18 (9.89%) Azure Monitor
6 17 (9.34%) Azure AKS
6 17 (9.34%) PaaS
7 14 (7.69%) Azure App Service
8 10 (5.49%) AWS
8 10 (5.49%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 8 (4.40%) GitHub
10 7 (3.85%) Azure Pipelines
10 7 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
10 7 (3.85%) IaaS
11 6 (3.30%) Azure API Management
11 6 (3.30%) Entra ID
11 6 (3.30%) SaaS
12 5 (2.75%) Azure Logic Apps
12 5 (2.75%) Cloudflare
13 4 (2.20%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.40%) Firewall
2 3 (1.65%) DHCP
2 3 (1.65%) DNS
2 3 (1.65%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.55%) HTTP
3 1 (0.55%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (15.93%) Azure SQL Database
2 13 (7.14%) SQL Server
3 6 (3.30%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (2.20%) MongoDB
5 3 (1.65%) Redis
6 2 (1.10%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.55%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.55%) GIS
7 1 (0.55%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 7 (3.85%) GitLab
2 5 (2.75%) Git
2 5 (2.75%) Octopus Deploy
3 4 (2.20%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.55%) Gatling
4 1 (0.55%) JIRA
4 1 (0.55%) JMeter
4 1 (0.55%) Vagrant
4 1 (0.55%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 27 (14.84%) Finance
2 12 (6.59%) Social Skills
3 7 (3.85%) Retail
4 4 (2.20%) Health Technology
5 3 (1.65%) Banking
5 3 (1.65%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.10%) Aviation
6 2 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.55%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.55%) Police
7 1 (0.55%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (47.25%) Terraform
2 19 (10.44%) YAML
3 13 (7.14%) ADO
4 12 (6.59%) ARM Templates
4 12 (6.59%) Node.js
5 11 (6.04%) .NET
6 5 (2.75%) Loki
6 5 (2.75%) React
7 2 (1.10%) .NET Framework
7 2 (1.10%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (0.55%) .NET Core
8 1 (0.55%) ASP.NET
8 1 (0.55%) ASP.NET Core
8 1 (0.55%) Java SE
8 1 (0.55%) Kafka
8 1 (0.55%) Memcached
8 1 (0.55%) OpenLayers
8 1 (0.55%) OpenTelemetry
8 1 (0.55%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.79%) Cloud Native
2 8 (4.40%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (2.75%) Cyber Threat
3 5 (2.75%) Public Cloud
4 3 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.10%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.55%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.55%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.55%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.55%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.55%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 14 (7.69%) Linux
1 14 (7.69%) Windows
2 10 (5.49%) VMS
3 5 (2.75%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.55%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 182 (100.00%) DevOps
2 72 (39.56%) Infrastructure as Code
3 67 (36.81%) CI/CD
4 28 (15.38%) Cybersecurity
5 25 (13.74%) Platform Engineering
6 23 (12.64%) Infrastructure Automation
7 18 (9.89%) Analytics
8 16 (8.79%) Cloud Security
9 15 (8.24%) API Management
10 14 (7.69%) Agile
10 14 (7.69%) Microservices
11 13 (7.14%) Containerisation
11 13 (7.14%) Deployment Automation
12 11 (6.04%) Continuous Improvement
13 10 (5.49%) Log Analytics
13 10 (5.49%) Migration
13 10 (5.49%) Observability
14 9 (4.95%) Collaborative Culture
14 9 (4.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 9 (4.95%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 34 (18.68%) SQL
2 30 (16.48%) PowerShell
3 10 (5.49%) Bicep
3 10 (5.49%) C#
3 10 (5.49%) Python
4 5 (2.75%) Bash
4 5 (2.75%) Java
5 3 (1.65%) Go
6 1 (0.55%) PHP
6 1 (0.55%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (10.99%) Azure Certification
2 14 (7.69%) Security Cleared
3 13 (7.14%) SC Cleared
4 3 (1.65%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.55%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.55%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.30%) QA
2 1 (0.55%) NCSC
System Software
1 23 (12.64%) Docker
2 11 (6.04%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.75%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.55%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.55%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 33 (18.13%) Kubernetes
2 14 (7.69%) Ansible
3 11 (6.04%) Grafana
4 9 (4.95%) Prometheus
5 6 (3.30%) Progress Chef
6 4 (2.20%) Argo
7 3 (1.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.55%) Consul
8 1 (0.55%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (0.55%) Packer
8 1 (0.55%) Puppet
Vendors
1 29 (15.93%) Microsoft
2 4 (2.20%) Okta
3 3 (1.65%) OneLogin
3 3 (1.65%) Salesforce
4 2 (1.10%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (0.55%) Databricks
5 1 (0.55%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.55%) Google
5 1 (0.55%) Oracle
5 1 (0.55%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.55%) SAP
5 1 (0.55%) Splunk
5 1 (0.55%) TOWER Software
5 1 (0.55%) VMware