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 4 October 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 620 596 669
Rank change year-on-year -24 +73 -156
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure DevOps Engineer 193 74 113
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.15% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.17% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 122 36 80
10th Percentile £55,250 £53,375 £59,625
25th Percentile £65,000 £55,375 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £90,000 £72,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £94,500 £82,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +15.38% -7.14% -3.45%

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 109,737 44,641 70,718
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.84% 89.74% 95.32%
Number of salaries quoted 74,771 25,775 40,993
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £40,500 £35,750 £40,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,396 £54,987 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.20% -0.02% -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,500 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £95,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £46,750 £50,000
% change year-on-year +17.65% -6.50% -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 4 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure DevOps Engineer in the UK

Azure DevOps Engineer
Top 15 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 October 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 -33 171 £75,000 +15.38% 106
UK excluding London -67 122 £75,000 +15.38% 81
London -22 59 £90,000 +12.50% 41
Midlands +2 49 £85,000 +39.92% 12
Work from Home -25 38 £75,000 +9.09% 79
East Midlands -10 36 £75,000 +38.89% 6
South East -49 25 £75,000 +7.14% 12
North of England -56 16 £70,000 +15.70% 20
West Midlands -28 13 £90,000 +33.33% 6
North West -14 12 £70,000 +7.69% 11
South West -61 11 £75,000 +15.38% 3
Wales -64 9 £45,000 -25.00% 8
Scotland +4 6 £65,000 -7.14% 12
East of England -38 6 - - 9
North East - 4 - - 4

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

For the 6 months to 4 October 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.

1 193 (100.00%) Azure
1 193 (100.00%) DevOps
2 110 (56.99%) Azure DevOps
3 80 (41.45%) Terraform
4 69 (35.75%) Infrastructure as Code
5 65 (33.68%) CI/CD
6 33 (17.10%) SQL
7 32 (16.58%) Cybersecurity
8 30 (15.54%) Kubernetes
9 29 (15.03%) PowerShell
10 28 (14.51%) Azure SQL Database
11 27 (13.99%) Microsoft
12 24 (12.44%) Azure Certification
12 24 (12.44%) Platform Engineering
13 22 (11.40%) Azure Service Bus
14 21 (10.88%) Infrastructure Automation
15 20 (10.36%) Azure Key Vault
15 20 (10.36%) Docker
16 18 (9.33%) Analytics
16 18 (9.33%) Azure AKS
16 18 (9.33%) Azure Monitor
17 17 (8.81%) YAML
18 16 (8.29%) PaaS
19 15 (7.77%) Cloud Security
19 15 (7.77%) Deployment Automation
20 14 (7.25%) API Management
20 14 (7.25%) Bicep
21 13 (6.74%) Agile
21 13 (6.74%) Ansible
21 13 (6.74%) Azure App Service

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 6 (3.11%) nginx
2 5 (2.59%) IIS
3 1 (0.52%) Oracle HTTP Server
3 1 (0.52%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 193 (100.00%) Azure
2 110 (56.99%) Azure DevOps
3 22 (11.40%) Azure Service Bus
4 20 (10.36%) Azure Key Vault
5 18 (9.33%) Azure AKS
5 18 (9.33%) Azure Monitor
6 16 (8.29%) PaaS
7 13 (6.74%) Azure App Service
8 11 (5.70%) AWS
9 10 (5.18%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 8 (4.15%) GitHub
11 7 (3.63%) Azure Pipelines
11 7 (3.63%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (3.63%) IaaS
12 6 (3.11%) Azure API Management
12 6 (3.11%) Azure Logic Apps
12 6 (3.11%) Entra ID
12 6 (3.11%) SaaS
13 5 (2.59%) Cloudflare
14 4 (2.07%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.63%) Firewall
2 2 (1.04%) DHCP
2 2 (1.04%) DNS
2 2 (1.04%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.52%) HTTP
3 1 (0.52%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (14.51%) Azure SQL Database
2 9 (4.66%) SQL Server
3 6 (3.11%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (2.07%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.04%) Redis
6 1 (0.52%) Db2
6 1 (0.52%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.52%) GIS
Development Applications
1 7 (3.63%) GitLab
2 5 (2.59%) Octopus Deploy
3 4 (2.07%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.55%) Git
5 1 (0.52%) Snyk
5 1 (0.52%) SonarQube
General
1 24 (12.44%) Finance
2 12 (6.22%) Social Skills
3 5 (2.59%) Retail
4 4 (2.07%) Health Technology
5 3 (1.55%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.04%) Aviation
6 2 (1.04%) Banking
6 2 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.52%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.52%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (41.45%) Terraform
2 17 (8.81%) YAML
3 12 (6.22%) ADO
4 11 (5.70%) ARM Templates
5 9 (4.66%) Node.js
6 7 (3.63%) .NET
7 5 (2.59%) Loki
8 2 (1.04%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (1.04%) React
9 1 (0.52%) Java SE
9 1 (0.52%) Kafka
9 1 (0.52%) OpenLayers
9 1 (0.52%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 15 (7.77%) Cloud Native
2 7 (3.63%) Greenfield Project
2 7 (3.63%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (3.11%) Cyber Threat
4 4 (2.07%) Public Cloud
5 3 (1.55%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.04%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.52%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.52%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.52%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.52%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.52%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.70%) Linux
2 10 (5.18%) VMS
3 9 (4.66%) Windows
4 2 (1.04%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.52%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 193 (100.00%) DevOps
2 69 (35.75%) Infrastructure as Code
3 65 (33.68%) CI/CD
4 32 (16.58%) Cybersecurity
5 24 (12.44%) Platform Engineering
6 21 (10.88%) Infrastructure Automation
7 18 (9.33%) Analytics
8 15 (7.77%) Cloud Security
8 15 (7.77%) Deployment Automation
9 14 (7.25%) API Management
10 13 (6.74%) Agile
11 12 (6.22%) Microservices
12 11 (5.70%) Containerisation
13 10 (5.18%) Continuous Improvement
13 10 (5.18%) Log Analytics
14 9 (4.66%) Collaborative Culture
14 9 (4.66%) Migration
15 8 (4.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 8 (4.15%) Observability
15 8 (4.15%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 33 (17.10%) SQL
2 29 (15.03%) PowerShell
3 14 (7.25%) Bicep
4 11 (5.70%) Python
5 8 (4.15%) C#
6 5 (2.59%) Bash
6 5 (2.59%) Java
7 3 (1.55%) Go
8 1 (0.52%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (12.44%) Azure Certification
2 13 (6.74%) SC Cleared
2 13 (6.74%) Security Cleared
3 2 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.52%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.52%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.11%) QA
System Software
1 20 (10.36%) Docker
2 8 (4.15%) Active Directory
3 6 (3.11%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.52%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.52%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.52%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 30 (15.54%) Kubernetes
2 13 (6.74%) Ansible
3 10 (5.18%) Grafana
4 9 (4.66%) Prometheus
5 5 (2.59%) Progress Chef
6 4 (2.07%) Argo
7 2 (1.04%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.52%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 27 (13.99%) Microsoft
2 3 (1.55%) Okta
2 3 (1.55%) Salesforce
2 3 (1.55%) VMware
3 2 (1.04%) OneLogin
3 2 (1.04%) Oracle
3 2 (1.04%) Red Hat
4 1 (0.52%) Databricks
4 1 (0.52%) SAP