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 29 March 2026.

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

6 months to
29 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 613 588 690
Rank change year-on-year -25 +102 +9
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure DevOps Engineer 87 57 162
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.14% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.15% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 79 44 151
10th Percentile £51,250 £48,600 £51,250
25th Percentile £64,000 £52,500 £60,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% - -14.02%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £120,000 £88,750 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £68,750 £65,000
% change year-on-year +1.82% +5.77% -7.14%

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 72,188 37,006 84,379
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.12% 90.01% 94.57%
Number of salaries quoted 46,349 23,310 63,655
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £79,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% -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 29 March 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 29 March 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 -12 81 £75,000 +5.26% 30
UK excluding London -28 54 £70,000 +1.82% 28
London +3 28 £90,000 +5.88% 6
Midlands -9 21 £70,000 -17.65% 11
East Midlands -23 18 £70,000 - 6
Work from Home -26 13 £55,000 -20.00% 15
South West -32 12 £55,000 -26.67% 1
South East -33 7 £75,000 +25.00% 10
North of England -48 6 £48,500 -47.57% 2
East of England - 6 £77,500 - 2
North East - 4 £57,500 - 1
West Midlands -13 3 £85,000 - 5
North West -26 2 £48,500 -47.57% 1
Wales - 2 £60,500 -

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

For the 6 months to 29 March 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 87 (100.00%) Azure
1 87 (100.00%) DevOps
2 61 (70.11%) Azure DevOps
3 46 (52.87%) CI/CD
3 46 (52.87%) Infrastructure as Code
4 43 (49.43%) Terraform
5 25 (28.74%) GitHub
6 23 (26.44%) Kubernetes
7 22 (25.29%) GitHub Actions
8 21 (24.14%) Microsoft
8 21 (24.14%) PowerShell
9 19 (21.84%) Ansible
10 18 (20.69%) Azure AKS
10 18 (20.69%) Continuous Improvement
10 18 (20.69%) Identity Management
10 18 (20.69%) Observability
11 17 (19.54%) Linux
11 17 (19.54%) YAML
12 15 (17.24%) Bash
13 14 (16.09%) AWS
13 14 (16.09%) DevSecOps
13 14 (16.09%) Docker
14 13 (14.94%) Active Directory
14 13 (14.94%) Containerisation
14 13 (14.94%) SQL
15 12 (13.79%) Disaster Recovery
15 12 (13.79%) Firewall
15 12 (13.79%) Python
15 12 (13.79%) RBAC
15 12 (13.79%) 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 (9.20%) IIS
2 2 (2.30%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.15%) Apache
3 1 (1.15%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (1.15%) Confluence
3 1 (1.15%) Drupal
3 1 (1.15%) nginx
3 1 (1.15%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.15%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 87 (100.00%) Azure
2 61 (70.11%) Azure DevOps
3 25 (28.74%) GitHub
4 22 (25.29%) GitHub Actions
5 18 (20.69%) Azure AKS
6 14 (16.09%) AWS
7 10 (11.49%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 10 (11.49%) Azure Monitor
7 10 (11.49%) Datadog
7 10 (11.49%) Entra ID
8 8 (9.20%) Azure Key Vault
9 7 (8.05%) npm
9 7 (8.05%) NuGet
9 7 (8.05%) SonarCloud
10 5 (5.75%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (5.75%) GCP
11 4 (4.60%) Azure Pipelines
12 2 (2.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 2 (2.30%) Azure Functions
12 2 (2.30%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 12 (13.79%) Firewall
2 8 (9.20%) VPN
2 8 (9.20%) WAN
3 2 (2.30%) BGP
3 2 (2.30%) DNS
3 2 (2.30%) HTTP
3 2 (2.30%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (10.34%) SQL Server
2 7 (8.05%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.15%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.15%) InterSystems Cache
3 1 (1.15%) Redis
Development Applications
1 9 (10.34%) Git
2 4 (4.60%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.45%) Visual Studio Code
4 2 (2.30%) GitLab
5 1 (1.15%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.15%) Gatling
5 1 (1.15%) JIRA
5 1 (1.15%) JMeter
5 1 (1.15%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (1.15%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (1.15%) TeamCity
5 1 (1.15%) Vagrant
General
1 11 (12.64%) Finance
2 4 (4.60%) Social Skills
3 3 (3.45%) Telecoms
4 2 (2.30%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.30%) Law
4 2 (2.30%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (19.54%) YAML
2 11 (12.64%) .NET
3 8 (9.20%) ADO
3 8 (9.20%) Node.js
3 8 (9.20%) OAuth
3 8 (9.20%) React
3 8 (9.20%) SAML
4 6 (6.90%) .NET Framework
5 5 (5.75%) .NET Core
6 3 (3.45%) ARM Templates
7 2 (2.30%) ASP.NET
7 2 (2.30%) ASP.NET Core
7 2 (2.30%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (2.30%) JSON
7 2 (2.30%) OpenTelemetry
7 2 (2.30%) WAMP
8 1 (1.15%) Memcached
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.75%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (4.60%) Cloud Native
3 3 (3.45%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (3.45%) Private Cloud
3 3 (3.45%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.30%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 17 (19.54%) Linux
2 12 (13.79%) Windows
3 8 (9.20%) VMS
4 5 (5.75%) Windows Server
5 2 (2.30%) Debian
5 2 (2.30%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (100.00%) DevOps
2 46 (52.87%) CI/CD
2 46 (52.87%) Infrastructure as Code
3 18 (20.69%) Continuous Improvement
3 18 (20.69%) Identity Management
3 18 (20.69%) Observability
4 14 (16.09%) DevSecOps
5 13 (14.94%) Containerisation
6 12 (13.79%) Disaster Recovery
6 12 (13.79%) RBAC
7 11 (12.64%) Test Automation
8 10 (11.49%) Cost Management
9 9 (10.34%) Analytics
9 9 (10.34%) Infrastructure Automation
9 9 (10.34%) Infrastructure Management
10 8 (9.20%) Business Continuity
10 8 (9.20%) Deployment Automation
10 8 (9.20%) Incident Response
10 8 (9.20%) Log Analytics
10 8 (9.20%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 21 (24.14%) PowerShell
2 15 (17.24%) Bash
3 13 (14.94%) SQL
4 12 (13.79%) Python
5 11 (12.64%) Bicep
6 9 (10.34%) C#
7 8 (9.20%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (2.30%) Go
9 1 (1.15%) PHP
Qualifications
1 9 (10.34%) Azure Certification
2 7 (8.05%) Security Cleared
3 3 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (2.30%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (2.30%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (2.30%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.20%) GDPR
1 8 (9.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 8 (9.20%) SOC 2
2 1 (1.15%) NCSC
2 1 (1.15%) QA
System Software
1 14 (16.09%) Docker
2 13 (14.94%) Active Directory
3 8 (9.20%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.15%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 43 (49.43%) Terraform
2 23 (26.44%) Kubernetes
3 19 (21.84%) Ansible
4 6 (6.90%) Grafana
5 4 (4.60%) logstash
6 3 (3.45%) Prometheus
7 2 (2.30%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (1.15%) Consul
8 1 (1.15%) Packer
8 1 (1.15%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.15%) Puppet
Vendors
1 21 (24.14%) Microsoft
2 10 (11.49%) Palo Alto
3 8 (9.20%) Zscaler
4 7 (8.05%) CrowdStrike
5 2 (2.30%) Cisco
5 2 (2.30%) Dynatrace
5 2 (2.30%) Fortinet
5 2 (2.30%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (1.15%) Google
6 1 (1.15%) Pega
6 1 (1.15%) SolarWinds
6 1 (1.15%) TOWER Software
6 1 (1.15%) VMware