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 15 April 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 592 596 744
Rank change year-on-year +4 +148 -76
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure DevOps Engineer 108 51 142
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.12% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.14% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 94 40 132
10th Percentile £48,275 £47,575 £51,250
25th Percentile £64,250 £52,500 £59,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £68,750 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -1.79% -12.50%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,313
90th Percentile £120,000 £88,750 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +7.69% -10.34%

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 79,058 36,853 88,284
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.58% 89.53% 94.57%
Number of salaries quoted 50,594 23,309 65,653
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £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% -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 15 April 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 15 April 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 +5 97 £75,000 +7.14% 27
UK excluding London -39 67 £70,000 - 25
London +4 34 £120,000 +41.18% 7
Midlands -16 29 £70,000 -17.65% 5
East Midlands -25 24 £70,000 - 3
Work from Home -4 18 £55,000 -16.98% 19
South West -44 12 £55,000 -26.67% 5
South East -39 9 £75,000 +25.00% 9
North of England -71 6 £48,500 -47.57% 3
East of England - 6 £77,500 - 1
West Midlands -16 5 £85,000 - 2
Wales - 5 £45,000 - 2
North East - 4 £57,500 -
North West -28 2 £48,500 -47.57% 2

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

For the 6 months to 15 April 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.

1 108 (100.00%) Azure
1 108 (100.00%) DevOps
2 71 (65.74%) Azure DevOps
3 54 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 50 (46.30%) CI/CD
4 50 (46.30%) Terraform
5 29 (26.85%) Kubernetes
6 26 (24.07%) Microsoft
7 25 (23.15%) GitHub
8 23 (21.30%) Continuous Improvement
9 22 (20.37%) GitHub Actions
9 22 (20.37%) PowerShell
10 20 (18.52%) Observability
11 19 (17.59%) Ansible
11 19 (17.59%) Azure AKS
11 19 (17.59%) Identity Management
12 18 (16.67%) Linux
12 18 (16.67%) YAML
13 17 (15.74%) Docker
14 16 (14.81%) Active Directory
14 16 (14.81%) Containerisation
14 16 (14.81%) DevSecOps
14 16 (14.81%) Windows
15 15 (13.89%) AWS
15 15 (13.89%) Bash
15 15 (13.89%) Firewall
16 14 (12.96%) Azure Certification
16 14 (12.96%) SQL
17 13 (12.04%) Analytics
17 13 (12.04%) Bicep

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 (7.41%) IIS
2 2 (1.85%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.93%) Apache
3 1 (0.93%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (0.93%) Confluence
3 1 (0.93%) Drupal
3 1 (0.93%) nginx
3 1 (0.93%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.93%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 108 (100.00%) Azure
2 71 (65.74%) Azure DevOps
3 25 (23.15%) GitHub
4 22 (20.37%) GitHub Actions
5 19 (17.59%) Azure AKS
6 15 (13.89%) AWS
7 10 (9.26%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 10 (9.26%) Azure Monitor
7 10 (9.26%) Datadog
7 10 (9.26%) Entra ID
8 8 (7.41%) Azure Key Vault
9 7 (6.48%) npm
9 7 (6.48%) NuGet
9 7 (6.48%) SonarCloud
10 5 (4.63%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (4.63%) Azure Pipelines
10 5 (4.63%) GCP
11 4 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
12 3 (2.78%) PaaS
13 2 (1.85%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 15 (13.89%) Firewall
2 8 (7.41%) VPN
2 8 (7.41%) WAN
3 5 (4.63%) DNS
3 5 (4.63%) TCP/IP
4 3 (2.78%) DHCP
5 2 (1.85%) BGP
5 2 (1.85%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 7 (6.48%) NoSQL
3 2 (1.85%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.93%) InterSystems Cache
4 1 (0.93%) Redis
Development Applications
1 10 (9.26%) Git
2 4 (3.70%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.78%) Visual Studio Code
4 2 (1.85%) GitLab
5 1 (0.93%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.93%) Gatling
5 1 (0.93%) JIRA
5 1 (0.93%) JMeter
5 1 (0.93%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.93%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.93%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.93%) Vagrant
General
1 14 (12.96%) Finance
2 8 (7.41%) Social Skills
3 4 (3.70%) Retail
4 3 (2.78%) Banking
4 3 (2.78%) Telecoms
5 2 (1.85%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (1.85%) Health Technology
5 2 (1.85%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (16.67%) YAML
2 12 (11.11%) .NET
3 11 (10.19%) ADO
4 9 (8.33%) Node.js
4 9 (8.33%) React
5 8 (7.41%) OAuth
5 8 (7.41%) SAML
6 6 (5.56%) .NET Framework
7 5 (4.63%) .NET Core
8 3 (2.78%) ARM Templates
8 3 (2.78%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (1.85%) ASP.NET
9 2 (1.85%) ASP.NET Core
9 2 (1.85%) JSON
9 2 (1.85%) OpenTelemetry
9 2 (1.85%) WAMP
10 1 (0.93%) Memcached
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.56%) Cloud Native
2 5 (4.63%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (2.78%) Private Cloud
3 3 (2.78%) Public Cloud
4 2 (1.85%) Mobile App
4 2 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.93%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 18 (16.67%) Linux
2 16 (14.81%) Windows
3 8 (7.41%) VMS
3 8 (7.41%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.85%) Debian
4 2 (1.85%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (100.00%) DevOps
2 54 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 50 (46.30%) CI/CD
4 23 (21.30%) Continuous Improvement
5 20 (18.52%) Observability
6 19 (17.59%) Identity Management
7 16 (14.81%) Containerisation
7 16 (14.81%) DevSecOps
8 13 (12.04%) Analytics
9 12 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
9 12 (11.11%) RBAC
9 12 (11.11%) Test Automation
10 11 (10.19%) Platform Engineering
11 10 (9.26%) Cost Management
12 9 (8.33%) Deployment Automation
12 9 (8.33%) Infrastructure Automation
12 9 (8.33%) Infrastructure Management
13 8 (7.41%) Business Continuity
13 8 (7.41%) Log Analytics
13 8 (7.41%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 22 (20.37%) PowerShell
2 15 (13.89%) Bash
3 14 (12.96%) SQL
4 13 (12.04%) Bicep
4 13 (12.04%) Python
5 9 (8.33%) C#
6 8 (7.41%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (1.85%) Go
8 1 (0.93%) PHP
Qualifications
1 14 (12.96%) Azure Certification
2 9 (8.33%) Security Cleared
3 4 (3.70%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.78%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.85%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (1.85%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.93%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.41%) GDPR
1 8 (7.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 8 (7.41%) SOC 2
2 2 (1.85%) QA
3 1 (0.93%) NCSC
System Software
1 17 (15.74%) Docker
2 16 (14.81%) Active Directory
3 8 (7.41%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 50 (46.30%) Terraform
2 29 (26.85%) Kubernetes
3 19 (17.59%) Ansible
4 7 (6.48%) Grafana
5 4 (3.70%) logstash
5 4 (3.70%) Prometheus
6 3 (2.78%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (1.85%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.93%) Consul
8 1 (0.93%) Packer
8 1 (0.93%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.93%) Puppet
Vendors
1 26 (24.07%) Microsoft
2 10 (9.26%) Palo Alto
3 8 (7.41%) Zscaler
4 7 (6.48%) CrowdStrike
5 3 (2.78%) Okta
5 3 (2.78%) OneLogin
6 2 (1.85%) Cisco
6 2 (1.85%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.85%) Fortinet
6 2 (1.85%) LogicMonitor
7 1 (0.93%) Google
7 1 (0.93%) Pega
7 1 (0.93%) SolarWinds
7 1 (0.93%) Splunk
7 1 (0.93%) TOWER Software
7 1 (0.93%) VMware