Azure DevOps Engineer Job Trends

DevOps Engineer - Microsoft Azure
UK

The median DevOps Engineer - Microsoft Azure salary in the UK is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 January 2026.

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

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 600 615 613
Rank change year-on-year +15 -2 +103
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure DevOps Engineer 60 80 184
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.095% 0.15% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% 0.17% 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 49 54 170
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £53,750
25th Percentile £61,000 £61,250 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -12.50%
75th Percentile £82,500 £84,063 £85,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £89,625 £92,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £68,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +0.74% +3.85% -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 57,632 48,152 66,101
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.82% 92.24% 95.10%
Number of salaries quoted 35,882 24,796 51,733
10th Percentile £28,750 £33,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.71%
75th Percentile £75,000 £79,600 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% -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 30 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure DevOps Engineer in the UK

Azure DevOps Engineer
Top 16 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 30 January 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 56 £70,000 -1.75% 50
UK excluding London +33 33 £68,000 +0.74% 47
London +39 26 £90,000 +5.88% 8
Work from Home +35 14 £55,000 -18.52% 2
Midlands +23 10 £70,000 - 7
East Midlands - 9 £70,000 - 5
South West +10 7 £57,500 -20.69% 9
North of England +6 5 £74,000 -26.00% 8
East of England +29 4 £80,000 - 6
South East +5 4 £60,750 -10.00% 14
North West +22 2 £48,500 -25.38% 3
North East 0 2 £82,500 -17.50% 1
Scotland -9 2 £70,000 +7.69% 1
Wales - 2 £60,500 - 2
West Midlands +14 1 - - 2
Yorkshire - 1 £68,000 - 4

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

For the 6 months to 30 January 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 60 (100.00%) Azure
1 60 (100.00%) DevOps
2 45 (75.00%) Azure DevOps
3 36 (60.00%) CI/CD
4 33 (55.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 31 (51.67%) Terraform
6 21 (35.00%) Kubernetes
6 21 (35.00%) PowerShell
7 19 (31.67%) Microsoft
8 18 (30.00%) GitHub
9 17 (28.33%) Azure AKS
9 17 (28.33%) GitHub Actions
9 17 (28.33%) Identity Management
10 15 (25.00%) Bash
10 15 (25.00%) Python
11 14 (23.33%) Observability
12 13 (21.67%) Active Directory
12 13 (21.67%) Ansible
12 13 (21.67%) Continuous Improvement
12 13 (21.67%) SQL
12 13 (21.67%) YAML
13 12 (20.00%) Docker
13 12 (20.00%) Linux
14 11 (18.33%) Bicep
14 11 (18.33%) Entra ID
15 10 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
15 10 (16.67%) Git
15 10 (16.67%) VMS
15 10 (16.67%) Windows
16 9 (15.00%) Cloud Security

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 (10.00%) IIS
2 1 (1.67%) Apache
2 1 (1.67%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (1.67%) Confluence
2 1 (1.67%) JBoss
2 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.67%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 60 (100.00%) Azure
2 45 (75.00%) Azure DevOps
3 18 (30.00%) GitHub
4 17 (28.33%) Azure AKS
4 17 (28.33%) GitHub Actions
5 11 (18.33%) Entra ID
6 10 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
7 8 (13.33%) Azure Key Vault
7 8 (13.33%) Datadog
8 7 (11.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 6 (10.00%) AWS
10 4 (6.67%) Azure Functions
10 4 (6.67%) Azure Pipelines
10 4 (6.67%) npm
10 4 (6.67%) NuGet
10 4 (6.67%) Serverless
10 4 (6.67%) SonarCloud
11 3 (5.00%) SaaS
12 2 (3.33%) Amazon EKS
13 1 (1.67%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 8 (13.33%) Firewall
2 7 (11.67%) VPN
2 7 (11.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (11.67%) SQL Server
2 4 (6.67%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.67%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.67%) Neo4j
3 1 (1.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (16.67%) Git
2 2 (3.33%) Artifactory
2 2 (3.33%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.33%) JIRA
2 2 (3.33%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (1.67%) Ant
3 1 (1.67%) CircleCI
3 1 (1.67%) GitLab
3 1 (1.67%) Maven
3 1 (1.67%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (1.67%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (1.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (1.67%) TeamCity
General
1 12 (20.00%) Finance
2 8 (13.33%) Social Skills
3 3 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.67%) Health Technology
4 1 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (1.67%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (21.67%) YAML
2 8 (13.33%) .NET
3 7 (11.67%) ADO
3 7 (11.67%) OAuth
3 7 (11.67%) SAML
4 4 (6.67%) Node.js
4 4 (6.67%) React
5 3 (5.00%) .NET Core
5 3 (5.00%) .NET Framework
5 3 (5.00%) ARM Templates
6 1 (1.67%) ASP.NET
6 1 (1.67%) ASP.NET Core
6 1 (1.67%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (1.67%) Kafka
6 1 (1.67%) Middleware
6 1 (1.67%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 3 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (5.00%) Security Posture
3 2 (3.33%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (3.33%) Private Cloud
3 2 (3.33%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.67%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.67%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.67%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.67%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (20.00%) Linux
2 10 (16.67%) VMS
2 10 (16.67%) Windows
3 3 (5.00%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.67%) Debian
4 1 (1.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.67%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (100.00%) DevOps
2 36 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 33 (55.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 17 (28.33%) Identity Management
5 14 (23.33%) Observability
6 13 (21.67%) Continuous Improvement
7 9 (15.00%) Cloud Security
7 9 (15.00%) Containerisation
7 9 (15.00%) Disaster Recovery
7 9 (15.00%) RBAC
7 9 (15.00%) Test Automation
8 8 (13.33%) Agile
8 8 (13.33%) Analytics
8 8 (13.33%) Cost Management
8 8 (13.33%) Deployment Automation
8 8 (13.33%) Infrastructure Management
9 7 (11.67%) Business Continuity
9 7 (11.67%) DevSecOps
9 7 (11.67%) Log Analytics
9 7 (11.67%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 21 (35.00%) PowerShell
2 15 (25.00%) Bash
2 15 (25.00%) Python
3 13 (21.67%) SQL
4 11 (18.33%) Bicep
5 7 (11.67%) Kusto Query Language
6 5 (8.33%) C#
7 1 (1.67%) Go
7 1 (1.67%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 6 (10.00%) Azure Certification
2 4 (6.67%) Security Cleared
3 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.67%) GDPR
1 7 (11.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 7 (11.67%) SOC 2
2 1 (1.67%) QA
System Software
1 13 (21.67%) Active Directory
2 12 (20.00%) Docker
3 7 (11.67%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 31 (51.67%) Terraform
2 21 (35.00%) Kubernetes
3 13 (21.67%) Ansible
4 4 (6.67%) logstash
5 3 (5.00%) Grafana
6 1 (1.67%) Argo
6 1 (1.67%) Kustomize
6 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.67%) Podman
6 1 (1.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 19 (31.67%) Microsoft
2 7 (11.67%) Palo Alto
2 7 (11.67%) Zscaler
3 4 (6.67%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (1.67%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.67%) LogicMonitor
4 1 (1.67%) Pega
4 1 (1.67%) VMware