Azure DevOps Engineer Jobs

DevOps Engineer - Microsoft Azure
UK

The median DevOps Engineer - Microsoft Azure salary in the UK is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 4 July 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 655 766 633
Rank change year-on-year +111 -133 +223
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure DevOps Engineer 73 139 300
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.13% 0.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.14% 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 37 121 247
10th Percentile £46,000 £52,500 £56,150
25th Percentile £55,000 £61,250 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% -6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £72,500 £78,750 £90,000
90th Percentile £86,000 £90,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £74,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% -6.04% +10.37%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 53,224 101,891 81,094
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.89% 94.82% 91.21%
Number of salaries quoted 28,964 71,748 54,252
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,750 £38,750 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,708 £70,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £53,118
% change year-on-year - -5.87% +5.18%

Azure DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Azure DevOps Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Azure DevOps Engineer in the UK

Azure DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Azure DevOps Engineer.

Salary trend for Azure DevOps Engineer in the UK

Azure DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure DevOps Engineer over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

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 July 2025. 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 +83 69 £65,000 -7.14% 36
UK excluding London +171 53 £65,000 -7.14% 23
South East +66 27 £70,000 -1.75% 2
Work from Home +69 19 £66,250 -5.36% 23
London +66 14 £61,250 -5.77% 19
North of England +44 11 £60,500 +12.56% 8
East of England +36 9 £65,000 -3.70% 1
North West +13 8 £65,000 +23.81% 4
Midlands +79 3 £67,500 +3.85% 4
Yorkshire +45 3 £55,000 -8.33% 4
East Midlands +50 2 - - 1
South West +97 1 £75,000 +25.00% 3
West Midlands +52 1 £67,500 -11.48% 3
Wales - 1 £60,000 -
Scotland - 1 £75,000 - 6

Azure DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 4 July 2025, Azure DevOps Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Azure DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 73 (100.00%) Azure
1 73 (100.00%) DevOps
2 65 (89.04%) Azure DevOps
3 33 (45.21%) Mentoring
4 32 (43.84%) Containerisation
4 32 (43.84%) Agile
5 31 (42.47%) CI/CD
6 30 (41.10%) Terraform
7 29 (39.73%) Kubernetes
8 28 (38.36%) Hybrid Cloud
8 28 (38.36%) IBM
9 26 (35.62%) Test Automation
10 23 (31.51%) Artificial Intelligence
11 22 (30.14%) Docker
12 21 (28.77%) e-Learning
12 21 (28.77%) Red Hat
12 21 (28.77%) Coaching
12 21 (28.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 20 (27.40%) Python
13 20 (27.40%) PowerShell
14 15 (20.55%) Azure AKS
14 15 (20.55%) Infrastructure as Code
15 14 (19.18%) Git
15 14 (19.18%) Bash
15 14 (19.18%) Microsoft
15 14 (19.18%) C#
15 14 (19.18%) .NET
15 14 (19.18%) Windows
16 12 (16.44%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 12 (16.44%) Ansible

Azure DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (5.48%) Apache
1 4 (5.48%) IIS
1 4 (5.48%) nginx
2 2 (2.74%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.74%) JBoss
2 2 (2.74%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.74%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.37%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (1.37%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 73 (100.00%) Azure
2 65 (89.04%) Azure DevOps
3 15 (20.55%) Azure AKS
4 12 (16.44%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 11 (15.07%) Azure Monitor
6 9 (12.33%) AWS
6 9 (12.33%) SaaS
7 7 (9.59%) GitHub
7 7 (9.59%) PaaS
8 6 (8.22%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (6.85%) Azure Pipelines
9 5 (6.85%) IaaS
9 5 (6.85%) Serverless
10 4 (5.48%) Azure Service Bus
10 4 (5.48%) Cloudflare
10 4 (5.48%) GCP
11 3 (4.11%) Azure Data Factory
11 3 (4.11%) Azure Functions
11 3 (4.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 3 (4.11%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 8 (10.96%) Firewall
2 6 (8.22%) Network Security
3 2 (2.74%) LAN
3 2 (2.74%) SD-WAN
3 2 (2.74%) VPN
3 2 (2.74%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.22%) SQL Server
2 4 (5.48%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (2.74%) Big Data
3 2 (2.74%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.37%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (1.37%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.37%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 14 (19.18%) Git
2 11 (15.07%) Jenkins
3 7 (9.59%) JIRA
3 7 (9.59%) Octopus Deploy
4 3 (4.11%) Artifactory
5 2 (2.74%) Ant
5 2 (2.74%) Maven
5 2 (2.74%) Selenium
5 2 (2.74%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (2.74%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (1.37%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.37%) GitLab
6 1 (1.37%) JMeter
6 1 (1.37%) Locust
6 1 (1.37%) Postman
6 1 (1.37%) Robot Framework
6 1 (1.37%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (1.37%) TeamCity
6 1 (1.37%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 21 (28.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 8 (10.96%) Finance
2 8 (10.96%) Social Skills
3 3 (4.11%) Health Technology
4 2 (2.74%) Legal
5 1 (1.37%) Automotive
5 1 (1.37%) Banking
5 1 (1.37%) Digital Health
5 1 (1.37%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.37%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (1.37%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (19.18%) .NET
2 9 (12.33%) ARM Templates
3 8 (10.96%) React
4 4 (5.48%) Loki
4 4 (5.48%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (5.48%) YAML
5 2 (2.74%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (2.74%) Kafka
5 2 (2.74%) Middleware
5 2 (2.74%) PySpark
6 1 (1.37%) AngularJS
6 1 (1.37%) Azure Blueprints
6 1 (1.37%) Node.js
6 1 (1.37%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 28 (38.36%) Hybrid Cloud
2 21 (28.77%) e-Learning
3 3 (4.11%) Cloud Native
3 3 (4.11%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.74%) Life Science
4 2 (2.74%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.74%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.37%) IoT
5 1 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.37%) NHS
5 1 (1.37%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.37%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.37%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 14 (19.18%) Windows
2 10 (13.70%) Linux
3 3 (4.11%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (2.74%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (100.00%) DevOps
2 33 (45.21%) Mentoring
3 32 (43.84%) Agile
3 32 (43.84%) Containerisation
4 31 (42.47%) CI/CD
5 26 (35.62%) Test Automation
6 23 (31.51%) Artificial Intelligence
7 21 (28.77%) Coaching
8 15 (20.55%) Infrastructure as Code
9 7 (9.59%) Configuration Management
9 7 (9.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 7 (9.59%) Project Management
10 6 (8.22%) Infrastructure Automation
10 6 (8.22%) Network Virtualisation
10 6 (8.22%) Problem-Solving
11 5 (6.85%) Cloud Security
11 5 (6.85%) Incident Response
11 5 (6.85%) Software Engineering
11 5 (6.85%) Storage Management
12 4 (5.48%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 20 (27.40%) PowerShell
1 20 (27.40%) Python
2 14 (19.18%) Bash
2 14 (19.18%) C#
3 8 (10.96%) Bicep
3 8 (10.96%) SQL
3 8 (10.96%) TypeScript
4 3 (4.11%) Java
5 2 (2.74%) Groovy
5 2 (2.74%) Ruby
6 1 (1.37%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.37%) Perl
6 1 (1.37%) PHP
6 1 (1.37%) Scala
Qualifications
1 9 (12.33%) Azure Certification
2 5 (6.85%) SC Cleared
2 5 (6.85%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.37%) Degree
3 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.37%) QA
System Software
1 22 (30.14%) Docker
2 4 (5.48%) Active Directory
2 4 (5.48%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.37%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 30 (41.10%) Terraform
2 29 (39.73%) Kubernetes
3 12 (16.44%) Ansible
4 5 (6.85%) Prometheus
5 4 (5.48%) Grafana
5 4 (5.48%) Puppet
6 2 (2.74%) Podman
6 2 (2.74%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 28 (38.36%) IBM
2 21 (28.77%) Red Hat
3 14 (19.18%) Microsoft
4 4 (5.48%) Databricks
5 1 (1.37%) Google
5 1 (1.37%) Hitachi
5 1 (1.37%) Pega
5 1 (1.37%) VMware