Azure DevOps Engineer Job Trends

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 18 September 2025.

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

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 597 684 548
Rank change year-on-year +87 -136 +257
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure DevOps Engineer 79 112 235
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.14% 0.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.15% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 41 81 206
10th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £57,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% -6.67% +0.84%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £90,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £74,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% -6.04% +6.43%

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 44,338 74,395 56,728
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.65% 95.25% 94.13%
Number of salaries quoted 26,053 44,780 43,966
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -

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

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 18 September 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 18 September 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 +74 74 £65,000 -7.14% 15
UK excluding London +103 55 £65,000 -7.14% 12
South East +42 26 £70,000 - 8
Work from Home +47 24 £67,500 - 8
London +42 19 £65,000 - 11
North of England +24 10 £60,500 -28.82% 1
East of England -10 10 £65,000 -5.45%
North West +14 6 £65,000 +15.56%
Scotland +46 4 £70,000 +7.69% 2
Yorkshire +28 4 £55,000 -24.14% 1
Midlands +45 3 £60,750 -10.00% 1
South West +73 2 £65,000 -7.14%
West Midlands +39 2 £67,500 -
Wales - 1 £60,000 -
East Midlands - 1 £54,000 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 18 September 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 79 (100.00%) Azure
1 79 (100.00%) DevOps
2 71 (89.87%) Azure DevOps
3 38 (48.10%) CI/CD
4 35 (44.30%) Containerisation
4 35 (44.30%) Terraform
5 34 (43.04%) Agile
6 31 (39.24%) Mentoring
7 29 (36.71%) Kubernetes
8 28 (35.44%) IBM
8 28 (35.44%) Hybrid Cloud
9 27 (34.18%) Python
10 26 (32.91%) PowerShell
10 26 (32.91%) Test Automation
11 24 (30.38%) Artificial Intelligence
12 23 (29.11%) Docker
13 22 (27.85%) Bash
14 21 (26.58%) Coaching
14 21 (26.58%) e-Learning
14 21 (26.58%) Red Hat
14 21 (26.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 19 (24.05%) Microsoft
15 19 (24.05%) Git
16 18 (22.78%) Azure AKS
17 17 (21.52%) Infrastructure as Code
17 17 (21.52%) .NET
18 16 (20.25%) Windows
19 14 (17.72%) Azure Monitor
20 13 (16.46%) Azure Cosmos DB
20 13 (16.46%) C#

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 6 (7.59%) Apache
1 6 (7.59%) IIS
2 4 (5.06%) JBoss
2 4 (5.06%) nginx
2 4 (5.06%) WebSphere
3 2 (2.53%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.53%) Confluence
4 1 (1.27%) BizTalk Server
Business Applications
1 1 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 79 (100.00%) Azure
2 71 (89.87%) Azure DevOps
3 18 (22.78%) Azure AKS
4 14 (17.72%) Azure Monitor
5 13 (16.46%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 10 (12.66%) AWS
6 10 (12.66%) SaaS
7 9 (11.39%) GitHub
8 8 (10.13%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (7.59%) Serverless
10 5 (6.33%) Azure Pipelines
11 4 (5.06%) Azure Data Factory
11 4 (5.06%) Azure Functions
11 4 (5.06%) Azure Service Bus
11 4 (5.06%) Cloudflare
11 4 (5.06%) Entra ID
11 4 (5.06%) GCP
11 4 (5.06%) OpenShift
11 4 (5.06%) PaaS
12 3 (3.80%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.33%) Firewall
2 3 (3.80%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (8.86%) SQL Server
2 4 (5.06%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (2.53%) Big Data
3 2 (2.53%) Data Lake
3 2 (2.53%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.27%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.27%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 19 (24.05%) Git
2 11 (13.92%) Jenkins
3 10 (12.66%) JIRA
4 7 (8.86%) Octopus Deploy
5 6 (7.59%) Artifactory
6 4 (5.06%) Ant
6 4 (5.06%) Maven
6 4 (5.06%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (2.53%) GitLab
7 2 (2.53%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (2.53%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (1.27%) Bitbucket
8 1 (1.27%) CircleCI
8 1 (1.27%) JMeter
8 1 (1.27%) Locust
8 1 (1.27%) Postman
8 1 (1.27%) Robot Framework
8 1 (1.27%) Selenium
8 1 (1.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (1.27%) TeamCity
General
1 21 (26.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 12 (15.19%) Social Skills
3 11 (13.92%) Finance
4 5 (6.33%) Health Technology
5 2 (2.53%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.53%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.27%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.27%) Banking
6 1 (1.27%) Digital Health
6 1 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.27%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (21.52%) .NET
2 12 (15.19%) ARM Templates
3 7 (8.86%) React
4 4 (5.06%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (5.06%) Kafka
4 4 (5.06%) Loki
4 4 (5.06%) Middleware
4 4 (5.06%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (3.80%) YAML
6 2 (2.53%) PySpark
7 1 (1.27%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 28 (35.44%) Hybrid Cloud
2 21 (26.58%) e-Learning
3 5 (6.33%) Cloud Native
3 5 (6.33%) Security Posture
4 4 (5.06%) Management Information System
5 3 (3.80%) Data Centre
5 3 (3.80%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.53%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (2.53%) Private Cloud
6 2 (2.53%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.53%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.27%) Life Science
7 1 (1.27%) NHS
7 1 (1.27%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 16 (20.25%) Windows
2 12 (15.19%) Linux
3 5 (6.33%) VMS
4 4 (5.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (2.53%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (100.00%) DevOps
2 38 (48.10%) CI/CD
3 35 (44.30%) Containerisation
4 34 (43.04%) Agile
5 31 (39.24%) Mentoring
6 26 (32.91%) Test Automation
7 24 (30.38%) Artificial Intelligence
8 21 (26.58%) Coaching
9 17 (21.52%) Infrastructure as Code
10 9 (11.39%) Configuration Management
10 9 (11.39%) Problem-Solving
11 8 (10.13%) Cloud Security
12 7 (8.86%) Infrastructure Automation
12 7 (8.86%) Project Management
12 7 (8.86%) Storage Management
13 6 (7.59%) Observability
13 6 (7.59%) Server Management
14 5 (6.33%) Incident Response
14 5 (6.33%) Scrum
14 5 (6.33%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 27 (34.18%) Python
2 26 (32.91%) PowerShell
3 22 (27.85%) Bash
4 13 (16.46%) C#
4 13 (16.46%) SQL
5 12 (15.19%) Bicep
6 7 (8.86%) TypeScript
7 4 (5.06%) Groovy
8 2 (2.53%) Java
8 2 (2.53%) Ruby
9 1 (1.27%) Go
9 1 (1.27%) Perl
Qualifications
1 8 (10.13%) Azure Certification
2 5 (6.33%) SC Cleared
2 5 (6.33%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.53%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.27%) Degree
System Software
1 23 (29.11%) Docker
2 6 (7.59%) Active Directory
3 4 (5.06%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 35 (44.30%) Terraform
2 29 (36.71%) Kubernetes
3 13 (16.46%) Ansible
4 6 (7.59%) Grafana
4 6 (7.59%) Puppet
5 5 (6.33%) Prometheus
6 4 (5.06%) Podman
7 2 (2.53%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.27%) Argo
8 1 (1.27%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 28 (35.44%) IBM
2 21 (26.58%) Red Hat
3 19 (24.05%) Microsoft
4 4 (5.06%) Databricks
5 1 (1.27%) Google
5 1 (1.27%) LogicMonitor
5 1 (1.27%) Pega
5 1 (1.27%) VMware