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 to 25 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 747 673 757
Rank change year-on-year -74 +84 -260
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure DevOps Engineer 147 328 481
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.31% 0.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.34% 0.33%
Number of salaries quoted 126 247 419
10th Percentile £50,750 £55,000 £54,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £66,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +14.29% +8.53%
75th Percentile £79,688 £93,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,125 £100,000 £94,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -13.33% +7.14% +16.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 92,894 96,310 147,847
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.58% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,756 60,420 85,018
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,923 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.80% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

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 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Azure DevOps Engineer in the UK

Azure DevOps Engineer
Top 17 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 25 April 2024. 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 -47 134 £70,000 -15.15% 21
UK excluding London -56 88 £65,000 -13.33% 13
Work from Home -15 71 £70,576 -11.78% 13
London +27 49 £74,137 -12.78% 8
South East -5 35 £72,500 -3.33% 8
North of England +19 26 £56,250 -29.69% 3
Midlands +11 16 £61,250 -20.97% 1
North West +7 16 £53,750 -32.81% 2
East Midlands - 10 £55,000 -
Yorkshire +67 7 £70,576 +17.63% 1
West Midlands +12 6 £82,500 +6.45% 1
East of England +29 4 £66,250 -5.36%
South West -30 3 £58,750 -18.97% 1
North East - 3 £55,000 -
Scotland -62 2 - -
Northern Ireland +14 1 - -
Wales +5 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, 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.

1 147 (100.00%) Azure
1 147 (100.00%) DevOps
2 125 (85.03%) Azure DevOps
3 91 (61.90%) CI/CD
4 89 (60.54%) Terraform
4 89 (60.54%) Kubernetes
5 72 (48.98%) Infrastructure as Code
6 69 (46.94%) PowerShell
7 68 (46.26%) Docker
8 54 (36.73%) Agile
9 52 (35.37%) Python
10 50 (34.01%) Containerisation
11 40 (27.21%) Git
12 39 (26.53%) Microsoft
13 38 (25.85%) Jenkins
14 37 (25.17%) Bash
15 33 (22.45%) SaaS
15 33 (22.45%) Linux
16 32 (21.77%) Analytics
16 32 (21.77%) Ansible
16 32 (21.77%) Social Skills
16 32 (21.77%) Problem-Solving
17 26 (17.69%) Windows
17 26 (17.69%) Scrum
17 26 (17.69%) Software Engineering
18 25 (17.01%) SQL
19 24 (16.33%) Finance
19 24 (16.33%) PaaS
19 24 (16.33%) Prometheus
20 22 (14.97%) Grafana

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 (2.72%) IIS
2 1 (0.68%) Confluence
2 1 (0.68%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 147 (100.00%) Azure
2 125 (85.03%) Azure DevOps
3 33 (22.45%) SaaS
4 24 (16.33%) PaaS
5 20 (13.61%) Azure AKS
6 19 (12.93%) AWS CloudFormation
7 15 (10.20%) GitHub
8 13 (8.84%) Entra ID
8 13 (8.84%) IaaS
9 12 (8.16%) Power Platform
10 11 (7.48%) AWS
11 10 (6.80%) GitHub Actions
12 9 (6.12%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 8 (5.44%) Azure Data Factory
13 8 (5.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 7 (4.76%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
15 6 (4.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 6 (4.08%) Azure Pipelines
15 6 (4.08%) Pulumi
16 5 (3.40%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 17 (11.56%) Firewall
1 17 (11.56%) Network Security
2 15 (10.20%) DNS
3 10 (6.80%) TCP/IP
4 9 (6.12%) VPN
5 8 (5.44%) LAN
5 8 (5.44%) WAN
6 4 (2.72%) IPv4
6 4 (2.72%) WLAN
7 1 (0.68%) HTTP
7 1 (0.68%) Internet
7 1 (0.68%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (12.24%) SQL Server
2 15 (10.20%) Azure SQL Database
3 12 (8.16%) InfluxDB
4 10 (6.80%) Power BI
5 8 (5.44%) Data Lake
5 8 (5.44%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (4.76%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 6 (4.08%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (2.72%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (1.36%) MariaDB
9 2 (1.36%) MongoDB
9 2 (1.36%) MySQL
9 2 (1.36%) Redis
9 2 (1.36%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.68%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 40 (27.21%) Git
2 38 (25.85%) Jenkins
3 20 (13.61%) GitLab
4 12 (8.16%) SonarQube
4 12 (8.16%) TeamCity
5 8 (5.44%) MSBuild
6 5 (3.40%) Team Foundation Server
7 4 (2.72%) git-flow
7 4 (2.72%) JIRA
7 4 (2.72%) Octopus Deploy
7 4 (2.72%) Subversion
7 4 (2.72%) Visual Studio Team System
8 3 (2.04%) Bitbucket
9 2 (1.36%) Maven
10 1 (0.68%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.68%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.68%) Vagrant
General
1 32 (21.77%) Social Skills
2 24 (16.33%) Finance
3 11 (7.48%) Public Sector
4 9 (6.12%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (4.08%) Banking
6 5 (3.40%) Electronics
6 5 (3.40%) Manufacturing
6 5 (3.40%) Marketing
6 5 (3.40%) Telecoms
7 4 (2.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.36%) Tech for Good
9 1 (0.68%) Games
9 1 (0.68%) Law
9 1 (0.68%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (14.97%) .NET
2 16 (10.88%) ARM Templates
2 16 (10.88%) YAML
3 12 (8.16%) Elastic Stack
4 10 (6.80%) JSON
5 9 (6.12%) Node.js
6 7 (4.76%) React
7 6 (4.08%) .NET Core
8 5 (3.40%) LDAP
9 4 (2.72%) REST
9 4 (2.72%) XML
10 3 (2.04%) .NET Framework
11 2 (1.36%) ADO
11 2 (1.36%) ASP.NET
11 2 (1.36%) OAuth
11 2 (1.36%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (10.88%) Distributed Systems
2 15 (10.20%) Public Cloud
3 9 (6.12%) Cloud Native
4 7 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (3.40%) Client/Server
6 4 (2.72%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 4 (2.72%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 3 (2.04%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.36%) IoT
8 2 (1.36%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.68%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.68%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.68%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.68%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.68%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.68%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 33 (22.45%) Linux
2 26 (17.69%) Windows
3 8 (5.44%) VMS
4 3 (2.04%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.68%) CentOS
5 1 (0.68%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.68%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (100.00%) DevOps
2 91 (61.90%) CI/CD
3 72 (48.98%) Infrastructure as Code
4 54 (36.73%) Agile
5 50 (34.01%) Containerisation
6 32 (21.77%) Analytics
6 32 (21.77%) Problem-Solving
7 26 (17.69%) Scrum
7 26 (17.69%) Software Engineering
8 20 (13.61%) Data Analytics
8 20 (13.61%) Microservices
8 20 (13.61%) Platform Engineering
9 17 (11.56%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 14 (9.52%) Business Intelligence
10 14 (9.52%) Continuous Integration
10 14 (9.52%) Infrastructure Automation
10 14 (9.52%) Kanban
11 12 (8.16%) Configuration Management
11 12 (8.16%) Data Analysis
11 12 (8.16%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 69 (46.94%) PowerShell
2 52 (35.37%) Python
3 37 (25.17%) Bash
4 25 (17.01%) SQL
5 19 (12.93%) C#
6 13 (8.84%) Bicep
7 10 (6.80%) Go
8 9 (6.12%) Ruby
9 8 (5.44%) Java
10 7 (4.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 7 (4.76%) JavaScript
10 7 (4.76%) U-SQL
11 2 (1.36%) Groovy
11 2 (1.36%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.68%) Perl
12 1 (0.68%) PHP
12 1 (0.68%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (7.48%) Azure Certification
1 11 (7.48%) Microsoft Certification
2 9 (6.12%) Security Cleared
3 8 (5.44%) Degree
4 5 (3.40%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.68%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.44%) QA
2 1 (0.68%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.68%) SLA
System Software
1 68 (46.26%) Docker
2 7 (4.76%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.72%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.36%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.68%) NFS
5 1 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 89 (60.54%) Kubernetes
1 89 (60.54%) Terraform
2 32 (21.77%) Ansible
3 24 (16.33%) Prometheus
4 22 (14.97%) Grafana
5 9 (6.12%) Progress Chef
5 9 (6.12%) Puppet
6 6 (4.08%) Docker Swarm
7 4 (2.72%) Istio
8 2 (1.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (1.36%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.68%) Consul
9 1 (0.68%) Packer
9 1 (0.68%) Podman
9 1 (0.68%) Salt
Vendors
1 39 (26.53%) Microsoft
2 8 (5.44%) Databricks
3 6 (4.08%) Zscaler
4 5 (3.40%) SAP
5 4 (2.72%) Cisco
5 4 (2.72%) Meraki
6 3 (2.04%) Atlassian
6 3 (2.04%) Splunk
6 3 (2.04%) Veeam
7 2 (1.36%) ForgeRock
7 2 (1.36%) New Relic
7 2 (1.36%) Oracle
7 2 (1.36%) SaltStack
8 1 (0.68%) Google
8 1 (0.68%) VMware