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 3 September 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 605 607 687
Rank change year-on-year +2 +80 -131
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure DevOps Engineer 186 79 123
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.16% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.18% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 135 44 94
10th Percentile £60,000 £47,650 £55,000
25th Percentile £67,000 £55,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £90,000 £72,500 £77,500
90th Percentile - £83,375 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £66,250 £70,000
% change year-on-year +13.21% -5.36% -6.67%

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 103,293 44,702 77,044
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.83% 89.84% 95.19%
Number of salaries quoted 71,078 26,550 49,104
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,201 £73,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -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 3 September 2026.

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 3 September 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 -3 164 £75,000 +15.38% 32
UK excluding London -43 112 £75,000 +13.21% 19
London -14 61 £90,000 +38.46% 14
Midlands +9 53 £85,000 +39.92% 2
East Midlands +16 38 £75,000 +38.89% 2
Work from Home -16 37 £75,000 +11.11% 14
South East -35 26 £75,000 +7.14% 6
West Midlands -16 15 £90,000 +33.33%
South West -66 10 £75,000 +15.38% 4
Wales -53 9 £45,000 -25.00%
North of England -48 6 £70,000 +11.55% 6
Scotland +14 5 - -
North West -16 5 £70,000 +7.69% 3
East of England -41 3 £70,000 +7.69% 2
North East - 1 £35,000 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 3 September 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.

1 186 (100.00%) Azure
1 186 (100.00%) DevOps
2 105 (56.45%) Azure DevOps
3 89 (47.85%) Terraform
4 74 (39.78%) Infrastructure as Code
5 69 (37.10%) CI/CD
6 34 (18.28%) SQL
7 33 (17.74%) Kubernetes
8 29 (15.59%) Azure SQL Database
8 29 (15.59%) PowerShell
9 28 (15.05%) Cybersecurity
9 28 (15.05%) Microsoft
10 27 (14.52%) Platform Engineering
11 23 (12.37%) Docker
12 22 (11.83%) Azure Service Bus
12 22 (11.83%) Infrastructure Automation
13 19 (10.22%) Azure AKS
13 19 (10.22%) Azure Key Vault
13 19 (10.22%) YAML
14 18 (9.68%) Analytics
14 18 (9.68%) Azure Certification
14 18 (9.68%) Azure Monitor
15 17 (9.14%) PaaS
16 15 (8.06%) Ansible
16 15 (8.06%) API Management
16 15 (8.06%) Cloud Security
17 14 (7.53%) Agile
17 14 (7.53%) Azure App Service
17 14 (7.53%) Containerisation
17 14 (7.53%) Linux

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 (4.30%) IIS
2 7 (3.76%) nginx
3 1 (0.54%) Apache
3 1 (0.54%) Confluence
3 1 (0.54%) Drupal
3 1 (0.54%) Oracle HTTP Server
3 1 (0.54%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.54%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (0.54%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 186 (100.00%) Azure
2 105 (56.45%) Azure DevOps
3 22 (11.83%) Azure Service Bus
4 19 (10.22%) Azure AKS
4 19 (10.22%) Azure Key Vault
5 18 (9.68%) Azure Monitor
6 17 (9.14%) PaaS
7 14 (7.53%) Azure App Service
8 11 (5.91%) AWS
9 10 (5.38%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 9 (4.84%) GitHub
11 8 (4.30%) GitHub Actions
12 7 (3.76%) Azure Pipelines
12 7 (3.76%) IaaS
13 6 (3.23%) Azure API Management
13 6 (3.23%) Entra ID
13 6 (3.23%) SaaS
14 5 (2.69%) Azure Logic Apps
14 5 (2.69%) Cloudflare
15 4 (2.15%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.84%) Firewall
2 4 (2.15%) DNS
2 4 (2.15%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.61%) DHCP
4 2 (1.08%) HTTP
5 1 (0.54%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (15.59%) Azure SQL Database
2 13 (6.99%) SQL Server
3 6 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (2.15%) MongoDB
5 3 (1.61%) Redis
6 2 (1.08%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.54%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.54%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.54%) GIS
7 1 (0.54%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 7 (3.76%) GitLab
2 5 (2.69%) Git
2 5 (2.69%) Jenkins
2 5 (2.69%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (0.54%) Gatling
3 1 (0.54%) JIRA
3 1 (0.54%) JMeter
3 1 (0.54%) Vagrant
3 1 (0.54%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 28 (15.05%) Finance
2 11 (5.91%) Social Skills
3 7 (3.76%) Retail
4 4 (2.15%) Health Technology
5 3 (1.61%) Banking
5 3 (1.61%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.08%) Aviation
6 2 (1.08%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.54%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.54%) Law
7 1 (0.54%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (47.85%) Terraform
2 19 (10.22%) YAML
3 13 (6.99%) ADO
4 12 (6.45%) .NET
4 12 (6.45%) ARM Templates
4 12 (6.45%) Node.js
5 5 (2.69%) Loki
5 5 (2.69%) React
6 3 (1.61%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (1.08%) .NET Framework
8 1 (0.54%) .NET Core
8 1 (0.54%) ASP.NET
8 1 (0.54%) ASP.NET Core
8 1 (0.54%) Java SE
8 1 (0.54%) Kafka
8 1 (0.54%) Memcached
8 1 (0.54%) OpenLayers
8 1 (0.54%) OpenTelemetry
8 1 (0.54%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.60%) Cloud Native
2 8 (4.30%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (2.69%) Cyber Threat
3 5 (2.69%) Public Cloud
4 3 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.54%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.54%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.54%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.54%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.54%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 14 (7.53%) Linux
1 14 (7.53%) Windows
2 10 (5.38%) VMS
3 5 (2.69%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.54%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 186 (100.00%) DevOps
2 74 (39.78%) Infrastructure as Code
3 69 (37.10%) CI/CD
4 28 (15.05%) Cybersecurity
5 27 (14.52%) Platform Engineering
6 22 (11.83%) Infrastructure Automation
7 18 (9.68%) Analytics
8 15 (8.06%) API Management
8 15 (8.06%) Cloud Security
9 14 (7.53%) Agile
9 14 (7.53%) Containerisation
9 14 (7.53%) Microservices
10 13 (6.99%) Deployment Automation
11 12 (6.45%) Observability
12 11 (5.91%) Continuous Improvement
13 10 (5.38%) Log Analytics
14 9 (4.84%) Collaborative Culture
14 9 (4.84%) DevSecOps
14 9 (4.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 9 (4.84%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 34 (18.28%) SQL
2 29 (15.59%) PowerShell
3 10 (5.38%) C#
3 10 (5.38%) Python
4 9 (4.84%) Bicep
5 6 (3.23%) Bash
6 5 (2.69%) Java
7 4 (2.15%) Go
8 1 (0.54%) PHP
8 1 (0.54%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (9.68%) Azure Certification
2 14 (7.53%) Security Cleared
3 13 (6.99%) SC Cleared
4 3 (1.61%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.54%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.54%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.54%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.23%) QA
2 1 (0.54%) NCSC
System Software
1 23 (12.37%) Docker
2 11 (5.91%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.69%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.54%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.54%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.54%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 33 (17.74%) Kubernetes
2 15 (8.06%) Ansible
3 12 (6.45%) Grafana
4 10 (5.38%) Prometheus
5 6 (3.23%) Progress Chef
6 4 (2.15%) Argo
7 3 (1.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.54%) Consul
8 1 (0.54%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (0.54%) Packer
8 1 (0.54%) Puppet
Vendors
1 28 (15.05%) Microsoft
2 4 (2.15%) Okta
3 3 (1.61%) OneLogin
3 3 (1.61%) Salesforce
4 2 (1.08%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (0.54%) Databricks
5 1 (0.54%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.54%) Google
5 1 (0.54%) Oracle
5 1 (0.54%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.54%) SAP
5 1 (0.54%) Splunk
5 1 (0.54%) TOWER Software
5 1 (0.54%) VMware