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 19 September 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 612 596 679
Rank change year-on-year -16 +83 -127
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure DevOps Engineer 183 79 112
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.16% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.18% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 127 41 81
10th Percentile £60,000 £51,250 £56,250
25th Percentile £67,000 £55,000 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -3.70% -10.00%
75th Percentile £90,000 £72,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £82,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +15.38% -7.14% -6.04%

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 108,200 44,314 74,420
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.19% 89.66% 95.24%
Number of salaries quoted 74,226 26,055 44,614
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,250 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.36% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £92,500
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 19 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure DevOps Engineer in the UK

Azure DevOps Engineer
Top 14 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 19 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 -40 160 £75,000 +15.38% 90
UK excluding London -83 108 £75,000 +15.38% 52
London -27 62 £90,000 +38.46% 34
Midlands 0 50 £85,000 +39.92% 12
Work from Home -27 40 £75,000 +11.11% 41
East Midlands -2 35 £77,500 +43.52% 7
South East -50 24 £75,000 +7.14% 13
West Midlands -32 15 £90,000 +33.33% 5
South West -67 10 £75,000 +15.38% 3
Wales -65 9 £45,000 -25.00% 1
North West -17 7 £70,000 +7.69% 12
North of England -73 7 £70,000 +15.70% 19
Scotland +8 6 £65,000 -7.14% 3
East of England -34 2 - - 2

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

For the 6 months to 19 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.

1 183 (100.00%) Azure
1 183 (100.00%) DevOps
2 102 (55.74%) Azure DevOps
3 84 (45.90%) Terraform
4 71 (38.80%) Infrastructure as Code
5 66 (36.07%) CI/CD
6 34 (18.58%) SQL
7 32 (17.49%) Kubernetes
8 30 (16.39%) PowerShell
9 29 (15.85%) Azure SQL Database
9 29 (15.85%) Cybersecurity
10 28 (15.30%) Microsoft
11 25 (13.66%) Platform Engineering
12 23 (12.57%) Infrastructure Automation
13 22 (12.02%) Azure Service Bus
13 22 (12.02%) Docker
14 21 (11.48%) Azure Certification
15 20 (10.93%) Azure Key Vault
16 18 (9.84%) Analytics
16 18 (9.84%) Azure AKS
16 18 (9.84%) Azure Monitor
17 17 (9.29%) PaaS
17 17 (9.29%) YAML
18 16 (8.74%) Cloud Security
19 15 (8.20%) Ansible
19 15 (8.20%) API Management
20 14 (7.65%) Azure App Service
20 14 (7.65%) Security Cleared
21 13 (7.10%) ADO
21 13 (7.10%) Agile

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 7 (3.83%) nginx
2 6 (3.28%) IIS
3 1 (0.55%) Apache
3 1 (0.55%) Confluence
3 1 (0.55%) Drupal
3 1 (0.55%) Oracle HTTP Server
3 1 (0.55%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.55%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (0.55%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 183 (100.00%) Azure
2 102 (55.74%) Azure DevOps
3 22 (12.02%) Azure Service Bus
4 20 (10.93%) Azure Key Vault
5 18 (9.84%) Azure AKS
5 18 (9.84%) Azure Monitor
6 17 (9.29%) PaaS
7 14 (7.65%) Azure App Service
8 11 (6.01%) AWS
9 10 (5.46%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 10 (5.46%) GitHub
10 8 (4.37%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (3.83%) Azure Pipelines
11 7 (3.83%) IaaS
12 6 (3.28%) Azure API Management
12 6 (3.28%) Azure Logic Apps
12 6 (3.28%) Entra ID
12 6 (3.28%) SaaS
13 5 (2.73%) AWS CloudFormation
13 5 (2.73%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.37%) Firewall
2 3 (1.64%) DHCP
2 3 (1.64%) DNS
2 3 (1.64%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.55%) HTTP
3 1 (0.55%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (15.85%) Azure SQL Database
2 11 (6.01%) SQL Server
3 6 (3.28%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (2.19%) MongoDB
5 3 (1.64%) Redis
6 1 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.55%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.55%) GIS
6 1 (0.55%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 7 (3.83%) GitLab
2 5 (2.73%) Octopus Deploy
3 4 (2.19%) Git
3 4 (2.19%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.55%) Gatling
4 1 (0.55%) JIRA
4 1 (0.55%) JMeter
4 1 (0.55%) Snyk
4 1 (0.55%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.55%) Vagrant
4 1 (0.55%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 26 (14.21%) Finance
2 12 (6.56%) Social Skills
3 7 (3.83%) Retail
4 4 (2.19%) Health Technology
5 3 (1.64%) Banking
5 3 (1.64%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.09%) Aviation
6 2 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.55%) Police
7 1 (0.55%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (45.90%) Terraform
2 17 (9.29%) YAML
3 13 (7.10%) ADO
4 12 (6.56%) ARM Templates
5 10 (5.46%) Node.js
6 9 (4.92%) .NET
7 5 (2.73%) Loki
8 3 (1.64%) React
9 2 (1.09%) Elastic Stack
10 1 (0.55%) .NET Framework
10 1 (0.55%) Java SE
10 1 (0.55%) Kafka
10 1 (0.55%) Memcached
10 1 (0.55%) OpenLayers
10 1 (0.55%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 15 (8.20%) Cloud Native
2 7 (3.83%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (3.28%) Cyber Threat
4 5 (2.73%) Public Cloud
5 3 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.09%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.55%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.55%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.55%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.55%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.55%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 13 (7.10%) Linux
2 12 (6.56%) Windows
3 10 (5.46%) VMS
4 5 (2.73%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.55%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 183 (100.00%) DevOps
2 71 (38.80%) Infrastructure as Code
3 66 (36.07%) CI/CD
4 29 (15.85%) Cybersecurity
5 25 (13.66%) Platform Engineering
6 23 (12.57%) Infrastructure Automation
7 18 (9.84%) Analytics
8 16 (8.74%) Cloud Security
9 15 (8.20%) API Management
10 13 (7.10%) Agile
10 13 (7.10%) Deployment Automation
11 12 (6.56%) Containerisation
11 12 (6.56%) Microservices
12 10 (5.46%) Continuous Improvement
12 10 (5.46%) Log Analytics
13 9 (4.92%) Collaborative Culture
13 9 (4.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 9 (4.92%) Observability
14 8 (4.37%) Mentoring
14 8 (4.37%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 34 (18.58%) SQL
2 30 (16.39%) PowerShell
3 12 (6.56%) Bicep
3 12 (6.56%) Python
4 8 (4.37%) C#
5 5 (2.73%) Bash
5 5 (2.73%) Java
6 3 (1.64%) Go
7 1 (0.55%) PHP
7 1 (0.55%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (11.48%) Azure Certification
2 14 (7.65%) Security Cleared
3 13 (7.10%) SC Cleared
4 3 (1.64%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.55%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.55%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.28%) QA
2 1 (0.55%) NCSC
System Software
1 22 (12.02%) Docker
2 11 (6.01%) Active Directory
3 6 (3.28%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.55%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.55%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 32 (17.49%) Kubernetes
2 15 (8.20%) Ansible
3 10 (5.46%) Grafana
4 9 (4.92%) Prometheus
5 6 (3.28%) Progress Chef
6 4 (2.19%) Argo
7 3 (1.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.55%) Consul
8 1 (0.55%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (0.55%) Packer
8 1 (0.55%) Puppet
Vendors
1 28 (15.30%) Microsoft
2 4 (2.19%) Okta
3 3 (1.64%) OneLogin
3 3 (1.64%) Salesforce
4 2 (1.09%) VMware
5 1 (0.55%) Databricks
5 1 (0.55%) Google
5 1 (0.55%) Oracle
5 1 (0.55%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.55%) SAP
5 1 (0.55%) Splunk
5 1 (0.55%) TOWER Software