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 28 June 2026.

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

6 months to
28 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 554 614 769
Rank change year-on-year +60 +155 -151
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure DevOps Engineer 186 72 137
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.16% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.17% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 145 36 119
10th Percentile £46,750 £45,625 £52,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £55,000 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £85,000 £73,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £86,250 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +15.38% -7.14% -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 89,842 41,384 100,134
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.09% 89.50% 94.73%
Number of salaries quoted 61,632 23,849 72,187
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% +8.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.00% - -6.54%

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 28 June 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 28 June 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 +27 164 £75,000 +15.38% 16
UK excluding London -10 114 £75,000 +15.38% 10
London +18 58 £90,000 +46.94% 9
Midlands +13 48 £85,000 +25.93% 4
East Midlands +13 33 £72,500 - 2
Work from Home +15 27 £70,000 +7.69% 8
South East -20 27 £75,000 +7.14% 2
South West -49 18 £75,000 -
West Midlands -6 15 £90,000 +33.33% 2
Wales -31 9 £45,000 -25.00% 1
Scotland +23 5 - - 1
North of England -58 4 £41,750 -30.99% 2
East of England -16 3 £70,000 +7.69%
North West -7 2 £48,500 -25.38%
North East - 2 £35,000 - 2

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

For the 6 months to 28 June 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
2 112 (60.22%) Azure DevOps
3 94 (50.54%) Terraform
4 79 (42.47%) Infrastructure as Code
5 76 (40.86%) CI/CD
6 36 (19.35%) Kubernetes
7 35 (18.82%) SQL
8 32 (17.20%) PowerShell
9 30 (16.13%) Microsoft
10 27 (14.52%) YAML
11 26 (13.98%) Platform Engineering
12 25 (13.44%) Azure SQL Database
13 24 (12.90%) Analytics
14 23 (12.37%) Azure AKS
15 22 (11.83%) Azure Monitor
15 22 (11.83%) Docker
16 20 (10.75%) Azure Key Vault
16 20 (10.75%) Continuous Improvement
17 19 (10.22%) Ansible
17 19 (10.22%) Security Cleared
18 18 (9.68%) ADO
18 18 (9.68%) Azure Service Bus
18 18 (9.68%) GitHub
19 17 (9.14%) Active Directory
19 17 (9.14%) AWS
19 17 (9.14%) Azure Certification
19 17 (9.14%) Containerisation
19 17 (9.14%) DevSecOps
19 17 (9.14%) Firewall

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 9 (4.84%) IIS
2 4 (2.15%) nginx
3 2 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.54%) Apache
4 1 (0.54%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (0.54%) Confluence
4 1 (0.54%) Drupal
4 1 (0.54%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.54%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 186 (100.00%) Azure
2 112 (60.22%) Azure DevOps
3 23 (12.37%) Azure AKS
4 22 (11.83%) Azure Monitor
5 20 (10.75%) Azure Key Vault
6 18 (9.68%) Azure Service Bus
6 18 (9.68%) GitHub
7 17 (9.14%) AWS
8 16 (8.60%) GitHub Actions
9 15 (8.06%) PaaS
10 13 (6.99%) Entra ID
11 12 (6.45%) Azure App Service
12 8 (4.30%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 8 (4.30%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 8 (4.30%) Datadog
13 6 (3.23%) GCP
14 5 (2.69%) IaaS
14 5 (2.69%) NuGet
14 5 (2.69%) SaaS
14 5 (2.69%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 17 (9.14%) Firewall
2 6 (3.23%) VPN
3 5 (2.69%) DNS
3 5 (2.69%) TCP/IP
3 5 (2.69%) WAN
4 3 (1.61%) DHCP
5 2 (1.08%) BGP
5 2 (1.08%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (13.44%) Azure SQL Database
2 13 (6.99%) SQL Server
3 6 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (2.69%) NoSQL
5 4 (2.15%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.61%) Redis
7 1 (0.54%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.54%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 7 (3.76%) Git
2 6 (3.23%) GitLab
3 4 (2.15%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.15%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (0.54%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.54%) Gatling
4 1 (0.54%) JIRA
4 1 (0.54%) JMeter
4 1 (0.54%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.54%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.54%) Vagrant
4 1 (0.54%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 33 (17.74%) Finance
2 9 (4.84%) Social Skills
3 7 (3.76%) Retail
4 4 (2.15%) Health Technology
5 3 (1.61%) Banking
5 3 (1.61%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.08%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.08%) Aviation
6 2 (1.08%) Law
6 2 (1.08%) Public Sector
7 1 (0.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (14.52%) YAML
2 18 (9.68%) ADO
3 14 (7.53%) .NET
4 12 (6.45%) Node.js
5 11 (5.91%) ARM Templates
6 8 (4.30%) React
7 5 (2.69%) OAuth
7 5 (2.69%) SAML
8 4 (2.15%) .NET Framework
8 4 (2.15%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (1.61%) .NET Core
9 3 (1.61%) Loki
10 2 (1.08%) ASP.NET
10 2 (1.08%) ASP.NET Core
10 2 (1.08%) JSON
10 2 (1.08%) OpenTelemetry
10 2 (1.08%) WAMP
11 1 (0.54%) Kafka
11 1 (0.54%) Memcached
11 1 (0.54%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.99%) Cloud Native
2 8 (4.30%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (2.69%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (1.08%) Mobile App
4 2 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.54%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.54%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.54%) Private Cloud
5 1 (0.54%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.54%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 16 (8.60%) Linux
1 16 (8.60%) Windows
2 15 (8.06%) VMS
3 6 (3.23%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.08%) Debian
4 2 (1.08%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 186 (100.00%) DevOps
2 79 (42.47%) Infrastructure as Code
3 76 (40.86%) CI/CD
4 26 (13.98%) Platform Engineering
5 24 (12.90%) Analytics
6 20 (10.75%) Continuous Improvement
7 17 (9.14%) Containerisation
7 17 (9.14%) DevSecOps
7 17 (9.14%) Observability
8 15 (8.06%) API Management
8 15 (8.06%) Infrastructure Automation
8 15 (8.06%) Log Analytics
8 15 (8.06%) Microservices
9 13 (6.99%) Cloud Security
10 11 (5.91%) Agile
10 11 (5.91%) Cybersecurity
11 10 (5.38%) Deployment Automation
11 10 (5.38%) Migration
12 9 (4.84%) High Availability
12 9 (4.84%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 35 (18.82%) SQL
2 32 (17.20%) PowerShell
3 13 (6.99%) C#
4 11 (5.91%) Bash
4 11 (5.91%) Bicep
5 9 (4.84%) Python
6 5 (2.69%) Kusto Query Language
7 4 (2.15%) Java
8 2 (1.08%) Go
9 1 (0.54%) PHP
Qualifications
1 19 (10.22%) Security Cleared
2 17 (9.14%) Azure Certification
3 14 (7.53%) SC Cleared
4 3 (1.61%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.08%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (1.08%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.54%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.54%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.69%) GDPR
1 5 (2.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (2.69%) QA
1 5 (2.69%) SOC 2
2 1 (0.54%) NCSC
System Software
1 22 (11.83%) Docker
2 17 (9.14%) Active Directory
3 8 (4.30%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.54%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 94 (50.54%) Terraform
2 36 (19.35%) Kubernetes
3 19 (10.22%) Ansible
4 14 (7.53%) Grafana
5 10 (5.38%) Prometheus
6 4 (2.15%) Argo
7 3 (1.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (1.08%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.54%) Consul
9 1 (0.54%) Packer
9 1 (0.54%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.54%) Puppet
Vendors
1 30 (16.13%) Microsoft
2 7 (3.76%) Palo Alto
3 5 (2.69%) CrowdStrike
3 5 (2.69%) Zscaler
4 4 (2.15%) Okta
5 3 (1.61%) OneLogin
5 3 (1.61%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.08%) Cisco
6 2 (1.08%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.08%) Fortinet
6 2 (1.08%) LogicMonitor
7 1 (0.54%) Databricks
7 1 (0.54%) Google
7 1 (0.54%) Pega
7 1 (0.54%) SAP
7 1 (0.54%) SolarWinds
7 1 (0.54%) Splunk
7 1 (0.54%) TOWER Software
7 1 (0.54%) VMware