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 25 April 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 588 597 760
Rank change year-on-year +9 +163 -90
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure DevOps Engineer 127 50 136
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.12% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.13% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 112 39 125
10th Percentile £46,775 £47,150 £50,650
25th Percentile £63,626 £52,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -7.14% -12.50%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £88,750 £93,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% - -13.33%

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 82,175 37,486 90,129
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.80% 89.02% 94.56%
Number of salaries quoted 52,627 23,548 66,532
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +13.21% -11.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +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 25 April 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 25 April 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 +4 111 £75,000 +11.11% 27
UK excluding London -17 79 £70,000 +7.69% 25
London +6 36 £105,000 +23.53% 5
Midlands -18 31 £72,500 -14.71% 9
East Midlands -36 24 £70,000 - 7
Work from Home -18 18 £55,000 -15.38% 16
South West -44 16 £66,250 -11.67% 3
South East -34 13 £75,000 +25.00% 10
Wales - 8 £45,000 - 2
West Midlands -22 7 £85,000 - 2
East of England - 6 £77,500 -
North of England -48 5 £48,500 -28.15% 1
North East - 3 £35,000 -
North West -40 2 £48,500 -28.15% 1

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 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.

1 127 (100.00%) Azure
1 127 (100.00%) DevOps
2 82 (64.57%) Azure DevOps
3 62 (48.82%) Terraform
4 58 (45.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 54 (42.52%) CI/CD
6 32 (25.20%) Kubernetes
7 25 (19.69%) Continuous Improvement
7 25 (19.69%) GitHub
8 24 (18.90%) Microsoft
9 23 (18.11%) GitHub Actions
9 23 (18.11%) PowerShell
10 22 (17.32%) Azure AKS
11 20 (15.75%) Observability
12 19 (14.96%) Identity Management
12 19 (14.96%) YAML
13 18 (14.17%) Ansible
13 18 (14.17%) Docker
13 18 (14.17%) Linux
14 17 (13.39%) Containerisation
15 16 (12.60%) DevSecOps
15 16 (12.60%) Windows
16 15 (11.81%) Active Directory
16 15 (11.81%) AWS
16 15 (11.81%) Azure Certification
16 15 (11.81%) Bash
16 15 (11.81%) Firewall
16 15 (11.81%) Platform Engineering
16 15 (11.81%) SQL
17 14 (11.02%) Bicep

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 (6.30%) IIS
2 2 (1.57%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.79%) Apache
3 1 (0.79%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (0.79%) Confluence
3 1 (0.79%) Drupal
3 1 (0.79%) nginx
3 1 (0.79%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.79%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 127 (100.00%) Azure
2 82 (64.57%) Azure DevOps
3 25 (19.69%) GitHub
4 23 (18.11%) GitHub Actions
5 22 (17.32%) Azure AKS
6 15 (11.81%) AWS
7 10 (7.87%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 10 (7.87%) Azure Monitor
7 10 (7.87%) Datadog
7 10 (7.87%) Entra ID
8 8 (6.30%) Azure Key Vault
9 7 (5.51%) npm
9 7 (5.51%) NuGet
9 7 (5.51%) SonarCloud
10 6 (4.72%) Azure Pipelines
11 5 (3.94%) Amazon EKS
11 5 (3.94%) GCP
12 4 (3.15%) Azure App Service
12 4 (3.15%) Microsoft 365
12 4 (3.15%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (11.81%) Firewall
2 8 (6.30%) VPN
2 8 (6.30%) WAN
3 5 (3.94%) DNS
3 5 (3.94%) TCP/IP
4 3 (2.36%) DHCP
5 2 (1.57%) BGP
5 2 (1.57%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (9.45%) SQL Server
2 7 (5.51%) NoSQL
3 4 (3.15%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (2.36%) MongoDB
4 3 (2.36%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.79%) InterSystems Cache
5 1 (0.79%) Redis
Development Applications
1 10 (7.87%) Git
2 5 (3.94%) GitLab
3 4 (3.15%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.57%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.79%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.79%) Gatling
5 1 (0.79%) JIRA
5 1 (0.79%) JMeter
5 1 (0.79%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.79%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.79%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.79%) Vagrant
General
1 21 (16.54%) Finance
2 9 (7.09%) Social Skills
3 4 (3.15%) Retail
4 3 (2.36%) Banking
4 3 (2.36%) Health Technology
4 3 (2.36%) Telecoms
5 2 (1.57%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (1.57%) Law
6 1 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (0.79%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (14.96%) YAML
2 12 (9.45%) .NET
2 12 (9.45%) Node.js
3 11 (8.66%) ADO
4 9 (7.09%) React
5 8 (6.30%) OAuth
5 8 (6.30%) SAML
6 6 (4.72%) .NET Framework
7 5 (3.94%) .NET Core
8 4 (3.15%) ARM Templates
8 4 (3.15%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (1.57%) ASP.NET
9 2 (1.57%) ASP.NET Core
9 2 (1.57%) JSON
9 2 (1.57%) OpenTelemetry
9 2 (1.57%) WAMP
10 1 (0.79%) Memcached
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.72%) Cloud Native
2 5 (3.94%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (2.36%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (1.57%) Mobile App
4 2 (1.57%) Private Cloud
4 2 (1.57%) Public Cloud
4 2 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.79%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 18 (14.17%) Linux
2 16 (12.60%) Windows
3 8 (6.30%) VMS
4 7 (5.51%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.57%) Debian
5 2 (1.57%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (100.00%) DevOps
2 58 (45.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 54 (42.52%) CI/CD
4 25 (19.69%) Continuous Improvement
5 20 (15.75%) Observability
6 19 (14.96%) Identity Management
7 17 (13.39%) Containerisation
8 16 (12.60%) DevSecOps
9 15 (11.81%) Platform Engineering
10 13 (10.24%) Analytics
11 12 (9.45%) Disaster Recovery
11 12 (9.45%) RBAC
11 12 (9.45%) Test Automation
12 11 (8.66%) Agile
13 10 (7.87%) Microservices
14 9 (7.09%) Cost Management
14 9 (7.09%) Deployment Automation
14 9 (7.09%) Infrastructure Management
15 8 (6.30%) Infrastructure Automation
15 8 (6.30%) Log Analytics
Programming Languages
1 23 (18.11%) PowerShell
2 15 (11.81%) Bash
2 15 (11.81%) SQL
3 14 (11.02%) Bicep
4 13 (10.24%) Python
5 9 (7.09%) C#
6 8 (6.30%) Kusto Query Language
7 3 (2.36%) Java
8 2 (1.57%) Go
9 1 (0.79%) PHP
Qualifications
1 15 (11.81%) Azure Certification
2 12 (9.45%) Security Cleared
3 7 (5.51%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.36%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.57%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (1.57%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.79%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.79%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.30%) GDPR
1 8 (6.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 8 (6.30%) SOC 2
2 2 (1.57%) QA
3 1 (0.79%) NCSC
System Software
1 18 (14.17%) Docker
2 15 (11.81%) Active Directory
3 8 (6.30%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 62 (48.82%) Terraform
2 32 (25.20%) Kubernetes
3 18 (14.17%) Ansible
4 9 (7.09%) Grafana
5 6 (4.72%) Prometheus
6 4 (3.15%) logstash
7 3 (2.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (2.36%) Argo
8 2 (1.57%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.79%) Consul
9 1 (0.79%) Packer
9 1 (0.79%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.79%) Puppet
Vendors
1 24 (18.90%) Microsoft
2 10 (7.87%) Palo Alto
3 8 (6.30%) Zscaler
4 7 (5.51%) CrowdStrike
5 3 (2.36%) Okta
5 3 (2.36%) OneLogin
6 2 (1.57%) Cisco
6 2 (1.57%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.57%) Fortinet
6 2 (1.57%) LogicMonitor
7 1 (0.79%) Google
7 1 (0.79%) Pega
7 1 (0.79%) SolarWinds
7 1 (0.79%) Splunk
7 1 (0.79%) TOWER Software
7 1 (0.79%) VMware