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 6 April 2026.

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

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 614 584 704
Rank change year-on-year -30 +120 -28
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure DevOps Engineer 96 54 152
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.13% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.15% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 84 42 141
10th Percentile £51,625 £48,200 £51,250
25th Percentile £64,750 £52,500 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £68,750 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -1.79% -12.50%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £120,000 £88,750 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% -7.14%

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 75,427 36,820 85,883
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.34% 89.83% 94.54%
Number of salaries quoted 48,455 23,325 64,410
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +10.09% -9.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £72,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,600 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.94% +5.20% -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 6 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 6 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 -16 89 £75,000 +7.14% 30
UK excluding London -19 61 £70,000 +3.70% 28
London +14 29 £90,000 +5.88% 6
Midlands -11 26 £70,000 -17.65% 11
East Midlands -27 21 £70,000 - 6
Work from Home -16 14 £55,000 -16.98% 15
South West -37 12 £55,000 -26.67% 1
South East -37 9 £75,000 +25.00% 10
North of England -61 6 £48,500 -47.57% 2
East of England - 6 £77,500 - 2
West Midlands -9 5 £85,000 - 5
North East - 4 £57,500 - 1
North West -30 2 £48,500 -47.57% 1
Wales - 2 £60,500 -

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

For the 6 months to 6 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 96 (100.00%) Azure
1 96 (100.00%) DevOps
2 63 (65.63%) Azure DevOps
3 49 (51.04%) Infrastructure as Code
4 48 (50.00%) CI/CD
5 46 (47.92%) Terraform
6 25 (26.04%) GitHub
6 25 (26.04%) Kubernetes
7 23 (23.96%) Microsoft
8 22 (22.92%) GitHub Actions
9 21 (21.88%) PowerShell
10 20 (20.83%) Continuous Improvement
11 19 (19.79%) Ansible
11 19 (19.79%) Identity Management
11 19 (19.79%) Observability
12 18 (18.75%) Azure AKS
13 17 (17.71%) Linux
13 17 (17.71%) YAML
14 15 (15.63%) Bash
14 15 (15.63%) DevSecOps
14 15 (15.63%) Docker
15 14 (14.58%) Active Directory
15 14 (14.58%) AWS
15 14 (14.58%) Containerisation
15 14 (14.58%) SQL
16 13 (13.54%) Firewall
16 13 (13.54%) Windows
17 12 (12.50%) .NET
17 12 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
17 12 (12.50%) Python

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 (8.33%) IIS
2 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.04%) Apache
3 1 (1.04%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (1.04%) Confluence
3 1 (1.04%) Drupal
3 1 (1.04%) nginx
3 1 (1.04%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.04%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 96 (100.00%) Azure
2 63 (65.63%) Azure DevOps
3 25 (26.04%) GitHub
4 22 (22.92%) GitHub Actions
5 18 (18.75%) Azure AKS
6 14 (14.58%) AWS
7 10 (10.42%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 10 (10.42%) Azure Monitor
7 10 (10.42%) Datadog
7 10 (10.42%) Entra ID
8 8 (8.33%) Azure Key Vault
9 7 (7.29%) npm
9 7 (7.29%) NuGet
9 7 (7.29%) SonarCloud
10 5 (5.21%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (5.21%) GCP
11 4 (4.17%) Azure Pipelines
11 4 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
12 3 (3.13%) PaaS
13 2 (2.08%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 13 (13.54%) Firewall
2 8 (8.33%) VPN
2 8 (8.33%) WAN
3 3 (3.13%) DNS
3 3 (3.13%) TCP/IP
4 2 (2.08%) BGP
4 2 (2.08%) HTTP
5 1 (1.04%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (10.42%) SQL Server
2 7 (7.29%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.08%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.04%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.04%) InterSystems Cache
4 1 (1.04%) Redis
Development Applications
1 9 (9.38%) Git
2 4 (4.17%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.13%) Visual Studio Code
4 2 (2.08%) GitLab
5 1 (1.04%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.04%) Gatling
5 1 (1.04%) JIRA
5 1 (1.04%) JMeter
5 1 (1.04%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (1.04%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (1.04%) TeamCity
5 1 (1.04%) Vagrant
General
1 12 (12.50%) Finance
2 6 (6.25%) Social Skills
3 3 (3.13%) Retail
3 3 (3.13%) Telecoms
4 2 (2.08%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.08%) Law
5 1 (1.04%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (17.71%) YAML
2 12 (12.50%) .NET
3 9 (9.38%) ADO
3 9 (9.38%) Node.js
3 9 (9.38%) React
4 8 (8.33%) OAuth
4 8 (8.33%) SAML
5 6 (6.25%) .NET Framework
6 5 (5.21%) .NET Core
7 3 (3.13%) ARM Templates
8 2 (2.08%) ASP.NET
8 2 (2.08%) ASP.NET Core
8 2 (2.08%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (2.08%) JSON
8 2 (2.08%) OpenTelemetry
8 2 (2.08%) WAMP
9 1 (1.04%) Memcached
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.21%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (4.17%) Cloud Native
3 3 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (3.13%) Private Cloud
3 3 (3.13%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.08%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 17 (17.71%) Linux
2 13 (13.54%) Windows
3 8 (8.33%) VMS
4 6 (6.25%) Windows Server
5 2 (2.08%) Debian
5 2 (2.08%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (100.00%) DevOps
2 49 (51.04%) Infrastructure as Code
3 48 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 20 (20.83%) Continuous Improvement
5 19 (19.79%) Identity Management
5 19 (19.79%) Observability
6 15 (15.63%) DevSecOps
7 14 (14.58%) Containerisation
8 12 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
8 12 (12.50%) RBAC
9 11 (11.46%) Analytics
9 11 (11.46%) Test Automation
10 10 (10.42%) Cost Management
11 9 (9.38%) Infrastructure Automation
11 9 (9.38%) Infrastructure Management
12 8 (8.33%) Business Continuity
12 8 (8.33%) Deployment Automation
12 8 (8.33%) Incident Response
12 8 (8.33%) Log Analytics
12 8 (8.33%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 21 (21.88%) PowerShell
2 15 (15.63%) Bash
3 14 (14.58%) SQL
4 12 (12.50%) Python
5 11 (11.46%) Bicep
6 9 (9.38%) C#
7 8 (8.33%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (2.08%) Go
9 1 (1.04%) PHP
Qualifications
1 10 (10.42%) Azure Certification
2 9 (9.38%) Security Cleared
3 4 (4.17%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.08%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (2.08%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.33%) GDPR
1 8 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 8 (8.33%) SOC 2
2 1 (1.04%) NCSC
2 1 (1.04%) QA
System Software
1 15 (15.63%) Docker
2 14 (14.58%) Active Directory
3 8 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.04%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 46 (47.92%) Terraform
2 25 (26.04%) Kubernetes
3 19 (19.79%) Ansible
4 6 (6.25%) Grafana
5 4 (4.17%) logstash
6 3 (3.13%) Prometheus
7 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (1.04%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (1.04%) Consul
8 1 (1.04%) Packer
8 1 (1.04%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.04%) Puppet
Vendors
1 23 (23.96%) Microsoft
2 10 (10.42%) Palo Alto
3 8 (8.33%) Zscaler
4 7 (7.29%) CrowdStrike
5 2 (2.08%) Cisco
5 2 (2.08%) Dynatrace
5 2 (2.08%) Fortinet
5 2 (2.08%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (1.04%) Google
6 1 (1.04%) Okta
6 1 (1.04%) OneLogin
6 1 (1.04%) Pega
6 1 (1.04%) SolarWinds
6 1 (1.04%) Splunk
6 1 (1.04%) TOWER Software
6 1 (1.04%) VMware