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 1 May 2026.

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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 587 601 751
Rank change year-on-year +14 +150 -88
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure DevOps Engineer 137 56 136
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.13% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.15% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 119 39 125
10th Percentile £46,950 £46,750 £50,650
25th Percentile £64,000 £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 £78,750
90th Percentile £120,000 £88,750 £93,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £66,250 £70,000
% change year-on-year +5.66% -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 83,558 37,679 90,605
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.89% 89.07% 94.54%
Number of salaries quoted 53,734 23,343 66,736
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,625 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,800 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.03% +12.83% -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 1 May 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 1 May 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 +7 121 £75,000 +11.11% 20
UK excluding London -15 83 £70,000 +5.66% 16
London -2 40 £93,750 +10.29% 9
Midlands -8 35 £75,000 -11.76% 6
East Midlands -20 27 £70,000 - 4
Work from Home -9 18 £55,000 -15.38% 11
South East -27 15 £75,000 +25.00% 6
South West -43 15 £75,000 - 2
West Midlands -24 8 £85,000 - 2
Wales - 8 £45,000 - 2
East of England - 6 £77,500 -
North of England -63 4 £41,750 -55.47%
North West -30 2 £48,500 -48.27%
North East - 2 £35,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 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.

1 137 (100.00%) Azure
1 137 (100.00%) DevOps
2 88 (64.23%) Azure DevOps
3 70 (51.09%) Terraform
4 62 (45.26%) Infrastructure as Code
5 57 (41.61%) CI/CD
6 34 (24.82%) Kubernetes
7 25 (18.25%) Continuous Improvement
7 25 (18.25%) GitHub
7 25 (18.25%) Microsoft
8 23 (16.79%) Azure AKS
8 23 (16.79%) GitHub Actions
8 23 (16.79%) PowerShell
9 22 (16.06%) Observability
10 19 (13.87%) Identity Management
11 18 (13.14%) Ansible
11 18 (13.14%) Containerisation
11 18 (13.14%) Docker
11 18 (13.14%) Linux
11 18 (13.14%) Platform Engineering
11 18 (13.14%) YAML
12 17 (12.41%) DevSecOps
13 16 (11.68%) Active Directory
13 16 (11.68%) SQL
13 16 (11.68%) Windows
14 15 (10.95%) Analytics
14 15 (10.95%) AWS
14 15 (10.95%) Azure Certification
14 15 (10.95%) Bash
14 15 (10.95%) 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 8 (5.84%) IIS
2 2 (1.46%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.73%) Apache
3 1 (0.73%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (0.73%) Confluence
3 1 (0.73%) Drupal
3 1 (0.73%) nginx
3 1 (0.73%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.73%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 137 (100.00%) Azure
2 88 (64.23%) Azure DevOps
3 25 (18.25%) GitHub
4 23 (16.79%) Azure AKS
4 23 (16.79%) GitHub Actions
5 15 (10.95%) AWS
6 11 (8.03%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 11 (8.03%) Azure Monitor
6 11 (8.03%) Datadog
6 11 (8.03%) Entra ID
7 9 (6.57%) Azure Key Vault
8 7 (5.11%) npm
8 7 (5.11%) NuGet
8 7 (5.11%) SonarCloud
9 6 (4.38%) Azure Pipelines
9 6 (4.38%) PaaS
10 5 (3.65%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (3.65%) Azure App Service
10 5 (3.65%) GCP
11 4 (2.92%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 15 (10.95%) Firewall
2 9 (6.57%) VPN
3 8 (5.84%) WAN
4 5 (3.65%) DNS
4 5 (3.65%) TCP/IP
5 3 (2.19%) DHCP
6 2 (1.46%) BGP
6 2 (1.46%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (8.76%) SQL Server
2 7 (5.11%) NoSQL
3 5 (3.65%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (2.92%) MongoDB
4 4 (2.92%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.73%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.73%) InterSystems Cache
5 1 (0.73%) Redis
Development Applications
1 10 (7.30%) Git
2 6 (4.38%) GitLab
3 4 (2.92%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.46%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.73%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.73%) Gatling
5 1 (0.73%) JIRA
5 1 (0.73%) JMeter
5 1 (0.73%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.73%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.73%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.73%) Vagrant
General
1 23 (16.79%) Finance
2 9 (6.57%) Social Skills
3 6 (4.38%) Retail
4 4 (2.92%) Health Technology
5 3 (2.19%) Banking
5 3 (2.19%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.46%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.46%) Law
6 2 (1.46%) Public Sector
7 1 (0.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (13.14%) YAML
2 14 (10.22%) Node.js
3 13 (9.49%) .NET
4 11 (8.03%) ADO
5 10 (7.30%) React
6 8 (5.84%) OAuth
6 8 (5.84%) SAML
7 6 (4.38%) .NET Framework
8 5 (3.65%) .NET Core
9 4 (2.92%) ARM Templates
9 4 (2.92%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (1.46%) ASP.NET
10 2 (1.46%) ASP.NET Core
10 2 (1.46%) JSON
10 2 (1.46%) OpenTelemetry
10 2 (1.46%) WAMP
11 1 (0.73%) Kafka
11 1 (0.73%) Memcached
11 1 (0.73%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 5 (3.65%) Cloud Native
1 5 (3.65%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (2.19%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (1.46%) Mobile App
3 2 (1.46%) Private Cloud
3 2 (1.46%) Public Cloud
3 2 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (0.73%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 18 (13.14%) Linux
2 16 (11.68%) Windows
3 8 (5.84%) VMS
4 7 (5.11%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.46%) Debian
5 2 (1.46%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (100.00%) DevOps
2 62 (45.26%) Infrastructure as Code
3 57 (41.61%) CI/CD
4 25 (18.25%) Continuous Improvement
5 22 (16.06%) Observability
6 19 (13.87%) Identity Management
7 18 (13.14%) Containerisation
7 18 (13.14%) Platform Engineering
8 17 (12.41%) DevSecOps
9 15 (10.95%) Analytics
10 13 (9.49%) Agile
11 12 (8.76%) Disaster Recovery
11 12 (8.76%) Microservices
11 12 (8.76%) RBAC
11 12 (8.76%) Test Automation
12 9 (6.57%) API Management
12 9 (6.57%) Cost Management
12 9 (6.57%) Deployment Automation
12 9 (6.57%) Infrastructure Automation
12 9 (6.57%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (16.79%) PowerShell
2 16 (11.68%) SQL
3 15 (10.95%) Bash
4 14 (10.22%) Bicep
5 13 (9.49%) Python
6 9 (6.57%) C#
7 8 (5.84%) Kusto Query Language
8 4 (2.92%) Java
9 2 (1.46%) Go
10 1 (0.73%) PHP
Qualifications
1 15 (10.95%) Azure Certification
2 14 (10.22%) Security Cleared
3 9 (6.57%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.19%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.46%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (1.46%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.73%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.73%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.84%) GDPR
1 8 (5.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 8 (5.84%) SOC 2
2 2 (1.46%) QA
3 1 (0.73%) NCSC
System Software
1 18 (13.14%) Docker
2 16 (11.68%) Active Directory
3 8 (5.84%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 70 (51.09%) Terraform
2 34 (24.82%) Kubernetes
3 18 (13.14%) Ansible
4 10 (7.30%) Grafana
5 6 (4.38%) Prometheus
6 4 (2.92%) Argo
6 4 (2.92%) logstash
7 3 (2.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (1.46%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.73%) Consul
9 1 (0.73%) Packer
9 1 (0.73%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.73%) Puppet
Vendors
1 25 (18.25%) Microsoft
2 10 (7.30%) Palo Alto
3 8 (5.84%) Zscaler
4 7 (5.11%) CrowdStrike
5 4 (2.92%) Okta
6 3 (2.19%) OneLogin
7 2 (1.46%) Cisco
7 2 (1.46%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.46%) Fortinet
7 2 (1.46%) LogicMonitor
8 1 (0.73%) Google
8 1 (0.73%) Pega
8 1 (0.73%) SAP
8 1 (0.73%) SolarWinds
8 1 (0.73%) Splunk
8 1 (0.73%) TOWER Software
8 1 (0.73%) VMware