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 18 April 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 599 582 744
Rank change year-on-year -17 +162 -84
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure DevOps Engineer 115 54 139
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.13% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.15% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 101 43 130
10th Percentile £46,750 £48,400 £51,150
25th Percentile £63,626 £52,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -3.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,938
90th Percentile £120,000 £88,750 £92,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% -10.34%

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 80,276 37,162 89,418
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.62% 89.30% 94.57%
Number of salaries quoted 51,387 23,373 66,316
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +12.15% -10.83%
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 18 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 18 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 -13 101 £75,000 +11.11% 24
UK excluding London -26 71 £70,000 +3.70% 25
London +22 35 £105,000 +23.53% 4
Midlands -10 30 £70,000 -17.65% 5
East Midlands -26 24 £70,000 - 3
Work from Home -9 18 £55,000 -18.52% 16
South West -39 13 £55,000 -26.67% 4
South East -39 9 £75,000 +25.00% 10
Wales - 7 £45,000 - 2
West Midlands -20 6 £85,000 - 2
North of England -60 6 £48,500 -28.15% 2
East of England - 6 £77,500 -
North East - 4 £57,500 -
North West -28 2 £48,500 -28.15% 2

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

For the 6 months to 18 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.

1 115 (100.00%) Azure
1 115 (100.00%) DevOps
2 76 (66.09%) Azure DevOps
3 56 (48.70%) Infrastructure as Code
4 53 (46.09%) Terraform
5 52 (45.22%) CI/CD
6 31 (26.96%) Kubernetes
7 26 (22.61%) Microsoft
8 25 (21.74%) GitHub
9 24 (20.87%) Continuous Improvement
10 23 (20.00%) PowerShell
11 22 (19.13%) GitHub Actions
12 20 (17.39%) Azure AKS
12 20 (17.39%) Observability
13 19 (16.52%) Ansible
13 19 (16.52%) Identity Management
13 19 (16.52%) Linux
13 19 (16.52%) YAML
14 18 (15.65%) Docker
15 17 (14.78%) Containerisation
15 17 (14.78%) Windows
16 16 (13.91%) Active Directory
16 16 (13.91%) DevSecOps
17 15 (13.04%) AWS
17 15 (13.04%) Bash
17 15 (13.04%) Firewall
17 15 (13.04%) SQL
18 14 (12.17%) Azure Certification
18 14 (12.17%) Bicep
18 14 (12.17%) 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 (6.96%) IIS
2 2 (1.74%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.87%) Apache
3 1 (0.87%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (0.87%) Confluence
3 1 (0.87%) Drupal
3 1 (0.87%) nginx
3 1 (0.87%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.87%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 115 (100.00%) Azure
2 76 (66.09%) Azure DevOps
3 25 (21.74%) GitHub
4 22 (19.13%) GitHub Actions
5 20 (17.39%) Azure AKS
6 15 (13.04%) AWS
7 10 (8.70%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 10 (8.70%) Azure Monitor
7 10 (8.70%) Datadog
7 10 (8.70%) Entra ID
8 8 (6.96%) Azure Key Vault
9 7 (6.09%) npm
9 7 (6.09%) NuGet
9 7 (6.09%) SonarCloud
10 6 (5.22%) Azure Pipelines
11 5 (4.35%) Amazon EKS
11 5 (4.35%) GCP
12 4 (3.48%) Microsoft 365
12 4 (3.48%) PaaS
13 3 (2.61%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 15 (13.04%) Firewall
2 8 (6.96%) VPN
2 8 (6.96%) WAN
3 5 (4.35%) DNS
3 5 (4.35%) TCP/IP
4 3 (2.61%) DHCP
5 2 (1.74%) BGP
5 2 (1.74%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (10.43%) SQL Server
2 7 (6.09%) NoSQL
3 3 (2.61%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.87%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.87%) InterSystems Cache
4 1 (0.87%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.87%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.87%) Redis
Development Applications
1 11 (9.57%) Git
2 4 (3.48%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.61%) GitLab
3 3 (2.61%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (0.87%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.87%) Gatling
4 1 (0.87%) JIRA
4 1 (0.87%) JMeter
4 1 (0.87%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (0.87%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.87%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.87%) Vagrant
General
1 15 (13.04%) Finance
2 8 (6.96%) Social Skills
3 4 (3.48%) Retail
4 3 (2.61%) Banking
4 3 (2.61%) Telecoms
5 2 (1.74%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (1.74%) Health Technology
5 2 (1.74%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (16.52%) YAML
2 12 (10.43%) .NET
3 11 (9.57%) ADO
4 10 (8.70%) Node.js
5 9 (7.83%) React
6 8 (6.96%) OAuth
6 8 (6.96%) SAML
7 6 (5.22%) .NET Framework
8 5 (4.35%) .NET Core
9 4 (3.48%) Elastic Stack
10 3 (2.61%) ARM Templates
11 2 (1.74%) ASP.NET
11 2 (1.74%) ASP.NET Core
11 2 (1.74%) JSON
11 2 (1.74%) OpenTelemetry
11 2 (1.74%) WAMP
12 1 (0.87%) Memcached
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.22%) Cloud Native
2 5 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (2.61%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (2.61%) Private Cloud
3 3 (2.61%) Public Cloud
4 2 (1.74%) Mobile App
4 2 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.87%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 19 (16.52%) Linux
2 17 (14.78%) Windows
3 8 (6.96%) VMS
3 8 (6.96%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.74%) Debian
4 2 (1.74%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (100.00%) DevOps
2 56 (48.70%) Infrastructure as Code
3 52 (45.22%) CI/CD
4 24 (20.87%) Continuous Improvement
5 20 (17.39%) Observability
6 19 (16.52%) Identity Management
7 17 (14.78%) Containerisation
8 16 (13.91%) DevSecOps
9 13 (11.30%) Analytics
9 13 (11.30%) Platform Engineering
10 12 (10.43%) Disaster Recovery
10 12 (10.43%) RBAC
10 12 (10.43%) Test Automation
11 10 (8.70%) Cost Management
12 9 (7.83%) Deployment Automation
12 9 (7.83%) Infrastructure Automation
12 9 (7.83%) Infrastructure Management
13 8 (6.96%) Agile
13 8 (6.96%) Business Continuity
13 8 (6.96%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 23 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 15 (13.04%) Bash
2 15 (13.04%) SQL
3 14 (12.17%) Bicep
3 14 (12.17%) Python
4 9 (7.83%) C#
5 8 (6.96%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (1.74%) Go
7 1 (0.87%) Java
7 1 (0.87%) PHP
Qualifications
1 14 (12.17%) Azure Certification
2 10 (8.70%) Security Cleared
3 5 (4.35%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.61%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.74%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (1.74%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.87%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.87%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.96%) GDPR
1 8 (6.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 8 (6.96%) SOC 2
2 2 (1.74%) QA
3 1 (0.87%) NCSC
System Software
1 18 (15.65%) Docker
2 16 (13.91%) Active Directory
3 8 (6.96%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 53 (46.09%) Terraform
2 31 (26.96%) Kubernetes
3 19 (16.52%) Ansible
4 8 (6.96%) Grafana
5 5 (4.35%) Prometheus
6 4 (3.48%) logstash
7 3 (2.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (1.74%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.87%) Argo
9 1 (0.87%) Consul
9 1 (0.87%) Packer
9 1 (0.87%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.87%) Puppet
Vendors
1 26 (22.61%) Microsoft
2 10 (8.70%) Palo Alto
3 8 (6.96%) Zscaler
4 7 (6.09%) CrowdStrike
5 3 (2.61%) Okta
5 3 (2.61%) OneLogin
6 2 (1.74%) Cisco
6 2 (1.74%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.74%) Fortinet
6 2 (1.74%) LogicMonitor
7 1 (0.87%) Google
7 1 (0.87%) Pega
7 1 (0.87%) SolarWinds
7 1 (0.87%) Splunk
7 1 (0.87%) TOWER Software
7 1 (0.87%) VMware