Azure DevOps Engineer Job Trends

DevOps Engineer - Microsoft Azure
UK

The median DevOps Engineer - Microsoft Azure salary in the UK is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 22 March 2026.

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

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 621 593 679
Rank change year-on-year -28 +86 +5
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure DevOps Engineer 77 55 173
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.10% 0.13% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.14% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 70 42 161
10th Percentile £50,825 £52,050 £52,500
25th Percentile £62,875 £55,625 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £120,000 £89,875 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £68,750 £65,000
% change year-on-year +1.82% +5.77% -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 70,373 38,297 82,127
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.02% 90.31% 94.61%
Number of salaries quoted 44,805 23,130 62,407
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £43,290 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,688 £50,000
% change year-on-year -6.87% +7.38% -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 22 March 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 22 March 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 +5 72 £70,000 -5.08% 30
UK excluding London -25 47 £70,000 +1.82% 25
London 0 26 £90,000 +5.88% 9
Midlands -21 15 £70,000 -17.65% 11
East Midlands -27 14 £69,000 - 6
Work from Home -7 12 £55,000 -21.43% 16
South West -20 12 £55,000 -26.67% 1
South East -29 6 £75,000 +25.00% 7
North of England -52 6 £48,500 -47.57% 2
East of England - 6 £77,500 - 2
North East - 4 £57,500 - 1
North West -24 2 £48,500 -47.57% 1
Wales - 2 £60,500 -
West Midlands -2 1 £85,000 - 5

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

For the 6 months to 22 March 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 77 (100.00%) Azure
1 77 (100.00%) DevOps
2 56 (72.73%) Azure DevOps
3 44 (57.14%) CI/CD
4 43 (55.84%) Infrastructure as Code
5 39 (50.65%) Terraform
6 24 (31.17%) GitHub
7 22 (28.57%) GitHub Actions
8 21 (27.27%) Kubernetes
9 20 (25.97%) Microsoft
9 20 (25.97%) PowerShell
10 18 (23.38%) Ansible
10 18 (23.38%) Azure AKS
10 18 (23.38%) Continuous Improvement
10 18 (23.38%) Identity Management
11 17 (22.08%) Observability
11 17 (22.08%) YAML
12 16 (20.78%) Linux
13 15 (19.48%) Bash
14 14 (18.18%) AWS
15 13 (16.88%) DevSecOps
15 13 (16.88%) Docker
16 12 (15.58%) Active Directory
16 12 (15.58%) Containerisation
16 12 (15.58%) Disaster Recovery
16 12 (15.58%) Firewall
16 12 (15.58%) RBAC
16 12 (15.58%) SQL
17 11 (14.29%) Bicep
17 11 (14.29%) 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 (10.39%) IIS
2 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.30%) Apache
3 1 (1.30%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (1.30%) Confluence
3 1 (1.30%) Drupal
3 1 (1.30%) nginx
3 1 (1.30%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (1.30%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.30%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 77 (100.00%) Azure
2 56 (72.73%) Azure DevOps
3 24 (31.17%) GitHub
4 22 (28.57%) GitHub Actions
5 18 (23.38%) Azure AKS
6 14 (18.18%) AWS
7 10 (12.99%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 10 (12.99%) Azure Monitor
7 10 (12.99%) Datadog
7 10 (12.99%) Entra ID
8 8 (10.39%) Azure Key Vault
9 7 (9.09%) npm
9 7 (9.09%) NuGet
9 7 (9.09%) SonarCloud
10 5 (6.49%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (6.49%) GCP
11 4 (5.19%) Azure Pipelines
12 2 (2.60%) AWS CloudFormation
12 2 (2.60%) Microsoft 365
12 2 (2.60%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 12 (15.58%) Firewall
2 8 (10.39%) VPN
2 8 (10.39%) WAN
3 2 (2.60%) BGP
3 2 (2.60%) DNS
3 2 (2.60%) HTTP
3 2 (2.60%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (11.69%) SQL Server
2 7 (9.09%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.30%) InterSystems Cache
3 1 (1.30%) Redis
Development Applications
1 8 (10.39%) Git
2 4 (5.19%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.60%) GitLab
3 2 (2.60%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (1.30%) Artifactory
4 1 (1.30%) Gatling
4 1 (1.30%) JIRA
4 1 (1.30%) JMeter
4 1 (1.30%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (1.30%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (1.30%) TeamCity
4 1 (1.30%) Vagrant
General
1 10 (12.99%) Finance
2 4 (5.19%) Social Skills
3 2 (2.60%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (2.60%) Law
3 2 (2.60%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (22.08%) YAML
2 10 (12.99%) .NET
3 8 (10.39%) ADO
3 8 (10.39%) OAuth
3 8 (10.39%) SAML
4 7 (9.09%) Node.js
4 7 (9.09%) React
5 6 (7.79%) .NET Framework
6 5 (6.49%) .NET Core
7 3 (3.90%) ARM Templates
8 2 (2.60%) ASP.NET
8 2 (2.60%) ASP.NET Core
8 2 (2.60%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (2.60%) JSON
8 2 (2.60%) OpenTelemetry
8 2 (2.60%) WAMP
9 1 (1.30%) Memcached
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.49%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (5.19%) Cloud Native
3 3 (3.90%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.60%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.60%) Private Cloud
4 2 (2.60%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.60%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 16 (20.78%) Linux
2 11 (14.29%) Windows
3 8 (10.39%) VMS
4 4 (5.19%) Windows Server
5 2 (2.60%) Debian
5 2 (2.60%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (100.00%) DevOps
2 44 (57.14%) CI/CD
3 43 (55.84%) Infrastructure as Code
4 18 (23.38%) Continuous Improvement
4 18 (23.38%) Identity Management
5 17 (22.08%) Observability
6 13 (16.88%) DevSecOps
7 12 (15.58%) Containerisation
7 12 (15.58%) Disaster Recovery
7 12 (15.58%) RBAC
8 11 (14.29%) Test Automation
9 10 (12.99%) Cost Management
10 9 (11.69%) Analytics
10 9 (11.69%) Infrastructure Management
11 8 (10.39%) Business Continuity
11 8 (10.39%) Cloud Security
11 8 (10.39%) Incident Response
11 8 (10.39%) Log Analytics
11 8 (10.39%) Zero Trust
12 7 (9.09%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 20 (25.97%) PowerShell
2 15 (19.48%) Bash
3 12 (15.58%) SQL
4 11 (14.29%) Bicep
4 11 (14.29%) Python
5 9 (11.69%) C#
6 8 (10.39%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (2.60%) Go
8 1 (1.30%) PHP
Qualifications
1 8 (10.39%) Azure Certification
2 7 (9.09%) Security Cleared
3 3 (3.90%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (2.60%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (2.60%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (2.60%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.39%) GDPR
1 8 (10.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 8 (10.39%) SOC 2
2 1 (1.30%) NCSC
2 1 (1.30%) QA
System Software
1 13 (16.88%) Docker
2 12 (15.58%) Active Directory
3 8 (10.39%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.30%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 39 (50.65%) Terraform
2 21 (27.27%) Kubernetes
3 18 (23.38%) Ansible
4 6 (7.79%) Grafana
5 4 (5.19%) logstash
6 3 (3.90%) Prometheus
7 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (1.30%) Consul
8 1 (1.30%) Packer
8 1 (1.30%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.30%) Puppet
Vendors
1 20 (25.97%) Microsoft
2 10 (12.99%) Palo Alto
3 8 (10.39%) Zscaler
4 7 (9.09%) CrowdStrike
5 2 (2.60%) Cisco
5 2 (2.60%) Dynatrace
5 2 (2.60%) Fortinet
5 2 (2.60%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (1.30%) Google
6 1 (1.30%) Pega
6 1 (1.30%) SolarWinds
6 1 (1.30%) TOWER Software
6 1 (1.30%) VMware