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 6 March 2026.

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

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 620 609 644
Rank change year-on-year -11 +35 +66
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure DevOps Engineer 70 63 171
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.097% 0.14% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.15% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 60 44 161
10th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £59,063 £57,500 £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 £82,500 £85,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £120,000 £89,625 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +3.85% -6.14%

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 66,132 41,732 74,862
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.60% 91.05% 94.66%
Number of salaries quoted 41,854 22,904 57,825
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £38,472 £45,000 £39,000
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 £72,557
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -5.36%

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 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure DevOps Engineer in the UK

Azure DevOps Engineer
Top 15 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 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 -15 66 £70,000 -5.08% 19
UK excluding London -18 41 £67,500 - 19
London +29 26 £105,000 +23.53% 2
Work from Home +4 13 £55,000 -18.52% 6
Midlands -2 13 £70,000 -17.65% 3
South West -10 11 £55,000 -26.67% 4
East Midlands -20 11 £70,000 -
South East -28 6 £65,000 -3.70% 5
North of England -33 6 £48,500 -41.21% 4
North East -9 3 £80,000 -20.00% 1
North West -11 3 £48,500 -25.38% 1
East of England - 3 £80,000 - 1
West Midlands +1 2 £85,000 - 3
Wales - 2 £60,500 -
Scotland -8 1 - - 2

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

For the 6 months to 6 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 70 (100.00%) Azure
1 70 (100.00%) DevOps
2 51 (72.86%) Azure DevOps
3 41 (58.57%) CI/CD
4 37 (52.86%) Infrastructure as Code
5 31 (44.29%) Terraform
6 22 (31.43%) GitHub
7 21 (30.00%) Kubernetes
7 21 (30.00%) PowerShell
8 20 (28.57%) GitHub Actions
9 19 (27.14%) Microsoft
10 18 (25.71%) Identity Management
11 17 (24.29%) Ansible
12 16 (22.86%) Azure AKS
12 16 (22.86%) Continuous Improvement
13 15 (21.43%) YAML
14 14 (20.00%) Bash
14 14 (20.00%) Linux
14 14 (20.00%) Observability
14 14 (20.00%) SQL
15 13 (18.57%) Python
16 12 (17.14%) Active Directory
16 12 (17.14%) AWS
17 11 (15.71%) Bicep
17 11 (15.71%) Entra ID
17 11 (15.71%) Firewall
17 11 (15.71%) Windows
18 10 (14.29%) Azure ExpressRoute
18 10 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
18 10 (14.29%) Containerisation

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 7 (10.00%) IIS
2 2 (2.86%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.43%) Apache
3 1 (1.43%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (1.43%) JBoss
3 1 (1.43%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (1.43%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 70 (100.00%) Azure
2 51 (72.86%) Azure DevOps
3 22 (31.43%) GitHub
4 20 (28.57%) GitHub Actions
5 16 (22.86%) Azure AKS
6 12 (17.14%) AWS
7 11 (15.71%) Entra ID
8 10 (14.29%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 10 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
8 10 (14.29%) Datadog
9 8 (11.43%) Azure Key Vault
10 5 (7.14%) npm
10 5 (7.14%) NuGet
10 5 (7.14%) SonarCloud
11 4 (5.71%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (5.71%) Azure Pipelines
12 2 (2.86%) Azure Functions
12 2 (2.86%) GCP
12 2 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
12 2 (2.86%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 11 (15.71%) Firewall
2 8 (11.43%) VPN
2 8 (11.43%) WAN
3 2 (2.86%) BGP
4 1 (1.43%) DNS
4 1 (1.43%) HTTP
4 1 (1.43%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (11.43%) SQL Server
2 5 (7.14%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.43%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 10 (14.29%) Git
2 4 (5.71%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.86%) Artifactory
3 2 (2.86%) GitLab
3 2 (2.86%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (1.43%) Ant
4 1 (1.43%) JIRA
4 1 (1.43%) Maven
4 1 (1.43%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (1.43%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (1.43%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (1.43%) TeamCity
General
1 11 (15.71%) Finance
2 7 (10.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (4.29%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.43%) Law
4 1 (1.43%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (21.43%) YAML
2 8 (11.43%) .NET
2 8 (11.43%) ADO
2 8 (11.43%) OAuth
2 8 (11.43%) SAML
3 5 (7.14%) Node.js
3 5 (7.14%) React
4 4 (5.71%) .NET Core
4 4 (5.71%) .NET Framework
5 2 (2.86%) ARM Templates
5 2 (2.86%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (2.86%) JSON
5 2 (2.86%) WAMP
6 1 (1.43%) ASP.NET
6 1 (1.43%) ASP.NET Core
6 1 (1.43%) Kafka
6 1 (1.43%) Middleware
6 1 (1.43%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.71%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (4.29%) Cloud Native
2 3 (4.29%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (2.86%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (2.86%) Mobile App
3 2 (2.86%) Private Cloud
3 2 (2.86%) Public Cloud
3 2 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.43%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.43%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 14 (20.00%) Linux
2 11 (15.71%) Windows
3 9 (12.86%) VMS
4 3 (4.29%) Windows Server
5 2 (2.86%) Debian
5 2 (2.86%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (100.00%) DevOps
2 41 (58.57%) CI/CD
3 37 (52.86%) Infrastructure as Code
4 18 (25.71%) Identity Management
5 16 (22.86%) Continuous Improvement
6 14 (20.00%) Observability
7 10 (14.29%) Containerisation
7 10 (14.29%) DevSecOps
7 10 (14.29%) RBAC
8 9 (12.86%) Analytics
8 9 (12.86%) Cost Management
8 9 (12.86%) Disaster Recovery
8 9 (12.86%) Infrastructure Management
8 9 (12.86%) Test Automation
9 8 (11.43%) Business Continuity
9 8 (11.43%) Cloud Security
9 8 (11.43%) Log Analytics
9 8 (11.43%) Zero Trust
10 7 (10.00%) Deployment Automation
11 6 (8.57%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 21 (30.00%) PowerShell
2 14 (20.00%) Bash
2 14 (20.00%) SQL
3 13 (18.57%) Python
4 11 (15.71%) Bicep
5 8 (11.43%) Kusto Query Language
6 7 (10.00%) C#
7 1 (1.43%) Go
7 1 (1.43%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 7 (10.00%) Azure Certification
2 6 (8.57%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.86%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (2.86%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.43%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.43%) GDPR
1 8 (11.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 8 (11.43%) SOC 2
2 1 (1.43%) QA
System Software
1 12 (17.14%) Active Directory
2 10 (14.29%) Docker
3 8 (11.43%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.43%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 31 (44.29%) Terraform
2 21 (30.00%) Kubernetes
3 17 (24.29%) Ansible
4 5 (7.14%) Grafana
5 4 (5.71%) logstash
6 2 (2.86%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (2.86%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.43%) Argo
7 1 (1.43%) Kustomize
7 1 (1.43%) Podman
7 1 (1.43%) Puppet
Vendors
1 19 (27.14%) Microsoft
2 10 (14.29%) Palo Alto
3 8 (11.43%) Zscaler
4 5 (7.14%) CrowdStrike
5 2 (2.86%) Cisco
5 2 (2.86%) Fortinet
5 2 (2.86%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (1.43%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.43%) Pega
6 1 (1.43%) SolarWinds
6 1 (1.43%) VMware