Azure DevOps Engineer Jobs

DevOps Engineer - Microsoft Azure
UK

The median DevOps Engineer - Microsoft Azure salary in the UK is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 4 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 641 758 668
Rank change year-on-year +117 -90 +121
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure DevOps Engineer 59 146 331
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.15% 0.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.16% 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 39 125 252
10th Percentile £46,750 £50,650 £55,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £66,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% -12.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £93,750
90th Percentile £88,750 £93,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £66,250 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -5.36% -6.67% +7.14%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 47,541 93,322 94,998
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.35% 94.63% 91.54%
Number of salaries quoted 27,467 66,921 59,760
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,550 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.42% -12.42% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -5.66% +6.00%

Azure DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Azure DevOps Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Azure DevOps Engineer in the UK

Azure DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Azure DevOps Engineer.

Salary trend for Azure DevOps Engineer in the UK

Azure DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure DevOps Engineer over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Azure DevOps Engineer in the UK

Azure DevOps Engineer
Top 12 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 4 May 2025. 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 +101 54 £67,500 -3.57% 27
UK excluding London +145 34 £66,250 -5.36% 17
Work from Home +125 27 £65,000 -7.90% 14
South East +91 18 £60,000 -17.24% 6
London +72 18 £85,000 +14.65% 12
North of England +50 6 £93,750 +66.67% 6
North West +12 6 £93,750 +74.42% 4
Midlands +51 5 £85,000 +51.11% 2
South West +113 4 £75,000 +27.66% 2
West Midlands +51 3 £85,000 +3.03%
East Midlands +34 2 - - 2
Scotland +131 1 - -

Azure DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 4 May 2025, Azure DevOps Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Azure DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 59 (100.00%) Azure
1 59 (100.00%) DevOps
2 48 (81.36%) Azure DevOps
3 41 (69.49%) CI/CD
4 36 (61.02%) Kubernetes
5 34 (57.63%) Terraform
6 25 (42.37%) Infrastructure as Code
7 24 (40.68%) Containerisation
8 23 (38.98%) Python
9 21 (35.59%) Docker
9 21 (35.59%) PowerShell
10 17 (28.81%) AWS
10 17 (28.81%) Agile
10 17 (28.81%) Azure AKS
11 16 (27.12%) Microsoft
12 15 (25.42%) Finance
13 14 (23.73%) Jenkins
13 14 (23.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 14 (23.73%) Mentoring
14 13 (22.03%) Bash
14 13 (22.03%) Test Automation
14 13 (22.03%) Artificial Intelligence
15 12 (20.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 11 (18.64%) Social Skills
16 11 (18.64%) Cloud Security
16 11 (18.64%) Git
17 10 (16.95%) Hybrid Cloud
18 9 (15.25%) Coaching
18 9 (15.25%) e-Learning
18 9 (15.25%) Red Hat

Azure DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (5.08%) Apache
2 2 (3.39%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.39%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.69%) JBoss
3 1 (1.69%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 59 (100.00%) Azure
2 48 (81.36%) Azure DevOps
3 17 (28.81%) AWS
3 17 (28.81%) Azure AKS
4 6 (10.17%) GCP
4 6 (10.17%) GitHub
4 6 (10.17%) SaaS
5 5 (8.47%) Azure Functions
5 5 (8.47%) PaaS
5 5 (8.47%) Serverless
6 3 (5.08%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (5.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 3 (5.08%) Entra ID
6 3 (5.08%) IaaS
7 2 (3.39%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (3.39%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (3.39%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 2 (3.39%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (3.39%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.69%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 9 (15.25%) Network Security
2 6 (10.17%) Firewall
3 2 (3.39%) LAN
3 2 (3.39%) SD-WAN
3 2 (3.39%) VPN
3 2 (3.39%) WAN
4 1 (1.69%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.39%) Big Data
1 2 (3.39%) Data Lake
1 2 (3.39%) MongoDB
1 2 (3.39%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.69%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (1.69%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (1.69%) MariaDB
2 1 (1.69%) MySQL
2 1 (1.69%) Redis
2 1 (1.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (23.73%) Jenkins
2 11 (18.64%) Git
3 5 (8.47%) Selenium
4 2 (3.39%) GitLab
4 2 (3.39%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (3.39%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.69%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.69%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.69%) CircleCI
5 1 (1.69%) IBM UrbanCode
5 1 (1.69%) JIRA
5 1 (1.69%) JMeter
5 1 (1.69%) Locust
5 1 (1.69%) Maven
5 1 (1.69%) Postman
5 1 (1.69%) Robot Framework
5 1 (1.69%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (1.69%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (1.69%) TeamCity
5 1 (1.69%) Travis CI
General
1 15 (25.42%) Finance
2 12 (20.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 11 (18.64%) Social Skills
4 4 (6.78%) Automotive
4 4 (6.78%) Manufacturing
5 3 (5.08%) Health Technology
6 2 (3.39%) Legal
7 1 (1.69%) Advertising
7 1 (1.69%) Banking
7 1 (1.69%) Digital Health
7 1 (1.69%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.69%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (11.86%) Azure Blueprints
2 4 (6.78%) YAML
3 3 (5.08%) ARM Templates
4 2 (3.39%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (3.39%) PySpark
5 1 (1.69%) .NET
5 1 (1.69%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.69%) Kafka
5 1 (1.69%) Middleware
5 1 (1.69%) Node.js
5 1 (1.69%) pytest
5 1 (1.69%) React
5 1 (1.69%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (16.95%) Hybrid Cloud
2 9 (15.25%) e-Learning
3 5 (8.47%) Life Science
4 4 (6.78%) Management Information System
4 4 (6.78%) Security Posture
5 3 (5.08%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (3.39%) Cloud Native
6 2 (3.39%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.69%) IoT
7 1 (1.69%) NHS
7 1 (1.69%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (13.56%) Windows
2 4 (6.78%) Linux
3 3 (5.08%) VMS
4 2 (3.39%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (100.00%) DevOps
2 41 (69.49%) CI/CD
3 25 (42.37%) Infrastructure as Code
4 24 (40.68%) Containerisation
5 17 (28.81%) Agile
6 14 (23.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 14 (23.73%) Mentoring
7 13 (22.03%) Artificial Intelligence
7 13 (22.03%) Test Automation
8 11 (18.64%) Cloud Security
9 9 (15.25%) Coaching
10 8 (13.56%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (13.56%) Problem-Solving
11 7 (11.86%) Infrastructure Automation
11 7 (11.86%) Platform Engineering
12 6 (10.17%) Cost Optimisation
12 6 (10.17%) Deployment Automation
12 6 (10.17%) DevSecOps
12 6 (10.17%) Identity Access Management
12 6 (10.17%) Network Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 23 (38.98%) Python
2 21 (35.59%) PowerShell
3 13 (22.03%) Bash
4 8 (13.56%) Bicep
5 4 (6.78%) Java
6 2 (3.39%) C#
6 2 (3.39%) JavaScript
6 2 (3.39%) SQL
7 1 (1.69%) C++
7 1 (1.69%) Go
7 1 (1.69%) Groovy
7 1 (1.69%) PHP
7 1 (1.69%) Scala
7 1 (1.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (11.86%) Azure Certification
2 4 (6.78%) AWS Certification
2 4 (6.78%) SC Cleared
2 4 (6.78%) Security Cleared
3 3 (5.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 3 (5.08%) CCSP
3 3 (5.08%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (5.08%) CISSP
4 1 (1.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.69%) Degree
4 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.08%) GDPR
1 3 (5.08%) NIST
1 3 (5.08%) PCI DSS
1 3 (5.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (1.69%) QA
System Software
1 21 (35.59%) Docker
2 3 (5.08%) Active Directory
2 3 (5.08%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 36 (61.02%) Kubernetes
2 34 (57.63%) Terraform
3 7 (11.86%) Ansible
4 3 (5.08%) CASB
4 3 (5.08%) Istio
4 3 (5.08%) linkerd
5 1 (1.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (1.69%) Automic
5 1 (1.69%) Consul
5 1 (1.69%) Podman
5 1 (1.69%) Puppet
5 1 (1.69%) Rancher
5 1 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (27.12%) Microsoft
2 9 (15.25%) IBM
2 9 (15.25%) Red Hat
3 5 (8.47%) Hitachi
4 3 (5.08%) Databricks
4 3 (5.08%) Google