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 29 May 2026.

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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 571 588 766
Rank change year-on-year +17 +178 -124
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure DevOps Engineer 166 63 134
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.15% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.16% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 133 30 123
10th Percentile £45,550 £43,625 £51,250
25th Percentile £64,000 £56,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £66,250 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.21% -5.36% -12.50%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £101,000 £88,750 £93,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +15.38% -7.14% -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 87,064 38,294 94,653
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.44% 89.31% 94.72%
Number of salaries quoted 57,954 21,519 69,253
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,967 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.90% +1.93% -6.54%

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 29 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 29 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 +18 149 £75,000 +13.21% 13
UK excluding London -10 101 £75,000 +15.38% 8
London +16 51 £85,000 +6.25% 9
Midlands +11 45 £75,000 -1.64% 4
East Midlands 0 36 £70,000 - 1
South East -33 22 £75,000 +20.00% 3
Work from Home +24 19 £67,500 - 8
South West -39 18 £75,000 +3.45%
Wales -27 9 £45,000 -25.00%
West Midlands -27 9 £85,000 +11.48% 3
North of England -51 4 £41,750 -34.77%
East of England -23 3 £70,000 -
North West -9 2 £48,500 -24.22%
North East - 2 £35,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 29 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.

1 166 (100.00%) Azure
1 166 (100.00%) DevOps
2 100 (60.24%) Azure DevOps
3 82 (49.40%) Terraform
4 69 (41.57%) Infrastructure as Code
5 66 (39.76%) CI/CD
6 30 (18.07%) Kubernetes
7 29 (17.47%) PowerShell
8 28 (16.87%) YAML
9 25 (15.06%) Continuous Improvement
9 25 (15.06%) Microsoft
9 25 (15.06%) SQL
10 23 (13.86%) Analytics
10 23 (13.86%) GitHub
11 22 (13.25%) Ansible
11 22 (13.25%) Azure AKS
12 21 (12.65%) GitHub Actions
13 20 (12.05%) Azure Key Vault
13 20 (12.05%) Observability
14 19 (11.45%) Active Directory
14 19 (11.45%) ADO
14 19 (11.45%) Firewall
15 18 (10.84%) Azure Certification
15 18 (10.84%) Azure Monitor
15 18 (10.84%) Platform Engineering
16 17 (10.24%) Containerisation
16 17 (10.24%) DevSecOps
16 17 (10.24%) Identity Management
17 16 (9.64%) Docker
17 16 (9.64%) Log Analytics

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 (4.82%) IIS
2 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.60%) Apache
3 1 (0.60%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (0.60%) Confluence
3 1 (0.60%) Drupal
3 1 (0.60%) nginx
3 1 (0.60%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.60%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 166 (100.00%) Azure
2 100 (60.24%) Azure DevOps
3 23 (13.86%) GitHub
4 22 (13.25%) Azure AKS
5 21 (12.65%) GitHub Actions
6 20 (12.05%) Azure Key Vault
7 18 (10.84%) Azure Monitor
8 15 (9.04%) AWS
8 15 (9.04%) Entra ID
9 12 (7.23%) Azure Service Bus
10 11 (6.63%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 11 (6.63%) Datadog
11 7 (4.22%) npm
11 7 (4.22%) NuGet
11 7 (4.22%) PaaS
11 7 (4.22%) SonarCloud
12 6 (3.61%) Azure App Service
12 6 (3.61%) GCP
13 5 (3.01%) Amazon EKS
14 4 (2.41%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 19 (11.45%) Firewall
2 9 (5.42%) VPN
3 8 (4.82%) WAN
4 5 (3.01%) DNS
4 5 (3.01%) TCP/IP
5 3 (1.81%) DHCP
6 2 (1.20%) BGP
6 2 (1.20%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (8.43%) Azure SQL Database
2 12 (7.23%) SQL Server
3 7 (4.22%) NoSQL
4 4 (2.41%) MongoDB
4 4 (2.41%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.60%) InterSystems Cache
5 1 (0.60%) Redis
Development Applications
1 9 (5.42%) Git
2 6 (3.61%) GitLab
3 4 (2.41%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.60%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.60%) Gatling
4 1 (0.60%) JIRA
4 1 (0.60%) JMeter
4 1 (0.60%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (0.60%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.60%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.60%) Vagrant
4 1 (0.60%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 36 (21.69%) Finance
2 8 (4.82%) Social Skills
3 7 (4.22%) Retail
4 4 (2.41%) Health Technology
5 3 (1.81%) Banking
5 3 (1.81%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.20%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.20%) Law
6 2 (1.20%) Public Sector
7 1 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (16.87%) YAML
2 19 (11.45%) ADO
3 14 (8.43%) Node.js
4 13 (7.83%) .NET
5 10 (6.02%) React
6 8 (4.82%) OAuth
6 8 (4.82%) SAML
7 7 (4.22%) ARM Templates
8 6 (3.61%) .NET Framework
9 5 (3.01%) .NET Core
10 4 (2.41%) Elastic Stack
11 2 (1.20%) ASP.NET
11 2 (1.20%) ASP.NET Core
11 2 (1.20%) JSON
11 2 (1.20%) OpenTelemetry
11 2 (1.20%) WAMP
12 1 (0.60%) Kafka
12 1 (0.60%) Memcached
12 1 (0.60%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 5 (3.01%) Cloud Native
1 5 (3.01%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (1.81%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (1.20%) Mobile App
3 2 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (0.60%) Data Centre
4 1 (0.60%) Private Cloud
4 1 (0.60%) Product Ownership
4 1 (0.60%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 16 (9.64%) VMS
2 15 (9.04%) Linux
2 15 (9.04%) Windows
3 6 (3.61%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.20%) Debian
4 2 (1.20%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 166 (100.00%) DevOps
2 69 (41.57%) Infrastructure as Code
3 66 (39.76%) CI/CD
4 25 (15.06%) Continuous Improvement
5 23 (13.86%) Analytics
6 20 (12.05%) Observability
7 18 (10.84%) Platform Engineering
8 17 (10.24%) Containerisation
8 17 (10.24%) DevSecOps
8 17 (10.24%) Identity Management
9 16 (9.64%) Log Analytics
10 12 (7.23%) Disaster Recovery
10 12 (7.23%) Microservices
10 12 (7.23%) RBAC
11 11 (6.63%) Agile
11 11 (6.63%) API Management
12 10 (6.02%) Test Automation
13 9 (5.42%) Cost Management
14 8 (4.82%) High Availability
14 8 (4.82%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 29 (17.47%) PowerShell
2 25 (15.06%) SQL
3 13 (7.83%) Bash
4 10 (6.02%) Bicep
4 10 (6.02%) C#
5 9 (5.42%) Python
6 8 (4.82%) Kusto Query Language
7 4 (2.41%) Java
8 2 (1.20%) Go
9 1 (0.60%) PHP
Qualifications
1 18 (10.84%) Azure Certification
2 16 (9.64%) Security Cleared
3 11 (6.63%) SC Cleared
4 3 (1.81%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.20%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (1.20%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.60%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.60%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.82%) GDPR
1 8 (4.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 8 (4.82%) SOC 2
2 2 (1.20%) QA
3 1 (0.60%) NCSC
System Software
1 19 (11.45%) Active Directory
2 16 (9.64%) Docker
3 8 (4.82%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 82 (49.40%) Terraform
2 30 (18.07%) Kubernetes
3 22 (13.25%) Ansible
4 11 (6.63%) Grafana
5 7 (4.22%) Prometheus
6 4 (2.41%) Argo
7 3 (1.81%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (1.20%) logstash
8 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.60%) Consul
9 1 (0.60%) Packer
9 1 (0.60%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.60%) Puppet
Vendors
1 25 (15.06%) Microsoft
2 10 (6.02%) Palo Alto
3 8 (4.82%) Zscaler
4 7 (4.22%) CrowdStrike
5 4 (2.41%) Okta
6 3 (1.81%) OneLogin
6 3 (1.81%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.20%) Cisco
7 2 (1.20%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.20%) Fortinet
7 2 (1.20%) LogicMonitor
8 1 (0.60%) Google
8 1 (0.60%) Pega
8 1 (0.60%) SAP
8 1 (0.60%) SolarWinds
8 1 (0.60%) Splunk
8 1 (0.60%) TOWER Software
8 1 (0.60%) VMware