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 9 January 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 596 624 541
Rank change year-on-year +28 -83 +186
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure DevOps Engineer 49 90 183
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.082% 0.17% 0.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.091% 0.18% 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 38 63 170
10th Percentile £52,500 £53,000 £53,625
25th Percentile £55,313 £61,250 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year - -0.82% -11.78%
75th Percentile £82,500 £81,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £99,000 £89,750 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £69,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +2.22% +3.85% -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 54,127 49,926 51,946
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.61% 92.94% 95.29%
Number of salaries quoted 33,436 25,964 39,996
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,200 £30,625
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £97,500 £96,250
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 9 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure DevOps Engineer in the UK

Azure DevOps Engineer
Top 16 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 9 January 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 +25 45 £70,000 - 33
UK excluding London +27 26 £69,000 +2.22% 31
London +49 23 £80,000 -5.88% 8
Work from Home +37 16 £55,000 -18.52% 27
Midlands +27 8 £70,000 - 3
East Midlands - 7 £70,000 - 2
East of England +21 4 £80,000 - 6
North of England +10 4 £80,000 -20.00% 3
South West +1 4 £55,000 -24.14% 2
Scotland +9 3 £70,000 +7.69% 1
North East +7 2 £82,500 -17.50% 1
South East -1 2 £56,500 -16.30% 14
Wales - 2 £60,500 - 2
North West +20 1 - - 1
West Midlands +18 1 - - 1
Yorkshire - 1 £68,000 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 9 January 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 49 (100.00%) Azure
1 49 (100.00%) DevOps
2 39 (79.59%) Azure DevOps
3 33 (67.35%) CI/CD
4 27 (55.10%) Infrastructure as Code
4 27 (55.10%) Terraform
5 20 (40.82%) Kubernetes
5 20 (40.82%) PowerShell
6 18 (36.73%) Microsoft
7 17 (34.69%) Python
8 15 (30.61%) Bash
9 14 (28.57%) Azure AKS
9 14 (28.57%) GitHub
10 13 (26.53%) GitHub Actions
11 12 (24.49%) Bicep
11 12 (24.49%) Identity Management
11 12 (24.49%) Observability
12 11 (22.45%) Linux
13 10 (20.41%) Active Directory
13 10 (20.41%) Ansible
13 10 (20.41%) Docker
13 10 (20.41%) Git
13 10 (20.41%) SQL
14 9 (18.37%) Cloud Security
14 9 (18.37%) Windows
15 8 (16.33%) Azure Certification
15 8 (16.33%) Azure Monitor
15 8 (16.33%) Containerisation
15 8 (16.33%) Continuous Improvement
15 8 (16.33%) Test Automation

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 4 (8.16%) IIS
2 2 (4.08%) Apache
2 2 (4.08%) JBoss
2 2 (4.08%) WebSphere
3 1 (2.04%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 49 (100.00%) Azure
2 39 (79.59%) Azure DevOps
3 14 (28.57%) Azure AKS
3 14 (28.57%) GitHub
4 13 (26.53%) GitHub Actions
5 8 (16.33%) Azure Monitor
6 7 (14.29%) Entra ID
7 5 (10.20%) Azure Key Vault
7 5 (10.20%) Datadog
8 4 (8.16%) AWS
8 4 (8.16%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 4 (8.16%) Azure Functions
8 4 (8.16%) Azure Pipelines
8 4 (8.16%) Serverless
9 3 (6.12%) SaaS
10 2 (4.08%) npm
10 2 (4.08%) NuGet
10 2 (4.08%) OpenShift
10 2 (4.08%) SonarCloud
11 1 (2.04%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.16%) Firewall
1 4 (8.16%) VPN
1 4 (8.16%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.16%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.08%) NoSQL
2 2 (4.08%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.04%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.04%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 10 (20.41%) Git
2 3 (6.12%) Artifactory
2 3 (6.12%) Jenkins
2 3 (6.12%) JIRA
2 3 (6.12%) Visual Studio Code
3 2 (4.08%) Ant
3 2 (4.08%) Maven
3 2 (4.08%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (2.04%) CircleCI
4 1 (2.04%) GitLab
General
1 10 (20.41%) Finance
2 7 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 2 (4.08%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (4.08%) Health Technology
4 1 (2.04%) Aerospace
4 1 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (2.04%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (16.33%) YAML
2 5 (10.20%) .NET
3 4 (8.16%) ADO
3 4 (8.16%) ARM Templates
3 4 (8.16%) OAuth
3 4 (8.16%) SAML
4 2 (4.08%) .NET Core
4 2 (4.08%) .NET Framework
4 2 (4.08%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (4.08%) Kafka
4 2 (4.08%) Middleware
4 2 (4.08%) Node.js
4 2 (4.08%) React
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.20%) Cloud Native
2 4 (8.16%) Security Posture
3 3 (6.12%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (6.12%) Private Cloud
3 3 (6.12%) Public Cloud
4 2 (4.08%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (4.08%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (4.08%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.04%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 11 (22.45%) Linux
2 9 (18.37%) Windows
3 7 (14.29%) VMS
4 3 (6.12%) Windows Server
5 2 (4.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (100.00%) DevOps
2 33 (67.35%) CI/CD
3 27 (55.10%) Infrastructure as Code
4 12 (24.49%) Identity Management
4 12 (24.49%) Observability
5 9 (18.37%) Cloud Security
6 8 (16.33%) Containerisation
6 8 (16.33%) Continuous Improvement
6 8 (16.33%) Test Automation
7 7 (14.29%) Agile
7 7 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
8 6 (12.24%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 6 (12.24%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (12.24%) RBAC
9 5 (10.20%) Analytics
9 5 (10.20%) Cost Management
9 5 (10.20%) Incident Response
9 5 (10.20%) Infrastructure Automation
9 5 (10.20%) Log Analytics
9 5 (10.20%) Performance Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 20 (40.82%) PowerShell
2 17 (34.69%) Python
3 15 (30.61%) Bash
4 12 (24.49%) Bicep
5 10 (20.41%) SQL
6 4 (8.16%) Kusto Query Language
7 3 (6.12%) C#
8 2 (4.08%) Groovy
9 1 (2.04%) Go
Qualifications
1 8 (16.33%) Azure Certification
2 2 (4.08%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (4.08%) SC Cleared
2 2 (4.08%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.16%) GDPR
1 4 (8.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (8.16%) SOC 2
System Software
1 10 (20.41%) Active Directory
1 10 (20.41%) Docker
2 4 (8.16%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 27 (55.10%) Terraform
2 20 (40.82%) Kubernetes
3 10 (20.41%) Ansible
4 4 (8.16%) logstash
5 2 (4.08%) Grafana
5 2 (4.08%) Podman
5 2 (4.08%) Puppet
6 1 (2.04%) Argo
6 1 (2.04%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 18 (36.73%) Microsoft
2 4 (8.16%) Palo Alto
2 4 (8.16%) Zscaler
3 2 (4.08%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (2.04%) LogicMonitor