Azure DevOps Engineer Job Trends

DevOps Engineer - Microsoft Azure
UK

The median DevOps Engineer - Microsoft Azure salary in the UK is £68,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 December 2025.

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

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 598 617 504
Rank change year-on-year +19 -113 +241
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure DevOps Engineer 53 107 202
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.091% 0.19% 0.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% 0.20% 0.43%
Number of salaries quoted 41 76 182
10th Percentile £52,500 £53,750 £56,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £61,250 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £90,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £68,000 £67,500 £68,750
% change year-on-year +0.74% -1.82% -1.79%

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 52,799 53,782 46,643
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.16% 93.79% 95.24%
Number of salaries quoted 32,457 29,075 36,182
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £97,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% - -

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 16 December 2025.

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 16 December 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 +34 48 £68,000 -2.86% 8
UK excluding London +22 31 £68,000 +0.74% 8
Work from Home +36 25 £65,000 -3.70% 1
London +34 21 £80,000 -5.88% 2
East of England +25 6 £80,000 - 1
North of England +21 6 £68,000 -32.00%
Midlands +22 5 £67,750 -3.21% 4
South West +15 5 £55,000 -24.14% 1
South East +5 5 £70,000 +3.70% 2
East Midlands - 4 £67,750 - 2
North West +23 3 £65,000 -
Scotland +7 3 £70,000 +7.69%
North East +2 2 £82,500 -17.50%
Wales - 2 £60,500 - 1
West Midlands +16 1 - - 2
Yorkshire -9 1 £68,000 +13.33%

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

For the 6 months to 16 December 2025, 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 53 (100.00%) Azure
1 53 (100.00%) DevOps
2 44 (83.02%) Azure DevOps
3 38 (71.70%) CI/CD
4 30 (56.60%) PowerShell
5 29 (54.72%) Kubernetes
5 29 (54.72%) Terraform
6 25 (47.17%) Infrastructure as Code
6 25 (47.17%) Python
7 23 (43.40%) Bash
8 21 (39.62%) Docker
9 18 (33.96%) Azure AKS
9 18 (33.96%) Bicep
10 17 (32.08%) Microsoft
11 16 (30.19%) Linux
12 15 (28.30%) Azure Monitor
13 14 (26.42%) Containerisation
13 14 (26.42%) Git
13 14 (26.42%) GitHub
13 14 (26.42%) Windows
14 13 (24.53%) Agile
15 12 (22.64%) GitHub Actions
15 12 (22.64%) SQL
16 11 (20.75%) ARM Templates
16 11 (20.75%) Azure Certification
16 11 (20.75%) Cloud Security
16 11 (20.75%) Observability
17 10 (18.87%) .NET
17 10 (18.87%) Test Automation
18 9 (16.98%) Ansible

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 (13.21%) IIS
2 3 (5.66%) Apache
2 3 (5.66%) JBoss
2 3 (5.66%) nginx
2 3 (5.66%) WebSphere
3 2 (3.77%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 53 (100.00%) Azure
2 44 (83.02%) Azure DevOps
3 18 (33.96%) Azure AKS
4 15 (28.30%) Azure Monitor
5 14 (26.42%) GitHub
6 12 (22.64%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (13.21%) AWS
7 7 (13.21%) Azure Pipelines
8 6 (11.32%) Serverless
9 5 (9.43%) Entra ID
9 5 (9.43%) SaaS
10 4 (7.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 4 (7.55%) Azure Functions
10 4 (7.55%) Datadog
11 3 (5.66%) Azure Service Bus
11 3 (5.66%) Cloudflare
11 3 (5.66%) OpenShift
12 2 (3.77%) GCP
12 2 (3.77%) NuGet
12 2 (3.77%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.66%) Firewall
2 1 (1.89%) VPN
2 1 (1.89%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (13.21%) SQL Server
2 3 (5.66%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (3.77%) NoSQL
3 2 (3.77%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.89%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.89%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 14 (26.42%) Git
2 9 (16.98%) JIRA
3 6 (11.32%) Jenkins
4 5 (9.43%) Octopus Deploy
5 4 (7.55%) Artifactory
6 3 (5.66%) Ant
6 3 (5.66%) Maven
6 3 (5.66%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (5.66%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (3.77%) GitLab
8 1 (1.89%) CircleCI
General
1 10 (18.87%) Finance
2 8 (15.09%) Social Skills
3 2 (3.77%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (3.77%) Health Technology
4 1 (1.89%) Aerospace
4 1 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (1.89%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (20.75%) ARM Templates
2 10 (18.87%) .NET
3 5 (9.43%) YAML
4 3 (5.66%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (5.66%) Kafka
4 3 (5.66%) Loki
4 3 (5.66%) Middleware
4 3 (5.66%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (3.77%) .NET Core
5 2 (3.77%) .NET Framework
5 2 (3.77%) Node.js
5 2 (3.77%) React
6 1 (1.89%) ADO
6 1 (1.89%) OAuth
6 1 (1.89%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.32%) Cloud Native
2 4 (7.55%) Security Posture
3 3 (5.66%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (5.66%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (5.66%) Management Information System
3 3 (5.66%) Private Cloud
3 3 (5.66%) Public Cloud
4 2 (3.77%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.89%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 16 (30.19%) Linux
2 14 (26.42%) Windows
3 6 (11.32%) VMS
4 3 (5.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (5.66%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (100.00%) DevOps
2 38 (71.70%) CI/CD
3 25 (47.17%) Infrastructure as Code
4 14 (26.42%) Containerisation
5 13 (24.53%) Agile
6 11 (20.75%) Cloud Security
6 11 (20.75%) Observability
7 10 (18.87%) Test Automation
8 9 (16.98%) Incident Response
9 8 (15.09%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (15.09%) Secrets Management
10 7 (13.21%) Deployment Automation
10 7 (13.21%) Identity Management
10 7 (13.21%) Mentoring
11 6 (11.32%) API Management
11 6 (11.32%) Configuration Management
11 6 (11.32%) Continuous Improvement
11 6 (11.32%) Digital Transformation Programme
11 6 (11.32%) Infrastructure Automation
12 5 (9.43%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 30 (56.60%) PowerShell
2 25 (47.17%) Python
3 23 (43.40%) Bash
4 18 (33.96%) Bicep
5 12 (22.64%) SQL
6 7 (13.21%) C#
7 3 (5.66%) Groovy
8 1 (1.89%) Go
8 1 (1.89%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (1.89%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 11 (20.75%) Azure Certification
2 2 (3.77%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.89%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.89%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.89%) GDPR
1 1 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.89%) SOC 2
System Software
1 21 (39.62%) Docker
2 8 (15.09%) Active Directory
3 4 (7.55%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 29 (54.72%) Kubernetes
1 29 (54.72%) Terraform
2 9 (16.98%) Ansible
3 5 (9.43%) Grafana
4 4 (7.55%) logstash
4 4 (7.55%) Prometheus
5 3 (5.66%) Podman
5 3 (5.66%) Puppet
6 1 (1.89%) Argo
6 1 (1.89%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 17 (32.08%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.77%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (1.89%) Databricks
3 1 (1.89%) LogicMonitor
3 1 (1.89%) Palo Alto
3 1 (1.89%) Zscaler