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 July 2026.

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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 583 596 710
Rank change year-on-year +13 +114 -120
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure DevOps Engineer 191 78 125
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.16% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.18% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 146 40 107
10th Percentile £46,875 £47,125 £52,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £55,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £89,162 £73,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,750 £90,000
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 95,972 44,419 82,565
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.36% 90.03% 94.80%
Number of salaries quoted 65,619 26,374 56,860
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £96,250 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -5.66%

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 July 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 29 July 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 +9 169 £75,000 +15.38% 18
UK excluding London -22 115 £75,000 +15.38% 6
London +18 62 £90,000 +33.33% 11
Midlands +11 51 £85,000 +39.92% 2
East Midlands +6 36 £75,000 +38.89% 2
Work from Home -19 35 £70,000 +3.70% 10
South East -33 28 £75,000 +7.14%
West Midlands -15 15 £90,000 +33.33%
South West -45 15 £75,000 -
Wales -48 9 £45,000 -25.00%
Scotland +16 5 - - 1
North of England -43 4 £41,750 -30.99% 3
East of England -30 3 £70,000 +7.69%
North West -21 2 £59,250 -8.85% 2
North East - 2 £35,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 29 July 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.

1 191 (100.00%) Azure
1 191 (100.00%) DevOps
2 111 (58.12%) Azure DevOps
3 91 (47.64%) Terraform
4 78 (40.84%) Infrastructure as Code
5 75 (39.27%) CI/CD
6 35 (18.32%) Kubernetes
7 34 (17.80%) SQL
8 31 (16.23%) PowerShell
9 30 (15.71%) Microsoft
10 28 (14.66%) Azure SQL Database
11 26 (13.61%) Platform Engineering
12 23 (12.04%) Cybersecurity
13 22 (11.52%) Docker
14 21 (10.99%) Azure AKS
14 21 (10.99%) Azure Service Bus
14 21 (10.99%) YAML
15 20 (10.47%) Azure Monitor
15 20 (10.47%) Infrastructure Automation
16 19 (9.95%) Analytics
16 19 (9.95%) Azure Key Vault
17 18 (9.42%) Azure Certification
18 16 (8.38%) Ansible
18 16 (8.38%) PaaS
19 15 (7.85%) API Management
19 15 (7.85%) AWS
19 15 (7.85%) Cloud Security
19 15 (7.85%) Containerisation
19 15 (7.85%) Linux
19 15 (7.85%) Microservices

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 9 (4.71%) IIS
2 6 (3.14%) nginx
3 1 (0.52%) Apache
3 1 (0.52%) Confluence
3 1 (0.52%) Drupal
3 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.52%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 191 (100.00%) Azure
2 111 (58.12%) Azure DevOps
3 21 (10.99%) Azure AKS
3 21 (10.99%) Azure Service Bus
4 20 (10.47%) Azure Monitor
5 19 (9.95%) Azure Key Vault
6 16 (8.38%) PaaS
7 15 (7.85%) AWS
8 13 (6.81%) Azure App Service
8 13 (6.81%) GitHub
9 11 (5.76%) GitHub Actions
10 10 (5.24%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 8 (4.19%) Entra ID
12 7 (3.66%) Azure Pipelines
13 6 (3.14%) Azure API Management
13 6 (3.14%) IaaS
13 6 (3.14%) SaaS
14 5 (2.62%) Cloudflare
14 5 (2.62%) GCP
15 4 (2.09%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.28%) Firewall
2 5 (2.62%) DNS
2 5 (2.62%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.57%) DHCP
4 2 (1.05%) BGP
4 2 (1.05%) HTTP
4 2 (1.05%) VPN
5 1 (0.52%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (14.66%) Azure SQL Database
2 13 (6.81%) SQL Server
3 6 (3.14%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (2.09%) MongoDB
5 3 (1.57%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.57%) Redis
6 1 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.52%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 7 (3.66%) GitLab
2 5 (2.62%) Git
2 5 (2.62%) Jenkins
2 5 (2.62%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (0.52%) Gatling
3 1 (0.52%) JIRA
3 1 (0.52%) JMeter
3 1 (0.52%) Vagrant
3 1 (0.52%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 29 (15.18%) Finance
2 11 (5.76%) Social Skills
3 7 (3.66%) Retail
4 4 (2.09%) Health Technology
5 3 (1.57%) Banking
5 3 (1.57%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.05%) Aviation
6 2 (1.05%) Law
6 2 (1.05%) Public Sector
7 1 (0.52%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (10.99%) YAML
2 14 (7.33%) ADO
3 13 (6.81%) .NET
3 13 (6.81%) ARM Templates
4 12 (6.28%) Node.js
5 6 (3.14%) React
6 5 (2.62%) Loki
7 4 (2.09%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (1.57%) .NET Framework
9 2 (1.05%) .NET Core
9 2 (1.05%) JSON
9 2 (1.05%) WAMP
10 1 (0.52%) ASP.NET
10 1 (0.52%) ASP.NET Core
10 1 (0.52%) Kafka
10 1 (0.52%) Memcached
10 1 (0.52%) OAuth
10 1 (0.52%) OpenTelemetry
10 1 (0.52%) SAML
10 1 (0.52%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 15 (7.85%) Cloud Native
2 9 (4.71%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (2.09%) Cyber Threat
3 4 (2.09%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (1.57%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.52%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.52%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.52%) Private Cloud
5 1 (0.52%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.52%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 15 (7.85%) Linux
1 15 (7.85%) Windows
2 11 (5.76%) VMS
3 5 (2.62%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.52%) Debian
4 1 (0.52%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 191 (100.00%) DevOps
2 78 (40.84%) Infrastructure as Code
3 75 (39.27%) CI/CD
4 26 (13.61%) Platform Engineering
5 23 (12.04%) Cybersecurity
6 20 (10.47%) Infrastructure Automation
7 19 (9.95%) Analytics
8 15 (7.85%) API Management
8 15 (7.85%) Cloud Security
8 15 (7.85%) Containerisation
8 15 (7.85%) Microservices
9 14 (7.33%) Agile
9 14 (7.33%) Continuous Improvement
10 13 (6.81%) Observability
11 12 (6.28%) Deployment Automation
11 12 (6.28%) DevSecOps
12 11 (5.76%) Log Analytics
13 10 (5.24%) Mentoring
13 10 (5.24%) Migration
14 9 (4.71%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 34 (17.80%) SQL
2 31 (16.23%) PowerShell
3 13 (6.81%) C#
4 12 (6.28%) Bicep
5 10 (5.24%) Python
6 8 (4.19%) Bash
7 4 (2.09%) Go
7 4 (2.09%) Java
8 1 (0.52%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.52%) PHP
Qualifications
1 18 (9.42%) Azure Certification
2 15 (7.85%) Security Cleared
3 13 (6.81%) SC Cleared
4 3 (1.57%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.05%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (1.05%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.52%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.52%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.14%) QA
2 1 (0.52%) GDPR
2 1 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.52%) NCSC
2 1 (0.52%) SOC 2
System Software
1 22 (11.52%) Docker
2 12 (6.28%) Active Directory
3 6 (3.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 91 (47.64%) Terraform
2 35 (18.32%) Kubernetes
3 16 (8.38%) Ansible
4 14 (7.33%) Grafana
5 12 (6.28%) Prometheus
6 4 (2.09%) Argo
6 4 (2.09%) Progress Chef
7 3 (1.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.52%) Consul
8 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.52%) Packer
8 1 (0.52%) Puppet
Vendors
1 30 (15.71%) Microsoft
2 4 (2.09%) Okta
3 3 (1.57%) CrowdStrike
3 3 (1.57%) OneLogin
3 3 (1.57%) Palo Alto
3 3 (1.57%) Salesforce
4 2 (1.05%) Cisco
4 2 (1.05%) Fortinet
5 1 (0.52%) Databricks
5 1 (0.52%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.52%) Google
5 1 (0.52%) LogicMonitor
5 1 (0.52%) SAP
5 1 (0.52%) SolarWinds
5 1 (0.52%) Splunk
5 1 (0.52%) TOWER Software
5 1 (0.52%) Zscaler