Azure DevOps Job Trends

Microsoft Azure DevOps
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Azure DevOps skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 164 119 85
Rank change year-on-year -45 -34 +18
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 958 1,653 2,082
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.94% 2.12% 3.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.11% 6.69% 8.14%
Number of salaries quoted 688 1,090 1,644
10th Percentile £46,250 £43,725 £44,113
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
75th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £94,125 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £61,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -

All Cloud Skills
UK

Azure DevOps falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 15,669 24,694 25,570
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 31.68% 31.62% 42.43%
Number of salaries quoted 10,603 15,772 21,307
10th Percentile £29,750 £34,500 £33,500
25th Percentile £39,500 £45,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - -
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -

Azure DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Azure DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Azure DevOps in the UK

Azure DevOps
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Azure DevOps.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Azure DevOps

Azure DevOps
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure DevOps over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Azure DevOps in the UK

Azure DevOps
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure DevOps within the UK over the 6 months to 18 September 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 -68 817 £67,500 +0.95% 452
UK excluding London -66 530 £60,000 -2.44% 415
Work from Home -16 447 £65,000 - 314
London +32 366 £75,250 +0.33% 141
South East -46 176 £62,500 -3.85% 125
North of England -114 94 £62,750 +4.58% 93
Midlands -46 80 £59,500 -0.83% 57
Scotland +65 74 £64,500 -0.77% 39
West Midlands -28 61 £60,000 - 35
North West -90 51 £65,000 +8.33% 42
East of England -18 42 £62,500 +25.00% 35
South West -12 34 £55,000 -14.73% 43
Yorkshire -29 33 £60,000 -11.11% 32
Wales +25 31 £55,000 +4.76% 30
East Midlands -1 19 £54,500 -9.17% 19
North East -5 10 £50,000 -9.09% 22
Isle of Man +10 1 £52,500 -

Azure DevOps
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 38 (3.97%) Confluence
2 22 (2.30%) SharePoint
3 17 (1.77%) IIS
4 14 (1.46%) Apache Spark
5 12 (1.25%) Apache Airflow
6 9 (0.94%) Appian
6 9 (0.94%) CMS
7 8 (0.84%) Apache
8 7 (0.73%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 5 (0.52%) BizTalk Server
9 5 (0.52%) nginx
10 3 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
10 3 (0.31%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.10%) ColdFusion
11 1 (0.10%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.10%) Mendix
Applications
1 21 (2.19%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (1.77%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (0.94%) Microsoft Project
4 7 (0.73%) Trello
5 4 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.42%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.10%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.10%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 70 (7.31%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (1.57%) Oracle ERP
3 5 (0.52%) Shopify
4 3 (0.31%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.10%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.10%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.10%) SAP CX
Cloud Services
1 958 (100.00%) Azure
2 222 (23.17%) Power Platform
3 185 (19.31%) GitHub
4 143 (14.93%) AWS
5 128 (13.36%) Dynamics 365
6 106 (11.06%) GitHub Actions
7 98 (10.23%) Power Automate
8 97 (10.13%) Azure Monitor
9 94 (9.81%) PaaS
10 87 (9.08%) Azure Data Factory
11 86 (8.98%) SaaS
12 74 (7.72%) Azure Service Bus
13 69 (7.20%) Azure Logic Apps
14 65 (6.78%) Entra ID
15 59 (6.16%) GCP
16 58 (6.05%) Serverless
17 55 (5.74%) Microsoft 365
18 49 (5.11%) Azure AKS
19 46 (4.80%) IaaS
20 43 (4.49%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 43 (4.49%) Firewall
2 34 (3.55%) DNS
2 34 (3.55%) VPN
3 21 (2.19%) WAN
4 18 (1.88%) SD-WAN
5 15 (1.57%) Network Security
6 5 (0.52%) DHCP
7 3 (0.31%) HTTP
7 3 (0.31%) VLAN
8 2 (0.21%) ADSL2
8 2 (0.21%) BGP
8 2 (0.21%) Internet
8 2 (0.21%) IPsec
8 2 (0.21%) OSPF
8 2 (0.21%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.21%) Wireshark
9 1 (0.10%) AMQP
9 1 (0.10%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.10%) NAS
9 1 (0.10%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 149 (15.55%) SQL Server
2 111 (11.59%) Power BI
3 48 (5.01%) Data Warehouse
4 36 (3.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 33 (3.44%) Azure SQL Database
6 31 (3.24%) Relational Database
6 31 (3.24%) Tableau
7 27 (2.82%) Data Lake
8 26 (2.71%) MySQL
9 22 (2.30%) NoSQL
10 17 (1.77%) Elasticsearch
11 13 (1.36%) MongoDB
12 12 (1.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 11 (1.15%) Big Data
14 10 (1.04%) PostgreSQL
15 9 (0.94%) Metadata
16 7 (0.73%) SQL Server Analysis Services
17 6 (0.63%) Delta Lake
17 6 (0.63%) RDBMS
17 6 (0.63%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 161 (16.81%) Git
2 106 (11.06%) JIRA
3 81 (8.46%) Jenkins
4 45 (4.70%) Selenium
5 44 (4.59%) Octopus Deploy
6 27 (2.82%) Visual Studio
7 26 (2.71%) Postman
8 24 (2.51%) GitLab
9 23 (2.40%) Team Foundation Server
10 21 (2.19%) JMeter
11 18 (1.88%) MSBuild
12 17 (1.77%) TeamCity
13 15 (1.57%) Oracle Forms
14 14 (1.46%) Robot Framework
14 14 (1.46%) SonarQube
15 13 (1.36%) Cucumber
16 11 (1.15%) Cypress.io
16 11 (1.15%) Snyk
17 9 (0.94%) REST Assured
18 7 (0.73%) Appium
General
1 275 (28.71%) Finance
2 227 (23.70%) Social Skills
3 73 (7.62%) Analytical Skills
4 68 (7.10%) Law
5 63 (6.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 50 (5.22%) Retail
7 43 (4.49%) Marketing
8 34 (3.55%) Public Sector
9 24 (2.51%) Back Office
10 21 (2.19%) Legal
11 19 (1.98%) Documentation Skills
12 17 (1.77%) Presentation Skills
13 12 (1.25%) Manufacturing
14 11 (1.15%) Front Office
15 9 (0.94%) Banking
15 9 (0.94%) Organisational Skills
16 8 (0.84%) Games
17 6 (0.63%) Automotive
17 6 (0.63%) General Ledger
18 5 (0.52%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 155 (16.18%) Developer
2 154 (16.08%) DevOps Engineer
3 135 (14.09%) Senior
4 124 (12.94%) Azure Engineer
5 116 (12.11%) Lead
6 77 (8.04%) Architect
7 71 (7.41%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 66 (6.89%) Cloud Engineer
9 63 (6.58%) Analyst
10 57 (5.95%) Data Engineer
11 42 (4.38%) Software Engineer
12 38 (3.97%) .NET Developer
13 34 (3.55%) Dynamics 365 Developer
14 31 (3.24%) Consultant
15 30 (3.13%) Platform Engineer
16 29 (3.03%) Senior Cloud Engineer
17 25 (2.61%) Senior Developer
18 24 (2.51%) Business Analyst
19 23 (2.40%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
19 23 (2.40%) Functional Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 295 (30.79%) .NET
2 100 (10.44%) React
3 91 (9.50%) .NET Framework
4 73 (7.62%) REST
5 62 (6.47%) RESTful
5 62 (6.47%) YAML
6 54 (5.64%) JSON
7 53 (5.53%) .NET Core
8 46 (4.80%) AngularJS
8 46 (4.80%) ASP.NET
9 44 (4.59%) ARM Templates
10 43 (4.49%) HTML
11 42 (4.38%) CSS
12 37 (3.86%) XML
13 32 (3.34%) PySpark
14 31 (3.24%) Blazor
15 30 (3.13%) Entity Framework
16 28 (2.92%) SOAP
17 21 (2.19%) ASP.NET Web API
18 17 (1.77%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 125 (13.05%) Cloud Native
2 75 (7.83%) Product Ownership
3 64 (6.68%) Hybrid Cloud
4 37 (3.86%) Management Information System
4 37 (3.86%) Security Posture
5 36 (3.76%) Data Centre
5 36 (3.76%) Enterprise Software
5 36 (3.76%) Onboarding
6 31 (3.24%) Distributed Systems
7 25 (2.61%) Analytical Mindset
7 25 (2.61%) e-Learning
8 22 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
9 17 (1.77%) NHS
9 17 (1.77%) Virtual Team
10 16 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
11 13 (1.36%) Low-Code
12 12 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
13 11 (1.15%) Linux Command Line
14 10 (1.04%) Mobile App
15 8 (0.84%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 74 (7.72%) Windows
2 40 (4.18%) Linux
3 21 (2.19%) Windows Server
4 17 (1.77%) VMS
5 6 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.52%) Android
6 5 (0.52%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.21%) AIX
7 2 (0.21%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.21%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 2 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.10%) CentOS
8 1 (0.10%) Debian
8 1 (0.10%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.10%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 957 (99.90%) DevOps
2 521 (54.38%) CI/CD
3 486 (50.73%) Agile
4 212 (22.13%) Infrastructure as Code
4 212 (22.13%) Mentoring
5 202 (21.09%) Test Automation
6 181 (18.89%) Problem-Solving
7 155 (16.18%) Artificial Intelligence
8 134 (13.99%) Microservices
9 132 (13.78%) Coaching
10 130 (13.57%) Containerisation
10 130 (13.57%) Scrum
11 128 (13.36%) Continuous Improvement
12 123 (12.84%) Migration
13 114 (11.90%) Analytics
14 101 (10.54%) Business Intelligence
15 98 (10.23%) SDLC
16 93 (9.71%) CRM
17 88 (9.19%) Computer Science
18 87 (9.08%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 337 (35.18%) SQL
2 290 (30.27%) C#
3 236 (24.63%) Python
4 200 (20.88%) PowerShell
5 122 (12.73%) JavaScript
6 78 (8.14%) Bicep
7 68 (7.10%) Bash
8 57 (5.95%) Java
8 57 (5.95%) TypeScript
9 34 (3.55%) T-SQL
10 18 (1.88%) Shell Script
11 17 (1.77%) Go
12 16 (1.67%) PL/SQL
13 13 (1.36%) X++
14 10 (1.04%) Scala
15 9 (0.94%) Apex Code
16 8 (0.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 7 (0.73%) Groovy
18 6 (0.63%) C++
19 5 (0.52%) PHP
Qualifications
1 129 (13.47%) Degree
2 96 (10.02%) Azure Certification
3 78 (8.14%) Security Cleared
4 72 (7.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 65 (6.78%) SC Cleared
6 44 (4.59%) Microsoft Certification
7 35 (3.65%) ISTQB
8 33 (3.44%) Master's Degree
9 18 (1.88%) DBS Check
10 16 (1.67%) ISEB
11 9 (0.94%) PMI Certification
11 9 (0.94%) PMP
12 8 (0.84%) AWS Certification
12 8 (0.84%) DV Cleared
13 6 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
14 5 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
14 5 (0.52%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 4 (0.42%) CCNA
15 4 (0.42%) PhD
15 4 (0.42%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (10.33%) QA
2 43 (4.49%) GDPR
3 36 (3.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 31 (3.24%) NIST
5 26 (2.71%) NCSC
6 25 (2.61%) Accessibility
7 24 (2.51%) Data Quality
8 11 (1.15%) PMO
8 11 (1.15%) Software Quality Assurance
9 10 (1.04%) HIPAA
10 4 (0.42%) SOC 2
10 4 (0.42%) WCAG
11 1 (0.10%) COBIT
11 1 (0.10%) HL7
11 1 (0.10%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.10%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.10%) SLA
System Software
1 140 (14.61%) Docker
2 45 (4.70%) Virtual Machines
3 39 (4.07%) Active Directory
4 21 (2.19%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (1.15%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.42%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (0.42%) vSphere
7 2 (0.21%) Firmware
8 1 (0.10%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.10%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 268 (27.97%) Terraform
2 178 (18.58%) Kubernetes
3 58 (6.05%) Ansible
4 32 (3.34%) Single Sign-On
5 28 (2.92%) Grafana
6 23 (2.40%) Prometheus
7 13 (1.36%) Microsoft Intune
8 8 (0.84%) Puppet
9 4 (0.42%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.42%) Rancher
9 4 (0.42%) vRealize
10 3 (0.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (0.31%) Argo
10 3 (0.31%) Kibana
10 3 (0.31%) SCOM
11 2 (0.21%) Dell DRAC
11 2 (0.21%) Nagios
11 2 (0.21%) Red Hat Satellite
11 2 (0.21%) ZABBIX
12 1 (0.10%) Marathon
Vendors
1 380 (39.67%) Microsoft
2 76 (7.93%) Databricks
3 34 (3.55%) IBM
4 31 (3.24%) Red Hat
5 28 (2.92%) Google
5 28 (2.92%) Salesforce
5 28 (2.92%) VMware
6 26 (2.71%) Oracle
7 19 (1.98%) Meraki
8 16 (1.67%) OpenAI
8 16 (1.67%) Siebel
9 13 (1.36%) Rackspace
10 11 (1.15%) ServiceNow
11 10 (1.04%) UiPath
12 9 (0.94%) BiZZdesign
12 9 (0.94%) Black Duck
12 9 (0.94%) Dynatrace
12 9 (0.94%) Foundry
12 9 (0.94%) Okta
12 9 (0.94%) SAP