Microsoft Azure DevOps
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Azure DevOps skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 164 123
Rank change year-on-year +10 -41 -41
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,490 954 1,617
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.27% 1.94% 2.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.37% 6.13% 6.66%
Number of salaries quoted 1,150 691 1,044
10th Percentile £44,500 £45,750 £42,800
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £96,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -4.00% +4.17%

All Cloud Computing 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 27,750 15,551 24,283
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 23.72% 31.57% 31.74%
Number of salaries quoted 18,777 10,563 15,175
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £39,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

Azure DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Azure DevOps relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Azure DevOps job vacancy trend 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 24 September 2026.

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 24 September 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 +26 1,337 £65,000 -2.26% 1,112
UK excluding London +29 958 £60,000 - 700
Work from Home +5 592 £62,500 -3.85% 589
London -6 461 £80,000 +6.31% 494
North of England +78 286 £60,000 -0.83% 198
South East -20 224 £63,250 +1.20% 191
North West +80 173 £65,000 - 104
Midlands +21 171 £62,500 +4.17% 107
West Midlands -12 101 £65,000 +8.33% 58
South West -22 96 £57,500 +9.52% 63
Wales -24 93 £53,171 -3.33% 25
East of England -1 75 £55,000 -12.00% 64
East Midlands +22 70 £55,000 +0.92% 49
Yorkshire -5 67 £67,500 +12.50% 75
North East -30 46 £52,250 +4.50% 20
Scotland -45 18 £55,000 -14.73% 39
Northern Ireland - 1 £72,500 - 20

Azure DevOps
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 85 (5.70%) SharePoint
2 70 (4.70%) Confluence
3 40 (2.68%) Microsoft Exchange
4 25 (1.68%) Apache Spark
5 20 (1.34%) IIS
6 12 (0.81%) Apache
7 11 (0.74%) CMS
8 10 (0.67%) nginx
9 8 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
9 8 (0.54%) SharePoint Server
10 7 (0.47%) Umbraco
11 6 (0.40%) Camunda
12 5 (0.34%) CICS
13 4 (0.27%) Anypoint
14 3 (0.20%) BizTalk Server
15 2 (0.13%) Luigi
15 2 (0.13%) WordPress
16 1 (0.067%) Adobe Experience Manager
16 1 (0.067%) Headless CMS
16 1 (0.067%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 25 (1.68%) Microsoft Project
2 21 (1.41%) Microsoft Office
3 20 (1.34%) MS Visio
4 14 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
4 14 (0.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 9 (0.60%) Trello
6 7 (0.47%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.067%) Notion
Business Applications
1 38 (2.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.94%) Elite 3E
3 9 (0.60%) SAP S/4HANA
4 7 (0.47%) Dynamics AX
5 6 (0.40%) Dynamics NAV
5 6 (0.40%) SAP IBP
6 5 (0.34%) Visualfiles
7 4 (0.27%) Shopify
8 3 (0.20%) Carpe Diem
8 3 (0.20%) Oracle Applications
8 3 (0.20%) SAP Business One
9 2 (0.13%) JDE EnterpriseOne
9 2 (0.13%) Workday HCM
10 1 (0.067%) Infor M3
10 1 (0.067%) Integrated Workplace Management System
10 1 (0.067%) Magento
10 1 (0.067%) Payment Gateway
10 1 (0.067%) Sage 200
10 1 (0.067%) Salesforce CRM
10 1 (0.067%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,490 (100.00%) Azure
2 281 (18.86%) Power Platform
3 235 (15.77%) GitHub
4 160 (10.74%) AWS
5 149 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
6 146 (9.80%) Serverless
7 128 (8.59%) GitHub Actions
8 123 (8.26%) Azure Functions
9 116 (7.79%) Azure Service Bus
10 112 (7.52%) Azure AKS
11 111 (7.45%) Azure Monitor
12 106 (7.11%) Entra ID
13 105 (7.05%) Azure AI
14 101 (6.78%) Azure Data Factory
15 98 (6.58%) PaaS
16 95 (6.38%) Azure Key Vault
16 95 (6.38%) Azure Logic Apps
17 92 (6.17%) Power Automate
18 91 (6.11%) SaaS
19 88 (5.91%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 42 (2.82%) Firewall
2 38 (2.55%) VPN
3 21 (1.41%) DNS
4 13 (0.87%) Internet
5 12 (0.81%) Network Security
5 12 (0.81%) Wi-Fi
6 10 (0.67%) SAN
7 9 (0.60%) DHCP
8 8 (0.54%) Wireless
9 7 (0.47%) HTTP
9 7 (0.47%) TCP/IP
9 7 (0.47%) VLAN
10 6 (0.40%) MQTT
10 6 (0.40%) ZigBee
11 4 (0.27%) Bluetooth
12 3 (0.20%) HTTPS
12 3 (0.20%) WAN
13 2 (0.13%) LoRaWAN
14 1 (0.067%) SD-WAN
14 1 (0.067%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 275 (18.46%) Azure SQL Database
2 203 (13.62%) SQL Server
3 177 (11.88%) MongoDB
4 147 (9.87%) Power BI
5 83 (5.57%) Data Warehouse
6 56 (3.76%) PostgreSQL
7 52 (3.49%) Relational Database
8 49 (3.29%) NoSQL
9 45 (3.02%) Metadata
10 40 (2.68%) Elasticsearch
11 36 (2.42%) Data Lake
11 36 (2.42%) Delta Lake
12 32 (2.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 28 (1.88%) Redis
14 26 (1.74%) Star Schema
15 22 (1.48%) MySQL
15 22 (1.48%) Tableau
16 17 (1.14%) Spark SQL
16 17 (1.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 14 (0.94%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 275 (18.46%) Git
2 200 (13.42%) JIRA
3 125 (8.39%) Jenkins
4 83 (5.57%) GitLab
5 45 (3.02%) Selenium
6 35 (2.35%) Cypress.io
6 35 (2.35%) Postman
7 18 (1.21%) JUnit
8 15 (1.01%) JMeter
8 15 (1.01%) Visual Studio
9 14 (0.94%) NUnit
9 14 (0.94%) REST Assured
10 13 (0.87%) Octopus Deploy
11 12 (0.81%) TestRail
12 11 (0.74%) fastlane
12 11 (0.74%) SonarQube
12 11 (0.74%) Zephyr
13 10 (0.67%) Mockito
13 10 (0.67%) Visual Studio Code
14 9 (0.60%) Cucumber
General
1 439 (29.46%) Social Skills
2 351 (23.56%) Finance
3 159 (10.67%) Analytical Skills
4 135 (9.06%) Public Sector
5 109 (7.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 52 (3.49%) Retail
7 49 (3.29%) Law
8 39 (2.62%) Marketing
9 31 (2.08%) Legal
10 30 (2.01%) Advertising
10 30 (2.01%) Banking
11 26 (1.74%) Manufacturing
12 23 (1.54%) Games
13 22 (1.48%) Presentation Skills
14 21 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
15 13 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
16 12 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
17 9 (0.60%) Aviation
18 8 (0.54%) Police
19 7 (0.47%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 457 (30.67%) Developer
2 351 (23.56%) Senior
3 217 (14.56%) .NET Developer
4 211 (14.16%) DevOps Engineer
5 206 (13.83%) Azure Engineer
6 165 (11.07%) Lead
7 103 (6.91%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 101 (6.78%) Data Engineer
9 100 (6.71%) Senior Developer
10 94 (6.31%) Analyst
11 93 (6.24%) Platform Engineer
12 68 (4.56%) Senior DevOps
13 64 (4.30%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 63 (4.23%) Cloud Engineer
15 54 (3.62%) Architect
15 54 (3.62%) Software Engineer
16 49 (3.29%) Consultant
16 49 (3.29%) Senior Data Engineer
17 47 (3.15%) Cloud Platform Engineer
18 44 (2.95%) Azure Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 477 (32.01%) .NET
2 355 (23.83%) Terraform
3 250 (16.78%) ASP.NET
4 227 (15.23%) .NET Core
5 198 (13.29%) ASP.NET Core
6 167 (11.21%) REST
7 158 (10.60%) React
8 151 (10.13%) RESTful
9 145 (9.73%) HTML
10 143 (9.60%) CSS
11 123 (8.26%) Entity Framework
12 122 (8.19%) Blazor
13 86 (5.77%) Node.js
14 78 (5.23%) ML.NET
15 63 (4.23%) .NET Framework
16 59 (3.96%) Playwright
17 58 (3.89%) JSON
18 56 (3.76%) YAML
19 55 (3.69%) PySpark
20 50 (3.36%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 140 (9.40%) Cloud Native
2 132 (8.86%) Product Ownership
3 88 (5.91%) Enterprise Software
4 64 (4.30%) Legacy Systems
5 53 (3.56%) Onboarding
6 47 (3.15%) Mobile App
7 43 (2.89%) Distributed Systems
8 39 (2.62%) Greenfield Project
9 35 (2.35%) Hybrid Cloud
10 33 (2.21%) Management Information System
11 27 (1.81%) Legacy Applications
12 23 (1.54%) Low-Code
12 23 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
13 21 (1.41%) Public Cloud
14 20 (1.34%) Security Posture
15 19 (1.28%) AI Agents
16 17 (1.14%) Data Centre
16 17 (1.14%) iPhone
16 17 (1.14%) Mainframe
17 16 (1.07%) BBC
Operating Systems
1 111 (7.45%) Windows
2 97 (6.51%) Linux
3 25 (1.68%) Android
4 23 (1.54%) Unix
4 23 (1.54%) VMS
5 20 (1.34%) Windows Server
6 13 (0.87%) Ubuntu
7 9 (0.60%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.27%) Kali Linux
8 4 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.20%) Embedded Linux
9 3 (0.20%) Solaris
10 2 (0.13%) Debian
10 2 (0.13%) Rocky
10 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.067%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.067%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,490 (100.00%) DevOps
2 846 (56.78%) CI/CD
3 678 (45.50%) Agile
4 354 (23.76%) AI
5 333 (22.35%) Continuous Improvement
5 333 (22.35%) Infrastructure as Code
6 278 (18.66%) Problem-Solving
7 245 (16.44%) Test Automation
8 241 (16.17%) Full-Stack Development
9 228 (15.30%) Mentoring
10 211 (14.16%) Scrum
11 206 (13.83%) Analytics
12 192 (12.89%) Stakeholder Management
13 187 (12.55%) Microservices
14 168 (11.28%) Platform Engineering
15 165 (11.07%) Business Intelligence
16 156 (10.47%) Observability
17 152 (10.20%) Software Engineering
18 147 (9.87%) Data Modelling
19 139 (9.33%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 541 (36.31%) SQL
2 489 (32.82%) C#
3 289 (19.40%) Python
4 235 (15.77%) JavaScript
5 181 (12.15%) PowerShell
6 132 (8.86%) Bicep
7 125 (8.39%) Bash
8 93 (6.24%) Java
9 61 (4.09%) TypeScript
10 42 (2.82%) T-SQL
11 20 (1.34%) C++
11 20 (1.34%) Scala
12 17 (1.14%) VB.NET
13 16 (1.07%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 16 (1.07%) Kusto Query Language
14 13 (0.87%) COBOL
14 13 (0.87%) JCL
15 10 (0.67%) Go
16 8 (0.54%) Apex Code
16 8 (0.54%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 147 (9.87%) Degree
2 131 (8.79%) Security Cleared
3 115 (7.72%) SC Cleared
4 107 (7.18%) Azure Certification
5 58 (3.89%) Computer Science Degree
6 50 (3.36%) Microsoft Certification
7 32 (2.15%) ISTQB
8 26 (1.74%) PMI Certification
9 17 (1.14%) Master's Degree
9 17 (1.14%) PMP
10 12 (0.81%) AWS Certification
11 11 (0.74%) ACCA
11 11 (0.74%) CIMA
12 10 (0.67%) DV Cleared
13 9 (0.60%) CBAP
13 9 (0.60%) ISEB
14 7 (0.47%) CSPO
14 7 (0.47%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 6 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
15 6 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 188 (12.62%) QA
2 96 (6.44%) Data Quality
3 76 (5.10%) Accessibility
4 45 (3.02%) GDPR
5 37 (2.48%) WCAG
6 22 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 19 (1.28%) PMO
8 12 (0.81%) TickIT
9 10 (0.67%) SLA
10 9 (0.60%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 9 (0.60%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 7 (0.47%) NCSC
12 6 (0.40%) JTAG
12 6 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 5 (0.34%) IFRS
14 4 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
14 4 (0.27%) NIST
15 3 (0.20%) GRC
15 3 (0.20%) Software Quality Assurance
15 3 (0.20%) Solvency II
System Software
1 189 (12.68%) Docker
2 72 (4.83%) Active Directory
3 25 (1.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (1.28%) Virtual Desktop
5 15 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
6 12 (0.81%) vSphere
7 5 (0.34%) Firmware
8 3 (0.20%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.13%) Xen
10 1 (0.067%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.067%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 177 (11.88%) Kubernetes
2 59 (3.96%) Ansible
3 58 (3.89%) Grafana
4 47 (3.15%) Prometheus
5 31 (2.08%) Argo
6 27 (1.81%) Microsoft Intune
7 12 (0.81%) Puppet
8 10 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.34%) SCCM
10 4 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (0.27%) HP Fortify
10 4 (0.27%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.13%) FlexNet
11 2 (0.13%) HP ALM
11 2 (0.13%) Istio
11 2 (0.13%) Kibana
11 2 (0.13%) Nagios
11 2 (0.13%) Nessus
11 2 (0.13%) Rancher
11 2 (0.13%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 676 (45.37%) Microsoft
2 99 (6.64%) Databricks
3 64 (4.30%) Google
4 41 (2.75%) Salesforce
5 37 (2.48%) Facebook
6 35 (2.35%) VMware
7 25 (1.68%) ServiceNow
8 24 (1.61%) Apple
8 24 (1.61%) Dynatrace
9 23 (1.54%) SAP
9 23 (1.54%) YouTube
10 20 (1.34%) OpenAI
11 18 (1.21%) Oracle
12 17 (1.14%) Red Hat
13 16 (1.07%) Sony
13 16 (1.07%) Yahoo!
14 14 (0.94%) MuleSoft
15 13 (0.87%) HP
16 12 (0.81%) Foundry
16 12 (0.81%) ScienceLogic