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 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 150 111
Rank change year-on-year +2 -39 -30
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,517 1,038 1,594
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.28% 2.11% 2.24%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.67% 6.69% 6.97%
Number of salaries quoted 1,138 696 979
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £43,750
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 £80,125
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £95,000
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 26,750 15,506 22,856
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 22.54% 31.52% 32.16%
Number of salaries quoted 18,407 10,440 13,861
10th Percentile £31,500 £29,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,500 £38,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £58,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.84% -10.00% +4.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £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 14 October 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 14 October 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 +15 1,361 £65,000 -2.26% 960
UK excluding London -1 957 £60,000 - 594
Work from Home +12 603 £62,500 -3.85% 482
London +3 483 £75,000 -3.23% 418
North of England +72 275 £60,000 - 166
South East -37 235 £65,000 +8.33% 181
Midlands +26 174 £60,000 - 81
North West +65 157 £60,000 -7.69% 71
West Midlands -4 108 £63,750 +6.25% 51
South West -16 91 £60,000 +14.29% 52
Wales -17 91 £53,171 -3.33% 28
East of England +2 76 £55,000 -12.00% 41
Yorkshire +4 69 £65,000 +18.18% 72
East Midlands +8 66 £54,500 - 30
North East -34 49 £52,000 +4.00% 25
Scotland -55 18 £55,000 -15.38% 37
Northern Ireland - 1 £72,500 - 15

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 94 (6.20%) SharePoint
2 71 (4.68%) Confluence
3 39 (2.57%) Microsoft Exchange
4 23 (1.52%) Apache Spark
5 18 (1.19%) IIS
6 12 (0.79%) Apache
7 11 (0.73%) CMS
8 10 (0.66%) nginx
9 8 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
9 8 (0.53%) CICS
9 8 (0.53%) SharePoint Server
10 7 (0.46%) Umbraco
11 6 (0.40%) Camunda
12 3 (0.20%) Anypoint
12 3 (0.20%) BizTalk Server
13 2 (0.13%) Luigi
13 2 (0.13%) WordPress
14 1 (0.066%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 1 (0.066%) Headless CMS
14 1 (0.066%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 34 (2.24%) Microsoft Project
2 25 (1.65%) MS Visio
3 24 (1.58%) Microsoft Office
4 19 (1.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 17 (1.12%) Microsoft Excel
6 11 (0.73%) Trello
7 4 (0.26%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.066%) Notion
Business Applications
1 42 (2.77%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (0.79%) Elite 3E
3 10 (0.66%) Dynamics AX
4 9 (0.59%) SAP S/4HANA
5 6 (0.40%) SAP IBP
6 5 (0.33%) Dynamics NAV
7 4 (0.26%) Shopify
8 3 (0.20%) Carpe Diem
8 3 (0.20%) Dynamics GP
8 3 (0.20%) SAP Business One
8 3 (0.20%) Workday HCM
9 2 (0.13%) JDE EnterpriseOne
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
9 2 (0.13%) Sage 200
9 2 (0.13%) Visualfiles
10 1 (0.066%) Magento
10 1 (0.066%) Payment Gateway
10 1 (0.066%) Salesforce CRM
10 1 (0.066%) Siebel CRM
10 1 (0.066%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,517 (100.00%) Azure
2 304 (20.04%) Power Platform
3 236 (15.56%) GitHub
4 160 (10.55%) Dynamics 365
5 157 (10.35%) Serverless
6 149 (9.82%) AWS
7 132 (8.70%) Azure Functions
8 131 (8.64%) GitHub Actions
9 116 (7.65%) Azure Service Bus
10 111 (7.32%) Azure Monitor
11 108 (7.12%) Azure AKS
12 107 (7.05%) Azure AI
12 107 (7.05%) Azure Data Factory
13 106 (6.99%) Entra ID
14 104 (6.86%) Power Automate
15 101 (6.66%) PaaS
16 99 (6.53%) Azure Logic Apps
17 96 (6.33%) Azure Key Vault
18 91 (6.00%) Microsoft 365
19 90 (5.93%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 46 (3.03%) Firewall
2 41 (2.70%) VPN
3 24 (1.58%) DNS
4 13 (0.86%) Internet
4 13 (0.86%) Wi-Fi
5 10 (0.66%) Network Security
5 10 (0.66%) SAN
6 9 (0.59%) DHCP
7 8 (0.53%) TCP/IP
7 8 (0.53%) Wireless
8 7 (0.46%) HTTP
8 7 (0.46%) VLAN
9 6 (0.40%) MQTT
9 6 (0.40%) ZigBee
10 4 (0.26%) Bluetooth
11 3 (0.20%) HTTPS
11 3 (0.20%) WAN
12 2 (0.13%) LoRaWAN
12 2 (0.13%) TETRA
13 1 (0.066%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 282 (18.59%) Azure SQL Database
2 208 (13.71%) SQL Server
3 174 (11.47%) MongoDB
4 153 (10.09%) Power BI
5 86 (5.67%) Data Warehouse
6 54 (3.56%) PostgreSQL
6 54 (3.56%) Relational Database
7 49 (3.23%) NoSQL
8 48 (3.16%) Metadata
9 40 (2.64%) Elasticsearch
10 35 (2.31%) Data Lake
11 34 (2.24%) Delta Lake
12 27 (1.78%) Redis
13 26 (1.71%) Star Schema
14 24 (1.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 24 (1.58%) Tableau
15 21 (1.38%) MySQL
16 17 (1.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 13 (0.86%) DynamoDB
17 13 (0.86%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 272 (17.93%) Git
2 199 (13.12%) JIRA
3 128 (8.44%) Jenkins
4 82 (5.41%) GitLab
5 40 (2.64%) Selenium
6 36 (2.37%) Cypress.io
7 29 (1.91%) Postman
8 18 (1.19%) JUnit
9 14 (0.92%) Visual Studio
10 13 (0.86%) JMeter
10 13 (0.86%) NUnit
11 12 (0.79%) REST Assured
12 11 (0.73%) Claude Code
12 11 (0.73%) fastlane
13 10 (0.66%) Mockito
13 10 (0.66%) Octopus Deploy
13 10 (0.66%) SonarQube
13 10 (0.66%) Visual Studio Code
14 9 (0.59%) MSI
15 8 (0.53%) Maven
General
1 456 (30.06%) Social Skills
2 368 (24.26%) Finance
3 159 (10.48%) Analytical Skills
4 147 (9.69%) Public Sector
5 108 (7.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 52 (3.43%) Law
7 41 (2.70%) Retail
8 33 (2.18%) Marketing
9 31 (2.04%) Legal
10 30 (1.98%) Advertising
10 30 (1.98%) Manufacturing
11 29 (1.91%) Banking
12 24 (1.58%) Documentation Skills
13 20 (1.32%) Games
13 20 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
14 13 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
14 13 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
15 11 (0.73%) Pharmaceutical
15 11 (0.73%) Telecoms
16 10 (0.66%) Police
Job Titles
1 456 (30.06%) Developer
2 356 (23.47%) Senior
3 221 (14.57%) .NET Developer
4 217 (14.30%) DevOps Engineer
5 214 (14.11%) Azure Engineer
6 149 (9.82%) Lead
7 108 (7.12%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 105 (6.92%) Analyst
9 104 (6.86%) Data Engineer
10 95 (6.26%) Senior Developer
11 90 (5.93%) Platform Engineer
12 66 (4.35%) Senior DevOps
13 63 (4.15%) Consultant
14 62 (4.09%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 59 (3.89%) Cloud Engineer
16 58 (3.82%) Software Engineer
17 56 (3.69%) Business Analyst
18 50 (3.30%) Architect
19 49 (3.23%) Senior Data Engineer
20 42 (2.77%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 481 (31.71%) .NET
2 350 (23.07%) Terraform
3 251 (16.55%) ASP.NET
4 226 (14.90%) .NET Core
5 200 (13.18%) ASP.NET Core
6 164 (10.81%) REST
7 152 (10.02%) React
7 152 (10.02%) RESTful
8 142 (9.36%) HTML
9 141 (9.29%) CSS
10 124 (8.17%) Blazor
11 123 (8.11%) Entity Framework
12 78 (5.14%) ML.NET
12 78 (5.14%) Node.js
13 62 (4.09%) .NET Framework
14 55 (3.63%) YAML
15 54 (3.56%) Playwright
16 52 (3.43%) JSON
17 50 (3.30%) PySpark
18 45 (2.97%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 145 (9.56%) Product Ownership
2 137 (9.03%) Cloud Native
3 95 (6.26%) Enterprise Software
4 65 (4.28%) Legacy Systems
5 55 (3.63%) Onboarding
6 46 (3.03%) Mobile App
7 39 (2.57%) Greenfield Project
8 38 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
9 36 (2.37%) Hybrid Cloud
9 36 (2.37%) Management Information System
10 35 (2.31%) Legacy Applications
11 26 (1.71%) Low-Code
12 24 (1.58%) Self-Motivation
13 23 (1.52%) AI Agents
13 23 (1.52%) Mainframe
13 23 (1.52%) Security Posture
14 21 (1.38%) Public Cloud
15 17 (1.12%) Data Centre
15 17 (1.12%) iPhone
16 16 (1.05%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 106 (6.99%) Windows
2 90 (5.93%) Linux
3 25 (1.65%) Android
4 23 (1.52%) VMS
5 22 (1.45%) Unix
6 20 (1.32%) Windows Server
7 11 (0.73%) Ubuntu
8 8 (0.53%) Apple iOS
9 4 (0.26%) Embedded Linux
9 4 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.20%) Kali Linux
10 3 (0.20%) Solaris
11 2 (0.13%) Debian
11 2 (0.13%) Rocky
12 1 (0.066%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.066%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.066%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,517 (100.00%) DevOps
2 846 (55.77%) CI/CD
3 687 (45.29%) Agile
4 367 (24.19%) AI
5 347 (22.87%) Continuous Improvement
6 330 (21.75%) Infrastructure as Code
7 292 (19.25%) Problem-Solving
8 240 (15.82%) Full-Stack Development
9 222 (14.63%) Test Automation
10 221 (14.57%) Mentoring
11 218 (14.37%) Stakeholder Management
12 216 (14.24%) Analytics
13 208 (13.71%) Scrum
14 182 (12.00%) Microservices
15 172 (11.34%) Business Intelligence
16 171 (11.27%) Platform Engineering
17 157 (10.35%) Software Engineering
18 153 (10.09%) Observability
19 150 (9.89%) Data Modelling
20 141 (9.29%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 545 (35.93%) SQL
2 494 (32.56%) C#
3 286 (18.85%) Python
4 238 (15.69%) JavaScript
5 182 (12.00%) PowerShell
6 136 (8.97%) Bicep
7 118 (7.78%) Bash
8 97 (6.39%) Java
9 61 (4.02%) TypeScript
10 44 (2.90%) T-SQL
11 21 (1.38%) C++
12 19 (1.25%) COBOL
12 19 (1.25%) JCL
13 18 (1.19%) Scala
14 17 (1.12%) Kusto Query Language
15 16 (1.05%) VB.NET
16 15 (0.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 9 (0.59%) Go
18 8 (0.53%) Apex Code
18 8 (0.53%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 160 (10.55%) Degree
2 136 (8.97%) Security Cleared
3 121 (7.98%) Azure Certification
4 118 (7.78%) SC Cleared
5 58 (3.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 57 (3.76%) Microsoft Certification
7 32 (2.11%) PMI Certification
8 31 (2.04%) ISTQB
9 25 (1.65%) PMP
10 19 (1.25%) Master's Degree
11 18 (1.19%) ACCA
11 18 (1.19%) CIMA
12 12 (0.79%) AWS Certification
13 11 (0.73%) CBAP
14 10 (0.66%) CSPO
15 9 (0.59%) ISEB
16 8 (0.53%) DV Cleared
16 8 (0.53%) TOGAF Certification
17 7 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
17 7 (0.46%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 179 (11.80%) QA
2 108 (7.12%) Data Quality
3 75 (4.94%) Accessibility
4 40 (2.64%) GDPR
5 37 (2.44%) WCAG
6 21 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 21 (1.38%) PMO
7 11 (0.73%) SLA
8 9 (0.59%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 8 (0.53%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 7 (0.46%) NCSC
11 6 (0.40%) JTAG
12 5 (0.33%) TickIT
13 4 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
13 4 (0.26%) NIST
14 3 (0.20%) ISO 9001
14 3 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 2 (0.13%) IFRS 17
15 2 (0.13%) PCI DSS
15 2 (0.13%) PSD2
System Software
1 180 (11.87%) Docker
2 73 (4.81%) Active Directory
3 25 (1.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (1.25%) Virtual Desktop
5 15 (0.99%) Virtual Machines
6 12 (0.79%) vSphere
7 5 (0.33%) Firmware
8 4 (0.26%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.13%) Xen
10 1 (0.066%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.066%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 174 (11.47%) Kubernetes
2 58 (3.82%) Ansible
2 58 (3.82%) Grafana
3 45 (2.97%) Prometheus
4 30 (1.98%) Microsoft Intune
5 27 (1.78%) Argo
6 13 (0.86%) Puppet
7 11 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.33%) SCCM
9 4 (0.26%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (0.20%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.13%) FlexNet
11 2 (0.13%) Istio
11 2 (0.13%) Nessus
11 2 (0.13%) Rancher
11 2 (0.13%) ZABBIX
12 1 (0.066%) Failover Clustering
12 1 (0.066%) Nagios
12 1 (0.066%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 692 (45.62%) Microsoft
2 103 (6.79%) Databricks
3 65 (4.28%) Google
4 38 (2.50%) Salesforce
4 38 (2.50%) VMware
5 37 (2.44%) Facebook
6 26 (1.71%) Dynatrace
7 25 (1.65%) SAP
7 25 (1.65%) ServiceNow
8 24 (1.58%) YouTube
9 23 (1.52%) Apple
10 21 (1.38%) OpenAI
11 16 (1.05%) Oracle
11 16 (1.05%) Sony
11 16 (1.05%) Yahoo!
12 15 (0.99%) Red Hat
13 12 (0.79%) Foundry
13 12 (0.79%) Informatica
13 12 (0.79%) ScienceLogic
14 11 (0.73%) HP