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 permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 142 111 116
Rank change year-on-year -31 +5 -12
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,102 1,262 2,017
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.53% 2.76% 2.57%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.69% 7.40% 6.74%
Number of salaries quoted 719 861 1,733
10th Percentile £42,500 £43,887 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £53,750 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £81,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £59,000
% change year-on-year -15.38% +10.17% -1.67%

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 23,515 17,043 29,913
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.75% 37.28% 38.09%
Number of salaries quoted 12,639 10,876 24,338
10th Percentile £29,250 £32,750 £31,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +9.57% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,539
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 5 March 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 5 March 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 -47 890 £65,000 -3.70% 464
UK excluding London -37 690 £55,000 -15.38% 375
Work from Home -5 471 £60,500 -10.37% 292
London +11 342 £75,000 - 167
South East -10 245 £50,000 -24.53% 114
Scotland +59 150 £58,500 +11.43% 32
North of England -45 107 £52,500 -22.22% 103
Midlands -51 81 £60,000 -7.69% 60
South West -84 75 £47,500 -29.63% 38
West Midlands -47 56 £60,000 -12.73% 41
Yorkshire -46 42 £52,500 -25.00% 29
North West -40 35 £61,500 -5.38% 61
North East +6 30 £50,000 -23.08% 15
East Midlands -15 22 £65,000 - 19
Wales -21 15 £55,000 -15.38% 7
East of England -47 14 £65,000 +26.83% 26
Northern Ireland -32 3 £56,250 +12.50%

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 33 (2.99%) Confluence
2 31 (2.81%) IIS
3 26 (2.36%) SharePoint
4 19 (1.72%) Microsoft Exchange
5 14 (1.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 8 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
6 8 (0.73%) Apache Spark
7 5 (0.45%) Apache
8 4 (0.36%) Anypoint
8 4 (0.36%) Moodle
9 3 (0.27%) Appian
10 2 (0.18%) BizTalk Server
11 1 (0.091%) nginx
11 1 (0.091%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.091%) Tomcat
Applications
1 30 (2.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 27 (2.45%) MS Visio
3 13 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
4 12 (1.09%) Microsoft Project
5 9 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.36%) Trello
7 2 (0.18%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.091%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 70 (6.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 33 (2.99%) Dynamics CRM
3 31 (2.81%) Oracle ERP
4 5 (0.45%) Dynamics AX
5 3 (0.27%) SAP CX
6 2 (0.18%) Markit EDM
6 2 (0.18%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.091%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.091%) Endur
7 1 (0.091%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 1 (0.091%) Magento
7 1 (0.091%) Primavera
7 1 (0.091%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.091%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1,032 (93.65%) Azure
2 337 (30.58%) GitHub
3 219 (19.87%) Power Platform
4 163 (14.79%) GitHub Actions
5 156 (14.16%) AWS
6 92 (8.35%) Entra ID
7 91 (8.26%) Azure Monitor
8 88 (7.99%) Azure Data Factory
9 85 (7.71%) Microsoft 365
9 85 (7.71%) Serverless
10 83 (7.53%) PaaS
11 69 (6.26%) Snowflake
12 67 (6.08%) SaaS
13 63 (5.72%) Dynamics 365
14 61 (5.54%) Azure Logic Apps
15 60 (5.44%) GitHub Copilot
16 54 (4.90%) dbt
17 52 (4.72%) Azure AKS
18 51 (4.63%) GCP
18 51 (4.63%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 65 (5.90%) Firewall
2 45 (4.08%) DNS
3 23 (2.09%) VPN
4 21 (1.91%) HTTP
5 19 (1.72%) TCP/IP
6 18 (1.63%) WAN
7 8 (0.73%) Network Security
8 7 (0.64%) DHCP
9 5 (0.45%) SD-WAN
10 4 (0.36%) BGP
10 4 (0.36%) SSL
10 4 (0.36%) VLAN
11 2 (0.18%) AMQP
11 2 (0.18%) IPsec
11 2 (0.18%) OSPF
11 2 (0.18%) Wi-Fi
11 2 (0.18%) Wireshark
12 1 (0.091%) IP Telephony
12 1 (0.091%) NetScaler
12 1 (0.091%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 146 (13.25%) SQL Server
2 124 (11.25%) Power BI
3 68 (6.17%) Azure SQL Database
4 66 (5.99%) Data Warehouse
5 44 (3.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 40 (3.63%) NoSQL
7 32 (2.90%) Data Lake
8 29 (2.63%) Tableau
9 27 (2.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 21 (1.91%) Relational Database
11 17 (1.54%) PostgreSQL
11 17 (1.54%) Snowflake Schema
12 15 (1.36%) DynamoDB
13 12 (1.09%) Delta Lake
13 12 (1.09%) Metadata
13 12 (1.09%) MongoDB
13 12 (1.09%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 9 (0.82%) Star Schema
15 8 (0.73%) GIS
15 8 (0.73%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 203 (18.42%) JIRA
2 174 (15.79%) Git
3 118 (10.71%) Jenkins
4 69 (6.26%) eCATT
5 57 (5.17%) Selenium
6 38 (3.45%) NeoLoad
7 37 (3.36%) Cypress.io
8 32 (2.90%) GitLab
9 31 (2.81%) Oracle Forms
10 22 (2.00%) Octopus Deploy
10 22 (2.00%) Visual Studio
11 20 (1.81%) Robot Framework
11 20 (1.81%) Snyk
12 18 (1.63%) TeamCity
13 17 (1.54%) Postman
14 14 (1.27%) Eclipse
15 8 (0.73%) SpecFlow
16 7 (0.64%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 7 (0.64%) NUnit
16 7 (0.64%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 430 (39.02%) Finance
2 268 (24.32%) Social Skills
3 153 (13.88%) Analytical Skills
4 91 (8.26%) Marketing
5 77 (6.99%) Manufacturing
6 60 (5.44%) Presentation Skills
7 55 (4.99%) Law
8 50 (4.54%) Influencing Skills
9 32 (2.90%) Public Sector
10 25 (2.27%) Billing
11 24 (2.18%) Legal
12 23 (2.09%) Retail
13 20 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 19 (1.72%) Telecoms
15 17 (1.54%) Banking
16 13 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
17 9 (0.82%) Tech for Good
18 8 (0.73%) Advertising
19 7 (0.64%) Organisational Skills
20 5 (0.45%) Games
Job Titles
1 223 (20.24%) Senior
2 199 (18.06%) Developer
3 158 (14.34%) Lead
4 140 (12.70%) DevOps Engineer
5 128 (11.62%) Azure Engineer
6 117 (10.62%) Analyst
7 96 (8.71%) Cloud Engineer
8 62 (5.63%) Data Engineer
9 51 (4.63%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 51 (4.63%) Test Leader
10 47 (4.26%) Architect
11 45 (4.08%) Applications Engineer
11 45 (4.08%) Software Engineer
12 44 (3.99%) .NET Developer
13 42 (3.81%) Platform Engineer
14 32 (2.90%) Power Platform Developer
14 32 (2.90%) Senior Cloud Engineer
15 30 (2.72%) Business Analyst
15 30 (2.72%) Senior Developer
16 29 (2.63%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 259 (23.50%) .NET
2 103 (9.35%) RESTful
3 88 (7.99%) React
4 73 (6.62%) REST
5 72 (6.53%) OAuth
6 63 (5.72%) YAML
7 62 (5.63%) .NET Core
8 60 (5.44%) ASP.NET
9 58 (5.26%) .NET Framework
10 55 (4.99%) CSS
10 55 (4.99%) SOAP
11 54 (4.90%) HTML
12 49 (4.45%) JSON
13 40 (3.63%) SAML
14 39 (3.54%) OAuth2
15 38 (3.45%) Playwright
16 29 (2.63%) Entity Framework
16 29 (2.63%) Node.js
17 28 (2.54%) Lightning Web Components
18 26 (2.36%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 134 (12.16%) Cloud Native
2 120 (10.89%) Product Ownership
3 52 (4.72%) Enterprise Software
4 39 (3.54%) Management Information System
5 37 (3.36%) Low-Code
6 33 (2.99%) Legacy Systems
7 24 (2.18%) Mobile App
8 23 (2.09%) Analytical Mindset
9 22 (2.00%) Virtual Team
10 21 (1.91%) Hybrid Cloud
11 19 (1.72%) Reinsurance
12 18 (1.63%) Security Posture
13 14 (1.27%) Data Structures
14 13 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
15 12 (1.09%) Distributed Systems
16 11 (1.00%) Onboarding
17 10 (0.91%) Data Centre
17 10 (0.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 10 (0.91%) Legacy Applications
18 9 (0.82%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 85 (7.71%) Windows
2 58 (5.26%) Linux
3 23 (2.09%) VMS
4 14 (1.27%) Windows Server
5 11 (1.00%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.36%) Android
6 4 (0.36%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.27%) Unix
8 2 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.091%) CentOS
9 1 (0.091%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.091%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,032 (93.65%) DevOps
2 630 (57.17%) CI/CD
3 502 (45.55%) Agile
4 294 (26.68%) Infrastructure as Code
5 279 (25.32%) Test Automation
6 251 (22.78%) Continuous Improvement
7 225 (20.42%) Problem-Solving
8 191 (17.33%) Coaching
9 188 (17.06%) AI
10 179 (16.24%) Mentoring
11 172 (15.61%) Analytics
12 138 (12.52%) Asset Management
13 137 (12.43%) Data Modelling
14 135 (12.25%) Observability
15 132 (11.98%) Roadmaps
16 126 (11.43%) Containerisation
17 125 (11.34%) Business Intelligence
18 112 (10.16%) Software Engineering
19 111 (10.07%) Scrum
20 107 (9.71%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 375 (34.03%) SQL
2 265 (24.05%) Python
3 222 (20.15%) C#
4 166 (15.06%) PowerShell
5 109 (9.89%) JavaScript
6 93 (8.44%) Bicep
7 88 (7.99%) Bash
8 64 (5.81%) TypeScript
9 51 (4.63%) Java
10 34 (3.09%) Shell Script
11 31 (2.81%) PL/SQL
11 31 (2.81%) T-SQL
12 30 (2.72%) Apex Code
13 24 (2.18%) Go
14 16 (1.45%) Scala
15 12 (1.09%) Kusto Query Language
16 10 (0.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 5 (0.45%) C++
18 4 (0.36%) DataWeave
18 4 (0.36%) VB
Qualifications
1 114 (10.34%) Degree
2 73 (6.62%) Security Cleared
3 67 (6.08%) Azure Certification
4 60 (5.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 39 (3.54%) SC Cleared
6 33 (2.99%) ISTQB
7 30 (2.72%) Master's Degree
8 28 (2.54%) DV Cleared
8 28 (2.54%) Microsoft Certification
9 18 (1.63%) AWS Certification
10 13 (1.18%) HND
11 12 (1.09%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 11 (1.00%) AWS Certified Developer
13 10 (0.91%) PMI Certification
14 6 (0.54%) DBS Check
15 5 (0.45%) CBAP
15 5 (0.45%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 5 (0.45%) PMP
16 4 (0.36%) BC Cleared
17 3 (0.27%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 138 (12.52%) QA
2 63 (5.72%) Accessibility
3 47 (4.26%) Data Quality
3 47 (4.26%) GDPR
4 37 (3.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 14 (1.27%) SOC 2
6 12 (1.09%) NCSC
6 12 (1.09%) NIST
6 12 (1.09%) SLA
7 10 (0.91%) PMO
8 5 (0.45%) PERC
9 3 (0.27%) Software Quality Assurance
10 2 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.18%) GRC
10 2 (0.18%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 2 (0.18%) WCAG
11 1 (0.091%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.091%) HL7
11 1 (0.091%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 1 (0.091%) P3O
System Software
1 130 (11.80%) Docker
2 73 (6.62%) Active Directory
3 25 (2.27%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (0.91%) Virtual Desktop
5 9 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.36%) Postfix
7 3 (0.27%) Firmware
8 2 (0.18%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.18%) vCloud
9 1 (0.091%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 1 (0.091%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.091%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.091%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 338 (30.67%) Terraform
2 131 (11.89%) Kubernetes
3 99 (8.98%) Ansible
4 72 (6.53%) HP ALM
5 55 (4.99%) Grafana
6 45 (4.08%) Prometheus
7 33 (2.99%) Single Sign-On
8 16 (1.45%) Microsoft Intune
9 8 (0.73%) Kibana
10 4 (0.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (0.36%) logstash
11 3 (0.27%) Argo
11 3 (0.27%) SCCM
12 2 (0.18%) Dell DRAC
12 2 (0.18%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (0.18%) Nessus
12 2 (0.18%) Puppet
13 1 (0.091%) Rancher
13 1 (0.091%) vCenter Server
13 1 (0.091%) vRealize
Vendors
1 355 (32.21%) Microsoft
2 76 (6.90%) SAP
3 72 (6.53%) HP
4 53 (4.81%) Databricks
5 43 (3.90%) Salesforce
6 36 (3.27%) Oracle
7 34 (3.09%) ServiceNow
8 21 (1.91%) Okta
9 19 (1.72%) Palo Alto
9 19 (1.72%) VMware
10 18 (1.63%) Black Duck
10 18 (1.63%) Coverity
10 18 (1.63%) Zscaler
11 16 (1.45%) Red Hat
12 14 (1.27%) Ab Initio
12 14 (1.27%) Adobe
13 12 (1.09%) Freshdesk
13 12 (1.09%) Nintex
13 12 (1.09%) Sage
13 12 (1.09%) Xamarin