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 2 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 176 165 117
Rank change year-on-year -11 -48 -14
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,109 876 2,283
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.19% 2.00% 2.23%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.08% 5.97% 6.51%
Number of salaries quoted 870 681 1,751
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £42,279
25th Percentile £49,750 £55,000 £49,399
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +9.76% -5.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £91,250 £96,250 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% 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 27,190 14,680 35,060
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 29.20% 33.56% 34.28%
Number of salaries quoted 15,656 10,088 27,001
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,750 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -10.85%
75th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -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 2 June 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 2 June 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 -11 987 £65,500 -6.43% 405
UK excluding London +30 700 £60,000 -4.00% 321
Work from Home +24 420 £64,250 -4.81% 232
London -11 351 £77,500 +3.33% 137
North of England +51 202 £63,750 -8.93% 91
South East -13 192 £55,000 -15.38% 81
Midlands +10 111 £65,000 +8.33% 52
North West +52 109 £69,310 +8.30% 49
South West -36 69 £53,750 -6.52% 33
West Midlands -25 59 £62,000 +3.33% 29
Yorkshire -34 51 £69,308 -0.99% 23
East Midlands +6 50 £67,500 +22.73% 23
East of England +3 48 £56,000 -2.61% 30
Scotland +32 44 £62,500 - 20
North East -4 42 £50,000 -9.09% 19
Wales -15 34 £53,000 -18.46% 13
Northern Ireland -39 2 £72,500 +45.00% 6

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 42 (3.79%) Confluence
2 41 (3.70%) SharePoint
3 19 (1.71%) Microsoft Exchange
4 18 (1.62%) IIS
5 10 (0.90%) Apache Spark
6 8 (0.72%) SharePoint Server
7 7 (0.63%) CMS
8 6 (0.54%) Anypoint
8 6 (0.54%) Apache
8 6 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
8 6 (0.54%) Umbraco
9 3 (0.27%) Moodle
9 3 (0.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.27%) WordPress
10 2 (0.18%) CICS
10 2 (0.18%) Luigi
10 2 (0.18%) nginx
11 1 (0.090%) BizTalk Server
11 1 (0.090%) Drupal
11 1 (0.090%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 20 (1.80%) MS Visio
2 15 (1.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (0.81%) Microsoft Project
4 7 (0.63%) Chatbot
5 6 (0.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 5 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
7 2 (0.18%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.18%) Trello
8 1 (0.090%) Notion
8 1 (0.090%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 14 (1.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.54%) Oracle ERP
3 5 (0.45%) Dynamics AX
3 5 (0.45%) Visualfiles
4 4 (0.36%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.27%) Elite 3E
5 3 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.18%) Magento
7 1 (0.090%) Endur
7 1 (0.090%) Infor M3
7 1 (0.090%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 1 (0.090%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.090%) Sage 200
7 1 (0.090%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.090%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1,108 (99.91%) Azure
2 236 (21.28%) GitHub
3 175 (15.78%) Power Platform
4 157 (14.16%) AWS
5 141 (12.71%) GitHub Actions
6 96 (8.66%) Azure Monitor
7 94 (8.48%) Azure AKS
8 93 (8.39%) Serverless
9 82 (7.39%) Entra ID
10 78 (7.03%) Microsoft 365
11 76 (6.85%) Azure Logic Apps
12 74 (6.67%) Azure Data Factory
13 72 (6.49%) PaaS
14 66 (5.95%) Azure Service Bus
15 63 (5.68%) Azure Functions
16 62 (5.59%) SaaS
17 61 (5.50%) Dynamics 365
18 60 (5.41%) GCP
19 47 (4.24%) Azure Key Vault
20 43 (3.88%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 55 (4.96%) Firewall
2 29 (2.61%) DNS
3 17 (1.53%) HTTP
4 16 (1.44%) TCP/IP
5 11 (0.99%) Network Security
5 11 (0.99%) VPN
6 9 (0.81%) WAN
7 5 (0.45%) DHCP
8 4 (0.36%) Bluetooth
8 4 (0.36%) MQTT
8 4 (0.36%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (0.36%) Wireless
8 4 (0.36%) ZigBee
9 3 (0.27%) BGP
9 3 (0.27%) HTTPS
9 3 (0.27%) SAN
10 2 (0.18%) Internet
11 1 (0.090%) IP Telephony
11 1 (0.090%) MPLS
11 1 (0.090%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 136 (12.26%) Azure SQL Database
2 122 (11.00%) SQL Server
3 97 (8.75%) Power BI
4 85 (7.66%) MongoDB
5 41 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
6 37 (3.34%) Data Warehouse
7 36 (3.25%) Data Lake
8 30 (2.71%) NoSQL
9 29 (2.61%) Relational Database
10 26 (2.34%) Delta Lake
11 19 (1.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 17 (1.53%) Spark SQL
13 15 (1.35%) Elasticsearch
13 15 (1.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 13 (1.17%) Star Schema
15 12 (1.08%) Metadata
15 12 (1.08%) Tableau
16 11 (0.99%) MySQL
16 11 (0.99%) Redis
17 10 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 178 (16.05%) Git
2 137 (12.35%) JIRA
3 113 (10.19%) Jenkins
4 71 (6.40%) GitLab
5 53 (4.78%) Selenium
6 42 (3.79%) Cypress.io
7 34 (3.07%) Postman
8 23 (2.07%) Eclipse
9 16 (1.44%) Visual Studio
10 14 (1.26%) Octopus Deploy
10 14 (1.26%) REST Assured
11 12 (1.08%) Zephyr
12 11 (0.99%) fastlane
12 11 (0.99%) JMeter
12 11 (0.99%) TeamCity
12 11 (0.99%) TestRail
13 7 (0.63%) Cucumber
13 7 (0.63%) Xcode
14 6 (0.54%) Robot Framework
14 6 (0.54%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 285 (25.70%) Finance
2 240 (21.64%) Social Skills
3 123 (11.09%) Analytical Skills
4 75 (6.76%) Public Sector
5 52 (4.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 46 (4.15%) Law
7 40 (3.61%) Retail
8 36 (3.25%) Legal
9 31 (2.80%) Marketing
10 26 (2.34%) Billing
11 25 (2.25%) Banking
12 20 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
13 16 (1.44%) Telecoms
14 14 (1.26%) Advertising
14 14 (1.26%) Games
15 11 (0.99%) Automotive
16 10 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
16 10 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
17 9 (0.81%) Manufacturing
18 8 (0.72%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 289 (26.06%) Developer
2 220 (19.84%) Senior
3 205 (18.49%) DevOps Engineer
4 190 (17.13%) Azure Engineer
5 152 (13.71%) Lead
6 102 (9.20%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 98 (8.84%) .NET Developer
8 70 (6.31%) Cloud Engineer
9 67 (6.04%) Senior Developer
10 66 (5.95%) Data Engineer
11 58 (5.23%) Platform Engineer
12 53 (4.78%) Analyst
13 52 (4.69%) Architect
14 51 (4.60%) Senior DevOps
15 49 (4.42%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 40 (3.61%) Software Engineer
17 37 (3.34%) Cloud Platform Engineer
18 32 (2.89%) Azure Platform Engineer
18 32 (2.89%) Software Developer
19 27 (2.43%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 320 (28.85%) .NET
2 137 (12.35%) ASP.NET
3 129 (11.63%) React
4 123 (11.09%) .NET Core
5 111 (10.01%) HTML
6 110 (9.92%) CSS
7 109 (9.83%) REST
8 102 (9.20%) ASP.NET Core
9 90 (8.12%) RESTful
10 70 (6.31%) Node.js
11 60 (5.41%) Entity Framework
11 60 (5.41%) YAML
12 59 (5.32%) Playwright
13 58 (5.23%) Blazor
14 52 (4.69%) OAuth
15 45 (4.06%) ARM Templates
16 43 (3.88%) PySpark
17 41 (3.70%) JSON
18 40 (3.61%) SOAP
19 39 (3.52%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 120 (10.82%) Product Ownership
2 88 (7.94%) Cloud Native
3 41 (3.70%) Mobile App
4 35 (3.16%) Enterprise Software
5 30 (2.71%) Management Information System
6 28 (2.52%) Legacy Systems
7 26 (2.34%) Distributed Systems
7 26 (2.34%) Onboarding
8 25 (2.25%) Low-Code
9 20 (1.80%) Analytical Mindset
10 18 (1.62%) Hybrid Cloud
11 16 (1.44%) Reinsurance
12 15 (1.35%) Data Structures
12 15 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
13 11 (0.99%) Enterprise Cloud
13 11 (0.99%) Virtual Team
14 10 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
15 8 (0.72%) iPhone
15 8 (0.72%) Legacy Applications
15 8 (0.72%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 90 (8.12%) Linux
2 59 (5.32%) Windows
3 17 (1.53%) Unix
3 17 (1.53%) VMS
4 16 (1.44%) Android
4 16 (1.44%) Ubuntu
5 14 (1.26%) Apple iOS
6 12 (1.08%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.36%) Kali Linux
8 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.090%) SUSE
9 1 (0.090%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 1 (0.090%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,108 (99.91%) DevOps
2 680 (61.32%) CI/CD
3 476 (42.92%) Agile
4 292 (26.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 252 (22.72%) Test Automation
6 213 (19.21%) Continuous Improvement
7 206 (18.58%) AI
8 191 (17.22%) Problem-Solving
9 163 (14.70%) Mentoring
10 159 (14.34%) Scrum
11 155 (13.98%) Analytics
12 152 (13.71%) Full-Stack Development
13 144 (12.98%) Observability
14 131 (11.81%) Microservices
15 123 (11.09%) Containerisation
16 122 (11.00%) Data Modelling
17 108 (9.74%) Coaching
18 106 (9.56%) Business Intelligence
19 99 (8.93%) Platform Engineering
19 99 (8.93%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 375 (33.81%) SQL
2 295 (26.60%) C#
3 254 (22.90%) Python
4 181 (16.32%) JavaScript
5 131 (11.81%) PowerShell
6 112 (10.10%) Bash
7 82 (7.39%) Bicep
8 78 (7.03%) Java
9 57 (5.14%) TypeScript
10 21 (1.89%) Scala
11 20 (1.80%) Go
12 16 (1.44%) C++
12 16 (1.44%) T-SQL
13 15 (1.35%) Apex Code
14 11 (0.99%) Kusto Query Language
14 11 (0.99%) Swift
15 10 (0.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 10 (0.90%) PL/SQL
16 8 (0.72%) Shell Script
17 7 (0.63%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 87 (7.84%) Degree
2 68 (6.13%) Security Cleared
3 49 (4.42%) Azure Certification
3 49 (4.42%) SC Cleared
4 35 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (2.25%) ISTQB
6 17 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
7 14 (1.26%) Master's Degree
8 12 (1.08%) DV Cleared
8 12 (1.08%) HND
9 9 (0.81%) AWS Certification
9 9 (0.81%) PMI Certification
10 6 (0.54%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 4 (0.36%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (0.36%) CISSP
11 4 (0.36%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 3 (0.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.27%) BC Cleared
12 3 (0.27%) CBAP
12 3 (0.27%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 126 (11.36%) QA
2 81 (7.30%) Accessibility
3 51 (4.60%) Data Quality
4 39 (3.52%) GDPR
5 24 (2.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 16 (1.44%) WCAG
7 12 (1.08%) SLA
7 12 (1.08%) TickIT
8 10 (0.90%) GRC
8 10 (0.90%) SOC 2
9 7 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 6 (0.54%) PMO
10 6 (0.54%) Software Quality Assurance
10 6 (0.54%) Solvency II
11 5 (0.45%) IFRS
12 4 (0.36%) JTAG
13 3 (0.27%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 2 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
14 2 (0.18%) ISO 9001
14 2 (0.18%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 143 (12.89%) Docker
2 57 (5.14%) Active Directory
3 16 (1.44%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.27%) Firmware
6 2 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.090%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 311 (28.04%) Terraform
2 115 (10.37%) Kubernetes
3 71 (6.40%) Ansible
4 63 (5.68%) Grafana
5 51 (4.60%) Prometheus
6 24 (2.16%) Argo
7 9 (0.81%) Kibana
8 8 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (0.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (0.36%) HP Fortify
10 4 (0.36%) Puppet
11 3 (0.27%) HP ALM
11 3 (0.27%) Scalr
12 2 (0.18%) logstash
12 2 (0.18%) MIIS
12 2 (0.18%) Nagios
12 2 (0.18%) SCCM
13 1 (0.090%) FortiGate
13 1 (0.090%) Packer
Vendors
1 422 (38.05%) Microsoft
2 67 (6.04%) Databricks
3 47 (4.24%) Salesforce
4 36 (3.25%) ServiceNow
5 26 (2.34%) Google
6 23 (2.07%) Red Hat
7 22 (1.98%) Dynatrace
8 19 (1.71%) Apple
8 19 (1.71%) Oracle
9 16 (1.44%) MuleSoft
10 15 (1.35%) Facebook
11 13 (1.17%) Adobe
12 11 (0.99%) Freshdesk
12 11 (0.99%) Guidewire
12 11 (0.99%) Nintex
12 11 (0.99%) Palo Alto
12 11 (0.99%) Splunk
12 11 (0.99%) VMware
12 11 (0.99%) Zscaler
13 10 (0.90%) CrowdStrike