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

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 149 110
Rank change year-on-year -2 -39 -29
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,485 1,037 1,644
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.26% 2.10% 2.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.55% 6.69% 7.03%
Number of salaries quoted 1,124 689 1,000
10th Percentile £44,792 £44,800 £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 £80,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £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 26,771 15,512 23,374
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 22.67% 31.38% 32.17%
Number of salaries quoted 18,306 10,433 14,199
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,010 £38,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £59,000 £64,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.93% -7.81% +2.40%
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 10 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 10 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 +13 1,328 £65,000 -2.26% 1,225
UK excluding London +7 938 £60,000 - 770
Work from Home +3 591 £62,500 -3.85% 629
London +3 471 £75,000 -3.23% 525
North of England +81 271 £60,000 - 239
South East -47 225 £64,500 +7.05% 207
Midlands +26 171 £60,000 - 106
North West +67 156 £60,000 -7.69% 115
West Midlands -10 106 £65,000 +8.33% 69
Wales -22 92 £53,171 -3.33% 26
South West -25 88 £57,500 +9.52% 69
East of England -3 76 £55,000 -12.00% 55
Yorkshire +5 66 £65,000 +18.18% 91
East Midlands +11 65 £55,000 +0.92% 37
North East -33 49 £52,000 +4.00% 35
Scotland -57 18 £55,000 -15.38% 53
Northern Ireland - 1 £72,500 - 21

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 89 (5.99%) SharePoint
2 68 (4.58%) Confluence
3 39 (2.63%) Microsoft Exchange
4 23 (1.55%) Apache Spark
5 18 (1.21%) 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%) CICS
9 8 (0.54%) SharePoint Server
10 7 (0.47%) 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 (0.067%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 1 (0.067%) Headless CMS
14 1 (0.067%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 33 (2.22%) Microsoft Project
2 25 (1.68%) MS Visio
3 24 (1.62%) Microsoft Office
4 19 (1.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 18 (1.21%) Microsoft Excel
6 10 (0.67%) Trello
7 4 (0.27%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.067%) Notion
Business Applications
1 40 (2.69%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (0.81%) Elite 3E
3 10 (0.67%) Dynamics AX
4 9 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
5 6 (0.40%) SAP IBP
6 5 (0.34%) Dynamics NAV
7 4 (0.27%) 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%) Visualfiles
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 1,485 (100.00%) Azure
2 292 (19.66%) Power Platform
3 236 (15.89%) GitHub
4 151 (10.17%) Dynamics 365
4 151 (10.17%) Serverless
5 149 (10.03%) AWS
6 132 (8.89%) GitHub Actions
7 126 (8.48%) Azure Functions
8 113 (7.61%) Azure Service Bus
9 108 (7.27%) Azure Monitor
10 107 (7.21%) Azure AI
11 106 (7.14%) Azure AKS
11 106 (7.14%) Azure Data Factory
12 103 (6.94%) Entra ID
13 99 (6.67%) PaaS
14 98 (6.60%) Power Automate
15 95 (6.40%) Azure Key Vault
16 93 (6.26%) Azure Logic Apps
17 90 (6.06%) Microsoft 365
18 88 (5.93%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 46 (3.10%) Firewall
2 41 (2.76%) VPN
3 24 (1.62%) DNS
4 13 (0.88%) Internet
4 13 (0.88%) Wi-Fi
5 10 (0.67%) Network Security
5 10 (0.67%) SAN
6 9 (0.61%) DHCP
7 8 (0.54%) TCP/IP
7 8 (0.54%) Wireless
8 7 (0.47%) HTTP
8 7 (0.47%) VLAN
9 6 (0.40%) MQTT
9 6 (0.40%) ZigBee
10 4 (0.27%) Bluetooth
11 3 (0.20%) HTTPS
11 3 (0.20%) WAN
12 2 (0.13%) LoRaWAN
13 1 (0.067%) SD-WAN
13 1 (0.067%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 281 (18.92%) Azure SQL Database
2 204 (13.74%) SQL Server
3 173 (11.65%) MongoDB
4 148 (9.97%) Power BI
5 86 (5.79%) Data Warehouse
6 53 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
7 52 (3.50%) Relational Database
8 48 (3.23%) NoSQL
9 47 (3.16%) Metadata
10 40 (2.69%) Elasticsearch
11 34 (2.29%) Data Lake
12 33 (2.22%) Delta Lake
13 27 (1.82%) Redis
14 26 (1.75%) Star Schema
15 24 (1.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 22 (1.48%) Tableau
17 21 (1.41%) MySQL
18 16 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 13 (0.88%) DynamoDB
19 13 (0.88%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 268 (18.05%) Git
2 193 (13.00%) JIRA
3 128 (8.62%) Jenkins
4 81 (5.45%) GitLab
5 39 (2.63%) Selenium
6 35 (2.36%) Cypress.io
7 28 (1.89%) Postman
8 18 (1.21%) JUnit
9 14 (0.94%) Visual Studio
10 13 (0.88%) JMeter
10 13 (0.88%) NUnit
11 12 (0.81%) REST Assured
12 11 (0.74%) fastlane
13 10 (0.67%) Claude Code
13 10 (0.67%) Mockito
13 10 (0.67%) Octopus Deploy
13 10 (0.67%) SonarQube
13 10 (0.67%) Visual Studio Code
14 9 (0.61%) MSI
15 8 (0.54%) Eclipse
General
1 443 (29.83%) Social Skills
2 361 (24.31%) Finance
3 155 (10.44%) Analytical Skills
4 143 (9.63%) Public Sector
5 106 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 50 (3.37%) Law
7 43 (2.90%) Retail
8 32 (2.15%) Marketing
9 30 (2.02%) Legal
10 29 (1.95%) Advertising
10 29 (1.95%) Banking
10 29 (1.95%) Manufacturing
11 24 (1.62%) Documentation Skills
12 20 (1.35%) Games
12 20 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
13 13 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
13 13 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
14 11 (0.74%) Telecoms
15 10 (0.67%) Police
16 9 (0.61%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 443 (29.83%) Developer
2 342 (23.03%) Senior
3 220 (14.81%) .NET Developer
4 216 (14.55%) DevOps Engineer
5 211 (14.21%) Azure Engineer
6 147 (9.90%) Lead
7 108 (7.27%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 103 (6.94%) Data Engineer
9 101 (6.80%) Analyst
10 90 (6.06%) Platform Engineer
10 90 (6.06%) Senior Developer
11 65 (4.38%) Senior DevOps
12 62 (4.18%) Consultant
13 61 (4.11%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 59 (3.97%) Cloud Engineer
15 54 (3.64%) Software Engineer
16 52 (3.50%) Business Analyst
17 50 (3.37%) Architect
18 49 (3.30%) Senior Data Engineer
19 42 (2.83%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 468 (31.52%) .NET
2 347 (23.37%) Terraform
3 250 (16.84%) ASP.NET
4 226 (15.22%) .NET Core
5 198 (13.33%) ASP.NET Core
6 161 (10.84%) REST
7 149 (10.03%) RESTful
8 148 (9.97%) React
9 141 (9.49%) HTML
10 140 (9.43%) CSS
11 123 (8.28%) Blazor
12 122 (8.22%) Entity Framework
13 78 (5.25%) ML.NET
14 76 (5.12%) Node.js
15 61 (4.11%) .NET Framework
16 55 (3.70%) YAML
17 52 (3.50%) JSON
17 52 (3.50%) Playwright
18 48 (3.23%) PySpark
19 46 (3.10%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 137 (9.23%) Cloud Native
2 135 (9.09%) Product Ownership
3 95 (6.40%) Enterprise Software
4 64 (4.31%) Legacy Systems
5 55 (3.70%) Onboarding
6 46 (3.10%) Mobile App
7 39 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
7 39 (2.63%) Greenfield Project
8 36 (2.42%) Hybrid Cloud
9 35 (2.36%) Legacy Applications
10 34 (2.29%) Management Information System
11 23 (1.55%) AI Agents
11 23 (1.55%) Low-Code
11 23 (1.55%) Mainframe
11 23 (1.55%) Security Posture
11 23 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
12 21 (1.41%) Public Cloud
13 17 (1.14%) Data Centre
13 17 (1.14%) iPhone
14 16 (1.08%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 106 (7.14%) Windows
2 89 (5.99%) Linux
3 25 (1.68%) Android
4 22 (1.48%) Unix
4 22 (1.48%) VMS
5 20 (1.35%) Windows Server
6 11 (0.74%) Ubuntu
7 8 (0.54%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.27%) Embedded Linux
8 4 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.20%) Kali Linux
9 3 (0.20%) Solaris
10 2 (0.13%) Debian
10 2 (0.13%) Rocky
11 1 (0.067%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.067%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.067%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,485 (100.00%) DevOps
2 826 (55.62%) CI/CD
3 670 (45.12%) Agile
4 358 (24.11%) AI
5 336 (22.63%) Continuous Improvement
6 325 (21.89%) Infrastructure as Code
7 282 (18.99%) Problem-Solving
8 236 (15.89%) Full-Stack Development
9 217 (14.61%) Mentoring
9 217 (14.61%) Test Automation
10 213 (14.34%) Analytics
11 211 (14.21%) Stakeholder Management
12 202 (13.60%) Scrum
13 179 (12.05%) Microservices
14 170 (11.45%) Platform Engineering
15 168 (11.31%) Business Intelligence
16 152 (10.24%) Software Engineering
17 151 (10.17%) Observability
18 146 (9.83%) Data Modelling
19 137 (9.23%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 538 (36.23%) SQL
2 481 (32.39%) C#
3 283 (19.06%) Python
4 231 (15.56%) JavaScript
5 182 (12.26%) PowerShell
6 131 (8.82%) Bicep
7 119 (8.01%) Bash
8 97 (6.53%) Java
9 56 (3.77%) TypeScript
10 44 (2.96%) T-SQL
11 21 (1.41%) C++
12 19 (1.28%) COBOL
12 19 (1.28%) JCL
13 18 (1.21%) Scala
14 17 (1.14%) VB.NET
15 16 (1.08%) Kusto Query Language
16 15 (1.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 9 (0.61%) Go
18 8 (0.54%) Apex Code
18 8 (0.54%) VBA
Qualifications
1 155 (10.44%) Degree
2 132 (8.89%) Security Cleared
3 114 (7.68%) Azure Certification
3 114 (7.68%) SC Cleared
4 56 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
4 56 (3.77%) Microsoft Certification
5 31 (2.09%) ISTQB
5 31 (2.09%) PMI Certification
6 24 (1.62%) PMP
7 19 (1.28%) Master's Degree
8 17 (1.14%) ACCA
8 17 (1.14%) CIMA
9 12 (0.81%) AWS Certification
10 11 (0.74%) CBAP
11 9 (0.61%) CSPO
11 9 (0.61%) ISEB
12 8 (0.54%) DV Cleared
12 8 (0.54%) TOGAF Certification
13 7 (0.47%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 6 (0.40%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 175 (11.78%) QA
2 106 (7.14%) Data Quality
3 74 (4.98%) Accessibility
4 40 (2.69%) GDPR
5 36 (2.42%) WCAG
6 21 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 21 (1.41%) PMO
7 11 (0.74%) SLA
8 9 (0.61%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 8 (0.54%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 7 (0.47%) NCSC
11 6 (0.40%) JTAG
12 5 (0.34%) TickIT
13 4 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
13 4 (0.27%) NIST
14 3 (0.20%) ISO 9001
14 3 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 2 (0.13%) PCI DSS
15 2 (0.13%) SEPA
15 2 (0.13%) Solvency II
System Software
1 178 (11.99%) Docker
2 71 (4.78%) 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 4 (0.27%) 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
1 172 (11.58%) Kubernetes
2 57 (3.84%) Ansible
2 57 (3.84%) Grafana
3 44 (2.96%) Prometheus
4 30 (2.02%) Microsoft Intune
5 27 (1.82%) Argo
6 13 (0.88%) Puppet
7 11 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.34%) SCCM
9 4 (0.27%) 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 (0.067%) Kibana
12 1 (0.067%) linkerd
12 1 (0.067%) logstash
Vendors
1 675 (45.45%) Microsoft
2 100 (6.73%) Databricks
3 65 (4.38%) Google
4 38 (2.56%) VMware
5 37 (2.49%) Facebook
6 36 (2.42%) Salesforce
7 26 (1.75%) Dynatrace
8 25 (1.68%) SAP
9 24 (1.62%) ServiceNow
9 24 (1.62%) YouTube
10 23 (1.55%) Apple
11 21 (1.41%) OpenAI
12 16 (1.08%) Oracle
12 16 (1.08%) Sony
12 16 (1.08%) Yahoo!
13 15 (1.01%) Red Hat
14 12 (0.81%) Foundry
14 12 (0.81%) Informatica
14 12 (0.81%) MuleSoft
14 12 (0.81%) ScienceLogic