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 8 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 174 110 110
Rank change year-on-year -64 0 -3
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 999 1,073 2,294
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.21% 2.62% 2.52%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.79% 7.11% 6.85%
Number of salaries quoted 714 805 1,858
10th Percentile £42,500 £43,932 £41,933
25th Percentile £50,000 £53,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,500 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.96% +8.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -15.38% +8.33% +0.80%

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 26,360 15,087 33,497
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 31.83% 36.89% 36.78%
Number of salaries quoted 13,946 11,059 26,461
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,550 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +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 8 April 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 8 April 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 -70 833 £65,500 -6.43% 403
UK excluding London -57 608 £55,000 -15.38% 340
Work from Home -10 417 £62,750 -7.04% 254
London -17 324 £77,500 +3.33% 131
South East -38 168 £50,000 -28.57% 101
North of England -31 127 £59,000 -15.71% 74
Scotland +48 103 £62,500 +8.70% 22
Midlands -55 92 £63,500 -2.31% 60
South West -88 78 £50,000 -23.08% 34
North West -24 56 £67,500 +1.89% 41
West Midlands -42 54 £58,750 -12.96% 37
Yorkshire -54 40 £60,000 -14.29% 22
East Midlands -29 35 £65,750 +1.15% 23
North East -5 31 £50,000 -23.08% 11
East of England -56 25 £70,000 +32.08% 33
Wales -35 14 £53,171 -18.20% 21
Northern Ireland -36 3 £56,250 +12.50% 1

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 34 (3.40%) SharePoint
2 32 (3.20%) Confluence
3 25 (2.50%) IIS
4 22 (2.20%) Microsoft Exchange
5 11 (1.10%) Apache Spark
6 8 (0.80%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 7 (0.70%) Anypoint
8 5 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.40%) Apache
9 4 (0.40%) Moodle
10 2 (0.20%) BizTalk Server
10 2 (0.20%) CICS
11 1 (0.10%) Appian
11 1 (0.10%) CMS
11 1 (0.10%) Drupal
11 1 (0.10%) nginx
11 1 (0.10%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.10%) PegaRULES
11 1 (0.10%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.10%) WordPress
Applications
1 26 (2.60%) MS Visio
2 23 (2.30%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (1.20%) Microsoft Project
4 9 (0.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
6 5 (0.50%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.30%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.20%) Trello
9 1 (0.10%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 21 (2.10%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (1.60%) Oracle ERP
3 6 (0.60%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (0.30%) Elite 3E
5 2 (0.20%) Magento
5 2 (0.20%) SAP CX
5 2 (0.20%) Visualfiles
5 2 (0.20%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.10%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.10%) Endur
6 1 (0.10%) Infor M3
6 1 (0.10%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 1 (0.10%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.10%) Primavera
6 1 (0.10%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.10%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 998 (99.90%) Azure
2 295 (29.53%) GitHub
3 191 (19.12%) Power Platform
4 157 (15.72%) GitHub Actions
5 156 (15.62%) AWS
6 95 (9.51%) Serverless
7 91 (9.11%) Azure Data Factory
8 88 (8.81%) Entra ID
9 80 (8.01%) Azure Monitor
10 79 (7.91%) Microsoft 365
11 76 (7.61%) PaaS
12 63 (6.31%) Azure Logic Apps
13 61 (6.11%) Dynamics 365
14 59 (5.91%) SaaS
15 58 (5.81%) GCP
16 54 (5.41%) Azure Functions
17 53 (5.31%) Azure AKS
18 49 (4.90%) Azure Key Vault
19 47 (4.70%) Snowflake
20 45 (4.50%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 62 (6.21%) Firewall
2 37 (3.70%) DNS
3 19 (1.90%) HTTP
3 19 (1.90%) TCP/IP
4 15 (1.50%) VPN
4 15 (1.50%) WAN
5 11 (1.10%) Network Security
6 3 (0.30%) BGP
6 3 (0.30%) DHCP
6 3 (0.30%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.20%) SSL
7 2 (0.20%) VLAN
8 1 (0.10%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.10%) Internet
8 1 (0.10%) IP Telephony
8 1 (0.10%) LTE
8 1 (0.10%) MPLS
8 1 (0.10%) NetScaler
8 1 (0.10%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 128 (12.81%) SQL Server
2 105 (10.51%) Power BI
3 71 (7.11%) Azure SQL Database
4 45 (4.50%) Data Warehouse
5 38 (3.80%) NoSQL
6 35 (3.50%) Data Lake
7 30 (3.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 22 (2.20%) PostgreSQL
9 20 (2.00%) Delta Lake
9 20 (2.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 18 (1.80%) Relational Database
11 17 (1.70%) MongoDB
11 17 (1.70%) Tableau
12 16 (1.60%) DynamoDB
13 11 (1.10%) Amazon RDS
13 11 (1.10%) Snowflake Schema
14 10 (1.00%) Spark SQL
15 9 (0.90%) MySQL
16 8 (0.80%) Metadata
16 8 (0.80%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 172 (17.22%) Git
2 135 (13.51%) JIRA
3 109 (10.91%) Jenkins
4 60 (6.01%) Selenium
5 40 (4.00%) GitLab
6 38 (3.80%) Cypress.io
7 28 (2.80%) Postman
8 24 (2.40%) Visual Studio
9 19 (1.90%) Eclipse
10 18 (1.80%) Octopus Deploy
11 16 (1.60%) Oracle Forms
12 14 (1.40%) Robot Framework
12 14 (1.40%) TeamCity
13 12 (1.20%) Snyk
14 11 (1.10%) NUnit
14 11 (1.10%) REST Assured
15 10 (1.00%) JMeter
15 10 (1.00%) TestRail
16 9 (0.90%) SpecFlow
17 8 (0.80%) Zephyr
General
1 310 (31.03%) Finance
2 251 (25.13%) Social Skills
3 149 (14.91%) Analytical Skills
4 57 (5.71%) Law
5 36 (3.60%) Public Sector
6 35 (3.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 33 (3.30%) Legal
8 31 (3.10%) Retail
9 27 (2.70%) Marketing
10 26 (2.60%) Billing
11 22 (2.20%) Telecoms
12 20 (2.00%) Banking
13 18 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
14 12 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
15 9 (0.90%) Manufacturing
16 8 (0.80%) Advertising
16 8 (0.80%) Documentation Skills
17 7 (0.70%) Automotive
17 7 (0.70%) Tech for Good
18 5 (0.50%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 210 (21.02%) Developer
2 190 (19.02%) Senior
3 148 (14.81%) Lead
4 144 (14.41%) Azure Engineer
5 140 (14.01%) DevOps Engineer
6 70 (7.01%) Cloud Engineer
7 64 (6.41%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 60 (6.01%) Analyst
9 58 (5.81%) Data Engineer
10 52 (5.21%) Architect
11 46 (4.60%) .NET Developer
12 44 (4.40%) Senior Developer
13 33 (3.30%) Platform Engineer
14 31 (3.10%) Software Engineer
15 30 (3.00%) Applications Engineer
16 28 (2.80%) Test Leader
17 27 (2.70%) Power Platform Developer
17 27 (2.70%) Software Developer
17 27 (2.70%) Solutions Architect
18 25 (2.50%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 244 (24.42%) .NET
2 109 (10.91%) React
3 95 (9.51%) RESTful
4 88 (8.81%) REST
5 73 (7.31%) CSS
6 72 (7.21%) HTML
7 70 (7.01%) ASP.NET
7 70 (7.01%) OAuth
8 66 (6.61%) .NET Core
9 54 (5.41%) YAML
10 52 (5.21%) SOAP
11 50 (5.01%) .NET Framework
12 47 (4.70%) Playwright
13 42 (4.20%) JSON
14 41 (4.10%) Node.js
15 39 (3.90%) ASP.NET Core
16 38 (3.80%) PySpark
17 37 (3.70%) SAML
18 33 (3.30%) OAuth2
19 31 (3.10%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 120 (12.01%) Product Ownership
2 112 (11.21%) Cloud Native
3 38 (3.80%) Enterprise Software
4 34 (3.40%) Management Information System
5 33 (3.30%) Low-Code
6 32 (3.20%) Mobile App
7 27 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
8 21 (2.10%) Analytical Mindset
9 20 (2.00%) Reinsurance
10 17 (1.70%) Distributed Systems
11 16 (1.60%) Data Structures
12 14 (1.40%) Hybrid Cloud
12 14 (1.40%) Virtual Team
13 12 (1.20%) Onboarding
13 12 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
14 10 (1.00%) Legacy Applications
14 10 (1.00%) Security Posture
15 8 (0.80%) Public Cloud
16 7 (0.70%) Culture of Ownership
16 7 (0.70%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 70 (7.01%) Windows
2 65 (6.51%) Linux
3 17 (1.70%) VMS
4 15 (1.50%) Windows Server
5 12 (1.20%) Ubuntu
6 10 (1.00%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.50%) Android
8 3 (0.30%) Unix
9 2 (0.20%) Kali Linux
9 2 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.10%) CentOS
10 1 (0.10%) SUSE
10 1 (0.10%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 998 (99.90%) DevOps
2 619 (61.96%) CI/CD
3 473 (47.35%) Agile
4 289 (28.93%) Infrastructure as Code
5 252 (25.23%) Test Automation
6 214 (21.42%) Continuous Improvement
7 206 (20.62%) Problem-Solving
8 166 (16.62%) AI
9 154 (15.42%) Analytics
10 152 (15.22%) Mentoring
11 145 (14.51%) Observability
12 138 (13.81%) Coaching
13 134 (13.41%) Data Modelling
14 133 (13.31%) Scrum
15 123 (12.31%) Containerisation
16 106 (10.61%) Business Intelligence
16 106 (10.61%) Software Engineering
17 104 (10.41%) Microservices
18 103 (10.31%) SDLC
19 95 (9.51%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 348 (34.83%) SQL
2 245 (24.52%) Python
3 209 (20.92%) C#
4 133 (13.31%) JavaScript
5 131 (13.11%) PowerShell
6 87 (8.71%) Bash
7 83 (8.31%) Bicep
8 61 (6.11%) TypeScript
9 45 (4.50%) Java
10 24 (2.40%) Apex Code
11 23 (2.30%) Go
12 20 (2.00%) PL/SQL
13 19 (1.90%) Scala
13 19 (1.90%) T-SQL
14 17 (1.70%) Shell Script
15 12 (1.20%) Kusto Query Language
16 11 (1.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 8 (0.80%) Swift
18 7 (0.70%) DataWeave
19 5 (0.50%) C++
Qualifications
1 101 (10.11%) Degree
2 67 (6.71%) Security Cleared
3 52 (5.21%) Azure Certification
4 51 (5.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 34 (3.40%) ISTQB
5 34 (3.40%) SC Cleared
6 26 (2.60%) DV Cleared
7 25 (2.50%) Master's Degree
8 24 (2.40%) Microsoft Certification
9 15 (1.50%) AWS Certification
10 13 (1.30%) HND
11 11 (1.10%) AWS Certified Developer
12 10 (1.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 10 (1.00%) PMI Certification
13 6 (0.60%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 4 (0.40%) BC Cleared
14 4 (0.40%) DBS Check
14 4 (0.40%) PMP
15 3 (0.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 3 (0.30%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 114 (11.41%) QA
2 71 (7.11%) Accessibility
3 46 (4.60%) Data Quality
3 46 (4.60%) GDPR
4 37 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 14 (1.40%) SOC 2
6 12 (1.20%) SLA
7 10 (1.00%) NCSC
8 9 (0.90%) GRC
8 9 (0.90%) NIST
9 7 (0.70%) WCAG
10 5 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 5 (0.50%) Software Quality Assurance
10 5 (0.50%) TickIT
11 4 (0.40%) Solvency II
12 3 (0.30%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 3 (0.30%) IFRS
12 3 (0.30%) PERC
12 3 (0.30%) PMO
13 2 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 141 (14.11%) Docker
2 63 (6.31%) Active Directory
3 20 (2.00%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.40%) Postfix
6 3 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.20%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.20%) vCloud
8 1 (0.10%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 1 (0.10%) Firmware
8 1 (0.10%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.10%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.10%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 298 (29.83%) Terraform
2 110 (11.01%) Kubernetes
3 90 (9.01%) Ansible
4 58 (5.81%) Grafana
5 48 (4.80%) Prometheus
6 18 (1.80%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (0.90%) Kibana
7 9 (0.90%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (0.50%) HP ALM
9 4 (0.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (0.40%) logstash
10 3 (0.30%) Scalr
11 2 (0.20%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (0.20%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.20%) MIIS
11 2 (0.20%) Nagios
11 2 (0.20%) Nessus
11 2 (0.20%) Puppet
11 2 (0.20%) SCCM
12 1 (0.10%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 362 (36.24%) Microsoft
2 61 (6.11%) Databricks
3 42 (4.20%) Salesforce
4 36 (3.60%) ServiceNow
5 27 (2.70%) Oracle
6 20 (2.00%) Red Hat
7 18 (1.80%) Palo Alto
8 15 (1.50%) Adobe
8 15 (1.50%) Dynatrace
8 15 (1.50%) Zscaler
9 13 (1.30%) MuleSoft
9 13 (1.30%) VMware
10 12 (1.20%) Black Duck
10 12 (1.20%) Coverity
10 12 (1.20%) Freshdesk
10 12 (1.20%) Nintex
11 10 (1.00%) Ab Initio
11 10 (1.00%) CrowdStrike
11 10 (1.00%) Google
11 10 (1.00%) Okta