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 20 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 153 116 108
Rank change year-on-year -37 -8 0
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,061 1,144 2,226
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.41% 2.70% 2.60%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.37% 7.28% 6.91%
Number of salaries quoted 694 840 1,849
10th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £41,933
25th Percentile £47,500 £53,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £82,406 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -15.38% +8.33% -

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 24,261 15,718 32,192
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.19% 37.15% 37.65%
Number of salaries quoted 12,981 10,985 25,829
10th Percentile £29,250 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £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 £80,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,250
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 20 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 20 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 -51 879 £65,000 -3.70% 406
UK excluding London -37 665 £55,000 -15.38% 350
Work from Home -2 436 £60,748 -10.00% 264
London -8 325 £75,000 - 126
South East +5 248 £50,000 -25.93% 98
Scotland +54 123 £62,500 +13.64% 30
North of England -39 107 £52,500 -22.22% 81
Midlands -57 82 £61,250 -5.77% 64
South West -87 71 £47,500 -26.92% 37
West Midlands -44 52 £58,750 -12.96% 40
Yorkshire -50 39 £51,250 -26.79% 22
North West -31 37 £63,000 -3.08% 49
North East -2 31 £50,000 -23.08% 10
East Midlands -35 27 £65,000 - 24
East of England -47 21 £70,000 +32.08% 33
Wales -35 10 £55,000 -15.38% 16
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 (3.11%) Confluence
2 30 (2.83%) SharePoint
3 27 (2.54%) IIS
4 18 (1.70%) Microsoft Exchange
5 10 (0.94%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 8 (0.75%) Apache Spark
7 7 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
8 6 (0.57%) Anypoint
9 4 (0.38%) Apache
9 4 (0.38%) Moodle
10 2 (0.19%) Appian
10 2 (0.19%) BizTalk Server
10 2 (0.19%) CICS
11 1 (0.094%) CMS
11 1 (0.094%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.094%) PegaRULES
11 1 (0.094%) Tomcat
Applications
1 27 (2.54%) MS Visio
2 26 (2.45%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (1.13%) Microsoft Project
4 11 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
5 9 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.28%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.19%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.19%) Trello
8 1 (0.094%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 70 (6.60%) SAP S/4HANA
2 22 (2.07%) Oracle ERP
3 19 (1.79%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.57%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.19%) Elite 3E
5 2 (0.19%) Markit EDM
5 2 (0.19%) SAP CX
5 2 (0.19%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.094%) Endur
6 1 (0.094%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 1 (0.094%) Magento
6 1 (0.094%) Primavera
6 1 (0.094%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.094%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 991 (93.40%) Azure
2 307 (28.93%) GitHub
3 197 (18.57%) Power Platform
4 155 (14.61%) GitHub Actions
5 154 (14.51%) AWS
6 89 (8.39%) Azure Data Factory
7 86 (8.11%) Entra ID
8 84 (7.92%) Serverless
9 82 (7.73%) Azure Monitor
10 81 (7.63%) Microsoft 365
11 77 (7.26%) PaaS
12 61 (5.75%) SaaS
13 58 (5.47%) Snowflake
14 57 (5.37%) GCP
15 56 (5.28%) Azure Logic Apps
16 53 (5.00%) Azure AKS
16 53 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
17 51 (4.81%) GitHub Copilot
18 46 (4.34%) dbt
19 45 (4.24%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 62 (5.84%) Firewall
2 40 (3.77%) DNS
3 21 (1.98%) HTTP
3 21 (1.98%) TCP/IP
4 19 (1.79%) VPN
5 15 (1.41%) WAN
6 8 (0.75%) Network Security
7 3 (0.28%) BGP
7 3 (0.28%) DHCP
7 3 (0.28%) SD-WAN
7 3 (0.28%) SSL
8 2 (0.19%) AMQP
8 2 (0.19%) VLAN
9 1 (0.094%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.094%) Internet
9 1 (0.094%) IP Telephony
9 1 (0.094%) LTE
9 1 (0.094%) MPLS
9 1 (0.094%) NetScaler
9 1 (0.094%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 140 (13.20%) SQL Server
2 114 (10.74%) Power BI
3 73 (6.88%) Azure SQL Database
4 56 (5.28%) Data Warehouse
5 38 (3.58%) NoSQL
5 38 (3.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 34 (3.20%) Data Lake
7 22 (2.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 20 (1.89%) PostgreSQL
8 20 (1.89%) Tableau
9 19 (1.79%) Relational Database
10 15 (1.41%) DynamoDB
10 15 (1.41%) MongoDB
11 14 (1.32%) Delta Lake
11 14 (1.32%) Snowflake Schema
12 10 (0.94%) Metadata
12 10 (0.94%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 9 (0.85%) Star Schema
14 8 (0.75%) GIS
14 8 (0.75%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 198 (18.66%) JIRA
2 174 (16.40%) Git
3 113 (10.65%) Jenkins
4 69 (6.50%) eCATT
5 58 (5.47%) Selenium
6 40 (3.77%) Cypress.io
7 38 (3.58%) NeoLoad
8 36 (3.39%) GitLab
9 24 (2.26%) Visual Studio
10 22 (2.07%) Octopus Deploy
10 22 (2.07%) Oracle Forms
11 20 (1.89%) Postman
12 19 (1.79%) Eclipse
12 19 (1.79%) Robot Framework
12 19 (1.79%) Snyk
13 17 (1.60%) TeamCity
14 10 (0.94%) NUnit
15 8 (0.75%) REST Assured
15 8 (0.75%) SpecFlow
15 8 (0.75%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 402 (37.89%) Finance
2 248 (23.37%) Social Skills
3 152 (14.33%) Analytical Skills
4 90 (8.48%) Marketing
5 78 (7.35%) Manufacturing
6 60 (5.66%) Presentation Skills
7 57 (5.37%) Influencing Skills
8 56 (5.28%) Law
9 32 (3.02%) Public Sector
10 28 (2.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 27 (2.54%) Legal
12 26 (2.45%) Retail
13 25 (2.36%) Billing
14 23 (2.17%) Banking
15 21 (1.98%) Telecoms
16 9 (0.85%) Tech for Good
17 8 (0.75%) Advertising
17 8 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
18 5 (0.47%) Games
19 4 (0.38%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 212 (19.98%) Senior
2 196 (18.47%) Developer
3 160 (15.08%) Lead
4 139 (13.10%) DevOps Engineer
5 128 (12.06%) Azure Engineer
6 110 (10.37%) Analyst
7 75 (7.07%) Cloud Engineer
8 59 (5.56%) Data Engineer
9 55 (5.18%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 50 (4.71%) Test Leader
11 46 (4.34%) Architect
12 43 (4.05%) .NET Developer
13 40 (3.77%) Software Engineer
14 36 (3.39%) Applications Engineer
15 34 (3.20%) Platform Engineer
16 33 (3.11%) Senior Developer
17 27 (2.54%) Test Analyst
18 26 (2.45%) Power Platform Developer
18 26 (2.45%) Solutions Architect
19 25 (2.36%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 238 (22.43%) .NET
2 99 (9.33%) RESTful
3 96 (9.05%) React
4 77 (7.26%) REST
5 71 (6.69%) OAuth
6 70 (6.60%) CSS
7 69 (6.50%) HTML
8 67 (6.31%) .NET Core
8 67 (6.31%) ASP.NET
9 61 (5.75%) YAML
10 53 (5.00%) SOAP
11 50 (4.71%) .NET Framework
12 44 (4.15%) JSON
13 40 (3.77%) Playwright
14 39 (3.68%) SAML
15 36 (3.39%) Node.js
16 35 (3.30%) OAuth2
17 34 (3.20%) ASP.NET Core
18 30 (2.83%) Entity Framework
19 28 (2.64%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 123 (11.59%) Product Ownership
2 118 (11.12%) Cloud Native
3 43 (4.05%) Enterprise Software
4 38 (3.58%) Management Information System
5 33 (3.11%) Low-Code
6 32 (3.02%) Legacy Systems
7 30 (2.83%) Mobile App
8 21 (1.98%) Reinsurance
9 20 (1.89%) Analytical Mindset
10 19 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
10 19 (1.79%) Virtual Team
11 15 (1.41%) Data Structures
11 15 (1.41%) Security Posture
12 13 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
13 12 (1.13%) Distributed Systems
14 11 (1.04%) Onboarding
15 10 (0.94%) Legacy Applications
16 8 (0.75%) Greenfield Project
17 7 (0.66%) AI Agents
18 6 (0.57%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 77 (7.26%) Windows
2 60 (5.66%) Linux
3 18 (1.70%) VMS
4 13 (1.23%) Windows Server
5 11 (1.04%) Ubuntu
6 8 (0.75%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.47%) Android
8 3 (0.28%) Unix
9 2 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.094%) CentOS
10 1 (0.094%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.094%) SUSE
10 1 (0.094%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.094%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.094%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 991 (93.40%) DevOps
2 616 (58.06%) CI/CD
3 482 (45.43%) Agile
4 287 (27.05%) Infrastructure as Code
5 270 (25.45%) Test Automation
6 249 (23.47%) Continuous Improvement
7 208 (19.60%) Problem-Solving
8 174 (16.40%) AI
9 164 (15.46%) Mentoring
10 163 (15.36%) Analytics
11 161 (15.17%) Coaching
12 140 (13.20%) Observability
13 139 (13.10%) Roadmaps
14 137 (12.91%) Data Modelling
15 125 (11.78%) Scrum
16 121 (11.40%) Containerisation
17 115 (10.84%) Business Intelligence
18 110 (10.37%) Asset Management
19 106 (9.99%) Software Engineering
20 104 (9.80%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 357 (33.65%) SQL
2 244 (23.00%) Python
3 200 (18.85%) C#
4 141 (13.29%) PowerShell
5 120 (11.31%) JavaScript
6 85 (8.01%) Bicep
7 83 (7.82%) Bash
8 59 (5.56%) TypeScript
9 50 (4.71%) Java
10 27 (2.54%) Apex Code
10 27 (2.54%) T-SQL
11 26 (2.45%) PL/SQL
12 24 (2.26%) Shell Script
13 23 (2.17%) Go
14 16 (1.51%) Scala
15 12 (1.13%) Kusto Query Language
16 10 (0.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 6 (0.57%) DataWeave
17 6 (0.57%) Swift
18 5 (0.47%) C++
Qualifications
1 106 (9.99%) Degree
2 64 (6.03%) Security Cleared
3 56 (5.28%) Computer Science Degree
4 54 (5.09%) Azure Certification
5 32 (3.02%) ISTQB
6 30 (2.83%) Master's Degree
7 29 (2.73%) DV Cleared
7 29 (2.73%) SC Cleared
8 24 (2.26%) Microsoft Certification
9 16 (1.51%) AWS Certification
10 13 (1.23%) HND
11 11 (1.04%) AWS Certified Developer
12 10 (0.94%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 10 (0.94%) PMI Certification
13 6 (0.57%) DBS Check
14 5 (0.47%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 5 (0.47%) PMP
15 4 (0.38%) BC Cleared
15 4 (0.38%) CBAP
16 3 (0.28%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 140 (13.20%) QA
2 71 (6.69%) Accessibility
3 47 (4.43%) Data Quality
4 46 (4.34%) GDPR
5 38 (3.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 14 (1.32%) SOC 2
7 12 (1.13%) NCSC
7 12 (1.13%) NIST
7 12 (1.13%) SLA
8 10 (0.94%) PMO
9 7 (0.66%) GRC
10 5 (0.47%) PERC
10 5 (0.47%) WCAG
11 4 (0.38%) Software Quality Assurance
12 2 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.19%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 2 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.19%) Solvency II
13 1 (0.094%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 1 (0.094%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 128 (12.06%) Docker
2 62 (5.84%) Active Directory
3 21 (1.98%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.57%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.38%) Postfix
6 2 (0.19%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.19%) vCloud
7 1 (0.094%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 1 (0.094%) Firmware
7 1 (0.094%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.094%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.094%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 307 (28.93%) Terraform
2 112 (10.56%) Kubernetes
3 92 (8.67%) Ansible
4 73 (6.88%) HP ALM
5 57 (5.37%) Grafana
6 46 (4.34%) Prometheus
7 24 (2.26%) Single Sign-On
8 12 (1.13%) Microsoft Intune
9 8 (0.75%) Kibana
10 4 (0.38%) logstash
11 3 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.19%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (0.19%) Nessus
12 2 (0.19%) SCCM
13 1 (0.094%) FortiGate
13 1 (0.094%) MIIS
13 1 (0.094%) Nagios
13 1 (0.094%) Puppet
13 1 (0.094%) Scalr
13 1 (0.094%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 343 (32.33%) Microsoft
2 76 (7.16%) SAP
3 73 (6.88%) HP
4 54 (5.09%) Databricks
5 40 (3.77%) Salesforce
6 37 (3.49%) ServiceNow
7 31 (2.92%) Oracle
8 18 (1.70%) Palo Alto
8 18 (1.70%) Red Hat
9 17 (1.60%) Black Duck
9 17 (1.60%) Coverity
10 16 (1.51%) Dynatrace
11 15 (1.41%) Adobe
11 15 (1.41%) Zscaler
12 14 (1.32%) Okta
12 14 (1.32%) VMware
13 12 (1.13%) Ab Initio
13 12 (1.13%) Freshdesk
13 12 (1.13%) Nintex
14 11 (1.04%) MuleSoft