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

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 167 111 110
Rank change year-on-year -56 -1 -3
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 985 1,086 2,300
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.25% 2.65% 2.57%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.87% 7.16% 6.92%
Number of salaries quoted 694 821 1,875
10th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £42,279
25th Percentile £49,282 £53,750 £50,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £78,750
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 25,475 15,159 33,230
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.25% 37.03% 37.12%
Number of salaries quoted 13,442 11,029 26,352
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,000 £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 £82,500 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,065 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.34% +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 31 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 31 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 -76 813 £65,000 -3.70% 403
UK excluding London -63 597 £55,000 -15.38% 340
Work from Home 0 425 £62,500 -7.41% 254
London -18 319 £75,000 - 131
South East -39 175 £50,000 -27.27% 101
North of England -40 115 £55,000 -20.00% 74
Scotland +49 113 £62,500 +8.70% 22
Midlands -47 86 £63,500 -4.15% 60
South West -91 75 £50,000 -23.08% 34
West Midlands -49 52 £58,750 -16.07% 37
North West -19 43 £65,500 -1.13% 41
Yorkshire -47 40 £57,500 -17.86% 22
North East +4 32 £50,000 -23.08% 11
East Midlands -24 31 £65,000 - 23
East of England -53 22 £70,000 +32.08% 33
Wales -36 10 £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 33 (3.35%) Confluence
2 32 (3.25%) SharePoint
3 27 (2.74%) IIS
4 18 (1.83%) Microsoft Exchange
5 11 (1.12%) Apache Spark
6 9 (0.91%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 7 (0.71%) Anypoint
8 5 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.41%) Apache
9 4 (0.41%) 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 (2.64%) MS Visio
2 23 (2.34%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (1.12%) Microsoft Project
4 9 (0.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
6 3 (0.30%) Adobe XD
6 3 (0.30%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.20%) Trello
8 1 (0.10%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 19 (1.93%) Oracle ERP
2 18 (1.83%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.61%) Dynamics AX
3 6 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.20%) Elite 3E
4 2 (0.20%) Magento
4 2 (0.20%) SAP CX
4 2 (0.20%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.10%) Endur
5 1 (0.10%) Infor M3
5 1 (0.10%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 1 (0.10%) Markit EDM
5 1 (0.10%) Primavera
5 1 (0.10%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.10%) Shopify
5 1 (0.10%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 978 (99.29%) Azure
2 293 (29.75%) GitHub
3 187 (18.98%) Power Platform
4 157 (15.94%) AWS
5 152 (15.43%) GitHub Actions
6 90 (9.14%) Azure Data Factory
6 90 (9.14%) Serverless
7 85 (8.63%) Entra ID
8 81 (8.22%) Azure Monitor
9 77 (7.82%) PaaS
10 75 (7.61%) Microsoft 365
11 61 (6.19%) Azure Logic Apps
12 59 (5.99%) GCP
13 57 (5.79%) SaaS
14 53 (5.38%) Azure AKS
15 52 (5.28%) Snowflake
16 51 (5.18%) Azure Functions
16 51 (5.18%) Dynamics 365
17 48 (4.87%) GitHub Copilot
18 47 (4.77%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 62 (6.29%) Firewall
2 40 (4.06%) DNS
3 19 (1.93%) HTTP
3 19 (1.93%) TCP/IP
4 16 (1.62%) VPN
5 15 (1.52%) WAN
6 9 (0.91%) Network Security
7 3 (0.30%) BGP
7 3 (0.30%) DHCP
7 3 (0.30%) SD-WAN
7 3 (0.30%) SSL
8 2 (0.20%) VLAN
9 1 (0.10%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.10%) Internet
9 1 (0.10%) IP Telephony
9 1 (0.10%) LTE
9 1 (0.10%) MPLS
9 1 (0.10%) NetScaler
9 1 (0.10%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 128 (12.99%) SQL Server
2 105 (10.66%) Power BI
3 71 (7.21%) Azure SQL Database
4 51 (5.18%) Data Warehouse
5 37 (3.76%) NoSQL
6 36 (3.65%) Data Lake
7 32 (3.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 21 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
8 21 (2.13%) Tableau
9 19 (1.93%) Delta Lake
10 17 (1.73%) Relational Database
10 17 (1.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 16 (1.62%) MongoDB
12 15 (1.52%) DynamoDB
13 12 (1.22%) Snowflake Schema
14 10 (1.02%) Amazon RDS
14 10 (1.02%) Metadata
15 9 (0.91%) MySQL
15 9 (0.91%) Star Schema
16 8 (0.81%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 172 (17.46%) Git
2 136 (13.81%) JIRA
3 109 (11.07%) Jenkins
4 60 (6.09%) Selenium
5 40 (4.06%) Cypress.io
6 39 (3.96%) GitLab
7 26 (2.64%) Visual Studio
8 25 (2.54%) Postman
9 19 (1.93%) Eclipse
9 19 (1.93%) Oracle Forms
10 18 (1.83%) Octopus Deploy
10 18 (1.83%) Robot Framework
11 16 (1.62%) Snyk
12 14 (1.42%) TeamCity
13 11 (1.12%) REST Assured
14 10 (1.02%) NUnit
14 10 (1.02%) Visual Studio Code
15 9 (0.91%) JMeter
16 8 (0.81%) SpecFlow
17 7 (0.71%) TestRail
General
1 316 (32.08%) Finance
2 245 (24.87%) Social Skills
3 147 (14.92%) Analytical Skills
4 54 (5.48%) Law
5 34 (3.45%) Public Sector
6 30 (3.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 29 (2.94%) Legal
8 28 (2.84%) Marketing
9 27 (2.74%) Retail
10 25 (2.54%) Billing
11 24 (2.44%) Influencing Skills
12 22 (2.23%) Telecoms
13 21 (2.13%) Banking
14 18 (1.83%) Presentation Skills
15 15 (1.52%) Manufacturing
16 8 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
16 8 (0.81%) Tech for Good
17 7 (0.71%) Advertising
18 5 (0.51%) Automotive
18 5 (0.51%) Games
Job Titles
1 199 (20.20%) Developer
2 181 (18.38%) Senior
3 139 (14.11%) Azure Engineer
4 138 (14.01%) DevOps Engineer
4 138 (14.01%) Lead
5 72 (7.31%) Cloud Engineer
6 66 (6.70%) Analyst
7 61 (6.19%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 57 (5.79%) Data Engineer
9 49 (4.97%) Architect
10 46 (4.67%) .NET Developer
11 37 (3.76%) Senior Developer
12 33 (3.35%) Applications Engineer
12 33 (3.35%) Software Engineer
13 32 (3.25%) Platform Engineer
14 28 (2.84%) Solutions Architect
15 26 (2.64%) Power Platform Developer
15 26 (2.64%) Test Leader
16 24 (2.44%) Applications Support
16 24 (2.44%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 236 (23.96%) .NET
2 100 (10.15%) React
3 98 (9.95%) RESTful
4 80 (8.12%) REST
5 72 (7.31%) CSS
6 71 (7.21%) HTML
7 70 (7.11%) OAuth
8 67 (6.80%) ASP.NET
9 65 (6.60%) .NET Core
10 56 (5.69%) YAML
11 50 (5.08%) SOAP
12 49 (4.97%) .NET Framework
13 45 (4.57%) Playwright
14 40 (4.06%) JSON
15 38 (3.86%) SAML
16 37 (3.76%) Node.js
17 36 (3.65%) ASP.NET Core
17 36 (3.65%) PySpark
18 34 (3.45%) OAuth2
19 29 (2.94%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 123 (12.49%) Product Ownership
2 110 (11.17%) Cloud Native
3 39 (3.96%) Enterprise Software
4 36 (3.65%) Management Information System
5 32 (3.25%) Low-Code
6 31 (3.15%) Mobile App
7 28 (2.84%) Legacy Systems
8 22 (2.23%) Reinsurance
9 20 (2.03%) Analytical Mindset
10 15 (1.52%) Data Structures
10 15 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
10 15 (1.52%) Virtual Team
11 13 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
12 12 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
13 11 (1.12%) Onboarding
13 11 (1.12%) Security Posture
14 10 (1.02%) Legacy Applications
15 8 (0.81%) Public Cloud
16 6 (0.61%) AI Agents
16 6 (0.61%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 77 (7.82%) Windows
2 66 (6.70%) Linux
3 18 (1.83%) VMS
4 16 (1.62%) Windows Server
5 11 (1.12%) Ubuntu
6 10 (1.02%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.51%) 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
9 2 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
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
Processes & Methodologies
1 978 (99.29%) DevOps
2 614 (62.34%) CI/CD
3 472 (47.92%) Agile
4 288 (29.24%) Infrastructure as Code
5 248 (25.18%) Test Automation
6 212 (21.52%) Continuous Improvement
7 203 (20.61%) Problem-Solving
8 168 (17.06%) AI
9 162 (16.45%) Analytics
10 157 (15.94%) Mentoring
11 148 (15.03%) Coaching
12 142 (14.42%) Observability
13 137 (13.91%) Data Modelling
14 128 (12.99%) Scrum
15 116 (11.78%) Containerisation
16 106 (10.76%) Business Intelligence
17 101 (10.25%) Asset Management
17 101 (10.25%) Software Engineering
18 98 (9.95%) SDLC
19 97 (9.85%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 347 (35.23%) SQL
2 245 (24.87%) Python
3 201 (20.41%) C#
4 130 (13.20%) JavaScript
4 130 (13.20%) PowerShell
5 85 (8.63%) Bicep
6 84 (8.53%) Bash
7 58 (5.89%) TypeScript
8 48 (4.87%) Java
9 25 (2.54%) Apex Code
10 24 (2.44%) Go
11 23 (2.34%) PL/SQL
12 21 (2.13%) Shell Script
12 21 (2.13%) T-SQL
13 19 (1.93%) Scala
14 12 (1.22%) Kusto Query Language
15 11 (1.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 8 (0.81%) Swift
17 7 (0.71%) DataWeave
18 5 (0.51%) C++
Qualifications
1 103 (10.46%) Degree
2 68 (6.90%) Security Cleared
3 56 (5.69%) Azure Certification
4 54 (5.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 32 (3.25%) ISTQB
5 32 (3.25%) SC Cleared
6 29 (2.94%) DV Cleared
7 28 (2.84%) Master's Degree
8 24 (2.44%) Microsoft Certification
9 16 (1.62%) AWS Certification
10 13 (1.32%) HND
11 11 (1.12%) AWS Certified Developer
12 10 (1.02%) PMI Certification
13 9 (0.91%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 6 (0.61%) DBS Check
14 6 (0.61%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 4 (0.41%) BC Cleared
15 4 (0.41%) PMP
16 3 (0.30%) CBAP
16 3 (0.30%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 114 (11.57%) QA
2 72 (7.31%) Accessibility
3 47 (4.77%) Data Quality
4 45 (4.57%) GDPR
5 37 (3.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 14 (1.42%) SOC 2
7 12 (1.22%) SLA
8 11 (1.12%) NCSC
9 10 (1.02%) NIST
10 8 (0.81%) GRC
11 6 (0.61%) WCAG
12 5 (0.51%) PERC
13 4 (0.41%) PMO
13 4 (0.41%) Software Quality Assurance
13 4 (0.41%) Solvency II
14 2 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
14 2 (0.20%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 2 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 1 (0.10%) HL7
15 1 (0.10%) P3O
System Software
1 130 (13.20%) Docker
2 62 (6.29%) Active Directory
3 20 (2.03%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.51%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.41%) Postfix
5 4 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.20%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.20%) vCloud
7 1 (0.10%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 1 (0.10%) Firmware
7 1 (0.10%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.10%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.10%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 301 (30.56%) Terraform
2 107 (10.86%) Kubernetes
3 94 (9.54%) Ansible
4 58 (5.89%) Grafana
5 47 (4.77%) Prometheus
6 21 (2.13%) Single Sign-On
7 10 (1.02%) HP ALM
7 10 (1.02%) Microsoft Intune
8 9 (0.91%) Kibana
9 4 (0.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (0.41%) logstash
10 2 (0.20%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.20%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.20%) MIIS
10 2 (0.20%) Nagios
10 2 (0.20%) Nessus
10 2 (0.20%) Puppet
10 2 (0.20%) Scalr
10 2 (0.20%) SCCM
11 1 (0.10%) Consul
Vendors
1 343 (34.82%) Microsoft
2 60 (6.09%) Databricks
3 39 (3.96%) Salesforce
4 37 (3.76%) ServiceNow
5 28 (2.84%) Oracle
6 19 (1.93%) Red Hat
7 18 (1.83%) Palo Alto
8 16 (1.62%) Black Duck
8 16 (1.62%) Coverity
8 16 (1.62%) Dynatrace
9 15 (1.52%) Adobe
9 15 (1.52%) Zscaler
10 13 (1.32%) SAP
10 13 (1.32%) VMware
11 12 (1.22%) Freshdesk
11 12 (1.22%) Google
11 12 (1.22%) MuleSoft
11 12 (1.22%) Nintex
11 12 (1.22%) Okta
12 11 (1.12%) Ab Initio