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

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 174 115 109
Rank change year-on-year -59 -6 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 999 1,071 2,317
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.20% 2.62% 2.51%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.79% 7.08% 6.86%
Number of salaries quoted 714 803 1,865
10th Percentile £42,500 £43,887 £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 26,356 15,132 33,772
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 31.79% 37.02% 36.61%
Number of salaries quoted 13,908 11,073 26,652
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 £102,500 £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 9 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 9 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 -65 834 £65,500 -5.07% 403
UK excluding London -66 608 £55,000 -15.38% 340
Work from Home -6 417 £62,500 -7.41% 254
London -22 325 £77,500 +3.33% 131
South East -38 168 £50,000 -28.57% 101
North of England -49 128 £58,250 -16.79% 74
Scotland +57 103 £62,500 +8.70% 22
Midlands -52 90 £64,000 -1.54% 60
South West -81 79 £50,000 -23.08% 34
North West -22 56 £67,500 +1.89% 41
West Midlands -55 53 £60,000 -11.11% 37
Yorkshire -61 41 £58,750 -16.07% 22
East Midlands -28 34 £66,000 +1.54% 23
North East -11 31 £50,000 -23.08% 11
East of England -43 25 £70,000 +32.08% 33
Wales -36 14 £53,171 -9.57% 21
Northern Ireland -39 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 36 (3.60%) SharePoint
2 34 (3.40%) Confluence
3 25 (2.50%) IIS
4 23 (2.30%) 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
10 2 (0.20%) CMS
11 1 (0.10%) Appian
11 1 (0.10%) Drupal
11 1 (0.10%) nginx
11 1 (0.10%) PegaRULES
11 1 (0.10%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.10%) Umbraco
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
2 292 (29.23%) GitHub
3 188 (18.82%) Power Platform
4 156 (15.62%) AWS
5 155 (15.52%) GitHub Actions
6 95 (9.51%) Serverless
7 89 (8.91%) Azure Data Factory
8 88 (8.81%) Entra ID
9 80 (8.01%) Azure Monitor
10 79 (7.91%) Microsoft 365
11 74 (7.41%) PaaS
12 64 (6.41%) Azure Logic Apps
13 62 (6.21%) Dynamics 365
14 59 (5.91%) SaaS
15 57 (5.71%) GCP
16 55 (5.51%) Azure AKS
16 55 (5.51%) Azure Functions
17 49 (4.90%) Azure Key Vault
18 45 (4.50%) GitHub Copilot
18 45 (4.50%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 63 (6.31%) Firewall
2 36 (3.60%) 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
1 130 (13.01%) SQL Server
2 102 (10.21%) Power BI
3 70 (7.01%) Azure SQL Database
4 44 (4.40%) Data Warehouse
5 37 (3.70%) NoSQL
6 34 (3.40%) Data Lake
7 30 (3.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 23 (2.30%) PostgreSQL
9 20 (2.00%) Delta Lake
9 20 (2.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 19 (1.90%) MongoDB
10 19 (1.90%) Relational Database
11 16 (1.60%) DynamoDB
11 16 (1.60%) Tableau
12 11 (1.10%) Amazon RDS
12 11 (1.10%) Snowflake Schema
13 10 (1.00%) Spark SQL
14 9 (0.90%) MySQL
15 7 (0.70%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 7 (0.70%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 169 (16.92%) Git
2 136 (13.61%) JIRA
3 109 (10.91%) Jenkins
4 59 (5.91%) Selenium
5 41 (4.10%) GitLab
6 38 (3.80%) Cypress.io
7 28 (2.80%) Postman
8 25 (2.50%) Visual Studio
9 19 (1.90%) Octopus Deploy
10 18 (1.80%) Eclipse
11 16 (1.60%) Oracle Forms
12 14 (1.40%) TeamCity
13 13 (1.30%) Robot Framework
14 11 (1.10%) NUnit
14 11 (1.10%) REST Assured
14 11 (1.10%) Snyk
15 10 (1.00%) JMeter
15 10 (1.00%) TestRail
16 9 (0.90%) SpecFlow
17 8 (0.80%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 309 (30.93%) Finance
2 249 (24.92%) Social Skills
3 148 (14.81%) Analytical Skills
4 57 (5.71%) Law
5 37 (3.70%) Public Sector
6 35 (3.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 33 (3.30%) Legal
8 30 (3.00%) Retail
9 27 (2.70%) Marketing
10 26 (2.60%) Billing
11 22 (2.20%) Telecoms
12 19 (1.90%) 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%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 214 (21.42%) Developer
2 193 (19.32%) Senior
3 146 (14.61%) Lead
4 144 (14.41%) Azure Engineer
5 141 (14.11%) DevOps Engineer
6 69 (6.91%) Cloud Engineer
7 65 (6.51%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 58 (5.81%) Analyst
9 56 (5.61%) Data Engineer
10 52 (5.21%) Architect
11 46 (4.60%) .NET Developer
11 46 (4.60%) Senior Developer
12 33 (3.30%) Platform Engineer
13 31 (3.10%) Software Engineer
14 30 (3.00%) Applications Engineer
15 28 (2.80%) Software Developer
15 28 (2.80%) Test Leader
16 27 (2.70%) Power Platform Developer
16 27 (2.70%) Solutions Architect
17 25 (2.50%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 248 (24.82%) .NET
2 108 (10.81%) React
3 94 (9.41%) RESTful
4 89 (8.91%) REST
5 74 (7.41%) CSS
6 73 (7.31%) HTML
7 71 (7.11%) ASP.NET
7 71 (7.11%) OAuth
8 67 (6.71%) .NET Core
9 54 (5.41%) YAML
10 52 (5.21%) SOAP
11 49 (4.90%) .NET Framework
12 47 (4.70%) Playwright
13 42 (4.20%) JSON
13 42 (4.20%) Node.js
14 40 (4.00%) ASP.NET Core
15 38 (3.80%) PySpark
16 37 (3.70%) SAML
17 34 (3.40%) OAuth2
18 31 (3.10%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 120 (12.01%) Product Ownership
2 113 (11.31%) Cloud Native
3 38 (3.80%) Enterprise Software
4 33 (3.30%) Management Information System
5 32 (3.20%) Low-Code
6 31 (3.10%) Mobile App
7 28 (2.80%) Legacy Systems
8 21 (2.10%) Analytical Mindset
9 19 (1.90%) Distributed Systems
9 19 (1.90%) Reinsurance
10 15 (1.50%) Data Structures
11 14 (1.40%) Hybrid Cloud
11 14 (1.40%) Virtual Team
12 12 (1.20%) Onboarding
12 12 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
13 10 (1.00%) Legacy Applications
14 9 (0.90%) Security Posture
15 8 (0.80%) Public Cloud
16 7 (0.70%) Culture of Ownership
16 7 (0.70%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 72 (7.21%) Windows
2 66 (6.61%) Linux
3 17 (1.70%) VMS
4 16 (1.60%) Windows Server
5 12 (1.20%) Ubuntu
6 10 (1.00%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.50%) Android
8 4 (0.40%) 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
3 468 (46.85%) Agile
4 290 (29.03%) Infrastructure as Code
5 254 (25.43%) Test Automation
6 216 (21.62%) Continuous Improvement
7 204 (20.42%) Problem-Solving
8 164 (16.42%) AI
9 152 (15.22%) Analytics
10 151 (15.12%) Mentoring
11 146 (14.61%) Observability
12 137 (13.71%) Coaching
13 134 (13.41%) Data Modelling
14 131 (13.11%) Scrum
15 124 (12.41%) Containerisation
16 107 (10.71%) Software Engineering
17 104 (10.41%) Microservices
18 103 (10.31%) Business Intelligence
19 102 (10.21%) SDLC
20 94 (9.41%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 346 (34.63%) SQL
2 243 (24.32%) Python
3 213 (21.32%) C#
4 136 (13.61%) JavaScript
5 130 (13.01%) PowerShell
6 86 (8.61%) Bash
7 85 (8.51%) Bicep
8 62 (6.21%) TypeScript
9 46 (4.60%) Java
10 24 (2.40%) Apex Code
11 23 (2.30%) Go
12 20 (2.00%) PL/SQL
12 20 (2.00%) T-SQL
13 19 (1.90%) Scala
14 17 (1.70%) Shell Script
15 12 (1.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 12 (1.20%) Kusto Query Language
16 8 (0.80%) Swift
17 7 (0.70%) DataWeave
18 5 (0.50%) C++
Qualifications
1 100 (10.01%) Degree
2 69 (6.91%) Security Cleared
3 51 (5.11%) Azure Certification
4 49 (4.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 37 (3.70%) SC Cleared
6 33 (3.30%) ISTQB
7 26 (2.60%) DV Cleared
8 24 (2.40%) Microsoft Certification
9 22 (2.20%) Master's Degree
10 15 (1.50%) AWS Certification
11 13 (1.30%) HND
12 11 (1.10%) AWS Certified Developer
13 10 (1.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 10 (1.00%) PMI Certification
14 6 (0.60%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 4 (0.40%) BC Cleared
15 4 (0.40%) PMP
16 3 (0.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 3 (0.30%) CBAP
16 3 (0.30%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 113 (11.31%) QA
2 71 (7.11%) Accessibility
3 46 (4.60%) GDPR
4 44 (4.40%) Data Quality
5 36 (3.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 14 (1.40%) SOC 2
7 12 (1.20%) SLA
8 9 (0.90%) GRC
8 9 (0.90%) NCSC
9 8 (0.80%) NIST
10 7 (0.70%) WCAG
11 5 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 5 (0.50%) Software Quality Assurance
11 5 (0.50%) TickIT
12 4 (0.40%) Solvency II
13 3 (0.30%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 3 (0.30%) IFRS
13 3 (0.30%) PERC
14 2 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
14 2 (0.20%) PMO
System Software
1 140 (14.01%) Docker
2 62 (6.21%) Active Directory
3 20 (2.00%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.40%) Postfix
5 4 (0.40%) 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
1 298 (29.83%) Terraform
2 109 (10.91%) Kubernetes
3 88 (8.81%) 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%) Argo
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
Vendors
1 365 (36.54%) Microsoft
2 60 (6.01%) Databricks
3 42 (4.20%) Salesforce
4 35 (3.50%) 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%) Freshdesk
10 12 (1.20%) Nintex
11 11 (1.10%) Black Duck
11 11 (1.10%) Coverity
12 10 (1.00%) Ab Initio
12 10 (1.00%) CrowdStrike
12 10 (1.00%) Okta
13 9 (0.90%) Apple