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 22 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 111 101
Rank change year-on-year -17 -10 -2
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,117 1,413 1,815
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.80% 2.66% 2.90%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.33% 7.33% 7.32%
Number of salaries quoted 712 902 1,571
10th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £43,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -2.67%
75th Percentile £80,750 £82,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £59,526
% change year-on-year -15.38% +9.20% -0.79%

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 20,948 19,290 24,787
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.82% 36.31% 39.54%
Number of salaries quoted 11,428 11,344 20,401
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £31,750
25th Percentile £39,750 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,550 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.05% +7.58% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%

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 22 January 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 22 January 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 -45 879 £65,000 -3.70% 555
UK excluding London -33 685 £55,000 -15.38% 525
Work from Home 0 512 £62,500 -7.41% 314
London +19 360 £75,000 -2.28% 111
South East +1 230 £50,000 -23.08% 165
Scotland +70 167 £56,000 +6.67% 22
North of England -39 100 £55,000 -18.35% 109
Midlands -59 77 £60,000 -7.69% 70
South West -64 68 £47,500 -26.92% 65
West Midlands -51 58 £60,000 -7.69% 33
Yorkshire -39 37 £55,000 -21.43% 40
North West -21 36 £65,000 - 55
North East +10 27 £50,000 -27.27% 14
Wales -1 24 £55,000 -15.38% 30
East of England -39 17 £65,000 +30.00% 68
East Midlands -9 16 £65,000 +4.00% 34
Northern Ireland -11 2 £56,250 - 9

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 40 (3.58%) Confluence
2 34 (3.04%) IIS
3 28 (2.51%) SharePoint
4 19 (1.70%) Microsoft Exchange
5 17 (1.52%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 10 (0.90%) Apache Airflow
7 7 (0.63%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.36%) Apache
9 3 (0.27%) Appian
10 2 (0.18%) Anypoint
10 2 (0.18%) BizTalk Server
10 2 (0.18%) Moodle
11 1 (0.090%) nginx
11 1 (0.090%) Tomcat
Applications
1 38 (3.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (2.06%) Microsoft Office
3 22 (1.97%) MS Visio
4 15 (1.34%) Microsoft Project
5 13 (1.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.36%) Trello
7 2 (0.18%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.090%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 71 (6.36%) SAP S/4HANA
2 42 (3.76%) Dynamics CRM
3 37 (3.31%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (0.27%) SAP CX
5 2 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.18%) Elite 3E
5 2 (0.18%) Markit EDM
5 2 (0.18%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.090%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.090%) Endur
6 1 (0.090%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 1 (0.090%) Primavera
6 1 (0.090%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 1,048 (93.82%) Azure
2 346 (30.98%) GitHub
3 222 (19.87%) Power Platform
4 165 (14.77%) AWS
5 158 (14.15%) GitHub Actions
6 102 (9.13%) Azure Monitor
7 94 (8.42%) Entra ID
8 86 (7.70%) Azure Data Factory
8 86 (7.70%) Serverless
9 84 (7.52%) Snowflake
10 78 (6.98%) PaaS
11 74 (6.62%) Microsoft 365
12 72 (6.45%) SaaS
13 71 (6.36%) Dynamics 365
14 66 (5.91%) GitHub Copilot
15 62 (5.55%) dbt
16 60 (5.37%) Power Automate
17 59 (5.28%) Azure AKS
18 55 (4.92%) Azure Logic Apps
19 54 (4.83%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 51 (4.57%) Firewall
2 41 (3.67%) DNS
3 27 (2.42%) VPN
4 18 (1.61%) WAN
5 12 (1.07%) HTTP
6 10 (0.90%) Network Security
6 10 (0.90%) TCP/IP
7 8 (0.72%) DHCP
8 6 (0.54%) SD-WAN
9 5 (0.45%) VLAN
10 4 (0.36%) SSL
11 3 (0.27%) AMQP
11 3 (0.27%) BGP
11 3 (0.27%) IPsec
11 3 (0.27%) OSPF
11 3 (0.27%) Wi-Fi
11 3 (0.27%) Wireshark
12 1 (0.090%) Internet
12 1 (0.090%) IP Telephony
12 1 (0.090%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 164 (14.68%) SQL Server
2 132 (11.82%) Power BI
3 80 (7.16%) Data Warehouse
4 71 (6.36%) Azure SQL Database
5 50 (4.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 43 (3.85%) NoSQL
6 43 (3.85%) Tableau
7 31 (2.78%) Data Lake
8 28 (2.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 23 (2.06%) Relational Database
10 20 (1.79%) PostgreSQL
10 20 (1.79%) Snowflake Schema
11 19 (1.70%) MongoDB
12 15 (1.34%) DynamoDB
13 13 (1.16%) Metadata
14 12 (1.07%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 11 (0.98%) Delta Lake
16 10 (0.90%) BigQuery
17 9 (0.81%) MySQL
18 7 (0.63%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 217 (19.43%) JIRA
2 194 (17.37%) Git
3 123 (11.01%) Jenkins
4 69 (6.18%) eCATT
5 57 (5.10%) Selenium
6 40 (3.58%) NeoLoad
7 37 (3.31%) Oracle Forms
8 31 (2.78%) Cypress.io
9 30 (2.69%) GitLab
10 28 (2.51%) Octopus Deploy
11 24 (2.15%) TeamCity
12 23 (2.06%) Visual Studio
13 22 (1.97%) Postman
14 21 (1.88%) Snyk
15 20 (1.79%) Robot Framework
16 11 (0.98%) Eclipse
17 10 (0.90%) SpecFlow
18 9 (0.81%) JMeter
18 9 (0.81%) Visual Studio Code
19 8 (0.72%) NUnit
General
1 454 (40.64%) Finance
2 286 (25.60%) Social Skills
3 150 (13.43%) Analytical Skills
4 104 (9.31%) Marketing
5 72 (6.45%) Manufacturing
6 55 (4.92%) Presentation Skills
7 46 (4.12%) Law
8 44 (3.94%) Influencing Skills
9 27 (2.42%) Retail
10 25 (2.24%) Public Sector
11 21 (1.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 21 (1.88%) Legal
12 16 (1.43%) Billing
13 15 (1.34%) Documentation Skills
14 14 (1.25%) Banking
15 10 (0.90%) Tech for Good
16 9 (0.81%) Advertising
16 9 (0.81%) Games
16 9 (0.81%) Telecoms
17 8 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 233 (20.86%) Senior
2 196 (17.55%) Developer
3 160 (14.32%) Lead
4 129 (11.55%) Analyst
5 128 (11.46%) DevOps Engineer
6 115 (10.30%) Azure Engineer
7 98 (8.77%) Cloud Engineer
8 59 (5.28%) Data Engineer
9 53 (4.74%) .NET Developer
10 52 (4.66%) Platform Engineer
11 51 (4.57%) Applications Engineer
12 49 (4.39%) Software Engineer
13 48 (4.30%) Test Leader
14 42 (3.76%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 41 (3.67%) Architect
16 38 (3.40%) Senior Cloud Engineer
17 35 (3.13%) Business Analyst
18 32 (2.86%) Senior Developer
19 31 (2.78%) Support Engineer
20 30 (2.69%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 280 (25.07%) .NET
2 120 (10.74%) RESTful
3 94 (8.42%) React
4 74 (6.62%) REST
4 74 (6.62%) YAML
5 68 (6.09%) .NET Framework
5 68 (6.09%) OAuth
6 60 (5.37%) .NET Core
7 57 (5.10%) ASP.NET
8 55 (4.92%) SOAP
9 52 (4.66%) CSS
9 52 (4.66%) JSON
10 51 (4.57%) HTML
11 41 (3.67%) OAuth2
12 37 (3.31%) Entity Framework
13 36 (3.22%) ARM Templates
14 35 (3.13%) AngularJS
15 31 (2.78%) SAML
16 30 (2.69%) Lightning Web Components
16 30 (2.69%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 151 (13.52%) Cloud Native
2 120 (10.74%) Product Ownership
3 64 (5.73%) Enterprise Software
4 40 (3.58%) Management Information System
5 36 (3.22%) Legacy Systems
6 32 (2.86%) Low-Code
7 28 (2.51%) Mobile App
8 27 (2.42%) Virtual Team
9 26 (2.33%) Hybrid Cloud
10 25 (2.24%) Onboarding
10 25 (2.24%) Security Posture
11 22 (1.97%) Analytical Mindset
12 16 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
13 15 (1.34%) Data Centre
13 15 (1.34%) Reinsurance
14 14 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
15 12 (1.07%) Self-Motivation
16 10 (0.90%) Data Structures
16 10 (0.90%) Legacy Applications
16 10 (0.90%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 100 (8.95%) Windows
2 66 (5.91%) Linux
3 28 (2.51%) VMS
4 18 (1.61%) Windows Server
5 8 (0.72%) Android
5 8 (0.72%) Ubuntu
6 7 (0.63%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.27%) Unix
8 2 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.090%) CentOS
9 1 (0.090%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.090%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,047 (93.73%) DevOps
2 647 (57.92%) CI/CD
3 531 (47.54%) Agile
4 299 (26.77%) Infrastructure as Code
5 286 (25.60%) Test Automation
6 260 (23.28%) Continuous Improvement
7 246 (22.02%) Problem-Solving
8 211 (18.89%) AI
8 211 (18.89%) Coaching
9 197 (17.64%) Mentoring
10 181 (16.20%) Analytics
11 159 (14.23%) Asset Management
12 141 (12.62%) Observability
13 136 (12.18%) Business Intelligence
14 133 (11.91%) Containerisation
15 132 (11.82%) Roadmaps
16 128 (11.46%) Data Modelling
17 116 (10.38%) Scrum
18 113 (10.12%) Microservices
19 112 (10.03%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 400 (35.81%) SQL
2 287 (25.69%) Python
3 235 (21.04%) C#
4 211 (18.89%) PowerShell
5 101 (9.04%) Bicep
6 99 (8.86%) JavaScript
7 90 (8.06%) Bash
8 69 (6.18%) TypeScript
9 56 (5.01%) Java
10 40 (3.58%) Shell Script
11 37 (3.31%) PL/SQL
12 32 (2.86%) T-SQL
13 31 (2.78%) Apex Code
14 17 (1.52%) Go
15 14 (1.25%) Scala
16 13 (1.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 10 (0.90%) Kusto Query Language
18 4 (0.36%) C++
18 4 (0.36%) VB
19 3 (0.27%) PHP
Qualifications
1 129 (11.55%) Degree
2 78 (6.98%) Azure Certification
3 71 (6.36%) Computer Science Degree
4 70 (6.27%) Security Cleared
5 42 (3.76%) SC Cleared
6 41 (3.67%) Master's Degree
7 40 (3.58%) ISTQB
8 30 (2.69%) Microsoft Certification
9 24 (2.15%) DV Cleared
10 21 (1.88%) AWS Certification
11 15 (1.34%) PMI Certification
12 12 (1.07%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 11 (0.98%) AWS Certified Developer
13 11 (0.98%) PMP
14 9 (0.81%) ISEB
15 7 (0.63%) HND
16 6 (0.54%) DBS Check
17 5 (0.45%) CBAP
17 5 (0.45%) Cisco Certification
18 4 (0.36%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 141 (12.62%) QA
2 58 (5.19%) Accessibility
3 47 (4.21%) GDPR
4 43 (3.85%) Data Quality
5 35 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 17 (1.52%) PMO
7 16 (1.43%) NCSC
7 16 (1.43%) NIST
8 11 (0.98%) SOC 2
9 8 (0.72%) SLA
10 5 (0.45%) PERC
10 5 (0.45%) Software Quality Assurance
10 5 (0.45%) WCAG
11 1 (0.090%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.090%) GRC
11 1 (0.090%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.090%) HL7
11 1 (0.090%) P3O
11 1 (0.090%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 143 (12.80%) Docker
2 79 (7.07%) Active Directory
3 25 (2.24%) Virtual Machines
4 15 (1.34%) Virtual Desktop
5 13 (1.16%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.36%) Firmware
6 4 (0.36%) Postfix
7 2 (0.18%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.18%) vCloud
8 1 (0.090%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 1 (0.090%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.090%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.090%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 365 (32.68%) Terraform
2 165 (14.77%) Kubernetes
3 92 (8.24%) Ansible
4 72 (6.45%) HP ALM
5 47 (4.21%) Grafana
6 39 (3.49%) Single Sign-On
7 35 (3.13%) Prometheus
8 20 (1.79%) Microsoft Intune
9 7 (0.63%) Kibana
10 4 (0.36%) Argo
10 4 (0.36%) logstash
10 4 (0.36%) Rancher
10 4 (0.36%) vRealize
11 3 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.27%) Dell DRAC
11 3 (0.27%) Puppet
11 3 (0.27%) SCCM
12 2 (0.18%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (0.18%) Nessus
12 2 (0.18%) SCOM
Vendors
1 364 (32.59%) Microsoft
2 77 (6.89%) SAP
3 72 (6.45%) HP
4 53 (4.74%) Databricks
5 47 (4.21%) Salesforce
6 42 (3.76%) Oracle
7 34 (3.04%) ServiceNow
8 24 (2.15%) Okta
9 22 (1.97%) VMware
10 18 (1.61%) Black Duck
10 18 (1.61%) Coverity
10 18 (1.61%) Palo Alto
11 17 (1.52%) Zscaler
12 16 (1.43%) Google
13 14 (1.25%) Ab Initio
13 14 (1.25%) Xamarin
14 12 (1.07%) Dynatrace
14 12 (1.07%) Sage
15 11 (0.98%) OpenAI
16 9 (0.81%) Adobe