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 4 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 172 121
Rank change year-on-year +18 -51 -24
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,286 925 2,225
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.33% 1.94% 2.12%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.88% 5.94% 6.39%
Number of salaries quoted 1,040 713 1,662
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £49,938 £55,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £68,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.11% +9.60% -3.85%
75th Percentile £78,750 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -

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 26,375 15,565 34,794
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.28% 32.68% 33.11%
Number of salaries quoted 17,191 10,859 26,654
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,625 £30,500
25th Percentile £43,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -8.73%
75th Percentile £83,750 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £51,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +2.94% -7.27%

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 4 July 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 4 July 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 +17 1,153 £65,000 -7.14% 435
UK excluding London +55 853 £60,000 -4.00% 347
Work from Home +34 526 £60,000 -11.11% 278
London -22 364 £80,000 +6.67% 166
North of England +78 248 £62,500 -9.09% 86
South East 0 225 £60,000 -7.69% 122
North West +60 133 £66,500 +0.38% 50
Midlands +19 129 £64,000 +6.67% 47
South West -12 97 £55,000 -8.33% 26
East of England +12 72 £56,000 -6.67% 37
East Midlands +31 68 £63,500 +15.45% 23
Yorkshire -9 63 £69,308 -0.99% 25
West Midlands -26 61 £65,000 +1.96% 24
Wales -9 56 £53,171 -14.93% 15
North East +1 52 £50,000 -9.09% 12
Scotland +17 26 £61,250 -5.04% 17
Northern Ireland -48 2 £72,500 +45.00% 7

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 59 (4.59%) Confluence
1 59 (4.59%) SharePoint
2 30 (2.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 22 (1.71%) IIS
4 13 (1.01%) Apache Spark
5 9 (0.70%) CMS
6 8 (0.62%) SharePoint Server
7 7 (0.54%) nginx
8 6 (0.47%) Apache
8 6 (0.47%) Umbraco
9 5 (0.39%) Anypoint
9 5 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.23%) WordPress
11 2 (0.16%) Camunda
11 2 (0.16%) CICS
11 2 (0.16%) Luigi
11 2 (0.16%) Moodle
12 1 (0.078%) BizTalk Server
12 1 (0.078%) NServiceBus
12 1 (0.078%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 17 (1.32%) MS Visio
2 16 (1.24%) Microsoft Project
3 13 (1.01%) Microsoft Excel
4 7 (0.54%) Chatbot
5 5 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (0.39%) Trello
6 4 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.078%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.078%) Notion
7 1 (0.078%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 18 (1.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.47%) Elite 3E
2 6 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.39%) Dynamics AX
3 5 (0.39%) Visualfiles
4 4 (0.31%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.23%) Carpe Diem
5 3 (0.23%) SAP IBP
6 2 (0.16%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 2 (0.16%) Magento
6 2 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.16%) Shopify
7 1 (0.078%) Infor M3
7 1 (0.078%) JDE EnterpriseOne
7 1 (0.078%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.078%) Sage 200
7 1 (0.078%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 1,285 (99.92%) Azure
2 228 (17.73%) GitHub
3 202 (15.71%) Power Platform
4 166 (12.91%) AWS
5 138 (10.73%) GitHub Actions
6 117 (9.10%) Serverless
7 110 (8.55%) Azure AKS
8 105 (8.16%) Azure Monitor
9 97 (7.54%) Azure Service Bus
10 96 (7.47%) PaaS
11 92 (7.15%) Azure Functions
12 88 (6.84%) Azure AI
13 87 (6.77%) Azure Logic Apps
14 86 (6.69%) Dynamics 365
15 82 (6.38%) Entra ID
16 71 (5.52%) Microsoft 365
17 69 (5.37%) SaaS
18 68 (5.29%) Azure Data Factory
19 63 (4.90%) GCP
20 61 (4.74%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 50 (3.89%) Firewall
2 23 (1.79%) DNS
3 22 (1.71%) VPN
4 16 (1.24%) HTTP
5 14 (1.09%) TCP/IP
6 11 (0.86%) Network Security
7 9 (0.70%) Internet
8 5 (0.39%) SAN
9 4 (0.31%) Bluetooth
9 4 (0.31%) MQTT
9 4 (0.31%) WAN
9 4 (0.31%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (0.31%) Wireless
9 4 (0.31%) ZigBee
10 3 (0.23%) BGP
10 3 (0.23%) HTTPS
11 2 (0.16%) DHCP
11 2 (0.16%) VLAN
12 1 (0.078%) Broadband
12 1 (0.078%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 229 (17.81%) Azure SQL Database
2 159 (12.36%) MongoDB
3 135 (10.50%) SQL Server
4 95 (7.39%) Power BI
5 44 (3.42%) PostgreSQL
6 36 (2.80%) Data Warehouse
7 31 (2.41%) Elasticsearch
8 30 (2.33%) Relational Database
9 27 (2.10%) NoSQL
10 26 (2.02%) Data Lake
10 26 (2.02%) Delta Lake
11 20 (1.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 19 (1.48%) Redis
13 18 (1.40%) Spark SQL
14 17 (1.32%) MySQL
15 15 (1.17%) Metadata
15 15 (1.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 12 (0.93%) Star Schema
17 10 (0.78%) Tableau
18 9 (0.70%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 189 (14.70%) Git
2 153 (11.90%) JIRA
3 114 (8.86%) Jenkins
4 77 (5.99%) GitLab
5 48 (3.73%) Selenium
6 41 (3.19%) Cypress.io
7 35 (2.72%) Postman
8 22 (1.71%) Eclipse
9 18 (1.40%) REST Assured
10 15 (1.17%) JMeter
10 15 (1.17%) Visual Studio
11 14 (1.09%) fastlane
12 13 (1.01%) Octopus Deploy
12 13 (1.01%) TestRail
12 13 (1.01%) Zephyr
13 9 (0.70%) JUnit
13 9 (0.70%) Xcode
14 7 (0.54%) LoadRunner
14 7 (0.54%) NUnit
15 6 (0.47%) MSI
General
1 294 (22.86%) Social Skills
2 289 (22.47%) Finance
3 119 (9.25%) Analytical Skills
4 95 (7.39%) Public Sector
5 92 (7.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 55 (4.28%) Law
7 51 (3.97%) Retail
8 40 (3.11%) Marketing
9 33 (2.57%) Legal
10 29 (2.26%) Banking
11 26 (2.02%) Advertising
12 23 (1.79%) Games
13 21 (1.63%) Presentation Skills
14 20 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
14 20 (1.56%) Manufacturing
15 17 (1.32%) Billing
16 15 (1.17%) Telecoms
17 13 (1.01%) Documentation Skills
18 10 (0.78%) Automotive
18 10 (0.78%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 391 (30.40%) Developer
2 250 (19.44%) Senior
3 224 (17.42%) DevOps Engineer
4 194 (15.09%) Azure Engineer
5 184 (14.31%) .NET Developer
6 169 (13.14%) Lead
7 112 (8.71%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 79 (6.14%) Senior Developer
9 71 (5.52%) Platform Engineer
10 69 (5.37%) Data Engineer
11 67 (5.21%) Analyst
12 62 (4.82%) Cloud Engineer
13 59 (4.59%) Architect
14 54 (4.20%) Senior DevOps
15 52 (4.04%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 48 (3.73%) Software Engineer
17 39 (3.03%) Cloud Platform Engineer
18 36 (2.80%) Azure Platform Engineer
19 35 (2.72%) Software Developer
20 28 (2.18%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 419 (32.58%) .NET
2 225 (17.50%) ASP.NET
3 199 (15.47%) .NET Core
4 183 (14.23%) ASP.NET Core
5 161 (12.52%) React
6 147 (11.43%) HTML
7 145 (11.28%) CSS
8 129 (10.03%) RESTful
9 124 (9.64%) REST
10 105 (8.16%) Blazor
11 104 (8.09%) Entity Framework
12 84 (6.53%) Node.js
13 76 (5.91%) ML.NET
14 62 (4.82%) Playwright
15 60 (4.67%) YAML
16 53 (4.12%) ARM Templates
17 47 (3.65%) .NET Framework
18 44 (3.42%) JSON
19 42 (3.27%) OAuth
20 40 (3.11%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 126 (9.80%) Product Ownership
2 116 (9.02%) Cloud Native
3 58 (4.51%) Mobile App
4 43 (3.34%) Enterprise Software
5 42 (3.27%) Onboarding
6 41 (3.19%) Legacy Systems
7 32 (2.49%) Distributed Systems
7 32 (2.49%) Greenfield Project
8 27 (2.10%) Management Information System
9 23 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
9 23 (1.79%) Low-Code
10 22 (1.71%) Hybrid Cloud
11 19 (1.48%) Podcast
12 18 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
13 17 (1.32%) iPhone
13 17 (1.32%) Public Cloud
14 16 (1.24%) AI Agents
14 16 (1.24%) BBC
14 16 (1.24%) Social Media
15 14 (1.09%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 98 (7.62%) Linux
2 76 (5.91%) Windows
3 27 (2.10%) VMS
4 26 (2.02%) Android
5 19 (1.48%) Unix
6 16 (1.24%) Ubuntu
7 15 (1.17%) Apple iOS
8 12 (0.93%) Windows Server
9 4 (0.31%) Kali Linux
10 3 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.078%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.078%) SUSE
11 1 (0.078%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,285 (99.92%) DevOps
2 762 (59.25%) CI/CD
3 591 (45.96%) Agile
4 319 (24.81%) Infrastructure as Code
5 267 (20.76%) AI
6 253 (19.67%) Continuous Improvement
7 237 (18.43%) Test Automation
8 234 (18.20%) Full-Stack Development
9 202 (15.71%) Scrum
10 192 (14.93%) Mentoring
11 187 (14.54%) Problem-Solving
12 158 (12.29%) Analytics
13 157 (12.21%) Microservices
14 148 (11.51%) Observability
15 128 (9.95%) Platform Engineering
16 126 (9.80%) Machine Learning
17 123 (9.56%) Containerisation
18 119 (9.25%) Roadmaps
19 117 (9.10%) SDLC
20 111 (8.63%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 450 (34.99%) SQL
2 409 (31.80%) C#
3 243 (18.90%) Python
4 235 (18.27%) JavaScript
5 151 (11.74%) PowerShell
6 130 (10.11%) Bash
7 107 (8.32%) Bicep
8 74 (5.75%) Java
9 65 (5.05%) TypeScript
10 25 (1.94%) T-SQL
11 23 (1.79%) Go
12 20 (1.56%) Kusto Query Language
13 15 (1.17%) C++
13 15 (1.17%) Scala
14 12 (0.93%) Swift
15 8 (0.62%) Apex Code
15 8 (0.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 8 (0.62%) Kotlin
16 7 (0.54%) VB.NET
17 6 (0.47%) PHP
Qualifications
1 100 (7.78%) Security Cleared
2 85 (6.61%) Degree
3 79 (6.14%) SC Cleared
4 67 (5.21%) Azure Certification
5 36 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 25 (1.94%) ISTQB
7 24 (1.87%) Microsoft Certification
8 13 (1.01%) PMI Certification
9 12 (0.93%) DV Cleared
10 11 (0.86%) Master's Degree
11 8 (0.62%) HND
12 7 (0.54%) AWS Certification
12 7 (0.54%) PMP
13 6 (0.47%) CISSP
14 4 (0.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 4 (0.31%) ISEB
14 4 (0.31%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 4 (0.31%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 3 (0.23%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
15 3 (0.23%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 155 (12.05%) QA
2 88 (6.84%) Accessibility
3 49 (3.81%) Data Quality
4 38 (2.95%) GDPR
5 28 (2.18%) WCAG
6 24 (1.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 12 (0.93%) TickIT
8 11 (0.86%) GRC
9 10 (0.78%) PMO
9 10 (0.78%) SLA
10 8 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 6 (0.47%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 6 (0.47%) Software Quality Assurance
11 6 (0.47%) Solvency II
12 5 (0.39%) IFRS
12 5 (0.39%) NCSC
12 5 (0.39%) SOC 2
13 4 (0.31%) JTAG
14 3 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
15 2 (0.16%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 158 (12.29%) Docker
2 65 (5.05%) Active Directory
3 20 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (1.24%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (1.01%) Virtual Desktop
6 12 (0.93%) vSphere
7 3 (0.23%) Firmware
8 2 (0.16%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 325 (25.27%) Terraform
2 146 (11.35%) Kubernetes
3 73 (5.68%) Ansible
4 68 (5.29%) Grafana
5 58 (4.51%) Prometheus
6 28 (2.18%) Argo
7 7 (0.54%) Puppet
8 6 (0.47%) Kibana
9 4 (0.31%) HP Fortify
10 3 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (0.23%) HP ALM
10 3 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (0.23%) Nagios
10 3 (0.23%) Scalr
11 2 (0.16%) Istio
11 2 (0.16%) MIIS
11 2 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.078%) Consul
12 1 (0.078%) linkerd
12 1 (0.078%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 544 (42.30%) Microsoft
2 64 (4.98%) Databricks
3 49 (3.81%) Google
4 42 (3.27%) Salesforce
5 39 (3.03%) ServiceNow
6 35 (2.72%) Facebook
7 29 (2.26%) Apple
8 27 (2.10%) VMware
9 25 (1.94%) Dynatrace
10 23 (1.79%) Red Hat
11 19 (1.48%) YouTube
12 17 (1.32%) MuleSoft
13 16 (1.24%) Sony
13 16 (1.24%) Yahoo!
14 14 (1.09%) Guidewire
15 12 (0.93%) Oracle
15 12 (0.93%) ScienceLogic
16 11 (0.86%) Foundry
17 9 (0.70%) SAP
17 9 (0.70%) Splunk