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 17 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 159 175 122
Rank change year-on-year +16 -53 -23
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,177 890 2,295
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.26% 2.00% 2.12%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.68% 5.96% 6.42%
Number of salaries quoted 941 688 1,732
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £49,750 £55,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +9.76% -5.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £93,750
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 25,150 14,944 35,772
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.90% 33.53% 33.00%
Number of salaries quoted 16,275 10,305 27,369
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,000 £30,250
25th Percentile £43,498 £41,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -9.45%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,685
% change year-on-year +4.76% +3.58% -7.85%

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 17 June 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 17 June 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 +11 1,060 £65,000 -7.14% 545
UK excluding London +37 759 £60,000 -4.00% 536
Work from Home +37 451 £60,750 -10.00% 454
London -23 358 £77,500 +3.33% 140
North of England +62 220 £62,500 -10.71% 115
South East -4 196 £57,500 -11.54% 141
Midlands +18 124 £65,000 +8.33% 74
North West +68 121 £69,305 +2.67% 60
South West -12 86 £55,000 -4.35% 45
West Midlands -17 62 £65,000 +8.33% 35
East of England +13 61 £56,000 -2.61% 72
East Midlands +13 60 £65,000 +13.04% 39
Yorkshire -36 52 £69,305 -0.99% 33
North East -7 47 £50,000 -9.09% 23
Wales -17 40 £53,135 -18.25% 31
Scotland +21 32 £62,500 -1.57% 49
Northern Ireland -30 2 £72,500 +45.00% 19

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 52 (4.42%) Confluence
2 47 (3.99%) SharePoint
3 24 (2.04%) Microsoft Exchange
4 17 (1.44%) IIS
5 13 (1.10%) Apache Spark
6 8 (0.68%) SharePoint Server
7 7 (0.59%) Apache
7 7 (0.59%) CMS
8 6 (0.51%) Umbraco
9 5 (0.42%) Anypoint
9 5 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
10 4 (0.34%) nginx
11 3 (0.25%) WordPress
12 2 (0.17%) CICS
12 2 (0.17%) Luigi
12 2 (0.17%) Moodle
13 1 (0.085%) BizTalk Server
13 1 (0.085%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 1 (0.085%) Palantir Foundry
13 1 (0.085%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 19 (1.61%) MS Visio
2 12 (1.02%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (0.93%) Microsoft Project
4 7 (0.59%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
6 3 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.25%) Trello
7 1 (0.085%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.085%) Notion
7 1 (0.085%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 12 (1.02%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.42%) Dynamics AX
2 5 (0.42%) Visualfiles
3 4 (0.34%) Dynamics NAV
3 4 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.25%) Elite 3E
5 2 (0.17%) Magento
5 2 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.085%) Infor M3
6 1 (0.085%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 1 (0.085%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.085%) Sage 200
6 1 (0.085%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.085%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.085%) SAP IBP
6 1 (0.085%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1,176 (99.92%) Azure
2 232 (19.71%) GitHub
3 182 (15.46%) Power Platform
4 158 (13.42%) AWS
5 140 (11.89%) GitHub Actions
6 104 (8.84%) Serverless
7 103 (8.75%) Azure AKS
7 103 (8.75%) Azure Monitor
8 84 (7.14%) PaaS
9 81 (6.88%) Entra ID
10 77 (6.54%) Azure Functions
11 76 (6.46%) Azure Logic Apps
12 75 (6.37%) Azure Service Bus
13 74 (6.29%) Dynamics 365
14 71 (6.03%) Microsoft 365
15 69 (5.86%) Azure Data Factory
15 69 (5.86%) SaaS
16 61 (5.18%) GCP
17 57 (4.84%) Azure AI
18 54 (4.59%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 54 (4.59%) Firewall
2 26 (2.21%) DNS
3 17 (1.44%) HTTP
3 17 (1.44%) VPN
4 15 (1.27%) TCP/IP
5 11 (0.93%) Network Security
6 7 (0.59%) WAN
7 5 (0.42%) Internet
8 4 (0.34%) Bluetooth
8 4 (0.34%) DHCP
8 4 (0.34%) MQTT
8 4 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (0.34%) Wireless
8 4 (0.34%) ZigBee
9 3 (0.25%) BGP
9 3 (0.25%) HTTPS
9 3 (0.25%) SAN
10 2 (0.17%) VLAN
11 1 (0.085%) LTE
11 1 (0.085%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 173 (14.70%) Azure SQL Database
2 116 (9.86%) SQL Server
3 112 (9.52%) MongoDB
4 97 (8.24%) Power BI
5 40 (3.40%) PostgreSQL
6 36 (3.06%) Data Warehouse
7 33 (2.80%) Data Lake
8 29 (2.46%) Relational Database
9 27 (2.29%) Delta Lake
10 26 (2.21%) NoSQL
11 21 (1.78%) Elasticsearch
12 19 (1.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 18 (1.53%) Spark SQL
14 14 (1.19%) Redis
14 14 (1.19%) Star Schema
15 13 (1.10%) Metadata
15 13 (1.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 12 (1.02%) Tableau
17 11 (0.93%) MySQL
18 9 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 184 (15.63%) Git
2 146 (12.40%) JIRA
3 112 (9.52%) Jenkins
4 72 (6.12%) GitLab
5 55 (4.67%) Selenium
6 47 (3.99%) Cypress.io
7 36 (3.06%) Postman
8 23 (1.95%) Eclipse
9 17 (1.44%) REST Assured
10 16 (1.36%) Visual Studio
11 14 (1.19%) fastlane
11 14 (1.19%) JMeter
12 12 (1.02%) Octopus Deploy
12 12 (1.02%) TestRail
12 12 (1.02%) Zephyr
13 9 (0.76%) Xcode
14 8 (0.68%) TeamCity
15 7 (0.59%) JUnit
15 7 (0.59%) LoadRunner
16 6 (0.51%) NUnit
General
1 280 (23.79%) Finance
2 255 (21.67%) Social Skills
3 117 (9.94%) Analytical Skills
4 86 (7.31%) Public Sector
5 75 (6.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 50 (4.25%) Law
7 43 (3.65%) Retail
8 33 (2.80%) Legal
8 33 (2.80%) Marketing
9 27 (2.29%) Banking
10 24 (2.04%) Billing
11 19 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
12 18 (1.53%) Advertising
12 18 (1.53%) Games
13 16 (1.36%) Telecoms
14 15 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
15 14 (1.19%) Manufacturing
16 10 (0.85%) Automotive
16 10 (0.85%) Aviation
16 10 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 322 (27.36%) Developer
2 227 (19.29%) Senior
3 217 (18.44%) DevOps Engineer
4 198 (16.82%) Azure Engineer
5 158 (13.42%) Lead
6 128 (10.88%) .NET Developer
7 110 (9.35%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 72 (6.12%) Senior Developer
9 69 (5.86%) Platform Engineer
10 68 (5.78%) Data Engineer
11 66 (5.61%) Cloud Engineer
12 60 (5.10%) Analyst
13 56 (4.76%) Architect
14 50 (4.25%) Senior DevOps
15 48 (4.08%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 42 (3.57%) Cloud Platform Engineer
17 41 (3.48%) Software Engineer
18 37 (3.14%) Azure Platform Engineer
19 33 (2.80%) Software Developer
20 29 (2.46%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 349 (29.65%) .NET
2 168 (14.27%) ASP.NET
3 150 (12.74%) .NET Core
4 137 (11.64%) React
5 130 (11.05%) ASP.NET Core
6 123 (10.45%) HTML
7 122 (10.37%) CSS
8 113 (9.60%) REST
9 102 (8.67%) RESTful
10 75 (6.37%) Entity Framework
11 74 (6.29%) Blazor
11 74 (6.29%) Node.js
12 63 (5.35%) Playwright
12 63 (5.35%) YAML
13 50 (4.25%) ML.NET
14 49 (4.16%) ARM Templates
15 44 (3.74%) OAuth
16 42 (3.57%) PySpark
17 41 (3.48%) .NET Framework
17 41 (3.48%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 119 (10.11%) Product Ownership
2 105 (8.92%) Cloud Native
3 50 (4.25%) Mobile App
4 37 (3.14%) Onboarding
5 36 (3.06%) Enterprise Software
6 34 (2.89%) Legacy Systems
7 27 (2.29%) Distributed Systems
7 27 (2.29%) Management Information System
8 22 (1.87%) Hybrid Cloud
9 21 (1.78%) Analytical Mindset
9 21 (1.78%) Greenfield Project
10 19 (1.61%) Low-Code
11 16 (1.36%) Reinsurance
12 15 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
13 14 (1.19%) Data Structures
14 13 (1.10%) Podcast
15 12 (1.02%) Public Cloud
16 11 (0.93%) Enterprise Cloud
16 11 (0.93%) iPhone
16 11 (0.93%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 96 (8.16%) Linux
2 68 (5.78%) Windows
3 24 (2.04%) VMS
4 20 (1.70%) Android
5 17 (1.44%) Ubuntu
5 17 (1.44%) Unix
6 16 (1.36%) Apple iOS
7 14 (1.19%) Windows Server
8 4 (0.34%) Kali Linux
9 3 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.085%) SUSE
10 1 (0.085%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.085%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,176 (99.92%) DevOps
2 713 (60.58%) CI/CD
3 516 (43.84%) Agile
4 305 (25.91%) Infrastructure as Code
5 241 (20.48%) Test Automation
6 229 (19.46%) Continuous Improvement
7 223 (18.95%) AI
8 184 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
9 182 (15.46%) Full-Stack Development
10 181 (15.38%) Scrum
11 168 (14.27%) Mentoring
12 164 (13.93%) Analytics
13 147 (12.49%) Observability
14 138 (11.72%) Microservices
15 124 (10.54%) Containerisation
16 116 (9.86%) Platform Engineering
17 109 (9.26%) Data Modelling
17 109 (9.26%) SDLC
18 108 (9.18%) Roadmaps
19 107 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 396 (33.64%) SQL
2 331 (28.12%) C#
3 244 (20.73%) Python
4 195 (16.57%) JavaScript
5 140 (11.89%) PowerShell
6 124 (10.54%) Bash
7 96 (8.16%) Bicep
8 75 (6.37%) Java
9 59 (5.01%) TypeScript
10 21 (1.78%) Go
11 18 (1.53%) Scala
12 17 (1.44%) Kusto Query Language
12 17 (1.44%) T-SQL
13 15 (1.27%) C++
14 13 (1.10%) Swift
15 11 (0.93%) Apex Code
16 10 (0.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 8 (0.68%) Kotlin
18 6 (0.51%) SOQL
18 6 (0.51%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 88 (7.48%) Degree
2 84 (7.14%) Security Cleared
3 67 (5.69%) SC Cleared
4 59 (5.01%) Azure Certification
5 35 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
6 28 (2.38%) ISTQB
7 22 (1.87%) Microsoft Certification
8 12 (1.02%) Master's Degree
9 11 (0.93%) DV Cleared
9 11 (0.93%) HND
9 11 (0.93%) PMI Certification
10 8 (0.68%) AWS Certification
11 5 (0.42%) CISSP
11 5 (0.42%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 4 (0.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (0.34%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 4 (0.34%) PMP
13 3 (0.25%) ISEB
13 3 (0.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 2 (0.17%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 141 (11.98%) QA
2 88 (7.48%) Accessibility
3 46 (3.91%) Data Quality
4 38 (3.23%) GDPR
5 25 (2.12%) WCAG
6 22 (1.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 13 (1.10%) SLA
8 12 (1.02%) TickIT
9 10 (0.85%) GRC
10 8 (0.68%) PMO
10 8 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 8 (0.68%) SOC 2
11 6 (0.51%) Software Quality Assurance
11 6 (0.51%) Solvency II
12 5 (0.42%) IFRS
13 4 (0.34%) JTAG
13 4 (0.34%) NCSC
14 3 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
14 3 (0.25%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 2 (0.17%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 147 (12.49%) Docker
2 62 (5.27%) Active Directory
3 16 (1.36%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (0.59%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (0.51%) vSphere
7 2 (0.17%) Firmware
7 2 (0.17%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 317 (26.93%) Terraform
2 128 (10.88%) Kubernetes
3 72 (6.12%) Ansible
4 67 (5.69%) Grafana
5 57 (4.84%) Prometheus
6 27 (2.29%) Argo
7 9 (0.76%) Kibana
8 5 (0.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 5 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.34%) HP Fortify
9 4 (0.34%) Puppet
9 4 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.25%) HP ALM
10 3 (0.25%) Nagios
10 3 (0.25%) Scalr
11 2 (0.17%) Istio
11 2 (0.17%) MIIS
11 2 (0.17%) SCCM
12 1 (0.085%) Packer
12 1 (0.085%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 468 (39.76%) Microsoft
2 67 (5.69%) Databricks
3 41 (3.48%) Salesforce
4 39 (3.31%) ServiceNow
5 35 (2.97%) Google
6 25 (2.12%) Apple
6 25 (2.12%) Dynatrace
7 24 (2.04%) Red Hat
8 23 (1.95%) Facebook
9 20 (1.70%) VMware
10 15 (1.27%) MuleSoft
11 13 (1.10%) Oracle
12 12 (1.02%) Guidewire
12 12 (1.02%) YouTube
13 11 (0.93%) Adobe
13 11 (0.93%) Sony
13 11 (0.93%) Splunk
13 11 (0.93%) Yahoo!
14 10 (0.85%) Nintex
14 10 (0.85%) Palo Alto