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 28 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 178 115
Rank change year-on-year +30 -63 -18
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,435 930 1,842
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.31% 1.86% 2.21%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.19% 5.82% 6.99%
Number of salaries quoted 1,138 682 1,287
10th Percentile £43,674 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,750 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.26% +2.31% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000

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 27,640 15,966 26,340
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.26% 31.94% 31.55%
Number of salaries quoted 18,542 10,900 18,355
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,936 £39,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +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 28 August 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 28 August 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 +27 1,283 £65,000 -3.70% 878
UK excluding London +63 955 £60,000 - 569
Work from Home +19 584 £60,000 -7.69% 495
London -27 412 £80,000 +6.67% 420
North of England +90 286 £60,250 -7.31% 145
South East +1 229 £62,500 - 170
North West +80 169 £65,000 -1.89% 75
Midlands +47 163 £62,500 +4.17% 95
South West -12 94 £55,000 - 56
West Midlands +4 91 £62,500 +4.17% 49
Wales -16 89 £53,171 -3.33% 18
East of England +11 79 £55,000 -12.00% 39
East Midlands +24 72 £58,750 +6.82% 46
Yorkshire -6 68 £68,653 +14.42% 51
North East -13 49 £52,000 -0.95% 19
Scotland -18 20 £55,000 -14.73% 29
Northern Ireland - 1 £72,500 - 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 73 (5.09%) SharePoint
2 69 (4.81%) Confluence
3 31 (2.16%) Microsoft Exchange
4 22 (1.53%) IIS
5 21 (1.46%) Apache Spark
6 12 (0.84%) Apache
7 11 (0.77%) CMS
7 11 (0.77%) nginx
8 8 (0.56%) SharePoint Server
9 6 (0.42%) Anypoint
9 6 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
9 6 (0.42%) Camunda
9 6 (0.42%) CICS
9 6 (0.42%) Umbraco
10 3 (0.21%) BizTalk Server
10 3 (0.21%) WordPress
11 2 (0.14%) Luigi
12 1 (0.070%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.070%) NServiceBus
12 1 (0.070%) TPMS
Applications
1 20 (1.39%) Microsoft Project
2 15 (1.05%) MS Visio
3 13 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
4 11 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
5 9 (0.63%) Trello
6 8 (0.56%) Chatbot
7 7 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 1 (0.070%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.070%) Notion
8 1 (0.070%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 23 (1.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.98%) Elite 3E
3 9 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (0.42%) SAP IBP
5 5 (0.35%) Dynamics NAV
5 5 (0.35%) Visualfiles
6 4 (0.28%) Shopify
7 3 (0.21%) Carpe Diem
7 3 (0.21%) Dynamics AX
7 3 (0.21%) Oracle Applications
7 3 (0.21%) SAP Business One
8 2 (0.14%) JDE EnterpriseOne
8 2 (0.14%) Magento
9 1 (0.070%) Infor M3
9 1 (0.070%) Integrated Workplace Management System
9 1 (0.070%) Sage 200
9 1 (0.070%) Salesforce CRM
9 1 (0.070%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,435 (100.00%) Azure
2 238 (16.59%) Power Platform
3 216 (15.05%) GitHub
4 167 (11.64%) AWS
5 134 (9.34%) Serverless
6 129 (8.99%) GitHub Actions
7 120 (8.36%) Dynamics 365
8 117 (8.15%) Azure Service Bus
9 112 (7.80%) Azure Functions
10 110 (7.67%) Azure AKS
11 104 (7.25%) Azure AI
12 102 (7.11%) Azure Monitor
13 98 (6.83%) Azure Logic Apps
14 96 (6.69%) PaaS
15 90 (6.27%) Azure Key Vault
16 89 (6.20%) Entra ID
17 83 (5.78%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 83 (5.78%) Azure Data Factory
18 82 (5.71%) Microsoft 365
18 82 (5.71%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 36 (2.51%) Firewall
2 30 (2.09%) VPN
3 16 (1.11%) DNS
4 13 (0.91%) Network Security
5 12 (0.84%) Internet
6 10 (0.70%) Wi-Fi
7 9 (0.63%) SAN
8 8 (0.56%) HTTP
9 6 (0.42%) DHCP
9 6 (0.42%) MQTT
9 6 (0.42%) TCP/IP
9 6 (0.42%) VLAN
9 6 (0.42%) Wireless
9 6 (0.42%) ZigBee
10 4 (0.28%) Bluetooth
11 3 (0.21%) HTTPS
12 2 (0.14%) LoRaWAN
13 1 (0.070%) BGP
13 1 (0.070%) Broadband
13 1 (0.070%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 258 (17.98%) Azure SQL Database
2 186 (12.96%) SQL Server
3 177 (12.33%) MongoDB
4 120 (8.36%) Power BI
5 67 (4.67%) Data Warehouse
6 56 (3.90%) PostgreSQL
7 47 (3.28%) Relational Database
8 41 (2.86%) Elasticsearch
9 35 (2.44%) NoSQL
10 31 (2.16%) Delta Lake
11 28 (1.95%) Data Lake
11 28 (1.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 26 (1.81%) Redis
13 25 (1.74%) Metadata
14 23 (1.60%) MySQL
15 21 (1.46%) Star Schema
16 18 (1.25%) Spark SQL
17 17 (1.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 16 (1.11%) Tableau
19 13 (0.91%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 256 (17.84%) Git
2 195 (13.59%) JIRA
3 120 (8.36%) Jenkins
4 80 (5.57%) GitLab
5 50 (3.48%) Selenium
6 44 (3.07%) Postman
7 38 (2.65%) Cypress.io
8 20 (1.39%) REST Assured
9 18 (1.25%) JMeter
9 18 (1.25%) JUnit
10 17 (1.18%) NUnit
11 16 (1.11%) Visual Studio
12 15 (1.05%) Zephyr
13 14 (0.98%) Eclipse
13 14 (0.98%) fastlane
13 14 (0.98%) TestRail
14 12 (0.84%) Octopus Deploy
15 11 (0.77%) SonarQube
16 10 (0.70%) Mockito
16 10 (0.70%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 382 (26.62%) Social Skills
2 317 (22.09%) Finance
3 147 (10.24%) Analytical Skills
4 114 (7.94%) Public Sector
5 104 (7.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 57 (3.97%) Law
7 54 (3.76%) Retail
8 43 (3.00%) Marketing
9 37 (2.58%) Legal
10 36 (2.51%) Banking
11 30 (2.09%) Advertising
12 23 (1.60%) Games
13 22 (1.53%) Manufacturing
14 21 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
15 16 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
15 16 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
16 12 (0.84%) Aviation
17 10 (0.70%) Automotive
17 10 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
18 8 (0.56%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 456 (31.78%) Developer
2 323 (22.51%) Senior
3 218 (15.19%) .NET Developer
4 207 (14.43%) DevOps Engineer
5 199 (13.87%) Azure Engineer
6 171 (11.92%) Lead
7 106 (7.39%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 101 (7.04%) Senior Developer
9 84 (5.85%) Platform Engineer
10 82 (5.71%) Analyst
10 82 (5.71%) Data Engineer
11 69 (4.81%) Senior DevOps
12 64 (4.46%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 59 (4.11%) Cloud Engineer
14 52 (3.62%) Software Engineer
15 48 (3.34%) Architect
16 45 (3.14%) Software Developer
17 43 (3.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
18 42 (2.93%) Senior Data Engineer
19 40 (2.79%) Azure Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 487 (33.94%) .NET
2 345 (24.04%) Terraform
3 258 (17.98%) ASP.NET
4 236 (16.45%) .NET Core
5 205 (14.29%) ASP.NET Core
6 173 (12.06%) React
7 164 (11.43%) REST
8 161 (11.22%) HTML
9 159 (11.08%) CSS
9 159 (11.08%) RESTful
10 125 (8.71%) Blazor
11 124 (8.64%) Entity Framework
12 92 (6.41%) Node.js
13 82 (5.71%) ML.NET
14 65 (4.53%) .NET Framework
15 62 (4.32%) Playwright
16 57 (3.97%) YAML
17 55 (3.83%) ARM Templates
17 55 (3.83%) JSON
18 46 (3.21%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 148 (10.31%) Product Ownership
2 140 (9.76%) Cloud Native
3 77 (5.37%) Enterprise Software
4 58 (4.04%) Legacy Systems
5 54 (3.76%) Onboarding
6 53 (3.69%) Mobile App
7 39 (2.72%) Distributed Systems
8 37 (2.58%) Greenfield Project
9 28 (1.95%) Hybrid Cloud
10 23 (1.60%) Legacy Applications
10 23 (1.60%) Management Information System
11 22 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
12 20 (1.39%) Public Cloud
13 19 (1.32%) Podcast
14 18 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
14 18 (1.25%) Low-Code
15 17 (1.18%) AI Agents
15 17 (1.18%) BBC
15 17 (1.18%) iPhone
15 17 (1.18%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 103 (7.18%) Windows
2 99 (6.90%) Linux
3 26 (1.81%) Android
4 23 (1.60%) VMS
5 19 (1.32%) Windows Server
6 18 (1.25%) Unix
7 14 (0.98%) Apple iOS
8 12 (0.84%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.35%) Kali Linux
10 3 (0.21%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.21%) Solaris
11 2 (0.14%) Debian
11 2 (0.14%) Rocky
11 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.070%) SUSE
12 1 (0.070%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,435 (100.00%) DevOps
2 831 (57.91%) CI/CD
3 671 (46.76%) Agile
4 328 (22.86%) AI
5 320 (22.30%) Infrastructure as Code
6 312 (21.74%) Continuous Improvement
7 254 (17.70%) Full-Stack Development
8 251 (17.49%) Test Automation
9 243 (16.93%) Problem-Solving
10 228 (15.89%) Scrum
11 212 (14.77%) Mentoring
12 184 (12.82%) Microservices
13 180 (12.54%) Analytics
14 159 (11.08%) Observability
15 154 (10.73%) Stakeholder Management
16 152 (10.59%) Platform Engineering
17 144 (10.03%) Machine Learning
18 142 (9.90%) Software Engineering
19 138 (9.62%) Business Intelligence
20 128 (8.92%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 520 (36.24%) SQL
2 480 (33.45%) C#
3 267 (18.61%) Python
4 241 (16.79%) JavaScript
5 170 (11.85%) PowerShell
6 124 (8.64%) Bash
7 118 (8.22%) Bicep
8 95 (6.62%) Java
9 59 (4.11%) TypeScript
10 40 (2.79%) T-SQL
11 17 (1.18%) VB.NET
12 16 (1.11%) C++
12 16 (1.11%) Kusto Query Language
12 16 (1.11%) Scala
13 13 (0.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 11 (0.77%) Go
14 11 (0.77%) JCL
14 11 (0.77%) Swift
15 10 (0.70%) COBOL
16 8 (0.56%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 120 (8.36%) Degree
2 109 (7.60%) Security Cleared
3 93 (6.48%) SC Cleared
4 85 (5.92%) Azure Certification
5 50 (3.48%) Computer Science Degree
6 33 (2.30%) ISTQB
6 33 (2.30%) Microsoft Certification
7 22 (1.53%) PMI Certification
8 16 (1.11%) Master's Degree
9 13 (0.91%) PMP
10 12 (0.84%) AWS Certification
11 11 (0.77%) DV Cleared
12 8 (0.56%) ISEB
13 7 (0.49%) CBAP
13 7 (0.49%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 5 (0.35%) BPSS Clearance
14 5 (0.35%) CISSP
14 5 (0.35%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
14 5 (0.35%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 4 (0.28%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 187 (13.03%) QA
2 84 (5.85%) Accessibility
3 71 (4.95%) Data Quality
4 38 (2.65%) GDPR
5 34 (2.37%) WCAG
6 23 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 18 (1.25%) PMO
8 12 (0.84%) TickIT
9 10 (0.70%) GRC
10 9 (0.63%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 9 (0.63%) SLA
11 8 (0.56%) NCSC
11 8 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 6 (0.42%) JTAG
12 6 (0.42%) Solvency II
13 5 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 5 (0.35%) IFRS
14 4 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
14 4 (0.28%) Software Quality Assurance
15 3 (0.21%) NIST
System Software
1 182 (12.68%) Docker
2 68 (4.74%) Active Directory
3 24 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (1.18%) Virtual Desktop
5 13 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
6 12 (0.84%) vSphere
7 5 (0.35%) Firmware
8 3 (0.21%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.14%) Xen
10 1 (0.070%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.070%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 168 (11.71%) Kubernetes
2 59 (4.11%) Ansible
3 53 (3.69%) Grafana
4 47 (3.28%) Prometheus
5 30 (2.09%) Argo
6 17 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
7 11 (0.77%) Puppet
8 5 (0.35%) HP Fortify
8 5 (0.35%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (0.28%) SCCM
10 3 (0.21%) HP ALM
10 3 (0.21%) Scalr
10 3 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.14%) FlexNet
11 2 (0.14%) Istio
11 2 (0.14%) Kibana
11 2 (0.14%) Nessus
11 2 (0.14%) Rancher
11 2 (0.14%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 627 (43.69%) Microsoft
2 87 (6.06%) Databricks
3 64 (4.46%) Google
4 39 (2.72%) Salesforce
5 38 (2.65%) Facebook
6 32 (2.23%) VMware
7 30 (2.09%) ServiceNow
8 29 (2.02%) Apple
9 24 (1.67%) Dynatrace
10 21 (1.46%) Red Hat
10 21 (1.46%) YouTube
11 20 (1.39%) Oracle
11 20 (1.39%) SAP
12 19 (1.32%) OpenAI
13 17 (1.18%) Sony
13 17 (1.18%) Yahoo!
14 14 (0.98%) MuleSoft
15 12 (0.84%) Guidewire
15 12 (0.84%) ScienceLogic
16 11 (0.77%) Foundry