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

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 157 176 126
Rank change year-on-year +19 -50 -24
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,233 892 2,267
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.30% 1.97% 2.08%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.81% 5.92% 6.33%
Number of salaries quoted 995 689 1,703
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 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £76,500
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 25,657 15,076 35,807
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.09% 33.38% 32.91%
Number of salaries quoted 16,662 10,434 27,447
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,750 £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 £81,703 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £51,364
% change year-on-year +4.76% +2.21% -6.61%

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 23 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 23 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 +21 1,114 £65,000 -7.14% 357
UK excluding London +50 804 £60,000 -4.00% 294
Work from Home +51 494 £60,000 -11.11% 210
London -17 365 £77,500 +3.33% 134
North of England +67 229 £60,500 -10.37% 69
South East -5 213 £59,500 -8.46% 98
Midlands +13 129 £65,000 +8.33% 47
North West +83 127 £69,305 +4.61% 43
South West -5 94 £55,000 -4.35% 26
East of England +14 68 £56,000 -0.44% 33
West Midlands -17 65 £65,000 +8.33% 25
East Midlands +21 62 £64,050 +13.87% 22
Yorkshire -25 53 £69,305 -0.99% 17
North East -9 49 £50,000 -9.09% 10
Wales -14 46 £53,171 -18.20% 11
Scotland +20 25 £61,250 -3.54% 16
Northern Ireland -36 2 £72,500 +45.00% 3

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 56 (4.54%) Confluence
2 52 (4.22%) SharePoint
3 27 (2.19%) Microsoft Exchange
4 20 (1.62%) IIS
5 13 (1.05%) Apache Spark
6 8 (0.65%) CMS
6 8 (0.65%) SharePoint Server
7 6 (0.49%) Apache
7 6 (0.49%) Umbraco
8 5 (0.41%) Anypoint
8 5 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
8 5 (0.41%) nginx
9 3 (0.24%) WordPress
10 2 (0.16%) CICS
10 2 (0.16%) Luigi
10 2 (0.16%) Moodle
11 1 (0.081%) BizTalk Server
11 1 (0.081%) Drupal
11 1 (0.081%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.081%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 19 (1.54%) MS Visio
2 12 (0.97%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (0.89%) Microsoft Project
4 7 (0.57%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.32%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.32%) Trello
6 3 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.081%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.081%) Notion
7 1 (0.081%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 14 (1.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.41%) Dynamics AX
2 5 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.41%) Visualfiles
3 4 (0.32%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.24%) Elite 3E
5 2 (0.16%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 2 (0.16%) Magento
5 2 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.16%) SAP IBP
5 2 (0.16%) Shopify
6 1 (0.081%) Infor M3
6 1 (0.081%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.081%) Sage 200
6 1 (0.081%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 1,232 (99.92%) Azure
2 229 (18.57%) GitHub
3 192 (15.57%) Power Platform
4 160 (12.98%) AWS
5 134 (10.87%) GitHub Actions
6 112 (9.08%) Serverless
7 106 (8.60%) Azure Monitor
8 105 (8.52%) Azure AKS
9 88 (7.14%) PaaS
10 86 (6.97%) Azure Functions
11 82 (6.65%) Azure Service Bus
12 81 (6.57%) Entra ID
13 80 (6.49%) Dynamics 365
14 79 (6.41%) Azure Logic Apps
15 72 (5.84%) Azure AI
15 72 (5.84%) Microsoft 365
16 69 (5.60%) SaaS
17 68 (5.52%) Azure Data Factory
18 60 (4.87%) GCP
19 58 (4.70%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 50 (4.06%) Firewall
2 25 (2.03%) DNS
3 20 (1.62%) VPN
4 16 (1.30%) HTTP
5 14 (1.14%) TCP/IP
6 11 (0.89%) Network Security
7 7 (0.57%) Internet
8 6 (0.49%) WAN
9 4 (0.32%) Bluetooth
9 4 (0.32%) DHCP
9 4 (0.32%) MQTT
9 4 (0.32%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (0.32%) Wireless
9 4 (0.32%) ZigBee
10 3 (0.24%) BGP
10 3 (0.24%) HTTPS
10 3 (0.24%) SAN
11 2 (0.16%) VLAN
12 1 (0.081%) IP Telephony
12 1 (0.081%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 203 (16.46%) Azure SQL Database
2 138 (11.19%) MongoDB
3 122 (9.89%) SQL Server
4 95 (7.70%) Power BI
5 39 (3.16%) PostgreSQL
6 35 (2.84%) Data Warehouse
7 32 (2.60%) Data Lake
8 29 (2.35%) Relational Database
9 28 (2.27%) Delta Lake
10 26 (2.11%) Elasticsearch
11 25 (2.03%) NoSQL
12 20 (1.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 18 (1.46%) Spark SQL
14 17 (1.38%) Redis
15 15 (1.22%) Metadata
16 14 (1.14%) Star Schema
17 13 (1.05%) MySQL
18 12 (0.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 11 (0.89%) Tableau
20 9 (0.73%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 188 (15.25%) Git
2 151 (12.25%) JIRA
3 112 (9.08%) Jenkins
4 74 (6.00%) GitLab
5 55 (4.46%) Selenium
6 47 (3.81%) Cypress.io
7 38 (3.08%) Postman
8 24 (1.95%) Eclipse
9 19 (1.54%) Visual Studio
10 17 (1.38%) REST Assured
11 14 (1.14%) fastlane
11 14 (1.14%) JMeter
12 13 (1.05%) Octopus Deploy
13 12 (0.97%) TestRail
13 12 (0.97%) Zephyr
14 9 (0.73%) Xcode
15 8 (0.65%) TeamCity
16 7 (0.57%) JUnit
16 7 (0.57%) LoadRunner
16 7 (0.57%) NUnit
General
1 279 (22.63%) Finance
2 272 (22.06%) Social Skills
3 116 (9.41%) Analytical Skills
4 90 (7.30%) Public Sector
5 85 (6.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 52 (4.22%) Law
7 47 (3.81%) Retail
8 36 (2.92%) Marketing
9 32 (2.60%) Legal
10 28 (2.27%) Banking
11 22 (1.78%) Advertising
11 22 (1.78%) Billing
12 21 (1.70%) Games
13 19 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
14 17 (1.38%) Manufacturing
14 17 (1.38%) Presentation Skills
15 15 (1.22%) Telecoms
16 11 (0.89%) Documentation Skills
17 10 (0.81%) Automotive
17 10 (0.81%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 358 (29.03%) Developer
2 232 (18.82%) Senior
3 222 (18.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 199 (16.14%) Azure Engineer
5 166 (13.46%) Lead
6 156 (12.65%) .NET Developer
7 113 (9.16%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 75 (6.08%) Senior Developer
9 71 (5.76%) Platform Engineer
10 69 (5.60%) Data Engineer
11 65 (5.27%) Analyst
12 62 (5.03%) Cloud Engineer
13 59 (4.79%) Architect
14 51 (4.14%) Senior DevOps
15 49 (3.97%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 44 (3.57%) Software Engineer
17 43 (3.49%) Cloud Platform Engineer
18 38 (3.08%) Azure Platform Engineer
19 35 (2.84%) Software Developer
20 29 (2.35%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 386 (31.31%) .NET
2 198 (16.06%) ASP.NET
3 176 (14.27%) .NET Core
4 159 (12.90%) ASP.NET Core
5 150 (12.17%) React
6 139 (11.27%) HTML
7 138 (11.19%) CSS
8 113 (9.16%) REST
9 109 (8.84%) RESTful
10 92 (7.46%) Entity Framework
11 87 (7.06%) Blazor
12 80 (6.49%) Node.js
13 63 (5.11%) ML.NET
13 63 (5.11%) Playwright
14 62 (5.03%) YAML
15 52 (4.22%) ARM Templates
16 45 (3.65%) .NET Framework
17 42 (3.41%) JSON
17 42 (3.41%) PySpark
18 40 (3.24%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 118 (9.57%) Product Ownership
2 105 (8.52%) Cloud Native
3 55 (4.46%) Mobile App
4 39 (3.16%) Legacy Systems
5 38 (3.08%) Enterprise Software
6 37 (3.00%) Onboarding
7 27 (2.19%) Distributed Systems
7 27 (2.19%) Greenfield Project
8 26 (2.11%) Management Information System
9 23 (1.87%) Hybrid Cloud
10 21 (1.70%) Analytical Mindset
11 20 (1.62%) Low-Code
12 17 (1.38%) Podcast
12 17 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
13 16 (1.30%) Reinsurance
14 15 (1.22%) Public Cloud
15 14 (1.14%) Data Structures
15 14 (1.14%) iPhone
16 13 (1.05%) BBC
16 13 (1.05%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 96 (7.79%) Linux
2 76 (6.16%) Windows
3 27 (2.19%) VMS
4 23 (1.87%) Android
5 18 (1.46%) Unix
6 16 (1.30%) Ubuntu
7 15 (1.22%) Apple iOS
8 13 (1.05%) Windows Server
9 4 (0.32%) Kali Linux
10 3 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.081%) SUSE
11 1 (0.081%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,232 (99.92%) DevOps
2 736 (59.69%) CI/CD
3 551 (44.69%) Agile
4 308 (24.98%) Infrastructure as Code
5 243 (19.71%) AI
6 242 (19.63%) Continuous Improvement
7 238 (19.30%) Test Automation
8 209 (16.95%) Full-Stack Development
9 195 (15.82%) Scrum
10 183 (14.84%) Problem-Solving
11 171 (13.87%) Mentoring
12 169 (13.71%) Analytics
13 147 (11.92%) Observability
14 145 (11.76%) Microservices
15 120 (9.73%) Containerisation
15 120 (9.73%) Platform Engineering
16 116 (9.41%) SDLC
17 114 (9.25%) Roadmaps
18 110 (8.92%) Machine Learning
19 109 (8.84%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 426 (34.55%) SQL
2 372 (30.17%) C#
3 239 (19.38%) Python
4 215 (17.44%) JavaScript
5 147 (11.92%) PowerShell
6 128 (10.38%) Bash
7 104 (8.43%) Bicep
8 74 (6.00%) Java
9 63 (5.11%) TypeScript
10 23 (1.87%) T-SQL
11 20 (1.62%) Kusto Query Language
12 19 (1.54%) Go
13 17 (1.38%) Scala
14 15 (1.22%) C++
15 12 (0.97%) Swift
16 10 (0.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 8 (0.65%) Apex Code
17 8 (0.65%) Kotlin
18 6 (0.49%) PHP
18 6 (0.49%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 92 (7.46%) Security Cleared
2 86 (6.97%) Degree
3 75 (6.08%) SC Cleared
4 65 (5.27%) Azure Certification
5 36 (2.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 28 (2.27%) ISTQB
7 26 (2.11%) Microsoft Certification
8 12 (0.97%) DV Cleared
9 11 (0.89%) Master's Degree
10 10 (0.81%) HND
10 10 (0.81%) PMI Certification
11 7 (0.57%) AWS Certification
12 6 (0.49%) CISSP
13 4 (0.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.32%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 4 (0.32%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 4 (0.32%) PMP
14 3 (0.24%) ISEB
14 3 (0.24%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 3 (0.24%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 152 (12.33%) QA
2 87 (7.06%) Accessibility
3 47 (3.81%) Data Quality
4 37 (3.00%) GDPR
5 26 (2.11%) WCAG
6 22 (1.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 12 (0.97%) SLA
7 12 (0.97%) TickIT
8 11 (0.89%) GRC
9 8 (0.65%) PMO
9 8 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 7 (0.57%) SOC 2
11 6 (0.49%) Software Quality Assurance
11 6 (0.49%) Solvency II
12 5 (0.41%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 5 (0.41%) IFRS
13 4 (0.32%) JTAG
13 4 (0.32%) NCSC
14 3 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
15 2 (0.16%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 150 (12.17%) Docker
2 65 (5.27%) Active Directory
3 16 (1.30%) Virtual Machines
3 16 (1.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.89%) Virtual Desktop
5 10 (0.81%) vSphere
6 2 (0.16%) Firmware
6 2 (0.16%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 319 (25.87%) Terraform
2 134 (10.87%) Kubernetes
3 72 (5.84%) Ansible
4 68 (5.52%) Grafana
5 58 (4.70%) Prometheus
6 28 (2.27%) Argo
7 9 (0.73%) Kibana
8 5 (0.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 5 (0.41%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (0.41%) Puppet
9 4 (0.32%) HP Fortify
10 3 (0.24%) HP ALM
10 3 (0.24%) Nagios
10 3 (0.24%) Scalr
11 2 (0.16%) Istio
11 2 (0.16%) MIIS
11 2 (0.16%) SCCM
11 2 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.081%) Packer
12 1 (0.081%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 510 (41.36%) Microsoft
2 66 (5.35%) Databricks
3 42 (3.41%) ServiceNow
4 41 (3.33%) Salesforce
5 40 (3.24%) Google
6 29 (2.35%) Facebook
7 26 (2.11%) Apple
8 25 (2.03%) Dynatrace
9 23 (1.87%) Red Hat
9 23 (1.87%) VMware
10 16 (1.30%) MuleSoft
10 16 (1.30%) YouTube
11 14 (1.14%) Guidewire
12 13 (1.05%) Sony
12 13 (1.05%) Yahoo!
13 11 (0.89%) Oracle
13 11 (0.89%) Splunk
14 10 (0.81%) Adobe
14 10 (0.81%) ScienceLogic
15 9 (0.73%) Foundry