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 3 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 111 110
Rank change year-on-year -19 -1 -10
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,127 1,371 1,962
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.76% 2.67% 2.67%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.24% 7.28% 6.91%
Number of salaries quoted 720 861 1,725
10th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £49,346 £53,688 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -5.30%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £93,778 £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 21,490 18,827 28,413
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.48% 36.62% 38.64%
Number of salaries quoted 11,630 10,980 23,643
10th Percentile £28,750 £34,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,717 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,985
% change year-on-year -9.09% +7.87% -7.30%

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 3 February 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 3 February 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 -37 888 £65,000 -3.70% 369
UK excluding London -30 702 £55,000 -15.38% 305
Work from Home -7 504 £62,500 -5.30% 249
London +34 352 £75,000 - 137
South East +6 245 £50,000 -23.08% 104
Scotland +63 170 £57,000 +3.64% 23
North of England -49 104 £55,000 -18.19% 77
Midlands -64 76 £60,000 -7.69% 40
South West -71 68 £47,500 -26.92% 27
West Midlands -52 55 £58,000 -10.77% 27
Yorkshire -39 40 £53,750 -21.66% 24
North West -20 35 £65,000 - 46
North East +4 29 £50,000 -27.27% 7
Wales -4 23 £55,000 -15.38% 15
East Midlands +1 18 £65,000 - 13
East of England -42 14 £65,000 +30.00% 22
Northern Ireland -15 2 £56,250 - 2

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 38 (3.37%) Confluence
2 35 (3.11%) IIS
3 26 (2.31%) SharePoint
4 19 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
5 17 (1.51%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 10 (0.89%) Apache Airflow
7 7 (0.62%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.35%) Apache
9 3 (0.27%) Appian
10 2 (0.18%) Anypoint
10 2 (0.18%) BizTalk Server
10 2 (0.18%) Moodle
11 1 (0.089%) nginx
11 1 (0.089%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.089%) Tomcat
Applications
1 38 (3.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (2.13%) MS Visio
3 22 (1.95%) Microsoft Office
4 16 (1.42%) Microsoft Project
5 13 (1.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.35%) Trello
7 2 (0.18%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.089%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 71 (6.30%) SAP S/4HANA
2 38 (3.37%) Dynamics CRM
3 37 (3.28%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (0.27%) SAP CX
5 2 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.18%) Markit EDM
5 2 (0.18%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.089%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.089%) Endur
6 1 (0.089%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 1 (0.089%) Primavera
6 1 (0.089%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 1,058 (93.88%) Azure
2 347 (30.79%) GitHub
3 217 (19.25%) Power Platform
4 166 (14.73%) AWS
5 158 (14.02%) GitHub Actions
6 102 (9.05%) Azure Monitor
7 97 (8.61%) Entra ID
8 89 (7.90%) Azure Data Factory
9 86 (7.63%) Serverless
10 81 (7.19%) PaaS
11 80 (7.10%) Snowflake
12 75 (6.65%) Microsoft 365
13 70 (6.21%) SaaS
14 66 (5.86%) GitHub Copilot
15 65 (5.77%) Azure AKS
16 61 (5.41%) Dynamics 365
17 59 (5.24%) Azure Logic Apps
18 58 (5.15%) dbt
19 54 (4.79%) GCP
20 52 (4.61%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 62 (5.50%) Firewall
2 45 (3.99%) DNS
3 28 (2.48%) VPN
4 20 (1.77%) WAN
5 16 (1.42%) HTTP
6 14 (1.24%) TCP/IP
7 9 (0.80%) Network Security
8 8 (0.71%) DHCP
9 6 (0.53%) SD-WAN
10 5 (0.44%) VLAN
11 4 (0.35%) BGP
11 4 (0.35%) SSL
12 3 (0.27%) AMQP
12 3 (0.27%) IPsec
12 3 (0.27%) OSPF
12 3 (0.27%) Wi-Fi
12 3 (0.27%) Wireshark
13 1 (0.089%) IP Telephony
13 1 (0.089%) NetScaler
13 1 (0.089%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 159 (14.11%) SQL Server
2 130 (11.54%) Power BI
3 74 (6.57%) Data Warehouse
4 68 (6.03%) Azure SQL Database
5 48 (4.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 41 (3.64%) NoSQL
7 38 (3.37%) Tableau
8 32 (2.84%) Data Lake
9 28 (2.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 21 (1.86%) Relational Database
11 20 (1.77%) PostgreSQL
11 20 (1.77%) Snowflake Schema
12 17 (1.51%) MongoDB
13 15 (1.33%) DynamoDB
14 12 (1.06%) Metadata
14 12 (1.06%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 11 (0.98%) Delta Lake
16 9 (0.80%) MySQL
17 8 (0.71%) GIS
17 8 (0.71%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 211 (18.72%) JIRA
2 189 (16.77%) Git
3 127 (11.27%) Jenkins
4 69 (6.12%) eCATT
5 55 (4.88%) Selenium
6 39 (3.46%) NeoLoad
7 37 (3.28%) Oracle Forms
8 31 (2.75%) Cypress.io
9 29 (2.57%) GitLab
10 26 (2.31%) Octopus Deploy
11 22 (1.95%) TeamCity
12 21 (1.86%) Snyk
12 21 (1.86%) Visual Studio
13 20 (1.77%) Robot Framework
14 19 (1.69%) Postman
15 12 (1.06%) Eclipse
16 9 (0.80%) SpecFlow
17 8 (0.71%) MLflow
17 8 (0.71%) NUnit
18 7 (0.62%) REST Assured
General
1 453 (40.20%) Finance
2 276 (24.49%) Social Skills
3 155 (13.75%) Analytical Skills
4 100 (8.87%) Marketing
5 72 (6.39%) Manufacturing
6 57 (5.06%) Presentation Skills
7 46 (4.08%) Law
8 44 (3.90%) Influencing Skills
9 27 (2.40%) Public Sector
10 22 (1.95%) Billing
10 22 (1.95%) Retail
11 19 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 18 (1.60%) Legal
13 14 (1.24%) Documentation Skills
14 13 (1.15%) Banking
14 13 (1.15%) Telecoms
15 10 (0.89%) Tech for Good
16 9 (0.80%) Advertising
17 8 (0.71%) Games
18 7 (0.62%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 237 (21.03%) Senior
2 199 (17.66%) Developer
3 156 (13.84%) Lead
4 137 (12.16%) DevOps Engineer
5 126 (11.18%) Analyst
5 126 (11.18%) Azure Engineer
6 106 (9.41%) Cloud Engineer
7 58 (5.15%) Data Engineer
8 51 (4.53%) Applications Engineer
8 51 (4.53%) Platform Engineer
9 50 (4.44%) Software Engineer
10 49 (4.35%) .NET Developer
11 48 (4.26%) Test Leader
12 47 (4.17%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 41 (3.64%) Architect
14 40 (3.55%) Senior Cloud Engineer
15 35 (3.11%) Business Analyst
16 31 (2.75%) Senior Developer
16 31 (2.75%) Support Engineer
17 29 (2.57%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 276 (24.49%) .NET
2 115 (10.20%) RESTful
3 97 (8.61%) React
4 77 (6.83%) REST
5 74 (6.57%) YAML
6 70 (6.21%) OAuth
7 66 (5.86%) .NET Framework
8 61 (5.41%) .NET Core
9 60 (5.32%) ASP.NET
10 54 (4.79%) SOAP
11 53 (4.70%) CSS
12 52 (4.61%) HTML
13 51 (4.53%) JSON
14 41 (3.64%) OAuth2
15 36 (3.19%) AngularJS
16 35 (3.11%) ARM Templates
16 35 (3.11%) Entity Framework
16 35 (3.11%) SAML
17 32 (2.84%) Playwright
18 30 (2.66%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 153 (13.58%) Cloud Native
2 124 (11.00%) Product Ownership
3 58 (5.15%) Enterprise Software
4 41 (3.64%) Management Information System
5 34 (3.02%) Legacy Systems
5 34 (3.02%) Low-Code
6 27 (2.40%) Mobile App
7 26 (2.31%) Virtual Team
8 24 (2.13%) Hybrid Cloud
8 24 (2.13%) Onboarding
8 24 (2.13%) Security Posture
9 23 (2.04%) Analytical Mindset
10 18 (1.60%) Reinsurance
11 15 (1.33%) Distributed Systems
12 14 (1.24%) Data Centre
13 12 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
13 12 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
14 11 (0.98%) Data Structures
15 10 (0.89%) Legacy Applications
15 10 (0.89%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 100 (8.87%) Windows
2 69 (6.12%) Linux
3 30 (2.66%) VMS
4 17 (1.51%) Windows Server
5 10 (0.89%) Ubuntu
6 7 (0.62%) Android
7 6 (0.53%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.27%) Unix
9 2 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.089%) CentOS
10 1 (0.089%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.089%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,058 (93.88%) DevOps
2 651 (57.76%) CI/CD
3 530 (47.03%) Agile
4 309 (27.42%) Infrastructure as Code
5 281 (24.93%) Test Automation
6 262 (23.25%) Continuous Improvement
7 237 (21.03%) Problem-Solving
8 214 (18.99%) Coaching
9 205 (18.19%) AI
10 194 (17.21%) Mentoring
11 182 (16.15%) Analytics
12 159 (14.11%) Asset Management
13 141 (12.51%) Observability
14 136 (12.07%) Containerisation
15 133 (11.80%) Data Modelling
15 133 (11.80%) Roadmaps
16 132 (11.71%) Business Intelligence
17 115 (10.20%) Software Engineering
18 113 (10.03%) Microservices
18 113 (10.03%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 395 (35.05%) SQL
2 289 (25.64%) Python
3 235 (20.85%) C#
4 200 (17.75%) PowerShell
5 104 (9.23%) JavaScript
6 101 (8.96%) Bicep
7 96 (8.52%) Bash
8 68 (6.03%) TypeScript
9 56 (4.97%) Java
10 40 (3.55%) Shell Script
11 37 (3.28%) PL/SQL
12 31 (2.75%) Apex Code
13 30 (2.66%) T-SQL
14 20 (1.77%) Go
15 15 (1.33%) Scala
16 12 (1.06%) Kusto Query Language
17 9 (0.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 4 (0.35%) C++
18 4 (0.35%) PHP
18 4 (0.35%) VB
Qualifications
1 130 (11.54%) Degree
2 74 (6.57%) Azure Certification
3 71 (6.30%) Security Cleared
4 68 (6.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 41 (3.64%) SC Cleared
6 38 (3.37%) Master's Degree
7 37 (3.28%) ISTQB
8 29 (2.57%) Microsoft Certification
9 25 (2.22%) DV Cleared
10 21 (1.86%) AWS Certification
11 13 (1.15%) PMI Certification
12 12 (1.06%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 11 (0.98%) AWS Certified Developer
14 9 (0.80%) HND
14 9 (0.80%) PMP
15 8 (0.71%) ISEB
16 6 (0.53%) DBS Check
17 5 (0.44%) CBAP
17 5 (0.44%) Microsoft Certified Professional
18 4 (0.35%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 138 (12.24%) QA
2 61 (5.41%) Accessibility
3 48 (4.26%) GDPR
4 43 (3.82%) Data Quality
5 38 (3.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 17 (1.51%) PMO
7 14 (1.24%) NCSC
7 14 (1.24%) NIST
8 13 (1.15%) SOC 2
9 10 (0.89%) SLA
10 5 (0.44%) PERC
11 4 (0.35%) Software Quality Assurance
12 3 (0.27%) WCAG
13 2 (0.18%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 1 (0.089%) Cyber Essentials
14 1 (0.089%) GRC
14 1 (0.089%) HL7
14 1 (0.089%) P3O
14 1 (0.089%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 140 (12.42%) Docker
2 78 (6.92%) Active Directory
3 27 (2.40%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (1.24%) Virtual Desktop
5 12 (1.06%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.35%) Firmware
6 4 (0.35%) Postfix
7 2 (0.18%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.18%) vCloud
8 1 (0.089%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 1 (0.089%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.089%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.089%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 370 (32.83%) Terraform
2 160 (14.20%) Kubernetes
3 99 (8.78%) Ansible
4 72 (6.39%) HP ALM
5 51 (4.53%) Grafana
6 39 (3.46%) Single Sign-On
7 37 (3.28%) Prometheus
8 19 (1.69%) Microsoft Intune
9 7 (0.62%) Kibana
10 4 (0.35%) Argo
10 4 (0.35%) logstash
11 3 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.27%) Dell DRAC
11 3 (0.27%) Puppet
11 3 (0.27%) Rancher
11 3 (0.27%) SCCM
11 3 (0.27%) vRealize
12 2 (0.18%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (0.18%) Nessus
13 1 (0.089%) SCOM
Vendors
1 361 (32.03%) Microsoft
2 77 (6.83%) SAP
3 72 (6.39%) HP
4 57 (5.06%) Databricks
5 44 (3.90%) Salesforce
6 42 (3.73%) Oracle
7 35 (3.11%) ServiceNow
8 24 (2.13%) Okta
9 21 (1.86%) VMware
10 19 (1.69%) Palo Alto
10 19 (1.69%) Zscaler
11 18 (1.60%) Black Duck
11 18 (1.60%) Coverity
12 14 (1.24%) Ab Initio
13 13 (1.15%) Xamarin
14 12 (1.06%) Google
14 12 (1.06%) Sage
15 11 (0.98%) Adobe
16 10 (0.89%) Dynatrace
16 10 (0.89%) Red Hat