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 24 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 109 103
Rank change year-on-year -20 -6 -5
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,122 1,403 1,873
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.79% 2.64% 2.86%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.32% 7.29% 7.27%
Number of salaries quoted 716 893 1,621
10th Percentile £42,250 £43,750 £43,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -6.02%
75th Percentile £80,063 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £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 21,091 19,254 25,763
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.73% 36.25% 39.33%
Number of salaries quoted 11,503 11,304 21,272
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £79,225
90th Percentile £98,750 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%

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 24 January 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 24 January 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 -42 882 £65,000 -3.70% 533
UK excluding London -33 693 £55,000 -15.38% 499
Work from Home +4 513 £62,500 -7.41% 332
London +30 356 £75,000 -3.23% 119
South East +4 235 £50,000 -23.08% 155
Scotland +65 167 £56,000 +6.67% 26
North of England -40 101 £55,000 -18.19% 106
Midlands -64 78 £60,000 -7.69% 62
South West -65 68 £47,500 -26.92% 63
West Midlands -43 59 £60,000 -7.69% 32
Yorkshire -43 38 £55,000 -21.43% 36
North West -24 35 £65,000 - 55
North East +7 28 £50,000 -27.27% 15
Wales +3 25 £55,000 -15.38% 28
East of England -33 17 £65,000 +30.00% 63
East Midlands -7 16 £65,000 - 28
Northern Ireland -13 2 £56,250 - 8

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 39 (3.48%) Confluence
2 34 (3.03%) IIS
3 27 (2.41%) SharePoint
4 19 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
5 17 (1.52%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 10 (0.89%) Apache Airflow
7 7 (0.62%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.36%) 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%) Tomcat
Applications
1 39 (3.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (2.05%) Microsoft Office
3 22 (1.96%) MS Visio
4 15 (1.34%) Microsoft Project
5 13 (1.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.36%) Trello
7 2 (0.18%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.089%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 71 (6.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 44 (3.92%) Dynamics CRM
3 37 (3.30%) 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%) Aladdin
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 1,053 (93.85%) Azure
2 348 (31.02%) GitHub
3 223 (19.88%) Power Platform
4 166 (14.80%) AWS
5 162 (14.44%) GitHub Actions
6 102 (9.09%) Azure Monitor
7 97 (8.65%) Entra ID
8 86 (7.66%) Azure Data Factory
8 86 (7.66%) Serverless
9 84 (7.49%) Snowflake
10 80 (7.13%) PaaS
11 74 (6.60%) Microsoft 365
12 73 (6.51%) SaaS
13 71 (6.33%) Dynamics 365
14 66 (5.88%) GitHub Copilot
15 62 (5.53%) Azure AKS
15 62 (5.53%) dbt
16 59 (5.26%) Power Automate
17 58 (5.17%) Azure Logic Apps
18 56 (4.99%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 57 (5.08%) Firewall
2 43 (3.83%) DNS
3 28 (2.50%) VPN
4 19 (1.69%) WAN
5 14 (1.25%) HTTP
6 12 (1.07%) TCP/IP
7 9 (0.80%) Network Security
8 8 (0.71%) DHCP
9 6 (0.53%) SD-WAN
10 5 (0.45%) VLAN
11 4 (0.36%) SSL
12 3 (0.27%) AMQP
12 3 (0.27%) BGP
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
1 161 (14.35%) SQL Server
2 131 (11.68%) Power BI
3 79 (7.04%) Data Warehouse
4 69 (6.15%) Azure SQL Database
5 49 (4.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 43 (3.83%) Tableau
7 42 (3.74%) NoSQL
8 31 (2.76%) Data Lake
9 28 (2.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 22 (1.96%) Relational Database
11 20 (1.78%) Snowflake Schema
12 19 (1.69%) MongoDB
12 19 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
13 15 (1.34%) DynamoDB
14 13 (1.16%) Metadata
15 12 (1.07%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 11 (0.98%) Delta Lake
17 10 (0.89%) BigQuery
18 8 (0.71%) MySQL
19 7 (0.62%) GIS
Development Applications
1 215 (19.16%) JIRA
2 195 (17.38%) Git
3 124 (11.05%) Jenkins
4 69 (6.15%) eCATT
5 57 (5.08%) Selenium
6 40 (3.57%) NeoLoad
7 37 (3.30%) Oracle Forms
8 32 (2.85%) Cypress.io
9 30 (2.67%) GitLab
10 27 (2.41%) Octopus Deploy
11 23 (2.05%) TeamCity
12 22 (1.96%) Visual Studio
13 21 (1.87%) Postman
13 21 (1.87%) Snyk
14 20 (1.78%) Robot Framework
15 11 (0.98%) Eclipse
16 10 (0.89%) SpecFlow
17 8 (0.71%) Cucumber
17 8 (0.71%) MLflow
17 8 (0.71%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 457 (40.73%) Finance
2 286 (25.49%) Social Skills
3 152 (13.55%) Analytical Skills
4 104 (9.27%) Marketing
5 72 (6.42%) Manufacturing
6 55 (4.90%) Presentation Skills
7 48 (4.28%) Law
8 44 (3.92%) Influencing Skills
9 27 (2.41%) Retail
10 26 (2.32%) Public Sector
11 21 (1.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 20 (1.78%) Legal
13 18 (1.60%) Billing
14 15 (1.34%) Documentation Skills
15 14 (1.25%) Banking
16 11 (0.98%) Telecoms
17 10 (0.89%) Tech for Good
18 9 (0.80%) Advertising
18 9 (0.80%) Games
19 8 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 233 (20.77%) Senior
2 198 (17.65%) Developer
3 161 (14.35%) Lead
4 131 (11.68%) DevOps Engineer
5 130 (11.59%) Analyst
6 117 (10.43%) Azure Engineer
7 100 (8.91%) Cloud Engineer
8 58 (5.17%) Data Engineer
9 52 (4.63%) .NET Developer
9 52 (4.63%) Platform Engineer
10 51 (4.55%) Applications Engineer
11 49 (4.37%) Software Engineer
11 49 (4.37%) Test Leader
12 43 (3.83%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 41 (3.65%) Architect
14 38 (3.39%) Senior Cloud Engineer
15 35 (3.12%) Business Analyst
16 33 (2.94%) Senior Developer
17 31 (2.76%) Support Engineer
18 30 (2.67%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 277 (24.69%) .NET
2 119 (10.61%) RESTful
3 93 (8.29%) React
4 74 (6.60%) REST
4 74 (6.60%) YAML
5 69 (6.15%) OAuth
6 68 (6.06%) .NET Framework
7 59 (5.26%) .NET Core
8 57 (5.08%) ASP.NET
9 55 (4.90%) SOAP
10 51 (4.55%) JSON
11 50 (4.46%) CSS
12 49 (4.37%) HTML
13 41 (3.65%) OAuth2
14 37 (3.30%) Entity Framework
15 36 (3.21%) ARM Templates
16 34 (3.03%) AngularJS
17 33 (2.94%) SAML
18 31 (2.76%) Playwright
19 30 (2.67%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 148 (13.19%) Cloud Native
2 120 (10.70%) Product Ownership
3 63 (5.61%) Enterprise Software
4 40 (3.57%) Management Information System
5 34 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
6 33 (2.94%) Low-Code
7 27 (2.41%) Mobile App
8 26 (2.32%) Virtual Team
9 25 (2.23%) Hybrid Cloud
9 25 (2.23%) Onboarding
9 25 (2.23%) Security Posture
10 22 (1.96%) Analytical Mindset
11 15 (1.34%) Data Centre
11 15 (1.34%) Distributed Systems
11 15 (1.34%) Reinsurance
12 14 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
13 12 (1.07%) Self-Motivation
14 10 (0.89%) Data Structures
14 10 (0.89%) Legacy Applications
14 10 (0.89%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 100 (8.91%) Windows
2 67 (5.97%) Linux
3 29 (2.58%) VMS
4 18 (1.60%) Windows Server
5 9 (0.80%) Ubuntu
6 8 (0.71%) Android
7 7 (0.62%) 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 1,052 (93.76%) DevOps
2 652 (58.11%) CI/CD
3 532 (47.42%) Agile
4 302 (26.92%) Infrastructure as Code
5 286 (25.49%) Test Automation
6 263 (23.44%) Continuous Improvement
7 245 (21.84%) Problem-Solving
8 212 (18.89%) Coaching
9 210 (18.72%) AI
10 195 (17.38%) Mentoring
11 182 (16.22%) Analytics
12 159 (14.17%) Asset Management
13 141 (12.57%) Observability
14 135 (12.03%) Containerisation
15 134 (11.94%) Business Intelligence
16 132 (11.76%) Roadmaps
17 127 (11.32%) Data Modelling
18 118 (10.52%) Scrum
19 113 (10.07%) Microservices
19 113 (10.07%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 397 (35.38%) SQL
2 292 (26.02%) Python
3 236 (21.03%) C#
4 207 (18.45%) PowerShell
5 101 (9.00%) Bicep
5 101 (9.00%) JavaScript
6 93 (8.29%) Bash
7 69 (6.15%) TypeScript
8 56 (4.99%) Java
9 40 (3.57%) Shell Script
10 37 (3.30%) PL/SQL
11 31 (2.76%) Apex Code
11 31 (2.76%) T-SQL
12 19 (1.69%) Go
13 14 (1.25%) Scala
14 13 (1.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 11 (0.98%) Kusto Query Language
16 4 (0.36%) C++
16 4 (0.36%) VB
17 3 (0.27%) PHP
Qualifications
1 131 (11.68%) Degree
2 78 (6.95%) Azure Certification
3 71 (6.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 70 (6.24%) Security Cleared
5 42 (3.74%) SC Cleared
6 41 (3.65%) Master's Degree
7 40 (3.57%) ISTQB
8 30 (2.67%) Microsoft Certification
9 24 (2.14%) DV Cleared
10 21 (1.87%) AWS Certification
11 15 (1.34%) PMI Certification
12 12 (1.07%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 11 (0.98%) AWS Certified Developer
13 11 (0.98%) PMP
14 9 (0.80%) ISEB
15 7 (0.62%) HND
16 6 (0.53%) DBS Check
17 5 (0.45%) CBAP
17 5 (0.45%) Cisco Certification
18 4 (0.36%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 142 (12.66%) QA
2 58 (5.17%) Accessibility
3 48 (4.28%) GDPR
4 42 (3.74%) Data Quality
5 38 (3.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 17 (1.52%) PMO
7 16 (1.43%) NCSC
7 16 (1.43%) NIST
8 12 (1.07%) SOC 2
9 8 (0.71%) SLA
10 5 (0.45%) PERC
10 5 (0.45%) Software Quality Assurance
11 4 (0.36%) WCAG
12 2 (0.18%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 1 (0.089%) Cyber Essentials
13 1 (0.089%) GRC
13 1 (0.089%) HIPAA
13 1 (0.089%) HL7
13 1 (0.089%) P3O
13 1 (0.089%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 143 (12.75%) Docker
2 80 (7.13%) Active Directory
3 26 (2.32%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (1.25%) Virtual Desktop
5 13 (1.16%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.36%) Firmware
6 4 (0.36%) 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
1 367 (32.71%) Terraform
2 165 (14.71%) Kubernetes
3 96 (8.56%) Ansible
4 72 (6.42%) HP ALM
5 49 (4.37%) Grafana
6 39 (3.48%) Single Sign-On
7 36 (3.21%) Prometheus
8 19 (1.69%) Microsoft Intune
9 7 (0.62%) Kibana
10 4 (0.36%) Argo
10 4 (0.36%) logstash
10 4 (0.36%) Rancher
10 4 (0.36%) vRealize
11 3 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.27%) Dell DRAC
11 3 (0.27%) Puppet
11 3 (0.27%) SCCM
12 2 (0.18%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (0.18%) Nessus
13 1 (0.089%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 366 (32.62%) Microsoft
2 77 (6.86%) SAP
3 72 (6.42%) HP
4 53 (4.72%) Databricks
5 47 (4.19%) Salesforce
6 42 (3.74%) Oracle
7 34 (3.03%) ServiceNow
8 24 (2.14%) Okta
9 22 (1.96%) VMware
10 18 (1.60%) Black Duck
10 18 (1.60%) Coverity
10 18 (1.60%) Palo Alto
10 18 (1.60%) Zscaler
11 16 (1.43%) Google
12 14 (1.25%) Ab Initio
12 14 (1.25%) Xamarin
13 12 (1.07%) Sage
14 11 (0.98%) Dynatrace
14 11 (0.98%) OpenAI
15 9 (0.80%) Red Hat