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 27 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 174 167 117
Rank change year-on-year -7 -50 -14
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,120 851 2,267
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.20% 2.00% 2.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.12% 5.98% 6.55%
Number of salaries quoted 862 656 1,745
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £42,279
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £49,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +9.76% -5.38%
75th Percentile £81,000 £83,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £92,375 £96,250 £92,500
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 27,210 14,221 34,596
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 29.27% 33.46% 34.88%
Number of salaries quoted 15,565 9,782 26,784
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,750 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £53,688 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.44% +7.38% -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 27 May 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 27 May 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 -11 978 £66,750 -4.64% 363
UK excluding London +37 708 £60,000 -4.00% 288
Work from Home +38 432 £65,000 -3.70% 216
London -16 351 £77,500 +3.33% 127
North of England +56 193 £65,000 -5.45% 79
South East -6 191 £55,000 -18.52% 87
Midlands +10 113 £65,000 +8.33% 43
North West +47 104 £69,310 +14.56% 48
South West -35 71 £52,500 -8.70% 19
Scotland +41 62 £62,500 - 21
West Midlands -27 59 £61,000 +1.67% 23
East Midlands +5 52 £67,000 +3.08% 20
Yorkshire -29 50 £69,310 -0.99% 16
East of England -19 44 £60,000 +4.35% 28
North East -6 39 £50,000 -9.09% 15
Wales -18 34 £53,000 -18.46% 10
Northern Ireland -37 2 £72,500 +45.00% 4

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 41 (3.66%) SharePoint
2 37 (3.30%) Confluence
3 20 (1.79%) IIS
4 19 (1.70%) Microsoft Exchange
5 10 (0.89%) Apache Spark
6 8 (0.71%) SharePoint Server
7 7 (0.63%) Anypoint
7 7 (0.63%) CMS
8 6 (0.54%) Apache
8 6 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
8 6 (0.54%) Umbraco
9 5 (0.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 4 (0.36%) Moodle
11 3 (0.27%) WordPress
12 2 (0.18%) BizTalk Server
12 2 (0.18%) CICS
12 2 (0.18%) Luigi
13 1 (0.089%) nginx
13 1 (0.089%) Palantir Foundry
13 1 (0.089%) Tomcat
Applications
1 21 (1.88%) MS Visio
2 16 (1.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (0.89%) Microsoft Project
4 7 (0.63%) Chatbot
5 6 (0.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 5 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
7 2 (0.18%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.18%) Trello
8 1 (0.089%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 17 (1.52%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (0.89%) Oracle ERP
3 5 (0.45%) Dynamics AX
3 5 (0.45%) Visualfiles
4 3 (0.27%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.27%) Elite 3E
4 3 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.18%) Magento
6 1 (0.089%) Endur
6 1 (0.089%) Infor M3
6 1 (0.089%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 1 (0.089%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.089%) Sage 200
6 1 (0.089%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.089%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1,119 (99.91%) Azure
2 252 (22.50%) GitHub
3 182 (16.25%) Power Platform
4 164 (14.64%) AWS
5 147 (13.13%) GitHub Actions
6 98 (8.75%) Azure Monitor
7 95 (8.48%) Azure AKS
7 95 (8.48%) Serverless
8 86 (7.68%) Entra ID
9 81 (7.23%) Microsoft 365
10 79 (7.05%) Azure Data Factory
11 77 (6.88%) Azure Logic Apps
12 74 (6.61%) PaaS
13 67 (5.98%) Azure Service Bus
14 62 (5.54%) Azure Functions
14 62 (5.54%) SaaS
15 61 (5.45%) Dynamics 365
15 61 (5.45%) GCP
16 51 (4.55%) Azure Key Vault
17 45 (4.02%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 57 (5.09%) Firewall
2 30 (2.68%) DNS
3 17 (1.52%) HTTP
4 16 (1.43%) TCP/IP
5 12 (1.07%) Network Security
5 12 (1.07%) VPN
6 10 (0.89%) WAN
7 5 (0.45%) DHCP
8 4 (0.36%) Bluetooth
8 4 (0.36%) MQTT
8 4 (0.36%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (0.36%) Wireless
8 4 (0.36%) ZigBee
9 3 (0.27%) BGP
9 3 (0.27%) HTTPS
9 3 (0.27%) SAN
10 2 (0.18%) Internet
11 1 (0.089%) IP Telephony
11 1 (0.089%) LTE
11 1 (0.089%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 129 (11.52%) Azure SQL Database
2 125 (11.16%) SQL Server
3 100 (8.93%) Power BI
4 83 (7.41%) MongoDB
5 43 (3.84%) PostgreSQL
6 42 (3.75%) Data Warehouse
7 36 (3.21%) Data Lake
8 34 (3.04%) NoSQL
9 29 (2.59%) Relational Database
10 26 (2.32%) Delta Lake
11 18 (1.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 17 (1.52%) Spark SQL
13 16 (1.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 14 (1.25%) Tableau
15 13 (1.16%) Elasticsearch
15 13 (1.16%) Star Schema
16 12 (1.07%) Metadata
16 12 (1.07%) Redis
17 11 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
18 10 (0.89%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 189 (16.88%) Git
2 137 (12.23%) JIRA
3 117 (10.45%) Jenkins
4 71 (6.34%) GitLab
5 54 (4.82%) Selenium
6 41 (3.66%) Cypress.io
7 33 (2.95%) Postman
8 22 (1.96%) Eclipse
9 17 (1.52%) Visual Studio
10 15 (1.34%) Octopus Deploy
11 13 (1.16%) REST Assured
12 12 (1.07%) TeamCity
12 12 (1.07%) Zephyr
13 11 (0.98%) JMeter
13 11 (0.98%) TestRail
14 10 (0.89%) Oracle Forms
15 9 (0.80%) fastlane
16 7 (0.63%) Cucumber
16 7 (0.63%) Robot Framework
17 6 (0.54%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 302 (26.96%) Finance
2 252 (22.50%) Social Skills
3 128 (11.43%) Analytical Skills
4 74 (6.61%) Public Sector
5 49 (4.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 45 (4.02%) Law
7 39 (3.48%) Retail
8 37 (3.30%) Legal
9 32 (2.86%) Marketing
10 27 (2.41%) Billing
11 25 (2.23%) Banking
12 21 (1.88%) Influencing Skills
13 16 (1.43%) Telecoms
14 14 (1.25%) Games
15 13 (1.16%) Advertising
16 12 (1.07%) Documentation Skills
17 11 (0.98%) Automotive
18 10 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
19 9 (0.80%) Manufacturing
20 8 (0.71%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 280 (25.00%) Developer
2 230 (20.54%) Senior
3 204 (18.21%) DevOps Engineer
4 192 (17.14%) Azure Engineer
5 155 (13.84%) Lead
6 98 (8.75%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 91 (8.13%) .NET Developer
8 75 (6.70%) Cloud Engineer
9 66 (5.89%) Data Engineer
10 64 (5.71%) Senior Developer
11 55 (4.91%) Architect
11 55 (4.91%) Platform Engineer
12 53 (4.73%) Analyst
12 53 (4.73%) Senior DevOps
13 51 (4.55%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 41 (3.66%) Software Engineer
15 35 (3.13%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 32 (2.86%) Software Developer
17 30 (2.68%) Azure Platform Engineer
18 26 (2.32%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 317 (28.30%) .NET
2 131 (11.70%) ASP.NET
2 131 (11.70%) React
3 119 (10.63%) .NET Core
4 112 (10.00%) REST
5 108 (9.64%) HTML
6 107 (9.55%) CSS
7 97 (8.66%) ASP.NET Core
8 95 (8.48%) RESTful
9 68 (6.07%) Node.js
10 61 (5.45%) YAML
11 60 (5.36%) OAuth
12 59 (5.27%) Entity Framework
13 58 (5.18%) Blazor
13 58 (5.18%) Playwright
14 48 (4.29%) SOAP
15 45 (4.02%) JSON
16 43 (3.84%) ARM Templates
16 43 (3.84%) PySpark
17 41 (3.66%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 122 (10.89%) Product Ownership
2 98 (8.75%) Cloud Native
3 40 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
4 37 (3.30%) Mobile App
5 32 (2.86%) Management Information System
6 29 (2.59%) Legacy Systems
7 26 (2.32%) Distributed Systems
7 26 (2.32%) Low-Code
8 25 (2.23%) Onboarding
9 21 (1.88%) Analytical Mindset
10 17 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
11 16 (1.43%) Reinsurance
12 15 (1.34%) Data Structures
12 15 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
13 11 (0.98%) Virtual Team
14 10 (0.89%) Enterprise Cloud
14 10 (0.89%) Self-Motivation
15 9 (0.80%) Legacy Applications
16 8 (0.71%) PMI
17 7 (0.63%) BBC
Operating Systems
1 93 (8.30%) Linux
2 64 (5.71%) Windows
3 18 (1.61%) Unix
4 17 (1.52%) VMS
5 16 (1.43%) Ubuntu
6 14 (1.25%) Android
7 13 (1.16%) Apple iOS
7 13 (1.16%) Windows Server
8 4 (0.36%) Kali Linux
9 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.089%) SUSE
10 1 (0.089%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.089%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,119 (99.91%) DevOps
2 693 (61.88%) CI/CD
3 488 (43.57%) Agile
4 302 (26.96%) Infrastructure as Code
5 266 (23.75%) Test Automation
6 219 (19.55%) Continuous Improvement
7 210 (18.75%) AI
8 194 (17.32%) Problem-Solving
9 165 (14.73%) Mentoring
10 160 (14.29%) Analytics
11 156 (13.93%) Scrum
12 155 (13.84%) Observability
13 147 (13.13%) Full-Stack Development
14 133 (11.88%) Microservices
15 131 (11.70%) Data Modelling
16 126 (11.25%) Containerisation
17 120 (10.71%) Coaching
18 108 (9.64%) Business Intelligence
19 100 (8.93%) Roadmaps
20 97 (8.66%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 379 (33.84%) SQL
2 287 (25.63%) C#
3 265 (23.66%) Python
4 177 (15.80%) JavaScript
5 136 (12.14%) PowerShell
6 115 (10.27%) Bash
7 84 (7.50%) Bicep
8 80 (7.14%) Java
9 59 (5.27%) TypeScript
10 21 (1.88%) Scala
11 20 (1.79%) Go
12 19 (1.70%) Apex Code
13 16 (1.43%) C++
14 14 (1.25%) PL/SQL
14 14 (1.25%) T-SQL
15 12 (1.07%) Kusto Query Language
15 12 (1.07%) Shell Script
16 11 (0.98%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 10 (0.89%) Swift
18 7 (0.63%) DataWeave
Qualifications
1 90 (8.04%) Degree
2 71 (6.34%) Security Cleared
3 50 (4.46%) Azure Certification
4 49 (4.38%) SC Cleared
5 36 (3.21%) Computer Science Degree
6 27 (2.41%) ISTQB
7 17 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
8 15 (1.34%) Master's Degree
9 13 (1.16%) DV Cleared
9 13 (1.16%) HND
10 11 (0.98%) AWS Certification
11 9 (0.80%) PMI Certification
12 6 (0.54%) AWS Certified Developer
12 6 (0.54%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 6 (0.54%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 4 (0.36%) BC Cleared
13 4 (0.36%) CISSP
14 3 (0.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 3 (0.27%) CBAP
14 3 (0.27%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 126 (11.25%) QA
2 81 (7.23%) Accessibility
3 51 (4.55%) Data Quality
4 41 (3.66%) GDPR
5 26 (2.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 14 (1.25%) WCAG
7 13 (1.16%) SLA
8 12 (1.07%) TickIT
9 11 (0.98%) SOC 2
10 10 (0.89%) GRC
11 7 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 6 (0.54%) PMO
12 6 (0.54%) Software Quality Assurance
12 6 (0.54%) Solvency II
13 5 (0.45%) IFRS
14 4 (0.36%) JTAG
15 3 (0.27%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 2 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
16 2 (0.18%) IFRS 17
16 2 (0.18%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 149 (13.30%) Docker
2 62 (5.54%) Active Directory
3 17 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.54%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.27%) Firmware
6 2 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.089%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 326 (29.11%) Terraform
2 119 (10.63%) Kubernetes
3 75 (6.70%) Ansible
4 64 (5.71%) Grafana
5 52 (4.64%) Prometheus
6 24 (2.14%) Argo
7 12 (1.07%) Single Sign-On
8 9 (0.80%) Kibana
9 6 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (0.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (0.36%) HP Fortify
10 4 (0.36%) Puppet
11 3 (0.27%) HP ALM
11 3 (0.27%) logstash
11 3 (0.27%) Scalr
12 2 (0.18%) MIIS
12 2 (0.18%) Nagios
12 2 (0.18%) SCCM
13 1 (0.089%) FortiGate
13 1 (0.089%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 426 (38.04%) Microsoft
2 67 (5.98%) Databricks
3 52 (4.64%) Salesforce
4 35 (3.13%) ServiceNow
5 24 (2.14%) Google
5 24 (2.14%) Red Hat
6 23 (2.05%) Oracle
7 20 (1.79%) Dynatrace
8 18 (1.61%) Apple
9 17 (1.52%) MuleSoft
10 14 (1.25%) Adobe
10 14 (1.25%) Facebook
11 12 (1.07%) Freshdesk
11 12 (1.07%) Nintex
11 12 (1.07%) Palo Alto
11 12 (1.07%) VMware
11 12 (1.07%) Zscaler
12 11 (0.98%) CrowdStrike
12 11 (0.98%) Splunk
13 10 (0.89%) Guidewire