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 10 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 175 115
Rank change year-on-year +23 -60 -28
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,457 934 1,691
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.29% 1.88% 2.16%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.25% 5.94% 6.82%
Number of salaries quoted 1,144 685 1,114
10th Percentile £43,200 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
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 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £61,250
% change year-on-year - -2.04% +2.08%

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 27,740 15,737 24,789
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 24.55% 31.68% 31.60%
Number of salaries quoted 18,793 10,656 16,102
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £34,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £39,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £102,500
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 10 September 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 10 September 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 +26 1,304 £65,000 -3.70% 547
UK excluding London +46 966 £60,000 - 376
Work from Home +10 592 £60,000 -7.69% 331
London -28 424 £80,000 +3.23% 245
North of England +85 284 £60,500 -6.92% 98
South East +11 230 £62,500 - 106
Midlands +37 173 £62,500 +4.17% 66
North West +83 169 £65,000 - 57
West Midlands +3 100 £62,500 +4.17% 36
South West -18 94 £57,500 +9.52% 42
Wales -22 91 £53,171 -3.33% 7
East of England +8 79 £55,000 -12.00% 30
East Midlands +27 73 £57,500 +4.55% 30
Yorkshire -8 69 £68,000 +13.33% 31
North East -22 46 £52,250 +7.18% 11
Scotland -25 20 £55,000 -14.73% 19
Northern Ireland - 1 £72,500 - 12

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 83 (5.70%) SharePoint
2 68 (4.67%) Confluence
3 32 (2.20%) Microsoft Exchange
4 22 (1.51%) Apache Spark
4 22 (1.51%) IIS
5 11 (0.75%) Apache
5 11 (0.75%) CMS
5 11 (0.75%) nginx
6 8 (0.55%) SharePoint Server
7 6 (0.41%) Anypoint
7 6 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
7 6 (0.41%) Camunda
7 6 (0.41%) Umbraco
8 5 (0.34%) CICS
9 3 (0.21%) BizTalk Server
9 3 (0.21%) WordPress
10 2 (0.14%) Luigi
11 1 (0.069%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.069%) NServiceBus
11 1 (0.069%) TPMS
Applications
1 20 (1.37%) Microsoft Project
2 15 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (1.03%) MS Visio
3 12 (0.82%) Microsoft Excel
4 9 (0.62%) Chatbot
4 9 (0.62%) Trello
5 8 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.069%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.069%) Notion
6 1 (0.069%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 25 (1.72%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (1.03%) Elite 3E
3 9 (0.62%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (0.41%) SAP IBP
5 5 (0.34%) Dynamics NAV
5 5 (0.34%) Visualfiles
6 3 (0.21%) Carpe Diem
6 3 (0.21%) Oracle Applications
6 3 (0.21%) SAP Business One
6 3 (0.21%) Shopify
7 2 (0.14%) Dynamics AX
7 2 (0.14%) JDE EnterpriseOne
8 1 (0.069%) Infor M3
8 1 (0.069%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 1 (0.069%) Magento
8 1 (0.069%) Sage 200
8 1 (0.069%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.069%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,457 (100.00%) Azure
2 253 (17.36%) Power Platform
3 216 (14.82%) GitHub
4 165 (11.32%) AWS
5 139 (9.54%) Serverless
6 128 (8.79%) GitHub Actions
7 127 (8.72%) Dynamics 365
8 117 (8.03%) Azure Functions
9 113 (7.76%) Azure Service Bus
10 111 (7.62%) Azure AKS
11 106 (7.28%) Azure AI
12 104 (7.14%) Azure Monitor
13 96 (6.59%) Azure Key Vault
13 96 (6.59%) Azure Logic Apps
13 96 (6.59%) Entra ID
14 93 (6.38%) PaaS
15 90 (6.18%) Azure Data Factory
16 86 (5.90%) Power Automate
17 85 (5.83%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 85 (5.83%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 36 (2.47%) Firewall
2 33 (2.26%) VPN
3 16 (1.10%) DNS
4 12 (0.82%) Internet
5 11 (0.75%) Network Security
6 10 (0.69%) Wi-Fi
7 9 (0.62%) SAN
8 7 (0.48%) HTTP
8 7 (0.48%) Wireless
9 6 (0.41%) DHCP
9 6 (0.41%) MQTT
9 6 (0.41%) TCP/IP
9 6 (0.41%) VLAN
9 6 (0.41%) ZigBee
10 4 (0.27%) Bluetooth
11 3 (0.21%) HTTPS
12 2 (0.14%) LoRaWAN
13 1 (0.069%) BGP
13 1 (0.069%) Cisco ISE
13 1 (0.069%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 267 (18.33%) Azure SQL Database
2 194 (13.32%) SQL Server
3 179 (12.29%) MongoDB
4 132 (9.06%) Power BI
5 74 (5.08%) Data Warehouse
6 56 (3.84%) PostgreSQL
7 47 (3.23%) Relational Database
8 41 (2.81%) Elasticsearch
8 41 (2.81%) NoSQL
9 35 (2.40%) Delta Lake
10 34 (2.33%) Data Lake
11 31 (2.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 30 (2.06%) Metadata
13 25 (1.72%) Redis
14 23 (1.58%) MySQL
14 23 (1.58%) Star Schema
15 19 (1.30%) Spark SQL
15 19 (1.30%) Tableau
16 17 (1.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 13 (0.89%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 261 (17.91%) Git
2 194 (13.32%) JIRA
3 120 (8.24%) Jenkins
4 81 (5.56%) GitLab
5 48 (3.29%) Selenium
6 43 (2.95%) Postman
7 37 (2.54%) Cypress.io
8 19 (1.30%) REST Assured
9 18 (1.24%) JMeter
9 18 (1.24%) JUnit
10 16 (1.10%) NUnit
10 16 (1.10%) Visual Studio
11 15 (1.03%) Zephyr
12 14 (0.96%) fastlane
12 14 (0.96%) Octopus Deploy
12 14 (0.96%) TestRail
13 11 (0.75%) SonarQube
14 10 (0.69%) Cucumber
14 10 (0.69%) Mockito
14 10 (0.69%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 404 (27.73%) Social Skills
2 327 (22.44%) Finance
3 155 (10.64%) Analytical Skills
4 123 (8.44%) Public Sector
5 112 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 54 (3.71%) Law
7 53 (3.64%) Retail
8 43 (2.95%) Marketing
9 38 (2.61%) Legal
10 33 (2.26%) Banking
11 30 (2.06%) Advertising
12 23 (1.58%) Games
13 22 (1.51%) Manufacturing
14 21 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
15 17 (1.17%) Documentation Skills
16 12 (0.82%) Aviation
16 12 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
17 10 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
18 9 (0.62%) Automotive
19 8 (0.55%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 461 (31.64%) Developer
2 334 (22.92%) Senior
3 221 (15.17%) .NET Developer
4 206 (14.14%) DevOps Engineer
5 199 (13.66%) Azure Engineer
6 173 (11.87%) Lead
7 104 (7.14%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 101 (6.93%) Senior Developer
9 89 (6.11%) Data Engineer
10 87 (5.97%) Platform Engineer
11 85 (5.83%) Analyst
12 69 (4.74%) Senior DevOps
13 64 (4.39%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 60 (4.12%) Cloud Engineer
15 52 (3.57%) Software Engineer
16 46 (3.16%) Architect
16 46 (3.16%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 46 (3.16%) Software Developer
17 45 (3.09%) Senior Data Engineer
18 43 (2.95%) Azure Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 486 (33.36%) .NET
2 347 (23.82%) Terraform
3 261 (17.91%) ASP.NET
4 235 (16.13%) .NET Core
5 207 (14.21%) ASP.NET Core
6 167 (11.46%) React
7 165 (11.32%) REST
8 160 (10.98%) RESTful
9 157 (10.78%) HTML
10 155 (10.64%) CSS
11 127 (8.72%) Entity Framework
12 126 (8.65%) Blazor
13 91 (6.25%) Node.js
14 82 (5.63%) ML.NET
15 65 (4.46%) .NET Framework
16 60 (4.12%) Playwright
17 57 (3.91%) JSON
17 57 (3.91%) YAML
18 55 (3.77%) ARM Templates
19 53 (3.64%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 148 (10.16%) Product Ownership
2 141 (9.68%) Cloud Native
3 82 (5.63%) Enterprise Software
4 60 (4.12%) Legacy Systems
5 54 (3.71%) Onboarding
6 52 (3.57%) Mobile App
7 40 (2.75%) Greenfield Project
8 37 (2.54%) Distributed Systems
9 29 (1.99%) Hybrid Cloud
10 25 (1.72%) Legacy Applications
10 25 (1.72%) Management Information System
11 23 (1.58%) Self-Motivation
12 22 (1.51%) Public Cloud
13 20 (1.37%) Low-Code
14 18 (1.24%) Podcast
15 17 (1.17%) AI Agents
15 17 (1.17%) BBC
15 17 (1.17%) iPhone
15 17 (1.17%) Mainframe
15 17 (1.17%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 107 (7.34%) Windows
2 99 (6.79%) Linux
3 26 (1.78%) Android
4 23 (1.58%) VMS
5 20 (1.37%) Unix
5 20 (1.37%) Windows Server
6 14 (0.96%) Apple iOS
7 12 (0.82%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.34%) Kali Linux
9 3 (0.21%) Embedded Linux
9 3 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.21%) Solaris
10 2 (0.14%) Debian
10 2 (0.14%) Rocky
10 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.069%) SUSE
11 1 (0.069%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.069%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,457 (100.00%) DevOps
2 833 (57.17%) CI/CD
3 673 (46.19%) Agile
4 338 (23.20%) AI
5 325 (22.31%) Infrastructure as Code
6 322 (22.10%) Continuous Improvement
7 258 (17.71%) Problem-Solving
7 258 (17.71%) Test Automation
8 250 (17.16%) Full-Stack Development
9 225 (15.44%) Scrum
10 224 (15.37%) Mentoring
11 189 (12.97%) Analytics
12 182 (12.49%) Microservices
13 166 (11.39%) Stakeholder Management
14 161 (11.05%) Observability
15 157 (10.78%) Platform Engineering
16 150 (10.30%) Business Intelligence
17 146 (10.02%) Software Engineering
18 141 (9.68%) Machine Learning
19 132 (9.06%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 529 (36.31%) SQL
2 488 (33.49%) C#
3 277 (19.01%) Python
4 243 (16.68%) JavaScript
5 175 (12.01%) PowerShell
6 122 (8.37%) Bash
7 119 (8.17%) Bicep
8 94 (6.45%) Java
9 59 (4.05%) TypeScript
10 39 (2.68%) T-SQL
11 17 (1.17%) C++
11 17 (1.17%) Scala
11 17 (1.17%) VB.NET
12 16 (1.10%) Kusto Query Language
13 15 (1.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 14 (0.96%) JCL
15 13 (0.89%) COBOL
16 11 (0.75%) Swift
17 9 (0.62%) Go
18 8 (0.55%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 129 (8.85%) Degree
2 113 (7.76%) Security Cleared
3 97 (6.66%) SC Cleared
4 89 (6.11%) Azure Certification
5 53 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
6 35 (2.40%) Microsoft Certification
7 34 (2.33%) ISTQB
8 22 (1.51%) PMI Certification
9 16 (1.10%) Master's Degree
10 13 (0.89%) PMP
11 12 (0.82%) AWS Certification
12 11 (0.75%) DV Cleared
13 9 (0.62%) ISEB
14 7 (0.48%) CBAP
14 7 (0.48%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 6 (0.41%) CSPO
16 5 (0.34%) BPSS Clearance
16 5 (0.34%) CISSP
16 5 (0.34%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
16 5 (0.34%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 193 (13.25%) QA
2 84 (5.77%) Accessibility
3 75 (5.15%) Data Quality
4 40 (2.75%) GDPR
5 36 (2.47%) WCAG
6 22 (1.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 18 (1.24%) PMO
8 12 (0.82%) TickIT
9 9 (0.62%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 9 (0.62%) SLA
10 8 (0.55%) GRC
10 8 (0.55%) NCSC
10 8 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 7 (0.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 6 (0.41%) JTAG
12 6 (0.41%) Solvency II
13 5 (0.34%) IFRS
14 4 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
14 4 (0.27%) Software Quality Assurance
15 3 (0.21%) NIST
System Software
1 183 (12.56%) Docker
2 69 (4.74%) Active Directory
3 24 (1.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (1.17%) Virtual Desktop
5 13 (0.89%) Virtual Machines
6 12 (0.82%) vSphere
7 5 (0.34%) Firmware
8 3 (0.21%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.14%) Xen
10 1 (0.069%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.069%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 171 (11.74%) Kubernetes
2 57 (3.91%) Ansible
3 50 (3.43%) Grafana
4 44 (3.02%) Prometheus
5 30 (2.06%) Argo
6 21 (1.44%) Microsoft Intune
7 12 (0.82%) Puppet
8 5 (0.34%) HP Fortify
8 5 (0.34%) Progress Chef
8 5 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (0.27%) SCCM
10 3 (0.21%) HP ALM
10 3 (0.21%) Scalr
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
1 651 (44.68%) Microsoft
2 93 (6.38%) Databricks
3 64 (4.39%) Google
4 40 (2.75%) Salesforce
5 38 (2.61%) Facebook
6 33 (2.26%) VMware
7 29 (1.99%) Apple
8 28 (1.92%) ServiceNow
9 21 (1.44%) Dynatrace
9 21 (1.44%) YouTube
10 20 (1.37%) OpenAI
10 20 (1.37%) SAP
11 18 (1.24%) Oracle
11 18 (1.24%) Red Hat
12 17 (1.17%) Sony
12 17 (1.17%) Yahoo!
13 15 (1.03%) MuleSoft
14 12 (0.82%) Foundry
14 12 (0.82%) HP
14 12 (0.82%) ScienceLogic