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

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 163 122
Rank change year-on-year +9 -41 -38
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,481 971 1,599
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.26% 1.97% 2.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.42% 6.28% 6.61%
Number of salaries quoted 1,134 684 1,024
10th Percentile £44,650 £45,750 £43,575
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
% 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 27,320 15,472 24,177
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 23.26% 31.37% 31.87%
Number of salaries quoted 18,572 10,431 14,953
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £38,750 £46,250
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 £100,000 £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 28 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 28 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 +23 1,329 £65,000 -1.14% 880
UK excluding London +16 949 £60,000 - 542
Work from Home +11 589 £62,500 -3.85% 454
London +2 461 £76,250 -1.61% 377
North of England +80 284 £60,000 -0.41% 164
South East -22 225 £64,000 +2.40% 137
North West +68 170 £62,500 -3.85% 88
Midlands +23 170 £62,500 +4.17% 87
West Midlands -7 101 £65,000 +8.33% 47
Wales -11 93 £53,171 -3.33% 22
South West -27 92 £57,500 +9.52% 47
East of England +3 73 £55,000 -12.00% 42
East Midlands +13 69 £55,000 +0.92% 40
Yorkshire +8 67 £67,500 +12.50% 63
North East -30 47 £52,250 +4.50% 14
Scotland -56 17 £55,000 -14.73% 29
Northern Ireland - 1 £72,500 - 21

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 86 (5.81%) SharePoint
2 70 (4.73%) Confluence
3 41 (2.77%) Microsoft Exchange
4 23 (1.55%) Apache Spark
5 19 (1.28%) IIS
6 12 (0.81%) Apache
7 11 (0.74%) CMS
8 10 (0.68%) nginx
9 8 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
9 8 (0.54%) SharePoint Server
10 7 (0.47%) Umbraco
11 6 (0.41%) Camunda
11 6 (0.41%) CICS
12 3 (0.20%) Anypoint
12 3 (0.20%) BizTalk Server
13 2 (0.14%) Luigi
13 2 (0.14%) WordPress
14 1 (0.068%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 1 (0.068%) Headless CMS
14 1 (0.068%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 28 (1.89%) Microsoft Project
2 22 (1.49%) MS Visio
3 21 (1.42%) Microsoft Office
4 15 (1.01%) Microsoft Excel
4 15 (1.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 9 (0.61%) Trello
6 6 (0.41%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.068%) Notion
Business Applications
1 38 (2.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.95%) Elite 3E
3 9 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
4 7 (0.47%) Dynamics AX
5 6 (0.41%) Dynamics NAV
5 6 (0.41%) SAP IBP
6 4 (0.27%) Shopify
6 4 (0.27%) Visualfiles
7 3 (0.20%) Carpe Diem
7 3 (0.20%) Oracle Applications
7 3 (0.20%) SAP Business One
7 3 (0.20%) Workday HCM
8 2 (0.14%) JDE EnterpriseOne
9 1 (0.068%) Integrated Workplace Management System
9 1 (0.068%) Magento
9 1 (0.068%) Payment Gateway
9 1 (0.068%) Sage 200
9 1 (0.068%) Salesforce CRM
9 1 (0.068%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,481 (100.00%) Azure
2 279 (18.84%) Power Platform
3 232 (15.67%) GitHub
4 155 (10.47%) AWS
5 151 (10.20%) Dynamics 365
6 142 (9.59%) Serverless
7 125 (8.44%) GitHub Actions
8 120 (8.10%) Azure Functions
9 115 (7.77%) Azure Service Bus
10 111 (7.49%) Azure Monitor
11 110 (7.43%) Azure AKS
12 106 (7.16%) Entra ID
13 105 (7.09%) Azure AI
14 101 (6.82%) Azure Data Factory
15 95 (6.41%) PaaS
16 94 (6.35%) Azure Key Vault
17 93 (6.28%) Power Automate
18 92 (6.21%) Azure Logic Apps
19 91 (6.14%) Microsoft 365
20 90 (6.08%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 43 (2.90%) Firewall
2 39 (2.63%) VPN
3 22 (1.49%) DNS
4 13 (0.88%) Internet
5 12 (0.81%) Wi-Fi
6 11 (0.74%) Network Security
7 10 (0.68%) SAN
8 9 (0.61%) DHCP
9 8 (0.54%) Wireless
10 7 (0.47%) HTTP
10 7 (0.47%) TCP/IP
10 7 (0.47%) VLAN
11 6 (0.41%) MQTT
11 6 (0.41%) ZigBee
12 4 (0.27%) Bluetooth
13 3 (0.20%) HTTPS
13 3 (0.20%) WAN
14 2 (0.14%) LoRaWAN
15 1 (0.068%) SD-WAN
15 1 (0.068%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 275 (18.57%) Azure SQL Database
2 201 (13.57%) SQL Server
3 177 (11.95%) MongoDB
4 143 (9.66%) Power BI
5 83 (5.60%) Data Warehouse
6 56 (3.78%) PostgreSQL
7 53 (3.58%) Relational Database
8 48 (3.24%) NoSQL
9 46 (3.11%) Metadata
10 40 (2.70%) Elasticsearch
11 34 (2.30%) Data Lake
12 33 (2.23%) Delta Lake
13 32 (2.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 28 (1.89%) Redis
15 25 (1.69%) Star Schema
16 21 (1.42%) MySQL
17 20 (1.35%) Tableau
18 16 (1.08%) Spark SQL
18 16 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 14 (0.95%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 272 (18.37%) Git
2 201 (13.57%) JIRA
3 123 (8.31%) Jenkins
4 80 (5.40%) GitLab
5 44 (2.97%) Selenium
6 34 (2.30%) Cypress.io
7 33 (2.23%) Postman
8 18 (1.22%) JUnit
9 15 (1.01%) Visual Studio
10 14 (0.95%) JMeter
10 14 (0.95%) NUnit
11 13 (0.88%) Octopus Deploy
12 12 (0.81%) REST Assured
12 12 (0.81%) TestRail
13 11 (0.74%) fastlane
13 11 (0.74%) Zephyr
14 10 (0.68%) Mockito
14 10 (0.68%) SonarQube
14 10 (0.68%) Visual Studio Code
15 9 (0.61%) Claude Code
General
1 438 (29.57%) Social Skills
2 355 (23.97%) Finance
3 159 (10.74%) Analytical Skills
4 136 (9.18%) Public Sector
5 109 (7.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 51 (3.44%) Retail
7 49 (3.31%) Law
8 39 (2.63%) Marketing
9 31 (2.09%) Legal
10 30 (2.03%) Advertising
11 29 (1.96%) Banking
12 26 (1.76%) Manufacturing
13 22 (1.49%) Games
14 21 (1.42%) Documentation Skills
15 20 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
16 12 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
16 12 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
17 9 (0.61%) Aviation
18 8 (0.54%) Police
19 7 (0.47%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 452 (30.52%) Developer
2 349 (23.57%) Senior
3 215 (14.52%) .NET Developer
4 210 (14.18%) DevOps Engineer
5 204 (13.77%) Azure Engineer
6 162 (10.94%) Lead
7 103 (6.95%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 101 (6.82%) Data Engineer
9 98 (6.62%) Senior Developer
10 97 (6.55%) Analyst
11 93 (6.28%) Platform Engineer
12 68 (4.59%) Senior DevOps
13 64 (4.32%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 62 (4.19%) Cloud Engineer
15 54 (3.65%) Software Engineer
16 52 (3.51%) Consultant
17 50 (3.38%) Architect
18 49 (3.31%) Senior Data Engineer
19 47 (3.17%) Cloud Platform Engineer
20 46 (3.11%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 473 (31.94%) .NET
2 353 (23.84%) Terraform
3 250 (16.88%) ASP.NET
4 227 (15.33%) .NET Core
5 198 (13.37%) ASP.NET Core
6 164 (11.07%) REST
7 153 (10.33%) React
8 151 (10.20%) RESTful
9 143 (9.66%) HTML
10 141 (9.52%) CSS
11 122 (8.24%) Blazor
11 122 (8.24%) Entity Framework
12 84 (5.67%) Node.js
13 78 (5.27%) ML.NET
14 61 (4.12%) .NET Framework
15 59 (3.98%) JSON
16 57 (3.85%) Playwright
17 56 (3.78%) YAML
18 50 (3.38%) ARM Templates
18 50 (3.38%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 138 (9.32%) Cloud Native
2 132 (8.91%) Product Ownership
3 90 (6.08%) Enterprise Software
4 64 (4.32%) Legacy Systems
5 53 (3.58%) Onboarding
6 47 (3.17%) Mobile App
7 42 (2.84%) Distributed Systems
8 39 (2.63%) Greenfield Project
9 36 (2.43%) Hybrid Cloud
10 33 (2.23%) Management Information System
11 29 (1.96%) Legacy Applications
12 23 (1.55%) Low-Code
12 23 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
13 21 (1.42%) Public Cloud
14 20 (1.35%) Security Posture
15 19 (1.28%) AI Agents
15 19 (1.28%) Mainframe
16 17 (1.15%) iPhone
17 16 (1.08%) BBC
17 16 (1.08%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 111 (7.49%) Windows
2 92 (6.21%) Linux
3 24 (1.62%) Android
4 23 (1.55%) Unix
5 22 (1.49%) VMS
6 21 (1.42%) Windows Server
7 13 (0.88%) Ubuntu
8 8 (0.54%) Apple iOS
9 4 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.20%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.20%) Kali Linux
10 3 (0.20%) Solaris
11 2 (0.14%) Debian
11 2 (0.14%) Rocky
12 1 (0.068%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.068%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.068%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,481 (100.00%) DevOps
2 834 (56.31%) CI/CD
3 673 (45.44%) Agile
4 351 (23.70%) AI
5 335 (22.62%) Continuous Improvement
6 328 (22.15%) Infrastructure as Code
7 275 (18.57%) Problem-Solving
8 239 (16.14%) Test Automation
9 238 (16.07%) Full-Stack Development
10 222 (14.99%) Mentoring
11 210 (14.18%) Scrum
12 204 (13.77%) Analytics
13 195 (13.17%) Stakeholder Management
14 186 (12.56%) Microservices
15 168 (11.34%) Platform Engineering
16 161 (10.87%) Business Intelligence
17 152 (10.26%) Observability
18 150 (10.13%) Software Engineering
19 142 (9.59%) Data Modelling
20 137 (9.25%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 535 (36.12%) SQL
2 485 (32.75%) C#
3 279 (18.84%) Python
4 230 (15.53%) JavaScript
5 182 (12.29%) PowerShell
6 130 (8.78%) Bicep
7 122 (8.24%) Bash
8 94 (6.35%) Java
9 58 (3.92%) TypeScript
10 41 (2.77%) T-SQL
11 20 (1.35%) C++
12 18 (1.22%) Scala
13 17 (1.15%) VB.NET
14 16 (1.08%) Kusto Query Language
15 15 (1.01%) COBOL
15 15 (1.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 15 (1.01%) JCL
16 9 (0.61%) Go
17 8 (0.54%) Apex Code
17 8 (0.54%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 150 (10.13%) Degree
2 130 (8.78%) Security Cleared
3 114 (7.70%) SC Cleared
4 106 (7.16%) Azure Certification
5 57 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 51 (3.44%) Microsoft Certification
7 32 (2.16%) ISTQB
8 28 (1.89%) PMI Certification
9 20 (1.35%) PMP
10 16 (1.08%) Master's Degree
11 12 (0.81%) ACCA
11 12 (0.81%) AWS Certification
11 12 (0.81%) CIMA
12 10 (0.68%) CBAP
13 9 (0.61%) DV Cleared
13 9 (0.61%) ISEB
14 7 (0.47%) CSPO
14 7 (0.47%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 6 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
15 6 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 185 (12.49%) QA
2 97 (6.55%) Data Quality
3 76 (5.13%) Accessibility
4 45 (3.04%) GDPR
5 37 (2.50%) WCAG
6 22 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 20 (1.35%) PMO
8 12 (0.81%) TickIT
9 10 (0.68%) SLA
10 9 (0.61%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 9 (0.61%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 7 (0.47%) NCSC
12 6 (0.41%) JTAG
12 6 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 5 (0.34%) IFRS
14 4 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
14 4 (0.27%) NIST
15 3 (0.20%) GRC
15 3 (0.20%) ISO 9001
15 3 (0.20%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 186 (12.56%) Docker
2 72 (4.86%) Active Directory
3 25 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (1.28%) Virtual Desktop
5 15 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
6 12 (0.81%) vSphere
7 5 (0.34%) Firmware
8 4 (0.27%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.14%) Xen
10 1 (0.068%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.068%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 175 (11.82%) Kubernetes
2 58 (3.92%) Ansible
3 56 (3.78%) Grafana
4 45 (3.04%) Prometheus
5 31 (2.09%) Argo
6 28 (1.89%) Microsoft Intune
7 12 (0.81%) Puppet
8 11 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.34%) SCCM
10 4 (0.27%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.20%) HP Fortify
12 2 (0.14%) FlexNet
12 2 (0.14%) HP ALM
12 2 (0.14%) Istio
12 2 (0.14%) Nessus
12 2 (0.14%) Rancher
12 2 (0.14%) ZABBIX
13 1 (0.068%) Nagios
13 1 (0.068%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 677 (45.71%) Microsoft
2 96 (6.48%) Databricks
3 64 (4.32%) Google
4 40 (2.70%) Salesforce
5 37 (2.50%) Facebook
5 37 (2.50%) VMware
6 25 (1.69%) ServiceNow
7 24 (1.62%) Apple
7 24 (1.62%) Dynatrace
8 23 (1.55%) SAP
8 23 (1.55%) YouTube
9 20 (1.35%) OpenAI
10 19 (1.28%) Oracle
11 17 (1.15%) Red Hat
12 16 (1.08%) Sony
12 16 (1.08%) Yahoo!
13 13 (0.88%) HP
13 13 (0.88%) MuleSoft
14 12 (0.81%) Foundry
14 12 (0.81%) ScienceLogic