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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 130 106 84
Rank change year-on-year -24 -22 -2
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,111 1,497 1,727
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.87% 2.66% 3.51%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.38% 7.36% 8.29%
Number of salaries quoted 702 973 1,473
10th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -2.67%
75th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £97,308
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% -

All Cloud 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 20,655 20,348 20,835
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.85% 36.22% 42.34%
Number of salaries quoted 11,321 12,185 17,163
10th Percentile £28,750 £34,750 £32,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,000 £62,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +1.61% -4.62%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £101,250 £100,000
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 December 2025.

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 December 2025. 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 -40 865 £65,000 -3.70% 812
UK excluding London -27 692 £57,500 -11.54% 675
Work from Home +1 521 £62,500 -7.41% 359
London +12 348 £75,000 -0.59% 235
South East -6 232 £57,500 -14.81% 204
Scotland +65 169 £64,750 +23.33% 44
North of England -45 101 £60,000 -7.69% 155
Midlands -50 77 £60,000 -7.69% 116
West Midlands -43 61 £60,000 -7.69% 62
South West -75 57 £50,000 -23.08% 64
North West -23 40 £65,000 +4.84% 81
Yorkshire -28 35 £60,000 -9.25% 56
Wales +3 31 £55,000 -15.38% 11
North East +6 26 £50,000 -9.09% 19
East of England -31 23 £65,000 +30.00% 84
East Midlands -19 14 £60,000 +4.35% 50
Northern Ireland -3 2 £56,250 - 7

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 (3.42%) Confluence
2 35 (3.15%) IIS
3 24 (2.16%) SharePoint
4 17 (1.53%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 15 (1.35%) Microsoft Exchange
6 13 (1.17%) Apache Airflow
7 8 (0.72%) Apache Spark
8 7 (0.63%) Apache
9 6 (0.54%) Appian
10 3 (0.27%) BizTalk Server
10 3 (0.27%) CMS
10 3 (0.27%) nginx
10 3 (0.27%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.18%) Anypoint
11 2 (0.18%) Moodle
Applications
1 37 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 27 (2.43%) Microsoft Office
3 17 (1.53%) MS Visio
4 14 (1.26%) Microsoft Project
5 13 (1.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.36%) Trello
7 2 (0.18%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.090%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 72 (6.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 43 (3.87%) Dynamics CRM
3 37 (3.33%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (0.27%) SAP CX
5 2 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.18%) Elite 3E
5 2 (0.18%) Markit EDM
5 2 (0.18%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.090%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.090%) Endur
6 1 (0.090%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 1,042 (93.79%) Azure
2 336 (30.24%) GitHub
3 226 (20.34%) Power Platform
4 169 (15.21%) AWS
5 159 (14.31%) GitHub Actions
6 89 (8.01%) Azure Monitor
7 83 (7.47%) Entra ID
7 83 (7.47%) PaaS
7 83 (7.47%) Snowflake
8 82 (7.38%) Azure Data Factory
8 82 (7.38%) Power Automate
9 80 (7.20%) Dynamics 365
10 79 (7.11%) Serverless
11 72 (6.48%) Microsoft 365
12 70 (6.30%) SaaS
13 67 (6.03%) GitHub Copilot
14 63 (5.67%) Azure AKS
15 61 (5.49%) dbt
16 55 (4.95%) Azure Logic Apps
17 51 (4.59%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 40 (3.60%) Firewall
2 37 (3.33%) DNS
3 23 (2.07%) VPN
4 14 (1.26%) WAN
5 10 (0.90%) HTTP
5 10 (0.90%) Network Security
6 8 (0.72%) TCP/IP
7 6 (0.54%) DHCP
7 6 (0.54%) SD-WAN
7 6 (0.54%) VLAN
8 4 (0.36%) SSL
9 3 (0.27%) AMQP
9 3 (0.27%) BGP
9 3 (0.27%) IPsec
9 3 (0.27%) OSPF
9 3 (0.27%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (0.27%) Wireshark
10 2 (0.18%) Internet
11 1 (0.090%) IPv6
11 1 (0.090%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 171 (15.39%) SQL Server
2 123 (11.07%) Power BI
3 81 (7.29%) Data Warehouse
4 59 (5.31%) Azure SQL Database
5 51 (4.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 45 (4.05%) NoSQL
7 43 (3.87%) Tableau
8 27 (2.43%) Relational Database
8 27 (2.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 21 (1.89%) Data Lake
9 21 (1.89%) PostgreSQL
10 20 (1.80%) Snowflake Schema
11 18 (1.62%) DynamoDB
12 14 (1.26%) MongoDB
13 13 (1.17%) Metadata
13 13 (1.17%) MySQL
14 12 (1.08%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 10 (0.90%) BigQuery
16 7 (0.63%) Delta Lake
17 5 (0.45%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 215 (19.35%) JIRA
2 190 (17.10%) Git
3 125 (11.25%) Jenkins
4 69 (6.21%) eCATT
5 56 (5.04%) Selenium
6 40 (3.60%) NeoLoad
7 37 (3.33%) Oracle Forms
8 34 (3.06%) GitLab
9 33 (2.97%) Octopus Deploy
10 25 (2.25%) Cypress.io
10 25 (2.25%) TeamCity
11 24 (2.16%) Snyk
12 23 (2.07%) Robot Framework
13 20 (1.80%) Postman
13 20 (1.80%) Visual Studio
14 13 (1.17%) JMeter
15 12 (1.08%) Cucumber
15 12 (1.08%) NUnit
16 11 (0.99%) Visual Studio Code
17 8 (0.72%) MLflow
General
1 441 (39.69%) Finance
2 283 (25.47%) Social Skills
3 144 (12.96%) Analytical Skills
4 114 (10.26%) Marketing
5 71 (6.39%) Manufacturing
6 66 (5.94%) Presentation Skills
7 55 (4.95%) Law
8 43 (3.87%) Influencing Skills
9 39 (3.51%) Retail
10 32 (2.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 24 (2.16%) Legal
12 22 (1.98%) Public Sector
13 20 (1.80%) Documentation Skills
14 14 (1.26%) Banking
15 9 (0.81%) Advertising
15 9 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
16 8 (0.72%) Games
16 8 (0.72%) Tech for Good
17 7 (0.63%) Billing
17 7 (0.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 231 (20.79%) Senior
2 183 (16.47%) Developer
3 161 (14.49%) Lead
4 130 (11.70%) Analyst
5 122 (10.98%) DevOps Engineer
6 108 (9.72%) Azure Engineer
7 90 (8.10%) Cloud Engineer
8 59 (5.31%) Data Engineer
9 52 (4.68%) Software Engineer
10 50 (4.50%) .NET Developer
11 47 (4.23%) Test Leader
12 45 (4.05%) Applications Engineer
12 45 (4.05%) Architect
13 42 (3.78%) Platform Engineer
14 40 (3.60%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 38 (3.42%) Senior Cloud Engineer
16 35 (3.15%) Business Analyst
17 33 (2.97%) Test Analyst
18 28 (2.52%) Senior Developer
19 26 (2.34%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 284 (25.56%) .NET
2 122 (10.98%) RESTful
3 96 (8.64%) React
4 78 (7.02%) YAML
5 76 (6.84%) REST
6 72 (6.48%) .NET Framework
7 64 (5.76%) OAuth
8 63 (5.67%) JSON
9 61 (5.49%) .NET Core
10 55 (4.95%) SOAP
11 52 (4.68%) ASP.NET
12 47 (4.23%) CSS
13 46 (4.14%) HTML
14 44 (3.96%) ARM Templates
15 43 (3.87%) Entity Framework
16 40 (3.60%) AngularJS
16 40 (3.60%) OAuth2
17 37 (3.33%) XML
18 32 (2.88%) Blazor
19 29 (2.61%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 175 (15.75%) Cloud Native
2 121 (10.89%) Product Ownership
3 68 (6.12%) Enterprise Software
4 44 (3.96%) Management Information System
5 36 (3.24%) Legacy Systems
6 31 (2.79%) Onboarding
7 30 (2.70%) Security Posture
8 28 (2.52%) Low-Code
9 26 (2.34%) Hybrid Cloud
10 25 (2.25%) Virtual Team
11 24 (2.16%) Mobile App
12 21 (1.89%) Analytical Mindset
12 21 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
13 19 (1.71%) Greenfield Project
14 17 (1.53%) Data Centre
15 12 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
16 10 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
16 10 (0.90%) Legacy Applications
16 10 (0.90%) Linux Command Line
17 9 (0.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 98 (8.82%) Windows
2 63 (5.67%) Linux
3 25 (2.25%) VMS
4 18 (1.62%) Windows Server
5 8 (0.72%) Android
5 8 (0.72%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.45%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.18%) Unix
7 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.090%) CentOS
8 1 (0.090%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.090%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,041 (93.70%) DevOps
2 644 (57.97%) CI/CD
3 560 (50.41%) Agile
4 299 (26.91%) Test Automation
5 288 (25.92%) Infrastructure as Code
6 251 (22.59%) Continuous Improvement
7 244 (21.96%) Problem-Solving
8 225 (20.25%) Mentoring
9 211 (18.99%) AI
10 208 (18.72%) Coaching
11 156 (14.04%) Analytics
11 156 (14.04%) Asset Management
12 134 (12.06%) Roadmaps
13 133 (11.97%) Containerisation
13 133 (11.97%) Observability
14 131 (11.79%) Scrum
15 130 (11.70%) Business Intelligence
16 123 (11.07%) ERP
16 123 (11.07%) Microservices
17 119 (10.71%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 384 (34.56%) SQL
2 284 (25.56%) Python
3 239 (21.51%) C#
4 226 (20.34%) PowerShell
5 104 (9.36%) Bicep
6 98 (8.82%) JavaScript
7 87 (7.83%) Bash
8 72 (6.48%) TypeScript
9 56 (5.04%) Java
10 39 (3.51%) Shell Script
11 38 (3.42%) PL/SQL
12 37 (3.33%) T-SQL
13 30 (2.70%) Apex Code
14 18 (1.62%) Go
15 12 (1.08%) Scala
16 11 (0.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 6 (0.54%) Kusto Query Language
18 5 (0.45%) C++
19 4 (0.36%) Groovy
19 4 (0.36%) R
Qualifications
1 141 (12.69%) Degree
2 87 (7.83%) Computer Science Degree
3 79 (7.11%) Azure Certification
4 73 (6.57%) Security Cleared
5 47 (4.23%) SC Cleared
6 46 (4.14%) ISTQB
7 45 (4.05%) Master's Degree
8 28 (2.52%) Microsoft Certification
9 24 (2.16%) AWS Certification
9 24 (2.16%) DV Cleared
10 13 (1.17%) ISEB
10 13 (1.17%) PMI Certification
11 12 (1.08%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 11 (0.99%) AWS Certified Developer
13 10 (0.90%) PMP
14 6 (0.54%) Cisco Certification
14 6 (0.54%) DBS Check
15 5 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
15 5 (0.45%) CBAP
16 4 (0.36%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 155 (13.95%) QA
2 48 (4.32%) Accessibility
3 45 (4.05%) GDPR
4 40 (3.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 33 (2.97%) Data Quality
6 25 (2.25%) NCSC
6 25 (2.25%) NIST
7 17 (1.53%) PMO
8 8 (0.72%) Software Quality Assurance
9 7 (0.63%) SOC 2
10 5 (0.45%) PERC
11 4 (0.36%) SLA
11 4 (0.36%) WCAG
12 1 (0.090%) COBIT
12 1 (0.090%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.090%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.090%) HL7
12 1 (0.090%) ISO 9001
12 1 (0.090%) P3O
12 1 (0.090%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 154 (13.86%) Docker
2 68 (6.12%) Active Directory
3 24 (2.16%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (1.44%) Virtual Desktop
4 16 (1.44%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.36%) Firmware
5 4 (0.36%) Postfix
6 2 (0.18%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.18%) vCloud
7 1 (0.090%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 1 (0.090%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.090%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.090%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.090%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 362 (32.58%) Terraform
2 178 (16.02%) Kubernetes
3 86 (7.74%) Ansible
4 72 (6.48%) HP ALM
5 40 (3.60%) Grafana
6 38 (3.42%) Single Sign-On
7 32 (2.88%) Prometheus
8 18 (1.62%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.36%) Argo
9 4 (0.36%) logstash
9 4 (0.36%) Rancher
9 4 (0.36%) vRealize
10 3 (0.27%) Dell DRAC
11 2 (0.18%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (0.18%) Nessus
11 2 (0.18%) Puppet
11 2 (0.18%) SCOM
12 1 (0.090%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.090%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.090%) SCCM
Vendors
1 380 (34.20%) Microsoft
2 78 (7.02%) SAP
3 72 (6.48%) HP
4 52 (4.68%) Databricks
5 46 (4.14%) Oracle
6 45 (4.05%) Salesforce
7 26 (2.34%) ServiceNow
8 25 (2.25%) VMware
9 22 (1.98%) Okta
10 21 (1.89%) Black Duck
11 20 (1.80%) Coverity
12 16 (1.44%) Google
12 16 (1.44%) Palo Alto
13 14 (1.26%) Ab Initio
13 14 (1.26%) OpenAI
13 14 (1.26%) Xamarin
14 12 (1.08%) Dynatrace
14 12 (1.08%) Foundry
14 12 (1.08%) Sage
15 11 (0.99%) Zscaler