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

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 130 102 81
Rank change year-on-year -28 -21 +9
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,068 1,601 1,806
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.97% 2.45% 3.54%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.00% 7.23% 8.27%
Number of salaries quoted 686 1,031 1,533
10th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,477 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,225 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.31% +3.42% -
75th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% -

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 17,807 22,147 21,843
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.92% 33.84% 42.85%
Number of salaries quoted 11,166 13,477 18,341
10th Percentile £28,697 £35,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £37,626 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,750 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +2.00% -0.79%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +2.80% -2.73%

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 30 November 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 30 November 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 -41 846 £65,500 -2.96% 336
UK excluding London -32 664 £57,500 -8.00% 313
Work from Home -10 495 £65,000 - 176
London +15 338 £77,500 +3.33% 134
South East -1 226 £60,000 -9.43% 130
Scotland +64 148 £65,000 +20.93% 26
North of England -41 97 £60,000 -4.38% 44
Midlands -38 79 £59,500 -8.46% 52
West Midlands -20 68 £60,000 -7.69% 32
South West -58 53 £53,750 -17.31% 35
North West -24 40 £65,000 +7.44% 17
Yorkshire -28 33 £55,000 -18.35% 12
Wales +5 32 £55,000 - 16
East of England -14 27 £65,000 +30.00% 17
North East +1 24 £50,000 -9.09% 15
East Midlands 0 10 £55,750 +17.37% 19
Northern Ireland 0 2 £56,250 - 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 40 (3.75%) Confluence
2 34 (3.18%) IIS
3 24 (2.25%) SharePoint
4 14 (1.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 13 (1.22%) Microsoft Exchange
6 11 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
7 7 (0.66%) Apache Spark
8 6 (0.56%) Apache
8 6 (0.56%) Appian
9 5 (0.47%) nginx
10 4 (0.37%) BizTalk Server
10 4 (0.37%) CMS
11 3 (0.28%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.094%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.094%) Moodle
Applications
1 31 (2.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (2.62%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (1.22%) Microsoft Project
4 10 (0.94%) MS Visio
5 7 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.37%) Trello
7 1 (0.094%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.094%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.094%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 72 (6.74%) SAP S/4HANA
2 49 (4.59%) Dynamics CRM
3 31 (2.90%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (0.28%) SAP CX
5 2 (0.19%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.19%) Elite 3E
5 2 (0.19%) Markit EDM
5 2 (0.19%) Shopify
5 2 (0.19%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.094%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.094%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 999 (93.54%) Azure
2 300 (28.09%) GitHub
3 214 (20.04%) Power Platform
4 153 (14.33%) AWS
5 145 (13.58%) GitHub Actions
6 88 (8.24%) Dynamics 365
7 86 (8.05%) Power Automate
8 82 (7.68%) Azure Monitor
9 81 (7.58%) PaaS
10 80 (7.49%) Azure Data Factory
11 77 (7.21%) Serverless
12 74 (6.93%) Entra ID
12 74 (6.93%) Snowflake
13 69 (6.46%) SaaS
14 65 (6.09%) Microsoft 365
15 59 (5.52%) Azure AKS
16 58 (5.43%) GitHub Copilot
17 53 (4.96%) dbt
18 52 (4.87%) Azure Logic Apps
19 50 (4.68%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 35 (3.28%) Firewall
2 32 (3.00%) DNS
3 20 (1.87%) VPN
4 12 (1.12%) Network Security
5 11 (1.03%) WAN
6 9 (0.84%) HTTP
7 6 (0.56%) TCP/IP
8 5 (0.47%) DHCP
8 5 (0.47%) SD-WAN
8 5 (0.47%) VLAN
9 4 (0.37%) SSL
10 3 (0.28%) AMQP
10 3 (0.28%) BGP
10 3 (0.28%) Internet
10 3 (0.28%) IPsec
10 3 (0.28%) OSPF
10 3 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (0.28%) Wireshark
11 1 (0.094%) NetScaler
11 1 (0.094%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 167 (15.64%) SQL Server
2 118 (11.05%) Power BI
3 79 (7.40%) Data Warehouse
4 53 (4.96%) Azure SQL Database
5 47 (4.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 41 (3.84%) Tableau
7 33 (3.09%) NoSQL
8 27 (2.53%) Relational Database
8 27 (2.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 20 (1.87%) Snowflake Schema
10 14 (1.31%) Data Lake
10 14 (1.31%) PostgreSQL
11 13 (1.22%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 12 (1.12%) DynamoDB
12 12 (1.12%) Metadata
12 12 (1.12%) MongoDB
13 11 (1.03%) MySQL
14 9 (0.84%) BigQuery
15 6 (0.56%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
16 5 (0.47%) Looker
Development Applications
1 207 (19.38%) JIRA
2 171 (16.01%) Git
3 111 (10.39%) Jenkins
4 69 (6.46%) eCATT
5 52 (4.87%) Selenium
6 40 (3.75%) NeoLoad
7 37 (3.46%) Octopus Deploy
8 31 (2.90%) GitLab
8 31 (2.90%) Oracle Forms
9 22 (2.06%) Cypress.io
9 22 (2.06%) TeamCity
10 21 (1.97%) Snyk
11 20 (1.87%) Robot Framework
11 20 (1.87%) Visual Studio
12 19 (1.78%) Postman
13 13 (1.22%) JMeter
14 11 (1.03%) Cucumber
14 11 (1.03%) NUnit
14 11 (1.03%) Visual Studio Code
15 10 (0.94%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 406 (38.01%) Finance
2 264 (24.72%) Social Skills
3 126 (11.80%) Analytical Skills
4 115 (10.77%) Marketing
5 72 (6.74%) Manufacturing
6 66 (6.18%) Presentation Skills
7 54 (5.06%) Law
8 47 (4.40%) Retail
9 41 (3.84%) Influencing Skills
10 36 (3.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 20 (1.87%) Legal
12 19 (1.78%) Documentation Skills
12 19 (1.78%) Public Sector
13 14 (1.31%) Banking
14 10 (0.94%) Organisational Skills
15 9 (0.84%) Advertising
15 9 (0.84%) Back Office
15 9 (0.84%) Tech for Good
16 8 (0.75%) Games
17 6 (0.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 217 (20.32%) Senior
2 167 (15.64%) Lead
3 162 (15.17%) Developer
4 127 (11.89%) Analyst
5 123 (11.52%) DevOps Engineer
6 101 (9.46%) Azure Engineer
7 79 (7.40%) Cloud Engineer
8 58 (5.43%) Data Engineer
9 55 (5.15%) Software Engineer
10 47 (4.40%) Test Leader
11 44 (4.12%) .NET Developer
12 43 (4.03%) Architect
12 43 (4.03%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 42 (3.93%) Platform Engineer
14 38 (3.56%) Applications Engineer
15 35 (3.28%) Business Analyst
15 35 (3.28%) Senior Cloud Engineer
16 33 (3.09%) Test Analyst
17 27 (2.53%) Automation Test Lead
17 27 (2.53%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 279 (26.12%) .NET
2 104 (9.74%) RESTful
3 81 (7.58%) React
4 75 (7.02%) .NET Framework
5 73 (6.84%) YAML
6 72 (6.74%) REST
7 60 (5.62%) JSON
8 57 (5.34%) .NET Core
9 51 (4.78%) OAuth
10 49 (4.59%) ASP.NET
11 47 (4.40%) SOAP
12 45 (4.21%) ARM Templates
13 44 (4.12%) Entity Framework
14 43 (4.03%) AngularJS
15 42 (3.93%) CSS
16 41 (3.84%) HTML
17 37 (3.46%) XML
18 33 (3.09%) OAuth2
19 28 (2.62%) Blazor
20 25 (2.34%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 167 (15.64%) Cloud Native
2 115 (10.77%) Product Ownership
3 59 (5.52%) Enterprise Software
4 39 (3.65%) Management Information System
5 35 (3.28%) Onboarding
6 34 (3.18%) Security Posture
7 31 (2.90%) Legacy Systems
8 26 (2.43%) Hybrid Cloud
9 23 (2.15%) Analytical Mindset
10 22 (2.06%) Distributed Systems
11 21 (1.97%) Low-Code
11 21 (1.97%) Virtual Team
12 20 (1.87%) Data Centre
13 18 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
13 18 (1.69%) Mobile App
14 12 (1.12%) Legacy Applications
14 12 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
15 11 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
16 10 (0.94%) Linux Command Line
17 9 (0.84%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 96 (8.99%) Windows
2 55 (5.15%) Linux
3 24 (2.25%) VMS
4 18 (1.69%) Windows Server
5 8 (0.75%) Android
6 7 (0.66%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.28%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.19%) AIX
9 2 (0.19%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 2 (0.19%) Unix
9 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.094%) CentOS
10 1 (0.094%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.094%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 998 (93.45%) DevOps
2 604 (56.55%) CI/CD
3 527 (49.34%) Agile
4 275 (25.75%) Test Automation
5 255 (23.88%) Infrastructure as Code
6 245 (22.94%) Continuous Improvement
7 223 (20.88%) Mentoring
8 221 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
9 188 (17.60%) Coaching
10 186 (17.42%) AI
11 144 (13.48%) Analytics
12 135 (12.64%) Asset Management
13 130 (12.17%) Roadmaps
13 130 (12.17%) Scrum
14 125 (11.70%) Containerisation
15 123 (11.52%) Business Intelligence
16 120 (11.24%) ERP
17 117 (10.96%) Microservices
18 115 (10.77%) Software Engineering
19 112 (10.49%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 352 (32.96%) SQL
2 256 (23.97%) Python
3 240 (22.47%) C#
4 224 (20.97%) PowerShell
5 100 (9.36%) Bicep
6 99 (9.27%) JavaScript
7 88 (8.24%) Bash
8 67 (6.27%) TypeScript
9 49 (4.59%) Java
10 45 (4.21%) T-SQL
11 35 (3.28%) Shell Script
12 32 (3.00%) PL/SQL
13 23 (2.15%) Apex Code
14 17 (1.59%) Go
15 9 (0.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 7 (0.66%) Scala
17 5 (0.47%) Groovy
18 4 (0.37%) R
18 4 (0.37%) VB
18 4 (0.37%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 138 (12.92%) Degree
2 90 (8.43%) Computer Science Degree
3 80 (7.49%) Azure Certification
4 70 (6.55%) Security Cleared
5 49 (4.59%) SC Cleared
6 45 (4.21%) ISTQB
7 43 (4.03%) Master's Degree
8 29 (2.72%) Microsoft Certification
9 21 (1.97%) DV Cleared
10 20 (1.87%) AWS Certification
11 17 (1.59%) ISEB
12 10 (0.94%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 10 (0.94%) PMI Certification
12 10 (0.94%) PMP
13 7 (0.66%) AWS Certified Developer
13 7 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
14 6 (0.56%) DBS Check
15 4 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
15 4 (0.37%) CCNA
15 4 (0.37%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 153 (14.33%) QA
2 42 (3.93%) GDPR
3 41 (3.84%) Accessibility
4 36 (3.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 28 (2.62%) NCSC
5 28 (2.62%) NIST
6 26 (2.43%) Data Quality
7 18 (1.69%) PMO
8 10 (0.94%) Software Quality Assurance
9 5 (0.47%) PERC
10 4 (0.37%) SOC 2
10 4 (0.37%) WCAG
11 2 (0.19%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.094%) COBIT
12 1 (0.094%) HL7
12 1 (0.094%) ISO 9001
12 1 (0.094%) P3O
12 1 (0.094%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.094%) SLA
System Software
1 148 (13.86%) Docker
2 57 (5.34%) Active Directory
3 25 (2.34%) Virtual Machines
4 17 (1.59%) VMware Infrastructure
5 16 (1.50%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.37%) Postfix
7 3 (0.28%) Firmware
7 3 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.19%) vCloud
9 1 (0.094%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 1 (0.094%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.094%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.094%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.094%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 326 (30.52%) Terraform
2 179 (16.76%) Kubernetes
3 76 (7.12%) Ansible
4 72 (6.74%) HP ALM
5 41 (3.84%) Grafana
6 32 (3.00%) Prometheus
6 32 (3.00%) Single Sign-On
7 19 (1.78%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (0.37%) Argo
8 4 (0.37%) Rancher
8 4 (0.37%) vRealize
9 3 (0.28%) Dell DRAC
10 2 (0.19%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.19%) logstash
10 2 (0.19%) Nessus
10 2 (0.19%) Puppet
10 2 (0.19%) Red Hat Satellite
10 2 (0.19%) SCOM
10 2 (0.19%) ZABBIX
11 1 (0.094%) SCCM
Vendors
1 363 (33.99%) Microsoft
2 81 (7.58%) SAP
3 72 (6.74%) HP
4 51 (4.78%) Databricks
5 38 (3.56%) Oracle
5 38 (3.56%) Salesforce
6 25 (2.34%) VMware
7 24 (2.25%) ServiceNow
8 19 (1.78%) Okta
9 18 (1.69%) Black Duck
9 18 (1.69%) Google
10 17 (1.59%) Coverity
11 14 (1.31%) OpenAI
11 14 (1.31%) Xamarin
12 13 (1.22%) Foundry
12 13 (1.22%) Palo Alto
13 12 (1.12%) Dynatrace
13 12 (1.12%) Sage
14 11 (1.03%) Ab Initio
15 10 (0.94%) Rackspace