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

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 171 156 116
Rank change year-on-year -15 -40 -9
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,103 904 2,288
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.22% 2.08% 2.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.14% 5.96% 6.66%
Number of salaries quoted 833 712 1,768
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £41,933
25th Percentile £50,000 £54,688 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,500 £67,500 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.96% +9.76% -5.38%
75th Percentile £82,125 £83,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £91,250 £96,250 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £63,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -

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 26,658 15,158 34,355
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 29.40% 34.91% 35.63%
Number of salaries quoted 14,898 10,657 26,678
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,750 £43,750 £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 £82,751 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% 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 14 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 14 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 -21 937 £67,500 -3.57% 406
UK excluding London +24 701 £60,000 -4.76% 312
Work from Home +29 437 £65,000 -3.70% 233
London -16 336 £77,500 +3.33% 150
North of England +38 178 £65,000 -7.14% 83
South East -30 177 £52,500 -25.00% 102
Midlands -8 111 £65,000 - 41
North West +42 89 £70,000 +3.70% 41
Scotland +54 81 £62,500 +8.70% 18
South West -28 74 £52,500 -19.23% 22
West Midlands -32 59 £61,000 -6.15% 23
Yorkshire -55 51 £69,305 -0.99% 19
East Midlands +10 49 £67,250 +16.96% 18
East of England -6 42 £60,000 +9.09% 32
North East -5 38 £50,000 -23.08% 23
Wales -8 38 £53,000 -9.86% 13
Northern Ireland -35 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 37 (3.35%) SharePoint
2 34 (3.08%) Confluence
3 21 (1.90%) IIS
4 18 (1.63%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (0.82%) Apache Spark
6 7 (0.63%) Anypoint
6 7 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
6 7 (0.63%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 6 (0.54%) Apache
7 6 (0.54%) SharePoint Server
8 5 (0.45%) CMS
9 4 (0.36%) Moodle
9 4 (0.36%) Umbraco
10 3 (0.27%) WordPress
11 2 (0.18%) BizTalk Server
11 2 (0.18%) CICS
11 2 (0.18%) Luigi
12 1 (0.091%) Drupal
12 1 (0.091%) PegaRULES
12 1 (0.091%) Tomcat
Applications
1 20 (1.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (1.72%) MS Visio
3 10 (0.91%) Microsoft Project
4 7 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (0.54%) Chatbot
6 5 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
7 3 (0.27%) Adobe XD
7 3 (0.27%) Trello
8 1 (0.091%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 15 (1.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (1.27%) Oracle ERP
3 6 (0.54%) Dynamics AX
4 5 (0.45%) Visualfiles
5 3 (0.27%) Elite 3E
5 3 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
6 2 (0.18%) Magento
6 2 (0.18%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.091%) Endur
7 1 (0.091%) Infor M3
7 1 (0.091%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 1 (0.091%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.091%) Sage 200
7 1 (0.091%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.091%) SAP CX
7 1 (0.091%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1,102 (99.91%) Azure
2 264 (23.93%) GitHub
3 181 (16.41%) Power Platform
4 160 (14.51%) AWS
5 151 (13.69%) GitHub Actions
6 94 (8.52%) Serverless
7 89 (8.07%) Azure Monitor
8 87 (7.89%) Azure AKS
9 86 (7.80%) Azure Data Factory
10 84 (7.62%) Entra ID
11 79 (7.16%) Microsoft 365
12 74 (6.71%) Azure Logic Apps
13 71 (6.44%) PaaS
14 62 (5.62%) GCP
15 61 (5.53%) SaaS
16 60 (5.44%) Azure Functions
16 60 (5.44%) Azure Service Bus
16 60 (5.44%) Dynamics 365
17 49 (4.44%) Azure Key Vault
18 42 (3.81%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 60 (5.44%) Firewall
2 30 (2.72%) DNS
3 19 (1.72%) TCP/IP
4 18 (1.63%) HTTP
5 14 (1.27%) Network Security
6 13 (1.18%) VPN
7 12 (1.09%) WAN
8 3 (0.27%) BGP
8 3 (0.27%) DHCP
9 2 (0.18%) Bluetooth
9 2 (0.18%) HTTPS
9 2 (0.18%) Internet
9 2 (0.18%) MQTT
9 2 (0.18%) SAN
9 2 (0.18%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.18%) Wireless
9 2 (0.18%) ZigBee
10 1 (0.091%) IP Telephony
10 1 (0.091%) SSL
10 1 (0.091%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 121 (10.97%) SQL Server
2 119 (10.79%) Azure SQL Database
3 99 (8.98%) Power BI
4 77 (6.98%) MongoDB
5 47 (4.26%) Data Warehouse
6 39 (3.54%) Data Lake
6 39 (3.54%) PostgreSQL
7 34 (3.08%) NoSQL
8 25 (2.27%) Relational Database
9 23 (2.09%) Delta Lake
10 19 (1.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 17 (1.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 16 (1.45%) Spark SQL
13 13 (1.18%) Star Schema
13 13 (1.18%) Tableau
14 12 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
15 11 (1.00%) Elasticsearch
16 10 (0.91%) DynamoDB
16 10 (0.91%) Metadata
17 9 (0.82%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 180 (16.32%) Git
2 142 (12.87%) JIRA
3 118 (10.70%) Jenkins
4 66 (5.98%) GitLab
5 52 (4.71%) Selenium
6 37 (3.35%) Cypress.io
7 32 (2.90%) Postman
8 22 (1.99%) Eclipse
9 17 (1.54%) Visual Studio
10 16 (1.45%) Octopus Deploy
11 14 (1.27%) Oracle Forms
12 12 (1.09%) JMeter
12 12 (1.09%) REST Assured
12 12 (1.09%) TeamCity
13 10 (0.91%) TestRail
13 10 (0.91%) Zephyr
14 8 (0.73%) Cucumber
15 7 (0.63%) fastlane
15 7 (0.63%) LoadRunner
16 6 (0.54%) MLflow
General
1 311 (28.20%) Finance
2 244 (22.12%) Social Skills
3 138 (12.51%) Analytical Skills
4 67 (6.07%) Public Sector
5 51 (4.62%) Law
6 49 (4.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 36 (3.26%) Retail
8 35 (3.17%) Legal
9 33 (2.99%) Marketing
10 28 (2.54%) Billing
11 21 (1.90%) Banking
11 21 (1.90%) Telecoms
12 20 (1.81%) Influencing Skills
13 14 (1.27%) Advertising
13 14 (1.27%) Games
14 12 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
15 11 (1.00%) Automotive
15 11 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
16 10 (0.91%) Manufacturing
17 6 (0.54%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 265 (24.03%) Developer
2 228 (20.67%) Senior
3 196 (17.77%) DevOps Engineer
4 180 (16.32%) Azure Engineer
5 156 (14.14%) Lead
6 95 (8.61%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 87 (7.89%) .NET Developer
8 74 (6.71%) Cloud Engineer
9 67 (6.07%) Data Engineer
10 58 (5.26%) Senior Developer
11 53 (4.81%) Analyst
11 53 (4.81%) Architect
11 53 (4.81%) Platform Engineer
12 50 (4.53%) Senior DevOps
13 48 (4.35%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 35 (3.17%) Software Engineer
15 32 (2.90%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 29 (2.63%) Software Developer
17 28 (2.54%) Full-Stack Developer
18 27 (2.45%) Azure Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 302 (27.38%) .NET
2 129 (11.70%) React
3 122 (11.06%) ASP.NET
4 114 (10.34%) .NET Core
5 106 (9.61%) REST
6 99 (8.98%) CSS
6 99 (8.98%) HTML
7 98 (8.88%) RESTful
8 88 (7.98%) ASP.NET Core
9 66 (5.98%) Node.js
10 64 (5.80%) OAuth
11 55 (4.99%) SOAP
12 54 (4.90%) Playwright
13 53 (4.81%) Blazor
13 53 (4.81%) Entity Framework
14 52 (4.71%) YAML
15 47 (4.26%) JSON
16 41 (3.72%) .NET Framework
17 40 (3.63%) PySpark
18 37 (3.35%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 117 (10.61%) Product Ownership
2 102 (9.25%) Cloud Native
3 43 (3.90%) Enterprise Software
4 37 (3.35%) Mobile App
5 31 (2.81%) Management Information System
6 29 (2.63%) Low-Code
7 27 (2.45%) Legacy Systems
8 24 (2.18%) Analytical Mindset
9 23 (2.09%) Distributed Systems
10 19 (1.72%) Onboarding
11 17 (1.54%) Reinsurance
12 15 (1.36%) Data Structures
13 14 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
14 13 (1.18%) Hybrid Cloud
15 11 (1.00%) Virtual Team
16 10 (0.91%) Enterprise Cloud
16 10 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
17 9 (0.82%) Legacy Applications
18 8 (0.73%) Distributed Computing
18 8 (0.73%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 86 (7.80%) Linux
2 65 (5.89%) Windows
3 18 (1.63%) Unix
4 17 (1.54%) VMS
5 14 (1.27%) Ubuntu
6 13 (1.18%) Android
6 13 (1.18%) Windows Server
7 12 (1.09%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.36%) Kali Linux
9 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.091%) SUSE
10 1 (0.091%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.091%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,102 (99.91%) DevOps
2 681 (61.74%) CI/CD
3 495 (44.88%) Agile
4 304 (27.56%) Infrastructure as Code
5 271 (24.57%) Test Automation
6 218 (19.76%) Continuous Improvement
7 208 (18.86%) AI
8 192 (17.41%) Problem-Solving
9 167 (15.14%) Mentoring
10 161 (14.60%) Analytics
11 159 (14.42%) Observability
12 153 (13.87%) Scrum
13 143 (12.96%) Data Modelling
14 139 (12.60%) Full-Stack Development
15 138 (12.51%) Coaching
16 128 (11.60%) Containerisation
17 126 (11.42%) Microservices
18 105 (9.52%) Business Intelligence
19 101 (9.16%) Roadmaps
20 98 (8.88%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 379 (34.36%) SQL
2 268 (24.30%) C#
3 264 (23.93%) Python
4 165 (14.96%) JavaScript
5 126 (11.42%) PowerShell
6 106 (9.61%) Bash
7 80 (7.25%) Bicep
7 80 (7.25%) Java
8 57 (5.17%) TypeScript
9 23 (2.09%) Apex Code
9 23 (2.09%) Go
10 20 (1.81%) Scala
11 18 (1.63%) PL/SQL
12 16 (1.45%) Shell Script
13 14 (1.27%) T-SQL
14 13 (1.18%) Kusto Query Language
15 12 (1.09%) C++
15 12 (1.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 9 (0.82%) Swift
17 7 (0.63%) DataWeave
Qualifications
1 87 (7.89%) Degree
2 71 (6.44%) Security Cleared
3 47 (4.26%) SC Cleared
4 46 (4.17%) Azure Certification
5 38 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 29 (2.63%) ISTQB
7 21 (1.90%) Microsoft Certification
8 15 (1.36%) DV Cleared
8 15 (1.36%) Master's Degree
9 13 (1.18%) HND
10 11 (1.00%) AWS Certification
11 9 (0.82%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 9 (0.82%) PMI Certification
12 7 (0.63%) AWS Certified Developer
13 5 (0.45%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 4 (0.36%) BC Cleared
15 3 (0.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 3 (0.27%) CBAP
16 2 (0.18%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 2 (0.18%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 119 (10.79%) QA
2 79 (7.16%) Accessibility
3 47 (4.26%) Data Quality
4 44 (3.99%) GDPR
5 30 (2.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (1.18%) SLA
6 13 (1.18%) SOC 2
7 12 (1.09%) TickIT
8 11 (1.00%) WCAG
9 10 (0.91%) GRC
10 6 (0.54%) PMO
10 6 (0.54%) Software Quality Assurance
10 6 (0.54%) Solvency II
11 5 (0.45%) IFRS
11 5 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.27%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 2 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.18%) IFRS 17
13 2 (0.18%) ISO 9001
13 2 (0.18%) NCSC
System Software
1 144 (13.06%) Docker
2 60 (5.44%) Active Directory
3 17 (1.54%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.54%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.27%) Firmware
6 2 (0.18%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.091%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 327 (29.65%) Terraform
2 116 (10.52%) Kubernetes
3 77 (6.98%) Ansible
4 66 (5.98%) Grafana
5 54 (4.90%) Prometheus
6 23 (2.09%) Argo
7 16 (1.45%) Single Sign-On
8 9 (0.82%) Kibana
9 4 (0.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (0.36%) HP Fortify
9 4 (0.36%) logstash
9 4 (0.36%) Puppet
10 3 (0.27%) HP ALM
10 3 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (0.27%) Scalr
11 2 (0.18%) MIIS
11 2 (0.18%) Nagios
11 2 (0.18%) SCCM
12 1 (0.091%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.091%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 418 (37.90%) Microsoft
2 69 (6.26%) Databricks
3 50 (4.53%) Salesforce
4 32 (2.90%) ServiceNow
5 25 (2.27%) Oracle
6 23 (2.09%) Red Hat
7 20 (1.81%) Google
8 18 (1.63%) Dynatrace
9 16 (1.45%) Apple
9 16 (1.45%) MuleSoft
10 15 (1.36%) Adobe
11 14 (1.27%) Palo Alto
11 14 (1.27%) Zscaler
12 12 (1.09%) Facebook
12 12 (1.09%) Freshdesk
12 12 (1.09%) Nintex
13 11 (1.00%) CrowdStrike
13 11 (1.00%) VMware
14 10 (0.91%) Guidewire
14 10 (0.91%) Okta