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 16 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 180 139 109
Rank change year-on-year -41 -30 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,008 928 2,349
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.18% 2.24% 2.50%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.71% 6.17% 6.89%
Number of salaries quoted 716 779 1,852
10th Percentile £42,500 £43,887 £42,279
25th Percentile £50,000 £53,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,250 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.37% +8.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -14.62% +8.33% +0.80%

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 27,137 15,051 34,081
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 31.65% 36.29% 36.23%
Number of salaries quoted 14,059 11,050 26,810
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.82% +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 16 April 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 16 April 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 -48 841 £67,500 - 360
UK excluding London -22 617 £55,500 -14.62% 287
Work from Home -8 415 £64,250 -4.81% 210
London -10 324 £77,500 +3.33% 131
South East -46 161 £50,000 -28.57% 83
North of England -20 141 £60,000 -14.29% 72
Scotland +46 103 £62,500 +8.70% 21
Midlands -46 91 £63,750 -1.92% 41
South West -37 80 £52,500 -19.23% 34
North West -8 66 £70,000 +7.69% 42
West Midlands -47 52 £57,500 -13.21% 23
Yorkshire -50 44 £60,000 -14.29% 17
East Midlands -26 36 £67,000 +3.08% 18
North East -12 31 £50,000 -23.08% 13
East of England -40 24 £70,000 +32.08% 25
Wales -34 17 £53,135 -9.63% 16
Northern Ireland -41 2 £50,000 -

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 (3.67%) Confluence
2 34 (3.37%) SharePoint
3 24 (2.38%) Microsoft Exchange
4 22 (2.18%) IIS
5 11 (1.09%) Apache Spark
6 8 (0.79%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 7 (0.69%) Anypoint
8 4 (0.40%) Apache
8 4 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.40%) Moodle
9 2 (0.20%) BizTalk Server
9 2 (0.20%) CICS
9 2 (0.20%) CMS
10 1 (0.099%) Drupal
10 1 (0.099%) nginx
10 1 (0.099%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.099%) PegaRULES
10 1 (0.099%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.099%) Umbraco
10 1 (0.099%) WordPress
Applications
1 24 (2.38%) MS Visio
2 21 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (1.09%) Microsoft Project
4 8 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
4 8 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.50%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.30%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.20%) Trello
8 1 (0.099%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 19 (1.88%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (1.59%) Oracle ERP
3 6 (0.60%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (0.30%) Elite 3E
4 3 (0.30%) Visualfiles
5 2 (0.20%) Magento
5 2 (0.20%) SAP CX
5 2 (0.20%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.099%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.099%) Endur
6 1 (0.099%) Infor M3
6 1 (0.099%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 1 (0.099%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.099%) Primavera
6 1 (0.099%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.099%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1,007 (99.90%) Azure
2 295 (29.27%) GitHub
3 178 (17.66%) Power Platform
4 159 (15.77%) GitHub Actions
5 153 (15.18%) AWS
6 94 (9.33%) Serverless
7 91 (9.03%) Azure Data Factory
8 90 (8.93%) Entra ID
9 82 (8.13%) Azure Monitor
10 79 (7.84%) Microsoft 365
11 75 (7.44%) PaaS
12 63 (6.25%) Azure Logic Apps
12 63 (6.25%) Dynamics 365
13 61 (6.05%) Azure AKS
14 59 (5.85%) SaaS
15 55 (5.46%) GCP
16 53 (5.26%) Azure Functions
17 49 (4.86%) Azure Key Vault
18 45 (4.46%) GitHub Copilot
18 45 (4.46%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 63 (6.25%) Firewall
2 35 (3.47%) DNS
3 19 (1.88%) HTTP
3 19 (1.88%) TCP/IP
4 15 (1.49%) WAN
5 14 (1.39%) VPN
6 12 (1.19%) Network Security
7 3 (0.30%) BGP
7 3 (0.30%) DHCP
7 3 (0.30%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.20%) SSL
9 1 (0.099%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.099%) Internet
9 1 (0.099%) IP Telephony
9 1 (0.099%) LTE
9 1 (0.099%) MPLS
9 1 (0.099%) NetScaler
9 1 (0.099%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (12.40%) SQL Server
2 95 (9.42%) Power BI
3 68 (6.75%) Azure SQL Database
4 43 (4.27%) Data Warehouse
5 37 (3.67%) NoSQL
6 35 (3.47%) Data Lake
7 28 (2.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 26 (2.58%) PostgreSQL
9 22 (2.18%) MongoDB
10 21 (2.08%) Delta Lake
11 19 (1.88%) Relational Database
11 19 (1.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 16 (1.59%) DynamoDB
13 15 (1.49%) Tableau
14 12 (1.19%) Spark SQL
15 11 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
16 10 (0.99%) Snowflake Schema
17 9 (0.89%) MySQL
18 8 (0.79%) Metadata
19 6 (0.60%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 167 (16.57%) Git
2 145 (14.38%) JIRA
3 108 (10.71%) Jenkins
4 57 (5.65%) Selenium
5 44 (4.37%) GitLab
6 38 (3.77%) Cypress.io
7 30 (2.98%) Postman
8 24 (2.38%) Visual Studio
9 18 (1.79%) Eclipse
9 18 (1.79%) Octopus Deploy
10 16 (1.59%) Oracle Forms
11 13 (1.29%) TeamCity
12 11 (1.09%) REST Assured
12 11 (1.09%) TestRail
13 10 (0.99%) JMeter
13 10 (0.99%) NUnit
13 10 (0.99%) Robot Framework
14 9 (0.89%) Zephyr
15 8 (0.79%) Snyk
15 8 (0.79%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 315 (31.25%) Finance
2 252 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 149 (14.78%) Analytical Skills
4 57 (5.65%) Law
5 38 (3.77%) Public Sector
6 36 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 34 (3.37%) Retail
8 33 (3.27%) Legal
9 30 (2.98%) Marketing
10 27 (2.68%) Billing
11 22 (2.18%) Telecoms
12 19 (1.88%) Influencing Skills
13 18 (1.79%) Banking
14 12 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
15 9 (0.89%) Manufacturing
16 8 (0.79%) Automotive
16 8 (0.79%) Documentation Skills
17 7 (0.69%) Advertising
17 7 (0.69%) Games
17 7 (0.69%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 213 (21.13%) Developer
2 202 (20.04%) Senior
3 156 (15.48%) Azure Engineer
4 149 (14.78%) DevOps Engineer
5 148 (14.68%) Lead
6 73 (7.24%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 70 (6.94%) Cloud Engineer
8 58 (5.75%) Analyst
9 57 (5.65%) Data Engineer
10 51 (5.06%) Architect
11 48 (4.76%) Senior Developer
12 47 (4.66%) .NET Developer
13 38 (3.77%) Platform Engineer
14 30 (2.98%) Applications Engineer
15 28 (2.78%) Software Engineer
15 28 (2.78%) Test Leader
16 26 (2.58%) Applications Support
16 26 (2.58%) Senior DevOps
16 26 (2.58%) Software Developer
17 25 (2.48%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 241 (23.91%) .NET
2 108 (10.71%) React
3 94 (9.33%) RESTful
4 93 (9.23%) REST
5 74 (7.34%) CSS
6 73 (7.24%) HTML
7 72 (7.14%) OAuth
8 69 (6.85%) ASP.NET
9 67 (6.65%) .NET Core
10 55 (5.46%) SOAP
11 52 (5.16%) YAML
12 46 (4.56%) Playwright
13 45 (4.46%) .NET Framework
13 45 (4.46%) Node.js
14 43 (4.27%) JSON
15 40 (3.97%) ASP.NET Core
16 39 (3.87%) PySpark
17 37 (3.67%) SAML
18 35 (3.47%) OAuth2
19 33 (3.27%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 118 (11.71%) Product Ownership
2 113 (11.21%) Cloud Native
3 37 (3.67%) Enterprise Software
4 33 (3.27%) Management Information System
5 31 (3.08%) Low-Code
5 31 (3.08%) Mobile App
6 26 (2.58%) Legacy Systems
7 21 (2.08%) Analytical Mindset
7 21 (2.08%) Distributed Systems
8 18 (1.79%) Reinsurance
9 16 (1.59%) Data Structures
10 14 (1.39%) Hybrid Cloud
11 13 (1.29%) Onboarding
12 12 (1.19%) Virtual Team
13 11 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
14 10 (0.99%) Legacy Applications
15 8 (0.79%) Public Cloud
15 8 (0.79%) Security Posture
16 7 (0.69%) Enterprise Cloud
16 7 (0.69%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 69 (6.85%) Windows
2 68 (6.75%) Linux
3 17 (1.69%) VMS
4 16 (1.59%) Windows Server
5 11 (1.09%) Ubuntu
6 10 (0.99%) Apple iOS
7 7 (0.69%) Unix
8 5 (0.50%) Android
9 2 (0.20%) Kali Linux
9 2 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.099%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.099%) SUSE
10 1 (0.099%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.099%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.099%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,007 (99.90%) DevOps
2 624 (61.90%) CI/CD
3 472 (46.83%) Agile
4 297 (29.46%) Infrastructure as Code
5 256 (25.40%) Test Automation
6 221 (21.92%) Continuous Improvement
7 201 (19.94%) Problem-Solving
8 164 (16.27%) AI
9 156 (15.48%) Mentoring
10 154 (15.28%) Analytics
11 152 (15.08%) Observability
12 142 (14.09%) Coaching
13 136 (13.49%) Scrum
14 131 (13.00%) Data Modelling
15 127 (12.60%) Containerisation
16 106 (10.52%) Software Engineering
17 104 (10.32%) Microservices
18 100 (9.92%) SDLC
19 98 (9.72%) Roadmaps
20 95 (9.42%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 342 (33.93%) SQL
2 242 (24.01%) Python
3 207 (20.54%) C#
4 136 (13.49%) JavaScript
5 129 (12.80%) PowerShell
6 90 (8.93%) Bash
7 88 (8.73%) Bicep
8 62 (6.15%) TypeScript
9 49 (4.86%) Java
10 24 (2.38%) Apex Code
11 23 (2.28%) Go
12 20 (1.98%) PL/SQL
13 19 (1.88%) Scala
14 18 (1.79%) Shell Script
15 17 (1.69%) T-SQL
16 12 (1.19%) Kusto Query Language
17 11 (1.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 8 (0.79%) Swift
19 7 (0.69%) DataWeave
20 5 (0.50%) C++
Qualifications
1 97 (9.62%) Degree
2 66 (6.55%) Security Cleared
3 50 (4.96%) Azure Certification
4 45 (4.46%) Computer Science Degree
5 35 (3.47%) SC Cleared
6 33 (3.27%) ISTQB
7 23 (2.28%) Microsoft Certification
8 22 (2.18%) DV Cleared
9 20 (1.98%) Master's Degree
10 14 (1.39%) AWS Certification
11 13 (1.29%) HND
12 11 (1.09%) AWS Certified Developer
13 10 (0.99%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 10 (0.99%) PMI Certification
14 6 (0.60%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 4 (0.40%) BC Cleared
16 3 (0.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 3 (0.30%) CBAP
16 3 (0.30%) ISEB
16 3 (0.30%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 114 (11.31%) QA
2 72 (7.14%) Accessibility
3 48 (4.76%) GDPR
4 43 (4.27%) Data Quality
5 36 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 14 (1.39%) SOC 2
7 12 (1.19%) SLA
8 10 (0.99%) GRC
9 8 (0.79%) NCSC
9 8 (0.79%) TickIT
10 7 (0.69%) NIST
10 7 (0.69%) WCAG
11 6 (0.60%) Software Quality Assurance
12 5 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 5 (0.50%) Solvency II
13 4 (0.40%) IFRS
14 3 (0.30%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 3 (0.30%) PERC
15 2 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
16 1 (0.099%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 144 (14.29%) Docker
2 63 (6.25%) Active Directory
3 21 (2.08%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.40%) Postfix
4 4 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.20%) Firmware
5 2 (0.20%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.20%) vCloud
6 1 (0.099%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 305 (30.26%) Terraform
2 112 (11.11%) Kubernetes
3 84 (8.33%) Ansible
4 60 (5.95%) Grafana
5 51 (5.06%) Prometheus
6 18 (1.79%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (0.89%) Kibana
8 8 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
9 6 (0.60%) HP ALM
10 5 (0.50%) Argo
11 4 (0.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 4 (0.40%) logstash
12 3 (0.30%) Puppet
12 3 (0.30%) Scalr
13 2 (0.20%) Docker Swarm
13 2 (0.20%) HP Fortify
13 2 (0.20%) MIIS
13 2 (0.20%) Nagios
13 2 (0.20%) Nessus
13 2 (0.20%) SCCM
Vendors
1 370 (36.71%) Microsoft
2 61 (6.05%) Databricks
3 44 (4.37%) Salesforce
4 34 (3.37%) ServiceNow
5 28 (2.78%) Oracle
6 20 (1.98%) Red Hat
7 17 (1.69%) Palo Alto
8 15 (1.49%) Adobe
8 15 (1.49%) Dynatrace
8 15 (1.49%) Zscaler
9 14 (1.39%) MuleSoft
10 12 (1.19%) Freshdesk
10 12 (1.19%) Nintex
11 11 (1.09%) VMware
12 10 (0.99%) Ab Initio
12 10 (0.99%) CrowdStrike
12 10 (0.99%) Okta
13 9 (0.89%) Apple
14 8 (0.79%) Coverity
14 8 (0.79%) New Relic