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 18 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 157 174 121
Rank change year-on-year +17 -53 -19
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,185 888 2,298
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.27% 1.99% 2.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.70% 5.94% 6.40%
Number of salaries quoted 951 686 1,734
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £49,875 £55,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +9.76% -5.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% 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 25,187 14,954 35,907
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.89% 33.43% 33.01%
Number of salaries quoted 16,324 10,320 27,528
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,750 £30,368
25th Percentile £43,750 £41,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -9.45%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £51,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +2.94% -7.27%

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 18 June 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 18 June 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 +14 1,068 £65,000 -7.14% 322
UK excluding London +38 767 £60,000 -4.00% 282
Work from Home +41 460 £60,000 -11.11% 202
London -24 358 £77,500 +3.33% 112
North of England +54 220 £62,500 -9.09% 65
South East -5 199 £57,500 -11.54% 93
Midlands +21 126 £65,000 +8.33% 43
North West +76 122 £69,305 +2.67% 38
South West -15 87 £55,000 -4.35% 29
East of England +11 63 £56,000 -0.44% 27
West Midlands -16 63 £65,000 +8.33% 22
East Midlands +19 61 £64,525 +12.22% 21
Yorkshire -32 50 £69,305 -0.99% 16
North East -6 48 £48,750 -11.36% 12
Wales -18 41 £53,171 -18.20% 12
Scotland +25 31 £62,500 -1.57% 14
Northern Ireland -32 2 £72,500 +45.00% 8

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 52 (4.39%) Confluence
2 48 (4.05%) SharePoint
3 24 (2.03%) Microsoft Exchange
4 17 (1.43%) IIS
5 13 (1.10%) Apache Spark
6 8 (0.68%) SharePoint Server
7 7 (0.59%) Apache
7 7 (0.59%) CMS
8 6 (0.51%) Umbraco
9 5 (0.42%) Anypoint
9 5 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
10 4 (0.34%) nginx
11 3 (0.25%) WordPress
12 2 (0.17%) CICS
12 2 (0.17%) Luigi
12 2 (0.17%) Moodle
13 1 (0.084%) BizTalk Server
13 1 (0.084%) Drupal
13 1 (0.084%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 1 (0.084%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 17 (1.43%) MS Visio
2 11 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (0.93%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (0.59%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.25%) Trello
6 2 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.084%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.084%) Notion
7 1 (0.084%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 12 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.42%) Dynamics AX
2 5 (0.42%) Visualfiles
3 4 (0.34%) Dynamics NAV
3 4 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.25%) Elite 3E
5 2 (0.17%) Magento
5 2 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.084%) Infor M3
6 1 (0.084%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 1 (0.084%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.084%) Sage 200
6 1 (0.084%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.084%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.084%) SAP IBP
6 1 (0.084%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1,184 (99.92%) Azure
2 229 (19.32%) GitHub
3 186 (15.70%) Power Platform
4 159 (13.42%) AWS
5 137 (11.56%) GitHub Actions
6 104 (8.78%) Azure AKS
7 103 (8.69%) Azure Monitor
7 103 (8.69%) Serverless
8 85 (7.17%) PaaS
9 81 (6.84%) Entra ID
10 78 (6.58%) Azure Functions
10 78 (6.58%) Azure Service Bus
11 77 (6.50%) Azure Logic Apps
12 75 (6.33%) Dynamics 365
13 71 (5.99%) Microsoft 365
14 70 (5.91%) SaaS
15 69 (5.82%) Azure Data Factory
16 61 (5.15%) GCP
17 60 (5.06%) Azure AI
18 54 (4.56%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 54 (4.56%) Firewall
2 26 (2.19%) DNS
3 17 (1.43%) HTTP
3 17 (1.43%) VPN
4 15 (1.27%) TCP/IP
5 11 (0.93%) Network Security
6 7 (0.59%) WAN
7 5 (0.42%) Internet
8 4 (0.34%) Bluetooth
8 4 (0.34%) DHCP
8 4 (0.34%) MQTT
8 4 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (0.34%) Wireless
8 4 (0.34%) ZigBee
9 3 (0.25%) BGP
9 3 (0.25%) HTTPS
9 3 (0.25%) SAN
10 2 (0.17%) VLAN
11 1 (0.084%) IP Telephony
11 1 (0.084%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 180 (15.19%) Azure SQL Database
2 117 (9.87%) MongoDB
2 117 (9.87%) SQL Server
3 97 (8.19%) Power BI
4 38 (3.21%) PostgreSQL
5 36 (3.04%) Data Warehouse
6 32 (2.70%) Data Lake
7 29 (2.45%) Relational Database
8 26 (2.19%) Delta Lake
9 25 (2.11%) NoSQL
10 23 (1.94%) Elasticsearch
11 19 (1.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 18 (1.52%) Spark SQL
13 15 (1.27%) Redis
14 14 (1.18%) Metadata
14 14 (1.18%) Star Schema
15 13 (1.10%) MySQL
15 13 (1.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 12 (1.01%) Tableau
17 9 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 180 (15.19%) Git
2 146 (12.32%) JIRA
3 112 (9.45%) Jenkins
4 72 (6.08%) GitLab
5 55 (4.64%) Selenium
6 47 (3.97%) Cypress.io
7 36 (3.04%) Postman
8 23 (1.94%) Eclipse
9 17 (1.43%) REST Assured
10 16 (1.35%) Visual Studio
11 14 (1.18%) fastlane
11 14 (1.18%) JMeter
12 12 (1.01%) Octopus Deploy
12 12 (1.01%) TestRail
12 12 (1.01%) Zephyr
13 9 (0.76%) Xcode
14 8 (0.68%) TeamCity
15 7 (0.59%) JUnit
15 7 (0.59%) LoadRunner
15 7 (0.59%) NUnit
General
1 281 (23.71%) Finance
2 255 (21.52%) Social Skills
3 115 (9.70%) Analytical Skills
4 86 (7.26%) Public Sector
5 75 (6.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 49 (4.14%) Law
7 44 (3.71%) Retail
8 35 (2.95%) Marketing
9 32 (2.70%) Legal
10 27 (2.28%) Banking
11 23 (1.94%) Billing
12 19 (1.60%) Advertising
12 19 (1.60%) Games
12 19 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
13 16 (1.35%) Telecoms
14 15 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
15 14 (1.18%) Manufacturing
16 10 (0.84%) Automotive
16 10 (0.84%) Aviation
16 10 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 328 (27.68%) Developer
2 226 (19.07%) Senior
3 217 (18.31%) DevOps Engineer
4 198 (16.71%) Azure Engineer
5 161 (13.59%) Lead
6 132 (11.14%) .NET Developer
7 110 (9.28%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 72 (6.08%) Senior Developer
9 69 (5.82%) Platform Engineer
10 68 (5.74%) Data Engineer
11 66 (5.57%) Cloud Engineer
12 58 (4.89%) Analyst
13 56 (4.73%) Architect
14 50 (4.22%) Senior DevOps
15 48 (4.05%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 43 (3.63%) Software Engineer
17 42 (3.54%) Cloud Platform Engineer
18 37 (3.12%) Azure Platform Engineer
19 33 (2.78%) Software Developer
20 29 (2.45%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 359 (30.30%) .NET
2 174 (14.68%) ASP.NET
3 155 (13.08%) .NET Core
4 139 (11.73%) React
5 136 (11.48%) ASP.NET Core
6 127 (10.72%) HTML
7 126 (10.63%) CSS
8 113 (9.54%) REST
9 101 (8.52%) RESTful
10 81 (6.84%) Entity Framework
11 76 (6.41%) Node.js
12 75 (6.33%) Blazor
13 63 (5.32%) Playwright
13 63 (5.32%) YAML
14 52 (4.39%) ML.NET
15 49 (4.14%) ARM Templates
16 44 (3.71%) OAuth
17 43 (3.63%) .NET Framework
18 41 (3.46%) JSON
18 41 (3.46%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 120 (10.13%) Product Ownership
2 105 (8.86%) Cloud Native
3 50 (4.22%) Mobile App
4 37 (3.12%) Enterprise Software
4 37 (3.12%) Onboarding
5 36 (3.04%) Legacy Systems
6 27 (2.28%) Distributed Systems
7 26 (2.19%) Management Information System
8 23 (1.94%) Greenfield Project
9 22 (1.86%) Hybrid Cloud
10 21 (1.77%) Analytical Mindset
11 19 (1.60%) Low-Code
12 16 (1.35%) Reinsurance
13 15 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
14 14 (1.18%) Data Structures
15 13 (1.10%) Podcast
16 12 (1.01%) Public Cloud
17 11 (0.93%) Enterprise Cloud
17 11 (0.93%) iPhone
17 11 (0.93%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 96 (8.10%) Linux
2 68 (5.74%) Windows
3 24 (2.03%) VMS
4 20 (1.69%) Android
5 17 (1.43%) Ubuntu
5 17 (1.43%) Unix
6 15 (1.27%) Apple iOS
7 14 (1.18%) Windows Server
8 4 (0.34%) Kali Linux
9 3 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.084%) SUSE
10 1 (0.084%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.084%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,184 (99.92%) DevOps
2 718 (60.59%) CI/CD
3 521 (43.97%) Agile
4 302 (25.49%) Infrastructure as Code
5 241 (20.34%) Test Automation
6 233 (19.66%) Continuous Improvement
7 225 (18.99%) AI
8 190 (16.03%) Full-Stack Development
9 182 (15.36%) Scrum
10 180 (15.19%) Problem-Solving
11 171 (14.43%) Mentoring
12 164 (13.84%) Analytics
13 147 (12.41%) Observability
14 138 (11.65%) Microservices
15 121 (10.21%) Containerisation
16 116 (9.79%) Platform Engineering
17 111 (9.37%) SDLC
18 109 (9.20%) Roadmaps
19 107 (9.03%) Business Intelligence
19 107 (9.03%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 401 (33.84%) SQL
2 343 (28.95%) C#
3 241 (20.34%) Python
4 200 (16.88%) JavaScript
5 142 (11.98%) PowerShell
6 124 (10.46%) Bash
7 96 (8.10%) Bicep
8 75 (6.33%) Java
9 61 (5.15%) TypeScript
10 21 (1.77%) Go
11 17 (1.43%) Kusto Query Language
11 17 (1.43%) Scala
11 17 (1.43%) T-SQL
12 15 (1.27%) C++
13 12 (1.01%) Swift
14 10 (0.84%) Apex Code
14 10 (0.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 8 (0.68%) Kotlin
16 6 (0.51%) SOQL
16 6 (0.51%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 85 (7.17%) Degree
2 84 (7.09%) Security Cleared
3 67 (5.65%) SC Cleared
4 58 (4.89%) Azure Certification
5 35 (2.95%) Computer Science Degree
6 28 (2.36%) ISTQB
7 22 (1.86%) Microsoft Certification
8 11 (0.93%) DV Cleared
8 11 (0.93%) Master's Degree
9 10 (0.84%) HND
9 10 (0.84%) PMI Certification
10 7 (0.59%) AWS Certification
11 5 (0.42%) CISSP
11 5 (0.42%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 4 (0.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (0.34%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 4 (0.34%) PMP
13 3 (0.25%) ISEB
13 3 (0.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 2 (0.17%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 143 (12.07%) QA
2 87 (7.34%) Accessibility
3 45 (3.80%) Data Quality
4 38 (3.21%) GDPR
5 25 (2.11%) WCAG
6 22 (1.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 12 (1.01%) SLA
7 12 (1.01%) TickIT
8 10 (0.84%) GRC
9 8 (0.68%) PMO
9 8 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 8 (0.68%) SOC 2
10 6 (0.51%) Software Quality Assurance
10 6 (0.51%) Solvency II
11 5 (0.42%) IFRS
12 4 (0.34%) JTAG
12 4 (0.34%) NCSC
13 3 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
13 3 (0.25%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 2 (0.17%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 145 (12.24%) Docker
2 62 (5.23%) Active Directory
3 16 (1.35%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (0.59%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (0.51%) vSphere
7 2 (0.17%) Firmware
7 2 (0.17%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 315 (26.58%) Terraform
2 129 (10.89%) Kubernetes
3 72 (6.08%) Ansible
4 67 (5.65%) Grafana
5 57 (4.81%) Prometheus
6 27 (2.28%) Argo
7 9 (0.76%) Kibana
8 5 (0.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 5 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.34%) HP Fortify
9 4 (0.34%) Puppet
9 4 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.25%) HP ALM
10 3 (0.25%) Nagios
10 3 (0.25%) Scalr
11 2 (0.17%) Istio
11 2 (0.17%) MIIS
11 2 (0.17%) SCCM
12 1 (0.084%) CASB
12 1 (0.084%) linkerd
Vendors
1 478 (40.34%) Microsoft
2 66 (5.57%) Databricks
3 40 (3.38%) Salesforce
4 39 (3.29%) ServiceNow
5 35 (2.95%) Google
6 25 (2.11%) Dynatrace
7 24 (2.03%) Apple
7 24 (2.03%) Facebook
7 24 (2.03%) Red Hat
8 20 (1.69%) VMware
9 15 (1.27%) MuleSoft
10 13 (1.10%) Oracle
10 13 (1.10%) YouTube
11 12 (1.01%) Guidewire
12 11 (0.93%) Sony
12 11 (0.93%) Splunk
12 11 (0.93%) Yahoo!
13 10 (0.84%) Adobe
13 10 (0.84%) Palo Alto
13 10 (0.84%) Zscaler