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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 156 174 123
Rank change year-on-year +18 -51 -23
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,201 892 2,282
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.28% 1.99% 2.09%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.72% 5.94% 6.35%
Number of salaries quoted 967 689 1,717
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £77,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,250 £94,250
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 25,444 15,013 35,938
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.03% 33.45% 32.91%
Number of salaries quoted 16,496 10,369 27,538
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,750 £30,500
25th Percentile £43,466 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -8.95%
75th Percentile £83,750 £82,250 £77,500
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 20 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 20 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 +9 1,088 £65,000 -7.14% 335
UK excluding London +53 778 £60,000 -4.00% 297
Work from Home +35 470 £60,000 -11.11% 200
London -22 361 £77,500 +3.33% 115
North of England +70 224 £62,500 -9.09% 68
South East +2 207 £60,000 -7.69% 102
Midlands +23 128 £65,000 +8.33% 45
North West +73 125 £69,305 +2.67% 40
South West -14 89 £55,000 -4.35% 26
West Midlands -14 65 £65,000 +8.33% 24
East of England +15 64 £56,000 -2.61% 29
East Midlands +12 61 £64,525 +14.71% 21
Yorkshire -32 52 £69,305 -0.99% 18
North East -9 47 £47,500 -13.64% 11
Wales -17 42 £53,135 -18.25% 13
Scotland +16 24 £62,500 -1.57% 16
Northern Ireland -31 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 54 (4.50%) Confluence
2 49 (4.08%) SharePoint
3 25 (2.08%) Microsoft Exchange
4 18 (1.50%) IIS
5 13 (1.08%) Apache Spark
6 8 (0.67%) SharePoint Server
7 7 (0.58%) CMS
8 6 (0.50%) Apache
8 6 (0.50%) Umbraco
9 5 (0.42%) Anypoint
9 5 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
9 5 (0.42%) nginx
10 3 (0.25%) WordPress
11 2 (0.17%) CICS
11 2 (0.17%) Luigi
11 2 (0.17%) Moodle
12 1 (0.083%) BizTalk Server
12 1 (0.083%) Drupal
12 1 (0.083%) Palantir Foundry
12 1 (0.083%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 18 (1.50%) MS Visio
2 11 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (0.92%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (0.58%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.33%) Trello
5 2 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.083%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.083%) Notion
6 1 (0.083%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 12 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.42%) Dynamics AX
2 5 (0.42%) Visualfiles
3 4 (0.33%) Dynamics NAV
3 4 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.25%) Elite 3E
5 2 (0.17%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 2 (0.17%) Magento
5 2 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.083%) Infor M3
6 1 (0.083%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.083%) Sage 200
6 1 (0.083%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.083%) SAP IBP
6 1 (0.083%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1,200 (99.92%) Azure
2 224 (18.65%) GitHub
3 186 (15.49%) Power Platform
4 157 (13.07%) AWS
5 134 (11.16%) GitHub Actions
6 105 (8.74%) Azure Monitor
6 105 (8.74%) Serverless
7 104 (8.66%) Azure AKS
8 87 (7.24%) PaaS
9 80 (6.66%) Azure Functions
10 79 (6.58%) Azure Service Bus
10 79 (6.58%) Entra ID
11 78 (6.49%) Dynamics 365
12 76 (6.33%) Azure Logic Apps
13 71 (5.91%) Microsoft 365
14 67 (5.58%) Azure AI
14 67 (5.58%) Azure Data Factory
14 67 (5.58%) SaaS
15 59 (4.91%) GCP
16 55 (4.58%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 51 (4.25%) Firewall
2 25 (2.08%) DNS
3 18 (1.50%) VPN
4 16 (1.33%) HTTP
5 14 (1.17%) TCP/IP
6 11 (0.92%) Network Security
7 7 (0.58%) Internet
8 6 (0.50%) WAN
9 4 (0.33%) Bluetooth
9 4 (0.33%) DHCP
9 4 (0.33%) MQTT
9 4 (0.33%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (0.33%) Wireless
9 4 (0.33%) ZigBee
10 3 (0.25%) BGP
10 3 (0.25%) HTTPS
10 3 (0.25%) SAN
11 2 (0.17%) VLAN
12 1 (0.083%) IP Telephony
12 1 (0.083%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 192 (15.99%) Azure SQL Database
2 129 (10.74%) MongoDB
3 120 (9.99%) SQL Server
4 94 (7.83%) Power BI
5 38 (3.16%) PostgreSQL
6 35 (2.91%) Data Warehouse
7 31 (2.58%) Data Lake
8 29 (2.41%) Relational Database
9 27 (2.25%) Delta Lake
10 25 (2.08%) Elasticsearch
10 25 (2.08%) NoSQL
11 19 (1.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 18 (1.50%) Spark SQL
13 15 (1.25%) Redis
14 14 (1.17%) Metadata
14 14 (1.17%) Star Schema
15 13 (1.08%) MySQL
16 12 (1.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 11 (0.92%) Tableau
18 9 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 182 (15.15%) Git
2 148 (12.32%) JIRA
3 109 (9.08%) Jenkins
4 73 (6.08%) GitLab
5 55 (4.58%) Selenium
6 47 (3.91%) Cypress.io
7 37 (3.08%) Postman
8 24 (2.00%) Eclipse
9 17 (1.42%) REST Assured
9 17 (1.42%) Visual Studio
10 14 (1.17%) fastlane
10 14 (1.17%) JMeter
11 13 (1.08%) Octopus Deploy
12 12 (1.00%) TestRail
12 12 (1.00%) Zephyr
13 9 (0.75%) Xcode
14 8 (0.67%) TeamCity
15 7 (0.58%) JUnit
15 7 (0.58%) LoadRunner
15 7 (0.58%) NUnit
General
1 274 (22.81%) Finance
2 262 (21.82%) Social Skills
3 114 (9.49%) Analytical Skills
4 86 (7.16%) Public Sector
5 79 (6.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 50 (4.16%) Law
7 46 (3.83%) Retail
8 35 (2.91%) Marketing
9 32 (2.66%) Legal
10 27 (2.25%) Banking
11 23 (1.92%) Billing
12 21 (1.75%) Advertising
13 20 (1.67%) Games
14 19 (1.58%) Influencing Skills
15 17 (1.42%) Presentation Skills
16 16 (1.33%) Manufacturing
17 15 (1.25%) Telecoms
18 10 (0.83%) Automotive
18 10 (0.83%) Aviation
18 10 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 341 (28.39%) Developer
2 227 (18.90%) Senior
3 216 (17.99%) DevOps Engineer
4 197 (16.40%) Azure Engineer
5 163 (13.57%) Lead
6 146 (12.16%) .NET Developer
7 111 (9.24%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 72 (6.00%) Senior Developer
9 71 (5.91%) Platform Engineer
10 68 (5.66%) Data Engineer
11 62 (5.16%) Cloud Engineer
12 61 (5.08%) Analyst
13 57 (4.75%) Architect
14 50 (4.16%) Senior DevOps
15 48 (4.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 44 (3.66%) Software Engineer
17 43 (3.58%) Cloud Platform Engineer
18 38 (3.16%) Azure Platform Engineer
19 33 (2.75%) Software Developer
20 29 (2.41%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 373 (31.06%) .NET
2 187 (15.57%) ASP.NET
3 167 (13.91%) .NET Core
4 148 (12.32%) ASP.NET Core
5 146 (12.16%) React
6 132 (10.99%) HTML
7 131 (10.91%) CSS
8 112 (9.33%) REST
9 105 (8.74%) RESTful
10 86 (7.16%) Entity Framework
11 83 (6.91%) Blazor
12 77 (6.41%) Node.js
13 63 (5.25%) Playwright
14 61 (5.08%) YAML
15 59 (4.91%) ML.NET
16 50 (4.16%) ARM Templates
17 44 (3.66%) .NET Framework
18 41 (3.41%) PySpark
19 40 (3.33%) OAuth
20 39 (3.25%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 118 (9.83%) Product Ownership
2 102 (8.49%) Cloud Native
3 53 (4.41%) Mobile App
4 38 (3.16%) Legacy Systems
5 37 (3.08%) Enterprise Software
5 37 (3.08%) Onboarding
6 26 (2.16%) Distributed Systems
6 26 (2.16%) Greenfield Project
6 26 (2.16%) Management Information System
7 22 (1.83%) Hybrid Cloud
8 20 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
9 19 (1.58%) Low-Code
10 16 (1.33%) Reinsurance
10 16 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
11 15 (1.25%) Podcast
12 14 (1.17%) Data Structures
12 14 (1.17%) Public Cloud
13 13 (1.08%) iPhone
14 12 (1.00%) Social Media
14 12 (1.00%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 95 (7.91%) Linux
2 73 (6.08%) Windows
3 25 (2.08%) VMS
4 22 (1.83%) Android
5 17 (1.42%) Unix
6 16 (1.33%) Ubuntu
7 15 (1.25%) Apple iOS
8 13 (1.08%) Windows Server
9 4 (0.33%) Kali Linux
10 3 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.083%) SUSE
11 1 (0.083%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,200 (99.92%) DevOps
2 720 (59.95%) CI/CD
3 533 (44.38%) Agile
4 300 (24.98%) Infrastructure as Code
5 236 (19.65%) Test Automation
6 235 (19.57%) Continuous Improvement
7 234 (19.48%) AI
8 200 (16.65%) Full-Stack Development
9 186 (15.49%) Scrum
10 179 (14.90%) Problem-Solving
11 172 (14.32%) Mentoring
12 165 (13.74%) Analytics
13 144 (11.99%) Observability
14 139 (11.57%) Microservices
15 119 (9.91%) Containerisation
16 117 (9.74%) Platform Engineering
17 113 (9.41%) SDLC
18 112 (9.33%) Roadmaps
19 105 (8.74%) Machine Learning
19 105 (8.74%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 410 (34.14%) SQL
2 357 (29.73%) C#
3 236 (19.65%) Python
4 207 (17.24%) JavaScript
5 143 (11.91%) PowerShell
6 124 (10.32%) Bash
7 99 (8.24%) Bicep
8 73 (6.08%) Java
9 61 (5.08%) TypeScript
10 20 (1.67%) T-SQL
11 19 (1.58%) Go
12 18 (1.50%) Kusto Query Language
13 17 (1.42%) Scala
14 15 (1.25%) C++
15 12 (1.00%) Swift
16 9 (0.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 8 (0.67%) Apex Code
17 8 (0.67%) Kotlin
18 6 (0.50%) PHP
18 6 (0.50%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 86 (7.16%) Degree
1 86 (7.16%) Security Cleared
2 69 (5.75%) SC Cleared
3 61 (5.08%) Azure Certification
4 36 (3.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 28 (2.33%) ISTQB
6 24 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
7 12 (1.00%) DV Cleared
8 11 (0.92%) Master's Degree
9 10 (0.83%) HND
9 10 (0.83%) PMI Certification
10 7 (0.58%) AWS Certification
11 6 (0.50%) CISSP
12 5 (0.42%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 4 (0.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 4 (0.33%) PMP
14 3 (0.25%) ISEB
14 3 (0.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 3 (0.25%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 147 (12.24%) QA
2 87 (7.24%) Accessibility
3 46 (3.83%) Data Quality
4 37 (3.08%) GDPR
5 26 (2.16%) WCAG
6 20 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 12 (1.00%) SLA
7 12 (1.00%) TickIT
8 11 (0.92%) GRC
9 8 (0.67%) PMO
9 8 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 7 (0.58%) SOC 2
11 6 (0.50%) Software Quality Assurance
11 6 (0.50%) Solvency II
12 5 (0.42%) IFRS
13 4 (0.33%) JTAG
13 4 (0.33%) NCSC
14 3 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
14 3 (0.25%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 2 (0.17%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 147 (12.24%) Docker
2 62 (5.16%) Active Directory
3 16 (1.33%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (1.17%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (0.75%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (0.67%) vSphere
7 2 (0.17%) Firmware
7 2 (0.17%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 311 (25.90%) Terraform
2 129 (10.74%) Kubernetes
3 71 (5.91%) Ansible
4 67 (5.58%) Grafana
5 57 (4.75%) Prometheus
6 27 (2.25%) Argo
7 9 (0.75%) Kibana
8 5 (0.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 5 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.33%) HP Fortify
9 4 (0.33%) Puppet
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
11 2 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.083%) linkerd
12 1 (0.083%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 491 (40.88%) Microsoft
2 66 (5.50%) Databricks
3 42 (3.50%) ServiceNow
4 39 (3.25%) Salesforce
5 38 (3.16%) Google
6 27 (2.25%) Facebook
7 25 (2.08%) Apple
7 25 (2.08%) Dynatrace
8 23 (1.92%) Red Hat
9 21 (1.75%) VMware
10 15 (1.25%) MuleSoft
10 15 (1.25%) YouTube
11 14 (1.17%) Guidewire
12 12 (1.00%) Sony
12 12 (1.00%) Yahoo!
13 11 (0.92%) Oracle
13 11 (0.92%) Splunk
14 10 (0.83%) Adobe
15 9 (0.75%) Freshdesk
15 9 (0.75%) Palo Alto