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

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 132 106 81
Rank change year-on-year -26 -25 +8
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,070 1,612 1,834
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.01% 2.40% 3.56%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.00% 7.16% 8.29%
Number of salaries quoted 710 1,037 1,556
10th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,477 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -
75th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £63,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.45% +5.83% -

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 17,829 22,508 22,110
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.41% 33.49% 42.93%
Number of salaries quoted 11,272 13,641 18,536
10th Percentile £28,702 £35,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% -0.79%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £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 25 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Azure DevOps in the UK

Azure DevOps
Top 18 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 25 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 -50 859 £65,000 -3.70% 364
UK excluding London -22 665 £57,500 -9.45% 332
Work from Home -2 490 £65,000 - 183
London +7 337 £77,500 +3.33% 158
South East +1 232 £60,000 -11.11% 151
Scotland +60 135 £65,000 +15.56% 26
North of England -52 98 £60,000 -4.76% 48
Midlands -34 84 £57,500 -11.54% 48
West Midlands -11 71 £60,000 -7.69% 29
South West -59 54 £55,000 -15.38% 37
North West -18 43 £65,000 +7.44% 22
Yorkshire -23 33 £55,000 -18.35% 15
Wales +8 31 £55,000 -2.22% 12
East of England -24 28 £65,000 +30.00% 18
North East +7 22 £50,000 -9.09% 11
East Midlands +4 12 £54,500 +14.74% 17
Northern Ireland +2 2 £56,250 - 4
Isle of Man - 1 £52,500 -

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 (3.74%) Confluence
2 33 (3.08%) IIS
3 26 (2.43%) SharePoint
4 13 (1.21%) Microsoft Exchange
5 12 (1.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 10 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
7 7 (0.65%) Apache Spark
8 6 (0.56%) Apache
8 6 (0.56%) Appian
9 5 (0.47%) nginx
10 4 (0.37%) CMS
11 3 (0.28%) BizTalk Server
12 2 (0.19%) Tomcat
Applications
1 30 (2.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (2.62%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (1.31%) Microsoft Project
4 10 (0.93%) MS Visio
5 7 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.37%) Trello
7 1 (0.093%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.093%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.093%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 72 (6.73%) SAP S/4HANA
2 54 (5.05%) Dynamics CRM
3 27 (2.52%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (0.28%) SAP CX
4 3 (0.28%) Shopify
5 2 (0.19%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.19%) Elite 3E
5 2 (0.19%) Markit EDM
6 1 (0.093%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.093%) Primavera
6 1 (0.093%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,001 (93.55%) Azure
2 285 (26.64%) GitHub
3 222 (20.75%) Power Platform
4 151 (14.11%) AWS
5 141 (13.18%) GitHub Actions
6 107 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
7 89 (8.32%) Power Automate
8 84 (7.85%) PaaS
9 80 (7.48%) Azure Monitor
10 79 (7.38%) Azure Data Factory
11 75 (7.01%) SaaS
11 75 (7.01%) Serverless
12 71 (6.64%) Entra ID
13 67 (6.26%) Snowflake
14 65 (6.07%) Microsoft 365
15 60 (5.61%) Azure Logic Apps
16 57 (5.33%) Azure AKS
17 49 (4.58%) GCP
17 49 (4.58%) GitHub Copilot
18 46 (4.30%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 33 (3.08%) Firewall
2 32 (2.99%) DNS
3 19 (1.78%) VPN
4 12 (1.12%) Network Security
5 10 (0.93%) 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 (0.093%) NetScaler
11 1 (0.093%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 173 (16.17%) SQL Server
2 116 (10.84%) Power BI
3 74 (6.92%) Data Warehouse
4 51 (4.77%) Azure SQL Database
4 51 (4.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 39 (3.64%) Tableau
6 32 (2.99%) NoSQL
7 31 (2.90%) Relational Database
8 30 (2.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 18 (1.68%) Snowflake Schema
10 15 (1.40%) PostgreSQL
11 14 (1.31%) Data Lake
11 14 (1.31%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 13 (1.21%) Metadata
12 13 (1.21%) MongoDB
13 12 (1.12%) MySQL
14 10 (0.93%) DynamoDB
15 9 (0.84%) BigQuery
16 6 (0.56%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
17 5 (0.47%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 205 (19.16%) JIRA
2 167 (15.61%) Git
3 104 (9.72%) Jenkins
4 69 (6.45%) eCATT
5 51 (4.77%) Selenium
6 40 (3.74%) NeoLoad
7 39 (3.64%) Octopus Deploy
8 30 (2.80%) GitLab
9 27 (2.52%) Oracle Forms
10 22 (2.06%) Cypress.io
10 22 (2.06%) Snyk
11 21 (1.96%) TeamCity
11 21 (1.96%) Visual Studio
12 20 (1.87%) Postman
12 20 (1.87%) Robot Framework
13 13 (1.21%) JMeter
14 12 (1.12%) Cucumber
15 11 (1.03%) NUnit
15 11 (1.03%) Team Foundation Server
15 11 (1.03%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 397 (37.10%) Finance
2 263 (24.58%) Social Skills
3 126 (11.78%) Analytical Skills
4 116 (10.84%) Marketing
5 74 (6.92%) Manufacturing
6 66 (6.17%) Presentation Skills
7 61 (5.70%) Law
8 51 (4.77%) Retail
9 41 (3.83%) Influencing Skills
10 36 (3.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 22 (2.06%) Public Sector
12 19 (1.78%) Legal
13 18 (1.68%) Documentation Skills
14 14 (1.31%) Banking
15 11 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
16 10 (0.93%) Back Office
17 9 (0.84%) Advertising
17 9 (0.84%) Tech for Good
18 7 (0.65%) Games
19 6 (0.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 213 (19.91%) Senior
2 174 (16.26%) Developer
3 167 (15.61%) Lead
4 129 (12.06%) Analyst
5 120 (11.21%) DevOps Engineer
6 97 (9.07%) Azure Engineer
7 76 (7.10%) Cloud Engineer
8 59 (5.51%) Data Engineer
9 56 (5.23%) Software Engineer
10 44 (4.11%) Architect
10 44 (4.11%) Test Leader
11 43 (4.02%) .NET Developer
12 41 (3.83%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 40 (3.74%) Platform Engineer
14 35 (3.27%) Business Analyst
15 34 (3.18%) Senior Cloud Engineer
15 34 (3.18%) Test Analyst
16 33 (3.08%) Applications Engineer
17 31 (2.90%) Senior Developer
18 27 (2.52%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 297 (27.76%) .NET
2 101 (9.44%) RESTful
3 85 (7.94%) React
4 79 (7.38%) .NET Framework
5 72 (6.73%) YAML
6 69 (6.45%) REST
7 58 (5.42%) .NET Core
7 58 (5.42%) JSON
8 49 (4.58%) ASP.NET
9 47 (4.39%) AngularJS
10 45 (4.21%) ARM Templates
11 44 (4.11%) CSS
11 44 (4.11%) Entity Framework
12 43 (4.02%) HTML
12 43 (4.02%) OAuth
13 39 (3.64%) SOAP
14 36 (3.36%) XML
15 29 (2.71%) Blazor
16 28 (2.62%) OAuth2
17 26 (2.43%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 158 (14.77%) Cloud Native
2 112 (10.47%) Product Ownership
3 55 (5.14%) Enterprise Software
4 39 (3.64%) Management Information System
5 35 (3.27%) Onboarding
5 35 (3.27%) Security Posture
6 33 (3.08%) Legacy Systems
7 27 (2.52%) Hybrid Cloud
8 26 (2.43%) Distributed Systems
9 24 (2.24%) Analytical Mindset
10 20 (1.87%) Data Centre
10 20 (1.87%) Low-Code
10 20 (1.87%) Virtual Team
11 19 (1.78%) Greenfield Project
12 18 (1.68%) Mobile App
13 11 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
13 11 (1.03%) Legacy Applications
13 11 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
14 10 (0.93%) Linux Command Line
15 9 (0.84%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 96 (8.97%) Windows
2 53 (4.95%) Linux
3 22 (2.06%) VMS
4 18 (1.68%) Windows Server
5 8 (0.75%) Android
6 7 (0.65%) 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%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.093%) CentOS
10 1 (0.093%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.093%) Unix
10 1 (0.093%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,000 (93.46%) DevOps
2 585 (54.67%) CI/CD
3 519 (48.50%) Agile
4 262 (24.49%) Test Automation
5 246 (22.99%) Infrastructure as Code
6 234 (21.87%) Continuous Improvement
7 221 (20.65%) Mentoring
8 216 (20.19%) Problem-Solving
9 177 (16.54%) AI
10 173 (16.17%) Coaching
11 135 (12.62%) Analytics
12 134 (12.52%) Scrum
13 130 (12.15%) Roadmaps
14 125 (11.68%) Containerisation
15 122 (11.40%) Business Intelligence
16 119 (11.12%) Microservices
17 118 (11.03%) Asset Management
18 117 (10.93%) ERP
19 115 (10.75%) Migration
20 114 (10.65%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 357 (33.36%) SQL
2 258 (24.11%) C#
3 251 (23.46%) Python
4 220 (20.56%) PowerShell
5 106 (9.91%) JavaScript
6 96 (8.97%) Bicep
7 85 (7.94%) Bash
8 70 (6.54%) TypeScript
9 46 (4.30%) T-SQL
10 44 (4.11%) Java
11 31 (2.90%) Shell Script
12 28 (2.62%) PL/SQL
13 19 (1.78%) Apex Code
14 17 (1.59%) Go
15 8 (0.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 7 (0.65%) Scala
17 5 (0.47%) Groovy
17 5 (0.47%) PHP
17 5 (0.47%) VB.NET
18 4 (0.37%) VB
Qualifications
1 144 (13.46%) Degree
2 93 (8.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 83 (7.76%) Azure Certification
4 70 (6.54%) Security Cleared
5 49 (4.58%) SC Cleared
6 45 (4.21%) Master's Degree
7 44 (4.11%) ISTQB
8 33 (3.08%) Microsoft Certification
9 21 (1.96%) DV Cleared
10 18 (1.68%) AWS Certification
11 17 (1.59%) ISEB
12 10 (0.93%) PMI Certification
12 10 (0.93%) PMP
13 9 (0.84%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 7 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
15 6 (0.56%) DBS Check
16 5 (0.47%) AWS Certified Developer
17 4 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
17 4 (0.37%) CCNA
18 3 (0.28%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 149 (13.93%) QA
2 41 (3.83%) GDPR
3 39 (3.64%) Accessibility
4 37 (3.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 29 (2.71%) NCSC
5 29 (2.71%) NIST
6 27 (2.52%) Data Quality
7 19 (1.78%) PMO
8 10 (0.93%) Software Quality Assurance
9 5 (0.47%) PERC
10 4 (0.37%) WCAG
11 3 (0.28%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.19%) HIPAA
13 1 (0.093%) COBIT
13 1 (0.093%) HL7
13 1 (0.093%) ISO 9001
13 1 (0.093%) P3O
13 1 (0.093%) PCI DSS
13 1 (0.093%) SLA
System Software
1 145 (13.55%) Docker
2 53 (4.95%) Active Directory
3 26 (2.43%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (1.50%) Virtual Desktop
4 16 (1.50%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.37%) Postfix
6 3 (0.28%) Firmware
6 3 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.19%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.19%) vCloud
8 1 (0.093%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 1 (0.093%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.093%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.093%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 311 (29.07%) Terraform
2 177 (16.54%) Kubernetes
3 73 (6.82%) Ansible
4 72 (6.73%) HP ALM
5 40 (3.74%) Grafana
6 30 (2.80%) Prometheus
7 28 (2.62%) Single Sign-On
8 19 (1.78%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.37%) Argo
9 4 (0.37%) Rancher
9 4 (0.37%) vRealize
10 3 (0.28%) Dell DRAC
10 3 (0.28%) SCOM
11 2 (0.19%) Nessus
11 2 (0.19%) Puppet
11 2 (0.19%) Red Hat Satellite
11 2 (0.19%) ZABBIX
12 1 (0.093%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 1 (0.093%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.093%) SCCM
Vendors
1 379 (35.42%) Microsoft
2 80 (7.48%) SAP
3 72 (6.73%) HP
4 51 (4.77%) Databricks
5 34 (3.18%) Oracle
5 34 (3.18%) Salesforce
6 24 (2.24%) VMware
7 23 (2.15%) ServiceNow
8 18 (1.68%) Black Duck
8 18 (1.68%) Google
9 17 (1.59%) Coverity
9 17 (1.59%) Okta
10 14 (1.31%) OpenAI
10 14 (1.31%) Xamarin
11 13 (1.21%) Foundry
12 12 (1.12%) Palo Alto
12 12 (1.12%) Sage
13 11 (1.03%) Dynatrace
14 10 (0.93%) Rackspace
14 10 (0.93%) SolarWinds