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

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 174 131 110
Rank change year-on-year -43 -21 -2
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,013 946 2,321
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.21% 2.31% 2.51%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.83% 6.30% 6.88%
Number of salaries quoted 725 794 1,857
10th Percentile £42,500 £43,791 £42,141
25th Percentile £50,000 £53,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +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 £55,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -15.38% +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 26,443 15,012 33,760
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 31.64% 36.59% 36.53%
Number of salaries quoted 13,976 11,072 26,647
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 £102,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.64% +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 11 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 11 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 -50 849 £67,500 -2.88% 403
UK excluding London -33 619 £55,000 -15.38% 340
Work from Home -8 419 £64,250 -4.81% 254
London -12 329 £77,500 +3.33% 131
South East -49 168 £50,000 -28.57% 101
North of England -24 136 £60,000 -14.29% 74
Scotland +49 103 £62,500 +8.70% 22
Midlands -53 92 £64,000 -1.54% 60
South West -31 80 £51,250 -21.15% 34
North West -15 62 £70,000 +7.69% 41
West Midlands -49 53 £57,500 -14.81% 37
Yorkshire -54 43 £60,000 -14.29% 22
East Midlands -23 36 £67,000 +3.08% 23
North East -6 31 £50,000 -23.08% 11
East of England -43 25 £70,000 +32.08% 33
Wales -39 14 £53,171 -9.57% 21
Northern Ireland -40 3 £56,250 +12.50% 1

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 (3.65%) Confluence
2 36 (3.55%) SharePoint
3 25 (2.47%) IIS
4 24 (2.37%) Microsoft Exchange
5 11 (1.09%) Apache Spark
6 8 (0.79%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 7 (0.69%) Anypoint
8 5 (0.49%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.39%) Apache
9 4 (0.39%) Moodle
10 2 (0.20%) BizTalk Server
10 2 (0.20%) CICS
10 2 (0.20%) CMS
11 1 (0.099%) Appian
11 1 (0.099%) Drupal
11 1 (0.099%) nginx
11 1 (0.099%) PegaRULES
11 1 (0.099%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.099%) Umbraco
11 1 (0.099%) WordPress
Applications
1 25 (2.47%) MS Visio
2 22 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (1.18%) Microsoft Project
4 8 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
6 5 (0.49%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.30%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.20%) Trello
9 1 (0.099%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 20 (1.97%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (1.58%) Oracle ERP
3 6 (0.59%) Dynamics AX
4 4 (0.39%) Elite 3E
5 3 (0.30%) Visualfiles
6 2 (0.20%) Magento
6 2 (0.20%) SAP CX
6 2 (0.20%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.099%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.099%) Endur
7 1 (0.099%) Infor M3
7 1 (0.099%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 1 (0.099%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.099%) Primavera
7 1 (0.099%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.099%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1,012 (99.90%) Azure
2 295 (29.12%) GitHub
3 189 (18.66%) Power Platform
4 159 (15.70%) AWS
5 156 (15.40%) GitHub Actions
6 94 (9.28%) Serverless
7 89 (8.79%) Azure Data Factory
8 88 (8.69%) Entra ID
9 79 (7.80%) Azure Monitor
9 79 (7.80%) Microsoft 365
10 75 (7.40%) PaaS
11 64 (6.32%) Dynamics 365
12 62 (6.12%) Azure Logic Apps
13 59 (5.82%) SaaS
14 58 (5.73%) Azure AKS
15 57 (5.63%) GCP
16 53 (5.23%) Azure Functions
17 49 (4.84%) Azure Key Vault
18 46 (4.54%) Snowflake
19 45 (4.44%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 63 (6.22%) Firewall
2 36 (3.55%) DNS
3 19 (1.88%) HTTP
3 19 (1.88%) TCP/IP
4 15 (1.48%) VPN
4 15 (1.48%) WAN
5 11 (1.09%) Network Security
6 3 (0.30%) BGP
6 3 (0.30%) DHCP
6 3 (0.30%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.20%) SSL
7 2 (0.20%) VLAN
8 1 (0.099%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.099%) Internet
8 1 (0.099%) IP Telephony
8 1 (0.099%) LTE
8 1 (0.099%) MPLS
8 1 (0.099%) NetScaler
8 1 (0.099%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (12.83%) SQL Server
2 104 (10.27%) Power BI
3 70 (6.91%) Azure SQL Database
4 44 (4.34%) Data Warehouse
5 37 (3.65%) NoSQL
6 34 (3.36%) Data Lake
7 29 (2.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 25 (2.47%) PostgreSQL
9 23 (2.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 21 (2.07%) MongoDB
11 20 (1.97%) Delta Lake
12 19 (1.88%) Relational Database
13 16 (1.58%) DynamoDB
13 16 (1.58%) Tableau
14 11 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
14 11 (1.09%) Snowflake Schema
15 10 (0.99%) Spark SQL
16 9 (0.89%) MySQL
17 7 (0.69%) SQL Server Analysis Services
17 7 (0.69%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 169 (16.68%) Git
2 142 (14.02%) JIRA
3 109 (10.76%) Jenkins
4 60 (5.92%) Selenium
5 43 (4.24%) GitLab
6 38 (3.75%) Cypress.io
7 29 (2.86%) Postman
8 25 (2.47%) Visual Studio
9 19 (1.88%) Eclipse
10 18 (1.78%) Octopus Deploy
11 16 (1.58%) Oracle Forms
12 13 (1.28%) Robot Framework
12 13 (1.28%) TeamCity
13 11 (1.09%) NUnit
13 11 (1.09%) REST Assured
13 11 (1.09%) Snyk
13 11 (1.09%) TestRail
14 10 (0.99%) JMeter
15 9 (0.89%) SpecFlow
15 9 (0.89%) Zephyr
General
1 312 (30.80%) Finance
2 252 (24.88%) Social Skills
3 149 (14.71%) Analytical Skills
4 58 (5.73%) Law
5 39 (3.85%) Public Sector
6 36 (3.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 34 (3.36%) Legal
8 32 (3.16%) Retail
9 29 (2.86%) Marketing
10 27 (2.67%) Billing
11 22 (2.17%) Telecoms
12 19 (1.88%) Banking
13 18 (1.78%) Influencing Skills
14 12 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
15 9 (0.89%) Manufacturing
16 8 (0.79%) Documentation Skills
17 7 (0.69%) Advertising
17 7 (0.69%) Automotive
17 7 (0.69%) Games
17 7 (0.69%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 214 (21.13%) Developer
2 200 (19.74%) Senior
3 148 (14.61%) Lead
4 147 (14.51%) Azure Engineer
5 145 (14.31%) DevOps Engineer
6 70 (6.91%) Cloud Engineer
7 67 (6.61%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 59 (5.82%) Analyst
9 57 (5.63%) Data Engineer
10 52 (5.13%) Architect
11 47 (4.64%) Senior Developer
12 46 (4.54%) .NET Developer
13 36 (3.55%) Platform Engineer
14 31 (3.06%) Software Engineer
15 30 (2.96%) Applications Engineer
16 28 (2.76%) Test Leader
17 27 (2.67%) Power Platform Developer
17 27 (2.67%) Software Developer
17 27 (2.67%) Solutions Architect
18 25 (2.47%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 246 (24.28%) .NET
2 108 (10.66%) React
3 94 (9.28%) RESTful
4 91 (8.98%) REST
5 74 (7.31%) CSS
6 73 (7.21%) HTML
7 71 (7.01%) OAuth
8 70 (6.91%) ASP.NET
9 66 (6.52%) .NET Core
10 55 (5.43%) YAML
11 54 (5.33%) SOAP
12 48 (4.74%) .NET Framework
13 47 (4.64%) Playwright
14 44 (4.34%) JSON
14 44 (4.34%) Node.js
15 40 (3.95%) ASP.NET Core
16 38 (3.75%) PySpark
17 37 (3.65%) SAML
18 34 (3.36%) OAuth2
19 33 (3.26%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 118 (11.65%) Product Ownership
2 116 (11.45%) Cloud Native
3 38 (3.75%) Enterprise Software
4 34 (3.36%) Management Information System
5 32 (3.16%) Low-Code
6 31 (3.06%) Mobile App
7 27 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
8 21 (2.07%) Analytical Mindset
9 20 (1.97%) Distributed Systems
10 19 (1.88%) Reinsurance
11 16 (1.58%) Data Structures
12 13 (1.28%) Hybrid Cloud
13 12 (1.18%) Onboarding
13 12 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
13 12 (1.18%) Virtual Team
14 10 (0.99%) Legacy Applications
15 9 (0.89%) Security Posture
16 8 (0.79%) Public Cloud
17 7 (0.69%) PMI
17 7 (0.69%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 73 (7.21%) Windows
2 67 (6.61%) Linux
3 17 (1.68%) VMS
4 16 (1.58%) Windows Server
5 12 (1.18%) Ubuntu
6 10 (0.99%) Apple iOS
7 6 (0.59%) Unix
8 5 (0.49%) Android
9 2 (0.20%) Kali Linux
9 2 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.099%) CentOS
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 1,012 (99.90%) DevOps
2 625 (61.70%) CI/CD
3 475 (46.89%) Agile
4 295 (29.12%) Infrastructure as Code
5 258 (25.47%) Test Automation
6 219 (21.62%) Continuous Improvement
7 206 (20.34%) Problem-Solving
8 165 (16.29%) AI
9 156 (15.40%) Mentoring
10 154 (15.20%) Analytics
11 150 (14.81%) Observability
12 142 (14.02%) Coaching
13 137 (13.52%) Scrum
14 133 (13.13%) Data Modelling
15 127 (12.54%) Containerisation
16 109 (10.76%) Software Engineering
17 105 (10.37%) Business Intelligence
18 104 (10.27%) Microservices
19 103 (10.17%) SDLC
20 99 (9.77%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 348 (34.35%) SQL
2 245 (24.19%) Python
3 212 (20.93%) C#
4 135 (13.33%) JavaScript
5 131 (12.93%) PowerShell
6 88 (8.69%) Bash
7 86 (8.49%) Bicep
8 62 (6.12%) TypeScript
9 48 (4.74%) Java
10 24 (2.37%) Apex Code
11 23 (2.27%) Go
12 21 (2.07%) T-SQL
13 20 (1.97%) PL/SQL
14 19 (1.88%) Scala
15 17 (1.68%) Shell Script
16 12 (1.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 12 (1.18%) Kusto Query Language
17 8 (0.79%) Swift
18 7 (0.69%) DataWeave
19 5 (0.49%) C++
Qualifications
1 102 (10.07%) Degree
2 68 (6.71%) Security Cleared
3 51 (5.03%) Azure Certification
4 49 (4.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 36 (3.55%) SC Cleared
6 33 (3.26%) ISTQB
7 26 (2.57%) DV Cleared
8 24 (2.37%) Microsoft Certification
9 22 (2.17%) Master's Degree
10 14 (1.38%) AWS Certification
11 13 (1.28%) HND
12 11 (1.09%) AWS Certified Developer
12 11 (1.09%) PMI Certification
13 10 (0.99%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 6 (0.59%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 4 (0.39%) BC Cleared
15 4 (0.39%) PMP
16 3 (0.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 3 (0.30%) CBAP
16 3 (0.30%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 114 (11.25%) QA
2 72 (7.11%) Accessibility
3 46 (4.54%) GDPR
4 44 (4.34%) Data Quality
5 36 (3.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 14 (1.38%) SOC 2
7 12 (1.18%) SLA
8 10 (0.99%) GRC
9 9 (0.89%) NCSC
10 8 (0.79%) NIST
11 7 (0.69%) TickIT
11 7 (0.69%) WCAG
12 6 (0.59%) Software Quality Assurance
13 5 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 4 (0.39%) Solvency II
15 3 (0.30%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 3 (0.30%) IFRS
15 3 (0.30%) PERC
16 2 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
16 2 (0.20%) PMO
System Software
1 142 (14.02%) Docker
2 62 (6.12%) Active Directory
3 20 (1.97%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.39%) Postfix
5 4 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.20%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.20%) vCloud
7 1 (0.099%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 1 (0.099%) Firmware
7 1 (0.099%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.099%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.099%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 304 (30.01%) Terraform
2 111 (10.96%) Kubernetes
3 87 (8.59%) Ansible
4 58 (5.73%) Grafana
5 49 (4.84%) Prometheus
6 18 (1.78%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (0.89%) Kibana
7 9 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
8 6 (0.59%) HP ALM
9 4 (0.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (0.39%) Argo
9 4 (0.39%) logstash
10 3 (0.30%) Scalr
11 2 (0.20%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (0.20%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.20%) MIIS
11 2 (0.20%) Nagios
11 2 (0.20%) Nessus
11 2 (0.20%) Puppet
11 2 (0.20%) SCCM
Vendors
1 369 (36.43%) Microsoft
2 60 (5.92%) Databricks
3 43 (4.24%) Salesforce
4 36 (3.55%) ServiceNow
5 28 (2.76%) Oracle
6 20 (1.97%) Red Hat
7 18 (1.78%) Palo Alto
8 15 (1.48%) Adobe
8 15 (1.48%) Dynatrace
8 15 (1.48%) Zscaler
9 13 (1.28%) MuleSoft
9 13 (1.28%) VMware
10 12 (1.18%) Freshdesk
10 12 (1.18%) Nintex
11 11 (1.09%) Black Duck
11 11 (1.09%) Coverity
12 10 (0.99%) Ab Initio
12 10 (0.99%) CrowdStrike
12 10 (0.99%) Okta
13 9 (0.89%) Apple