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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 157 161 117
Rank change year-on-year +4 -44 -15
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,156 886 2,304
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.25% 2.00% 2.16%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.63% 5.96% 6.46%
Number of salaries quoted 916 684 1,748
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £42,279
25th Percentile £49,938 £54,313 £49,250
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 24,947 14,861 35,649
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.94% 33.57% 33.35%
Number of salaries quoted 16,062 10,210 27,316
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £43,500 £42,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -10.16%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% +3.96% -8.18%

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 12 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 12 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 +5 1,031 £65,000 -4.76% 351
UK excluding London +40 734 £60,000 -4.00% 283
Work from Home +36 443 £60,000 -10.78% 278
London -11 360 £77,500 +3.33% 116
North of England +60 211 £62,500 -10.71% 58
South East -13 191 £57,500 -11.54% 98
Midlands +17 121 £65,000 +8.33% 47
North West +79 117 £69,310 +2.68% 31
South West -28 78 £55,000 -4.35% 27
West Midlands -26 61 £63,750 +6.25% 29
East Midlands +9 58 £65,000 +13.04% 18
East of England +2 55 £56,000 -2.61% 35
Yorkshire -34 50 £68,403 -2.28% 16
North East -1 44 £48,750 -11.36% 11
Wales -14 40 £53,135 -18.25% 9
Scotland +31 38 £62,500 - 15
Northern Ireland -33 2 £72,500 +45.00% 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 48 (4.15%) Confluence
2 45 (3.89%) SharePoint
3 22 (1.90%) Microsoft Exchange
4 17 (1.47%) IIS
5 12 (1.04%) Apache Spark
6 8 (0.69%) SharePoint Server
7 7 (0.61%) Apache
7 7 (0.61%) CMS
8 6 (0.52%) Umbraco
9 5 (0.43%) Anypoint
9 5 (0.43%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.26%) nginx
10 3 (0.26%) WordPress
11 2 (0.17%) CICS
11 2 (0.17%) Luigi
11 2 (0.17%) Moodle
11 2 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.087%) BizTalk Server
12 1 (0.087%) Drupal
12 1 (0.087%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 19 (1.64%) MS Visio
2 12 (1.04%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (0.95%) Microsoft Project
4 7 (0.61%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
6 3 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 2 (0.17%) Trello
8 1 (0.087%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.087%) Notion
8 1 (0.087%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 12 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.43%) Dynamics AX
2 5 (0.43%) Visualfiles
3 4 (0.35%) Dynamics NAV
3 4 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (0.26%) Elite 3E
4 3 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.17%) Magento
6 1 (0.087%) Infor M3
6 1 (0.087%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 1 (0.087%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.087%) Sage 200
6 1 (0.087%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.087%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.087%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1,155 (99.91%) Azure
2 237 (20.50%) GitHub
3 180 (15.57%) Power Platform
4 159 (13.75%) AWS
5 142 (12.28%) GitHub Actions
6 101 (8.74%) Azure Monitor
7 100 (8.65%) Serverless
8 99 (8.56%) Azure AKS
9 83 (7.18%) Entra ID
9 83 (7.18%) PaaS
10 78 (6.75%) Azure Logic Apps
11 74 (6.40%) Azure Service Bus
12 73 (6.31%) Azure Functions
13 72 (6.23%) Microsoft 365
14 71 (6.14%) Dynamics 365
15 68 (5.88%) Azure Data Factory
16 67 (5.80%) SaaS
17 62 (5.36%) GCP
18 54 (4.67%) Azure AI
18 54 (4.67%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 56 (4.84%) Firewall
2 27 (2.34%) DNS
3 17 (1.47%) HTTP
4 15 (1.30%) TCP/IP
4 15 (1.30%) VPN
5 11 (0.95%) Network Security
6 8 (0.69%) WAN
7 5 (0.43%) Internet
8 4 (0.35%) Bluetooth
8 4 (0.35%) DHCP
8 4 (0.35%) MQTT
8 4 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (0.35%) Wireless
8 4 (0.35%) ZigBee
9 3 (0.26%) BGP
9 3 (0.26%) HTTPS
9 3 (0.26%) SAN
10 1 (0.087%) IP Telephony
10 1 (0.087%) MPLS
10 1 (0.087%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 164 (14.19%) Azure SQL Database
2 115 (9.95%) SQL Server
3 106 (9.17%) MongoDB
4 97 (8.39%) Power BI
5 38 (3.29%) PostgreSQL
6 37 (3.20%) Data Warehouse
7 33 (2.85%) Data Lake
8 27 (2.34%) Relational Database
9 26 (2.25%) Delta Lake
9 26 (2.25%) NoSQL
10 20 (1.73%) Elasticsearch
11 19 (1.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 17 (1.47%) Spark SQL
13 14 (1.21%) Star Schema
14 13 (1.12%) Redis
15 12 (1.04%) Metadata
15 12 (1.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 12 (1.04%) Tableau
16 11 (0.95%) MySQL
17 9 (0.78%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 175 (15.14%) Git
2 140 (12.11%) JIRA
3 114 (9.86%) Jenkins
4 73 (6.31%) GitLab
5 53 (4.58%) Selenium
6 45 (3.89%) Cypress.io
7 36 (3.11%) Postman
8 23 (1.99%) Eclipse
9 16 (1.38%) REST Assured
9 16 (1.38%) Visual Studio
10 13 (1.12%) fastlane
11 12 (1.04%) JMeter
11 12 (1.04%) Octopus Deploy
11 12 (1.04%) TestRail
11 12 (1.04%) Zephyr
12 9 (0.78%) TeamCity
13 8 (0.69%) Xcode
14 7 (0.61%) JUnit
15 6 (0.52%) Cucumber
15 6 (0.52%) NUnit
General
1 283 (24.48%) Finance
2 248 (21.45%) Social Skills
3 116 (10.03%) Analytical Skills
4 83 (7.18%) Public Sector
5 67 (5.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 48 (4.15%) Law
7 42 (3.63%) Retail
8 34 (2.94%) Marketing
9 33 (2.85%) Legal
10 26 (2.25%) Banking
11 25 (2.16%) Billing
12 19 (1.64%) Influencing Skills
13 18 (1.56%) Games
14 17 (1.47%) Advertising
15 16 (1.38%) Telecoms
16 15 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
17 12 (1.04%) Manufacturing
18 10 (0.87%) Automotive
18 10 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
19 9 (0.78%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 312 (26.99%) Developer
2 227 (19.64%) Senior
3 214 (18.51%) DevOps Engineer
4 198 (17.13%) Azure Engineer
5 154 (13.32%) Lead
6 121 (10.47%) .NET Developer
7 109 (9.43%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 71 (6.14%) Senior Developer
9 69 (5.97%) Cloud Engineer
9 69 (5.97%) Platform Engineer
10 66 (5.71%) Data Engineer
11 57 (4.93%) Analyst
12 53 (4.58%) Architect
13 51 (4.41%) Senior DevOps
14 49 (4.24%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 42 (3.63%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 41 (3.55%) Software Engineer
17 37 (3.20%) Azure Platform Engineer
18 32 (2.77%) Software Developer
19 28 (2.42%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 340 (29.41%) .NET
2 161 (13.93%) ASP.NET
3 142 (12.28%) .NET Core
4 136 (11.76%) React
5 124 (10.73%) ASP.NET Core
6 120 (10.38%) HTML
7 119 (10.29%) CSS
8 112 (9.69%) REST
9 98 (8.48%) RESTful
10 75 (6.49%) Node.js
11 73 (6.31%) Entity Framework
12 69 (5.97%) Blazor
13 63 (5.45%) YAML
14 61 (5.28%) Playwright
15 48 (4.15%) OAuth
16 46 (3.98%) ML.NET
17 45 (3.89%) ARM Templates
18 42 (3.63%) JSON
19 41 (3.55%) PySpark
20 40 (3.46%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 121 (10.47%) Product Ownership
2 100 (8.65%) Cloud Native
3 48 (4.15%) Mobile App
4 37 (3.20%) Enterprise Software
5 34 (2.94%) Onboarding
6 33 (2.85%) Legacy Systems
7 27 (2.34%) Distributed Systems
7 27 (2.34%) Management Information System
8 21 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
8 21 (1.82%) Hybrid Cloud
9 20 (1.73%) Analytical Mindset
10 19 (1.64%) Low-Code
11 16 (1.38%) Reinsurance
12 14 (1.21%) Data Structures
13 13 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
14 11 (0.95%) Enterprise Cloud
14 11 (0.95%) Podcast
14 11 (0.95%) Public Cloud
15 10 (0.87%) BBC
15 10 (0.87%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 95 (8.22%) Linux
2 66 (5.71%) Windows
3 23 (1.99%) VMS
4 19 (1.64%) Android
5 17 (1.47%) Ubuntu
5 17 (1.47%) Unix
6 15 (1.30%) Apple iOS
7 14 (1.21%) Windows Server
8 4 (0.35%) Kali Linux
9 3 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.087%) SUSE
10 1 (0.087%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.087%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,155 (99.91%) DevOps
2 705 (60.99%) CI/CD
3 503 (43.51%) Agile
4 301 (26.04%) Infrastructure as Code
5 246 (21.28%) Test Automation
6 228 (19.72%) Continuous Improvement
7 220 (19.03%) AI
8 184 (15.92%) Problem-Solving
9 174 (15.05%) Full-Stack Development
10 172 (14.88%) Scrum
11 169 (14.62%) Mentoring
12 164 (14.19%) Analytics
13 150 (12.98%) Observability
14 135 (11.68%) Microservices
15 121 (10.47%) Containerisation
16 113 (9.78%) Data Modelling
17 111 (9.60%) Platform Engineering
18 107 (9.26%) Business Intelligence
19 106 (9.17%) Coaching
20 105 (9.08%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 389 (33.65%) SQL
2 323 (27.94%) C#
3 245 (21.19%) Python
4 190 (16.44%) JavaScript
5 139 (12.02%) PowerShell
6 120 (10.38%) Bash
7 91 (7.87%) Bicep
8 77 (6.66%) Java
9 57 (4.93%) TypeScript
10 21 (1.82%) Go
11 18 (1.56%) Scala
12 16 (1.38%) Kusto Query Language
12 16 (1.38%) T-SQL
13 15 (1.30%) C++
14 13 (1.12%) Apex Code
15 12 (1.04%) Swift
16 10 (0.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 8 (0.69%) Kotlin
17 8 (0.69%) PL/SQL
18 6 (0.52%) PHP
Qualifications
1 86 (7.44%) Degree
2 75 (6.49%) Security Cleared
3 58 (5.02%) SC Cleared
4 55 (4.76%) Azure Certification
5 35 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
6 28 (2.42%) ISTQB
7 19 (1.64%) Microsoft Certification
8 12 (1.04%) Master's Degree
9 11 (0.95%) DV Cleared
9 11 (0.95%) HND
9 11 (0.95%) PMI Certification
10 8 (0.69%) AWS Certification
11 6 (0.52%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 4 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (0.35%) CISSP
12 4 (0.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 4 (0.35%) PMP
13 3 (0.26%) ISEB
13 3 (0.26%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 2 (0.17%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 134 (11.59%) QA
2 85 (7.35%) Accessibility
3 46 (3.98%) Data Quality
4 38 (3.29%) GDPR
5 22 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 21 (1.82%) WCAG
7 12 (1.04%) SLA
7 12 (1.04%) TickIT
8 10 (0.87%) GRC
9 9 (0.78%) SOC 2
10 8 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 6 (0.52%) PMO
11 6 (0.52%) Software Quality Assurance
11 6 (0.52%) Solvency II
12 5 (0.43%) IFRS
13 4 (0.35%) JTAG
14 3 (0.26%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 2 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
15 2 (0.17%) ISO 9001
15 2 (0.17%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 143 (12.37%) Docker
2 62 (5.36%) Active Directory
3 15 (1.30%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.35%) vSphere
7 2 (0.17%) Firmware
7 2 (0.17%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 315 (27.25%) Terraform
2 120 (10.38%) Kubernetes
3 73 (6.31%) Ansible
4 65 (5.62%) Grafana
5 55 (4.76%) Prometheus
6 26 (2.25%) Argo
7 10 (0.87%) Kibana
8 6 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 5 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (0.35%) HP Fortify
10 4 (0.35%) Puppet
11 3 (0.26%) HP ALM
11 3 (0.26%) Nagios
11 3 (0.26%) Scalr
12 2 (0.17%) MIIS
12 2 (0.17%) SCCM
13 1 (0.087%) Consul
13 1 (0.087%) logstash
13 1 (0.087%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 456 (39.45%) Microsoft
2 67 (5.80%) Databricks
3 43 (3.72%) Salesforce
4 38 (3.29%) ServiceNow
5 33 (2.85%) Google
6 24 (2.08%) Dynatrace
6 24 (2.08%) Red Hat
7 23 (1.99%) Apple
8 21 (1.82%) Facebook
9 18 (1.56%) VMware
10 15 (1.30%) MuleSoft
10 15 (1.30%) Oracle
11 12 (1.04%) Splunk
12 11 (0.95%) Adobe
12 11 (0.95%) Guidewire
12 11 (0.95%) Palo Alto
12 11 (0.95%) YouTube
12 11 (0.95%) Zscaler
13 10 (0.87%) Sony
13 10 (0.87%) Yahoo!