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

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 179 144 111
Rank change year-on-year -35 -33 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,028 919 2,336
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.16% 2.19% 2.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.72% 6.09% 6.80%
Number of salaries quoted 744 763 1,820
10th Percentile £42,500 £45,150 £41,475
25th Percentile £50,000 £53,750 £49,125
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 £93,750 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £63,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.45% +5.83% -

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 27,647 15,082 34,373
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 31.08% 35.89% 35.98%
Number of salaries quoted 14,314 11,045 26,801
10th Percentile £30,500 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,100 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.84% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +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 26 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 26 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 -43 862 £67,500 - 329
UK excluding London -21 629 £57,500 -9.45% 279
Work from Home -5 408 £65,000 -3.70% 274
London -13 334 £79,625 +6.17% 115
South East -41 158 £50,000 -28.57% 87
North of England -14 152 £60,000 -14.29% 65
Scotland +44 96 £62,500 +8.70% 14
Midlands -35 91 £65,000 - 48
South West -28 81 £52,500 -19.23% 23
North West -2 71 £70,000 +5.66% 34
West Midlands -48 55 £60,000 -7.69% 21
Yorkshire -51 50 £60,000 -14.29% 17
East Midlands -34 33 £67,000 +3.08% 27
North East -22 31 £50,000 -16.67% 14
East of England -38 26 £70,000 +32.08% 30
Wales -26 25 £53,050 +0.87% 14
Northern Ireland -40 2 £50,000 - 4

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 38 (3.70%) Confluence
2 36 (3.50%) SharePoint
3 22 (2.14%) Microsoft Exchange
4 20 (1.95%) IIS
5 10 (0.97%) Apache Spark
6 8 (0.78%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 7 (0.68%) Anypoint
8 5 (0.49%) Apache
9 4 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.39%) Moodle
10 2 (0.19%) BizTalk Server
10 2 (0.19%) CICS
10 2 (0.19%) CMS
11 1 (0.097%) Drupal
11 1 (0.097%) nginx
11 1 (0.097%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.097%) PegaRULES
11 1 (0.097%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.097%) Umbraco
11 1 (0.097%) WordPress
Applications
1 22 (2.14%) Microsoft Excel
1 22 (2.14%) MS Visio
2 8 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 8 (0.78%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (0.49%) Chatbot
3 5 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.29%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.097%) Sketch
5 1 (0.097%) Trello
Business Applications
1 16 (1.56%) Oracle ERP
2 15 (1.46%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.58%) Dynamics AX
4 5 (0.49%) Visualfiles
5 3 (0.29%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.19%) Magento
6 2 (0.19%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.097%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.097%) Endur
7 1 (0.097%) Infor M3
7 1 (0.097%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 1 (0.097%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.097%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.097%) SAP CX
7 1 (0.097%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1,027 (99.90%) Azure
2 287 (27.92%) GitHub
3 178 (17.32%) Power Platform
4 157 (15.27%) GitHub Actions
5 156 (15.18%) AWS
6 99 (9.63%) Serverless
7 91 (8.85%) Entra ID
8 89 (8.66%) Azure Data Factory
9 83 (8.07%) Azure Monitor
10 81 (7.88%) Microsoft 365
11 75 (7.30%) Azure AKS
12 73 (7.10%) PaaS
13 66 (6.42%) Azure Logic Apps
14 61 (5.93%) Dynamics 365
15 59 (5.74%) Azure Functions
15 59 (5.74%) SaaS
16 56 (5.45%) GCP
17 54 (5.25%) Azure Service Bus
18 48 (4.67%) Azure Key Vault
19 41 (3.99%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 60 (5.84%) Firewall
2 31 (3.02%) DNS
3 19 (1.85%) HTTP
3 19 (1.85%) TCP/IP
4 14 (1.36%) Network Security
4 14 (1.36%) VPN
4 14 (1.36%) WAN
5 3 (0.29%) BGP
5 3 (0.29%) DHCP
6 2 (0.19%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.19%) SSL
7 1 (0.097%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.097%) Internet
7 1 (0.097%) IP Telephony
7 1 (0.097%) LTE
7 1 (0.097%) MPLS
7 1 (0.097%) NetScaler
7 1 (0.097%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 121 (11.77%) SQL Server
2 97 (9.44%) Power BI
3 71 (6.91%) Azure SQL Database
4 47 (4.57%) Data Warehouse
5 36 (3.50%) Data Lake
5 36 (3.50%) NoSQL
5 36 (3.50%) PostgreSQL
6 33 (3.21%) MongoDB
7 24 (2.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 23 (2.24%) Delta Lake
9 19 (1.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 18 (1.75%) Relational Database
11 16 (1.56%) DynamoDB
12 15 (1.46%) Tableau
13 13 (1.26%) Spark SQL
14 11 (1.07%) Amazon RDS
14 11 (1.07%) Star Schema
15 9 (0.88%) MySQL
16 8 (0.78%) Metadata
16 8 (0.78%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 166 (16.15%) Git
2 149 (14.49%) JIRA
3 108 (10.51%) Jenkins
4 55 (5.35%) GitLab
5 50 (4.86%) Selenium
6 40 (3.89%) Cypress.io
7 31 (3.02%) Postman
8 20 (1.95%) Eclipse
9 19 (1.85%) Visual Studio
10 17 (1.65%) Octopus Deploy
11 16 (1.56%) Oracle Forms
12 12 (1.17%) REST Assured
12 12 (1.17%) TeamCity
12 12 (1.17%) TestRail
13 11 (1.07%) JMeter
14 9 (0.88%) Zephyr
15 7 (0.68%) Cucumber
15 7 (0.68%) LoadRunner
15 7 (0.68%) NUnit
15 7 (0.68%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 309 (30.06%) Finance
2 247 (24.03%) Social Skills
3 145 (14.11%) Analytical Skills
4 55 (5.35%) Law
5 50 (4.86%) Public Sector
6 40 (3.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 37 (3.60%) Retail
8 32 (3.11%) Legal
9 30 (2.92%) Marketing
10 28 (2.72%) Billing
11 21 (2.04%) Telecoms
12 19 (1.85%) Banking
12 19 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
13 11 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
14 10 (0.97%) Automotive
15 9 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
16 8 (0.78%) Advertising
16 8 (0.78%) Games
16 8 (0.78%) Manufacturing
17 6 (0.58%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 213 (20.72%) Developer
2 209 (20.33%) Senior
3 171 (16.63%) DevOps Engineer
4 166 (16.15%) Azure Engineer
5 155 (15.08%) Lead
6 83 (8.07%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 71 (6.91%) Cloud Engineer
8 59 (5.74%) Data Engineer
9 57 (5.54%) Analyst
10 52 (5.06%) Architect
10 52 (5.06%) Senior Developer
11 47 (4.57%) .NET Developer
12 41 (3.99%) Platform Engineer
13 37 (3.60%) Senior DevOps
14 36 (3.50%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 28 (2.72%) Applications Engineer
16 27 (2.63%) Applications Support
17 26 (2.53%) Solutions Architect
18 25 (2.43%) Software Developer
18 25 (2.43%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 242 (23.54%) .NET
2 108 (10.51%) React
3 93 (9.05%) REST
4 92 (8.95%) RESTful
5 73 (7.10%) CSS
6 72 (7.00%) HTML
7 70 (6.81%) .NET Core
8 69 (6.71%) OAuth
9 67 (6.52%) ASP.NET
10 56 (5.45%) SOAP
11 55 (5.35%) Node.js
12 53 (5.16%) Playwright
13 51 (4.96%) YAML
14 44 (4.28%) .NET Framework
14 44 (4.28%) JSON
15 40 (3.89%) ASP.NET Core
15 40 (3.89%) PySpark
16 37 (3.60%) SAML
17 34 (3.31%) ARM Templates
17 34 (3.31%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 114 (11.09%) Cloud Native
1 114 (11.09%) Product Ownership
2 39 (3.79%) Enterprise Software
3 33 (3.21%) Management Information System
4 31 (3.02%) Mobile App
5 28 (2.72%) Low-Code
6 24 (2.33%) Analytical Mindset
6 24 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
7 23 (2.24%) Legacy Systems
8 19 (1.85%) Reinsurance
9 15 (1.46%) Data Structures
10 13 (1.26%) Onboarding
11 11 (1.07%) Hybrid Cloud
11 11 (1.07%) Virtual Team
12 9 (0.88%) Enterprise Cloud
12 9 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
13 8 (0.78%) PMI
13 8 (0.78%) Public Cloud
14 7 (0.68%) Data Protection Act
14 7 (0.68%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 77 (7.49%) Linux
2 69 (6.71%) Windows
3 17 (1.65%) VMS
4 15 (1.46%) Unix
4 15 (1.46%) Windows Server
5 12 (1.17%) Ubuntu
6 11 (1.07%) Apple iOS
7 6 (0.58%) Android
8 4 (0.39%) Kali Linux
9 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.097%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.097%) SUSE
10 1 (0.097%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.097%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.097%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,027 (99.90%) DevOps
2 636 (61.87%) CI/CD
3 468 (45.53%) Agile
4 294 (28.60%) Infrastructure as Code
5 263 (25.58%) Test Automation
6 220 (21.40%) Continuous Improvement
7 191 (18.58%) Problem-Solving
8 173 (16.83%) AI
9 162 (15.76%) Mentoring
10 155 (15.08%) Analytics
11 152 (14.79%) Observability
12 145 (14.11%) Coaching
13 144 (14.01%) Scrum
14 139 (13.52%) Data Modelling
15 133 (12.94%) Containerisation
16 114 (11.09%) Microservices
17 99 (9.63%) Roadmaps
17 99 (9.63%) SDLC
17 99 (9.63%) Software Engineering
18 98 (9.53%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 341 (33.17%) SQL
2 251 (24.42%) Python
3 201 (19.55%) C#
4 132 (12.84%) JavaScript
5 127 (12.35%) PowerShell
6 92 (8.95%) Bash
7 84 (8.17%) Bicep
8 62 (6.03%) TypeScript
9 61 (5.93%) Java
10 23 (2.24%) Apex Code
10 23 (2.24%) Go
11 20 (1.95%) PL/SQL
12 19 (1.85%) Scala
13 18 (1.75%) Shell Script
14 16 (1.56%) T-SQL
15 12 (1.17%) Kusto Query Language
16 11 (1.07%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 8 (0.78%) Swift
18 7 (0.68%) DataWeave
19 5 (0.49%) PHP
Qualifications
1 92 (8.95%) Degree
2 66 (6.42%) Security Cleared
3 52 (5.06%) Azure Certification
4 44 (4.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 41 (3.99%) SC Cleared
6 30 (2.92%) ISTQB
7 19 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
8 18 (1.75%) Master's Degree
9 17 (1.65%) DV Cleared
10 14 (1.36%) AWS Certification
11 13 (1.26%) HND
12 11 (1.07%) AWS Certified Developer
12 11 (1.07%) PMI Certification
13 9 (0.88%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 6 (0.58%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 4 (0.39%) BC Cleared
16 3 (0.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 3 (0.29%) CBAP
16 3 (0.29%) PMP
17 2 (0.19%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 116 (11.28%) QA
2 71 (6.91%) Accessibility
3 47 (4.57%) GDPR
4 45 (4.38%) Data Quality
5 34 (3.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 14 (1.36%) SOC 2
7 13 (1.26%) SLA
8 11 (1.07%) TickIT
9 10 (0.97%) GRC
10 6 (0.58%) NCSC
10 6 (0.58%) Software Quality Assurance
10 6 (0.58%) WCAG
11 5 (0.49%) NIST
11 5 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 5 (0.49%) Solvency II
12 4 (0.39%) IFRS
13 3 (0.29%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 2 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
14 2 (0.19%) PERC
14 2 (0.19%) PMO
System Software
1 148 (14.40%) Docker
2 65 (6.32%) Active Directory
3 21 (2.04%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.19%) Firmware
6 2 (0.19%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.19%) Postfix
7 1 (0.097%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 1 (0.097%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 312 (30.35%) Terraform
2 117 (11.38%) Kubernetes
3 79 (7.68%) Ansible
4 62 (6.03%) Grafana
5 51 (4.96%) Prometheus
6 18 (1.75%) Single Sign-On
7 17 (1.65%) Argo
8 9 (0.88%) Kibana
9 6 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (0.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (0.39%) HP Fortify
10 4 (0.39%) logstash
11 3 (0.29%) HP ALM
11 3 (0.29%) Puppet
11 3 (0.29%) Scalr
12 2 (0.19%) MIIS
12 2 (0.19%) Nagios
12 2 (0.19%) SCCM
13 1 (0.097%) FortiGate
13 1 (0.097%) Nessus
Vendors
1 379 (36.87%) Microsoft
2 68 (6.61%) Databricks
3 43 (4.18%) Salesforce
4 34 (3.31%) ServiceNow
5 28 (2.72%) Oracle
6 21 (2.04%) Red Hat
7 16 (1.56%) Palo Alto
8 15 (1.46%) Adobe
8 15 (1.46%) MuleSoft
8 15 (1.46%) Zscaler
9 14 (1.36%) Dynatrace
10 12 (1.17%) Freshdesk
10 12 (1.17%) Nintex
11 10 (0.97%) Apple
11 10 (0.97%) CrowdStrike
11 10 (0.97%) Okta
11 10 (0.97%) VMware
12 9 (0.88%) Ab Initio
13 8 (0.78%) Guidewire
14 7 (0.68%) Splunk