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

6 months to
28 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 153 170 121
Rank change year-on-year +17 -49 -20
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,267 905 2,242
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.33% 1.96% 2.12%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.87% 5.95% 6.37%
Number of salaries quoted 1,024 700 1,680
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,813 £41,250
25th Percentile £49,750 £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 £78,938 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £95,000
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 26,009 15,222 35,192
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.24% 32.92% 33.29%
Number of salaries quoted 16,938 10,574 27,007
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,625 £30,450
25th Percentile £43,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -8.73%
75th Percentile £83,750 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,685
% change year-on-year +4.76% +3.58% -7.85%

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 28 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 28 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 +16 1,141 £65,000 -7.14% 379
UK excluding London +59 835 £60,000 -4.00% 306
Work from Home +41 519 £60,000 -11.11% 227
London -15 365 £78,750 +5.00% 142
North of England +57 242 £62,500 -7.41% 71
South East +3 221 £60,000 -7.69% 110
Midlands +17 131 £64,525 +7.54% 41
North West +75 129 £68,403 +5.23% 40
South West -13 95 £55,000 -10.20% 31
East of England +19 70 £56,000 -10.40% 36
East Midlands +32 66 £64,000 +13.78% 19
West Midlands -18 64 £65,000 +8.33% 22
Yorkshire -21 61 £69,308 -0.99% 23
North East -3 52 £50,000 -9.09% 9
Wales -3 52 £53,171 -14.93% 11
Scotland +20 24 £61,250 -5.04% 13
Northern Ireland -32 2 £72,500 +45.00% 3

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 58 (4.58%) Confluence
2 55 (4.34%) SharePoint
3 29 (2.29%) Microsoft Exchange
4 21 (1.66%) IIS
5 13 (1.03%) Apache Spark
6 9 (0.71%) CMS
7 8 (0.63%) SharePoint Server
8 6 (0.47%) Apache
8 6 (0.47%) nginx
8 6 (0.47%) Umbraco
9 5 (0.39%) Anypoint
9 5 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.24%) WordPress
11 2 (0.16%) CICS
11 2 (0.16%) Luigi
11 2 (0.16%) Moodle
12 1 (0.079%) BizTalk Server
12 1 (0.079%) NServiceBus
12 1 (0.079%) Palantir Foundry
12 1 (0.079%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 18 (1.42%) MS Visio
2 15 (1.18%) Microsoft Project
3 13 (1.03%) Microsoft Excel
4 7 (0.55%) Chatbot
5 5 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
6 4 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.32%) Trello
7 1 (0.079%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.079%) Notion
7 1 (0.079%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 16 (1.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.39%) Dynamics AX
2 5 (0.39%) Elite 3E
2 5 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.39%) Visualfiles
3 4 (0.32%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.16%) Carpe Diem
4 2 (0.16%) Integrated Workplace Management System
4 2 (0.16%) Magento
4 2 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.16%) SAP IBP
4 2 (0.16%) Shopify
5 1 (0.079%) Infor M3
5 1 (0.079%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.079%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.079%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 1,266 (99.92%) Azure
2 231 (18.23%) GitHub
3 196 (15.47%) Power Platform
4 166 (13.10%) AWS
5 138 (10.89%) GitHub Actions
6 117 (9.23%) Serverless
7 107 (8.45%) Azure AKS
8 106 (8.37%) Azure Monitor
9 94 (7.42%) PaaS
10 91 (7.18%) Azure Service Bus
11 90 (7.10%) Azure Functions
12 84 (6.63%) Azure Logic Apps
13 83 (6.55%) Dynamics 365
14 82 (6.47%) Entra ID
15 81 (6.39%) Azure AI
16 71 (5.60%) Microsoft 365
17 68 (5.37%) SaaS
18 67 (5.29%) Azure Data Factory
19 64 (5.05%) GCP
20 61 (4.81%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 51 (4.03%) Firewall
2 24 (1.89%) DNS
3 22 (1.74%) VPN
4 16 (1.26%) HTTP
5 14 (1.10%) TCP/IP
6 11 (0.87%) Network Security
7 9 (0.71%) Internet
8 5 (0.39%) WAN
9 4 (0.32%) Bluetooth
9 4 (0.32%) MQTT
9 4 (0.32%) SAN
9 4 (0.32%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (0.32%) Wireless
9 4 (0.32%) ZigBee
10 3 (0.24%) BGP
10 3 (0.24%) DHCP
10 3 (0.24%) HTTPS
11 2 (0.16%) VLAN
12 1 (0.079%) Broadband
12 1 (0.079%) IP Telephony
Database & Business Intelligence
1 220 (17.36%) Azure SQL Database
2 152 (12.00%) MongoDB
3 133 (10.50%) SQL Server
4 94 (7.42%) Power BI
5 41 (3.24%) PostgreSQL
6 35 (2.76%) Data Warehouse
7 30 (2.37%) Relational Database
8 29 (2.29%) Data Lake
8 29 (2.29%) Elasticsearch
9 27 (2.13%) Delta Lake
10 26 (2.05%) NoSQL
11 20 (1.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 19 (1.50%) Redis
13 18 (1.42%) Spark SQL
14 15 (1.18%) Metadata
14 15 (1.18%) MySQL
15 14 (1.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 13 (1.03%) Star Schema
17 10 (0.79%) Tableau
18 9 (0.71%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 191 (15.07%) Git
2 153 (12.08%) JIRA
3 115 (9.08%) Jenkins
4 76 (6.00%) GitLab
5 51 (4.03%) Selenium
6 43 (3.39%) Cypress.io
7 36 (2.84%) Postman
8 24 (1.89%) Eclipse
9 18 (1.42%) REST Assured
10 17 (1.34%) Visual Studio
11 14 (1.10%) fastlane
11 14 (1.10%) JMeter
11 14 (1.10%) Octopus Deploy
12 13 (1.03%) TestRail
12 13 (1.03%) Zephyr
13 9 (0.71%) Xcode
14 8 (0.63%) JUnit
15 7 (0.55%) LoadRunner
15 7 (0.55%) NUnit
15 7 (0.55%) TeamCity
General
1 291 (22.97%) Finance
2 287 (22.65%) Social Skills
3 119 (9.39%) Analytical Skills
4 94 (7.42%) Public Sector
5 89 (7.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 55 (4.34%) Law
7 48 (3.79%) Retail
8 39 (3.08%) Marketing
9 33 (2.60%) Legal
10 29 (2.29%) Banking
11 24 (1.89%) Advertising
12 22 (1.74%) Games
13 20 (1.58%) Billing
13 20 (1.58%) Influencing Skills
13 20 (1.58%) Presentation Skills
14 19 (1.50%) Manufacturing
15 15 (1.18%) Telecoms
16 12 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
17 10 (0.79%) Automotive
17 10 (0.79%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 379 (29.91%) Developer
2 241 (19.02%) Senior
3 223 (17.60%) DevOps Engineer
4 196 (15.47%) Azure Engineer
5 174 (13.73%) .NET Developer
6 168 (13.26%) Lead
7 112 (8.84%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 77 (6.08%) Senior Developer
9 73 (5.76%) Platform Engineer
10 69 (5.45%) Data Engineer
11 65 (5.13%) Analyst
12 63 (4.97%) Cloud Engineer
13 59 (4.66%) Architect
14 53 (4.18%) Senior DevOps
15 51 (4.03%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 47 (3.71%) Software Engineer
17 41 (3.24%) Cloud Platform Engineer
18 37 (2.92%) Azure Platform Engineer
19 35 (2.76%) Software Developer
20 28 (2.21%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 410 (32.36%) .NET
2 217 (17.13%) ASP.NET
3 190 (15.00%) .NET Core
4 175 (13.81%) ASP.NET Core
5 157 (12.39%) React
6 145 (11.44%) HTML
7 143 (11.29%) CSS
8 120 (9.47%) RESTful
9 118 (9.31%) REST
10 101 (7.97%) Entity Framework
11 98 (7.73%) Blazor
12 83 (6.55%) Node.js
13 71 (5.60%) ML.NET
14 62 (4.89%) Playwright
15 61 (4.81%) YAML
16 51 (4.03%) ARM Templates
17 47 (3.71%) .NET Framework
18 43 (3.39%) JSON
19 41 (3.24%) OAuth
19 41 (3.24%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 120 (9.47%) Product Ownership
2 111 (8.76%) Cloud Native
3 56 (4.42%) Mobile App
4 41 (3.24%) Enterprise Software
5 40 (3.16%) Legacy Systems
6 39 (3.08%) Onboarding
7 31 (2.45%) Greenfield Project
8 30 (2.37%) Distributed Systems
9 27 (2.13%) Management Information System
10 23 (1.82%) Analytical Mindset
10 23 (1.82%) Hybrid Cloud
11 22 (1.74%) Low-Code
12 19 (1.50%) Podcast
13 18 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
14 17 (1.34%) Public Cloud
15 15 (1.18%) BBC
15 15 (1.18%) iPhone
15 15 (1.18%) Reinsurance
15 15 (1.18%) Social Media
16 14 (1.10%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 97 (7.66%) Linux
2 76 (6.00%) Windows
3 28 (2.21%) VMS
4 24 (1.89%) Android
5 19 (1.50%) Unix
6 16 (1.26%) Ubuntu
7 15 (1.18%) Apple iOS
8 12 (0.95%) Windows Server
9 4 (0.32%) Kali Linux
10 3 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.079%) SUSE
11 1 (0.079%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,266 (99.92%) DevOps
2 756 (59.67%) CI/CD
3 574 (45.30%) Agile
4 315 (24.86%) Infrastructure as Code
5 256 (20.21%) AI
6 246 (19.42%) Continuous Improvement
7 238 (18.78%) Test Automation
8 224 (17.68%) Full-Stack Development
9 199 (15.71%) Scrum
10 190 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
11 183 (14.44%) Mentoring
12 163 (12.87%) Analytics
13 152 (12.00%) Microservices
14 148 (11.68%) Observability
15 126 (9.94%) Platform Engineering
16 121 (9.55%) Containerisation
17 118 (9.31%) Machine Learning
17 118 (9.31%) Roadmaps
18 116 (9.16%) SDLC
19 109 (8.60%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 442 (34.89%) SQL
2 397 (31.33%) C#
3 242 (19.10%) Python
4 229 (18.07%) JavaScript
5 153 (12.08%) PowerShell
6 131 (10.34%) Bash
7 106 (8.37%) Bicep
8 74 (5.84%) Java
9 64 (5.05%) TypeScript
10 24 (1.89%) T-SQL
11 23 (1.82%) Go
12 21 (1.66%) Kusto Query Language
13 16 (1.26%) Scala
14 15 (1.18%) C++
15 12 (0.95%) Swift
16 9 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 8 (0.63%) Apex Code
17 8 (0.63%) Kotlin
18 7 (0.55%) VB.NET
19 6 (0.47%) PHP
Qualifications
1 97 (7.66%) Security Cleared
2 87 (6.87%) Degree
3 76 (6.00%) SC Cleared
4 67 (5.29%) Azure Certification
5 36 (2.84%) Computer Science Degree
6 26 (2.05%) ISTQB
6 26 (2.05%) Microsoft Certification
7 12 (0.95%) DV Cleared
8 11 (0.87%) Master's Degree
8 11 (0.87%) PMI Certification
9 9 (0.71%) HND
10 7 (0.55%) AWS Certification
11 6 (0.47%) CISSP
12 5 (0.39%) PMP
13 4 (0.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.32%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 4 (0.32%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 3 (0.24%) ISEB
14 3 (0.24%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
14 3 (0.24%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 152 (12.00%) QA
2 88 (6.95%) Accessibility
3 47 (3.71%) Data Quality
4 38 (3.00%) GDPR
5 27 (2.13%) WCAG
6 24 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 12 (0.95%) TickIT
8 11 (0.87%) GRC
8 11 (0.87%) SLA
9 10 (0.79%) PMO
10 8 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 6 (0.47%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 6 (0.47%) SOC 2
11 6 (0.47%) Software Quality Assurance
11 6 (0.47%) Solvency II
12 5 (0.39%) IFRS
13 4 (0.32%) JTAG
13 4 (0.32%) NCSC
14 3 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
15 2 (0.16%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 153 (12.08%) Docker
2 66 (5.21%) Active Directory
3 19 (1.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (1.26%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (1.03%) Virtual Desktop
6 12 (0.95%) vSphere
7 2 (0.16%) Firmware
7 2 (0.16%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 324 (25.57%) Terraform
2 139 (10.97%) Kubernetes
3 72 (5.68%) Ansible
4 68 (5.37%) Grafana
5 58 (4.58%) Prometheus
6 28 (2.21%) Argo
7 8 (0.63%) Kibana
8 6 (0.47%) Puppet
9 4 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (0.32%) HP Fortify
9 4 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (0.24%) HP ALM
10 3 (0.24%) Nagios
10 3 (0.24%) Scalr
11 2 (0.16%) Istio
11 2 (0.16%) MIIS
11 2 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.079%) Consul
12 1 (0.079%) linkerd
12 1 (0.079%) Packer
Vendors
1 536 (42.30%) Microsoft
2 64 (5.05%) Databricks
3 44 (3.47%) Google
4 41 (3.24%) Salesforce
4 41 (3.24%) ServiceNow
5 33 (2.60%) Facebook
6 28 (2.21%) Apple
7 26 (2.05%) VMware
8 25 (1.97%) Dynatrace
9 23 (1.82%) Red Hat
10 18 (1.42%) YouTube
11 16 (1.26%) MuleSoft
12 15 (1.18%) Sony
12 15 (1.18%) Yahoo!
13 14 (1.10%) Guidewire
14 12 (0.95%) ScienceLogic
15 11 (0.87%) Oracle
16 10 (0.79%) Foundry
16 10 (0.79%) Splunk
17 9 (0.71%) Adobe