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 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 106 89
Rank change year-on-year -21 -17 +7
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,108 1,417 1,722
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.84% 2.64% 3.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.38% 7.30% 7.71%
Number of salaries quoted 701 909 1,486
10th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -2.67%
75th Percentile £81,250 £82,500 £81,813
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £96,539
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £59,526
% change year-on-year -15.38% +9.20% -0.79%

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 20,588 19,411 22,339
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.15% 36.22% 40.28%
Number of salaries quoted 11,279 11,427 18,304
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,331 £46,713 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,625 £80,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%

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 15 January 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 15 January 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 -35 871 £65,000 -3.70% 396
UK excluding London -26 681 £55,000 -15.38% 345
Work from Home +1 511 £62,500 -7.41% 238
London +24 358 £75,000 -1.32% 110
South East -4 230 £50,000 -23.08% 112
Scotland +73 167 £57,000 +11.22% 19
North of England -46 99 £55,000 -15.38% 82
Midlands -58 75 £60,000 -7.69% 52
South West -72 65 £47,500 -26.92% 31
West Midlands -51 58 £60,000 -7.69% 30
North West -25 36 £65,000 - 46
Yorkshire -39 36 £57,500 -14.47% 24
North East +14 27 £50,000 -23.08% 12
Wales +3 25 £55,000 -15.38% 14
East of England -35 18 £65,000 +30.00% 38
East Midlands -21 14 £62,500 +4.17% 21
Northern Ireland -11 2 £56,250 - 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 39 (3.52%) Confluence
2 32 (2.89%) IIS
3 27 (2.44%) SharePoint
4 18 (1.62%) Microsoft Exchange
5 17 (1.53%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 10 (0.90%) Apache Airflow
7 7 (0.63%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.36%) Apache
9 3 (0.27%) Appian
10 2 (0.18%) Anypoint
10 2 (0.18%) BizTalk Server
10 2 (0.18%) Moodle
11 1 (0.090%) nginx
11 1 (0.090%) Tomcat
Applications
1 38 (3.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (2.17%) Microsoft Office
3 20 (1.81%) MS Visio
4 14 (1.26%) Microsoft Project
5 13 (1.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.36%) Trello
7 2 (0.18%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.090%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 71 (6.41%) SAP S/4HANA
2 42 (3.79%) Dynamics CRM
3 37 (3.34%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (0.27%) SAP CX
5 2 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.18%) Elite 3E
5 2 (0.18%) Markit EDM
5 2 (0.18%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.090%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.090%) Endur
6 1 (0.090%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 1,039 (93.77%) Azure
2 341 (30.78%) GitHub
3 219 (19.77%) Power Platform
4 162 (14.62%) AWS
5 156 (14.08%) GitHub Actions
6 101 (9.12%) Azure Monitor
7 90 (8.12%) Entra ID
8 84 (7.58%) Azure Data Factory
8 84 (7.58%) Snowflake
9 82 (7.40%) Serverless
10 77 (6.95%) PaaS
11 71 (6.41%) Dynamics 365
11 71 (6.41%) Microsoft 365
12 70 (6.32%) SaaS
13 66 (5.96%) GitHub Copilot
14 64 (5.78%) Power Automate
15 62 (5.60%) dbt
16 61 (5.51%) Azure AKS
17 54 (4.87%) GCP
18 52 (4.69%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 48 (4.33%) Firewall
2 42 (3.79%) DNS
3 26 (2.35%) VPN
4 17 (1.53%) WAN
5 12 (1.08%) HTTP
6 10 (0.90%) Network Security
6 10 (0.90%) TCP/IP
7 8 (0.72%) DHCP
8 6 (0.54%) SD-WAN
8 6 (0.54%) VLAN
9 4 (0.36%) SSL
10 3 (0.27%) AMQP
10 3 (0.27%) BGP
10 3 (0.27%) IPsec
10 3 (0.27%) OSPF
10 3 (0.27%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (0.27%) Wireshark
11 1 (0.090%) IP Telephony
11 1 (0.090%) NetScaler
11 1 (0.090%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 163 (14.71%) SQL Server
2 130 (11.73%) Power BI
3 81 (7.31%) Data Warehouse
4 69 (6.23%) Azure SQL Database
5 52 (4.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 43 (3.88%) Tableau
7 42 (3.79%) NoSQL
8 28 (2.53%) Data Lake
8 28 (2.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 25 (2.26%) Relational Database
10 21 (1.90%) PostgreSQL
11 20 (1.81%) Snowflake Schema
12 19 (1.71%) MongoDB
13 15 (1.35%) DynamoDB
14 13 (1.17%) Metadata
15 12 (1.08%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 10 (0.90%) BigQuery
16 10 (0.90%) Delta Lake
17 9 (0.81%) MySQL
18 6 (0.54%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 214 (19.31%) JIRA
2 190 (17.15%) Git
3 125 (11.28%) Jenkins
4 69 (6.23%) eCATT
5 57 (5.14%) Selenium
6 40 (3.61%) NeoLoad
7 37 (3.34%) Oracle Forms
8 33 (2.98%) GitLab
9 30 (2.71%) Cypress.io
10 29 (2.62%) Octopus Deploy
11 25 (2.26%) TeamCity
12 23 (2.08%) Visual Studio
13 21 (1.90%) Postman
13 21 (1.90%) Snyk
14 20 (1.81%) Robot Framework
15 10 (0.90%) Eclipse
15 10 (0.90%) JMeter
15 10 (0.90%) NUnit
15 10 (0.90%) Visual Studio Code
16 9 (0.81%) Cucumber
General
1 448 (40.43%) Finance
2 286 (25.81%) Social Skills
3 148 (13.36%) Analytical Skills
4 104 (9.39%) Marketing
5 71 (6.41%) Manufacturing
6 56 (5.05%) Presentation Skills
7 47 (4.24%) Law
8 43 (3.88%) Influencing Skills
9 26 (2.35%) Retail
10 25 (2.26%) Public Sector
11 24 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 22 (1.99%) Legal
13 18 (1.62%) Documentation Skills
14 15 (1.35%) Billing
15 14 (1.26%) Banking
16 9 (0.81%) Advertising
16 9 (0.81%) Games
16 9 (0.81%) Tech for Good
16 9 (0.81%) Telecoms
17 8 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 232 (20.94%) Senior
2 189 (17.06%) Developer
3 160 (14.44%) Lead
4 129 (11.64%) Analyst
5 127 (11.46%) DevOps Engineer
6 113 (10.20%) Azure Engineer
7 95 (8.57%) Cloud Engineer
8 59 (5.32%) Data Engineer
9 50 (4.51%) .NET Developer
9 50 (4.51%) Applications Engineer
9 50 (4.51%) Platform Engineer
10 48 (4.33%) Software Engineer
10 48 (4.33%) Test Leader
11 42 (3.79%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 41 (3.70%) Architect
13 38 (3.43%) Senior Cloud Engineer
14 34 (3.07%) Business Analyst
15 31 (2.80%) Test Analyst
16 30 (2.71%) Senior Developer
16 30 (2.71%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 275 (24.82%) .NET
2 118 (10.65%) RESTful
3 89 (8.03%) React
4 74 (6.68%) YAML
5 70 (6.32%) REST
6 67 (6.05%) .NET Framework
7 65 (5.87%) OAuth
8 62 (5.60%) .NET Core
9 55 (4.96%) SOAP
10 54 (4.87%) ASP.NET
10 54 (4.87%) JSON
11 48 (4.33%) CSS
12 47 (4.24%) HTML
13 40 (3.61%) ARM Templates
13 40 (3.61%) OAuth2
14 37 (3.34%) Entity Framework
15 36 (3.25%) AngularJS
16 31 (2.80%) Blazor
16 31 (2.80%) XML
17 29 (2.62%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 156 (14.08%) Cloud Native
2 121 (10.92%) Product Ownership
3 65 (5.87%) Enterprise Software
4 39 (3.52%) Management Information System
5 36 (3.25%) Legacy Systems
6 29 (2.62%) Low-Code
7 28 (2.53%) Security Posture
7 28 (2.53%) Virtual Team
8 27 (2.44%) Hybrid Cloud
8 27 (2.44%) Onboarding
9 26 (2.35%) Mobile App
10 22 (1.99%) Analytical Mindset
11 17 (1.53%) Data Centre
12 16 (1.44%) Distributed Systems
13 14 (1.26%) Greenfield Project
13 14 (1.26%) Reinsurance
14 12 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
15 10 (0.90%) Legacy Applications
15 10 (0.90%) Linux Command Line
16 9 (0.81%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 101 (9.12%) Windows
2 64 (5.78%) Linux
3 27 (2.44%) VMS
4 19 (1.71%) Windows Server
5 8 (0.72%) Android
6 7 (0.63%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.63%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.27%) Unix
8 2 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.090%) CentOS
9 1 (0.090%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.090%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,038 (93.68%) DevOps
2 644 (58.12%) CI/CD
3 528 (47.65%) Agile
4 300 (27.08%) Infrastructure as Code
5 286 (25.81%) Test Automation
6 255 (23.01%) Continuous Improvement
7 247 (22.29%) Problem-Solving
8 211 (19.04%) Coaching
9 210 (18.95%) AI
10 202 (18.23%) Mentoring
11 178 (16.06%) Analytics
12 156 (14.08%) Asset Management
13 139 (12.55%) Observability
14 135 (12.18%) Business Intelligence
15 132 (11.91%) Containerisation
16 131 (11.82%) Roadmaps
17 125 (11.28%) Data Modelling
18 116 (10.47%) Scrum
19 110 (9.93%) Microservices
20 108 (9.75%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 395 (35.65%) SQL
2 281 (25.36%) Python
3 229 (20.67%) C#
4 214 (19.31%) PowerShell
5 104 (9.39%) Bicep
6 92 (8.30%) JavaScript
7 89 (8.03%) Bash
8 67 (6.05%) TypeScript
9 57 (5.14%) Java
10 40 (3.61%) Shell Script
11 37 (3.34%) PL/SQL
12 34 (3.07%) T-SQL
13 30 (2.71%) Apex Code
14 17 (1.53%) Go
15 14 (1.26%) Scala
16 13 (1.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 9 (0.81%) Kusto Query Language
18 4 (0.36%) C++
19 3 (0.27%) Groovy
19 3 (0.27%) PHP
Qualifications
1 125 (11.28%) Degree
2 83 (7.49%) Azure Certification
3 71 (6.41%) Computer Science Degree
4 69 (6.23%) Security Cleared
5 41 (3.70%) ISTQB
5 41 (3.70%) Master's Degree
5 41 (3.70%) SC Cleared
6 31 (2.80%) Microsoft Certification
7 24 (2.17%) DV Cleared
8 21 (1.90%) AWS Certification
9 14 (1.26%) PMI Certification
10 12 (1.08%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 11 (0.99%) AWS Certified Developer
12 10 (0.90%) ISEB
12 10 (0.90%) PMP
13 6 (0.54%) Cisco Certification
13 6 (0.54%) DBS Check
13 6 (0.54%) HND
14 5 (0.45%) CBAP
15 4 (0.36%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 143 (12.91%) QA
2 54 (4.87%) Accessibility
3 45 (4.06%) GDPR
4 41 (3.70%) Data Quality
5 36 (3.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 18 (1.62%) NCSC
6 18 (1.62%) NIST
7 17 (1.53%) PMO
8 10 (0.90%) SOC 2
9 7 (0.63%) SLA
10 6 (0.54%) Software Quality Assurance
11 5 (0.45%) PERC
12 4 (0.36%) WCAG
13 1 (0.090%) Cyber Essentials
13 1 (0.090%) HIPAA
13 1 (0.090%) HL7
13 1 (0.090%) P3O
13 1 (0.090%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 142 (12.82%) Docker
2 75 (6.77%) Active Directory
3 24 (2.17%) Virtual Machines
4 15 (1.35%) Virtual Desktop
5 13 (1.17%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.36%) Firmware
6 4 (0.36%) Postfix
7 2 (0.18%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.18%) vCloud
8 1 (0.090%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 1 (0.090%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.090%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.090%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 369 (33.30%) Terraform
2 170 (15.34%) Kubernetes
3 91 (8.21%) Ansible
4 72 (6.50%) HP ALM
5 45 (4.06%) Grafana
6 38 (3.43%) Single Sign-On
7 35 (3.16%) Prometheus
8 20 (1.81%) Microsoft Intune
9 6 (0.54%) Kibana
10 4 (0.36%) Argo
10 4 (0.36%) logstash
10 4 (0.36%) Rancher
10 4 (0.36%) vRealize
11 3 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.27%) Dell DRAC
11 3 (0.27%) Puppet
11 3 (0.27%) SCCM
12 2 (0.18%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (0.18%) Nessus
12 2 (0.18%) SCOM
Vendors
1 365 (32.94%) Microsoft
2 77 (6.95%) SAP
3 72 (6.50%) HP
4 52 (4.69%) Databricks
5 45 (4.06%) Salesforce
6 42 (3.79%) Oracle
7 32 (2.89%) ServiceNow
8 24 (2.17%) Okta
9 22 (1.99%) VMware
10 18 (1.62%) Black Duck
10 18 (1.62%) Coverity
10 18 (1.62%) Palo Alto
11 16 (1.44%) Google
11 16 (1.44%) Zscaler
12 14 (1.26%) Ab Initio
12 14 (1.26%) Xamarin
13 12 (1.08%) Dynatrace
13 12 (1.08%) Sage
14 11 (0.99%) OpenAI
15 9 (0.81%) Zoho