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

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 172 169 120
Rank change year-on-year -3 -49 -17
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,115 874 2,290
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.21% 1.99% 2.21%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.33% 5.94% 6.50%
Number of salaries quoted 874 677 1,745
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £42,368
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
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 £91,250 £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 25,747 14,721 35,231
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.90% 33.51% 33.94%
Number of salaries quoted 15,739 10,108 27,017
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,875 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -10.35%
75th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -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 6 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 6 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 -5 996 £67,000 -4.29% 410
UK excluding London +29 695 £60,000 -4.00% 316
Work from Home +26 411 £65,000 -3.70% 223
London -8 359 £77,500 +3.33% 142
North of England +48 201 £65,000 -7.14% 77
South East -17 186 £56,250 -13.46% 108
Midlands +15 117 £65,000 +8.33% 48
North West +57 109 £69,310 +2.68% 43
South West -29 70 £55,000 -4.35% 26
West Midlands -29 63 £62,500 +4.17% 29
East Midlands +9 52 £65,500 +19.09% 19
Yorkshire -32 50 £69,305 -0.99% 18
East of England -5 48 £56,000 -2.61% 31
North East -5 42 £48,750 -11.36% 16
Scotland +25 37 £62,500 - 15
Wales -20 36 £53,000 -18.46% 11
Northern Ireland -37 2 £72,500 +45.00% 5

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 41 (3.68%) Confluence
1 41 (3.68%) SharePoint
2 21 (1.88%) Microsoft Exchange
3 17 (1.52%) IIS
4 12 (1.08%) Apache Spark
5 8 (0.72%) SharePoint Server
6 7 (0.63%) Apache
6 7 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
6 7 (0.63%) CMS
7 6 (0.54%) Umbraco
8 5 (0.45%) Anypoint
9 3 (0.27%) WordPress
10 2 (0.18%) CICS
10 2 (0.18%) Luigi
10 2 (0.18%) Moodle
10 2 (0.18%) nginx
10 2 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.090%) BizTalk Server
11 1 (0.090%) Drupal
11 1 (0.090%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 19 (1.70%) MS Visio
2 14 (1.26%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (0.81%) Microsoft Project
4 7 (0.63%) Chatbot
5 5 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.18%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.18%) Trello
7 1 (0.090%) Notion
7 1 (0.090%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 12 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.45%) Dynamics AX
2 5 (0.45%) Visualfiles
3 4 (0.36%) Dynamics NAV
3 4 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (0.27%) Elite 3E
4 3 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.18%) Magento
6 1 (0.090%) Infor M3
6 1 (0.090%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 1 (0.090%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.090%) Sage 200
6 1 (0.090%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.090%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1,114 (99.91%) Azure
2 235 (21.08%) GitHub
3 175 (15.70%) Power Platform
4 160 (14.35%) AWS
5 142 (12.74%) GitHub Actions
6 98 (8.79%) Azure Monitor
7 97 (8.70%) Azure AKS
7 97 (8.70%) Serverless
8 84 (7.53%) Entra ID
9 79 (7.09%) PaaS
10 75 (6.73%) Microsoft 365
11 74 (6.64%) Azure Logic Apps
12 70 (6.28%) Azure Data Factory
13 68 (6.10%) Azure Service Bus
14 67 (6.01%) Azure Functions
15 65 (5.83%) SaaS
16 64 (5.74%) Dynamics 365
17 63 (5.65%) GCP
18 49 (4.39%) Azure Key Vault
19 48 (4.30%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 57 (5.11%) Firewall
2 29 (2.60%) DNS
3 17 (1.52%) HTTP
4 16 (1.43%) TCP/IP
5 14 (1.26%) VPN
6 12 (1.08%) Network Security
7 9 (0.81%) WAN
8 5 (0.45%) DHCP
9 4 (0.36%) Bluetooth
9 4 (0.36%) MQTT
9 4 (0.36%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (0.36%) Wireless
9 4 (0.36%) ZigBee
10 3 (0.27%) BGP
10 3 (0.27%) HTTPS
10 3 (0.27%) SAN
11 2 (0.18%) Internet
11 2 (0.18%) VLAN
12 1 (0.090%) IP Telephony
12 1 (0.090%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 141 (12.65%) Azure SQL Database
2 117 (10.49%) SQL Server
3 97 (8.70%) Power BI
4 85 (7.62%) MongoDB
5 41 (3.68%) PostgreSQL
6 38 (3.41%) Data Warehouse
7 35 (3.14%) Data Lake
8 29 (2.60%) NoSQL
8 29 (2.60%) Relational Database
9 25 (2.24%) Delta Lake
10 19 (1.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 17 (1.52%) Spark SQL
12 15 (1.35%) Elasticsearch
13 14 (1.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 13 (1.17%) Star Schema
14 13 (1.17%) Tableau
15 12 (1.08%) Metadata
15 12 (1.08%) Redis
16 10 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
16 10 (0.90%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 176 (15.78%) Git
2 136 (12.20%) JIRA
3 117 (10.49%) Jenkins
4 74 (6.64%) GitLab
5 53 (4.75%) Selenium
6 43 (3.86%) Cypress.io
7 35 (3.14%) Postman
8 24 (2.15%) Eclipse
9 16 (1.43%) Visual Studio
10 15 (1.35%) REST Assured
11 14 (1.26%) Octopus Deploy
12 13 (1.17%) fastlane
12 13 (1.17%) Zephyr
13 12 (1.08%) TestRail
14 11 (0.99%) JMeter
15 10 (0.90%) TeamCity
16 8 (0.72%) Xcode
17 7 (0.63%) Cucumber
18 6 (0.54%) Crashlytics
18 6 (0.54%) Gradle
General
1 279 (25.02%) Finance
2 243 (21.79%) Social Skills
3 120 (10.76%) Analytical Skills
4 78 (7.00%) Public Sector
5 57 (5.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 47 (4.22%) Law
7 40 (3.59%) Retail
8 35 (3.14%) Legal
9 30 (2.69%) Marketing
10 26 (2.33%) Banking
10 26 (2.33%) Billing
11 20 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
12 16 (1.43%) Telecoms
13 14 (1.26%) Advertising
13 14 (1.26%) Games
14 11 (0.99%) Automotive
14 11 (0.99%) Manufacturing
14 11 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
15 9 (0.81%) Aviation
15 9 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 285 (25.56%) Developer
2 220 (19.73%) Senior
3 213 (19.10%) DevOps Engineer
4 194 (17.40%) Azure Engineer
5 153 (13.72%) Lead
6 107 (9.60%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 98 (8.79%) .NET Developer
8 68 (6.10%) Cloud Engineer
9 67 (6.01%) Data Engineer
10 66 (5.92%) Senior Developer
11 60 (5.38%) Platform Engineer
12 53 (4.75%) Analyst
12 53 (4.75%) Architect
13 50 (4.48%) Senior DevOps
14 48 (4.30%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 39 (3.50%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 39 (3.50%) Software Engineer
16 34 (3.05%) Azure Platform Engineer
17 32 (2.87%) Software Developer
18 27 (2.42%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 317 (28.43%) .NET
2 136 (12.20%) ASP.NET
3 127 (11.39%) React
4 120 (10.76%) .NET Core
5 108 (9.69%) HTML
6 107 (9.60%) CSS
7 106 (9.51%) REST
8 100 (8.97%) ASP.NET Core
9 87 (7.80%) RESTful
10 69 (6.19%) Node.js
11 61 (5.47%) YAML
12 60 (5.38%) Entity Framework
12 60 (5.38%) Playwright
13 58 (5.20%) Blazor
14 48 (4.30%) ARM Templates
14 48 (4.30%) OAuth
15 43 (3.86%) PySpark
16 40 (3.59%) JSON
17 38 (3.41%) .NET Framework
17 38 (3.41%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 119 (10.67%) Product Ownership
2 92 (8.25%) Cloud Native
3 43 (3.86%) Mobile App
4 33 (2.96%) Enterprise Software
5 30 (2.69%) Onboarding
6 29 (2.60%) Legacy Systems
6 29 (2.60%) Management Information System
7 26 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
8 21 (1.88%) Hybrid Cloud
9 20 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
9 20 (1.79%) Low-Code
10 16 (1.43%) Reinsurance
11 15 (1.35%) Data Structures
11 15 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
12 11 (0.99%) Enterprise Cloud
12 11 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
13 10 (0.90%) Virtual Team
14 9 (0.81%) Podcast
14 9 (0.81%) Public Cloud
15 8 (0.72%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 93 (8.34%) Linux
2 63 (5.65%) Windows
3 21 (1.88%) VMS
4 17 (1.52%) Android
4 17 (1.52%) Ubuntu
4 17 (1.52%) Unix
5 15 (1.35%) Apple iOS
6 14 (1.26%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.36%) Kali Linux
8 3 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.090%) SUSE
9 1 (0.090%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 1 (0.090%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,114 (99.91%) DevOps
2 680 (60.99%) CI/CD
3 472 (42.33%) Agile
4 297 (26.64%) Infrastructure as Code
5 247 (22.15%) Test Automation
6 217 (19.46%) Continuous Improvement
7 204 (18.30%) AI
8 189 (16.95%) Problem-Solving
9 166 (14.89%) Scrum
10 164 (14.71%) Mentoring
11 159 (14.26%) Analytics
12 149 (13.36%) Full-Stack Development
13 144 (12.91%) Observability
14 133 (11.93%) Microservices
15 124 (11.12%) Containerisation
16 118 (10.58%) Data Modelling
17 107 (9.60%) Business Intelligence
18 102 (9.15%) Coaching
18 102 (9.15%) Roadmaps
19 101 (9.06%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 374 (33.54%) SQL
2 290 (26.01%) C#
3 251 (22.51%) Python
4 174 (15.61%) JavaScript
5 135 (12.11%) PowerShell
6 116 (10.40%) Bash
7 85 (7.62%) Bicep
8 76 (6.82%) Java
9 56 (5.02%) TypeScript
10 21 (1.88%) Go
10 21 (1.88%) Scala
11 16 (1.43%) T-SQL
12 15 (1.35%) C++
13 13 (1.17%) Apex Code
13 13 (1.17%) Kusto Query Language
14 12 (1.08%) Swift
15 10 (0.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 8 (0.72%) Kotlin
16 8 (0.72%) PL/SQL
17 6 (0.54%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 87 (7.80%) Degree
2 71 (6.37%) Security Cleared
3 53 (4.75%) Azure Certification
3 53 (4.75%) SC Cleared
4 35 (3.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (2.33%) ISTQB
6 19 (1.70%) Microsoft Certification
7 13 (1.17%) Master's Degree
8 12 (1.08%) DV Cleared
8 12 (1.08%) HND
9 9 (0.81%) AWS Certification
9 9 (0.81%) PMI Certification
10 6 (0.54%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 5 (0.45%) CISSP
12 4 (0.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (0.36%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 4 (0.36%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 3 (0.27%) AWS Certified Developer
14 2 (0.18%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
14 2 (0.18%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 129 (11.57%) QA
2 84 (7.53%) Accessibility
3 51 (4.57%) Data Quality
4 40 (3.59%) GDPR
5 24 (2.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 19 (1.70%) WCAG
7 12 (1.08%) SLA
7 12 (1.08%) TickIT
8 10 (0.90%) GRC
8 10 (0.90%) SOC 2
9 8 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 6 (0.54%) PMO
10 6 (0.54%) Software Quality Assurance
10 6 (0.54%) Solvency II
11 5 (0.45%) IFRS
12 4 (0.36%) JTAG
13 3 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
13 3 (0.27%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 2 (0.18%) ISO 9001
14 2 (0.18%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 145 (13.00%) Docker
2 61 (5.47%) Active Directory
3 16 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.27%) Firmware
7 2 (0.18%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.18%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 313 (28.07%) Terraform
2 119 (10.67%) Kubernetes
3 74 (6.64%) Ansible
4 64 (5.74%) Grafana
5 53 (4.75%) Prometheus
6 25 (2.24%) Argo
7 10 (0.90%) Kibana
8 6 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
8 6 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (0.36%) HP Fortify
10 4 (0.36%) Puppet
11 3 (0.27%) HP ALM
11 3 (0.27%) Nagios
11 3 (0.27%) Scalr
12 2 (0.18%) MIIS
12 2 (0.18%) SCCM
13 1 (0.090%) FortiGate
13 1 (0.090%) logstash
13 1 (0.090%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 424 (38.03%) Microsoft
2 69 (6.19%) Databricks
3 44 (3.95%) Salesforce
4 38 (3.41%) ServiceNow
5 27 (2.42%) Google
6 24 (2.15%) Dynatrace
6 24 (2.15%) Red Hat
7 20 (1.79%) Apple
8 16 (1.43%) Oracle
8 16 (1.43%) VMware
9 15 (1.35%) Facebook
9 15 (1.35%) MuleSoft
10 13 (1.17%) Adobe
11 12 (1.08%) Guidewire
11 12 (1.08%) Splunk
12 11 (0.99%) Freshdesk
12 11 (0.99%) Nintex
12 11 (0.99%) Palo Alto
12 11 (0.99%) Zscaler
13 9 (0.81%) CrowdStrike