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 1 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 173 116
Rank change year-on-year +22 -57 -17
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,369 947 1,884
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.33% 1.91% 2.19%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.92% 5.93% 6.82%
Number of salaries quoted 1,106 719 1,380
10th Percentile £43,063 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £95,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000

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 27,825 15,982 27,605
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.96% 32.28% 32.13%
Number of salaries quoted 18,249 11,126 20,233
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £40,875 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.37%
75th Percentile £84,500 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,410 £99,950
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £51,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +6.80% -1.90% -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 1 August 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 1 August 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 +24 1,219 £65,000 -7.14% 530
UK excluding London +59 916 £60,000 - 372
Work from Home +32 571 £60,000 -11.11% 340
London -40 386 £80,000 +3.23% 235
North of England +87 272 £60,250 -7.31% 89
South East 0 226 £60,000 -4.38% 126
North West +84 153 £65,500 +0.77% 53
Midlands +17 140 £63,500 +5.83% 59
South West -10 100 £55,000 -4.35% 31
Wales -10 78 £53,171 -5.47% 18
East of England +17 77 £56,000 -10.40% 30
East Midlands +22 71 £58,750 +6.82% 22
West Midlands -21 69 £65,000 +6.12% 37
Yorkshire -3 66 £69,308 +2.68% 27
North East -8 53 £51,619 -6.15% 10
Scotland +13 23 £57,500 -10.85% 17
Northern Ireland -73 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 66 (4.82%) Confluence
2 65 (4.75%) SharePoint
3 28 (2.05%) Microsoft Exchange
4 20 (1.46%) IIS
5 19 (1.39%) Apache Spark
6 11 (0.80%) Apache
6 11 (0.80%) CMS
7 9 (0.66%) nginx
8 8 (0.58%) Anypoint
8 8 (0.58%) SharePoint Server
9 6 (0.44%) Camunda
9 6 (0.44%) Umbraco
10 5 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
11 3 (0.22%) BizTalk Server
11 3 (0.22%) CICS
11 3 (0.22%) WordPress
12 2 (0.15%) Luigi
12 2 (0.15%) Moodle
13 1 (0.073%) NServiceBus
13 1 (0.073%) TPMS
Applications
1 18 (1.31%) Microsoft Project
2 14 (1.02%) MS Visio
3 11 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
4 9 (0.66%) Trello
5 8 (0.58%) Chatbot
5 8 (0.58%) Microsoft Office
6 5 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.073%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.073%) Notion
7 1 (0.073%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 19 (1.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.66%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.58%) Elite 3E
4 6 (0.44%) SAP IBP
5 5 (0.37%) Visualfiles
6 4 (0.29%) Dynamics AX
6 4 (0.29%) Dynamics NAV
6 4 (0.29%) Shopify
7 3 (0.22%) Carpe Diem
7 3 (0.22%) SAP Business One
8 2 (0.15%) JDE EnterpriseOne
8 2 (0.15%) Magento
8 2 (0.15%) Oracle Applications
9 1 (0.073%) Infor M3
9 1 (0.073%) Integrated Workplace Management System
9 1 (0.073%) Sage 200
9 1 (0.073%) Salesforce CRM
9 1 (0.073%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,368 (99.93%) Azure
2 220 (16.07%) GitHub
3 215 (15.70%) Power Platform
4 168 (12.27%) AWS
5 133 (9.72%) GitHub Actions
6 121 (8.84%) Serverless
7 109 (7.96%) Azure Service Bus
8 106 (7.74%) Azure AKS
9 103 (7.52%) Dynamics 365
10 99 (7.23%) Azure AI
10 99 (7.23%) Azure Functions
11 98 (7.16%) Azure Monitor
12 97 (7.09%) PaaS
13 91 (6.65%) Azure Logic Apps
14 82 (5.99%) SaaS
15 80 (5.84%) Entra ID
16 78 (5.70%) Microsoft 365
17 74 (5.41%) Azure Key Vault
18 72 (5.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
19 69 (5.04%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 37 (2.70%) Firewall
2 23 (1.68%) VPN
3 17 (1.24%) DNS
4 13 (0.95%) Network Security
5 12 (0.88%) HTTP
5 12 (0.88%) Internet
6 9 (0.66%) TCP/IP
7 7 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
8 6 (0.44%) MQTT
8 6 (0.44%) SAN
8 6 (0.44%) Wireless
8 6 (0.44%) ZigBee
9 4 (0.29%) Bluetooth
10 3 (0.22%) BGP
10 3 (0.22%) DHCP
10 3 (0.22%) HTTPS
10 3 (0.22%) VLAN
11 2 (0.15%) LoRaWAN
12 1 (0.073%) Broadband
12 1 (0.073%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 242 (17.68%) Azure SQL Database
2 171 (12.49%) MongoDB
3 154 (11.25%) SQL Server
4 99 (7.23%) Power BI
5 54 (3.94%) PostgreSQL
6 50 (3.65%) Data Warehouse
7 37 (2.70%) Relational Database
8 36 (2.63%) Elasticsearch
9 30 (2.19%) Delta Lake
10 27 (1.97%) NoSQL
11 25 (1.83%) Redis
12 22 (1.61%) Data Lake
12 22 (1.61%) MySQL
12 22 (1.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 18 (1.31%) Spark SQL
14 17 (1.24%) Metadata
15 15 (1.10%) Star Schema
16 14 (1.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 14 (1.02%) Tableau
17 11 (0.80%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 214 (15.63%) Git
2 179 (13.08%) JIRA
3 122 (8.91%) Jenkins
4 82 (5.99%) GitLab
5 50 (3.65%) Selenium
6 42 (3.07%) Cypress.io
7 40 (2.92%) Postman
8 19 (1.39%) REST Assured
9 18 (1.31%) Visual Studio
10 17 (1.24%) Eclipse
11 16 (1.17%) JUnit
12 15 (1.10%) JMeter
13 14 (1.02%) fastlane
13 14 (1.02%) TestRail
14 13 (0.95%) NUnit
14 13 (0.95%) Zephyr
15 12 (0.88%) Octopus Deploy
16 10 (0.73%) Mockito
17 9 (0.66%) Visual Studio Code
17 9 (0.66%) Xcode
General
1 336 (24.54%) Social Skills
2 296 (21.62%) Finance
3 131 (9.57%) Analytical Skills
4 102 (7.45%) Public Sector
5 97 (7.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 56 (4.09%) Law
6 56 (4.09%) Retail
7 45 (3.29%) Marketing
8 39 (2.85%) Legal
9 34 (2.48%) Banking
10 31 (2.26%) Advertising
11 24 (1.75%) Games
11 24 (1.75%) Manufacturing
11 24 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
12 22 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
13 15 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
14 11 (0.80%) Aviation
15 10 (0.73%) Automotive
16 9 (0.66%) Billing
16 9 (0.66%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 426 (31.12%) Developer
2 281 (20.53%) Senior
3 213 (15.56%) DevOps Engineer
4 204 (14.90%) .NET Developer
5 192 (14.02%) Azure Engineer
6 175 (12.78%) Lead
7 110 (8.04%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 89 (6.50%) Senior Developer
9 76 (5.55%) Data Engineer
10 74 (5.41%) Platform Engineer
11 67 (4.89%) Analyst
12 60 (4.38%) Cloud Engineer
13 57 (4.16%) Senior DevOps
14 55 (4.02%) Architect
15 54 (3.94%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 50 (3.65%) Software Engineer
17 39 (2.85%) Cloud Platform Engineer
18 38 (2.78%) Senior Data Engineer
19 37 (2.70%) Software Developer
20 36 (2.63%) Azure Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 450 (32.87%) .NET
2 245 (17.90%) ASP.NET
3 223 (16.29%) .NET Core
4 197 (14.39%) ASP.NET Core
5 171 (12.49%) React
6 156 (11.40%) HTML
7 154 (11.25%) CSS
8 152 (11.10%) RESTful
9 145 (10.59%) REST
10 118 (8.62%) Blazor
10 118 (8.62%) Entity Framework
11 89 (6.50%) Node.js
12 82 (5.99%) ML.NET
13 65 (4.75%) Playwright
14 57 (4.16%) .NET Framework
15 56 (4.09%) ARM Templates
16 55 (4.02%) YAML
17 51 (3.73%) JSON
18 45 (3.29%) OAuth
19 42 (3.07%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 136 (9.93%) Product Ownership
2 132 (9.64%) Cloud Native
3 60 (4.38%) Enterprise Software
4 54 (3.94%) Mobile App
5 51 (3.73%) Legacy Systems
6 49 (3.58%) Onboarding
7 38 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
8 36 (2.63%) Greenfield Project
9 27 (1.97%) Hybrid Cloud
10 25 (1.83%) Analytical Mindset
10 25 (1.83%) Management Information System
11 22 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
12 21 (1.53%) Low-Code
13 19 (1.39%) Podcast
14 18 (1.31%) Public Cloud
15 17 (1.24%) BBC
15 17 (1.24%) iPhone
15 17 (1.24%) Social Media
16 16 (1.17%) Data Centre
17 15 (1.10%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 99 (7.23%) Linux
2 90 (6.57%) Windows
3 26 (1.90%) Android
4 23 (1.68%) VMS
5 18 (1.31%) Unix
6 17 (1.24%) Windows Server
7 15 (1.10%) Apple iOS
8 13 (0.95%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.29%) Kali Linux
10 3 (0.22%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.15%) Debian
11 2 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (0.15%) Rocky
12 1 (0.073%) Solaris
12 1 (0.073%) SUSE
12 1 (0.073%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,368 (99.93%) DevOps
2 800 (58.44%) CI/CD
3 649 (47.41%) Agile
4 320 (23.37%) Infrastructure as Code
5 309 (22.57%) AI
6 281 (20.53%) Continuous Improvement
7 247 (18.04%) Full-Stack Development
8 246 (17.97%) Test Automation
9 219 (16.00%) Scrum
10 208 (15.19%) Problem-Solving
11 200 (14.61%) Mentoring
12 174 (12.71%) Microservices
13 158 (11.54%) Analytics
14 152 (11.10%) Observability
15 140 (10.23%) Machine Learning
16 137 (10.01%) Platform Engineering
17 130 (9.50%) Stakeholder Management
18 127 (9.28%) Roadmaps
18 127 (9.28%) SDLC
19 125 (9.13%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 488 (35.65%) SQL
2 443 (32.36%) C#
3 253 (18.48%) Python
4 240 (17.53%) JavaScript
5 159 (11.61%) PowerShell
6 125 (9.13%) Bash
7 116 (8.47%) Bicep
8 85 (6.21%) Java
9 64 (4.67%) TypeScript
10 33 (2.41%) T-SQL
11 18 (1.31%) Go
12 17 (1.24%) C++
13 16 (1.17%) Kusto Query Language
14 14 (1.02%) Scala
15 12 (0.88%) Swift
15 12 (0.88%) VB.NET
16 9 (0.66%) Apex Code
16 9 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 8 (0.58%) DataWeave
17 8 (0.58%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 104 (7.60%) Security Cleared
2 92 (6.72%) Degree
3 87 (6.36%) SC Cleared
4 76 (5.55%) Azure Certification
5 40 (2.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 31 (2.26%) ISTQB
7 26 (1.90%) Microsoft Certification
8 18 (1.31%) PMI Certification
9 13 (0.95%) Master's Degree
10 12 (0.88%) PMP
11 11 (0.80%) DV Cleared
12 10 (0.73%) AWS Certification
13 6 (0.44%) CISSP
13 6 (0.44%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 5 (0.37%) ISEB
14 5 (0.37%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
15 4 (0.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 4 (0.29%) HND
15 4 (0.29%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 4 (0.29%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 176 (12.86%) QA
2 87 (6.36%) Accessibility
3 54 (3.94%) Data Quality
4 32 (2.34%) GDPR
4 32 (2.34%) WCAG
5 25 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 15 (1.10%) PMO
7 12 (0.88%) TickIT
8 10 (0.73%) GRC
9 9 (0.66%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 8 (0.58%) NCSC
10 8 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 8 (0.58%) SLA
11 6 (0.44%) JTAG
11 6 (0.44%) Software Quality Assurance
11 6 (0.44%) Solvency II
12 5 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
12 5 (0.37%) IFRS
13 3 (0.22%) ISO 9001
14 2 (0.15%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 169 (12.34%) Docker
2 62 (4.53%) Active Directory
3 20 (1.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (1.02%) Virtual Desktop
5 12 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.88%) vSphere
6 5 (0.37%) Firmware
7 3 (0.22%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.15%) Xen
Systems Management
1 335 (24.47%) Terraform
2 163 (11.91%) Kubernetes
3 65 (4.75%) Ansible
4 61 (4.46%) Grafana
5 57 (4.16%) Prometheus
6 30 (2.19%) Argo
7 9 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
8 8 (0.58%) Puppet
9 4 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (0.29%) HP Fortify
10 3 (0.22%) HP ALM
10 3 (0.22%) Kibana
10 3 (0.22%) Nagios
10 3 (0.22%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.22%) Scalr
11 2 (0.15%) FlexNet
11 2 (0.15%) MIIS
11 2 (0.15%) Nessus
11 2 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.15%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 590 (43.10%) Microsoft
2 73 (5.33%) Databricks
3 63 (4.60%) Google
4 41 (2.99%) Salesforce
5 38 (2.78%) Facebook
6 32 (2.34%) ServiceNow
7 30 (2.19%) Apple
8 28 (2.05%) VMware
9 25 (1.83%) Dynatrace
10 22 (1.61%) Red Hat
11 21 (1.53%) YouTube
12 18 (1.31%) MuleSoft
13 17 (1.24%) OpenAI
13 17 (1.24%) SAP
13 17 (1.24%) Sony
13 17 (1.24%) Yahoo!
14 15 (1.10%) Oracle
15 14 (1.02%) Guidewire
16 12 (0.88%) ScienceLogic
17 11 (0.80%) Foundry