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 5 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 109 108
Rank change year-on-year -21 -1 -8
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,130 1,364 1,942
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.75% 2.67% 2.66%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.23% 7.28% 6.91%
Number of salaries quoted 725 869 1,707
10th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £53,688 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -4.58%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £93,778 £95,000
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 21,617 18,738 28,102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.39% 36.66% 38.54%
Number of salaries quoted 11,744 11,099 23,366
10th Percentile £28,750 £34,788 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,938 £42,454
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,396
% change year-on-year -9.09% +9.14% -8.37%

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 5 February 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 5 February 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 -35 889 £65,000 -3.70% 362
UK excluding London -31 704 £55,000 -15.38% 305
Work from Home -3 501 £62,500 -5.30% 244
London +32 353 £75,000 - 129
South East +1 244 £50,000 -23.08% 103
Scotland +63 171 £57,000 +3.64% 24
North of England -38 104 £55,000 -18.19% 74
Midlands -52 76 £60,000 -7.69% 43
South West -68 69 £47,500 -26.92% 29
West Midlands -54 55 £58,000 -10.77% 27
Yorkshire -38 40 £53,750 -23.21% 22
North West -36 35 £65,000 - 44
North East +1 29 £50,000 -27.27% 8
Wales -3 23 £55,000 -15.38% 15
East Midlands -12 18 £65,000 - 16
East of England -43 14 £65,000 +30.00% 20
Northern Ireland -17 3 £56,250 - 2

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 (3.36%) Confluence
2 34 (3.01%) IIS
3 27 (2.39%) SharePoint
4 19 (1.68%) Microsoft Exchange
5 17 (1.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 10 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
7 7 (0.62%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.35%) Apache
9 3 (0.27%) Appian
10 2 (0.18%) Anypoint
10 2 (0.18%) BizTalk Server
10 2 (0.18%) Moodle
11 1 (0.088%) nginx
11 1 (0.088%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.088%) Tomcat
Applications
1 38 (3.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 25 (2.21%) MS Visio
3 20 (1.77%) Microsoft Office
4 16 (1.42%) Microsoft Project
5 13 (1.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.35%) Trello
7 2 (0.18%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.088%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 71 (6.28%) SAP S/4HANA
2 38 (3.36%) Dynamics CRM
3 37 (3.27%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (0.27%) SAP CX
5 2 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.18%) Markit EDM
5 2 (0.18%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.088%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.088%) Endur
6 1 (0.088%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 1 (0.088%) Primavera
6 1 (0.088%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 1,061 (93.89%) Azure
2 348 (30.80%) GitHub
3 220 (19.47%) Power Platform
4 167 (14.78%) AWS
5 157 (13.89%) GitHub Actions
6 101 (8.94%) Azure Monitor
7 97 (8.58%) Entra ID
8 91 (8.05%) Azure Data Factory
9 87 (7.70%) Serverless
10 80 (7.08%) PaaS
10 80 (7.08%) Snowflake
11 77 (6.81%) Microsoft 365
12 70 (6.19%) SaaS
13 66 (5.84%) GitHub Copilot
14 65 (5.75%) Azure AKS
15 62 (5.49%) Dynamics 365
16 59 (5.22%) Azure Logic Apps
17 58 (5.13%) dbt
18 54 (4.78%) GCP
19 53 (4.69%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 62 (5.49%) Firewall
2 45 (3.98%) DNS
3 28 (2.48%) VPN
4 20 (1.77%) WAN
5 16 (1.42%) HTTP
6 14 (1.24%) TCP/IP
7 8 (0.71%) DHCP
7 8 (0.71%) Network Security
8 6 (0.53%) SD-WAN
9 5 (0.44%) BGP
9 5 (0.44%) VLAN
10 4 (0.35%) SSL
11 3 (0.27%) AMQP
11 3 (0.27%) IPsec
11 3 (0.27%) OSPF
11 3 (0.27%) Wi-Fi
11 3 (0.27%) Wireshark
12 1 (0.088%) IP Telephony
12 1 (0.088%) NetScaler
12 1 (0.088%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 159 (14.07%) SQL Server
2 132 (11.68%) Power BI
3 74 (6.55%) Data Warehouse
4 69 (6.11%) Azure SQL Database
5 48 (4.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 41 (3.63%) NoSQL
7 38 (3.36%) Tableau
8 32 (2.83%) Data Lake
9 28 (2.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 21 (1.86%) Relational Database
11 20 (1.77%) PostgreSQL
11 20 (1.77%) Snowflake Schema
12 16 (1.42%) MongoDB
13 15 (1.33%) DynamoDB
14 12 (1.06%) Metadata
14 12 (1.06%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 11 (0.97%) Delta Lake
16 9 (0.80%) MySQL
16 9 (0.80%) Star Schema
17 8 (0.71%) GIS
Development Applications
1 211 (18.67%) JIRA
2 187 (16.55%) Git
3 126 (11.15%) Jenkins
4 69 (6.11%) eCATT
5 56 (4.96%) Selenium
6 39 (3.45%) NeoLoad
7 37 (3.27%) Oracle Forms
8 32 (2.83%) Cypress.io
9 30 (2.65%) GitLab
10 26 (2.30%) Octopus Deploy
11 22 (1.95%) TeamCity
11 22 (1.95%) Visual Studio
12 21 (1.86%) Snyk
13 20 (1.77%) Robot Framework
14 19 (1.68%) Postman
15 12 (1.06%) Eclipse
16 9 (0.80%) SpecFlow
17 8 (0.71%) MLflow
17 8 (0.71%) NUnit
18 7 (0.62%) Cucumber
General
1 452 (40.00%) Finance
2 274 (24.25%) Social Skills
3 153 (13.54%) Analytical Skills
4 100 (8.85%) Marketing
5 72 (6.37%) Manufacturing
6 59 (5.22%) Presentation Skills
7 46 (4.07%) Law
8 44 (3.89%) Influencing Skills
9 29 (2.57%) Public Sector
10 23 (2.04%) Billing
11 22 (1.95%) Retail
12 20 (1.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 18 (1.59%) Legal
14 14 (1.24%) Documentation Skills
15 13 (1.15%) Banking
15 13 (1.15%) Telecoms
16 10 (0.88%) Tech for Good
17 9 (0.80%) Advertising
18 8 (0.71%) Games
19 7 (0.62%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 238 (21.06%) Senior
2 201 (17.79%) Developer
3 156 (13.81%) Lead
4 140 (12.39%) DevOps Engineer
5 128 (11.33%) Azure Engineer
6 125 (11.06%) Analyst
7 106 (9.38%) Cloud Engineer
8 60 (5.31%) Data Engineer
9 51 (4.51%) Applications Engineer
9 51 (4.51%) Platform Engineer
10 50 (4.42%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 50 (4.42%) Software Engineer
11 49 (4.34%) .NET Developer
11 49 (4.34%) Test Leader
12 41 (3.63%) Architect
13 39 (3.45%) Senior Cloud Engineer
14 35 (3.10%) Business Analyst
15 31 (2.74%) Senior Developer
15 31 (2.74%) Support Engineer
16 27 (2.39%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 278 (24.60%) .NET
2 115 (10.18%) RESTful
3 97 (8.58%) React
4 77 (6.81%) REST
5 72 (6.37%) YAML
6 70 (6.19%) OAuth
7 67 (5.93%) .NET Framework
8 61 (5.40%) .NET Core
8 61 (5.40%) ASP.NET
9 54 (4.78%) SOAP
10 53 (4.69%) CSS
11 52 (4.60%) HTML
11 52 (4.60%) JSON
12 41 (3.63%) OAuth2
13 36 (3.19%) AngularJS
13 36 (3.19%) Entity Framework
14 35 (3.10%) SAML
15 34 (3.01%) ARM Templates
15 34 (3.01%) Playwright
16 30 (2.65%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 152 (13.45%) Cloud Native
2 124 (10.97%) Product Ownership
3 58 (5.13%) Enterprise Software
4 42 (3.72%) Management Information System
5 35 (3.10%) Legacy Systems
6 34 (3.01%) Low-Code
7 27 (2.39%) Mobile App
8 26 (2.30%) Virtual Team
9 24 (2.12%) Analytical Mindset
9 24 (2.12%) Hybrid Cloud
9 24 (2.12%) Onboarding
10 23 (2.04%) Security Posture
11 18 (1.59%) Reinsurance
12 15 (1.33%) Data Centre
12 15 (1.33%) Distributed Systems
13 12 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
14 11 (0.97%) Data Structures
14 11 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
15 10 (0.88%) Legacy Applications
16 9 (0.80%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 98 (8.67%) Windows
2 69 (6.11%) Linux
3 30 (2.65%) VMS
4 17 (1.50%) Windows Server
5 10 (0.88%) Ubuntu
6 7 (0.62%) Android
7 6 (0.53%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.27%) Unix
9 2 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.088%) CentOS
10 1 (0.088%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.088%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.088%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,061 (93.89%) DevOps
2 652 (57.70%) CI/CD
3 529 (46.81%) Agile
4 309 (27.35%) Infrastructure as Code
5 283 (25.04%) Test Automation
6 264 (23.36%) Continuous Improvement
7 233 (20.62%) Problem-Solving
8 213 (18.85%) Coaching
9 205 (18.14%) AI
10 190 (16.81%) Mentoring
11 183 (16.19%) Analytics
12 159 (14.07%) Asset Management
13 140 (12.39%) Observability
14 136 (12.04%) Data Modelling
15 134 (11.86%) Business Intelligence
15 134 (11.86%) Containerisation
16 133 (11.77%) Roadmaps
17 116 (10.27%) Software Engineering
18 113 (10.00%) Microservices
19 111 (9.82%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 396 (35.04%) SQL
2 289 (25.58%) Python
3 236 (20.88%) C#
4 197 (17.43%) PowerShell
5 105 (9.29%) JavaScript
6 101 (8.94%) Bicep
7 96 (8.50%) Bash
8 69 (6.11%) TypeScript
9 56 (4.96%) Java
10 40 (3.54%) Shell Script
11 37 (3.27%) PL/SQL
12 31 (2.74%) Apex Code
13 30 (2.65%) T-SQL
14 21 (1.86%) Go
15 15 (1.33%) Scala
16 12 (1.06%) Kusto Query Language
17 9 (0.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 4 (0.35%) C++
18 4 (0.35%) PHP
18 4 (0.35%) VB
Qualifications
1 130 (11.50%) Degree
2 73 (6.46%) Azure Certification
2 73 (6.46%) Security Cleared
3 67 (5.93%) Computer Science Degree
4 43 (3.81%) SC Cleared
5 37 (3.27%) Master's Degree
6 35 (3.10%) ISTQB
7 29 (2.57%) Microsoft Certification
8 26 (2.30%) DV Cleared
9 21 (1.86%) AWS Certification
10 13 (1.15%) PMI Certification
11 12 (1.06%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 11 (0.97%) AWS Certified Developer
12 11 (0.97%) HND
13 9 (0.80%) PMP
14 6 (0.53%) DBS Check
14 6 (0.53%) ISEB
15 5 (0.44%) CBAP
15 5 (0.44%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 4 (0.35%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 137 (12.12%) QA
2 63 (5.58%) Accessibility
3 48 (4.25%) GDPR
4 44 (3.89%) Data Quality
5 37 (3.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 14 (1.24%) PMO
7 13 (1.15%) NCSC
7 13 (1.15%) NIST
7 13 (1.15%) SOC 2
8 11 (0.97%) SLA
9 5 (0.44%) PERC
10 3 (0.27%) Software Quality Assurance
10 3 (0.27%) WCAG
11 2 (0.18%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 1 (0.088%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.088%) GRC
12 1 (0.088%) HL7
12 1 (0.088%) P3O
12 1 (0.088%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 140 (12.39%) Docker
2 78 (6.90%) Active Directory
3 27 (2.39%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (1.24%) Virtual Desktop
5 12 (1.06%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.35%) Firmware
6 4 (0.35%) Postfix
7 2 (0.18%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.18%) vCloud
8 1 (0.088%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 1 (0.088%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.088%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.088%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 369 (32.65%) Terraform
2 159 (14.07%) Kubernetes
3 100 (8.85%) Ansible
4 72 (6.37%) HP ALM
5 51 (4.51%) Grafana
6 39 (3.45%) Single Sign-On
7 38 (3.36%) Prometheus
8 19 (1.68%) Microsoft Intune
9 8 (0.71%) Kibana
10 4 (0.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (0.35%) Argo
10 4 (0.35%) logstash
11 3 (0.27%) Dell DRAC
11 3 (0.27%) Puppet
11 3 (0.27%) Rancher
11 3 (0.27%) SCCM
11 3 (0.27%) vRealize
12 2 (0.18%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (0.18%) Nessus
13 1 (0.088%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 361 (31.95%) Microsoft
2 77 (6.81%) SAP
3 72 (6.37%) HP
4 58 (5.13%) Databricks
5 44 (3.89%) Salesforce
6 42 (3.72%) Oracle
7 34 (3.01%) ServiceNow
8 24 (2.12%) Okta
9 22 (1.95%) VMware
10 20 (1.77%) Palo Alto
11 19 (1.68%) Zscaler
12 18 (1.59%) Black Duck
12 18 (1.59%) Coverity
13 14 (1.24%) Ab Initio
14 13 (1.15%) Xamarin
15 12 (1.06%) Adobe
15 12 (1.06%) Google
15 12 (1.06%) Sage
16 10 (0.88%) Nintex
16 10 (0.88%) Red Hat