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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 151 123
Rank change year-on-year +3 -28 -40
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,507 1,027 1,572
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.28% 2.08% 2.10%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.53% 6.62% 6.61%
Number of salaries quoted 1,152 693 1,010
10th Percentile £44,500 £45,000 £43,400
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
% 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 27,237 15,508 23,800
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 23.10% 31.34% 31.83%
Number of salaries quoted 18,678 10,421 14,664
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £38,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -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 1 October 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 October 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 +18 1,351 £65,000 -2.26% 1,175
UK excluding London +10 957 £60,000 - 758
Work from Home +9 598 £62,500 -3.85% 633
London -3 475 £75,000 -3.23% 509
North of England +64 284 £60,000 - 206
South East -45 228 £64,000 +2.40% 204
Midlands +22 173 £62,000 +3.33% 123
North West +73 170 £62,500 -3.85% 103
West Midlands -15 104 £65,000 +8.33% 71
Wales -19 93 £53,171 -3.33% 32
South West -25 91 £57,500 +9.52% 70
East of England +4 74 £55,000 -12.00% 67
East Midlands +16 69 £55,000 +0.92% 52
Yorkshire 0 66 £66,250 +10.42% 84
North East -28 48 £52,250 +4.50% 22
Scotland -46 17 £55,000 -14.73% 46
Northern Ireland - 1 £72,500 - 18

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 89 (5.91%) SharePoint
2 72 (4.78%) Confluence
3 42 (2.79%) Microsoft Exchange
4 23 (1.53%) Apache Spark
5 19 (1.26%) IIS
6 12 (0.80%) Apache
6 12 (0.80%) CMS
7 10 (0.66%) nginx
8 8 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
8 8 (0.53%) SharePoint Server
8 8 (0.53%) Umbraco
9 6 (0.40%) Camunda
9 6 (0.40%) CICS
10 3 (0.20%) Anypoint
10 3 (0.20%) BizTalk Server
11 2 (0.13%) Luigi
11 2 (0.13%) WordPress
12 1 (0.066%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.066%) NServiceBus
12 1 (0.066%) Oracle HTTP Server
Applications
1 28 (1.86%) Microsoft Project
2 24 (1.59%) MS Visio
3 22 (1.46%) Microsoft Office
4 18 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
5 17 (1.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 10 (0.66%) Trello
7 6 (0.40%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.066%) Notion
Business Applications
1 41 (2.72%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.93%) Elite 3E
3 9 (0.60%) SAP S/4HANA
4 8 (0.53%) Dynamics AX
5 6 (0.40%) Dynamics NAV
5 6 (0.40%) SAP IBP
6 4 (0.27%) Shopify
6 4 (0.27%) Visualfiles
7 3 (0.20%) Carpe Diem
7 3 (0.20%) Oracle Applications
7 3 (0.20%) SAP Business One
7 3 (0.20%) Workday HCM
8 2 (0.13%) Dynamics GP
8 2 (0.13%) JDE EnterpriseOne
9 1 (0.066%) Integrated Workplace Management System
9 1 (0.066%) Magento
9 1 (0.066%) Payment Gateway
9 1 (0.066%) Sage 200
9 1 (0.066%) Salesforce CRM
9 1 (0.066%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,507 (100.00%) Azure
2 288 (19.11%) Power Platform
3 240 (15.93%) GitHub
4 156 (10.35%) AWS
5 155 (10.29%) Dynamics 365
6 147 (9.75%) Serverless
7 129 (8.56%) GitHub Actions
8 124 (8.23%) Azure Functions
9 115 (7.63%) Azure Service Bus
10 112 (7.43%) Azure AKS
11 111 (7.37%) Azure Monitor
12 107 (7.10%) Entra ID
13 105 (6.97%) Azure AI
13 105 (6.97%) Azure Data Factory
14 98 (6.50%) PaaS
15 95 (6.30%) Azure Key Vault
15 95 (6.30%) Power Automate
16 93 (6.17%) Azure Logic Apps
16 93 (6.17%) Microsoft 365
17 91 (6.04%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 43 (2.85%) Firewall
2 40 (2.65%) VPN
3 23 (1.53%) DNS
4 13 (0.86%) Internet
5 12 (0.80%) Wi-Fi
6 11 (0.73%) Network Security
7 10 (0.66%) SAN
8 9 (0.60%) DHCP
9 8 (0.53%) Wireless
10 7 (0.46%) HTTP
10 7 (0.46%) TCP/IP
10 7 (0.46%) VLAN
11 6 (0.40%) MQTT
11 6 (0.40%) ZigBee
12 4 (0.27%) Bluetooth
13 3 (0.20%) HTTPS
13 3 (0.20%) WAN
14 2 (0.13%) LoRaWAN
15 1 (0.066%) SSL
15 1 (0.066%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 278 (18.45%) Azure SQL Database
2 208 (13.80%) SQL Server
3 178 (11.81%) MongoDB
4 149 (9.89%) Power BI
5 85 (5.64%) Data Warehouse
6 56 (3.72%) PostgreSQL
7 52 (3.45%) Relational Database
8 48 (3.19%) NoSQL
9 46 (3.05%) Metadata
10 40 (2.65%) Elasticsearch
11 34 (2.26%) Data Lake
11 34 (2.26%) Delta Lake
12 32 (2.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 28 (1.86%) Redis
14 25 (1.66%) Star Schema
15 21 (1.39%) MySQL
15 21 (1.39%) Tableau
16 16 (1.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 15 (1.00%) Spark SQL
18 14 (0.93%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 275 (18.25%) Git
2 207 (13.74%) JIRA
3 125 (8.29%) Jenkins
4 82 (5.44%) GitLab
5 43 (2.85%) Selenium
6 35 (2.32%) Cypress.io
7 33 (2.19%) Postman
8 18 (1.19%) JUnit
9 15 (1.00%) Visual Studio
10 14 (0.93%) JMeter
10 14 (0.93%) NUnit
11 13 (0.86%) Octopus Deploy
12 12 (0.80%) REST Assured
13 11 (0.73%) fastlane
13 11 (0.73%) Zephyr
14 10 (0.66%) Mockito
14 10 (0.66%) SonarQube
14 10 (0.66%) TestRail
14 10 (0.66%) Visual Studio Code
15 9 (0.60%) Claude Code
General
1 443 (29.40%) Social Skills
2 360 (23.89%) Finance
3 163 (10.82%) Analytical Skills
4 138 (9.16%) Public Sector
5 111 (7.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 52 (3.45%) Law
6 52 (3.45%) Retail
7 39 (2.59%) Marketing
8 33 (2.19%) Legal
9 30 (1.99%) Advertising
10 29 (1.92%) Banking
11 26 (1.73%) Manufacturing
12 22 (1.46%) Games
13 21 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
14 20 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
15 13 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
16 12 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
17 8 (0.53%) Aviation
17 8 (0.53%) Pharmaceutical
17 8 (0.53%) Police
Job Titles
1 456 (30.26%) Developer
2 358 (23.76%) Senior
3 218 (14.47%) .NET Developer
4 216 (14.33%) DevOps Engineer
5 210 (13.93%) Azure Engineer
6 157 (10.42%) Lead
7 106 (7.03%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 103 (6.83%) Data Engineer
9 102 (6.77%) Analyst
10 100 (6.64%) Senior Developer
11 93 (6.17%) Platform Engineer
12 70 (4.64%) Senior DevOps
13 66 (4.38%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 63 (4.18%) Cloud Engineer
15 55 (3.65%) Consultant
16 54 (3.58%) Software Engineer
17 50 (3.32%) Architect
17 50 (3.32%) Senior Data Engineer
18 49 (3.25%) Business Analyst
19 46 (3.05%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 475 (31.52%) .NET
2 359 (23.82%) Terraform
3 252 (16.72%) ASP.NET
4 228 (15.13%) .NET Core
5 200 (13.27%) ASP.NET Core
6 166 (11.02%) REST
7 154 (10.22%) React
8 151 (10.02%) RESTful
9 144 (9.56%) HTML
10 143 (9.49%) CSS
11 124 (8.23%) Entity Framework
12 123 (8.16%) Blazor
13 84 (5.57%) Node.js
14 78 (5.18%) ML.NET
15 63 (4.18%) .NET Framework
16 59 (3.92%) JSON
17 58 (3.85%) YAML
18 54 (3.58%) Playwright
19 50 (3.32%) ARM Templates
19 50 (3.32%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 140 (9.29%) Cloud Native
2 135 (8.96%) Product Ownership
3 92 (6.10%) Enterprise Software
4 64 (4.25%) Legacy Systems
5 53 (3.52%) Onboarding
6 47 (3.12%) Mobile App
7 43 (2.85%) Distributed Systems
8 39 (2.59%) Greenfield Project
9 36 (2.39%) Hybrid Cloud
10 34 (2.26%) Management Information System
11 29 (1.92%) Legacy Applications
12 24 (1.59%) Low-Code
13 23 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
14 21 (1.39%) AI Agents
14 21 (1.39%) Public Cloud
14 21 (1.39%) Security Posture
15 19 (1.26%) Mainframe
16 17 (1.13%) iPhone
17 16 (1.06%) Data Centre
17 16 (1.06%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 112 (7.43%) Windows
2 92 (6.10%) Linux
3 25 (1.66%) Android
4 24 (1.59%) Unix
5 22 (1.46%) VMS
6 21 (1.39%) Windows Server
7 12 (0.80%) Ubuntu
8 8 (0.53%) Apple iOS
9 4 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.20%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.20%) Kali Linux
10 3 (0.20%) Solaris
11 2 (0.13%) Debian
11 2 (0.13%) Rocky
12 1 (0.066%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.066%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.066%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,507 (100.00%) DevOps
2 846 (56.14%) CI/CD
3 682 (45.26%) Agile
4 354 (23.49%) AI
5 340 (22.56%) Continuous Improvement
6 333 (22.10%) Infrastructure as Code
7 284 (18.85%) Problem-Solving
8 240 (15.93%) Full-Stack Development
9 237 (15.73%) Test Automation
10 224 (14.86%) Mentoring
11 212 (14.07%) Scrum
12 209 (13.87%) Analytics
13 200 (13.27%) Stakeholder Management
14 186 (12.34%) Microservices
15 170 (11.28%) Platform Engineering
16 167 (11.08%) Business Intelligence
17 154 (10.22%) Observability
18 153 (10.15%) Software Engineering
19 146 (9.69%) Data Modelling
20 138 (9.16%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 544 (36.10%) SQL
2 487 (32.32%) C#
3 285 (18.91%) Python
4 233 (15.46%) JavaScript
5 186 (12.34%) PowerShell
6 132 (8.76%) Bicep
7 123 (8.16%) Bash
8 94 (6.24%) Java
9 60 (3.98%) TypeScript
10 44 (2.92%) T-SQL
11 20 (1.33%) C++
12 18 (1.19%) Scala
13 17 (1.13%) VB.NET
14 16 (1.06%) Kusto Query Language
15 15 (1.00%) COBOL
15 15 (1.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 15 (1.00%) JCL
16 9 (0.60%) Go
17 8 (0.53%) Apex Code
17 8 (0.53%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 151 (10.02%) Degree
2 131 (8.69%) Security Cleared
3 115 (7.63%) SC Cleared
4 110 (7.30%) Azure Certification
5 56 (3.72%) Computer Science Degree
6 52 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
7 32 (2.12%) ISTQB
8 28 (1.86%) PMI Certification
9 20 (1.33%) PMP
10 16 (1.06%) Master's Degree
11 13 (0.86%) ACCA
11 13 (0.86%) CIMA
12 12 (0.80%) AWS Certification
13 10 (0.66%) CBAP
14 9 (0.60%) DV Cleared
14 9 (0.60%) ISEB
15 8 (0.53%) CSPO
16 7 (0.46%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 6 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
17 6 (0.40%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 184 (12.21%) QA
2 102 (6.77%) Data Quality
3 76 (5.04%) Accessibility
4 44 (2.92%) GDPR
5 36 (2.39%) WCAG
6 22 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 20 (1.33%) PMO
8 12 (0.80%) TickIT
9 10 (0.66%) SLA
10 9 (0.60%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 9 (0.60%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 7 (0.46%) NCSC
12 6 (0.40%) JTAG
12 6 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 5 (0.33%) IFRS
14 4 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
14 4 (0.27%) NIST
15 3 (0.20%) GRC
15 3 (0.20%) ISO 9001
15 3 (0.20%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 188 (12.48%) Docker
2 73 (4.84%) Active Directory
3 25 (1.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (1.33%) Virtual Desktop
5 15 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
6 12 (0.80%) vSphere
7 5 (0.33%) Firmware
8 4 (0.27%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.13%) Xen
10 1 (0.066%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.066%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 178 (11.81%) Kubernetes
2 58 (3.85%) Ansible
3 57 (3.78%) Grafana
4 46 (3.05%) Prometheus
5 31 (2.06%) Argo
6 29 (1.92%) Microsoft Intune
7 12 (0.80%) Puppet
8 11 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.33%) SCCM
10 4 (0.27%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.20%) HP Fortify
12 2 (0.13%) FlexNet
12 2 (0.13%) HP ALM
12 2 (0.13%) Istio
12 2 (0.13%) Nessus
12 2 (0.13%) Rancher
12 2 (0.13%) ZABBIX
13 1 (0.066%) Nagios
13 1 (0.066%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 692 (45.92%) Microsoft
2 99 (6.57%) Databricks
3 66 (4.38%) Google
4 40 (2.65%) Salesforce
5 38 (2.52%) VMware
6 37 (2.46%) Facebook
7 25 (1.66%) ServiceNow
8 24 (1.59%) Dynatrace
8 24 (1.59%) SAP
8 24 (1.59%) YouTube
9 23 (1.53%) Apple
10 21 (1.39%) OpenAI
11 19 (1.26%) Oracle
12 16 (1.06%) Red Hat
12 16 (1.06%) Sony
12 16 (1.06%) Yahoo!
13 13 (0.86%) HP
13 13 (0.86%) MuleSoft
14 12 (0.80%) Foundry
14 12 (0.80%) ScienceLogic