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

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 176 174 117
Rank change year-on-year -2 -57 -15
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,095 852 2,266
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.18% 2.00% 2.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.05% 5.98% 6.55%
Number of salaries quoted 840 657 1,745
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £42,279
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £49,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,500 £67,500 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.96% +9.76% -5.38%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £92,500 £96,250 £92,500
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 27,048 14,241 34,604
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 29.14% 33.46% 34.96%
Number of salaries quoted 15,424 9,798 26,792
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,750 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,738 £77,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.85% +8.00% -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 26 May 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 26 May 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 -8 955 £67,500 -3.57% 373
UK excluding London +30 687 £60,000 -4.00% 286
Work from Home +25 412 £65,000 -3.70% 217
London -9 347 £77,500 +3.33% 138
North of England +50 187 £65,250 -5.09% 81
South East -11 186 £53,750 -20.37% 91
Midlands -2 109 £65,000 +8.33% 36
North West +47 100 £69,310 +14.56% 47
South West -39 71 £52,500 -8.70% 21
Scotland +41 61 £62,500 - 16
West Midlands -39 56 £62,000 +3.33% 19
East Midlands +6 51 £67,250 +3.46% 17
Yorkshire -41 49 £69,310 -0.99% 16
East of England -22 40 £60,000 +4.35% 28
North East -9 38 £50,000 -9.09% 18
Wales -14 33 £53,000 -18.46% 12
Northern Ireland -39 2 £72,500 +45.00% 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 40 (3.65%) SharePoint
2 35 (3.20%) Confluence
3 20 (1.83%) IIS
4 19 (1.74%) Microsoft Exchange
5 10 (0.91%) Apache Spark
6 8 (0.73%) SharePoint Server
7 7 (0.64%) Anypoint
8 6 (0.55%) Apache
8 6 (0.55%) Apache Airflow
8 6 (0.55%) CMS
9 5 (0.46%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 5 (0.46%) Umbraco
10 4 (0.37%) Moodle
11 3 (0.27%) WordPress
12 2 (0.18%) BizTalk Server
12 2 (0.18%) CICS
12 2 (0.18%) Luigi
13 1 (0.091%) nginx
13 1 (0.091%) Palantir Foundry
13 1 (0.091%) Tomcat
Applications
1 18 (1.64%) MS Visio
2 16 (1.46%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (0.91%) Microsoft Project
4 7 (0.64%) Chatbot
5 6 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 5 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
7 2 (0.18%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.18%) Trello
8 1 (0.091%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 16 (1.46%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (0.91%) Oracle ERP
3 5 (0.46%) Dynamics AX
3 5 (0.46%) Visualfiles
4 3 (0.27%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.27%) Elite 3E
4 3 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.18%) Magento
6 1 (0.091%) Endur
6 1 (0.091%) Infor M3
6 1 (0.091%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 1 (0.091%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.091%) Sage 200
6 1 (0.091%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.091%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1,094 (99.91%) Azure
2 250 (22.83%) GitHub
3 178 (16.26%) Power Platform
4 162 (14.79%) AWS
5 147 (13.42%) GitHub Actions
6 94 (8.58%) Azure Monitor
7 92 (8.40%) Serverless
8 91 (8.31%) Azure AKS
9 84 (7.67%) Entra ID
10 81 (7.40%) Microsoft 365
11 79 (7.21%) Azure Data Factory
12 75 (6.85%) Azure Logic Apps
13 70 (6.39%) PaaS
14 65 (5.94%) Azure Service Bus
15 61 (5.57%) GCP
15 61 (5.57%) SaaS
16 59 (5.39%) Azure Functions
16 59 (5.39%) Dynamics 365
17 50 (4.57%) Azure Key Vault
18 41 (3.74%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 57 (5.21%) Firewall
2 29 (2.65%) DNS
3 16 (1.46%) HTTP
3 16 (1.46%) TCP/IP
4 12 (1.10%) Network Security
5 11 (1.00%) VPN
6 10 (0.91%) WAN
7 5 (0.46%) DHCP
8 4 (0.37%) Bluetooth
8 4 (0.37%) MQTT
8 4 (0.37%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (0.37%) Wireless
8 4 (0.37%) ZigBee
9 3 (0.27%) BGP
9 3 (0.27%) HTTPS
9 3 (0.27%) SAN
10 2 (0.18%) Internet
11 1 (0.091%) IP Telephony
11 1 (0.091%) MPLS
11 1 (0.091%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (11.14%) SQL Server
2 121 (11.05%) Azure SQL Database
3 97 (8.86%) Power BI
4 76 (6.94%) MongoDB
5 41 (3.74%) Data Warehouse
6 39 (3.56%) PostgreSQL
7 35 (3.20%) Data Lake
8 34 (3.11%) NoSQL
9 28 (2.56%) Relational Database
10 26 (2.37%) Delta Lake
11 18 (1.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 17 (1.55%) Spark SQL
13 16 (1.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 13 (1.19%) Star Schema
14 13 (1.19%) Tableau
15 12 (1.10%) Metadata
16 11 (1.00%) Amazon RDS
16 11 (1.00%) Elasticsearch
17 10 (0.91%) Redis
18 9 (0.82%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 186 (16.99%) Git
2 134 (12.24%) JIRA
3 116 (10.59%) Jenkins
4 70 (6.39%) GitLab
5 54 (4.93%) Selenium
6 40 (3.65%) Cypress.io
7 33 (3.01%) Postman
8 22 (2.01%) Eclipse
9 17 (1.55%) Visual Studio
10 15 (1.37%) Octopus Deploy
11 13 (1.19%) REST Assured
12 12 (1.10%) TeamCity
12 12 (1.10%) Zephyr
13 11 (1.00%) JMeter
13 11 (1.00%) TestRail
14 10 (0.91%) Oracle Forms
15 9 (0.82%) fastlane
16 7 (0.64%) Cucumber
16 7 (0.64%) Robot Framework
17 6 (0.55%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 298 (27.21%) Finance
2 243 (22.19%) Social Skills
3 124 (11.32%) Analytical Skills
4 74 (6.76%) Public Sector
5 49 (4.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 42 (3.84%) Law
7 38 (3.47%) Retail
8 34 (3.11%) Legal
9 30 (2.74%) Marketing
10 27 (2.47%) Billing
11 25 (2.28%) Banking
12 21 (1.92%) Influencing Skills
13 16 (1.46%) Telecoms
14 13 (1.19%) Games
15 12 (1.10%) Advertising
16 11 (1.00%) Automotive
17 10 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
17 10 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
18 9 (0.82%) Manufacturing
19 6 (0.55%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 267 (24.38%) Developer
2 226 (20.64%) Senior
3 200 (18.26%) DevOps Engineer
4 191 (17.44%) Azure Engineer
5 155 (14.16%) Lead
6 98 (8.95%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 84 (7.67%) .NET Developer
8 73 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
9 66 (6.03%) Data Engineer
10 62 (5.66%) Senior Developer
11 55 (5.02%) Platform Engineer
12 54 (4.93%) Architect
13 52 (4.75%) Senior DevOps
14 50 (4.57%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 49 (4.47%) Analyst
16 41 (3.74%) Software Engineer
17 35 (3.20%) Cloud Platform Engineer
18 30 (2.74%) Azure Platform Engineer
19 28 (2.56%) Software Developer
20 26 (2.37%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 303 (27.67%) .NET
2 126 (11.51%) React
3 123 (11.23%) ASP.NET
4 113 (10.32%) .NET Core
5 110 (10.05%) REST
6 102 (9.32%) HTML
7 101 (9.22%) CSS
8 92 (8.40%) RESTful
9 89 (8.13%) ASP.NET Core
10 66 (6.03%) Node.js
11 59 (5.39%) OAuth
12 58 (5.30%) YAML
13 57 (5.21%) Playwright
14 55 (5.02%) Blazor
15 54 (4.93%) Entity Framework
16 48 (4.38%) SOAP
17 45 (4.11%) JSON
18 42 (3.84%) PySpark
19 40 (3.65%) .NET Framework
19 40 (3.65%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 119 (10.87%) Product Ownership
2 97 (8.86%) Cloud Native
3 39 (3.56%) Enterprise Software
4 37 (3.38%) Mobile App
5 32 (2.92%) Management Information System
6 28 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
7 26 (2.37%) Low-Code
8 25 (2.28%) Onboarding
9 24 (2.19%) Distributed Systems
10 21 (1.92%) Analytical Mindset
11 17 (1.55%) Reinsurance
12 15 (1.37%) Data Structures
12 15 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
13 12 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
14 10 (0.91%) Enterprise Cloud
14 10 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
14 10 (0.91%) Virtual Team
15 9 (0.82%) Legacy Applications
16 8 (0.73%) PMI
17 7 (0.64%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 90 (8.22%) Linux
2 63 (5.75%) Windows
3 18 (1.64%) Unix
4 17 (1.55%) VMS
5 15 (1.37%) Ubuntu
6 14 (1.28%) Android
7 13 (1.19%) Apple iOS
7 13 (1.19%) Windows Server
8 4 (0.37%) Kali Linux
9 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.091%) SUSE
10 1 (0.091%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.091%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,094 (99.91%) DevOps
2 678 (61.92%) CI/CD
3 471 (43.01%) Agile
4 295 (26.94%) Infrastructure as Code
5 263 (24.02%) Test Automation
6 211 (19.27%) Continuous Improvement
7 203 (18.54%) AI
8 187 (17.08%) Problem-Solving
9 163 (14.89%) Mentoring
10 155 (14.16%) Analytics
11 152 (13.88%) Scrum
12 151 (13.79%) Observability
13 139 (12.69%) Full-Stack Development
14 131 (11.96%) Data Modelling
15 129 (11.78%) Microservices
16 125 (11.42%) Containerisation
17 120 (10.96%) Coaching
18 105 (9.59%) Business Intelligence
19 98 (8.95%) Roadmaps
19 98 (8.95%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 365 (33.33%) SQL
2 273 (24.93%) C#
3 260 (23.74%) Python
4 169 (15.43%) JavaScript
5 131 (11.96%) PowerShell
6 112 (10.23%) Bash
7 81 (7.40%) Bicep
8 80 (7.31%) Java
9 56 (5.11%) TypeScript
10 21 (1.92%) Scala
11 20 (1.83%) Go
12 19 (1.74%) Apex Code
13 16 (1.46%) C++
14 14 (1.28%) PL/SQL
15 12 (1.10%) Kusto Query Language
15 12 (1.10%) Shell Script
15 12 (1.10%) T-SQL
16 11 (1.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 10 (0.91%) Swift
18 7 (0.64%) DataWeave
Qualifications
1 89 (8.13%) Degree
2 69 (6.30%) Security Cleared
3 49 (4.47%) Azure Certification
4 47 (4.29%) SC Cleared
5 36 (3.29%) Computer Science Degree
6 27 (2.47%) ISTQB
7 17 (1.55%) Microsoft Certification
8 15 (1.37%) Master's Degree
9 13 (1.19%) DV Cleared
9 13 (1.19%) HND
10 11 (1.00%) AWS Certification
11 9 (0.82%) PMI Certification
12 6 (0.55%) AWS Certified Developer
12 6 (0.55%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 5 (0.46%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 4 (0.37%) BC Cleared
14 4 (0.37%) CISSP
15 3 (0.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 3 (0.27%) CBAP
15 3 (0.27%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 123 (11.23%) QA
2 81 (7.40%) Accessibility
3 50 (4.57%) Data Quality
4 41 (3.74%) GDPR
5 26 (2.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 14 (1.28%) WCAG
7 13 (1.19%) SLA
8 12 (1.10%) TickIT
9 11 (1.00%) SOC 2
10 10 (0.91%) GRC
11 7 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 6 (0.55%) PMO
12 6 (0.55%) Software Quality Assurance
12 6 (0.55%) Solvency II
13 5 (0.46%) IFRS
14 4 (0.37%) JTAG
15 3 (0.27%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 2 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
16 2 (0.18%) IFRS 17
16 2 (0.18%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 150 (13.70%) Docker
2 60 (5.48%) Active Directory
3 16 (1.46%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.27%) Firmware
6 2 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.091%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 318 (29.04%) Terraform
2 117 (10.68%) Kubernetes
3 75 (6.85%) Ansible
4 64 (5.84%) Grafana
5 52 (4.75%) Prometheus
6 24 (2.19%) Argo
7 12 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
8 9 (0.82%) Kibana
9 5 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (0.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (0.37%) HP Fortify
10 4 (0.37%) Puppet
11 3 (0.27%) HP ALM
11 3 (0.27%) logstash
11 3 (0.27%) Scalr
12 2 (0.18%) MIIS
12 2 (0.18%) Nagios
12 2 (0.18%) SCCM
13 1 (0.091%) FortiGate
13 1 (0.091%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 410 (37.44%) Microsoft
2 66 (6.03%) Databricks
3 52 (4.75%) Salesforce
4 36 (3.29%) ServiceNow
5 24 (2.19%) Red Hat
6 23 (2.10%) Google
7 22 (2.01%) Oracle
8 20 (1.83%) Dynatrace
9 17 (1.55%) Apple
9 17 (1.55%) MuleSoft
10 14 (1.28%) Adobe
11 12 (1.10%) Facebook
11 12 (1.10%) Freshdesk
11 12 (1.10%) Nintex
11 12 (1.10%) Palo Alto
11 12 (1.10%) VMware
11 12 (1.10%) Zscaler
12 11 (1.00%) CrowdStrike
12 11 (1.00%) Splunk
13 10 (0.91%) Guidewire