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

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 108 89
Rank change year-on-year -17 -19 +2
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,102 1,427 1,708
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.84% 2.66% 3.13%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.38% 7.35% 7.77%
Number of salaries quoted 697 917 1,470
10th Percentile £42,000 £43,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -2.67%
75th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,500 £63,500 £59,526
% change year-on-year -11.02% +6.68% -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 20,473 19,423 21,986
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.27% 36.16% 40.33%
Number of salaries quoted 11,206 11,407 18,059
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,600 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.12% +7.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £80,250
90th Percentile £98,000 £101,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -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 9 January 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 9 January 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 -40 864 £65,000 -3.70% 430
UK excluding London -30 678 £56,500 -11.02% 384
Work from Home 0 506 £62,500 -7.41% 250
London +21 355 £75,000 -0.62% 106
South East -2 230 £57,500 -11.54% 121
Scotland +80 168 £67,250 +31.22% 19
North of England -46 95 £57,500 -11.54% 94
Midlands -50 77 £60,000 -7.69% 51
South West -76 63 £47,500 -26.92% 42
West Midlands -48 61 £60,000 -7.69% 26
Yorkshire -34 35 £60,000 -7.69% 28
North West -29 34 £64,000 -1.54% 54
North East +9 26 £50,000 -23.08% 12
Wales +3 26 £55,000 -15.38% 14
East of England -38 17 £65,000 +30.00% 46
East Midlands -16 13 £60,000 +4.35% 24
Northern Ireland -8 2 £56,250 - 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 37 (3.36%) Confluence
2 32 (2.90%) IIS
3 26 (2.36%) SharePoint
4 17 (1.54%) Microsoft Exchange
4 17 (1.54%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 12 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
6 8 (0.73%) Apache Spark
7 5 (0.45%) Apache
7 5 (0.45%) Appian
8 2 (0.18%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.18%) BizTalk Server
8 2 (0.18%) Moodle
8 2 (0.18%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.091%) nginx
Applications
1 38 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 25 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
3 20 (1.81%) MS Visio
4 14 (1.27%) Microsoft Project
5 13 (1.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.36%) Trello
7 2 (0.18%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.091%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 71 (6.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 41 (3.72%) Dynamics CRM
3 37 (3.36%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (0.27%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (0.27%) SAP CX
5 2 (0.18%) Elite 3E
5 2 (0.18%) Markit EDM
5 2 (0.18%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.091%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.091%) Endur
6 1 (0.091%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 1,033 (93.74%) Azure
2 338 (30.67%) GitHub
3 223 (20.24%) Power Platform
4 162 (14.70%) AWS
5 156 (14.16%) GitHub Actions
6 98 (8.89%) Azure Monitor
7 88 (7.99%) Entra ID
8 84 (7.62%) Snowflake
9 81 (7.35%) Azure Data Factory
9 81 (7.35%) Serverless
10 80 (7.26%) PaaS
11 74 (6.72%) Dynamics 365
12 70 (6.35%) SaaS
13 69 (6.26%) Microsoft 365
14 68 (6.17%) Power Automate
15 67 (6.08%) GitHub Copilot
16 63 (5.72%) Azure AKS
17 61 (5.54%) dbt
18 50 (4.54%) GCP
19 49 (4.45%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 44 (3.99%) Firewall
2 40 (3.63%) DNS
3 25 (2.27%) VPN
4 16 (1.45%) WAN
5 10 (0.91%) HTTP
5 10 (0.91%) Network Security
6 8 (0.73%) DHCP
6 8 (0.73%) TCP/IP
7 6 (0.54%) SD-WAN
7 6 (0.54%) VLAN
8 4 (0.36%) SSL
9 3 (0.27%) AMQP
9 3 (0.27%) BGP
9 3 (0.27%) IPsec
9 3 (0.27%) OSPF
9 3 (0.27%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (0.27%) Wireshark
10 2 (0.18%) Internet
11 1 (0.091%) IPv6
11 1 (0.091%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 163 (14.79%) SQL Server
2 129 (11.71%) Power BI
3 80 (7.26%) Data Warehouse
4 62 (5.63%) Azure SQL Database
5 51 (4.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 44 (3.99%) Tableau
7 43 (3.90%) NoSQL
8 27 (2.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 26 (2.36%) Relational Database
10 25 (2.27%) Data Lake
11 21 (1.91%) PostgreSQL
12 20 (1.81%) Snowflake Schema
13 16 (1.45%) MongoDB
14 15 (1.36%) DynamoDB
15 13 (1.18%) Metadata
16 12 (1.09%) SQL Server Analysis Services
17 10 (0.91%) BigQuery
17 10 (0.91%) Delta Lake
17 10 (0.91%) MySQL
18 6 (0.54%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 215 (19.51%) JIRA
2 190 (17.24%) Git
3 124 (11.25%) Jenkins
4 69 (6.26%) eCATT
5 57 (5.17%) Selenium
6 40 (3.63%) NeoLoad
7 37 (3.36%) Oracle Forms
8 32 (2.90%) GitLab
9 29 (2.63%) Cypress.io
9 29 (2.63%) Octopus Deploy
10 25 (2.27%) TeamCity
11 23 (2.09%) Snyk
11 23 (2.09%) Visual Studio
12 22 (2.00%) Robot Framework
13 21 (1.91%) Postman
14 11 (1.00%) NUnit
14 11 (1.00%) Visual Studio Code
15 10 (0.91%) JMeter
16 9 (0.82%) Cucumber
16 9 (0.82%) Eclipse
General
1 443 (40.20%) Finance
2 285 (25.86%) Social Skills
3 143 (12.98%) Analytical Skills
4 107 (9.71%) Marketing
5 71 (6.44%) Manufacturing
6 59 (5.35%) Presentation Skills
7 49 (4.45%) Law
8 43 (3.90%) Influencing Skills
9 28 (2.54%) Retail
10 27 (2.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 24 (2.18%) Legal
11 24 (2.18%) Public Sector
12 19 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
13 15 (1.36%) Billing
14 14 (1.27%) Banking
15 9 (0.82%) Advertising
15 9 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
15 9 (0.82%) Tech for Good
16 8 (0.73%) Games
17 7 (0.64%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 226 (20.51%) Senior
2 184 (16.70%) Developer
3 161 (14.61%) Lead
4 128 (11.62%) Analyst
5 124 (11.25%) DevOps Engineer
6 109 (9.89%) Azure Engineer
7 93 (8.44%) Cloud Engineer
8 58 (5.26%) Data Engineer
9 49 (4.45%) .NET Developer
9 49 (4.45%) Applications Engineer
9 49 (4.45%) Test Leader
10 48 (4.36%) Platform Engineer
10 48 (4.36%) Software Engineer
11 41 (3.72%) Architect
12 39 (3.54%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 38 (3.45%) Senior Cloud Engineer
14 34 (3.09%) Business Analyst
15 32 (2.90%) Test Analyst
16 30 (2.72%) Support Engineer
17 29 (2.63%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 272 (24.68%) .NET
2 118 (10.71%) RESTful
3 88 (7.99%) React
4 75 (6.81%) YAML
5 73 (6.62%) REST
6 68 (6.17%) .NET Framework
7 65 (5.90%) OAuth
8 59 (5.35%) .NET Core
8 59 (5.35%) JSON
9 55 (4.99%) SOAP
10 50 (4.54%) ASP.NET
11 45 (4.08%) CSS
12 44 (3.99%) HTML
13 41 (3.72%) ARM Templates
14 40 (3.63%) OAuth2
15 38 (3.45%) Entity Framework
16 34 (3.09%) AngularJS
16 34 (3.09%) XML
17 31 (2.81%) Blazor
18 29 (2.63%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 162 (14.70%) Cloud Native
2 123 (11.16%) Product Ownership
3 66 (5.99%) Enterprise Software
4 41 (3.72%) Management Information System
5 36 (3.27%) Legacy Systems
6 29 (2.63%) Security Posture
7 28 (2.54%) Hybrid Cloud
7 28 (2.54%) Low-Code
8 27 (2.45%) Onboarding
8 27 (2.45%) Virtual Team
9 25 (2.27%) Mobile App
10 21 (1.91%) Analytical Mindset
11 19 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
12 17 (1.54%) Data Centre
13 15 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
14 13 (1.18%) Reinsurance
15 12 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
16 10 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
16 10 (0.91%) Legacy Applications
16 10 (0.91%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 101 (9.17%) Windows
2 63 (5.72%) Linux
3 26 (2.36%) VMS
4 19 (1.72%) Windows Server
5 9 (0.82%) Android
6 8 (0.73%) Apple iOS
7 7 (0.64%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.18%) Unix
8 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.091%) CentOS
9 1 (0.091%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.091%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,032 (93.65%) DevOps
2 640 (58.08%) CI/CD
3 537 (48.73%) Agile
4 293 (26.59%) Infrastructure as Code
5 291 (26.41%) Test Automation
6 254 (23.05%) Continuous Improvement
7 245 (22.23%) Problem-Solving
8 209 (18.97%) AI
8 209 (18.97%) Coaching
9 207 (18.78%) Mentoring
10 173 (15.70%) Analytics
11 156 (14.16%) Asset Management
12 137 (12.43%) Observability
13 133 (12.07%) Business Intelligence
14 132 (11.98%) Roadmaps
15 129 (11.71%) Containerisation
16 122 (11.07%) Data Modelling
17 118 (10.71%) Scrum
18 112 (10.16%) Microservices
19 111 (10.07%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 386 (35.03%) SQL
2 281 (25.50%) Python
3 230 (20.87%) C#
4 217 (19.69%) PowerShell
5 105 (9.53%) Bicep
6 90 (8.17%) JavaScript
7 88 (7.99%) Bash
8 68 (6.17%) TypeScript
9 56 (5.08%) Java
10 39 (3.54%) Shell Script
11 37 (3.36%) PL/SQL
12 33 (2.99%) T-SQL
13 30 (2.72%) Apex Code
14 15 (1.36%) Go
15 14 (1.27%) Scala
16 12 (1.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 8 (0.73%) Kusto Query Language
18 5 (0.45%) C++
19 4 (0.36%) R
20 3 (0.27%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 131 (11.89%) Degree
2 79 (7.17%) Azure Certification
3 75 (6.81%) Computer Science Degree
4 68 (6.17%) Security Cleared
5 43 (3.90%) ISTQB
6 42 (3.81%) Master's Degree
6 42 (3.81%) SC Cleared
7 32 (2.90%) Microsoft Certification
8 24 (2.18%) DV Cleared
9 21 (1.91%) AWS Certification
10 13 (1.18%) PMI Certification
11 12 (1.09%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 11 (1.00%) AWS Certified Developer
12 11 (1.00%) ISEB
13 10 (0.91%) PMP
14 6 (0.54%) Cisco Certification
14 6 (0.54%) DBS Check
14 6 (0.54%) HND
15 5 (0.45%) CBAP
16 4 (0.36%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 147 (13.34%) QA
2 54 (4.90%) Accessibility
3 44 (3.99%) GDPR
4 38 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 37 (3.36%) Data Quality
6 21 (1.91%) NCSC
6 21 (1.91%) NIST
7 17 (1.54%) PMO
8 9 (0.82%) SOC 2
9 7 (0.64%) SLA
9 7 (0.64%) Software Quality Assurance
10 5 (0.45%) PERC
11 4 (0.36%) WCAG
12 1 (0.091%) COBIT
12 1 (0.091%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.091%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.091%) HL7
12 1 (0.091%) ISO 9001
12 1 (0.091%) P3O
12 1 (0.091%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 142 (12.89%) Docker
2 73 (6.62%) Active Directory
3 23 (2.09%) Virtual Machines
4 15 (1.36%) Virtual Desktop
5 14 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.36%) Firmware
6 4 (0.36%) Postfix
7 2 (0.18%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.18%) vCloud
8 1 (0.091%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 1 (0.091%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.091%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.091%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 367 (33.30%) Terraform
2 172 (15.61%) Kubernetes
3 89 (8.08%) Ansible
4 72 (6.53%) HP ALM
5 43 (3.90%) Grafana
6 38 (3.45%) Single Sign-On
7 32 (2.90%) Prometheus
8 20 (1.81%) Microsoft Intune
9 5 (0.45%) Kibana
10 4 (0.36%) Argo
10 4 (0.36%) logstash
10 4 (0.36%) Rancher
10 4 (0.36%) vRealize
11 3 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.27%) Dell DRAC
11 3 (0.27%) SCCM
12 2 (0.18%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (0.18%) Nessus
12 2 (0.18%) Puppet
12 2 (0.18%) SCOM
Vendors
1 367 (33.30%) Microsoft
2 77 (6.99%) SAP
3 72 (6.53%) HP
4 51 (4.63%) Databricks
5 45 (4.08%) Salesforce
6 43 (3.90%) Oracle
7 31 (2.81%) ServiceNow
8 24 (2.18%) Okta
8 24 (2.18%) VMware
9 20 (1.81%) Black Duck
10 19 (1.72%) Coverity
11 17 (1.54%) Google
11 17 (1.54%) Palo Alto
12 15 (1.36%) Zscaler
13 14 (1.27%) Ab Initio
13 14 (1.27%) Xamarin
14 12 (1.09%) Dynatrace
14 12 (1.09%) OpenAI
14 12 (1.09%) Sage
15 10 (0.91%) SolarWinds