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

	6 months to 17 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	147	143	114
Rank change year-on-year	-4	-29	-33
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps	1,551	1,039	1,574
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK	1.30%	2.13%	2.25%
As % of the Cloud Services category	5.79%	6.71%	6.98%
Number of salaries quoted	1,148	696	978
10^th Percentile	£45,000	£42,500	£43,750
25^th Percentile	£50,000	£52,500	£52,500
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£65,000	£65,000	£67,363
Median % change year-on-year	-	-3.51%	+3.63%
75^th Percentile	£77,500	£82,500	£81,250
90^th Percentile	£89,125	£93,750	£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.

	6 months to 17 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills	26,778	15,495	22,545
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK	22.37%	31.72%	32.29%
Number of salaries quoted	18,511	10,429	13,755
10^th Percentile	£31,500	£29,000	£35,000
25^th Percentile	£43,750	£37,500	£47,179
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£62,500	£57,500	£65,000
Median % change year-on-year	+8.70%	-11.54%	+4.00%
75^th Percentile	£83,750	£80,000	£82,500
90^th 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 Salary Trend

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 17 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 17 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	+13	1,395	£65,000	-2.26%	951
UK excluding London	+1	985	£60,000	-	610
Work from Home	+5	627	£61,752	-5.00%	520
London	+5	489	£75,000	-3.23%	385
North of England	+72	285	£60,000	-	179
South East	-55	241	£65,000	+8.33%	172
Midlands	+19	183	£60,000	-	86
North West	+58	160	£60,000	-7.69%	78
West Midlands	-5	115	£62,500	+4.17%	55
South West	-25	91	£60,000	+14.29%	55
Wales	-19	88	£53,171	-3.33%	30
East of England	+6	80	£55,000	-12.00%	37
Yorkshire	+2	72	£65,000	+18.18%	74
East Midlands	+18	68	£54,500	+0.93%	31
North East	-25	53	£52,000	+4.00%	29
Scotland	-55	20	£55,000	-15.38%	39
Northern Ireland	-79	1	£72,500	+16.00%	19

Azure DevOps Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 17 October 2026, job vacancies citing Azure DevOps also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads with a requirement for Azure DevOps.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Azure	100.0%	1,551
1	DevOps	100.0%	1,551
3	CI/CD	55.7%	864
4	Microsoft	46.0%	714
5	Agile	45.7%	709
6	SQL	36.1%	560
7	C#	33.8%	524
8	.NET	32.9%	510
9	AI	24.2%	375
10	Continuous Improvement	22.9%	355
11	Terraform	22.8%	353
12	Infrastructure as Code	21.4%	332
13	Power Platform	20.0%	310
14	Azure SQL Database	19.3%	299
15	Problem-Solving	18.8%	292
16	Python	18.6%	289
17	Git	17.7%	274
18	ASP.NET	17.3%	268
19	Full-Stack Development	16.8%	260
20	JavaScript	15.7%	244
21	GitHub	15.6%	242
22	.NET Core	15.5%	241
23	Stakeholder Management	14.6%	226
24	Mentoring	14.1%	219
25	ASP.NET Core	14.0%	217
26	Analytics	13.9%	216
27	Test Automation	13.9%	215
28	Scrum	13.5%	210
28	SQL Server	13.5%	210
30	JIRA	13.2%	204

Azure DevOps Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Cloud Services

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Azure	100.0%	1,551
2	Power Platform	20.0%	310
3	GitHub	15.6%	242
4	Dynamics 365	10.8%	168
5	Serverless	10.0%	155
6	AWS	9.6%	149
7	GitHub Actions	8.8%	136
8	Azure Functions	8.4%	130
9	Azure AI	7.5%	117
10	Azure Service Bus	7.4%	114
11	Power Automate	7.1%	110
12	Azure Monitor	7.0%	108
12	PaaS	7.0%	108
14	Azure Data Factory	6.8%	106
15	Azure AKS	6.8%	105
15	Entra ID	6.8%	105
17	Azure Logic Apps	6.4%	100
18	Azure Key Vault	6.2%	96
19	Azure Cosmos DB	6.0%	93
19	SaaS	6.0%	93