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 1 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 141 110 79
Rank change year-on-year -31 -31 +15
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,051 1,555 1,952
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.09% 2.29% 3.60%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.55% 7.07% 8.39%
Number of salaries quoted 710 976 1,613
10th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -
75th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £96,539
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -

All Cloud 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 16,055 21,992 23,258
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 31.85% 32.35% 42.92%
Number of salaries quoted 10,834 13,307 19,492
10th Percentile £28,697 £35,000 £32,766
25th Percentile £37,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £54,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +0.92% -0.91%

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 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Azure DevOps in the UK

Azure DevOps
Top 18 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 November 2025. 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 -48 877 £66,500 -1.48% 524
UK excluding London -40 659 £60,000 -4.00% 440
Work from Home -37 473 £65,000 - 283
London +12 327 £77,500 +3.33% 224
South East +5 257 £60,000 -11.11% 202
Scotland +34 104 £65,000 +13.04% 28
North of England -87 95 £60,000 -1.64% 63
Midlands -32 89 £59,000 -5.60% 77
West Midlands -20 71 £60,000 -5.88% 58
North West -53 47 £65,000 +7.00% 36
South West -67 45 £52,500 -19.23% 38
East of England -9 40 £62,500 +25.00% 23
Yorkshire -25 34 £55,000 -15.38% 12
Wales +8 29 £55,000 -9.09% 15
East Midlands -10 18 £55,000 +4.76% 19
North East -10 14 £50,000 -9.09% 15
Isle of Man - 1 £52,500 -
Northern Ireland - 1 £62,500 - 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 40 (3.81%) Confluence
2 32 (3.04%) IIS
3 24 (2.28%) SharePoint
4 15 (1.43%) Apache Airflow
5 11 (1.05%) Appian
6 9 (0.86%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 8 (0.76%) Apache Spark
8 7 (0.67%) Apache
8 7 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
9 6 (0.57%) CMS
10 5 (0.48%) BizTalk Server
10 5 (0.48%) nginx
11 3 (0.29%) Tomcat
Applications
1 27 (2.57%) Microsoft Office
2 24 (2.28%) Microsoft Excel
3 15 (1.43%) Microsoft Project
4 8 (0.76%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.29%) Trello
7 1 (0.095%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.095%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 72 (6.85%) SAP S/4HANA
2 67 (6.37%) Dynamics CRM
3 21 (2.00%) Oracle ERP
4 5 (0.48%) Shopify
5 3 (0.29%) Dynamics AX
6 2 (0.19%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.19%) Markit EDM
6 2 (0.19%) SAP CX
7 1 (0.095%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.095%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 982 (93.43%) Azure
2 237 (22.55%) Power Platform
3 235 (22.36%) GitHub
4 157 (14.94%) AWS
5 122 (11.61%) GitHub Actions
6 118 (11.23%) Dynamics 365
7 108 (10.28%) Power Automate
8 94 (8.94%) PaaS
9 88 (8.37%) SaaS
10 85 (8.09%) Azure Monitor
11 74 (7.04%) Entra ID
12 68 (6.47%) Azure Data Factory
13 67 (6.37%) Azure Service Bus
14 66 (6.28%) Azure Logic Apps
14 66 (6.28%) Microsoft 365
15 62 (5.90%) Serverless
16 54 (5.14%) Azure AKS
17 51 (4.85%) Snowflake
18 49 (4.66%) GCP
19 45 (4.28%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 43 (4.09%) DNS
2 40 (3.81%) Firewall
3 32 (3.04%) VPN
4 23 (2.19%) WAN
5 20 (1.90%) SD-WAN
6 10 (0.95%) Network Security
7 6 (0.57%) DHCP
8 5 (0.48%) HTTP
8 5 (0.48%) VLAN
9 3 (0.29%) AMQP
9 3 (0.29%) BGP
9 3 (0.29%) Internet
9 3 (0.29%) IPsec
9 3 (0.29%) OSPF
9 3 (0.29%) TCP/IP
9 3 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (0.29%) Wireshark
10 2 (0.19%) ADSL2
10 2 (0.19%) SSL
11 1 (0.095%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 162 (15.41%) SQL Server
2 129 (12.27%) Power BI
3 63 (5.99%) Data Warehouse
4 49 (4.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 39 (3.71%) Azure SQL Database
6 34 (3.24%) Tableau
7 29 (2.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 28 (2.66%) Relational Database
9 25 (2.38%) Data Lake
10 24 (2.28%) MySQL
10 24 (2.28%) NoSQL
11 14 (1.33%) Metadata
11 14 (1.33%) Snowflake Schema
12 13 (1.24%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 11 (1.05%) MongoDB
13 11 (1.05%) PostgreSQL
14 9 (0.86%) BigQuery
14 9 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
15 6 (0.57%) Airbyte
15 6 (0.57%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 186 (17.70%) JIRA
2 171 (16.27%) Git
3 89 (8.47%) Jenkins
4 69 (6.57%) eCATT
5 54 (5.14%) Selenium
6 43 (4.09%) Octopus Deploy
7 40 (3.81%) NeoLoad
8 27 (2.57%) GitLab
8 27 (2.57%) Snyk
9 24 (2.28%) Robot Framework
10 23 (2.19%) TeamCity
10 23 (2.19%) Visual Studio
11 21 (2.00%) Oracle Forms
12 19 (1.81%) Postman
13 17 (1.62%) Cypress.io
14 16 (1.52%) Team Foundation Server
15 13 (1.24%) JMeter
16 12 (1.14%) Cucumber
16 12 (1.14%) SonarQube
17 11 (1.05%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 372 (35.39%) Finance
2 247 (23.50%) Social Skills
3 113 (10.75%) Marketing
4 105 (9.99%) Analytical Skills
5 76 (7.23%) Manufacturing
6 67 (6.37%) Presentation Skills
7 62 (5.90%) Law
8 53 (5.04%) Retail
9 47 (4.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 43 (4.09%) Influencing Skills
11 22 (2.09%) Legal
11 22 (2.09%) Public Sector
12 19 (1.81%) Documentation Skills
13 17 (1.62%) Back Office
14 15 (1.43%) Banking
15 11 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
16 8 (0.76%) Games
17 6 (0.57%) General Ledger
17 6 (0.57%) Tech for Good
18 5 (0.48%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 185 (17.60%) Senior
2 160 (15.22%) Developer
3 153 (14.56%) Lead
4 139 (13.23%) DevOps Engineer
5 125 (11.89%) Analyst
6 104 (9.90%) Azure Engineer
7 71 (6.76%) Architect
8 70 (6.66%) Cloud Engineer
9 57 (5.42%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 56 (5.33%) Data Engineer
11 54 (5.14%) Software Engineer
12 41 (3.90%) Test Leader
13 37 (3.52%) .NET Developer
14 35 (3.33%) Platform Engineer
14 35 (3.33%) Test Analyst
15 33 (3.14%) Senior Cloud Engineer
16 32 (3.04%) Business Analyst
17 29 (2.76%) Consultant
18 28 (2.66%) Dynamics 365 Developer
19 27 (2.57%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 304 (28.92%) .NET
2 91 (8.66%) React
3 84 (7.99%) .NET Framework
4 79 (7.52%) RESTful
5 69 (6.57%) REST
5 69 (6.57%) YAML
6 55 (5.23%) JSON
7 54 (5.14%) .NET Core
8 52 (4.95%) ASP.NET
9 48 (4.57%) AngularJS
10 43 (4.09%) ARM Templates
11 42 (4.00%) Entity Framework
12 40 (3.81%) CSS
13 39 (3.71%) HTML
14 36 (3.43%) XML
15 30 (2.85%) SOAP
16 27 (2.57%) Blazor
17 25 (2.38%) OAuth
18 21 (2.00%) ASP.NET Web API
19 20 (1.90%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 146 (13.89%) Cloud Native
2 104 (9.90%) Product Ownership
3 47 (4.47%) Hybrid Cloud
4 46 (4.38%) Enterprise Software
5 37 (3.52%) Data Centre
5 37 (3.52%) Management Information System
6 35 (3.33%) Onboarding
6 35 (3.33%) Security Posture
7 30 (2.85%) Legacy Systems
8 26 (2.47%) Distributed Systems
9 22 (2.09%) Analytical Mindset
9 22 (2.09%) Virtual Team
10 20 (1.90%) Low-Code
11 18 (1.71%) Greenfield Project
12 15 (1.43%) NHS
13 13 (1.24%) Mobile App
14 12 (1.14%) e-Learning
15 10 (0.95%) Linux Command Line
16 9 (0.86%) Data Protection Act
17 8 (0.76%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 96 (9.13%) Windows
2 54 (5.14%) Linux
3 20 (1.90%) Windows Server
4 17 (1.62%) VMS
5 7 (0.67%) Android
6 6 (0.57%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.29%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.19%) AIX
9 2 (0.19%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.095%) CentOS
10 1 (0.095%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 981 (93.34%) DevOps
2 550 (52.33%) CI/CD
3 510 (48.53%) Agile
4 253 (24.07%) Test Automation
5 242 (23.03%) Infrastructure as Code
6 219 (20.84%) Mentoring
7 203 (19.31%) Continuous Improvement
7 203 (19.31%) Problem-Solving
8 182 (17.32%) AI
9 153 (14.56%) Coaching
10 139 (13.23%) Roadmaps
10 139 (13.23%) Scrum
11 128 (12.18%) Migration
12 123 (11.70%) Analytics
12 123 (11.70%) Containerisation
13 122 (11.61%) Business Intelligence
14 121 (11.51%) Microservices
15 111 (10.56%) ERP
16 108 (10.28%) SDLC
17 107 (10.18%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 346 (32.92%) SQL
2 268 (25.50%) C#
3 242 (23.03%) Python
4 222 (21.12%) PowerShell
5 104 (9.90%) JavaScript
6 98 (9.32%) Bicep
7 79 (7.52%) Bash
8 65 (6.18%) TypeScript
9 47 (4.47%) T-SQL
10 42 (4.00%) Java
11 25 (2.38%) Shell Script
12 22 (2.09%) PL/SQL
13 16 (1.52%) Go
14 15 (1.43%) Apex Code
15 9 (0.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 6 (0.57%) Groovy
17 5 (0.48%) Scala
17 5 (0.48%) X++
18 4 (0.38%) VB
18 4 (0.38%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 133 (12.65%) Degree
2 98 (9.32%) Azure Certification
3 83 (7.90%) Computer Science Degree
4 69 (6.57%) Security Cleared
5 47 (4.47%) SC Cleared
6 43 (4.09%) Master's Degree
7 39 (3.71%) Microsoft Certification
8 37 (3.52%) ISTQB
9 23 (2.19%) DV Cleared
10 22 (2.09%) DBS Check
11 18 (1.71%) ISEB
12 15 (1.43%) AWS Certification
13 9 (0.86%) PMI Certification
13 9 (0.86%) PMP
14 7 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
15 5 (0.48%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 4 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
16 4 (0.38%) CCNA
16 4 (0.38%) PhD
16 4 (0.38%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 140 (13.32%) QA
2 36 (3.43%) GDPR
3 34 (3.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 30 (2.85%) Accessibility
5 29 (2.76%) NCSC
5 29 (2.76%) NIST
6 25 (2.38%) Data Quality
7 21 (2.00%) PMO
8 11 (1.05%) Software Quality Assurance
9 4 (0.38%) PERC
9 4 (0.38%) WCAG
10 2 (0.19%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.095%) COBIT
11 1 (0.095%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.095%) P3O
11 1 (0.095%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.095%) SLA
11 1 (0.095%) SOC 2
System Software
1 135 (12.84%) Docker
2 46 (4.38%) Active Directory
3 39 (3.71%) Virtual Machines
4 22 (2.09%) VMware Infrastructure
5 16 (1.52%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.29%) Firmware
6 3 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.19%) Postfix
7 2 (0.19%) vSphere
8 1 (0.095%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 1 (0.095%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.095%) vCloud
8 1 (0.095%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.095%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 287 (27.31%) Terraform
2 172 (16.37%) Kubernetes
3 72 (6.85%) HP ALM
4 71 (6.76%) Ansible
5 37 (3.52%) Single Sign-On
6 36 (3.43%) Grafana
7 26 (2.47%) Prometheus
8 17 (1.62%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.38%) Argo
9 4 (0.38%) Puppet
9 4 (0.38%) Rancher
9 4 (0.38%) vRealize
10 3 (0.29%) Dell DRAC
10 3 (0.29%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.29%) SCOM
11 2 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.19%) Kibana
11 2 (0.19%) Red Hat Satellite
11 2 (0.19%) ZABBIX
12 1 (0.095%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 365 (34.73%) Microsoft
2 78 (7.42%) SAP
3 72 (6.85%) HP
4 61 (5.80%) Databricks
5 33 (3.14%) Salesforce
6 32 (3.04%) VMware
7 26 (2.47%) Oracle
8 25 (2.38%) IBM
9 23 (2.19%) Black Duck
10 20 (1.90%) Google
10 20 (1.90%) Meraki
11 18 (1.71%) Coverity
11 18 (1.71%) ServiceNow
12 15 (1.43%) Red Hat
13 14 (1.33%) Okta
13 14 (1.33%) OpenAI
13 14 (1.33%) Siebel
13 14 (1.33%) Xamarin
14 12 (1.14%) Rackspace
14 12 (1.14%) Sage