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

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 168 150 117
Rank change year-on-year -18 -33 -8
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,090 930 2,299
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.21% 2.13% 2.38%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.10% 6.05% 6.67%
Number of salaries quoted 824 739 1,781
10th Percentile £42,500 £45,750 £41,933
25th Percentile £50,000 £53,750 £49,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +9.76% -5.38%
75th Percentile £82,219 £83,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £92,500 £96,250 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £59,500 £62,750 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.18% +4.58% -

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 26,587 15,373 34,459
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 29.41% 35.15% 35.65%
Number of salaries quoted 14,876 10,843 26,768
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £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 £82,751 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% 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 12 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 12 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 -21 927 £67,500 -3.57% 383
UK excluding London +22 694 £59,500 -5.18% 304
Work from Home +16 432 £62,500 -7.41% 229
London -16 332 £77,500 +3.33% 134
North of England +27 174 £62,500 -10.71% 79
South East -16 174 £50,000 -28.57% 100
Midlands -9 109 £65,000 - 47
North West +31 86 £70,000 +3.70% 38
Scotland +56 81 £62,500 +8.70% 17
South West -29 76 £52,373 -19.43% 18
West Midlands -34 58 £60,000 -7.69% 25
Yorkshire -49 49 £60,000 -14.29% 19
East Midlands +3 48 £67,250 +34.50% 22
East of England -4 43 £60,000 +9.09% 28
North East -5 39 £50,000 -23.08% 22
Wales -13 37 £53,050 +0.87% 14
Northern Ireland -35 2 £72,500 +45.00% 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 38 (3.49%) SharePoint
2 35 (3.21%) Confluence
3 21 (1.93%) IIS
4 19 (1.74%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (0.83%) Apache Spark
6 7 (0.64%) Anypoint
6 7 (0.64%) Apache Airflow
6 7 (0.64%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 6 (0.55%) Apache
8 5 (0.46%) CMS
9 4 (0.37%) Moodle
9 4 (0.37%) Umbraco
10 3 (0.28%) WordPress
11 2 (0.18%) BizTalk Server
11 2 (0.18%) CICS
11 2 (0.18%) Luigi
12 1 (0.092%) nginx
12 1 (0.092%) Palantir Foundry
12 1 (0.092%) PegaRULES
12 1 (0.092%) Tomcat
Applications
1 20 (1.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (1.74%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.55%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
6 3 (0.28%) Adobe XD
6 3 (0.28%) Trello
7 1 (0.092%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 15 (1.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (1.28%) Oracle ERP
3 6 (0.55%) Dynamics AX
4 5 (0.46%) Visualfiles
5 3 (0.28%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
6 2 (0.18%) Magento
6 2 (0.18%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.092%) Endur
7 1 (0.092%) Infor M3
7 1 (0.092%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 1 (0.092%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.092%) Sage 200
7 1 (0.092%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.092%) SAP CX
7 1 (0.092%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1,089 (99.91%) Azure
2 263 (24.13%) GitHub
3 181 (16.61%) Power Platform
4 163 (14.95%) AWS
5 149 (13.67%) GitHub Actions
6 94 (8.62%) Serverless
7 85 (7.80%) Azure Data Factory
8 84 (7.71%) Azure AKS
8 84 (7.71%) Azure Monitor
8 84 (7.71%) Entra ID
9 80 (7.34%) Microsoft 365
10 70 (6.42%) Azure Logic Apps
11 69 (6.33%) PaaS
12 63 (5.78%) GCP
13 59 (5.41%) Azure Functions
13 59 (5.41%) Azure Service Bus
13 59 (5.41%) Dynamics 365
14 58 (5.32%) SaaS
15 48 (4.40%) Azure Key Vault
16 40 (3.67%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 61 (5.60%) Firewall
2 30 (2.75%) DNS
3 19 (1.74%) TCP/IP
4 18 (1.65%) HTTP
5 14 (1.28%) Network Security
6 13 (1.19%) VPN
7 12 (1.10%) WAN
8 3 (0.28%) BGP
8 3 (0.28%) DHCP
9 2 (0.18%) Bluetooth
9 2 (0.18%) HTTPS
9 2 (0.18%) Internet
9 2 (0.18%) MQTT
9 2 (0.18%) SAN
9 2 (0.18%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.18%) Wireless
9 2 (0.18%) ZigBee
10 1 (0.092%) MPLS
10 1 (0.092%) SD-WAN
10 1 (0.092%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (11.19%) SQL Server
2 114 (10.46%) Azure SQL Database
3 99 (9.08%) Power BI
4 77 (7.06%) MongoDB
5 46 (4.22%) Data Warehouse
6 39 (3.58%) Data Lake
6 39 (3.58%) PostgreSQL
7 35 (3.21%) NoSQL
8 25 (2.29%) Relational Database
9 23 (2.11%) Delta Lake
10 19 (1.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 17 (1.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 15 (1.38%) Spark SQL
13 13 (1.19%) Tableau
14 12 (1.10%) Amazon RDS
14 12 (1.10%) Star Schema
15 11 (1.01%) DynamoDB
15 11 (1.01%) Elasticsearch
16 10 (0.92%) Metadata
17 9 (0.83%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 174 (15.96%) Git
2 140 (12.84%) JIRA
3 117 (10.73%) Jenkins
4 66 (6.06%) GitLab
5 51 (4.68%) Selenium
6 36 (3.30%) Cypress.io
7 32 (2.94%) Postman
8 22 (2.02%) Eclipse
9 16 (1.47%) Octopus Deploy
9 16 (1.47%) Visual Studio
10 14 (1.28%) Oracle Forms
11 12 (1.10%) JMeter
11 12 (1.10%) REST Assured
11 12 (1.10%) TeamCity
12 10 (0.92%) TestRail
12 10 (0.92%) Zephyr
13 8 (0.73%) Cucumber
14 7 (0.64%) fastlane
14 7 (0.64%) LoadRunner
15 6 (0.55%) MLflow
General
1 302 (27.71%) Finance
2 242 (22.20%) Social Skills
3 139 (12.75%) Analytical Skills
4 60 (5.50%) Public Sector
5 50 (4.59%) Law
6 49 (4.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 36 (3.30%) Retail
8 34 (3.12%) Legal
9 33 (3.03%) Marketing
10 28 (2.57%) Billing
11 21 (1.93%) Banking
11 21 (1.93%) Telecoms
12 20 (1.83%) Influencing Skills
13 14 (1.28%) Advertising
13 14 (1.28%) Games
14 12 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
15 11 (1.01%) Automotive
15 11 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
16 10 (0.92%) Manufacturing
17 5 (0.46%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 266 (24.40%) Developer
2 219 (20.09%) Senior
3 194 (17.80%) DevOps Engineer
4 180 (16.51%) Azure Engineer
5 154 (14.13%) Lead
6 95 (8.72%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 88 (8.07%) .NET Developer
8 74 (6.79%) Cloud Engineer
9 64 (5.87%) Data Engineer
10 57 (5.23%) Senior Developer
11 55 (5.05%) Analyst
12 52 (4.77%) Architect
13 51 (4.68%) Platform Engineer
14 49 (4.50%) Senior DevOps
15 47 (4.31%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 31 (2.84%) Cloud Platform Engineer
17 30 (2.75%) Software Developer
18 28 (2.57%) Full-Stack Developer
18 28 (2.57%) Software Engineer
19 27 (2.48%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 297 (27.25%) .NET
2 131 (12.02%) React
3 120 (11.01%) ASP.NET
4 113 (10.37%) .NET Core
5 103 (9.45%) REST
6 101 (9.27%) CSS
7 100 (9.17%) HTML
8 99 (9.08%) RESTful
9 89 (8.17%) ASP.NET Core
10 65 (5.96%) Node.js
11 63 (5.78%) OAuth
12 55 (5.05%) SOAP
13 53 (4.86%) Entity Framework
13 53 (4.86%) Playwright
14 52 (4.77%) Blazor
15 48 (4.40%) YAML
16 45 (4.13%) JSON
17 42 (3.85%) .NET Framework
18 39 (3.58%) PySpark
19 37 (3.39%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 116 (10.64%) Product Ownership
2 102 (9.36%) Cloud Native
3 42 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
4 38 (3.49%) Mobile App
5 31 (2.84%) Management Information System
6 29 (2.66%) Low-Code
7 24 (2.20%) Analytical Mindset
8 22 (2.02%) Distributed Systems
8 22 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
9 18 (1.65%) Reinsurance
10 15 (1.38%) Data Structures
11 14 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
11 14 (1.28%) Onboarding
12 13 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
13 11 (1.01%) Virtual Team
14 10 (0.92%) Enterprise Cloud
15 9 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
16 8 (0.73%) Distributed Computing
16 8 (0.73%) PMI
17 7 (0.64%) Culture of Ownership
Operating Systems
1 85 (7.80%) Linux
2 66 (6.06%) Windows
3 18 (1.65%) Unix
3 18 (1.65%) VMS
4 14 (1.28%) Ubuntu
5 13 (1.19%) Android
6 12 (1.10%) Apple iOS
6 12 (1.10%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.37%) Kali Linux
8 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.092%) SUSE
9 1 (0.092%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 1 (0.092%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,089 (99.91%) DevOps
2 671 (61.56%) CI/CD
3 495 (45.41%) Agile
4 299 (27.43%) Infrastructure as Code
5 265 (24.31%) Test Automation
6 216 (19.82%) Continuous Improvement
7 205 (18.81%) AI
8 194 (17.80%) Problem-Solving
9 161 (14.77%) Mentoring
10 156 (14.31%) Analytics
11 154 (14.13%) Observability
12 152 (13.94%) Scrum
13 141 (12.94%) Data Modelling
14 133 (12.20%) Full-Stack Development
15 132 (12.11%) Coaching
16 129 (11.83%) Containerisation
17 124 (11.38%) Microservices
18 104 (9.54%) Business Intelligence
19 99 (9.08%) Roadmaps
20 98 (8.99%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 372 (34.13%) SQL
2 259 (23.76%) C#
2 259 (23.76%) Python
3 160 (14.68%) JavaScript
4 124 (11.38%) PowerShell
5 103 (9.45%) Bash
6 80 (7.34%) Bicep
7 74 (6.79%) Java
8 57 (5.23%) TypeScript
9 23 (2.11%) Apex Code
9 23 (2.11%) Go
10 20 (1.83%) Scala
11 18 (1.65%) PL/SQL
12 16 (1.47%) Shell Script
13 14 (1.28%) T-SQL
14 13 (1.19%) Kusto Query Language
15 12 (1.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 9 (0.83%) Swift
17 7 (0.64%) DataWeave
18 6 (0.55%) C++
Qualifications
1 86 (7.89%) Degree
2 68 (6.24%) Security Cleared
3 46 (4.22%) Azure Certification
3 46 (4.22%) SC Cleared
4 39 (3.58%) Computer Science Degree
5 29 (2.66%) ISTQB
6 21 (1.93%) Microsoft Certification
7 15 (1.38%) DV Cleared
7 15 (1.38%) Master's Degree
8 13 (1.19%) HND
9 12 (1.10%) AWS Certification
10 9 (0.83%) PMI Certification
11 8 (0.73%) AWS Certified Developer
11 8 (0.73%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 5 (0.46%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 4 (0.37%) BC Cleared
14 3 (0.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 3 (0.28%) CBAP
15 2 (0.18%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 2 (0.18%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 120 (11.01%) QA
2 75 (6.88%) Accessibility
3 46 (4.22%) Data Quality
4 43 (3.94%) GDPR
5 29 (2.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (1.19%) SLA
6 13 (1.19%) SOC 2
7 12 (1.10%) TickIT
8 10 (0.92%) GRC
8 10 (0.92%) WCAG
9 6 (0.55%) Software Quality Assurance
9 6 (0.55%) Solvency II
10 5 (0.46%) IFRS
10 5 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.28%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 2 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.18%) IFRS 17
12 2 (0.18%) JTAG
12 2 (0.18%) NCSC
12 2 (0.18%) PMO
System Software
1 146 (13.39%) Docker
2 61 (5.60%) Active Directory
3 17 (1.56%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.18%) Firmware
5 2 (0.18%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.092%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 321 (29.45%) Terraform
2 116 (10.64%) Kubernetes
3 77 (7.06%) Ansible
4 64 (5.87%) Grafana
5 52 (4.77%) Prometheus
6 22 (2.02%) Argo
7 16 (1.47%) Single Sign-On
8 9 (0.83%) Kibana
9 4 (0.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (0.37%) HP Fortify
9 4 (0.37%) logstash
9 4 (0.37%) Puppet
10 3 (0.28%) HP ALM
10 3 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (0.28%) Scalr
11 2 (0.18%) MIIS
11 2 (0.18%) Nagios
11 2 (0.18%) SCCM
12 1 (0.092%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.092%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 411 (37.71%) Microsoft
2 68 (6.24%) Databricks
3 50 (4.59%) Salesforce
4 33 (3.03%) ServiceNow
5 25 (2.29%) Oracle
6 23 (2.11%) Red Hat
7 20 (1.83%) Google
8 18 (1.65%) Dynatrace
9 16 (1.47%) Apple
9 16 (1.47%) MuleSoft
10 15 (1.38%) Adobe
11 14 (1.28%) Palo Alto
11 14 (1.28%) Zscaler
12 12 (1.10%) Facebook
12 12 (1.10%) Freshdesk
12 12 (1.10%) Nintex
13 11 (1.01%) CrowdStrike
13 11 (1.01%) VMware
14 10 (0.92%) Guidewire
14 10 (0.92%) Okta