Azure DevOps Jobs

Microsoft Azure DevOps
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Azure DevOps skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Azure DevOps over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 170 110 102
Rank change year-on-year -60 -8 +5
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 923 2,355 3,436
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.77% 2.39% 3.30%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.12% 6.66% 7.68%
Number of salaries quoted 757 1,817 2,215
10th Percentile £44,982 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,000 £48,750 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -3.85% +8.33%
75th Percentile £83,750 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £93,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - +9.09%

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 15,077 35,358 44,765
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 28.91% 35.95% 43.04%
Number of salaries quoted 11,032 26,774 29,301
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,750 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.09% -11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £83,125 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £102,725 £96,250 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%

Azure DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Azure DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Azure DevOps in the UK

Azure DevOps
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Azure DevOps.

Salary trend for Azure DevOps in the UK

Azure DevOps
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure DevOps over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

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 30 April 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 -52 844 £67,500 +8.00% 587
UK excluding London -82 491 £62,500 +4.17% 425
Work from Home -21 408 £67,500 +12.50% 386
London -16 358 £73,750 -1.67% 203
South East -22 178 £70,000 +27.27% 112
North of England -110 101 £70,000 +16.67% 128
Midlands -64 83 £65,000 +12.07% 71
West Midlands -34 72 £65,000 +8.33% 49
South West -12 62 £65,000 +4.00% 40
North West -131 48 £67,500 +12.50% 85
Yorkshire 0 44 £70,000 +25.56% 31
East of England +11 32 £53,000 +0.95% 20
Scotland +92 22 £57,500 -11.54% 37
Wales +4 22 £52,592 -12.35% 15
East Midlands -26 11 £50,000 -13.04% 22
North East +36 9 £60,000 +9.09% 12
Northern Ireland +35 4 £50,000 -23.08% 4

Azure DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 42 (4.55%) SharePoint
2 20 (2.17%) Confluence
3 12 (1.30%) Apache Spark
4 9 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (0.87%) Apache
6 7 (0.76%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (0.54%) IIS
8 4 (0.43%) CMS
9 2 (0.22%) Sitefinity
10 1 (0.11%) ColdFusion
10 1 (0.11%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.11%) Mendix
10 1 (0.11%) Mule
10 1 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.11%) Umbraco
Applications
1 21 (2.28%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (1.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (1.30%) Trello
4 9 (0.98%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.33%) Productboard
7 2 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.11%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 38 (4.12%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.87%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.11%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.11%) JDE EnterpriseOne
3 1 (0.11%) Magento
3 1 (0.11%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.11%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 923 (100.00%) Azure
2 183 (19.83%) Power Platform
3 160 (17.33%) GitHub
4 109 (11.81%) AWS
4 109 (11.81%) Dynamics 365
5 88 (9.53%) PaaS
6 83 (8.99%) GitHub Actions
7 77 (8.34%) SaaS
8 75 (8.13%) Azure Data Factory
9 71 (7.69%) Azure Service Bus
10 70 (7.58%) Azure Monitor
10 70 (7.58%) Microsoft 365
11 59 (6.39%) PowerApps
12 58 (6.28%) Serverless
13 57 (6.18%) Power Automate
14 53 (5.74%) Azure Logic Apps
15 52 (5.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 49 (5.31%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 48 (5.20%) GCP
18 46 (4.98%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 37 (4.01%) Firewall
2 30 (3.25%) VPN
3 19 (2.06%) DNS
4 16 (1.73%) HTTP
5 13 (1.41%) Network Security
6 5 (0.54%) HTTPS
6 5 (0.54%) WAN
7 4 (0.43%) LAN
7 4 (0.43%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.33%) Wireless
9 2 (0.22%) ADSL
9 2 (0.22%) Internet
9 2 (0.22%) IPv6
9 2 (0.22%) Multicast
9 2 (0.22%) Reverse Proxy
10 1 (0.11%) Broadband
10 1 (0.11%) DHCP
10 1 (0.11%) Intranet
10 1 (0.11%) MQTT
10 1 (0.11%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 178 (19.28%) SQL Server
2 80 (8.67%) Power BI
3 58 (6.28%) Azure SQL Database
4 39 (4.23%) Elasticsearch
5 33 (3.58%) Data Warehouse
6 28 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
7 23 (2.49%) Relational Database
8 22 (2.38%) Data Lake
9 20 (2.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 19 (2.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 17 (1.84%) Tableau
12 14 (1.52%) NoSQL
13 13 (1.41%) MongoDB
14 9 (0.98%) MySQL
15 8 (0.87%) Delta Lake
16 7 (0.76%) Big Data
16 7 (0.76%) Redis
17 6 (0.65%) Microsoft Analysis Services
18 5 (0.54%) RDBMS
18 5 (0.54%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 168 (18.20%) Git
2 86 (9.32%) JIRA
3 84 (9.10%) Jenkins
4 66 (7.15%) Visual Studio
5 50 (5.42%) Octopus Deploy
6 44 (4.77%) Team Foundation Server
7 43 (4.66%) Postman
7 43 (4.66%) Selenium
8 37 (4.01%) MSBuild
9 26 (2.82%) GitLab
10 23 (2.49%) NUnit
11 22 (2.38%) SonarQube
12 19 (2.06%) JMeter
13 18 (1.95%) Cypress.io
14 17 (1.84%) TeamCity
15 14 (1.52%) Bitbucket
16 10 (1.08%) JUnit
16 10 (1.08%) SpecFlow
17 8 (0.87%) REST Assured
18 7 (0.76%) Gatling
General
1 254 (27.52%) Social Skills
2 191 (20.69%) Finance
3 70 (7.58%) Analytical Skills
4 62 (6.72%) Retail
5 47 (5.09%) Public Sector
6 38 (4.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 27 (2.93%) Law
8 21 (2.28%) Banking
9 15 (1.63%) Automotive
9 15 (1.63%) Manufacturing
9 15 (1.63%) Tech for Good
10 13 (1.41%) Advertising
10 13 (1.41%) Marketing
11 10 (1.08%) Back Office
12 9 (0.98%) Legal
13 8 (0.87%) Front Office
13 8 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
14 7 (0.76%) Investment Banking
14 7 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
15 6 (0.65%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 239 (25.89%) Developer
2 179 (19.39%) Senior
3 111 (12.03%) DevOps Engineer
4 103 (11.16%) Azure Engineer
5 90 (9.75%) Lead
6 75 (8.13%) Senior Developer
7 71 (7.69%) .NET Developer
7 71 (7.69%) Architect
8 51 (5.53%) Cloud Engineer
9 49 (5.31%) Data Engineer
10 46 (4.98%) Software Engineer
11 45 (4.88%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 39 (4.23%) Technical Architect
13 36 (3.90%) Dynamics 365 Developer
14 34 (3.68%) Analyst
14 34 (3.68%) C# Developer
15 27 (2.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 26 (2.82%) Software Developer
17 25 (2.71%) Development Manager
18 20 (2.17%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 342 (37.05%) .NET
2 130 (14.08%) .NET Framework
3 118 (12.78%) HTML
4 111 (12.03%) CSS
5 109 (11.81%) ASP.NET
5 109 (11.81%) React
6 84 (9.10%) REST
7 74 (8.02%) AngularJS
8 70 (7.58%) JSON
9 66 (7.15%) XML
10 63 (6.83%) .NET Core
11 59 (6.39%) Entity Framework
12 52 (5.63%) Bootstrap
13 40 (4.33%) RESTful
13 40 (4.33%) YAML
14 35 (3.79%) gRPC
15 34 (3.68%) ARM Templates
16 30 (3.25%) ASP.NET Web API
17 28 (3.03%) Web Services
18 27 (2.93%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 52 (5.63%) Cloud Native
2 49 (5.31%) Product Ownership
3 40 (4.33%) Management Information System
4 25 (2.71%) Hybrid Cloud
5 22 (2.38%) Security Posture
6 20 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
7 19 (2.06%) Mobile App
8 18 (1.95%) Virtual Team
9 17 (1.84%) Data Structures
9 17 (1.84%) Onboarding
10 14 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
11 13 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
12 12 (1.30%) e-Learning
12 12 (1.30%) Low-Code
13 11 (1.19%) Public Cloud
14 9 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
14 9 (0.98%) Wiki
15 8 (0.87%) Algorithms
15 8 (0.87%) Analytical Mindset
15 8 (0.87%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 64 (6.93%) Windows
2 43 (4.66%) Linux
3 30 (3.25%) Windows Server
4 13 (1.41%) Android
5 11 (1.19%) Apple iOS
5 11 (1.19%) VMS
6 10 (1.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.76%) Windows 10
8 6 (0.65%) Unix
9 4 (0.43%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.22%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.22%) Windows Vista
11 1 (0.11%) CentOS
11 1 (0.11%) Debian
11 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 923 (100.00%) DevOps
2 452 (48.97%) CI/CD
3 417 (45.18%) Agile
4 216 (23.40%) Problem-Solving
5 159 (17.23%) Mentoring
6 150 (16.25%) Software Engineering
7 137 (14.84%) Infrastructure as Code
8 128 (13.87%) Test Automation
9 124 (13.43%) Microservices
10 110 (11.92%) Containerisation
11 102 (11.05%) Scrum
12 99 (10.73%) SDLC
13 91 (9.86%) Coaching
13 91 (9.86%) Project Management
14 89 (9.64%) Analytics
15 86 (9.32%) Continuous Improvement
16 84 (9.10%) MVC
17 80 (8.67%) Business Intelligence
18 75 (8.13%) Computer Science
19 73 (7.91%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 349 (37.81%) C#
2 328 (35.54%) SQL
3 223 (24.16%) JavaScript
4 164 (17.77%) Python
5 151 (16.36%) PowerShell
6 76 (8.23%) TypeScript
7 60 (6.50%) Java
8 43 (4.66%) Bash
9 37 (4.01%) T-SQL
10 36 (3.90%) Bicep
11 19 (2.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 17 (1.84%) C++
13 14 (1.52%) PHP
14 13 (1.41%) C
15 10 (1.08%) Scala
15 10 (1.08%) VB.NET
16 9 (0.98%) X++
17 8 (0.87%) Go
17 8 (0.87%) Kusto Query Language
18 6 (0.65%) R
Qualifications
1 135 (14.63%) Degree
2 77 (8.34%) Security Cleared
3 69 (7.48%) Azure Certification
4 53 (5.74%) Computer Science Degree
5 51 (5.53%) SC Cleared
6 35 (3.79%) Microsoft Certification
7 22 (2.38%) ISTQB
8 19 (2.06%) Master's Degree
9 18 (1.95%) BPSS Clearance
10 11 (1.19%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 10 (1.08%) PMI Certification
12 8 (0.87%) PMP
13 6 (0.65%) Numerate Degree
14 5 (0.54%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 4 (0.43%) CISSP
16 3 (0.33%) AWS Certification
16 3 (0.33%) CEH
16 3 (0.33%) Cisco Certification
16 3 (0.33%) CSPO
16 3 (0.33%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (9.75%) QA
2 68 (7.37%) GDPR
3 31 (3.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 27 (2.93%) Accessibility
5 25 (2.71%) Data Quality
6 21 (2.28%) NCSC
6 21 (2.28%) NIST
7 20 (2.17%) HIPAA
8 17 (1.84%) SOC 2
9 10 (1.08%) PCI DSS
9 10 (1.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 5 (0.54%) PMO
11 3 (0.33%) SLA
12 2 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
13 1 (0.11%) GRC
13 1 (0.11%) HL7
13 1 (0.11%) MiFID
13 1 (0.11%) PSD2
13 1 (0.11%) WCAG
System Software
1 174 (18.85%) Docker
2 29 (3.14%) Virtual Machines
3 14 (1.52%) Active Directory
3 14 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (1.30%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (0.54%) vSphere
6 4 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.11%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 176 (19.07%) Terraform
2 172 (18.63%) Kubernetes
3 40 (4.33%) Ansible
4 28 (3.03%) Prometheus
5 15 (1.63%) Grafana
6 11 (1.19%) Microsoft Intune
7 8 (0.87%) Progress Chef
8 6 (0.65%) Nagios
8 6 (0.65%) Puppet
9 4 (0.43%) Graylog
9 4 (0.43%) Opsgenie
9 4 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.33%) Kibana
11 2 (0.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.22%) Argo
11 2 (0.22%) Consul
11 2 (0.22%) Control-M
11 2 (0.22%) Kustomize
11 2 (0.22%) MIIS
12 1 (0.11%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 382 (41.39%) Microsoft
2 72 (7.80%) Databricks
3 25 (2.71%) VMware
4 24 (2.60%) Oracle
5 22 (2.38%) Google
6 21 (2.28%) IBM
7 19 (2.06%) Red Hat
8 15 (1.63%) Xamarin
9 13 (1.41%) Atlassian
9 13 (1.41%) SAP
10 11 (1.19%) Citrix
11 10 (1.08%) Cisco
12 9 (0.98%) Dynatrace
12 9 (0.98%) Okta
12 9 (0.98%) Rackspace
13 8 (0.87%) Palo Alto
14 7 (0.76%) OpenAI
15 5 (0.54%) Hitachi
15 5 (0.54%) Salesforce
15 5 (0.54%) Tanium