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 3 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 171 123
Rank change year-on-year +20 -48 -27
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,284 918 2,238
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.33% 1.94% 2.12%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.87% 5.94% 6.38%
Number of salaries quoted 1,038 709 1,673
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £49,813 £55,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £68,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.41% +8.80% -3.85%
75th Percentile £78,750 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% 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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 26,355 15,462 35,072
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.26% 32.72% 33.25%
Number of salaries quoted 17,172 10,773 26,925
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,625 £30,500
25th Percentile £43,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -8.73%
75th Percentile £83,750 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £51,125
% change year-on-year +4.76% +2.69% -7.05%

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 3 July 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 3 July 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 +20 1,152 £65,000 -7.14% 435
UK excluding London +54 850 £60,000 -4.00% 347
Work from Home +38 522 £60,000 -11.11% 278
London -19 367 £80,000 +6.67% 166
North of England +74 248 £62,500 -7.41% 86
South East +6 223 £60,000 -7.69% 122
North West +68 133 £66,500 +2.31% 50
Midlands +25 129 £64,000 +6.67% 47
South West -11 97 £55,000 -8.33% 26
East of England +17 71 £56,000 -6.67% 37
East Midlands +36 68 £63,500 +15.45% 23
Yorkshire -14 63 £69,308 -0.99% 25
West Midlands -21 61 £65,000 +4.00% 24
Wales -5 56 £53,171 -14.93% 15
North East -3 52 £50,000 -9.09% 12
Scotland +18 26 £61,250 -5.04% 17
Northern Ireland -43 2 £72,500 +45.00% 7

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 60 (4.67%) SharePoint
2 59 (4.60%) Confluence
3 31 (2.41%) Microsoft Exchange
4 21 (1.64%) IIS
5 13 (1.01%) Apache Spark
6 9 (0.70%) CMS
7 8 (0.62%) SharePoint Server
8 6 (0.47%) Apache
8 6 (0.47%) nginx
8 6 (0.47%) Umbraco
9 5 (0.39%) Anypoint
9 5 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.23%) WordPress
11 2 (0.16%) Camunda
11 2 (0.16%) CICS
11 2 (0.16%) Luigi
11 2 (0.16%) Moodle
12 1 (0.078%) BizTalk Server
12 1 (0.078%) NServiceBus
12 1 (0.078%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 17 (1.32%) MS Visio
2 16 (1.25%) Microsoft Project
3 13 (1.01%) Microsoft Excel
4 7 (0.55%) Chatbot
5 5 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (0.39%) Trello
6 4 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.078%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.078%) Notion
7 1 (0.078%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 18 (1.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.47%) Elite 3E
2 6 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.39%) Dynamics AX
3 5 (0.39%) Visualfiles
4 4 (0.31%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.23%) Carpe Diem
5 3 (0.23%) SAP IBP
6 2 (0.16%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 2 (0.16%) Magento
6 2 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.16%) Shopify
7 1 (0.078%) Infor M3
7 1 (0.078%) JDE EnterpriseOne
7 1 (0.078%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.078%) Sage 200
7 1 (0.078%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 1,283 (99.92%) Azure
2 230 (17.91%) GitHub
3 201 (15.65%) Power Platform
4 165 (12.85%) AWS
5 140 (10.90%) GitHub Actions
6 118 (9.19%) Serverless
7 110 (8.57%) Azure AKS
8 105 (8.18%) Azure Monitor
9 96 (7.48%) PaaS
10 94 (7.32%) Azure Service Bus
11 92 (7.17%) Azure Functions
12 88 (6.85%) Azure AI
13 87 (6.78%) Azure Logic Apps
14 84 (6.54%) Dynamics 365
14 84 (6.54%) Entra ID
15 72 (5.61%) Microsoft 365
16 69 (5.37%) Azure Data Factory
16 69 (5.37%) SaaS
17 63 (4.91%) GCP
18 61 (4.75%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 51 (3.97%) Firewall
2 23 (1.79%) DNS
2 23 (1.79%) VPN
3 16 (1.25%) HTTP
4 14 (1.09%) TCP/IP
5 11 (0.86%) Network Security
6 9 (0.70%) Internet
7 5 (0.39%) SAN
7 5 (0.39%) WAN
8 4 (0.31%) Bluetooth
8 4 (0.31%) MQTT
8 4 (0.31%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (0.31%) Wireless
8 4 (0.31%) ZigBee
9 3 (0.23%) BGP
9 3 (0.23%) HTTPS
10 2 (0.16%) DHCP
10 2 (0.16%) VLAN
11 1 (0.078%) Broadband
11 1 (0.078%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 228 (17.76%) Azure SQL Database
2 159 (12.38%) MongoDB
3 134 (10.44%) SQL Server
4 96 (7.48%) Power BI
5 43 (3.35%) PostgreSQL
6 36 (2.80%) Data Warehouse
7 30 (2.34%) Elasticsearch
7 30 (2.34%) Relational Database
8 27 (2.10%) Data Lake
9 26 (2.02%) Delta Lake
9 26 (2.02%) NoSQL
10 20 (1.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 19 (1.48%) Redis
12 18 (1.40%) Spark SQL
13 16 (1.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 15 (1.17%) Metadata
14 15 (1.17%) MySQL
15 12 (0.93%) Star Schema
16 10 (0.78%) Tableau
17 9 (0.70%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 188 (14.64%) Git
2 153 (11.92%) JIRA
3 115 (8.96%) Jenkins
4 77 (6.00%) GitLab
5 48 (3.74%) Selenium
6 41 (3.19%) Cypress.io
7 35 (2.73%) Postman
8 23 (1.79%) Eclipse
9 18 (1.40%) REST Assured
10 15 (1.17%) JMeter
10 15 (1.17%) Visual Studio
11 14 (1.09%) fastlane
12 13 (1.01%) Octopus Deploy
12 13 (1.01%) TestRail
12 13 (1.01%) Zephyr
13 9 (0.70%) JUnit
13 9 (0.70%) Xcode
14 7 (0.55%) LoadRunner
14 7 (0.55%) NUnit
15 6 (0.47%) MSI
General
1 291 (22.66%) Finance
2 290 (22.59%) Social Skills
3 119 (9.27%) Analytical Skills
4 94 (7.32%) Public Sector
5 90 (7.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 55 (4.28%) Law
7 51 (3.97%) Retail
8 40 (3.12%) Marketing
9 33 (2.57%) Legal
10 29 (2.26%) Banking
11 26 (2.02%) Advertising
12 23 (1.79%) Games
13 20 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
13 20 (1.56%) Manufacturing
13 20 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
14 18 (1.40%) Billing
15 15 (1.17%) Telecoms
16 13 (1.01%) Documentation Skills
17 10 (0.78%) Automotive
17 10 (0.78%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 388 (30.22%) Developer
2 249 (19.39%) Senior
3 224 (17.45%) DevOps Engineer
4 195 (15.19%) Azure Engineer
5 183 (14.25%) .NET Developer
6 169 (13.16%) Lead
7 112 (8.72%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 79 (6.15%) Senior Developer
9 73 (5.69%) Platform Engineer
10 69 (5.37%) Data Engineer
11 66 (5.14%) Analyst
12 63 (4.91%) Cloud Engineer
13 59 (4.60%) Architect
14 54 (4.21%) Senior DevOps
15 52 (4.05%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 48 (3.74%) Software Engineer
17 41 (3.19%) Cloud Platform Engineer
18 37 (2.88%) Azure Platform Engineer
19 35 (2.73%) Software Developer
20 27 (2.10%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 416 (32.40%) .NET
2 224 (17.45%) ASP.NET
3 198 (15.42%) .NET Core
4 183 (14.25%) ASP.NET Core
5 161 (12.54%) React
6 147 (11.45%) HTML
7 145 (11.29%) CSS
8 127 (9.89%) RESTful
9 123 (9.58%) REST
10 104 (8.10%) Blazor
10 104 (8.10%) Entity Framework
11 84 (6.54%) Node.js
12 76 (5.92%) ML.NET
13 62 (4.83%) Playwright
14 61 (4.75%) YAML
15 51 (3.97%) ARM Templates
16 47 (3.66%) .NET Framework
17 44 (3.43%) JSON
18 43 (3.35%) OAuth
19 40 (3.12%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 126 (9.81%) Product Ownership
2 115 (8.96%) Cloud Native
3 58 (4.52%) Mobile App
4 43 (3.35%) Enterprise Software
5 42 (3.27%) Legacy Systems
6 41 (3.19%) Onboarding
7 32 (2.49%) Greenfield Project
8 31 (2.41%) Distributed Systems
9 26 (2.02%) Management Information System
10 23 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
10 23 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
11 22 (1.71%) Low-Code
12 19 (1.48%) Podcast
13 18 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
14 17 (1.32%) iPhone
14 17 (1.32%) Public Cloud
15 16 (1.25%) AI Agents
15 16 (1.25%) BBC
15 16 (1.25%) Social Media
16 14 (1.09%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 97 (7.55%) Linux
2 76 (5.92%) Windows
3 28 (2.18%) VMS
4 26 (2.02%) Android
5 19 (1.48%) Unix
6 16 (1.25%) Ubuntu
7 15 (1.17%) Apple iOS
8 12 (0.93%) Windows Server
9 4 (0.31%) Kali Linux
10 3 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.078%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.078%) SUSE
11 1 (0.078%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,283 (99.92%) DevOps
2 763 (59.42%) CI/CD
3 587 (45.72%) Agile
4 319 (24.84%) Infrastructure as Code
5 268 (20.87%) AI
6 251 (19.55%) Continuous Improvement
7 237 (18.46%) Test Automation
8 233 (18.15%) Full-Stack Development
9 202 (15.73%) Scrum
10 187 (14.56%) Mentoring
10 187 (14.56%) Problem-Solving
11 161 (12.54%) Analytics
12 155 (12.07%) Microservices
13 149 (11.60%) Observability
14 129 (10.05%) Platform Engineering
15 126 (9.81%) Machine Learning
16 122 (9.50%) Containerisation
17 119 (9.27%) Roadmaps
18 118 (9.19%) SDLC
19 109 (8.49%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 451 (35.12%) SQL
2 407 (31.70%) C#
3 244 (19.00%) Python
4 234 (18.22%) JavaScript
5 153 (11.92%) PowerShell
6 131 (10.20%) Bash
7 106 (8.26%) Bicep
8 74 (5.76%) Java
9 65 (5.06%) TypeScript
10 25 (1.95%) T-SQL
11 23 (1.79%) Go
12 21 (1.64%) Kusto Query Language
13 15 (1.17%) C++
13 15 (1.17%) Scala
14 12 (0.93%) Swift
15 8 (0.62%) Apex Code
15 8 (0.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 8 (0.62%) Kotlin
16 7 (0.55%) VB.NET
17 6 (0.47%) PHP
Qualifications
1 99 (7.71%) Security Cleared
2 84 (6.54%) Degree
3 78 (6.07%) SC Cleared
4 66 (5.14%) Azure Certification
5 36 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 25 (1.95%) ISTQB
7 24 (1.87%) Microsoft Certification
8 13 (1.01%) PMI Certification
9 12 (0.93%) DV Cleared
10 11 (0.86%) Master's Degree
11 8 (0.62%) HND
12 7 (0.55%) AWS Certification
12 7 (0.55%) PMP
13 6 (0.47%) CISSP
14 4 (0.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 4 (0.31%) ISEB
14 4 (0.31%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 4 (0.31%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 3 (0.23%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
15 3 (0.23%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 153 (11.92%) QA
2 88 (6.85%) Accessibility
3 50 (3.89%) Data Quality
4 39 (3.04%) GDPR
5 28 (2.18%) WCAG
6 25 (1.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 12 (0.93%) TickIT
8 11 (0.86%) GRC
9 10 (0.78%) PMO
9 10 (0.78%) SLA
10 8 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 6 (0.47%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 6 (0.47%) SOC 2
11 6 (0.47%) Software Quality Assurance
11 6 (0.47%) Solvency II
12 5 (0.39%) IFRS
12 5 (0.39%) NCSC
13 4 (0.31%) JTAG
14 3 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
15 2 (0.16%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 155 (12.07%) Docker
2 67 (5.22%) Active Directory
3 20 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (1.25%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (1.01%) Virtual Desktop
6 12 (0.93%) vSphere
7 3 (0.23%) Firmware
8 2 (0.16%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 325 (25.31%) Terraform
2 144 (11.21%) Kubernetes
3 74 (5.76%) Ansible
4 68 (5.30%) Grafana
5 57 (4.44%) Prometheus
6 28 (2.18%) Argo
7 7 (0.55%) Kibana
7 7 (0.55%) Puppet
8 4 (0.31%) HP Fortify
9 3 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (0.23%) HP ALM
9 3 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (0.23%) Nagios
9 3 (0.23%) Scalr
10 2 (0.16%) Istio
10 2 (0.16%) MIIS
10 2 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.078%) linkerd
11 1 (0.078%) Packer
11 1 (0.078%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 544 (42.37%) Microsoft
2 64 (4.98%) Databricks
3 49 (3.82%) Google
4 42 (3.27%) Salesforce
5 40 (3.12%) ServiceNow
6 35 (2.73%) Facebook
7 29 (2.26%) Apple
8 27 (2.10%) VMware
9 25 (1.95%) Dynatrace
10 23 (1.79%) Red Hat
11 19 (1.48%) YouTube
12 17 (1.32%) MuleSoft
13 16 (1.25%) Sony
13 16 (1.25%) Yahoo!
14 14 (1.09%) Guidewire
15 12 (0.93%) Oracle
15 12 (0.93%) ScienceLogic
16 11 (0.86%) Foundry
17 9 (0.70%) SAP
17 9 (0.70%) Splunk