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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 172 152 116
Rank change year-on-year -20 -36 -9
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,092 908 2,280
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.20% 2.09% 2.36%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.09% 6.02% 6.64%
Number of salaries quoted 832 716 1,761
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £41,933
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,000 £67,500 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% +9.76% -5.38%
75th Percentile £81,469 £83,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £91,250 £96,250 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £62,750 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.38% +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 26,671 15,071 34,354
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 29.33% 34.63% 35.63%
Number of salaries quoted 14,912 10,556 26,678
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,687 £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 £82,500 £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 15 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 15 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 -19 935 £67,500 -3.57% 421
UK excluding London +27 688 £60,000 -4.38% 327
Work from Home +32 427 £65,000 -3.70% 245
London -21 336 £77,500 +3.33% 154
South East -26 178 £52,500 -25.00% 101
North of England +33 177 £65,000 -7.14% 92
Midlands -10 109 £65,000 - 47
North West +37 89 £70,000 +3.70% 50
South West -34 74 £52,500 -19.23% 22
Scotland +45 71 £62,500 +8.70% 17
West Midlands -40 57 £61,000 -6.15% 27
Yorkshire -46 50 £69,305 -0.99% 22
East Midlands +14 49 £67,250 +22.27% 20
East of England -2 42 £60,000 +9.09% 32
North East -6 38 £50,000 -23.08% 21
Wales -11 37 £53,050 -9.77% 16
Northern Ireland -34 2 £72,500 +45.00% 4

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 37 (3.39%) SharePoint
2 34 (3.11%) Confluence
3 21 (1.92%) IIS
4 18 (1.65%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (0.82%) Apache Spark
6 7 (0.64%) Anypoint
6 7 (0.64%) Apache Airflow
6 7 (0.64%) SharePoint Server
7 6 (0.55%) Apache
7 6 (0.55%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 5 (0.46%) CMS
9 4 (0.37%) Moodle
9 4 (0.37%) Umbraco
10 3 (0.27%) WordPress
11 2 (0.18%) BizTalk Server
11 2 (0.18%) CICS
11 2 (0.18%) Luigi
12 1 (0.092%) Drupal
12 1 (0.092%) PegaRULES
12 1 (0.092%) Tomcat
Applications
1 19 (1.74%) Microsoft Excel
1 19 (1.74%) MS Visio
2 10 (0.92%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.55%) Chatbot
5 5 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
6 3 (0.27%) Adobe XD
6 3 (0.27%) Trello
7 1 (0.092%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 15 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (1.10%) Oracle ERP
3 6 (0.55%) Dynamics AX
4 5 (0.46%) Visualfiles
5 3 (0.27%) Elite 3E
5 3 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
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 1,091 (99.91%) Azure
2 254 (23.26%) GitHub
3 177 (16.21%) Power Platform
4 157 (14.38%) AWS
5 148 (13.55%) GitHub Actions
6 94 (8.61%) Serverless
7 90 (8.24%) Azure Monitor
8 87 (7.97%) Azure AKS
9 84 (7.69%) Entra ID
10 81 (7.42%) Azure Data Factory
11 79 (7.23%) Microsoft 365
12 73 (6.68%) Azure Logic Apps
13 70 (6.41%) PaaS
14 61 (5.59%) Azure Service Bus
14 61 (5.59%) SaaS
15 60 (5.49%) Azure Functions
16 59 (5.40%) Dynamics 365
16 59 (5.40%) GCP
17 49 (4.49%) Azure Key Vault
18 42 (3.85%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 58 (5.31%) Firewall
2 27 (2.47%) DNS
3 16 (1.47%) TCP/IP
4 15 (1.37%) HTTP
5 14 (1.28%) Network Security
6 13 (1.19%) VPN
7 12 (1.10%) WAN
8 3 (0.27%) BGP
8 3 (0.27%) 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%) Broadband
10 1 (0.092%) IP Telephony
10 1 (0.092%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 121 (11.08%) Azure SQL Database
2 119 (10.90%) SQL Server
3 95 (8.70%) Power BI
4 77 (7.05%) MongoDB
5 43 (3.94%) Data Warehouse
6 39 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
7 38 (3.48%) Data Lake
8 34 (3.11%) NoSQL
9 25 (2.29%) Relational Database
10 23 (2.11%) Delta Lake
11 17 (1.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 17 (1.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 16 (1.47%) Spark SQL
13 13 (1.19%) Star Schema
14 12 (1.10%) Amazon RDS
14 12 (1.10%) Tableau
15 11 (1.01%) Elasticsearch
16 10 (0.92%) DynamoDB
17 9 (0.82%) Metadata
17 9 (0.82%) Redis
Development Applications
1 178 (16.30%) Git
2 140 (12.82%) JIRA
3 114 (10.44%) Jenkins
4 66 (6.04%) GitLab
5 54 (4.95%) Selenium
6 38 (3.48%) Cypress.io
7 33 (3.02%) Postman
8 22 (2.01%) Eclipse
9 17 (1.56%) Visual Studio
10 16 (1.47%) Octopus Deploy
11 12 (1.10%) JMeter
11 12 (1.10%) Oracle Forms
11 12 (1.10%) REST Assured
11 12 (1.10%) TeamCity
12 11 (1.01%) TestRail
13 10 (0.92%) Zephyr
14 8 (0.73%) Cucumber
15 7 (0.64%) fastlane
15 7 (0.64%) LoadRunner
16 6 (0.55%) MLflow
General
1 301 (27.56%) Finance
2 240 (21.98%) Social Skills
3 133 (12.18%) Analytical Skills
4 70 (6.41%) Public Sector
5 49 (4.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 47 (4.30%) Law
7 36 (3.30%) Retail
8 35 (3.21%) Legal
9 32 (2.93%) Marketing
10 28 (2.56%) Billing
11 21 (1.92%) Banking
12 20 (1.83%) Influencing Skills
13 18 (1.65%) Telecoms
14 14 (1.28%) Advertising
14 14 (1.28%) Games
15 12 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
16 11 (1.01%) Automotive
16 11 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
17 10 (0.92%) Manufacturing
18 6 (0.55%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 263 (24.08%) Developer
2 223 (20.42%) Senior
3 196 (17.95%) DevOps Engineer
4 180 (16.48%) Azure Engineer
5 156 (14.29%) Lead
6 97 (8.88%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 87 (7.97%) .NET Developer
8 72 (6.59%) Cloud Engineer
9 65 (5.95%) Data Engineer
10 58 (5.31%) Senior Developer
11 54 (4.95%) Platform Engineer
12 53 (4.85%) Analyst
12 53 (4.85%) Architect
13 50 (4.58%) Senior DevOps
14 48 (4.40%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 36 (3.30%) Software Engineer
16 32 (2.93%) Cloud Platform Engineer
17 29 (2.66%) Software Developer
18 27 (2.47%) Applications Support
18 27 (2.47%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 300 (27.47%) .NET
2 129 (11.81%) React
3 122 (11.17%) ASP.NET
4 114 (10.44%) .NET Core
5 104 (9.52%) REST
6 99 (9.07%) CSS
6 99 (9.07%) HTML
7 95 (8.70%) RESTful
8 88 (8.06%) ASP.NET Core
9 66 (6.04%) Node.js
10 61 (5.59%) OAuth
11 55 (5.04%) Playwright
12 53 (4.85%) Blazor
12 53 (4.85%) Entity Framework
12 53 (4.85%) YAML
13 52 (4.76%) SOAP
14 45 (4.12%) JSON
15 41 (3.75%) .NET Framework
16 40 (3.66%) PySpark
17 37 (3.39%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 115 (10.53%) Product Ownership
2 98 (8.97%) Cloud Native
3 41 (3.75%) Enterprise Software
4 37 (3.39%) Mobile App
5 31 (2.84%) Management Information System
6 28 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
6 28 (2.56%) Low-Code
7 24 (2.20%) Analytical Mindset
8 23 (2.11%) Distributed Systems
9 21 (1.92%) Onboarding
10 17 (1.56%) Reinsurance
11 15 (1.37%) Data Structures
12 14 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
13 13 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
14 11 (1.01%) Virtual Team
15 10 (0.92%) Enterprise Cloud
15 10 (0.92%) Legacy Applications
16 9 (0.82%) Self-Motivation
17 8 (0.73%) Distributed Computing
17 8 (0.73%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 87 (7.97%) Linux
2 65 (5.95%) Windows
3 19 (1.74%) VMS
4 18 (1.65%) Unix
5 15 (1.37%) Ubuntu
6 13 (1.19%) Android
6 13 (1.19%) Windows Server
7 12 (1.10%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.37%) Kali Linux
9 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.092%) SUSE
10 1 (0.092%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.092%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,091 (99.91%) DevOps
2 672 (61.54%) CI/CD
3 486 (44.51%) Agile
4 299 (27.38%) Infrastructure as Code
5 265 (24.27%) Test Automation
6 214 (19.60%) Continuous Improvement
7 202 (18.50%) AI
8 189 (17.31%) Problem-Solving
9 163 (14.93%) Mentoring
10 159 (14.56%) Analytics
11 155 (14.19%) Observability
12 154 (14.10%) Scrum
13 139 (12.73%) Full-Stack Development
14 137 (12.55%) Data Modelling
15 129 (11.81%) Coaching
16 125 (11.45%) Containerisation
16 125 (11.45%) Microservices
17 102 (9.34%) Business Intelligence
18 101 (9.25%) Roadmaps
19 97 (8.88%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 375 (34.34%) SQL
2 265 (24.27%) C#
3 256 (23.44%) Python
4 164 (15.02%) JavaScript
5 125 (11.45%) PowerShell
6 105 (9.62%) Bash
7 79 (7.23%) Java
8 78 (7.14%) Bicep
9 57 (5.22%) TypeScript
10 21 (1.92%) Apex Code
11 20 (1.83%) Go
12 19 (1.74%) Scala
13 16 (1.47%) PL/SQL
14 14 (1.28%) Shell Script
15 13 (1.19%) C++
15 13 (1.19%) Kusto Query Language
15 13 (1.19%) T-SQL
16 12 (1.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 9 (0.82%) Swift
18 7 (0.64%) DataWeave
Qualifications
1 87 (7.97%) Degree
2 71 (6.50%) Security Cleared
3 47 (4.30%) Azure Certification
3 47 (4.30%) SC Cleared
4 38 (3.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 30 (2.75%) ISTQB
6 21 (1.92%) Microsoft Certification
7 15 (1.37%) DV Cleared
7 15 (1.37%) Master's Degree
8 13 (1.19%) HND
9 11 (1.01%) AWS Certification
10 10 (0.92%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 9 (0.82%) PMI Certification
12 7 (0.64%) AWS Certified Developer
13 5 (0.46%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 4 (0.37%) BC Cleared
15 3 (0.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 3 (0.27%) CBAP
16 2 (0.18%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 2 (0.18%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 120 (10.99%) QA
2 78 (7.14%) Accessibility
3 46 (4.21%) Data Quality
4 42 (3.85%) GDPR
5 30 (2.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (1.19%) SLA
6 13 (1.19%) SOC 2
7 12 (1.10%) TickIT
8 11 (1.01%) WCAG
9 10 (0.92%) GRC
10 6 (0.55%) PMO
10 6 (0.55%) Software Quality Assurance
10 6 (0.55%) Solvency II
11 5 (0.46%) IFRS
11 5 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.27%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 2 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.18%) IFRS 17
13 2 (0.18%) JTAG
13 2 (0.18%) NCSC
System Software
1 144 (13.19%) Docker
2 60 (5.49%) Active Directory
3 17 (1.56%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.27%) Firmware
6 2 (0.18%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.092%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 320 (29.30%) Terraform
2 116 (10.62%) Kubernetes
3 75 (6.87%) Ansible
4 63 (5.77%) Grafana
5 51 (4.67%) Prometheus
6 23 (2.11%) Argo
7 14 (1.28%) Single Sign-On
8 9 (0.82%) 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 (0.27%) HP ALM
10 3 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (0.27%) 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
1 414 (37.91%) Microsoft
2 68 (6.23%) Databricks
3 48 (4.40%) Salesforce
4 32 (2.93%) ServiceNow
5 24 (2.20%) Red Hat
6 23 (2.11%) Oracle
7 20 (1.83%) Google
8 18 (1.65%) Dynatrace
9 16 (1.47%) Apple
9 16 (1.47%) MuleSoft
10 15 (1.37%) 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
15 9 (0.82%) Splunk