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 14 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 180 131 109
Rank change year-on-year -49 -22 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,005 950 2,321
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.19% 2.31% 2.50%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.75% 6.29% 6.87%
Number of salaries quoted 718 796 1,841
10th Percentile £42,500 £43,819 £41,933
25th Percentile £50,000 £53,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.85% +8.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £64,750 £60,000
% change year-on-year -15.06% +7.92% +0.80%

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 26,789 15,099 33,803
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 31.59% 36.66% 36.34%
Number of salaries quoted 14,030 11,109 26,621
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,950 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,171 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% +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 14 April 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 14 April 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 -54 839 £66,750 -3.26% 377
UK excluding London -38 614 £55,000 -15.06% 299
Work from Home -10 415 £63,250 -6.30% 228
London -17 326 £77,500 +3.33% 138
South East -50 163 £50,000 -28.57% 83
North of England -20 136 £60,000 -14.29% 79
Scotland +54 103 £62,500 +8.70% 23
Midlands -48 91 £63,750 -1.92% 41
South West -29 79 £50,000 -23.08% 35
North West -11 62 £68,750 +5.77% 45
West Midlands -50 52 £57,500 -13.21% 23
Yorkshire -60 43 £60,000 -14.29% 20
East Midlands -25 36 £67,000 +3.08% 18
North East -12 31 £50,000 -23.08% 14
East of England -41 25 £70,000 +32.08% 25
Wales -33 16 £53,171 -9.57% 17
Northern Ireland -43 3 £56,250 +12.50%

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 (3.68%) Confluence
2 34 (3.38%) SharePoint
3 23 (2.29%) IIS
3 23 (2.29%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (1.00%) Apache Spark
5 8 (0.80%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 7 (0.70%) Anypoint
7 4 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.40%) Moodle
8 3 (0.30%) Apache
9 2 (0.20%) BizTalk Server
9 2 (0.20%) CICS
9 2 (0.20%) CMS
10 1 (0.100%) Drupal
10 1 (0.100%) nginx
10 1 (0.100%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.100%) PegaRULES
10 1 (0.100%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.100%) Umbraco
10 1 (0.100%) WordPress
Applications
1 24 (2.39%) MS Visio
2 23 (2.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (1.19%) Microsoft Project
4 8 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
4 8 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.50%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.30%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.20%) Trello
8 1 (0.100%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 19 (1.89%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (1.59%) Oracle ERP
3 6 (0.60%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (0.30%) Elite 3E
4 3 (0.30%) Visualfiles
5 2 (0.20%) Magento
5 2 (0.20%) SAP CX
5 2 (0.20%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.100%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.100%) Endur
6 1 (0.100%) Infor M3
6 1 (0.100%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 1 (0.100%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.100%) Primavera
6 1 (0.100%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.100%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1,004 (99.90%) Azure
2 294 (29.25%) GitHub
3 183 (18.21%) Power Platform
4 157 (15.62%) GitHub Actions
5 155 (15.42%) AWS
6 93 (9.25%) Serverless
7 89 (8.86%) Azure Data Factory
8 88 (8.76%) Entra ID
9 79 (7.86%) Azure Monitor
10 78 (7.76%) Microsoft 365
11 74 (7.36%) PaaS
12 63 (6.27%) Dynamics 365
13 62 (6.17%) Azure Logic Apps
14 59 (5.87%) SaaS
15 58 (5.77%) Azure AKS
16 56 (5.57%) GCP
17 52 (5.17%) Azure Functions
18 49 (4.88%) Azure Key Vault
19 46 (4.58%) Snowflake
20 45 (4.48%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 62 (6.17%) Firewall
2 36 (3.58%) DNS
3 19 (1.89%) HTTP
3 19 (1.89%) TCP/IP
4 15 (1.49%) WAN
5 14 (1.39%) VPN
6 11 (1.09%) Network Security
7 3 (0.30%) BGP
7 3 (0.30%) DHCP
7 3 (0.30%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.20%) SSL
9 1 (0.100%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.100%) Internet
9 1 (0.100%) IP Telephony
9 1 (0.100%) LTE
9 1 (0.100%) MPLS
9 1 (0.100%) NetScaler
9 1 (0.100%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 129 (12.84%) SQL Server
2 101 (10.05%) Power BI
3 70 (6.97%) Azure SQL Database
4 44 (4.38%) Data Warehouse
5 37 (3.68%) NoSQL
6 34 (3.38%) Data Lake
7 29 (2.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 25 (2.49%) PostgreSQL
9 21 (2.09%) MongoDB
10 20 (1.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 19 (1.89%) Delta Lake
11 19 (1.89%) Relational Database
12 16 (1.59%) DynamoDB
12 16 (1.59%) Tableau
13 11 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
13 11 (1.09%) Snowflake Schema
14 10 (1.00%) Spark SQL
15 9 (0.90%) MySQL
16 7 (0.70%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 7 (0.70%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 168 (16.72%) Git
2 143 (14.23%) JIRA
3 108 (10.75%) Jenkins
4 58 (5.77%) Selenium
5 42 (4.18%) GitLab
6 38 (3.78%) Cypress.io
7 29 (2.89%) Postman
8 24 (2.39%) Visual Studio
9 19 (1.89%) Eclipse
10 18 (1.79%) Octopus Deploy
11 16 (1.59%) Oracle Forms
12 13 (1.29%) TeamCity
13 11 (1.09%) NUnit
13 11 (1.09%) REST Assured
13 11 (1.09%) Robot Framework
13 11 (1.09%) TestRail
14 10 (1.00%) JMeter
15 9 (0.90%) Snyk
15 9 (0.90%) SpecFlow
15 9 (0.90%) Zephyr
General
1 312 (31.04%) Finance
2 249 (24.78%) Social Skills
3 150 (14.93%) Analytical Skills
4 57 (5.67%) Law
5 39 (3.88%) Public Sector
6 36 (3.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 34 (3.38%) Retail
8 33 (3.28%) Legal
9 29 (2.89%) Marketing
10 27 (2.69%) Billing
11 22 (2.19%) Telecoms
12 19 (1.89%) Banking
13 18 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
14 12 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
15 9 (0.90%) Manufacturing
16 8 (0.80%) Documentation Skills
17 7 (0.70%) Advertising
17 7 (0.70%) Automotive
17 7 (0.70%) Games
17 7 (0.70%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 212 (21.09%) Developer
2 200 (19.90%) Senior
3 149 (14.83%) Azure Engineer
4 147 (14.63%) Lead
5 146 (14.53%) DevOps Engineer
6 69 (6.87%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 69 (6.87%) Cloud Engineer
7 60 (5.97%) Analyst
8 56 (5.57%) Data Engineer
9 50 (4.98%) Architect
10 47 (4.68%) .NET Developer
10 47 (4.68%) Senior Developer
11 36 (3.58%) Platform Engineer
12 30 (2.99%) Applications Engineer
13 29 (2.89%) Software Engineer
14 28 (2.79%) Test Leader
15 26 (2.59%) Applications Support
15 26 (2.59%) Power Platform Developer
15 26 (2.59%) Software Developer
15 26 (2.59%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 242 (24.08%) .NET
2 107 (10.65%) React
3 94 (9.35%) RESTful
4 90 (8.96%) REST
5 74 (7.36%) CSS
6 73 (7.26%) HTML
7 71 (7.06%) OAuth
8 69 (6.87%) ASP.NET
9 67 (6.67%) .NET Core
10 54 (5.37%) SOAP
11 53 (5.27%) YAML
12 47 (4.68%) Playwright
13 46 (4.58%) .NET Framework
14 44 (4.38%) Node.js
15 42 (4.18%) JSON
16 39 (3.88%) ASP.NET Core
17 37 (3.68%) PySpark
17 37 (3.68%) SAML
18 34 (3.38%) OAuth2
19 32 (3.18%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 118 (11.74%) Product Ownership
2 114 (11.34%) Cloud Native
3 37 (3.68%) Enterprise Software
4 34 (3.38%) Management Information System
5 31 (3.08%) Low-Code
5 31 (3.08%) Mobile App
6 26 (2.59%) Legacy Systems
7 21 (2.09%) Analytical Mindset
8 20 (1.99%) Distributed Systems
9 19 (1.89%) Reinsurance
10 16 (1.59%) Data Structures
11 13 (1.29%) Hybrid Cloud
12 12 (1.19%) Onboarding
12 12 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
12 12 (1.19%) Virtual Team
13 10 (1.00%) Legacy Applications
14 8 (0.80%) Public Cloud
14 8 (0.80%) Security Posture
15 7 (0.70%) Culture of Ownership
15 7 (0.70%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 69 (6.87%) Windows
2 66 (6.57%) Linux
3 17 (1.69%) VMS
4 15 (1.49%) Windows Server
5 11 (1.09%) Ubuntu
6 10 (1.00%) Apple iOS
7 6 (0.60%) Unix
8 5 (0.50%) Android
9 2 (0.20%) Kali Linux
9 2 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.100%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.100%) SUSE
10 1 (0.100%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.100%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.100%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,004 (99.90%) DevOps
2 620 (61.69%) CI/CD
3 470 (46.77%) Agile
4 291 (28.96%) Infrastructure as Code
5 255 (25.37%) Test Automation
6 218 (21.69%) Continuous Improvement
7 203 (20.20%) Problem-Solving
8 165 (16.42%) AI
9 156 (15.52%) Mentoring
10 154 (15.32%) Analytics
11 149 (14.83%) Observability
12 141 (14.03%) Coaching
13 136 (13.53%) Scrum
14 132 (13.13%) Data Modelling
15 126 (12.54%) Containerisation
16 107 (10.65%) Software Engineering
17 103 (10.25%) Microservices
18 102 (10.15%) Business Intelligence
19 100 (9.95%) SDLC
20 99 (9.85%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 343 (34.13%) SQL
2 241 (23.98%) Python
3 209 (20.80%) C#
4 135 (13.43%) JavaScript
5 127 (12.64%) PowerShell
6 87 (8.66%) Bash
7 85 (8.46%) Bicep
8 61 (6.07%) TypeScript
9 48 (4.78%) Java
10 24 (2.39%) Apex Code
11 23 (2.29%) Go
12 20 (1.99%) PL/SQL
13 19 (1.89%) Scala
13 19 (1.89%) T-SQL
14 17 (1.69%) Shell Script
15 12 (1.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 12 (1.19%) Kusto Query Language
16 8 (0.80%) Swift
17 7 (0.70%) DataWeave
18 5 (0.50%) C++
Qualifications
1 99 (9.85%) Degree
2 64 (6.37%) Security Cleared
3 51 (5.07%) Azure Certification
4 46 (4.58%) Computer Science Degree
5 34 (3.38%) SC Cleared
6 33 (3.28%) ISTQB
7 24 (2.39%) Microsoft Certification
8 23 (2.29%) DV Cleared
9 21 (2.09%) Master's Degree
10 14 (1.39%) AWS Certification
11 13 (1.29%) HND
12 11 (1.09%) AWS Certified Developer
12 11 (1.09%) PMI Certification
13 10 (1.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 6 (0.60%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 4 (0.40%) BC Cleared
15 4 (0.40%) PMP
16 3 (0.30%) CBAP
16 3 (0.30%) DBS Check
16 3 (0.30%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 115 (11.44%) QA
2 72 (7.16%) Accessibility
3 46 (4.58%) GDPR
4 44 (4.38%) Data Quality
5 35 (3.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 14 (1.39%) SOC 2
7 12 (1.19%) SLA
8 10 (1.00%) GRC
9 8 (0.80%) NCSC
10 7 (0.70%) NIST
10 7 (0.70%) TickIT
10 7 (0.70%) WCAG
11 6 (0.60%) Software Quality Assurance
12 5 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 4 (0.40%) Solvency II
14 3 (0.30%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 3 (0.30%) IFRS
14 3 (0.30%) PERC
15 2 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
15 2 (0.20%) PMO
System Software
1 142 (14.13%) Docker
2 61 (6.07%) Active Directory
3 20 (1.99%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.40%) Postfix
4 4 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.20%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.20%) vCloud
6 1 (0.100%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (0.100%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 299 (29.75%) Terraform
2 110 (10.95%) Kubernetes
3 84 (8.36%) Ansible
4 58 (5.77%) Grafana
5 49 (4.88%) Prometheus
6 18 (1.79%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (0.90%) Kibana
8 8 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
9 6 (0.60%) HP ALM
10 4 (0.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (0.40%) Argo
10 4 (0.40%) logstash
11 3 (0.30%) Scalr
12 2 (0.20%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (0.20%) HP Fortify
12 2 (0.20%) MIIS
12 2 (0.20%) Nagios
12 2 (0.20%) Nessus
12 2 (0.20%) Puppet
12 2 (0.20%) SCCM
Vendors
1 366 (36.42%) Microsoft
2 59 (5.87%) Databricks
3 43 (4.28%) Salesforce
4 36 (3.58%) ServiceNow
5 28 (2.79%) Oracle
6 20 (1.99%) Red Hat
7 17 (1.69%) Palo Alto
8 15 (1.49%) Adobe
8 15 (1.49%) Dynatrace
8 15 (1.49%) Zscaler
9 14 (1.39%) MuleSoft
10 12 (1.19%) Freshdesk
10 12 (1.19%) Nintex
11 11 (1.09%) VMware
12 10 (1.00%) Ab Initio
12 10 (1.00%) CrowdStrike
12 10 (1.00%) Okta
13 9 (0.90%) Apple
13 9 (0.90%) Black Duck
13 9 (0.90%) Coverity