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

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 175 114
Rank change year-on-year +29 -61 -24
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,451 925 1,791
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.32% 1.86% 2.21%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.28% 5.84% 7.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1,147 679 1,237
10th Percentile £43,275 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.26% +2.31% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £96,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,250
% change year-on-year - -0.41% +0.42%

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 27,504 15,836 25,598
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 24.98% 31.83% 31.63%
Number of salaries quoted 18,545 10,809 17,434
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,925 £39,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% 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 3 September 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 September 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 +34 1,299 £65,000 -3.70% 855
UK excluding London +51 963 £60,000 - 553
Work from Home +16 591 £60,000 -7.69% 472
London -25 419 £80,000 +5.96% 419
North of England +89 285 £60,250 -7.31% 142
South East +12 233 £62,500 - 147
North West +87 169 £65,000 - 78
Midlands +38 169 £62,500 +4.17% 80
West Midlands +4 97 £62,500 +4.17% 40
South West -11 93 £56,250 +7.14% 65
Wales -9 90 £53,171 -3.33% 10
East of England +1 79 £55,000 -12.00% 51
East Midlands +32 72 £57,500 +4.55% 40
Yorkshire -18 67 £68,653 +14.42% 43
North East -19 49 £52,000 -0.95% 21
Scotland -14 19 £55,000 -14.73% 38
Northern Ireland - 1 £72,500 - 22

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 78 (5.38%) SharePoint
2 68 (4.69%) Confluence
3 32 (2.21%) Microsoft Exchange
4 22 (1.52%) IIS
5 21 (1.45%) Apache Spark
6 11 (0.76%) Apache
6 11 (0.76%) CMS
6 11 (0.76%) nginx
7 8 (0.55%) SharePoint Server
8 6 (0.41%) Anypoint
8 6 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
8 6 (0.41%) Camunda
8 6 (0.41%) Umbraco
9 5 (0.34%) CICS
10 3 (0.21%) BizTalk Server
10 3 (0.21%) WordPress
11 2 (0.14%) Luigi
12 1 (0.069%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.069%) NServiceBus
12 1 (0.069%) Oracle HTTP Server
Applications
1 20 (1.38%) Microsoft Project
2 15 (1.03%) MS Visio
3 13 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
4 11 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
5 9 (0.62%) Trello
6 8 (0.55%) Chatbot
7 7 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 1 (0.069%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.069%) Notion
8 1 (0.069%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 25 (1.72%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.96%) Elite 3E
3 9 (0.62%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (0.41%) SAP IBP
5 5 (0.34%) Dynamics NAV
5 5 (0.34%) Visualfiles
6 3 (0.21%) Carpe Diem
6 3 (0.21%) Dynamics AX
6 3 (0.21%) Oracle Applications
6 3 (0.21%) SAP Business One
6 3 (0.21%) Shopify
7 2 (0.14%) JDE EnterpriseOne
8 1 (0.069%) Infor M3
8 1 (0.069%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 1 (0.069%) Magento
8 1 (0.069%) Sage 200
8 1 (0.069%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.069%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,451 (100.00%) Azure
2 245 (16.88%) Power Platform
3 216 (14.89%) GitHub
4 166 (11.44%) AWS
5 136 (9.37%) Serverless
6 130 (8.96%) GitHub Actions
7 125 (8.61%) Dynamics 365
8 115 (7.93%) Azure Service Bus
9 114 (7.86%) Azure Functions
10 112 (7.72%) Azure AKS
11 104 (7.17%) Azure AI
11 104 (7.17%) Azure Monitor
12 96 (6.62%) Azure Logic Apps
13 95 (6.55%) Azure Key Vault
13 95 (6.55%) Entra ID
14 93 (6.41%) PaaS
15 88 (6.06%) Azure Data Factory
16 85 (5.86%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 84 (5.79%) Microsoft 365
18 83 (5.72%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 38 (2.62%) Firewall
2 33 (2.27%) VPN
3 17 (1.17%) DNS
4 12 (0.83%) Internet
4 12 (0.83%) Network Security
5 10 (0.69%) Wi-Fi
6 9 (0.62%) SAN
7 8 (0.55%) HTTP
8 7 (0.48%) TCP/IP
8 7 (0.48%) Wireless
9 6 (0.41%) DHCP
9 6 (0.41%) MQTT
9 6 (0.41%) VLAN
9 6 (0.41%) ZigBee
10 4 (0.28%) Bluetooth
11 3 (0.21%) HTTPS
12 2 (0.14%) LoRaWAN
13 1 (0.069%) BGP
13 1 (0.069%) Broadband
13 1 (0.069%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 264 (18.19%) Azure SQL Database
2 190 (13.09%) SQL Server
3 179 (12.34%) MongoDB
4 125 (8.61%) Power BI
5 72 (4.96%) Data Warehouse
6 56 (3.86%) PostgreSQL
7 45 (3.10%) Relational Database
8 41 (2.83%) Elasticsearch
9 39 (2.69%) NoSQL
10 32 (2.21%) Delta Lake
11 31 (2.14%) Data Lake
12 30 (2.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 28 (1.93%) Metadata
14 25 (1.72%) Redis
15 23 (1.59%) MySQL
15 23 (1.59%) Star Schema
16 18 (1.24%) Spark SQL
16 18 (1.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 17 (1.17%) Tableau
18 13 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 258 (17.78%) Git
2 193 (13.30%) JIRA
3 120 (8.27%) Jenkins
4 82 (5.65%) GitLab
5 49 (3.38%) Selenium
6 44 (3.03%) Postman
7 37 (2.55%) Cypress.io
8 20 (1.38%) REST Assured
9 18 (1.24%) JMeter
9 18 (1.24%) JUnit
10 17 (1.17%) NUnit
11 16 (1.10%) Visual Studio
12 15 (1.03%) Zephyr
13 14 (0.96%) fastlane
13 14 (0.96%) TestRail
14 13 (0.90%) Octopus Deploy
15 11 (0.76%) Eclipse
15 11 (0.76%) SonarQube
16 10 (0.69%) Cucumber
16 10 (0.69%) Mockito
General
1 393 (27.08%) Social Skills
2 324 (22.33%) Finance
3 151 (10.41%) Analytical Skills
4 120 (8.27%) Public Sector
5 109 (7.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 56 (3.86%) Law
7 54 (3.72%) Retail
8 43 (2.96%) Marketing
9 37 (2.55%) Legal
10 35 (2.41%) Banking
11 30 (2.07%) Advertising
12 23 (1.59%) Games
12 23 (1.59%) Manufacturing
13 21 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
14 16 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
15 14 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
16 12 (0.83%) Aviation
17 10 (0.69%) Automotive
17 10 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
18 8 (0.55%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 455 (31.36%) Developer
2 330 (22.74%) Senior
3 219 (15.09%) .NET Developer
4 209 (14.40%) DevOps Engineer
5 201 (13.85%) Azure Engineer
6 172 (11.85%) Lead
7 105 (7.24%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 101 (6.96%) Senior Developer
9 86 (5.93%) Data Engineer
9 86 (5.93%) Platform Engineer
10 84 (5.79%) Analyst
11 69 (4.76%) Senior DevOps
12 64 (4.41%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 59 (4.07%) Cloud Engineer
14 53 (3.65%) Software Engineer
15 47 (3.24%) Architect
16 45 (3.10%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 45 (3.10%) Software Developer
17 44 (3.03%) Senior Data Engineer
18 42 (2.89%) Azure Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 485 (33.43%) .NET
2 346 (23.85%) Terraform
3 259 (17.85%) ASP.NET
4 234 (16.13%) .NET Core
5 206 (14.20%) ASP.NET Core
6 168 (11.58%) React
7 162 (11.16%) REST
8 158 (10.89%) RESTful
9 156 (10.75%) HTML
10 154 (10.61%) CSS
11 126 (8.68%) Blazor
11 126 (8.68%) Entity Framework
12 91 (6.27%) Node.js
13 82 (5.65%) ML.NET
14 63 (4.34%) .NET Framework
15 62 (4.27%) Playwright
16 57 (3.93%) JSON
17 56 (3.86%) YAML
18 55 (3.79%) ARM Templates
19 50 (3.45%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 149 (10.27%) Product Ownership
2 140 (9.65%) Cloud Native
3 81 (5.58%) Enterprise Software
4 60 (4.14%) Legacy Systems
5 55 (3.79%) Onboarding
6 52 (3.58%) Mobile App
7 38 (2.62%) Distributed Systems
8 37 (2.55%) Greenfield Project
9 29 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
10 26 (1.79%) Management Information System
11 24 (1.65%) Legacy Applications
12 23 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
13 21 (1.45%) Public Cloud
14 19 (1.31%) Podcast
15 18 (1.24%) Low-Code
16 17 (1.17%) AI Agents
16 17 (1.17%) Analytical Mindset
16 17 (1.17%) BBC
16 17 (1.17%) iPhone
16 17 (1.17%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 107 (7.37%) Windows
2 99 (6.82%) Linux
3 26 (1.79%) Android
4 23 (1.59%) VMS
5 20 (1.38%) Windows Server
6 19 (1.31%) Unix
7 14 (0.96%) Apple iOS
8 12 (0.83%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.34%) Kali Linux
10 3 (0.21%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.21%) Solaris
11 2 (0.14%) Debian
11 2 (0.14%) Rocky
11 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.069%) SUSE
12 1 (0.069%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.069%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,451 (100.00%) DevOps
2 831 (57.27%) CI/CD
3 673 (46.38%) Agile
4 331 (22.81%) AI
5 324 (22.33%) Infrastructure as Code
6 321 (22.12%) Continuous Improvement
7 259 (17.85%) Test Automation
8 252 (17.37%) Problem-Solving
9 250 (17.23%) Full-Stack Development
10 225 (15.51%) Scrum
11 219 (15.09%) Mentoring
12 186 (12.82%) Analytics
13 184 (12.68%) Microservices
14 162 (11.16%) Observability
15 161 (11.10%) Stakeholder Management
16 156 (10.75%) Platform Engineering
17 146 (10.06%) Software Engineering
18 144 (9.92%) Business Intelligence
19 141 (9.72%) Machine Learning
20 131 (9.03%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 522 (35.98%) SQL
2 485 (33.43%) C#
3 273 (18.81%) Python
4 241 (16.61%) JavaScript
5 173 (11.92%) PowerShell
6 125 (8.61%) Bash
7 117 (8.06%) Bicep
8 93 (6.41%) Java
9 59 (4.07%) TypeScript
10 39 (2.69%) T-SQL
11 17 (1.17%) VB.NET
12 16 (1.10%) C++
12 16 (1.10%) Kusto Query Language
12 16 (1.10%) Scala
13 14 (0.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 13 (0.90%) JCL
15 12 (0.83%) COBOL
16 11 (0.76%) Go
16 11 (0.76%) Swift
17 8 (0.55%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 124 (8.55%) Degree
2 111 (7.65%) Security Cleared
3 95 (6.55%) SC Cleared
4 87 (6.00%) Azure Certification
5 51 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
6 35 (2.41%) Microsoft Certification
7 33 (2.27%) ISTQB
8 22 (1.52%) PMI Certification
9 16 (1.10%) Master's Degree
10 13 (0.90%) PMP
11 12 (0.83%) AWS Certification
12 11 (0.76%) DV Cleared
13 8 (0.55%) ISEB
14 7 (0.48%) CBAP
14 7 (0.48%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 5 (0.34%) BPSS Clearance
15 5 (0.34%) CISSP
15 5 (0.34%) CSPO
15 5 (0.34%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
15 5 (0.34%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 191 (13.16%) QA
2 85 (5.86%) Accessibility
3 73 (5.03%) Data Quality
4 40 (2.76%) GDPR
5 36 (2.48%) WCAG
6 22 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 18 (1.24%) PMO
8 12 (0.83%) TickIT
9 9 (0.62%) GRC
9 9 (0.62%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 9 (0.62%) SLA
10 8 (0.55%) NCSC
10 8 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 7 (0.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 6 (0.41%) JTAG
12 6 (0.41%) Solvency II
13 5 (0.34%) IFRS
14 4 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
14 4 (0.28%) Software Quality Assurance
15 3 (0.21%) NIST
System Software
1 184 (12.68%) Docker
2 69 (4.76%) Active Directory
3 24 (1.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (1.17%) Virtual Desktop
5 13 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
6 12 (0.83%) vSphere
7 5 (0.34%) Firmware
8 3 (0.21%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.14%) Xen
10 1 (0.069%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.069%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 170 (11.72%) Kubernetes
2 60 (4.14%) Ansible
3 53 (3.65%) Grafana
4 47 (3.24%) Prometheus
5 30 (2.07%) Argo
6 20 (1.38%) Microsoft Intune
7 12 (0.83%) Puppet
8 5 (0.34%) HP Fortify
8 5 (0.34%) Progress Chef
8 5 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (0.28%) SCCM
10 3 (0.21%) HP ALM
10 3 (0.21%) Scalr
11 2 (0.14%) FlexNet
11 2 (0.14%) Istio
11 2 (0.14%) Kibana
11 2 (0.14%) Nessus
11 2 (0.14%) Rancher
11 2 (0.14%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 643 (44.31%) Microsoft
2 90 (6.20%) Databricks
3 64 (4.41%) Google
4 41 (2.83%) Salesforce
5 38 (2.62%) Facebook
6 33 (2.27%) VMware
7 29 (2.00%) Apple
7 29 (2.00%) ServiceNow
8 23 (1.59%) Dynatrace
9 21 (1.45%) YouTube
10 20 (1.38%) Red Hat
10 20 (1.38%) SAP
11 19 (1.31%) OpenAI
12 18 (1.24%) Oracle
13 17 (1.17%) Sony
13 17 (1.17%) Yahoo!
14 15 (1.03%) MuleSoft
15 12 (0.83%) Guidewire
15 12 (0.83%) ScienceLogic
16 11 (0.76%) Foundry