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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 150 150 117
Rank change year-on-year 0 -33 -37
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,500 1,031 1,574
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.27% 2.08% 2.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.53% 6.63% 6.62%
Number of salaries quoted 1,146 689 1,016
10th Percentile £44,500 £45,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
% 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 27,139 15,539 23,787
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 22.97% 31.35% 31.93%
Number of salaries quoted 18,551 10,425 14,654
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £38,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £84,500 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £102,500
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 October 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 October 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 +24 1,347 £65,000 -2.26% 1,246
UK excluding London +8 955 £60,000 - 935
Work from Home +10 593 £62,500 -3.85% 808
London -4 472 £75,000 -3.23% 518
North of England +73 279 £60,000 - 228
South East -38 231 £64,000 +4.07% 227
Midlands +30 175 £62,000 +3.33% 135
North West +67 164 £62,500 -3.85% 106
West Midlands -3 107 £63,750 +6.25% 80
Wales -21 91 £53,171 -3.33% 52
South West -25 91 £57,500 +9.52% 79
East of England -8 73 £55,000 -12.00% 73
East Midlands +11 68 £55,000 +0.92% 55
Yorkshire -6 66 £66,250 +15.22% 96
North East -22 49 £52,250 +4.50% 29
Scotland -58 18 £55,000 -14.73% 109
Northern Ireland - 1 £72,500 - 41

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 89 (5.93%) SharePoint
2 73 (4.87%) Confluence
3 40 (2.67%) Microsoft Exchange
4 23 (1.53%) Apache Spark
5 19 (1.27%) IIS
6 12 (0.80%) Apache
6 12 (0.80%) CMS
7 10 (0.67%) nginx
8 8 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
8 8 (0.53%) SharePoint Server
8 8 (0.53%) Umbraco
9 7 (0.47%) CICS
10 6 (0.40%) Camunda
11 3 (0.20%) Anypoint
11 3 (0.20%) BizTalk Server
12 2 (0.13%) Luigi
12 2 (0.13%) WordPress
13 1 (0.067%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 1 (0.067%) Headless CMS
13 1 (0.067%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 30 (2.00%) Microsoft Project
2 24 (1.60%) MS Visio
3 23 (1.53%) Microsoft Office
4 18 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
4 18 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (0.67%) Trello
6 6 (0.40%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.067%) Notion
Business Applications
1 41 (2.73%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (0.87%) Elite 3E
3 9 (0.60%) Dynamics AX
3 9 (0.60%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (0.40%) SAP IBP
5 5 (0.33%) Dynamics NAV
6 4 (0.27%) Shopify
6 4 (0.27%) Visualfiles
7 3 (0.20%) Carpe Diem
7 3 (0.20%) SAP Business One
7 3 (0.20%) Workday HCM
8 2 (0.13%) Dynamics GP
8 2 (0.13%) JDE EnterpriseOne
8 2 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
9 1 (0.067%) Integrated Workplace Management System
9 1 (0.067%) Magento
9 1 (0.067%) Payment Gateway
9 1 (0.067%) Sage 200
9 1 (0.067%) Salesforce CRM
9 1 (0.067%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,500 (100.00%) Azure
2 288 (19.20%) Power Platform
3 235 (15.67%) GitHub
4 152 (10.13%) AWS
4 152 (10.13%) Dynamics 365
5 146 (9.73%) Serverless
6 127 (8.47%) GitHub Actions
7 123 (8.20%) Azure Functions
8 114 (7.60%) Azure Service Bus
9 111 (7.40%) Azure AKS
10 109 (7.27%) Azure Monitor
11 106 (7.07%) Azure AI
12 105 (7.00%) Entra ID
13 104 (6.93%) Azure Data Factory
14 98 (6.53%) PaaS
15 95 (6.33%) Power Automate
16 93 (6.20%) Azure Key Vault
16 93 (6.20%) Microsoft 365
17 92 (6.13%) Azure Logic Apps
18 89 (5.93%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 43 (2.87%) Firewall
2 40 (2.67%) VPN
3 23 (1.53%) DNS
4 13 (0.87%) Internet
5 12 (0.80%) Wi-Fi
6 11 (0.73%) Network Security
7 10 (0.67%) SAN
8 9 (0.60%) DHCP
9 8 (0.53%) Wireless
10 7 (0.47%) HTTP
10 7 (0.47%) TCP/IP
10 7 (0.47%) VLAN
11 6 (0.40%) MQTT
11 6 (0.40%) ZigBee
12 4 (0.27%) Bluetooth
13 3 (0.20%) HTTPS
13 3 (0.20%) WAN
14 2 (0.13%) LoRaWAN
15 1 (0.067%) SD-WAN
15 1 (0.067%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 279 (18.60%) Azure SQL Database
2 207 (13.80%) SQL Server
3 177 (11.80%) MongoDB
4 147 (9.80%) Power BI
5 86 (5.73%) Data Warehouse
6 56 (3.73%) PostgreSQL
7 53 (3.53%) Relational Database
8 49 (3.27%) NoSQL
9 46 (3.07%) Metadata
10 40 (2.67%) Elasticsearch
11 33 (2.20%) Data Lake
11 33 (2.20%) Delta Lake
12 28 (1.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 27 (1.80%) Redis
14 25 (1.67%) Star Schema
15 21 (1.40%) MySQL
15 21 (1.40%) Tableau
16 16 (1.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 14 (0.93%) DynamoDB
17 14 (0.93%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 273 (18.20%) Git
2 205 (13.67%) JIRA
3 125 (8.33%) Jenkins
4 82 (5.47%) GitLab
5 41 (2.73%) Selenium
6 35 (2.33%) Cypress.io
7 30 (2.00%) Postman
8 18 (1.20%) JUnit
9 15 (1.00%) Visual Studio
10 13 (0.87%) JMeter
10 13 (0.87%) NUnit
11 12 (0.80%) Octopus Deploy
11 12 (0.80%) REST Assured
12 11 (0.73%) fastlane
13 10 (0.67%) Claude Code
13 10 (0.67%) Mockito
13 10 (0.67%) SonarQube
13 10 (0.67%) Visual Studio Code
13 10 (0.67%) Zephyr
14 9 (0.60%) TestRail
General
1 442 (29.47%) Social Skills
2 357 (23.80%) Finance
3 160 (10.67%) Analytical Skills
4 139 (9.27%) Public Sector
5 108 (7.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 50 (3.33%) Law
7 49 (3.27%) Retail
8 36 (2.40%) Marketing
9 31 (2.07%) Legal
10 29 (1.93%) Advertising
10 29 (1.93%) Banking
11 28 (1.87%) Manufacturing
12 22 (1.47%) Games
13 21 (1.40%) Documentation Skills
14 20 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
15 13 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
16 12 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
17 9 (0.60%) Pharmaceutical
17 9 (0.60%) Telecoms
18 8 (0.53%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 449 (29.93%) Developer
2 353 (23.53%) Senior
3 219 (14.60%) DevOps Engineer
4 218 (14.53%) .NET Developer
5 214 (14.27%) Azure Engineer
6 152 (10.13%) Lead
7 109 (7.27%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 102 (6.80%) Analyst
8 102 (6.80%) Data Engineer
9 96 (6.40%) Senior Developer
10 93 (6.20%) Platform Engineer
11 70 (4.67%) Senior DevOps
12 66 (4.40%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 62 (4.13%) Cloud Engineer
14 56 (3.73%) Consultant
15 54 (3.60%) Software Engineer
16 50 (3.33%) Business Analyst
17 49 (3.27%) Architect
18 48 (3.20%) Senior Data Engineer
19 46 (3.07%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 473 (31.53%) .NET
2 356 (23.73%) Terraform
3 250 (16.67%) ASP.NET
4 227 (15.13%) .NET Core
5 199 (13.27%) ASP.NET Core
6 162 (10.80%) REST
7 151 (10.07%) React
8 150 (10.00%) RESTful
9 143 (9.53%) HTML
10 142 (9.47%) CSS
11 122 (8.13%) Blazor
11 122 (8.13%) Entity Framework
12 83 (5.53%) Node.js
13 78 (5.20%) ML.NET
14 61 (4.07%) .NET Framework
15 58 (3.87%) YAML
16 56 (3.73%) JSON
17 53 (3.53%) Playwright
18 49 (3.27%) ARM Templates
18 49 (3.27%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 137 (9.13%) Cloud Native
2 135 (9.00%) Product Ownership
3 92 (6.13%) Enterprise Software
4 64 (4.27%) Legacy Systems
5 52 (3.47%) Onboarding
6 47 (3.13%) Mobile App
7 41 (2.73%) Distributed Systems
8 39 (2.60%) Greenfield Project
9 36 (2.40%) Hybrid Cloud
10 34 (2.27%) Management Information System
11 31 (2.07%) Legacy Applications
12 23 (1.53%) Low-Code
12 23 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
13 21 (1.40%) AI Agents
13 21 (1.40%) Mainframe
13 21 (1.40%) Public Cloud
13 21 (1.40%) Security Posture
14 17 (1.13%) iPhone
15 16 (1.07%) Data Centre
15 16 (1.07%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 112 (7.47%) Windows
2 93 (6.20%) Linux
3 25 (1.67%) Android
4 24 (1.60%) Unix
5 22 (1.47%) VMS
6 21 (1.40%) Windows Server
7 12 (0.80%) Ubuntu
8 8 (0.53%) Apple iOS
9 4 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.20%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.20%) Kali Linux
10 3 (0.20%) Solaris
11 2 (0.13%) Debian
11 2 (0.13%) Rocky
12 1 (0.067%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.067%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.067%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,500 (100.00%) DevOps
2 836 (55.73%) CI/CD
3 678 (45.20%) Agile
4 352 (23.47%) AI
5 337 (22.47%) Continuous Improvement
6 329 (21.93%) Infrastructure as Code
7 282 (18.80%) Problem-Solving
8 238 (15.87%) Full-Stack Development
9 229 (15.27%) Test Automation
10 224 (14.93%) Mentoring
11 211 (14.07%) Scrum
12 210 (14.00%) Analytics
13 204 (13.60%) Stakeholder Management
14 186 (12.40%) Microservices
15 170 (11.33%) Platform Engineering
16 166 (11.07%) Business Intelligence
17 151 (10.07%) Observability
18 149 (9.93%) Software Engineering
19 147 (9.80%) Data Modelling
20 136 (9.07%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 538 (35.87%) SQL
2 483 (32.20%) C#
3 283 (18.87%) Python
4 231 (15.40%) JavaScript
5 186 (12.40%) PowerShell
6 130 (8.67%) Bicep
7 122 (8.13%) Bash
8 97 (6.47%) Java
9 57 (3.80%) TypeScript
10 43 (2.87%) T-SQL
11 21 (1.40%) C++
12 18 (1.20%) Scala
13 17 (1.13%) COBOL
13 17 (1.13%) JCL
13 17 (1.13%) VB.NET
14 16 (1.07%) Kusto Query Language
15 15 (1.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 9 (0.60%) Go
17 8 (0.53%) Ruby
17 8 (0.53%) VBA
Qualifications
1 153 (10.20%) Degree
2 131 (8.73%) Security Cleared
3 115 (7.67%) SC Cleared
4 111 (7.40%) Azure Certification
5 57 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 53 (3.53%) Microsoft Certification
7 30 (2.00%) ISTQB
7 30 (2.00%) PMI Certification
8 22 (1.47%) PMP
9 17 (1.13%) Master's Degree
10 14 (0.93%) ACCA
10 14 (0.93%) CIMA
11 12 (0.80%) AWS Certification
12 10 (0.67%) CBAP
13 9 (0.60%) CSPO
13 9 (0.60%) DV Cleared
13 9 (0.60%) ISEB
14 6 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
14 6 (0.40%) IIBA
14 6 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 181 (12.07%) QA
2 102 (6.80%) Data Quality
3 75 (5.00%) Accessibility
4 44 (2.93%) GDPR
5 36 (2.40%) WCAG
6 21 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 20 (1.33%) PMO
8 10 (0.67%) SLA
9 9 (0.60%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 9 (0.60%) TickIT
10 8 (0.53%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 7 (0.47%) NCSC
12 6 (0.40%) JTAG
12 6 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 5 (0.33%) IFRS
14 4 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
14 4 (0.27%) NIST
15 3 (0.20%) ISO 9001
15 3 (0.20%) Software Quality Assurance
16 2 (0.13%) SOC 2
System Software
1 187 (12.47%) Docker
2 73 (4.87%) Active Directory
3 25 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (1.33%) Virtual Desktop
5 15 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
6 12 (0.80%) vSphere
7 5 (0.33%) Firmware
8 4 (0.27%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.13%) Xen
10 1 (0.067%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.067%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 176 (11.73%) Kubernetes
2 58 (3.87%) Ansible
3 56 (3.73%) Grafana
4 45 (3.00%) Prometheus
5 30 (2.00%) Argo
6 29 (1.93%) Microsoft Intune
7 12 (0.80%) Puppet
8 11 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.33%) SCCM
10 4 (0.27%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.20%) HP Fortify
12 2 (0.13%) FlexNet
12 2 (0.13%) HP ALM
12 2 (0.13%) Istio
12 2 (0.13%) Nessus
12 2 (0.13%) Rancher
12 2 (0.13%) ZABBIX
13 1 (0.067%) Nagios
13 1 (0.067%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 683 (45.53%) Microsoft
2 98 (6.53%) Databricks
3 65 (4.33%) Google
4 38 (2.53%) VMware
5 37 (2.47%) Facebook
5 37 (2.47%) Salesforce
6 25 (1.67%) ServiceNow
7 24 (1.60%) Dynatrace
7 24 (1.60%) SAP
7 24 (1.60%) YouTube
8 23 (1.53%) Apple
9 20 (1.33%) OpenAI
10 18 (1.20%) Oracle
11 16 (1.07%) Red Hat
11 16 (1.07%) Sony
11 16 (1.07%) Yahoo!
12 13 (0.87%) HP
12 13 (0.87%) MuleSoft
13 12 (0.80%) Foundry
13 12 (0.80%) ScienceLogic