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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 150 169 120
Rank change year-on-year +19 -49 -34
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,452 941 1,648
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.27% 1.91% 2.12%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.29% 6.02% 6.70%
Number of salaries quoted 1,131 682 1,077
10th Percentile £44,500 £46,250 £43,100
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 £93,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year - -2.44% +2.50%

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 27,462 15,625 24,603
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 24.07% 31.65% 31.60%
Number of salaries quoted 18,587 10,573 15,690
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £34,500
25th Percentile £43,983 £39,375 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,400 £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 16 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 16 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 +30 1,304 £65,000 -3.70% 1,298
UK excluding London +37 950 £60,000 - 808
Work from Home +5 581 £62,500 -3.85% 705
London -13 438 £80,000 +6.67% 591
North of England +69 287 £60,000 -4.38% 234
South East -4 223 £62,500 - 190
North West +84 173 £65,000 - 130
Midlands +43 171 £62,500 +5.04% 128
West Midlands -5 98 £65,000 +8.33% 64
South West -15 92 £57,500 +6.98% 70
Wales -22 91 £53,171 -3.33% 19
East Midlands +22 73 £55,000 +0.92% 64
East of England -1 73 £55,000 -12.00% 79
Yorkshire +2 68 £67,750 +12.92% 76
North East -29 46 £52,250 +4.50% 29
Scotland -37 18 £55,000 -14.73% 64
Northern Ireland - 1 £72,500 - 28

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 84 (5.79%) SharePoint
2 68 (4.68%) Confluence
3 34 (2.34%) Microsoft Exchange
4 24 (1.65%) Apache Spark
5 22 (1.52%) IIS
6 12 (0.83%) Apache
7 11 (0.76%) CMS
7 11 (0.76%) nginx
8 8 (0.55%) SharePoint Server
9 7 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
9 7 (0.48%) Umbraco
10 6 (0.41%) Camunda
11 5 (0.34%) Anypoint
11 5 (0.34%) CICS
12 3 (0.21%) BizTalk Server
12 3 (0.21%) WordPress
13 2 (0.14%) Luigi
14 1 (0.069%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 1 (0.069%) Headless CMS
14 1 (0.069%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 21 (1.45%) Microsoft Project
2 17 (1.17%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (1.17%) MS Visio
3 14 (0.96%) Microsoft Excel
4 11 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 9 (0.62%) Trello
6 8 (0.55%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.069%) Notion
Business Applications
1 33 (2.27%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (1.03%) 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 4 (0.28%) Dynamics AX
6 4 (0.28%) Shopify
7 3 (0.21%) Carpe Diem
7 3 (0.21%) Oracle Applications
7 3 (0.21%) SAP Business One
8 2 (0.14%) JDE EnterpriseOne
8 2 (0.14%) Magento
9 1 (0.069%) Infor M3
9 1 (0.069%) Integrated Workplace Management System
9 1 (0.069%) Payment Gateway
9 1 (0.069%) Sage 200
9 1 (0.069%) Salesforce CRM
9 1 (0.069%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,452 (100.00%) Azure
2 266 (18.32%) Power Platform
3 217 (14.94%) GitHub
4 159 (10.95%) AWS
5 143 (9.85%) Serverless
6 138 (9.50%) Dynamics 365
7 127 (8.75%) GitHub Actions
8 120 (8.26%) Azure Functions
9 113 (7.78%) Azure Service Bus
10 109 (7.51%) Azure AKS
11 105 (7.23%) Azure Monitor
12 104 (7.16%) Azure AI
13 96 (6.61%) Azure Data Factory
14 95 (6.54%) Azure Logic Apps
14 95 (6.54%) Entra ID
15 94 (6.47%) PaaS
16 92 (6.34%) Azure Key Vault
17 89 (6.13%) Power Automate
18 88 (6.06%) Azure Cosmos DB
19 85 (5.85%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 38 (2.62%) Firewall
2 35 (2.41%) VPN
3 18 (1.24%) DNS
4 12 (0.83%) Internet
5 11 (0.76%) Wi-Fi
6 10 (0.69%) Network Security
6 10 (0.69%) SAN
7 8 (0.55%) DHCP
8 7 (0.48%) HTTP
8 7 (0.48%) VLAN
8 7 (0.48%) Wireless
9 6 (0.41%) MQTT
9 6 (0.41%) TCP/IP
9 6 (0.41%) ZigBee
10 4 (0.28%) Bluetooth
11 3 (0.21%) HTTPS
12 2 (0.14%) LoRaWAN
12 2 (0.14%) WAN
13 1 (0.069%) Cisco ISE
13 1 (0.069%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 270 (18.60%) Azure SQL Database
2 200 (13.77%) SQL Server
3 177 (12.19%) MongoDB
4 140 (9.64%) Power BI
5 81 (5.58%) Data Warehouse
6 55 (3.79%) PostgreSQL
7 49 (3.37%) Relational Database
8 47 (3.24%) NoSQL
9 40 (2.75%) Elasticsearch
10 36 (2.48%) Data Lake
10 36 (2.48%) Delta Lake
11 35 (2.41%) Metadata
12 31 (2.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 27 (1.86%) Redis
14 26 (1.79%) Star Schema
15 22 (1.52%) MySQL
16 21 (1.45%) Tableau
17 18 (1.24%) Spark SQL
18 16 (1.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 14 (0.96%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 266 (18.32%) Git
2 193 (13.29%) JIRA
3 117 (8.06%) Jenkins
4 76 (5.23%) GitLab
5 46 (3.17%) Selenium
6 40 (2.75%) Postman
7 35 (2.41%) Cypress.io
8 18 (1.24%) JUnit
9 17 (1.17%) JMeter
9 17 (1.17%) Visual Studio
10 16 (1.10%) REST Assured
11 14 (0.96%) NUnit
12 13 (0.90%) Octopus Deploy
13 12 (0.83%) TestRail
13 12 (0.83%) Zephyr
14 11 (0.76%) fastlane
15 10 (0.69%) Eclipse
15 10 (0.69%) Mockito
15 10 (0.69%) SonarQube
15 10 (0.69%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 413 (28.44%) Social Skills
2 337 (23.21%) Finance
3 153 (10.54%) Analytical Skills
4 125 (8.61%) Public Sector
5 109 (7.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 52 (3.58%) Retail
7 51 (3.51%) Law
8 40 (2.75%) Marketing
9 35 (2.41%) Legal
10 32 (2.20%) Banking
11 30 (2.07%) Advertising
12 24 (1.65%) Manufacturing
13 23 (1.58%) Games
14 21 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
15 17 (1.17%) Documentation Skills
16 14 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
17 11 (0.76%) Aviation
17 11 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
18 7 (0.48%) Automotive
18 7 (0.48%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 457 (31.47%) Developer
2 334 (23.00%) Senior
3 218 (15.01%) .NET Developer
4 203 (13.98%) DevOps Engineer
5 201 (13.84%) Azure Engineer
6 165 (11.36%) Lead
7 101 (6.96%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 99 (6.82%) Senior Developer
9 97 (6.68%) Data Engineer
10 91 (6.27%) Platform Engineer
11 85 (5.85%) Analyst
12 67 (4.61%) Senior DevOps
13 63 (4.34%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 62 (4.27%) Cloud Engineer
15 53 (3.65%) Software Engineer
16 47 (3.24%) Senior Data Engineer
17 46 (3.17%) Architect
17 46 (3.17%) Cloud Platform Engineer
18 45 (3.10%) Consultant
19 43 (2.96%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 480 (33.06%) .NET
2 341 (23.48%) Terraform
3 253 (17.42%) ASP.NET
4 230 (15.84%) .NET Core
5 200 (13.77%) ASP.NET Core
6 163 (11.23%) React
6 163 (11.23%) REST
7 152 (10.47%) RESTful
8 150 (10.33%) HTML
9 148 (10.19%) CSS
10 124 (8.54%) Entity Framework
11 122 (8.40%) Blazor
12 88 (6.06%) Node.js
13 79 (5.44%) ML.NET
14 65 (4.48%) .NET Framework
15 59 (4.06%) Playwright
16 57 (3.93%) YAML
17 55 (3.79%) JSON
17 55 (3.79%) PySpark
18 52 (3.58%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 139 (9.57%) Product Ownership
2 136 (9.37%) Cloud Native
3 81 (5.58%) Enterprise Software
4 62 (4.27%) Legacy Systems
5 52 (3.58%) Onboarding
6 47 (3.24%) Mobile App
7 40 (2.75%) Distributed Systems
8 39 (2.69%) Greenfield Project
9 32 (2.20%) Hybrid Cloud
10 26 (1.79%) Legacy Applications
11 25 (1.72%) Management Information System
12 23 (1.58%) Self-Motivation
13 22 (1.52%) Low-Code
13 22 (1.52%) Public Cloud
14 19 (1.31%) AI Agents
15 18 (1.24%) Security Posture
16 17 (1.17%) BBC
16 17 (1.17%) iPhone
16 17 (1.17%) Mainframe
16 17 (1.17%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 109 (7.51%) Windows
2 96 (6.61%) Linux
3 25 (1.72%) Android
4 23 (1.58%) VMS
5 21 (1.45%) Windows Server
6 20 (1.38%) Unix
7 13 (0.90%) Ubuntu
8 10 (0.69%) Apple iOS
9 4 (0.28%) Kali Linux
9 4 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.21%) Embedded 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%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,452 (100.00%) DevOps
2 827 (56.96%) CI/CD
3 666 (45.87%) Agile
4 344 (23.69%) AI
5 320 (22.04%) Continuous Improvement
6 315 (21.69%) Infrastructure as Code
7 262 (18.04%) Problem-Solving
8 247 (17.01%) Test Automation
9 244 (16.80%) Full-Stack Development
10 227 (15.63%) Mentoring
11 215 (14.81%) Scrum
12 189 (13.02%) Analytics
13 182 (12.53%) Microservices
14 170 (11.71%) Stakeholder Management
15 159 (10.95%) Platform Engineering
16 158 (10.88%) Business Intelligence
17 151 (10.40%) Observability
18 146 (10.06%) Software Engineering
19 142 (9.78%) Data Modelling
20 138 (9.50%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 532 (36.64%) SQL
2 489 (33.68%) C#
3 283 (19.49%) Python
4 239 (16.46%) JavaScript
5 173 (11.91%) PowerShell
6 120 (8.26%) Bash
7 119 (8.20%) Bicep
8 93 (6.40%) Java
9 60 (4.13%) TypeScript
10 41 (2.82%) T-SQL
11 19 (1.31%) Scala
12 18 (1.24%) C++
13 17 (1.17%) VB.NET
14 16 (1.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 16 (1.10%) Kusto Query Language
15 13 (0.90%) COBOL
15 13 (0.90%) JCL
16 10 (0.69%) Go
17 8 (0.55%) Apex Code
17 8 (0.55%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 133 (9.16%) Degree
2 116 (7.99%) Security Cleared
3 101 (6.96%) SC Cleared
4 96 (6.61%) Azure Certification
5 55 (3.79%) Computer Science Degree
6 42 (2.89%) Microsoft Certification
7 33 (2.27%) ISTQB
8 23 (1.58%) PMI Certification
9 16 (1.10%) Master's Degree
10 14 (0.96%) PMP
11 12 (0.83%) AWS Certification
12 10 (0.69%) DV Cleared
13 9 (0.62%) ISEB
14 7 (0.48%) ACCA
14 7 (0.48%) CBAP
14 7 (0.48%) CIMA
14 7 (0.48%) CSPO
14 7 (0.48%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 5 (0.34%) BPSS Clearance
15 5 (0.34%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 186 (12.81%) QA
2 86 (5.92%) Data Quality
3 76 (5.23%) Accessibility
4 41 (2.82%) GDPR
5 35 (2.41%) WCAG
6 21 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 19 (1.31%) PMO
8 12 (0.83%) TickIT
9 10 (0.69%) SLA
10 9 (0.62%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 9 (0.62%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 8 (0.55%) NCSC
12 6 (0.41%) JTAG
12 6 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 5 (0.34%) GRC
13 5 (0.34%) IFRS
14 4 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
14 4 (0.28%) Solvency II
15 3 (0.21%) ISO 9001
15 3 (0.21%) NIST
System Software
1 181 (12.47%) Docker
2 70 (4.82%) Active Directory
3 25 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (1.17%) Virtual Desktop
5 14 (0.96%) 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 (11.71%) Kubernetes
2 57 (3.93%) Ansible
3 47 (3.24%) Grafana
4 43 (2.96%) Prometheus
5 31 (2.13%) Argo
6 23 (1.58%) Microsoft Intune
7 12 (0.83%) Puppet
8 6 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.34%) Progress Chef
9 5 (0.34%) SCCM
10 4 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (0.28%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.14%) FlexNet
11 2 (0.14%) HP ALM
11 2 (0.14%) Istio
11 2 (0.14%) Kibana
11 2 (0.14%) Nessus
11 2 (0.14%) Rancher
11 2 (0.14%) Scalr
11 2 (0.14%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 658 (45.32%) Microsoft
2 96 (6.61%) Databricks
3 64 (4.41%) Google
4 40 (2.75%) Salesforce
5 38 (2.62%) Facebook
6 34 (2.34%) VMware
7 26 (1.79%) Apple
8 25 (1.72%) ServiceNow
9 21 (1.45%) SAP
9 21 (1.45%) YouTube
10 20 (1.38%) OpenAI
11 17 (1.17%) Dynatrace
11 17 (1.17%) Red Hat
11 17 (1.17%) Sony
11 17 (1.17%) Yahoo!
12 16 (1.10%) Oracle
13 15 (1.03%) MuleSoft
14 12 (0.83%) Foundry
14 12 (0.83%) HP
14 12 (0.83%) ScienceLogic