Azure DevOps Job Trends

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 11 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 130 103 81
Rank change year-on-year -27 -22 +9
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,087 1,568 1,787
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.93% 2.52% 3.54%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.62% 7.24% 8.27%
Number of salaries quoted 696 1,021 1,508
10th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,592 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -
75th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £96,539
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% -

All Cloud 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 19,352 21,649 21,597
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.31% 34.85% 42.79%
Number of salaries quoted 11,203 13,206 18,135
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £38,500 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +2.80% -2.73%

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 11 December 2025.

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 11 December 2025. 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 -43 857 £65,250 -3.33% 540
UK excluding London -25 677 £57,500 -8.00% 503
Work from Home -3 511 £65,000 - 305
London +12 341 £77,500 +3.33% 154
South East +6 233 £60,000 -11.11% 163
Scotland +64 155 £64,750 +23.33% 34
North of England -51 97 £60,000 -2.83% 102
Midlands -55 77 £59,000 -9.23% 84
West Midlands -36 63 £60,000 -7.69% 44
South West -65 56 £52,500 -19.23% 62
North West -22 39 £65,000 +7.00% 54
Yorkshire -44 32 £55,000 -18.19% 34
Wales +4 31 £55,000 -4.35% 18
North East +3 26 £50,000 -9.09% 14
East of England -25 26 £65,000 +30.00% 47
East Midlands -7 13 £57,500 +21.05% 38
Northern Ireland -3 2 £56,250 - 8

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 41 (3.77%) Confluence
2 35 (3.22%) IIS
3 26 (2.39%) SharePoint
4 15 (1.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 13 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
6 11 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
7 7 (0.64%) Apache Spark
8 6 (0.55%) Apache
8 6 (0.55%) Appian
9 5 (0.46%) nginx
10 4 (0.37%) CMS
11 3 (0.28%) BizTalk Server
11 3 (0.28%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.18%) Anypoint
12 2 (0.18%) Moodle
Applications
1 32 (2.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 27 (2.48%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (1.29%) Microsoft Project
4 12 (1.10%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.37%) Trello
7 1 (0.092%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.092%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.092%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 72 (6.62%) SAP S/4HANA
2 50 (4.60%) Dynamics CRM
3 33 (3.04%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (0.28%) SAP CX
5 2 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.18%) Elite 3E
5 2 (0.18%) Markit EDM
5 2 (0.18%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.092%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.092%) Endur
6 1 (0.092%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 1,018 (93.65%) Azure
2 312 (28.70%) GitHub
3 218 (20.06%) Power Platform
4 160 (14.72%) AWS
5 149 (13.71%) GitHub Actions
6 87 (8.00%) Azure Monitor
6 87 (8.00%) Power Automate
7 85 (7.82%) Dynamics 365
8 82 (7.54%) Azure Data Factory
9 80 (7.36%) PaaS
10 79 (7.27%) Serverless
11 77 (7.08%) Entra ID
11 77 (7.08%) Snowflake
12 70 (6.44%) Microsoft 365
13 68 (6.26%) SaaS
14 62 (5.70%) Azure AKS
15 61 (5.61%) GitHub Copilot
16 55 (5.06%) dbt
17 53 (4.88%) Azure Logic Apps
18 51 (4.69%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 34 (3.13%) Firewall
2 33 (3.04%) DNS
3 21 (1.93%) VPN
4 12 (1.10%) WAN
5 10 (0.92%) Network Security
6 9 (0.83%) HTTP
7 6 (0.55%) TCP/IP
8 5 (0.46%) DHCP
8 5 (0.46%) SD-WAN
8 5 (0.46%) VLAN
9 4 (0.37%) SSL
10 3 (0.28%) AMQP
10 3 (0.28%) BGP
10 3 (0.28%) Internet
10 3 (0.28%) IPsec
10 3 (0.28%) OSPF
10 3 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (0.28%) Wireshark
11 1 (0.092%) NetScaler
11 1 (0.092%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 169 (15.55%) SQL Server
2 120 (11.04%) Power BI
3 78 (7.18%) Data Warehouse
4 56 (5.15%) Azure SQL Database
5 48 (4.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 42 (3.86%) Tableau
7 38 (3.50%) NoSQL
8 27 (2.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 26 (2.39%) Relational Database
10 20 (1.84%) Snowflake Schema
11 16 (1.47%) PostgreSQL
12 15 (1.38%) Data Lake
13 13 (1.20%) DynamoDB
13 13 (1.20%) MongoDB
13 13 (1.20%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 12 (1.10%) Metadata
14 12 (1.10%) MySQL
15 9 (0.83%) BigQuery
16 5 (0.46%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
16 5 (0.46%) Looker
Development Applications
1 212 (19.50%) JIRA
2 180 (16.56%) Git
3 114 (10.49%) Jenkins
4 69 (6.35%) eCATT
5 53 (4.88%) Selenium
6 40 (3.68%) NeoLoad
7 36 (3.31%) Octopus Deploy
8 33 (3.04%) Oracle Forms
9 31 (2.85%) GitLab
10 23 (2.12%) Snyk
11 22 (2.02%) Cypress.io
11 22 (2.02%) Robot Framework
11 22 (2.02%) TeamCity
11 22 (2.02%) Visual Studio
12 19 (1.75%) Postman
13 13 (1.20%) JMeter
14 12 (1.10%) Cucumber
14 12 (1.10%) NUnit
15 11 (1.01%) Team Foundation Server
15 11 (1.01%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 420 (38.64%) Finance
2 274 (25.21%) Social Skills
3 130 (11.96%) Analytical Skills
4 115 (10.58%) Marketing
5 71 (6.53%) Manufacturing
6 66 (6.07%) Presentation Skills
7 55 (5.06%) Law
8 46 (4.23%) Retail
9 43 (3.96%) Influencing Skills
10 35 (3.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 22 (2.02%) Legal
11 22 (2.02%) Public Sector
12 21 (1.93%) Documentation Skills
13 14 (1.29%) Banking
14 10 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
15 9 (0.83%) Advertising
15 9 (0.83%) Tech for Good
16 8 (0.74%) Back Office
16 8 (0.74%) Games
17 6 (0.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 224 (20.61%) Senior
2 170 (15.64%) Developer
3 166 (15.27%) Lead
4 129 (11.87%) Analyst
5 120 (11.04%) DevOps Engineer
6 103 (9.48%) Azure Engineer
7 83 (7.64%) Cloud Engineer
8 58 (5.34%) Data Engineer
9 56 (5.15%) Software Engineer
10 47 (4.32%) Test Leader
11 46 (4.23%) .NET Developer
12 45 (4.14%) Architect
13 44 (4.05%) Platform Engineer
14 42 (3.86%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 40 (3.68%) Applications Engineer
16 37 (3.40%) Business Analyst
16 37 (3.40%) Senior Cloud Engineer
17 32 (2.94%) Test Analyst
18 28 (2.58%) Senior Developer
19 27 (2.48%) Automation Test Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 283 (26.03%) .NET
2 111 (10.21%) RESTful
3 88 (8.10%) React
4 76 (6.99%) .NET Framework
5 74 (6.81%) REST
5 74 (6.81%) YAML
6 62 (5.70%) .NET Core
6 62 (5.70%) JSON
7 56 (5.15%) OAuth
8 52 (4.78%) ASP.NET
9 50 (4.60%) SOAP
10 47 (4.32%) CSS
11 46 (4.23%) HTML
12 45 (4.14%) AngularJS
12 45 (4.14%) Entity Framework
13 44 (4.05%) ARM Templates
14 38 (3.50%) XML
15 36 (3.31%) OAuth2
16 29 (2.67%) Blazor
17 26 (2.39%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 170 (15.64%) Cloud Native
2 118 (10.86%) Product Ownership
3 63 (5.80%) Enterprise Software
4 42 (3.86%) Management Information System
5 34 (3.13%) Onboarding
6 32 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
6 32 (2.94%) Security Posture
7 26 (2.39%) Hybrid Cloud
7 26 (2.39%) Low-Code
8 22 (2.02%) Analytical Mindset
8 22 (2.02%) Distributed Systems
8 22 (2.02%) Virtual Team
9 19 (1.75%) Mobile App
10 18 (1.66%) Data Centre
10 18 (1.66%) Greenfield Project
11 12 (1.10%) Legacy Applications
11 12 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
12 11 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
13 10 (0.92%) Linux Command Line
14 9 (0.83%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 95 (8.74%) Windows
2 60 (5.52%) Linux
3 25 (2.30%) VMS
4 17 (1.56%) Windows Server
5 8 (0.74%) Android
6 7 (0.64%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.37%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.18%) AIX
8 2 (0.18%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 2 (0.18%) Unix
8 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.092%) CentOS
9 1 (0.092%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.092%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,017 (93.56%) DevOps
2 619 (56.95%) CI/CD
3 544 (50.05%) Agile
4 283 (26.03%) Test Automation
5 265 (24.38%) Infrastructure as Code
6 250 (23.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 228 (20.98%) Problem-Solving
8 226 (20.79%) Mentoring
9 193 (17.76%) Coaching
10 192 (17.66%) AI
11 149 (13.71%) Analytics
12 142 (13.06%) Asset Management
13 135 (12.42%) Roadmaps
14 133 (12.24%) Scrum
15 128 (11.78%) Containerisation
16 125 (11.50%) Business Intelligence
17 123 (11.32%) ERP
18 122 (11.22%) Microservices
19 118 (10.86%) Observability
19 118 (10.86%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 363 (33.39%) SQL
2 265 (24.38%) Python
3 247 (22.72%) C#
4 225 (20.70%) PowerShell
5 105 (9.66%) JavaScript
6 101 (9.29%) Bicep
7 90 (8.28%) Bash
8 72 (6.62%) TypeScript
9 52 (4.78%) Java
10 43 (3.96%) T-SQL
11 37 (3.40%) Shell Script
12 34 (3.13%) PL/SQL
13 25 (2.30%) Apex Code
14 17 (1.56%) Go
15 9 (0.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 9 (0.83%) Scala
16 5 (0.46%) C++
16 5 (0.46%) Groovy
17 4 (0.37%) R
17 4 (0.37%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 138 (12.70%) Degree
2 89 (8.19%) Computer Science Degree
3 81 (7.45%) Azure Certification
4 73 (6.72%) Security Cleared
5 48 (4.42%) SC Cleared
6 46 (4.23%) ISTQB
7 43 (3.96%) Master's Degree
8 28 (2.58%) Microsoft Certification
9 23 (2.12%) DV Cleared
10 21 (1.93%) AWS Certification
11 16 (1.47%) ISEB
12 12 (1.10%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 11 (1.01%) PMI Certification
14 10 (0.92%) PMP
15 8 (0.74%) AWS Certified Developer
16 7 (0.64%) Cisco Certification
17 6 (0.55%) DBS Check
18 5 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
19 4 (0.37%) CCNA
19 4 (0.37%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 155 (14.26%) QA
2 44 (4.05%) Accessibility
3 43 (3.96%) GDPR
4 37 (3.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 27 (2.48%) Data Quality
6 26 (2.39%) NCSC
6 26 (2.39%) NIST
7 17 (1.56%) PMO
8 9 (0.83%) Software Quality Assurance
9 5 (0.46%) PERC
9 5 (0.46%) SOC 2
10 4 (0.37%) WCAG
11 2 (0.18%) SLA
12 1 (0.092%) COBIT
12 1 (0.092%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.092%) HL7
12 1 (0.092%) ISO 9001
12 1 (0.092%) P3O
12 1 (0.092%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 153 (14.08%) Docker
2 61 (5.61%) Active Directory
3 25 (2.30%) Virtual Machines
4 17 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
5 16 (1.47%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.37%) Postfix
7 3 (0.28%) Firmware
7 3 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.18%) vCloud
9 1 (0.092%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 1 (0.092%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.092%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.092%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.092%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 338 (31.09%) Terraform
2 182 (16.74%) Kubernetes
3 81 (7.45%) Ansible
4 72 (6.62%) HP ALM
5 41 (3.77%) Grafana
6 34 (3.13%) Single Sign-On
7 32 (2.94%) Prometheus
8 19 (1.75%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.37%) Argo
9 4 (0.37%) Rancher
9 4 (0.37%) vRealize
10 3 (0.28%) Dell DRAC
10 3 (0.28%) logstash
11 2 (0.18%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (0.18%) Nessus
11 2 (0.18%) Puppet
11 2 (0.18%) Red Hat Satellite
11 2 (0.18%) SCOM
11 2 (0.18%) ZABBIX
12 1 (0.092%) SCCM
Vendors
1 371 (34.13%) Microsoft
2 80 (7.36%) SAP
3 72 (6.62%) HP
4 50 (4.60%) Databricks
5 41 (3.77%) Oracle
6 39 (3.59%) Salesforce
7 25 (2.30%) VMware
8 24 (2.21%) ServiceNow
9 20 (1.84%) Black Duck
9 20 (1.84%) Okta
10 19 (1.75%) Coverity
11 18 (1.66%) Google
12 14 (1.29%) OpenAI
12 14 (1.29%) Palo Alto
12 14 (1.29%) Xamarin
13 13 (1.20%) Foundry
14 12 (1.10%) Ab Initio
14 12 (1.10%) Dynatrace
14 12 (1.10%) Sage
15 9 (0.83%) SolarWinds