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

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 153 151 111
Rank change year-on-year -2 -40 -30
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,498 1,031 1,598
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.27% 2.10% 2.24%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.62% 6.67% 6.98%
Number of salaries quoted 1,128 690 983
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £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 £80,125
90th Percentile £88,750 £93,750 £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 26,638 15,454 22,908
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 22.51% 31.50% 32.09%
Number of salaries quoted 18,339 10,402 13,888
10th Percentile £31,470 £29,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,497 £37,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £58,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.76% -10.77% +4.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £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 13 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 13 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 +11 1,342 £65,000 - 963
UK excluding London -2 944 £60,000 - 590
Work from Home +6 598 £62,500 -3.85% 482
London -1 478 £75,000 -3.23% 429
North of England +75 270 £60,000 - 172
South East -37 230 £64,500 +7.50% 174
Midlands +20 171 £60,000 - 78
North West +61 154 £60,000 -7.69% 74
West Midlands -4 106 £65,000 +8.33% 50
Wales -17 91 £53,171 -3.33% 29
South West -24 91 £60,000 +14.29% 52
East of England -2 76 £55,000 -12.00% 41
Yorkshire +2 67 £65,000 +18.18% 76
East Midlands +14 65 £54,500 - 28
North East -33 49 £52,000 +4.00% 24
Scotland -60 18 £55,000 -15.38% 37
Northern Ireland - 1 £72,500 - 15

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 92 (6.14%) SharePoint
2 70 (4.67%) Confluence
3 39 (2.60%) Microsoft Exchange
4 23 (1.54%) Apache Spark
5 18 (1.20%) IIS
6 12 (0.80%) Apache
7 11 (0.73%) CMS
8 10 (0.67%) nginx
9 8 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
9 8 (0.53%) CICS
9 8 (0.53%) SharePoint Server
10 7 (0.47%) Umbraco
11 6 (0.40%) Camunda
12 3 (0.20%) Anypoint
12 3 (0.20%) BizTalk Server
13 2 (0.13%) Luigi
13 2 (0.13%) WordPress
14 1 (0.067%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 1 (0.067%) Headless CMS
14 1 (0.067%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 33 (2.20%) Microsoft Project
2 25 (1.67%) MS Visio
3 23 (1.54%) Microsoft Office
4 19 (1.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 17 (1.13%) Microsoft Excel
6 10 (0.67%) Trello
7 4 (0.27%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.067%) Notion
Business Applications
1 40 (2.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (0.80%) Elite 3E
3 10 (0.67%) Dynamics AX
4 9 (0.60%) SAP S/4HANA
5 6 (0.40%) SAP IBP
6 5 (0.33%) Dynamics NAV
7 4 (0.27%) Shopify
8 3 (0.20%) Carpe Diem
8 3 (0.20%) Dynamics GP
8 3 (0.20%) SAP Business One
8 3 (0.20%) Workday HCM
9 2 (0.13%) JDE EnterpriseOne
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
9 2 (0.13%) Sage 200
9 2 (0.13%) Visualfiles
10 1 (0.067%) Integrated Workplace Management System
10 1 (0.067%) Magento
10 1 (0.067%) Payment Gateway
10 1 (0.067%) Salesforce CRM
10 1 (0.067%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,498 (100.00%) Azure
2 298 (19.89%) Power Platform
3 235 (15.69%) GitHub
4 155 (10.35%) Dynamics 365
5 152 (10.15%) Serverless
6 149 (9.95%) AWS
7 130 (8.68%) GitHub Actions
8 127 (8.48%) Azure Functions
9 113 (7.54%) Azure Service Bus
10 110 (7.34%) Azure Monitor
11 108 (7.21%) Azure AKS
12 107 (7.14%) Azure AI
13 106 (7.08%) Azure Data Factory
14 104 (6.94%) Entra ID
15 103 (6.88%) Power Automate
16 99 (6.61%) PaaS
17 95 (6.34%) Azure Key Vault
18 94 (6.28%) Azure Logic Apps
19 91 (6.07%) Microsoft 365
20 88 (5.87%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 46 (3.07%) Firewall
2 41 (2.74%) VPN
3 24 (1.60%) DNS
4 13 (0.87%) Internet
4 13 (0.87%) Wi-Fi
5 10 (0.67%) Network Security
5 10 (0.67%) SAN
6 9 (0.60%) DHCP
7 8 (0.53%) TCP/IP
7 8 (0.53%) Wireless
8 7 (0.47%) HTTP
8 7 (0.47%) VLAN
9 6 (0.40%) MQTT
9 6 (0.40%) ZigBee
10 4 (0.27%) Bluetooth
11 3 (0.20%) HTTPS
11 3 (0.20%) WAN
12 2 (0.13%) LoRaWAN
13 1 (0.067%) Kerberos
13 1 (0.067%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 282 (18.83%) Azure SQL Database
2 206 (13.75%) SQL Server
3 174 (11.62%) MongoDB
4 150 (10.01%) Power BI
5 86 (5.74%) Data Warehouse
6 53 (3.54%) PostgreSQL
7 52 (3.47%) Relational Database
8 49 (3.27%) NoSQL
9 48 (3.20%) Metadata
10 40 (2.67%) Elasticsearch
11 34 (2.27%) Data Lake
12 33 (2.20%) Delta Lake
13 27 (1.80%) Redis
14 26 (1.74%) Star Schema
15 24 (1.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 22 (1.47%) Tableau
17 21 (1.40%) MySQL
18 16 (1.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 13 (0.87%) DynamoDB
19 13 (0.87%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 271 (18.09%) Git
2 195 (13.02%) JIRA
3 128 (8.54%) Jenkins
4 82 (5.47%) GitLab
5 40 (2.67%) Selenium
6 36 (2.40%) Cypress.io
7 29 (1.94%) Postman
8 18 (1.20%) JUnit
9 14 (0.93%) Visual Studio
10 13 (0.87%) JMeter
10 13 (0.87%) NUnit
11 12 (0.80%) REST Assured
12 11 (0.73%) Claude Code
12 11 (0.73%) fastlane
13 10 (0.67%) Mockito
13 10 (0.67%) Octopus Deploy
13 10 (0.67%) SonarQube
13 10 (0.67%) Visual Studio Code
14 9 (0.60%) MSI
15 8 (0.53%) Eclipse
General
1 451 (30.11%) Social Skills
2 362 (24.17%) Finance
3 157 (10.48%) Analytical Skills
4 146 (9.75%) Public Sector
5 108 (7.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 50 (3.34%) Law
7 41 (2.74%) Retail
8 33 (2.20%) Marketing
9 31 (2.07%) Legal
10 30 (2.00%) Advertising
10 30 (2.00%) Manufacturing
11 29 (1.94%) Banking
12 24 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
13 20 (1.34%) Games
13 20 (1.34%) Presentation Skills
14 13 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
14 13 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
15 11 (0.73%) Telecoms
16 10 (0.67%) Pharmaceutical
16 10 (0.67%) Police
Job Titles
1 449 (29.97%) Developer
2 345 (23.03%) Senior
3 220 (14.69%) .NET Developer
4 217 (14.49%) DevOps Engineer
5 211 (14.09%) Azure Engineer
6 148 (9.88%) Lead
7 108 (7.21%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 102 (6.81%) Analyst
8 102 (6.81%) Data Engineer
9 91 (6.07%) Senior Developer
10 89 (5.94%) Platform Engineer
11 66 (4.41%) Senior DevOps
12 63 (4.21%) Consultant
13 62 (4.14%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 59 (3.94%) Cloud Engineer
15 56 (3.74%) Software Engineer
16 53 (3.54%) Business Analyst
17 50 (3.34%) Architect
18 48 (3.20%) Senior Data Engineer
19 42 (2.80%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 472 (31.51%) .NET
2 349 (23.30%) Terraform
3 251 (16.76%) ASP.NET
4 226 (15.09%) .NET Core
5 200 (13.35%) ASP.NET Core
6 164 (10.95%) REST
7 151 (10.08%) React
7 151 (10.08%) RESTful
8 142 (9.48%) HTML
9 141 (9.41%) CSS
10 124 (8.28%) Blazor
11 123 (8.21%) Entity Framework
12 78 (5.21%) ML.NET
13 77 (5.14%) Node.js
14 62 (4.14%) .NET Framework
15 55 (3.67%) YAML
16 53 (3.54%) Playwright
17 52 (3.47%) JSON
18 48 (3.20%) PySpark
19 45 (3.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 141 (9.41%) Product Ownership
2 137 (9.15%) Cloud Native
3 95 (6.34%) Enterprise Software
4 65 (4.34%) Legacy Systems
5 55 (3.67%) Onboarding
6 46 (3.07%) Mobile App
7 39 (2.60%) Greenfield Project
8 38 (2.54%) Distributed Systems
9 36 (2.40%) Hybrid Cloud
9 36 (2.40%) Management Information System
10 35 (2.34%) Legacy Applications
11 24 (1.60%) Low-Code
12 23 (1.54%) AI Agents
12 23 (1.54%) Mainframe
12 23 (1.54%) Security Posture
12 23 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
13 21 (1.40%) Public Cloud
14 17 (1.13%) Data Centre
14 17 (1.13%) iPhone
15 16 (1.07%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 106 (7.08%) Windows
2 90 (6.01%) Linux
3 25 (1.67%) Android
4 23 (1.54%) VMS
5 22 (1.47%) Unix
6 20 (1.34%) Windows Server
7 11 (0.73%) Ubuntu
8 8 (0.53%) Apple iOS
9 4 (0.27%) Embedded Linux
9 4 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise 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 1,498 (100.00%) DevOps
2 835 (55.74%) CI/CD
3 679 (45.33%) Agile
4 359 (23.97%) AI
5 343 (22.90%) Continuous Improvement
6 327 (21.83%) Infrastructure as Code
7 287 (19.16%) Problem-Solving
8 237 (15.82%) Full-Stack Development
9 219 (14.62%) Mentoring
9 219 (14.62%) Test Automation
10 213 (14.22%) Stakeholder Management
11 212 (14.15%) Analytics
12 206 (13.75%) Scrum
13 180 (12.02%) Microservices
14 170 (11.35%) Platform Engineering
15 169 (11.28%) Business Intelligence
16 153 (10.21%) Software Engineering
17 150 (10.01%) Observability
18 147 (9.81%) Data Modelling
19 137 (9.15%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 542 (36.18%) SQL
2 486 (32.44%) C#
3 282 (18.83%) Python
4 236 (15.75%) JavaScript
5 182 (12.15%) PowerShell
6 132 (8.81%) Bicep
7 118 (7.88%) Bash
8 97 (6.48%) Java
9 60 (4.01%) TypeScript
10 44 (2.94%) T-SQL
11 21 (1.40%) C++
12 19 (1.27%) COBOL
12 19 (1.27%) JCL
13 18 (1.20%) Scala
14 16 (1.07%) Kusto Query Language
14 16 (1.07%) VB.NET
15 15 (1.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 9 (0.60%) Go
17 8 (0.53%) Apex Code
17 8 (0.53%) VBA
Qualifications
1 159 (10.61%) Degree
2 136 (9.08%) Security Cleared
3 118 (7.88%) Azure Certification
3 118 (7.88%) SC Cleared
4 58 (3.87%) Computer Science Degree
5 57 (3.81%) Microsoft Certification
6 31 (2.07%) ISTQB
6 31 (2.07%) PMI Certification
7 24 (1.60%) PMP
8 19 (1.27%) Master's Degree
9 18 (1.20%) ACCA
9 18 (1.20%) CIMA
10 12 (0.80%) AWS Certification
11 11 (0.73%) CBAP
12 10 (0.67%) CSPO
13 9 (0.60%) ISEB
14 8 (0.53%) DV Cleared
14 8 (0.53%) TOGAF Certification
15 7 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
15 7 (0.47%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 177 (11.82%) QA
2 106 (7.08%) Data Quality
3 75 (5.01%) Accessibility
4 40 (2.67%) GDPR
5 37 (2.47%) WCAG
6 21 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 21 (1.40%) PMO
7 11 (0.73%) SLA
8 9 (0.60%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 8 (0.53%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 7 (0.47%) NCSC
11 6 (0.40%) JTAG
12 5 (0.33%) TickIT
13 4 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
13 4 (0.27%) NIST
14 3 (0.20%) ISO 9001
14 3 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 2 (0.13%) PCI DSS
15 2 (0.13%) SEPA
15 2 (0.13%) Solvency II
System Software
1 179 (11.95%) Docker
2 71 (4.74%) Active Directory
3 25 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (1.27%) 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
1 174 (11.62%) Kubernetes
2 58 (3.87%) Ansible
2 58 (3.87%) Grafana
3 45 (3.00%) Prometheus
4 30 (2.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 27 (1.80%) Argo
6 13 (0.87%) Puppet
7 11 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.33%) SCCM
9 4 (0.27%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (0.20%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.13%) FlexNet
11 2 (0.13%) Istio
11 2 (0.13%) Nessus
11 2 (0.13%) Rancher
11 2 (0.13%) ZABBIX
12 1 (0.067%) logstash
12 1 (0.067%) Nagios
12 1 (0.067%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 682 (45.53%) Microsoft
2 100 (6.68%) Databricks
3 65 (4.34%) Google
4 38 (2.54%) VMware
5 37 (2.47%) Facebook
6 36 (2.40%) Salesforce
7 26 (1.74%) Dynatrace
8 25 (1.67%) SAP
8 25 (1.67%) ServiceNow
9 24 (1.60%) YouTube
10 23 (1.54%) Apple
11 21 (1.40%) OpenAI
12 16 (1.07%) Oracle
12 16 (1.07%) Sony
12 16 (1.07%) Yahoo!
13 15 (1.00%) Red Hat
14 12 (0.80%) Foundry
14 12 (0.80%) Informatica
14 12 (0.80%) ScienceLogic
15 11 (0.73%) Pega