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

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 175 135 105
Rank change year-on-year -40 -30 +3
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,018 933 2,356
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.18% 2.24% 2.49%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.74% 6.19% 6.88%
Number of salaries quoted 727 783 1,854
10th Percentile £42,500 £44,965 £41,933
25th Percentile £50,000 £53,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.74% +8.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.85% +8.33% +0.80%

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 27,198 15,067 34,240
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 31.59% 36.23% 36.20%
Number of salaries quoted 14,110 11,081 26,851
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,925 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,633 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -0.67% +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 17 April 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 17 April 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 -45 848 £67,500 - 368
UK excluding London -18 626 £56,000 -13.85% 297
Work from Home -5 416 £65,000 -3.70% 214
London -12 325 £79,500 +6.00% 131
South East -48 163 £50,000 -28.57% 82
North of England -19 142 £60,000 -11.11% 74
Scotland +45 103 £62,500 +8.70% 24
Midlands -56 93 £64,000 -1.54% 43
South West -25 81 £52,500 -19.23% 36
North West -2 66 £70,000 +7.69% 43
West Midlands -55 54 £58,750 -12.96% 22
Yorkshire -55 45 £60,000 -14.29% 19
East Midlands -21 36 £67,000 +3.08% 21
North East -16 31 £50,000 -23.08% 12
East of England -34 24 £70,000 +32.08% 30
Wales -31 20 £53,100 -9.69% 14
Northern Ireland -37 2 £50,000 - 1

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 37 (3.63%) Confluence
2 35 (3.44%) SharePoint
3 22 (2.16%) Microsoft Exchange
4 21 (2.06%) IIS
5 11 (1.08%) Apache Spark
6 8 (0.79%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 7 (0.69%) Anypoint
8 4 (0.39%) Apache
8 4 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.39%) Moodle
9 2 (0.20%) BizTalk Server
9 2 (0.20%) CICS
9 2 (0.20%) CMS
10 1 (0.098%) Drupal
10 1 (0.098%) nginx
10 1 (0.098%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.098%) PegaRULES
10 1 (0.098%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.098%) Umbraco
10 1 (0.098%) WordPress
Applications
1 24 (2.36%) MS Visio
2 21 (2.06%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (1.08%) Microsoft Project
4 8 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
4 8 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.49%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.29%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.20%) Trello
8 1 (0.098%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 19 (1.87%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (1.57%) Oracle ERP
3 6 (0.59%) Dynamics AX
4 4 (0.39%) Visualfiles
5 3 (0.29%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.20%) Magento
6 2 (0.20%) SAP CX
6 2 (0.20%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.098%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.098%) Endur
7 1 (0.098%) Infor M3
7 1 (0.098%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 1 (0.098%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.098%) Primavera
7 1 (0.098%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.098%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1,017 (99.90%) Azure
2 296 (29.08%) GitHub
3 177 (17.39%) Power Platform
4 159 (15.62%) GitHub Actions
5 154 (15.13%) AWS
6 96 (9.43%) Serverless
7 91 (8.94%) Azure Data Factory
7 91 (8.94%) Entra ID
8 82 (8.06%) Azure Monitor
9 79 (7.76%) Microsoft 365
10 76 (7.47%) PaaS
11 65 (6.39%) Azure Logic Apps
12 63 (6.19%) Azure AKS
13 61 (5.99%) Dynamics 365
14 60 (5.89%) SaaS
15 55 (5.40%) Azure Functions
16 54 (5.30%) GCP
17 49 (4.81%) Azure Key Vault
18 47 (4.62%) Azure Service Bus
19 45 (4.42%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 63 (6.19%) Firewall
2 34 (3.34%) DNS
3 19 (1.87%) HTTP
3 19 (1.87%) TCP/IP
4 15 (1.47%) WAN
5 14 (1.38%) VPN
6 12 (1.18%) Network Security
7 3 (0.29%) BGP
7 3 (0.29%) DHCP
7 3 (0.29%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.20%) SSL
9 1 (0.098%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.098%) Internet
9 1 (0.098%) IP Telephony
9 1 (0.098%) LTE
9 1 (0.098%) MPLS
9 1 (0.098%) NetScaler
9 1 (0.098%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 127 (12.48%) SQL Server
2 95 (9.33%) Power BI
3 69 (6.78%) Azure SQL Database
4 45 (4.42%) Data Warehouse
5 37 (3.63%) NoSQL
6 35 (3.44%) Data Lake
7 28 (2.75%) PostgreSQL
7 28 (2.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 25 (2.46%) MongoDB
9 21 (2.06%) Delta Lake
10 19 (1.87%) Relational Database
11 18 (1.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 16 (1.57%) DynamoDB
13 15 (1.47%) Tableau
14 12 (1.18%) Spark SQL
15 11 (1.08%) Amazon RDS
16 10 (0.98%) Snowflake Schema
17 9 (0.88%) MySQL
18 8 (0.79%) Metadata
18 8 (0.79%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 167 (16.40%) Git
2 146 (14.34%) JIRA
3 109 (10.71%) Jenkins
4 56 (5.50%) Selenium
5 47 (4.62%) GitLab
6 38 (3.73%) Cypress.io
7 30 (2.95%) Postman
8 24 (2.36%) Visual Studio
9 18 (1.77%) Eclipse
9 18 (1.77%) Octopus Deploy
10 16 (1.57%) Oracle Forms
11 13 (1.28%) TeamCity
12 11 (1.08%) REST Assured
12 11 (1.08%) TestRail
13 10 (0.98%) JMeter
13 10 (0.98%) NUnit
14 9 (0.88%) Robot Framework
14 9 (0.88%) Zephyr
15 8 (0.79%) SpecFlow
15 8 (0.79%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 315 (30.94%) Finance
2 251 (24.66%) Social Skills
3 150 (14.73%) Analytical Skills
4 57 (5.60%) Law
5 41 (4.03%) Public Sector
6 36 (3.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 34 (3.34%) Retail
8 33 (3.24%) Legal
9 28 (2.75%) Marketing
10 27 (2.65%) Billing
11 22 (2.16%) Telecoms
12 19 (1.87%) Influencing Skills
13 18 (1.77%) Banking
14 12 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
15 9 (0.88%) Manufacturing
16 8 (0.79%) Automotive
16 8 (0.79%) Documentation Skills
17 7 (0.69%) Advertising
17 7 (0.69%) Games
17 7 (0.69%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 214 (21.02%) Developer
2 206 (20.24%) Senior
3 158 (15.52%) Azure Engineer
4 154 (15.13%) DevOps Engineer
4 154 (15.13%) Lead
5 75 (7.37%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 70 (6.88%) Cloud Engineer
7 57 (5.60%) Analyst
7 57 (5.60%) Data Engineer
8 52 (5.11%) Architect
9 49 (4.81%) Senior Developer
10 47 (4.62%) .NET Developer
11 38 (3.73%) Platform Engineer
12 30 (2.95%) Applications Engineer
13 29 (2.85%) Senior DevOps
14 28 (2.75%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 28 (2.75%) Test Leader
15 27 (2.65%) Software Developer
15 27 (2.65%) Software Engineer
16 26 (2.55%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 243 (23.87%) .NET
2 108 (10.61%) React
3 94 (9.23%) RESTful
4 93 (9.14%) REST
5 75 (7.37%) CSS
6 74 (7.27%) HTML
7 72 (7.07%) OAuth
8 69 (6.78%) ASP.NET
9 68 (6.68%) .NET Core
10 55 (5.40%) SOAP
11 53 (5.21%) YAML
12 48 (4.72%) Playwright
13 47 (4.62%) Node.js
14 45 (4.42%) .NET Framework
15 43 (4.22%) JSON
16 40 (3.93%) ASP.NET Core
17 38 (3.73%) PySpark
18 37 (3.63%) SAML
19 35 (3.44%) OAuth2
20 33 (3.24%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 118 (11.59%) Product Ownership
2 115 (11.30%) Cloud Native
3 38 (3.73%) Enterprise Software
4 33 (3.24%) Management Information System
5 31 (3.05%) Mobile App
6 29 (2.85%) Low-Code
7 26 (2.55%) Legacy Systems
8 22 (2.16%) Analytical Mindset
8 22 (2.16%) Distributed Systems
9 18 (1.77%) Reinsurance
10 16 (1.57%) Data Structures
11 14 (1.38%) Hybrid Cloud
12 13 (1.28%) Onboarding
13 12 (1.18%) Virtual Team
14 11 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
15 10 (0.98%) Legacy Applications
16 8 (0.79%) Public Cloud
16 8 (0.79%) Security Posture
17 7 (0.69%) Enterprise Cloud
17 7 (0.69%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 69 (6.78%) Linux
1 69 (6.78%) Windows
2 17 (1.67%) VMS
3 16 (1.57%) Windows Server
4 11 (1.08%) Ubuntu
5 10 (0.98%) Apple iOS
6 9 (0.88%) Unix
7 5 (0.49%) Android
8 2 (0.20%) Kali Linux
8 2 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.098%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.098%) SUSE
9 1 (0.098%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 1 (0.098%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.098%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,017 (99.90%) DevOps
2 632 (62.08%) CI/CD
3 473 (46.46%) Agile
4 298 (29.27%) Infrastructure as Code
5 262 (25.74%) Test Automation
6 222 (21.81%) Continuous Improvement
7 202 (19.84%) Problem-Solving
8 171 (16.80%) AI
9 161 (15.82%) Mentoring
10 155 (15.23%) Analytics
11 152 (14.93%) Observability
12 146 (14.34%) Coaching
13 140 (13.75%) Scrum
14 135 (13.26%) Data Modelling
15 129 (12.67%) Containerisation
16 107 (10.51%) Software Engineering
17 106 (10.41%) Microservices
18 100 (9.82%) SDLC
19 97 (9.53%) Business Intelligence
19 97 (9.53%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 343 (33.69%) SQL
2 246 (24.17%) Python
3 207 (20.33%) C#
4 136 (13.36%) JavaScript
5 130 (12.77%) PowerShell
6 91 (8.94%) Bash
7 88 (8.64%) Bicep
8 64 (6.29%) TypeScript
9 51 (5.01%) Java
10 24 (2.36%) Apex Code
11 23 (2.26%) Go
12 20 (1.96%) PL/SQL
13 19 (1.87%) Scala
14 18 (1.77%) Shell Script
15 16 (1.57%) T-SQL
16 12 (1.18%) Kusto Query Language
17 10 (0.98%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 8 (0.79%) Swift
19 7 (0.69%) DataWeave
20 5 (0.49%) C++
Qualifications
1 97 (9.53%) Degree
2 67 (6.58%) Security Cleared
3 50 (4.91%) Azure Certification
4 44 (4.32%) Computer Science Degree
5 37 (3.63%) SC Cleared
6 33 (3.24%) ISTQB
7 21 (2.06%) DV Cleared
7 21 (2.06%) Microsoft Certification
8 20 (1.96%) Master's Degree
9 14 (1.38%) AWS Certification
10 13 (1.28%) HND
11 11 (1.08%) AWS Certified Developer
12 10 (0.98%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 10 (0.98%) PMI Certification
13 6 (0.59%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 4 (0.39%) BC Cleared
15 3 (0.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 3 (0.29%) CBAP
15 3 (0.29%) ISEB
15 3 (0.29%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 115 (11.30%) QA
2 72 (7.07%) Accessibility
3 48 (4.72%) GDPR
4 43 (4.22%) Data Quality
5 36 (3.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 14 (1.38%) SOC 2
7 12 (1.18%) SLA
8 10 (0.98%) GRC
9 8 (0.79%) NCSC
9 8 (0.79%) TickIT
10 7 (0.69%) NIST
10 7 (0.69%) WCAG
11 6 (0.59%) Software Quality Assurance
12 5 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 5 (0.49%) Solvency II
13 4 (0.39%) IFRS
14 3 (0.29%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 3 (0.29%) PERC
15 2 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
16 1 (0.098%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 145 (14.24%) Docker
2 63 (6.19%) Active Directory
3 21 (2.06%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.39%) Postfix
4 4 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.20%) Firmware
5 2 (0.20%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.20%) vCloud
6 1 (0.098%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 308 (30.26%) Terraform
2 113 (11.10%) Kubernetes
3 83 (8.15%) Ansible
4 60 (5.89%) Grafana
5 51 (5.01%) Prometheus
6 18 (1.77%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (0.88%) Kibana
8 8 (0.79%) Argo
8 8 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
9 6 (0.59%) HP ALM
10 4 (0.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (0.39%) logstash
11 3 (0.29%) Puppet
11 3 (0.29%) Scalr
12 2 (0.20%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (0.20%) HP Fortify
12 2 (0.20%) MIIS
12 2 (0.20%) Nagios
12 2 (0.20%) Nessus
12 2 (0.20%) SCCM
Vendors
1 371 (36.44%) Microsoft
2 62 (6.09%) Databricks
3 44 (4.32%) Salesforce
4 34 (3.34%) ServiceNow
5 28 (2.75%) Oracle
6 20 (1.96%) Red Hat
7 17 (1.67%) Palo Alto
8 15 (1.47%) Adobe
8 15 (1.47%) Dynatrace
8 15 (1.47%) Zscaler
9 14 (1.38%) MuleSoft
10 12 (1.18%) Freshdesk
10 12 (1.18%) Nintex
11 11 (1.08%) VMware
12 10 (0.98%) Ab Initio
12 10 (0.98%) CrowdStrike
12 10 (0.98%) Okta
13 9 (0.88%) Apple
14 8 (0.79%) New Relic
15 7 (0.69%) Coverity