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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 149 120
Rank change year-on-year +3 -29 -39
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,486 1,039 1,540
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.26% 2.09% 2.12%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.56% 6.67% 6.61%
Number of salaries quoted 1,130 690 1,006
10th Percentile £44,970 £44,000 £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 £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 26,705 15,573 23,302
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 22.65% 31.29% 32.12%
Number of salaries quoted 18,286 10,453 14,260
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,091 £38,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £59,186 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.60% -8.94% +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 9 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 9 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 +15 1,331 £65,000 -2.26% 1,086
UK excluding London +5 936 £60,000 - 663
Work from Home +10 589 £62,500 -3.85% 542
London -2 475 £75,000 -3.23% 472
North of England +65 275 £60,000 - 203
South East -46 222 £64,000 +6.22% 183
Midlands +32 173 £60,000 - 90
North West +71 160 £61,500 -5.38% 98
West Midlands -2 107 £63,750 +6.25% 57
Wales -21 91 £53,171 -3.33% 24
South West -27 88 £57,500 +9.52% 62
East of England -11 72 £55,000 -12.00% 51
East Midlands +11 66 £55,000 +0.92% 33
Yorkshire 0 66 £65,000 +18.18% 81
North East -27 49 £52,000 +4.00% 26
Scotland -53 18 £55,000 -15.38% 42
Northern Ireland - 1 £72,500 - 14

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 87 (5.85%) SharePoint
2 71 (4.78%) Confluence
3 40 (2.69%) Microsoft Exchange
4 23 (1.55%) Apache Spark
5 18 (1.21%) IIS
6 12 (0.81%) Apache
7 11 (0.74%) CMS
8 10 (0.67%) nginx
9 8 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
9 8 (0.54%) CICS
9 8 (0.54%) 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 31 (2.09%) Microsoft Project
2 25 (1.68%) MS Visio
3 24 (1.62%) Microsoft Office
4 19 (1.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 18 (1.21%) Microsoft Excel
6 10 (0.67%) Trello
7 4 (0.27%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.067%) Notion
Business Applications
1 40 (2.69%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (0.87%) Elite 3E
3 10 (0.67%) Dynamics AX
4 9 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
5 6 (0.40%) SAP IBP
6 5 (0.34%) 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%) Visualfiles
8 3 (0.20%) Workday HCM
9 2 (0.13%) JDE EnterpriseOne
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
10 1 (0.067%) Integrated Workplace Management System
10 1 (0.067%) Magento
10 1 (0.067%) Payment Gateway
10 1 (0.067%) Sage 200
10 1 (0.067%) Salesforce CRM
10 1 (0.067%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,486 (100.00%) Azure
2 290 (19.52%) Power Platform
3 236 (15.88%) GitHub
4 153 (10.30%) Dynamics 365
5 150 (10.09%) AWS
5 150 (10.09%) Serverless
6 131 (8.82%) GitHub Actions
7 126 (8.48%) Azure Functions
8 114 (7.67%) Azure Service Bus
9 109 (7.34%) Azure AKS
10 108 (7.27%) Azure Monitor
11 107 (7.20%) Azure AI
12 105 (7.07%) Azure Data Factory
13 103 (6.93%) Entra ID
14 99 (6.66%) PaaS
15 96 (6.46%) Power Automate
16 95 (6.39%) Azure Key Vault
17 93 (6.26%) Azure Logic Apps
18 88 (5.92%) Microsoft 365
18 88 (5.92%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 45 (3.03%) Firewall
2 41 (2.76%) VPN
3 24 (1.62%) DNS
4 13 (0.87%) Internet
5 12 (0.81%) Wi-Fi
6 10 (0.67%) Network Security
6 10 (0.67%) SAN
7 9 (0.61%) DHCP
8 8 (0.54%) TCP/IP
8 8 (0.54%) Wireless
9 7 (0.47%) HTTP
9 7 (0.47%) VLAN
10 6 (0.40%) MQTT
10 6 (0.40%) ZigBee
11 4 (0.27%) Bluetooth
12 3 (0.20%) HTTPS
12 3 (0.20%) WAN
13 2 (0.13%) LoRaWAN
14 1 (0.067%) SD-WAN
14 1 (0.067%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 280 (18.84%) Azure SQL Database
2 203 (13.66%) SQL Server
3 175 (11.78%) MongoDB
4 148 (9.96%) Power BI
5 85 (5.72%) Data Warehouse
6 55 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
7 52 (3.50%) Relational Database
8 48 (3.23%) NoSQL
9 46 (3.10%) Metadata
10 40 (2.69%) Elasticsearch
11 33 (2.22%) Data Lake
11 33 (2.22%) Delta Lake
12 27 (1.82%) Redis
13 26 (1.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 25 (1.68%) Star Schema
15 21 (1.41%) MySQL
15 21 (1.41%) Tableau
16 16 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 13 (0.87%) DynamoDB
17 13 (0.87%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 269 (18.10%) Git
2 197 (13.26%) JIRA
3 128 (8.61%) Jenkins
4 83 (5.59%) GitLab
5 40 (2.69%) Selenium
6 35 (2.36%) Cypress.io
7 29 (1.95%) Postman
8 18 (1.21%) JUnit
9 14 (0.94%) Visual Studio
10 13 (0.87%) JMeter
10 13 (0.87%) NUnit
11 12 (0.81%) REST Assured
12 11 (0.74%) fastlane
13 10 (0.67%) Claude Code
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 (0.61%) MSI
14 9 (0.61%) Zephyr
General
1 443 (29.81%) Social Skills
2 360 (24.23%) Finance
3 157 (10.57%) Analytical Skills
4 143 (9.62%) Public Sector
5 107 (7.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 50 (3.36%) Law
7 45 (3.03%) Retail
8 34 (2.29%) Marketing
9 31 (2.09%) Legal
10 29 (1.95%) Advertising
10 29 (1.95%) Manufacturing
11 28 (1.88%) Banking
12 24 (1.62%) Documentation Skills
13 22 (1.48%) Games
14 20 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
15 13 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
16 12 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
17 10 (0.67%) Police
18 9 (0.61%) Pharmaceutical
18 9 (0.61%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 441 (29.68%) Developer
2 345 (23.22%) Senior
3 218 (14.67%) .NET Developer
4 217 (14.60%) DevOps Engineer
5 213 (14.33%) Azure Engineer
6 147 (9.89%) Lead
7 109 (7.34%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 103 (6.93%) Analyst
8 103 (6.93%) Data Engineer
9 92 (6.19%) Platform Engineer
10 90 (6.06%) Senior Developer
11 67 (4.51%) Senior DevOps
12 63 (4.24%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 61 (4.10%) Consultant
14 60 (4.04%) Cloud Engineer
15 54 (3.63%) Software Engineer
16 52 (3.50%) Business Analyst
17 49 (3.30%) Senior Data Engineer
18 48 (3.23%) Architect
19 44 (2.96%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 464 (31.22%) .NET
2 349 (23.49%) Terraform
3 249 (16.76%) ASP.NET
4 226 (15.21%) .NET Core
5 197 (13.26%) ASP.NET Core
6 161 (10.83%) REST
7 149 (10.03%) RESTful
8 147 (9.89%) React
9 141 (9.49%) HTML
10 140 (9.42%) CSS
11 122 (8.21%) Blazor
12 121 (8.14%) Entity Framework
13 78 (5.25%) ML.NET
13 78 (5.25%) Node.js
14 60 (4.04%) .NET Framework
15 55 (3.70%) YAML
16 54 (3.63%) JSON
17 52 (3.50%) Playwright
18 48 (3.23%) PySpark
19 46 (3.10%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 139 (9.35%) Cloud Native
2 134 (9.02%) Product Ownership
3 94 (6.33%) Enterprise Software
4 64 (4.31%) Legacy Systems
5 54 (3.63%) Onboarding
6 46 (3.10%) Mobile App
7 39 (2.62%) Distributed Systems
7 39 (2.62%) Greenfield Project
8 36 (2.42%) Hybrid Cloud
9 35 (2.36%) Legacy Applications
9 35 (2.36%) Management Information System
10 23 (1.55%) Low-Code
10 23 (1.55%) Mainframe
10 23 (1.55%) Security Posture
10 23 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
11 22 (1.48%) AI Agents
12 21 (1.41%) Public Cloud
13 17 (1.14%) Data Centre
13 17 (1.14%) iPhone
14 16 (1.08%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 108 (7.27%) Windows
2 89 (5.99%) Linux
3 25 (1.68%) Android
4 24 (1.62%) Unix
5 22 (1.48%) VMS
6 20 (1.35%) Windows Server
7 11 (0.74%) Ubuntu
8 8 (0.54%) 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 1,486 (100.00%) DevOps
2 827 (55.65%) CI/CD
3 672 (45.22%) Agile
4 355 (23.89%) AI
5 336 (22.61%) Continuous Improvement
6 324 (21.80%) Infrastructure as Code
7 283 (19.04%) Problem-Solving
8 236 (15.88%) Full-Stack Development
9 221 (14.87%) Test Automation
10 219 (14.74%) Mentoring
11 213 (14.33%) Analytics
12 212 (14.27%) Stakeholder Management
13 204 (13.73%) Scrum
14 180 (12.11%) Microservices
15 172 (11.57%) Platform Engineering
16 167 (11.24%) Business Intelligence
17 151 (10.16%) Software Engineering
18 149 (10.03%) Observability
19 145 (9.76%) Data Modelling
20 137 (9.22%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 538 (36.20%) SQL
2 476 (32.03%) C#
3 279 (18.78%) Python
4 229 (15.41%) JavaScript
5 179 (12.05%) PowerShell
6 130 (8.75%) Bicep
7 118 (7.94%) Bash
8 98 (6.59%) Java
9 55 (3.70%) TypeScript
10 44 (2.96%) T-SQL
11 21 (1.41%) C++
12 19 (1.28%) COBOL
12 19 (1.28%) JCL
13 18 (1.21%) Scala
14 17 (1.14%) VB.NET
15 16 (1.08%) Kusto Query Language
16 14 (0.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 9 (0.61%) Go
18 8 (0.54%) Apex Code
18 8 (0.54%) VBA
Qualifications
1 154 (10.36%) Degree
2 130 (8.75%) Security Cleared
3 113 (7.60%) Azure Certification
3 113 (7.60%) SC Cleared
4 56 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
4 56 (3.77%) Microsoft Certification
5 30 (2.02%) ISTQB
5 30 (2.02%) PMI Certification
6 22 (1.48%) PMP
7 18 (1.21%) Master's Degree
8 17 (1.14%) ACCA
8 17 (1.14%) CIMA
9 12 (0.81%) AWS Certification
10 11 (0.74%) CBAP
11 9 (0.61%) CSPO
11 9 (0.61%) ISEB
12 8 (0.54%) DV Cleared
12 8 (0.54%) TOGAF Certification
13 6 (0.40%) IIBA
13 6 (0.40%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 177 (11.91%) QA
2 105 (7.07%) Data Quality
3 74 (4.98%) Accessibility
4 40 (2.69%) GDPR
5 36 (2.42%) WCAG
6 21 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 21 (1.41%) PMO
7 11 (0.74%) SLA
8 9 (0.61%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 8 (0.54%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 7 (0.47%) NCSC
10 7 (0.47%) TickIT
11 6 (0.40%) JTAG
12 4 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
12 4 (0.27%) NIST
13 3 (0.20%) ISO 9001
13 3 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 2 (0.13%) IFRS
14 2 (0.13%) PCI DSS
14 2 (0.13%) Solvency II
System Software
1 178 (11.98%) Docker
2 71 (4.78%) Active Directory
3 25 (1.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (1.28%) Virtual Desktop
5 15 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
6 12 (0.81%) vSphere
7 5 (0.34%) 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
1 172 (11.57%) Kubernetes
2 57 (3.84%) Ansible
2 57 (3.84%) Grafana
3 44 (2.96%) Prometheus
4 30 (2.02%) Microsoft Intune
5 29 (1.95%) Argo
6 13 (0.87%) Puppet
7 11 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.34%) 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%) Failover Clustering
12 1 (0.067%) Nagios
12 1 (0.067%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 675 (45.42%) Microsoft
2 98 (6.59%) Databricks
3 65 (4.37%) Google
4 38 (2.56%) VMware
5 37 (2.49%) Facebook
5 37 (2.49%) Salesforce
6 26 (1.75%) Dynatrace
7 25 (1.68%) SAP
7 25 (1.68%) ServiceNow
8 24 (1.62%) YouTube
9 23 (1.55%) Apple
10 21 (1.41%) OpenAI
11 17 (1.14%) Oracle
12 16 (1.08%) Sony
12 16 (1.08%) Yahoo!
13 15 (1.01%) Red Hat
14 12 (0.81%) Foundry
14 12 (0.81%) HP
14 12 (0.81%) MuleSoft
14 12 (0.81%) ScienceLogic