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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 150 173 115
Rank change year-on-year +23 -58 -25
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,450 940 1,707
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.28% 1.89% 2.17%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.23% 5.97% 6.86%
Number of salaries quoted 1,141 682 1,125
10th Percentile £43,125 £45,800 £42,500
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 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year - -1.64% +1.67%

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 27,734 15,741 24,887
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 24.43% 31.69% 31.66%
Number of salaries quoted 18,772 10,635 16,170
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £34,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £39,250 £45,000
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 £100,649 £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 11 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 11 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 +26 1,298 £65,000 -3.70% 639
UK excluding London +41 960 £60,000 - 409
Work from Home +14 588 £60,000 -7.69% 802
London -24 425 £80,000 +3.23% 307
North of England +89 284 £60,500 -6.92% 103
South East -3 228 £62,500 - 112
North West +78 169 £65,000 - 59
Midlands +29 169 £62,500 +4.17% 66
West Midlands 0 97 £65,000 +8.33% 33
South West -15 94 £57,500 +9.52% 47
Wales -19 91 £53,171 -3.33% 7
East of England +7 79 £55,000 -12.00% 40
East Midlands +18 72 £57,500 +4.55% 33
Yorkshire -10 69 £68,000 +13.33% 31
North East -19 46 £52,250 +7.18% 14
Scotland -32 20 £55,000 -14.73% 24
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 85 (5.86%) SharePoint
2 67 (4.62%) Confluence
3 32 (2.21%) Microsoft Exchange
4 22 (1.52%) Apache Spark
4 22 (1.52%) IIS
5 11 (0.76%) Apache
5 11 (0.76%) nginx
6 10 (0.69%) CMS
7 8 (0.55%) SharePoint Server
8 6 (0.41%) Anypoint
8 6 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
8 6 (0.41%) Camunda
8 6 (0.41%) Umbraco
9 5 (0.34%) CICS
10 3 (0.21%) BizTalk Server
10 3 (0.21%) WordPress
11 2 (0.14%) Luigi
12 1 (0.069%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.069%) NServiceBus
12 1 (0.069%) TPMS
Applications
1 20 (1.38%) Microsoft Project
2 15 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (1.03%) MS Visio
3 12 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
4 9 (0.62%) Chatbot
4 9 (0.62%) Trello
5 8 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.069%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.069%) Notion
6 1 (0.069%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 28 (1.93%) 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 3 (0.21%) Carpe Diem
6 3 (0.21%) Oracle Applications
6 3 (0.21%) SAP Business One
6 3 (0.21%) Shopify
7 2 (0.14%) Dynamics AX
7 2 (0.14%) JDE EnterpriseOne
8 1 (0.069%) Infor M3
8 1 (0.069%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 1 (0.069%) Magento
8 1 (0.069%) Sage 200
8 1 (0.069%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.069%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,450 (100.00%) Azure
2 255 (17.59%) Power Platform
3 216 (14.90%) GitHub
4 164 (11.31%) AWS
5 142 (9.79%) Serverless
6 129 (8.90%) Dynamics 365
7 128 (8.83%) GitHub Actions
8 119 (8.21%) Azure Functions
9 113 (7.79%) Azure Service Bus
10 111 (7.66%) Azure AKS
11 106 (7.31%) Azure AI
12 104 (7.17%) Azure Monitor
13 96 (6.62%) Azure Logic Apps
14 95 (6.55%) Azure Key Vault
14 95 (6.55%) Entra ID
15 93 (6.41%) PaaS
16 90 (6.21%) Azure Data Factory
17 88 (6.07%) Power Automate
18 85 (5.86%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 85 (5.86%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 36 (2.48%) Firewall
2 33 (2.28%) VPN
3 16 (1.10%) DNS
4 12 (0.83%) Internet
5 11 (0.76%) Network Security
6 10 (0.69%) Wi-Fi
7 9 (0.62%) SAN
8 7 (0.48%) HTTP
8 7 (0.48%) Wireless
9 6 (0.41%) DHCP
9 6 (0.41%) MQTT
9 6 (0.41%) TCP/IP
9 6 (0.41%) VLAN
9 6 (0.41%) ZigBee
10 4 (0.28%) Bluetooth
11 3 (0.21%) HTTPS
12 2 (0.14%) LoRaWAN
13 1 (0.069%) BGP
13 1 (0.069%) Cisco ISE
13 1 (0.069%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 267 (18.41%) Azure SQL Database
2 196 (13.52%) SQL Server
3 178 (12.28%) MongoDB
4 132 (9.10%) Power BI
5 75 (5.17%) Data Warehouse
6 56 (3.86%) PostgreSQL
7 47 (3.24%) Relational Database
8 41 (2.83%) Elasticsearch
8 41 (2.83%) NoSQL
9 35 (2.41%) Delta Lake
10 34 (2.34%) Data Lake
11 31 (2.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 30 (2.07%) Metadata
13 25 (1.72%) Redis
14 23 (1.59%) MySQL
14 23 (1.59%) Star Schema
15 19 (1.31%) Spark SQL
15 19 (1.31%) Tableau
16 17 (1.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 13 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 261 (18.00%) Git
2 191 (13.17%) JIRA
3 118 (8.14%) Jenkins
4 79 (5.45%) GitLab
5 45 (3.10%) Selenium
6 40 (2.76%) Postman
7 35 (2.41%) Cypress.io
8 18 (1.24%) JUnit
9 17 (1.17%) REST Assured
10 16 (1.10%) JMeter
10 16 (1.10%) NUnit
10 16 (1.10%) Visual Studio
11 14 (0.97%) fastlane
11 14 (0.97%) Octopus Deploy
11 14 (0.97%) Zephyr
12 13 (0.90%) TestRail
13 10 (0.69%) Eclipse
13 10 (0.69%) Mockito
13 10 (0.69%) SonarQube
13 10 (0.69%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 403 (27.79%) Social Skills
2 328 (22.62%) Finance
3 153 (10.55%) Analytical Skills
4 125 (8.62%) Public Sector
5 113 (7.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 53 (3.66%) Retail
7 52 (3.59%) Law
8 42 (2.90%) Marketing
9 37 (2.55%) Legal
10 33 (2.28%) Banking
11 30 (2.07%) Advertising
12 22 (1.52%) Games
12 22 (1.52%) Manufacturing
13 21 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
14 17 (1.17%) Documentation Skills
15 12 (0.83%) Aviation
15 12 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
16 10 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
17 9 (0.62%) Automotive
18 7 (0.48%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 460 (31.72%) Developer
2 333 (22.97%) Senior
3 220 (15.17%) .NET Developer
4 206 (14.21%) DevOps Engineer
5 200 (13.79%) Azure Engineer
6 171 (11.79%) Lead
7 104 (7.17%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 101 (6.97%) Senior Developer
9 89 (6.14%) Data Engineer
10 87 (6.00%) Platform Engineer
11 83 (5.72%) Analyst
12 69 (4.76%) Senior DevOps
13 64 (4.41%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 60 (4.14%) Cloud Engineer
15 52 (3.59%) Software Engineer
16 46 (3.17%) Architect
16 46 (3.17%) Cloud Platform Engineer
17 45 (3.10%) Senior Data Engineer
17 45 (3.10%) Software Developer
18 43 (2.97%) Azure Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 484 (33.38%) .NET
2 347 (23.93%) Terraform
3 260 (17.93%) ASP.NET
4 233 (16.07%) .NET Core
5 206 (14.21%) ASP.NET Core
6 165 (11.38%) React
7 164 (11.31%) REST
8 158 (10.90%) RESTful
9 155 (10.69%) HTML
10 153 (10.55%) CSS
11 126 (8.69%) Blazor
11 126 (8.69%) Entity Framework
12 90 (6.21%) Node.js
13 82 (5.66%) ML.NET
14 65 (4.48%) .NET Framework
15 59 (4.07%) JSON
16 58 (4.00%) Playwright
17 57 (3.93%) YAML
18 55 (3.79%) ARM Templates
19 53 (3.66%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 143 (9.86%) Product Ownership
2 140 (9.66%) Cloud Native
3 80 (5.52%) Enterprise Software
4 60 (4.14%) Legacy Systems
5 53 (3.66%) Onboarding
6 51 (3.52%) Mobile App
7 39 (2.69%) Greenfield Project
8 37 (2.55%) Distributed Systems
9 29 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
10 26 (1.79%) Management Information System
11 25 (1.72%) Legacy Applications
12 23 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
13 22 (1.52%) Public Cloud
14 20 (1.38%) Low-Code
15 17 (1.17%) AI Agents
15 17 (1.17%) BBC
15 17 (1.17%) iPhone
15 17 (1.17%) Mainframe
15 17 (1.17%) Podcast
15 17 (1.17%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 107 (7.38%) Windows
2 98 (6.76%) Linux
3 26 (1.79%) Android
4 23 (1.59%) VMS
5 20 (1.38%) Unix
5 20 (1.38%) Windows Server
6 13 (0.90%) Apple iOS
7 12 (0.83%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.28%) Kali Linux
9 3 (0.21%) Embedded Linux
9 3 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.21%) Solaris
10 2 (0.14%) Debian
10 2 (0.14%) Rocky
10 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.069%) SUSE
11 1 (0.069%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.069%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,450 (100.00%) DevOps
2 829 (57.17%) CI/CD
3 667 (46.00%) Agile
4 339 (23.38%) AI
5 325 (22.41%) Infrastructure as Code
6 318 (21.93%) Continuous Improvement
7 257 (17.72%) Problem-Solving
8 253 (17.45%) Test Automation
9 248 (17.10%) Full-Stack Development
10 225 (15.52%) Mentoring
11 220 (15.17%) Scrum
12 187 (12.90%) Analytics
13 181 (12.48%) Microservices
14 166 (11.45%) Stakeholder Management
15 160 (11.03%) Observability
16 159 (10.97%) Platform Engineering
17 150 (10.34%) Business Intelligence
18 145 (10.00%) Software Engineering
19 140 (9.66%) Machine Learning
20 133 (9.17%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 528 (36.41%) SQL
2 488 (33.66%) C#
3 275 (18.97%) Python
4 241 (16.62%) JavaScript
5 175 (12.07%) PowerShell
6 122 (8.41%) Bash
7 119 (8.21%) Bicep
8 92 (6.34%) Java
9 58 (4.00%) TypeScript
10 39 (2.69%) T-SQL
11 17 (1.17%) C++
11 17 (1.17%) Scala
11 17 (1.17%) VB.NET
12 16 (1.10%) Kusto Query Language
13 15 (1.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 13 (0.90%) COBOL
14 13 (0.90%) JCL
15 10 (0.69%) Swift
16 9 (0.62%) Go
17 8 (0.55%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 128 (8.83%) Degree
2 113 (7.79%) Security Cleared
3 97 (6.69%) SC Cleared
4 90 (6.21%) Azure Certification
5 53 (3.66%) Computer Science Degree
6 37 (2.55%) Microsoft Certification
7 34 (2.34%) ISTQB
8 22 (1.52%) PMI Certification
9 16 (1.10%) Master's Degree
10 13 (0.90%) PMP
11 12 (0.83%) AWS Certification
12 11 (0.76%) DV Cleared
13 9 (0.62%) ISEB
14 7 (0.48%) CBAP
14 7 (0.48%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 6 (0.41%) CSPO
16 5 (0.34%) BPSS Clearance
16 5 (0.34%) CISSP
16 5 (0.34%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
16 5 (0.34%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 189 (13.03%) QA
2 83 (5.72%) Accessibility
3 75 (5.17%) Data Quality
4 42 (2.90%) GDPR
5 38 (2.62%) WCAG
6 22 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 18 (1.24%) PMO
8 12 (0.83%) TickIT
9 9 (0.62%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 9 (0.62%) SLA
10 8 (0.55%) NCSC
10 8 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 7 (0.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 7 (0.48%) GRC
12 6 (0.41%) JTAG
12 6 (0.41%) Solvency II
13 5 (0.34%) IFRS
14 4 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
15 3 (0.21%) NIST
15 3 (0.21%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 183 (12.62%) Docker
2 69 (4.76%) Active Directory
3 24 (1.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (1.17%) Virtual Desktop
5 13 (0.90%) 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
1 171 (11.79%) Kubernetes
2 57 (3.93%) Ansible
3 49 (3.38%) Grafana
4 44 (3.03%) Prometheus
5 30 (2.07%) Argo
6 21 (1.45%) Microsoft Intune
7 12 (0.83%) Puppet
8 5 (0.34%) Progress Chef
8 5 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (0.28%) HP Fortify
9 4 (0.28%) SCCM
10 3 (0.21%) Scalr
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%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 652 (44.97%) Microsoft
2 93 (6.41%) Databricks
3 64 (4.41%) Google
4 40 (2.76%) Salesforce
5 38 (2.62%) Facebook
6 33 (2.28%) VMware
7 28 (1.93%) Apple
7 28 (1.93%) ServiceNow
8 21 (1.45%) Dynatrace
8 21 (1.45%) SAP
8 21 (1.45%) YouTube
9 20 (1.38%) OpenAI
10 18 (1.24%) Red Hat
11 17 (1.17%) Oracle
11 17 (1.17%) Sony
11 17 (1.17%) Yahoo!
12 15 (1.03%) MuleSoft
13 12 (0.83%) Foundry
13 12 (0.83%) ScienceLogic
14 11 (0.76%) Guidewire