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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 155 168 121
Rank change year-on-year +13 -47 -28
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,317 946 2,172
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.33% 1.93% 2.15%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.87% 5.95% 6.51%
Number of salaries quoted 1,071 719 1,615
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £41,933
25th Percentile £49,564 £55,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% 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 27,025 15,903 33,344
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.36% 32.37% 33.04%
Number of salaries quoted 17,563 11,080 25,330
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,500 £30,250
25th Percentile £43,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £80,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £51,364
% change year-on-year +4.76% +2.21% -6.61%

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 16 July 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 16 July 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 +17 1,174 £65,000 -7.14% 335
UK excluding London +53 880 £60,000 -4.00% 268
Work from Home +28 547 £60,000 -11.11% 185
London -32 368 £80,000 +3.23% 121
North of England +85 254 £61,500 -5.38% 67
South East +11 225 £60,000 -5.51% 92
North West +77 136 £65,500 +0.77% 44
Midlands +22 132 £63,500 +5.83% 41
South West +7 101 £55,000 -4.35% 27
East of England +20 75 £56,750 +3.18% 24
East Midlands +17 71 £60,000 +9.09% 15
Wales -7 68 £53,171 -9.50% 9
Yorkshire -9 65 £69,308 -0.99% 18
West Midlands -31 61 £65,000 +4.00% 26
North East -8 53 £51,000 -7.27% 6
Scotland +14 25 £60,000 -6.98% 9
Northern Ireland -58 2 £72,500 +45.00% 6

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 59 (4.48%) Confluence
1 59 (4.48%) SharePoint
2 29 (2.20%) Microsoft Exchange
3 23 (1.75%) IIS
4 16 (1.21%) Apache Spark
5 11 (0.84%) CMS
6 9 (0.68%) Apache
7 8 (0.61%) nginx
7 8 (0.61%) SharePoint Server
8 7 (0.53%) Anypoint
9 6 (0.46%) Umbraco
10 5 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
10 5 (0.38%) Camunda
11 3 (0.23%) WordPress
12 2 (0.15%) BizTalk Server
12 2 (0.15%) CICS
12 2 (0.15%) Luigi
12 2 (0.15%) Moodle
13 1 (0.076%) NServiceBus
13 1 (0.076%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 19 (1.44%) Microsoft Project
2 15 (1.14%) MS Visio
3 12 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
4 8 (0.61%) Trello
5 7 (0.53%) Chatbot
6 6 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
7 4 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 1 (0.076%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.076%) Notion
8 1 (0.076%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 18 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.46%) Elite 3E
4 5 (0.38%) SAP IBP
4 5 (0.38%) Visualfiles
5 4 (0.30%) Dynamics AX
5 4 (0.30%) Dynamics NAV
5 4 (0.30%) Shopify
6 3 (0.23%) Carpe Diem
7 2 (0.15%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 2 (0.15%) Magento
7 2 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.076%) Infor M3
8 1 (0.076%) JDE EnterpriseOne
8 1 (0.076%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.076%) Sage 200
8 1 (0.076%) SAP Business One
8 1 (0.076%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,316 (99.92%) Azure
2 224 (17.01%) GitHub
3 202 (15.34%) Power Platform
4 164 (12.45%) AWS
5 137 (10.40%) GitHub Actions
6 117 (8.88%) Serverless
7 110 (8.35%) Azure AKS
8 102 (7.74%) Azure Service Bus
9 101 (7.67%) Azure Monitor
10 96 (7.29%) Azure AI
10 96 (7.29%) PaaS
11 93 (7.06%) Azure Functions
12 90 (6.83%) Azure Logic Apps
13 87 (6.61%) Dynamics 365
14 81 (6.15%) Entra ID
15 71 (5.39%) Azure Data Factory
15 71 (5.39%) Microsoft 365
16 70 (5.32%) SaaS
17 64 (4.86%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 64 (4.86%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 44 (3.34%) Firewall
2 22 (1.67%) VPN
3 21 (1.59%) DNS
4 14 (1.06%) HTTP
5 12 (0.91%) TCP/IP
6 11 (0.84%) Internet
6 11 (0.84%) Network Security
7 6 (0.46%) MQTT
7 6 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (0.46%) Wireless
7 6 (0.46%) ZigBee
8 5 (0.38%) SAN
9 4 (0.30%) Bluetooth
10 3 (0.23%) BGP
10 3 (0.23%) HTTPS
10 3 (0.23%) WAN
11 2 (0.15%) DHCP
11 2 (0.15%) LoRaWAN
11 2 (0.15%) VLAN
12 1 (0.076%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 239 (18.15%) Azure SQL Database
2 169 (12.83%) MongoDB
3 140 (10.63%) SQL Server
4 94 (7.14%) Power BI
5 49 (3.72%) PostgreSQL
6 40 (3.04%) Data Warehouse
7 33 (2.51%) Elasticsearch
8 30 (2.28%) Relational Database
9 27 (2.05%) Delta Lake
9 27 (2.05%) NoSQL
10 24 (1.82%) Data Lake
11 22 (1.67%) Redis
12 19 (1.44%) MySQL
12 19 (1.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 17 (1.29%) Spark SQL
14 15 (1.14%) Star Schema
15 14 (1.06%) Metadata
16 13 (0.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 11 (0.84%) NonStop SQL
17 11 (0.84%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 194 (14.73%) Git
2 165 (12.53%) JIRA
3 118 (8.96%) Jenkins
4 80 (6.07%) GitLab
5 50 (3.80%) Selenium
6 42 (3.19%) Cypress.io
7 38 (2.89%) Postman
8 19 (1.44%) Eclipse
9 18 (1.37%) REST Assured
10 16 (1.21%) Visual Studio
11 15 (1.14%) JMeter
12 14 (1.06%) fastlane
12 14 (1.06%) TestRail
12 14 (1.06%) Zephyr
13 13 (0.99%) JUnit
14 12 (0.91%) Octopus Deploy
15 9 (0.68%) Mockito
15 9 (0.68%) Xcode
16 8 (0.61%) NUnit
17 7 (0.53%) GDB
General
1 307 (23.31%) Social Skills
2 287 (21.79%) Finance
3 120 (9.11%) Analytical Skills
4 98 (7.44%) Public Sector
5 94 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 54 (4.10%) Law
6 54 (4.10%) Retail
7 44 (3.34%) Marketing
8 34 (2.58%) Legal
9 30 (2.28%) Banking
10 29 (2.20%) Advertising
11 24 (1.82%) Games
11 24 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
12 21 (1.59%) Manufacturing
13 20 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
14 13 (0.99%) Billing
14 13 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
14 13 (0.99%) Telecoms
15 10 (0.76%) Automotive
15 10 (0.76%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 407 (30.90%) Developer
2 266 (20.20%) Senior
3 218 (16.55%) DevOps Engineer
4 197 (14.96%) .NET Developer
5 194 (14.73%) Azure Engineer
6 173 (13.14%) Lead
7 112 (8.50%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 84 (6.38%) Senior Developer
9 72 (5.47%) Data Engineer
10 69 (5.24%) Platform Engineer
11 64 (4.86%) Analyst
12 60 (4.56%) Cloud Engineer
13 57 (4.33%) Architect
14 56 (4.25%) Senior DevOps
15 54 (4.10%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 48 (3.64%) Software Engineer
17 38 (2.89%) Cloud Platform Engineer
18 35 (2.66%) Azure Platform Engineer
18 35 (2.66%) Software Developer
19 33 (2.51%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 429 (32.57%) .NET
2 239 (18.15%) ASP.NET
3 207 (15.72%) .NET Core
4 196 (14.88%) ASP.NET Core
5 165 (12.53%) React
6 156 (11.85%) HTML
7 154 (11.69%) CSS
8 140 (10.63%) RESTful
9 129 (9.79%) REST
10 113 (8.58%) Entity Framework
11 111 (8.43%) Blazor
12 89 (6.76%) Node.js
13 81 (6.15%) ML.NET
14 66 (5.01%) Playwright
15 58 (4.40%) YAML
16 55 (4.18%) ARM Templates
17 47 (3.57%) OAuth
18 46 (3.49%) .NET Framework
18 46 (3.49%) JSON
19 39 (2.96%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 130 (9.87%) Product Ownership
2 123 (9.34%) Cloud Native
3 56 (4.25%) Mobile App
4 48 (3.64%) Enterprise Software
5 44 (3.34%) Legacy Systems
5 44 (3.34%) Onboarding
6 36 (2.73%) Distributed Systems
6 36 (2.73%) Greenfield Project
7 25 (1.90%) Management Information System
8 23 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
8 23 (1.75%) Hybrid Cloud
9 21 (1.59%) Low-Code
10 20 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
11 19 (1.44%) Podcast
12 17 (1.29%) AI Agents
12 17 (1.29%) BBC
12 17 (1.29%) iPhone
12 17 (1.29%) Public Cloud
12 17 (1.29%) Social Media
13 12 (0.91%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 99 (7.52%) Linux
2 78 (5.92%) Windows
3 26 (1.97%) Android
3 26 (1.97%) VMS
4 18 (1.37%) Unix
5 15 (1.14%) Apple iOS
5 15 (1.14%) Ubuntu
6 13 (0.99%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.30%) Kali Linux
8 3 (0.23%) Embedded Linux
8 3 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.15%) Debian
9 2 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.15%) Rocky
10 1 (0.076%) SUSE
10 1 (0.076%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,316 (99.92%) DevOps
2 775 (58.85%) CI/CD
3 621 (47.15%) Agile
4 316 (23.99%) Infrastructure as Code
5 285 (21.64%) AI
6 264 (20.05%) Continuous Improvement
7 245 (18.60%) Full-Stack Development
8 241 (18.30%) Test Automation
9 215 (16.32%) Scrum
10 196 (14.88%) Mentoring
11 187 (14.20%) Problem-Solving
12 163 (12.38%) Microservices
13 159 (12.07%) Analytics
14 151 (11.47%) Observability
15 136 (10.33%) Machine Learning
16 129 (9.79%) Platform Engineering
17 121 (9.19%) Roadmaps
18 120 (9.11%) SDLC
19 118 (8.96%) Containerisation
20 113 (8.58%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 465 (35.31%) SQL
2 425 (32.27%) C#
3 251 (19.06%) Python
4 241 (18.30%) JavaScript
5 151 (11.47%) PowerShell
6 127 (9.64%) Bash
7 111 (8.43%) Bicep
8 78 (5.92%) Java
9 66 (5.01%) TypeScript
10 25 (1.90%) T-SQL
11 21 (1.59%) Go
12 19 (1.44%) Kusto Query Language
13 17 (1.29%) C++
14 14 (1.06%) Scala
15 12 (0.91%) Swift
16 8 (0.61%) Apex Code
16 8 (0.61%) Kotlin
16 8 (0.61%) VB.NET
17 7 (0.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 7 (0.53%) DataWeave
Qualifications
1 100 (7.59%) Security Cleared
2 89 (6.76%) Degree
3 82 (6.23%) SC Cleared
4 69 (5.24%) Azure Certification
5 38 (2.89%) Computer Science Degree
6 29 (2.20%) ISTQB
7 22 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
8 16 (1.21%) PMI Certification
9 14 (1.06%) Master's Degree
10 11 (0.84%) DV Cleared
10 11 (0.84%) PMP
11 7 (0.53%) AWS Certification
12 6 (0.46%) CISSP
12 6 (0.46%) HND
13 5 (0.38%) ISEB
13 5 (0.38%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 4 (0.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 4 (0.30%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
14 4 (0.30%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 3 (0.23%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 163 (12.38%) QA
2 90 (6.83%) Accessibility
3 49 (3.72%) Data Quality
4 37 (2.81%) GDPR
5 31 (2.35%) WCAG
6 27 (2.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 12 (0.91%) PMO
7 12 (0.91%) TickIT
8 11 (0.84%) GRC
9 8 (0.61%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 8 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 8 (0.61%) SLA
10 6 (0.46%) JTAG
10 6 (0.46%) NCSC
10 6 (0.46%) Software Quality Assurance
10 6 (0.46%) Solvency II
11 5 (0.38%) IFRS
12 4 (0.30%) SOC 2
13 3 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
13 3 (0.23%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 156 (11.85%) Docker
2 64 (4.86%) Active Directory
3 19 (1.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (1.21%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (0.99%) Virtual Desktop
6 12 (0.91%) vSphere
7 5 (0.38%) Firmware
8 2 (0.15%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.15%) Xen
Systems Management
1 324 (24.60%) Terraform
2 150 (11.39%) Kubernetes
3 69 (5.24%) Ansible
4 66 (5.01%) Grafana
5 58 (4.40%) Prometheus
6 29 (2.20%) Argo
7 6 (0.46%) Puppet
8 4 (0.30%) HP Fortify
8 4 (0.30%) Kibana
9 3 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (0.23%) HP ALM
9 3 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (0.23%) Nagios
9 3 (0.23%) Scalr
10 2 (0.15%) FlexNet
10 2 (0.15%) Istio
10 2 (0.15%) MIIS
10 2 (0.15%) Rancher
10 2 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.15%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 562 (42.67%) Microsoft
2 71 (5.39%) Databricks
3 58 (4.40%) Google
4 41 (3.11%) Salesforce
5 38 (2.89%) Facebook
6 35 (2.66%) ServiceNow
7 30 (2.28%) Apple
8 26 (1.97%) VMware
9 25 (1.90%) Dynatrace
10 22 (1.67%) Red Hat
11 21 (1.59%) YouTube
12 19 (1.44%) MuleSoft
13 17 (1.29%) Sony
13 17 (1.29%) Yahoo!
14 14 (1.06%) Guidewire
14 14 (1.06%) OpenAI
15 13 (0.99%) Oracle
16 12 (0.91%) Foundry
16 12 (0.91%) SAP
16 12 (0.91%) ScienceLogic