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

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 153 168 119
Rank change year-on-year +15 -49 -30
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,429 943 1,672
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.26% 1.90% 2.14%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.20% 6.00% 6.76%
Number of salaries quoted 1,119 686 1,111
10th Percentile £43,325 £46,250 £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 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year - -2.44% +2.50%

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 27,496 15,721 24,718
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 24.22% 31.70% 31.58%
Number of salaries quoted 18,563 10,634 16,033
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £34,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £39,250 £45,215
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 £101,250 £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 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 13 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 +25 1,280 £65,000 -3.70% 691
UK excluding London +39 941 £60,000 - 416
Work from Home +9 577 £61,250 -5.77% 894
London -20 424 £80,000 +5.96% 340
North of England +81 284 £60,500 -6.92% 113
South East -1 222 £62,500 - 112
North West +80 169 £65,000 - 66
Midlands +17 166 £62,500 +4.17% 64
West Midlands -7 96 £65,000 +8.33% 32
South West -11 92 £57,500 +9.52% 46
Wales -21 91 £53,171 -3.33% 8
East of England 0 73 £55,000 -12.00% 40
East Midlands +17 70 £57,500 +4.55% 32
Yorkshire -7 69 £68,000 +13.33% 34
North East -23 46 £52,250 +7.18% 14
Scotland -36 18 £55,000 -14.73% 24
Northern Ireland - 1 £72,500 - 13

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 83 (5.81%) SharePoint
2 66 (4.62%) Confluence
3 34 (2.38%) Microsoft Exchange
4 23 (1.61%) Apache Spark
5 22 (1.54%) IIS
6 11 (0.77%) Apache
6 11 (0.77%) nginx
7 10 (0.70%) CMS
8 8 (0.56%) SharePoint Server
9 6 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
9 6 (0.42%) Camunda
9 6 (0.42%) Umbraco
10 5 (0.35%) Anypoint
10 5 (0.35%) CICS
11 3 (0.21%) BizTalk Server
11 3 (0.21%) WordPress
12 2 (0.14%) Luigi
13 1 (0.070%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 1 (0.070%) NServiceBus
13 1 (0.070%) TPMS
Applications
1 20 (1.40%) Microsoft Project
2 17 (1.19%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (1.05%) MS Visio
4 12 (0.84%) Microsoft Excel
5 10 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 9 (0.63%) Trello
7 8 (0.56%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.070%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.070%) Notion
8 1 (0.070%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 28 (1.96%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (1.05%) Elite 3E
3 9 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (0.42%) SAP IBP
5 5 (0.35%) Dynamics NAV
5 5 (0.35%) Visualfiles
6 4 (0.28%) Dynamics AX
7 3 (0.21%) Carpe Diem
7 3 (0.21%) Oracle Applications
7 3 (0.21%) SAP Business One
7 3 (0.21%) Shopify
8 2 (0.14%) JDE EnterpriseOne
9 1 (0.070%) Infor M3
9 1 (0.070%) Integrated Workplace Management System
9 1 (0.070%) Magento
9 1 (0.070%) Sage 200
9 1 (0.070%) Salesforce CRM
9 1 (0.070%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,429 (100.00%) Azure
2 255 (17.84%) Power Platform
3 213 (14.91%) GitHub
4 159 (11.13%) AWS
5 138 (9.66%) Serverless
6 131 (9.17%) Dynamics 365
7 124 (8.68%) GitHub Actions
8 116 (8.12%) Azure Functions
9 112 (7.84%) Azure Service Bus
10 109 (7.63%) Azure AKS
11 104 (7.28%) Azure AI
11 104 (7.28%) Azure Monitor
12 95 (6.65%) Azure Logic Apps
13 93 (6.51%) Entra ID
13 93 (6.51%) PaaS
14 90 (6.30%) Azure Key Vault
15 88 (6.16%) Azure Data Factory
16 87 (6.09%) Power Automate
17 85 (5.95%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 84 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 36 (2.52%) Firewall
2 33 (2.31%) VPN
3 16 (1.12%) DNS
4 12 (0.84%) Internet
5 11 (0.77%) Network Security
6 10 (0.70%) Wi-Fi
7 9 (0.63%) SAN
8 7 (0.49%) HTTP
8 7 (0.49%) Wireless
9 6 (0.42%) DHCP
9 6 (0.42%) MQTT
9 6 (0.42%) TCP/IP
9 6 (0.42%) VLAN
9 6 (0.42%) ZigBee
10 4 (0.28%) Bluetooth
11 3 (0.21%) HTTPS
12 2 (0.14%) LoRaWAN
13 1 (0.070%) Cisco ISE
13 1 (0.070%) LTE
13 1 (0.070%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 262 (18.33%) Azure SQL Database
2 194 (13.58%) SQL Server
3 173 (12.11%) MongoDB
4 132 (9.24%) Power BI
5 76 (5.32%) Data Warehouse
6 54 (3.78%) PostgreSQL
7 48 (3.36%) Relational Database
8 42 (2.94%) NoSQL
9 40 (2.80%) Elasticsearch
10 35 (2.45%) Delta Lake
11 33 (2.31%) Data Lake
12 31 (2.17%) Metadata
12 31 (2.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 25 (1.75%) Redis
14 23 (1.61%) Star Schema
15 22 (1.54%) MySQL
16 20 (1.40%) Tableau
17 19 (1.33%) Spark SQL
18 17 (1.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 12 (0.84%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 260 (18.19%) Git
2 189 (13.23%) JIRA
3 115 (8.05%) Jenkins
4 76 (5.32%) GitLab
5 44 (3.08%) Selenium
6 39 (2.73%) Postman
7 35 (2.45%) Cypress.io
8 18 (1.26%) JUnit
9 16 (1.12%) JMeter
9 16 (1.12%) REST Assured
10 15 (1.05%) Visual Studio
11 14 (0.98%) NUnit
11 14 (0.98%) Octopus Deploy
12 13 (0.91%) Zephyr
13 12 (0.84%) TestRail
14 11 (0.77%) fastlane
15 10 (0.70%) Eclipse
15 10 (0.70%) Mockito
15 10 (0.70%) SonarQube
16 9 (0.63%) MSI
General
1 402 (28.13%) Social Skills
2 327 (22.88%) Finance
3 152 (10.64%) Analytical Skills
4 123 (8.61%) Public Sector
5 109 (7.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 53 (3.71%) Retail
7 52 (3.64%) Law
8 40 (2.80%) Marketing
9 36 (2.52%) Legal
10 31 (2.17%) Banking
11 30 (2.10%) Advertising
12 23 (1.61%) Manufacturing
13 22 (1.54%) Games
14 21 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
15 17 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
16 12 (0.84%) Aviation
17 11 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
18 10 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
19 9 (0.63%) Automotive
20 6 (0.42%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 450 (31.49%) Developer
2 328 (22.95%) Senior
3 216 (15.12%) .NET Developer
4 202 (14.14%) DevOps Engineer
5 198 (13.86%) Azure Engineer
6 163 (11.41%) Lead
7 102 (7.14%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 98 (6.86%) Senior Developer
9 92 (6.44%) Data Engineer
10 90 (6.30%) Platform Engineer
11 83 (5.81%) Analyst
12 68 (4.76%) Senior DevOps
13 63 (4.41%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 60 (4.20%) Cloud Engineer
15 51 (3.57%) Software Engineer
16 47 (3.29%) Cloud Platform Engineer
17 45 (3.15%) Architect
17 45 (3.15%) Senior Data Engineer
18 44 (3.08%) Azure Platform Engineer
19 42 (2.94%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 476 (33.31%) .NET
2 339 (23.72%) Terraform
3 252 (17.63%) ASP.NET
4 227 (15.89%) .NET Core
5 200 (14.00%) ASP.NET Core
6 160 (11.20%) React
7 158 (11.06%) REST
8 150 (10.50%) HTML
9 149 (10.43%) RESTful
10 148 (10.36%) CSS
11 123 (8.61%) Blazor
11 123 (8.61%) Entity Framework
12 87 (6.09%) Node.js
13 79 (5.53%) ML.NET
14 63 (4.41%) .NET Framework
15 58 (4.06%) Playwright
16 57 (3.99%) YAML
17 56 (3.92%) JSON
18 54 (3.78%) ARM Templates
19 53 (3.71%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 136 (9.52%) Cloud Native
1 136 (9.52%) Product Ownership
2 77 (5.39%) Enterprise Software
3 60 (4.20%) Legacy Systems
4 52 (3.64%) Onboarding
5 47 (3.29%) Mobile App
6 39 (2.73%) Greenfield Project
7 36 (2.52%) Distributed Systems
8 30 (2.10%) Hybrid Cloud
9 26 (1.82%) Management Information System
10 25 (1.75%) Legacy Applications
11 23 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
12 22 (1.54%) Public Cloud
13 20 (1.40%) Low-Code
14 17 (1.19%) AI Agents
14 17 (1.19%) BBC
14 17 (1.19%) iPhone
14 17 (1.19%) Mainframe
14 17 (1.19%) Social Media
15 16 (1.12%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 106 (7.42%) Windows
2 97 (6.79%) Linux
3 24 (1.68%) Android
4 23 (1.61%) VMS
5 20 (1.40%) Unix
5 20 (1.40%) Windows Server
6 12 (0.84%) Ubuntu
7 10 (0.70%) Apple iOS
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 (0.070%) SUSE
11 1 (0.070%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.070%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,429 (100.00%) DevOps
2 813 (56.89%) CI/CD
3 655 (45.84%) Agile
4 336 (23.51%) AI
5 314 (21.97%) Continuous Improvement
5 314 (21.97%) Infrastructure as Code
6 259 (18.12%) Problem-Solving
7 247 (17.28%) Test Automation
8 241 (16.86%) Full-Stack Development
9 219 (15.33%) Mentoring
10 212 (14.84%) Scrum
11 182 (12.74%) Analytics
12 177 (12.39%) Microservices
13 165 (11.55%) Stakeholder Management
14 158 (11.06%) Platform Engineering
15 152 (10.64%) Observability
16 150 (10.50%) Business Intelligence
17 140 (9.80%) Software Engineering
18 137 (9.59%) Machine Learning
19 133 (9.31%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 520 (36.39%) SQL
2 482 (33.73%) C#
3 274 (19.17%) Python
4 235 (16.45%) JavaScript
5 174 (12.18%) PowerShell
6 122 (8.54%) Bash
7 117 (8.19%) Bicep
8 90 (6.30%) Java
9 57 (3.99%) TypeScript
10 39 (2.73%) T-SQL
11 18 (1.26%) Scala
12 17 (1.19%) C++
12 17 (1.19%) VB.NET
13 16 (1.12%) Kusto Query Language
14 15 (1.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 13 (0.91%) COBOL
15 13 (0.91%) JCL
16 10 (0.70%) Go
17 8 (0.56%) Ruby
17 8 (0.56%) Swift
Qualifications
1 128 (8.96%) Degree
2 112 (7.84%) Security Cleared
3 97 (6.79%) SC Cleared
4 93 (6.51%) Azure Certification
5 53 (3.71%) Computer Science Degree
6 39 (2.73%) Microsoft Certification
7 34 (2.38%) ISTQB
8 22 (1.54%) PMI Certification
9 16 (1.12%) Master's Degree
10 13 (0.91%) PMP
11 12 (0.84%) AWS Certification
12 10 (0.70%) DV Cleared
13 9 (0.63%) ISEB
14 7 (0.49%) CBAP
14 7 (0.49%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 6 (0.42%) ACCA
15 6 (0.42%) CIMA
15 6 (0.42%) CSPO
16 5 (0.35%) BPSS Clearance
16 5 (0.35%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 186 (13.02%) QA
2 78 (5.46%) Accessibility
3 77 (5.39%) Data Quality
4 39 (2.73%) GDPR
5 35 (2.45%) WCAG
6 21 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 18 (1.26%) PMO
8 12 (0.84%) TickIT
9 9 (0.63%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 9 (0.63%) SLA
10 8 (0.56%) NCSC
11 7 (0.49%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 6 (0.42%) GRC
12 6 (0.42%) JTAG
12 6 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 5 (0.35%) IFRS
14 4 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
14 4 (0.28%) Solvency II
15 3 (0.21%) NIST
15 3 (0.21%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 182 (12.74%) Docker
2 69 (4.83%) Active Directory
3 24 (1.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (1.19%) Virtual Desktop
5 13 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
6 12 (0.84%) vSphere
7 5 (0.35%) Firmware
8 3 (0.21%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.14%) Xen
10 1 (0.070%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.070%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 170 (11.90%) Kubernetes
2 56 (3.92%) Ansible
3 49 (3.43%) Grafana
4 44 (3.08%) Prometheus
5 31 (2.17%) Argo
6 21 (1.47%) Microsoft Intune
7 12 (0.84%) Puppet
8 5 (0.35%) Progress Chef
8 5 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (0.28%) HP Fortify
9 4 (0.28%) SCCM
10 2 (0.14%) FlexNet
10 2 (0.14%) HP ALM
10 2 (0.14%) Kibana
10 2 (0.14%) Nagios
10 2 (0.14%) Nessus
10 2 (0.14%) Rancher
10 2 (0.14%) Scalr
10 2 (0.14%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 645 (45.14%) Microsoft
2 93 (6.51%) Databricks
3 63 (4.41%) Google
4 39 (2.73%) Salesforce
5 38 (2.66%) Facebook
6 33 (2.31%) VMware
7 26 (1.82%) Apple
7 26 (1.82%) ServiceNow
8 21 (1.47%) SAP
8 21 (1.47%) YouTube
9 20 (1.40%) OpenAI
10 18 (1.26%) Dynatrace
10 18 (1.26%) Red Hat
11 17 (1.19%) Sony
11 17 (1.19%) Yahoo!
12 16 (1.12%) Oracle
13 14 (0.98%) MuleSoft
14 12 (0.84%) Foundry
14 12 (0.84%) ScienceLogic
15 11 (0.77%) Guidewire