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

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 175 120
Rank change year-on-year +21 -55 -22
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,371 950 1,849
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.32% 1.91% 2.22%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.93% 5.91% 6.90%
Number of salaries quoted 1,104 721 1,346
10th Percentile £43,038 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000

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 27,806 16,063 26,796
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.82% 32.29% 32.19%
Number of salaries quoted 18,260 11,190 19,509
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £40,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,410 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £51,500 £52,954
% change year-on-year +6.80% -2.75% -3.72%

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 3 August 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 3 August 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 +19 1,221 £65,000 -7.14% 548
UK excluding London +57 918 £60,000 - 377
Work from Home +32 569 £60,000 -11.11% 336
London -44 386 £80,000 +3.23% 243
North of England +95 273 £60,000 -7.69% 90
South East +3 221 £60,000 -4.38% 125
North West +89 155 £65,000 - 53
Midlands +28 144 £63,500 +5.83% 60
South West -6 102 £55,000 -4.35% 35
Wales -7 78 £53,171 -5.47% 18
East of England +10 77 £56,000 -10.40% 30
West Midlands -18 73 £65,000 +6.12% 38
East Midlands +31 71 £58,750 +6.82% 20
Yorkshire -10 64 £69,310 +2.68% 28
North East -7 54 £51,310 -6.71% 10
Scotland +9 23 £57,500 -10.85% 17
Northern Ireland -76 2 £72,500 +45.00% 4

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 67 (4.89%) SharePoint
2 66 (4.81%) Confluence
3 28 (2.04%) Microsoft Exchange
4 20 (1.46%) IIS
5 19 (1.39%) Apache Spark
6 11 (0.80%) Apache
6 11 (0.80%) CMS
7 9 (0.66%) nginx
8 8 (0.58%) Anypoint
8 8 (0.58%) SharePoint Server
9 6 (0.44%) Camunda
9 6 (0.44%) Umbraco
10 5 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
11 4 (0.29%) CICS
12 3 (0.22%) BizTalk Server
12 3 (0.22%) WordPress
13 2 (0.15%) Luigi
13 2 (0.15%) Moodle
14 1 (0.073%) NServiceBus
14 1 (0.073%) TPMS
Applications
1 18 (1.31%) Microsoft Project
2 14 (1.02%) MS Visio
3 10 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
4 9 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (0.66%) Trello
5 8 (0.58%) Chatbot
6 5 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.073%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.073%) Notion
7 1 (0.073%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 19 (1.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.66%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.58%) Elite 3E
4 6 (0.44%) SAP IBP
5 5 (0.36%) Visualfiles
6 4 (0.29%) Dynamics AX
6 4 (0.29%) Dynamics NAV
6 4 (0.29%) Shopify
7 3 (0.22%) Carpe Diem
7 3 (0.22%) SAP Business One
8 2 (0.15%) JDE EnterpriseOne
8 2 (0.15%) Magento
8 2 (0.15%) Oracle Applications
9 1 (0.073%) Infor M3
9 1 (0.073%) Integrated Workplace Management System
9 1 (0.073%) Sage 200
9 1 (0.073%) Salesforce CRM
9 1 (0.073%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,370 (99.93%) Azure
2 221 (16.12%) GitHub
3 216 (15.75%) Power Platform
4 172 (12.55%) AWS
5 135 (9.85%) GitHub Actions
6 123 (8.97%) Serverless
7 110 (8.02%) Azure Service Bus
8 105 (7.66%) Azure AKS
9 104 (7.59%) Dynamics 365
10 101 (7.37%) Azure Functions
11 99 (7.22%) Azure AI
12 96 (7.00%) Azure Monitor
13 93 (6.78%) PaaS
14 91 (6.64%) Azure Logic Apps
15 80 (5.84%) SaaS
16 79 (5.76%) Entra ID
17 78 (5.69%) Microsoft 365
18 75 (5.47%) Azure Key Vault
19 72 (5.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
20 70 (5.11%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 35 (2.55%) Firewall
2 23 (1.68%) VPN
3 17 (1.24%) DNS
4 13 (0.95%) HTTP
4 13 (0.95%) Network Security
5 12 (0.88%) Internet
6 9 (0.66%) TCP/IP
7 7 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
8 6 (0.44%) MQTT
8 6 (0.44%) SAN
8 6 (0.44%) Wireless
8 6 (0.44%) ZigBee
9 4 (0.29%) Bluetooth
10 3 (0.22%) DHCP
10 3 (0.22%) HTTPS
10 3 (0.22%) VLAN
11 2 (0.15%) BGP
11 2 (0.15%) LoRaWAN
12 1 (0.073%) Broadband
12 1 (0.073%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 242 (17.65%) Azure SQL Database
2 171 (12.47%) MongoDB
3 157 (11.45%) SQL Server
4 100 (7.29%) Power BI
5 56 (4.08%) PostgreSQL
6 53 (3.87%) Data Warehouse
7 38 (2.77%) Relational Database
8 36 (2.63%) Elasticsearch
9 31 (2.26%) Delta Lake
10 27 (1.97%) NoSQL
11 25 (1.82%) Redis
12 23 (1.68%) MySQL
12 23 (1.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 22 (1.60%) Data Lake
14 18 (1.31%) Spark SQL
15 17 (1.24%) Metadata
16 15 (1.09%) Star Schema
16 15 (1.09%) Tableau
17 14 (1.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 11 (0.80%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 216 (15.75%) Git
2 179 (13.06%) JIRA
3 123 (8.97%) Jenkins
4 83 (6.05%) GitLab
5 52 (3.79%) Selenium
6 44 (3.21%) Cypress.io
7 42 (3.06%) Postman
8 19 (1.39%) REST Assured
9 18 (1.31%) JUnit
9 18 (1.31%) Visual Studio
10 17 (1.24%) Eclipse
11 16 (1.17%) NUnit
12 15 (1.09%) JMeter
13 14 (1.02%) fastlane
13 14 (1.02%) TestRail
14 13 (0.95%) Zephyr
15 12 (0.88%) Octopus Deploy
16 10 (0.73%) Mockito
16 10 (0.73%) SonarQube
17 9 (0.66%) MSI
General
1 336 (24.51%) Social Skills
2 295 (21.52%) Finance
3 131 (9.56%) Analytical Skills
4 103 (7.51%) Public Sector
5 97 (7.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 57 (4.16%) Law
7 56 (4.08%) Retail
8 45 (3.28%) Marketing
9 39 (2.84%) Legal
10 34 (2.48%) Banking
11 31 (2.26%) Advertising
12 24 (1.75%) Games
12 24 (1.75%) Manufacturing
13 22 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
13 22 (1.60%) Presentation Skills
14 15 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
15 12 (0.88%) Aviation
16 10 (0.73%) Automotive
17 9 (0.66%) Legal Technology
17 9 (0.66%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 430 (31.36%) Developer
2 282 (20.57%) Senior
3 212 (15.46%) DevOps Engineer
4 205 (14.95%) .NET Developer
5 189 (13.79%) Azure Engineer
6 176 (12.84%) Lead
7 109 (7.95%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 90 (6.56%) Senior Developer
9 76 (5.54%) Data Engineer
10 74 (5.40%) Platform Engineer
11 67 (4.89%) Analyst
12 58 (4.23%) Senior DevOps
13 56 (4.08%) Cloud Engineer
14 55 (4.01%) Architect
14 55 (4.01%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 50 (3.65%) Software Engineer
16 40 (2.92%) Software Developer
17 39 (2.84%) Cloud Platform Engineer
18 38 (2.77%) Senior Data Engineer
19 36 (2.63%) Azure Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 453 (33.04%) .NET
2 247 (18.02%) ASP.NET
3 227 (16.56%) .NET Core
4 198 (14.44%) ASP.NET Core
5 169 (12.33%) React
6 158 (11.52%) HTML
7 156 (11.38%) CSS
8 154 (11.23%) RESTful
9 149 (10.87%) REST
10 120 (8.75%) Entity Framework
11 118 (8.61%) Blazor
12 91 (6.64%) Node.js
13 82 (5.98%) ML.NET
14 66 (4.81%) Playwright
15 57 (4.16%) .NET Framework
16 56 (4.08%) ARM Templates
17 55 (4.01%) YAML
18 50 (3.65%) JSON
19 46 (3.36%) OAuth
20 43 (3.14%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 138 (10.07%) Product Ownership
2 134 (9.77%) Cloud Native
3 61 (4.45%) Enterprise Software
4 53 (3.87%) Legacy Systems
4 53 (3.87%) Mobile App
5 50 (3.65%) Onboarding
6 37 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
7 36 (2.63%) Greenfield Project
8 27 (1.97%) Hybrid Cloud
9 25 (1.82%) Management Information System
10 24 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
11 22 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
12 21 (1.53%) Low-Code
13 19 (1.39%) Podcast
14 17 (1.24%) BBC
14 17 (1.24%) iPhone
14 17 (1.24%) Social Media
15 16 (1.17%) Data Centre
15 16 (1.17%) Public Cloud
16 15 (1.09%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 99 (7.22%) Linux
2 90 (6.56%) Windows
3 26 (1.90%) Android
4 23 (1.68%) VMS
5 18 (1.31%) Unix
6 17 (1.24%) Windows Server
7 15 (1.09%) Apple iOS
8 13 (0.95%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.29%) Kali Linux
10 3 (0.22%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.15%) Debian
11 2 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (0.15%) Rocky
12 1 (0.073%) Solaris
12 1 (0.073%) SUSE
12 1 (0.073%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,370 (99.93%) DevOps
2 802 (58.50%) CI/CD
3 647 (47.19%) Agile
4 315 (22.98%) Infrastructure as Code
5 310 (22.61%) AI
6 287 (20.93%) Continuous Improvement
7 250 (18.23%) Full-Stack Development
8 249 (18.16%) Test Automation
9 218 (15.90%) Scrum
10 208 (15.17%) Problem-Solving
11 199 (14.51%) Mentoring
12 175 (12.76%) Microservices
13 159 (11.60%) Analytics
14 154 (11.23%) Observability
15 138 (10.07%) Machine Learning
16 137 (9.99%) Platform Engineering
17 130 (9.48%) Stakeholder Management
18 129 (9.41%) SDLC
18 129 (9.41%) Software Engineering
19 128 (9.34%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 486 (35.45%) SQL
2 444 (32.39%) C#
3 255 (18.60%) Python
4 241 (17.58%) JavaScript
5 158 (11.52%) PowerShell
6 125 (9.12%) Bash
7 114 (8.32%) Bicep
8 88 (6.42%) Java
9 63 (4.60%) TypeScript
10 34 (2.48%) T-SQL
11 19 (1.39%) Go
12 17 (1.24%) C++
13 16 (1.17%) Kusto Query Language
14 15 (1.09%) Scala
15 12 (0.88%) Swift
15 12 (0.88%) VB.NET
16 9 (0.66%) Apex Code
16 9 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 8 (0.58%) DataWeave
17 8 (0.58%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 107 (7.80%) Security Cleared
2 98 (7.15%) Degree
3 90 (6.56%) SC Cleared
4 76 (5.54%) Azure Certification
5 41 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
6 31 (2.26%) ISTQB
7 26 (1.90%) Microsoft Certification
8 18 (1.31%) PMI Certification
9 13 (0.95%) Master's Degree
10 12 (0.88%) PMP
11 11 (0.80%) AWS Certification
11 11 (0.80%) DV Cleared
12 6 (0.44%) CISSP
12 6 (0.44%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 5 (0.36%) ISEB
13 5 (0.36%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
14 4 (0.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 4 (0.29%) HND
14 4 (0.29%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 3 (0.22%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 177 (12.91%) QA
2 87 (6.35%) Accessibility
3 54 (3.94%) Data Quality
4 32 (2.33%) GDPR
4 32 (2.33%) WCAG
5 25 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 15 (1.09%) PMO
7 12 (0.88%) TickIT
8 10 (0.73%) GRC
9 9 (0.66%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 8 (0.58%) NCSC
10 8 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 8 (0.58%) SLA
11 6 (0.44%) JTAG
11 6 (0.44%) Software Quality Assurance
11 6 (0.44%) Solvency II
12 5 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
12 5 (0.36%) IFRS
13 3 (0.22%) ISO 9001
13 3 (0.22%) NIST
System Software
1 173 (12.62%) Docker
2 63 (4.60%) Active Directory
3 20 (1.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (1.02%) Virtual Desktop
5 12 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.88%) vSphere
6 5 (0.36%) Firmware
7 3 (0.22%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.15%) Xen
Systems Management
1 335 (24.43%) Terraform
2 165 (12.04%) Kubernetes
3 65 (4.74%) Ansible
4 63 (4.60%) Grafana
5 59 (4.30%) Prometheus
6 30 (2.19%) Argo
7 9 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
8 8 (0.58%) Puppet
9 4 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (0.29%) HP Fortify
10 3 (0.22%) HP ALM
10 3 (0.22%) Kibana
10 3 (0.22%) Nagios
10 3 (0.22%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.22%) Scalr
11 2 (0.15%) FlexNet
11 2 (0.15%) Istio
11 2 (0.15%) MIIS
11 2 (0.15%) Nessus
11 2 (0.15%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 591 (43.11%) Microsoft
2 74 (5.40%) Databricks
3 63 (4.60%) Google
4 41 (2.99%) Salesforce
5 38 (2.77%) Facebook
6 32 (2.33%) ServiceNow
7 30 (2.19%) Apple
8 28 (2.04%) VMware
9 25 (1.82%) Dynatrace
10 24 (1.75%) Red Hat
11 21 (1.53%) YouTube
12 18 (1.31%) MuleSoft
13 17 (1.24%) OpenAI
13 17 (1.24%) SAP
13 17 (1.24%) Sony
13 17 (1.24%) Yahoo!
14 16 (1.17%) Oracle
15 14 (1.02%) Guidewire
16 12 (0.88%) ScienceLogic
17 11 (0.80%) Foundry