Azure DevOps Job Trends

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 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 132 106 82
Rank change year-on-year -26 -24 +9
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,085 1,609 1,811
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.01% 2.43% 3.54%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.06% 7.20% 8.25%
Number of salaries quoted 703 1,036 1,533
10th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,485 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -
75th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £93,500 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% -

All Cloud 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 17,911 22,361 21,948
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.10% 33.75% 42.89%
Number of salaries quoted 11,304 13,599 18,363
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.51% +1.60% -0.79%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £53,301
% change year-on-year -9.09% +3.19% -3.09%

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 29 November 2025.

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 29 November 2025. 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 -41 860 £65,000 -3.70% 352
UK excluding London -26 676 £57,500 -8.00% 330
Work from Home -2 499 £65,000 - 175
London +24 343 £77,500 +3.33% 147
South East -3 228 £60,000 -11.11% 148
Scotland +65 151 £64,750 +20.47% 24
North of England -43 99 £60,000 -4.38% 49
Midlands -31 83 £58,000 -10.77% 52
West Midlands -9 71 £60,000 -7.69% 32
South West -68 53 £53,750 -17.31% 34
North West -16 41 £65,000 +7.44% 20
Yorkshire -37 34 £55,000 -18.35% 12
Wales +5 32 £55,000 - 15
East of England -16 28 £65,000 +30.00% 17
North East +6 24 £50,000 -9.09% 17
East Midlands +2 11 £55,000 +15.79% 19
Northern Ireland +2 2 £56,250 - 3

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 40 (3.69%) Confluence
2 34 (3.13%) IIS
3 24 (2.21%) SharePoint
4 14 (1.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 13 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
6 11 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
7 8 (0.74%) Apache Spark
8 6 (0.55%) Apache
8 6 (0.55%) Appian
9 5 (0.46%) nginx
10 4 (0.37%) BizTalk Server
10 4 (0.37%) CMS
11 3 (0.28%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.092%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.092%) Moodle
Applications
1 31 (2.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (2.58%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (1.29%) Microsoft Project
4 10 (0.92%) MS Visio
5 7 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.37%) Trello
7 1 (0.092%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.092%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.092%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 72 (6.64%) SAP S/4HANA
2 52 (4.79%) Dynamics CRM
3 31 (2.86%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (0.28%) SAP CX
4 3 (0.28%) Shopify
5 2 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.18%) Elite 3E
5 2 (0.18%) Markit EDM
5 2 (0.18%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.092%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.092%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 1,016 (93.64%) Azure
2 303 (27.93%) GitHub
3 224 (20.65%) Power Platform
4 155 (14.29%) AWS
5 147 (13.55%) GitHub Actions
6 99 (9.12%) Dynamics 365
7 88 (8.11%) Power Automate
8 83 (7.65%) Azure Data Factory
8 83 (7.65%) Azure Monitor
9 82 (7.56%) PaaS
10 79 (7.28%) Serverless
11 75 (6.91%) Entra ID
12 74 (6.82%) SaaS
12 74 (6.82%) Snowflake
13 65 (5.99%) Microsoft 365
14 59 (5.44%) Azure AKS
15 58 (5.35%) Azure Logic Apps
15 58 (5.35%) GitHub Copilot
16 53 (4.88%) dbt
17 50 (4.61%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 34 (3.13%) Firewall
2 32 (2.95%) DNS
3 20 (1.84%) VPN
4 13 (1.20%) Network Security
5 11 (1.01%) WAN
6 9 (0.83%) HTTP
7 6 (0.55%) TCP/IP
8 5 (0.46%) DHCP
8 5 (0.46%) SD-WAN
8 5 (0.46%) VLAN
9 4 (0.37%) SSL
10 3 (0.28%) AMQP
10 3 (0.28%) BGP
10 3 (0.28%) Internet
10 3 (0.28%) IPsec
10 3 (0.28%) OSPF
10 3 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (0.28%) Wireshark
11 1 (0.092%) NetScaler
11 1 (0.092%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 169 (15.58%) SQL Server
2 121 (11.15%) Power BI
3 79 (7.28%) Data Warehouse
4 53 (4.88%) Azure SQL Database
5 50 (4.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 41 (3.78%) Tableau
7 34 (3.13%) NoSQL
8 28 (2.58%) Relational Database
9 27 (2.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 20 (1.84%) Snowflake Schema
11 15 (1.38%) Data Lake
12 14 (1.29%) PostgreSQL
13 13 (1.20%) Metadata
13 13 (1.20%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 12 (1.11%) DynamoDB
14 12 (1.11%) MongoDB
15 11 (1.01%) MySQL
16 9 (0.83%) BigQuery
17 6 (0.55%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
17 6 (0.55%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 208 (19.17%) JIRA
2 174 (16.04%) Git
3 112 (10.32%) Jenkins
4 69 (6.36%) eCATT
5 52 (4.79%) Selenium
6 40 (3.69%) NeoLoad
7 37 (3.41%) Octopus Deploy
8 31 (2.86%) GitLab
8 31 (2.86%) Oracle Forms
9 22 (2.03%) Cypress.io
9 22 (2.03%) TeamCity
10 21 (1.94%) Snyk
11 20 (1.84%) Robot Framework
11 20 (1.84%) Visual Studio
12 19 (1.75%) Postman
13 13 (1.20%) JMeter
14 11 (1.01%) Cucumber
14 11 (1.01%) NUnit
14 11 (1.01%) Visual Studio Code
15 10 (0.92%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 409 (37.70%) Finance
2 269 (24.79%) Social Skills
3 128 (11.80%) Analytical Skills
4 117 (10.78%) Marketing
5 72 (6.64%) Manufacturing
6 66 (6.08%) Presentation Skills
7 59 (5.44%) Law
8 48 (4.42%) Retail
9 41 (3.78%) Influencing Skills
10 36 (3.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 21 (1.94%) Public Sector
12 20 (1.84%) Legal
13 19 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
14 14 (1.29%) Banking
15 11 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
16 9 (0.83%) Advertising
16 9 (0.83%) Back Office
16 9 (0.83%) Tech for Good
17 8 (0.74%) Games
18 6 (0.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 220 (20.28%) Senior
2 172 (15.85%) Developer
3 169 (15.58%) Lead
4 127 (11.71%) Analyst
5 122 (11.24%) DevOps Engineer
6 103 (9.49%) Azure Engineer
7 79 (7.28%) Cloud Engineer
8 60 (5.53%) Data Engineer
9 57 (5.25%) Software Engineer
10 47 (4.33%) Test Leader
11 45 (4.15%) Architect
12 44 (4.06%) .NET Developer
13 43 (3.96%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 42 (3.87%) Platform Engineer
15 38 (3.50%) Applications Engineer
16 35 (3.23%) Business Analyst
16 35 (3.23%) Senior Cloud Engineer
17 33 (3.04%) Test Analyst
18 30 (2.76%) Senior Developer
19 27 (2.49%) Automation Test Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 289 (26.64%) .NET
2 106 (9.77%) RESTful
3 84 (7.74%) React
4 77 (7.10%) .NET Framework
5 73 (6.73%) REST
5 73 (6.73%) YAML
6 60 (5.53%) JSON
7 59 (5.44%) .NET Core
8 51 (4.70%) OAuth
9 50 (4.61%) ASP.NET
10 47 (4.33%) SOAP
11 45 (4.15%) AngularJS
11 45 (4.15%) ARM Templates
12 44 (4.06%) Entity Framework
13 42 (3.87%) CSS
14 41 (3.78%) HTML
15 37 (3.41%) XML
16 33 (3.04%) OAuth2
17 30 (2.76%) Blazor
18 26 (2.40%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 166 (15.30%) Cloud Native
2 116 (10.69%) Product Ownership
3 59 (5.44%) Enterprise Software
4 39 (3.59%) Management Information System
5 35 (3.23%) Onboarding
6 34 (3.13%) Security Posture
7 33 (3.04%) Legacy Systems
8 26 (2.40%) Hybrid Cloud
9 24 (2.21%) Distributed Systems
10 23 (2.12%) Analytical Mindset
11 21 (1.94%) Low-Code
11 21 (1.94%) Virtual Team
12 20 (1.84%) Data Centre
13 18 (1.66%) Greenfield Project
13 18 (1.66%) Mobile App
14 12 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
15 11 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
15 11 (1.01%) Legacy Applications
16 10 (0.92%) Linux Command Line
17 9 (0.83%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 96 (8.85%) Windows
2 55 (5.07%) Linux
3 23 (2.12%) VMS
4 18 (1.66%) Windows Server
5 8 (0.74%) Android
6 7 (0.65%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.28%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.18%) AIX
9 2 (0.18%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 2 (0.18%) Unix
9 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.092%) CentOS
10 1 (0.092%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.092%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,015 (93.55%) DevOps
2 612 (56.41%) CI/CD
3 532 (49.03%) Agile
4 275 (25.35%) Test Automation
5 257 (23.69%) Infrastructure as Code
6 245 (22.58%) Continuous Improvement
7 225 (20.74%) Problem-Solving
8 224 (20.65%) Mentoring
9 188 (17.33%) Coaching
10 187 (17.24%) AI
11 144 (13.27%) Analytics
12 135 (12.44%) Asset Management
13 131 (12.07%) Scrum
14 130 (11.98%) Roadmaps
15 127 (11.71%) Containerisation
16 126 (11.61%) Business Intelligence
17 120 (11.06%) ERP
17 120 (11.06%) Microservices
18 118 (10.88%) Software Engineering
19 117 (10.78%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 360 (33.18%) SQL
2 258 (23.78%) Python
3 250 (23.04%) C#
4 224 (20.65%) PowerShell
5 100 (9.22%) JavaScript
6 99 (9.12%) Bicep
7 88 (8.11%) Bash
8 68 (6.27%) TypeScript
9 49 (4.52%) Java
10 45 (4.15%) T-SQL
11 35 (3.23%) Shell Script
12 32 (2.95%) PL/SQL
13 23 (2.12%) Apex Code
14 17 (1.57%) Go
15 10 (0.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 7 (0.65%) Scala
17 5 (0.46%) Groovy
18 4 (0.37%) R
18 4 (0.37%) VB
18 4 (0.37%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 142 (13.09%) Degree
2 93 (8.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 84 (7.74%) Azure Certification
4 71 (6.54%) Security Cleared
5 50 (4.61%) SC Cleared
6 45 (4.15%) ISTQB
7 44 (4.06%) Master's Degree
8 31 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
9 21 (1.94%) DV Cleared
10 20 (1.84%) AWS Certification
11 17 (1.57%) ISEB
12 10 (0.92%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 10 (0.92%) PMI Certification
12 10 (0.92%) PMP
13 7 (0.65%) AWS Certified Developer
13 7 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
14 6 (0.55%) DBS Check
15 4 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
15 4 (0.37%) CCNA
15 4 (0.37%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 153 (14.10%) QA
2 42 (3.87%) GDPR
3 41 (3.78%) Accessibility
4 36 (3.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 28 (2.58%) NCSC
5 28 (2.58%) NIST
6 27 (2.49%) Data Quality
7 19 (1.75%) PMO
8 10 (0.92%) Software Quality Assurance
9 5 (0.46%) PERC
10 4 (0.37%) SOC 2
10 4 (0.37%) WCAG
11 2 (0.18%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.092%) COBIT
12 1 (0.092%) HL7
12 1 (0.092%) ISO 9001
12 1 (0.092%) P3O
12 1 (0.092%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.092%) SLA
System Software
1 151 (13.92%) Docker
2 58 (5.35%) Active Directory
3 25 (2.30%) Virtual Machines
4 17 (1.57%) VMware Infrastructure
5 16 (1.47%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.37%) Postfix
7 3 (0.28%) Firmware
7 3 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.18%) vCloud
9 1 (0.092%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 1 (0.092%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.092%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.092%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.092%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 328 (30.23%) Terraform
2 181 (16.68%) Kubernetes
3 76 (7.00%) Ansible
4 72 (6.64%) HP ALM
5 41 (3.78%) Grafana
6 32 (2.95%) Prometheus
6 32 (2.95%) Single Sign-On
7 19 (1.75%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (0.37%) Argo
8 4 (0.37%) Rancher
8 4 (0.37%) vRealize
9 3 (0.28%) Dell DRAC
9 3 (0.28%) SCOM
10 2 (0.18%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.18%) logstash
10 2 (0.18%) Nessus
10 2 (0.18%) Puppet
10 2 (0.18%) Red Hat Satellite
10 2 (0.18%) ZABBIX
11 1 (0.092%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 375 (34.56%) Microsoft
2 81 (7.47%) SAP
3 72 (6.64%) HP
4 53 (4.88%) Databricks
5 38 (3.50%) Oracle
5 38 (3.50%) Salesforce
6 25 (2.30%) VMware
7 24 (2.21%) ServiceNow
8 19 (1.75%) Okta
9 18 (1.66%) Black Duck
9 18 (1.66%) Google
10 17 (1.57%) Coverity
11 14 (1.29%) OpenAI
11 14 (1.29%) Xamarin
12 13 (1.20%) Foundry
12 13 (1.20%) Palo Alto
13 12 (1.11%) Dynatrace
13 12 (1.11%) Sage
14 11 (1.01%) Ab Initio
15 10 (0.92%) Rackspace