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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 155 174 119
Rank change year-on-year +19 -55 -22
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,317 937 2,042
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.31% 1.91% 2.18%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.85% 5.89% 6.66%
Number of salaries quoted 1,071 708 1,511
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £54,875 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -
75th Percentile £78,125 £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 27,181 15,908 30,663
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.13% 32.35% 32.76%
Number of salaries quoted 17,798 11,057 22,992
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £43,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% - -4.55%

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 22 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 22 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 +21 1,170 £65,000 -7.14% 441
UK excluding London +59 888 £60,000 -4.00% 312
Work from Home +35 549 £60,000 -11.11% 246
London -36 362 £80,000 +3.23% 182
North of England +87 262 £62,500 -3.85% 86
South East +3 226 £60,000 -6.25% 106
North West +80 142 £65,500 +0.77% 47
Midlands +21 129 £64,000 +6.67% 55
South West -7 98 £55,000 -4.35% 20
East of England +26 76 £56,000 +1.82% 27
Wales -8 72 £53,171 -7.53% 8
East Midlands +23 69 £60,000 +9.09% 20
Yorkshire -12 66 £69,305 +2.67% 30
West Midlands -15 60 £65,000 +8.33% 35
North East -6 54 £51,310 -6.71% 11
Scotland +15 25 £60,000 -6.98% 15
Northern Ireland -65 2 £72,500 +45.00% 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 60 (4.56%) SharePoint
2 59 (4.48%) Confluence
3 28 (2.13%) Microsoft Exchange
4 22 (1.67%) IIS
5 17 (1.29%) Apache Spark
6 11 (0.84%) CMS
7 9 (0.68%) Apache
8 8 (0.61%) Anypoint
8 8 (0.61%) nginx
8 8 (0.61%) SharePoint Server
9 6 (0.46%) Camunda
9 6 (0.46%) Umbraco
10 5 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
11 3 (0.23%) BizTalk Server
11 3 (0.23%) WordPress
12 2 (0.15%) CICS
12 2 (0.15%) Luigi
12 2 (0.15%) Moodle
13 1 (0.076%) Drupal
13 1 (0.076%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 18 (1.37%) 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 9 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.46%) Elite 3E
3 6 (0.46%) 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%) Magento
7 2 (0.15%) SAP Business One
8 1 (0.076%) Infor M3
8 1 (0.076%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 1 (0.076%) JDE EnterpriseOne
8 1 (0.076%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.076%) Sage 200
8 1 (0.076%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.076%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,316 (99.92%) Azure
2 218 (16.55%) GitHub
3 203 (15.41%) Power Platform
4 166 (12.60%) AWS
5 134 (10.17%) GitHub Actions
6 115 (8.73%) Serverless
7 108 (8.20%) Azure AKS
8 104 (7.90%) Azure Service Bus
9 99 (7.52%) Azure Monitor
10 97 (7.37%) Azure AI
11 95 (7.21%) PaaS
12 93 (7.06%) Azure Functions
13 91 (6.91%) Dynamics 365
14 89 (6.76%) Azure Logic Apps
15 77 (5.85%) Entra ID
16 74 (5.62%) SaaS
17 71 (5.39%) Microsoft 365
18 69 (5.24%) Azure Data Factory
19 66 (5.01%) Azure Key Vault
20 65 (4.94%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 43 (3.26%) Firewall
2 22 (1.67%) VPN
3 20 (1.52%) 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
11 2 (0.15%) DHCP
11 2 (0.15%) LoRaWAN
11 2 (0.15%) VLAN
11 2 (0.15%) WAN
12 1 (0.076%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 238 (18.07%) Azure SQL Database
2 169 (12.83%) MongoDB
3 139 (10.55%) SQL Server
4 94 (7.14%) Power BI
5 52 (3.95%) PostgreSQL
6 43 (3.26%) Data Warehouse
7 34 (2.58%) Elasticsearch
8 32 (2.43%) Relational Database
9 28 (2.13%) NoSQL
10 27 (2.05%) Delta Lake
11 23 (1.75%) Redis
12 22 (1.67%) Data Lake
13 21 (1.59%) MySQL
14 19 (1.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 18 (1.37%) Spark SQL
16 17 (1.29%) Metadata
17 14 (1.06%) Star Schema
18 13 (0.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 13 (0.99%) Tableau
19 11 (0.84%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 192 (14.58%) Git
2 166 (12.60%) JIRA
3 120 (9.11%) Jenkins
4 81 (6.15%) GitLab
5 50 (3.80%) Selenium
6 41 (3.11%) Cypress.io
7 38 (2.89%) Postman
8 18 (1.37%) Eclipse
8 18 (1.37%) REST Assured
9 17 (1.29%) Visual Studio
10 15 (1.14%) JMeter
11 14 (1.06%) fastlane
11 14 (1.06%) JUnit
11 14 (1.06%) TestRail
11 14 (1.06%) Zephyr
12 12 (0.91%) Octopus Deploy
13 10 (0.76%) Mockito
14 9 (0.68%) Xcode
15 8 (0.61%) NUnit
15 8 (0.61%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 308 (23.39%) Social Skills
2 285 (21.64%) Finance
3 120 (9.11%) Analytical Skills
4 98 (7.44%) Public Sector
5 94 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 55 (4.18%) Law
6 55 (4.18%) Retail
7 43 (3.26%) Marketing
8 36 (2.73%) Legal
9 30 (2.28%) Advertising
9 30 (2.28%) Banking
10 24 (1.82%) Games
10 24 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
11 22 (1.67%) Manufacturing
12 19 (1.44%) Influencing Skills
13 14 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
14 13 (0.99%) Billing
14 13 (0.99%) Telecoms
15 10 (0.76%) Automotive
15 10 (0.76%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 409 (31.06%) Developer
2 268 (20.35%) Senior
3 217 (16.48%) DevOps Engineer
4 196 (14.88%) .NET Developer
5 192 (14.58%) Azure Engineer
6 175 (13.29%) Lead
7 111 (8.43%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 84 (6.38%) Senior Developer
9 71 (5.39%) Data Engineer
10 69 (5.24%) Platform Engineer
11 64 (4.86%) Analyst
12 60 (4.56%) Cloud Engineer
13 56 (4.25%) Architect
13 56 (4.25%) Senior DevOps
14 54 (4.10%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 47 (3.57%) Software Engineer
16 38 (2.89%) Cloud Platform Engineer
17 35 (2.66%) Azure Platform Engineer
17 35 (2.66%) Software Developer
18 33 (2.51%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 426 (32.35%) .NET
2 237 (18.00%) ASP.NET
3 210 (15.95%) .NET Core
4 193 (14.65%) ASP.NET Core
5 163 (12.38%) React
6 152 (11.54%) HTML
7 150 (11.39%) CSS
8 141 (10.71%) RESTful
9 129 (9.79%) REST
10 113 (8.58%) Blazor
11 111 (8.43%) Entity Framework
12 89 (6.76%) Node.js
13 81 (6.15%) ML.NET
14 63 (4.78%) Playwright
15 57 (4.33%) YAML
16 56 (4.25%) ARM Templates
17 47 (3.57%) JSON
18 46 (3.49%) OAuth
19 45 (3.42%) .NET Framework
20 39 (2.96%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 133 (10.10%) Product Ownership
2 125 (9.49%) Cloud Native
3 54 (4.10%) Mobile App
4 51 (3.87%) Enterprise Software
5 45 (3.42%) Legacy Systems
5 45 (3.42%) Onboarding
6 38 (2.89%) Distributed Systems
7 36 (2.73%) Greenfield Project
8 25 (1.90%) Hybrid Cloud
8 25 (1.90%) Management Information System
9 24 (1.82%) Analytical Mindset
10 21 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
11 19 (1.44%) Low-Code
11 19 (1.44%) Podcast
12 17 (1.29%) BBC
12 17 (1.29%) iPhone
12 17 (1.29%) Public Cloud
12 17 (1.29%) Social Media
13 15 (1.14%) AI Agents
14 14 (1.06%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 99 (7.52%) Linux
2 80 (6.07%) Windows
3 26 (1.97%) Android
4 25 (1.90%) VMS
5 18 (1.37%) Unix
6 15 (1.14%) Apple iOS
6 15 (1.14%) Ubuntu
7 13 (0.99%) Windows Server
8 4 (0.30%) Kali Linux
9 3 (0.23%) Embedded Linux
9 3 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.15%) Debian
10 2 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.15%) Rocky
11 1 (0.076%) SUSE
11 1 (0.076%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,316 (99.92%) DevOps
2 773 (58.69%) CI/CD
3 622 (47.23%) Agile
4 313 (23.77%) Infrastructure as Code
5 287 (21.79%) AI
6 268 (20.35%) Continuous Improvement
7 242 (18.38%) Full-Stack Development
8 237 (18.00%) Test Automation
9 214 (16.25%) Scrum
10 198 (15.03%) Mentoring
11 187 (14.20%) Problem-Solving
12 167 (12.68%) Microservices
13 155 (11.77%) Analytics
14 151 (11.47%) Observability
15 135 (10.25%) Machine Learning
16 130 (9.87%) Platform Engineering
17 121 (9.19%) SDLC
18 120 (9.11%) Roadmaps
19 117 (8.88%) Containerisation
19 117 (8.88%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 465 (35.31%) SQL
2 423 (32.12%) C#
3 246 (18.68%) Python
4 237 (18.00%) JavaScript
5 150 (11.39%) PowerShell
6 127 (9.64%) Bash
7 112 (8.50%) Bicep
8 80 (6.07%) Java
9 63 (4.78%) TypeScript
10 26 (1.97%) T-SQL
11 21 (1.59%) Go
12 18 (1.37%) Kusto Query Language
13 17 (1.29%) C++
14 14 (1.06%) Scala
15 12 (0.91%) Swift
16 9 (0.68%) VB.NET
17 8 (0.61%) DataWeave
17 8 (0.61%) Kotlin
18 7 (0.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 7 (0.53%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 97 (7.37%) Security Cleared
2 86 (6.53%) Degree
3 79 (6.00%) SC Cleared
4 70 (5.32%) Azure Certification
5 36 (2.73%) Computer Science Degree
6 31 (2.35%) ISTQB
7 23 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
8 15 (1.14%) PMI Certification
9 13 (0.99%) Master's Degree
10 11 (0.84%) DV Cleared
11 10 (0.76%) PMP
12 7 (0.53%) AWS Certification
13 6 (0.46%) CISSP
13 6 (0.46%) HND
13 6 (0.46%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 5 (0.38%) ISEB
14 5 (0.38%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
15 4 (0.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 4 (0.30%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 3 (0.23%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 166 (12.60%) QA
2 88 (6.68%) Accessibility
3 50 (3.80%) Data Quality
4 35 (2.66%) GDPR
5 30 (2.28%) WCAG
6 26 (1.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 14 (1.06%) PMO
8 12 (0.91%) TickIT
9 10 (0.76%) GRC
10 8 (0.61%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 8 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 8 (0.61%) SLA
11 6 (0.46%) JTAG
11 6 (0.46%) NCSC
11 6 (0.46%) Software Quality Assurance
11 6 (0.46%) Solvency II
12 5 (0.38%) IFRS
13 3 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
13 3 (0.23%) ISO 9001
13 3 (0.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 157 (11.92%) Docker
2 59 (4.48%) Active Directory
3 19 (1.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (1.06%) 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
2 153 (11.62%) Kubernetes
3 69 (5.24%) Ansible
4 64 (4.86%) 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%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (0.23%) HP ALM
9 3 (0.23%) Kibana
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%) ZABBIX
11 1 (0.076%) Packer
Vendors
1 561 (42.60%) Microsoft
2 69 (5.24%) Databricks
3 61 (4.63%) Google
4 39 (2.96%) Salesforce
5 38 (2.89%) Facebook
6 33 (2.51%) 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 20 (1.52%) MuleSoft
13 17 (1.29%) Sony
13 17 (1.29%) Yahoo!
14 16 (1.21%) OpenAI
15 15 (1.14%) SAP
16 14 (1.06%) Guidewire
17 13 (0.99%) Oracle
18 12 (0.91%) ScienceLogic
19 11 (0.84%) Foundry