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 4 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 133 105 79
Rank change year-on-year -28 -26 +14
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,084 1,578 1,771
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.97% 2.49% 3.55%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.03% 7.21% 8.32%
Number of salaries quoted 698 1,016 1,495
10th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,000 £52,569 £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 £93,750 £95,000 £96,539
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 17,974 21,901 21,284
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.72% 34.54% 42.68%
Number of salaries quoted 11,290 13,338 17,877
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £38,500 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,382 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.34% +1.41% -2.95%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £53,351
% change year-on-year -9.09% +3.09% -3.00%

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 4 December 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 4 December 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 -41 859 £65,500 -2.96% 358
UK excluding London -22 672 £57,500 -8.00% 325
Work from Home -1 502 £65,000 - 230
London +13 343 £77,500 +3.33% 126
South East -1 231 £60,000 -11.11% 128
Scotland +74 149 £65,000 +20.93% 22
North of England -44 96 £60,000 -4.38% 68
Midlands -35 80 £60,000 -7.69% 44
West Midlands -23 66 £60,000 -7.69% 29
South West -69 55 £52,500 -19.23% 40
North West -22 38 £65,000 +7.00% 37
Wales +7 32 £55,000 -2.22% 14
Yorkshire -35 32 £55,000 -18.19% 19
East of England -23 27 £65,000 +30.00% 18
North East +9 26 £50,000 -9.09% 12
East Midlands -3 13 £57,500 +21.05% 14
Northern Ireland -2 2 £56,250 - 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 40 (3.69%) Confluence
2 36 (3.32%) 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 7 (0.65%) 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 32 (2.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (2.58%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (1.29%) Microsoft Project
4 12 (1.11%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.74%) 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 49 (4.52%) Dynamics CRM
3 31 (2.86%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (0.28%) SAP CX
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%) Endur
6 1 (0.092%) Primavera
6 1 (0.092%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1,015 (93.63%) Azure
2 306 (28.23%) GitHub
3 213 (19.65%) Power Platform
4 159 (14.67%) AWS
5 148 (13.65%) GitHub Actions
6 86 (7.93%) Azure Monitor
7 85 (7.84%) Power Automate
8 84 (7.75%) Dynamics 365
9 82 (7.56%) Azure Data Factory
10 81 (7.47%) PaaS
11 78 (7.20%) Serverless
12 77 (7.10%) Entra ID
13 74 (6.83%) Snowflake
14 70 (6.46%) SaaS
15 67 (6.18%) Microsoft 365
16 61 (5.63%) Azure AKS
17 58 (5.35%) GitHub Copilot
18 53 (4.89%) dbt
19 51 (4.70%) GCP
20 49 (4.52%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 36 (3.32%) Firewall
2 33 (3.04%) DNS
3 21 (1.94%) VPN
4 12 (1.11%) Network Security
4 12 (1.11%) WAN
5 9 (0.83%) HTTP
6 6 (0.55%) TCP/IP
7 5 (0.46%) DHCP
7 5 (0.46%) SD-WAN
7 5 (0.46%) VLAN
8 4 (0.37%) SSL
9 3 (0.28%) AMQP
9 3 (0.28%) BGP
9 3 (0.28%) Internet
9 3 (0.28%) IPsec
9 3 (0.28%) OSPF
9 3 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (0.28%) Wireshark
10 1 (0.092%) NetScaler
10 1 (0.092%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 172 (15.87%) SQL Server
2 119 (10.98%) Power BI
3 79 (7.29%) Data Warehouse
4 57 (5.26%) Azure SQL Database
5 48 (4.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 41 (3.78%) Tableau
7 37 (3.41%) NoSQL
8 27 (2.49%) Relational Database
8 27 (2.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 20 (1.85%) Snowflake Schema
10 16 (1.48%) Data Lake
11 15 (1.38%) PostgreSQL
12 13 (1.20%) MongoDB
12 13 (1.20%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 12 (1.11%) DynamoDB
13 12 (1.11%) Metadata
13 12 (1.11%) MySQL
14 9 (0.83%) BigQuery
15 6 (0.55%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
16 5 (0.46%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 209 (19.28%) JIRA
2 181 (16.70%) Git
3 112 (10.33%) Jenkins
4 69 (6.37%) eCATT
5 54 (4.98%) Selenium
6 40 (3.69%) NeoLoad
7 37 (3.41%) Octopus Deploy
8 31 (2.86%) GitLab
8 31 (2.86%) Oracle Forms
9 23 (2.12%) Snyk
9 23 (2.12%) TeamCity
10 22 (2.03%) Cypress.io
10 22 (2.03%) Robot Framework
10 22 (2.03%) Visual Studio
11 19 (1.75%) Postman
12 13 (1.20%) JMeter
13 12 (1.11%) Cucumber
13 12 (1.11%) NUnit
14 11 (1.01%) Team Foundation Server
14 11 (1.01%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 411 (37.92%) Finance
2 270 (24.91%) Social Skills
3 128 (11.81%) Analytical Skills
4 114 (10.52%) Marketing
5 72 (6.64%) Manufacturing
6 66 (6.09%) Presentation Skills
7 55 (5.07%) Law
8 47 (4.34%) Retail
9 42 (3.87%) Influencing Skills
10 36 (3.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 22 (2.03%) Legal
12 21 (1.94%) Public Sector
13 20 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
14 14 (1.29%) Banking
15 10 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
16 9 (0.83%) Advertising
16 9 (0.83%) Tech for Good
17 8 (0.74%) Back Office
17 8 (0.74%) Games
18 6 (0.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 221 (20.39%) Senior
2 167 (15.41%) Lead
3 164 (15.13%) Developer
4 130 (11.99%) Analyst
5 125 (11.53%) DevOps Engineer
6 101 (9.32%) Azure Engineer
7 81 (7.47%) Cloud Engineer
8 60 (5.54%) Data Engineer
9 55 (5.07%) Software Engineer
10 47 (4.34%) Test Leader
11 45 (4.15%) .NET Developer
11 45 (4.15%) Architect
12 44 (4.06%) Platform Engineer
13 43 (3.97%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 38 (3.51%) Applications Engineer
15 37 (3.41%) Business Analyst
16 36 (3.32%) Senior Cloud Engineer
17 33 (3.04%) Test Analyst
18 27 (2.49%) Automation Test Lead
18 27 (2.49%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 284 (26.20%) .NET
2 107 (9.87%) RESTful
3 88 (8.12%) React
4 77 (7.10%) .NET Framework
5 74 (6.83%) YAML
6 71 (6.55%) REST
7 60 (5.54%) .NET Core
7 60 (5.54%) JSON
8 52 (4.80%) OAuth
9 51 (4.70%) ASP.NET
10 46 (4.24%) CSS
10 46 (4.24%) Entity Framework
10 46 (4.24%) SOAP
11 45 (4.15%) HTML
12 44 (4.06%) AngularJS
12 44 (4.06%) ARM Templates
13 37 (3.41%) XML
14 33 (3.04%) OAuth2
15 29 (2.68%) Blazor
16 26 (2.40%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 169 (15.59%) Cloud Native
2 117 (10.79%) Product Ownership
3 61 (5.63%) Enterprise Software
4 41 (3.78%) Management Information System
5 35 (3.23%) Onboarding
6 33 (3.04%) Security Posture
7 32 (2.95%) Legacy Systems
8 26 (2.40%) Hybrid Cloud
9 23 (2.12%) Distributed Systems
10 22 (2.03%) Analytical Mindset
10 22 (2.03%) Virtual Team
11 21 (1.94%) Low-Code
12 19 (1.75%) Data Centre
12 19 (1.75%) Mobile App
13 18 (1.66%) Greenfield Project
14 12 (1.11%) Legacy Applications
14 12 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
15 11 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
16 10 (0.92%) Linux Command Line
17 9 (0.83%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 98 (9.04%) Windows
2 59 (5.44%) Linux
3 25 (2.31%) 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
7 4 (0.37%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.18%) AIX
8 2 (0.18%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 2 (0.18%) Unix
8 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.092%) CentOS
9 1 (0.092%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.092%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,014 (93.54%) DevOps
2 611 (56.37%) CI/CD
3 537 (49.54%) Agile
4 278 (25.65%) Test Automation
5 262 (24.17%) Infrastructure as Code
6 249 (22.97%) Continuous Improvement
7 226 (20.85%) Mentoring
8 224 (20.66%) Problem-Solving
9 190 (17.53%) AI
10 187 (17.25%) Coaching
11 149 (13.75%) Analytics
12 135 (12.45%) Asset Management
12 135 (12.45%) Scrum
13 134 (12.36%) Roadmaps
14 128 (11.81%) Containerisation
15 124 (11.44%) Business Intelligence
16 121 (11.16%) ERP
16 121 (11.16%) Microservices
17 117 (10.79%) Software Engineering
18 114 (10.52%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 360 (33.21%) SQL
2 261 (24.08%) Python
3 246 (22.69%) C#
4 227 (20.94%) PowerShell
5 101 (9.32%) JavaScript
6 100 (9.23%) Bicep
7 91 (8.39%) Bash
8 72 (6.64%) 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 9 (0.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 9 (0.83%) Scala
16 5 (0.46%) Groovy
16 5 (0.46%) Kusto Query Language
17 4 (0.37%) R
17 4 (0.37%) VB
Qualifications
1 141 (13.01%) Degree
2 90 (8.30%) Computer Science Degree
3 80 (7.38%) Azure Certification
4 73 (6.73%) Security Cleared
5 49 (4.52%) SC Cleared
6 47 (4.34%) ISTQB
7 44 (4.06%) Master's Degree
8 28 (2.58%) Microsoft Certification
9 23 (2.12%) DV Cleared
10 20 (1.85%) AWS Certification
11 17 (1.57%) ISEB
12 12 (1.11%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 11 (1.01%) PMI Certification
14 10 (0.92%) PMP
15 7 (0.65%) AWS Certified Developer
15 7 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
16 6 (0.55%) DBS Check
17 5 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
18 4 (0.37%) CCNA
18 4 (0.37%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 156 (14.39%) QA
2 43 (3.97%) Accessibility
2 43 (3.97%) GDPR
3 37 (3.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 28 (2.58%) Data Quality
5 27 (2.49%) NCSC
5 27 (2.49%) NIST
6 18 (1.66%) PMO
7 10 (0.92%) Software Quality Assurance
8 5 (0.46%) PERC
8 5 (0.46%) SOC 2
9 4 (0.37%) WCAG
10 2 (0.18%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.18%) SLA
11 1 (0.092%) COBIT
11 1 (0.092%) HL7
11 1 (0.092%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.092%) P3O
11 1 (0.092%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 153 (14.11%) Docker
2 60 (5.54%) Active Directory
3 26 (2.40%) Virtual Machines
4 17 (1.57%) VMware Infrastructure
5 16 (1.48%) 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
1 334 (30.81%) Terraform
2 183 (16.88%) Kubernetes
3 81 (7.47%) 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
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%) SCOM
10 2 (0.18%) ZABBIX
11 1 (0.092%) SCCM
Vendors
1 367 (33.86%) Microsoft
2 81 (7.47%) SAP
3 72 (6.64%) HP
4 52 (4.80%) Databricks
5 38 (3.51%) Oracle
6 37 (3.41%) Salesforce
7 25 (2.31%) VMware
8 24 (2.21%) ServiceNow
9 20 (1.85%) Black Duck
10 19 (1.75%) Coverity
10 19 (1.75%) Okta
11 18 (1.66%) Google
12 14 (1.29%) OpenAI
12 14 (1.29%) Palo Alto
12 14 (1.29%) Xamarin
13 13 (1.20%) Foundry
14 12 (1.11%) Dynatrace
14 12 (1.11%) Sage
15 11 (1.01%) Ab Initio
16 10 (0.92%) Rackspace