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

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 107 113
Rank change year-on-year -23 +6 -12
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,131 1,362 1,948
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.73% 2.70% 2.62%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.19% 7.33% 6.82%
Number of salaries quoted 727 867 1,719
10th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £49,689 £53,688 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -4.58%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,125 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £93,778 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £59,263
% change year-on-year -15.38% +9.68% -1.23%

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 21,810 18,572 28,564
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.34% 36.88% 38.42%
Number of salaries quoted 11,768 10,959 23,678
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,000 £42,238
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 9 February 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 9 February 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 -43 892 £65,000 -3.70% 342
UK excluding London -32 706 £55,000 -15.38% 299
Work from Home +1 499 £62,000 -8.15% 218
London +26 352 £75,000 - 120
South East -7 246 £50,000 -23.08% 98
Scotland +59 170 £56,000 +1.82% 22
North of England -39 106 £55,000 -18.35% 86
Midlands -55 77 £60,000 -7.69% 40
South West -76 69 £47,500 -26.92% 26
West Midlands -49 55 £58,000 -13.11% 26
Yorkshire -46 41 £55,000 -21.43% 27
North West -21 35 £64,000 -1.54% 49
North East +10 30 £50,000 -27.27% 12
Wales -3 22 £55,000 -15.38% 13
East Midlands -11 19 £65,000 - 15
East of England -43 13 £62,500 +25.00% 18
Northern Ireland -18 3 £56,250 +12.50% 2

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 39 (3.45%) Confluence
2 34 (3.01%) IIS
3 26 (2.30%) SharePoint
4 19 (1.68%) Microsoft Exchange
5 17 (1.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 10 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
7 7 (0.62%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.35%) Apache
9 3 (0.27%) Appian
10 2 (0.18%) Anypoint
10 2 (0.18%) BizTalk Server
10 2 (0.18%) Moodle
11 1 (0.088%) nginx
11 1 (0.088%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.088%) Tomcat
Applications
1 38 (3.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 25 (2.21%) MS Visio
3 19 (1.68%) Microsoft Office
4 15 (1.33%) Microsoft Project
5 12 (1.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.35%) Trello
7 2 (0.18%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.088%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 71 (6.28%) SAP S/4HANA
2 37 (3.27%) Dynamics CRM
2 37 (3.27%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (0.27%) SAP CX
4 2 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (0.18%) Markit EDM
4 2 (0.18%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.088%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.088%) Endur
5 1 (0.088%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 1 (0.088%) Primavera
5 1 (0.088%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 1,062 (93.90%) Azure
2 348 (30.77%) GitHub
3 217 (19.19%) Power Platform
4 172 (15.21%) AWS
5 158 (13.97%) GitHub Actions
6 99 (8.75%) Azure Monitor
7 96 (8.49%) Entra ID
8 90 (7.96%) Azure Data Factory
9 87 (7.69%) Serverless
10 81 (7.16%) Snowflake
11 79 (6.98%) PaaS
12 78 (6.90%) Microsoft 365
13 70 (6.19%) SaaS
14 66 (5.84%) GitHub Copilot
15 62 (5.48%) Azure AKS
16 60 (5.31%) Dynamics 365
17 59 (5.22%) Azure Logic Apps
18 58 (5.13%) dbt
19 57 (5.04%) GCP
20 52 (4.60%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 65 (5.75%) Firewall
2 47 (4.16%) DNS
3 28 (2.48%) VPN
4 20 (1.77%) WAN
5 18 (1.59%) HTTP
6 16 (1.41%) TCP/IP
7 8 (0.71%) DHCP
7 8 (0.71%) Network Security
8 6 (0.53%) SD-WAN
9 5 (0.44%) BGP
9 5 (0.44%) VLAN
10 4 (0.35%) SSL
11 3 (0.27%) AMQP
11 3 (0.27%) IPsec
11 3 (0.27%) OSPF
11 3 (0.27%) Wi-Fi
11 3 (0.27%) Wireshark
12 1 (0.088%) IP Telephony
12 1 (0.088%) NetScaler
12 1 (0.088%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 158 (13.97%) SQL Server
2 130 (11.49%) Power BI
3 74 (6.54%) Data Warehouse
4 68 (6.01%) Azure SQL Database
5 47 (4.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 41 (3.63%) NoSQL
7 38 (3.36%) Tableau
8 31 (2.74%) Data Lake
9 28 (2.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 20 (1.77%) PostgreSQL
10 20 (1.77%) Relational Database
10 20 (1.77%) Snowflake Schema
11 15 (1.33%) DynamoDB
11 15 (1.33%) MongoDB
12 12 (1.06%) Metadata
12 12 (1.06%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 11 (0.97%) Delta Lake
14 9 (0.80%) GIS
14 9 (0.80%) MySQL
14 9 (0.80%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 212 (18.74%) JIRA
2 184 (16.27%) Git
3 127 (11.23%) Jenkins
4 69 (6.10%) eCATT
5 56 (4.95%) Selenium
6 39 (3.45%) NeoLoad
7 37 (3.27%) Oracle Forms
8 32 (2.83%) Cypress.io
9 30 (2.65%) GitLab
10 25 (2.21%) Octopus Deploy
11 22 (1.95%) Visual Studio
12 21 (1.86%) Snyk
12 21 (1.86%) TeamCity
13 20 (1.77%) Robot Framework
14 19 (1.68%) Postman
15 13 (1.15%) Eclipse
16 9 (0.80%) SpecFlow
17 8 (0.71%) MLflow
17 8 (0.71%) NUnit
18 7 (0.62%) REST Assured
General
1 451 (39.88%) Finance
2 273 (24.14%) Social Skills
3 156 (13.79%) Analytical Skills
4 99 (8.75%) Marketing
5 72 (6.37%) Manufacturing
6 58 (5.13%) Presentation Skills
7 48 (4.24%) Law
8 46 (4.07%) Influencing Skills
9 29 (2.56%) Public Sector
10 23 (2.03%) Billing
10 23 (2.03%) Retail
11 20 (1.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 18 (1.59%) Legal
13 15 (1.33%) Banking
13 15 (1.33%) Telecoms
14 14 (1.24%) Documentation Skills
15 10 (0.88%) Tech for Good
16 8 (0.71%) Advertising
16 8 (0.71%) Games
17 7 (0.62%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 236 (20.87%) Senior
2 201 (17.77%) Developer
3 157 (13.88%) Lead
4 140 (12.38%) DevOps Engineer
5 127 (11.23%) Azure Engineer
6 126 (11.14%) Analyst
7 106 (9.37%) Cloud Engineer
8 59 (5.22%) Data Engineer
9 51 (4.51%) Applications Engineer
10 50 (4.42%) Software Engineer
11 49 (4.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 49 (4.33%) Platform Engineer
11 49 (4.33%) Test Leader
12 48 (4.24%) .NET Developer
13 41 (3.63%) Architect
14 38 (3.36%) Senior Cloud Engineer
15 35 (3.09%) Business Analyst
16 31 (2.74%) Senior Developer
16 31 (2.74%) Support Engineer
17 28 (2.48%) Power Platform Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 276 (24.40%) .NET
2 114 (10.08%) RESTful
3 97 (8.58%) React
4 78 (6.90%) REST
5 71 (6.28%) YAML
6 70 (6.19%) OAuth
7 66 (5.84%) .NET Framework
8 61 (5.39%) .NET Core
8 61 (5.39%) ASP.NET
9 54 (4.77%) SOAP
10 53 (4.69%) CSS
11 52 (4.60%) HTML
11 52 (4.60%) JSON
12 41 (3.63%) OAuth2
13 36 (3.18%) AngularJS
13 36 (3.18%) SAML
14 35 (3.09%) Entity Framework
15 34 (3.01%) Playwright
16 32 (2.83%) ARM Templates
17 30 (2.65%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 149 (13.17%) Cloud Native
2 125 (11.05%) Product Ownership
3 58 (5.13%) Enterprise Software
4 41 (3.63%) Management Information System
5 35 (3.09%) Low-Code
6 34 (3.01%) Legacy Systems
7 26 (2.30%) Mobile App
8 25 (2.21%) Analytical Mindset
8 25 (2.21%) Virtual Team
9 23 (2.03%) Hybrid Cloud
9 23 (2.03%) Security Posture
10 21 (1.86%) Onboarding
11 19 (1.68%) Reinsurance
12 16 (1.41%) Distributed Systems
13 15 (1.33%) Data Centre
14 12 (1.06%) Data Structures
15 11 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
15 11 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
16 10 (0.88%) Legacy Applications
17 9 (0.80%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 96 (8.49%) Windows
2 68 (6.01%) Linux
3 29 (2.56%) VMS
4 17 (1.50%) Windows Server
5 11 (0.97%) Ubuntu
6 6 (0.53%) Android
7 5 (0.44%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.27%) Unix
9 2 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.088%) CentOS
10 1 (0.088%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.088%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.088%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,062 (93.90%) DevOps
2 649 (57.38%) CI/CD
3 528 (46.68%) Agile
4 307 (27.14%) Infrastructure as Code
5 283 (25.02%) Test Automation
6 264 (23.34%) Continuous Improvement
7 235 (20.78%) Problem-Solving
8 213 (18.83%) Coaching
9 203 (17.95%) AI
10 191 (16.89%) Mentoring
11 180 (15.92%) Analytics
12 159 (14.06%) Asset Management
13 137 (12.11%) Observability
14 135 (11.94%) Containerisation
14 135 (11.94%) Data Modelling
14 135 (11.94%) Roadmaps
15 132 (11.67%) Business Intelligence
16 117 (10.34%) Software Engineering
17 113 (9.99%) Microservices
18 111 (9.81%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 394 (34.84%) SQL
2 292 (25.82%) Python
3 237 (20.95%) C#
4 193 (17.06%) PowerShell
5 108 (9.55%) JavaScript
6 99 (8.75%) Bicep
7 96 (8.49%) Bash
8 69 (6.10%) TypeScript
9 57 (5.04%) Java
10 40 (3.54%) Shell Script
11 37 (3.27%) PL/SQL
12 31 (2.74%) Apex Code
13 30 (2.65%) T-SQL
14 23 (2.03%) Go
15 15 (1.33%) Scala
16 12 (1.06%) Kusto Query Language
17 9 (0.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 5 (0.44%) C++
19 4 (0.35%) PHP
19 4 (0.35%) VB
Qualifications
1 128 (11.32%) Degree
2 73 (6.45%) Azure Certification
3 72 (6.37%) Security Cleared
4 66 (5.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 42 (3.71%) SC Cleared
6 37 (3.27%) Master's Degree
7 35 (3.09%) ISTQB
8 29 (2.56%) Microsoft Certification
9 26 (2.30%) DV Cleared
10 21 (1.86%) AWS Certification
11 12 (1.06%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 12 (1.06%) PMI Certification
12 11 (0.97%) AWS Certified Developer
12 11 (0.97%) HND
13 8 (0.71%) PMP
14 6 (0.53%) DBS Check
14 6 (0.53%) ISEB
15 5 (0.44%) CBAP
15 5 (0.44%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 4 (0.35%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 135 (11.94%) QA
2 63 (5.57%) Accessibility
3 46 (4.07%) GDPR
4 44 (3.89%) Data Quality
5 37 (3.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (1.15%) NCSC
6 13 (1.15%) NIST
6 13 (1.15%) PMO
6 13 (1.15%) SOC 2
7 11 (0.97%) SLA
8 5 (0.44%) PERC
9 3 (0.27%) Software Quality Assurance
9 3 (0.27%) WCAG
10 2 (0.18%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 1 (0.088%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.088%) GRC
11 1 (0.088%) HL7
11 1 (0.088%) P3O
11 1 (0.088%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 136 (12.02%) Docker
2 77 (6.81%) Active Directory
3 27 (2.39%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (1.24%) Virtual Desktop
5 12 (1.06%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.35%) Firmware
6 4 (0.35%) Postfix
7 2 (0.18%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.18%) vCloud
8 1 (0.088%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 1 (0.088%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.088%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.088%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 366 (32.36%) Terraform
2 153 (13.53%) Kubernetes
3 101 (8.93%) Ansible
4 72 (6.37%) HP ALM
5 53 (4.69%) Grafana
6 41 (3.63%) Prometheus
7 39 (3.45%) Single Sign-On
8 19 (1.68%) Microsoft Intune
9 8 (0.71%) Kibana
10 4 (0.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (0.35%) Argo
10 4 (0.35%) logstash
11 3 (0.27%) Dell DRAC
11 3 (0.27%) Puppet
11 3 (0.27%) Rancher
11 3 (0.27%) SCCM
11 3 (0.27%) vRealize
12 2 (0.18%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (0.18%) Nessus
13 1 (0.088%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 358 (31.65%) Microsoft
2 77 (6.81%) SAP
3 72 (6.37%) HP
4 57 (5.04%) Databricks
5 44 (3.89%) Salesforce
6 42 (3.71%) Oracle
7 35 (3.09%) ServiceNow
8 24 (2.12%) Okta
9 22 (1.95%) VMware
10 20 (1.77%) Palo Alto
11 19 (1.68%) Zscaler
12 18 (1.59%) Black Duck
12 18 (1.59%) Coverity
13 14 (1.24%) Ab Initio
14 12 (1.06%) Adobe
14 12 (1.06%) Google
14 12 (1.06%) Sage
14 12 (1.06%) Xamarin
15 11 (0.97%) Red Hat
16 10 (0.88%) Nintex