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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 149 173 117
Rank change year-on-year +24 -56 -17
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,334 936 2,000
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.33% 1.91% 2.19%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.89% 5.89% 6.70%
Number of salaries quoted 1,082 706 1,480
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -0.83% +0.83% -

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 27,285 15,896 29,850
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.14% 32.38% 32.71%
Number of salaries quoted 17,820 11,065 22,258
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £43,219 £41,250 £42,001
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 £102,410 £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 24 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 24 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 +25 1,185 £65,000 -7.14% 452
UK excluding London +65 893 £60,000 -0.83% 315
Work from Home +29 553 £60,000 -11.11% 247
London -32 372 £80,000 +3.23% 194
North of England +90 264 £62,500 -3.85% 83
South East -2 223 £60,000 -5.51% 107
North West +79 145 £65,500 +0.77% 49
Midlands +14 133 £63,750 +6.25% 55
South West 0 98 £55,000 -4.35% 29
East of England +22 77 £56,000 -10.40% 24
Wales -6 73 £53,171 -7.53% 9
East Midlands +24 71 £60,000 +9.09% 21
Yorkshire -7 66 £69,308 +2.68% 22
West Midlands -30 62 £65,000 +8.33% 34
North East -2 53 £51,619 -6.15% 13
Scotland +14 25 £60,000 -6.98% 11
Northern Ireland -66 2 £72,500 +45.00% 5

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 63 (4.72%) SharePoint
2 61 (4.57%) Confluence
3 28 (2.10%) Microsoft Exchange
4 22 (1.65%) IIS
5 18 (1.35%) Apache Spark
6 11 (0.82%) CMS
7 10 (0.75%) Apache
8 8 (0.60%) Anypoint
8 8 (0.60%) nginx
8 8 (0.60%) SharePoint Server
9 6 (0.45%) Camunda
9 6 (0.45%) Umbraco
10 5 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
11 3 (0.22%) BizTalk Server
11 3 (0.22%) WordPress
12 2 (0.15%) CICS
12 2 (0.15%) Luigi
12 2 (0.15%) Moodle
13 1 (0.075%) NServiceBus
13 1 (0.075%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 19 (1.42%) Microsoft Project
2 15 (1.12%) MS Visio
3 11 (0.82%) Microsoft Excel
4 9 (0.67%) Trello
5 8 (0.60%) Chatbot
5 8 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
6 4 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.075%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.075%) Notion
7 1 (0.075%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 16 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.52%) Elite 3E
4 6 (0.45%) SAP IBP
5 5 (0.37%) Visualfiles
6 4 (0.30%) Dynamics AX
6 4 (0.30%) Dynamics NAV
6 4 (0.30%) Shopify
7 3 (0.22%) Carpe Diem
8 2 (0.15%) Magento
8 2 (0.15%) SAP Business One
9 1 (0.075%) Infor M3
9 1 (0.075%) Integrated Workplace Management System
9 1 (0.075%) JDE EnterpriseOne
9 1 (0.075%) Oracle Applications
9 1 (0.075%) Sage 200
9 1 (0.075%) Salesforce CRM
9 1 (0.075%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,333 (99.93%) Azure
2 218 (16.34%) GitHub
3 207 (15.52%) Power Platform
4 164 (12.29%) AWS
5 131 (9.82%) GitHub Actions
6 113 (8.47%) Serverless
7 106 (7.95%) Azure AKS
7 106 (7.95%) Azure Service Bus
8 98 (7.35%) Azure Monitor
9 97 (7.27%) Azure AI
10 94 (7.05%) PaaS
11 93 (6.97%) Dynamics 365
12 92 (6.90%) Azure Functions
13 88 (6.60%) Azure Logic Apps
14 77 (5.77%) SaaS
15 76 (5.70%) Entra ID
16 74 (5.55%) Microsoft 365
17 70 (5.25%) Azure Data Factory
18 69 (5.17%) Azure Key Vault
19 68 (5.10%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 38 (2.85%) Firewall
2 21 (1.57%) VPN
3 18 (1.35%) DNS
4 13 (0.97%) HTTP
5 12 (0.90%) Internet
5 12 (0.90%) Network Security
6 11 (0.82%) TCP/IP
7 6 (0.45%) MQTT
7 6 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (0.45%) Wireless
7 6 (0.45%) ZigBee
8 5 (0.37%) SAN
9 4 (0.30%) Bluetooth
10 3 (0.22%) BGP
10 3 (0.22%) HTTPS
11 2 (0.15%) DHCP
11 2 (0.15%) LoRaWAN
11 2 (0.15%) VLAN
12 1 (0.075%) Broadband
12 1 (0.075%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 239 (17.92%) Azure SQL Database
2 169 (12.67%) MongoDB
3 147 (11.02%) SQL Server
4 99 (7.42%) Power BI
5 52 (3.90%) PostgreSQL
6 45 (3.37%) Data Warehouse
7 35 (2.62%) Elasticsearch
8 32 (2.40%) Relational Database
9 28 (2.10%) Delta Lake
9 28 (2.10%) NoSQL
10 24 (1.80%) Redis
11 22 (1.65%) Data Lake
11 22 (1.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 21 (1.57%) MySQL
13 18 (1.35%) Spark SQL
14 17 (1.27%) Metadata
15 16 (1.20%) Star Schema
16 13 (0.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 13 (0.97%) Tableau
17 11 (0.82%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 203 (15.22%) Git
2 172 (12.89%) JIRA
3 120 (9.00%) Jenkins
4 81 (6.07%) GitLab
5 50 (3.75%) Selenium
6 41 (3.07%) Cypress.io
7 39 (2.92%) Postman
8 19 (1.42%) REST Assured
9 18 (1.35%) Eclipse
9 18 (1.35%) Visual Studio
10 16 (1.20%) JMeter
11 15 (1.12%) JUnit
12 14 (1.05%) fastlane
12 14 (1.05%) TestRail
12 14 (1.05%) Zephyr
13 12 (0.90%) Octopus Deploy
14 10 (0.75%) Mockito
15 9 (0.67%) NUnit
15 9 (0.67%) Xcode
16 8 (0.60%) MSI
General
1 318 (23.84%) Social Skills
2 285 (21.36%) Finance
3 123 (9.22%) Analytical Skills
4 100 (7.50%) Public Sector
5 95 (7.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 55 (4.12%) Retail
7 54 (4.05%) Law
8 44 (3.30%) Marketing
9 37 (2.77%) Legal
10 31 (2.32%) Banking
11 30 (2.25%) Advertising
12 24 (1.80%) Games
12 24 (1.80%) Presentation Skills
13 22 (1.65%) Manufacturing
14 20 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
15 15 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
16 11 (0.82%) Billing
16 11 (0.82%) Telecoms
17 10 (0.75%) Automotive
17 10 (0.75%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 416 (31.18%) Developer
2 273 (20.46%) Senior
3 215 (16.12%) DevOps Engineer
4 200 (14.99%) .NET Developer
5 190 (14.24%) Azure Engineer
6 176 (13.19%) Lead
7 111 (8.32%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 85 (6.37%) Senior Developer
9 74 (5.55%) Data Engineer
10 70 (5.25%) Platform Engineer
11 65 (4.87%) Analyst
12 57 (4.27%) Cloud Engineer
12 57 (4.27%) Senior DevOps
13 55 (4.12%) Architect
14 54 (4.05%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 47 (3.52%) Software Engineer
16 38 (2.85%) Cloud Platform Engineer
17 37 (2.77%) Software Developer
18 36 (2.70%) Senior Data Engineer
19 35 (2.62%) Azure Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 437 (32.76%) .NET
2 242 (18.14%) ASP.NET
3 217 (16.27%) .NET Core
4 194 (14.54%) ASP.NET Core
5 167 (12.52%) React
6 157 (11.77%) HTML
7 155 (11.62%) CSS
8 145 (10.87%) RESTful
9 136 (10.19%) REST
10 114 (8.55%) Blazor
10 114 (8.55%) Entity Framework
11 91 (6.82%) Node.js
12 81 (6.07%) ML.NET
13 64 (4.80%) Playwright
14 56 (4.20%) ARM Templates
14 56 (4.20%) YAML
15 50 (3.75%) .NET Framework
16 48 (3.60%) JSON
17 45 (3.37%) OAuth
18 40 (3.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 133 (9.97%) Product Ownership
2 128 (9.60%) Cloud Native
3 54 (4.05%) Mobile App
4 53 (3.97%) Enterprise Software
5 47 (3.52%) Legacy Systems
5 47 (3.52%) Onboarding
6 39 (2.92%) Distributed Systems
7 36 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
8 26 (1.95%) Management Information System
9 25 (1.87%) Hybrid Cloud
10 24 (1.80%) Analytical Mindset
11 21 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
12 19 (1.42%) Podcast
13 18 (1.35%) Low-Code
13 18 (1.35%) Public Cloud
14 17 (1.27%) BBC
14 17 (1.27%) iPhone
14 17 (1.27%) Social Media
15 15 (1.12%) AI Agents
16 14 (1.05%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 100 (7.50%) Linux
2 85 (6.37%) Windows
3 26 (1.95%) Android
4 24 (1.80%) VMS
5 18 (1.35%) Unix
6 16 (1.20%) Windows Server
7 15 (1.12%) Apple iOS
8 14 (1.05%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.30%) 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 (0.075%) Solaris
12 1 (0.075%) SUSE
12 1 (0.075%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,333 (99.93%) DevOps
2 778 (58.32%) CI/CD
3 633 (47.45%) Agile
4 314 (23.54%) Infrastructure as Code
5 298 (22.34%) AI
6 272 (20.39%) Continuous Improvement
7 244 (18.29%) Full-Stack Development
8 242 (18.14%) Test Automation
9 216 (16.19%) Scrum
10 200 (14.99%) Mentoring
11 197 (14.77%) Problem-Solving
12 170 (12.74%) Microservices
13 156 (11.69%) Analytics
14 150 (11.24%) Observability
15 138 (10.34%) Machine Learning
16 132 (9.90%) Platform Engineering
17 125 (9.37%) SDLC
18 124 (9.30%) Stakeholder Management
19 123 (9.22%) Roadmaps
20 115 (8.62%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 473 (35.46%) SQL
2 430 (32.23%) C#
3 246 (18.44%) Python
4 238 (17.84%) JavaScript
5 155 (11.62%) PowerShell
6 127 (9.52%) Bash
7 114 (8.55%) Bicep
8 81 (6.07%) Java
9 63 (4.72%) TypeScript
10 29 (2.17%) T-SQL
11 19 (1.42%) Go
12 17 (1.27%) C++
12 17 (1.27%) Kusto Query Language
13 14 (1.05%) Scala
14 12 (0.90%) Swift
15 10 (0.75%) VB.NET
16 8 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 8 (0.60%) DataWeave
16 8 (0.60%) Kotlin
17 7 (0.52%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 102 (7.65%) Security Cleared
2 87 (6.52%) Degree
3 83 (6.22%) SC Cleared
4 74 (5.55%) Azure Certification
5 37 (2.77%) Computer Science Degree
6 31 (2.32%) ISTQB
7 24 (1.80%) Microsoft Certification
8 16 (1.20%) PMI Certification
9 14 (1.05%) Master's Degree
10 11 (0.82%) DV Cleared
10 11 (0.82%) PMP
11 8 (0.60%) AWS Certification
12 6 (0.45%) CISSP
12 6 (0.45%) HND
12 6 (0.45%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 5 (0.37%) ISEB
13 5 (0.37%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
14 4 (0.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 4 (0.30%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 3 (0.22%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 168 (12.59%) QA
2 89 (6.67%) Accessibility
3 52 (3.90%) Data Quality
4 34 (2.55%) GDPR
5 31 (2.32%) WCAG
6 26 (1.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 15 (1.12%) PMO
8 12 (0.90%) TickIT
9 10 (0.75%) GRC
10 9 (0.67%) SLA
11 8 (0.60%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 8 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 7 (0.52%) NCSC
13 6 (0.45%) JTAG
13 6 (0.45%) Software Quality Assurance
13 6 (0.45%) Solvency II
14 5 (0.37%) IFRS
15 4 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
16 3 (0.22%) ISO 9001
17 2 (0.15%) SEPA
System Software
1 160 (11.99%) Docker
2 59 (4.42%) Active Directory
3 19 (1.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.97%) Virtual Desktop
4 13 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.90%) vSphere
6 5 (0.37%) Firmware
7 3 (0.22%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.15%) Xen
Systems Management
1 325 (24.36%) Terraform
2 157 (11.77%) Kubernetes
3 67 (5.02%) Ansible
4 63 (4.72%) Grafana
5 57 (4.27%) Prometheus
6 30 (2.25%) Argo
7 7 (0.52%) Puppet
8 5 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.30%) HP Fortify
10 3 (0.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
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%) Rancher
11 2 (0.15%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 574 (43.03%) Microsoft
2 73 (5.47%) Databricks
3 62 (4.65%) Google
4 39 (2.92%) Salesforce
5 38 (2.85%) Facebook
6 34 (2.55%) ServiceNow
7 30 (2.25%) Apple
8 27 (2.02%) VMware
9 25 (1.87%) Dynatrace
10 21 (1.57%) Red Hat
10 21 (1.57%) YouTube
11 19 (1.42%) MuleSoft
12 17 (1.27%) Sony
12 17 (1.27%) Yahoo!
13 16 (1.20%) OpenAI
14 15 (1.12%) SAP
15 14 (1.05%) Guidewire
16 13 (0.97%) Oracle
17 12 (0.90%) ScienceLogic
18 11 (0.82%) Foundry