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 1 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 149 166 115
Rank change year-on-year +17 -51 -24
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,441 927 1,802
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.31% 1.85% 2.21%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.24% 5.82% 6.98%
Number of salaries quoted 1,139 681 1,244
10th Percentile £43,325 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,500
% 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 27,511 15,930 25,816
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.04% 31.86% 31.71%
Number of salaries quoted 18,545 10,882 17,592
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £39,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,875
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +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 1 September 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 1 September 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 +28 1,290 £65,000 -3.70% 837
UK excluding London +52 957 £60,000 - 551
Work from Home +22 585 £60,000 -7.69% 467
London -18 415 £80,000 +6.67% 406
North of England +89 286 £60,500 -6.92% 136
South East +1 230 £62,500 - 150
North West +82 171 £65,000 - 75
Midlands +34 164 £62,500 +4.17% 84
South West -11 95 £55,000 +4.76% 61
West Midlands +8 92 £62,500 +4.17% 43
Wales -15 89 £53,171 -3.33% 13
East of England +17 79 £55,000 -12.00% 45
East Midlands +31 72 £57,500 +4.55% 41
Yorkshire -5 66 £69,305 +15.51% 47
North East -20 49 £52,000 -0.95% 14
Scotland -28 19 £55,000 -14.73% 38
Northern Ireland - 1 £72,500 - 25

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 76 (5.27%) SharePoint
2 70 (4.86%) Confluence
3 32 (2.22%) Microsoft Exchange
4 22 (1.53%) IIS
5 20 (1.39%) Apache Spark
6 11 (0.76%) Apache
6 11 (0.76%) CMS
6 11 (0.76%) nginx
7 8 (0.56%) SharePoint Server
8 6 (0.42%) Anypoint
8 6 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
8 6 (0.42%) Camunda
8 6 (0.42%) CICS
8 6 (0.42%) Umbraco
9 3 (0.21%) BizTalk Server
9 3 (0.21%) WordPress
10 2 (0.14%) Luigi
11 1 (0.069%) Drupal
11 1 (0.069%) PegaRULES
11 1 (0.069%) TPMS
Applications
1 20 (1.39%) Microsoft Project
2 15 (1.04%) MS Visio
3 13 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
4 11 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
5 9 (0.62%) Trello
6 8 (0.56%) Chatbot
7 7 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 1 (0.069%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.069%) Notion
8 1 (0.069%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 23 (1.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.97%) Elite 3E
3 9 (0.62%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (0.42%) SAP IBP
5 5 (0.35%) Dynamics NAV
5 5 (0.35%) Visualfiles
6 3 (0.21%) Carpe Diem
6 3 (0.21%) Dynamics AX
6 3 (0.21%) Oracle Applications
6 3 (0.21%) SAP Business One
6 3 (0.21%) Shopify
7 2 (0.14%) JDE EnterpriseOne
8 1 (0.069%) Infor M3
8 1 (0.069%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 1 (0.069%) Magento
8 1 (0.069%) Sage 200
8 1 (0.069%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.069%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,441 (100.00%) Azure
2 238 (16.52%) Power Platform
3 215 (14.92%) GitHub
4 168 (11.66%) AWS
5 135 (9.37%) Serverless
6 128 (8.88%) GitHub Actions
7 121 (8.40%) Dynamics 365
8 116 (8.05%) Azure Service Bus
9 113 (7.84%) Azure Functions
10 112 (7.77%) Azure AKS
11 104 (7.22%) Azure AI
12 102 (7.08%) Azure Monitor
13 97 (6.73%) Azure Logic Apps
14 94 (6.52%) PaaS
15 93 (6.45%) Azure Key Vault
15 93 (6.45%) Entra ID
16 83 (5.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 83 (5.76%) Azure Data Factory
16 83 (5.76%) Microsoft 365
17 81 (5.62%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 37 (2.57%) Firewall
2 32 (2.22%) VPN
3 17 (1.18%) DNS
4 12 (0.83%) Internet
4 12 (0.83%) Network Security
5 10 (0.69%) Wi-Fi
6 9 (0.62%) SAN
7 8 (0.56%) HTTP
8 7 (0.49%) Wireless
9 6 (0.42%) DHCP
9 6 (0.42%) MQTT
9 6 (0.42%) TCP/IP
9 6 (0.42%) VLAN
9 6 (0.42%) ZigBee
10 4 (0.28%) Bluetooth
11 3 (0.21%) HTTPS
12 2 (0.14%) LoRaWAN
13 1 (0.069%) BGP
13 1 (0.069%) Broadband
13 1 (0.069%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 259 (17.97%) Azure SQL Database
2 187 (12.98%) SQL Server
3 177 (12.28%) MongoDB
4 120 (8.33%) Power BI
5 66 (4.58%) Data Warehouse
6 56 (3.89%) PostgreSQL
7 46 (3.19%) Relational Database
8 41 (2.85%) Elasticsearch
9 35 (2.43%) NoSQL
10 31 (2.15%) Delta Lake
11 29 (2.01%) Data Lake
11 29 (2.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 26 (1.80%) Metadata
12 26 (1.80%) Redis
13 23 (1.60%) MySQL
14 21 (1.46%) Star Schema
15 18 (1.25%) Spark SQL
15 18 (1.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 16 (1.11%) Tableau
17 13 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 255 (17.70%) Git
2 195 (13.53%) JIRA
3 121 (8.40%) Jenkins
4 81 (5.62%) GitLab
5 50 (3.47%) Selenium
6 44 (3.05%) Postman
7 38 (2.64%) Cypress.io
8 20 (1.39%) REST Assured
9 18 (1.25%) JMeter
9 18 (1.25%) JUnit
10 17 (1.18%) NUnit
11 16 (1.11%) Visual Studio
12 15 (1.04%) Zephyr
13 14 (0.97%) Eclipse
13 14 (0.97%) fastlane
13 14 (0.97%) TestRail
14 13 (0.90%) Octopus Deploy
15 11 (0.76%) SonarQube
16 10 (0.69%) Cucumber
16 10 (0.69%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 385 (26.72%) Social Skills
2 320 (22.21%) Finance
3 149 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
4 117 (8.12%) Public Sector
5 106 (7.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 56 (3.89%) Law
7 54 (3.75%) Retail
8 43 (2.98%) Marketing
9 37 (2.57%) Legal
10 36 (2.50%) Banking
11 30 (2.08%) Advertising
12 23 (1.60%) Games
13 22 (1.53%) Manufacturing
14 21 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
15 16 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
15 16 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
16 12 (0.83%) Aviation
17 10 (0.69%) Automotive
17 10 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
18 8 (0.56%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 457 (31.71%) Developer
2 322 (22.35%) Senior
3 219 (15.20%) .NET Developer
4 207 (14.37%) DevOps Engineer
5 199 (13.81%) Azure Engineer
6 171 (11.87%) Lead
7 105 (7.29%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 100 (6.94%) Senior Developer
9 86 (5.97%) Platform Engineer
10 82 (5.69%) Analyst
10 82 (5.69%) Data Engineer
11 68 (4.72%) Senior DevOps
12 63 (4.37%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 59 (4.09%) Cloud Engineer
14 52 (3.61%) Software Engineer
15 48 (3.33%) Architect
16 45 (3.12%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 45 (3.12%) Software Developer
17 42 (2.91%) Azure Platform Engineer
17 42 (2.91%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 487 (33.80%) .NET
2 344 (23.87%) Terraform
3 259 (17.97%) ASP.NET
4 235 (16.31%) .NET Core
5 206 (14.30%) ASP.NET Core
6 172 (11.94%) React
7 164 (11.38%) REST
8 161 (11.17%) HTML
9 160 (11.10%) RESTful
10 159 (11.03%) CSS
11 126 (8.74%) Blazor
11 126 (8.74%) Entity Framework
12 91 (6.32%) Node.js
13 82 (5.69%) ML.NET
14 64 (4.44%) .NET Framework
15 63 (4.37%) Playwright
16 56 (3.89%) YAML
17 55 (3.82%) ARM Templates
17 55 (3.82%) JSON
18 47 (3.26%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 148 (10.27%) Product Ownership
2 140 (9.72%) Cloud Native
3 78 (5.41%) Enterprise Software
4 58 (4.02%) Legacy Systems
5 55 (3.82%) Onboarding
6 53 (3.68%) Mobile App
7 39 (2.71%) Distributed Systems
8 37 (2.57%) Greenfield Project
9 29 (2.01%) Hybrid Cloud
10 24 (1.67%) Management Information System
11 23 (1.60%) Legacy Applications
11 23 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
12 21 (1.46%) Public Cloud
13 19 (1.32%) Podcast
14 18 (1.25%) Low-Code
15 17 (1.18%) AI Agents
15 17 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
15 17 (1.18%) BBC
15 17 (1.18%) iPhone
15 17 (1.18%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 105 (7.29%) Windows
2 99 (6.87%) Linux
3 26 (1.80%) Android
4 23 (1.60%) VMS
5 20 (1.39%) Windows Server
6 19 (1.32%) Unix
7 14 (0.97%) Apple iOS
8 12 (0.83%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.35%) Kali Linux
10 3 (0.21%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.21%) Solaris
11 2 (0.14%) Debian
11 2 (0.14%) Rocky
11 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.069%) SUSE
12 1 (0.069%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,441 (100.00%) DevOps
2 831 (57.67%) CI/CD
3 670 (46.50%) Agile
4 329 (22.83%) AI
5 322 (22.35%) Infrastructure as Code
6 316 (21.93%) Continuous Improvement
7 256 (17.77%) Test Automation
8 254 (17.63%) Full-Stack Development
9 246 (17.07%) Problem-Solving
10 228 (15.82%) Scrum
11 216 (14.99%) Mentoring
12 184 (12.77%) Microservices
13 181 (12.56%) Analytics
14 161 (11.17%) Observability
15 157 (10.90%) Stakeholder Management
16 154 (10.69%) Platform Engineering
17 144 (9.99%) Software Engineering
18 142 (9.85%) Machine Learning
19 138 (9.58%) Business Intelligence
20 130 (9.02%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 520 (36.09%) SQL
2 482 (33.45%) C#
3 269 (18.67%) Python
4 242 (16.79%) JavaScript
5 171 (11.87%) PowerShell
6 124 (8.61%) Bash
7 117 (8.12%) Bicep
8 95 (6.59%) Java
9 59 (4.09%) TypeScript
10 39 (2.71%) T-SQL
11 17 (1.18%) VB.NET
12 16 (1.11%) C++
12 16 (1.11%) Kusto Query Language
13 15 (1.04%) Scala
14 13 (0.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 11 (0.76%) Go
15 11 (0.76%) JCL
15 11 (0.76%) Swift
16 10 (0.69%) COBOL
17 8 (0.56%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 120 (8.33%) Degree
2 110 (7.63%) Security Cleared
3 94 (6.52%) SC Cleared
4 84 (5.83%) Azure Certification
5 50 (3.47%) Computer Science Degree
6 33 (2.29%) ISTQB
6 33 (2.29%) Microsoft Certification
7 22 (1.53%) PMI Certification
8 16 (1.11%) Master's Degree
9 13 (0.90%) PMP
10 12 (0.83%) AWS Certification
11 11 (0.76%) DV Cleared
12 8 (0.56%) ISEB
13 7 (0.49%) CBAP
13 7 (0.49%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 5 (0.35%) BPSS Clearance
14 5 (0.35%) CISSP
14 5 (0.35%) CSPO
14 5 (0.35%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
14 5 (0.35%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 191 (13.25%) QA
2 84 (5.83%) Accessibility
3 70 (4.86%) Data Quality
4 36 (2.50%) GDPR
5 34 (2.36%) WCAG
6 22 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 18 (1.25%) PMO
8 12 (0.83%) TickIT
9 9 (0.62%) GRC
9 9 (0.62%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 9 (0.62%) SLA
10 8 (0.56%) NCSC
10 8 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 6 (0.42%) JTAG
11 6 (0.42%) Solvency II
12 5 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 5 (0.35%) IFRS
13 4 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
13 4 (0.28%) Software Quality Assurance
14 3 (0.21%) NIST
System Software
1 183 (12.70%) Docker
2 69 (4.79%) Active Directory
3 24 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (1.18%) Virtual Desktop
5 13 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
6 12 (0.83%) vSphere
7 5 (0.35%) Firmware
8 3 (0.21%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.14%) Xen
10 1 (0.069%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.069%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 169 (11.73%) Kubernetes
2 60 (4.16%) Ansible
3 53 (3.68%) Grafana
4 47 (3.26%) Prometheus
5 30 (2.08%) Argo
6 18 (1.25%) Microsoft Intune
7 12 (0.83%) Puppet
8 5 (0.35%) HP Fortify
8 5 (0.35%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (0.28%) SCCM
9 4 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.21%) HP ALM
10 3 (0.21%) Scalr
11 2 (0.14%) FlexNet
11 2 (0.14%) Kibana
11 2 (0.14%) MIIS
11 2 (0.14%) Nagios
11 2 (0.14%) Nessus
11 2 (0.14%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 634 (44.00%) Microsoft
2 87 (6.04%) Databricks
3 64 (4.44%) Google
4 39 (2.71%) Salesforce
5 38 (2.64%) Facebook
6 33 (2.29%) VMware
7 29 (2.01%) Apple
7 29 (2.01%) ServiceNow
8 23 (1.60%) Dynatrace
9 21 (1.46%) YouTube
10 20 (1.39%) Oracle
10 20 (1.39%) Red Hat
10 20 (1.39%) SAP
11 19 (1.32%) OpenAI
12 17 (1.18%) Sony
12 17 (1.18%) Yahoo!
13 14 (0.97%) MuleSoft
14 12 (0.83%) Guidewire
14 12 (0.83%) ScienceLogic
15 11 (0.76%) Foundry