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 3 months leading up to 18 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

3 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 171 180 104
Rank change year-on-year +9 -76 -2
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 588 498 1,190
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.14% 1.98% 2.59%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.14% 6.01% 7.54%
Number of salaries quoted 472 358 807
10th Percentile £43,250 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,468 £53,750 £51,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.85% -
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,375 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +4.35%

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 14,218 8,282 15,782
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.49% 32.89% 34.28%
Number of salaries quoted 8,700 5,608 11,454
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,844 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,437 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -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 3 months to 18 May 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 3 months to 18 May 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 3 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +7 523 £69,305 +2.67% 411
UK excluding London +67 395 £60,000 -4.00% 334
Work from Home +53 201 £65,000 -1.14% 422
London -67 158 £80,000 +10.34% 149
North of England +64 129 £69,310 +17.47% 92
South East -5 84 £57,500 -10.85% 103
North West +70 76 £70,400 +21.38% 50
Midlands +30 68 £67,500 +12.50% 49
South West -19 40 £55,000 - 26
East of England +17 36 £60,000 -4.00% 27
East Midlands +14 35 £67,500 +22.73% 20
West Midlands -2 33 £62,250 +3.75% 29
Wales -14 30 £52,750 -20.08% 18
Yorkshire -21 28 £69,310 -0.99% 24
North East -16 25 £52,500 -4.55% 19
Scotland +12 9 £62,500 +8.70% 19
Northern Ireland - 1 £72,500 - 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 38 (3.46%) SharePoint
2 34 (3.10%) Confluence
3 21 (1.91%) IIS
4 18 (1.64%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (0.82%) Apache Spark
6 7 (0.64%) Anypoint
6 7 (0.64%) Apache Airflow
6 7 (0.64%) SharePoint Server
7 6 (0.55%) Apache
7 6 (0.55%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 5 (0.46%) CMS
9 4 (0.36%) Moodle
9 4 (0.36%) Umbraco
10 3 (0.27%) WordPress
11 2 (0.18%) BizTalk Server
11 2 (0.18%) CICS
11 2 (0.18%) Luigi
12 1 (0.091%) Drupal
12 1 (0.091%) PegaRULES
12 1 (0.091%) Tomcat
Applications
1 19 (1.73%) Microsoft Excel
1 19 (1.73%) MS Visio
2 10 (0.91%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (0.64%) Chatbot
3 7 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.27%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.18%) Trello
7 1 (0.091%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 15 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (1.09%) Oracle ERP
3 6 (0.55%) Dynamics AX
4 5 (0.46%) Visualfiles
5 3 (0.27%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.27%) Elite 3E
5 3 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.18%) Magento
6 2 (0.18%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.091%) Endur
7 1 (0.091%) Infor M3
7 1 (0.091%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 1 (0.091%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.091%) Sage 200
7 1 (0.091%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.091%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1,097 (99.91%) Azure
2 256 (23.32%) GitHub
3 177 (16.12%) Power Platform
4 158 (14.39%) AWS
5 148 (13.48%) GitHub Actions
6 94 (8.56%) Serverless
7 90 (8.20%) Azure Monitor
8 89 (8.11%) Azure AKS
9 85 (7.74%) Entra ID
10 81 (7.38%) Azure Data Factory
11 80 (7.29%) Microsoft 365
12 74 (6.74%) Azure Logic Apps
13 70 (6.38%) PaaS
14 62 (5.65%) Azure Service Bus
15 61 (5.56%) SaaS
16 60 (5.46%) Azure Functions
16 60 (5.46%) GCP
17 59 (5.37%) Dynamics 365
18 50 (4.55%) Azure Key Vault
19 41 (3.73%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 58 (5.28%) Firewall
2 28 (2.55%) DNS
3 16 (1.46%) TCP/IP
4 15 (1.37%) HTTP
5 14 (1.28%) Network Security
6 13 (1.18%) VPN
7 12 (1.09%) WAN
8 4 (0.36%) DHCP
9 3 (0.27%) BGP
9 3 (0.27%) Bluetooth
9 3 (0.27%) MQTT
9 3 (0.27%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (0.27%) Wireless
9 3 (0.27%) ZigBee
10 2 (0.18%) HTTPS
10 2 (0.18%) Internet
10 2 (0.18%) SAN
11 1 (0.091%) IP Telephony
11 1 (0.091%) MPLS
11 1 (0.091%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 123 (11.20%) SQL Server
2 120 (10.93%) Azure SQL Database
3 96 (8.74%) Power BI
4 77 (7.01%) MongoDB
5 43 (3.92%) Data Warehouse
6 39 (3.55%) PostgreSQL
7 38 (3.46%) Data Lake
8 34 (3.10%) NoSQL
9 24 (2.19%) Relational Database
10 23 (2.09%) Delta Lake
11 18 (1.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 17 (1.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 16 (1.46%) Spark SQL
14 13 (1.18%) Star Schema
15 12 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
15 12 (1.09%) Tableau
16 11 (1.00%) Elasticsearch
17 10 (0.91%) DynamoDB
18 9 (0.82%) Metadata
18 9 (0.82%) Redis
Development Applications
1 182 (16.58%) Git
2 137 (12.48%) JIRA
3 114 (10.38%) Jenkins
4 66 (6.01%) GitLab
5 53 (4.83%) Selenium
6 38 (3.46%) Cypress.io
7 32 (2.91%) Postman
8 22 (2.00%) Eclipse
9 17 (1.55%) Visual Studio
10 16 (1.46%) Octopus Deploy
11 12 (1.09%) Oracle Forms
11 12 (1.09%) REST Assured
11 12 (1.09%) TeamCity
12 11 (1.00%) JMeter
12 11 (1.00%) TestRail
13 10 (0.91%) Zephyr
14 7 (0.64%) Cucumber
14 7 (0.64%) fastlane
15 6 (0.55%) MLflow
15 6 (0.55%) Robot Framework
General
1 305 (27.78%) Finance
2 243 (22.13%) Social Skills
3 132 (12.02%) Analytical Skills
4 70 (6.38%) Public Sector
5 48 (4.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 45 (4.10%) Law
7 36 (3.28%) Retail
8 35 (3.19%) Legal
9 32 (2.91%) Marketing
10 28 (2.55%) Billing
11 21 (1.91%) Banking
12 20 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
13 17 (1.55%) Telecoms
14 14 (1.28%) Advertising
14 14 (1.28%) Games
15 12 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
16 11 (1.00%) Automotive
17 10 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
18 9 (0.82%) Manufacturing
19 6 (0.55%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 264 (24.04%) Developer
2 225 (20.49%) Senior
3 199 (18.12%) DevOps Engineer
4 184 (16.76%) Azure Engineer
5 157 (14.30%) Lead
6 98 (8.93%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 86 (7.83%) .NET Developer
8 72 (6.56%) Cloud Engineer
9 65 (5.92%) Data Engineer
10 59 (5.37%) Senior Developer
11 55 (5.01%) Platform Engineer
12 54 (4.92%) Architect
13 52 (4.74%) Analyst
14 51 (4.64%) Senior DevOps
15 49 (4.46%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 38 (3.46%) Software Engineer
17 33 (3.01%) Cloud Platform Engineer
18 29 (2.64%) Software Developer
19 28 (2.55%) Azure Platform Engineer
20 27 (2.46%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 302 (27.50%) .NET
2 129 (11.75%) React
3 122 (11.11%) ASP.NET
4 113 (10.29%) .NET Core
5 105 (9.56%) REST
6 100 (9.11%) CSS
6 100 (9.11%) HTML
7 95 (8.65%) RESTful
8 88 (8.01%) ASP.NET Core
9 66 (6.01%) Node.js
10 63 (5.74%) OAuth
11 55 (5.01%) Playwright
12 54 (4.92%) YAML
13 53 (4.83%) Blazor
13 53 (4.83%) Entity Framework
13 53 (4.83%) SOAP
14 44 (4.01%) JSON
15 41 (3.73%) .NET Framework
16 40 (3.64%) PySpark
17 38 (3.46%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 115 (10.47%) Product Ownership
2 99 (9.02%) Cloud Native
3 41 (3.73%) Enterprise Software
4 37 (3.37%) Mobile App
5 31 (2.82%) Management Information System
6 28 (2.55%) Legacy Systems
6 28 (2.55%) Low-Code
7 24 (2.19%) Analytical Mindset
8 23 (2.09%) Distributed Systems
9 22 (2.00%) Onboarding
10 17 (1.55%) Reinsurance
11 15 (1.37%) Data Structures
12 14 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
13 13 (1.18%) Hybrid Cloud
14 11 (1.00%) Virtual Team
15 10 (0.91%) Enterprise Cloud
15 10 (0.91%) Legacy Applications
16 9 (0.82%) Self-Motivation
17 8 (0.73%) Distributed Computing
17 8 (0.73%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 89 (8.11%) Linux
2 65 (5.92%) Windows
3 19 (1.73%) VMS
4 18 (1.64%) Unix
5 15 (1.37%) Ubuntu
6 13 (1.18%) Android
6 13 (1.18%) Windows Server
7 12 (1.09%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.36%) Kali Linux
9 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.091%) SUSE
10 1 (0.091%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.091%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,097 (99.91%) DevOps
2 674 (61.38%) CI/CD
3 486 (44.26%) Agile
4 301 (27.41%) Infrastructure as Code
5 263 (23.95%) Test Automation
6 214 (19.49%) Continuous Improvement
7 205 (18.67%) AI
8 192 (17.49%) Problem-Solving
9 164 (14.94%) Mentoring
10 158 (14.39%) Analytics
11 157 (14.30%) Observability
12 153 (13.93%) Scrum
13 140 (12.75%) Full-Stack Development
14 139 (12.66%) Data Modelling
15 128 (11.66%) Coaching
16 127 (11.57%) Microservices
17 125 (11.38%) Containerisation
18 103 (9.38%) Business Intelligence
19 101 (9.20%) Roadmaps
20 99 (9.02%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 374 (34.06%) SQL
2 268 (24.41%) C#
3 260 (23.68%) Python
4 165 (15.03%) JavaScript
5 126 (11.48%) PowerShell
6 108 (9.84%) Bash
7 80 (7.29%) Bicep
8 79 (7.19%) Java
9 56 (5.10%) TypeScript
10 22 (2.00%) Apex Code
11 20 (1.82%) Go
12 19 (1.73%) Scala
13 16 (1.46%) PL/SQL
14 14 (1.28%) C++
14 14 (1.28%) Shell Script
14 14 (1.28%) T-SQL
15 13 (1.18%) Kusto Query Language
16 12 (1.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 9 (0.82%) Swift
18 7 (0.64%) DataWeave
Qualifications
1 86 (7.83%) Degree
2 71 (6.47%) Security Cleared
3 47 (4.28%) Azure Certification
3 47 (4.28%) SC Cleared
4 38 (3.46%) Computer Science Degree
5 30 (2.73%) ISTQB
6 21 (1.91%) Microsoft Certification
7 16 (1.46%) Master's Degree
8 15 (1.37%) DV Cleared
9 13 (1.18%) HND
10 11 (1.00%) AWS Certification
11 10 (0.91%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 9 (0.82%) PMI Certification
13 7 (0.64%) AWS Certified Developer
14 5 (0.46%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 4 (0.36%) BC Cleared
16 3 (0.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 3 (0.27%) CBAP
16 3 (0.27%) CISSP
17 2 (0.18%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 119 (10.84%) QA
2 77 (7.01%) Accessibility
3 47 (4.28%) Data Quality
4 42 (3.83%) GDPR
5 28 (2.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (1.18%) SLA
6 13 (1.18%) SOC 2
7 12 (1.09%) TickIT
8 11 (1.00%) WCAG
9 10 (0.91%) GRC
10 6 (0.55%) PMO
10 6 (0.55%) Software Quality Assurance
10 6 (0.55%) Solvency II
11 5 (0.46%) IFRS
11 5 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.27%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 3 (0.27%) JTAG
13 2 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.18%) IFRS 17
13 2 (0.18%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 146 (13.30%) Docker
2 61 (5.56%) Active Directory
3 17 (1.55%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.27%) Firmware
6 2 (0.18%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.091%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 322 (29.33%) Terraform
2 118 (10.75%) Kubernetes
3 76 (6.92%) Ansible
4 63 (5.74%) Grafana
5 51 (4.64%) Prometheus
6 23 (2.09%) Argo
7 14 (1.28%) Single Sign-On
8 9 (0.82%) Kibana
9 4 (0.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (0.36%) HP Fortify
9 4 (0.36%) logstash
9 4 (0.36%) Puppet
10 3 (0.27%) HP ALM
10 3 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (0.27%) Scalr
11 2 (0.18%) MIIS
11 2 (0.18%) Nagios
11 2 (0.18%) SCCM
12 1 (0.091%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.091%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 418 (38.07%) Microsoft
2 68 (6.19%) Databricks
3 53 (4.83%) Salesforce
4 32 (2.91%) ServiceNow
5 24 (2.19%) Red Hat
6 23 (2.09%) Oracle
7 21 (1.91%) Google
8 18 (1.64%) Dynatrace
9 17 (1.55%) MuleSoft
10 16 (1.46%) Apple
11 15 (1.37%) Adobe
12 14 (1.28%) Palo Alto
12 14 (1.28%) Zscaler
13 12 (1.09%) Facebook
13 12 (1.09%) Freshdesk
13 12 (1.09%) Nintex
14 11 (1.00%) CrowdStrike
14 11 (1.00%) VMware
15 10 (0.91%) Guidewire
16 9 (0.82%) Splunk