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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 179 139 113
Rank change year-on-year -40 -26 -6
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,046 921 2,333
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.16% 2.18% 2.43%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.77% 6.14% 6.77%
Number of salaries quoted 766 753 1,813
10th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £41,587
25th Percentile £50,417 £53,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £61,750
Median % change year-on-year - +9.31% -5.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £77,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £59,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.80% +4.17% -

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 27,762 15,004 34,440
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.86% 35.47% 35.94%
Number of salaries quoted 14,436 10,994 26,803
10th Percentile £30,625 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £44,257 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £61,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% +6.96% -11.54%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,747 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% 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 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 6 months to 1 May 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 -38 881 £67,500 - 367
UK excluding London -7 640 £59,500 -4.80% 294
Work from Home -6 407 £65,000 -3.70% 207
London -20 339 £78,500 +4.67% 145
South East -39 159 £50,000 -28.57% 94
North of England -14 157 £65,000 -7.14% 73
Midlands -26 99 £65,000 - 45
Scotland +35 90 £62,500 +8.70% 19
South West -38 80 £52,500 -19.23% 18
North West -1 74 £70,000 +3.70% 40
West Midlands -44 56 £60,000 -7.69% 22
Yorkshire -53 50 £60,000 -14.29% 16
East Midlands -16 40 £67,500 +35.00% 23
North East -12 33 £50,000 -16.67% 17
Wales -22 28 £53,100 +0.97% 16
East of England -29 26 £70,000 +32.08% 30
Northern Ireland -39 3 £61,250 +22.50% 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 38 (3.63%) Confluence
1 38 (3.63%) SharePoint
2 24 (2.29%) Microsoft Exchange
3 20 (1.91%) IIS
4 11 (1.05%) Apache Spark
5 8 (0.76%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 7 (0.67%) Anypoint
7 6 (0.57%) Apache
8 5 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.38%) Moodle
10 2 (0.19%) BizTalk Server
10 2 (0.19%) CICS
10 2 (0.19%) CMS
11 1 (0.096%) Drupal
11 1 (0.096%) nginx
11 1 (0.096%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.096%) PegaRULES
11 1 (0.096%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.096%) Umbraco
11 1 (0.096%) WordPress
Applications
1 22 (2.10%) Microsoft Excel
1 22 (2.10%) MS Visio
2 8 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 8 (0.76%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (0.48%) Chatbot
3 5 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.29%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.096%) Sketch
5 1 (0.096%) Trello
Business Applications
1 16 (1.53%) Oracle ERP
2 14 (1.34%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.57%) Dynamics AX
4 5 (0.48%) Visualfiles
5 3 (0.29%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.19%) Magento
6 2 (0.19%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.096%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.096%) Endur
7 1 (0.096%) Infor M3
7 1 (0.096%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 1 (0.096%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.096%) Sage 200
7 1 (0.096%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.096%) SAP CX
7 1 (0.096%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1,045 (99.90%) Azure
2 282 (26.96%) GitHub
3 182 (17.40%) Power Platform
4 160 (15.30%) AWS
5 156 (14.91%) GitHub Actions
6 99 (9.46%) Serverless
7 91 (8.70%) Azure Data Factory
8 90 (8.60%) Entra ID
9 84 (8.03%) Microsoft 365
10 83 (7.93%) Azure Monitor
11 79 (7.55%) Azure AKS
12 71 (6.79%) PaaS
13 68 (6.50%) Azure Logic Apps
14 61 (5.83%) Dynamics 365
14 61 (5.83%) GCP
15 60 (5.74%) Azure Functions
15 60 (5.74%) SaaS
16 57 (5.45%) Azure Service Bus
17 48 (4.59%) Azure Key Vault
18 40 (3.82%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 61 (5.83%) Firewall
2 30 (2.87%) DNS
3 19 (1.82%) HTTP
3 19 (1.82%) TCP/IP
4 15 (1.43%) Network Security
5 14 (1.34%) VPN
6 13 (1.24%) WAN
7 3 (0.29%) BGP
7 3 (0.29%) DHCP
8 2 (0.19%) SSL
9 1 (0.096%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.096%) IP Telephony
9 1 (0.096%) LTE
9 1 (0.096%) MPLS
9 1 (0.096%) NetScaler
9 1 (0.096%) SAN
9 1 (0.096%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.096%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (11.38%) SQL Server
2 98 (9.37%) Power BI
3 73 (6.98%) Azure SQL Database
4 49 (4.68%) Data Warehouse
5 40 (3.82%) PostgreSQL
6 38 (3.63%) Data Lake
6 38 (3.63%) MongoDB
7 35 (3.35%) NoSQL
8 24 (2.29%) Delta Lake
9 23 (2.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 19 (1.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 17 (1.63%) Relational Database
12 15 (1.43%) Tableau
13 14 (1.34%) DynamoDB
13 14 (1.34%) Spark SQL
14 12 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
14 12 (1.15%) Star Schema
15 10 (0.96%) Metadata
16 9 (0.86%) MySQL
16 9 (0.86%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 166 (15.87%) Git
2 150 (14.34%) JIRA
3 110 (10.52%) Jenkins
4 59 (5.64%) GitLab
5 50 (4.78%) Selenium
6 39 (3.73%) Cypress.io
7 32 (3.06%) Postman
8 21 (2.01%) Eclipse
9 18 (1.72%) Visual Studio
10 16 (1.53%) Octopus Deploy
10 16 (1.53%) Oracle Forms
11 12 (1.15%) REST Assured
11 12 (1.15%) TeamCity
11 12 (1.15%) TestRail
12 11 (1.05%) JMeter
13 9 (0.86%) Zephyr
14 7 (0.67%) Cucumber
14 7 (0.67%) LoadRunner
14 7 (0.67%) MLflow
14 7 (0.67%) NUnit
General
1 306 (29.25%) Finance
2 251 (24.00%) Social Skills
3 145 (13.86%) Analytical Skills
4 55 (5.26%) Public Sector
5 54 (5.16%) Law
6 42 (4.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 39 (3.73%) Retail
8 33 (3.15%) Legal
9 30 (2.87%) Marketing
10 28 (2.68%) Billing
11 21 (2.01%) Telecoms
12 20 (1.91%) Influencing Skills
13 19 (1.82%) Banking
14 11 (1.05%) Automotive
14 11 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
14 11 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
15 10 (0.96%) Advertising
16 9 (0.86%) Manufacturing
17 8 (0.76%) Games
18 5 (0.48%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 221 (21.13%) Senior
2 219 (20.94%) Developer
3 183 (17.50%) DevOps Engineer
4 171 (16.35%) Azure Engineer
5 160 (15.30%) Lead
6 88 (8.41%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 74 (7.07%) Cloud Engineer
8 62 (5.93%) Data Engineer
9 56 (5.35%) Analyst
10 54 (5.16%) Senior Developer
11 52 (4.97%) Architect
12 48 (4.59%) .NET Developer
12 48 (4.59%) Platform Engineer
13 46 (4.40%) Senior DevOps
14 45 (4.30%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 27 (2.58%) Applications Engineer
15 27 (2.58%) Applications Support
15 27 (2.58%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 27 (2.58%) Software Developer
16 26 (2.49%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 246 (23.52%) .NET
2 110 (10.52%) React
3 98 (9.37%) REST
4 89 (8.51%) RESTful
5 74 (7.07%) CSS
6 73 (6.98%) HTML
7 70 (6.69%) .NET Core
8 69 (6.60%) ASP.NET
9 67 (6.41%) OAuth
10 61 (5.83%) Node.js
11 57 (5.45%) SOAP
12 52 (4.97%) Playwright
13 48 (4.59%) YAML
14 46 (4.40%) JSON
15 45 (4.30%) .NET Framework
16 41 (3.92%) ASP.NET Core
16 41 (3.92%) PySpark
17 37 (3.54%) SAML
18 34 (3.25%) ARM Templates
19 33 (3.15%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 113 (10.80%) Product Ownership
2 108 (10.33%) Cloud Native
3 40 (3.82%) Enterprise Software
4 32 (3.06%) Management Information System
5 31 (2.96%) Mobile App
6 29 (2.77%) Low-Code
7 24 (2.29%) Analytical Mindset
7 24 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
8 23 (2.20%) Distributed Systems
9 19 (1.82%) Reinsurance
10 15 (1.43%) Data Structures
11 14 (1.34%) Onboarding
12 12 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
13 11 (1.05%) Virtual Team
14 10 (0.96%) Enterprise Cloud
15 9 (0.86%) Self-Motivation
16 8 (0.76%) Data Protection Act
16 8 (0.76%) Distributed Computing
16 8 (0.76%) PMI
17 7 (0.67%) Culture of Ownership
Operating Systems
1 82 (7.84%) Linux
2 70 (6.69%) Windows
3 19 (1.82%) Unix
4 17 (1.63%) VMS
5 14 (1.34%) Windows Server
6 13 (1.24%) Ubuntu
7 11 (1.05%) Apple iOS
8 6 (0.57%) Android
9 4 (0.38%) Kali Linux
10 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.096%) SUSE
11 1 (0.096%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.096%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,045 (99.90%) DevOps
2 648 (61.95%) CI/CD
3 467 (44.65%) Agile
4 295 (28.20%) Infrastructure as Code
5 265 (25.33%) Test Automation
6 223 (21.32%) Continuous Improvement
7 196 (18.74%) Problem-Solving
8 177 (16.92%) AI
9 165 (15.77%) Mentoring
10 156 (14.91%) Analytics
11 155 (14.82%) Observability
12 149 (14.24%) Scrum
13 143 (13.67%) Data Modelling
14 142 (13.58%) Coaching
15 133 (12.72%) Containerisation
16 122 (11.66%) Microservices
17 101 (9.66%) Business Intelligence
18 100 (9.56%) Roadmaps
19 99 (9.46%) SDLC
20 95 (9.08%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 344 (32.89%) SQL
2 258 (24.67%) Python
3 201 (19.22%) C#
4 133 (12.72%) JavaScript
5 125 (11.95%) PowerShell
6 96 (9.18%) Bash
7 80 (7.65%) Bicep
8 67 (6.41%) Java
9 62 (5.93%) TypeScript
10 23 (2.20%) Apex Code
10 23 (2.20%) Go
11 20 (1.91%) PL/SQL
12 19 (1.82%) Scala
13 18 (1.72%) Shell Script
14 15 (1.43%) T-SQL
15 14 (1.34%) Kusto Query Language
16 12 (1.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 8 (0.76%) Swift
18 7 (0.67%) DataWeave
19 5 (0.48%) PHP
Qualifications
1 90 (8.60%) Degree
2 67 (6.41%) Security Cleared
3 49 (4.68%) Azure Certification
4 44 (4.21%) SC Cleared
5 42 (4.02%) Computer Science Degree
6 29 (2.77%) ISTQB
7 19 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
8 17 (1.63%) Master's Degree
9 15 (1.43%) DV Cleared
10 13 (1.24%) AWS Certification
10 13 (1.24%) HND
11 11 (1.05%) PMI Certification
12 9 (0.86%) AWS Certified Developer
12 9 (0.86%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 6 (0.57%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 4 (0.38%) BC Cleared
15 3 (0.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 3 (0.29%) CBAP
15 3 (0.29%) PMP
16 2 (0.19%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 118 (11.28%) QA
2 72 (6.88%) Accessibility
3 48 (4.59%) GDPR
4 46 (4.40%) Data Quality
5 33 (3.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 14 (1.34%) SOC 2
7 13 (1.24%) SLA
8 12 (1.15%) TickIT
9 10 (0.96%) GRC
10 6 (0.57%) Software Quality Assurance
10 6 (0.57%) Solvency II
10 6 (0.57%) WCAG
11 5 (0.48%) IFRS
11 5 (0.48%) NCSC
11 5 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (0.38%) NIST
13 3 (0.29%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 2 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
14 2 (0.19%) IFRS 17
14 2 (0.19%) PMO
System Software
1 148 (14.15%) Docker
2 65 (6.21%) Active Directory
3 19 (1.82%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.19%) Firmware
5 2 (0.19%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.19%) Postfix
5 2 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.096%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 321 (30.69%) Terraform
2 122 (11.66%) Kubernetes
3 80 (7.65%) Ansible
4 65 (6.21%) Grafana
5 53 (5.07%) Prometheus
6 22 (2.10%) Argo
7 18 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
8 9 (0.86%) Kibana
9 5 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (0.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (0.38%) HP Fortify
10 4 (0.38%) logstash
10 4 (0.38%) Puppet
11 3 (0.29%) HP ALM
11 3 (0.29%) Scalr
12 2 (0.19%) MIIS
12 2 (0.19%) Nagios
12 2 (0.19%) SCCM
13 1 (0.096%) FortiGate
13 1 (0.096%) Nessus
Vendors
1 381 (36.42%) Microsoft
2 71 (6.79%) Databricks
3 43 (4.11%) Salesforce
4 35 (3.35%) ServiceNow
5 28 (2.68%) Oracle
6 22 (2.10%) Red Hat
7 15 (1.43%) Adobe
7 15 (1.43%) MuleSoft
7 15 (1.43%) Palo Alto
7 15 (1.43%) Zscaler
8 14 (1.34%) Dynatrace
9 12 (1.15%) Freshdesk
9 12 (1.15%) Nintex
10 11 (1.05%) CrowdStrike
10 11 (1.05%) Okta
11 10 (0.96%) Apple
11 10 (0.96%) VMware
12 9 (0.86%) Guidewire
13 8 (0.76%) Ab Initio
13 8 (0.76%) Google