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 27 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 133 106 79
Rank change year-on-year -27 -27 +10
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,077 1,622 1,806
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.00% 2.42% 3.56%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.99% 7.17% 8.30%
Number of salaries quoted 714 1,045 1,530
10th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,477 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -
75th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £93,375 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £63,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.45% +5.83% -

All Cloud 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 17,976 22,624 21,754
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.34% 33.69% 42.89%
Number of salaries quoted 11,380 13,746 18,217
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £37,750 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,186 £64,600 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.38% +3.36% -0.79%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £53,351
% change year-on-year -9.09% +3.09% -3.00%

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 27 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Azure DevOps in the UK

Azure DevOps
Top 18 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 27 November 2025. 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 -45 865 £66,000 -2.22% 499
UK excluding London -25 667 £57,500 -9.45% 470
Work from Home -4 491 £65,000 - 236
London +6 341 £77,500 +3.33% 173
South East +5 232 £60,000 -11.11% 178
Scotland +62 135 £65,000 +15.56% 37
North of England -43 99 £60,000 -4.76% 81
Midlands -38 84 £57,500 -11.54% 70
West Midlands -13 71 £60,000 -7.69% 41
South West -65 54 £55,000 -15.38% 54
North West -14 42 £65,000 +7.44% 39
Yorkshire -39 33 £55,000 -18.35% 24
Wales +3 32 £55,000 -2.22% 19
East of England -16 28 £65,000 +30.00% 36
North East +8 24 £50,000 -9.09% 18
East Midlands 0 12 £54,500 +14.74% 27
Northern Ireland +3 2 £56,250 - 8
Isle of Man - 1 £52,500 -

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 40 (3.71%) Confluence
2 33 (3.06%) IIS
3 26 (2.41%) SharePoint
4 13 (1.21%) Microsoft Exchange
5 12 (1.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 11 (1.02%) Apache Airflow
7 8 (0.74%) Apache Spark
8 6 (0.56%) Apache
8 6 (0.56%) Appian
9 5 (0.46%) nginx
10 4 (0.37%) CMS
11 3 (0.28%) BizTalk Server
12 2 (0.19%) Tomcat
Applications
1 30 (2.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (2.60%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (1.30%) Microsoft Project
4 10 (0.93%) MS Visio
5 7 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.37%) Trello
7 1 (0.093%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.093%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.093%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 72 (6.69%) SAP S/4HANA
2 53 (4.92%) Dynamics CRM
3 27 (2.51%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (0.28%) SAP CX
4 3 (0.28%) Shopify
5 2 (0.19%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.19%) Elite 3E
5 2 (0.19%) Markit EDM
5 2 (0.19%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.093%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.093%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 1,008 (93.59%) Azure
2 287 (26.65%) GitHub
3 222 (20.61%) Power Platform
4 153 (14.21%) AWS
5 142 (13.18%) GitHub Actions
6 107 (9.94%) Dynamics 365
7 89 (8.26%) Power Automate
8 83 (7.71%) PaaS
9 81 (7.52%) Azure Monitor
10 79 (7.34%) Azure Data Factory
11 78 (7.24%) Serverless
12 76 (7.06%) SaaS
13 72 (6.69%) Entra ID
14 68 (6.31%) Snowflake
15 65 (6.04%) Microsoft 365
16 61 (5.66%) Azure Logic Apps
17 58 (5.39%) Azure AKS
18 50 (4.64%) GCP
19 49 (4.55%) GitHub Copilot
20 47 (4.36%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 34 (3.16%) Firewall
2 32 (2.97%) DNS
3 20 (1.86%) VPN
4 13 (1.21%) Network Security
5 11 (1.02%) WAN
6 9 (0.84%) HTTP
7 6 (0.56%) TCP/IP
8 5 (0.46%) DHCP
8 5 (0.46%) SD-WAN
8 5 (0.46%) VLAN
9 4 (0.37%) SSL
10 3 (0.28%) AMQP
10 3 (0.28%) BGP
10 3 (0.28%) Internet
10 3 (0.28%) IPsec
10 3 (0.28%) OSPF
10 3 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (0.28%) Wireshark
11 1 (0.093%) NetScaler
11 1 (0.093%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 173 (16.06%) SQL Server
2 116 (10.77%) Power BI
3 74 (6.87%) Data Warehouse
4 52 (4.83%) Azure SQL Database
4 52 (4.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 39 (3.62%) Tableau
6 32 (2.97%) NoSQL
7 31 (2.88%) Relational Database
8 30 (2.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 19 (1.76%) Snowflake Schema
10 15 (1.39%) Data Lake
10 15 (1.39%) PostgreSQL
10 15 (1.39%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 13 (1.21%) Metadata
12 12 (1.11%) MongoDB
12 12 (1.11%) MySQL
13 10 (0.93%) DynamoDB
14 9 (0.84%) BigQuery
15 6 (0.56%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
15 6 (0.56%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 206 (19.13%) JIRA
2 170 (15.78%) Git
3 106 (9.84%) Jenkins
4 69 (6.41%) eCATT
5 52 (4.83%) Selenium
6 40 (3.71%) NeoLoad
7 39 (3.62%) Octopus Deploy
8 30 (2.79%) GitLab
9 27 (2.51%) Oracle Forms
10 22 (2.04%) Cypress.io
10 22 (2.04%) Snyk
11 21 (1.95%) TeamCity
11 21 (1.95%) Visual Studio
12 20 (1.86%) Postman
12 20 (1.86%) Robot Framework
13 13 (1.21%) JMeter
14 12 (1.11%) Cucumber
15 11 (1.02%) NUnit
15 11 (1.02%) Team Foundation Server
15 11 (1.02%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 398 (36.95%) Finance
2 265 (24.61%) Social Skills
3 128 (11.88%) Analytical Skills
4 116 (10.77%) Marketing
5 74 (6.87%) Manufacturing
6 66 (6.13%) Presentation Skills
7 62 (5.76%) Law
8 51 (4.74%) Retail
9 41 (3.81%) Influencing Skills
10 36 (3.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 21 (1.95%) Public Sector
12 19 (1.76%) Documentation Skills
12 19 (1.76%) Legal
13 14 (1.30%) Banking
14 11 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
15 9 (0.84%) Advertising
15 9 (0.84%) Back Office
15 9 (0.84%) Tech for Good
16 8 (0.74%) Games
17 6 (0.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 213 (19.78%) Senior
2 176 (16.34%) Developer
3 169 (15.69%) Lead
4 129 (11.98%) Analyst
5 121 (11.23%) DevOps Engineer
6 97 (9.01%) Azure Engineer
7 75 (6.96%) Cloud Engineer
8 59 (5.48%) Data Engineer
9 57 (5.29%) Software Engineer
10 46 (4.27%) Test Leader
11 45 (4.18%) Architect
12 43 (3.99%) .NET Developer
13 42 (3.90%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 42 (3.90%) Platform Engineer
14 35 (3.25%) Business Analyst
15 34 (3.16%) Test Analyst
16 33 (3.06%) Applications Engineer
16 33 (3.06%) Senior Cloud Engineer
17 32 (2.97%) Senior Developer
18 27 (2.51%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 298 (27.67%) .NET
2 100 (9.29%) RESTful
3 85 (7.89%) React
4 78 (7.24%) .NET Framework
5 72 (6.69%) YAML
6 69 (6.41%) REST
7 60 (5.57%) .NET Core
8 58 (5.39%) JSON
9 51 (4.74%) ASP.NET
10 48 (4.46%) AngularJS
11 45 (4.18%) ARM Templates
11 45 (4.18%) CSS
12 44 (4.09%) Entity Framework
12 44 (4.09%) HTML
12 44 (4.09%) OAuth
13 39 (3.62%) SOAP
14 36 (3.34%) XML
15 29 (2.69%) Blazor
16 28 (2.60%) OAuth2
17 26 (2.41%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 158 (14.67%) Cloud Native
2 112 (10.40%) Product Ownership
3 55 (5.11%) Enterprise Software
4 39 (3.62%) Management Information System
5 35 (3.25%) Onboarding
6 34 (3.16%) Security Posture
7 33 (3.06%) Legacy Systems
8 26 (2.41%) Distributed Systems
8 26 (2.41%) Hybrid Cloud
9 25 (2.32%) Analytical Mindset
10 21 (1.95%) Virtual Team
11 20 (1.86%) Data Centre
11 20 (1.86%) Low-Code
12 19 (1.76%) Greenfield Project
13 18 (1.67%) Mobile App
14 11 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
14 11 (1.02%) Legacy Applications
14 11 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
15 10 (0.93%) Linux Command Line
16 9 (0.84%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 96 (8.91%) Windows
2 53 (4.92%) Linux
3 23 (2.14%) VMS
4 18 (1.67%) Windows Server
5 8 (0.74%) Android
6 7 (0.65%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.28%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.19%) AIX
9 2 (0.19%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.093%) CentOS
10 1 (0.093%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.093%) Unix
10 1 (0.093%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,007 (93.50%) DevOps
2 590 (54.78%) CI/CD
3 517 (48.00%) Agile
4 262 (24.33%) Test Automation
5 249 (23.12%) Infrastructure as Code
6 235 (21.82%) Continuous Improvement
7 222 (20.61%) Problem-Solving
8 221 (20.52%) Mentoring
9 177 (16.43%) AI
10 172 (15.97%) Coaching
11 138 (12.81%) Analytics
12 132 (12.26%) Roadmaps
12 132 (12.26%) Scrum
13 127 (11.79%) Containerisation
14 122 (11.33%) Business Intelligence
15 119 (11.05%) Microservices
16 118 (10.96%) Asset Management
16 118 (10.96%) ERP
17 116 (10.77%) Software Engineering
18 115 (10.68%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 359 (33.33%) SQL
2 260 (24.14%) C#
3 253 (23.49%) Python
4 219 (20.33%) PowerShell
5 107 (9.94%) JavaScript
6 96 (8.91%) Bicep
7 86 (7.99%) Bash
8 70 (6.50%) TypeScript
9 47 (4.36%) T-SQL
10 45 (4.18%) Java
11 31 (2.88%) Shell Script
12 28 (2.60%) PL/SQL
13 19 (1.76%) Apex Code
14 17 (1.58%) Go
15 9 (0.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 7 (0.65%) Scala
17 5 (0.46%) Groovy
17 5 (0.46%) PHP
17 5 (0.46%) VB.NET
18 4 (0.37%) VB
Qualifications
1 144 (13.37%) Degree
2 92 (8.54%) Computer Science Degree
3 82 (7.61%) Azure Certification
4 70 (6.50%) Security Cleared
5 49 (4.55%) SC Cleared
6 45 (4.18%) ISTQB
6 45 (4.18%) Master's Degree
7 33 (3.06%) Microsoft Certification
8 21 (1.95%) DV Cleared
9 18 (1.67%) AWS Certification
10 17 (1.58%) ISEB
11 10 (0.93%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 10 (0.93%) PMI Certification
11 10 (0.93%) PMP
12 7 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
13 6 (0.56%) DBS Check
14 5 (0.46%) AWS Certified Developer
15 4 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
15 4 (0.37%) CCNA
15 4 (0.37%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 150 (13.93%) QA
2 42 (3.90%) GDPR
3 39 (3.62%) Accessibility
4 37 (3.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 28 (2.60%) NCSC
5 28 (2.60%) NIST
6 27 (2.51%) Data Quality
7 19 (1.76%) PMO
8 10 (0.93%) Software Quality Assurance
9 5 (0.46%) PERC
10 4 (0.37%) SOC 2
10 4 (0.37%) WCAG
11 2 (0.19%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.093%) COBIT
12 1 (0.093%) HL7
12 1 (0.093%) ISO 9001
12 1 (0.093%) P3O
12 1 (0.093%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.093%) SLA
System Software
1 148 (13.74%) Docker
2 54 (5.01%) Active Directory
3 27 (2.51%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (1.49%) Virtual Desktop
4 16 (1.49%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.37%) Postfix
6 3 (0.28%) Firmware
6 3 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.19%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.19%) vCloud
8 1 (0.093%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 1 (0.093%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.093%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.093%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 313 (29.06%) Terraform
2 178 (16.53%) Kubernetes
3 74 (6.87%) Ansible
4 72 (6.69%) HP ALM
5 40 (3.71%) Grafana
6 31 (2.88%) Prometheus
7 28 (2.60%) Single Sign-On
8 19 (1.76%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.37%) Argo
9 4 (0.37%) Rancher
9 4 (0.37%) vRealize
10 3 (0.28%) Dell DRAC
10 3 (0.28%) SCOM
11 2 (0.19%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (0.19%) Nessus
11 2 (0.19%) Puppet
11 2 (0.19%) Red Hat Satellite
11 2 (0.19%) ZABBIX
12 1 (0.093%) logstash
12 1 (0.093%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 377 (35.00%) Microsoft
2 81 (7.52%) SAP
3 72 (6.69%) HP
4 53 (4.92%) Databricks
5 35 (3.25%) Oracle
6 34 (3.16%) Salesforce
7 24 (2.23%) ServiceNow
7 24 (2.23%) VMware
8 18 (1.67%) Black Duck
8 18 (1.67%) Google
9 17 (1.58%) Coverity
9 17 (1.58%) Okta
10 14 (1.30%) OpenAI
10 14 (1.30%) Xamarin
11 13 (1.21%) Foundry
11 13 (1.21%) Palo Alto
12 12 (1.11%) Dynatrace
12 12 (1.11%) Sage
13 10 (0.93%) Rackspace
13 10 (0.93%) SolarWinds