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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 168 120
Rank change year-on-year +20 -48 -35
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,465 959 1,654
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.27% 1.94% 2.12%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.29% 6.12% 6.69%
Number of salaries quoted 1,140 691 1,086
10th Percentile £44,500 £45,750 £43,750
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 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -4.00% +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 27,675 15,675 24,706
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 24.01% 31.71% 31.62%
Number of salaries quoted 18,698 10,624 15,726
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £34,500
25th Percentile £43,847 £39,375 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £102,500
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 18 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 18 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 +25 1,315 £65,000 -3.70% 1,054
UK excluding London +34 954 £60,000 - 682
Work from Home +5 586 £62,500 -3.85% 561
London -18 446 £80,000 +6.67% 456
North of England +67 288 £60,000 -4.38% 202
South East +1 224 £62,500 - 175
North West +84 173 £63,750 -1.92% 115
Midlands +30 171 £62,500 +4.17% 102
West Midlands -9 100 £65,000 +8.33% 45
Wales -15 93 £53,171 -3.33% 19
South West -30 93 £57,500 +4.55% 57
East of England +1 72 £55,000 -12.00% 58
East Midlands +9 71 £55,000 +0.92% 57
Yorkshire -10 68 £67,750 +12.92% 66
North East -34 47 £52,000 +4.00% 22
Scotland -46 18 £55,000 -14.73% 46
Northern Ireland - 1 £72,500 - 26

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 86 (5.87%) SharePoint
2 69 (4.71%) Confluence
3 35 (2.39%) Microsoft Exchange
4 24 (1.64%) Apache Spark
5 21 (1.43%) IIS
6 12 (0.82%) Apache
7 11 (0.75%) CMS
7 11 (0.75%) nginx
8 8 (0.55%) Apache Airflow
8 8 (0.55%) SharePoint Server
9 7 (0.48%) Umbraco
10 6 (0.41%) Camunda
11 5 (0.34%) CICS
12 4 (0.27%) Anypoint
13 3 (0.20%) BizTalk Server
13 3 (0.20%) WordPress
14 2 (0.14%) Luigi
15 1 (0.068%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 1 (0.068%) NServiceBus
15 1 (0.068%) TPMS
Applications
1 22 (1.50%) Microsoft Project
2 19 (1.30%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (1.30%) MS Visio
3 14 (0.96%) Microsoft Excel
4 12 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 9 (0.61%) Trello
6 7 (0.48%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.068%) Notion
Business Applications
1 35 (2.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.96%) Elite 3E
3 9 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (0.41%) SAP IBP
5 5 (0.34%) Dynamics AX
5 5 (0.34%) Dynamics NAV
5 5 (0.34%) Visualfiles
6 4 (0.27%) Shopify
7 3 (0.20%) Carpe Diem
7 3 (0.20%) Oracle Applications
7 3 (0.20%) SAP Business One
8 2 (0.14%) JDE EnterpriseOne
8 2 (0.14%) Magento
9 1 (0.068%) Infor M3
9 1 (0.068%) Integrated Workplace Management System
9 1 (0.068%) Payment Gateway
9 1 (0.068%) Sage 200
9 1 (0.068%) Salesforce CRM
9 1 (0.068%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,465 (100.00%) Azure
2 275 (18.77%) Power Platform
3 223 (15.22%) GitHub
4 161 (10.99%) AWS
5 145 (9.90%) Serverless
6 144 (9.83%) Dynamics 365
7 127 (8.67%) GitHub Actions
8 122 (8.33%) Azure Functions
9 113 (7.71%) Azure Service Bus
10 111 (7.58%) Azure AKS
11 105 (7.17%) Azure Monitor
12 104 (7.10%) Azure AI
13 97 (6.62%) Azure Data Factory
13 97 (6.62%) Entra ID
14 96 (6.55%) Azure Logic Apps
15 95 (6.48%) PaaS
16 94 (6.42%) Azure Key Vault
17 91 (6.21%) Power Automate
18 89 (6.08%) Azure Cosmos DB
19 85 (5.80%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 38 (2.59%) Firewall
2 35 (2.39%) VPN
3 18 (1.23%) DNS
4 12 (0.82%) Internet
5 11 (0.75%) Wi-Fi
6 10 (0.68%) Network Security
6 10 (0.68%) SAN
7 8 (0.55%) DHCP
8 7 (0.48%) HTTP
8 7 (0.48%) VLAN
8 7 (0.48%) Wireless
9 6 (0.41%) MQTT
9 6 (0.41%) TCP/IP
9 6 (0.41%) ZigBee
10 4 (0.27%) Bluetooth
11 3 (0.20%) HTTPS
12 2 (0.14%) LoRaWAN
12 2 (0.14%) WAN
13 1 (0.068%) Cisco ISE
13 1 (0.068%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 271 (18.50%) Azure SQL Database
2 202 (13.79%) SQL Server
3 177 (12.08%) MongoDB
4 143 (9.76%) Power BI
5 82 (5.60%) Data Warehouse
6 54 (3.69%) PostgreSQL
7 50 (3.41%) Relational Database
8 46 (3.14%) NoSQL
9 40 (2.73%) Elasticsearch
10 38 (2.59%) Metadata
11 37 (2.53%) Data Lake
12 36 (2.46%) Delta Lake
13 31 (2.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 27 (1.84%) Redis
15 26 (1.77%) Star Schema
16 22 (1.50%) MySQL
16 22 (1.50%) Tableau
17 18 (1.23%) Spark SQL
18 16 (1.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 14 (0.96%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 271 (18.50%) Git
2 195 (13.31%) JIRA
3 118 (8.05%) Jenkins
4 78 (5.32%) GitLab
5 46 (3.14%) Selenium
6 39 (2.66%) Postman
7 35 (2.39%) Cypress.io
8 18 (1.23%) JUnit
9 17 (1.16%) JMeter
10 16 (1.09%) REST Assured
10 16 (1.09%) Visual Studio
11 15 (1.02%) NUnit
12 13 (0.89%) Octopus Deploy
13 12 (0.82%) TestRail
13 12 (0.82%) Zephyr
14 11 (0.75%) fastlane
14 11 (0.75%) SonarQube
15 10 (0.68%) Mockito
15 10 (0.68%) Visual Studio Code
16 9 (0.61%) MSI
General
1 419 (28.60%) Social Skills
2 340 (23.21%) Finance
3 154 (10.51%) Analytical Skills
4 128 (8.74%) Public Sector
5 112 (7.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 52 (3.55%) Retail
7 51 (3.48%) Law
8 40 (2.73%) Marketing
9 34 (2.32%) Legal
10 30 (2.05%) Advertising
10 30 (2.05%) Banking
11 25 (1.71%) Manufacturing
12 23 (1.57%) Games
13 22 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
14 19 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
15 13 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
16 12 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
17 11 (0.75%) Aviation
18 7 (0.48%) Automotive
18 7 (0.48%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 458 (31.26%) Developer
2 339 (23.14%) Senior
3 218 (14.88%) .NET Developer
4 205 (13.99%) DevOps Engineer
5 203 (13.86%) Azure Engineer
6 165 (11.26%) Lead
7 101 (6.89%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 100 (6.83%) Senior Developer
9 98 (6.69%) Data Engineer
10 92 (6.28%) Platform Engineer
11 89 (6.08%) Analyst
12 67 (4.57%) Senior DevOps
13 63 (4.30%) Cloud Engineer
13 63 (4.30%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 52 (3.55%) Software Engineer
15 47 (3.21%) Architect
15 47 (3.21%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 47 (3.21%) Consultant
15 47 (3.21%) Senior Data Engineer
16 44 (3.00%) Azure Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 480 (32.76%) .NET
2 346 (23.62%) Terraform
3 252 (17.20%) ASP.NET
4 228 (15.56%) .NET Core
5 200 (13.65%) ASP.NET Core
6 163 (11.13%) REST
7 161 (10.99%) React
8 152 (10.38%) RESTful
9 148 (10.10%) HTML
10 146 (9.97%) CSS
11 124 (8.46%) Entity Framework
12 123 (8.40%) Blazor
13 86 (5.87%) Node.js
14 79 (5.39%) ML.NET
15 64 (4.37%) .NET Framework
16 60 (4.10%) Playwright
17 57 (3.89%) JSON
18 56 (3.82%) YAML
19 55 (3.75%) PySpark
20 53 (3.62%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 139 (9.49%) Cloud Native
2 137 (9.35%) Product Ownership
3 82 (5.60%) Enterprise Software
4 61 (4.16%) Legacy Systems
5 53 (3.62%) Onboarding
6 47 (3.21%) Mobile App
7 40 (2.73%) Distributed Systems
8 39 (2.66%) Greenfield Project
9 32 (2.18%) Hybrid Cloud
10 27 (1.84%) Management Information System
11 26 (1.77%) Legacy Applications
12 23 (1.57%) Low-Code
12 23 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
13 22 (1.50%) Public Cloud
14 19 (1.30%) AI Agents
15 18 (1.23%) Security Posture
16 17 (1.16%) BBC
16 17 (1.16%) iPhone
16 17 (1.16%) Mainframe
16 17 (1.16%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 108 (7.37%) Windows
2 94 (6.42%) Linux
3 25 (1.71%) Android
4 23 (1.57%) VMS
5 22 (1.50%) Windows Server
6 20 (1.37%) Unix
7 13 (0.89%) Ubuntu
8 10 (0.68%) Apple iOS
9 4 (0.27%) Kali Linux
9 4 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.20%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.20%) Solaris
11 2 (0.14%) Debian
11 2 (0.14%) Rocky
11 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.068%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,465 (100.00%) DevOps
2 833 (56.86%) CI/CD
3 671 (45.80%) Agile
4 350 (23.89%) AI
5 323 (22.05%) Continuous Improvement
6 322 (21.98%) Infrastructure as Code
7 267 (18.23%) Problem-Solving
8 246 (16.79%) Test Automation
9 244 (16.66%) Full-Stack Development
10 226 (15.43%) Mentoring
11 213 (14.54%) Scrum
12 193 (13.17%) Analytics
13 181 (12.35%) Microservices
14 176 (12.01%) Stakeholder Management
15 165 (11.26%) Platform Engineering
16 161 (10.99%) Business Intelligence
17 154 (10.51%) Observability
18 145 (9.90%) Data Modelling
19 144 (9.83%) Software Engineering
20 139 (9.49%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 536 (36.59%) SQL
2 492 (33.58%) C#
3 286 (19.52%) Python
4 240 (16.38%) JavaScript
5 176 (12.01%) PowerShell
6 125 (8.53%) Bicep
7 121 (8.26%) Bash
8 93 (6.35%) Java
9 61 (4.16%) TypeScript
10 41 (2.80%) T-SQL
11 19 (1.30%) Scala
12 17 (1.16%) C++
12 17 (1.16%) VB.NET
13 16 (1.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 16 (1.09%) Kusto Query Language
14 13 (0.89%) COBOL
14 13 (0.89%) JCL
15 10 (0.68%) Go
16 8 (0.55%) Apex Code
16 8 (0.55%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 140 (9.56%) Degree
2 118 (8.05%) Security Cleared
3 103 (7.03%) SC Cleared
4 99 (6.76%) Azure Certification
5 56 (3.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 48 (3.28%) Microsoft Certification
7 33 (2.25%) ISTQB
8 23 (1.57%) PMI Certification
9 16 (1.09%) Master's Degree
10 14 (0.96%) PMP
11 12 (0.82%) AWS Certification
12 10 (0.68%) DV Cleared
13 9 (0.61%) ACCA
13 9 (0.61%) CBAP
13 9 (0.61%) CIMA
13 9 (0.61%) ISEB
14 7 (0.48%) CSPO
14 7 (0.48%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 5 (0.34%) BPSS Clearance
15 5 (0.34%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 186 (12.70%) QA
2 89 (6.08%) Data Quality
3 78 (5.32%) Accessibility
4 45 (3.07%) GDPR
5 37 (2.53%) WCAG
6 22 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 19 (1.30%) PMO
8 12 (0.82%) TickIT
9 10 (0.68%) SLA
10 9 (0.61%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 9 (0.61%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 8 (0.55%) NCSC
12 6 (0.41%) JTAG
12 6 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 5 (0.34%) GRC
13 5 (0.34%) IFRS
14 4 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
14 4 (0.27%) Solvency II
15 3 (0.20%) ISO 9001
15 3 (0.20%) NIST
System Software
1 184 (12.56%) Docker
2 71 (4.85%) Active Directory
3 25 (1.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (1.16%) Virtual Desktop
5 14 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
6 12 (0.82%) vSphere
7 5 (0.34%) Firmware
8 3 (0.20%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.14%) Xen
10 1 (0.068%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.068%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 172 (11.74%) Kubernetes
2 59 (4.03%) Ansible
3 48 (3.28%) Grafana
4 44 (3.00%) Prometheus
5 31 (2.12%) Argo
6 23 (1.57%) Microsoft Intune
7 12 (0.82%) Puppet
8 6 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.34%) Progress Chef
9 5 (0.34%) SCCM
10 4 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (0.27%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.14%) FlexNet
11 2 (0.14%) HP ALM
11 2 (0.14%) Istio
11 2 (0.14%) Kibana
11 2 (0.14%) Nessus
11 2 (0.14%) Rancher
11 2 (0.14%) Scalr
11 2 (0.14%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 668 (45.60%) Microsoft
2 96 (6.55%) Databricks
3 66 (4.51%) Google
4 40 (2.73%) Salesforce
5 38 (2.59%) Facebook
6 34 (2.32%) VMware
7 26 (1.77%) Apple
7 26 (1.77%) ServiceNow
8 21 (1.43%) SAP
8 21 (1.43%) YouTube
9 20 (1.37%) OpenAI
10 17 (1.16%) Dynatrace
10 17 (1.16%) Red Hat
10 17 (1.16%) Sony
10 17 (1.16%) Yahoo!
11 16 (1.09%) Oracle
12 14 (0.96%) MuleSoft
13 13 (0.89%) HP
14 12 (0.82%) Foundry
14 12 (0.82%) ScienceLogic