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

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 173 114
Rank change year-on-year +28 -59 -24
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,448 923 1,801
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.32% 1.85% 2.21%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.26% 5.82% 6.98%
Number of salaries quoted 1,145 677 1,244
10th Percentile £43,225 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.26% +2.31% -
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 27,530 15,848 25,793
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.02% 31.80% 31.70%
Number of salaries quoted 18,555 10,819 17,595
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% - -4.18%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £81,000
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 2 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 2 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 +33 1,296 £65,000 -3.70% 862
UK excluding London +62 962 £60,000 - 557
Work from Home +19 589 £60,000 -7.69% 487
London -23 416 £80,000 +6.67% 425
North of England +91 289 £60,500 -6.92% 137
South East +10 231 £62,500 - 152
North West +84 173 £65,000 - 74
Midlands +39 166 £62,500 +4.17% 81
West Midlands +5 94 £62,500 +4.17% 38
South West -7 94 £55,000 +4.76% 60
Wales -16 89 £53,171 -3.33% 13
East of England +16 79 £55,000 -12.00% 52
East Midlands +25 72 £57,500 +4.55% 43
Yorkshire -13 67 £68,653 +14.42% 45
North East -18 49 £52,000 -0.95% 18
Scotland -24 19 £55,000 -14.73% 41
Northern Ireland - 1 £72,500 - 22

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 (5.25%) SharePoint
2 70 (4.83%) Confluence
3 32 (2.21%) Microsoft Exchange
4 22 (1.52%) IIS
5 20 (1.38%) Apache Spark
6 11 (0.76%) Apache
6 11 (0.76%) CMS
6 11 (0.76%) nginx
7 8 (0.55%) SharePoint Server
8 7 (0.48%) CICS
9 6 (0.41%) Anypoint
9 6 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
9 6 (0.41%) Camunda
9 6 (0.41%) Umbraco
10 3 (0.21%) BizTalk Server
10 3 (0.21%) WordPress
11 2 (0.14%) Luigi
12 1 (0.069%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.069%) NServiceBus
12 1 (0.069%) Oracle HTTP Server
Applications
1 20 (1.38%) 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 (0.55%) Chatbot
7 7 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 1 (0.069%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.069%) Notion
8 1 (0.069%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 23 (1.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.97%) Elite 3E
3 9 (0.62%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (0.41%) 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 1,448 (100.00%) Azure
2 240 (16.57%) Power Platform
3 217 (14.99%) GitHub
4 169 (11.67%) AWS
5 135 (9.32%) Serverless
6 130 (8.98%) GitHub Actions
7 122 (8.43%) Dynamics 365
8 116 (8.01%) Azure Service Bus
9 113 (7.80%) Azure AKS
9 113 (7.80%) Azure Functions
10 104 (7.18%) Azure AI
10 104 (7.18%) Azure Monitor
11 96 (6.63%) Azure Logic Apps
12 95 (6.56%) Azure Key Vault
12 95 (6.56%) Entra ID
13 93 (6.42%) PaaS
14 84 (5.80%) Microsoft 365
15 83 (5.73%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 83 (5.73%) Azure Data Factory
16 81 (5.59%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 38 (2.62%) Firewall
2 33 (2.28%) VPN
3 17 (1.17%) 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 (0.55%) HTTP
8 7 (0.48%) TCP/IP
8 7 (0.48%) Wireless
9 6 (0.41%) DHCP
9 6 (0.41%) MQTT
9 6 (0.41%) VLAN
9 6 (0.41%) 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%) Cisco ISE
13 1 (0.069%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 260 (17.96%) Azure SQL Database
2 187 (12.91%) SQL Server
3 177 (12.22%) MongoDB
4 122 (8.43%) Power BI
5 67 (4.63%) Data Warehouse
6 56 (3.87%) PostgreSQL
7 47 (3.25%) Relational Database
8 41 (2.83%) Elasticsearch
9 36 (2.49%) NoSQL
10 31 (2.14%) Delta Lake
11 30 (2.07%) Data Lake
11 30 (2.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 26 (1.80%) Metadata
12 26 (1.80%) Redis
13 23 (1.59%) MySQL
14 21 (1.45%) Star Schema
15 18 (1.24%) Spark SQL
15 18 (1.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 16 (1.10%) Tableau
17 13 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 256 (17.68%) Git
2 195 (13.47%) JIRA
3 122 (8.43%) Jenkins
4 82 (5.66%) GitLab
5 49 (3.38%) Selenium
6 44 (3.04%) Postman
7 37 (2.56%) Cypress.io
8 20 (1.38%) REST Assured
9 18 (1.24%) JMeter
9 18 (1.24%) JUnit
10 17 (1.17%) NUnit
11 16 (1.10%) 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
1 389 (26.86%) Social Skills
2 321 (22.17%) Finance
3 152 (10.50%) Analytical Skills
4 118 (8.15%) Public Sector
5 107 (7.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 56 (3.87%) Law
7 54 (3.73%) Retail
8 43 (2.97%) Marketing
9 37 (2.56%) Legal
10 36 (2.49%) Banking
11 30 (2.07%) Advertising
12 23 (1.59%) Games
12 23 (1.59%) Manufacturing
13 21 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
14 16 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
14 16 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
15 12 (0.83%) Aviation
16 10 (0.69%) Automotive
16 10 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
17 8 (0.55%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 457 (31.56%) Developer
2 325 (22.44%) Senior
3 219 (15.12%) .NET Developer
4 209 (14.43%) DevOps Engineer
5 200 (13.81%) Azure Engineer
6 170 (11.74%) Lead
7 106 (7.32%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 100 (6.91%) Senior Developer
9 86 (5.94%) Platform Engineer
10 84 (5.80%) Analyst
11 82 (5.66%) Data Engineer
12 68 (4.70%) Senior DevOps
13 63 (4.35%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 60 (4.14%) Cloud Engineer
15 52 (3.59%) Software Engineer
16 48 (3.31%) Architect
17 45 (3.11%) Cloud Platform Engineer
17 45 (3.11%) Software Developer
18 42 (2.90%) Azure Platform Engineer
18 42 (2.90%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 487 (33.63%) .NET
2 346 (23.90%) Terraform
3 259 (17.89%) ASP.NET
4 235 (16.23%) .NET Core
5 206 (14.23%) ASP.NET Core
6 172 (11.88%) React
7 163 (11.26%) REST
8 161 (11.12%) RESTful
9 160 (11.05%) HTML
10 158 (10.91%) CSS
11 126 (8.70%) Blazor
11 126 (8.70%) Entity Framework
12 91 (6.28%) Node.js
13 82 (5.66%) ML.NET
14 63 (4.35%) .NET Framework
15 62 (4.28%) Playwright
16 56 (3.87%) YAML
17 55 (3.80%) ARM Templates
17 55 (3.80%) JSON
18 48 (3.31%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 148 (10.22%) Product Ownership
2 140 (9.67%) Cloud Native
3 80 (5.52%) Enterprise Software
4 58 (4.01%) Legacy Systems
5 55 (3.80%) Onboarding
6 53 (3.66%) Mobile App
7 39 (2.69%) Distributed Systems
8 37 (2.56%) Greenfield Project
9 30 (2.07%) Hybrid Cloud
10 24 (1.66%) Legacy Applications
10 24 (1.66%) Management Information System
11 23 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
12 21 (1.45%) Public Cloud
13 19 (1.31%) Podcast
14 18 (1.24%) Low-Code
14 18 (1.24%) Mainframe
15 17 (1.17%) AI Agents
15 17 (1.17%) Analytical Mindset
15 17 (1.17%) BBC
15 17 (1.17%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 105 (7.25%) Windows
2 99 (6.84%) Linux
3 26 (1.80%) Android
4 23 (1.59%) VMS
5 20 (1.38%) Windows Server
6 19 (1.31%) 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
12 1 (0.069%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,448 (100.00%) DevOps
2 832 (57.46%) CI/CD
3 671 (46.34%) Agile
4 329 (22.72%) AI
5 324 (22.38%) Infrastructure as Code
6 319 (22.03%) Continuous Improvement
7 257 (17.75%) Test Automation
8 253 (17.47%) Full-Stack Development
9 250 (17.27%) Problem-Solving
10 227 (15.68%) Scrum
11 217 (14.99%) Mentoring
12 185 (12.78%) Microservices
13 183 (12.64%) Analytics
14 162 (11.19%) Observability
15 160 (11.05%) Stakeholder Management
16 154 (10.64%) Platform Engineering
17 145 (10.01%) Software Engineering
18 141 (9.74%) Machine Learning
19 140 (9.67%) Business Intelligence
20 131 (9.05%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 522 (36.05%) SQL
2 482 (33.29%) C#
3 270 (18.65%) Python
4 242 (16.71%) JavaScript
5 173 (11.95%) PowerShell
6 125 (8.63%) Bash
7 117 (8.08%) Bicep
8 96 (6.63%) Java
9 59 (4.07%) TypeScript
10 38 (2.62%) T-SQL
11 17 (1.17%) VB.NET
12 16 (1.10%) C++
12 16 (1.10%) Kusto Query Language
13 15 (1.04%) Scala
14 14 (0.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 13 (0.90%) JCL
16 12 (0.83%) COBOL
17 11 (0.76%) Go
17 11 (0.76%) Swift
18 8 (0.55%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 121 (8.36%) Degree
2 110 (7.60%) Security Cleared
3 94 (6.49%) SC Cleared
4 85 (5.87%) Azure Certification
5 51 (3.52%) Computer Science Degree
6 33 (2.28%) ISTQB
6 33 (2.28%) Microsoft Certification
7 22 (1.52%) PMI Certification
8 16 (1.10%) Master's Degree
9 13 (0.90%) PMP
10 12 (0.83%) AWS Certification
11 11 (0.76%) DV Cleared
12 8 (0.55%) ISEB
13 7 (0.48%) CBAP
13 7 (0.48%) 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
1 190 (13.12%) QA
2 83 (5.73%) Accessibility
3 69 (4.77%) Data Quality
4 36 (2.49%) GDPR
5 34 (2.35%) WCAG
6 22 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 18 (1.24%) 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 (0.55%) NCSC
10 8 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 6 (0.41%) JTAG
11 6 (0.41%) 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
1 184 (12.71%) Docker
2 69 (4.77%) Active Directory
3 24 (1.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (1.17%) 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
1 170 (11.74%) Kubernetes
2 60 (4.14%) Ansible
3 53 (3.66%) Grafana
4 47 (3.25%) Prometheus
5 30 (2.07%) Argo
6 20 (1.38%) Microsoft Intune
7 12 (0.83%) Puppet
8 5 (0.35%) HP Fortify
8 5 (0.35%) Progress Chef
8 5 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (0.28%) SCCM
10 3 (0.21%) HP ALM
10 3 (0.21%) Scalr
11 2 (0.14%) FlexNet
11 2 (0.14%) Istio
11 2 (0.14%) Kibana
11 2 (0.14%) Nessus
11 2 (0.14%) Rancher
11 2 (0.14%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 637 (43.99%) Microsoft
2 88 (6.08%) Databricks
3 64 (4.42%) Google
4 39 (2.69%) Salesforce
5 38 (2.62%) Facebook
6 33 (2.28%) VMware
7 29 (2.00%) Apple
7 29 (2.00%) ServiceNow
8 23 (1.59%) Dynatrace
9 21 (1.45%) YouTube
10 20 (1.38%) Oracle
10 20 (1.38%) Red Hat
10 20 (1.38%) SAP
11 19 (1.31%) OpenAI
12 17 (1.17%) Sony
12 17 (1.17%) Yahoo!
13 14 (0.97%) MuleSoft
14 12 (0.83%) Guidewire
14 12 (0.83%) ScienceLogic
15 11 (0.76%) Foundry