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 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 130 107 77
Rank change year-on-year -23 -30 +10
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,099 1,516 1,758
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.89% 2.60% 3.56%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.36% 7.27% 8.29%
Number of salaries quoted 699 991 1,483
10th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £53,750 £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 £93,750 £95,000 £97,308
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 20,486 20,852 21,208
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.25% 35.75% 42.94%
Number of salaries quoted 11,280 12,649 17,598
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - -3.85%
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 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 6 months to 14 December 2025.

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 14 December 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 -41 859 £66,500 -1.48% 590
UK excluding London -26 685 £57,500 -9.45% 524
Work from Home +1 517 £63,000 -6.67% 295
London +17 342 £77,500 +3.33% 167
South East -1 234 £60,000 -11.11% 167
Scotland +72 162 £64,500 +20.00% 32
North of England -54 100 £60,000 -4.38% 116
Midlands -53 75 £60,000 -7.69% 89
West Midlands -43 63 £60,000 -7.69% 46
South West -73 56 £51,250 -21.15% 58
North West -23 41 £65,000 +7.00% 57
Yorkshire -35 33 £60,000 -7.69% 43
Wales +7 31 £55,000 -15.38% 13
North East +1 26 £50,000 -9.09% 16
East of England -27 25 £65,000 +30.00% 56
East Midlands -17 11 £60,000 +4.35% 40
Northern Ireland -5 2 £56,250 - 7

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 (3.64%) Confluence
2 34 (3.09%) IIS
3 24 (2.18%) SharePoint
4 16 (1.46%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 14 (1.27%) Microsoft Exchange
6 13 (1.18%) Apache Airflow
7 8 (0.73%) Apache Spark
8 6 (0.55%) Apache
8 6 (0.55%) Appian
9 4 (0.36%) CMS
9 4 (0.36%) nginx
10 3 (0.27%) BizTalk Server
10 3 (0.27%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.18%) Anypoint
11 2 (0.18%) Moodle
Applications
1 36 (3.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 27 (2.46%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (1.36%) MS Visio
4 14 (1.27%) Microsoft Project
5 12 (1.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.36%) Trello
7 2 (0.18%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.091%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.091%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 72 (6.55%) SAP S/4HANA
2 45 (4.09%) Dynamics CRM
3 35 (3.18%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (0.27%) SAP CX
5 2 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.18%) Elite 3E
5 2 (0.18%) Markit EDM
5 2 (0.18%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.091%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.091%) Endur
6 1 (0.091%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 1,030 (93.72%) Azure
2 321 (29.21%) GitHub
3 221 (20.11%) Power Platform
4 166 (15.10%) AWS
5 153 (13.92%) GitHub Actions
6 92 (8.37%) Azure Monitor
7 84 (7.64%) Azure Data Factory
7 84 (7.64%) Power Automate
8 81 (7.37%) Dynamics 365
8 81 (7.37%) Entra ID
8 81 (7.37%) PaaS
9 80 (7.28%) Snowflake
10 79 (7.19%) Serverless
11 73 (6.64%) Microsoft 365
12 68 (6.19%) SaaS
13 65 (5.91%) Azure AKS
14 64 (5.82%) GitHub Copilot
15 58 (5.28%) dbt
16 53 (4.82%) Azure Logic Apps
16 53 (4.82%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 36 (3.28%) DNS
1 36 (3.28%) Firewall
2 23 (2.09%) VPN
3 13 (1.18%) WAN
4 10 (0.91%) Network Security
5 9 (0.82%) HTTP
6 7 (0.64%) TCP/IP
7 6 (0.55%) DHCP
7 6 (0.55%) SD-WAN
7 6 (0.55%) VLAN
8 4 (0.36%) SSL
9 3 (0.27%) AMQP
9 3 (0.27%) BGP
9 3 (0.27%) IPsec
9 3 (0.27%) OSPF
9 3 (0.27%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (0.27%) Wireshark
10 2 (0.18%) Internet
11 1 (0.091%) HTTPS
11 1 (0.091%) IPv6
Database & Business Intelligence
1 168 (15.29%) SQL Server
2 121 (11.01%) Power BI
3 80 (7.28%) Data Warehouse
4 58 (5.28%) Azure SQL Database
5 48 (4.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 44 (4.00%) Tableau
7 43 (3.91%) NoSQL
8 27 (2.46%) Relational Database
9 26 (2.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 20 (1.82%) Snowflake Schema
11 19 (1.73%) PostgreSQL
12 17 (1.55%) Data Lake
13 16 (1.46%) DynamoDB
14 14 (1.27%) MongoDB
15 13 (1.18%) Metadata
15 13 (1.18%) MySQL
16 12 (1.09%) SQL Server Analysis Services
17 10 (0.91%) BigQuery
18 6 (0.55%) Delta Lake
19 5 (0.45%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 215 (19.56%) JIRA
2 184 (16.74%) Git
3 121 (11.01%) Jenkins
4 69 (6.28%) eCATT
5 53 (4.82%) Selenium
6 40 (3.64%) NeoLoad
7 35 (3.18%) Octopus Deploy
7 35 (3.18%) Oracle Forms
8 34 (3.09%) GitLab
9 24 (2.18%) Snyk
10 23 (2.09%) Robot Framework
10 23 (2.09%) TeamCity
11 22 (2.00%) Cypress.io
12 21 (1.91%) Visual Studio
13 18 (1.64%) Postman
14 13 (1.18%) JMeter
15 12 (1.09%) Cucumber
15 12 (1.09%) NUnit
16 11 (1.00%) Visual Studio Code
17 10 (0.91%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 429 (39.04%) Finance
2 280 (25.48%) Social Skills
3 136 (12.37%) Analytical Skills
4 115 (10.46%) Marketing
5 71 (6.46%) Manufacturing
6 66 (6.01%) Presentation Skills
7 53 (4.82%) Law
8 44 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
8 44 (4.00%) Retail
9 34 (3.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 23 (2.09%) Legal
10 23 (2.09%) Public Sector
11 22 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
12 14 (1.27%) Banking
13 9 (0.82%) Advertising
13 9 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
14 8 (0.73%) Games
14 8 (0.73%) Tech for Good
15 6 (0.55%) Back Office
15 6 (0.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 232 (21.11%) Senior
2 174 (15.83%) Developer
3 162 (14.74%) Lead
4 130 (11.83%) Analyst
5 123 (11.19%) DevOps Engineer
6 107 (9.74%) Azure Engineer
7 87 (7.92%) Cloud Engineer
8 59 (5.37%) Data Engineer
9 52 (4.73%) Software Engineer
10 49 (4.46%) .NET Developer
11 46 (4.19%) Architect
11 46 (4.19%) Test Leader
12 43 (3.91%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 43 (3.91%) Platform Engineer
13 42 (3.82%) Applications Engineer
14 38 (3.46%) Senior Cloud Engineer
15 37 (3.37%) Business Analyst
16 32 (2.91%) Test Analyst
17 28 (2.55%) Senior Developer
18 26 (2.37%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 281 (25.57%) .NET
2 117 (10.65%) RESTful
3 89 (8.10%) React
4 75 (6.82%) YAML
5 74 (6.73%) REST
6 73 (6.64%) .NET Framework
7 63 (5.73%) JSON
8 61 (5.55%) .NET Core
9 60 (5.46%) OAuth
10 52 (4.73%) SOAP
11 51 (4.64%) ASP.NET
12 48 (4.37%) ARM Templates
13 47 (4.28%) CSS
13 47 (4.28%) HTML
14 45 (4.09%) Entity Framework
15 41 (3.73%) AngularJS
16 38 (3.46%) OAuth2
16 38 (3.46%) XML
17 31 (2.82%) Blazor
18 27 (2.46%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 175 (15.92%) Cloud Native
2 120 (10.92%) Product Ownership
3 66 (6.01%) Enterprise Software
4 44 (4.00%) Management Information System
5 33 (3.00%) Legacy Systems
6 32 (2.91%) Onboarding
7 31 (2.82%) Security Posture
8 27 (2.46%) Low-Code
9 25 (2.27%) Hybrid Cloud
10 23 (2.09%) Virtual Team
11 21 (1.91%) Analytical Mindset
11 21 (1.91%) Distributed Systems
11 21 (1.91%) Mobile App
12 19 (1.73%) Greenfield Project
13 17 (1.55%) Data Centre
14 12 (1.09%) Legacy Applications
14 12 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
15 10 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
15 10 (0.91%) Linux Command Line
16 9 (0.82%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 94 (8.55%) Windows
2 60 (5.46%) Linux
3 26 (2.37%) VMS
4 16 (1.46%) Windows Server
5 8 (0.73%) Android
6 7 (0.64%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.36%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.18%) Unix
8 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.091%) CentOS
9 1 (0.091%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,029 (93.63%) DevOps
2 632 (57.51%) CI/CD
3 554 (50.41%) Agile
4 289 (26.30%) Test Automation
5 278 (25.30%) Infrastructure as Code
6 250 (22.75%) Continuous Improvement
7 238 (21.66%) Problem-Solving
8 225 (20.47%) Mentoring
9 199 (18.11%) AI
9 199 (18.11%) Coaching
10 154 (14.01%) Analytics
11 149 (13.56%) Asset Management
12 136 (12.37%) Roadmaps
13 132 (12.01%) Containerisation
14 131 (11.92%) Scrum
15 127 (11.56%) Business Intelligence
16 126 (11.46%) Observability
17 125 (11.37%) ERP
17 125 (11.37%) Microservices
18 116 (10.56%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 373 (33.94%) SQL
2 276 (25.11%) Python
3 239 (21.75%) C#
4 228 (20.75%) PowerShell
5 107 (9.74%) Bicep
6 99 (9.01%) JavaScript
7 90 (8.19%) Bash
8 71 (6.46%) TypeScript
9 53 (4.82%) Java
10 39 (3.55%) T-SQL
11 37 (3.37%) Shell Script
12 36 (3.28%) PL/SQL
13 27 (2.46%) Apex Code
14 17 (1.55%) Go
15 12 (1.09%) Scala
16 9 (0.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 5 (0.45%) C++
17 5 (0.45%) Kusto Query Language
18 4 (0.36%) Groovy
18 4 (0.36%) R
Qualifications
1 139 (12.65%) Degree
2 88 (8.01%) Computer Science Degree
3 82 (7.46%) Azure Certification
4 74 (6.73%) Security Cleared
5 48 (4.37%) SC Cleared
6 44 (4.00%) ISTQB
6 44 (4.00%) Master's Degree
7 29 (2.64%) Microsoft Certification
8 24 (2.18%) DV Cleared
9 23 (2.09%) AWS Certification
10 14 (1.27%) ISEB
11 12 (1.09%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 12 (1.09%) PMI Certification
12 10 (0.91%) AWS Certified Developer
12 10 (0.91%) PMP
13 6 (0.55%) Cisco Certification
13 6 (0.55%) DBS Check
14 5 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
15 4 (0.36%) CBAP
15 4 (0.36%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 155 (14.10%) QA
2 47 (4.28%) Accessibility
3 45 (4.09%) GDPR
4 39 (3.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 31 (2.82%) Data Quality
6 25 (2.27%) NCSC
6 25 (2.27%) NIST
7 17 (1.55%) PMO
8 8 (0.73%) Software Quality Assurance
9 7 (0.64%) SOC 2
10 5 (0.45%) PERC
11 4 (0.36%) WCAG
12 3 (0.27%) SLA
13 1 (0.091%) COBIT
13 1 (0.091%) Cyber Essentials
13 1 (0.091%) HIPAA
13 1 (0.091%) HL7
13 1 (0.091%) ISO 9001
13 1 (0.091%) P3O
13 1 (0.091%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 156 (14.19%) Docker
2 66 (6.01%) Active Directory
3 24 (2.18%) Virtual Machines
4 17 (1.55%) Virtual Desktop
5 15 (1.36%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.36%) Firmware
6 4 (0.36%) Postfix
7 2 (0.18%) vCloud
8 1 (0.091%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 1 (0.091%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.091%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.091%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.091%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.091%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 353 (32.12%) Terraform
2 183 (16.65%) Kubernetes
3 83 (7.55%) Ansible
4 72 (6.55%) HP ALM
5 40 (3.64%) Grafana
6 36 (3.28%) Single Sign-On
7 32 (2.91%) Prometheus
8 20 (1.82%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.36%) Argo
9 4 (0.36%) logstash
9 4 (0.36%) Rancher
9 4 (0.36%) vRealize
10 3 (0.27%) Dell DRAC
11 2 (0.18%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (0.18%) Nessus
11 2 (0.18%) Puppet
11 2 (0.18%) SCOM
12 1 (0.091%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.091%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.091%) SCCM
Vendors
1 376 (34.21%) Microsoft
2 78 (7.10%) SAP
3 72 (6.55%) HP
4 53 (4.82%) Databricks
5 44 (4.00%) Oracle
6 42 (3.82%) Salesforce
7 25 (2.27%) ServiceNow
8 23 (2.09%) VMware
9 21 (1.91%) Black Duck
9 21 (1.91%) Okta
10 20 (1.82%) Coverity
11 18 (1.64%) Google
12 15 (1.36%) Palo Alto
13 14 (1.27%) OpenAI
13 14 (1.27%) Xamarin
14 13 (1.18%) Ab Initio
14 13 (1.18%) Foundry
15 12 (1.09%) Dynatrace
15 12 (1.09%) Sage
16 10 (0.91%) SolarWinds