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

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 128 105 80
Rank change year-on-year -23 -25 +7
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,106 1,503 1,747
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.89% 2.62% 3.57%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.37% 7.29% 8.28%
Number of salaries quoted 704 980 1,485
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% -2.26%
75th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £97,116
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% -

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 20,606 20,605 21,110
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.19% 35.93% 43.10%
Number of salaries quoted 11,346 12,438 17,501
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,382 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.34% +1.41% -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £101,250 £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 16 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 16 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 -43 865 £65,500 -2.96% 333
UK excluding London -24 687 £57,500 -11.54% 277
Work from Home +2 520 £63,000 -6.67% 192
London +7 346 £76,250 +1.67% 137
South East +2 235 £60,000 -11.11% 104
Scotland +66 162 £64,500 +20.00% 14
North of England -47 100 £60,000 -7.69% 67
Midlands -54 76 £60,000 -7.69% 39
West Midlands -48 63 £60,000 -7.69% 21
South West -66 56 £51,250 -21.15% 29
North West -30 41 £65,000 +6.56% 35
Yorkshire -41 33 £60,000 -7.69% 21
Wales +4 31 £55,000 -15.38% 9
North East +2 26 £50,000 -9.09% 12
East of England -28 25 £65,000 +30.00% 22
East Midlands -16 12 £60,000 +4.35% 18
Northern Ireland -5 2 £56,250 - 3

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 (3.62%) Confluence
2 35 (3.16%) IIS
3 24 (2.17%) SharePoint
4 16 (1.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 14 (1.27%) Microsoft Exchange
6 13 (1.18%) Apache Airflow
7 8 (0.72%) Apache Spark
8 6 (0.54%) Apache
8 6 (0.54%) 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 (3.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 27 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (1.36%) MS Visio
4 14 (1.27%) Microsoft Project
5 12 (1.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.36%) Trello
7 2 (0.18%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.090%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.090%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 72 (6.51%) SAP S/4HANA
2 45 (4.07%) Dynamics CRM
3 35 (3.16%) 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 (0.090%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.090%) Endur
6 1 (0.090%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 1,037 (93.76%) Azure
2 324 (29.29%) GitHub
3 224 (20.25%) Power Platform
4 166 (15.01%) AWS
5 155 (14.01%) GitHub Actions
6 92 (8.32%) Azure Monitor
7 84 (7.59%) Azure Data Factory
7 84 (7.59%) Power Automate
8 82 (7.41%) Entra ID
8 82 (7.41%) PaaS
9 81 (7.32%) Dynamics 365
9 81 (7.32%) Snowflake
10 79 (7.14%) Serverless
11 74 (6.69%) Microsoft 365
12 69 (6.24%) SaaS
13 65 (5.88%) Azure AKS
14 64 (5.79%) GitHub Copilot
15 58 (5.24%) dbt
16 54 (4.88%) Azure Logic Apps
17 53 (4.79%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 36 (3.25%) DNS
1 36 (3.25%) Firewall
2 23 (2.08%) VPN
3 13 (1.18%) WAN
4 10 (0.90%) Network Security
5 9 (0.81%) HTTP
6 7 (0.63%) TCP/IP
7 6 (0.54%) DHCP
7 6 (0.54%) SD-WAN
7 6 (0.54%) 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 (0.090%) HTTPS
11 1 (0.090%) IPv6
Database & Business Intelligence
1 170 (15.37%) SQL Server
2 121 (10.94%) Power BI
3 81 (7.32%) Data Warehouse
4 58 (5.24%) Azure SQL Database
5 49 (4.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 44 (3.98%) NoSQL
6 44 (3.98%) Tableau
7 27 (2.44%) Relational Database
8 26 (2.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 20 (1.81%) Snowflake Schema
10 19 (1.72%) PostgreSQL
11 18 (1.63%) Data Lake
12 16 (1.45%) DynamoDB
13 14 (1.27%) MongoDB
14 13 (1.18%) Metadata
14 13 (1.18%) MySQL
15 12 (1.08%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 10 (0.90%) BigQuery
17 6 (0.54%) Delta Lake
18 5 (0.45%) Airbyte
Development Applications
1 215 (19.44%) JIRA
2 186 (16.82%) Git
3 122 (11.03%) Jenkins
4 69 (6.24%) eCATT
5 53 (4.79%) Selenium
6 40 (3.62%) NeoLoad
7 36 (3.25%) Octopus Deploy
8 35 (3.16%) Oracle Forms
9 34 (3.07%) GitLab
10 24 (2.17%) Snyk
10 24 (2.17%) TeamCity
11 23 (2.08%) Robot Framework
12 22 (1.99%) Cypress.io
13 21 (1.90%) Visual Studio
14 18 (1.63%) Postman
15 13 (1.18%) JMeter
16 12 (1.08%) Cucumber
16 12 (1.08%) NUnit
17 11 (0.99%) Visual Studio Code
18 10 (0.90%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 432 (39.06%) Finance
2 282 (25.50%) Social Skills
3 138 (12.48%) Analytical Skills
4 115 (10.40%) Marketing
5 71 (6.42%) Manufacturing
6 67 (6.06%) Presentation Skills
7 53 (4.79%) Law
8 44 (3.98%) Influencing Skills
8 44 (3.98%) Retail
9 35 (3.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 23 (2.08%) Legal
10 23 (2.08%) Public Sector
11 22 (1.99%) Documentation Skills
12 14 (1.27%) Banking
13 9 (0.81%) Advertising
13 9 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
14 8 (0.72%) Games
14 8 (0.72%) Tech for Good
15 6 (0.54%) Back Office
15 6 (0.54%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 233 (21.07%) Senior
2 176 (15.91%) Developer
3 162 (14.65%) Lead
4 130 (11.75%) Analyst
5 125 (11.30%) DevOps Engineer
6 108 (9.76%) Azure Engineer
7 87 (7.87%) Cloud Engineer
8 60 (5.42%) Data Engineer
9 52 (4.70%) Software Engineer
10 49 (4.43%) .NET Developer
11 47 (4.25%) Architect
12 46 (4.16%) Test Leader
13 44 (3.98%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 44 (3.98%) Platform Engineer
14 42 (3.80%) Applications Engineer
15 38 (3.44%) Senior Cloud Engineer
16 37 (3.35%) Business Analyst
17 32 (2.89%) Test Analyst
18 28 (2.53%) Senior Developer
19 27 (2.44%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 283 (25.59%) .NET
2 117 (10.58%) RESTful
3 91 (8.23%) React
4 76 (6.87%) YAML
5 74 (6.69%) .NET Framework
5 74 (6.69%) REST
6 63 (5.70%) JSON
7 62 (5.61%) .NET Core
8 60 (5.42%) OAuth
9 52 (4.70%) SOAP
10 51 (4.61%) ASP.NET
11 48 (4.34%) ARM Templates
12 47 (4.25%) CSS
12 47 (4.25%) HTML
13 45 (4.07%) Entity Framework
14 41 (3.71%) AngularJS
15 38 (3.44%) OAuth2
15 38 (3.44%) XML
16 31 (2.80%) Blazor
17 27 (2.44%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 175 (15.82%) Cloud Native
2 121 (10.94%) Product Ownership
3 66 (5.97%) Enterprise Software
4 44 (3.98%) Management Information System
5 35 (3.16%) Legacy Systems
6 32 (2.89%) Onboarding
7 31 (2.80%) Security Posture
8 28 (2.53%) Low-Code
9 26 (2.35%) Hybrid Cloud
10 24 (2.17%) Virtual Team
11 21 (1.90%) Analytical Mindset
11 21 (1.90%) Distributed Systems
11 21 (1.90%) Mobile App
12 19 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
13 17 (1.54%) Data Centre
14 12 (1.08%) Legacy Applications
14 12 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
15 10 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
15 10 (0.90%) Linux Command Line
16 9 (0.81%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 96 (8.68%) Windows
2 61 (5.52%) Linux
3 26 (2.35%) VMS
4 17 (1.54%) Windows Server
5 8 (0.72%) Android
6 7 (0.63%) 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 (0.090%) CentOS
9 1 (0.090%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,036 (93.67%) DevOps
2 637 (57.59%) CI/CD
3 557 (50.36%) Agile
4 291 (26.31%) Test Automation
5 281 (25.41%) Infrastructure as Code
6 252 (22.78%) Continuous Improvement
7 241 (21.79%) Problem-Solving
8 226 (20.43%) Mentoring
9 203 (18.35%) AI
10 200 (18.08%) Coaching
11 156 (14.10%) Analytics
12 149 (13.47%) Asset Management
13 136 (12.30%) Roadmaps
14 133 (12.03%) Containerisation
15 131 (11.84%) Scrum
16 128 (11.57%) Business Intelligence
16 128 (11.57%) Observability
17 126 (11.39%) Microservices
18 125 (11.30%) ERP
19 116 (10.49%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 376 (34.00%) SQL
2 280 (25.32%) Python
3 242 (21.88%) C#
4 230 (20.80%) PowerShell
5 107 (9.67%) Bicep
6 101 (9.13%) JavaScript
7 91 (8.23%) Bash
8 71 (6.42%) TypeScript
9 53 (4.79%) Java
10 39 (3.53%) T-SQL
11 37 (3.35%) Shell Script
12 36 (3.25%) PL/SQL
13 27 (2.44%) Apex Code
14 17 (1.54%) Go
15 12 (1.08%) Scala
16 9 (0.81%) 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 (12.57%) Degree
2 88 (7.96%) Computer Science Degree
3 82 (7.41%) Azure Certification
4 74 (6.69%) Security Cleared
5 48 (4.34%) SC Cleared
6 44 (3.98%) ISTQB
6 44 (3.98%) Master's Degree
7 29 (2.62%) Microsoft Certification
8 24 (2.17%) DV Cleared
9 23 (2.08%) AWS Certification
10 14 (1.27%) ISEB
11 12 (1.08%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 12 (1.08%) PMI Certification
12 10 (0.90%) AWS Certified Developer
12 10 (0.90%) PMP
13 6 (0.54%) Cisco Certification
13 6 (0.54%) DBS Check
14 5 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
15 4 (0.36%) CBAP
15 4 (0.36%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 155 (14.01%) QA
2 47 (4.25%) Accessibility
3 45 (4.07%) GDPR
4 39 (3.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 32 (2.89%) Data Quality
6 25 (2.26%) NCSC
6 25 (2.26%) NIST
7 17 (1.54%) PMO
8 8 (0.72%) Software Quality Assurance
9 7 (0.63%) SOC 2
10 5 (0.45%) PERC
11 4 (0.36%) WCAG
12 3 (0.27%) SLA
13 1 (0.090%) COBIT
13 1 (0.090%) Cyber Essentials
13 1 (0.090%) HIPAA
13 1 (0.090%) HL7
13 1 (0.090%) ISO 9001
13 1 (0.090%) P3O
13 1 (0.090%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 158 (14.29%) Docker
2 67 (6.06%) Active Directory
3 24 (2.17%) Virtual Machines
4 17 (1.54%) Virtual Desktop
5 15 (1.36%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.36%) Firmware
6 4 (0.36%) Postfix
7 2 (0.18%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.18%) vCloud
8 1 (0.090%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 1 (0.090%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.090%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.090%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.090%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 355 (32.10%) Terraform
2 184 (16.64%) Kubernetes
3 83 (7.50%) Ansible
4 72 (6.51%) HP ALM
5 40 (3.62%) Grafana
6 36 (3.25%) Single Sign-On
7 32 (2.89%) Prometheus
8 20 (1.81%) 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 (0.090%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.090%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.090%) SCCM
Vendors
1 379 (34.27%) Microsoft
2 78 (7.05%) SAP
3 72 (6.51%) HP
4 53 (4.79%) Databricks
5 44 (3.98%) Oracle
6 42 (3.80%) Salesforce
7 25 (2.26%) ServiceNow
8 24 (2.17%) VMware
9 21 (1.90%) Black Duck
9 21 (1.90%) Okta
10 20 (1.81%) Coverity
11 18 (1.63%) 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 (1.08%) Dynatrace
15 12 (1.08%) Sage
16 10 (0.90%) SolarWinds