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 11 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 111 114
Rank change year-on-year -18 +3 -13
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,139 1,335 1,943
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.72% 2.69% 2.62%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.17% 7.27% 6.82%
Number of salaries quoted 732 859 1,715
10th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £49,346 £53,688 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -4.58%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £59,526
% change year-on-year -15.38% +9.20% -0.79%

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 22,045 18,360 28,469
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.35% 36.97% 38.45%
Number of salaries quoted 11,922 10,955 23,591
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,231 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £97,290
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 11 February 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 11 February 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 -43 900 £65,000 -3.70% 326
UK excluding London -31 711 £55,000 -15.38% 288
Work from Home -3 502 £62,500 -7.41% 210
London +29 355 £75,000 - 109
South East -2 249 £50,000 -23.08% 90
Scotland +63 170 £56,000 +1.82% 22
North of England -42 106 £55,000 -18.19% 81
Midlands -54 78 £60,000 -7.69% 45
South West -76 70 £47,500 -26.92% 25
West Midlands -54 56 £58,000 -14.07% 31
Yorkshire -41 41 £55,000 -21.43% 28
North West -18 35 £64,000 -1.54% 46
North East +9 30 £50,000 -27.27% 8
Wales -2 22 £55,000 -15.38% 12
East Midlands -10 19 £65,000 - 15
East of England -46 13 £62,500 +25.00% 18
Northern Ireland -19 3 £56,250 +12.50% 2

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 39 (3.42%) Confluence
2 34 (2.99%) IIS
3 26 (2.28%) SharePoint
4 19 (1.67%) Microsoft Exchange
5 17 (1.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 10 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
7 7 (0.61%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.35%) Apache
9 3 (0.26%) Appian
10 2 (0.18%) Anypoint
10 2 (0.18%) BizTalk Server
10 2 (0.18%) Moodle
11 1 (0.088%) nginx
11 1 (0.088%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.088%) Tomcat
Applications
1 38 (3.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 25 (2.19%) MS Visio
3 19 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
4 15 (1.32%) Microsoft Project
5 12 (1.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.35%) Trello
7 2 (0.18%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.088%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 71 (6.23%) SAP S/4HANA
2 37 (3.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 37 (3.25%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (0.26%) SAP CX
4 2 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (0.18%) Markit EDM
4 2 (0.18%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.088%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.088%) Endur
5 1 (0.088%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 1 (0.088%) Primavera
5 1 (0.088%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 1,069 (93.85%) Azure
2 350 (30.73%) GitHub
3 218 (19.14%) Power Platform
4 172 (15.10%) AWS
5 159 (13.96%) GitHub Actions
6 99 (8.69%) Azure Monitor
7 96 (8.43%) Entra ID
8 91 (7.99%) Azure Data Factory
9 87 (7.64%) Serverless
10 81 (7.11%) Snowflake
11 79 (6.94%) PaaS
12 78 (6.85%) Microsoft 365
13 71 (6.23%) SaaS
14 66 (5.79%) GitHub Copilot
15 62 (5.44%) Azure AKS
16 61 (5.36%) Dynamics 365
17 59 (5.18%) Azure Logic Apps
17 59 (5.18%) dbt
18 57 (5.00%) GCP
19 52 (4.57%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 65 (5.71%) Firewall
2 47 (4.13%) DNS
3 28 (2.46%) VPN
4 20 (1.76%) WAN
5 18 (1.58%) HTTP
6 16 (1.40%) TCP/IP
7 8 (0.70%) DHCP
7 8 (0.70%) Network Security
8 6 (0.53%) SD-WAN
9 5 (0.44%) BGP
9 5 (0.44%) VLAN
10 4 (0.35%) SSL
11 3 (0.26%) AMQP
11 3 (0.26%) IPsec
11 3 (0.26%) OSPF
11 3 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
11 3 (0.26%) Wireshark
12 1 (0.088%) IP Telephony
12 1 (0.088%) NetScaler
12 1 (0.088%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 160 (14.05%) SQL Server
2 131 (11.50%) Power BI
3 74 (6.50%) Data Warehouse
4 68 (5.97%) Azure SQL Database
5 47 (4.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 41 (3.60%) NoSQL
7 38 (3.34%) Tableau
8 31 (2.72%) Data Lake
9 28 (2.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 20 (1.76%) PostgreSQL
10 20 (1.76%) Relational Database
10 20 (1.76%) Snowflake Schema
11 15 (1.32%) DynamoDB
11 15 (1.32%) MongoDB
12 12 (1.05%) Metadata
12 12 (1.05%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 11 (0.97%) Delta Lake
14 9 (0.79%) GIS
14 9 (0.79%) MySQL
14 9 (0.79%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 212 (18.61%) JIRA
2 185 (16.24%) Git
3 127 (11.15%) Jenkins
4 69 (6.06%) eCATT
5 56 (4.92%) Selenium
6 39 (3.42%) NeoLoad
7 37 (3.25%) Oracle Forms
8 33 (2.90%) Cypress.io
9 31 (2.72%) GitLab
10 25 (2.19%) Octopus Deploy
11 22 (1.93%) Visual Studio
12 21 (1.84%) Snyk
12 21 (1.84%) TeamCity
13 20 (1.76%) Robot Framework
14 19 (1.67%) Postman
15 13 (1.14%) Eclipse
16 9 (0.79%) SpecFlow
17 8 (0.70%) MLflow
17 8 (0.70%) NUnit
18 7 (0.61%) JMeter
General
1 454 (39.86%) Finance
2 277 (24.32%) Social Skills
3 159 (13.96%) Analytical Skills
4 99 (8.69%) Marketing
5 72 (6.32%) Manufacturing
6 59 (5.18%) Presentation Skills
7 48 (4.21%) Law
8 46 (4.04%) Influencing Skills
9 30 (2.63%) Public Sector
10 23 (2.02%) Billing
10 23 (2.02%) Retail
11 21 (1.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 19 (1.67%) Legal
13 15 (1.32%) Banking
13 15 (1.32%) Telecoms
14 14 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
15 10 (0.88%) Tech for Good
16 8 (0.70%) Advertising
16 8 (0.70%) Games
17 7 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 236 (20.72%) Senior
2 201 (17.65%) Developer
3 158 (13.87%) Lead
4 141 (12.38%) DevOps Engineer
5 128 (11.24%) Azure Engineer
6 127 (11.15%) Analyst
7 106 (9.31%) Cloud Engineer
8 60 (5.27%) Data Engineer
9 52 (4.57%) Software Engineer
10 51 (4.48%) Applications Engineer
11 49 (4.30%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 49 (4.30%) Platform Engineer
11 49 (4.30%) Test Leader
12 48 (4.21%) .NET Developer
13 41 (3.60%) Architect
14 38 (3.34%) Senior Cloud Engineer
15 35 (3.07%) Business Analyst
16 31 (2.72%) Senior Developer
16 31 (2.72%) Support Engineer
17 28 (2.46%) Power Platform Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 279 (24.50%) .NET
2 114 (10.01%) RESTful
3 97 (8.52%) React
4 78 (6.85%) REST
5 71 (6.23%) OAuth
5 71 (6.23%) YAML
6 66 (5.79%) .NET Framework
7 62 (5.44%) .NET Core
7 62 (5.44%) ASP.NET
8 54 (4.74%) SOAP
9 53 (4.65%) CSS
10 52 (4.57%) HTML
10 52 (4.57%) JSON
11 41 (3.60%) OAuth2
12 37 (3.25%) AngularJS
12 37 (3.25%) SAML
13 35 (3.07%) Entity Framework
13 35 (3.07%) Playwright
14 32 (2.81%) ARM Templates
15 30 (2.63%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 149 (13.08%) Cloud Native
2 125 (10.97%) Product Ownership
3 58 (5.09%) Enterprise Software
4 42 (3.69%) Management Information System
5 35 (3.07%) Low-Code
6 34 (2.99%) Legacy Systems
7 27 (2.37%) Analytical Mindset
8 26 (2.28%) Mobile App
9 25 (2.19%) Virtual Team
10 23 (2.02%) Hybrid Cloud
10 23 (2.02%) Security Posture
11 21 (1.84%) Onboarding
12 19 (1.67%) Reinsurance
13 16 (1.40%) Distributed Systems
14 15 (1.32%) Data Centre
15 12 (1.05%) Data Structures
15 12 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
16 11 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
17 10 (0.88%) Legacy Applications
18 9 (0.79%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 96 (8.43%) Windows
2 68 (5.97%) Linux
3 29 (2.55%) VMS
4 17 (1.49%) Windows Server
5 11 (0.97%) Ubuntu
6 6 (0.53%) Android
7 5 (0.44%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.26%) Unix
9 2 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.088%) CentOS
10 1 (0.088%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.088%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.088%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,069 (93.85%) DevOps
2 653 (57.33%) CI/CD
3 531 (46.62%) Agile
4 309 (27.13%) Infrastructure as Code
5 285 (25.02%) Test Automation
6 268 (23.53%) Continuous Improvement
7 237 (20.81%) Problem-Solving
8 215 (18.88%) Coaching
9 203 (17.82%) AI
10 192 (16.86%) Mentoring
11 180 (15.80%) Analytics
12 159 (13.96%) Asset Management
13 138 (12.12%) Observability
14 137 (12.03%) Containerisation
15 136 (11.94%) Data Modelling
15 136 (11.94%) Roadmaps
16 133 (11.68%) Business Intelligence
17 120 (10.54%) Software Engineering
18 113 (9.92%) Microservices
19 112 (9.83%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 396 (34.77%) SQL
2 293 (25.72%) Python
3 239 (20.98%) C#
4 194 (17.03%) PowerShell
5 109 (9.57%) JavaScript
6 99 (8.69%) Bicep
7 97 (8.52%) Bash
8 70 (6.15%) TypeScript
9 57 (5.00%) Java
10 40 (3.51%) Shell Script
11 37 (3.25%) PL/SQL
12 31 (2.72%) Apex Code
13 30 (2.63%) T-SQL
14 23 (2.02%) Go
15 15 (1.32%) Scala
16 12 (1.05%) Kusto Query Language
17 9 (0.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 5 (0.44%) C++
19 4 (0.35%) PHP
19 4 (0.35%) VB
Qualifications
1 129 (11.33%) Degree
2 74 (6.50%) Azure Certification
2 74 (6.50%) Security Cleared
3 67 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
4 43 (3.78%) SC Cleared
5 37 (3.25%) Master's Degree
6 36 (3.16%) ISTQB
7 29 (2.55%) Microsoft Certification
8 26 (2.28%) DV Cleared
9 21 (1.84%) AWS Certification
10 12 (1.05%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 12 (1.05%) PMI Certification
11 11 (0.97%) AWS Certified Developer
11 11 (0.97%) HND
12 8 (0.70%) PMP
13 6 (0.53%) DBS Check
13 6 (0.53%) ISEB
14 5 (0.44%) CBAP
14 5 (0.44%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 4 (0.35%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 138 (12.12%) QA
2 63 (5.53%) Accessibility
3 47 (4.13%) GDPR
4 44 (3.86%) Data Quality
5 38 (3.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (1.14%) NCSC
6 13 (1.14%) NIST
6 13 (1.14%) PMO
6 13 (1.14%) SOC 2
7 11 (0.97%) SLA
8 5 (0.44%) PERC
9 4 (0.35%) Software Quality Assurance
10 3 (0.26%) WCAG
11 2 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.18%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 1 (0.088%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.088%) HL7
12 1 (0.088%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 1 (0.088%) P3O
12 1 (0.088%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 138 (12.12%) Docker
2 77 (6.76%) Active Directory
3 27 (2.37%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (1.23%) Virtual Desktop
5 12 (1.05%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.35%) Firmware
6 4 (0.35%) Postfix
7 2 (0.18%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.18%) vCloud
8 1 (0.088%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 1 (0.088%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.088%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.088%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 368 (32.31%) Terraform
2 155 (13.61%) Kubernetes
3 101 (8.87%) Ansible
4 72 (6.32%) HP ALM
5 54 (4.74%) Grafana
6 42 (3.69%) Prometheus
7 39 (3.42%) Single Sign-On
8 19 (1.67%) Microsoft Intune
9 8 (0.70%) Kibana
10 4 (0.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (0.35%) Argo
10 4 (0.35%) logstash
11 3 (0.26%) Dell DRAC
11 3 (0.26%) Puppet
11 3 (0.26%) Rancher
11 3 (0.26%) SCCM
11 3 (0.26%) vRealize
12 2 (0.18%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (0.18%) Nessus
13 1 (0.088%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 362 (31.78%) Microsoft
2 77 (6.76%) SAP
3 72 (6.32%) HP
4 57 (5.00%) Databricks
5 44 (3.86%) Salesforce
6 42 (3.69%) Oracle
7 35 (3.07%) ServiceNow
8 24 (2.11%) Okta
9 22 (1.93%) VMware
10 20 (1.76%) Palo Alto
11 19 (1.67%) Zscaler
12 18 (1.58%) Black Duck
12 18 (1.58%) Coverity
13 14 (1.23%) Ab Initio
14 12 (1.05%) Adobe
14 12 (1.05%) Google
14 12 (1.05%) Red Hat
14 12 (1.05%) Sage
14 12 (1.05%) Xamarin
15 10 (0.88%) Dynatrace