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 12 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 169 122
Rank change year-on-year +15 -47 -29
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,323 950 2,174
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.34% 1.93% 2.15%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.89% 5.96% 6.47%
Number of salaries quoted 1,073 731 1,613
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £41,387
25th Percentile £49,750 £55,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% 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 27,060 15,940 33,582
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.43% 32.39% 33.18%
Number of salaries quoted 17,658 11,111 25,497
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,500 £30,250
25th Percentile £43,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £80,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £51,333
% change year-on-year +4.76% +2.27% -6.67%

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 12 July 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 12 July 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 +21 1,181 £65,000 -7.14% 404
UK excluding London +64 883 £60,000 -4.00% 324
Work from Home +28 547 £60,000 -11.11% 243
London -26 369 £80,000 +3.23% 142
North of England +89 254 £62,500 -3.85% 82
South East +9 231 £60,000 -6.25% 111
North West +65 136 £67,500 +3.85% 49
Midlands +12 133 £63,750 +6.25% 53
South West -2 101 £55,000 -4.35% 25
East of England +16 75 £56,750 +3.18% 33
East Midlands +25 72 £61,750 +12.27% 23
Wales -5 64 £53,171 -11.38% 10
Yorkshire -7 64 £69,310 -0.99% 24
West Midlands -23 61 £65,000 +6.12% 30
North East -9 54 £50,500 -8.18% 10
Scotland +9 25 £61,250 -5.04% 13
Northern Ireland -59 2 £72,500 +45.00% 6

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 60 (4.54%) Confluence
2 59 (4.46%) SharePoint
3 30 (2.27%) Microsoft Exchange
4 23 (1.74%) IIS
5 13 (0.98%) Apache Spark
6 9 (0.68%) CMS
7 8 (0.60%) nginx
7 8 (0.60%) SharePoint Server
8 7 (0.53%) Anypoint
9 6 (0.45%) Apache
9 6 (0.45%) Umbraco
10 5 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
10 5 (0.38%) Camunda
11 3 (0.23%) WordPress
12 2 (0.15%) BizTalk Server
12 2 (0.15%) CICS
12 2 (0.15%) Luigi
12 2 (0.15%) Moodle
13 1 (0.076%) Palantir Foundry
13 1 (0.076%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 18 (1.36%) Microsoft Project
2 16 (1.21%) MS Visio
3 12 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
4 7 (0.53%) Chatbot
4 7 (0.53%) Trello
5 6 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
6 4 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.076%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.076%) Notion
7 1 (0.076%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 18 (1.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.60%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.45%) Elite 3E
4 5 (0.38%) SAP IBP
4 5 (0.38%) Visualfiles
5 4 (0.30%) Dynamics AX
5 4 (0.30%) Dynamics NAV
6 3 (0.23%) Carpe Diem
7 2 (0.15%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 2 (0.15%) Magento
7 2 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.15%) Shopify
8 1 (0.076%) Infor M3
8 1 (0.076%) JDE EnterpriseOne
8 1 (0.076%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.076%) Sage 200
8 1 (0.076%) SAP Business One
8 1 (0.076%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,322 (99.92%) Azure
2 228 (17.23%) GitHub
3 203 (15.34%) Power Platform
4 169 (12.77%) AWS
5 137 (10.36%) GitHub Actions
6 120 (9.07%) Serverless
7 109 (8.24%) Azure AKS
8 101 (7.63%) Azure Monitor
8 101 (7.63%) Azure Service Bus
9 95 (7.18%) PaaS
10 94 (7.11%) Azure Functions
11 93 (7.03%) Azure AI
12 90 (6.80%) Azure Logic Apps
13 84 (6.35%) Dynamics 365
14 82 (6.20%) Entra ID
15 72 (5.44%) Microsoft 365
16 71 (5.37%) Azure Data Factory
16 71 (5.37%) SaaS
17 66 (4.99%) GCP
18 63 (4.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 49 (3.70%) Firewall
2 23 (1.74%) DNS
3 22 (1.66%) VPN
4 16 (1.21%) HTTP
5 14 (1.06%) TCP/IP
6 11 (0.83%) Internet
6 11 (0.83%) Network Security
7 6 (0.45%) MQTT
7 6 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (0.45%) Wireless
7 6 (0.45%) ZigBee
8 5 (0.38%) SAN
9 4 (0.30%) Bluetooth
10 3 (0.23%) BGP
10 3 (0.23%) HTTPS
10 3 (0.23%) WAN
11 2 (0.15%) DHCP
11 2 (0.15%) LoRaWAN
11 2 (0.15%) VLAN
12 1 (0.076%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 241 (18.22%) Azure SQL Database
2 169 (12.77%) MongoDB
3 138 (10.43%) SQL Server
4 97 (7.33%) Power BI
5 48 (3.63%) PostgreSQL
6 37 (2.80%) Data Warehouse
7 32 (2.42%) Elasticsearch
8 30 (2.27%) Relational Database
9 28 (2.12%) NoSQL
10 25 (1.89%) Delta Lake
11 24 (1.81%) Data Lake
12 20 (1.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 19 (1.44%) Redis
14 18 (1.36%) MySQL
15 17 (1.28%) Spark SQL
16 14 (1.06%) Metadata
16 14 (1.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 12 (0.91%) Star Schema
18 11 (0.83%) NonStop SQL
19 10 (0.76%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 190 (14.36%) Git
2 164 (12.40%) JIRA
3 120 (9.07%) Jenkins
4 80 (6.05%) GitLab
5 50 (3.78%) Selenium
6 42 (3.17%) Cypress.io
7 37 (2.80%) Postman
8 20 (1.51%) Eclipse
9 19 (1.44%) REST Assured
10 15 (1.13%) JMeter
11 14 (1.06%) fastlane
11 14 (1.06%) TestRail
11 14 (1.06%) Visual Studio
11 14 (1.06%) Zephyr
12 13 (0.98%) JUnit
13 12 (0.91%) Octopus Deploy
14 9 (0.68%) Mockito
14 9 (0.68%) Xcode
15 7 (0.53%) MSI
15 7 (0.53%) NUnit
General
1 304 (22.98%) Social Skills
2 292 (22.07%) Finance
3 121 (9.15%) Analytical Skills
4 97 (7.33%) Public Sector
5 91 (6.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 55 (4.16%) Law
7 54 (4.08%) Retail
8 44 (3.33%) Marketing
9 33 (2.49%) Legal
10 30 (2.27%) Banking
11 29 (2.19%) Advertising
12 25 (1.89%) Games
13 23 (1.74%) Presentation Skills
14 21 (1.59%) Manufacturing
15 20 (1.51%) Influencing Skills
16 15 (1.13%) Telecoms
17 14 (1.06%) Billing
18 13 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
19 10 (0.76%) Automotive
19 10 (0.76%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 406 (30.69%) Developer
2 262 (19.80%) Senior
3 224 (16.93%) DevOps Engineer
4 196 (14.81%) .NET Developer
5 195 (14.74%) Azure Engineer
6 173 (13.08%) Lead
7 113 (8.54%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 83 (6.27%) Senior Developer
9 71 (5.37%) Platform Engineer
10 69 (5.22%) Data Engineer
11 68 (5.14%) Analyst
12 63 (4.76%) Cloud Engineer
13 60 (4.54%) Architect
14 56 (4.23%) Senior DevOps
15 54 (4.08%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 49 (3.70%) Software Engineer
17 39 (2.95%) Cloud Platform Engineer
18 36 (2.72%) Azure Platform Engineer
19 35 (2.65%) Software Developer
20 29 (2.19%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 432 (32.65%) .NET
2 239 (18.07%) ASP.NET
3 209 (15.80%) .NET Core
4 195 (14.74%) ASP.NET Core
5 165 (12.47%) React
6 156 (11.79%) HTML
7 154 (11.64%) CSS
8 140 (10.58%) RESTful
9 129 (9.75%) REST
10 111 (8.39%) Blazor
10 111 (8.39%) Entity Framework
11 87 (6.58%) Node.js
12 81 (6.12%) ML.NET
13 65 (4.91%) Playwright
14 60 (4.54%) YAML
15 55 (4.16%) ARM Templates
16 48 (3.63%) .NET Framework
17 47 (3.55%) OAuth
18 46 (3.48%) JSON
19 39 (2.95%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 129 (9.75%) Product Ownership
2 122 (9.22%) Cloud Native
3 58 (4.38%) Mobile App
4 47 (3.55%) Enterprise Software
5 44 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
5 44 (3.33%) Onboarding
6 36 (2.72%) Distributed Systems
6 36 (2.72%) Greenfield Project
7 26 (1.97%) Management Information System
8 24 (1.81%) Analytical Mindset
9 22 (1.66%) Hybrid Cloud
10 21 (1.59%) Low-Code
11 19 (1.44%) Podcast
11 19 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
12 17 (1.28%) BBC
12 17 (1.28%) iPhone
12 17 (1.28%) Public Cloud
12 17 (1.28%) Social Media
13 16 (1.21%) AI Agents
14 12 (0.91%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 101 (7.63%) Linux
2 80 (6.05%) Windows
3 26 (1.97%) Android
3 26 (1.97%) VMS
4 19 (1.44%) Unix
5 16 (1.21%) Ubuntu
6 15 (1.13%) Apple iOS
7 13 (0.98%) Windows Server
8 4 (0.30%) Kali Linux
9 3 (0.23%) Embedded Linux
9 3 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.15%) Debian
10 2 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.15%) Rocky
11 1 (0.076%) SUSE
11 1 (0.076%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,322 (99.92%) DevOps
2 780 (58.96%) CI/CD
3 619 (46.79%) Agile
4 323 (24.41%) Infrastructure as Code
5 277 (20.94%) AI
6 265 (20.03%) Continuous Improvement
7 245 (18.52%) Full-Stack Development
8 243 (18.37%) Test Automation
9 209 (15.80%) Scrum
10 195 (14.74%) Mentoring
11 189 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
12 163 (12.32%) Microservices
13 157 (11.87%) Analytics
14 152 (11.49%) Observability
15 132 (9.98%) Machine Learning
15 132 (9.98%) Platform Engineering
16 122 (9.22%) Containerisation
17 120 (9.07%) Roadmaps
18 117 (8.84%) SDLC
19 114 (8.62%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 466 (35.22%) SQL
2 424 (32.05%) C#
3 253 (19.12%) Python
4 241 (18.22%) JavaScript
5 154 (11.64%) PowerShell
6 132 (9.98%) Bash
7 110 (8.31%) Bicep
8 79 (5.97%) Java
9 67 (5.06%) TypeScript
10 26 (1.97%) T-SQL
11 23 (1.74%) Go
12 19 (1.44%) Kusto Query Language
13 17 (1.28%) C++
14 14 (1.06%) Scala
15 12 (0.91%) Swift
16 8 (0.60%) Apex Code
16 8 (0.60%) Kotlin
16 8 (0.60%) VB.NET
17 7 (0.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 7 (0.53%) DataWeave
Qualifications
1 103 (7.79%) Security Cleared
2 88 (6.65%) Degree
3 82 (6.20%) SC Cleared
4 66 (4.99%) Azure Certification
5 38 (2.87%) Computer Science Degree
6 29 (2.19%) ISTQB
7 21 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
8 15 (1.13%) PMI Certification
9 13 (0.98%) Master's Degree
10 12 (0.91%) DV Cleared
11 9 (0.68%) PMP
12 7 (0.53%) AWS Certification
12 7 (0.53%) HND
13 6 (0.45%) CISSP
14 5 (0.38%) ISEB
14 5 (0.38%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 4 (0.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 4 (0.30%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
15 4 (0.30%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 3 (0.23%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 161 (12.17%) QA
2 90 (6.80%) Accessibility
3 51 (3.85%) Data Quality
4 37 (2.80%) GDPR
5 31 (2.34%) WCAG
6 26 (1.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 12 (0.91%) TickIT
8 11 (0.83%) GRC
8 11 (0.83%) PMO
9 9 (0.68%) SLA
10 8 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 7 (0.53%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 6 (0.45%) JTAG
12 6 (0.45%) NCSC
12 6 (0.45%) Software Quality Assurance
12 6 (0.45%) Solvency II
13 5 (0.38%) IFRS
14 4 (0.30%) SOC 2
15 3 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
15 3 (0.23%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 158 (11.94%) Docker
2 65 (4.91%) Active Directory
3 19 (1.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (1.21%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (0.98%) Virtual Desktop
6 12 (0.91%) vSphere
7 5 (0.38%) Firmware
8 2 (0.15%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.15%) Xen
Systems Management
1 331 (25.02%) Terraform
2 151 (11.41%) Kubernetes
3 73 (5.52%) Ansible
4 70 (5.29%) Grafana
5 61 (4.61%) Prometheus
6 29 (2.19%) Argo
7 7 (0.53%) Puppet
8 5 (0.38%) Kibana
9 4 (0.30%) HP Fortify
10 3 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (0.23%) HP ALM
10 3 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (0.23%) Nagios
10 3 (0.23%) Scalr
11 2 (0.15%) FlexNet
11 2 (0.15%) Istio
11 2 (0.15%) MIIS
11 2 (0.15%) Rancher
11 2 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.15%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 558 (42.18%) Microsoft
2 64 (4.84%) Databricks
3 57 (4.31%) Google
4 41 (3.10%) Salesforce
5 38 (2.87%) Facebook
6 36 (2.72%) ServiceNow
7 30 (2.27%) Apple
8 26 (1.97%) VMware
9 25 (1.89%) Dynatrace
10 23 (1.74%) Red Hat
11 21 (1.59%) YouTube
12 19 (1.44%) MuleSoft
13 17 (1.28%) Sony
13 17 (1.28%) Yahoo!
14 14 (1.06%) Guidewire
15 13 (0.98%) Oracle
16 12 (0.91%) OpenAI
16 12 (0.91%) SAP
16 12 (0.91%) ScienceLogic
17 11 (0.83%) Foundry