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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 153 174 117
Rank change year-on-year +21 -57 -20
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,398 934 1,861
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.32% 1.88% 2.23%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.00% 5.86% 6.95%
Number of salaries quoted 1,119 704 1,324
10th Percentile £43,325 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £54,875 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000

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 27,968 15,935 26,775
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.35% 32.01% 32.05%
Number of salaries quoted 18,446 11,065 19,145
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £43,847 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -6.25%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -7.41% -1.82%

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 August 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 August 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 +24 1,246 £65,000 -6.47% 593
UK excluding London +69 938 £60,000 - 390
Work from Home +27 578 £60,000 -10.78% 334
London -38 394 £80,000 +5.96% 268
North of England +87 280 £60,000 -7.69% 93
South East -7 220 £60,000 -4.00% 133
North West +84 163 £65,000 - 58
Midlands +20 152 £63,500 +5.83% 65
South West -7 101 £55,000 -4.35% 32
Wales -5 83 £53,171 -3.33% 16
East of England +9 81 £55,000 -12.00% 32
West Midlands -16 80 £65,000 +8.33% 35
East Midlands +28 72 £58,750 +6.82% 30
Yorkshire -5 64 £69,308 +6.63% 24
North East -12 53 £51,619 -6.15% 12
Scotland +8 22 £57,500 -10.85% 16
Northern Ireland - 1 £72,500 - 4

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 68 (4.86%) Confluence
2 67 (4.79%) SharePoint
3 28 (2.00%) Microsoft Exchange
4 20 (1.43%) Apache Spark
4 20 (1.43%) IIS
5 12 (0.86%) Apache
6 11 (0.79%) CMS
6 11 (0.79%) nginx
7 8 (0.57%) Anypoint
7 8 (0.57%) SharePoint Server
8 6 (0.43%) Camunda
8 6 (0.43%) Umbraco
9 5 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
9 5 (0.36%) CICS
10 3 (0.21%) BizTalk Server
10 3 (0.21%) WordPress
11 2 (0.14%) Luigi
11 2 (0.14%) Moodle
12 1 (0.072%) NServiceBus
12 1 (0.072%) TPMS
Applications
1 18 (1.29%) Microsoft Project
2 15 (1.07%) MS Visio
3 9 (0.64%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (0.64%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (0.64%) Trello
4 8 (0.57%) Chatbot
5 5 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.072%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.072%) Notion
6 1 (0.072%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 20 (1.43%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (0.72%) Elite 3E
3 9 (0.64%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (0.43%) SAP IBP
5 5 (0.36%) Dynamics NAV
5 5 (0.36%) Visualfiles
6 4 (0.29%) Dynamics AX
6 4 (0.29%) Shopify
7 3 (0.21%) Carpe Diem
7 3 (0.21%) Oracle Applications
7 3 (0.21%) SAP Business One
8 2 (0.14%) JDE EnterpriseOne
8 2 (0.14%) Magento
9 1 (0.072%) Infor M3
9 1 (0.072%) Integrated Workplace Management System
9 1 (0.072%) Sage 200
9 1 (0.072%) Salesforce CRM
9 1 (0.072%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,398 (100.00%) Azure
2 224 (16.02%) Power Platform
3 222 (15.88%) GitHub
4 167 (11.95%) AWS
5 135 (9.66%) GitHub Actions
6 128 (9.16%) Serverless
7 116 (8.30%) Azure Service Bus
8 108 (7.73%) Dynamics 365
9 107 (7.65%) Azure AKS
10 106 (7.58%) Azure Functions
11 100 (7.15%) Azure AI
12 97 (6.94%) PaaS
13 96 (6.87%) Azure Monitor
14 95 (6.80%) Azure Logic Apps
15 83 (5.94%) Entra ID
16 82 (5.87%) Microsoft 365
16 82 (5.87%) SaaS
17 79 (5.65%) Azure Key Vault
18 76 (5.44%) Azure Cosmos DB
19 75 (5.36%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 34 (2.43%) Firewall
2 24 (1.72%) VPN
3 16 (1.14%) DNS
4 13 (0.93%) Network Security
5 12 (0.86%) HTTP
5 12 (0.86%) Internet
6 8 (0.57%) TCP/IP
6 8 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
7 7 (0.50%) SAN
8 6 (0.43%) MQTT
8 6 (0.43%) Wireless
8 6 (0.43%) ZigBee
9 4 (0.29%) Bluetooth
9 4 (0.29%) DHCP
9 4 (0.29%) VLAN
10 3 (0.21%) HTTPS
11 2 (0.14%) LoRaWAN
12 1 (0.072%) BGP
12 1 (0.072%) Broadband
12 1 (0.072%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 248 (17.74%) Azure SQL Database
2 172 (12.30%) MongoDB
3 166 (11.87%) SQL Server
4 103 (7.37%) Power BI
5 56 (4.01%) PostgreSQL
6 55 (3.93%) Data Warehouse
7 44 (3.15%) Relational Database
8 38 (2.72%) Elasticsearch
9 31 (2.22%) Delta Lake
10 29 (2.07%) NoSQL
11 26 (1.86%) Redis
12 24 (1.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 23 (1.65%) Data Lake
13 23 (1.65%) MySQL
14 20 (1.43%) Metadata
15 18 (1.29%) Spark SQL
16 16 (1.14%) Star Schema
17 15 (1.07%) Tableau
18 14 (1.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 12 (0.86%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 229 (16.38%) Git
2 188 (13.45%) JIRA
3 123 (8.80%) Jenkins
4 81 (5.79%) GitLab
5 51 (3.65%) Selenium
6 42 (3.00%) Cypress.io
6 42 (3.00%) Postman
7 19 (1.36%) REST Assured
8 18 (1.29%) JUnit
9 17 (1.22%) NUnit
9 17 (1.22%) Visual Studio
10 16 (1.14%) Eclipse
11 15 (1.07%) JMeter
12 14 (1.00%) fastlane
12 14 (1.00%) TestRail
13 13 (0.93%) Zephyr
14 12 (0.86%) Octopus Deploy
15 10 (0.72%) Mockito
15 10 (0.72%) SonarQube
15 10 (0.72%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 351 (25.11%) Social Skills
2 304 (21.75%) Finance
3 139 (9.94%) Analytical Skills
4 106 (7.58%) Public Sector
5 97 (6.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 60 (4.29%) Law
7 56 (4.01%) Retail
8 45 (3.22%) Marketing
9 39 (2.79%) Legal
10 35 (2.50%) Banking
11 31 (2.22%) Advertising
12 24 (1.72%) Games
12 24 (1.72%) Manufacturing
13 21 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
14 20 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
15 15 (1.07%) Documentation Skills
16 12 (0.86%) Aviation
17 10 (0.72%) Automotive
18 9 (0.64%) Legal Technology
19 7 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 441 (31.55%) Developer
2 298 (21.32%) Senior
3 210 (15.02%) .NET Developer
3 210 (15.02%) DevOps Engineer
4 188 (13.45%) Azure Engineer
5 175 (12.52%) Lead
6 108 (7.73%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 95 (6.80%) Senior Developer
8 77 (5.51%) Platform Engineer
9 75 (5.36%) Data Engineer
10 74 (5.29%) Analyst
11 64 (4.58%) Senior DevOps
12 59 (4.22%) Cloud Engineer
12 59 (4.22%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 56 (4.01%) Architect
14 49 (3.51%) Software Engineer
15 44 (3.15%) Software Developer
16 39 (2.79%) Cloud Platform Engineer
17 38 (2.72%) Senior Data Engineer
18 36 (2.58%) Azure Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 466 (33.33%) .NET
2 251 (17.95%) ASP.NET
3 231 (16.52%) .NET Core
4 201 (14.38%) ASP.NET Core
5 172 (12.30%) React
6 160 (11.44%) HTML
7 158 (11.30%) CSS
8 155 (11.09%) REST
8 155 (11.09%) RESTful
9 120 (8.58%) Blazor
9 120 (8.58%) Entity Framework
10 92 (6.58%) Node.js
11 82 (5.87%) ML.NET
12 64 (4.58%) Playwright
13 60 (4.29%) .NET Framework
14 57 (4.08%) YAML
15 55 (3.93%) ARM Templates
16 50 (3.58%) JSON
17 45 (3.22%) OAuth
18 42 (3.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 144 (10.30%) Product Ownership
2 140 (10.01%) Cloud Native
3 69 (4.94%) Enterprise Software
4 54 (3.86%) Mobile App
5 53 (3.79%) Legacy Systems
6 52 (3.72%) Onboarding
7 39 (2.79%) Distributed Systems
8 36 (2.58%) Greenfield Project
9 28 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
10 25 (1.79%) Management Information System
11 21 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
12 20 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
12 20 (1.43%) Low-Code
13 19 (1.36%) Legacy Applications
13 19 (1.36%) Podcast
14 18 (1.29%) Public Cloud
15 17 (1.22%) BBC
15 17 (1.22%) iPhone
15 17 (1.22%) Social Media
16 16 (1.14%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 100 (7.15%) Linux
2 96 (6.87%) Windows
3 26 (1.86%) Android
4 23 (1.65%) VMS
5 18 (1.29%) Unix
5 18 (1.29%) Windows Server
6 15 (1.07%) Apple iOS
7 12 (0.86%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.29%) Kali Linux
9 3 (0.21%) Embedded Linux
9 3 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.21%) Solaris
10 2 (0.14%) Debian
10 2 (0.14%) Rocky
10 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.072%) SUSE
11 1 (0.072%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,398 (100.00%) DevOps
2 819 (58.58%) CI/CD
3 659 (47.14%) Agile
4 322 (23.03%) AI
5 318 (22.75%) Infrastructure as Code
6 300 (21.46%) Continuous Improvement
7 251 (17.95%) Full-Stack Development
7 251 (17.95%) Test Automation
8 223 (15.95%) Problem-Solving
9 219 (15.67%) Scrum
10 202 (14.45%) Mentoring
11 180 (12.88%) Microservices
12 167 (11.95%) Analytics
13 155 (11.09%) Observability
14 142 (10.16%) Platform Engineering
15 140 (10.01%) Machine Learning
16 138 (9.87%) Stakeholder Management
17 135 (9.66%) Software Engineering
18 132 (9.44%) SDLC
19 130 (9.30%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 498 (35.62%) SQL
2 455 (32.55%) C#
3 254 (18.17%) Python
4 240 (17.17%) JavaScript
5 164 (11.73%) PowerShell
6 124 (8.87%) Bash
7 114 (8.15%) Bicep
8 91 (6.51%) Java
9 62 (4.43%) TypeScript
10 36 (2.58%) T-SQL
11 16 (1.14%) C++
11 16 (1.14%) Kusto Query Language
12 15 (1.07%) Go
12 15 (1.07%) Scala
13 13 (0.93%) VB.NET
14 12 (0.86%) Swift
15 10 (0.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 9 (0.64%) Apex Code
17 8 (0.57%) DataWeave
17 8 (0.57%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 109 (7.80%) Security Cleared
2 107 (7.65%) Degree
3 92 (6.58%) SC Cleared
4 79 (5.65%) Azure Certification
5 44 (3.15%) Computer Science Degree
6 30 (2.15%) ISTQB
7 27 (1.93%) Microsoft Certification
8 22 (1.57%) PMI Certification
9 13 (0.93%) Master's Degree
10 12 (0.86%) AWS Certification
10 12 (0.86%) DV Cleared
10 12 (0.86%) PMP
11 6 (0.43%) CBAP
11 6 (0.43%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 5 (0.36%) BPSS Clearance
12 5 (0.36%) CISSP
12 5 (0.36%) ISEB
12 5 (0.36%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 5 (0.36%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 4 (0.29%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 181 (12.95%) QA
2 87 (6.22%) Accessibility
3 59 (4.22%) Data Quality
4 32 (2.29%) GDPR
4 32 (2.29%) WCAG
5 24 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 17 (1.22%) PMO
7 12 (0.86%) TickIT
8 10 (0.72%) GRC
9 9 (0.64%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 9 (0.64%) SLA
10 8 (0.57%) NCSC
10 8 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 6 (0.43%) JTAG
11 6 (0.43%) Solvency II
12 5 (0.36%) IFRS
13 4 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
13 4 (0.29%) Software Quality Assurance
14 3 (0.21%) ISO 9001
14 3 (0.21%) NIST
System Software
1 182 (13.02%) Docker
2 67 (4.79%) Active Directory
3 22 (1.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (1.07%) Virtual Desktop
5 12 (0.86%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.86%) vSphere
6 5 (0.36%) Firmware
7 3 (0.21%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.14%) Xen
9 1 (0.072%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.072%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 340 (24.32%) Terraform
2 168 (12.02%) Kubernetes
3 66 (4.72%) Ansible
4 59 (4.22%) Grafana
5 54 (3.86%) Prometheus
6 30 (2.15%) Argo
7 12 (0.86%) Microsoft Intune
8 11 (0.79%) Puppet
9 5 (0.36%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (0.29%) HP Fortify
11 3 (0.21%) HP ALM
11 3 (0.21%) Scalr
11 3 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.14%) FlexNet
12 2 (0.14%) Kibana
12 2 (0.14%) Nagios
12 2 (0.14%) Nessus
12 2 (0.14%) SCCM
12 2 (0.14%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 601 (42.99%) Microsoft
2 78 (5.58%) Databricks
3 64 (4.58%) Google
4 42 (3.00%) Salesforce
5 38 (2.72%) Facebook
6 33 (2.36%) ServiceNow
7 30 (2.15%) Apple
8 29 (2.07%) VMware
9 25 (1.79%) Dynatrace
10 24 (1.72%) Red Hat
11 21 (1.50%) YouTube
12 19 (1.36%) Oracle
13 18 (1.29%) OpenAI
14 17 (1.22%) MuleSoft
14 17 (1.22%) SAP
14 17 (1.22%) Sony
14 17 (1.22%) Yahoo!
15 14 (1.00%) Guidewire
16 12 (0.86%) ScienceLogic
17 11 (0.79%) Foundry