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

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 156 173 118
Rank change year-on-year +17 -55 -18
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,394 933 1,854
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.32% 1.88% 2.23%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.97% 5.84% 6.94%
Number of salaries quoted 1,120 704 1,334
10th Percentile £43,125 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £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 28,075 15,965 26,704
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.68% 32.16% 32.18%
Number of salaries quoted 18,470 11,069 19,256
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £84,975 £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 8 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 8 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 +21 1,244 £65,000 -7.14% 593
UK excluding London +66 937 £60,000 - 388
Work from Home +34 580 £60,000 -11.11% 342
London -35 392 £80,000 +3.23% 271
North of England +89 277 £60,250 -7.31% 99
South East +5 224 £60,000 -4.00% 133
North West +90 161 £65,000 - 59
Midlands +39 151 £63,500 +5.83% 61
South West -6 102 £55,000 -4.35% 27
Wales -4 82 £53,171 -3.33% 17
East of England +13 80 £55,000 -12.00% 32
West Midlands -6 78 £65,000 +8.33% 34
East Midlands +31 73 £60,000 +9.09% 27
Yorkshire -10 63 £69,310 +6.63% 28
North East -7 53 £51,619 -6.15% 13
Scotland +10 22 £57,500 -10.85% 17
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 67 (4.81%) Confluence
2 66 (4.73%) SharePoint
3 28 (2.01%) 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
10 4 (0.29%) CICS
11 3 (0.22%) BizTalk Server
11 3 (0.22%) WordPress
12 2 (0.14%) Luigi
12 2 (0.14%) Moodle
13 1 (0.072%) Drupal
13 1 (0.072%) TPMS
Applications
1 18 (1.29%) Microsoft Project
2 13 (0.93%) MS Visio
3 10 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
4 9 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (0.65%) Trello
5 8 (0.57%) Chatbot
6 5 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.072%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.072%) Notion
7 1 (0.072%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 20 (1.43%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.65%) Elite 3E
2 9 (0.65%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.43%) SAP IBP
4 5 (0.36%) Dynamics NAV
4 5 (0.36%) Visualfiles
5 4 (0.29%) Dynamics AX
5 4 (0.29%) Shopify
6 3 (0.22%) Carpe Diem
6 3 (0.22%) Oracle Applications
6 3 (0.22%) SAP Business One
7 2 (0.14%) JDE EnterpriseOne
7 2 (0.14%) Magento
8 1 (0.072%) Infor M3
8 1 (0.072%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 1 (0.072%) Sage 200
8 1 (0.072%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.072%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,393 (99.93%) Azure
2 223 (16.00%) Power Platform
3 220 (15.78%) GitHub
4 169 (12.12%) AWS
5 134 (9.61%) GitHub Actions
6 127 (9.11%) Serverless
7 113 (8.11%) Azure Service Bus
8 109 (7.82%) Dynamics 365
9 106 (7.60%) Azure AKS
10 105 (7.53%) Azure Functions
11 99 (7.10%) Azure AI
12 97 (6.96%) Azure Monitor
13 96 (6.89%) PaaS
14 93 (6.67%) Azure Logic Apps
15 83 (5.95%) SaaS
16 82 (5.88%) Entra ID
17 80 (5.74%) Microsoft 365
18 76 (5.45%) Azure Key Vault
19 75 (5.38%) Azure Cosmos DB
20 74 (5.31%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 34 (2.44%) Firewall
2 24 (1.72%) VPN
3 16 (1.15%) DNS
4 13 (0.93%) Network Security
5 12 (0.86%) HTTP
5 12 (0.86%) Internet
6 8 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
7 7 (0.50%) SAN
7 7 (0.50%) TCP/IP
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 (0.22%) HTTPS
11 2 (0.14%) LoRaWAN
12 1 (0.072%) BGP
12 1 (0.072%) Broadband
12 1 (0.072%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 246 (17.65%) Azure SQL Database
2 172 (12.34%) MongoDB
3 167 (11.98%) SQL Server
4 104 (7.46%) Power BI
5 56 (4.02%) PostgreSQL
6 55 (3.95%) Data Warehouse
7 43 (3.08%) Relational Database
8 38 (2.73%) Elasticsearch
9 31 (2.22%) Delta Lake
10 29 (2.08%) NoSQL
11 25 (1.79%) Redis
12 24 (1.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 23 (1.65%) Data Lake
13 23 (1.65%) MySQL
14 19 (1.36%) Metadata
15 18 (1.29%) Spark SQL
16 16 (1.15%) Star Schema
17 15 (1.08%) Tableau
18 14 (1.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 12 (0.86%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 228 (16.36%) Git
2 184 (13.20%) JIRA
3 123 (8.82%) Jenkins
4 82 (5.88%) GitLab
5 51 (3.66%) Selenium
6 43 (3.08%) Cypress.io
7 42 (3.01%) Postman
8 19 (1.36%) REST Assured
9 18 (1.29%) JUnit
10 17 (1.22%) Visual Studio
11 16 (1.15%) Eclipse
11 16 (1.15%) NUnit
12 15 (1.08%) JMeter
13 14 (1.00%) fastlane
13 14 (1.00%) TestRail
14 13 (0.93%) Zephyr
15 12 (0.86%) Octopus Deploy
16 10 (0.72%) Mockito
16 10 (0.72%) SonarQube
16 10 (0.72%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 353 (25.32%) Social Skills
2 302 (21.66%) Finance
3 141 (10.11%) Analytical Skills
4 105 (7.53%) Public Sector
5 98 (7.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 58 (4.16%) Law
7 56 (4.02%) Retail
8 45 (3.23%) Marketing
9 40 (2.87%) Legal
10 35 (2.51%) Banking
11 31 (2.22%) Advertising
12 24 (1.72%) Games
12 24 (1.72%) Manufacturing
13 22 (1.58%) Presentation Skills
14 20 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
15 15 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
16 12 (0.86%) Aviation
17 10 (0.72%) Automotive
18 9 (0.65%) Legal Technology
19 7 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 437 (31.35%) Developer
2 291 (20.88%) Senior
3 212 (15.21%) DevOps Engineer
4 209 (14.99%) .NET Developer
5 190 (13.63%) Azure Engineer
6 176 (12.63%) Lead
7 109 (7.82%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 93 (6.67%) Senior Developer
9 77 (5.52%) Platform Engineer
10 76 (5.45%) Data Engineer
11 72 (5.16%) Analyst
12 62 (4.45%) Senior DevOps
13 58 (4.16%) Cloud Engineer
13 58 (4.16%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 55 (3.95%) Architect
15 51 (3.66%) Software Engineer
16 43 (3.08%) Software Developer
17 39 (2.80%) Cloud Platform Engineer
18 38 (2.73%) Senior Data Engineer
19 36 (2.58%) Azure Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 464 (33.29%) .NET
2 252 (18.08%) ASP.NET
3 231 (16.57%) .NET Core
4 201 (14.42%) ASP.NET Core
5 170 (12.20%) React
6 159 (11.41%) HTML
7 157 (11.26%) CSS
8 155 (11.12%) RESTful
9 152 (10.90%) REST
10 120 (8.61%) Blazor
11 119 (8.54%) Entity Framework
12 91 (6.53%) Node.js
13 82 (5.88%) ML.NET
14 65 (4.66%) Playwright
15 59 (4.23%) .NET Framework
16 57 (4.09%) YAML
17 56 (4.02%) ARM Templates
18 50 (3.59%) JSON
19 46 (3.30%) OAuth
20 43 (3.08%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 142 (10.19%) Product Ownership
2 137 (9.83%) Cloud Native
3 66 (4.73%) Enterprise Software
4 54 (3.87%) Mobile App
5 53 (3.80%) Legacy Systems
6 52 (3.73%) Onboarding
7 38 (2.73%) Distributed Systems
8 36 (2.58%) Greenfield Project
9 28 (2.01%) Hybrid Cloud
10 25 (1.79%) Management Information System
11 22 (1.58%) Analytical Mindset
11 22 (1.58%) Self-Motivation
12 20 (1.43%) Low-Code
13 19 (1.36%) Podcast
14 18 (1.29%) Legacy Applications
15 17 (1.22%) BBC
15 17 (1.22%) iPhone
15 17 (1.22%) Public Cloud
15 17 (1.22%) Social Media
16 16 (1.15%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 101 (7.25%) Linux
2 96 (6.89%) Windows
3 26 (1.87%) Android
4 23 (1.65%) VMS
5 18 (1.29%) Unix
5 18 (1.29%) Windows Server
6 15 (1.08%) Apple iOS
7 13 (0.93%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.29%) Kali Linux
9 3 (0.22%) Embedded Linux
9 3 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.22%) 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 1,393 (99.93%) DevOps
2 817 (58.61%) CI/CD
3 658 (47.20%) Agile
4 318 (22.81%) Infrastructure as Code
5 317 (22.74%) AI
6 301 (21.59%) Continuous Improvement
7 251 (18.01%) Full-Stack Development
7 251 (18.01%) Test Automation
8 220 (15.78%) Problem-Solving
8 220 (15.78%) Scrum
9 203 (14.56%) Mentoring
10 179 (12.84%) Microservices
11 166 (11.91%) Analytics
12 157 (11.26%) Observability
13 142 (10.19%) Platform Engineering
14 139 (9.97%) Machine Learning
15 136 (9.76%) Software Engineering
15 136 (9.76%) Stakeholder Management
16 131 (9.40%) SDLC
17 129 (9.25%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 495 (35.51%) SQL
2 454 (32.57%) C#
3 255 (18.29%) Python
4 240 (17.22%) JavaScript
5 164 (11.76%) PowerShell
6 126 (9.04%) Bash
7 115 (8.25%) Bicep
8 90 (6.46%) Java
9 63 (4.52%) TypeScript
10 36 (2.58%) T-SQL
11 16 (1.15%) C++
11 16 (1.15%) Kusto Query Language
12 15 (1.08%) Go
12 15 (1.08%) Scala
13 12 (0.86%) Swift
13 12 (0.86%) VB.NET
14 10 (0.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 9 (0.65%) Apex Code
16 8 (0.57%) DataWeave
16 8 (0.57%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 109 (7.82%) Security Cleared
2 103 (7.39%) Degree
3 92 (6.60%) SC Cleared
4 79 (5.67%) Azure Certification
5 44 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
6 31 (2.22%) ISTQB
7 26 (1.87%) Microsoft Certification
8 21 (1.51%) PMI Certification
9 13 (0.93%) AWS Certification
9 13 (0.93%) Master's Degree
10 12 (0.86%) PMP
11 11 (0.79%) DV Cleared
12 6 (0.43%) CISSP
12 6 (0.43%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 5 (0.36%) BPSS Clearance
13 5 (0.36%) ISEB
13 5 (0.36%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 5 (0.36%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 4 (0.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 4 (0.29%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 183 (13.13%) QA
2 86 (6.17%) Accessibility
3 58 (4.16%) Data Quality
4 33 (2.37%) GDPR
5 32 (2.30%) WCAG
6 25 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 16 (1.15%) PMO
8 12 (0.86%) TickIT
9 10 (0.72%) GRC
10 9 (0.65%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 9 (0.65%) SLA
11 8 (0.57%) NCSC
11 8 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 6 (0.43%) JTAG
12 6 (0.43%) Solvency II
13 5 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
13 5 (0.36%) IFRS
13 5 (0.36%) Software Quality Assurance
14 3 (0.22%) ISO 9001
14 3 (0.22%) NIST
System Software
1 183 (13.13%) Docker
2 66 (4.73%) Active Directory
3 22 (1.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (1.08%) Virtual Desktop
5 12 (0.86%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.86%) vSphere
6 5 (0.36%) Firmware
7 3 (0.22%) 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
1 341 (24.46%) Terraform
2 168 (12.05%) Kubernetes
3 66 (4.73%) Ansible
4 61 (4.38%) Grafana
5 56 (4.02%) Prometheus
6 30 (2.15%) Argo
7 11 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
7 11 (0.79%) Puppet
8 4 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (0.29%) HP Fortify
8 4 (0.29%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.22%) HP ALM
9 3 (0.22%) Scalr
9 3 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.14%) FlexNet
10 2 (0.14%) Kibana
10 2 (0.14%) MIIS
10 2 (0.14%) Nagios
10 2 (0.14%) Nessus
10 2 (0.14%) SCCM
Vendors
1 601 (43.11%) Microsoft
2 77 (5.52%) Databricks
3 64 (4.59%) Google
4 42 (3.01%) Salesforce
5 38 (2.73%) Facebook
6 33 (2.37%) ServiceNow
7 30 (2.15%) Apple
8 29 (2.08%) VMware
9 26 (1.87%) Dynatrace
9 26 (1.87%) Red Hat
10 21 (1.51%) YouTube
11 18 (1.29%) MuleSoft
11 18 (1.29%) Oracle
12 17 (1.22%) OpenAI
12 17 (1.22%) SAP
12 17 (1.22%) Sony
12 17 (1.22%) Yahoo!
13 14 (1.00%) Guidewire
14 12 (0.86%) ScienceLogic
15 11 (0.79%) Foundry