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

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 175 148 113
Rank change year-on-year -27 -35 -3
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,073 928 2,311
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.18% 2.13% 2.40%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.93% 6.06% 6.71%
Number of salaries quoted 800 735 1,791
10th Percentile £42,500 £45,750 £41,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £53,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year - +9.76% -5.38%
75th Percentile £82,813 £83,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £92,500 £96,250 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £59,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.60% +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 27,337 15,307 34,434
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.16% 35.18% 35.70%
Number of salaries quoted 14,807 10,859 26,762
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +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 9 May 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 9 May 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 -24 914 £67,500 -3.23% 376
UK excluding London +5 667 £59,000 -5.60% 306
Work from Home +7 412 £65,000 -3.70% 231
London -13 341 £77,500 +3.33% 141
North of England -5 169 £62,500 -10.71% 78
South East -28 169 £50,000 -28.57% 101
Midlands -20 106 £65,000 - 41
Scotland +43 80 £62,500 +8.70% 15
North West +9 80 £70,000 +3.70% 37
South West -31 76 £52,373 -19.43% 19
West Midlands -47 56 £62,000 -4.62% 20
Yorkshire -48 49 £64,655 -7.64% 20
East Midlands +9 47 £67,500 +35.00% 21
North East -13 40 £50,000 -23.08% 21
East of England -5 34 £61,250 +11.36% 32
Wales -20 33 £53,135 +1.03% 23
Northern Ireland -34 2 £72,500 +45.00% 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 38 (3.54%) SharePoint
2 36 (3.36%) Confluence
3 20 (1.86%) IIS
3 20 (1.86%) Microsoft Exchange
4 11 (1.03%) Apache Spark
5 8 (0.75%) Apache Airflow
6 7 (0.65%) Anypoint
6 7 (0.65%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 6 (0.56%) Apache
8 5 (0.47%) CMS
9 4 (0.37%) Moodle
9 4 (0.37%) Umbraco
10 3 (0.28%) WordPress
11 2 (0.19%) BizTalk Server
11 2 (0.19%) CICS
11 2 (0.19%) Luigi
12 1 (0.093%) nginx
12 1 (0.093%) Palantir Foundry
12 1 (0.093%) PegaRULES
12 1 (0.093%) Tomcat
Applications
1 21 (1.96%) Microsoft Excel
1 21 (1.96%) MS Visio
2 8 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
4 5 (0.47%) Chatbot
4 5 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.28%) Adobe XD
5 3 (0.28%) Trello
6 1 (0.093%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 15 (1.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (1.30%) Oracle ERP
3 6 (0.56%) Dynamics AX
4 5 (0.47%) Visualfiles
5 3 (0.28%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.19%) Magento
6 2 (0.19%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.093%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.093%) Endur
7 1 (0.093%) Infor M3
7 1 (0.093%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 1 (0.093%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.093%) Sage 200
7 1 (0.093%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.093%) SAP CX
7 1 (0.093%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1,072 (99.91%) Azure
2 266 (24.79%) GitHub
3 181 (16.87%) Power Platform
4 160 (14.91%) AWS
5 152 (14.17%) GitHub Actions
6 97 (9.04%) Serverless
7 89 (8.29%) Azure Data Factory
8 87 (8.11%) Entra ID
9 86 (8.01%) Azure Monitor
10 85 (7.92%) Azure AKS
11 80 (7.46%) Microsoft 365
12 71 (6.62%) Azure Logic Apps
13 67 (6.24%) PaaS
14 63 (5.87%) GCP
15 61 (5.68%) Azure Functions
16 59 (5.50%) Azure Service Bus
16 59 (5.50%) SaaS
17 58 (5.41%) Dynamics 365
18 48 (4.47%) Azure Key Vault
19 40 (3.73%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 61 (5.68%) Firewall
2 30 (2.80%) DNS
3 19 (1.77%) TCP/IP
4 18 (1.68%) HTTP
5 15 (1.40%) Network Security
6 14 (1.30%) VPN
7 13 (1.21%) WAN
8 3 (0.28%) BGP
8 3 (0.28%) DHCP
9 2 (0.19%) Bluetooth
9 2 (0.19%) HTTPS
9 2 (0.19%) MQTT
9 2 (0.19%) SSL
9 2 (0.19%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.19%) Wireless
9 2 (0.19%) ZigBee
10 1 (0.093%) Internet
10 1 (0.093%) MPLS
10 1 (0.093%) SAN
10 1 (0.093%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 118 (11.00%) SQL Server
2 99 (9.23%) Power BI
3 98 (9.13%) Azure SQL Database
4 59 (5.50%) MongoDB
5 47 (4.38%) Data Warehouse
6 39 (3.63%) Data Lake
6 39 (3.63%) PostgreSQL
7 35 (3.26%) NoSQL
8 24 (2.24%) Delta Lake
9 22 (2.05%) Relational Database
10 20 (1.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 16 (1.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 15 (1.40%) Spark SQL
13 14 (1.30%) Tableau
14 12 (1.12%) Amazon RDS
14 12 (1.12%) Star Schema
15 11 (1.03%) DynamoDB
16 10 (0.93%) Metadata
17 9 (0.84%) MySQL
17 9 (0.84%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 172 (16.03%) Git
2 146 (13.61%) JIRA
3 117 (10.90%) Jenkins
4 64 (5.96%) GitLab
5 51 (4.75%) Selenium
6 37 (3.45%) Cypress.io
7 33 (3.08%) Postman
8 22 (2.05%) Eclipse
9 17 (1.58%) Visual Studio
10 16 (1.49%) Octopus Deploy
11 14 (1.30%) Oracle Forms
12 12 (1.12%) REST Assured
12 12 (1.12%) TeamCity
12 12 (1.12%) TestRail
13 11 (1.03%) JMeter
14 10 (0.93%) Zephyr
15 7 (0.65%) Cucumber
15 7 (0.65%) fastlane
15 7 (0.65%) LoadRunner
16 6 (0.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 301 (28.05%) Finance
2 247 (23.02%) Social Skills
3 140 (13.05%) Analytical Skills
4 59 (5.50%) Public Sector
5 51 (4.75%) Law
6 48 (4.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 39 (3.63%) Retail
8 34 (3.17%) Legal
9 31 (2.89%) Marketing
10 28 (2.61%) Billing
11 21 (1.96%) Telecoms
12 20 (1.86%) Banking
12 20 (1.86%) Influencing Skills
13 14 (1.30%) Advertising
14 12 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
14 12 (1.12%) Games
15 11 (1.03%) Automotive
15 11 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
16 10 (0.93%) Manufacturing
17 5 (0.47%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 249 (23.21%) Developer
2 221 (20.60%) Senior
3 193 (17.99%) DevOps Engineer
4 177 (16.50%) Azure Engineer
5 158 (14.73%) Lead
6 94 (8.76%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 73 (6.80%) Cloud Engineer
8 70 (6.52%) .NET Developer
9 65 (6.06%) Data Engineer
10 58 (5.41%) Senior Developer
11 57 (5.31%) Analyst
12 52 (4.85%) Architect
13 51 (4.75%) Platform Engineer
14 49 (4.57%) Senior DevOps
15 47 (4.38%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 30 (2.80%) Cloud Platform Engineer
17 29 (2.70%) Software Developer
18 27 (2.52%) Applications Support
18 27 (2.52%) Full-Stack Developer
19 25 (2.33%) Azure Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 273 (25.44%) .NET
2 119 (11.09%) React
3 102 (9.51%) REST
4 98 (9.13%) ASP.NET
5 94 (8.76%) .NET Core
5 94 (8.76%) RESTful
6 92 (8.57%) CSS
7 91 (8.48%) HTML
8 68 (6.34%) ASP.NET Core
9 65 (6.06%) OAuth
10 62 (5.78%) Node.js
11 55 (5.13%) SOAP
12 52 (4.85%) Playwright
13 47 (4.38%) YAML
14 46 (4.29%) JSON
15 43 (4.01%) Entity Framework
16 42 (3.91%) .NET Framework
16 42 (3.91%) PySpark
17 39 (3.63%) Blazor
18 37 (3.45%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 117 (10.90%) Product Ownership
2 101 (9.41%) Cloud Native
3 43 (4.01%) Enterprise Software
4 36 (3.36%) Mobile App
5 31 (2.89%) Management Information System
6 29 (2.70%) Low-Code
7 24 (2.24%) Analytical Mindset
8 23 (2.14%) Legacy Systems
9 22 (2.05%) Distributed Systems
10 18 (1.68%) Reinsurance
11 15 (1.40%) Data Structures
12 14 (1.30%) Onboarding
13 13 (1.21%) Hybrid Cloud
14 11 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
14 11 (1.03%) Virtual Team
15 10 (0.93%) Enterprise Cloud
16 9 (0.84%) Self-Motivation
17 8 (0.75%) Distributed Computing
17 8 (0.75%) PMI
18 7 (0.65%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 85 (7.92%) Linux
2 67 (6.24%) Windows
3 19 (1.77%) Unix
3 19 (1.77%) VMS
4 14 (1.30%) Ubuntu
5 13 (1.21%) Apple iOS
5 13 (1.21%) Windows Server
6 10 (0.93%) Android
7 4 (0.37%) Kali Linux
8 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.093%) SUSE
9 1 (0.093%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 1 (0.093%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,072 (99.91%) DevOps
2 667 (62.16%) CI/CD
3 481 (44.83%) Agile
4 299 (27.87%) Infrastructure as Code
5 266 (24.79%) Test Automation
6 218 (20.32%) Continuous Improvement
7 196 (18.27%) Problem-Solving
8 190 (17.71%) AI
9 158 (14.73%) Analytics
9 158 (14.73%) Mentoring
10 155 (14.45%) Observability
11 154 (14.35%) Scrum
12 144 (13.42%) Data Modelling
13 132 (12.30%) Containerisation
14 130 (12.12%) Coaching
15 123 (11.46%) Microservices
16 111 (10.34%) Full-Stack Development
17 104 (9.69%) Business Intelligence
18 100 (9.32%) Roadmaps
19 99 (9.23%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 362 (33.74%) SQL
2 263 (24.51%) Python
3 232 (21.62%) C#
4 146 (13.61%) JavaScript
5 124 (11.56%) PowerShell
6 103 (9.60%) Bash
7 79 (7.36%) Bicep
8 70 (6.52%) Java
9 60 (5.59%) TypeScript
10 23 (2.14%) Go
11 22 (2.05%) Apex Code
12 21 (1.96%) Scala
13 18 (1.68%) PL/SQL
14 16 (1.49%) Shell Script
15 14 (1.30%) Kusto Query Language
16 13 (1.21%) T-SQL
17 12 (1.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 10 (0.93%) Swift
19 7 (0.65%) DataWeave
20 6 (0.56%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 87 (8.11%) Degree
2 69 (6.43%) Security Cleared
3 48 (4.47%) Azure Certification
4 46 (4.29%) SC Cleared
5 40 (3.73%) Computer Science Degree
6 30 (2.80%) ISTQB
7 21 (1.96%) Microsoft Certification
8 16 (1.49%) Master's Degree
9 15 (1.40%) DV Cleared
10 13 (1.21%) HND
11 12 (1.12%) AWS Certification
12 9 (0.84%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 9 (0.84%) PMI Certification
13 8 (0.75%) AWS Certified Developer
14 6 (0.56%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 4 (0.37%) BC Cleared
16 3 (0.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 3 (0.28%) CBAP
17 2 (0.19%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 2 (0.19%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 120 (11.18%) QA
2 76 (7.08%) Accessibility
3 48 (4.47%) Data Quality
4 47 (4.38%) GDPR
5 30 (2.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 14 (1.30%) SOC 2
7 13 (1.21%) SLA
8 12 (1.12%) TickIT
9 10 (0.93%) GRC
9 10 (0.93%) WCAG
10 6 (0.56%) Software Quality Assurance
10 6 (0.56%) Solvency II
11 5 (0.47%) IFRS
11 5 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.28%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 2 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.19%) IFRS 17
13 2 (0.19%) JTAG
13 2 (0.19%) NCSC
13 2 (0.19%) PMO
System Software
1 147 (13.70%) Docker
2 63 (5.87%) Active Directory
3 18 (1.68%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.19%) Firmware
5 2 (0.19%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.093%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 324 (30.20%) Terraform
2 121 (11.28%) Kubernetes
3 79 (7.36%) Ansible
4 66 (6.15%) Grafana
5 54 (5.03%) Prometheus
6 22 (2.05%) Argo
7 16 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
8 9 (0.84%) Kibana
9 4 (0.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (0.37%) HP Fortify
9 4 (0.37%) logstash
9 4 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.37%) Puppet
10 3 (0.28%) HP ALM
10 3 (0.28%) Scalr
11 2 (0.19%) MIIS
11 2 (0.19%) Nagios
11 2 (0.19%) SCCM
12 1 (0.093%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.093%) Nessus
Vendors
1 395 (36.81%) Microsoft
2 73 (6.80%) Databricks
3 45 (4.19%) Salesforce
4 35 (3.26%) ServiceNow
5 26 (2.42%) Oracle
6 23 (2.14%) Red Hat
7 18 (1.68%) Dynatrace
8 17 (1.58%) MuleSoft
9 15 (1.40%) Adobe
9 15 (1.40%) Palo Alto
9 15 (1.40%) Zscaler
10 13 (1.21%) Apple
10 13 (1.21%) Google
11 12 (1.12%) Freshdesk
11 12 (1.12%) Nintex
12 11 (1.03%) CrowdStrike
13 10 (0.93%) Guidewire
13 10 (0.93%) Okta
13 10 (0.93%) VMware
14 8 (0.75%) Splunk