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

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 163 114 109
Rank change year-on-year -49 -5 -2
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,039 1,087 2,287
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.34% 2.68% 2.58%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.15% 7.19% 6.93%
Number of salaries quoted 698 826 1,876
10th Percentile £42,500 £43,819 £42,279
25th Percentile £48,813 £53,750 £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 £83,750 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £94,125 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -15.38% +8.33% +0.80%

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 25,022 15,116 32,989
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.25% 37.24% 37.24%
Number of salaries quoted 13,251 10,963 26,251
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,580 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £81,250 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,058 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.17% +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 27 March 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 27 March 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 -54 867 £65,000 -3.70% 403
UK excluding London -47 645 £55,000 -15.38% 340
Work from Home -4 426 £62,000 -8.15% 254
London -6 324 £75,000 - 131
South East +3 227 £50,000 -25.93% 101
Scotland +50 113 £62,500 +8.70% 22
North of England -32 112 £53,750 -20.37% 74
Midlands -54 84 £63,500 -2.31% 60
South West -87 75 £50,000 -23.08% 34
West Midlands -50 52 £60,000 -12.73% 37
North West -25 40 £65,000 - 41
Yorkshire -60 40 £55,000 -21.43% 22
North East -6 32 £50,000 -23.08% 11
East Midlands -28 29 £65,000 - 23
East of England -48 21 £70,000 +32.08% 33
Wales -36 10 £53,171 -18.20% 21
Northern Ireland -36 3 £56,250 +12.50% 1

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 34 (3.27%) Confluence
2 31 (2.98%) SharePoint
3 27 (2.60%) IIS
4 18 (1.73%) Microsoft Exchange
5 11 (1.06%) Apache Spark
6 9 (0.87%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 7 (0.67%) Anypoint
8 5 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.38%) Apache
9 4 (0.38%) Moodle
10 2 (0.19%) BizTalk Server
10 2 (0.19%) CICS
11 1 (0.096%) Appian
11 1 (0.096%) CMS
11 1 (0.096%) Drupal
11 1 (0.096%) nginx
11 1 (0.096%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.096%) PegaRULES
11 1 (0.096%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.096%) WordPress
Applications
1 26 (2.50%) MS Visio
2 25 (2.41%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (1.06%) Microsoft Project
4 10 (0.96%) Microsoft Office
5 9 (0.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.29%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.19%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.19%) Trello
8 1 (0.096%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 54 (5.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (1.83%) Dynamics CRM
2 19 (1.83%) Oracle ERP
3 6 (0.58%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (0.19%) Elite 3E
4 2 (0.19%) Magento
4 2 (0.19%) Markit EDM
4 2 (0.19%) SAP CX
4 2 (0.19%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.096%) Endur
5 1 (0.096%) Infor M3
5 1 (0.096%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 1 (0.096%) Primavera
5 1 (0.096%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.096%) Shopify
5 1 (0.096%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 984 (94.71%) Azure
2 299 (28.78%) GitHub
3 194 (18.67%) Power Platform
4 156 (15.01%) AWS
5 154 (14.82%) GitHub Actions
6 89 (8.57%) Azure Data Factory
6 89 (8.57%) Serverless
7 85 (8.18%) Entra ID
8 81 (7.80%) Azure Monitor
9 78 (7.51%) PaaS
10 77 (7.41%) Microsoft 365
11 60 (5.77%) Azure Logic Apps
12 59 (5.68%) GCP
13 56 (5.39%) SaaS
14 54 (5.20%) Azure AKS
15 53 (5.10%) Dynamics 365
15 53 (5.10%) Snowflake
16 50 (4.81%) Azure Functions
17 48 (4.62%) GitHub Copilot
18 47 (4.52%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 62 (5.97%) Firewall
2 40 (3.85%) DNS
3 19 (1.83%) HTTP
3 19 (1.83%) TCP/IP
4 17 (1.64%) VPN
5 15 (1.44%) WAN
6 9 (0.87%) Network Security
7 3 (0.29%) BGP
7 3 (0.29%) DHCP
7 3 (0.29%) SD-WAN
7 3 (0.29%) SSL
8 2 (0.19%) VLAN
9 1 (0.096%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.096%) Internet
9 1 (0.096%) IP Telephony
9 1 (0.096%) LTE
9 1 (0.096%) MPLS
9 1 (0.096%) NetScaler
9 1 (0.096%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 133 (12.80%) SQL Server
2 111 (10.68%) Power BI
3 74 (7.12%) Azure SQL Database
4 52 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
5 37 (3.56%) Data Lake
5 37 (3.56%) NoSQL
6 34 (3.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 21 (2.02%) Tableau
8 20 (1.92%) PostgreSQL
9 19 (1.83%) Delta Lake
9 19 (1.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 17 (1.64%) Relational Database
11 16 (1.54%) MongoDB
12 15 (1.44%) DynamoDB
13 13 (1.25%) Snowflake Schema
14 10 (0.96%) Amazon RDS
14 10 (0.96%) Metadata
14 10 (0.96%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 9 (0.87%) MySQL
15 9 (0.87%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 185 (17.81%) JIRA
2 173 (16.65%) Git
3 108 (10.39%) Jenkins
4 58 (5.58%) Selenium
5 54 (5.20%) eCATT
6 39 (3.75%) Cypress.io
7 38 (3.66%) GitLab
8 30 (2.89%) NeoLoad
9 26 (2.50%) Visual Studio
10 24 (2.31%) Postman
11 19 (1.83%) Eclipse
11 19 (1.83%) Oracle Forms
12 18 (1.73%) Octopus Deploy
12 18 (1.73%) Robot Framework
13 16 (1.54%) Snyk
14 14 (1.35%) TeamCity
15 10 (0.96%) NUnit
15 10 (0.96%) REST Assured
15 10 (0.96%) Visual Studio Code
16 8 (0.77%) JMeter
General
1 369 (35.51%) Finance
2 246 (23.68%) Social Skills
3 150 (14.44%) Analytical Skills
4 76 (7.31%) Marketing
5 63 (6.06%) Manufacturing
6 56 (5.39%) Law
7 51 (4.91%) Influencing Skills
8 50 (4.81%) Presentation Skills
9 35 (3.37%) Public Sector
10 30 (2.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 29 (2.79%) Legal
12 26 (2.50%) Retail
13 25 (2.41%) Billing
14 22 (2.12%) Banking
14 22 (2.12%) Telecoms
15 9 (0.87%) Tech for Good
16 8 (0.77%) Documentation Skills
17 7 (0.67%) Advertising
18 5 (0.48%) Automotive
18 5 (0.48%) Games
Job Titles
1 203 (19.54%) Senior
2 199 (19.15%) Developer
3 154 (14.82%) Lead
4 139 (13.38%) DevOps Engineer
5 137 (13.19%) Azure Engineer
6 97 (9.34%) Analyst
7 72 (6.93%) Cloud Engineer
8 60 (5.77%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 57 (5.49%) Data Engineer
10 48 (4.62%) Architect
11 46 (4.43%) .NET Developer
12 42 (4.04%) Test Leader
13 37 (3.56%) Senior Developer
14 34 (3.27%) Software Engineer
15 33 (3.18%) Applications Engineer
15 33 (3.18%) Platform Engineer
16 27 (2.60%) Solutions Architect
17 26 (2.50%) Power Platform Developer
18 24 (2.31%) Scrum Master
18 24 (2.31%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 233 (22.43%) .NET
2 98 (9.43%) React
3 97 (9.34%) RESTful
4 78 (7.51%) REST
5 70 (6.74%) CSS
5 70 (6.74%) OAuth
6 69 (6.64%) HTML
7 67 (6.45%) ASP.NET
8 65 (6.26%) .NET Core
9 61 (5.87%) YAML
10 50 (4.81%) SOAP
11 49 (4.72%) .NET Framework
12 41 (3.95%) JSON
12 41 (3.95%) Playwright
13 38 (3.66%) SAML
14 36 (3.46%) ASP.NET Core
14 36 (3.46%) Node.js
15 34 (3.27%) OAuth2
15 34 (3.27%) PySpark
16 29 (2.79%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 123 (11.84%) Product Ownership
2 113 (10.88%) Cloud Native
3 40 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
4 36 (3.46%) Management Information System
5 32 (3.08%) Low-Code
6 30 (2.89%) Mobile App
7 28 (2.69%) Legacy Systems
8 22 (2.12%) Reinsurance
9 20 (1.92%) Analytical Mindset
10 15 (1.44%) Data Structures
10 15 (1.44%) Hybrid Cloud
10 15 (1.44%) Virtual Team
11 13 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
11 13 (1.25%) Security Posture
12 12 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
13 11 (1.06%) Onboarding
14 10 (0.96%) Legacy Applications
15 7 (0.67%) Greenfield Project
15 7 (0.67%) Public Cloud
16 6 (0.58%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 78 (7.51%) Windows
2 65 (6.26%) Linux
3 18 (1.73%) VMS
4 16 (1.54%) Windows Server
5 11 (1.06%) Ubuntu
6 9 (0.87%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.48%) Android
8 3 (0.29%) Unix
9 2 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.096%) CentOS
10 1 (0.096%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.096%) SUSE
10 1 (0.096%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.096%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 984 (94.71%) DevOps
2 616 (59.29%) CI/CD
3 475 (45.72%) Agile
4 288 (27.72%) Infrastructure as Code
5 265 (25.51%) Test Automation
6 237 (22.81%) Continuous Improvement
7 205 (19.73%) Problem-Solving
8 167 (16.07%) AI
9 162 (15.59%) Analytics
10 160 (15.40%) Mentoring
11 151 (14.53%) Coaching
12 142 (13.67%) Observability
13 137 (13.19%) Data Modelling
14 129 (12.42%) Roadmaps
14 129 (12.42%) Scrum
15 118 (11.36%) Containerisation
16 112 (10.78%) Business Intelligence
17 102 (9.82%) Software Engineering
18 101 (9.72%) SDLC
19 100 (9.62%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 351 (33.78%) SQL
2 243 (23.39%) Python
3 199 (19.15%) C#
4 134 (12.90%) PowerShell
5 127 (12.22%) JavaScript
6 86 (8.28%) Bicep
7 83 (7.99%) Bash
8 59 (5.68%) TypeScript
9 47 (4.52%) Java
10 25 (2.41%) Apex Code
11 24 (2.31%) Go
11 24 (2.31%) T-SQL
12 23 (2.21%) PL/SQL
13 21 (2.02%) Shell Script
14 19 (1.83%) Scala
15 12 (1.15%) Kusto Query Language
16 11 (1.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 7 (0.67%) DataWeave
17 7 (0.67%) Swift
18 5 (0.48%) C++
Qualifications
1 101 (9.72%) Degree
2 67 (6.45%) Security Cleared
3 56 (5.39%) Azure Certification
4 53 (5.10%) Computer Science Degree
5 33 (3.18%) ISTQB
6 31 (2.98%) SC Cleared
7 29 (2.79%) DV Cleared
8 28 (2.69%) Master's Degree
9 24 (2.31%) Microsoft Certification
10 16 (1.54%) AWS Certification
11 13 (1.25%) HND
12 11 (1.06%) AWS Certified Developer
13 10 (0.96%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 10 (0.96%) PMI Certification
14 6 (0.58%) DBS Check
15 5 (0.48%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 4 (0.38%) BC Cleared
16 4 (0.38%) PMP
17 3 (0.29%) CBAP
17 3 (0.29%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 133 (12.80%) QA
2 71 (6.83%) Accessibility
3 46 (4.43%) Data Quality
4 45 (4.33%) GDPR
5 39 (3.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 14 (1.35%) SOC 2
7 13 (1.25%) NCSC
8 12 (1.15%) NIST
8 12 (1.15%) SLA
9 8 (0.77%) GRC
10 7 (0.67%) PMO
11 5 (0.48%) PERC
11 5 (0.48%) WCAG
12 4 (0.38%) Software Quality Assurance
12 4 (0.38%) Solvency II
13 2 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.19%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 2 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 1 (0.096%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 1 (0.096%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 130 (12.51%) Docker
2 62 (5.97%) Active Directory
3 20 (1.92%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.38%) Postfix
5 4 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.19%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.19%) vCloud
7 1 (0.096%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 1 (0.096%) Firmware
7 1 (0.096%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.096%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.096%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 300 (28.87%) Terraform
2 110 (10.59%) Kubernetes
3 93 (8.95%) Ansible
4 58 (5.58%) Grafana
4 58 (5.58%) HP ALM
5 48 (4.62%) Prometheus
6 21 (2.02%) Single Sign-On
7 11 (1.06%) Microsoft Intune
8 9 (0.87%) Kibana
9 4 (0.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (0.38%) logstash
10 2 (0.19%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.19%) MIIS
10 2 (0.19%) Nagios
10 2 (0.19%) Nessus
10 2 (0.19%) Puppet
10 2 (0.19%) Scalr
10 2 (0.19%) SCCM
11 1 (0.096%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.096%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 349 (33.59%) Microsoft
2 61 (5.87%) SAP
3 59 (5.68%) Databricks
4 58 (5.58%) HP
5 39 (3.75%) Salesforce
6 37 (3.56%) ServiceNow
7 28 (2.69%) Oracle
8 18 (1.73%) Palo Alto
8 18 (1.73%) Red Hat
9 16 (1.54%) Black Duck
9 16 (1.54%) Coverity
9 16 (1.54%) Dynatrace
10 15 (1.44%) Adobe
10 15 (1.44%) Zscaler
11 14 (1.35%) VMware
12 12 (1.15%) Freshdesk
12 12 (1.15%) Google
12 12 (1.15%) MuleSoft
12 12 (1.15%) Nintex
12 12 (1.15%) Okta