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 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 126 105 82
Rank change year-on-year -21 -23 +4
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,105 1,503 1,744
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.88% 2.65% 3.57%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.36% 7.34% 8.28%
Number of salaries quoted 703 977 1,483
10th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -2.67%
75th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% -

All Cloud 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 20,611 20,485 21,063
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.99% 36.06% 43.17%
Number of salaries quoted 11,349 12,306 17,435
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.80% -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%

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 19 December 2025.

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 19 December 2025. 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 -42 865 £65,000 -3.70% 596
UK excluding London -22 690 £57,500 -11.54% 537
Work from Home -4 518 £62,500 -7.41% 285
London +15 344 £75,000 - 155
South East -4 234 £58,750 -12.96% 153
Scotland +69 163 £64,500 +20.00% 32
North of England -42 101 £60,000 -7.69% 123
Midlands -59 78 £60,000 -7.69% 94
West Midlands -38 63 £60,000 -7.69% 52
South West -68 58 £50,000 -23.08% 71
North West -21 41 £65,000 +6.56% 56
Yorkshire -44 35 £60,000 -7.69% 48
Wales +6 31 £55,000 -15.38% 10
North East +7 25 £50,000 -9.09% 20
East of England -25 23 £65,000 +30.00% 58
East Midlands -22 14 £60,000 +17.07% 35
Northern Ireland -4 2 £56,250 - 8

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 40 (3.62%) Confluence
2 35 (3.17%) IIS
3 23 (2.08%) SharePoint
4 16 (1.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 14 (1.27%) Microsoft Exchange
6 13 (1.18%) Apache Airflow
7 8 (0.72%) Apache Spark
8 6 (0.54%) Apache
8 6 (0.54%) Appian
9 4 (0.36%) nginx
10 3 (0.27%) BizTalk Server
10 3 (0.27%) CMS
10 3 (0.27%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.18%) Anypoint
11 2 (0.18%) Moodle
Applications
1 37 (3.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 27 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
3 17 (1.54%) MS Visio
4 14 (1.27%) Microsoft Project
5 13 (1.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.36%) Trello
7 2 (0.18%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.090%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 72 (6.52%) SAP S/4HANA
2 43 (3.89%) Dynamics CRM
3 35 (3.17%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (0.27%) SAP CX
5 2 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.18%) Elite 3E
5 2 (0.18%) Markit EDM
5 2 (0.18%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.090%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.090%) Endur
6 1 (0.090%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 1,036 (93.76%) Azure
2 326 (29.50%) GitHub
3 225 (20.36%) Power Platform
4 167 (15.11%) AWS
5 156 (14.12%) GitHub Actions
6 92 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
7 84 (7.60%) Azure Data Factory
8 83 (7.51%) Power Automate
9 81 (7.33%) Entra ID
9 81 (7.33%) PaaS
9 81 (7.33%) Snowflake
10 80 (7.24%) Serverless
11 79 (7.15%) Dynamics 365
12 72 (6.52%) Microsoft 365
13 69 (6.24%) SaaS
14 64 (5.79%) Azure AKS
14 64 (5.79%) GitHub Copilot
15 59 (5.34%) dbt
16 54 (4.89%) Azure Logic Apps
17 51 (4.62%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 35 (3.17%) DNS
1 35 (3.17%) Firewall
2 23 (2.08%) VPN
3 13 (1.18%) WAN
4 10 (0.90%) Network Security
5 9 (0.81%) HTTP
6 7 (0.63%) TCP/IP
7 6 (0.54%) DHCP
7 6 (0.54%) SD-WAN
7 6 (0.54%) VLAN
8 4 (0.36%) SSL
9 3 (0.27%) AMQP
9 3 (0.27%) BGP
9 3 (0.27%) IPsec
9 3 (0.27%) OSPF
9 3 (0.27%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (0.27%) Wireshark
10 2 (0.18%) Internet
11 1 (0.090%) NetScaler
11 1 (0.090%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 169 (15.29%) SQL Server
2 124 (11.22%) Power BI
3 81 (7.33%) Data Warehouse
4 60 (5.43%) Azure SQL Database
5 50 (4.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 45 (4.07%) NoSQL
7 44 (3.98%) Tableau
8 27 (2.44%) Relational Database
9 26 (2.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 21 (1.90%) PostgreSQL
11 20 (1.81%) Data Lake
11 20 (1.81%) Snowflake Schema
12 18 (1.63%) DynamoDB
13 14 (1.27%) MongoDB
14 13 (1.18%) Metadata
14 13 (1.18%) MySQL
15 12 (1.09%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 10 (0.90%) BigQuery
17 7 (0.63%) Delta Lake
18 5 (0.45%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 214 (19.37%) JIRA
2 189 (17.10%) Git
3 121 (10.95%) Jenkins
4 69 (6.24%) eCATT
5 53 (4.80%) Selenium
6 40 (3.62%) NeoLoad
7 35 (3.17%) Oracle Forms
8 34 (3.08%) GitLab
8 34 (3.08%) Octopus Deploy
9 24 (2.17%) Snyk
9 24 (2.17%) TeamCity
10 23 (2.08%) Robot Framework
11 22 (1.99%) Cypress.io
12 20 (1.81%) Visual Studio
13 18 (1.63%) Postman
14 13 (1.18%) JMeter
15 12 (1.09%) Cucumber
15 12 (1.09%) NUnit
16 11 (1.00%) Visual Studio Code
17 8 (0.72%) MLflow
General
1 430 (38.91%) Finance
2 278 (25.16%) Social Skills
3 141 (12.76%) Analytical Skills
4 114 (10.32%) Marketing
5 71 (6.43%) Manufacturing
6 66 (5.97%) Presentation Skills
7 54 (4.89%) Law
8 43 (3.89%) Influencing Skills
9 41 (3.71%) Retail
10 35 (3.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 24 (2.17%) Legal
12 23 (2.08%) Public Sector
13 21 (1.90%) Documentation Skills
14 14 (1.27%) Banking
15 9 (0.81%) Advertising
15 9 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
16 8 (0.72%) Games
16 8 (0.72%) Tech for Good
17 6 (0.54%) Billing
17 6 (0.54%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 231 (20.90%) Senior
2 180 (16.29%) Developer
3 161 (14.57%) Lead
4 132 (11.95%) Analyst
5 123 (11.13%) DevOps Engineer
6 107 (9.68%) Azure Engineer
7 87 (7.87%) Cloud Engineer
8 62 (5.61%) Data Engineer
9 52 (4.71%) Software Engineer
10 50 (4.52%) .NET Developer
11 46 (4.16%) Test Leader
12 44 (3.98%) Architect
12 44 (3.98%) Platform Engineer
13 43 (3.89%) Applications Engineer
14 42 (3.80%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 38 (3.44%) Business Analyst
15 38 (3.44%) Senior Cloud Engineer
16 32 (2.90%) Test Analyst
17 28 (2.53%) Senior Developer
18 26 (2.35%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 282 (25.52%) .NET
2 119 (10.77%) RESTful
3 93 (8.42%) React
4 76 (6.88%) YAML
5 74 (6.70%) REST
6 72 (6.52%) .NET Framework
7 62 (5.61%) JSON
8 61 (5.52%) .NET Core
9 60 (5.43%) OAuth
10 52 (4.71%) ASP.NET
10 52 (4.71%) SOAP
11 46 (4.16%) ARM Templates
11 46 (4.16%) CSS
11 46 (4.16%) HTML
12 43 (3.89%) Entity Framework
13 40 (3.62%) AngularJS
14 38 (3.44%) OAuth2
15 37 (3.35%) XML
16 32 (2.90%) Blazor
17 27 (2.44%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 174 (15.75%) Cloud Native
2 121 (10.95%) Product Ownership
3 66 (5.97%) Enterprise Software
4 45 (4.07%) Management Information System
5 35 (3.17%) Legacy Systems
6 32 (2.90%) Onboarding
7 30 (2.71%) Security Posture
8 28 (2.53%) Low-Code
9 26 (2.35%) Hybrid Cloud
10 24 (2.17%) Virtual Team
11 23 (2.08%) Mobile App
12 21 (1.90%) Distributed Systems
13 20 (1.81%) Analytical Mindset
14 19 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
15 17 (1.54%) Data Centre
16 12 (1.09%) Legacy Applications
17 11 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
18 10 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
18 10 (0.90%) Linux Command Line
19 9 (0.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 97 (8.78%) Windows
2 62 (5.61%) Linux
3 25 (2.26%) VMS
4 17 (1.54%) Windows Server
5 8 (0.72%) Android
5 8 (0.72%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.45%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.18%) Unix
7 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.090%) CentOS
8 1 (0.090%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,035 (93.67%) DevOps
2 638 (57.74%) CI/CD
3 555 (50.23%) Agile
4 290 (26.24%) Test Automation
5 284 (25.70%) Infrastructure as Code
6 250 (22.62%) Continuous Improvement
7 241 (21.81%) Problem-Solving
8 224 (20.27%) Mentoring
9 205 (18.55%) AI
10 199 (18.01%) Coaching
11 158 (14.30%) Analytics
12 149 (13.48%) Asset Management
13 135 (12.22%) Roadmaps
14 132 (11.95%) Containerisation
15 131 (11.86%) Business Intelligence
15 131 (11.86%) Scrum
16 127 (11.49%) Observability
17 124 (11.22%) Microservices
18 123 (11.13%) ERP
19 117 (10.59%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 380 (34.39%) SQL
2 283 (25.61%) Python
3 238 (21.54%) C#
4 228 (20.63%) PowerShell
5 105 (9.50%) Bicep
6 98 (8.87%) JavaScript
7 89 (8.05%) Bash
8 71 (6.43%) TypeScript
9 54 (4.89%) Java
10 39 (3.53%) T-SQL
11 37 (3.35%) Shell Script
12 36 (3.26%) PL/SQL
13 28 (2.53%) Apex Code
14 17 (1.54%) Go
15 13 (1.18%) Scala
16 10 (0.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 5 (0.45%) C++
17 5 (0.45%) Kusto Query Language
18 4 (0.36%) Groovy
18 4 (0.36%) R
Qualifications
1 141 (12.76%) Degree
2 88 (7.96%) Computer Science Degree
3 82 (7.42%) Azure Certification
4 74 (6.70%) Security Cleared
5 48 (4.34%) SC Cleared
6 45 (4.07%) Master's Degree
7 44 (3.98%) ISTQB
8 27 (2.44%) Microsoft Certification
9 24 (2.17%) AWS Certification
9 24 (2.17%) DV Cleared
10 14 (1.27%) ISEB
11 13 (1.18%) PMI Certification
12 12 (1.09%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 11 (1.00%) AWS Certified Developer
14 10 (0.90%) PMP
15 6 (0.54%) Cisco Certification
15 6 (0.54%) DBS Check
16 5 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
16 5 (0.45%) CBAP
17 4 (0.36%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 154 (13.94%) QA
2 48 (4.34%) Accessibility
3 45 (4.07%) GDPR
4 39 (3.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 33 (2.99%) Data Quality
6 25 (2.26%) NCSC
6 25 (2.26%) NIST
7 17 (1.54%) PMO
8 8 (0.72%) Software Quality Assurance
9 7 (0.63%) SOC 2
10 5 (0.45%) PERC
11 4 (0.36%) SLA
11 4 (0.36%) WCAG
12 1 (0.090%) COBIT
12 1 (0.090%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.090%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.090%) HL7
12 1 (0.090%) ISO 9001
12 1 (0.090%) P3O
12 1 (0.090%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 157 (14.21%) Docker
2 66 (5.97%) Active Directory
3 24 (2.17%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (1.45%) Virtual Desktop
5 15 (1.36%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.36%) Firmware
6 4 (0.36%) Postfix
7 2 (0.18%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.18%) vCloud
8 1 (0.090%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 1 (0.090%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.090%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.090%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.090%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 355 (32.13%) Terraform
2 180 (16.29%) Kubernetes
3 84 (7.60%) Ansible
4 72 (6.52%) HP ALM
5 41 (3.71%) Grafana
6 36 (3.26%) Single Sign-On
7 32 (2.90%) Prometheus
8 19 (1.72%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.36%) Argo
9 4 (0.36%) logstash
9 4 (0.36%) Rancher
9 4 (0.36%) vRealize
10 3 (0.27%) Dell DRAC
11 2 (0.18%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (0.18%) Nessus
11 2 (0.18%) Puppet
11 2 (0.18%) SCOM
12 1 (0.090%) Kibana
12 1 (0.090%) SCCM
12 1 (0.090%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 374 (33.85%) Microsoft
2 78 (7.06%) SAP
3 72 (6.52%) HP
4 56 (5.07%) Databricks
5 44 (3.98%) Oracle
6 43 (3.89%) Salesforce
7 25 (2.26%) ServiceNow
8 24 (2.17%) VMware
9 21 (1.90%) Black Duck
9 21 (1.90%) Okta
10 20 (1.81%) Coverity
11 18 (1.63%) Google
12 15 (1.36%) OpenAI
12 15 (1.36%) Palo Alto
13 14 (1.27%) Xamarin
14 13 (1.18%) Ab Initio
15 12 (1.09%) Dynatrace
15 12 (1.09%) Foundry
15 12 (1.09%) Sage
16 10 (0.90%) SolarWinds