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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 174 166 119
Rank change year-on-year -8 -47 -16
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,117 856 2,280
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.20% 2.00% 2.28%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.09% 5.96% 6.56%
Number of salaries quoted 874 661 1,753
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £42,002
25th Percentile £49,750 £55,000 £49,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +9.76% -5.38%
75th Percentile £80,188 £83,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £92,125 £96,250 £93,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +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 27,315 14,369 34,780
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 29.31% 33.51% 34.80%
Number of salaries quoted 15,661 9,890 26,881
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,750 £42,500 £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 £82,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £53,450 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.90% +6.90% -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 29 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 29 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 -13 992 £65,500 -6.43% 339
UK excluding London +25 705 £60,000 -4.00% 272
Work from Home +33 425 £63,000 -6.67% 195
London -15 351 £77,500 +3.33% 123
North of England +46 202 £63,750 -8.93% 70
South East -23 195 £55,000 -21.43% 86
Midlands +13 112 £65,000 +8.33% 46
North West +58 109 £69,310 +15.04% 45
South West -34 70 £52,500 -8.70% 17
West Midlands -28 58 £61,000 +1.67% 26
East Midlands +4 52 £67,000 +11.67% 20
Yorkshire -43 51 £69,308 -0.99% 10
East of England -9 47 £58,000 +0.87% 29
Scotland +26 45 £62,500 - 17
North East 0 42 £50,000 -9.09% 15
Wales -14 34 £53,000 -18.46% 8
Northern Ireland -38 2 £72,500 +45.00% 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 42 (3.76%) SharePoint
2 41 (3.67%) Confluence
3 19 (1.70%) IIS
3 19 (1.70%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (0.90%) Apache Spark
5 8 (0.72%) SharePoint Server
6 7 (0.63%) CMS
7 6 (0.54%) Anypoint
7 6 (0.54%) Apache
7 6 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
7 6 (0.54%) Umbraco
8 3 (0.27%) Moodle
8 3 (0.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 3 (0.27%) WordPress
9 2 (0.18%) CICS
9 2 (0.18%) Luigi
9 2 (0.18%) nginx
10 1 (0.090%) BizTalk Server
10 1 (0.090%) Drupal
10 1 (0.090%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 21 (1.88%) MS Visio
2 15 (1.34%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (0.90%) Microsoft Project
4 7 (0.63%) Chatbot
5 6 (0.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 5 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
7 2 (0.18%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.18%) Trello
8 1 (0.090%) Notion
8 1 (0.090%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 16 (1.43%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.54%) Oracle ERP
3 5 (0.45%) Dynamics AX
3 5 (0.45%) Visualfiles
4 4 (0.36%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.27%) Elite 3E
5 3 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.18%) Magento
7 1 (0.090%) Endur
7 1 (0.090%) Infor M3
7 1 (0.090%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 1 (0.090%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.090%) Sage 200
7 1 (0.090%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.090%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1,116 (99.91%) Azure
2 236 (21.13%) GitHub
3 178 (15.94%) Power Platform
4 161 (14.41%) AWS
5 141 (12.62%) GitHub Actions
6 98 (8.77%) Azure Monitor
7 96 (8.59%) Azure AKS
8 95 (8.50%) Serverless
9 85 (7.61%) Entra ID
10 81 (7.25%) Microsoft 365
11 76 (6.80%) Azure Logic Apps
12 73 (6.54%) Azure Data Factory
12 73 (6.54%) PaaS
13 66 (5.91%) Azure Service Bus
14 64 (5.73%) SaaS
15 63 (5.64%) Azure Functions
16 62 (5.55%) Dynamics 365
17 61 (5.46%) GCP
18 49 (4.39%) Azure Key Vault
19 45 (4.03%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 58 (5.19%) Firewall
2 30 (2.69%) DNS
3 17 (1.52%) HTTP
4 16 (1.43%) TCP/IP
5 12 (1.07%) Network Security
5 12 (1.07%) VPN
6 10 (0.90%) WAN
7 5 (0.45%) DHCP
8 4 (0.36%) Bluetooth
8 4 (0.36%) MQTT
8 4 (0.36%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (0.36%) Wireless
8 4 (0.36%) ZigBee
9 3 (0.27%) BGP
9 3 (0.27%) HTTPS
9 3 (0.27%) SAN
10 2 (0.18%) Internet
11 1 (0.090%) IP Telephony
11 1 (0.090%) LTE
11 1 (0.090%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 135 (12.09%) Azure SQL Database
2 124 (11.10%) SQL Server
3 97 (8.68%) Power BI
4 86 (7.70%) MongoDB
5 41 (3.67%) PostgreSQL
6 37 (3.31%) Data Warehouse
7 36 (3.22%) Data Lake
8 33 (2.95%) NoSQL
9 29 (2.60%) Relational Database
10 26 (2.33%) Delta Lake
11 19 (1.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 17 (1.52%) Spark SQL
13 15 (1.34%) Elasticsearch
13 15 (1.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 13 (1.16%) Star Schema
15 12 (1.07%) Metadata
15 12 (1.07%) Redis
15 12 (1.07%) Tableau
16 11 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
16 11 (0.98%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 181 (16.20%) Git
2 136 (12.18%) JIRA
3 112 (10.03%) Jenkins
4 70 (6.27%) GitLab
5 53 (4.74%) Selenium
6 41 (3.67%) Cypress.io
7 33 (2.95%) Postman
8 23 (2.06%) Eclipse
9 18 (1.61%) Visual Studio
10 14 (1.25%) Octopus Deploy
11 13 (1.16%) REST Assured
12 12 (1.07%) Zephyr
13 11 (0.98%) fastlane
13 11 (0.98%) JMeter
13 11 (0.98%) TeamCity
13 11 (0.98%) TestRail
14 7 (0.63%) Cucumber
14 7 (0.63%) Robot Framework
14 7 (0.63%) Xcode
15 6 (0.54%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 289 (25.87%) Finance
2 247 (22.11%) Social Skills
3 125 (11.19%) Analytical Skills
4 76 (6.80%) Public Sector
5 51 (4.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 46 (4.12%) Law
7 39 (3.49%) Retail
8 37 (3.31%) Legal
9 31 (2.78%) Marketing
10 27 (2.42%) Billing
11 25 (2.24%) Banking
12 21 (1.88%) Influencing Skills
13 16 (1.43%) Telecoms
14 14 (1.25%) Advertising
14 14 (1.25%) Games
15 11 (0.98%) Automotive
15 11 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
16 10 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
17 9 (0.81%) Manufacturing
18 8 (0.72%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 289 (25.87%) Developer
2 222 (19.87%) Senior
3 205 (18.35%) DevOps Engineer
4 189 (16.92%) Azure Engineer
5 154 (13.79%) Lead
6 100 (8.95%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 97 (8.68%) .NET Developer
8 72 (6.45%) Cloud Engineer
9 66 (5.91%) Senior Developer
10 65 (5.82%) Data Engineer
11 55 (4.92%) Architect
11 55 (4.92%) Platform Engineer
12 54 (4.83%) Analyst
13 53 (4.74%) Senior DevOps
14 51 (4.57%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 40 (3.58%) Software Engineer
16 35 (3.13%) Cloud Platform Engineer
17 32 (2.86%) Software Developer
18 30 (2.69%) Azure Platform Engineer
19 26 (2.33%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 323 (28.92%) .NET
2 136 (12.18%) ASP.NET
3 133 (11.91%) React
4 124 (11.10%) .NET Core
5 112 (10.03%) HTML
6 111 (9.94%) CSS
7 108 (9.67%) REST
8 101 (9.04%) ASP.NET Core
9 92 (8.24%) RESTful
10 71 (6.36%) Node.js
11 62 (5.55%) Entity Framework
12 61 (5.46%) YAML
13 59 (5.28%) Blazor
14 58 (5.19%) Playwright
15 53 (4.74%) OAuth
16 45 (4.03%) ARM Templates
17 43 (3.85%) PySpark
18 41 (3.67%) .NET Framework
18 41 (3.67%) JSON
19 40 (3.58%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 122 (10.92%) Product Ownership
2 90 (8.06%) Cloud Native
3 42 (3.76%) Mobile App
4 36 (3.22%) Enterprise Software
5 32 (2.86%) Management Information System
6 29 (2.60%) Legacy Systems
7 27 (2.42%) Distributed Systems
8 26 (2.33%) Onboarding
9 25 (2.24%) Low-Code
10 20 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
11 18 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
12 16 (1.43%) Reinsurance
13 15 (1.34%) Data Structures
13 15 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
14 11 (0.98%) Enterprise Cloud
14 11 (0.98%) Virtual Team
15 10 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
16 9 (0.81%) Legacy Applications
17 8 (0.72%) iPhone
17 8 (0.72%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 92 (8.24%) Linux
2 63 (5.64%) Windows
3 19 (1.70%) VMS
4 17 (1.52%) Unix
5 16 (1.43%) Android
5 16 (1.43%) Ubuntu
6 14 (1.25%) Apple iOS
7 12 (1.07%) Windows Server
8 4 (0.36%) Kali Linux
9 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.090%) SUSE
10 1 (0.090%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.090%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,116 (99.91%) DevOps
2 681 (60.97%) CI/CD
3 484 (43.33%) Agile
4 295 (26.41%) Infrastructure as Code
5 253 (22.65%) Test Automation
6 214 (19.16%) Continuous Improvement
7 207 (18.53%) AI
8 194 (17.37%) Problem-Solving
9 163 (14.59%) Mentoring
10 162 (14.50%) Scrum
11 158 (14.15%) Analytics
12 154 (13.79%) Full-Stack Development
13 145 (12.98%) Observability
14 131 (11.73%) Microservices
15 124 (11.10%) Containerisation
16 123 (11.01%) Data Modelling
17 107 (9.58%) Coaching
18 106 (9.49%) Business Intelligence
19 102 (9.13%) Roadmaps
20 101 (9.04%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 377 (33.75%) SQL
2 297 (26.59%) C#
3 256 (22.92%) Python
4 180 (16.11%) JavaScript
5 133 (11.91%) PowerShell
6 113 (10.12%) Bash
7 82 (7.34%) Bicep
8 76 (6.80%) Java
9 59 (5.28%) TypeScript
10 21 (1.88%) Scala
11 20 (1.79%) Go
12 16 (1.43%) C++
12 16 (1.43%) T-SQL
13 15 (1.34%) Apex Code
14 12 (1.07%) Kusto Query Language
15 11 (0.98%) Swift
16 10 (0.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 10 (0.90%) PL/SQL
17 8 (0.72%) Shell Script
18 7 (0.63%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 90 (8.06%) Degree
2 70 (6.27%) Security Cleared
3 50 (4.48%) Azure Certification
4 48 (4.30%) SC Cleared
5 36 (3.22%) Computer Science Degree
6 27 (2.42%) ISTQB
7 17 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
8 15 (1.34%) Master's Degree
9 13 (1.16%) DV Cleared
9 13 (1.16%) HND
10 9 (0.81%) AWS Certification
10 9 (0.81%) PMI Certification
11 6 (0.54%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 6 (0.54%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 4 (0.36%) AWS Certified Developer
12 4 (0.36%) BC Cleared
12 4 (0.36%) CISSP
13 3 (0.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 3 (0.27%) CBAP
13 3 (0.27%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 127 (11.37%) QA
2 82 (7.34%) Accessibility
3 51 (4.57%) Data Quality
4 40 (3.58%) GDPR
5 26 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 16 (1.43%) WCAG
7 13 (1.16%) SLA
8 12 (1.07%) TickIT
9 11 (0.98%) SOC 2
10 10 (0.90%) GRC
11 7 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 6 (0.54%) PMO
12 6 (0.54%) Software Quality Assurance
12 6 (0.54%) Solvency II
13 5 (0.45%) IFRS
14 4 (0.36%) JTAG
15 3 (0.27%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 2 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
16 2 (0.18%) ISO 9001
16 2 (0.18%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 144 (12.89%) Docker
2 60 (5.37%) Active Directory
3 17 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.27%) Firmware
6 2 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.090%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 313 (28.02%) Terraform
2 117 (10.47%) Kubernetes
3 74 (6.62%) Ansible
4 63 (5.64%) Grafana
5 51 (4.57%) Prometheus
6 24 (2.15%) Argo
7 9 (0.81%) Kibana
8 8 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (0.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (0.36%) HP Fortify
10 4 (0.36%) Puppet
11 3 (0.27%) HP ALM
11 3 (0.27%) Scalr
12 2 (0.18%) logstash
12 2 (0.18%) MIIS
12 2 (0.18%) Nagios
12 2 (0.18%) SCCM
13 1 (0.090%) FortiGate
13 1 (0.090%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 430 (38.50%) Microsoft
2 67 (6.00%) Databricks
3 47 (4.21%) Salesforce
4 36 (3.22%) ServiceNow
5 26 (2.33%) Google
6 23 (2.06%) Red Hat
7 22 (1.97%) Dynatrace
8 19 (1.70%) Apple
8 19 (1.70%) Oracle
9 16 (1.43%) MuleSoft
10 15 (1.34%) Facebook
11 14 (1.25%) Adobe
12 12 (1.07%) Freshdesk
12 12 (1.07%) Nintex
12 12 (1.07%) Palo Alto
12 12 (1.07%) Zscaler
13 11 (0.98%) CrowdStrike
13 11 (0.98%) Guidewire
13 11 (0.98%) Splunk
13 11 (0.98%) VMware