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 22 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 157 175 122
Rank change year-on-year +18 -53 -21
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,219 891 2,281
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.29% 1.97% 2.09%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.76% 5.92% 6.35%
Number of salaries quoted 984 689 1,715
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £49,750 £55,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £76,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £95,000
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 25,605 15,063 35,940
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.08% 33.37% 32.87%
Number of salaries quoted 16,627 10,422 27,542
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,750 £30,500
25th Percentile £43,436 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -8.73%
75th Percentile £83,750 £81,738 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £51,431
% change year-on-year +4.76% +2.08% -6.49%

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 22 June 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 22 June 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 +23 1,103 £65,000 -7.14% 345
UK excluding London +43 792 £60,000 -4.00% 293
Work from Home +43 486 £60,000 -11.11% 209
London -14 364 £77,500 +3.33% 122
North of England +69 227 £62,500 -7.41% 68
South East -4 212 £59,500 -8.46% 103
Midlands +16 129 £65,000 +8.33% 47
North West +76 126 £69,305 +4.61% 42
South West -16 90 £55,000 -4.35% 25
East of England +15 66 £55,500 -1.33% 30
West Midlands -13 65 £65,000 +8.33% 25
East Midlands +22 62 £64,050 +13.87% 22
Yorkshire -25 52 £69,305 -0.99% 17
North East -8 49 £50,000 -9.09% 10
Wales -15 43 £53,171 -18.20% 12
Scotland +18 25 £61,250 -3.54% 16
Northern Ireland -35 2 £72,500 +45.00% 2

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 54 (4.43%) Confluence
2 51 (4.18%) SharePoint
3 25 (2.05%) Microsoft Exchange
4 19 (1.56%) IIS
5 13 (1.07%) Apache Spark
6 8 (0.66%) SharePoint Server
7 7 (0.57%) CMS
8 6 (0.49%) Apache
8 6 (0.49%) Umbraco
9 5 (0.41%) Anypoint
9 5 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
9 5 (0.41%) nginx
10 3 (0.25%) WordPress
11 2 (0.16%) CICS
11 2 (0.16%) Luigi
11 2 (0.16%) Moodle
12 1 (0.082%) BizTalk Server
12 1 (0.082%) Drupal
12 1 (0.082%) Palantir Foundry
12 1 (0.082%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 19 (1.56%) MS Visio
2 12 (0.98%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (0.90%) Microsoft Project
4 7 (0.57%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.33%) Trello
6 3 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.082%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.082%) Notion
7 1 (0.082%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 13 (1.07%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.41%) Dynamics AX
2 5 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.41%) Visualfiles
3 4 (0.33%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.25%) Elite 3E
5 2 (0.16%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 2 (0.16%) Magento
5 2 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.16%) SAP IBP
6 1 (0.082%) Infor M3
6 1 (0.082%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.082%) Sage 200
6 1 (0.082%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.082%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1,218 (99.92%) Azure
2 226 (18.54%) GitHub
3 191 (15.67%) Power Platform
4 157 (12.88%) AWS
5 134 (10.99%) GitHub Actions
6 107 (8.78%) Serverless
7 105 (8.61%) Azure AKS
7 105 (8.61%) Azure Monitor
8 87 (7.14%) PaaS
9 82 (6.73%) Azure Functions
10 81 (6.64%) Entra ID
11 80 (6.56%) Azure Service Bus
12 79 (6.48%) Dynamics 365
13 77 (6.32%) Azure Logic Apps
14 73 (5.99%) Microsoft 365
15 71 (5.82%) Azure AI
16 68 (5.58%) Azure Data Factory
16 68 (5.58%) SaaS
17 59 (4.84%) GCP
18 56 (4.59%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 51 (4.18%) Firewall
2 25 (2.05%) DNS
3 18 (1.48%) VPN
4 16 (1.31%) HTTP
5 14 (1.15%) TCP/IP
6 11 (0.90%) Network Security
7 7 (0.57%) Internet
8 6 (0.49%) WAN
9 4 (0.33%) Bluetooth
9 4 (0.33%) DHCP
9 4 (0.33%) MQTT
9 4 (0.33%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (0.33%) Wireless
9 4 (0.33%) ZigBee
10 3 (0.25%) BGP
10 3 (0.25%) HTTPS
10 3 (0.25%) SAN
11 2 (0.16%) VLAN
12 1 (0.082%) Broadband
12 1 (0.082%) IP Telephony
Database & Business Intelligence
1 199 (16.32%) Azure SQL Database
2 135 (11.07%) MongoDB
3 121 (9.93%) SQL Server
4 95 (7.79%) Power BI
5 38 (3.12%) PostgreSQL
6 35 (2.87%) Data Warehouse
7 32 (2.63%) Data Lake
8 29 (2.38%) Relational Database
9 28 (2.30%) Delta Lake
10 26 (2.13%) Elasticsearch
11 25 (2.05%) NoSQL
12 20 (1.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 18 (1.48%) Spark SQL
14 15 (1.23%) Metadata
14 15 (1.23%) Redis
15 14 (1.15%) Star Schema
16 13 (1.07%) MySQL
17 12 (0.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 11 (0.90%) Tableau
19 9 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 185 (15.18%) Git
2 149 (12.22%) JIRA
3 109 (8.94%) Jenkins
4 73 (5.99%) GitLab
5 55 (4.51%) Selenium
6 47 (3.86%) Cypress.io
7 38 (3.12%) Postman
8 24 (1.97%) Eclipse
9 18 (1.48%) Visual Studio
10 17 (1.39%) REST Assured
11 14 (1.15%) fastlane
11 14 (1.15%) JMeter
12 13 (1.07%) Octopus Deploy
13 12 (0.98%) TestRail
13 12 (0.98%) Zephyr
14 9 (0.74%) Xcode
15 8 (0.66%) TeamCity
16 7 (0.57%) JUnit
16 7 (0.57%) LoadRunner
16 7 (0.57%) NUnit
General
1 277 (22.72%) Finance
2 265 (21.74%) Social Skills
3 115 (9.43%) Analytical Skills
4 86 (7.05%) Public Sector
5 79 (6.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 50 (4.10%) Law
7 47 (3.86%) Retail
8 36 (2.95%) Marketing
9 32 (2.63%) Legal
10 27 (2.21%) Banking
11 23 (1.89%) Billing
12 21 (1.72%) Advertising
12 21 (1.72%) Games
13 19 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
14 18 (1.48%) Presentation Skills
15 17 (1.39%) Manufacturing
16 15 (1.23%) Telecoms
17 11 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
18 10 (0.82%) Automotive
18 10 (0.82%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 352 (28.88%) Developer
2 228 (18.70%) Senior
3 219 (17.97%) DevOps Engineer
4 199 (16.32%) Azure Engineer
5 165 (13.54%) Lead
6 154 (12.63%) .NET Developer
7 112 (9.19%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 73 (5.99%) Senior Developer
9 71 (5.82%) Platform Engineer
10 69 (5.66%) Data Engineer
11 62 (5.09%) Analyst
11 62 (5.09%) Cloud Engineer
12 58 (4.76%) Architect
13 50 (4.10%) Senior DevOps
14 48 (3.94%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 44 (3.61%) Software Engineer
16 43 (3.53%) Cloud Platform Engineer
17 38 (3.12%) Azure Platform Engineer
18 34 (2.79%) Software Developer
19 29 (2.38%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 383 (31.42%) .NET
2 195 (16.00%) ASP.NET
3 174 (14.27%) .NET Core
4 156 (12.80%) ASP.NET Core
5 149 (12.22%) React
6 137 (11.24%) HTML
7 136 (11.16%) CSS
8 112 (9.19%) REST
9 108 (8.86%) RESTful
10 90 (7.38%) Entity Framework
11 86 (7.05%) Blazor
12 78 (6.40%) Node.js
13 63 (5.17%) Playwright
14 62 (5.09%) ML.NET
14 62 (5.09%) YAML
15 50 (4.10%) ARM Templates
16 45 (3.69%) .NET Framework
17 42 (3.45%) JSON
17 42 (3.45%) PySpark
18 40 (3.28%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 118 (9.68%) Product Ownership
2 103 (8.45%) Cloud Native
3 54 (4.43%) Mobile App
4 38 (3.12%) Legacy Systems
5 37 (3.04%) Enterprise Software
5 37 (3.04%) Onboarding
6 27 (2.21%) Greenfield Project
7 26 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
7 26 (2.13%) Management Information System
8 22 (1.80%) Hybrid Cloud
9 21 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
10 20 (1.64%) Low-Code
11 17 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
12 16 (1.31%) Reinsurance
13 15 (1.23%) Podcast
14 14 (1.15%) Data Structures
14 14 (1.15%) iPhone
14 14 (1.15%) Public Cloud
15 13 (1.07%) BBC
15 13 (1.07%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 95 (7.79%) Linux
2 74 (6.07%) Windows
3 25 (2.05%) VMS
4 23 (1.89%) Android
5 17 (1.39%) Unix
6 16 (1.31%) Ubuntu
7 15 (1.23%) Apple iOS
8 13 (1.07%) Windows Server
9 4 (0.33%) Kali Linux
10 3 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.082%) SUSE
11 1 (0.082%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,218 (99.92%) DevOps
2 728 (59.72%) CI/CD
3 542 (44.46%) Agile
4 304 (24.94%) Infrastructure as Code
5 240 (19.69%) AI
6 239 (19.61%) Continuous Improvement
7 236 (19.36%) Test Automation
8 206 (16.90%) Full-Stack Development
9 187 (15.34%) Scrum
10 180 (14.77%) Problem-Solving
11 172 (14.11%) Mentoring
12 167 (13.70%) Analytics
13 145 (11.89%) Observability
14 140 (11.48%) Microservices
15 119 (9.76%) Containerisation
16 118 (9.68%) Platform Engineering
17 114 (9.35%) SDLC
18 113 (9.27%) Roadmaps
19 108 (8.86%) Machine Learning
20 106 (8.70%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 421 (34.54%) SQL
2 369 (30.27%) C#
3 239 (19.61%) Python
4 213 (17.47%) JavaScript
5 145 (11.89%) PowerShell
6 125 (10.25%) Bash
7 101 (8.29%) Bicep
8 74 (6.07%) Java
9 62 (5.09%) TypeScript
10 23 (1.89%) T-SQL
11 19 (1.56%) Go
12 18 (1.48%) Kusto Query Language
13 17 (1.39%) Scala
14 15 (1.23%) C++
15 12 (0.98%) Swift
16 10 (0.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 8 (0.66%) Apex Code
17 8 (0.66%) Kotlin
18 6 (0.49%) SOQL
18 6 (0.49%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 87 (7.14%) Security Cleared
2 86 (7.05%) Degree
3 70 (5.74%) SC Cleared
4 61 (5.00%) Azure Certification
5 36 (2.95%) Computer Science Degree
6 28 (2.30%) ISTQB
7 24 (1.97%) Microsoft Certification
8 12 (0.98%) DV Cleared
9 11 (0.90%) Master's Degree
10 10 (0.82%) HND
10 10 (0.82%) PMI Certification
11 7 (0.57%) AWS Certification
12 6 (0.49%) CISSP
13 5 (0.41%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 4 (0.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 4 (0.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 4 (0.33%) PMP
15 3 (0.25%) ISEB
15 3 (0.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 3 (0.25%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 149 (12.22%) QA
2 87 (7.14%) Accessibility
3 47 (3.86%) Data Quality
4 37 (3.04%) GDPR
5 26 (2.13%) WCAG
6 21 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 12 (0.98%) SLA
7 12 (0.98%) TickIT
8 11 (0.90%) GRC
9 8 (0.66%) PMO
9 8 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 7 (0.57%) SOC 2
11 6 (0.49%) Software Quality Assurance
11 6 (0.49%) Solvency II
12 5 (0.41%) IFRS
13 4 (0.33%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 4 (0.33%) JTAG
13 4 (0.33%) NCSC
14 3 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
15 2 (0.16%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 147 (12.06%) Docker
2 62 (5.09%) Active Directory
3 16 (1.31%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (1.15%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (0.66%) vSphere
7 2 (0.16%) Firmware
7 2 (0.16%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 313 (25.68%) Terraform
2 130 (10.66%) Kubernetes
3 71 (5.82%) Ansible
4 67 (5.50%) Grafana
5 57 (4.68%) Prometheus
6 27 (2.21%) Argo
7 9 (0.74%) Kibana
8 5 (0.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 5 (0.41%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.33%) HP Fortify
9 4 (0.33%) Puppet
10 3 (0.25%) HP ALM
10 3 (0.25%) Nagios
10 3 (0.25%) Scalr
11 2 (0.16%) Istio
11 2 (0.16%) MIIS
11 2 (0.16%) SCCM
11 2 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.082%) linkerd
12 1 (0.082%) Packer
Vendors
1 504 (41.35%) Microsoft
2 66 (5.41%) Databricks
3 42 (3.45%) ServiceNow
4 40 (3.28%) Google
4 40 (3.28%) Salesforce
5 28 (2.30%) Facebook
6 26 (2.13%) Apple
7 25 (2.05%) Dynatrace
8 23 (1.89%) Red Hat
9 21 (1.72%) VMware
10 15 (1.23%) MuleSoft
10 15 (1.23%) YouTube
11 14 (1.15%) Guidewire
12 13 (1.07%) Sony
12 13 (1.07%) Yahoo!
13 11 (0.90%) Oracle
13 11 (0.90%) Splunk
14 10 (0.82%) Adobe
15 9 (0.74%) Foundry
15 9 (0.74%) Palo Alto