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

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 115 108
Rank change year-on-year -36 -7 -3
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,070 1,155 2,208
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.43% 2.70% 2.60%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.42% 7.27% 6.89%
Number of salaries quoted 707 838 1,846
10th Percentile £42,500 £43,966 £42,106
25th Percentile £47,500 £53,750 £50,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £81,938 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -15.38% +8.33% -

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 24,204 15,884 32,026
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.35% 37.13% 37.68%
Number of salaries quoted 12,932 11,006 25,778
10th Percentile £29,500 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £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 £80,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 18 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 18 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 -50 886 £65,000 -3.70% 392
UK excluding London -46 670 £55,000 -15.38% 337
Work from Home -4 444 £60,000 -11.11% 263
London -6 326 £75,000 -0.95% 132
South East +9 250 £50,000 -25.93% 97
Scotland +56 123 £62,500 +13.64% 33
North of England -42 109 £52,500 -22.22% 82
Midlands -50 84 £62,500 -3.85% 59
South West -88 71 £47,500 -26.92% 31
West Midlands -46 55 £60,000 -11.11% 39
Yorkshire -49 40 £52,500 -25.00% 25
North West -30 39 £63,000 -3.08% 50
North East +2 30 £50,000 -23.08% 8
East Midlands -20 26 £65,000 - 20
East of England -53 20 £70,000 +32.08% 27
Wales -34 10 £55,000 -15.38% 15
Northern Ireland -32 3 £56,250 +12.50%

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 (3.18%) Confluence
2 30 (2.80%) IIS
3 28 (2.62%) SharePoint
4 18 (1.68%) Microsoft Exchange
5 10 (0.93%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 8 (0.75%) Apache Spark
7 7 (0.65%) Apache Airflow
8 5 (0.47%) Anypoint
9 4 (0.37%) Apache
9 4 (0.37%) Moodle
10 2 (0.19%) Appian
10 2 (0.19%) BizTalk Server
10 2 (0.19%) CICS
11 1 (0.093%) CMS
11 1 (0.093%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.093%) PegaRULES
11 1 (0.093%) Tomcat
Applications
1 27 (2.52%) MS Visio
2 26 (2.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (1.12%) Microsoft Project
4 11 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
5 9 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.28%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.19%) Trello
8 1 (0.093%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.093%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 70 (6.54%) SAP S/4HANA
2 22 (2.06%) Dynamics CRM
2 22 (2.06%) Oracle ERP
3 6 (0.56%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (0.19%) Markit EDM
4 2 (0.19%) SAP CX
4 2 (0.19%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.093%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.093%) Endur
5 1 (0.093%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 1 (0.093%) Magento
5 1 (0.093%) Primavera
5 1 (0.093%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.093%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1,000 (93.46%) Azure
2 309 (28.88%) GitHub
3 200 (18.69%) Power Platform
4 157 (14.67%) GitHub Actions
5 154 (14.39%) AWS
6 89 (8.32%) Azure Data Factory
7 86 (8.04%) Entra ID
8 85 (7.94%) Serverless
9 84 (7.85%) Azure Monitor
10 81 (7.57%) Microsoft 365
11 78 (7.29%) PaaS
12 63 (5.89%) SaaS
13 58 (5.42%) Snowflake
14 57 (5.33%) Azure Logic Apps
14 57 (5.33%) GCP
15 56 (5.23%) Dynamics 365
16 54 (5.05%) Azure AKS
17 51 (4.77%) GitHub Copilot
18 46 (4.30%) Azure Functions
18 46 (4.30%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 63 (5.89%) Firewall
2 41 (3.83%) DNS
3 21 (1.96%) HTTP
3 21 (1.96%) TCP/IP
4 20 (1.87%) VPN
5 16 (1.50%) WAN
6 9 (0.84%) Network Security
7 4 (0.37%) BGP
7 4 (0.37%) DHCP
7 4 (0.37%) SD-WAN
8 3 (0.28%) SSL
8 3 (0.28%) VLAN
9 2 (0.19%) AMQP
10 1 (0.093%) IP Telephony
10 1 (0.093%) IPsec
10 1 (0.093%) LTE
10 1 (0.093%) NetScaler
10 1 (0.093%) VSAN
10 1 (0.093%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.093%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 143 (13.36%) SQL Server
2 114 (10.65%) Power BI
3 75 (7.01%) Azure SQL Database
4 56 (5.23%) Data Warehouse
5 38 (3.55%) NoSQL
5 38 (3.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 34 (3.18%) Data Lake
7 24 (2.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 20 (1.87%) Relational Database
8 20 (1.87%) Tableau
9 19 (1.78%) PostgreSQL
10 15 (1.40%) DynamoDB
10 15 (1.40%) MongoDB
11 14 (1.31%) Delta Lake
11 14 (1.31%) Snowflake Schema
12 10 (0.93%) Metadata
12 10 (0.93%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 9 (0.84%) Star Schema
14 8 (0.75%) GIS
14 8 (0.75%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 199 (18.60%) JIRA
2 174 (16.26%) Git
3 114 (10.65%) Jenkins
4 69 (6.45%) eCATT
5 58 (5.42%) Selenium
6 40 (3.74%) Cypress.io
7 38 (3.55%) NeoLoad
8 36 (3.36%) GitLab
9 24 (2.24%) Visual Studio
10 22 (2.06%) Octopus Deploy
10 22 (2.06%) Oracle Forms
11 19 (1.78%) Eclipse
11 19 (1.78%) Postman
11 19 (1.78%) Robot Framework
11 19 (1.78%) Snyk
12 17 (1.59%) TeamCity
13 10 (0.93%) NUnit
14 8 (0.75%) REST Assured
14 8 (0.75%) SpecFlow
14 8 (0.75%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 403 (37.66%) Finance
2 250 (23.36%) Social Skills
3 151 (14.11%) Analytical Skills
4 91 (8.50%) Marketing
5 78 (7.29%) Manufacturing
6 60 (5.61%) Presentation Skills
7 57 (5.33%) Influencing Skills
8 55 (5.14%) Law
9 33 (3.08%) Public Sector
10 27 (2.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 26 (2.43%) Legal
12 25 (2.34%) Retail
13 24 (2.24%) Banking
13 24 (2.24%) Billing
14 21 (1.96%) Telecoms
15 9 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
15 9 (0.84%) Tech for Good
16 8 (0.75%) Advertising
17 5 (0.47%) Games
17 5 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 213 (19.91%) Senior
2 200 (18.69%) Developer
3 160 (14.95%) Lead
4 140 (13.08%) DevOps Engineer
5 129 (12.06%) Azure Engineer
6 109 (10.19%) Analyst
7 78 (7.29%) Cloud Engineer
8 59 (5.51%) Data Engineer
9 55 (5.14%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 50 (4.67%) Test Leader
11 47 (4.39%) Architect
12 46 (4.30%) .NET Developer
13 42 (3.93%) Software Engineer
14 36 (3.36%) Applications Engineer
15 34 (3.18%) Platform Engineer
16 33 (3.08%) Senior Developer
17 27 (2.52%) Support Engineer
18 26 (2.43%) Power Platform Developer
18 26 (2.43%) Solutions Architect
18 26 (2.43%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 245 (22.90%) .NET
2 101 (9.44%) RESTful
3 95 (8.88%) React
4 77 (7.20%) REST
5 70 (6.54%) OAuth
6 68 (6.36%) .NET Core
6 68 (6.36%) CSS
7 67 (6.26%) ASP.NET
7 67 (6.26%) HTML
8 62 (5.79%) YAML
9 54 (5.05%) .NET Framework
10 52 (4.86%) SOAP
11 44 (4.11%) JSON
12 40 (3.74%) Playwright
13 39 (3.64%) SAML
14 34 (3.18%) ASP.NET Core
14 34 (3.18%) Node.js
14 34 (3.18%) OAuth2
15 32 (2.99%) Entity Framework
16 28 (2.62%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 122 (11.40%) Product Ownership
2 120 (11.21%) Cloud Native
3 45 (4.21%) Enterprise Software
4 37 (3.46%) Management Information System
5 34 (3.18%) Low-Code
6 32 (2.99%) Legacy Systems
7 30 (2.80%) Mobile App
8 21 (1.96%) Reinsurance
9 20 (1.87%) Analytical Mindset
10 19 (1.78%) Hybrid Cloud
10 19 (1.78%) Virtual Team
11 15 (1.40%) Data Structures
11 15 (1.40%) Security Posture
12 13 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
13 12 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
14 10 (0.93%) Legacy Applications
14 10 (0.93%) Onboarding
15 8 (0.75%) Greenfield Project
16 7 (0.65%) AI Agents
17 6 (0.56%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 81 (7.57%) Windows
2 62 (5.79%) Linux
3 18 (1.68%) VMS
4 13 (1.21%) Windows Server
5 11 (1.03%) Ubuntu
6 8 (0.75%) Apple iOS
7 6 (0.56%) Android
8 3 (0.28%) Unix
9 2 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.093%) CentOS
10 1 (0.093%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.093%) SUSE
10 1 (0.093%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.093%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.093%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,000 (93.46%) DevOps
2 620 (57.94%) CI/CD
3 485 (45.33%) Agile
4 290 (27.10%) Infrastructure as Code
5 270 (25.23%) Test Automation
6 248 (23.18%) Continuous Improvement
7 210 (19.63%) Problem-Solving
8 174 (16.26%) AI
9 163 (15.23%) Analytics
9 163 (15.23%) Mentoring
10 159 (14.86%) Coaching
11 139 (12.99%) Observability
12 136 (12.71%) Data Modelling
12 136 (12.71%) Roadmaps
13 128 (11.96%) Scrum
14 121 (11.31%) Containerisation
15 115 (10.75%) Business Intelligence
16 110 (10.28%) Asset Management
17 107 (10.00%) Software Engineering
18 103 (9.63%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 360 (33.64%) SQL
2 245 (22.90%) Python
3 206 (19.25%) C#
4 145 (13.55%) PowerShell
5 118 (11.03%) JavaScript
6 86 (8.04%) Bicep
7 84 (7.85%) Bash
8 61 (5.70%) TypeScript
9 50 (4.67%) Java
10 29 (2.71%) T-SQL
11 28 (2.62%) Apex Code
12 26 (2.43%) PL/SQL
13 24 (2.24%) Shell Script
14 23 (2.15%) Go
15 16 (1.50%) Scala
16 12 (1.12%) Kusto Query Language
17 10 (0.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 6 (0.56%) Swift
19 5 (0.47%) C++
19 5 (0.47%) DataWeave
Qualifications
1 108 (10.09%) Degree
2 67 (6.26%) Security Cleared
3 58 (5.42%) Azure Certification
3 58 (5.42%) Computer Science Degree
4 32 (2.99%) ISTQB
4 32 (2.99%) SC Cleared
5 30 (2.80%) Master's Degree
6 29 (2.71%) DV Cleared
7 25 (2.34%) Microsoft Certification
8 17 (1.59%) AWS Certification
9 13 (1.21%) HND
10 11 (1.03%) AWS Certified Developer
11 10 (0.93%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 10 (0.93%) PMI Certification
12 6 (0.56%) DBS Check
13 5 (0.47%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 5 (0.47%) PMP
14 4 (0.37%) BC Cleared
14 4 (0.37%) CBAP
15 3 (0.28%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 141 (13.18%) QA
2 70 (6.54%) Accessibility
3 47 (4.39%) Data Quality
4 46 (4.30%) GDPR
5 38 (3.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 14 (1.31%) SOC 2
7 12 (1.12%) NCSC
7 12 (1.12%) NIST
7 12 (1.12%) SLA
8 10 (0.93%) PMO
9 6 (0.56%) GRC
10 5 (0.47%) PERC
10 5 (0.47%) WCAG
11 4 (0.37%) Software Quality Assurance
12 2 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.19%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 2 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.19%) Solvency II
13 1 (0.093%) HL7
13 1 (0.093%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 129 (12.06%) Docker
2 63 (5.89%) Active Directory
3 22 (2.06%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.65%) Virtual Desktop
4 7 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.37%) Postfix
6 2 (0.19%) Firmware
6 2 (0.19%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.19%) vCloud
7 1 (0.093%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 1 (0.093%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.093%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.093%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 310 (28.97%) Terraform
2 113 (10.56%) Kubernetes
3 93 (8.69%) Ansible
4 73 (6.82%) HP ALM
5 58 (5.42%) Grafana
6 47 (4.39%) Prometheus
7 24 (2.24%) Single Sign-On
8 12 (1.12%) Microsoft Intune
9 8 (0.75%) Kibana
10 4 (0.37%) logstash
11 3 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.19%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (0.19%) Nessus
12 2 (0.19%) SCCM
13 1 (0.093%) FortiGate
13 1 (0.093%) HP Fortify
13 1 (0.093%) MIIS
13 1 (0.093%) Nagios
13 1 (0.093%) Puppet
13 1 (0.093%) Scalr
Vendors
1 347 (32.43%) Microsoft
2 76 (7.10%) SAP
3 73 (6.82%) HP
4 54 (5.05%) Databricks
5 42 (3.93%) Salesforce
6 37 (3.46%) ServiceNow
7 31 (2.90%) Oracle
8 19 (1.78%) Palo Alto
9 18 (1.68%) Red Hat
10 17 (1.59%) Black Duck
10 17 (1.59%) Coverity
11 16 (1.50%) Dynatrace
11 16 (1.50%) Zscaler
12 15 (1.40%) Adobe
12 15 (1.40%) Okta
12 15 (1.40%) VMware
13 12 (1.12%) Ab Initio
13 12 (1.12%) Google
13 12 (1.12%) Sage
13 12 (1.12%) Xamarin