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 21 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 173 113
Rank change year-on-year +21 -60 -16
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,419 934 1,823
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.32% 1.87% 2.19%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.12% 5.86% 6.92%
Number of salaries quoted 1,127 690 1,290
10th Percentile £44,125 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £53,938 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000

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 27,713 15,936 26,336
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.75% 31.95% 31.67%
Number of salaries quoted 18,448 10,949 18,574
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £44,000 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -5.51%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +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 21 August 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 21 August 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 +31 1,267 £65,000 -3.70% 400
UK excluding London +65 949 £60,000 - 305
Work from Home +21 582 £60,000 -9.77% 243
London -41 402 £80,000 +6.67% 159
North of England +94 283 £60,000 -7.69% 71
South East +6 225 £62,500 - 107
North West +77 168 £65,000 - 46
Midlands +34 159 £62,500 +4.17% 51
South West -5 97 £55,000 -1.79% 28
Wales -6 88 £53,171 -3.33% 14
West Midlands -6 88 £63,750 +6.25% 28
East of England +19 81 £55,000 -12.00% 28
East Midlands +31 71 £58,750 +6.82% 23
Yorkshire -8 66 £69,305 +15.51% 20
North East -14 49 £52,000 -5.45% 5
Scotland -5 20 £55,000 -14.73% 8
Northern Ireland - 1 £72,500 - 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 70 (4.93%) SharePoint
2 69 (4.86%) Confluence
3 30 (2.11%) Microsoft Exchange
4 22 (1.55%) IIS
5 21 (1.48%) Apache Spark
6 12 (0.85%) Apache
7 11 (0.78%) CMS
7 11 (0.78%) nginx
8 8 (0.56%) SharePoint Server
9 7 (0.49%) Anypoint
10 6 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
10 6 (0.42%) Camunda
10 6 (0.42%) CICS
10 6 (0.42%) Umbraco
11 3 (0.21%) BizTalk Server
11 3 (0.21%) WordPress
12 2 (0.14%) Luigi
13 1 (0.070%) Moodle
13 1 (0.070%) NServiceBus
13 1 (0.070%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 20 (1.41%) Microsoft Project
2 15 (1.06%) MS Visio
3 12 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
4 10 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
5 9 (0.63%) Trello
6 8 (0.56%) Chatbot
7 7 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 1 (0.070%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.070%) Notion
8 1 (0.070%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 21 (1.48%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (0.78%) Elite 3E
3 9 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (0.42%) SAP IBP
5 5 (0.35%) Dynamics AX
5 5 (0.35%) Dynamics NAV
5 5 (0.35%) Visualfiles
6 4 (0.28%) Shopify
7 3 (0.21%) Carpe Diem
7 3 (0.21%) Oracle Applications
7 3 (0.21%) SAP Business One
8 2 (0.14%) JDE EnterpriseOne
8 2 (0.14%) Magento
9 1 (0.070%) Infor M3
9 1 (0.070%) Integrated Workplace Management System
9 1 (0.070%) Sage 200
9 1 (0.070%) Salesforce CRM
9 1 (0.070%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,419 (100.00%) Azure
2 234 (16.49%) Power Platform
3 219 (15.43%) GitHub
4 164 (11.56%) AWS
5 132 (9.30%) GitHub Actions
6 131 (9.23%) Serverless
7 121 (8.53%) Azure Service Bus
8 115 (8.10%) Dynamics 365
9 109 (7.68%) Azure Functions
10 108 (7.61%) Azure AKS
11 103 (7.26%) Azure AI
12 100 (7.05%) Azure Monitor
13 98 (6.91%) Azure Logic Apps
14 97 (6.84%) PaaS
15 88 (6.20%) Azure Key Vault
15 88 (6.20%) Entra ID
16 81 (5.71%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 81 (5.71%) Microsoft 365
16 81 (5.71%) SaaS
17 80 (5.64%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 33 (2.33%) Firewall
2 27 (1.90%) VPN
3 14 (0.99%) DNS
4 13 (0.92%) Network Security
5 12 (0.85%) Internet
6 9 (0.63%) Wi-Fi
7 8 (0.56%) HTTP
7 8 (0.56%) SAN
8 6 (0.42%) MQTT
8 6 (0.42%) Wireless
8 6 (0.42%) ZigBee
9 5 (0.35%) DHCP
9 5 (0.35%) TCP/IP
9 5 (0.35%) VLAN
10 4 (0.28%) Bluetooth
11 3 (0.21%) HTTPS
12 2 (0.14%) LoRaWAN
13 1 (0.070%) BGP
13 1 (0.070%) Broadband
13 1 (0.070%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 255 (17.97%) Azure SQL Database
2 181 (12.76%) SQL Server
3 175 (12.33%) MongoDB
4 113 (7.96%) Power BI
5 62 (4.37%) Data Warehouse
6 56 (3.95%) PostgreSQL
7 46 (3.24%) Relational Database
8 41 (2.89%) Elasticsearch
9 33 (2.33%) NoSQL
10 31 (2.18%) Delta Lake
11 27 (1.90%) Redis
12 26 (1.83%) Data Lake
12 26 (1.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 23 (1.62%) MySQL
14 22 (1.55%) Metadata
15 19 (1.34%) Star Schema
16 18 (1.27%) Spark SQL
17 16 (1.13%) Tableau
18 15 (1.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 13 (0.92%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 247 (17.41%) Git
2 190 (13.39%) JIRA
3 121 (8.53%) Jenkins
4 80 (5.64%) GitLab
5 49 (3.45%) Selenium
6 43 (3.03%) Postman
7 39 (2.75%) Cypress.io
8 20 (1.41%) REST Assured
9 18 (1.27%) JUnit
10 17 (1.20%) JMeter
10 17 (1.20%) NUnit
11 16 (1.13%) Visual Studio
12 15 (1.06%) Eclipse
13 14 (0.99%) fastlane
13 14 (0.99%) TestRail
13 14 (0.99%) Zephyr
14 12 (0.85%) Octopus Deploy
15 11 (0.78%) SonarQube
16 10 (0.70%) Mockito
16 10 (0.70%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 370 (26.07%) Social Skills
2 312 (21.99%) Finance
3 146 (10.29%) Analytical Skills
4 111 (7.82%) Public Sector
5 101 (7.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 56 (3.95%) Law
6 56 (3.95%) Retail
7 44 (3.10%) Marketing
8 40 (2.82%) Legal
9 36 (2.54%) Banking
10 30 (2.11%) Advertising
11 24 (1.69%) Manufacturing
12 23 (1.62%) Games
13 21 (1.48%) Presentation Skills
14 18 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
15 15 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
16 12 (0.85%) Aviation
17 10 (0.70%) Automotive
18 9 (0.63%) Legal Technology
18 9 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 453 (31.92%) Developer
2 312 (21.99%) Senior
3 217 (15.29%) .NET Developer
4 204 (14.38%) DevOps Engineer
5 193 (13.60%) Azure Engineer
6 172 (12.12%) Lead
7 106 (7.47%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 97 (6.84%) Senior Developer
9 82 (5.78%) Platform Engineer
10 81 (5.71%) Data Engineer
11 77 (5.43%) Analyst
12 66 (4.65%) Senior DevOps
13 61 (4.30%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 57 (4.02%) Cloud Engineer
15 52 (3.66%) Architect
16 51 (3.59%) Software Engineer
17 46 (3.24%) Software Developer
18 41 (2.89%) Cloud Platform Engineer
18 41 (2.89%) Senior Data Engineer
19 38 (2.68%) Azure Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 483 (34.04%) .NET
2 342 (24.10%) Terraform
3 258 (18.18%) ASP.NET
4 237 (16.70%) .NET Core
5 203 (14.31%) ASP.NET Core
6 174 (12.26%) React
7 163 (11.49%) REST
8 162 (11.42%) HTML
9 160 (11.28%) CSS
10 157 (11.06%) RESTful
11 125 (8.81%) Blazor
12 124 (8.74%) Entity Framework
13 93 (6.55%) Node.js
14 82 (5.78%) ML.NET
15 65 (4.58%) .NET Framework
16 62 (4.37%) Playwright
17 57 (4.02%) YAML
18 55 (3.88%) ARM Templates
19 53 (3.74%) JSON
20 44 (3.10%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 144 (10.15%) Product Ownership
2 141 (9.94%) Cloud Native
3 76 (5.36%) Enterprise Software
4 57 (4.02%) Legacy Systems
5 54 (3.81%) Mobile App
5 54 (3.81%) Onboarding
6 40 (2.82%) Distributed Systems
7 36 (2.54%) Greenfield Project
8 27 (1.90%) Hybrid Cloud
9 23 (1.62%) Management Information System
10 22 (1.55%) Legacy Applications
10 22 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
11 20 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
12 19 (1.34%) Podcast
13 18 (1.27%) Low-Code
13 18 (1.27%) Public Cloud
14 17 (1.20%) AI Agents
14 17 (1.20%) BBC
14 17 (1.20%) iPhone
14 17 (1.20%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 100 (7.05%) Windows
2 99 (6.98%) Linux
3 26 (1.83%) Android
4 23 (1.62%) VMS
5 18 (1.27%) Unix
5 18 (1.27%) Windows Server
6 15 (1.06%) Apple iOS
7 12 (0.85%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.35%) Kali Linux
9 3 (0.21%) Embedded Linux
9 3 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.21%) Solaris
10 2 (0.14%) Debian
10 2 (0.14%) Rocky
10 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.070%) SUSE
11 1 (0.070%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,419 (100.00%) DevOps
2 828 (58.35%) CI/CD
3 665 (46.86%) Agile
4 325 (22.90%) AI
5 318 (22.41%) Infrastructure as Code
6 304 (21.42%) Continuous Improvement
7 254 (17.90%) Full-Stack Development
8 251 (17.69%) Test Automation
9 240 (16.91%) Problem-Solving
10 223 (15.72%) Scrum
11 207 (14.59%) Mentoring
12 185 (13.04%) Microservices
13 175 (12.33%) Analytics
14 156 (10.99%) Observability
15 149 (10.50%) Stakeholder Management
16 146 (10.29%) Platform Engineering
17 143 (10.08%) Machine Learning
18 139 (9.80%) Software Engineering
19 131 (9.23%) Business Intelligence
20 129 (9.09%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 512 (36.08%) SQL
2 472 (33.26%) C#
3 264 (18.60%) Python
4 240 (16.91%) JavaScript
5 167 (11.77%) PowerShell
6 124 (8.74%) Bash
7 117 (8.25%) Bicep
8 94 (6.62%) Java
9 61 (4.30%) TypeScript
10 40 (2.82%) T-SQL
11 16 (1.13%) C++
11 16 (1.13%) Kusto Query Language
11 16 (1.13%) Scala
12 14 (0.99%) VB.NET
13 12 (0.85%) Swift
14 11 (0.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 11 (0.78%) Go
15 10 (0.70%) JCL
16 9 (0.63%) Apex Code
16 9 (0.63%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 115 (8.10%) Degree
2 109 (7.68%) Security Cleared
3 93 (6.55%) SC Cleared
4 84 (5.92%) Azure Certification
5 48 (3.38%) Computer Science Degree
6 32 (2.26%) ISTQB
7 30 (2.11%) Microsoft Certification
8 22 (1.55%) PMI Certification
9 16 (1.13%) Master's Degree
10 13 (0.92%) PMP
11 12 (0.85%) AWS Certification
12 11 (0.78%) DV Cleared
13 7 (0.49%) CBAP
13 7 (0.49%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 6 (0.42%) ISEB
15 5 (0.35%) BPSS Clearance
15 5 (0.35%) CISSP
15 5 (0.35%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
15 5 (0.35%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 4 (0.28%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 187 (13.18%) QA
2 84 (5.92%) Accessibility
3 68 (4.79%) Data Quality
4 34 (2.40%) GDPR
5 32 (2.26%) WCAG
6 23 (1.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 18 (1.27%) PMO
8 12 (0.85%) TickIT
9 10 (0.70%) GRC
10 9 (0.63%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 8 (0.56%) NCSC
11 8 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 8 (0.56%) SLA
12 6 (0.42%) JTAG
12 6 (0.42%) Solvency II
13 5 (0.35%) IFRS
14 4 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
15 3 (0.21%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 3 (0.21%) NIST
15 3 (0.21%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 184 (12.97%) Docker
2 67 (4.72%) Active Directory
3 23 (1.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (1.13%) Virtual Desktop
5 12 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.85%) vSphere
6 5 (0.35%) Firmware
7 3 (0.21%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.14%) Xen
9 1 (0.070%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.070%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 169 (11.91%) Kubernetes
2 61 (4.30%) Ansible
3 55 (3.88%) Grafana
4 49 (3.45%) Prometheus
5 30 (2.11%) Argo
6 14 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
7 11 (0.78%) Puppet
8 5 (0.35%) HP Fortify
8 5 (0.35%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (0.21%) HP ALM
10 3 (0.21%) Scalr
10 3 (0.21%) SCCM
11 2 (0.14%) FlexNet
11 2 (0.14%) Kibana
11 2 (0.14%) MIIS
11 2 (0.14%) Nagios
11 2 (0.14%) Nessus
11 2 (0.14%) Rancher
11 2 (0.14%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 614 (43.27%) Microsoft
2 84 (5.92%) Databricks
3 64 (4.51%) Google
4 40 (2.82%) Salesforce
5 38 (2.68%) Facebook
6 31 (2.18%) ServiceNow
7 30 (2.11%) VMware
8 29 (2.04%) Apple
9 25 (1.76%) Dynatrace
10 23 (1.62%) Red Hat
11 21 (1.48%) YouTube
12 20 (1.41%) Oracle
13 19 (1.34%) OpenAI
14 18 (1.27%) SAP
15 17 (1.20%) Sony
15 17 (1.20%) Yahoo!
16 15 (1.06%) MuleSoft
17 13 (0.92%) Guidewire
18 12 (0.85%) ScienceLogic
19 11 (0.78%) Foundry