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

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 171 172 119
Rank change year-on-year +1 -53 -19
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,111 878 2,277
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.20% 2.01% 2.22%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.19% 5.98% 6.50%
Number of salaries quoted 864 681 1,746
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £42,279
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £49,262
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +9.76% -5.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £91,250 £96,250 £93,750
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 26,501 14,679 35,023
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 28.60% 33.61% 34.09%
Number of salaries quoted 15,679 10,057 26,957
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 £76,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,400
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -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 4 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 4 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 -4 986 £66,000 -5.71% 439
UK excluding London +20 695 £60,000 -4.00% 344
Work from Home +29 419 £63,500 -5.93% 237
London -9 355 £77,500 +3.33% 146
North of England +42 199 £65,000 -7.14% 90
South East -23 187 £55,000 -15.38% 101
Midlands -6 112 £65,000 +8.33% 60
North West +60 108 £69,310 +2.68% 49
South West -28 70 £55,000 -4.35% 32
West Midlands -32 60 £62,000 +3.33% 35
Yorkshire -35 51 £69,305 -0.99% 24
East Midlands +10 50 £66,000 +20.00% 25
East of England -12 48 £56,000 -2.61% 33
Scotland +33 44 £62,500 -1.57% 16
North East -2 40 £50,000 -9.09% 17
Wales -15 35 £53,050 -18.38% 13
Northern Ireland -38 2 £72,500 +45.00% 6

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 (3.78%) SharePoint
2 41 (3.69%) Confluence
3 21 (1.89%) Microsoft Exchange
4 17 (1.53%) IIS
5 11 (0.99%) Apache Spark
6 8 (0.72%) SharePoint Server
7 7 (0.63%) CMS
8 6 (0.54%) Apache
8 6 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
8 6 (0.54%) Umbraco
9 5 (0.45%) Anypoint
10 3 (0.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.27%) WordPress
11 2 (0.18%) CICS
11 2 (0.18%) Luigi
11 2 (0.18%) Moodle
11 2 (0.18%) nginx
12 1 (0.090%) BizTalk Server
12 1 (0.090%) Drupal
12 1 (0.090%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 19 (1.71%) MS Visio
2 14 (1.26%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (0.81%) Microsoft Project
4 7 (0.63%) Chatbot
5 5 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.18%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.18%) Trello
7 1 (0.090%) Notion
7 1 (0.090%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 12 (1.08%) 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%) 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 1,110 (99.91%) Azure
2 236 (21.24%) GitHub
3 174 (15.66%) Power Platform
4 157 (14.13%) AWS
5 141 (12.69%) GitHub Actions
6 98 (8.82%) Azure Monitor
7 96 (8.64%) Azure AKS
7 96 (8.64%) Serverless
8 85 (7.65%) Entra ID
9 77 (6.93%) PaaS
10 76 (6.84%) Microsoft 365
11 75 (6.75%) Azure Logic Apps
12 72 (6.48%) Azure Data Factory
13 68 (6.12%) Azure Service Bus
14 66 (5.94%) Azure Functions
15 64 (5.76%) SaaS
16 63 (5.67%) Dynamics 365
17 61 (5.49%) GCP
18 51 (4.59%) Azure Key Vault
19 47 (4.23%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 56 (5.04%) Firewall
2 29 (2.61%) DNS
3 17 (1.53%) HTTP
4 16 (1.44%) TCP/IP
5 13 (1.17%) VPN
6 11 (0.99%) Network Security
7 9 (0.81%) WAN
8 5 (0.45%) DHCP
9 4 (0.36%) Bluetooth
9 4 (0.36%) MQTT
9 4 (0.36%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (0.36%) Wireless
9 4 (0.36%) ZigBee
10 3 (0.27%) BGP
10 3 (0.27%) HTTPS
10 3 (0.27%) SAN
11 2 (0.18%) Internet
12 1 (0.090%) Broadband
12 1 (0.090%) IP Telephony
12 1 (0.090%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 140 (12.60%) Azure SQL Database
2 118 (10.62%) SQL Server
3 98 (8.82%) Power BI
4 85 (7.65%) MongoDB
5 40 (3.60%) PostgreSQL
6 38 (3.42%) Data Warehouse
7 34 (3.06%) Data Lake
8 30 (2.70%) NoSQL
9 29 (2.61%) Relational Database
10 24 (2.16%) Delta Lake
11 19 (1.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 17 (1.53%) Spark SQL
13 15 (1.35%) Elasticsearch
14 14 (1.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 13 (1.17%) Star Schema
15 13 (1.17%) Tableau
16 12 (1.08%) Metadata
17 11 (0.99%) Redis
18 10 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
18 10 (0.90%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 175 (15.75%) Git
2 135 (12.15%) JIRA
3 114 (10.26%) Jenkins
4 72 (6.48%) GitLab
5 52 (4.68%) Selenium
6 42 (3.78%) Cypress.io
7 34 (3.06%) Postman
8 24 (2.16%) Eclipse
9 16 (1.44%) Visual Studio
10 14 (1.26%) Octopus Deploy
10 14 (1.26%) REST Assured
11 12 (1.08%) Zephyr
12 11 (0.99%) fastlane
12 11 (0.99%) JMeter
12 11 (0.99%) TestRail
13 10 (0.90%) TeamCity
14 7 (0.63%) Cucumber
14 7 (0.63%) Xcode
15 6 (0.54%) LoadRunner
15 6 (0.54%) Oracle Forms
General
1 286 (25.74%) Finance
2 243 (21.87%) Social Skills
3 121 (10.89%) Analytical Skills
4 74 (6.66%) Public Sector
5 55 (4.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 47 (4.23%) Law
7 40 (3.60%) Retail
8 35 (3.15%) Legal
9 31 (2.79%) Marketing
10 26 (2.34%) Banking
10 26 (2.34%) Billing
11 20 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
12 16 (1.44%) Telecoms
13 14 (1.26%) Advertising
13 14 (1.26%) Games
14 11 (0.99%) Automotive
14 11 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
15 10 (0.90%) Manufacturing
16 9 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
17 8 (0.72%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 284 (25.56%) Developer
2 223 (20.07%) Senior
3 209 (18.81%) DevOps Engineer
4 194 (17.46%) Azure Engineer
5 151 (13.59%) Lead
6 106 (9.54%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 99 (8.91%) .NET Developer
8 70 (6.30%) Cloud Engineer
9 66 (5.94%) Data Engineer
9 66 (5.94%) Senior Developer
10 59 (5.31%) Platform Engineer
11 53 (4.77%) Analyst
12 52 (4.68%) Architect
13 50 (4.50%) Senior DevOps
14 48 (4.32%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 39 (3.51%) Software Engineer
16 38 (3.42%) Cloud Platform Engineer
17 33 (2.97%) Azure Platform Engineer
18 32 (2.88%) Software Developer
19 27 (2.43%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 317 (28.53%) .NET
2 137 (12.33%) ASP.NET
3 127 (11.43%) React
4 121 (10.89%) .NET Core
5 108 (9.72%) HTML
5 108 (9.72%) REST
6 107 (9.63%) CSS
7 101 (9.09%) ASP.NET Core
8 89 (8.01%) RESTful
9 68 (6.12%) Node.js
10 61 (5.49%) YAML
11 60 (5.40%) Entity Framework
12 59 (5.31%) Blazor
12 59 (5.31%) Playwright
13 51 (4.59%) OAuth
14 48 (4.32%) ARM Templates
15 42 (3.78%) JSON
15 42 (3.78%) PySpark
16 39 (3.51%) SOAP
17 38 (3.42%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 119 (10.71%) Product Ownership
2 92 (8.28%) Cloud Native
3 41 (3.69%) Mobile App
4 35 (3.15%) Enterprise Software
5 29 (2.61%) Management Information System
6 28 (2.52%) Legacy Systems
7 27 (2.43%) Onboarding
8 26 (2.34%) Distributed Systems
9 22 (1.98%) Low-Code
10 20 (1.80%) Analytical Mindset
11 19 (1.71%) Hybrid Cloud
12 16 (1.44%) Reinsurance
13 15 (1.35%) Data Structures
13 15 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
14 11 (0.99%) Enterprise Cloud
14 11 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
15 10 (0.90%) Virtual Team
16 9 (0.81%) Podcast
16 9 (0.81%) Public Cloud
17 8 (0.72%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 90 (8.10%) Linux
2 61 (5.49%) Windows
3 21 (1.89%) VMS
4 17 (1.53%) Unix
5 16 (1.44%) Android
5 16 (1.44%) Ubuntu
6 14 (1.26%) Apple iOS
7 12 (1.08%) 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 1,110 (99.91%) DevOps
2 680 (61.21%) CI/CD
3 475 (42.75%) Agile
4 298 (26.82%) Infrastructure as Code
5 250 (22.50%) Test Automation
6 215 (19.35%) Continuous Improvement
7 206 (18.54%) AI
8 191 (17.19%) Problem-Solving
9 164 (14.76%) Mentoring
10 162 (14.58%) Scrum
11 157 (14.13%) Analytics
12 149 (13.41%) Full-Stack Development
13 146 (13.14%) Observability
14 132 (11.88%) Microservices
15 123 (11.07%) Containerisation
16 120 (10.80%) Data Modelling
17 108 (9.72%) Business Intelligence
17 108 (9.72%) Coaching
18 100 (9.00%) Platform Engineering
19 98 (8.82%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 376 (33.84%) SQL
2 291 (26.19%) C#
3 251 (22.59%) Python
4 175 (15.75%) JavaScript
5 136 (12.24%) PowerShell
6 113 (10.17%) Bash
7 87 (7.83%) Bicep
8 76 (6.84%) Java
9 56 (5.04%) TypeScript
10 20 (1.80%) Go
10 20 (1.80%) Scala
11 16 (1.44%) T-SQL
12 15 (1.35%) Apex Code
12 15 (1.35%) C++
13 13 (1.17%) Kusto Query Language
14 11 (0.99%) Swift
15 10 (0.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 10 (0.90%) PL/SQL
16 8 (0.72%) Shell Script
17 7 (0.63%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 87 (7.83%) Degree
2 68 (6.12%) Security Cleared
3 54 (4.86%) Azure Certification
4 50 (4.50%) SC Cleared
5 35 (3.15%) Computer Science Degree
6 25 (2.25%) ISTQB
7 19 (1.71%) Microsoft Certification
8 13 (1.17%) Master's Degree
9 12 (1.08%) HND
10 11 (0.99%) DV Cleared
11 9 (0.81%) AWS Certification
11 9 (0.81%) PMI Certification
12 6 (0.54%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 4 (0.36%) AWS Certified Developer
13 4 (0.36%) CISSP
13 4 (0.36%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 4 (0.36%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 3 (0.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 2 (0.18%) CBAP
15 2 (0.18%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 128 (11.52%) QA
2 82 (7.38%) Accessibility
3 50 (4.50%) Data Quality
4 41 (3.69%) GDPR
5 23 (2.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 16 (1.44%) WCAG
7 12 (1.08%) SLA
7 12 (1.08%) TickIT
8 10 (0.90%) GRC
8 10 (0.90%) SOC 2
9 8 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 6 (0.54%) PMO
10 6 (0.54%) Software Quality Assurance
10 6 (0.54%) Solvency II
11 5 (0.45%) IFRS
12 4 (0.36%) JTAG
13 3 (0.27%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 2 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
14 2 (0.18%) ISO 9001
14 2 (0.18%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 142 (12.78%) Docker
2 62 (5.58%) Active Directory
3 16 (1.44%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.27%) Firmware
7 2 (0.18%) vSphere
8 1 (0.090%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 314 (28.26%) Terraform
2 115 (10.35%) Kubernetes
3 72 (6.48%) Ansible
4 63 (5.67%) Grafana
5 51 (4.59%) Prometheus
6 25 (2.25%) 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
1 422 (37.98%) Microsoft
2 67 (6.03%) Databricks
3 46 (4.14%) Salesforce
4 38 (3.42%) ServiceNow
5 26 (2.34%) Google
6 23 (2.07%) Red Hat
7 22 (1.98%) Dynatrace
8 19 (1.71%) Apple
9 18 (1.62%) Oracle
10 15 (1.35%) Facebook
10 15 (1.35%) MuleSoft
11 14 (1.26%) VMware
12 13 (1.17%) Adobe
13 12 (1.08%) Guidewire
14 11 (0.99%) Freshdesk
14 11 (0.99%) Nintex
14 11 (0.99%) Palo Alto
14 11 (0.99%) Splunk
14 11 (0.99%) Zscaler
15 9 (0.81%) CrowdStrike