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 25 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 168 122
Rank change year-on-year +16 -46 -24
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,342 934 1,962
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.33% 1.90% 2.18%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.90% 5.87% 6.69%
Number of salaries quoted 1,088 705 1,446
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £50,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £61,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -

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 27,405 15,898 29,315
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.20% 32.36% 32.61%
Number of salaries quoted 17,887 11,069 21,791
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £43,497 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £79,225
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,410 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% - -4.55%

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 25 July 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 25 July 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 +25 1,191 £65,000 -7.14% 412
UK excluding London +64 898 £60,000 -2.44% 290
Work from Home +25 556 £60,000 -11.11% 236
London -38 374 £80,000 +3.23% 178
North of England +92 265 £62,500 -3.85% 77
South East -12 224 £60,000 -5.51% 102
North West +76 146 £65,500 +0.77% 47
Midlands +17 133 £63,750 +6.25% 51
South West -5 99 £55,000 -4.35% 25
East of England +25 77 £56,000 -10.40% 21
Wales -5 75 £53,171 -7.53% 8
East Midlands +21 71 £60,000 +9.09% 18
Yorkshire -11 66 £69,308 +2.68% 21
West Midlands -19 62 £65,000 +8.33% 33
North East -5 53 £51,619 -6.15% 10
Scotland +17 25 £60,000 -6.98% 10
Northern Ireland -67 2 £72,500 +45.00% 3

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 63 (4.69%) SharePoint
2 61 (4.55%) Confluence
3 28 (2.09%) Microsoft Exchange
4 22 (1.64%) IIS
5 18 (1.34%) Apache Spark
6 11 (0.82%) CMS
7 10 (0.75%) Apache
8 8 (0.60%) Anypoint
8 8 (0.60%) nginx
8 8 (0.60%) SharePoint Server
9 6 (0.45%) Camunda
9 6 (0.45%) Umbraco
10 5 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
11 3 (0.22%) BizTalk Server
11 3 (0.22%) WordPress
12 2 (0.15%) CICS
12 2 (0.15%) Luigi
12 2 (0.15%) Moodle
13 1 (0.075%) NServiceBus
13 1 (0.075%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 19 (1.42%) Microsoft Project
2 14 (1.04%) MS Visio
3 11 (0.82%) Microsoft Excel
4 9 (0.67%) Trello
5 8 (0.60%) Chatbot
5 8 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
6 4 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.075%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.075%) Notion
7 1 (0.075%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 17 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.60%) Elite 3E
4 6 (0.45%) SAP IBP
5 5 (0.37%) Visualfiles
6 4 (0.30%) Dynamics AX
6 4 (0.30%) Dynamics NAV
6 4 (0.30%) Shopify
7 3 (0.22%) Carpe Diem
8 2 (0.15%) Magento
8 2 (0.15%) SAP Business One
9 1 (0.075%) Infor M3
9 1 (0.075%) Integrated Workplace Management System
9 1 (0.075%) JDE EnterpriseOne
9 1 (0.075%) Oracle Applications
9 1 (0.075%) Sage 200
9 1 (0.075%) Salesforce CRM
9 1 (0.075%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,341 (99.93%) Azure
2 220 (16.39%) GitHub
3 208 (15.50%) Power Platform
4 167 (12.44%) AWS
5 133 (9.91%) GitHub Actions
6 113 (8.42%) Serverless
7 107 (7.97%) Azure AKS
7 107 (7.97%) Azure Service Bus
8 98 (7.30%) Azure Monitor
9 97 (7.23%) Azure AI
10 96 (7.15%) Dynamics 365
11 94 (7.00%) PaaS
12 92 (6.86%) Azure Functions
13 87 (6.48%) Azure Logic Apps
14 78 (5.81%) Entra ID
15 77 (5.74%) SaaS
16 74 (5.51%) Microsoft 365
17 70 (5.22%) Azure Key Vault
18 69 (5.14%) Azure Data Factory
19 68 (5.07%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 38 (2.83%) Firewall
2 21 (1.56%) VPN
3 18 (1.34%) DNS
4 14 (1.04%) HTTP
5 12 (0.89%) Internet
5 12 (0.89%) Network Security
6 11 (0.82%) TCP/IP
7 6 (0.45%) MQTT
7 6 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (0.45%) Wireless
7 6 (0.45%) ZigBee
8 5 (0.37%) SAN
9 4 (0.30%) Bluetooth
10 3 (0.22%) BGP
10 3 (0.22%) HTTPS
11 2 (0.15%) DHCP
11 2 (0.15%) LoRaWAN
11 2 (0.15%) VLAN
12 1 (0.075%) Broadband
12 1 (0.075%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 238 (17.73%) Azure SQL Database
2 169 (12.59%) MongoDB
3 148 (11.03%) SQL Server
4 98 (7.30%) Power BI
5 54 (4.02%) PostgreSQL
6 47 (3.50%) Data Warehouse
7 35 (2.61%) Elasticsearch
8 33 (2.46%) Relational Database
9 28 (2.09%) Delta Lake
9 28 (2.09%) NoSQL
10 24 (1.79%) Redis
11 22 (1.64%) Data Lake
11 22 (1.64%) MySQL
11 22 (1.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 18 (1.34%) Spark SQL
13 17 (1.27%) Metadata
14 16 (1.19%) Star Schema
15 13 (0.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 13 (0.97%) Tableau
16 11 (0.82%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 204 (15.20%) Git
2 174 (12.97%) JIRA
3 122 (9.09%) Jenkins
4 83 (6.18%) GitLab
5 52 (3.87%) Selenium
6 42 (3.13%) Cypress.io
7 41 (3.06%) Postman
8 19 (1.42%) REST Assured
9 18 (1.34%) Eclipse
9 18 (1.34%) Visual Studio
10 16 (1.19%) JMeter
10 16 (1.19%) JUnit
11 14 (1.04%) fastlane
11 14 (1.04%) TestRail
11 14 (1.04%) Zephyr
12 12 (0.89%) Octopus Deploy
13 11 (0.82%) NUnit
14 10 (0.75%) Mockito
15 9 (0.67%) Xcode
16 8 (0.60%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 324 (24.14%) Social Skills
2 287 (21.39%) Finance
3 125 (9.31%) Analytical Skills
4 101 (7.53%) Public Sector
5 95 (7.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 57 (4.25%) Law
7 55 (4.10%) Retail
8 44 (3.28%) Marketing
9 37 (2.76%) Legal
10 32 (2.38%) Banking
11 30 (2.24%) Advertising
12 24 (1.79%) Games
12 24 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
13 22 (1.64%) Manufacturing
14 20 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
15 15 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
16 11 (0.82%) Aviation
16 11 (0.82%) Telecoms
17 10 (0.75%) Automotive
17 10 (0.75%) Billing
Job Titles
1 417 (31.07%) Developer
2 275 (20.49%) Senior
3 215 (16.02%) DevOps Engineer
4 200 (14.90%) .NET Developer
5 190 (14.16%) Azure Engineer
6 177 (13.19%) Lead
7 111 (8.27%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 86 (6.41%) Senior Developer
9 74 (5.51%) Data Engineer
10 70 (5.22%) Platform Engineer
11 65 (4.84%) Analyst
12 58 (4.32%) Cloud Engineer
13 57 (4.25%) Senior DevOps
14 55 (4.10%) Architect
15 54 (4.02%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 48 (3.58%) Software Engineer
17 38 (2.83%) Cloud Platform Engineer
17 38 (2.83%) Software Developer
18 36 (2.68%) Senior Data Engineer
19 35 (2.61%) Azure Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 441 (32.86%) .NET
2 244 (18.18%) ASP.NET
3 217 (16.17%) .NET Core
4 196 (14.61%) ASP.NET Core
5 169 (12.59%) React
6 157 (11.70%) HTML
7 155 (11.55%) CSS
8 146 (10.88%) RESTful
9 139 (10.36%) REST
10 116 (8.64%) Entity Framework
11 115 (8.57%) Blazor
12 92 (6.86%) Node.js
13 81 (6.04%) ML.NET
14 66 (4.92%) Playwright
15 56 (4.17%) ARM Templates
15 56 (4.17%) YAML
16 53 (3.95%) .NET Framework
17 48 (3.58%) JSON
18 46 (3.43%) OAuth
19 40 (2.98%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 134 (9.99%) Product Ownership
2 130 (9.69%) Cloud Native
3 55 (4.10%) Mobile App
4 53 (3.95%) Enterprise Software
5 48 (3.58%) Legacy Systems
5 48 (3.58%) Onboarding
6 39 (2.91%) Distributed Systems
7 36 (2.68%) Greenfield Project
8 25 (1.86%) Hybrid Cloud
8 25 (1.86%) Management Information System
9 24 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
10 21 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
11 19 (1.42%) Podcast
12 18 (1.34%) Low-Code
12 18 (1.34%) Public Cloud
13 17 (1.27%) BBC
13 17 (1.27%) iPhone
13 17 (1.27%) Social Media
14 15 (1.12%) AI Agents
15 14 (1.04%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 100 (7.45%) Linux
2 85 (6.33%) Windows
3 26 (1.94%) Android
4 24 (1.79%) VMS
5 18 (1.34%) Unix
6 16 (1.19%) Windows Server
7 15 (1.12%) Apple iOS
8 14 (1.04%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.30%) Kali Linux
10 3 (0.22%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.15%) Debian
11 2 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (0.15%) Rocky
12 1 (0.075%) Solaris
12 1 (0.075%) SUSE
12 1 (0.075%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,341 (99.93%) DevOps
2 784 (58.42%) CI/CD
3 638 (47.54%) Agile
4 317 (23.62%) Infrastructure as Code
5 298 (22.21%) AI
6 275 (20.49%) Continuous Improvement
7 246 (18.33%) Full-Stack Development
8 245 (18.26%) Test Automation
9 218 (16.24%) Scrum
10 202 (15.05%) Mentoring
11 199 (14.83%) Problem-Solving
12 171 (12.74%) Microservices
13 157 (11.70%) Analytics
14 151 (11.25%) Observability
15 139 (10.36%) Machine Learning
16 132 (9.84%) Platform Engineering
17 128 (9.54%) SDLC
18 125 (9.31%) Stakeholder Management
19 123 (9.17%) Roadmaps
20 118 (8.79%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 475 (35.39%) SQL
2 432 (32.19%) C#
3 248 (18.48%) Python
4 240 (17.88%) JavaScript
5 155 (11.55%) PowerShell
6 127 (9.46%) Bash
7 114 (8.49%) Bicep
8 82 (6.11%) Java
9 63 (4.69%) TypeScript
10 29 (2.16%) T-SQL
11 20 (1.49%) Go
12 17 (1.27%) C++
12 17 (1.27%) Kusto Query Language
13 14 (1.04%) Scala
14 12 (0.89%) Swift
15 11 (0.82%) VB.NET
16 8 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 8 (0.60%) DataWeave
16 8 (0.60%) Kotlin
17 7 (0.52%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 104 (7.75%) Security Cleared
2 89 (6.63%) Degree
3 85 (6.33%) SC Cleared
4 74 (5.51%) Azure Certification
5 38 (2.83%) Computer Science Degree
6 32 (2.38%) ISTQB
7 24 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
8 16 (1.19%) PMI Certification
9 14 (1.04%) Master's Degree
10 11 (0.82%) DV Cleared
10 11 (0.82%) PMP
11 8 (0.60%) AWS Certification
12 6 (0.45%) CISSP
12 6 (0.45%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 5 (0.37%) HND
13 5 (0.37%) ISEB
13 5 (0.37%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
14 4 (0.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 4 (0.30%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 3 (0.22%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 171 (12.74%) QA
2 88 (6.56%) Accessibility
3 53 (3.95%) Data Quality
4 34 (2.53%) GDPR
5 31 (2.31%) WCAG
6 26 (1.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 15 (1.12%) PMO
8 12 (0.89%) TickIT
9 10 (0.75%) GRC
10 8 (0.60%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 8 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 8 (0.60%) SLA
11 7 (0.52%) NCSC
12 6 (0.45%) JTAG
12 6 (0.45%) Software Quality Assurance
12 6 (0.45%) Solvency II
13 5 (0.37%) IFRS
14 4 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
15 3 (0.22%) ISO 9001
16 2 (0.15%) SEPA
System Software
1 163 (12.15%) Docker
2 60 (4.47%) Active Directory
3 19 (1.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.97%) Virtual Desktop
4 13 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.89%) vSphere
6 5 (0.37%) Firmware
7 3 (0.22%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.15%) Xen
Systems Management
1 328 (24.44%) Terraform
2 158 (11.77%) Kubernetes
3 67 (4.99%) Ansible
4 64 (4.77%) Grafana
5 58 (4.32%) Prometheus
6 30 (2.24%) Argo
7 7 (0.52%) Puppet
8 6 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.30%) HP Fortify
10 3 (0.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (0.22%) HP ALM
10 3 (0.22%) Kibana
10 3 (0.22%) Nagios
10 3 (0.22%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.22%) Scalr
11 2 (0.15%) FlexNet
11 2 (0.15%) Istio
11 2 (0.15%) MIIS
11 2 (0.15%) Rancher
11 2 (0.15%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 578 (43.07%) Microsoft
2 73 (5.44%) Databricks
3 62 (4.62%) Google
4 39 (2.91%) Salesforce
5 38 (2.83%) Facebook
6 34 (2.53%) ServiceNow
7 30 (2.24%) Apple
8 27 (2.01%) VMware
9 25 (1.86%) Dynatrace
10 22 (1.64%) Red Hat
11 21 (1.56%) YouTube
12 19 (1.42%) MuleSoft
13 17 (1.27%) Sony
13 17 (1.27%) Yahoo!
14 16 (1.19%) OpenAI
15 15 (1.12%) SAP
16 14 (1.04%) Guidewire
17 13 (0.97%) Oracle
18 12 (0.89%) ScienceLogic
19 11 (0.82%) Foundry