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 6 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 185 148 115
Rank change year-on-year -37 -33 -5
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,054 925 2,318
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.15% 2.13% 2.42%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.77% 6.06% 6.75%
Number of salaries quoted 775 752 1,793
10th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £41,300
25th Percentile £50,468 £53,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year - +9.76% -5.38%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £76,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £96,125 £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 27,966 15,270 34,365
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.63% 35.13% 35.85%
Number of salaries quoted 14,636 10,949 26,723
10th Percentile £31,188 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £44,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £61,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.46% +6.09% -11.54%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,738 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,850 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% 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 6 May 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 6 May 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 -33 887 £67,500 -2.17% 407
UK excluding London +3 653 £60,000 -4.00% 321
Work from Home +5 406 £65,000 -3.70% 235
London -22 336 £77,500 +3.33% 162
South East -35 162 £50,000 -25.93% 100
North of England 0 160 £65,000 -7.14% 88
Midlands -19 101 £65,000 - 44
Scotland +49 90 £62,500 +8.70% 23
South West -32 79 £52,500 -19.23% 19
North West +7 78 £70,000 +3.70% 41
West Midlands -35 56 £60,000 -7.69% 19
Yorkshire -44 49 £64,655 -7.64% 18
East Midlands -10 42 £67,500 +35.00% 25
North East -5 33 £50,000 -16.67% 29
Wales -19 31 £53,135 +1.03% 18
East of England -13 30 £67,500 +27.36% 30
Northern Ireland -38 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 37 (3.51%) Confluence
1 37 (3.51%) SharePoint
2 20 (1.90%) Microsoft Exchange
3 19 (1.80%) IIS
4 11 (1.04%) Apache Spark
5 8 (0.76%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 7 (0.66%) Anypoint
7 6 (0.57%) Apache
7 6 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.38%) CMS
8 4 (0.38%) Moodle
9 3 (0.28%) Umbraco
10 2 (0.19%) BizTalk Server
10 2 (0.19%) CICS
10 2 (0.19%) WordPress
11 1 (0.095%) Drupal
11 1 (0.095%) Luigi
11 1 (0.095%) nginx
11 1 (0.095%) PegaRULES
11 1 (0.095%) Tomcat
Applications
1 21 (1.99%) Microsoft Excel
1 21 (1.99%) MS Visio
2 8 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (0.66%) Microsoft Project
4 5 (0.47%) Chatbot
4 5 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.28%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.19%) Trello
7 1 (0.095%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 16 (1.52%) Oracle ERP
2 15 (1.42%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.57%) Dynamics AX
4 5 (0.47%) Visualfiles
5 3 (0.28%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.19%) Magento
6 2 (0.19%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.095%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.095%) Endur
7 1 (0.095%) Infor M3
7 1 (0.095%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 1 (0.095%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.095%) Sage 200
7 1 (0.095%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.095%) SAP CX
7 1 (0.095%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1,053 (99.91%) Azure
2 277 (26.28%) GitHub
3 179 (16.98%) Power Platform
4 159 (15.09%) AWS
5 156 (14.80%) GitHub Actions
6 99 (9.39%) Serverless
7 91 (8.63%) Azure Data Factory
8 88 (8.35%) Entra ID
9 84 (7.97%) Azure Monitor
10 81 (7.69%) Azure AKS
11 79 (7.50%) Microsoft 365
12 71 (6.74%) Azure Logic Apps
13 69 (6.55%) PaaS
14 62 (5.88%) Azure Functions
15 61 (5.79%) GCP
15 61 (5.79%) SaaS
16 58 (5.50%) Azure Service Bus
16 58 (5.50%) Dynamics 365
17 48 (4.55%) Azure Key Vault
18 41 (3.89%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 61 (5.79%) Firewall
2 30 (2.85%) DNS
3 19 (1.80%) HTTP
3 19 (1.80%) TCP/IP
4 15 (1.42%) Network Security
5 14 (1.33%) VPN
6 13 (1.23%) WAN
7 3 (0.28%) BGP
7 3 (0.28%) DHCP
8 2 (0.19%) SSL
9 1 (0.095%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.095%) Internet
9 1 (0.095%) IP Telephony
9 1 (0.095%) LTE
9 1 (0.095%) MPLS
9 1 (0.095%) NetScaler
9 1 (0.095%) SAN
9 1 (0.095%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.095%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (11.10%) SQL Server
2 98 (9.30%) Power BI
3 78 (7.40%) Azure SQL Database
4 51 (4.84%) Data Warehouse
5 43 (4.08%) MongoDB
6 39 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
7 38 (3.61%) Data Lake
8 33 (3.13%) NoSQL
9 24 (2.28%) Delta Lake
10 21 (1.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 18 (1.71%) Relational Database
12 17 (1.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 15 (1.42%) Spark SQL
13 15 (1.42%) Tableau
14 13 (1.23%) DynamoDB
15 12 (1.14%) Amazon RDS
15 12 (1.14%) Star Schema
16 10 (0.95%) Metadata
17 9 (0.85%) Power Query
18 8 (0.76%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 166 (15.75%) Git
2 151 (14.33%) JIRA
3 110 (10.44%) Jenkins
4 59 (5.60%) GitLab
5 51 (4.84%) Selenium
6 38 (3.61%) Cypress.io
7 32 (3.04%) Postman
8 21 (1.99%) Eclipse
9 17 (1.61%) Visual Studio
10 16 (1.52%) Octopus Deploy
10 16 (1.52%) Oracle Forms
11 12 (1.14%) REST Assured
11 12 (1.14%) TeamCity
11 12 (1.14%) TestRail
12 11 (1.04%) JMeter
13 10 (0.95%) Zephyr
14 7 (0.66%) Cucumber
14 7 (0.66%) LoadRunner
14 7 (0.66%) NUnit
15 6 (0.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 308 (29.22%) Finance
2 249 (23.62%) Social Skills
3 145 (13.76%) Analytical Skills
4 55 (5.22%) Public Sector
5 51 (4.84%) Law
6 43 (4.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 40 (3.80%) Retail
8 33 (3.13%) Legal
9 31 (2.94%) Marketing
10 28 (2.66%) Billing
11 21 (1.99%) Telecoms
12 20 (1.90%) Influencing Skills
13 19 (1.80%) Banking
14 12 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
15 11 (1.04%) Advertising
15 11 (1.04%) Automotive
15 11 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
16 10 (0.95%) Manufacturing
17 9 (0.85%) Games
18 5 (0.47%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 226 (21.44%) Senior
2 223 (21.16%) Developer
3 191 (18.12%) DevOps Engineer
4 177 (16.79%) Azure Engineer
5 160 (15.18%) Lead
6 93 (8.82%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 74 (7.02%) Cloud Engineer
8 64 (6.07%) Data Engineer
9 56 (5.31%) Analyst
10 55 (5.22%) Senior Developer
11 52 (4.93%) .NET Developer
11 52 (4.93%) Architect
12 50 (4.74%) Platform Engineer
13 48 (4.55%) Senior DevOps
14 46 (4.36%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 28 (2.66%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 27 (2.56%) Applications Engineer
16 27 (2.56%) Applications Support
16 27 (2.56%) Software Developer
17 26 (2.47%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 250 (23.72%) .NET
2 111 (10.53%) React
3 102 (9.68%) REST
4 90 (8.54%) RESTful
5 76 (7.21%) ASP.NET
6 75 (7.12%) .NET Core
6 75 (7.12%) CSS
7 74 (7.02%) HTML
8 69 (6.55%) OAuth
9 60 (5.69%) Node.js
10 58 (5.50%) SOAP
11 53 (5.03%) Playwright
12 48 (4.55%) ASP.NET Core
12 48 (4.55%) YAML
13 46 (4.36%) JSON
14 42 (3.98%) .NET Framework
14 42 (3.98%) PySpark
15 37 (3.51%) SAML
16 36 (3.42%) ARM Templates
17 35 (3.32%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 114 (10.82%) Product Ownership
2 107 (10.15%) Cloud Native
3 41 (3.89%) Enterprise Software
4 31 (2.94%) Management Information System
4 31 (2.94%) Mobile App
5 30 (2.85%) Low-Code
6 24 (2.28%) Analytical Mindset
6 24 (2.28%) Distributed Systems
6 24 (2.28%) Legacy Systems
7 19 (1.80%) Reinsurance
8 15 (1.42%) Data Structures
9 14 (1.33%) Onboarding
10 12 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
11 11 (1.04%) Virtual Team
12 10 (0.95%) Enterprise Cloud
13 9 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
14 8 (0.76%) Distributed Computing
14 8 (0.76%) Greenfield Project
14 8 (0.76%) PMI
15 7 (0.66%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 83 (7.87%) Linux
2 67 (6.36%) Windows
3 19 (1.80%) Unix
4 17 (1.61%) VMS
5 14 (1.33%) Ubuntu
6 13 (1.23%) Windows Server
7 11 (1.04%) Apple iOS
8 7 (0.66%) Android
9 4 (0.38%) Kali Linux
10 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.095%) SUSE
11 1 (0.095%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.095%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,053 (99.91%) DevOps
2 653 (61.95%) CI/CD
3 464 (44.02%) Agile
4 301 (28.56%) Infrastructure as Code
5 267 (25.33%) Test Automation
6 224 (21.25%) Continuous Improvement
7 196 (18.60%) Problem-Solving
8 184 (17.46%) AI
9 162 (15.37%) Mentoring
10 159 (15.09%) Observability
11 157 (14.90%) Analytics
12 149 (14.14%) Scrum
13 147 (13.95%) Data Modelling
14 141 (13.38%) Coaching
15 134 (12.71%) Containerisation
16 122 (11.57%) Microservices
17 102 (9.68%) Business Intelligence
18 100 (9.49%) Roadmaps
19 98 (9.30%) SDLC
20 92 (8.73%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 347 (32.92%) SQL
2 262 (24.86%) Python
3 212 (20.11%) C#
4 139 (13.19%) JavaScript
5 124 (11.76%) PowerShell
6 99 (9.39%) Bash
7 82 (7.78%) Bicep
8 67 (6.36%) Java
9 61 (5.79%) TypeScript
10 24 (2.28%) Apex Code
11 23 (2.18%) Go
12 20 (1.90%) PL/SQL
12 20 (1.90%) Scala
13 18 (1.71%) Shell Script
14 14 (1.33%) Kusto Query Language
15 13 (1.23%) T-SQL
16 12 (1.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 8 (0.76%) Swift
18 7 (0.66%) DataWeave
19 4 (0.38%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 88 (8.35%) Degree
2 68 (6.45%) Security Cleared
3 49 (4.65%) Azure Certification
4 45 (4.27%) SC Cleared
5 40 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 31 (2.94%) ISTQB
7 20 (1.90%) Microsoft Certification
8 15 (1.42%) DV Cleared
8 15 (1.42%) Master's Degree
9 13 (1.23%) HND
10 12 (1.14%) AWS Certification
11 10 (0.95%) PMI Certification
12 9 (0.85%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 8 (0.76%) AWS Certified Developer
14 6 (0.57%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 4 (0.38%) BC Cleared
16 3 (0.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 3 (0.28%) CBAP
17 2 (0.19%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 2 (0.19%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 118 (11.20%) QA
2 71 (6.74%) Accessibility
3 48 (4.55%) Data Quality
3 48 (4.55%) GDPR
4 31 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 14 (1.33%) SOC 2
6 13 (1.23%) SLA
7 12 (1.14%) TickIT
8 10 (0.95%) GRC
9 6 (0.57%) Software Quality Assurance
9 6 (0.57%) Solvency II
9 6 (0.57%) WCAG
10 5 (0.47%) IFRS
10 5 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.28%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 3 (0.28%) NCSC
12 2 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.19%) IFRS 17
12 2 (0.19%) NIST
12 2 (0.19%) PMO
System Software
1 147 (13.95%) Docker
2 64 (6.07%) Active Directory
3 19 (1.80%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.19%) Firmware
5 2 (0.19%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.095%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 327 (31.02%) Terraform
2 122 (11.57%) Kubernetes
3 82 (7.78%) Ansible
4 66 (6.26%) Grafana
5 54 (5.12%) Prometheus
6 22 (2.09%) Argo
7 18 (1.71%) Single Sign-On
8 9 (0.85%) Kibana
9 4 (0.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (0.38%) HP Fortify
9 4 (0.38%) logstash
9 4 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.38%) Puppet
10 3 (0.28%) HP ALM
10 3 (0.28%) Scalr
11 2 (0.19%) MIIS
11 2 (0.19%) Nagios
11 2 (0.19%) SCCM
12 1 (0.095%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.095%) Nessus
Vendors
1 380 (36.05%) Microsoft
2 71 (6.74%) Databricks
3 46 (4.36%) Salesforce
4 35 (3.32%) ServiceNow
5 28 (2.66%) Oracle
6 23 (2.18%) Red Hat
7 16 (1.52%) MuleSoft
8 15 (1.42%) Adobe
8 15 (1.42%) Palo Alto
8 15 (1.42%) Zscaler
9 14 (1.33%) Dynatrace
10 12 (1.14%) Freshdesk
10 12 (1.14%) Nintex
11 11 (1.04%) Apple
11 11 (1.04%) CrowdStrike
11 11 (1.04%) Okta
12 10 (0.95%) Google
12 10 (0.95%) VMware
13 9 (0.85%) Guidewire
14 8 (0.76%) Ab Initio