Microsoft Azure DevOps
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Azure DevOps skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Azure DevOps over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 116 103 111
Rank change year-on-year -13 +8 -8
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 2,332 3,328 5,122
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.35% 3.28% 3.25%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.58% 7.66% 6.73%
Number of salaries quoted 1,791 2,131 3,287
10th Percentile £41,500 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.38% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £76,250 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% +10.00%

All Cloud Skills
UK

Azure DevOps is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 35,426 43,437 76,087
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.72% 42.77% 48.33%
Number of salaries quoted 26,744 28,539 41,573
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

Azure DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Azure DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Azure DevOps in the UK

Azure DevOps
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Azure DevOps.

Salary trend for Azure DevOps in the UK

Azure DevOps
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure DevOps over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Azure DevOps in the UK

Azure DevOps
Top 18 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 8 May 2024. 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 -6 2,084 £61,500 -5.38% 425
UK excluding London -19 1,570 £60,000 - 294
Work from Home -18 1,017 £60,000 -7.69% 276
London -18 620 £73,000 +0.69% 153
South East -11 432 £57,500 -11.54% 44
North of England +7 427 £60,000 -3.23% 79
North West +34 277 £60,000 -7.69% 45
Midlands +22 260 £57,500 +4.55% 73
South West +9 251 £62,500 +4.17% 37
West Midlands +28 182 £58,500 +6.36% 51
Yorkshire -14 127 £55,000 -10.57% 28
East Midlands -9 78 £57,500 - 21
East of England -24 75 £51,250 -14.58% 16
Wales -22 61 £60,000 +33.33% 20
Scotland -126 58 £65,000 +18.18% 20
North East +7 25 £55,000 -15.38% 6
Northern Ireland -4 5 £65,000 - 7
Isle of Man - 3 - -

Azure DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 103 (4.42%) IIS
2 96 (4.12%) SharePoint
3 66 (2.83%) CMS
4 52 (2.23%) Umbraco
5 39 (1.67%) Sitecore CMS
6 37 (1.59%) Kentico
7 35 (1.50%) Headless CMS
8 32 (1.37%) Confluence
9 29 (1.24%) Microsoft Exchange
10 21 (0.90%) Apache Spark
11 10 (0.43%) EPiServer
12 9 (0.39%) Apache
13 8 (0.34%) Apache Solr
13 8 (0.34%) NServiceBus
14 5 (0.21%) IBM Notes
15 4 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
16 3 (0.13%) SharePoint Server
17 2 (0.086%) Moodle
17 2 (0.086%) SAS
17 2 (0.086%) WebSphere
Applications
1 26 (1.11%) Microsoft Office
2 22 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
3 14 (0.60%) Microsoft Project
4 9 (0.39%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.34%) Photoshop
6 7 (0.30%) Trello
7 6 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 4 (0.17%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.086%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.086%) Sketch
10 1 (0.043%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.043%) GNU Octave
10 1 (0.043%) MicroStation
10 1 (0.043%) PTC Creo
10 1 (0.043%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 77 (3.30%) Dynamics CRM
2 29 (1.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 10 (0.43%) Dynamics NAV
4 8 (0.34%) Dynamics AX
5 7 (0.30%) Maximo
6 4 (0.17%) Elite 3E
6 4 (0.17%) Visualfiles
7 3 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
8 2 (0.086%) Dynamics GP
8 2 (0.086%) NEC Housing
8 2 (0.086%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.086%) SystmOne
9 1 (0.043%) Payment Gateway
9 1 (0.043%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 2,332 (100.00%) Azure
2 355 (15.22%) AWS
3 321 (13.77%) Power Platform
4 302 (12.95%) Serverless
5 255 (10.93%) Azure Service Bus
6 228 (9.78%) Azure Logic Apps
7 222 (9.52%) Azure Functions
8 207 (8.88%) Dynamics 365
9 197 (8.45%) PaaS
10 183 (7.85%) Microsoft 365
11 171 (7.33%) Azure API Management
12 167 (7.16%) IBM Cloud
13 164 (7.03%) GCP
14 157 (6.73%) GitHub
15 131 (5.62%) IaaS
15 131 (5.62%) SaaS
16 115 (4.93%) Azure Data Factory
17 100 (4.29%) PowerApps
18 90 (3.86%) Entra ID
18 90 (3.86%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 93 (3.99%) Firewall
2 66 (2.83%) DNS
3 61 (2.62%) Network Security
4 36 (1.54%) VPN
5 35 (1.50%) WAN
6 32 (1.37%) LAN
7 31 (1.33%) TCP/IP
8 20 (0.86%) HTTP
9 16 (0.69%) Internet
10 14 (0.60%) Wireshark
10 14 (0.60%) WLAN
11 12 (0.51%) NGFW
12 10 (0.43%) Wireless
13 9 (0.39%) Intranet
14 7 (0.30%) IPv4
15 5 (0.21%) SAN
16 4 (0.17%) BGP
16 4 (0.17%) MQTT
16 4 (0.17%) Remote Desktop
17 3 (0.13%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 590 (25.30%) SQL Server
2 187 (8.02%) Relational Database
3 180 (7.72%) NoSQL
4 176 (7.55%) PostgreSQL
5 164 (7.03%) Data Warehouse
6 158 (6.78%) MongoDB
7 156 (6.69%) Power BI
8 147 (6.30%) Azure SQL Database
9 125 (5.36%) DB2
10 78 (3.34%) BigQuery
11 73 (3.13%) Looker
12 54 (2.32%) Data Vault
13 53 (2.27%) Data Lake
14 52 (2.23%) MySQL
15 49 (2.10%) Delta Lake
16 31 (1.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 24 (1.03%) Big Data
17 24 (1.03%) SQL Server Analysis Services
18 23 (0.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 22 (0.94%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 406 (17.41%) Git
2 188 (8.06%) JIRA
3 184 (7.89%) Jenkins
4 159 (6.82%) Visual Studio
5 88 (3.77%) Team Foundation Server
6 67 (2.87%) Selenium
7 63 (2.70%) GitLab
8 55 (2.36%) Postman
9 48 (2.06%) NUnit
10 41 (1.76%) TeamCity
11 38 (1.63%) Jasmine
12 33 (1.42%) SonarQube
13 29 (1.24%) Octopus Deploy
14 28 (1.20%) Karma Test Runner
15 25 (1.07%) Visual Studio Code
16 20 (0.86%) JMeter
17 19 (0.81%) SoapUI
18 17 (0.73%) Bitbucket
18 17 (0.73%) Moq
19 15 (0.64%) Cypress.io
General
1 466 (19.98%) Social Skills
2 345 (14.79%) Finance
3 229 (9.82%) Public Sector
4 195 (8.36%) Analytical Skills
5 106 (4.55%) Retail
6 77 (3.30%) Law
7 73 (3.13%) Billing
8 64 (2.74%) Marketing
9 63 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 62 (2.66%) Legal
11 44 (1.89%) Manufacturing
12 42 (1.80%) Banking
13 35 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
14 34 (1.46%) Back Office
14 34 (1.46%) Organisational Skills
15 22 (0.94%) Local Government
16 21 (0.90%) Electronics
16 21 (0.90%) Police
17 20 (0.86%) Automotive
17 20 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 911 (39.07%) Developer
2 444 (19.04%) Senior
3 267 (11.45%) Lead
4 242 (10.38%) .NET Developer
5 215 (9.22%) DevOps Engineer
6 212 (9.09%) Full Stack Developer
7 211 (9.05%) Azure Engineer
8 188 (8.06%) Senior Developer
9 180 (7.72%) Azure Developer
10 169 (7.25%) C# Developer
11 149 (6.39%) Architect
12 145 (6.22%) Software Developer
13 132 (5.66%) Analyst
14 125 (5.36%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 118 (5.06%) Data Engineer
16 113 (4.85%) Cloud Engineer
17 102 (4.37%) C# .NET Developer
18 100 (4.29%) Senior .NET Developer
19 99 (4.25%) Software Engineer
20 85 (3.64%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,033 (44.30%) .NET
2 482 (20.67%) ASP.NET
3 421 (18.05%) HTML
4 409 (17.54%) CSS
5 405 (17.37%) AngularJS
6 384 (16.47%) React
7 338 (14.49%) .NET Core
8 332 (14.24%) .NET Framework
9 306 (13.12%) REST
10 260 (11.15%) Web Services
11 209 (8.96%) Vue
12 206 (8.83%) jQuery
13 200 (8.58%) Node.js
14 188 (8.06%) Twitter Bootstrap
15 187 (8.02%) Entity Framework
16 182 (7.80%) JSON
17 181 (7.76%) RESTful
18 176 (7.55%) ASP.NET Core
19 136 (5.83%) XML
20 129 (5.53%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 206 (8.83%) Data Structures
2 197 (8.45%) Product Ownership
3 195 (8.36%) Hybrid Cloud
4 169 (7.25%) Blockchain
5 135 (5.79%) Algorithms
6 122 (5.23%) Public Cloud
7 73 (3.13%) Cloud Native
8 63 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
8 63 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
9 58 (2.49%) Management Information System
10 52 (2.23%) Onboarding
11 49 (2.10%) Greenfield Project
12 48 (2.06%) Reinsurance
13 44 (1.89%) Virtual Team
14 41 (1.76%) Enterprise Software
15 32 (1.37%) Mobile App
16 31 (1.33%) Low-Code
17 22 (0.94%) Data Centre
18 19 (0.81%) Private Cloud
19 18 (0.77%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 318 (13.64%) Windows
2 278 (11.92%) Linux
3 155 (6.65%) Android
4 145 (6.22%) Apple iOS
5 58 (2.49%) Windows Server
6 51 (2.19%) CentOS
7 47 (2.02%) Debian
8 40 (1.72%) Alpine Linux
9 24 (1.03%) VMS
10 11 (0.47%) Windows 10
10 11 (0.47%) Windows Server 2016
11 7 (0.30%) SUSE
12 5 (0.21%) Unix
13 4 (0.17%) AIX
14 3 (0.13%) Mac OS
14 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
15 2 (0.086%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 2 (0.086%) Ubuntu
15 2 (0.086%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,308 (98.97%) DevOps
2 1,128 (48.37%) Agile
3 901 (38.64%) CI/CD
4 503 (21.57%) Scrum
5 397 (17.02%) MVC
6 384 (16.47%) Problem-Solving
7 343 (14.71%) Full Stack Development
7 343 (14.71%) Software Engineering
8 333 (14.28%) Infrastructure as Code
9 280 (12.01%) Web Development
10 263 (11.28%) Continuous Integration
11 258 (11.06%) Test Automation
12 256 (10.98%) Artificial Intelligence
13 249 (10.68%) Microservices
14 232 (9.95%) ETL
15 224 (9.61%) API Management
16 221 (9.48%) Design Patterns
17 214 (9.18%) Analytics
18 209 (8.96%) SOLID
19 206 (8.83%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 1,026 (44.00%) C#
2 801 (34.35%) SQL
3 697 (29.89%) JavaScript
4 446 (19.13%) Python
5 324 (13.89%) PowerShell
6 212 (9.09%) Java
7 207 (8.88%) TypeScript
8 114 (4.89%) Bash
9 113 (4.85%) T-SQL
10 107 (4.59%) Bicep
11 54 (2.32%) VB.NET
12 37 (1.59%) Go
13 35 (1.50%) C++
14 33 (1.42%) Ruby
15 32 (1.37%) VB
16 29 (1.24%) PHP
17 28 (1.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 28 (1.20%) VB6
18 22 (0.94%) C
19 17 (0.73%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 247 (10.59%) Degree
2 188 (8.06%) Security Cleared
3 154 (6.60%) Azure Certification
4 140 (6.00%) SC Cleared
5 99 (4.25%) Microsoft Certification
6 63 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
7 58 (2.49%) Computer Science Degree
8 44 (1.89%) MCSE
9 41 (1.76%) MCSA
10 29 (1.24%) TOGAF Certification
11 24 (1.03%) DBS Check
12 23 (0.99%) ISTQB
13 20 (0.86%) CTC Cleared
14 19 (0.81%) Cisco Certification
15 14 (0.60%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 14 (0.60%) CCSP
15 14 (0.60%) CEH
15 14 (0.60%) CISSP
15 14 (0.60%) SANS
15 14 (0.60%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 307 (13.16%) QA
2 72 (3.09%) Data Quality
3 43 (1.84%) Accessibility
4 28 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 20 (0.86%) GDPR
6 18 (0.77%) PMO
7 17 (0.73%) PCI DSS
8 16 (0.69%) SLA
9 14 (0.60%) NIST
10 11 (0.47%) NCSC
11 8 (0.34%) ISO 9001
12 4 (0.17%) WCAG
13 3 (0.13%) HIPAA
14 2 (0.086%) IEC 61508
14 2 (0.086%) ISO/IEC 12207
15 1 (0.043%) EMIR
15 1 (0.043%) IFRS
15 1 (0.043%) ISO 20022
15 1 (0.043%) MiFID
15 1 (0.043%) Solvency II
System Software
1 349 (14.97%) Docker
2 121 (5.19%) Active Directory
3 72 (3.09%) Virtual Machines
4 40 (1.72%) Virtual Desktop
5 32 (1.37%) VMware Infrastructure
6 16 (0.69%) Firmware
7 15 (0.64%) vSphere
8 14 (0.60%) VMware ESXi
9 11 (0.47%) Hyper-V
10 7 (0.30%) Embedded Firmware
11 4 (0.17%) VMware Server
12 3 (0.13%) VirtualBox
13 1 (0.043%) NFS
13 1 (0.043%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.043%) XenApp
13 1 (0.043%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 444 (19.04%) Terraform
2 386 (16.55%) Kubernetes
3 98 (4.20%) Ansible
4 41 (1.76%) Prometheus
5 35 (1.50%) Grafana
6 28 (1.20%) Progress Chef
7 26 (1.11%) Puppet
8 22 (0.94%) Microsoft Intune
9 15 (0.64%) Istio
10 14 (0.60%) Nmap
11 11 (0.47%) MIIS
12 8 (0.34%) Docker Swarm
12 8 (0.34%) Kibana
13 7 (0.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 6 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
15 5 (0.21%) HP Quality Center
15 5 (0.21%) logstash
15 5 (0.21%) Packer
16 3 (0.13%) Nagios
16 3 (0.13%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 861 (36.92%) Microsoft
2 179 (7.68%) IBM
3 168 (7.20%) Red Hat
4 135 (5.79%) Google
5 129 (5.53%) Databricks
6 98 (4.20%) Oracle
7 59 (2.53%) VMware
8 53 (2.27%) Informatica
9 45 (1.93%) Citrix
10 39 (1.67%) Sitecore
11 36 (1.54%) Optimizely
12 29 (1.24%) Sparx
13 26 (1.11%) Cisco
14 25 (1.07%) SAP
14 25 (1.07%) Splunk
15 22 (0.94%) SolarWinds
16 16 (0.69%) Zscaler
17 14 (0.60%) Atlassian
17 14 (0.60%) Qualys
17 14 (0.60%) Thycotic