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

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 176 136 112
Rank change year-on-year -40 -24 -3
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,025 932 2,331
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.17% 2.23% 2.47%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.71% 6.16% 6.84%
Number of salaries quoted 737 781 1,820
10th Percentile £42,500 £43,887 £41,889
25th Percentile £50,000 £53,750 £49,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +8.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £94,250 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -15.38% +8.33% +0.80%

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 27,607 15,119 34,089
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 31.47% 36.14% 36.08%
Number of salaries quoted 14,229 11,102 26,651
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,925 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,738 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £96,250
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 21 April 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 April 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 -51 854 £67,500 - 409
UK excluding London -19 630 £55,000 -15.38% 331
Work from Home -10 416 £65,000 -3.70% 233
London -22 329 £79,875 +6.50% 148
South East -46 160 £50,000 -28.57% 84
North of England -19 148 £60,000 -14.29% 84
Scotland +49 103 £62,500 +8.70% 24
Midlands -35 92 £64,000 -1.54% 54
South West -35 81 £52,500 -19.23% 36
North West -12 69 £70,000 +7.69% 48
West Midlands -53 53 £58,750 -9.62% 22
Yorkshire -54 47 £60,000 -14.29% 21
East Midlands -31 36 £67,000 +3.08% 32
North East -15 32 £50,000 -16.67% 15
East of England -44 24 £70,000 +32.08% 36
Wales -30 22 £53,000 -9.86% 16
Northern Ireland -43 2 £50,000 - 5

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 38 (3.71%) Confluence
2 36 (3.51%) SharePoint
3 23 (2.24%) Microsoft Exchange
4 21 (2.05%) IIS
5 11 (1.07%) Apache Spark
6 8 (0.78%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 7 (0.68%) Anypoint
8 4 (0.39%) Apache
8 4 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.39%) Moodle
9 2 (0.20%) BizTalk Server
9 2 (0.20%) CICS
9 2 (0.20%) CMS
10 1 (0.098%) Drupal
10 1 (0.098%) nginx
10 1 (0.098%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.098%) PegaRULES
10 1 (0.098%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.098%) Umbraco
10 1 (0.098%) WordPress
Applications
1 23 (2.24%) MS Visio
2 22 (2.15%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (0.88%) Microsoft Project
4 8 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
6 5 (0.49%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.29%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.098%) Sketch
8 1 (0.098%) Trello
Business Applications
1 18 (1.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (1.56%) Oracle ERP
3 6 (0.59%) Dynamics AX
4 4 (0.39%) Visualfiles
5 3 (0.29%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.20%) Magento
6 2 (0.20%) SAP CX
6 2 (0.20%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.098%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.098%) Endur
7 1 (0.098%) Infor M3
7 1 (0.098%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 1 (0.098%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.098%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.098%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1,024 (99.90%) Azure
2 298 (29.07%) GitHub
3 179 (17.46%) Power Platform
4 159 (15.51%) GitHub Actions
5 153 (14.93%) AWS
6 96 (9.37%) Serverless
7 92 (8.98%) Entra ID
8 91 (8.88%) Azure Data Factory
9 82 (8.00%) Azure Monitor
10 81 (7.90%) Microsoft 365
11 74 (7.22%) PaaS
12 65 (6.34%) Azure AKS
12 65 (6.34%) Azure Logic Apps
13 64 (6.24%) Dynamics 365
14 59 (5.76%) SaaS
15 55 (5.37%) Azure Functions
16 54 (5.27%) GCP
17 50 (4.88%) Azure Key Vault
18 48 (4.68%) Azure Service Bus
19 46 (4.49%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 62 (6.05%) Firewall
2 33 (3.22%) DNS
3 19 (1.85%) HTTP
3 19 (1.85%) TCP/IP
4 14 (1.37%) VPN
4 14 (1.37%) WAN
5 13 (1.27%) Network Security
6 3 (0.29%) BGP
6 3 (0.29%) DHCP
7 2 (0.20%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.20%) SSL
8 1 (0.098%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.098%) Internet
8 1 (0.098%) IP Telephony
8 1 (0.098%) LTE
8 1 (0.098%) MPLS
8 1 (0.098%) NetScaler
8 1 (0.098%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 126 (12.29%) SQL Server
2 98 (9.56%) Power BI
3 69 (6.73%) Azure SQL Database
4 47 (4.59%) Data Warehouse
5 37 (3.61%) NoSQL
6 35 (3.41%) Data Lake
7 29 (2.83%) PostgreSQL
8 27 (2.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 26 (2.54%) MongoDB
10 22 (2.15%) Delta Lake
11 20 (1.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 19 (1.85%) Relational Database
13 16 (1.56%) DynamoDB
14 15 (1.46%) Tableau
15 12 (1.17%) Spark SQL
16 11 (1.07%) Amazon RDS
17 10 (0.98%) Snowflake Schema
17 10 (0.98%) Star Schema
18 9 (0.88%) MySQL
19 8 (0.78%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 166 (16.20%) Git
2 147 (14.34%) JIRA
3 108 (10.54%) Jenkins
4 53 (5.17%) Selenium
5 48 (4.68%) GitLab
6 39 (3.80%) Cypress.io
7 31 (3.02%) Postman
8 23 (2.24%) Visual Studio
9 20 (1.95%) Eclipse
10 17 (1.66%) Octopus Deploy
11 16 (1.56%) Oracle Forms
12 12 (1.17%) REST Assured
12 12 (1.17%) TeamCity
13 11 (1.07%) JMeter
14 10 (0.98%) TestRail
15 9 (0.88%) Zephyr
16 8 (0.78%) NUnit
16 8 (0.78%) Visual Studio Code
17 7 (0.68%) Cucumber
17 7 (0.68%) SoapUI
General
1 313 (30.54%) Finance
2 247 (24.10%) Social Skills
3 148 (14.44%) Analytical Skills
4 56 (5.46%) Law
5 42 (4.10%) Public Sector
6 37 (3.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 37 (3.61%) Retail
7 33 (3.22%) Legal
8 30 (2.93%) Marketing
9 28 (2.73%) Billing
10 21 (2.05%) Telecoms
11 19 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
12 18 (1.76%) Banking
13 11 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
14 9 (0.88%) Automotive
15 8 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
15 8 (0.78%) Games
15 8 (0.78%) Manufacturing
16 7 (0.68%) Advertising
16 7 (0.68%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 216 (21.07%) Developer
2 207 (20.20%) Senior
3 160 (15.61%) Azure Engineer
4 158 (15.41%) DevOps Engineer
5 154 (15.02%) Lead
6 78 (7.61%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 70 (6.83%) Cloud Engineer
8 59 (5.76%) Data Engineer
9 57 (5.56%) Analyst
10 51 (4.98%) Architect
11 50 (4.88%) Senior Developer
12 47 (4.59%) .NET Developer
13 40 (3.90%) Platform Engineer
14 31 (3.02%) Senior DevOps
15 30 (2.93%) Applications Engineer
15 30 (2.93%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 27 (2.63%) Applications Support
16 27 (2.63%) Software Engineer
17 26 (2.54%) Software Developer
17 26 (2.54%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 244 (23.80%) .NET
2 108 (10.54%) React
3 95 (9.27%) REST
4 94 (9.17%) RESTful
5 76 (7.41%) CSS
6 75 (7.32%) HTML
7 72 (7.02%) OAuth
8 70 (6.83%) ASP.NET
9 69 (6.73%) .NET Core
10 57 (5.56%) SOAP
11 53 (5.17%) YAML
12 49 (4.78%) Playwright
13 48 (4.68%) Node.js
14 46 (4.49%) .NET Framework
14 46 (4.49%) JSON
15 40 (3.90%) ASP.NET Core
16 38 (3.71%) PySpark
17 37 (3.61%) SAML
18 35 (3.41%) OAuth2
19 32 (3.12%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 116 (11.32%) Product Ownership
2 114 (11.12%) Cloud Native
3 39 (3.80%) Enterprise Software
4 33 (3.22%) Management Information System
5 31 (3.02%) Mobile App
6 29 (2.83%) Low-Code
7 24 (2.34%) Legacy Systems
8 22 (2.15%) Analytical Mindset
8 22 (2.15%) Distributed Systems
9 18 (1.76%) Reinsurance
10 16 (1.56%) Data Structures
11 13 (1.27%) Onboarding
12 12 (1.17%) Hybrid Cloud
13 11 (1.07%) Self-Motivation
13 11 (1.07%) Virtual Team
14 10 (0.98%) Legacy Applications
15 8 (0.78%) Enterprise Cloud
15 8 (0.78%) PMI
15 8 (0.78%) Public Cloud
16 7 (0.68%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 70 (6.83%) Linux
2 68 (6.63%) Windows
3 17 (1.66%) VMS
4 15 (1.46%) Windows Server
5 11 (1.07%) Ubuntu
6 10 (0.98%) Apple iOS
6 10 (0.98%) Unix
7 5 (0.49%) Android
8 3 (0.29%) Kali Linux
9 2 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.098%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.098%) SUSE
10 1 (0.098%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.098%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.098%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,024 (99.90%) DevOps
2 631 (61.56%) CI/CD
3 468 (45.66%) Agile
4 297 (28.98%) Infrastructure as Code
5 260 (25.37%) Test Automation
6 220 (21.46%) Continuous Improvement
7 200 (19.51%) Problem-Solving
8 173 (16.88%) AI
9 163 (15.90%) Mentoring
10 158 (15.41%) Analytics
11 150 (14.63%) Observability
12 147 (14.34%) Coaching
13 139 (13.56%) Scrum
14 137 (13.37%) Data Modelling
15 131 (12.78%) Containerisation
16 106 (10.34%) Microservices
16 106 (10.34%) Software Engineering
17 100 (9.76%) Business Intelligence
18 99 (9.66%) Roadmaps
19 98 (9.56%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 346 (33.76%) SQL
2 250 (24.39%) Python
3 206 (20.10%) C#
4 137 (13.37%) JavaScript
5 130 (12.68%) PowerShell
6 92 (8.98%) Bash
7 88 (8.59%) Bicep
8 64 (6.24%) TypeScript
9 53 (5.17%) Java
10 24 (2.34%) Apex Code
11 23 (2.24%) Go
12 20 (1.95%) PL/SQL
13 19 (1.85%) Scala
14 18 (1.76%) Shell Script
15 17 (1.66%) T-SQL
16 12 (1.17%) Kusto Query Language
17 11 (1.07%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 8 (0.78%) Swift
19 7 (0.68%) DataWeave
20 5 (0.49%) C++
Qualifications
1 96 (9.37%) Degree
2 64 (6.24%) Security Cleared
3 48 (4.68%) Azure Certification
4 44 (4.29%) Computer Science Degree
5 37 (3.61%) SC Cleared
6 30 (2.93%) ISTQB
7 21 (2.05%) Microsoft Certification
8 20 (1.95%) Master's Degree
9 19 (1.85%) DV Cleared
10 13 (1.27%) AWS Certification
10 13 (1.27%) HND
11 11 (1.07%) AWS Certified Developer
11 11 (1.07%) PMI Certification
12 9 (0.88%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 6 (0.59%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 4 (0.39%) BC Cleared
15 3 (0.29%) CBAP
15 3 (0.29%) PMP
16 2 (0.20%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
16 2 (0.20%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 115 (11.22%) QA
2 72 (7.02%) Accessibility
3 48 (4.68%) GDPR
4 43 (4.20%) Data Quality
5 35 (3.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 14 (1.37%) SOC 2
7 13 (1.27%) SLA
8 10 (0.98%) GRC
8 10 (0.98%) TickIT
9 7 (0.68%) NCSC
9 7 (0.68%) WCAG
10 6 (0.59%) NIST
10 6 (0.59%) Software Quality Assurance
11 5 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 5 (0.49%) Solvency II
12 4 (0.39%) IFRS
13 3 (0.29%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 3 (0.29%) PERC
14 2 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
15 1 (0.098%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 144 (14.05%) Docker
2 64 (6.24%) Active Directory
3 21 (2.05%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.39%) Postfix
4 4 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.20%) Firmware
5 2 (0.20%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.098%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (0.098%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 306 (29.85%) Terraform
2 112 (10.93%) Kubernetes
3 81 (7.90%) Ansible
4 59 (5.76%) Grafana
5 49 (4.78%) Prometheus
6 18 (1.76%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (0.88%) Argo
7 9 (0.88%) Kibana
8 8 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (0.39%) HP ALM
9 4 (0.39%) logstash
10 3 (0.29%) HP Fortify
10 3 (0.29%) Puppet
10 3 (0.29%) Scalr
11 2 (0.20%) MIIS
11 2 (0.20%) Nagios
11 2 (0.20%) SCCM
12 1 (0.098%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.098%) Nessus
Vendors
1 377 (36.78%) Microsoft
2 64 (6.24%) Databricks
3 44 (4.29%) Salesforce
4 35 (3.41%) ServiceNow
5 28 (2.73%) Oracle
6 20 (1.95%) Red Hat
7 16 (1.56%) Palo Alto
8 15 (1.46%) Adobe
8 15 (1.46%) MuleSoft
8 15 (1.46%) Zscaler
9 14 (1.37%) Dynatrace
10 12 (1.17%) Freshdesk
10 12 (1.17%) Nintex
11 10 (0.98%) Ab Initio
11 10 (0.98%) CrowdStrike
11 10 (0.98%) Okta
11 10 (0.98%) VMware
12 9 (0.88%) Apple
13 8 (0.78%) Guidewire
14 7 (0.68%) New Relic