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

6 months to
12 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 175 130 107
Rank change year-on-year -45 -23 +1
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 1,010 947 2,318
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.20% 2.30% 2.50%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.77% 6.30% 6.86%
Number of salaries quoted 722 793 1,847
10th Percentile £42,500 £43,777 £42,141
25th Percentile £50,000 £53,750 £50,000
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 £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,000 £64,750 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.51% +7.92% +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 26,784 15,036 33,774
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 31.75% 36.58% 36.49%
Number of salaries quoted 14,034 11,078 26,627
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £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 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,135 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.39% +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 12 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 12 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 -55 845 £67,500 -2.53% 403
UK excluding London -30 616 £56,000 -13.51% 340
Work from Home -5 418 £65,000 -3.70% 254
London -14 329 £77,500 +3.33% 131
South East -46 163 £50,000 -28.57% 101
North of England -26 137 £60,000 -14.29% 74
Scotland +51 103 £62,500 +8.70% 22
Midlands -51 92 £64,000 -1.54% 60
South West -24 80 £51,250 -21.15% 34
North West -16 63 £70,000 +7.69% 41
West Midlands -48 53 £57,500 -13.21% 37
Yorkshire -53 43 £60,000 -14.29% 22
East Midlands -19 36 £67,000 +3.08% 23
North East -10 31 £50,000 -23.08% 11
East of England -39 25 £70,000 +32.08% 33
Wales -34 15 £53,171 -9.57% 21
Northern Ireland -40 3 £56,250 +12.50% 1

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 (3.66%) Confluence
2 36 (3.56%) SharePoint
3 24 (2.38%) Microsoft Exchange
4 23 (2.28%) IIS
5 11 (1.09%) Apache Spark
6 8 (0.79%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 7 (0.69%) Anypoint
8 4 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.40%) Moodle
9 3 (0.30%) Apache
10 2 (0.20%) BizTalk Server
10 2 (0.20%) CICS
10 2 (0.20%) CMS
11 1 (0.099%) Drupal
11 1 (0.099%) nginx
11 1 (0.099%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.099%) PegaRULES
11 1 (0.099%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.099%) Umbraco
11 1 (0.099%) WordPress
Applications
1 25 (2.48%) MS Visio
2 22 (2.18%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (1.19%) Microsoft Project
4 8 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
4 8 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.50%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.30%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.20%) Trello
8 1 (0.099%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 20 (1.98%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (1.58%) Oracle ERP
3 6 (0.59%) Dynamics AX
4 4 (0.40%) Elite 3E
5 3 (0.30%) Visualfiles
6 2 (0.20%) Magento
6 2 (0.20%) SAP CX
6 2 (0.20%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.099%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.099%) Endur
7 1 (0.099%) Infor M3
7 1 (0.099%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 1 (0.099%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.099%) Primavera
7 1 (0.099%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.099%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1,009 (99.90%) Azure
2 295 (29.21%) GitHub
3 187 (18.51%) Power Platform
4 157 (15.54%) AWS
4 157 (15.54%) GitHub Actions
5 94 (9.31%) Serverless
6 89 (8.81%) Azure Data Factory
7 88 (8.71%) Entra ID
8 79 (7.82%) Azure Monitor
8 79 (7.82%) Microsoft 365
9 75 (7.43%) PaaS
10 64 (6.34%) Dynamics 365
11 62 (6.14%) Azure Logic Apps
12 59 (5.84%) SaaS
13 58 (5.74%) Azure AKS
14 56 (5.54%) GCP
15 53 (5.25%) Azure Functions
16 49 (4.85%) Azure Key Vault
17 46 (4.55%) Snowflake
18 45 (4.46%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 63 (6.24%) Firewall
2 36 (3.56%) DNS
3 19 (1.88%) HTTP
3 19 (1.88%) TCP/IP
4 15 (1.49%) VPN
4 15 (1.49%) WAN
5 11 (1.09%) Network Security
6 3 (0.30%) BGP
6 3 (0.30%) DHCP
6 3 (0.30%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.20%) SSL
7 2 (0.20%) VLAN
8 1 (0.099%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.099%) Internet
8 1 (0.099%) IP Telephony
8 1 (0.099%) LTE
8 1 (0.099%) MPLS
8 1 (0.099%) NetScaler
8 1 (0.099%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 129 (12.77%) SQL Server
2 103 (10.20%) Power BI
3 70 (6.93%) Azure SQL Database
4 44 (4.36%) Data Warehouse
5 37 (3.66%) NoSQL
6 34 (3.37%) Data Lake
7 29 (2.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 25 (2.48%) PostgreSQL
9 21 (2.08%) MongoDB
10 20 (1.98%) Delta Lake
10 20 (1.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 19 (1.88%) Relational Database
12 16 (1.58%) DynamoDB
12 16 (1.58%) Tableau
13 11 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
13 11 (1.09%) Snowflake Schema
14 10 (0.99%) Spark SQL
15 9 (0.89%) MySQL
16 7 (0.69%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 7 (0.69%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 169 (16.73%) Git
2 143 (14.16%) JIRA
3 109 (10.79%) Jenkins
4 58 (5.74%) Selenium
5 43 (4.26%) GitLab
6 38 (3.76%) Cypress.io
7 29 (2.87%) Postman
8 24 (2.38%) Visual Studio
9 19 (1.88%) Eclipse
10 18 (1.78%) Octopus Deploy
11 16 (1.58%) Oracle Forms
12 13 (1.29%) TeamCity
13 11 (1.09%) NUnit
13 11 (1.09%) REST Assured
13 11 (1.09%) Robot Framework
13 11 (1.09%) TestRail
14 10 (0.99%) JMeter
15 9 (0.89%) Snyk
15 9 (0.89%) SpecFlow
15 9 (0.89%) Zephyr
General
1 312 (30.89%) Finance
2 250 (24.75%) Social Skills
3 149 (14.75%) Analytical Skills
4 58 (5.74%) Law
5 39 (3.86%) Public Sector
6 36 (3.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 34 (3.37%) Legal
8 33 (3.27%) Retail
9 29 (2.87%) Marketing
10 27 (2.67%) Billing
11 22 (2.18%) Telecoms
12 19 (1.88%) Banking
13 18 (1.78%) Influencing Skills
14 12 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
15 9 (0.89%) Manufacturing
16 8 (0.79%) Documentation Skills
17 7 (0.69%) Advertising
17 7 (0.69%) Automotive
17 7 (0.69%) Games
17 7 (0.69%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 214 (21.19%) Developer
2 200 (19.80%) Senior
3 148 (14.65%) Azure Engineer
3 148 (14.65%) Lead
4 146 (14.46%) DevOps Engineer
5 70 (6.93%) Cloud Engineer
6 68 (6.73%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 59 (5.84%) Analyst
8 57 (5.64%) Data Engineer
9 51 (5.05%) Architect
10 47 (4.65%) .NET Developer
10 47 (4.65%) Senior Developer
11 36 (3.56%) Platform Engineer
12 30 (2.97%) Applications Engineer
13 29 (2.87%) Software Engineer
14 28 (2.77%) Test Leader
15 27 (2.67%) Power Platform Developer
15 27 (2.67%) Solutions Architect
16 26 (2.57%) Software Developer
17 25 (2.48%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 244 (24.16%) .NET
2 107 (10.59%) React
3 94 (9.31%) RESTful
4 91 (9.01%) REST
5 74 (7.33%) CSS
6 73 (7.23%) HTML
7 71 (7.03%) OAuth
8 69 (6.83%) ASP.NET
9 67 (6.63%) .NET Core
10 55 (5.45%) YAML
11 54 (5.35%) SOAP
12 47 (4.65%) .NET Framework
12 47 (4.65%) Playwright
13 44 (4.36%) Node.js
14 43 (4.26%) JSON
15 39 (3.86%) ASP.NET Core
16 38 (3.76%) PySpark
17 37 (3.66%) SAML
18 34 (3.37%) OAuth2
19 33 (3.27%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 118 (11.68%) Product Ownership
2 115 (11.39%) Cloud Native
3 38 (3.76%) Enterprise Software
4 34 (3.37%) Management Information System
5 31 (3.07%) Low-Code
5 31 (3.07%) Mobile App
6 27 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
7 21 (2.08%) Analytical Mindset
8 20 (1.98%) Distributed Systems
9 19 (1.88%) Reinsurance
10 16 (1.58%) Data Structures
11 13 (1.29%) Hybrid Cloud
12 12 (1.19%) Onboarding
12 12 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
12 12 (1.19%) Virtual Team
13 10 (0.99%) Legacy Applications
14 9 (0.89%) Security Posture
15 8 (0.79%) Public Cloud
16 7 (0.69%) Culture of Ownership
16 7 (0.69%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 70 (6.93%) Windows
2 67 (6.63%) Linux
3 17 (1.68%) VMS
4 16 (1.58%) Windows Server
5 12 (1.19%) Ubuntu
6 10 (0.99%) Apple iOS
7 6 (0.59%) Unix
8 5 (0.50%) Android
9 2 (0.20%) Kali Linux
9 2 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.099%) CentOS
10 1 (0.099%) SUSE
10 1 (0.099%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.099%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.099%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,009 (99.90%) DevOps
2 624 (61.78%) CI/CD
3 473 (46.83%) Agile
4 293 (29.01%) Infrastructure as Code
5 256 (25.35%) Test Automation
6 219 (21.68%) Continuous Improvement
7 204 (20.20%) Problem-Solving
8 165 (16.34%) AI
9 157 (15.54%) Mentoring
10 154 (15.25%) Analytics
11 150 (14.85%) Observability
12 142 (14.06%) Coaching
13 136 (13.47%) Scrum
14 132 (13.07%) Data Modelling
15 127 (12.57%) Containerisation
16 107 (10.59%) Software Engineering
17 104 (10.30%) Business Intelligence
18 103 (10.20%) Microservices
19 101 (10.00%) SDLC
20 99 (9.80%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 345 (34.16%) SQL
2 244 (24.16%) Python
3 210 (20.79%) C#
4 135 (13.37%) JavaScript
5 131 (12.97%) PowerShell
6 88 (8.71%) Bash
7 86 (8.51%) Bicep
8 62 (6.14%) TypeScript
9 48 (4.75%) Java
10 24 (2.38%) Apex Code
11 23 (2.28%) Go
12 20 (1.98%) PL/SQL
13 19 (1.88%) Scala
13 19 (1.88%) T-SQL
14 17 (1.68%) Shell Script
15 12 (1.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 12 (1.19%) Kusto Query Language
16 8 (0.79%) Swift
17 7 (0.69%) DataWeave
18 5 (0.50%) C++
Qualifications
1 100 (9.90%) Degree
2 66 (6.53%) Security Cleared
3 51 (5.05%) Azure Certification
4 47 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 35 (3.47%) SC Cleared
6 33 (3.27%) ISTQB
7 24 (2.38%) DV Cleared
7 24 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
8 22 (2.18%) Master's Degree
9 14 (1.39%) AWS Certification
10 13 (1.29%) HND
11 11 (1.09%) AWS Certified Developer
11 11 (1.09%) PMI Certification
12 10 (0.99%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 6 (0.59%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 4 (0.40%) BC Cleared
14 4 (0.40%) PMP
15 3 (0.30%) CBAP
15 3 (0.30%) DBS Check
15 3 (0.30%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 115 (11.39%) QA
2 72 (7.13%) Accessibility
3 46 (4.55%) GDPR
4 44 (4.36%) Data Quality
5 36 (3.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 14 (1.39%) SOC 2
7 12 (1.19%) SLA
8 10 (0.99%) GRC
9 9 (0.89%) NCSC
10 8 (0.79%) NIST
11 7 (0.69%) TickIT
11 7 (0.69%) WCAG
12 6 (0.59%) Software Quality Assurance
13 5 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 4 (0.40%) Solvency II
15 3 (0.30%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 3 (0.30%) IFRS
15 3 (0.30%) PERC
16 2 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
16 2 (0.20%) PMO
System Software
1 143 (14.16%) Docker
2 62 (6.14%) Active Directory
3 20 (1.98%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.40%) Postfix
5 4 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.20%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.20%) vCloud
7 1 (0.099%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 1 (0.099%) Firmware
7 1 (0.099%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.099%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.099%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 302 (29.90%) Terraform
2 111 (10.99%) Kubernetes
3 85 (8.42%) Ansible
4 58 (5.74%) Grafana
5 49 (4.85%) Prometheus
6 18 (1.78%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (0.89%) Kibana
7 9 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
8 6 (0.59%) HP ALM
9 4 (0.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (0.40%) Argo
9 4 (0.40%) logstash
10 3 (0.30%) Scalr
11 2 (0.20%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (0.20%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.20%) MIIS
11 2 (0.20%) Nagios
11 2 (0.20%) Nessus
11 2 (0.20%) Puppet
11 2 (0.20%) SCCM
Vendors
1 368 (36.44%) Microsoft
2 60 (5.94%) Databricks
3 43 (4.26%) Salesforce
4 36 (3.56%) ServiceNow
5 28 (2.77%) Oracle
6 20 (1.98%) Red Hat
7 18 (1.78%) Palo Alto
8 15 (1.49%) Adobe
8 15 (1.49%) Dynatrace
8 15 (1.49%) Zscaler
9 13 (1.29%) MuleSoft
10 12 (1.19%) Freshdesk
10 12 (1.19%) Nintex
10 12 (1.19%) VMware
11 10 (0.99%) Ab Initio
11 10 (0.99%) CrowdStrike
11 10 (0.99%) Okta
12 9 (0.89%) Apple
12 9 (0.89%) Black Duck
12 9 (0.89%) Coverity