Azure Pipelines Job Trends

Azure Pipelines
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Azure Pipelines skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 639 680 696
Rank change year-on-year +41 +16 +243
Permanent jobs citing Azure Pipelines 12 32 41
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.020% 0.060% 0.073%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.059% 0.17% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 6 22 38
10th Percentile - £52,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £59,844 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £74,063 £77,188 £88,750
90th Percentile £77,750 £100,000 £111,746
UK excluding London median annual salary £73,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.89% +3.85% +13.04%

All Cloud Computing Skills
UK

Azure Pipelines 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 20,419 19,247 22,568
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.23% 36.08% 40.33%
Number of salaries quoted 11,169 11,295 18,548
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,331 £46,713 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,600 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.12% +7.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%

Azure Pipelines
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Azure Pipelines relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Azure Pipelines job vacancy trend in the UK

Azure Pipelines
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Azure Pipelines.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Azure Pipelines

Azure Pipelines
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure Pipelines over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure Pipelines in the UK

Azure Pipelines
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Pipelines within the UK over the 6 months to 13 January 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 12 £60,000 -11.11% 3
London +59 10 £55,000 -38.03% 1
Work from Home +45 6 £55,000 -18.52% 3
UK excluding London +45 2 £73,500 +8.89% 2
South West +6 2 £73,500 +33.64% 2

Azure Pipelines
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 1 (8.33%) Apache
1 1 (8.33%) JBoss
1 1 (8.33%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 12 (100.00%) Azure
2 9 (75.00%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (66.67%) Azure AKS
3 8 (66.67%) GitHub
3 8 (66.67%) GitHub Actions
4 4 (33.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 4 (33.33%) Azure Functions
4 4 (33.33%) Azure Key Vault
4 4 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
4 4 (33.33%) Azure Storage
4 4 (33.33%) Datadog
4 4 (33.33%) Entra ID
4 4 (33.33%) Serverless
5 2 (16.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (33.33%) Firewall
1 4 (33.33%) Network Security
1 4 (33.33%) VPN
1 4 (33.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) GitLab
1 2 (16.67%) REST Assured
2 1 (8.33%) Git
2 1 (8.33%) JIRA
2 1 (8.33%) Subversion
General
1 3 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Operations Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Operations Support Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Platform Support Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Support Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Automation Test Lead
3 2 (16.67%) Lead
3 2 (16.67%) Lead Test Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Test Automation Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Test Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Java Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (41.67%) ADO
1 5 (41.67%) YAML
2 4 (33.33%) OAuth
2 4 (33.33%) SAML
3 2 (16.67%) Playwright
3 2 (16.67%) RESTful
4 1 (8.33%) Ajax
4 1 (8.33%) AngularJS
4 1 (8.33%) CSS
4 1 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (8.33%) Hibernate
4 1 (8.33%) HTML
4 1 (8.33%) Java EE
4 1 (8.33%) jQuery
4 1 (8.33%) JSON
4 1 (8.33%) JSP
4 1 (8.33%) Spring
4 1 (8.33%) Spring Boot
4 1 (8.33%) Web Services
4 1 (8.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 5 (41.67%) Linux
2 4 (33.33%) VMS
3 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (91.67%) CI/CD
1 11 (91.67%) DevOps
2 9 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 8 (66.67%) Identity Management
3 8 (66.67%) Incident Response
3 8 (66.67%) Network Virtualisation
3 8 (66.67%) Observability
4 7 (58.33%) Test Automation
5 6 (50.00%) Containerisation
5 6 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (41.67%) Deployment Automation
6 5 (41.67%) Software Delivery
7 4 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
7 4 (33.33%) Multi-Factor Authentication
7 4 (33.33%) Privileged Identity Management
7 4 (33.33%) Proactive Monitoring
7 4 (33.33%) Release Automation
7 4 (33.33%) Security Hardening
7 4 (33.33%) Task Automation
7 4 (33.33%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) Bicep
1 5 (41.67%) PowerShell
1 5 (41.67%) Python
1 5 (41.67%) SQL
2 4 (33.33%) Bash
2 4 (33.33%) Kusto Query Language
3 3 (25.00%) Java
4 2 (16.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) Azure Certification
2 2 (16.67%) ISTQB
2 2 (16.67%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
2 2 (16.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (8.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (33.33%) GDPR
1 4 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (33.33%) SOC 2
2 3 (25.00%) QA
3 2 (16.67%) Accessibility
System Software
1 7 (58.33%) Docker
2 4 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 4 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (91.67%) Kubernetes
2 10 (83.33%) Terraform
3 4 (33.33%) Ansible
3 4 (33.33%) logstash
4 1 (8.33%) Grafana
4 1 (8.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Microsoft
2 4 (33.33%) Palo Alto
2 4 (33.33%) Zscaler
3 2 (16.67%) Guidewire