Hybrid/Remote Azure DevOps Job Trends

Microsoft Azure DevOps
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Azure DevOps skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 86 90
Rank change year-on-year -8 +4 -2
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 472 550 927
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.87% 3.72% 3.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.65% 7.96% 7.12%
Number of salaries quoted 296 444 838
10th Percentile £42,000 £43,750 £42,330
25th Percentile £47,500 £55,000 £50,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,498 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.89% +12.50% -7.69%
75th Percentile £81,844 £77,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £98,750 £90,000 £96,539
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -3.85%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 6,171 6,906 13,024
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.53% 46.66% 45.76%
Number of salaries quoted 4,206 4,663 11,373
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £64,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% +11.30% -11.54%

Azure DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Azure DevOps and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Azure DevOps job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Azure DevOps
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Azure DevOps.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Azure DevOps

Azure DevOps
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Azure DevOps over the 6 months to 1 March 2026.

Azure DevOps salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Azure DevOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 21 (4.45%) Confluence
2 14 (2.97%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 11 (2.33%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (1.91%) SharePoint
5 7 (1.48%) IIS
6 4 (0.85%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.21%) Apache
7 1 (0.21%) nginx
Applications
1 13 (2.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.69%) MS Visio
3 7 (1.48%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 31 (6.57%) Oracle ERP
2 10 (2.12%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (1.06%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (0.42%) Markit EDM
5 1 (0.21%) Primavera
5 1 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.21%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 472 (100.00%) Azure
2 208 (44.07%) GitHub
3 94 (19.92%) Power Platform
4 81 (17.16%) GitHub Actions
5 60 (12.71%) GitHub Copilot
6 57 (12.08%) Azure Monitor
7 56 (11.86%) Entra ID
8 55 (11.65%) AWS
9 51 (10.81%) Snowflake
10 48 (10.17%) Azure Data Factory
11 45 (9.53%) Azure Logic Apps
12 42 (8.90%) dbt
13 40 (8.47%) PaaS
14 36 (7.63%) SaaS
15 35 (7.42%) Dynamics 365
15 35 (7.42%) Serverless
16 31 (6.57%) OCI
17 28 (5.93%) Azure AKS
17 28 (5.93%) Microsoft 365
18 27 (5.72%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 25 (5.30%) Firewall
2 8 (1.69%) VPN
3 7 (1.48%) DNS
4 4 (0.85%) DHCP
4 4 (0.85%) VLAN
5 3 (0.64%) Network Security
5 3 (0.64%) SD-WAN
5 3 (0.64%) WAN
6 2 (0.42%) BGP
6 2 (0.42%) HTTP
6 2 (0.42%) IPsec
6 2 (0.42%) OSPF
6 2 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.42%) Wireshark
7 1 (0.21%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.21%) Internet
7 1 (0.21%) IP Telephony
7 1 (0.21%) MPLS
7 1 (0.21%) SSL
7 1 (0.21%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (11.86%) SQL Server
2 46 (9.75%) Data Warehouse
3 43 (9.11%) Power BI
4 27 (5.72%) Azure SQL Database
4 27 (5.72%) Tableau
5 18 (3.81%) NoSQL
6 17 (3.60%) Data Lake
7 16 (3.39%) Relational Database
8 11 (2.33%) Snowflake Schema
9 10 (2.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 9 (1.91%) Delta Lake
10 9 (1.91%) Metadata
10 9 (1.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 7 (1.48%) MongoDB
12 6 (1.27%) MySQL
13 5 (1.06%) PostgreSQL
14 4 (0.85%) BigQuery
14 4 (0.85%) DataStage
14 4 (0.85%) DynamoDB
14 4 (0.85%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 72 (15.25%) JIRA
2 63 (13.35%) Git
3 56 (11.86%) Jenkins
4 31 (6.57%) Oracle Forms
5 8 (1.69%) Postman
6 7 (1.48%) Cypress.io
6 7 (1.48%) Selenium
7 5 (1.06%) Visual Studio
8 4 (0.85%) ER Studio
8 4 (0.85%) ERwin
8 4 (0.85%) PowerDesigner
9 3 (0.64%) git-flow
9 3 (0.64%) GitLab
10 2 (0.42%) NUnit
10 2 (0.42%) Visual Studio Code
11 1 (0.21%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.21%) JMeter
11 1 (0.21%) MSBuild
11 1 (0.21%) MSTest
11 1 (0.21%) TeamCity
General
1 218 (46.19%) Finance
2 130 (27.54%) Social Skills
3 86 (18.22%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (4.24%) Marketing
4 20 (4.24%) Public Sector
5 17 (3.60%) Law
6 16 (3.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (2.54%) Billing
8 8 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
8 8 (1.69%) Retail
9 6 (1.27%) Legal
9 6 (1.27%) Tech for Good
10 5 (1.06%) Advertising
10 5 (1.06%) Front Office
10 5 (1.06%) Manufacturing
11 4 (0.85%) Banking
11 4 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (0.85%) Retail Banking
12 3 (0.64%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.64%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 117 (24.79%) Senior
2 100 (21.19%) Developer
3 66 (13.98%) Cloud Engineer
4 55 (11.65%) Azure Engineer
5 39 (8.26%) Lead
6 38 (8.05%) Applications Engineer
7 31 (6.57%) .NET Developer
8 29 (6.14%) Analyst
9 26 (5.51%) Platform Engineer
10 24 (5.08%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 23 (4.87%) Data Engineer
11 23 (4.87%) Software Engineer
12 20 (4.24%) DevOps Engineer
12 20 (4.24%) Power Platform Developer
13 19 (4.03%) Architect
14 18 (3.81%) Business Analyst
15 17 (3.60%) Applications Developer
15 17 (3.60%) Senior Developer
16 16 (3.39%) Azure Developer
17 14 (2.97%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 125 (26.48%) .NET
2 73 (15.47%) RESTful
3 55 (11.65%) React
4 44 (9.32%) OAuth
5 43 (9.11%) SOAP
6 37 (7.84%) JSON
7 35 (7.42%) .NET Core
8 33 (6.99%) CSS
8 33 (6.99%) REST
9 32 (6.78%) .NET Framework
9 32 (6.78%) HTML
10 30 (6.36%) OAuth2
11 25 (5.30%) YAML
12 23 (4.87%) Lightning Web Components
13 22 (4.66%) AngularJS
14 21 (4.45%) ASP.NET
15 20 (4.24%) ASP.NET Web API
15 20 (4.24%) Entity Framework
16 18 (3.81%) XML
17 17 (3.60%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 85 (18.01%) Cloud Native
2 50 (10.59%) Product Ownership
3 36 (7.63%) Enterprise Software
4 27 (5.72%) Low-Code
5 20 (4.24%) Management Information System
6 18 (3.81%) Mobile App
7 14 (2.97%) Analytical Mindset
8 8 (1.69%) Legacy Applications
8 8 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (1.06%) Distributed Systems
10 5 (1.06%) Onboarding
10 5 (1.06%) Virtual Team
11 4 (0.85%) Reinsurance
11 4 (0.85%) Security Posture
12 3 (0.64%) AI Agents
12 3 (0.64%) Data Centre
12 3 (0.64%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (0.64%) Hedge funds
12 3 (0.64%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 28 (5.93%) Windows
2 19 (4.03%) Linux
3 7 (1.48%) VMS
4 5 (1.06%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.42%) Android
6 1 (0.21%) CentOS
6 1 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.21%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 472 (100.00%) DevOps
2 299 (63.35%) CI/CD
3 276 (58.47%) Agile
4 151 (31.99%) Coaching
5 135 (28.60%) Asset Management
5 135 (28.60%) Test Automation
6 133 (28.18%) Infrastructure as Code
7 121 (25.64%) Continuous Improvement
8 107 (22.67%) AI
9 106 (22.46%) Mentoring
10 95 (20.13%) Problem-Solving
11 91 (19.28%) Data Modelling
12 87 (18.43%) Analytics
13 83 (17.58%) Observability
14 79 (16.74%) Clean Code
15 67 (14.19%) Sprint Planning
16 62 (13.14%) Microservices
17 61 (12.92%) Sprint Retrospective
18 55 (11.65%) Data Governance
19 54 (11.44%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 192 (40.68%) SQL
2 140 (29.66%) Python
3 93 (19.70%) C#
4 71 (15.04%) PowerShell
5 61 (12.92%) Bicep
6 48 (10.17%) JavaScript
7 35 (7.42%) Java
8 32 (6.78%) Bash
9 31 (6.57%) PL/SQL
9 31 (6.57%) Shell Script
10 27 (5.72%) TypeScript
11 25 (5.30%) Apex Code
12 13 (2.75%) Scala
13 7 (1.48%) T-SQL
14 5 (1.06%) Go
15 2 (0.42%) PHP
15 2 (0.42%) VB
16 1 (0.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 1 (0.21%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 41 (8.69%) Degree
2 40 (8.47%) Azure Certification
3 28 (5.93%) Security Cleared
4 26 (5.51%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (4.03%) SC Cleared
6 17 (3.60%) Master's Degree
7 14 (2.97%) Microsoft Certification
8 12 (2.54%) ISTQB
9 9 (1.91%) AWS Certification
10 8 (1.69%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 6 (1.27%) DBS Check
12 4 (0.85%) BC Cleared
12 4 (0.85%) PMI Certification
13 3 (0.64%) Cisco Certification
14 2 (0.42%) AWS Certified Developer
14 2 (0.42%) CCNP
14 2 (0.42%) DV Cleared
14 2 (0.42%) PMP
14 2 (0.42%) SAFe Agilist
15 1 (0.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (8.47%) QA
2 25 (5.30%) Accessibility
3 21 (4.45%) Data Quality
4 16 (3.39%) GDPR
5 12 (2.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.64%) NCSC
6 3 (0.64%) NIST
6 3 (0.64%) Software Quality Assurance
7 2 (0.42%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 1 (0.21%) HL7
8 1 (0.21%) P3O
8 1 (0.21%) PMO
8 1 (0.21%) WCAG
System Software
1 47 (9.96%) Docker
2 37 (7.84%) Active Directory
3 10 (2.12%) Virtual Desktop
3 10 (2.12%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (1.06%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.64%) Firmware
5 3 (0.64%) Postfix
6 2 (0.42%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.42%) vCloud
7 1 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.21%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.21%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 161 (34.11%) Terraform
2 57 (12.08%) Kubernetes
3 33 (6.99%) Single Sign-On
4 16 (3.39%) Ansible
5 10 (2.12%) Grafana
6 8 (1.69%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (1.27%) Prometheus
8 4 (0.85%) logstash
9 2 (0.42%) Dell DRAC
10 1 (0.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.21%) Argo
10 1 (0.21%) CASB
10 1 (0.21%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.21%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.21%) Kibana
10 1 (0.21%) Nagios
10 1 (0.21%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 172 (36.44%) Microsoft
2 34 (7.20%) Oracle
3 29 (6.14%) Salesforce
4 27 (5.72%) Databricks
5 17 (3.60%) Okta
6 14 (2.97%) Ab Initio
7 11 (2.33%) Google
8 8 (1.69%) New Relic
9 7 (1.48%) ServiceNow
9 7 (1.48%) VMware
10 5 (1.06%) Sage
10 5 (1.06%) Syncfusion
10 5 (1.06%) Telerik
10 5 (1.06%) Xamarin
10 5 (1.06%) Zoho
11 4 (0.85%) AppDynamics
11 4 (0.85%) Charles River
11 4 (0.85%) IBM
11 4 (0.85%) Informatica
11 4 (0.85%) SolarWinds