DevOps Engineer - Microsoft Azure
UK

The median DevOps Engineer - Microsoft Azure salary in the UK is £70,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 763 658 799
Rank change year-on-year -105 +141 -288
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure DevOps Engineer 133 326 467
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.32% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.35% 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 123 253 396
10th Percentile £51,250 £55,500 £53,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £65,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +14.29% +10.67%
75th Percentile £78,750 £92,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £93,500 £100,000 £94,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% +16.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 93,739 91,836 153,630
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.65% 91.52% 96.11%
Number of salaries quoted 67,104 57,926 84,939
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,604
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Azure DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Azure DevOps Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Azure DevOps Engineer in the UK

Azure DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Azure DevOps Engineer in the UK

Azure DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure DevOps Engineer over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Azure DevOps Engineer in the UK

Azure DevOps Engineer
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure DevOps Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 14 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 -88 125 £70,000 -12.50% 28
UK excluding London -80 75 £70,000 -6.67% 12
Work from Home -38 71 £70,576 -11.78% 11
London +24 49 £74,137 -10.14% 14
South East -19 35 £72,500 -3.33% 5
North of England +13 21 £55,000 -31.25% 3
Midlands +7 12 £55,000 -21.43% 4
North West -5 12 £52,500 -34.38% 1
Yorkshire +73 6 £70,576 +17.63% 2
West Midlands +2 6 £82,500 +17.86% 2
East Midlands - 6 £55,000 - 2
East of England +6 5 £67,500 -3.57%
North East - 3 £55,000 -
South West -36 2 £58,750 -18.97%

Azure DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 14 May 2024, Azure DevOps Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Azure DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 133 (100.00%) Azure
1 133 (100.00%) DevOps
2 110 (82.71%) Azure DevOps
3 78 (58.65%) CI/CD
4 73 (54.89%) Terraform
4 73 (54.89%) Kubernetes
5 60 (45.11%) Infrastructure as Code
6 57 (42.86%) PowerShell
7 54 (40.60%) Python
8 52 (39.10%) Docker
9 43 (32.33%) Agile
10 41 (30.83%) Git
10 41 (30.83%) Microsoft
11 36 (27.07%) Containerisation
12 34 (25.56%) Social Skills
12 34 (25.56%) SaaS
12 34 (25.56%) Problem-Solving
13 30 (22.56%) SQL
14 27 (20.30%) Bash
15 26 (19.55%) PaaS
16 24 (18.05%) Jenkins
17 23 (17.29%) Finance
18 22 (16.54%) Platform Engineering
18 22 (16.54%) .NET
19 21 (15.79%) Linux
19 21 (15.79%) Ansible
20 20 (15.04%) Analytics
21 19 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
21 19 (14.29%) C#
21 19 (14.29%) SQL Server

Azure DevOps Engineer Skill Set
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 4 (3.01%) IIS
2 1 (0.75%) Confluence
2 1 (0.75%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 133 (100.00%) Azure
2 110 (82.71%) Azure DevOps
3 34 (25.56%) SaaS
4 26 (19.55%) PaaS
5 19 (14.29%) Azure AKS
6 16 (12.03%) Entra ID
7 14 (10.53%) GitHub
8 13 (9.77%) IaaS
8 13 (9.77%) Power Platform
9 11 (8.27%) AWS
9 11 (8.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 11 (8.27%) GitHub Actions
10 10 (7.52%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 9 (6.77%) Azure Data Factory
12 8 (6.02%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
13 7 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
13 7 (5.26%) Serverless
14 6 (4.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 6 (4.51%) Azure Pipelines
15 5 (3.76%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 18 (13.53%) Network Security
2 17 (12.78%) Firewall
3 15 (11.28%) DNS
4 10 (7.52%) TCP/IP
5 9 (6.77%) VPN
6 8 (6.02%) LAN
6 8 (6.02%) WAN
7 4 (3.01%) IPv4
7 4 (3.01%) WLAN
8 1 (0.75%) HTTP
8 1 (0.75%) Internet
8 1 (0.75%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
1 19 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 11 (8.27%) Power BI
3 9 (6.77%) Data Lake
3 9 (6.77%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (6.02%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 7 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (3.76%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (2.26%) MariaDB
7 3 (2.26%) MongoDB
7 3 (2.26%) MySQL
7 3 (2.26%) Redis
8 2 (1.50%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.75%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 41 (30.83%) Git
2 24 (18.05%) Jenkins
3 12 (9.02%) TeamCity
4 9 (6.77%) GitLab
5 8 (6.02%) MSBuild
6 5 (3.76%) Octopus Deploy
7 4 (3.01%) git-flow
7 4 (3.01%) JIRA
7 4 (3.01%) Subversion
7 4 (3.01%) Team Foundation Server
7 4 (3.01%) Visual Studio Team System
8 2 (1.50%) Bitbucket
8 2 (1.50%) Maven
9 1 (0.75%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.75%) Vagrant
General
1 34 (25.56%) Social Skills
2 23 (17.29%) Finance
3 11 (8.27%) Public Sector
4 8 (6.02%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (3.76%) Banking
5 5 (3.76%) Electronics
5 5 (3.76%) Manufacturing
5 5 (3.76%) Marketing
5 5 (3.76%) Telecoms
6 4 (3.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.50%) Tech for Good
8 1 (0.75%) Games
8 1 (0.75%) Law
8 1 (0.75%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (16.54%) .NET
2 17 (12.78%) YAML
3 15 (11.28%) ARM Templates
4 11 (8.27%) JSON
5 9 (6.77%) Node.js
6 8 (6.02%) React
7 6 (4.51%) .NET Core
8 5 (3.76%) LDAP
8 5 (3.76%) REST
8 5 (3.76%) XML
9 3 (2.26%) .NET Framework
9 3 (2.26%) SAML
10 2 (1.50%) ADO
10 2 (1.50%) ASP.NET
10 2 (1.50%) OAuth
11 1 (0.75%) CSS
11 1 (0.75%) Elastic Stack
11 1 (0.75%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.77%) Cloud Native
2 8 (6.02%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (3.76%) Client/Server
4 4 (3.01%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 4 (3.01%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (3.01%) Private Cloud
4 4 (3.01%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 3 (2.26%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.75%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.75%) IoT
7 1 (0.75%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.75%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.75%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.75%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.75%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.75%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 21 (15.79%) Linux
2 13 (9.77%) Windows
3 8 (6.02%) VMS
4 3 (2.26%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.75%) CentOS
5 1 (0.75%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.75%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (100.00%) DevOps
2 78 (58.65%) CI/CD
3 60 (45.11%) Infrastructure as Code
4 43 (32.33%) Agile
5 36 (27.07%) Containerisation
6 34 (25.56%) Problem-Solving
7 22 (16.54%) Platform Engineering
8 20 (15.04%) Analytics
9 18 (13.53%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 16 (12.03%) Continuous Integration
11 15 (11.28%) Business Intelligence
12 14 (10.53%) Infrastructure Automation
12 14 (10.53%) Scrum
12 14 (10.53%) Software Engineering
13 12 (9.02%) Configuration Management
14 11 (8.27%) Fintech
15 10 (7.52%) Collaborative Culture
15 10 (7.52%) Stakeholder Management
16 9 (6.77%) Continuous Improvement
16 9 (6.77%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 57 (42.86%) PowerShell
2 54 (40.60%) Python
3 30 (22.56%) SQL
4 27 (20.30%) Bash
5 19 (14.29%) C#
6 13 (9.77%) Bicep
7 10 (7.52%) Go
8 8 (6.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 8 (6.02%) Java
8 8 (6.02%) Ruby
8 8 (6.02%) U-SQL
9 7 (5.26%) JavaScript
10 2 (1.50%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.75%) Groovy
11 1 (0.75%) PHP
11 1 (0.75%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (9.02%) Microsoft Certification
2 10 (7.52%) Azure Certification
3 8 (6.02%) Degree
4 7 (5.26%) Security Cleared
5 5 (3.76%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.75%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.02%) QA
2 1 (0.75%) SLA
System Software
1 52 (39.10%) Docker
2 9 (6.77%) Active Directory
3 4 (3.01%) Hyper-V
4 3 (2.26%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.75%) NFS
Systems Management
1 73 (54.89%) Kubernetes
1 73 (54.89%) Terraform
2 21 (15.79%) Ansible
3 11 (8.27%) Prometheus
4 9 (6.77%) Grafana
4 9 (6.77%) Progress Chef
4 9 (6.77%) Puppet
5 6 (4.51%) Docker Swarm
6 4 (3.01%) Istio
7 3 (2.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (1.50%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.75%) Consul
9 1 (0.75%) Packer
9 1 (0.75%) Podman
9 1 (0.75%) Salt
Vendors
1 41 (30.83%) Microsoft
2 9 (6.77%) Databricks
3 6 (4.51%) Zscaler
4 5 (3.76%) SAP
5 4 (3.01%) Cisco
5 4 (3.01%) Meraki
6 3 (2.26%) Splunk
6 3 (2.26%) Veeam
7 2 (1.50%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.50%) ForgeRock
7 2 (1.50%) Oracle
8 1 (0.75%) Google
8 1 (0.75%) New Relic
8 1 (0.75%) SaltStack