Microsoft Azure DevOps
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Azure DevOps skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Azure DevOps over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 123 98 115
Rank change year-on-year -25 +17 -12
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 2,287 3,412 5,187
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.29% 3.44% 3.23%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.46% 7.99% 6.67%
Number of salaries quoted 1,753 2,124 3,293
10th Percentile £41,933 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.38% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £76,250 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £88,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% +10.00%

All Cloud Skills
UK

Azure DevOps is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 35,421 42,712 77,813
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.46% 43.07% 48.42%
Number of salaries quoted 26,675 28,032 41,298
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,000 £102,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

Azure DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Azure DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Azure DevOps in the UK

Azure DevOps
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Azure DevOps in the UK

Azure DevOps
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure DevOps over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Azure DevOps in the UK

Azure DevOps
Top 18 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 18 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 -15 2,047 £61,500 -5.38% 450
UK excluding London -22 1,545 £60,000 - 340
Work from Home -19 1,003 £60,000 -7.69% 294
London -24 602 £72,500 - 149
South East -12 428 £57,500 -11.54% 68
North of England -3 425 £60,000 -4.00% 108
North West +25 276 £60,000 -7.69% 51
Midlands +7 251 £58,500 +6.36% 73
South West -1 248 £62,500 +4.17% 32
West Midlands +25 181 £58,500 +6.36% 56
Yorkshire -17 125 £55,000 -10.10% 42
East of England -31 74 £50,000 -13.04% 15
East Midlands -20 70 £58,750 +2.17% 16
Wales -31 57 £61,250 +36.11% 26
Scotland -149 56 £65,000 +15.56% 10
North East +5 26 £55,000 -8.33% 15
Northern Ireland -18 4 £65,000 -10.34% 10
Isle of Man - 3 - -

Azure DevOps
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
1 103 (4.50%) IIS
2 91 (3.98%) SharePoint
3 68 (2.97%) CMS
4 53 (2.32%) Umbraco
5 40 (1.75%) Sitecore CMS
6 38 (1.66%) Kentico
7 36 (1.57%) Headless CMS
8 32 (1.40%) Confluence
9 24 (1.05%) Microsoft Exchange
10 21 (0.92%) Apache Spark
11 10 (0.44%) EPiServer
12 9 (0.39%) Apache
13 8 (0.35%) Apache Solr
14 6 (0.26%) NServiceBus
15 5 (0.22%) IBM Notes
16 4 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
17 3 (0.13%) SharePoint Server
18 2 (0.087%) Moodle
18 2 (0.087%) SAS
18 2 (0.087%) WebSphere
Applications
1 29 (1.27%) Microsoft Office
2 22 (0.96%) Microsoft Excel
3 14 (0.61%) Microsoft Project
4 9 (0.39%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.35%) Photoshop
6 7 (0.31%) Trello
7 6 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 4 (0.17%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.087%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.087%) Sketch
10 1 (0.044%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.044%) GNU Octave
10 1 (0.044%) MicroStation
10 1 (0.044%) PTC Creo
10 1 (0.044%) Revit
10 1 (0.044%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 77 (3.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 27 (1.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 10 (0.44%) Dynamics NAV
4 8 (0.35%) Dynamics AX
5 5 (0.22%) Maximo
6 4 (0.17%) Elite 3E
6 4 (0.17%) Visualfiles
7 3 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
8 2 (0.087%) Dynamics GP
8 2 (0.087%) NEC Housing
8 2 (0.087%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.087%) SystmOne
9 1 (0.044%) Payment Gateway
9 1 (0.044%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 2,287 (100.00%) Azure
2 352 (15.39%) AWS
3 317 (13.86%) Power Platform
4 303 (13.25%) Serverless
5 255 (11.15%) Azure Service Bus
6 227 (9.93%) Azure Logic Apps
7 224 (9.79%) Azure Functions
8 205 (8.96%) Dynamics 365
9 190 (8.31%) PaaS
10 170 (7.43%) Microsoft 365
11 167 (7.30%) Azure API Management
11 167 (7.30%) IBM Cloud
12 161 (7.04%) GCP
13 153 (6.69%) GitHub
14 130 (5.68%) SaaS
15 128 (5.60%) IaaS
16 111 (4.85%) Azure Data Factory
17 102 (4.46%) PowerApps
18 94 (4.11%) Power Automate
19 88 (3.85%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 92 (4.02%) Firewall
2 63 (2.75%) DNS
2 63 (2.75%) Network Security
3 35 (1.53%) WAN
4 34 (1.49%) VPN
5 32 (1.40%) LAN
6 31 (1.36%) TCP/IP
7 18 (0.79%) HTTP
8 16 (0.70%) Internet
9 14 (0.61%) Wireshark
9 14 (0.61%) WLAN
10 11 (0.48%) NGFW
11 10 (0.44%) Wireless
12 9 (0.39%) Intranet
13 7 (0.31%) IPv4
14 4 (0.17%) BGP
14 4 (0.17%) MQTT
14 4 (0.17%) Remote Desktop
14 4 (0.17%) SAN
15 3 (0.13%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 589 (25.75%) SQL Server
2 185 (8.09%) Relational Database
3 179 (7.83%) NoSQL
4 175 (7.65%) PostgreSQL
5 164 (7.17%) Data Warehouse
6 157 (6.86%) Power BI
7 156 (6.82%) MongoDB
8 141 (6.17%) Azure SQL Database
9 125 (5.47%) DB2
10 78 (3.41%) BigQuery
11 73 (3.19%) Looker
12 53 (2.32%) Data Lake
13 52 (2.27%) Data Vault
14 49 (2.14%) MySQL
15 47 (2.06%) Delta Lake
16 31 (1.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 24 (1.05%) Big Data
17 24 (1.05%) SQL Server Analysis Services
18 21 (0.92%) Elasticsearch
19 20 (0.87%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 400 (17.49%) Git
2 178 (7.78%) JIRA
3 166 (7.26%) Jenkins
4 163 (7.13%) Visual Studio
5 85 (3.72%) Team Foundation Server
6 62 (2.71%) Selenium
7 52 (2.27%) GitLab
7 52 (2.27%) Postman
8 51 (2.23%) NUnit
9 41 (1.79%) Jasmine
10 39 (1.71%) TeamCity
11 29 (1.27%) Octopus Deploy
12 28 (1.22%) Karma Test Runner
12 28 (1.22%) Visual Studio Code
13 21 (0.92%) SonarQube
14 19 (0.83%) JMeter
15 18 (0.79%) SoapUI
16 17 (0.74%) Bitbucket
16 17 (0.74%) Moq
17 15 (0.66%) Cypress.io
General
1 471 (20.59%) Social Skills
2 335 (14.65%) Finance
3 225 (9.84%) Public Sector
4 189 (8.26%) Analytical Skills
5 100 (4.37%) Retail
6 76 (3.32%) Law
7 73 (3.19%) Billing
8 66 (2.89%) Marketing
9 60 (2.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 60 (2.62%) Legal
10 46 (2.01%) Manufacturing
11 41 (1.79%) Banking
12 35 (1.53%) Back Office
13 34 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
14 33 (1.44%) Organisational Skills
15 22 (0.96%) Local Government
16 21 (0.92%) Police
17 20 (0.87%) Electronics
17 20 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
18 19 (0.83%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 911 (39.83%) Developer
2 452 (19.76%) Senior
3 260 (11.37%) Lead
4 250 (10.93%) .NET Developer
5 212 (9.27%) Full Stack Developer
6 202 (8.83%) Senior Developer
7 198 (8.66%) DevOps Engineer
8 194 (8.48%) Azure Engineer
9 183 (8.00%) Azure Developer
10 178 (7.78%) C# Developer
11 147 (6.43%) Architect
12 146 (6.38%) Software Developer
13 123 (5.38%) Analyst
14 116 (5.07%) Data Engineer
15 113 (4.94%) C# .NET Developer
16 110 (4.81%) Azure DevOps Engineer
17 109 (4.77%) Cloud Engineer
18 107 (4.68%) Senior .NET Developer
19 102 (4.46%) Software Engineer
20 84 (3.67%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,033 (45.17%) .NET
2 481 (21.03%) ASP.NET
3 419 (18.32%) HTML
4 408 (17.84%) CSS
5 406 (17.75%) AngularJS
6 389 (17.01%) React
7 337 (14.74%) .NET Core
8 335 (14.65%) .NET Framework
9 303 (13.25%) REST
10 258 (11.28%) Web Services
11 211 (9.23%) Vue
12 207 (9.05%) jQuery
13 200 (8.75%) Node.js
14 193 (8.44%) Entity Framework
15 189 (8.26%) Twitter Bootstrap
16 182 (7.96%) RESTful
17 175 (7.65%) ASP.NET Core
18 174 (7.61%) JSON
19 136 (5.95%) XML
20 125 (5.47%) Ember.js
Miscellaneous
1 204 (8.92%) Data Structures
2 198 (8.66%) Product Ownership
3 193 (8.44%) Hybrid Cloud
4 169 (7.39%) Blockchain
5 135 (5.90%) Algorithms
6 108 (4.72%) Public Cloud
7 76 (3.32%) Cloud Native
8 65 (2.84%) Self-Motivation
9 55 (2.40%) Management Information System
10 51 (2.23%) Distributed Systems
11 49 (2.14%) Greenfield Project
11 49 (2.14%) Onboarding
12 46 (2.01%) Reinsurance
13 42 (1.84%) Enterprise Software
14 41 (1.79%) Virtual Team
15 30 (1.31%) Low-Code
15 30 (1.31%) Mobile App
16 23 (1.01%) Data Centre
17 18 (0.79%) Private Cloud
18 17 (0.74%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 306 (13.38%) Windows
2 259 (11.32%) Linux
3 155 (6.78%) Android
4 145 (6.34%) Apple iOS
5 56 (2.45%) Windows Server
6 51 (2.23%) CentOS
7 47 (2.06%) Debian
8 40 (1.75%) Alpine Linux
9 24 (1.05%) VMS
10 12 (0.52%) Windows 10
11 10 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
12 7 (0.31%) SUSE
13 4 (0.17%) AIX
13 4 (0.17%) Mac OS
13 4 (0.17%) Unix
13 4 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
14 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
15 2 (0.087%) Ubuntu
15 2 (0.087%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,263 (98.95%) DevOps
2 1,095 (47.88%) Agile
3 884 (38.65%) CI/CD
4 478 (20.90%) Scrum
5 392 (17.14%) MVC
6 388 (16.97%) Problem-Solving
7 347 (15.17%) Full Stack Development
8 328 (14.34%) Software Engineering
9 312 (13.64%) Infrastructure as Code
10 278 (12.16%) Web Development
11 254 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
12 253 (11.06%) Artificial Intelligence
13 251 (10.98%) Test Automation
14 235 (10.28%) Microservices
15 232 (10.14%) ETL
16 223 (9.75%) Design Patterns
17 222 (9.71%) API Management
18 208 (9.09%) SOLID
19 207 (9.05%) Data Modelling
20 204 (8.92%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 1,022 (44.69%) C#
2 788 (34.46%) SQL
3 691 (30.21%) JavaScript
4 433 (18.93%) Python
5 295 (12.90%) PowerShell
6 212 (9.27%) Java
7 200 (8.75%) TypeScript
8 110 (4.81%) T-SQL
9 102 (4.46%) Bicep
10 99 (4.33%) Bash
11 54 (2.36%) VB.NET
12 37 (1.62%) Go
13 36 (1.57%) C++
14 32 (1.40%) Ruby
14 32 (1.40%) VB
15 29 (1.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 28 (1.22%) VB6
17 27 (1.18%) PHP
18 23 (1.01%) C
19 18 (0.79%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 251 (10.98%) Degree
2 177 (7.74%) Security Cleared
3 156 (6.82%) Azure Certification
4 137 (5.99%) SC Cleared
5 102 (4.46%) Microsoft Certification
6 63 (2.75%) Computer Science Degree
7 54 (2.36%) BPSS Clearance
8 42 (1.84%) MCSE
9 41 (1.79%) MCSA
10 27 (1.18%) TOGAF Certification
11 25 (1.09%) DBS Check
12 21 (0.92%) ISTQB
13 19 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
14 18 (0.79%) CTC Cleared
15 14 (0.61%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 14 (0.61%) CCSP
15 14 (0.61%) CEH
15 14 (0.61%) CISSP
15 14 (0.61%) SANS
15 14 (0.61%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 312 (13.64%) QA
2 72 (3.15%) Data Quality
3 41 (1.79%) Accessibility
4 28 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 19 (0.83%) PCI DSS
6 18 (0.79%) GDPR
7 16 (0.70%) PMO
7 16 (0.70%) SLA
8 14 (0.61%) NIST
9 9 (0.39%) NCSC
10 8 (0.35%) ISO 9001
11 4 (0.17%) WCAG
12 3 (0.13%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.087%) EMIR
13 2 (0.087%) IEC 61508
13 2 (0.087%) ISO/IEC 12207
13 2 (0.087%) MiFID
14 1 (0.044%) IFRS
14 1 (0.044%) ISO 15022
14 1 (0.044%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 334 (14.60%) Docker
2 112 (4.90%) Active Directory
3 69 (3.02%) Virtual Machines
4 40 (1.75%) Virtual Desktop
5 28 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
6 16 (0.70%) Firmware
7 14 (0.61%) vSphere
8 13 (0.57%) VMware ESXi
9 10 (0.44%) Hyper-V
10 7 (0.31%) Embedded Firmware
11 4 (0.17%) VMware Server
12 3 (0.13%) VirtualBox
13 2 (0.087%) XenApp
13 2 (0.087%) XenDesktop
14 1 (0.044%) NFS
Systems Management
1 424 (18.54%) Terraform
2 369 (16.13%) Kubernetes
3 86 (3.76%) Ansible
4 30 (1.31%) Progress Chef
4 30 (1.31%) Prometheus
5 27 (1.18%) Puppet
6 23 (1.01%) Grafana
7 22 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
8 14 (0.61%) Nmap
9 13 (0.57%) Istio
10 11 (0.48%) MIIS
11 8 (0.35%) Docker Swarm
11 8 (0.35%) Kibana
12 7 (0.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 7 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
13 5 (0.22%) HP Quality Center
13 5 (0.22%) logstash
13 5 (0.22%) Packer
14 3 (0.13%) Nagios
14 3 (0.13%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 864 (37.78%) Microsoft
2 177 (7.74%) IBM
3 168 (7.35%) Red Hat
4 135 (5.90%) Google
5 125 (5.47%) Databricks
6 100 (4.37%) Oracle
7 54 (2.36%) Informatica
8 53 (2.32%) VMware
9 42 (1.84%) Citrix
10 40 (1.75%) Sitecore
11 37 (1.62%) Optimizely
12 27 (1.18%) Sparx
13 26 (1.14%) Cisco
14 25 (1.09%) Splunk
15 24 (1.05%) SAP
16 20 (0.87%) SolarWinds
17 18 (0.79%) Zscaler
18 14 (0.61%) Atlassian
18 14 (0.61%) Qualys
18 14 (0.61%) Thycotic