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 20 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 751 661 818
Rank change year-on-year -90 +157 -285
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure DevOps Engineer 133 326 458
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.33% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.36% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 122 254 383
10th Percentile £51,250 £55,750 £53,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £65,063 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +14.29% +12.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £92,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £93,625 £100,000 £93,750
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 94,627 91,047 156,403
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.71% 91.54% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 67,562 57,571 85,106
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,750 £80,000 £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 20 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 20 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 -82 125 £70,000 -12.50% 31
UK excluding London -78 73 £70,000 -6.67% 15
Work from Home -29 72 £70,576 -8.93% 19
London +10 51 £68,250 -17.27% 17
South East -19 35 £72,500 -3.33% 9
North of England +16 20 £55,000 -31.25% 3
North West -8 13 £52,500 -34.38% 1
Midlands -5 11 £56,250 -18.77% 3
West Midlands +10 6 £82,500 +19.13% 2
East of England +8 5 £67,500 -3.57%
East Midlands - 5 £55,000 - 1
Yorkshire +66 4 £70,576 +17.63% 2
North East - 3 £55,000 -
South West -34 2 £58,750 -18.97%

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

For the 6 months to 20 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
2 109 (81.95%) Azure DevOps
3 79 (59.40%) CI/CD
4 74 (55.64%) Terraform
5 72 (54.14%) Kubernetes
6 59 (44.36%) Infrastructure as Code
7 56 (42.11%) PowerShell
8 55 (41.35%) Python
9 53 (39.85%) Docker
10 44 (33.08%) Microsoft
11 43 (32.33%) Agile
12 39 (29.32%) Git
13 35 (26.32%) Containerisation
14 34 (25.56%) Social Skills
14 34 (25.56%) SaaS
15 32 (24.06%) SQL
15 32 (24.06%) Problem-Solving
16 27 (20.30%) PaaS
17 26 (19.55%) Bash
18 24 (18.05%) Jenkins
18 24 (18.05%) Platform Engineering
19 23 (17.29%) Ansible
20 21 (15.79%) Analytics
20 21 (15.79%) Azure SQL Database
20 21 (15.79%) .NET
21 20 (15.04%) C#
21 20 (15.04%) Linux
21 20 (15.04%) Finance
22 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 2 (1.50%) Confluence
3 1 (0.75%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 133 (100.00%) Azure
2 109 (81.95%) Azure DevOps
3 34 (25.56%) SaaS
4 27 (20.30%) PaaS
5 18 (13.53%) Azure AKS
6 17 (12.78%) Entra ID
7 16 (12.03%) GitHub
8 14 (10.53%) Power Platform
9 13 (9.77%) IaaS
10 12 (9.02%) AWS
10 12 (9.02%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 12 (9.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 11 (8.27%) GitHub Actions
12 10 (7.52%) Azure Data Factory
13 9 (6.77%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
14 7 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
14 7 (5.26%) Serverless
15 6 (4.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 6 (4.51%) Azure Pipelines
16 5 (3.76%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 19 (14.29%) Network Security
2 17 (12.78%) Firewall
3 16 (12.03%) 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 21 (15.79%) Azure SQL Database
2 19 (14.29%) SQL Server
3 12 (9.02%) Power BI
4 10 (7.52%) Data Lake
4 10 (7.52%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (6.77%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 8 (6.02%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (3.76%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (3.01%) MariaDB
8 4 (3.01%) MongoDB
8 4 (3.01%) MySQL
8 4 (3.01%) Redis
9 2 (1.50%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.75%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.75%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 39 (29.32%) Git
2 24 (18.05%) Jenkins
3 12 (9.02%) TeamCity
4 10 (7.52%) GitLab
5 8 (6.02%) MSBuild
6 6 (4.51%) Octopus Deploy
7 5 (3.76%) JIRA
8 4 (3.01%) git-flow
8 4 (3.01%) Subversion
8 4 (3.01%) Team Foundation Server
8 4 (3.01%) Visual Studio Team System
9 3 (2.26%) Bitbucket
10 2 (1.50%) Maven
11 1 (0.75%) CircleCI
11 1 (0.75%) Vagrant
General
1 34 (25.56%) Social Skills
2 20 (15.04%) Finance
3 12 (9.02%) Public Sector
4 6 (4.51%) Analytical Skills
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 3 (2.26%) Banking
8 2 (1.50%) Tech for Good
9 1 (0.75%) Games
9 1 (0.75%) Law
9 1 (0.75%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (15.79%) .NET
2 15 (11.28%) ARM Templates
2 15 (11.28%) YAML
3 9 (6.77%) JSON
4 7 (5.26%) React
5 6 (4.51%) Node.js
6 5 (3.76%) LDAP
6 5 (3.76%) REST
6 5 (3.76%) SAML
6 5 (3.76%) XML
7 4 (3.01%) .NET Core
8 3 (2.26%) .NET Framework
8 3 (2.26%) ASP.NET
9 2 (1.50%) ADO
9 2 (1.50%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (1.50%) OAuth
10 1 (0.75%) ASP.NET Web API
10 1 (0.75%) CSS
10 1 (0.75%) HTML
10 1 (0.75%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 10 (7.52%) Enterprise Software
2 9 (6.77%) Cloud Native
3 5 (3.76%) Client/Server
3 5 (3.76%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (3.76%) Private Cloud
4 4 (3.01%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 4 (3.01%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 3 (2.26%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.50%) Product Ownership
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%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 20 (15.04%) Linux
2 12 (9.02%) 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 79 (59.40%) CI/CD
3 59 (44.36%) Infrastructure as Code
4 43 (32.33%) Agile
5 35 (26.32%) Containerisation
6 32 (24.06%) Problem-Solving
7 24 (18.05%) Platform Engineering
8 21 (15.79%) Analytics
9 19 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 17 (12.78%) Continuous Integration
11 16 (12.03%) Business Intelligence
12 15 (11.28%) Scrum
12 15 (11.28%) Software Engineering
13 14 (10.53%) Infrastructure Automation
14 11 (8.27%) Configuration Management
14 11 (8.27%) Fintech
14 11 (8.27%) Stakeholder Management
15 10 (7.52%) Collaborative Culture
15 10 (7.52%) Data Analytics
15 10 (7.52%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 56 (42.11%) PowerShell
2 55 (41.35%) Python
3 32 (24.06%) SQL
4 26 (19.55%) Bash
5 20 (15.04%) C#
6 13 (9.77%) Bicep
7 11 (8.27%) Go
8 9 (6.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 9 (6.77%) U-SQL
9 8 (6.02%) Java
10 7 (5.26%) JavaScript
10 7 (5.26%) Ruby
11 2 (1.50%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.75%) Groovy
12 1 (0.75%) PHP
12 1 (0.75%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (9.77%) 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%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (0.75%) NIST
2 1 (0.75%) PCI DSS
2 1 (0.75%) SLA
System Software
1 53 (39.85%) Docker
2 10 (7.52%) Active Directory
3 4 (3.01%) Hyper-V
4 3 (2.26%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.75%) NFS
Systems Management
1 74 (55.64%) Terraform
2 72 (54.14%) Kubernetes
3 23 (17.29%) Ansible
4 11 (8.27%) Prometheus
5 9 (6.77%) Grafana
5 9 (6.77%) Progress Chef
5 9 (6.77%) Puppet
6 6 (4.51%) Docker Swarm
7 4 (3.01%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (1.50%) Istio
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 44 (33.08%) Microsoft
2 10 (7.52%) 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%) Atlassian
6 3 (2.26%) Splunk
6 3 (2.26%) Veeam
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