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 26 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
26 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 777 662 832
Rank change year-on-year -115 +170 -312
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure DevOps Engineer 134 321 451
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.33% 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.36% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 122 254 375
10th Percentile £51,250 £55,750 £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% +12.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £93,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £93,625 £100,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +11.11% +12.50%

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 96,558 89,715 157,967
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.78% 91.47% 96.07%
Number of salaries quoted 68,983 56,849 84,574
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,173
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.63% +5.63%

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 26 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 26 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 -105 126 £70,000 -12.50% 42
UK excluding London -73 74 £70,000 -6.67% 23
Work from Home -56 71 £71,500 -7.74% 22
London +15 51 £68,250 -17.27% 25
South East -24 37 £72,500 -3.33% 14
North of England +21 19 £55,000 -31.25% 5
North West +1 13 £52,500 -34.38% 1
Midlands -8 11 £56,250 -18.77% 4
West Midlands +10 6 £82,500 +19.13% 3
East of England +15 5 £67,500 -3.57%
East Midlands - 5 £55,000 - 1
Yorkshire +58 3 £68,750 +14.58% 2
North East - 3 £55,000 - 2
South West -27 2 £58,750 -18.97%

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

For the 6 months to 26 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.

1 134 (100.00%) Azure
1 134 (100.00%) DevOps
2 109 (81.34%) Azure DevOps
3 79 (58.96%) CI/CD
4 75 (55.97%) Terraform
5 71 (52.99%) Kubernetes
6 58 (43.28%) Infrastructure as Code
7 55 (41.04%) Python
8 54 (40.30%) PowerShell
8 54 (40.30%) Docker
9 45 (33.58%) Microsoft
10 41 (30.60%) Agile
11 37 (27.61%) Git
12 35 (26.12%) Containerisation
13 34 (25.37%) Social Skills
13 34 (25.37%) SaaS
14 33 (24.63%) SQL
15 30 (22.39%) Problem-Solving
16 27 (20.15%) PaaS
17 24 (17.91%) Bash
17 24 (17.91%) Jenkins
17 24 (17.91%) Platform Engineering
18 23 (17.16%) Ansible
19 22 (16.42%) Azure SQL Database
20 21 (15.67%) Analytics
21 20 (14.93%) C#
21 20 (14.93%) SQL Server
21 20 (14.93%) Linux
21 20 (14.93%) Network Security
22 19 (14.18%) .NET

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 (2.99%) IIS
2 2 (1.49%) Confluence
3 1 (0.75%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 134 (100.00%) Azure
2 109 (81.34%) Azure DevOps
3 34 (25.37%) SaaS
4 27 (20.15%) PaaS
5 17 (12.69%) Azure AKS
5 17 (12.69%) Entra ID
6 16 (11.94%) GitHub
7 14 (10.45%) Power Platform
8 13 (9.70%) IaaS
9 12 (8.96%) AWS
9 12 (8.96%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 12 (8.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 11 (8.21%) GitHub Actions
11 10 (7.46%) Azure Data Factory
12 9 (6.72%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
13 7 (5.22%) AWS CloudFormation
13 7 (5.22%) Serverless
14 6 (4.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 6 (4.48%) Azure Pipelines
15 5 (3.73%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 20 (14.93%) Network Security
2 17 (12.69%) DNS
2 17 (12.69%) Firewall
3 10 (7.46%) TCP/IP
4 9 (6.72%) VPN
5 8 (5.97%) LAN
5 8 (5.97%) WAN
6 4 (2.99%) IPv4
6 4 (2.99%) WLAN
7 1 (0.75%) HTTP
7 1 (0.75%) Internet
7 1 (0.75%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (16.42%) Azure SQL Database
2 20 (14.93%) SQL Server
3 12 (8.96%) Power BI
4 10 (7.46%) Data Lake
4 10 (7.46%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (6.72%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 8 (5.97%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (3.73%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (2.99%) MariaDB
8 4 (2.99%) MongoDB
8 4 (2.99%) MySQL
8 4 (2.99%) Redis
9 3 (2.24%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.75%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.75%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 37 (27.61%) Git
2 24 (17.91%) Jenkins
3 12 (8.96%) TeamCity
4 10 (7.46%) GitLab
5 8 (5.97%) MSBuild
6 6 (4.48%) Octopus Deploy
7 5 (3.73%) JIRA
8 4 (2.99%) git-flow
8 4 (2.99%) Subversion
8 4 (2.99%) Team Foundation Server
8 4 (2.99%) Visual Studio Team System
9 3 (2.24%) Bitbucket
10 2 (1.49%) Maven
11 1 (0.75%) CircleCI
11 1 (0.75%) Vagrant
General
1 34 (25.37%) Social Skills
2 18 (13.43%) Finance
3 12 (8.96%) Public Sector
4 5 (3.73%) Electronics
4 5 (3.73%) Manufacturing
4 5 (3.73%) Marketing
4 5 (3.73%) Telecoms
5 4 (2.99%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (2.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.49%) Tech for Good
7 1 (0.75%) Banking
7 1 (0.75%) Games
7 1 (0.75%) Law
7 1 (0.75%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (14.18%) .NET
2 15 (11.19%) ARM Templates
3 13 (9.70%) YAML
4 7 (5.22%) JSON
5 5 (3.73%) LDAP
5 5 (3.73%) React
5 5 (3.73%) REST
5 5 (3.73%) SAML
5 5 (3.73%) XML
6 4 (2.99%) Node.js
7 3 (2.24%) .NET Framework
7 3 (2.24%) ASP.NET
8 2 (1.49%) .NET Core
8 2 (1.49%) ADO
8 2 (1.49%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (1.49%) OAuth
9 1 (0.75%) ASP.NET Web API
9 1 (0.75%) CSS
9 1 (0.75%) HTML
9 1 (0.75%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 10 (7.46%) Cloud Native
1 10 (7.46%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (3.73%) Client/Server
2 5 (3.73%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (3.73%) Private Cloud
3 4 (2.99%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 4 (2.99%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 3 (2.24%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.49%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.75%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.75%) IoT
6 1 (0.75%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.75%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.75%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.75%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.75%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 20 (14.93%) Linux
2 12 (8.96%) Windows
3 8 (5.97%) VMS
4 3 (2.24%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.75%) CentOS
5 1 (0.75%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.75%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (100.00%) DevOps
2 79 (58.96%) CI/CD
3 58 (43.28%) Infrastructure as Code
4 41 (30.60%) Agile
5 35 (26.12%) Containerisation
6 30 (22.39%) Problem-Solving
7 24 (17.91%) Platform Engineering
8 21 (15.67%) Analytics
9 19 (14.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 17 (12.69%) Continuous Integration
11 16 (11.94%) Business Intelligence
12 15 (11.19%) Scrum
12 15 (11.19%) Software Engineering
13 14 (10.45%) Infrastructure Automation
14 11 (8.21%) Fintech
14 11 (8.21%) Stakeholder Management
15 10 (7.46%) Collaborative Culture
15 10 (7.46%) Data Analytics
15 10 (7.46%) Identity Access Management
16 9 (6.72%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 55 (41.04%) Python
2 54 (40.30%) PowerShell
3 33 (24.63%) SQL
4 24 (17.91%) Bash
5 20 (14.93%) C#
6 13 (9.70%) Bicep
7 11 (8.21%) Go
8 10 (7.46%) Java
9 9 (6.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 9 (6.72%) U-SQL
10 7 (5.22%) JavaScript
10 7 (5.22%) Ruby
11 2 (1.49%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.75%) Groovy
12 1 (0.75%) PHP
12 1 (0.75%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (9.70%) Microsoft Certification
2 10 (7.46%) Azure Certification
3 8 (5.97%) Degree
4 7 (5.22%) Security Cleared
5 5 (3.73%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.75%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.97%) 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 54 (40.30%) Docker
2 10 (7.46%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.99%) Hyper-V
4 3 (2.24%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.75%) NFS
Systems Management
1 75 (55.97%) Terraform
2 71 (52.99%) Kubernetes
3 23 (17.16%) Ansible
4 11 (8.21%) Prometheus
5 9 (6.72%) Grafana
5 9 (6.72%) Progress Chef
5 9 (6.72%) Puppet
6 6 (4.48%) Docker Swarm
7 4 (2.99%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (1.49%) 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 45 (33.58%) Microsoft
2 10 (7.46%) Databricks
3 6 (4.48%) Zscaler
4 5 (3.73%) SAP
5 4 (2.99%) Cisco
5 4 (2.99%) Meraki
6 3 (2.24%) Atlassian
6 3 (2.24%) Splunk
6 3 (2.24%) Veeam
7 2 (1.49%) ForgeRock
7 2 (1.49%) Oracle
8 1 (0.75%) Google
8 1 (0.75%) New Relic
8 1 (0.75%) SaltStack