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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 121 97 114
Rank change year-on-year -24 +17 -11
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 2,277 3,450 5,239
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.28% 3.47% 3.22%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.43% 8.04% 6.64%
Number of salaries quoted 1,744 2,138 3,328
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 35,437 42,898 78,888
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.47% 43.13% 48.46%
Number of salaries quoted 26,650 28,186 41,598
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 £96,250 £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 20 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 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 -17 2,037 £61,500 -5.38% 481
UK excluding London -26 1,543 £60,000 - 366
Work from Home -18 999 £60,000 -7.69% 299
London -34 595 £72,500 - 161
South East -9 428 £57,500 -11.54% 74
North of England -3 425 £60,000 -4.00% 117
North West +19 276 £60,000 -7.69% 49
Midlands 0 249 £59,250 +7.73% 78
South West -1 248 £62,500 +4.17% 35
West Midlands +23 181 £58,500 +6.36% 59
Yorkshire -18 125 £55,000 -10.10% 50
East of England -33 74 £50,000 -14.89% 14
East Midlands -33 68 £60,000 +4.35% 18
Wales -32 57 £61,250 +36.11% 24
Scotland -144 56 £65,000 +15.56% 15
North East +10 26 £55,000 -8.33% 18
Northern Ireland -10 4 £65,000 -10.34% 11
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 (4.52%) IIS
2 90 (3.95%) SharePoint
3 68 (2.99%) CMS
4 53 (2.33%) Umbraco
5 40 (1.76%) Sitecore CMS
6 38 (1.67%) Kentico
7 36 (1.58%) Headless CMS
8 33 (1.45%) Confluence
9 24 (1.05%) Microsoft Exchange
10 21 (0.92%) Apache Spark
11 10 (0.44%) EPiServer
12 9 (0.40%) Apache
13 8 (0.35%) Apache Solr
14 6 (0.26%) NServiceBus
15 5 (0.22%) IBM Notes
16 4 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
17 3 (0.13%) SharePoint Server
18 2 (0.088%) Moodle
18 2 (0.088%) SAS
18 2 (0.088%) WebSphere
Applications
1 29 (1.27%) Microsoft Office
2 22 (0.97%) Microsoft Excel
3 14 (0.61%) Microsoft Project
4 9 (0.40%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.35%) Photoshop
6 7 (0.31%) Trello
7 6 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 4 (0.18%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.088%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.088%) 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 (3.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 27 (1.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 10 (0.44%) Dynamics NAV
4 8 (0.35%) Dynamics AX
5 5 (0.22%) Maximo
6 4 (0.18%) Elite 3E
6 4 (0.18%) Visualfiles
7 3 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
8 2 (0.088%) Dynamics GP
8 2 (0.088%) NEC Housing
8 2 (0.088%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.088%) SystmOne
9 1 (0.044%) Payment Gateway
9 1 (0.044%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 2,277 (100.00%) Azure
2 353 (15.50%) AWS
3 317 (13.92%) Power Platform
4 301 (13.22%) Serverless
5 254 (11.16%) Azure Service Bus
6 226 (9.93%) Azure Logic Apps
7 223 (9.79%) Azure Functions
8 205 (9.00%) Dynamics 365
9 188 (8.26%) PaaS
10 168 (7.38%) Microsoft 365
11 167 (7.33%) Azure API Management
11 167 (7.33%) IBM Cloud
12 161 (7.07%) GCP
13 154 (6.76%) GitHub
14 131 (5.75%) SaaS
15 126 (5.53%) IaaS
16 111 (4.87%) Azure Data Factory
17 102 (4.48%) PowerApps
18 94 (4.13%) Power Automate
19 88 (3.86%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 92 (4.04%) Firewall
2 64 (2.81%) DNS
3 63 (2.77%) Network Security
4 35 (1.54%) WAN
5 32 (1.41%) LAN
5 32 (1.41%) VPN
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 10 (0.44%) Wireless
11 9 (0.40%) Intranet
11 9 (0.40%) NGFW
12 7 (0.31%) IPv4
13 4 (0.18%) BGP
13 4 (0.18%) MQTT
13 4 (0.18%) Remote Desktop
13 4 (0.18%) SAN
14 3 (0.13%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 587 (25.78%) SQL Server
2 185 (8.12%) Relational Database
3 178 (7.82%) NoSQL
4 175 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
5 164 (7.20%) Data Warehouse
6 157 (6.90%) Power BI
7 156 (6.85%) MongoDB
8 140 (6.15%) Azure SQL Database
9 125 (5.49%) DB2
10 78 (3.43%) BigQuery
11 73 (3.21%) Looker
12 53 (2.33%) Data Lake
13 52 (2.28%) Data Vault
14 49 (2.15%) 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 (0.88%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 397 (17.44%) Git
2 179 (7.86%) JIRA
3 164 (7.20%) Jenkins
4 163 (7.16%) Visual Studio
5 85 (3.73%) Team Foundation Server
6 60 (2.64%) Selenium
7 52 (2.28%) GitLab
8 51 (2.24%) NUnit
8 51 (2.24%) Postman
9 41 (1.80%) Jasmine
10 36 (1.58%) TeamCity
11 28 (1.23%) Karma Test Runner
11 28 (1.23%) Visual Studio Code
12 27 (1.19%) Octopus Deploy
13 22 (0.97%) SonarQube
14 18 (0.79%) Bitbucket
14 18 (0.79%) JMeter
14 18 (0.79%) SoapUI
15 17 (0.75%) Moq
16 15 (0.66%) Cypress.io
General
1 471 (20.69%) Social Skills
2 332 (14.58%) Finance
3 227 (9.97%) Public Sector
4 189 (8.30%) Analytical Skills
5 99 (4.35%) Retail
6 76 (3.34%) Law
7 73 (3.21%) Billing
8 66 (2.90%) Marketing
9 60 (2.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 60 (2.64%) Legal
10 46 (2.02%) Manufacturing
11 41 (1.80%) Banking
12 35 (1.54%) Back Office
13 34 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
14 33 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
15 22 (0.97%) Local Government
16 21 (0.92%) Police
17 20 (0.88%) Electronics
17 20 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
18 19 (0.83%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 907 (39.83%) Developer
2 452 (19.85%) Senior
3 258 (11.33%) Lead
4 247 (10.85%) .NET Developer
5 212 (9.31%) Full Stack Developer
6 202 (8.87%) Senior Developer
7 197 (8.65%) DevOps Engineer
8 192 (8.43%) Azure Engineer
9 183 (8.04%) Azure Developer
10 177 (7.77%) C# Developer
11 145 (6.37%) Architect
11 145 (6.37%) Software Developer
12 123 (5.40%) Analyst
13 116 (5.09%) Data Engineer
14 112 (4.92%) C# .NET Developer
15 109 (4.79%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 108 (4.74%) Cloud Engineer
17 107 (4.70%) Senior .NET Developer
18 102 (4.48%) Software Engineer
19 84 (3.69%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,028 (45.15%) .NET
2 481 (21.12%) ASP.NET
3 419 (18.40%) HTML
4 408 (17.92%) CSS
5 406 (17.83%) AngularJS
6 389 (17.08%) React
7 336 (14.76%) .NET Core
8 333 (14.62%) .NET Framework
9 301 (13.22%) REST
10 258 (11.33%) Web Services
11 211 (9.27%) Vue
12 207 (9.09%) jQuery
13 199 (8.74%) Node.js
14 192 (8.43%) Entity Framework
15 189 (8.30%) Twitter Bootstrap
16 181 (7.95%) RESTful
17 175 (7.69%) ASP.NET Core
18 172 (7.55%) JSON
19 135 (5.93%) XML
20 125 (5.49%) Ember.js
Miscellaneous
1 204 (8.96%) Data Structures
2 199 (8.74%) Product Ownership
3 192 (8.43%) Hybrid Cloud
4 169 (7.42%) Blockchain
5 135 (5.93%) Algorithms
6 106 (4.66%) Public Cloud
7 76 (3.34%) Cloud Native
8 65 (2.85%) Self-Motivation
9 56 (2.46%) Management Information System
10 52 (2.28%) Distributed Systems
11 50 (2.20%) Onboarding
12 48 (2.11%) Greenfield Project
13 46 (2.02%) Reinsurance
14 43 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
15 41 (1.80%) Virtual Team
16 30 (1.32%) Low-Code
17 28 (1.23%) Mobile App
18 22 (0.97%) Data Centre
19 17 (0.75%) FMCG
19 17 (0.75%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 305 (13.39%) Windows
2 257 (11.29%) Linux
3 155 (6.81%) Android
4 145 (6.37%) Apple iOS
5 57 (2.50%) Windows Server
6 51 (2.24%) CentOS
7 47 (2.06%) Debian
8 40 (1.76%) Alpine Linux
9 23 (1.01%) VMS
10 13 (0.57%) Windows 10
11 10 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
12 7 (0.31%) SUSE
13 4 (0.18%) AIX
13 4 (0.18%) Mac OS
13 4 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
14 3 (0.13%) Unix
14 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
15 2 (0.088%) Ubuntu
15 2 (0.088%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,253 (98.95%) DevOps
2 1,089 (47.83%) Agile
3 876 (38.47%) CI/CD
4 476 (20.90%) Scrum
5 392 (17.22%) MVC
6 388 (17.04%) Problem-Solving
7 347 (15.24%) Full Stack Development
8 327 (14.36%) Software Engineering
9 310 (13.61%) Infrastructure as Code
10 278 (12.21%) Web Development
11 254 (11.16%) Continuous Integration
12 252 (11.07%) Artificial Intelligence
13 250 (10.98%) Test Automation
14 234 (10.28%) Microservices
15 232 (10.19%) ETL
16 222 (9.75%) Design Patterns
17 221 (9.71%) API Management
18 208 (9.13%) SOLID
19 207 (9.09%) Data Modelling
20 205 (9.00%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 1,015 (44.58%) C#
2 784 (34.43%) SQL
3 690 (30.30%) JavaScript
4 432 (18.97%) Python
5 291 (12.78%) PowerShell
6 211 (9.27%) Java
7 200 (8.78%) TypeScript
8 110 (4.83%) T-SQL
9 102 (4.48%) Bicep
10 97 (4.26%) Bash
11 54 (2.37%) VB.NET
12 37 (1.62%) Go
13 36 (1.58%) C++
14 32 (1.41%) VB
15 30 (1.32%) Ruby
16 29 (1.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 28 (1.23%) VB6
18 27 (1.19%) PHP
19 23 (1.01%) C
20 18 (0.79%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 251 (11.02%) Degree
2 177 (7.77%) Security Cleared
3 155 (6.81%) Azure Certification
4 137 (6.02%) SC Cleared
5 101 (4.44%) Microsoft Certification
6 63 (2.77%) Computer Science Degree
7 54 (2.37%) BPSS Clearance
8 41 (1.80%) MCSA
8 41 (1.80%) MCSE
9 27 (1.19%) TOGAF Certification
10 25 (1.10%) DBS Check
11 21 (0.92%) ISTQB
12 19 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
13 18 (0.79%) CTC Cleared
14 14 (0.61%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 14 (0.61%) CCSP
14 14 (0.61%) CEH
14 14 (0.61%) CISSP
14 14 (0.61%) SANS
14 14 (0.61%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 310 (13.61%) QA
2 72 (3.16%) Data Quality
3 39 (1.71%) Accessibility
4 28 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 20 (0.88%) PCI DSS
6 18 (0.79%) GDPR
7 16 (0.70%) PMO
7 16 (0.70%) SLA
8 15 (0.66%) NIST
9 10 (0.44%) NCSC
10 8 (0.35%) ISO 9001
11 4 (0.18%) WCAG
12 3 (0.13%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.088%) EMIR
13 2 (0.088%) IEC 61508
13 2 (0.088%) ISO/IEC 12207
13 2 (0.088%) MiFID
14 1 (0.044%) Cyber Essentials
14 1 (0.044%) IFRS
14 1 (0.044%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 333 (14.62%) Docker
2 112 (4.92%) Active Directory
3 68 (2.99%) Virtual Machines
4 39 (1.71%) Virtual Desktop
5 26 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
6 16 (0.70%) Firmware
7 12 (0.53%) vSphere
8 11 (0.48%) VMware ESXi
9 10 (0.44%) Hyper-V
10 7 (0.31%) Embedded Firmware
11 4 (0.18%) VMware Server
12 3 (0.13%) VirtualBox
12 3 (0.13%) XenApp
12 3 (0.13%) XenDesktop
13 1 (0.044%) NFS
Systems Management
1 422 (18.53%) Terraform
2 368 (16.16%) Kubernetes
3 88 (3.86%) Ansible
4 30 (1.32%) Progress Chef
4 30 (1.32%) Prometheus
5 27 (1.19%) Puppet
6 23 (1.01%) Grafana
7 22 (0.97%) 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
1 862 (37.86%) Microsoft
2 177 (7.77%) IBM
3 168 (7.38%) Red Hat
4 135 (5.93%) Google
5 125 (5.49%) Databricks
6 100 (4.39%) Oracle
7 54 (2.37%) Informatica
8 50 (2.20%) VMware
9 41 (1.80%) Citrix
10 40 (1.76%) Sitecore
11 37 (1.62%) Optimizely
12 27 (1.19%) Sparx
13 26 (1.14%) Cisco
14 25 (1.10%) Splunk
15 24 (1.05%) SAP
16 20 (0.88%) SolarWinds
17 19 (0.83%) Zscaler
18 15 (0.66%) Atlassian
19 14 (0.61%) Qualys
19 14 (0.61%) ServiceNow