Side-by-side distribution
Azure
$150,000
median · per year, annualized USD
- Disclosing
- 9%
- Live roles
- 212
DevOps
$190,000
median · per year, annualized USD
- Disclosing
- 36.3%
- Live roles
- 3,666
Highest-paying jobs
Security Engineer - Azure Government
Staff Full-Stack Software Engineer (.NET & Azure)
Azure Data Engineer in St. Louis, MO
Cloud Partner Solutions Engineer (Microsoft Azure)
Staff Partner Engineer, Azure
Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Azure)
Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer (Azure &.NET)
Senior Azure Cloud Engineer
Azure Cloud Engineer
Azure Cloud/DevOps Engineer
Highest-paying jobs
Platform Engineer
Senior Staff+ Software Engineer, Kubernetes Platform
Senior Security Platform Engineer I
Principal .NET Software Engineer- Cloud Payments Platform
Principal .NET Software Engineer - Cloud Payments Platform
Software Engineer, Platform
Infrastructure and Platform Development Engineer
Agent Platform Engineer
Principal Engineer, AI Platform
Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Inference & Training Platform)
Top companies hiring
| Company | Median | Roles |
|---|---|---|
|
LIGHTFEATHER IO LLC
|
$150,000 | 4 |
|
Ripple
|
$200,250 | 2 |
|
Accenture Federal Services
|
$143,650 | 2 |
|
Snowflake
|
$190,781 | 1 |
|
xAI
|
$179,000 | 1 |
|
Databricks
|
$178,325 | 1 |
|
Vaxcyte
|
$177,000 | 1 |
|
MLabs
|
$175,000 | 1 |
Top companies hiring
| Company | Median | Roles |
|---|---|---|
|
Accenture Federal Services
|
$151,800 | 29 |
Air Apps
|
$65,184 | 22 |
Captivation Software
|
$200,000 | 21 |
Reddit
|
$244,500 | 18 |
Anduril Industries
|
$222,000 | 14 |
Coinbase
|
$219,873 | 14 |
Airwallex
|
$162,878 | 13 |
|
Anthropic
|
$362,500 | 12 |
DevOps salary by location
| Location | Median | Roles |
|---|---|---|
| San Francisco | $225,950 | 252 |
| Seattle | $212,500 | 62 |
| New York | $208,000 | 212 |
| Los Angeles | $200,650 | 16 |
| Austin | $200,450 | 26 |
| Chicago | $186,750 | 30 |
| Denver | $186,000 | 26 |
| Boston | $181,250 | 58 |
| Toronto | $165,000 | 48 |
| Atlanta | $161,500 | 8 |
Azure vs DevOps: which pays more?
The median for Azure is $150,000 per year (typically $127,625–$177,663), versus $190,000 for DevOps ($151,040–$225,000). That puts DevOps about 27% ahead at the median.
Both figures are computed live from active listings on JobsRadar and normalized to annualized USD, so Azure and DevOps are compared on equal terms regardless of the currency each role was originally posted in. Only roles that publish a salary range feed the medians; numbers refresh every few hours as new roles post and older ones close, so this comparison reflects the market right now rather than a fixed survey. Use it as a directional benchmark when weighing one path against the other.