Azure DevOps Job Trends in the East Midlands

Microsoft Azure DevOps
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Azure DevOps skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 123 126
Rank change year-on-year +27 +3 -31
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 72 17 76
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 1.41% 0.78% 1.49%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.53% 2.79% 5.02%
Number of salaries quoted 63 11 64
10th Percentile £36,250 £44,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.45% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,625 £68,125
90th Percentile £77,000 £76,250 £77,125
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +12.00% -3.85%

All Cloud Computing Skills
East Midlands

Azure DevOps falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,301 609 1,514
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 25.49% 28.04% 29.76%
Number of salaries quoted 731 493 1,150
10th Percentile £27,750 £26,250 £25,750
25th Percentile £32,750 £31,250 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £43,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.28% -4.44% -10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £76,250 £72,500 £71,250
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%

Azure DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Azure DevOps relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Azure DevOps job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Azure DevOps
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Azure DevOps.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Azure DevOps

Azure DevOps
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure DevOps in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 8 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure DevOps in the East Midlands

Azure DevOps
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure DevOps within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 8 July 2026. 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
Leicestershire -8 37 £66,750 +21.36% 10
Nottinghamshire -14 12 £57,000 - 4
Derbyshire +10 10 £37,500 -54.55% 2
Lincolnshire -11 6 £50,000 +76.21% 2
Northamptonshire +2 2 - - 2
Azure DevOps
England

Azure DevOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 8 (11.11%) IIS
1 8 (11.11%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.39%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 72 (100.00%) Azure
2 19 (26.39%) AWS
3 9 (12.50%) Power Platform
4 8 (11.11%) Copilot Studio
4 8 (11.11%) GitHub
4 8 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
4 8 (11.11%) Microsoft Copilot
4 8 (11.11%) npm
4 8 (11.11%) NuGet
4 8 (11.11%) Power Automate
4 8 (11.11%) SonarCloud
5 5 (6.94%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (5.56%) Azure AKS
7 3 (4.17%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (4.17%) GCP
7 3 (4.17%) IaaS
7 3 (4.17%) PaaS
7 3 (4.17%) PowerApps
8 2 (2.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (2.78%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.94%) MQTT
1 5 (6.94%) Wi-Fi
1 5 (6.94%) Wireless
1 5 (6.94%) ZigBee
2 4 (5.56%) Bluetooth
3 2 (2.78%) Firewall
3 2 (2.78%) VLAN
3 2 (2.78%) VPN
4 1 (1.39%) LoRaWAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (19.44%) Azure SQL Database
2 13 (18.06%) MongoDB
3 9 (12.50%) NoSQL
3 9 (12.50%) SQL Server
4 8 (11.11%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (6.94%) NonStop SQL
6 3 (4.17%) MySQL
6 3 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.39%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.39%) Power BI
7 1 (1.39%) Power Query
7 1 (1.39%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (20.83%) Git
2 7 (9.72%) Jenkins
3 5 (6.94%) GDB
3 5 (6.94%) GitLab
4 4 (5.56%) Robot Framework
4 4 (5.56%) XCUITest
5 2 (2.78%) JIRA
6 1 (1.39%) NUnit
6 1 (1.39%) Visual Studio
General
1 11 (15.28%) Social Skills
2 9 (12.50%) Finance
3 8 (11.11%) Retail
4 6 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (5.56%) Manufacturing
6 3 (4.17%) Marketing
7 2 (2.78%) Advertising
8 1 (1.39%) Electronics
8 1 (1.39%) Health Technology
8 1 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.39%) Legal
Job Titles
1 30 (41.67%) Developer
2 24 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 17 (23.61%) Senior
4 15 (20.83%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 15 (20.83%) Azure Engineer
5 14 (19.44%) .NET Developer
5 14 (19.44%) Lead
6 11 (15.28%) Senior DevOps
6 11 (15.28%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 10 (13.89%) Lead DevOps
7 10 (13.89%) Software Engineer
8 8 (11.11%) Lead DevOps Engineer
9 5 (6.94%) Embedded Engineer
9 5 (6.94%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 5 (6.94%) Power Platform Developer
10 4 (5.56%) Senior Developer
11 3 (4.17%) Business Developer
11 3 (4.17%) Lead Software Engineer
11 3 (4.17%) Software Developer
11 3 (4.17%) Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (44.44%) .NET
2 22 (30.56%) ASP.NET
2 22 (30.56%) ASP.NET Core
3 19 (26.39%) Node.js
4 17 (23.61%) .NET Core
5 16 (22.22%) Entity Framework
6 13 (18.06%) CSS
6 13 (18.06%) HTML
6 13 (18.06%) React
7 9 (12.50%) .NET Framework
8 8 (11.11%) YAML
9 5 (6.94%) LINQ
9 5 (6.94%) Yocto
10 4 (5.56%) pytest
10 4 (5.56%) RabbitMQ
10 4 (5.56%) RESTful
10 4 (5.56%) SwiftUI
10 4 (5.56%) Unity DI Container
11 3 (4.17%) Blazor
11 3 (4.17%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.72%) Mobile App
2 5 (6.94%) ARM Cortex
2 5 (6.94%) Device Driver
2 5 (6.94%) Embedded Systems
2 5 (6.94%) IoT
2 5 (6.94%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (5.56%) Cloud Native
3 4 (5.56%) Product Ownership
4 3 (4.17%) AI Agents
4 3 (4.17%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (4.17%) Low-Code
5 2 (2.78%) Enterprise Storage
5 2 (2.78%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.78%) SCADA
6 1 (1.39%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.39%) Legacy Code
6 1 (1.39%) PKI
6 1 (1.39%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 17 (23.61%) Linux
2 11 (15.28%) Windows
3 4 (5.56%) Apple iOS
4 2 (2.78%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.39%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (100.00%) DevOps
2 55 (76.39%) CI/CD
3 26 (36.11%) Agile
4 20 (27.78%) Infrastructure as Code
5 18 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
6 15 (20.83%) Continuous Improvement
6 15 (20.83%) Test Automation
7 14 (19.44%) DevSecOps
7 14 (19.44%) Software Engineering
8 13 (18.06%) Containerisation
8 13 (18.06%) Mentoring
9 12 (16.67%) Software Delivery
10 11 (15.28%) Microservices
11 9 (12.50%) Observability
12 8 (11.11%) AI
12 8 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
12 8 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
12 8 (11.11%) Process Improvement
13 7 (9.72%) Computer Science
13 7 (9.72%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 30 (41.67%) C#
2 21 (29.17%) SQL
3 16 (22.22%) Bash
4 14 (19.44%) PowerShell
5 11 (15.28%) Python
6 6 (8.33%) C++
7 5 (6.94%) Bicep
7 5 (6.94%) C
8 4 (5.56%) Swift
9 1 (1.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (1.39%) Java
9 1 (1.39%) JavaScript
9 1 (1.39%) Rust
9 1 (1.39%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.39%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 7 (9.72%) Degree
2 5 (6.94%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (6.94%) Master's Degree
3 4 (5.56%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.56%) Security Cleared
4 3 (4.17%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.78%) CISSP
5 2 (2.78%) CompTIA Security+
5 2 (2.78%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.39%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.39%) ISEB
6 1 (1.39%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.94%) JTAG
2 4 (5.56%) QA
3 3 (4.17%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.78%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 16 (22.22%) Docker
2 2 (2.78%) Hyper-V
2 2 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.39%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.39%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 20 (27.78%) Terraform
2 15 (20.83%) Kubernetes
3 6 (8.33%) Grafana
4 3 (4.17%) Ansible
4 3 (4.17%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.39%) Argo
5 1 (1.39%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 27 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 8 (11.11%) CrowdStrike
2 8 (11.11%) Foundry
3 4 (5.56%) Apple
4 2 (2.78%) Dynatrace
4 2 (2.78%) LogicMonitor
4 2 (2.78%) VMware
5 1 (1.39%) DevExpress
5 1 (1.39%) Google
5 1 (1.39%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.39%) Sage
5 1 (1.39%) SolarWinds