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 6 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 125 124
Rank change year-on-year +17 -1 -72
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 67 19 44
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.99% 0.81% 1.16%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.44% 3.14% 4.76%
Number of salaries quoted 52 12 35
10th Percentile £36,250 £44,100 £41,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,875 £42,447
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,500 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% +6.86% -19.37%
75th Percentile £70,000 £58,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £71,125 £77,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year - -3.70% +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 1,232 605 925
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 18.29% 25.82% 24.35%
Number of salaries quoted 798 467 492
10th Percentile £27,925 £26,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £38,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,500 £40,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.75% -20.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £61,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £78,750
England median annual salary £64,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -7.69% +4.00%

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 6 October 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 6 October 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 -21 29 £67,500 +22.73% 12
Lincolnshire 0 13 £50,000 +76.21% 13
Derbyshire 0 11 £37,500 -54.55% 7
Nottinghamshire -11 9 £54,000 +8.00% 10
Northamptonshire -12 2 £70,000 +21.74% 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 11 (16.42%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.99%) CMS
2 2 (2.99%) IIS
2 2 (2.99%) Umbraco
3 1 (1.49%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 3 (4.48%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.49%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.49%) Dynamics NAV
1 1 (1.49%) Magento
1 1 (1.49%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (1.49%) Sage 200
1 1 (1.49%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 67 (100.00%) Azure
2 13 (19.40%) AWS
3 12 (17.91%) Dynamics 365
3 12 (17.91%) Power Platform
4 9 (13.43%) Power Automate
5 8 (11.94%) Copilot Studio
5 8 (11.94%) Microsoft Copilot
6 6 (8.96%) Entra ID
6 6 (8.96%) PowerApps
7 5 (7.46%) SaaS
8 4 (5.97%) GitHub
8 4 (5.97%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (5.97%) IaaS
8 4 (5.97%) PaaS
8 4 (5.97%) SonarCloud
9 3 (4.48%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 3 (4.48%) Azure Key Vault
10 2 (2.99%) AWS IoT
10 2 (2.99%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (2.99%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.96%) MQTT
1 6 (8.96%) Wi-Fi
1 6 (8.96%) Wireless
1 6 (8.96%) ZigBee
2 4 (5.97%) Bluetooth
2 4 (5.97%) Firewall
3 2 (2.99%) LoRaWAN
3 2 (2.99%) Network Security
3 2 (2.99%) VLAN
3 2 (2.99%) VPN
4 1 (1.49%) HTTP
4 1 (1.49%) Internet
4 1 (1.49%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (17.91%) Azure SQL Database
1 12 (17.91%) MongoDB
2 7 (10.45%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (8.96%) SQL Server
4 5 (7.46%) Data Lake
4 5 (7.46%) NonStop SQL
4 5 (7.46%) NoSQL
5 3 (4.48%) MySQL
5 3 (4.48%) Power BI
6 2 (2.99%) Delta Lake
6 2 (2.99%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.49%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 20 (29.85%) Git
2 6 (8.96%) GDB
2 6 (8.96%) GitLab
2 6 (8.96%) Jenkins
3 5 (7.46%) JIRA
4 4 (5.97%) Robot Framework
5 1 (1.49%) NUnit
5 1 (1.49%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 13 (19.40%) Finance
2 11 (16.42%) Social Skills
3 7 (10.45%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (10.45%) Retail
4 6 (8.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (5.97%) Manufacturing
6 3 (4.48%) Advertising
6 3 (4.48%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.99%) Electronics
8 1 (1.49%) Legal
Job Titles
1 29 (43.28%) Developer
2 15 (22.39%) .NET Developer
3 14 (20.90%) DevOps Engineer
4 12 (17.91%) Senior
5 9 (13.43%) Software Engineer
6 8 (11.94%) Lead
7 7 (10.45%) Senior DevOps
7 7 (10.45%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 6 (8.96%) Embedded Engineer
8 6 (8.96%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 5 (7.46%) Analyst
9 5 (7.46%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 5 (7.46%) Azure Engineer
9 5 (7.46%) Business Analyst
9 5 (7.46%) Lead DevOps
9 5 (7.46%) Power Platform Developer
10 4 (5.97%) Lead DevOps Engineer
11 3 (4.48%) Business Developer
11 3 (4.48%) Senior Developer
11 3 (4.48%) Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (38.81%) .NET
2 22 (32.84%) ASP.NET
2 22 (32.84%) ASP.NET Core
3 17 (25.37%) .NET Core
3 17 (25.37%) Entity Framework
4 14 (20.90%) CSS
4 14 (20.90%) HTML
5 12 (17.91%) Terraform
6 10 (14.93%) Node.js
7 9 (13.43%) .NET Framework
8 6 (8.96%) REST
8 6 (8.96%) Yocto
9 5 (7.46%) LINQ
10 4 (5.97%) pytest
10 4 (5.97%) React
10 4 (5.97%) Unity DI Container
10 4 (5.97%) YAML
11 3 (4.48%) Blazor
11 3 (4.48%) RabbitMQ
11 3 (4.48%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.96%) ARM Cortex
1 6 (8.96%) Device Driver
1 6 (8.96%) Embedded Systems
1 6 (8.96%) IoT
2 3 (4.48%) AI Agents
2 3 (4.48%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (4.48%) Legacy Applications
2 3 (4.48%) Low-Code
2 3 (4.48%) Mobile App
2 3 (4.48%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.99%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.99%) Enterprise Cloud
3 2 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (2.99%) Enterprise Storage
3 2 (2.99%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (2.99%) Onboarding
3 2 (2.99%) Private Cloud
3 2 (2.99%) SCADA
3 2 (2.99%) Tandem
4 1 (1.49%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 14 (20.90%) Linux
2 9 (13.43%) Windows
3 4 (5.97%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.99%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (100.00%) DevOps
2 42 (62.69%) CI/CD
3 23 (34.33%) Agile
4 17 (25.37%) Full-Stack Development
5 14 (20.90%) Software Engineering
6 13 (19.40%) Infrastructure as Code
6 13 (19.40%) Software Delivery
7 10 (14.93%) AI
7 10 (14.93%) Continuous Improvement
7 10 (14.93%) Mentoring
7 10 (14.93%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (14.93%) Test Automation
8 9 (13.43%) Project Delivery
9 8 (11.94%) DevSecOps
10 7 (10.45%) Computer Science
10 7 (10.45%) Containerisation
10 7 (10.45%) E-Commerce
10 7 (10.45%) Process Improvement
10 7 (10.45%) Stakeholder Management
11 6 (8.96%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 28 (41.79%) C#
2 22 (32.84%) SQL
3 11 (16.42%) Bash
3 11 (16.42%) Python
4 10 (14.93%) PowerShell
5 7 (10.45%) C
5 7 (10.45%) C++
6 2 (2.99%) Bicep
6 2 (2.99%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.49%) Java
7 1 (1.49%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.49%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 8 (11.94%) Degree
2 6 (8.96%) Computer Science Degree
2 6 (8.96%) Master's Degree
3 2 (2.99%) CISSP
3 2 (2.99%) CompTIA Security+
3 2 (2.99%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.99%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.49%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.49%) ISEB
4 1 (1.49%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.96%) JTAG
2 5 (7.46%) QA
3 4 (5.97%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (5.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.99%) Data Quality
System Software
1 9 (13.43%) Docker
2 2 (2.99%) Firmware
2 2 (2.99%) Hyper-V
2 2 (2.99%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.49%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (11.94%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.48%) Ansible
3 2 (2.99%) Grafana
3 2 (2.99%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (2.99%) Nessus
3 2 (2.99%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.49%) Argo
Vendors
1 38 (56.72%) Microsoft
2 8 (11.94%) Foundry
3 4 (5.97%) CrowdStrike
4 3 (4.48%) HP
5 2 (2.99%) Databricks
5 2 (2.99%) Google
5 2 (2.99%) IFS
5 2 (2.99%) Meraki
5 2 (2.99%) Tenable
5 2 (2.99%) Veracode
5 2 (2.99%) VMware
6 1 (1.49%) Adobe
6 1 (1.49%) DevExpress
6 1 (1.49%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.49%) Optimizely
6 1 (1.49%) Sage