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 1 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 107 99
Rank change year-on-year -16 -8 +14
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 40 11 85
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.90% 0.67% 2.04%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.01% 1.91% 6.09%
Number of salaries quoted 38 9 75
10th Percentile £50,000 £28,613 £37,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £29,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +35.00% -13.04% -
75th Percentile £71,875 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £84,125 £77,750 £76,250
England median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £62,125
% change year-on-year - +8.65% -4.42%

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 1,330 577 1,396
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 29.78% 34.99% 33.57%
Number of salaries quoted 618 497 1,123
10th Percentile £26,925 £26,250 £25,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £46,188
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -2.57% -7.52%
75th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £70,500 £71,250
England median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +8.70% -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 1 May 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 1 May 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 -14 28 £67,500 +125.00% 10
Nottinghamshire -6 5 £55,000 -15.38% 7
Derbyshire -23 2 £60,000 -27.27%
Northamptonshire -3 1 - - 4
Lincolnshire -27 1 £27,000 -4.85% 1
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 (27.50%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 40 (100.00%) Azure
2 11 (27.50%) npm
2 11 (27.50%) NuGet
2 11 (27.50%) SonarCloud
3 8 (20.00%) AWS
4 4 (10.00%) Azure AKS
4 4 (10.00%) GitHub
4 4 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (7.50%) GCP
6 2 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (5.00%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (5.00%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (5.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (5.00%) Datadog
6 2 (5.00%) IaaS
6 2 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (5.00%) PaaS
6 2 (5.00%) Power Platform
7 1 (2.50%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (2.50%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.50%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (27.50%) NoSQL
2 10 (25.00%) SQL Server
3 4 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (5.00%) Data Lake
4 2 (5.00%) Power BI
4 2 (5.00%) Power Query
5 1 (2.50%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (2.50%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (25.00%) Git
2 5 (12.50%) XCUITest
3 2 (5.00%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.50%) Visual Studio
General
1 6 (15.00%) Retail
2 5 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (10.00%) Social Skills
4 3 (7.50%) Marketing
5 2 (5.00%) Finance
6 1 (2.50%) Advertising
6 1 (2.50%) Health Technology
6 1 (2.50%) Legal
6 1 (2.50%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 25 (62.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 19 (47.50%) Senior
3 16 (40.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 16 (40.00%) Azure Engineer
4 14 (35.00%) Senior DevOps
4 14 (35.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 10 (25.00%) Developer
5 10 (25.00%) Lead
6 8 (20.00%) Lead DevOps
7 7 (17.50%) Lead DevOps Engineer
8 3 (7.50%) iOS Developer
8 3 (7.50%) Senior Developer
8 3 (7.50%) Senior iOS Developer
9 2 (5.00%) .NET Developer
9 2 (5.00%) AWS Engineer
9 2 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
9 2 (5.00%) Lead Developer
9 2 (5.00%) Power BI Developer
9 2 (5.00%) Software Developer
9 2 (5.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (45.00%) .NET
2 16 (40.00%) React
3 15 (37.50%) Node.js
4 11 (27.50%) YAML
5 8 (20.00%) .NET Framework
6 6 (15.00%) .NET Core
6 6 (15.00%) ASP.NET
6 6 (15.00%) ASP.NET Core
7 5 (12.50%) RESTful
7 5 (12.50%) SwiftUI
8 2 (5.00%) OpenTelemetry
8 2 (5.00%) RabbitMQ
9 1 (2.50%) AngularJS
9 1 (2.50%) ARM Templates
9 1 (2.50%) Django
9 1 (2.50%) Entity Framework
9 1 (2.50%) FastAPI
9 1 (2.50%) Flask
9 1 (2.50%) Kafka
9 1 (2.50%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.00%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (12.50%) Mobile App
3 4 (10.00%) Cloud Native
4 3 (7.50%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.50%) PKI
5 1 (2.50%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 12 (30.00%) Linux
2 11 (27.50%) Windows
3 5 (12.50%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (100.00%) DevOps
2 32 (80.00%) CI/CD
3 19 (47.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 15 (37.50%) DevSecOps
5 13 (32.50%) Microservices
6 12 (30.00%) Agile
7 11 (27.50%) Containerisation
7 11 (27.50%) Test Automation
8 10 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
10 7 (17.50%) Migration
11 6 (15.00%) E-Commerce
11 6 (15.00%) Mentoring
11 6 (15.00%) Observability
12 5 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
12 5 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
12 5 (12.50%) Scrum
12 5 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
13 4 (10.00%) Cloud Security
14 3 (7.50%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 15 (37.50%) C#
1 15 (37.50%) PowerShell
2 13 (32.50%) Bash
3 10 (25.00%) SQL
4 5 (12.50%) Swift
5 4 (10.00%) Bicep
5 4 (10.00%) Python
6 2 (5.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (2.50%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.50%) Rust
7 1 (2.50%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.50%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 2 (5.00%) Azure Certification
1 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (5.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (5.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.50%) AWS Certification
2 1 (2.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.50%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.50%) GDPR
2 1 (2.50%) QA
System Software
1 16 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (50.00%) Terraform
2 15 (37.50%) Kubernetes
3 4 (10.00%) Grafana
4 1 (2.50%) Ansible
4 1 (2.50%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (27.50%) CrowdStrike
2 6 (15.00%) Microsoft
3 5 (12.50%) Apple
4 2 (5.00%) Dynatrace
4 2 (5.00%) LogicMonitor
5 1 (2.50%) DevExpress
5 1 (2.50%) Sage
5 1 (2.50%) SolarWinds