Azure DevOps Job Trends in Lancashire

Microsoft Azure DevOps
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Lancashire requiring Azure DevOps skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 74 38
Rank change year-on-year +13 -36 +35
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 2 4 7
As % of all permanent jobs in Lancashire 0.18% 0.50% 1.46%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.29% 2.20% 6.42%
Number of salaries quoted 2 4 7
10th Percentile £43,750 £37,875 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,625 £38,438 £38,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £46,250 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.92% +8.82% -12.82%
75th Percentile £63,125 £50,938 £61,875
90th Percentile £64,250 £52,625 £73,000
North West median annual salary £64,000 £65,000 £62,000
% change year-on-year -1.54% +4.84% +3.33%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 686 182 109
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Lancashire 60.33% 22.92% 22.66%
Number of salaries quoted 68 92 95
10th Percentile £25,875 £37,625 £27,900
25th Percentile £27,000 £41,250 £34,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £52,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% +23.53% -
75th Percentile £60,625 £63,750 £52,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £64,000
North West median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -

Azure DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

Azure DevOps job vacancy trend in Lancashire

Azure DevOps
Salary Trend in Lancashire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing Azure DevOps.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing Azure DevOps

Azure DevOps
Job Locations in Lancashire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure DevOps within the Lancashire region over the 6 months to 12 January 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
Preston +9 1 £50,000 +17.65% 2
Burnley - 1 £60,000 -
Azure DevOps
North West

Azure DevOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Lancashire 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure AI
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) HTTP
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (50.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (50.00%) Law
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) .NET Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) .NET Core
1 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET Core
1 1 (50.00%) Blazor
1 1 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (50.00%) ML.NET
1 1 (50.00%) React
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Social Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Multithreading
2 1 (50.00%) OO
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Static Code Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) Go
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft