Azure DevOps Job Trends in the Midlands

Microsoft Azure DevOps
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Azure DevOps skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 162 125 99
Rank change year-on-year -37 -26 +30
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 93 96 277
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.76% 1.97% 2.46%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.38% 5.66% 7.22%
Number of salaries quoted 70 93 243
10th Percentile £43,397 £38,850 £38,750
25th Percentile £54,063 £56,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £65,000 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.54% +11.11% +6.36%
75th Percentile £71,875 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,250 £95,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +8.00% -3.85%

All Cloud Computing Skills
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 Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 3,912 1,695 3,836
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 32.08% 34.75% 34.02%
Number of salaries quoted 1,768 1,321 3,242
10th Percentile £28,250 £28,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £79,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

Azure DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Azure DevOps job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Azure DevOps
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Azure DevOps

Azure DevOps
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure DevOps in the Midlands over the 6 months to 20 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure DevOps in the Midlands

Azure DevOps
Job Locations in the 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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 20 April 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
West Midlands -58 54 £58,750 -9.62% 22
East Midlands -27 36 £67,000 +3.08% 28
Azure DevOps
England

Azure DevOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the 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 10 (10.75%) IIS
2 3 (3.23%) Confluence
3 2 (2.15%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (3.23%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.08%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.08%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (2.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.08%) Integrated Workplace Management System
2 1 (1.08%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 93 (100.00%) Azure
2 17 (18.28%) Power Platform
3 15 (16.13%) AWS
4 14 (15.05%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (12.90%) PaaS
6 11 (11.83%) IaaS
7 10 (10.75%) npm
7 10 (10.75%) NuGet
7 10 (10.75%) SonarCloud
8 9 (9.68%) GitHub
8 9 (9.68%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (8.60%) Dynamics 365
9 8 (8.60%) Entra ID
10 6 (6.45%) Azure AKS
10 6 (6.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 4 (4.30%) Azure Data Factory
11 4 (4.30%) Datadog
11 4 (4.30%) GCP
12 3 (3.23%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (3.23%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.08%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (15.05%) SQL Server
2 10 (10.75%) NoSQL
3 8 (8.60%) Azure SQL Database
3 8 (8.60%) Power BI
4 6 (6.45%) Data Lake
5 4 (4.30%) Power Query
5 4 (4.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (2.15%) Metadata
6 2 (2.15%) MongoDB
6 2 (2.15%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (2.15%) Relational Database
6 2 (2.15%) Star Schema
7 1 (1.08%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.08%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 20 (21.51%) Git
2 11 (11.83%) JIRA
3 8 (8.60%) Jenkins
3 8 (8.60%) Selenium
4 6 (6.45%) GitLab
5 5 (5.38%) Cypress.io
5 5 (5.38%) Postman
5 5 (5.38%) XCUITest
6 4 (4.30%) JMeter
6 4 (4.30%) LoadRunner
6 4 (4.30%) REST Assured
7 3 (3.23%) Burp Suite
7 3 (3.23%) Cucumber
7 3 (3.23%) Gatling
7 3 (3.23%) SonarQube
7 3 (3.23%) TestRail
7 3 (3.23%) Toad
7 3 (3.23%) Zephyr
8 2 (2.15%) HP UFT
8 2 (2.15%) SoapUI
General
1 29 (31.18%) Social Skills
2 22 (23.66%) Finance
3 11 (11.83%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (10.75%) Public Sector
5 9 (9.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (9.68%) Legal
6 5 (5.38%) Retail
7 4 (4.30%) Law
8 3 (3.23%) Marketing
9 2 (2.15%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.08%) Automotive
10 1 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.08%) Health Technology
10 1 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 31 (33.33%) Senior
2 26 (27.96%) DevOps Engineer
3 20 (21.51%) Azure Engineer
4 19 (20.43%) Developer
5 18 (19.35%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 15 (16.13%) Lead
7 12 (12.90%) Senior DevOps
7 12 (12.90%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 10 (10.75%) Architect
9 8 (8.60%) Scrum Master
9 8 (8.60%) Solutions Architect
10 7 (7.53%) Agile Scrum Master
11 6 (6.45%) Analyst
11 6 (6.45%) Lead DevOps
12 5 (5.38%) Lead DevOps Engineer
13 4 (4.30%) Data Engineer
13 4 (4.30%) Dynamics 365 Developer
13 4 (4.30%) Junior
13 4 (4.30%) Senior Data Engineer
13 4 (4.30%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (26.88%) .NET
2 17 (18.28%) React
3 16 (17.20%) Node.js
4 11 (11.83%) YAML
5 8 (8.60%) .NET Framework
6 7 (7.53%) ASP.NET
7 6 (6.45%) .NET Core
7 6 (6.45%) ARM Templates
7 6 (6.45%) ASP.NET Core
7 6 (6.45%) RESTful
8 5 (5.38%) Playwright
8 5 (5.38%) SwiftUI
9 3 (3.23%) Middleware
10 2 (2.15%) Entity Framework
10 2 (2.15%) OpenTelemetry
10 2 (2.15%) REST
11 1 (1.08%) FastAPI
11 1 (1.08%) jQuery
11 1 (1.08%) Next.js
11 1 (1.08%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 13 (13.98%) Cloud Native
2 10 (10.75%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (7.53%) Product Ownership
4 6 (6.45%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (6.45%) Mobile App
5 3 (3.23%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.15%) AI Agents
7 1 (1.08%) Augmented Reality
7 1 (1.08%) Blockchain
7 1 (1.08%) CMDB
7 1 (1.08%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.08%) N-Tier
7 1 (1.08%) PKI
7 1 (1.08%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 18 (19.35%) Windows
2 15 (16.13%) Linux
3 5 (5.38%) Apple iOS
4 3 (3.23%) Kali Linux
5 1 (1.08%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (100.00%) DevOps
2 53 (56.99%) Agile
3 51 (54.84%) CI/CD
4 23 (24.73%) Infrastructure as Code
5 22 (23.66%) Scrum
6 21 (22.58%) Continuous Improvement
7 20 (21.51%) Test Automation
8 15 (16.13%) DevSecOps
9 14 (15.05%) Microservices
10 13 (13.98%) CRM
10 13 (13.98%) Mentoring
11 12 (12.90%) Containerisation
11 12 (12.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 11 (11.83%) Technical Leadership
13 10 (10.75%) AI
13 10 (10.75%) API Management
13 10 (10.75%) Kanban
13 10 (10.75%) Migration
14 9 (9.68%) Business Intelligence
14 9 (9.68%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 24 (25.81%) C#
2 21 (22.58%) SQL
3 14 (15.05%) PowerShell
4 13 (13.98%) Bash
5 11 (11.83%) Python
6 9 (9.68%) JavaScript
7 8 (8.60%) Bicep
8 5 (5.38%) Java
8 5 (5.38%) Swift
9 4 (4.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 4 (4.30%) TypeScript
10 2 (2.15%) Scala
10 2 (2.15%) T-SQL
11 1 (1.08%) JCL
11 1 (1.08%) Rust
Qualifications
1 9 (9.68%) Degree
2 7 (7.53%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (5.38%) Azure Certification
4 4 (4.30%) SC Cleared
4 4 (4.30%) Security Cleared
5 3 (3.23%) PMI Certification
5 3 (3.23%) PMP
6 2 (2.15%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.15%) Master's Degree
6 2 (2.15%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (1.08%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (30.11%) QA
2 8 (8.60%) Accessibility
3 5 (5.38%) GDPR
4 3 (3.23%) Software Quality Assurance
5 2 (2.15%) Data Quality
6 1 (1.08%) GRC
6 1 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (1.08%) PMO
6 1 (1.08%) SOC 2
6 1 (1.08%) WCAG
System Software
1 16 (17.20%) Docker
2 8 (8.60%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 27 (29.03%) Terraform
2 15 (16.13%) Kubernetes
3 7 (7.53%) Grafana
4 3 (3.23%) HP ALM
4 3 (3.23%) HP Fortify
5 2 (2.15%) Ansible
6 1 (1.08%) Argo
6 1 (1.08%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 34 (36.56%) Microsoft
2 10 (10.75%) CrowdStrike
3 5 (5.38%) Apple
4 4 (4.30%) LogicMonitor
5 3 (3.23%) HP
5 3 (3.23%) Oracle
5 3 (3.23%) SolarWinds
5 3 (3.23%) Veracode
6 2 (2.15%) Databricks
6 2 (2.15%) Dynatrace
6 2 (2.15%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.08%) AppDynamics
7 1 (1.08%) HubSpot
7 1 (1.08%) Planon
7 1 (1.08%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.08%) Splunk