Azure DevOps Job Trends in the North of England

Microsoft Azure DevOps
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Azure DevOps skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 170 119 68
Rank change year-on-year -51 -51 +1
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 97 210 295
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.97% 1.93% 4.14%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.57% 6.25% 9.58%
Number of salaries quoted 82 122 246
10th Percentile £42,050 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,813 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,750 £60,250
Median % change year-on-year -2.83% +2.49% -3.60%
75th Percentile £69,500 £83,438 £73,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £93,650 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,250 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% +3.85% -2.67%

All Cloud Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 3,771 3,362 3,078
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 37.68% 30.90% 43.22%
Number of salaries quoted 1,851 1,935 2,623
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,820 £29,750
25th Percentile £34,000 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £72,500 £69,750 £72,433
90th Percentile £83,750 £82,340 £84,951
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -3.85%

Azure DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Azure DevOps job vacancy trend in the North of England

Azure DevOps
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Azure DevOps.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Azure DevOps

Azure DevOps
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure DevOps in the North of England over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Azure DevOps in the North of England

Azure DevOps
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure DevOps within the North of England region over the 6 months to 13 December 2025. 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
North West -22 39 £65,000 +7.00% 65
Yorkshire -44 32 £55,000 -18.19% 52
North East +3 26 £50,000 -9.09% 16
Azure DevOps
England

Azure DevOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 6 (6.19%) Confluence
2 1 (1.03%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.03%) IIS
2 1 (1.03%) nginx
2 1 (1.03%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (4.12%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (4.12%) MS Visio
2 3 (3.09%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (3.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (6.19%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.06%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 97 (100.00%) Azure
2 32 (32.99%) GitHub
3 23 (23.71%) GitHub Actions
4 22 (22.68%) AWS
5 14 (14.43%) AWS CloudFormation
6 13 (13.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 11 (11.34%) Azure Monitor
7 11 (11.34%) PaaS
7 11 (11.34%) Power Automate
7 11 (11.34%) SaaS
7 11 (11.34%) Serverless
8 9 (9.28%) Power Platform
9 8 (8.25%) Amazon EventBridge
9 8 (8.25%) Amazon S3
9 8 (8.25%) Amazon SQS
9 8 (8.25%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (8.25%) AWS Step Functions
10 7 (7.22%) IaaS
11 5 (5.15%) Azure AKS
11 5 (5.15%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.19%) DNS
1 6 (6.19%) Firewall
2 4 (4.12%) HTTP
3 3 (3.09%) TCP/IP
4 2 (2.06%) WAN
5 1 (1.03%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (17.53%) SQL Server
2 8 (8.25%) DynamoDB
2 8 (8.25%) NoSQL
2 8 (8.25%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (5.15%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (4.12%) Relational Database
5 3 (3.09%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (2.06%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 2 (2.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (2.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (1.03%) Data Mining
7 1 (1.03%) Power BI
7 1 (1.03%) Redis
7 1 (1.03%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 18 (18.56%) Git
2 11 (11.34%) JIRA
3 8 (8.25%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.06%) Cucumber
4 2 (2.06%) Gatling
4 2 (2.06%) GitLab
4 2 (2.06%) JMeter
4 2 (2.06%) Selenium
5 1 (1.03%) CircleCI
5 1 (1.03%) ESLint
5 1 (1.03%) git-flow
5 1 (1.03%) NUnit
5 1 (1.03%) Storybook
5 1 (1.03%) webpack
General
1 27 (27.84%) Social Skills
2 19 (19.59%) Finance
3 9 (9.28%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (6.19%) Law
4 6 (6.19%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.09%) Advertising
5 3 (3.09%) Banking
5 3 (3.09%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (3.09%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.06%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.06%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (2.06%) Retail
7 1 (1.03%) Back Office
7 1 (1.03%) Digital Health
7 1 (1.03%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 29 (29.90%) Developer
2 14 (14.43%) Cloud Engineer
2 14 (14.43%) Lead
3 13 (13.40%) DevOps Engineer
4 12 (12.37%) Analyst
5 11 (11.34%) .NET Developer
6 10 (10.31%) Software Engineer
7 9 (9.28%) Business Analyst
8 8 (8.25%) Azure Engineer
9 7 (7.22%) .NET Software Engineer
9 7 (7.22%) Full-Stack Developer
9 7 (7.22%) Senior
10 5 (5.15%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 4 (4.12%) AWS Developer
11 4 (4.12%) Lead DevOps
12 3 (3.09%) Integration Developer
12 3 (3.09%) Senior C# Software Engineer
12 3 (3.09%) Senior DevOps
12 3 (3.09%) Software Analyst
12 3 (3.09%) Software Development Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (38.14%) .NET
2 18 (18.56%) .NET Core
3 17 (17.53%) React
4 16 (16.49%) ASP.NET
5 13 (13.40%) Blazor
6 12 (12.37%) RESTful
7 10 (10.31%) .NET Framework
8 9 (9.28%) AngularJS
9 8 (8.25%) ASP.NET Core
9 8 (8.25%) AWS CDK
9 8 (8.25%) CSS
9 8 (8.25%) HTML
9 8 (8.25%) Node.js
10 5 (5.15%) ARM Templates
10 5 (5.15%) Entity Framework
11 4 (4.12%) OAuth
11 4 (4.12%) REST
12 3 (3.09%) CSS3
12 3 (3.09%) React Native
12 3 (3.09%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 21 (21.65%) Cloud Native
2 11 (11.34%) Product Ownership
3 4 (4.12%) AI Agents
3 4 (4.12%) Mobile App
4 3 (3.09%) Data Centre
4 3 (3.09%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (3.09%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.09%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.06%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.06%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.06%) Driving Licence
5 2 (2.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.03%) Blog
6 1 (1.03%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.03%) EPoS
6 1 (1.03%) IoT
6 1 (1.03%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.03%) Legacy Code
6 1 (1.03%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.03%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.09%) Android
2 2 (2.06%) Apple iOS
2 2 (2.06%) Linux
3 1 (1.03%) VMS
3 1 (1.03%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (100.00%) DevOps
2 53 (54.64%) CI/CD
3 52 (53.61%) Agile
4 35 (36.08%) Infrastructure as Code
5 23 (23.71%) Containerisation
6 22 (22.68%) Microservices
6 22 (22.68%) SDLC
7 20 (20.62%) Mentoring
8 19 (19.59%) Problem-Solving
9 18 (18.56%) Software Engineering
10 14 (14.43%) Continuous Improvement
10 14 (14.43%) Full-Stack Development
10 14 (14.43%) Roadmaps
11 12 (12.37%) CRM
12 11 (11.34%) Data Modelling
13 10 (10.31%) Cloud Security
13 10 (10.31%) Root Cause Analysis
14 9 (9.28%) Deployment Automation
14 9 (9.28%) High Availability
14 9 (9.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 30 (30.93%) C#
2 28 (28.87%) SQL
3 20 (20.62%) PowerShell
4 15 (15.46%) Python
5 13 (13.40%) Bash
6 11 (11.34%) JavaScript
7 9 (9.28%) Bicep
8 5 (5.15%) Go
8 5 (5.15%) TypeScript
9 3 (3.09%) Apex Code
10 2 (2.06%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (10.31%) AWS Certification
2 8 (8.25%) AWS Certified Developer
3 7 (7.22%) Azure Certification
3 7 (7.22%) SC Cleared
3 7 (7.22%) Security Cleared
4 2 (2.06%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 2 (2.06%) ISTQB
4 2 (2.06%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.03%) CSPO
5 1 (1.03%) Degree
5 1 (1.03%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (1.03%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.03%) MCITP
5 1 (1.03%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.06%) GDPR
1 2 (2.06%) QA
System Software
1 22 (22.68%) Docker
2 5 (5.15%) Active Directory
2 5 (5.15%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (3.09%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 33 (34.02%) Terraform
2 12 (12.37%) Kubernetes
3 10 (10.31%) Prometheus
4 9 (9.28%) Ansible
5 7 (7.22%) Grafana
6 1 (1.03%) Argo
6 1 (1.03%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 29 (29.90%) Microsoft
2 5 (5.15%) Foundry
3 3 (3.09%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.06%) Sparx
4 2 (2.06%) Xamarin
5 1 (1.03%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.03%) Google
5 1 (1.03%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.03%) Oracle
5 1 (1.03%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.03%) Splunk