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 10 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 180 145 97
Rank change year-on-year -35 -48 +16
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 135 98 417
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.82% 1.53% 2.59%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.38% 4.36% 7.25%
Number of salaries quoted 110 84 319
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,400 £38,890
25th Percentile £46,563 £48,438 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £68,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.73% +14.58% -1.93%
75th Percentile £75,250 £82,813 £76,250
90th Percentile £85,125 £91,875 £90,000
England median annual salary £67,000 £69,250 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.25% +10.80% -3.85%

All Cloud Computing 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 5,669 2,248 5,753
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 34.35% 35.08% 35.74%
Number of salaries quoted 2,642 1,725 4,835
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,988 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £74,258 £70,000
90th Percentile £93,634 £89,500 £83,750
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 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 10 April 2026.

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 10 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
North West -16 61 £70,000 +7.69% 41
Yorkshire -53 43 £60,000 -14.29% 22
North East -9 31 £50,000 -23.08% 11
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 15 (11.11%) Confluence
2 6 (4.44%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (3.70%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.48%) CICS
5 1 (0.74%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.74%) IIS
5 1 (0.74%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 3 (2.22%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (2.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (2.22%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.74%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (2.96%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.74%) Magento
2 1 (0.74%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 135 (100.00%) Azure
2 59 (43.70%) GitHub
3 49 (36.30%) AWS
4 47 (34.81%) GitHub Actions
5 24 (17.78%) GCP
6 23 (17.04%) Serverless
7 16 (11.85%) Power Platform
8 15 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
9 13 (9.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 13 (9.63%) Amazon EventBridge
9 13 (9.63%) Amazon S3
9 13 (9.63%) Amazon SQS
9 13 (9.63%) AWS Lambda
9 13 (9.63%) AWS Step Functions
10 11 (8.15%) Azure Logic Apps
11 10 (7.41%) Azure Functions
11 10 (7.41%) Dynamics 365
12 9 (6.67%) Azure Monitor
12 9 (6.67%) Entra ID
13 7 (5.19%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (14.81%) DNS
2 19 (14.07%) Firewall
2 19 (14.07%) HTTP
2 19 (14.07%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.74%) DHCP
3 1 (0.74%) LTE
3 1 (0.74%) Network Security
3 1 (0.74%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.74%) VLAN
3 1 (0.74%) VPN
3 1 (0.74%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (14.81%) SQL Server
2 16 (11.85%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (9.63%) DynamoDB
3 13 (9.63%) NoSQL
4 12 (8.89%) Power BI
5 7 (5.19%) Azure SQL Database
5 7 (5.19%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (5.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 6 (4.44%) MongoDB
7 5 (3.70%) Spark SQL
8 4 (2.96%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.48%) DB2
9 2 (1.48%) Hazelcast
9 2 (1.48%) Power Query
10 1 (0.74%) Data Mining
10 1 (0.74%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 30 (22.22%) JIRA
2 28 (20.74%) Jenkins
3 25 (18.52%) Git
4 11 (8.15%) Postman
5 3 (2.22%) Eclipse
5 3 (2.22%) GitLab
5 3 (2.22%) IntelliJ
5 3 (2.22%) NUnit
5 3 (2.22%) REST Assured
6 2 (1.48%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.48%) Selenium
6 2 (1.48%) TestRail
6 2 (1.48%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.74%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.74%) GDB
7 1 (0.74%) WinDbg
General
1 35 (25.93%) Social Skills
2 25 (18.52%) Finance
3 19 (14.07%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (14.07%) Law
4 18 (13.33%) Telecoms
5 10 (7.41%) Public Sector
6 9 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
6 9 (6.67%) Retail
7 7 (5.19%) Marketing
8 6 (4.44%) Banking
8 6 (4.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (3.70%) Games
10 4 (2.96%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (2.22%) Advertising
12 2 (1.48%) Legal
13 1 (0.74%) Back Office
13 1 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 41 (30.37%) Developer
2 26 (19.26%) DevOps Engineer
3 18 (13.33%) Lead
3 18 (13.33%) Senior
4 17 (12.59%) .NET Developer
5 11 (8.15%) Analyst
6 9 (6.67%) Azure Engineer
6 9 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
6 9 (6.67%) Senior Developer
7 8 (5.93%) Software Engineer
8 6 (4.44%) Business Analyst
8 6 (4.44%) Full-Stack Developer
8 6 (4.44%) Head of Testing
8 6 (4.44%) Scrum Master
9 5 (3.70%) AWS Developer
9 5 (3.70%) Data Engineer
9 5 (3.70%) Delivery Manager
9 5 (3.70%) Platform Engineer
9 5 (3.70%) Senior DevOps
9 5 (3.70%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (27.41%) .NET
2 25 (18.52%) .NET Core
3 24 (17.78%) ASP.NET
4 23 (17.04%) React
5 22 (16.30%) RESTful
6 18 (13.33%) ASP.NET Core
6 18 (13.33%) Elastic Stack
7 17 (12.59%) Blazor
8 15 (11.11%) REST
9 13 (9.63%) AWS CDK
10 12 (8.89%) ARM Templates
10 12 (8.89%) SOAP
11 11 (8.15%) AngularJS
11 11 (8.15%) CSS
11 11 (8.15%) HTML
12 9 (6.67%) JSON
12 9 (6.67%) Middleware
12 9 (6.67%) Node.js
13 7 (5.19%) EDI
13 7 (5.19%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (14.81%) Cloud Native
2 12 (8.89%) Product Ownership
3 5 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (3.70%) Enterprise Cloud
4 4 (2.96%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (2.96%) Management Information System
4 4 (2.96%) PMI
5 3 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.48%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.48%) Driving Licence
6 2 (1.48%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.48%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.48%) Social Network
7 1 (0.74%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.74%) BBC
7 1 (0.74%) EPoS
7 1 (0.74%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.74%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.74%) Social Media
7 1 (0.74%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.44%) Linux
2 4 (2.96%) Windows
3 3 (2.22%) Unix
4 1 (0.74%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 135 (100.00%) DevOps
2 86 (63.70%) CI/CD
3 65 (48.15%) Agile
4 53 (39.26%) Infrastructure as Code
5 44 (32.59%) Containerisation
6 30 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
7 29 (21.48%) Continuous Integration
7 29 (21.48%) Roadmaps
8 26 (19.26%) High Availability
9 24 (17.78%) SDLC
10 23 (17.04%) Scrum
11 22 (16.30%) Continuous Delivery
12 21 (15.56%) Microservices
12 21 (15.56%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 20 (14.81%) Test Automation
14 19 (14.07%) Deployment Automation
14 19 (14.07%) DevSecOps
14 19 (14.07%) Static Code Analysis
14 19 (14.07%) Vulnerability Scanning
15 18 (13.33%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 48 (35.56%) SQL
2 34 (25.19%) Python
3 24 (17.78%) Bash
4 21 (15.56%) C#
4 21 (15.56%) Go
5 20 (14.81%) JavaScript
6 11 (8.15%) PowerShell
7 9 (6.67%) Java
8 7 (5.19%) Bicep
8 7 (5.19%) TypeScript
9 5 (3.70%) T-SQL
10 3 (2.22%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.74%) C++
Qualifications
1 11 (8.15%) AWS Certification
1 11 (8.15%) AWS Certified Developer
2 7 (5.19%) Azure Certification
3 6 (4.44%) SC Cleared
3 6 (4.44%) Security Cleared
4 5 (3.70%) Degree
5 4 (2.96%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.96%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (2.96%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.74%) CSPO
6 1 (0.74%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (0.74%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.74%) MCITP
6 1 (0.74%) MCSE
6 1 (0.74%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.19%) TickIT
2 5 (3.70%) GDPR
3 2 (1.48%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.48%) QA
4 1 (0.74%) GRC
System Software
1 22 (16.30%) Docker
2 4 (2.96%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.96%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.74%) Firmware
3 1 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 52 (38.52%) Terraform
2 22 (16.30%) Ansible
3 21 (15.56%) Grafana
3 21 (15.56%) Prometheus
4 12 (8.89%) Kubernetes
5 3 (2.22%) Argo
6 1 (0.74%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (0.74%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 42 (31.11%) Microsoft
2 8 (5.93%) Salesforce
3 5 (3.70%) Databricks
4 3 (2.22%) Oracle
4 3 (2.22%) Pega
4 3 (2.22%) Sparx
5 2 (1.48%) DevExpress
6 1 (0.74%) Apple
6 1 (0.74%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.74%) Facebook
6 1 (0.74%) Fortinet
6 1 (0.74%) Foundry
6 1 (0.74%) Google
6 1 (0.74%) Sony
6 1 (0.74%) Splunk
6 1 (0.74%) WooCommerce
6 1 (0.74%) Yahoo!