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 9 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 204 90
Rank change year-on-year +53 -114 +17
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 203 96 444
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.03% 1.20% 2.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.16% 4.02% 7.08%
Number of salaries quoted 175 71 336
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,000 £50,625 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £76,563
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £90,000
England median annual salary £65,500 £70,000 £61,750
% change year-on-year -6.43% +13.36% -5.00%

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 4,878 2,389 6,267
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 24.79% 29.81% 32.98%
Number of salaries quoted 3,243 1,605 5,087
10th Percentile £29,750 £27,500 £28,788
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £37,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,777 £68,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £83,750
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -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 9 June 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 9 June 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 +66 110 £69,310 +2.68% 38
Yorkshire -36 51 £69,305 -0.99% 18
North East -7 42 £48,750 -11.36% 12
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 16 (7.88%) Confluence
2 12 (5.91%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (3.45%) SharePoint
4 6 (2.96%) SharePoint Server
5 3 (1.48%) IIS
6 2 (0.99%) CICS
6 2 (0.99%) CMS
6 2 (0.99%) nginx
6 2 (0.99%) Umbraco
6 2 (0.99%) WordPress
7 1 (0.49%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.99%) Trello
2 1 (0.49%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.48%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (1.48%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.49%) Magento
2 1 (0.49%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 203 (100.00%) Azure
2 67 (33.00%) GitHub
3 61 (30.05%) AWS
4 48 (23.65%) GitHub Actions
5 33 (16.26%) Power Platform
6 23 (11.33%) Serverless
7 22 (10.84%) GCP
8 21 (10.34%) Dynamics 365
9 18 (8.87%) Azure Monitor
10 17 (8.37%) Azure Logic Apps
11 16 (7.88%) Azure AKS
11 16 (7.88%) Azure Functions
11 16 (7.88%) Azure Service Bus
12 13 (6.40%) Azure Data Factory
13 12 (5.91%) Boomi
14 11 (5.42%) Microsoft 365
14 11 (5.42%) Power Automate
15 10 (4.93%) Firebase
16 8 (3.94%) Entra ID
16 8 (3.94%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 20 (9.85%) Firewall
2 17 (8.37%) DNS
2 17 (8.37%) HTTP
3 15 (7.39%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.48%) HTTPS
4 3 (1.48%) SAN
5 1 (0.49%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (14.29%) MongoDB
2 23 (11.33%) Azure SQL Database
2 23 (11.33%) Power BI
3 21 (10.34%) PostgreSQL
4 20 (9.85%) SQL Server
5 15 (7.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 12 (5.91%) Data Warehouse
7 9 (4.43%) NoSQL
7 9 (4.43%) Spark SQL
8 8 (3.94%) Relational Database
9 5 (2.46%) DynamoDB
9 5 (2.46%) MySQL
10 3 (1.48%) Power Query
11 2 (0.99%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.99%) Db2
11 2 (0.99%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.99%) GIS
11 2 (0.99%) Hazelcast
11 2 (0.99%) NonStop SQL
11 2 (0.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 41 (20.20%) JIRA
2 40 (19.70%) Git
2 40 (19.70%) Jenkins
3 20 (9.85%) GitLab
4 13 (6.40%) Postman
5 10 (4.93%) fastlane
6 5 (2.46%) Android Studio
6 5 (2.46%) Crashlytics
6 5 (2.46%) Gradle
6 5 (2.46%) Xcode
7 4 (1.97%) Visual Studio
8 3 (1.48%) Cypress.io
8 3 (1.48%) Eclipse
8 3 (1.48%) IntelliJ
8 3 (1.48%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.99%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.99%) NUnit
9 2 (0.99%) Selenium
9 2 (0.99%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.99%) TestRail
General
1 43 (21.18%) Social Skills
2 33 (16.26%) Public Sector
3 22 (10.84%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (9.85%) Finance
5 17 (8.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 15 (7.39%) Law
6 15 (7.39%) Telecoms
7 14 (6.90%) Retail
8 12 (5.91%) Marketing
9 9 (4.43%) Banking
9 9 (4.43%) Games
10 7 (3.45%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (1.97%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.48%) Legal
13 1 (0.49%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.49%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 77 (37.93%) Developer
2 60 (29.56%) Senior
3 36 (17.73%) DevOps Engineer
4 27 (13.30%) Senior Developer
5 22 (10.84%) .NET Developer
6 19 (9.36%) Lead
7 17 (8.37%) Azure Engineer
8 16 (7.88%) Data Engineer
9 14 (6.90%) Platform Engineer
9 14 (6.90%) Senior DevOps
9 14 (6.90%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 13 (6.40%) Cloud Engineer
11 12 (5.91%) Software Engineer
12 11 (5.42%) Software Developer
13 9 (4.43%) Azure Platform Engineer
13 9 (4.43%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 9 (4.43%) Lead Data Engineer
13 9 (4.43%) Scrum Master
13 9 (4.43%) Senior Software Engineer
14 7 (3.45%) Head of Testing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (30.54%) .NET
2 39 (19.21%) REST
3 29 (14.29%) .NET Core
3 29 (14.29%) ASP.NET
4 28 (13.79%) RESTful
5 24 (11.82%) React
6 23 (11.33%) ARM Templates
6 23 (11.33%) ASP.NET Core
6 23 (11.33%) CSS
6 23 (11.33%) HTML
7 20 (9.85%) Middleware
7 20 (9.85%) Node.js
7 20 (9.85%) SOAP
8 17 (8.37%) JSON
9 16 (7.88%) Blazor
9 16 (7.88%) Entity Framework
10 15 (7.39%) Elastic Stack
11 12 (5.91%) EDI
11 12 (5.91%) XML
12 11 (5.42%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 26 (12.81%) Product Ownership
2 17 (8.37%) Cloud Native
3 14 (6.90%) Mobile App
4 10 (4.93%) Enterprise Cloud
5 9 (4.43%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (2.96%) Legacy Applications
6 6 (2.96%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (2.96%) Onboarding
7 5 (2.46%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (2.46%) PMI
8 3 (1.48%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.48%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.48%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.48%) Low-Code
8 3 (1.48%) Social Network
9 2 (0.99%) Algorithms
9 2 (0.99%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.99%) Renewable Energy
9 2 (0.99%) Social Media
9 2 (0.99%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 20 (9.85%) Linux
2 14 (6.90%) Windows
3 13 (6.40%) Unix
4 7 (3.45%) Android
5 5 (2.46%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.49%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 203 (100.00%) DevOps
2 147 (72.41%) CI/CD
3 106 (52.22%) Agile
4 60 (29.56%) Scrum
5 59 (29.06%) Infrastructure as Code
6 53 (26.11%) Test Automation
7 43 (21.18%) Kanban
7 43 (21.18%) Mentoring
8 38 (18.72%) Continuous Integration
8 38 (18.72%) Problem-Solving
9 35 (17.24%) AI
10 34 (16.75%) Full-Stack Development
11 33 (16.26%) Coaching
12 32 (15.76%) Containerisation
13 31 (15.27%) Roadmaps
14 30 (14.78%) Deployment Automation
15 29 (14.29%) Analytics
15 29 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
16 28 (13.79%) API Integration
16 28 (13.79%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 82 (40.39%) SQL
2 57 (28.08%) Python
3 53 (26.11%) C#
4 42 (20.69%) JavaScript
5 33 (16.26%) Java
6 31 (15.27%) Bash
7 19 (9.36%) PowerShell
8 18 (8.87%) Go
9 15 (7.39%) Bicep
10 12 (5.91%) TypeScript
11 8 (3.94%) T-SQL
12 7 (3.45%) C++
13 5 (2.46%) Kotlin
13 5 (2.46%) Swift
14 3 (1.48%) Apex Code
14 3 (1.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 3 (1.48%) PL/SQL
14 3 (1.48%) SOQL
14 3 (1.48%) SOSL
15 2 (0.99%) PHP
Qualifications
1 17 (8.37%) Degree
2 12 (5.91%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (2.46%) AWS Certification
3 5 (2.46%) PMI Certification
4 4 (1.97%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.48%) AWS Certified Developer
6 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (0.99%) SC Cleared
6 2 (0.99%) Security Cleared
7 1 (0.49%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.91%) QA
1 12 (5.91%) TickIT
2 10 (4.93%) Accessibility
2 10 (4.93%) GDPR
2 10 (4.93%) WCAG
3 7 (3.45%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.49%) GRC
System Software
1 20 (9.85%) Docker
2 4 (1.97%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.97%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.48%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 72 (35.47%) Terraform
2 18 (8.87%) Grafana
2 18 (8.87%) Kubernetes
2 18 (8.87%) Prometheus
3 16 (7.88%) Ansible
4 13 (6.40%) Argo
5 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 71 (34.98%) Microsoft
2 12 (5.91%) Databricks
2 12 (5.91%) Salesforce
3 10 (4.93%) Dynatrace
4 9 (4.43%) Google
5 7 (3.45%) Apple
6 5 (2.46%) VMware
7 3 (1.48%) Oracle
7 3 (1.48%) Pega
7 3 (1.48%) Splunk
8 2 (0.99%) DevExpress
8 2 (0.99%) Facebook
8 2 (0.99%) Sony
8 2 (0.99%) Yahoo!
9 1 (0.49%) Progress
9 1 (0.49%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.49%) Sparx
9 1 (0.49%) WooCommerce