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 2 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 174 137 113
Rank change year-on-year -37 -24 +6
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 105 129 306
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.79% 1.75% 2.30%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.21% 5.11% 6.21%
Number of salaries quoted 91 81 257
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,750 £39,556
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £67,500 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +13.40% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £82,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £80,250 £93,750 £90,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -6.02%

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 4,760 2,522 4,929
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 35.74% 34.18% 37.01%
Number of salaries quoted 2,198 1,542 4,230
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £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 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £88,148 £87,500 £83,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -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 2 March 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 2 March 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
Yorkshire -51 39 £52,500 -25.00% 32
North West -28 36 £63,000 -3.08% 58
North East +13 30 £50,000 -23.08% 13
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 10 (9.52%) Confluence
2 4 (3.81%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.95%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.95%) IIS
3 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.95%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (2.86%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (2.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (2.86%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (5.71%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.90%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 105 (100.00%) Azure
2 50 (47.62%) GitHub
3 42 (40.00%) GitHub Actions
4 39 (37.14%) AWS
5 19 (18.10%) GCP
5 19 (18.10%) Serverless
6 16 (15.24%) AWS CloudFormation
7 15 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 13 (12.38%) Amazon EventBridge
8 13 (12.38%) Amazon S3
8 13 (12.38%) Amazon SQS
8 13 (12.38%) AWS Lambda
8 13 (12.38%) AWS Step Functions
9 8 (7.62%) PaaS
9 8 (7.62%) Power Automate
9 8 (7.62%) Power Platform
9 8 (7.62%) SaaS
10 7 (6.67%) Azure Logic Apps
10 7 (6.67%) IaaS
10 7 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 19 (18.10%) DNS
2 18 (17.14%) Firewall
3 17 (16.19%) HTTP
3 17 (16.19%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.90%) WAN
5 1 (0.95%) DHCP
5 1 (0.95%) Network Security
5 1 (0.95%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.95%) VLAN
5 1 (0.95%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (18.10%) SQL Server
2 13 (12.38%) DynamoDB
2 13 (12.38%) NoSQL
2 13 (12.38%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (5.71%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (2.86%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.90%) Power BI
5 2 (1.90%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 2 (1.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (1.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.95%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.95%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.95%) Redis
6 1 (0.95%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 22 (20.95%) Git
2 20 (19.05%) Jenkins
3 12 (11.43%) JIRA
4 2 (1.90%) Postman
4 2 (1.90%) Selenium
5 1 (0.95%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.95%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.95%) git-flow
5 1 (0.95%) NUnit
General
1 29 (27.62%) Social Skills
2 18 (17.14%) Finance
2 18 (17.14%) Law
3 16 (15.24%) Telecoms
4 12 (11.43%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (4.76%) Influencing Skills
5 5 (4.76%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.81%) Banking
6 4 (3.81%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.86%) Advertising
8 2 (1.90%) Games
8 2 (1.90%) Legal
8 2 (1.90%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.90%) Retail
9 1 (0.95%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 32 (30.48%) Developer
2 23 (21.90%) DevOps Engineer
3 16 (15.24%) .NET Developer
4 12 (11.43%) Cloud Engineer
5 11 (10.48%) Analyst
5 11 (10.48%) Software Engineer
6 9 (8.57%) Lead
7 8 (7.62%) Business Analyst
7 8 (7.62%) Senior
8 6 (5.71%) .NET Software Engineer
8 6 (5.71%) Azure Engineer
9 5 (4.76%) AWS Developer
9 5 (4.76%) Power Platform Developer
10 4 (3.81%) C# Software Engineer
10 4 (3.81%) Full-Stack Developer
10 4 (3.81%) Lead Cloud Engineer
10 4 (3.81%) Senior C# Software Engineer
10 4 (3.81%) Senior Software Engineer
11 3 (2.86%) Enterprise Architect
11 3 (2.86%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (34.29%) .NET
2 24 (22.86%) .NET Core
3 22 (20.95%) React
4 21 (20.00%) ASP.NET
5 16 (15.24%) Elastic Stack
5 16 (15.24%) RESTful
6 15 (14.29%) Blazor
7 14 (13.33%) ASP.NET Core
8 13 (12.38%) AWS CDK
9 10 (9.52%) AngularJS
10 8 (7.62%) CSS
10 8 (7.62%) HTML
10 8 (7.62%) Node.js
11 5 (4.76%) ARM Templates
12 3 (2.86%) .NET Framework
12 3 (2.86%) CSS3
12 3 (2.86%) HTML5
12 3 (2.86%) Sass
12 3 (2.86%) Vue
13 2 (1.90%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 19 (18.10%) Cloud Native
2 11 (10.48%) Product Ownership
3 4 (3.81%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (3.81%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (3.81%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.90%) Driving Licence
4 2 (1.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (1.90%) PMI
5 1 (0.95%) AI Agents
5 1 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.95%) EPoS
5 1 (0.95%) IoT
5 1 (0.95%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.95%) Legacy Code
5 1 (0.95%) Low-Code
5 1 (0.95%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.95%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.95%) Reinsurance
5 1 (0.95%) Social Network
5 1 (0.95%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.90%) Linux
2 1 (0.95%) Android
2 1 (0.95%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (100.00%) DevOps
2 56 (53.33%) CI/CD
3 46 (43.81%) Agile
4 45 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
5 44 (41.90%) Containerisation
6 25 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
7 21 (20.00%) High Availability
7 21 (20.00%) Microservices
8 20 (19.05%) SDLC
9 19 (18.10%) Mentoring
10 18 (17.14%) Continuous Delivery
10 18 (17.14%) Software Engineering
11 17 (16.19%) DevSecOps
11 17 (16.19%) Roadmaps
11 17 (16.19%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 17 (16.19%) Static Code Analysis
11 17 (16.19%) Vulnerability Scanning
12 16 (15.24%) Continuous Integration
13 14 (13.33%) Deployment Automation
14 13 (12.38%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 31 (29.52%) SQL
2 25 (23.81%) Python
3 22 (20.95%) C#
4 21 (20.00%) Bash
5 19 (18.10%) Go
6 13 (12.38%) PowerShell
7 12 (11.43%) JavaScript
8 6 (5.71%) Bicep
8 6 (5.71%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.90%) Apex Code
9 2 (1.90%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (10.48%) AWS Certification
1 11 (10.48%) AWS Certified Developer
2 9 (8.57%) Azure Certification
3 4 (3.81%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.81%) Security Cleared
4 3 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.90%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.95%) CSPO
6 1 (0.95%) Degree
6 1 (0.95%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (0.95%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.95%) MCITP
6 1 (0.95%) MCSE
6 1 (0.95%) SAFe Agilist
System Software
1 23 (21.90%) Docker
2 4 (3.81%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.81%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (2.86%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.95%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 46 (43.81%) Terraform
2 22 (20.95%) Ansible
3 20 (19.05%) Prometheus
4 18 (17.14%) Grafana
5 11 (10.48%) Kubernetes
6 1 (0.95%) Argo
6 1 (0.95%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (0.95%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 24 (22.86%) Microsoft
2 3 (2.86%) Salesforce
2 3 (2.86%) Sparx
3 2 (1.90%) Foundry
4 1 (0.95%) Databricks
4 1 (0.95%) Dynatrace
4 1 (0.95%) Fortinet
4 1 (0.95%) OpenAI
4 1 (0.95%) Oracle
4 1 (0.95%) ServiceNow
4 1 (0.95%) Splunk