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

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 177 158 96
Rank change year-on-year -19 -62 +20
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 146 100 420
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.84% 1.44% 2.54%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.48% 4.43% 7.17%
Number of salaries quoted 118 85 323
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,450 £38,778
25th Percentile £46,563 £50,000 £46,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +16.67% -2.44%
75th Percentile £75,250 £82,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £85,375 £91,250 £90,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +8.00% -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 5,897 2,258 5,854
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 33.80% 32.54% 35.46%
Number of salaries quoted 2,698 1,723 4,915
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,850 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £77,424 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £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 19 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 19 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 -3 68 £70,000 +7.69% 47
Yorkshire -47 46 £60,000 -14.29% 20
North East -9 32 £50,000 -16.67% 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 16 (10.96%) Confluence
2 7 (4.79%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (4.11%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.37%) CICS
5 1 (0.68%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.68%) IIS
5 1 (0.68%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 3 (2.05%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (1.37%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.68%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (2.74%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.68%) Magento
2 1 (0.68%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 146 (100.00%) Azure
2 64 (43.84%) GitHub
3 51 (34.93%) GitHub Actions
4 50 (34.25%) AWS
5 24 (16.44%) GCP
5 24 (16.44%) Serverless
6 19 (13.01%) Power Platform
7 14 (9.59%) AWS CloudFormation
8 13 (8.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 13 (8.90%) Amazon EventBridge
8 13 (8.90%) Amazon S3
8 13 (8.90%) Amazon SQS
8 13 (8.90%) AWS Lambda
8 13 (8.90%) AWS Step Functions
8 13 (8.90%) Dynamics 365
9 12 (8.22%) Azure Logic Apps
10 11 (7.53%) Azure Functions
10 11 (7.53%) Azure Monitor
11 10 (6.85%) Entra ID
12 9 (6.16%) Boomi
Communications & Networking
1 20 (13.70%) DNS
2 19 (13.01%) Firewall
2 19 (13.01%) HTTP
2 19 (13.01%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.68%) DHCP
3 1 (0.68%) LTE
3 1 (0.68%) Network Security
3 1 (0.68%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.68%) VLAN
3 1 (0.68%) VPN
3 1 (0.68%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (15.07%) SQL Server
2 17 (11.64%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (10.27%) Power BI
4 13 (8.90%) DynamoDB
4 13 (8.90%) NoSQL
5 9 (6.16%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (6.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 7 (4.79%) Azure SQL Database
6 7 (4.79%) MongoDB
7 6 (4.11%) Spark SQL
8 4 (2.74%) Relational Database
9 3 (2.05%) Power Query
10 2 (1.37%) DB2
10 2 (1.37%) Hazelcast
11 1 (0.68%) Data Mining
11 1 (0.68%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 35 (23.97%) JIRA
2 29 (19.86%) Jenkins
3 26 (17.81%) Git
4 12 (8.22%) Postman
5 4 (2.74%) GitLab
6 3 (2.05%) Eclipse
6 3 (2.05%) IntelliJ
6 3 (2.05%) NUnit
6 3 (2.05%) REST Assured
6 3 (2.05%) Visual Studio
7 2 (1.37%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.37%) Selenium
7 2 (1.37%) TestRail
8 1 (0.68%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.68%) GDB
8 1 (0.68%) WinDbg
General
1 38 (26.03%) Social Skills
2 27 (18.49%) Finance
3 20 (13.70%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (13.01%) Law
5 18 (12.33%) Telecoms
6 12 (8.22%) Retail
7 11 (7.53%) Public Sector
8 9 (6.16%) Influencing Skills
8 9 (6.16%) Marketing
9 7 (4.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (4.11%) Banking
10 6 (4.11%) Games
11 4 (2.74%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (1.37%) Advertising
12 2 (1.37%) Legal
13 1 (0.68%) Back Office
13 1 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 45 (30.82%) Developer
2 26 (17.81%) DevOps Engineer
3 22 (15.07%) Senior
4 19 (13.01%) Lead
5 18 (12.33%) .NET Developer
6 11 (7.53%) Azure Engineer
6 11 (7.53%) Senior Developer
7 10 (6.85%) Analyst
7 10 (6.85%) Cloud Engineer
8 8 (5.48%) Software Engineer
9 7 (4.79%) Data Engineer
9 7 (4.79%) Head of Testing
9 7 (4.79%) Platform Engineer
10 6 (4.11%) Business Analyst
10 6 (4.11%) Delivery Manager
10 6 (4.11%) Full-Stack Developer
10 6 (4.11%) Scrum Master
10 6 (4.11%) Senior DevOps
10 6 (4.11%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 5 (3.42%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (28.08%) .NET
2 26 (17.81%) .NET Core
3 25 (17.12%) ASP.NET
4 23 (15.75%) React
5 22 (15.07%) RESTful
6 18 (12.33%) ASP.NET Core
6 18 (12.33%) Elastic Stack
6 18 (12.33%) REST
7 17 (11.64%) Blazor
8 15 (10.27%) ARM Templates
9 14 (9.59%) SOAP
10 13 (8.90%) AWS CDK
10 13 (8.90%) CSS
10 13 (8.90%) HTML
11 11 (7.53%) AngularJS
11 11 (7.53%) JSON
11 11 (7.53%) Middleware
12 10 (6.85%) Node.js
13 9 (6.16%) EDI
13 9 (6.16%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (14.38%) Cloud Native
2 11 (7.53%) Product Ownership
3 6 (4.11%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (4.11%) Enterprise Cloud
4 5 (3.42%) PMI
5 4 (2.74%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (2.74%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.05%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.05%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.37%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.37%) Driving Licence
7 2 (1.37%) Mainframe
7 2 (1.37%) Social Network
8 1 (0.68%) BBC
8 1 (0.68%) EPoS
8 1 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.68%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.68%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.68%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.68%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.79%) Linux
2 5 (3.42%) Windows
3 4 (2.74%) Unix
4 1 (0.68%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (100.00%) DevOps
2 93 (63.70%) CI/CD
3 70 (47.95%) Agile
4 58 (39.73%) Infrastructure as Code
5 46 (31.51%) Containerisation
6 34 (23.29%) Problem-Solving
7 32 (21.92%) Continuous Integration
7 32 (21.92%) Roadmaps
8 28 (19.18%) Scrum
9 26 (17.81%) High Availability
10 24 (16.44%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 23 (15.75%) Continuous Delivery
11 23 (15.75%) SDLC
11 23 (15.75%) Test Automation
12 21 (14.38%) Deployment Automation
12 21 (14.38%) Microservices
13 20 (13.70%) Kanban
14 19 (13.01%) Mentoring
14 19 (13.01%) Static Code Analysis
14 19 (13.01%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 53 (36.30%) SQL
2 39 (26.71%) Python
3 29 (19.86%) Bash
4 25 (17.12%) C#
5 22 (15.07%) JavaScript
6 21 (14.38%) Go
7 14 (9.59%) PowerShell
8 10 (6.85%) Java
9 9 (6.16%) Bicep
10 8 (5.48%) TypeScript
11 6 (4.11%) T-SQL
12 3 (2.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (2.05%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.68%) C++
13 1 (0.68%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 11 (7.53%) AWS Certification
1 11 (7.53%) AWS Certified Developer
2 8 (5.48%) Azure Certification
3 7 (4.79%) Degree
4 5 (3.42%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (3.42%) PMI Certification
4 5 (3.42%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.42%) Security Cleared
5 4 (2.74%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.68%) CSPO
6 1 (0.68%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (0.68%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.68%) MCITP
6 1 (0.68%) MCSE
6 1 (0.68%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.16%) TickIT
2 6 (4.11%) GDPR
3 3 (2.05%) QA
4 2 (1.37%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.68%) GRC
System Software
1 25 (17.12%) Docker
2 5 (3.42%) Active Directory
2 5 (3.42%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.68%) Firmware
3 1 (0.68%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 58 (39.73%) Terraform
2 22 (15.07%) Ansible
2 22 (15.07%) Grafana
2 22 (15.07%) Prometheus
3 16 (10.96%) Kubernetes
4 4 (2.74%) Argo
5 1 (0.68%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (0.68%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 49 (33.56%) Microsoft
2 9 (6.16%) Salesforce
3 6 (4.11%) Databricks
4 3 (2.05%) Oracle
4 3 (2.05%) Pega
4 3 (2.05%) Sparx
5 2 (1.37%) DevExpress
6 1 (0.68%) Apple
6 1 (0.68%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.68%) Facebook
6 1 (0.68%) Fortinet
6 1 (0.68%) Foundry
6 1 (0.68%) Google
6 1 (0.68%) Sony
6 1 (0.68%) WooCommerce
6 1 (0.68%) Yahoo!