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 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 167 119 81
Rank change year-on-year -48 -38 +2
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 96 175 278
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.90% 1.93% 3.25%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.33% 6.04% 8.24%
Number of salaries quoted 80 94 230
10th Percentile £42,000 £42,500 £39,889
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £59,763
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +8.76% -8.06%
75th Percentile £67,500 £83,750 £72,433
90th Percentile £77,500 £93,778 £87,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -3.70%

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 4,113 2,899 3,372
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 38.65% 31.89% 39.37%
Number of salaries quoted 1,853 1,610 2,881
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,993 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £72,500 £71,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £84,056
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%

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 12 January 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 12 January 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 -15 35 £64,000 -1.54% 50
Yorkshire -38 35 £60,000 -10.75% 26
North East +6 26 £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 6 (6.25%) Confluence
2 2 (2.08%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.04%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.04%) IIS
3 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.04%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (4.17%) MS Visio
2 3 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (3.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (6.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.08%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 96 (100.00%) Azure
2 36 (37.50%) GitHub
3 28 (29.17%) GitHub Actions
4 27 (28.13%) AWS
5 18 (18.75%) AWS CloudFormation
6 17 (17.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 16 (16.67%) Serverless
8 13 (13.54%) Amazon EventBridge
8 13 (13.54%) Amazon S3
8 13 (13.54%) Amazon SQS
8 13 (13.54%) AWS Lambda
8 13 (13.54%) AWS Step Functions
9 11 (11.46%) PaaS
9 11 (11.46%) SaaS
10 9 (9.38%) Power Automate
11 8 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
12 7 (7.29%) IaaS
12 7 (7.29%) Power Platform
13 6 (6.25%) GCP
14 5 (5.21%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 8 (8.33%) DNS
2 7 (7.29%) Firewall
3 5 (5.21%) HTTP
3 5 (5.21%) TCP/IP
4 3 (3.13%) WAN
5 1 (1.04%) DHCP
5 1 (1.04%) Network Security
5 1 (1.04%) SD-WAN
5 1 (1.04%) VLAN
5 1 (1.04%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (20.83%) SQL Server
2 13 (13.54%) DynamoDB
2 13 (13.54%) NoSQL
2 13 (13.54%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (7.29%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (3.13%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.08%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 2 (2.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (2.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (1.04%) Data Mining
6 1 (1.04%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.04%) Redis
6 1 (1.04%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 22 (22.92%) Git
2 9 (9.38%) JIRA
3 7 (7.29%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.04%) CircleCI
4 1 (1.04%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.04%) git-flow
4 1 (1.04%) NUnit
4 1 (1.04%) Postman
4 1 (1.04%) Selenium
General
1 30 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 18 (18.75%) Finance
3 11 (11.46%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (6.25%) Law
4 6 (6.25%) Public Sector
5 4 (4.17%) Telecoms
6 3 (3.13%) Advertising
6 3 (3.13%) Banking
6 3 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.08%) Retail
8 1 (1.04%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 34 (35.42%) Developer
2 17 (17.71%) .NET Developer
3 13 (13.54%) Cloud Engineer
4 12 (12.50%) Analyst
5 11 (11.46%) DevOps Engineer
5 11 (11.46%) Software Engineer
6 9 (9.38%) Business Analyst
6 9 (9.38%) Lead
7 8 (8.33%) Senior
8 7 (7.29%) Full-Stack Developer
9 6 (6.25%) .NET Software Engineer
10 5 (5.21%) AWS Developer
10 5 (5.21%) Azure Engineer
11 4 (4.17%) C# Software Engineer
11 4 (4.17%) Senior C# Software Engineer
11 4 (4.17%) Senior Software Engineer
12 3 (3.13%) Enterprise Architect
12 3 (3.13%) Software Analyst
12 3 (3.13%) Technical Analyst
12 3 (3.13%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (42.71%) .NET
2 23 (23.96%) .NET Core
3 22 (22.92%) React
4 21 (21.88%) ASP.NET
5 18 (18.75%) Blazor
5 18 (18.75%) RESTful
6 14 (14.58%) ASP.NET Core
7 13 (13.54%) AWS CDK
8 10 (10.42%) AngularJS
9 9 (9.38%) .NET Framework
10 8 (8.33%) CSS
10 8 (8.33%) HTML
10 8 (8.33%) Node.js
11 5 (5.21%) ARM Templates
12 4 (4.17%) Elastic Stack
12 4 (4.17%) Entity Framework
13 3 (3.13%) CSS3
13 3 (3.13%) Lightning Web Components
13 3 (3.13%) REST
13 3 (3.13%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 22 (22.92%) Cloud Native
2 9 (9.38%) Product Ownership
3 4 (4.17%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.13%) AI Agents
4 3 (3.13%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (3.13%) Mobile App
4 3 (3.13%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.08%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.08%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.08%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.08%) Driving Licence
5 2 (2.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.04%) EPoS
6 1 (1.04%) IoT
6 1 (1.04%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.04%) Legacy Code
6 1 (1.04%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.04%) Social Network
6 1 (1.04%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.13%) Android
2 2 (2.08%) Apple iOS
2 2 (2.08%) Linux
3 1 (1.04%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (100.00%) DevOps
2 49 (51.04%) Agile
2 49 (51.04%) CI/CD
3 37 (38.54%) Infrastructure as Code
4 30 (31.25%) Containerisation
5 24 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 23 (23.96%) Microservices
7 19 (19.79%) Mentoring
8 18 (18.75%) SDLC
8 18 (18.75%) Software Engineering
9 15 (15.63%) Roadmaps
10 14 (14.58%) Deployment Automation
11 13 (13.54%) Application Security
11 13 (13.54%) Full-Stack Development
11 13 (13.54%) Root Cause Analysis
12 12 (12.50%) CRM
13 11 (11.46%) Data Modelling
14 9 (9.38%) Continuous Improvement
14 9 (9.38%) High Availability
14 9 (9.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 34 (35.42%) SQL
2 27 (28.13%) C#
3 18 (18.75%) PowerShell
4 14 (14.58%) Python
5 12 (12.50%) Bash
6 10 (10.42%) JavaScript
7 9 (9.38%) Bicep
8 6 (6.25%) Go
9 5 (5.21%) TypeScript
10 3 (3.13%) Apex Code
11 2 (2.08%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (11.46%) AWS Certification
1 11 (11.46%) AWS Certified Developer
2 8 (8.33%) Azure Certification
3 5 (5.21%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.21%) Security Cleared
4 3 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.08%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (1.04%) CSPO
6 1 (1.04%) Degree
6 1 (1.04%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.04%) MCITP
6 1 (1.04%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.08%) GDPR
System Software
1 24 (25.00%) Docker
2 6 (6.25%) Active Directory
3 5 (5.21%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.04%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 38 (39.58%) Terraform
2 12 (12.50%) Kubernetes
3 10 (10.42%) Ansible
3 10 (10.42%) Prometheus
4 6 (6.25%) Grafana
5 1 (1.04%) Argo
5 1 (1.04%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (1.04%) FortiGate
5 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 27 (28.13%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.17%) Foundry
3 3 (3.13%) Salesforce
3 3 (3.13%) Sparx
4 2 (2.08%) Xamarin
5 1 (1.04%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.04%) Fortinet
5 1 (1.04%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.04%) Oracle
5 1 (1.04%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.04%) Splunk