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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 208 90 63
Rank change year-on-year -118 -27 +5
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 93 311 421
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.99% 2.20% 4.52%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.79% 7.52% 10.79%
Number of salaries quoted 71 189 335
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,221 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,750 £47,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £71,875 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £90,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% - -

All Cloud 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 2,454 4,135 3,900
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 26.09% 29.21% 41.91%
Number of salaries quoted 1,699 2,661 3,172
10th Percentile £26,500 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £33,875 £41,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £72,433
90th Percentile £82,500 £84,964 £84,056
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% +4.00%

Azure DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Azure DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Azure DevOps 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 13 September 2025.

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 13 September 2025. 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 -96 52 £65,000 +8.33% 33
Yorkshire -25 32 £60,000 -10.75% 42
North East -9 9 £48,750 -11.36% 28
Azure DevOps
England

Azure DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (2.15%) Confluence
2 1 (1.08%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.08%) nginx
2 1 (1.08%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.08%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (3.23%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 93 (100.00%) Azure
2 20 (21.51%) SaaS
3 19 (20.43%) Power Platform
4 15 (16.13%) AWS
4 15 (16.13%) Power Automate
5 11 (11.83%) Azure Monitor
5 11 (11.83%) PaaS
6 9 (9.68%) GitHub
7 8 (8.60%) Dynamics 365
8 7 (7.53%) Azure Service Bus
8 7 (7.53%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (7.53%) IaaS
9 6 (6.45%) Azure AKS
9 6 (6.45%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 6 (6.45%) Entra ID
10 5 (5.38%) Azure Key Vault
10 5 (5.38%) GCP
11 4 (4.30%) Azure AI
12 3 (3.23%) Copilot Studio
12 3 (3.23%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 10 (10.75%) Firewall
2 7 (7.53%) DNS
3 6 (6.45%) WAN
4 5 (5.38%) VPN
5 4 (4.30%) SD-WAN
6 3 (3.23%) Network Security
7 1 (1.08%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.60%) Power BI
2 6 (6.45%) Relational Database
2 6 (6.45%) SQL Server
3 5 (5.38%) Data Lake
3 5 (5.38%) RDBMS
4 4 (4.30%) MySQL
5 2 (2.15%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (2.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 22 (23.66%) Git
2 8 (8.60%) Jenkins
3 7 (7.53%) JIRA
4 3 (3.23%) Selenium
5 2 (2.15%) Cucumber
5 2 (2.15%) ESLint
5 2 (2.15%) Gatling
5 2 (2.15%) GitLab
5 2 (2.15%) JMeter
5 2 (2.15%) Storybook
5 2 (2.15%) webpack
6 1 (1.08%) CircleCI
6 1 (1.08%) git-flow
6 1 (1.08%) Katalon Studio
6 1 (1.08%) NUnit
6 1 (1.08%) Postman
6 1 (1.08%) SoapUI
6 1 (1.08%) SpecFlow
6 1 (1.08%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (1.08%) Visual Studio
General
1 22 (23.66%) Social Skills
2 11 (11.83%) Finance
3 4 (4.30%) Banking
4 3 (3.23%) Law
4 3 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (3.23%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.15%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.15%) Digital Healthcare
5 2 (2.15%) Retail
6 1 (1.08%) Digital Health
6 1 (1.08%) Health Technology
6 1 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.08%) Legal
6 1 (1.08%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 25 (26.88%) Developer
2 18 (19.35%) DevOps Engineer
3 17 (18.28%) Azure Engineer
4 16 (17.20%) Cloud Engineer
4 16 (17.20%) Senior
5 14 (15.05%) Lead
6 10 (10.75%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 10 (10.75%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 9 (9.68%) .NET Developer
8 8 (8.60%) Software Engineer
9 6 (6.45%) Architect
9 6 (6.45%) Power Platform Developer
10 5 (5.38%) .NET Software Engineer
10 5 (5.38%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (5.38%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (5.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (5.38%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 4 (4.30%) Cloud Architect
11 4 (4.30%) Lead DevOps Engineer
11 4 (4.30%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (39.78%) .NET
2 13 (13.98%) .NET Framework
3 10 (10.75%) React
3 10 (10.75%) REST
4 8 (8.60%) ASP.NET
5 7 (7.53%) AngularJS
5 7 (7.53%) ARM Templates
6 6 (6.45%) Blazor
6 6 (6.45%) Entity Framework
7 5 (5.38%) .NET Core
7 5 (5.38%) ASP.NET Core
7 5 (5.38%) WinForms
8 4 (4.30%) Lightning Web Components
8 4 (4.30%) Vue
9 3 (3.23%) ASP.NET Web API
9 3 (3.23%) Loki
9 3 (3.23%) Next.js
9 3 (3.23%) OAuth
9 3 (3.23%) React Native
9 3 (3.23%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (15.05%) Cloud Native
2 10 (10.75%) Product Ownership
3 9 (9.68%) Data Centre
4 7 (7.53%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (4.30%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (4.30%) NHS
6 3 (3.23%) AI Agents
6 3 (3.23%) Blog
6 3 (3.23%) Distributed Architecture
6 3 (3.23%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (3.23%) Mobile App
6 3 (3.23%) Social Media
7 2 (2.15%) Algorithms
7 2 (2.15%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (2.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (2.15%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.08%) Data Fabric
8 1 (1.08%) Security Posture
8 1 (1.08%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (11.83%) Windows
2 3 (3.23%) Linux
3 2 (2.15%) Android
3 2 (2.15%) Apple iOS
3 2 (2.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (100.00%) DevOps
2 54 (58.06%) CI/CD
3 41 (44.09%) Agile
4 30 (32.26%) Infrastructure as Code
5 19 (20.43%) Mentoring
5 19 (20.43%) Software Engineering
6 17 (18.28%) Microservices
7 13 (13.98%) Continuous Improvement
8 12 (12.90%) Cloud Security
8 12 (12.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 12 (12.90%) SDLC
9 11 (11.83%) Infrastructure Automation
9 11 (11.83%) Migration
9 11 (11.83%) Problem-Solving
10 10 (10.75%) Containerisation
10 10 (10.75%) Full-Stack Development
11 9 (9.68%) Analytics
11 9 (9.68%) Project Management
11 9 (9.68%) SOLID
12 8 (8.60%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 33 (35.48%) C#
2 25 (26.88%) SQL
3 19 (20.43%) PowerShell
4 13 (13.98%) Python
5 10 (10.75%) Bicep
5 10 (10.75%) JavaScript
6 7 (7.53%) Bash
7 6 (6.45%) TypeScript
8 4 (4.30%) Apex Code
8 4 (4.30%) Go
9 2 (2.15%) SOQL
9 2 (2.15%) T-SQL
10 1 (1.08%) Perl
10 1 (1.08%) Ruby
10 1 (1.08%) X++
Qualifications
1 16 (17.20%) Azure Certification
2 6 (6.45%) Degree
2 6 (6.45%) SC Cleared
2 6 (6.45%) Security Cleared
3 5 (5.38%) DBS Check
4 3 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.15%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.15%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 2 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.15%) ISTQB
5 2 (2.15%) Master's Degree
5 2 (2.15%) PhD
6 1 (1.08%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (1.08%) MCSD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.38%) QA
2 3 (3.23%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.15%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.15%) GDPR
System Software
1 12 (12.90%) Docker
2 6 (6.45%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (5.38%) Active Directory
4 3 (3.23%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (2.15%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (2.15%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 26 (27.96%) Terraform
2 21 (22.58%) Kubernetes
3 10 (10.75%) Ansible
4 5 (5.38%) Grafana
5 4 (4.30%) Prometheus
5 4 (4.30%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.08%) Argo
6 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.08%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.08%) Puppet
Vendors
1 33 (35.48%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.30%) Databricks
2 4 (4.30%) Meraki
2 4 (4.30%) Salesforce
3 3 (3.23%) Foundry
3 3 (3.23%) Google
4 2 (2.15%) VMware
4 2 (2.15%) Xamarin
5 1 (1.08%) OpenAI