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 30 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 158 200 94
Rank change year-on-year +42 -106 +17
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 203 90 437
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.02% 1.15% 2.46%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.49% 3.74% 7.15%
Number of salaries quoted 175 65 337
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,000 £50,000 £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 £75,125 £80,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £90,000
England median annual salary £65,500 £70,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year -6.43% +13.82% -5.89%

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 5,820 2,407 6,112
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 29.20% 30.68% 34.47%
Number of salaries quoted 3,176 1,555 5,037
10th Percentile £29,000 £28,250 £28,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £37,500
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 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £93,750 £87,500 £82,500
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 30 May 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 30 May 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 +62 109 £69,310 +14.56% 43
Yorkshire -34 52 £69,310 -0.99% 11
North East -7 42 £50,000 -9.09% 17
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 17 (8.37%) Confluence
2 13 (6.40%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (4.43%) 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%) Umbraco
6 2 (0.99%) WordPress
7 1 (0.49%) nginx
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 6 (2.96%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.48%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.49%) Magento
3 1 (0.49%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 203 (100.00%) Azure
2 65 (32.02%) GitHub
3 61 (30.05%) AWS
4 47 (23.15%) GitHub Actions
5 35 (17.24%) Power Platform
6 23 (11.33%) Serverless
7 22 (10.84%) Dynamics 365
8 21 (10.34%) GCP
9 19 (9.36%) 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 15 (7.39%) Microsoft 365
13 13 (6.40%) Azure Data Factory
13 13 (6.40%) Power Automate
14 12 (5.91%) Boomi
15 9 (4.43%) Entra ID
16 8 (3.94%) Amazon S3
16 8 (3.94%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 21 (10.34%) Firewall
2 18 (8.87%) DNS
3 17 (8.37%) HTTP
4 16 (7.88%) TCP/IP
5 3 (1.48%) HTTPS
5 3 (1.48%) SAN
6 1 (0.49%) DHCP
6 1 (0.49%) LTE
6 1 (0.49%) Network Security
6 1 (0.49%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.49%) VLAN
6 1 (0.49%) VPN
6 1 (0.49%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (13.79%) MongoDB
2 23 (11.33%) Azure SQL Database
2 23 (11.33%) SQL Server
3 22 (10.84%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (10.84%) Power BI
4 15 (7.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 12 (5.91%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (4.43%) NoSQL
6 9 (4.43%) Spark SQL
7 8 (3.94%) Relational Database
8 6 (2.96%) DynamoDB
9 4 (1.97%) 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
3 38 (18.72%) Jenkins
4 20 (9.85%) GitLab
5 13 (6.40%) Postman
6 8 (3.94%) fastlane
7 4 (1.97%) Android Studio
7 4 (1.97%) Crashlytics
7 4 (1.97%) Gradle
7 4 (1.97%) Visual Studio
7 4 (1.97%) Xcode
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 46 (22.66%) Social Skills
2 33 (16.26%) Public Sector
3 23 (11.33%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (10.84%) Finance
5 15 (7.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 15 (7.39%) Law
5 15 (7.39%) Telecoms
6 14 (6.90%) Retail
7 12 (5.91%) Marketing
8 9 (4.43%) Banking
8 9 (4.43%) Games
8 9 (4.43%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (2.96%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.48%) Legal
11 1 (0.49%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 77 (37.93%) Developer
2 62 (30.54%) Senior
3 36 (17.73%) DevOps Engineer
4 28 (13.79%) Senior Developer
5 22 (10.84%) .NET Developer
6 19 (9.36%) Lead
7 16 (7.88%) Azure Engineer
7 16 (7.88%) Data Engineer
8 14 (6.90%) Platform Engineer
8 14 (6.90%) Senior DevOps
8 14 (6.90%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 13 (6.40%) Cloud Engineer
10 12 (5.91%) Software Engineer
11 11 (5.42%) Software Developer
12 9 (4.43%) Azure Platform Engineer
12 9 (4.43%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 9 (4.43%) Lead Data Engineer
12 9 (4.43%) Scrum Master
12 9 (4.43%) Senior Software Engineer
13 7 (3.45%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (30.54%) .NET
2 38 (18.72%) REST
3 30 (14.78%) .NET Core
3 30 (14.78%) ASP.NET
4 26 (12.81%) RESTful
5 25 (12.32%) CSS
5 25 (12.32%) HTML
6 23 (11.33%) ASP.NET Core
6 23 (11.33%) React
7 22 (10.84%) ARM Templates
8 20 (9.85%) Middleware
8 20 (9.85%) Node.js
8 20 (9.85%) SOAP
9 17 (8.37%) JSON
10 16 (7.88%) Blazor
10 16 (7.88%) Entity Framework
11 15 (7.39%) Elastic Stack
12 12 (5.91%) EDI
12 12 (5.91%) XML
13 11 (5.42%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 23 (11.33%) Product Ownership
2 17 (8.37%) Cloud Native
3 10 (4.93%) Enterprise Cloud
3 10 (4.93%) Mobile App
4 8 (3.94%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (2.96%) Legacy Applications
5 6 (2.96%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (2.96%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.46%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (2.46%) PMI
7 4 (1.97%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (1.97%) Low-Code
8 3 (1.48%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.48%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.48%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.48%) Social Network
9 2 (0.99%) Algorithms
9 2 (0.99%) BBC
9 2 (0.99%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.99%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 19 (9.36%) Linux
2 14 (6.90%) Windows
3 13 (6.40%) Unix
4 5 (2.46%) Android
5 4 (1.97%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.49%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 203 (100.00%) DevOps
2 144 (70.94%) CI/CD
3 104 (51.23%) Agile
4 58 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
5 57 (28.08%) Scrum
6 51 (25.12%) Test Automation
7 45 (22.17%) Mentoring
8 40 (19.70%) Kanban
9 39 (19.21%) Problem-Solving
10 38 (18.72%) Continuous Integration
11 35 (17.24%) Roadmaps
12 34 (16.75%) Containerisation
13 33 (16.26%) Coaching
13 33 (16.26%) Full-Stack Development
14 32 (15.76%) AI
15 29 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
16 28 (13.79%) Release Management
17 27 (13.30%) API Integration
17 27 (13.30%) Continuous Improvement
18 26 (12.81%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 81 (39.90%) SQL
2 54 (26.60%) Python
3 52 (25.62%) C#
4 43 (21.18%) JavaScript
5 32 (15.76%) Java
6 31 (15.27%) Bash
7 19 (9.36%) PowerShell
8 18 (8.87%) Go
9 14 (6.90%) Bicep
10 12 (5.91%) TypeScript
11 8 (3.94%) T-SQL
12 7 (3.45%) C++
13 4 (1.97%) Kotlin
13 4 (1.97%) 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%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 17 (8.37%) Degree
2 12 (5.91%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (2.96%) AWS Certification
4 5 (2.46%) Azure Certification
4 5 (2.46%) PMI Certification
5 4 (1.97%) AWS Certified Developer
6 3 (1.48%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.99%) SC Cleared
7 2 (0.99%) Security Cleared
8 1 (0.49%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.49%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.91%) QA
1 12 (5.91%) TickIT
2 10 (4.93%) GDPR
3 8 (3.94%) Accessibility
3 8 (3.94%) WCAG
4 7 (3.45%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.49%) GRC
System Software
1 22 (10.84%) Docker
2 5 (2.46%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.46%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.49%) Firmware
4 1 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 71 (34.98%) Terraform
2 19 (9.36%) Kubernetes
3 18 (8.87%) Grafana
3 18 (8.87%) Prometheus
4 16 (7.88%) Ansible
5 13 (6.40%) Argo
6 3 (1.48%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.49%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 73 (35.96%) Microsoft
2 12 (5.91%) Salesforce
3 11 (5.42%) Databricks
4 8 (3.94%) Dynatrace
5 7 (3.45%) Google
6 6 (2.96%) Apple
7 4 (1.97%) Oracle
7 4 (1.97%) VMware
8 3 (1.48%) Pega
8 3 (1.48%) Sparx
8 3 (1.48%) Splunk
9 2 (0.99%) DevExpress
9 2 (0.99%) Facebook
9 2 (0.99%) Sony
9 2 (0.99%) Yahoo!
10 1 (0.49%) Fortinet
10 1 (0.49%) Progress
10 1 (0.49%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.49%) WooCommerce