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 14 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 207 113 60
Rank change year-on-year -94 -53 +13
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 93 242 380
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.99% 1.87% 4.62%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.75% 6.51% 10.68%
Number of salaries quoted 76 141 309
10th Percentile £42,250 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £70,625 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £90,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £66,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.48% +3.85% -2.67%

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 2,478 3,717 3,557
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 26.28% 28.67% 43.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1,708 2,132 2,938
10th Percentile £27,000 £31,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £33,031 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - -
75th Percentile £70,000 £69,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,975 £84,056
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -2.34%

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 14 October 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 14 October 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 -67 50 £65,000 +8.33% 32
Yorkshire -39 31 £55,000 -18.19% 21
North East -7 12 £50,000 -9.09% 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 3 (3.23%) Confluence
2 1 (1.08%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.08%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (2.15%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.15%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (3.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.15%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 93 (100.00%) Azure
2 21 (22.58%) SaaS
3 16 (17.20%) AWS
3 16 (17.20%) Power Automate
3 16 (17.20%) Power Platform
4 13 (13.98%) GitHub
5 11 (11.83%) Azure Monitor
5 11 (11.83%) PaaS
6 8 (8.60%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (7.53%) Azure Service Bus
7 7 (7.53%) Dynamics 365
7 7 (7.53%) IaaS
8 6 (6.45%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 5 (5.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 5 (5.38%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (5.38%) Azure AKS
9 5 (5.38%) Azure Key Vault
9 5 (5.38%) Entra ID
9 5 (5.38%) GCP
10 4 (4.30%) Azure AI
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 7 (7.53%) Power BI
1 7 (7.53%) Relational Database
2 5 (5.38%) RDBMS
2 5 (5.38%) SQL Server
3 4 (4.30%) Data Lake
3 4 (4.30%) MySQL
4 3 (3.23%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (3.23%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.15%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 2 (2.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (2.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (1.08%) Redis
Development Applications
1 21 (22.58%) Git
2 10 (10.75%) JIRA
3 8 (8.60%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.15%) Cucumber
4 2 (2.15%) ESLint
4 2 (2.15%) Gatling
4 2 (2.15%) GitLab
4 2 (2.15%) JMeter
4 2 (2.15%) Selenium
4 2 (2.15%) Storybook
4 2 (2.15%) webpack
5 1 (1.08%) CircleCI
5 1 (1.08%) git-flow
5 1 (1.08%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 19 (20.43%) Social Skills
2 13 (13.98%) Finance
3 5 (5.38%) Banking
4 3 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (3.23%) Law
4 3 (3.23%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.15%) Digital Healthcare
5 2 (2.15%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (2.15%) Retail
6 1 (1.08%) Advertising
6 1 (1.08%) Digital Health
6 1 (1.08%) Health Technology
6 1 (1.08%) Legal
6 1 (1.08%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 27 (29.03%) Developer
2 18 (19.35%) Cloud Engineer
3 16 (17.20%) DevOps Engineer
4 15 (16.13%) Azure Engineer
5 13 (13.98%) Senior
6 11 (11.83%) Lead
7 9 (9.68%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 8 (8.60%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 8 (8.60%) Software Engineer
9 6 (6.45%) .NET Developer
9 6 (6.45%) Architect
9 6 (6.45%) Power Platform Developer
10 5 (5.38%) .NET Software Engineer
10 5 (5.38%) Analyst
11 4 (4.30%) Business Analyst
11 4 (4.30%) Cloud Architect
11 4 (4.30%) Full-Stack Developer
11 4 (4.30%) Lead DevOps
11 4 (4.30%) Lead DevOps Engineer
11 4 (4.30%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (33.33%) .NET
2 10 (10.75%) REST
3 9 (9.68%) .NET Framework
3 9 (9.68%) React
4 8 (8.60%) ASP.NET
5 7 (7.53%) AngularJS
6 6 (6.45%) ARM Templates
7 5 (5.38%) ASP.NET Core
7 5 (5.38%) Blazor
7 5 (5.38%) Entity Framework
7 5 (5.38%) Lightning Web Components
7 5 (5.38%) WinForms
8 4 (4.30%) .NET Core
9 3 (3.23%) JSON
9 3 (3.23%) JWT
9 3 (3.23%) Next.js
9 3 (3.23%) Node.js
9 3 (3.23%) OAuth
9 3 (3.23%) RESTful
9 3 (3.23%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (17.20%) Cloud Native
2 12 (12.90%) Product Ownership
3 9 (9.68%) Data Centre
4 5 (5.38%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (4.30%) AI Agents
5 4 (4.30%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (4.30%) NHS
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%) IoT
8 1 (1.08%) Security Posture
8 1 (1.08%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 1 (1.08%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (9.68%) Windows
2 3 (3.23%) Android
2 3 (3.23%) Linux
3 2 (2.15%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.08%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (100.00%) DevOps
2 48 (51.61%) CI/CD
3 43 (46.24%) Agile
4 28 (30.11%) Infrastructure as Code
5 18 (19.35%) Mentoring
5 18 (19.35%) Microservices
5 18 (19.35%) Software Engineering
6 13 (13.98%) Continuous Improvement
7 12 (12.90%) Cloud Security
7 12 (12.90%) SDLC
8 11 (11.83%) Full-Stack Development
9 10 (10.75%) Infrastructure Automation
9 10 (10.75%) Migration
9 10 (10.75%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (9.68%) AI
10 9 (9.68%) Containerisation
10 9 (9.68%) Project Management
10 9 (9.68%) Roadmaps
10 9 (9.68%) SOLID
11 8 (8.60%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 30 (32.26%) C#
2 25 (26.88%) SQL
3 19 (20.43%) PowerShell
4 14 (15.05%) Python
5 10 (10.75%) Bicep
6 9 (9.68%) JavaScript
7 7 (7.53%) Bash
8 5 (5.38%) Apex Code
8 5 (5.38%) TypeScript
9 4 (4.30%) Go
10 2 (2.15%) SOQL
11 1 (1.08%) Perl
11 1 (1.08%) Ruby
11 1 (1.08%) X++
Qualifications
1 14 (15.05%) Azure Certification
2 7 (7.53%) SC Cleared
2 7 (7.53%) Security Cleared
3 5 (5.38%) DBS Check
3 5 (5.38%) Degree
4 2 (2.15%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.15%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 2 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.15%) ISTQB
4 2 (2.15%) Master's Degree
4 2 (2.15%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (2.15%) PhD
5 1 (1.08%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.23%) Data Quality
1 3 (3.23%) QA
2 2 (2.15%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.15%) GDPR
System Software
1 11 (11.83%) Docker
2 6 (6.45%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (5.38%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (4.30%) Active Directory
5 1 (1.08%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (1.08%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 24 (25.81%) Terraform
2 18 (19.35%) Kubernetes
3 9 (9.68%) Ansible
4 6 (6.45%) Prometheus
5 4 (4.30%) Grafana
5 4 (4.30%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.08%) Argo
6 1 (1.08%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.08%) Puppet
Vendors
1 28 (30.11%) Microsoft
2 5 (5.38%) Salesforce
3 4 (4.30%) Databricks
3 4 (4.30%) Foundry
3 4 (4.30%) Meraki
4 3 (3.23%) Google
5 2 (2.15%) Xamarin
6 1 (1.08%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.08%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.08%) Splunk
6 1 (1.08%) VMware