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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 162 197 95
Rank change year-on-year +35 -102 +18
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 185 101 425
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.96% 1.28% 2.49%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.25% 4.03% 7.10%
Number of salaries quoted 160 78 326
10th Percentile £45,000 £40,542 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,375 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,500 £66,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.13% +10.42% -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,250 £79,688 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £90,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year -3.57% +13.82% -5.38%

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 5,691 2,507 5,982
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 29.55% 31.67% 35.11%
Number of salaries quoted 3,015 1,648 4,982
10th Percentile £28,750 £29,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,188 £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 £69,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £87,500 £82,548
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 21 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 21 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 +52 96 £70,000 +16.18% 43
Yorkshire -35 49 £69,308 -0.99% 21
North East -6 40 £50,000 -16.67% 18
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 13 (7.03%) Confluence
1 13 (7.03%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (3.78%) SharePoint
3 6 (3.24%) SharePoint Server
4 3 (1.62%) IIS
5 2 (1.08%) CICS
5 2 (1.08%) CMS
5 2 (1.08%) Umbraco
5 2 (1.08%) WordPress
6 1 (0.54%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 2 (1.08%) Trello
2 1 (0.54%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (2.16%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.08%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.54%) Magento
3 1 (0.54%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 185 (100.00%) Azure
2 65 (35.14%) GitHub
3 61 (32.97%) AWS
4 49 (26.49%) GitHub Actions
5 29 (15.68%) Power Platform
6 22 (11.89%) Serverless
7 21 (11.35%) GCP
8 18 (9.73%) Dynamics 365
9 17 (9.19%) Azure Monitor
10 16 (8.65%) Azure AKS
10 16 (8.65%) Azure Logic Apps
11 14 (7.57%) Azure Service Bus
12 13 (7.03%) Azure Functions
12 13 (7.03%) Microsoft 365
13 12 (6.49%) Azure Data Factory
13 12 (6.49%) Boomi
14 10 (5.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 10 (5.41%) Amazon S3
15 9 (4.86%) Amazon SQS
15 9 (4.86%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 21 (11.35%) Firewall
2 18 (9.73%) DNS
3 16 (8.65%) TCP/IP
4 15 (8.11%) HTTP
5 3 (1.62%) HTTPS
5 3 (1.62%) SAN
6 1 (0.54%) DHCP
6 1 (0.54%) LTE
6 1 (0.54%) Network Security
6 1 (0.54%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.54%) VLAN
6 1 (0.54%) VPN
6 1 (0.54%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (13.51%) MongoDB
2 24 (12.97%) PostgreSQL
3 21 (11.35%) SQL Server
4 20 (10.81%) Azure SQL Database
5 19 (10.27%) Power BI
6 14 (7.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 12 (6.49%) Data Warehouse
8 11 (5.95%) NoSQL
9 9 (4.86%) DynamoDB
9 9 (4.86%) Spark SQL
10 7 (3.78%) Relational Database
11 3 (1.62%) MySQL
11 3 (1.62%) Power Query
12 2 (1.08%) Amazon RDS
12 2 (1.08%) DB2
12 2 (1.08%) GIS
12 2 (1.08%) Hazelcast
12 2 (1.08%) NonStop SQL
13 1 (0.54%) Elasticsearch
13 1 (0.54%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 38 (20.54%) Git
2 36 (19.46%) JIRA
3 35 (18.92%) Jenkins
4 18 (9.73%) GitLab
5 13 (7.03%) Postman
6 6 (3.24%) fastlane
7 4 (2.16%) Visual Studio
8 3 (1.62%) Android Studio
8 3 (1.62%) Crashlytics
8 3 (1.62%) Eclipse
8 3 (1.62%) Gradle
8 3 (1.62%) IntelliJ
8 3 (1.62%) REST Assured
8 3 (1.62%) Xcode
9 2 (1.08%) Bitbucket
9 2 (1.08%) NUnit
9 2 (1.08%) Selenium
9 2 (1.08%) TestRail
10 1 (0.54%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.54%) GDB
General
1 42 (22.70%) Social Skills
2 31 (16.76%) Public Sector
3 22 (11.89%) Finance
4 20 (10.81%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (8.11%) Law
5 15 (8.11%) Telecoms
6 13 (7.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 13 (7.03%) Retail
7 12 (6.49%) Marketing
8 9 (4.86%) Banking
8 9 (4.86%) Influencing Skills
9 8 (4.32%) Games
10 5 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.08%) Legal
12 1 (0.54%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 68 (36.76%) Developer
2 56 (30.27%) Senior
3 35 (18.92%) DevOps Engineer
4 24 (12.97%) Senior Developer
5 22 (11.89%) .NET Developer
6 19 (10.27%) Lead
7 15 (8.11%) Data Engineer
7 15 (8.11%) Platform Engineer
8 14 (7.57%) Azure Engineer
8 14 (7.57%) Senior DevOps
8 14 (7.57%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 12 (6.49%) Cloud Engineer
9 12 (6.49%) Software Engineer
10 9 (4.86%) Azure Platform Engineer
10 9 (4.86%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 9 (4.86%) Lead Data Engineer
10 9 (4.86%) Senior Software Engineer
11 8 (4.32%) Software Developer
12 7 (3.78%) Full-Stack Developer
12 7 (3.78%) Head of Testing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (31.35%) .NET
2 32 (17.30%) REST
3 30 (16.22%) .NET Core
3 30 (16.22%) ASP.NET
4 25 (13.51%) React
4 25 (13.51%) RESTful
5 23 (12.43%) ASP.NET Core
6 20 (10.81%) ARM Templates
6 20 (10.81%) CSS
6 20 (10.81%) HTML
6 20 (10.81%) Middleware
6 20 (10.81%) SOAP
7 19 (10.27%) Node.js
8 17 (9.19%) Blazor
8 17 (9.19%) JSON
9 15 (8.11%) Elastic Stack
10 13 (7.03%) Entity Framework
11 12 (6.49%) EDI
11 12 (6.49%) XML
12 11 (5.95%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 19 (10.27%) Cloud Native
2 18 (9.73%) Product Ownership
3 9 (4.86%) Enterprise Cloud
4 7 (3.78%) Legacy Applications
4 7 (3.78%) Mobile App
5 6 (3.24%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (3.24%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (3.24%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.70%) PMI
7 4 (2.16%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.62%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.62%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.62%) Low-Code
8 3 (1.62%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.62%) Social Network
9 2 (1.08%) BBC
9 2 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.08%) Mainframe
9 2 (1.08%) Social Media
9 2 (1.08%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 17 (9.19%) Linux
2 14 (7.57%) Windows
3 13 (7.03%) Unix
4 3 (1.62%) Android
4 3 (1.62%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.54%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 185 (100.00%) DevOps
2 133 (71.89%) CI/CD
3 88 (47.57%) Agile
4 60 (32.43%) Infrastructure as Code
5 45 (24.32%) Scrum
5 45 (24.32%) Test Automation
6 40 (21.62%) Mentoring
7 38 (20.54%) Continuous Integration
8 36 (19.46%) Containerisation
9 34 (18.38%) Problem-Solving
10 33 (17.84%) Roadmaps
11 30 (16.22%) Full-Stack Development
12 29 (15.68%) Coaching
12 29 (15.68%) Kanban
13 28 (15.14%) Deployment Automation
13 28 (15.14%) Release Management
14 27 (14.59%) AI
15 26 (14.05%) Microservices
16 24 (12.97%) API Integration
16 24 (12.97%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 76 (41.08%) SQL
2 50 (27.03%) Python
3 42 (22.70%) C#
4 36 (19.46%) JavaScript
5 31 (16.76%) Bash
6 30 (16.22%) Java
7 18 (9.73%) Go
8 16 (8.65%) PowerShell
9 12 (6.49%) Bicep
10 10 (5.41%) TypeScript
11 7 (3.78%) C++
11 7 (3.78%) T-SQL
12 3 (1.62%) Apex Code
12 3 (1.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (1.62%) Kotlin
12 3 (1.62%) PL/SQL
12 3 (1.62%) SOQL
12 3 (1.62%) SOSL
12 3 (1.62%) Swift
13 1 (0.54%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 12 (6.49%) Degree
2 9 (4.86%) AWS Certification
2 9 (4.86%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (3.78%) AWS Certified Developer
4 5 (2.70%) Azure Certification
4 5 (2.70%) PMI Certification
5 3 (1.62%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (1.62%) SC Cleared
5 3 (1.62%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.54%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (0.54%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.49%) TickIT
2 10 (5.41%) GDPR
3 7 (3.78%) QA
4 6 (3.24%) Accessibility
4 6 (3.24%) Data Quality
4 6 (3.24%) WCAG
5 1 (0.54%) GRC
System Software
1 25 (13.51%) Docker
2 4 (2.16%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.16%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.54%) Firmware
4 1 (0.54%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 72 (38.92%) Terraform
2 19 (10.27%) Grafana
2 19 (10.27%) Prometheus
3 18 (9.73%) Kubernetes
4 17 (9.19%) Ansible
5 13 (7.03%) Argo
6 2 (1.08%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.54%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.54%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 58 (31.35%) Microsoft
2 12 (6.49%) Salesforce
3 11 (5.95%) Databricks
4 7 (3.78%) Dynatrace
5 5 (2.70%) Apple
5 5 (2.70%) Google
6 4 (2.16%) VMware
7 3 (1.62%) Oracle
7 3 (1.62%) Pega
7 3 (1.62%) Sparx
7 3 (1.62%) Splunk
8 2 (1.08%) DevExpress
8 2 (1.08%) Facebook
8 2 (1.08%) Sony
8 2 (1.08%) Yahoo!
9 1 (0.54%) Fortinet
9 1 (0.54%) Foundry
9 1 (0.54%) WooCommerce