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

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 160 128 101
Rank change year-on-year -32 -27 +5
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 101 159 289
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.88% 1.79% 2.65%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.36% 5.49% 7.01%
Number of salaries quoted 85 78 244
10th Percentile £42,200 £42,275 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £67,225 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year -18.19% +12.93% -8.42%
75th Percentile £67,500 £83,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £93,778 £87,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £64,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +5.47% -5.19%

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 4,276 2,895 4,122
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 37.33% 32.53% 37.81%
Number of salaries quoted 1,956 1,608 3,583
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £34,688 £42,178 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £82,548
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 26 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 26 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
Yorkshire -31 38 £55,000 -21.43% 40
North West -15 35 £64,000 -1.54% 59
North East +6 28 £50,000 -27.27% 16
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 7 (6.93%) Confluence
2 2 (1.98%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.99%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.99%) IIS
3 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.99%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (3.96%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (3.96%) MS Visio
2 3 (2.97%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (5.94%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.98%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 101 (100.00%) Azure
2 40 (39.60%) GitHub
3 32 (31.68%) GitHub Actions
4 31 (30.69%) AWS
5 17 (16.83%) AWS CloudFormation
5 17 (16.83%) Serverless
6 16 (15.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 13 (12.87%) Amazon EventBridge
7 13 (12.87%) Amazon S3
7 13 (12.87%) Amazon SQS
7 13 (12.87%) AWS Lambda
7 13 (12.87%) AWS Step Functions
8 11 (10.89%) PaaS
8 11 (10.89%) SaaS
9 10 (9.90%) GCP
10 8 (7.92%) Power Automate
11 7 (6.93%) Azure Monitor
11 7 (6.93%) IaaS
11 7 (6.93%) Power Platform
12 5 (4.95%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 12 (11.88%) DNS
2 11 (10.89%) Firewall
3 9 (8.91%) HTTP
3 9 (8.91%) TCP/IP
4 3 (2.97%) WAN
5 1 (0.99%) DHCP
5 1 (0.99%) Network Security
5 1 (0.99%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.99%) VLAN
5 1 (0.99%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (20.79%) SQL Server
2 13 (12.87%) DynamoDB
2 13 (12.87%) NoSQL
2 13 (12.87%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (7.92%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (2.97%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (2.97%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.98%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 2 (1.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (1.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.99%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.99%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.99%) Redis
6 1 (0.99%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 23 (22.77%) Git
2 11 (10.89%) Jenkins
3 10 (9.90%) JIRA
4 1 (0.99%) CircleCI
4 1 (0.99%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.99%) git-flow
4 1 (0.99%) NUnit
4 1 (0.99%) Postman
4 1 (0.99%) Selenium
General
1 31 (30.69%) Social Skills
2 18 (17.82%) Finance
3 10 (9.90%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (9.90%) Law
4 8 (7.92%) Telecoms
5 6 (5.94%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.97%) Advertising
6 3 (2.97%) Banking
6 3 (2.97%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.97%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (2.97%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.98%) Retail
8 1 (0.99%) Back Office
8 1 (0.99%) Games
Job Titles
1 35 (34.65%) Developer
2 18 (17.82%) .NET Developer
3 15 (14.85%) DevOps Engineer
4 12 (11.88%) Analyst
4 12 (11.88%) Cloud Engineer
4 12 (11.88%) Software Engineer
5 9 (8.91%) Business Analyst
5 9 (8.91%) Lead
6 8 (7.92%) Senior
7 7 (6.93%) .NET Software Engineer
7 7 (6.93%) Full-Stack Developer
8 5 (4.95%) AWS Developer
8 5 (4.95%) Azure Engineer
9 4 (3.96%) C# Software Engineer
9 4 (3.96%) Senior C# Software Engineer
9 4 (3.96%) Senior Software Engineer
10 3 (2.97%) Architect
10 3 (2.97%) Business Systems Analyst
10 3 (2.97%) Enterprise Architect
10 3 (2.97%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (42.57%) .NET
2 24 (23.76%) .NET Core
3 23 (22.77%) React
4 21 (20.79%) ASP.NET
5 18 (17.82%) Blazor
5 18 (17.82%) RESTful
6 14 (13.86%) ASP.NET Core
7 13 (12.87%) AWS CDK
8 11 (10.89%) AngularJS
9 9 (8.91%) .NET Framework
10 8 (7.92%) CSS
10 8 (7.92%) Elastic Stack
10 8 (7.92%) HTML
10 8 (7.92%) Node.js
11 5 (4.95%) ARM Templates
12 4 (3.96%) Entity Framework
12 4 (3.96%) Vue
13 3 (2.97%) CSS3
13 3 (2.97%) HTML5
13 3 (2.97%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 21 (20.79%) Cloud Native
2 9 (8.91%) Product Ownership
3 4 (3.96%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.97%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (2.97%) Mobile App
4 3 (2.97%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.98%) AI Agents
5 2 (1.98%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.98%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.98%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.98%) Driving Licence
5 2 (1.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.99%) EPoS
6 1 (0.99%) IoT
6 1 (0.99%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.99%) Legacy Code
6 1 (0.99%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.99%) Social Network
6 1 (0.99%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.97%) Android
2 2 (1.98%) Apple iOS
2 2 (1.98%) Linux
3 1 (0.99%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (100.00%) DevOps
2 52 (51.49%) CI/CD
3 49 (48.51%) Agile
4 40 (39.60%) Infrastructure as Code
5 34 (33.66%) Containerisation
6 24 (23.76%) Problem-Solving
7 23 (22.77%) Microservices
8 19 (18.81%) Mentoring
8 19 (18.81%) Software Engineering
9 18 (17.82%) SDLC
10 16 (15.84%) Roadmaps
11 14 (13.86%) Deployment Automation
12 13 (12.87%) Application Security
12 13 (12.87%) Full-Stack Development
12 13 (12.87%) High Availability
12 13 (12.87%) Root Cause Analysis
13 12 (11.88%) CRM
14 11 (10.89%) Data Modelling
14 11 (10.89%) DevSecOps
14 11 (10.89%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 36 (35.64%) SQL
2 29 (28.71%) C#
3 18 (17.82%) Python
4 16 (15.84%) Bash
4 16 (15.84%) PowerShell
5 11 (10.89%) JavaScript
6 10 (9.90%) Go
7 9 (8.91%) Bicep
8 6 (5.94%) TypeScript
9 3 (2.97%) Apex Code
10 2 (1.98%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (10.89%) AWS Certification
1 11 (10.89%) AWS Certified Developer
2 8 (7.92%) Azure Certification
3 5 (4.95%) SC Cleared
3 5 (4.95%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.98%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.99%) CSPO
5 1 (0.99%) Degree
5 1 (0.99%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (0.99%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.99%) MCITP
5 1 (0.99%) MCSE
5 1 (0.99%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.99%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.98%) GDPR
System Software
1 24 (23.76%) Docker
2 5 (4.95%) Active Directory
3 4 (3.96%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (3.96%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.99%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 41 (40.59%) Terraform
2 14 (13.86%) Ansible
3 13 (12.87%) Prometheus
4 12 (11.88%) Kubernetes
5 10 (9.90%) Grafana
6 1 (0.99%) Argo
6 1 (0.99%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (0.99%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 25 (24.75%) Microsoft
2 3 (2.97%) Foundry
2 3 (2.97%) Salesforce
2 3 (2.97%) Sparx
3 2 (1.98%) Xamarin
4 1 (0.99%) Dynatrace
4 1 (0.99%) Fortinet
4 1 (0.99%) OpenAI
4 1 (0.99%) Oracle
4 1 (0.99%) ServiceNow
4 1 (0.99%) Splunk