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

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 160 208 97
Rank change year-on-year +48 -111 +18
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 198 88 434
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.00% 1.14% 2.48%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.41% 3.71% 7.17%
Number of salaries quoted 171 64 335
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,000 £49,063 £45,820
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £68,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% +14.58% -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,250 £80,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £90,000
England median annual salary £66,000 £70,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year -5.71% +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 5,807 2,373 6,054
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 29.38% 30.62% 34.65%
Number of salaries quoted 3,139 1,527 5,027
10th Percentile £29,000 £28,250 £28,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £56,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% +7.62% -4.55%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,886 £68,750
90th Percentile £93,750 £88,750 £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 28 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 28 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 +59 108 £69,310 +15.04% 49
Yorkshire -41 50 £69,308 -0.99% 15
North East -11 40 £50,000 -9.09% 15
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 14 (7.07%) Confluence
2 13 (6.57%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (4.04%) SharePoint
4 6 (3.03%) SharePoint Server
5 3 (1.52%) IIS
6 2 (1.01%) CICS
6 2 (1.01%) CMS
6 2 (1.01%) Umbraco
6 2 (1.01%) WordPress
7 1 (0.51%) nginx
7 1 (0.51%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.01%) Trello
2 1 (0.51%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (3.03%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.52%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.51%) Magento
3 1 (0.51%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 198 (100.00%) Azure
2 65 (32.83%) GitHub
3 62 (31.31%) AWS
4 47 (23.74%) GitHub Actions
5 34 (17.17%) Power Platform
6 24 (12.12%) Serverless
7 22 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
8 21 (10.61%) GCP
9 19 (9.60%) Azure Monitor
10 16 (8.08%) Azure AKS
10 16 (8.08%) Azure Functions
10 16 (8.08%) Azure Logic Apps
10 16 (8.08%) Azure Service Bus
11 14 (7.07%) Microsoft 365
12 13 (6.57%) Azure Data Factory
13 12 (6.06%) Boomi
13 12 (6.06%) Power Automate
14 9 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 9 (4.55%) Amazon S3
14 9 (4.55%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 21 (10.61%) Firewall
2 18 (9.09%) DNS
3 17 (8.59%) HTTP
4 16 (8.08%) TCP/IP
5 3 (1.52%) HTTPS
5 3 (1.52%) SAN
6 1 (0.51%) DHCP
6 1 (0.51%) LTE
6 1 (0.51%) Network Security
6 1 (0.51%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.51%) VLAN
6 1 (0.51%) VPN
6 1 (0.51%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (14.14%) MongoDB
2 24 (12.12%) SQL Server
3 23 (11.62%) Azure SQL Database
3 23 (11.62%) PostgreSQL
4 21 (10.61%) Power BI
5 15 (7.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 12 (6.06%) Data Warehouse
7 10 (5.05%) NoSQL
8 9 (4.55%) Spark SQL
9 8 (4.04%) Relational Database
10 7 (3.54%) DynamoDB
11 4 (2.02%) MySQL
12 3 (1.52%) Power Query
13 2 (1.01%) Amazon RDS
13 2 (1.01%) DB2
13 2 (1.01%) Elasticsearch
13 2 (1.01%) GIS
13 2 (1.01%) Hazelcast
13 2 (1.01%) NonStop SQL
13 2 (1.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 41 (20.71%) Git
2 38 (19.19%) JIRA
3 36 (18.18%) Jenkins
4 20 (10.10%) GitLab
5 13 (6.57%) Postman
6 6 (3.03%) fastlane
7 4 (2.02%) Visual Studio
8 3 (1.52%) Android Studio
8 3 (1.52%) Crashlytics
8 3 (1.52%) Cypress.io
8 3 (1.52%) Eclipse
8 3 (1.52%) Gradle
8 3 (1.52%) IntelliJ
8 3 (1.52%) REST Assured
8 3 (1.52%) Xcode
9 2 (1.01%) Bitbucket
9 2 (1.01%) NUnit
9 2 (1.01%) Selenium
9 2 (1.01%) Terragrunt
9 2 (1.01%) TestRail
General
1 47 (23.74%) Social Skills
2 31 (15.66%) Public Sector
3 22 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (11.11%) Finance
4 15 (7.58%) Law
4 15 (7.58%) Telecoms
5 14 (7.07%) Retail
6 13 (6.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (6.06%) Marketing
8 9 (4.55%) Banking
8 9 (4.55%) Games
8 9 (4.55%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.52%) Legal
Job Titles
1 75 (37.88%) Developer
2 61 (30.81%) Senior
3 36 (18.18%) DevOps Engineer
4 27 (13.64%) Senior Developer
5 23 (11.62%) .NET Developer
6 19 (9.60%) Lead
7 16 (8.08%) Azure Engineer
7 16 (8.08%) Data Engineer
8 14 (7.07%) Platform Engineer
8 14 (7.07%) Senior DevOps
8 14 (7.07%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 13 (6.57%) Cloud Engineer
10 12 (6.06%) Software Engineer
11 11 (5.56%) Software Developer
12 9 (4.55%) Azure Platform Engineer
12 9 (4.55%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 9 (4.55%) Lead Data Engineer
12 9 (4.55%) Senior Software Engineer
13 7 (3.54%) C# Developer
13 7 (3.54%) Head of Testing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (31.82%) .NET
2 37 (18.69%) REST
3 31 (15.66%) .NET Core
3 31 (15.66%) ASP.NET
4 25 (12.63%) RESTful
5 24 (12.12%) ASP.NET Core
5 24 (12.12%) CSS
5 24 (12.12%) HTML
5 24 (12.12%) React
6 22 (11.11%) ARM Templates
7 20 (10.10%) Middleware
7 20 (10.10%) Node.js
7 20 (10.10%) SOAP
8 17 (8.59%) Blazor
8 17 (8.59%) JSON
9 16 (8.08%) Entity Framework
10 15 (7.58%) Elastic Stack
11 12 (6.06%) EDI
11 12 (6.06%) XML
12 11 (5.56%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 21 (10.61%) Product Ownership
2 18 (9.09%) Cloud Native
3 10 (5.05%) Enterprise Cloud
4 8 (4.04%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (4.04%) Mobile App
5 6 (3.03%) Legacy Applications
5 6 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (3.03%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.53%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (2.53%) PMI
7 4 (2.02%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (2.02%) Low-Code
8 3 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.52%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.52%) Social Network
9 2 (1.01%) BBC
9 2 (1.01%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.01%) Mainframe
9 2 (1.01%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 19 (9.60%) Linux
2 14 (7.07%) Windows
3 13 (6.57%) Unix
4 4 (2.02%) Android
5 3 (1.52%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.51%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 198 (100.00%) DevOps
2 142 (71.72%) CI/CD
3 99 (50.00%) Agile
4 59 (29.80%) Infrastructure as Code
5 52 (26.26%) Scrum
6 49 (24.75%) Test Automation
7 43 (21.72%) Mentoring
8 38 (19.19%) Continuous Integration
9 37 (18.69%) Problem-Solving
10 35 (17.68%) Containerisation
10 35 (17.68%) Kanban
10 35 (17.68%) Roadmaps
11 33 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
12 31 (15.66%) AI
12 31 (15.66%) Coaching
13 28 (14.14%) Deployment Automation
13 28 (14.14%) Release Management
14 26 (13.13%) Microservices
14 26 (13.13%) Observability
15 25 (12.63%) API Integration
Programming Languages
1 82 (41.41%) SQL
2 54 (27.27%) Python
3 51 (25.76%) C#
4 42 (21.21%) JavaScript
5 31 (15.66%) Bash
5 31 (15.66%) Java
6 19 (9.60%) PowerShell
7 18 (9.09%) Go
8 14 (7.07%) Bicep
9 12 (6.06%) TypeScript
10 8 (4.04%) T-SQL
11 7 (3.54%) C++
12 3 (1.52%) Apex Code
12 3 (1.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (1.52%) Kotlin
12 3 (1.52%) PL/SQL
12 3 (1.52%) SOQL
12 3 (1.52%) SOSL
12 3 (1.52%) Swift
13 2 (1.01%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 15 (7.58%) Degree
2 10 (5.05%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (3.54%) AWS Certification
4 5 (2.53%) AWS Certified Developer
4 5 (2.53%) Azure Certification
4 5 (2.53%) PMI Certification
5 3 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.01%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.01%) Security Cleared
7 1 (0.51%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.51%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.06%) QA
1 12 (6.06%) TickIT
2 10 (5.05%) GDPR
3 7 (3.54%) Data Quality
4 6 (3.03%) Accessibility
4 6 (3.03%) WCAG
5 1 (0.51%) GRC
System Software
1 23 (11.62%) Docker
2 5 (2.53%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.53%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.51%) Firmware
4 1 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 72 (36.36%) Terraform
2 19 (9.60%) Kubernetes
3 18 (9.09%) Grafana
3 18 (9.09%) Prometheus
4 16 (8.08%) Ansible
5 13 (6.57%) Argo
6 3 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.51%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 69 (34.85%) Microsoft
2 12 (6.06%) Salesforce
3 11 (5.56%) Databricks
4 6 (3.03%) Dynatrace
4 6 (3.03%) Google
5 5 (2.53%) Apple
6 4 (2.02%) Oracle
6 4 (2.02%) VMware
7 3 (1.52%) Pega
7 3 (1.52%) Sparx
7 3 (1.52%) Splunk
8 2 (1.01%) DevExpress
8 2 (1.01%) Facebook
8 2 (1.01%) Sony
8 2 (1.01%) Yahoo!
9 1 (0.51%) Fortinet
9 1 (0.51%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.51%) WooCommerce