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 25 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 167 163 97
Rank change year-on-year -4 -66 +18
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 153 102 422
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.85% 1.44% 2.54%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.55% 4.48% 7.16%
Number of salaries quoted 124 86 324
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,813 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £68,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.73% +14.58% -2.44%
75th Percentile £75,250 £81,875 £75,313
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,625 £90,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +8.00% -3.85%

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 5,997 2,276 5,893
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 33.49% 32.06% 35.54%
Number of salaries quoted 2,724 1,734 4,936
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,271 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% +5.28% -4.55%
75th Percentile £76,313 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £83,750
England median annual salary £62,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -0.80% +8.70% -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 25 April 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 25 April 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 -13 71 £70,000 +7.69% 34
Yorkshire -52 50 £60,000 -14.29% 14
North East -20 32 £50,000 -16.67% 12
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 16 (10.46%) Confluence
2 9 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (3.92%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.31%) CICS
5 1 (0.65%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.65%) IIS
5 1 (0.65%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 3 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (1.31%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.65%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (2.61%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.65%) Magento
2 1 (0.65%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 153 (100.00%) Azure
2 63 (41.18%) GitHub
3 56 (36.60%) AWS
4 50 (32.68%) GitHub Actions
5 25 (16.34%) Serverless
6 24 (15.69%) GCP
7 22 (14.38%) Power Platform
8 15 (9.80%) Azure AKS
8 15 (9.80%) Dynamics 365
9 14 (9.15%) AWS CloudFormation
9 14 (9.15%) Azure Logic Apps
10 13 (8.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 13 (8.50%) Amazon EventBridge
10 13 (8.50%) Amazon S3
10 13 (8.50%) Amazon SQS
10 13 (8.50%) AWS Lambda
10 13 (8.50%) AWS Step Functions
11 12 (7.84%) Azure Functions
11 12 (7.84%) Azure Monitor
12 11 (7.19%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 20 (13.07%) DNS
2 19 (12.42%) Firewall
2 19 (12.42%) HTTP
2 19 (12.42%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.65%) DHCP
3 1 (0.65%) LTE
3 1 (0.65%) Network Security
3 1 (0.65%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.65%) VLAN
3 1 (0.65%) VPN
3 1 (0.65%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (15.03%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (14.38%) SQL Server
3 17 (11.11%) Power BI
4 13 (8.50%) DynamoDB
4 13 (8.50%) MongoDB
4 13 (8.50%) NoSQL
5 11 (7.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 10 (6.54%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (4.58%) Azure SQL Database
7 7 (4.58%) Spark SQL
8 3 (1.96%) Power Query
8 3 (1.96%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.31%) DB2
9 2 (1.31%) Hazelcast
10 1 (0.65%) Data Mining
10 1 (0.65%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 37 (24.18%) JIRA
2 29 (18.95%) Jenkins
3 26 (16.99%) Git
4 12 (7.84%) Postman
5 10 (6.54%) GitLab
6 3 (1.96%) Eclipse
6 3 (1.96%) IntelliJ
6 3 (1.96%) NUnit
6 3 (1.96%) REST Assured
6 3 (1.96%) Visual Studio
7 2 (1.31%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.31%) Selenium
7 2 (1.31%) TestRail
8 1 (0.65%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.65%) GDB
8 1 (0.65%) WinDbg
General
1 39 (25.49%) Social Skills
2 26 (16.99%) Finance
3 22 (14.38%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (12.42%) Law
5 18 (11.76%) Telecoms
6 17 (11.11%) Public Sector
7 14 (9.15%) Retail
8 11 (7.19%) Marketing
9 9 (5.88%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (4.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (3.92%) Banking
11 6 (3.92%) Games
12 4 (2.61%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (1.31%) Advertising
13 2 (1.31%) Legal
14 1 (0.65%) Back Office
14 1 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 47 (30.72%) Developer
2 31 (20.26%) DevOps Engineer
3 29 (18.95%) Senior
4 20 (13.07%) Lead
5 18 (11.76%) .NET Developer
6 13 (8.50%) Senior Developer
7 11 (7.19%) Azure Engineer
7 11 (7.19%) Senior DevOps
7 11 (7.19%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 10 (6.54%) Analyst
9 9 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
10 8 (5.23%) Data Engineer
10 8 (5.23%) Platform Engineer
11 7 (4.58%) Head of Testing
11 7 (4.58%) Software Engineer
12 6 (3.92%) Business Analyst
12 6 (3.92%) Delivery Manager
12 6 (3.92%) Full-Stack Developer
12 6 (3.92%) Lead Data Engineer
12 6 (3.92%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (26.14%) .NET
2 25 (16.34%) .NET Core
3 24 (15.69%) ASP.NET
4 23 (15.03%) React
5 22 (14.38%) RESTful
6 21 (13.73%) REST
7 18 (11.76%) ASP.NET Core
7 18 (11.76%) Elastic Stack
8 17 (11.11%) Blazor
9 16 (10.46%) ARM Templates
9 16 (10.46%) SOAP
10 15 (9.80%) Node.js
11 13 (8.50%) AWS CDK
11 13 (8.50%) JSON
11 13 (8.50%) Middleware
12 12 (7.84%) CSS
12 12 (7.84%) HTML
13 11 (7.19%) EDI
13 11 (7.19%) XML
14 10 (6.54%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 21 (13.73%) Cloud Native
2 11 (7.19%) Product Ownership
3 8 (5.23%) Enterprise Cloud
4 6 (3.92%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (3.27%) PMI
6 4 (2.61%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (2.61%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.96%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.31%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.31%) Driving Licence
8 2 (1.31%) Low-Code
8 2 (1.31%) Mainframe
8 2 (1.31%) Social Network
9 1 (0.65%) BBC
9 1 (0.65%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.65%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.65%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.65%) Reinsurance
9 1 (0.65%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 13 (8.50%) Linux
2 11 (7.19%) Windows
3 10 (6.54%) Unix
4 1 (0.65%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (100.00%) DevOps
2 100 (65.36%) CI/CD
3 74 (48.37%) Agile
4 57 (37.25%) Infrastructure as Code
5 45 (29.41%) Containerisation
6 38 (24.84%) Continuous Integration
7 36 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
8 34 (22.22%) Roadmaps
8 34 (22.22%) Scrum
9 30 (19.61%) Test Automation
10 27 (17.65%) Microservices
11 26 (16.99%) High Availability
12 24 (15.69%) Mentoring
12 24 (15.69%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 23 (15.03%) Continuous Delivery
13 23 (15.03%) SDLC
14 22 (14.38%) Deployment Automation
15 20 (13.07%) Kanban
15 20 (13.07%) Release Management
16 19 (12.42%) Static Code Analysis
Programming Languages
1 54 (35.29%) SQL
2 40 (26.14%) Python
3 28 (18.30%) Bash
4 24 (15.69%) C#
5 22 (14.38%) JavaScript
6 21 (13.73%) Go
7 16 (10.46%) Java
8 13 (8.50%) PowerShell
9 9 (5.88%) Bicep
10 8 (5.23%) TypeScript
11 6 (3.92%) T-SQL
12 3 (1.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (1.96%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.65%) C++
13 1 (0.65%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 11 (7.19%) AWS Certification
1 11 (7.19%) AWS Certified Developer
2 8 (5.23%) Azure Certification
2 8 (5.23%) Degree
3 6 (3.92%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (3.27%) PMI Certification
4 5 (3.27%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.27%) Security Cleared
5 4 (2.61%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.65%) CSPO
6 1 (0.65%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (0.65%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.65%) MCITP
6 1 (0.65%) MCSE
6 1 (0.65%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.19%) TickIT
2 7 (4.58%) GDPR
3 3 (1.96%) QA
4 2 (1.31%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.65%) GRC
System Software
1 24 (15.69%) Docker
2 5 (3.27%) Active Directory
2 5 (3.27%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.65%) Firmware
3 1 (0.65%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 64 (41.83%) Terraform
2 22 (14.38%) Grafana
2 22 (14.38%) Prometheus
3 21 (13.73%) Ansible
4 15 (9.80%) Kubernetes
5 10 (6.54%) Argo
6 1 (0.65%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (0.65%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 50 (32.68%) Microsoft
2 9 (5.88%) Salesforce
3 7 (4.58%) Databricks
4 3 (1.96%) Oracle
4 3 (1.96%) Pega
4 3 (1.96%) Sparx
5 2 (1.31%) DevExpress
6 1 (0.65%) Apple
6 1 (0.65%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.65%) Facebook
6 1 (0.65%) Fortinet
6 1 (0.65%) Foundry
6 1 (0.65%) Google
6 1 (0.65%) Sony
6 1 (0.65%) WooCommerce
6 1 (0.65%) Yahoo!