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 15 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 201 97
Rank change year-on-year +53 -104 +17
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 218 98 461
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.10% 1.20% 2.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.44% 4.09% 7.19%
Number of salaries quoted 190 73 346
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,000 £50,500 £45,605
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +16.67% -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £77,188
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £90,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +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 4,915 2,396 6,415
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 24.71% 29.41% 32.59%
Number of salaries quoted 3,324 1,615 5,163
10th Percentile £29,750 £27,200 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £38,125
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 £72,500 £69,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £83,750
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 15 June 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 15 June 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 +66 120 £69,308 +2.68% 36
Yorkshire -26 51 £69,305 -0.99% 18
North East -6 47 £50,000 -9.09% 8
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 17 (7.80%) Confluence
2 12 (5.50%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (3.67%) SharePoint
4 6 (2.75%) SharePoint Server
5 3 (1.38%) IIS
6 2 (0.92%) CICS
6 2 (0.92%) CMS
6 2 (0.92%) nginx
6 2 (0.92%) Umbraco
6 2 (0.92%) WordPress
7 1 (0.46%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 2 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.92%) Trello
2 1 (0.46%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.38%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (1.38%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.46%) Magento
2 1 (0.46%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 218 (100.00%) Azure
2 65 (29.82%) GitHub
3 59 (27.06%) AWS
4 46 (21.10%) GitHub Actions
5 38 (17.43%) Power Platform
6 24 (11.01%) Dynamics 365
7 22 (10.09%) GCP
8 21 (9.63%) Serverless
9 19 (8.72%) Azure Logic Apps
9 19 (8.72%) Azure Monitor
10 18 (8.26%) Azure AKS
10 18 (8.26%) Azure Service Bus
11 17 (7.80%) Azure Functions
12 14 (6.42%) Azure Data Factory
12 14 (6.42%) Power Automate
13 12 (5.50%) Boomi
14 11 (5.05%) Azure AI
14 11 (5.05%) Firebase
14 11 (5.05%) Microsoft 365
15 9 (4.13%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 20 (9.17%) Firewall
2 17 (7.80%) DNS
2 17 (7.80%) HTTP
3 15 (6.88%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.38%) HTTPS
4 3 (1.38%) SAN
5 1 (0.46%) Internet
5 1 (0.46%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (16.51%) MongoDB
2 29 (13.30%) Azure SQL Database
3 25 (11.47%) Power BI
4 19 (8.72%) SQL Server
5 18 (8.26%) PostgreSQL
6 15 (6.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 13 (5.96%) Data Warehouse
8 9 (4.13%) Spark SQL
9 8 (3.67%) Relational Database
10 6 (2.75%) NoSQL
11 5 (2.29%) MySQL
12 3 (1.38%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (1.38%) NonStop SQL
12 3 (1.38%) Power Query
13 2 (0.92%) Amazon RDS
13 2 (0.92%) Db2
13 2 (0.92%) DynamoDB
13 2 (0.92%) Hazelcast
13 2 (0.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 2 (0.92%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 42 (19.27%) JIRA
2 41 (18.81%) Jenkins
3 38 (17.43%) Git
4 20 (9.17%) GitLab
5 13 (5.96%) Postman
6 11 (5.05%) fastlane
7 6 (2.75%) Xcode
8 5 (2.29%) Android Studio
8 5 (2.29%) Crashlytics
8 5 (2.29%) Gradle
9 4 (1.83%) Visual Studio
10 3 (1.38%) Cypress.io
10 3 (1.38%) Eclipse
10 3 (1.38%) IntelliJ
10 3 (1.38%) REST Assured
11 2 (0.92%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.92%) NUnit
11 2 (0.92%) Selenium
11 2 (0.92%) Terragrunt
11 2 (0.92%) TestRail
General
1 42 (19.27%) Social Skills
2 33 (15.14%) Public Sector
3 23 (10.55%) Finance
4 22 (10.09%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (8.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 15 (6.88%) Law
6 15 (6.88%) Retail
6 15 (6.88%) Telecoms
7 12 (5.50%) Marketing
8 11 (5.05%) Games
9 9 (4.13%) Banking
10 6 (2.75%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.38%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.38%) Legal
12 1 (0.46%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.46%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.46%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.46%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 84 (38.53%) Developer
2 61 (27.98%) Senior
3 39 (17.89%) DevOps Engineer
4 27 (12.39%) Senior Developer
5 26 (11.93%) .NET Developer
6 20 (9.17%) Lead
7 19 (8.72%) Azure Engineer
8 17 (7.80%) Data Engineer
9 15 (6.88%) Platform Engineer
9 15 (6.88%) Senior DevOps
9 15 (6.88%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 13 (5.96%) Cloud Engineer
10 13 (5.96%) Software Engineer
11 10 (4.59%) Azure Platform Engineer
11 10 (4.59%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 10 (4.59%) Software Developer
12 9 (4.13%) Lead Data Engineer
12 9 (4.13%) Scrum Master
12 9 (4.13%) Senior Software Engineer
13 7 (3.21%) Head of Testing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (31.19%) .NET
2 41 (18.81%) REST
3 33 (15.14%) ASP.NET
4 32 (14.68%) .NET Core
5 30 (13.76%) RESTful
6 27 (12.39%) ASP.NET Core
6 27 (12.39%) CSS
6 27 (12.39%) HTML
7 25 (11.47%) ARM Templates
7 25 (11.47%) React
8 21 (9.63%) Node.js
9 20 (9.17%) Entity Framework
9 20 (9.17%) Middleware
9 20 (9.17%) SOAP
10 17 (7.80%) Blazor
10 17 (7.80%) JSON
11 15 (6.88%) Elastic Stack
12 12 (5.50%) EDI
12 12 (5.50%) XML
13 11 (5.05%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 27 (12.39%) Product Ownership
2 16 (7.34%) Cloud Native
3 15 (6.88%) Mobile App
4 10 (4.59%) Enterprise Cloud
5 9 (4.13%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (3.67%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (3.21%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (2.75%) Legacy Applications
8 6 (2.75%) Onboarding
8 6 (2.75%) PMI
9 4 (1.83%) BBC
9 4 (1.83%) Social Media
9 4 (1.83%) Social Network
10 3 (1.38%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (1.38%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.38%) Low-Code
11 2 (0.92%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.92%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 21 (9.63%) Linux
2 14 (6.42%) Windows
3 13 (5.96%) Unix
4 7 (3.21%) Android
5 6 (2.75%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.46%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 218 (100.00%) DevOps
2 158 (72.48%) CI/CD
3 117 (53.67%) Agile
4 63 (28.90%) Scrum
5 59 (27.06%) Infrastructure as Code
6 54 (24.77%) Test Automation
7 46 (21.10%) Kanban
8 43 (19.72%) AI
8 43 (19.72%) Mentoring
9 42 (19.27%) Full-Stack Development
10 38 (17.43%) Continuous Integration
11 37 (16.97%) Problem-Solving
12 34 (15.60%) Coaching
13 33 (15.14%) Analytics
14 32 (14.68%) Continuous Improvement
15 31 (14.22%) Roadmaps
16 30 (13.76%) Containerisation
16 30 (13.76%) Observability
17 29 (13.30%) API Integration
17 29 (13.30%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 85 (38.99%) SQL
2 64 (29.36%) C#
3 60 (27.52%) Python
4 49 (22.48%) JavaScript
5 34 (15.60%) Bash
6 33 (15.14%) Java
7 22 (10.09%) PowerShell
8 18 (8.26%) Bicep
8 18 (8.26%) Go
9 12 (5.50%) TypeScript
10 8 (3.67%) T-SQL
11 7 (3.21%) C++
12 6 (2.75%) Swift
13 5 (2.29%) Kotlin
14 3 (1.38%) Apex Code
14 3 (1.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 3 (1.38%) PL/SQL
14 3 (1.38%) SOQL
14 3 (1.38%) SOSL
15 2 (0.92%) PHP
Qualifications
1 17 (7.80%) Degree
2 12 (5.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (2.75%) PMI Certification
4 5 (2.29%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.38%) AWS Certification
5 3 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (1.38%) SC Cleared
5 3 (1.38%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.46%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (0.46%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.50%) QA
1 12 (5.50%) TickIT
2 11 (5.05%) Accessibility
2 11 (5.05%) WCAG
3 10 (4.59%) GDPR
4 8 (3.67%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.46%) GRC
System Software
1 19 (8.72%) Docker
2 4 (1.83%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.83%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 72 (33.03%) Terraform
2 21 (9.63%) Kubernetes
3 19 (8.72%) Grafana
3 19 (8.72%) Prometheus
4 16 (7.34%) Ansible
5 14 (6.42%) Argo
6 2 (0.92%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.46%) Istio
7 1 (0.46%) linkerd
Vendors
1 84 (38.53%) Microsoft
2 13 (5.96%) Databricks
3 12 (5.50%) Salesforce
4 11 (5.05%) Dynatrace
4 11 (5.05%) Google
5 10 (4.59%) Apple
6 5 (2.29%) VMware
7 4 (1.83%) Facebook
7 4 (1.83%) Sony
7 4 (1.83%) Yahoo!
8 3 (1.38%) Oracle
8 3 (1.38%) Pega
8 3 (1.38%) Splunk
9 2 (0.92%) DevExpress
10 1 (0.46%) Progress
10 1 (0.46%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.46%) WooCommerce