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

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 193 143 97
Rank change year-on-year -50 -46 +23
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 120 99 417
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.77% 1.55% 2.65%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.20% 4.43% 7.36%
Number of salaries quoted 98 83 322
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,900 £38,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £49,375 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,500 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.71% +16.67% -2.18%
75th Percentile £75,250 £83,125 £75,938
90th Percentile £85,375 £92,500 £90,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +12.00% -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 5,448 2,236 5,668
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 34.83% 35.06% 36.04%
Number of salaries quoted 2,518 1,697 4,767
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,575 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,988 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £74,145 £70,000
90th Percentile £93,634 £89,250 £83,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +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 3 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 3 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 -24 49 £67,500 +1.89% 41
Yorkshire -60 39 £58,750 -16.07% 22
North East 0 32 £50,000 -23.08% 11
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 (10.83%) Confluence
2 4 (3.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (3.33%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.67%) CICS
4 1 (0.83%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.83%) IIS
4 1 (0.83%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 3 (2.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (2.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (2.50%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (3.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.83%) Magento
2 1 (0.83%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 120 (100.00%) Azure
2 53 (44.17%) GitHub
3 45 (37.50%) AWS
4 44 (36.67%) GitHub Actions
5 24 (20.00%) GCP
6 21 (17.50%) Serverless
7 15 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
8 13 (10.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 13 (10.83%) Amazon EventBridge
8 13 (10.83%) Amazon S3
8 13 (10.83%) Amazon SQS
8 13 (10.83%) AWS Lambda
8 13 (10.83%) AWS Step Functions
9 11 (9.17%) Power Platform
10 9 (7.50%) Azure Logic Apps
11 8 (6.67%) Azure Functions
11 8 (6.67%) Entra ID
12 7 (5.83%) Azure Monitor
12 7 (5.83%) Microsoft 365
13 6 (5.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (16.67%) DNS
2 19 (15.83%) Firewall
2 19 (15.83%) HTTP
2 19 (15.83%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.83%) DHCP
3 1 (0.83%) LTE
3 1 (0.83%) Network Security
3 1 (0.83%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.83%) VLAN
3 1 (0.83%) VPN
3 1 (0.83%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (15.83%) SQL Server
2 13 (10.83%) DynamoDB
2 13 (10.83%) NoSQL
2 13 (10.83%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (5.83%) Azure SQL Database
3 7 (5.83%) Power BI
4 5 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (3.33%) Relational Database
5 4 (3.33%) Spark SQL
6 3 (2.50%) MongoDB
6 3 (2.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (1.67%) DB2
7 2 (1.67%) Hazelcast
8 1 (0.83%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.83%) Power Query
8 1 (0.83%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 27 (22.50%) Jenkins
2 24 (20.00%) Git
3 22 (18.33%) JIRA
4 9 (7.50%) Postman
5 3 (2.50%) Eclipse
5 3 (2.50%) IntelliJ
5 3 (2.50%) NUnit
5 3 (2.50%) REST Assured
6 2 (1.67%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.67%) Selenium
6 2 (1.67%) TestRail
7 1 (0.83%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.83%) GDB
7 1 (0.83%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.83%) WinDbg
General
1 32 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 23 (19.17%) Finance
3 19 (15.83%) Law
4 18 (15.00%) Telecoms
5 15 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (7.50%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (5.83%) Public Sector
8 6 (5.00%) Banking
9 5 (4.17%) Retail
10 4 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (2.50%) Advertising
11 3 (2.50%) Games
11 3 (2.50%) Marketing
12 2 (1.67%) Legal
13 1 (0.83%) Back Office
13 1 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 36 (30.00%) Developer
2 22 (18.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 17 (14.17%) .NET Developer
4 16 (13.33%) Lead
5 11 (9.17%) Analyst
6 10 (8.33%) Senior
7 9 (7.50%) Azure Engineer
7 9 (7.50%) Cloud Engineer
8 8 (6.67%) Software Engineer
9 7 (5.83%) Business Analyst
10 6 (5.00%) Full-Stack Developer
10 6 (5.00%) Scrum Master
11 5 (4.17%) AWS Developer
11 5 (4.17%) Senior Developer
12 4 (3.33%) .NET Software Engineer
12 4 (3.33%) Data Engineer
12 4 (3.33%) Head of Testing
12 4 (3.33%) Lead Cloud Engineer
12 4 (3.33%) Platform Engineer
12 4 (3.33%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (30.00%) .NET
2 25 (20.83%) .NET Core
3 24 (20.00%) ASP.NET
4 23 (19.17%) React
5 22 (18.33%) RESTful
6 18 (15.00%) ASP.NET Core
6 18 (15.00%) Elastic Stack
7 17 (14.17%) Blazor
8 13 (10.83%) AWS CDK
9 11 (9.17%) AngularJS
10 10 (8.33%) CSS
10 10 (8.33%) HTML
10 10 (8.33%) REST
11 9 (7.50%) ARM Templates
12 8 (6.67%) SOAP
13 6 (5.00%) Node.js
13 6 (5.00%) Playwright
14 5 (4.17%) CSS3
14 5 (4.17%) HTML5
14 5 (4.17%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 18 (15.00%) Cloud Native
2 12 (10.00%) Product Ownership
3 4 (3.33%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (3.33%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.50%) Enterprise Cloud
4 3 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (2.50%) PMI
5 2 (1.67%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.67%) Driving Licence
5 2 (1.67%) Mainframe
5 2 (1.67%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.67%) Social Network
6 1 (0.83%) BBC
6 1 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.83%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.83%) Legacy Code
6 1 (0.83%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.83%) Reinsurance
6 1 (0.83%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.50%) Linux
2 1 (0.83%) VMS
2 1 (0.83%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (100.00%) DevOps
2 76 (63.33%) CI/CD
3 57 (47.50%) Agile
4 50 (41.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 43 (35.83%) Containerisation
6 24 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
6 24 (20.00%) Roadmaps
6 24 (20.00%) SDLC
7 23 (19.17%) Continuous Integration
7 23 (19.17%) High Availability
8 21 (17.50%) Continuous Delivery
9 19 (15.83%) DevSecOps
9 19 (15.83%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 19 (15.83%) Static Code Analysis
9 19 (15.83%) Vulnerability Scanning
10 18 (15.00%) Microservices
11 17 (14.17%) Data Modelling
11 17 (14.17%) Deployment Automation
12 16 (13.33%) Root Cause Analysis
12 16 (13.33%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 42 (35.00%) SQL
2 31 (25.83%) Python
3 23 (19.17%) Bash
4 21 (17.50%) Go
5 20 (16.67%) C#
6 19 (15.83%) JavaScript
7 9 (7.50%) PowerShell
8 7 (5.83%) TypeScript
9 6 (5.00%) Bicep
9 6 (5.00%) Java
10 4 (3.33%) T-SQL
11 3 (2.50%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.83%) C++
12 1 (0.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 11 (9.17%) AWS Certification
1 11 (9.17%) AWS Certified Developer
2 7 (5.83%) Azure Certification
3 6 (5.00%) SC Cleared
3 6 (5.00%) Security Cleared
4 4 (3.33%) Degree
4 4 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.50%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.83%) CSPO
6 1 (0.83%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (0.83%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.83%) MCITP
6 1 (0.83%) MCSE
6 1 (0.83%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.33%) GDPR
2 3 (2.50%) TickIT
3 2 (1.67%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.67%) QA
System Software
1 21 (17.50%) Docker
2 3 (2.50%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.83%) Firmware
3 1 (0.83%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 47 (39.17%) Terraform
2 23 (19.17%) Ansible
3 20 (16.67%) Grafana
3 20 (16.67%) Prometheus
4 10 (8.33%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.83%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (0.83%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 34 (28.33%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.00%) Salesforce
3 4 (3.33%) Databricks
4 3 (2.50%) Oracle
4 3 (2.50%) Pega
4 3 (2.50%) Sparx
5 2 (1.67%) DevExpress
6 1 (0.83%) Apple
6 1 (0.83%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.83%) Facebook
6 1 (0.83%) Fortinet
6 1 (0.83%) Foundry
6 1 (0.83%) Google
6 1 (0.83%) Sony
6 1 (0.83%) Splunk
6 1 (0.83%) WooCommerce
6 1 (0.83%) Yahoo!