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

6 months to
10 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 168 177 97
Rank change year-on-year +9 -80 +24
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 172 105 423
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.93% 1.40% 2.51%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.95% 4.18% 7.13%
Number of salaries quoted 146 84 326
10th Percentile £43,750 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,125 £49,688 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +16.67% -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,250 £82,813 £74,688
90th Percentile £85,000 £91,875 £90,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year -3.57% +13.82% -5.38%

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 5,831 2,510 5,931
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 31.47% 33.56% 35.23%
Number of salaries quoted 2,880 1,706 4,968
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,500 £28,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,918 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,239 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.07% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £77,500 £74,258 £69,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £82,548
England median annual salary £62,500 £62,103 £57,500
% change year-on-year +0.64% +8.00% -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 10 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 10 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 +33 83 £70,000 +3.70% 35
Yorkshire -57 49 £64,655 -7.64% 19
North East -10 40 £50,000 -23.08% 21
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 15 (8.72%) Confluence
2 11 (6.40%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (4.07%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.16%) CICS
4 2 (1.16%) CMS
4 2 (1.16%) IIS
4 2 (1.16%) Umbraco
4 2 (1.16%) WordPress
5 1 (0.58%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 3 (1.74%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (1.16%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.16%) Trello
3 1 (0.58%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (2.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.58%) Magento
2 1 (0.58%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 172 (100.00%) Azure
2 62 (36.05%) GitHub
3 61 (35.47%) AWS
4 48 (27.91%) GitHub Actions
5 26 (15.12%) Power Platform
6 24 (13.95%) GCP
7 22 (12.79%) Serverless
8 16 (9.30%) Azure AKS
8 16 (9.30%) Dynamics 365
9 15 (8.72%) Azure Logic Apps
10 14 (8.14%) Azure Service Bus
11 13 (7.56%) Azure Monitor
12 12 (6.98%) Azure Functions
12 12 (6.98%) Boomi
13 11 (6.40%) AWS CloudFormation
13 11 (6.40%) Microsoft 365
14 10 (5.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 10 (5.81%) AWS Lambda
14 10 (5.81%) AWS Step Functions
14 10 (5.81%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 21 (12.21%) Firewall
2 20 (11.63%) DNS
3 19 (11.05%) TCP/IP
4 18 (10.47%) HTTP
5 1 (0.58%) DHCP
5 1 (0.58%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.58%) LTE
5 1 (0.58%) Network Security
5 1 (0.58%) SAN
5 1 (0.58%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.58%) VLAN
5 1 (0.58%) VPN
5 1 (0.58%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (13.95%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (13.37%) MongoDB
3 19 (11.05%) SQL Server
4 18 (10.47%) Power BI
5 12 (6.98%) Azure SQL Database
5 12 (6.98%) NoSQL
5 12 (6.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 11 (6.40%) Data Warehouse
7 10 (5.81%) DynamoDB
8 8 (4.65%) Spark SQL
9 5 (2.91%) Relational Database
10 3 (1.74%) Power Query
11 2 (1.16%) DB2
11 2 (1.16%) Hazelcast
11 2 (1.16%) NonStop SQL
12 1 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
12 1 (0.58%) GIS
12 1 (0.58%) MySQL
12 1 (0.58%) RDBMS
12 1 (0.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 39 (22.67%) JIRA
2 35 (20.35%) Jenkins
3 27 (15.70%) Git
4 16 (9.30%) GitLab
5 13 (7.56%) Postman
6 4 (2.33%) fastlane
7 3 (1.74%) Eclipse
7 3 (1.74%) IntelliJ
7 3 (1.74%) REST Assured
7 3 (1.74%) Visual Studio
8 2 (1.16%) Android Studio
8 2 (1.16%) Bitbucket
8 2 (1.16%) Crashlytics
8 2 (1.16%) Gradle
8 2 (1.16%) NUnit
8 2 (1.16%) Selenium
8 2 (1.16%) TestRail
8 2 (1.16%) Xcode
9 1 (0.58%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.58%) WinDbg
General
1 39 (22.67%) Social Skills
2 25 (14.53%) Finance
3 23 (13.37%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (13.37%) Public Sector
4 19 (11.05%) Law
5 18 (10.47%) Telecoms
6 13 (7.56%) Retail
7 12 (6.98%) Marketing
8 11 (6.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (5.23%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (4.07%) Banking
10 7 (4.07%) Games
11 4 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (1.16%) Advertising
12 2 (1.16%) Legal
13 1 (0.58%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 60 (34.88%) Developer
2 42 (24.42%) Senior
3 36 (20.93%) DevOps Engineer
4 21 (12.21%) .NET Developer
5 20 (11.63%) Lead
5 20 (11.63%) Senior Developer
6 14 (8.14%) Senior DevOps
6 14 (8.14%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 12 (6.98%) Azure Engineer
7 12 (6.98%) Platform Engineer
8 11 (6.40%) Data Engineer
9 9 (5.23%) Analyst
10 8 (4.65%) Azure Platform Engineer
10 8 (4.65%) Cloud Engineer
10 8 (4.65%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 8 (4.65%) Lead Data Engineer
11 7 (4.07%) Full-Stack Developer
11 7 (4.07%) Head of Testing
12 6 (3.49%) Scrum Master
12 6 (3.49%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (27.91%) .NET
2 28 (16.28%) ASP.NET
2 28 (16.28%) REST
3 27 (15.70%) .NET Core
4 25 (14.53%) React
5 23 (13.37%) RESTful
6 22 (12.79%) ASP.NET Core
7 19 (11.05%) Node.js
7 19 (11.05%) SOAP
8 18 (10.47%) ARM Templates
8 18 (10.47%) Elastic Stack
9 17 (9.88%) Blazor
9 17 (9.88%) CSS
9 17 (9.88%) HTML
9 17 (9.88%) Middleware
10 15 (8.72%) JSON
11 12 (6.98%) EDI
11 12 (6.98%) XML
12 11 (6.40%) AngularJS
13 10 (5.81%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 20 (11.63%) Cloud Native
2 17 (9.88%) Product Ownership
3 9 (5.23%) Enterprise Cloud
4 6 (3.49%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (2.91%) Mobile App
5 5 (2.91%) PMI
6 4 (2.33%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (2.33%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.74%) Low-Code
7 3 (1.74%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.74%) Social Network
8 2 (1.16%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.16%) Mainframe
9 1 (0.58%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.58%) BBC
9 1 (0.58%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.58%) Reinsurance
9 1 (0.58%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 16 (9.30%) Linux
2 14 (8.14%) Windows
3 13 (7.56%) Unix
4 2 (1.16%) Android
4 2 (1.16%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.58%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 172 (100.00%) DevOps
2 117 (68.02%) CI/CD
3 89 (51.74%) Agile
4 58 (33.72%) Infrastructure as Code
5 42 (24.42%) Scrum
5 42 (24.42%) Test Automation
6 41 (23.84%) Continuous Integration
7 39 (22.67%) Containerisation
8 34 (19.77%) Problem-Solving
8 34 (19.77%) Roadmaps
9 30 (17.44%) Mentoring
10 29 (16.86%) Microservices
11 26 (15.12%) Kanban
11 26 (15.12%) Release Management
12 25 (14.53%) Deployment Automation
13 24 (13.95%) High Availability
13 24 (13.95%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 23 (13.37%) Continuous Delivery
14 23 (13.37%) SDLC
15 22 (12.79%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 61 (35.47%) SQL
2 45 (26.16%) Python
3 32 (18.60%) C#
4 30 (17.44%) Bash
5 27 (15.70%) JavaScript
6 23 (13.37%) Java
7 21 (12.21%) Go
8 12 (6.98%) PowerShell
9 10 (5.81%) TypeScript
10 9 (5.23%) Bicep
11 6 (3.49%) T-SQL
12 3 (1.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (1.74%) PL/SQL
13 2 (1.16%) Apex Code
13 2 (1.16%) Kotlin
13 2 (1.16%) SOQL
13 2 (1.16%) SOSL
13 2 (1.16%) Swift
14 1 (0.58%) C++
14 1 (0.58%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 10 (5.81%) Degree
2 9 (5.23%) AWS Certification
3 8 (4.65%) AWS Certified Developer
3 8 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (2.91%) Azure Certification
4 5 (2.91%) PMI Certification
5 4 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (2.33%) SC Cleared
5 4 (2.33%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.58%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (0.58%) MCITP
6 1 (0.58%) MCSE
6 1 (0.58%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.98%) TickIT
2 9 (5.23%) GDPR
3 5 (2.91%) QA
4 4 (2.33%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.33%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.33%) WCAG
5 1 (0.58%) GRC
System Software
1 22 (12.79%) Docker
2 3 (1.74%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.74%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.58%) Firmware
3 1 (0.58%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 69 (40.12%) Terraform
2 22 (12.79%) Grafana
2 22 (12.79%) Prometheus
3 20 (11.63%) Ansible
4 15 (8.72%) Kubernetes
5 13 (7.56%) Argo
6 1 (0.58%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (0.58%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 54 (31.40%) Microsoft
2 11 (6.40%) Salesforce
3 9 (5.23%) Databricks
4 5 (2.91%) Dynatrace
5 3 (1.74%) Apple
5 3 (1.74%) Google
5 3 (1.74%) Oracle
5 3 (1.74%) Pega
5 3 (1.74%) Sparx
6 2 (1.16%) DevExpress
7 1 (0.58%) Facebook
7 1 (0.58%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.58%) Foundry
7 1 (0.58%) Sony
7 1 (0.58%) Splunk
7 1 (0.58%) VMware
7 1 (0.58%) WooCommerce
7 1 (0.58%) Yahoo!