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 26 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 191 143 94
Rank change year-on-year -48 -49 +31
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 111 102 409
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.74% 1.60% 2.66%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.12% 4.56% 7.32%
Number of salaries quoted 91 86 320
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,125 £38,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £49,063 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £67,363 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year -22.06% +13.16% -2.70%
75th Percentile £69,125 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,625 £90,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +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 5,243 2,238 5,591
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 34.95% 35.06% 36.38%
Number of salaries quoted 2,399 1,677 4,705
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,700 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,750 £41,250 £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 £90,000 £88,750 £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 26 March 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 26 March 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
Yorkshire -50 40 £55,000 -21.43% 22
North West -35 39 £63,000 -3.08% 41
North East -2 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 (11.71%) Confluence
2 4 (3.60%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.80%) CICS
4 1 (0.90%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.90%) IIS
4 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.90%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 3 (2.70%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (2.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (2.70%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (3.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.80%) Markit EDM
3 1 (0.90%) Magento
3 1 (0.90%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 111 (100.00%) Azure
2 49 (44.14%) GitHub
3 43 (38.74%) AWS
3 43 (38.74%) GitHub Actions
4 24 (21.62%) GCP
5 20 (18.02%) Serverless
6 16 (14.41%) AWS CloudFormation
7 14 (12.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 13 (11.71%) Amazon EventBridge
8 13 (11.71%) Amazon S3
8 13 (11.71%) Amazon SQS
8 13 (11.71%) AWS Lambda
8 13 (11.71%) AWS Step Functions
9 8 (7.21%) Azure Logic Apps
9 8 (7.21%) Power Platform
10 7 (6.31%) Azure Functions
10 7 (6.31%) Azure Monitor
10 7 (6.31%) Entra ID
10 7 (6.31%) Microsoft 365
11 6 (5.41%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (18.02%) DNS
2 19 (17.12%) Firewall
2 19 (17.12%) HTTP
2 19 (17.12%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.90%) DHCP
3 1 (0.90%) LTE
3 1 (0.90%) Network Security
3 1 (0.90%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.90%) VLAN
3 1 (0.90%) VPN
3 1 (0.90%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (18.92%) SQL Server
2 13 (11.71%) DynamoDB
2 13 (11.71%) NoSQL
2 13 (11.71%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (6.31%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (5.41%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (3.60%) Power BI
5 4 (3.60%) Relational Database
6 3 (2.70%) MongoDB
6 3 (2.70%) Spark SQL
6 3 (2.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (1.80%) DB2
7 2 (1.80%) Hazelcast
7 2 (1.80%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 2 (1.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.90%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.90%) Power Query
8 1 (0.90%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 26 (23.42%) Jenkins
2 25 (22.52%) Git
3 19 (17.12%) JIRA
4 7 (6.31%) Postman
5 3 (2.70%) Eclipse
5 3 (2.70%) IntelliJ
5 3 (2.70%) REST Assured
6 2 (1.80%) NUnit
6 2 (1.80%) Selenium
7 1 (0.90%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.90%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.90%) GDB
7 1 (0.90%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.90%) WinDbg
General
1 27 (24.32%) Social Skills
2 21 (18.92%) Finance
3 19 (17.12%) Law
4 18 (16.22%) Telecoms
5 12 (10.81%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (7.21%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (6.31%) Public Sector
8 5 (4.50%) Banking
9 4 (3.60%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (2.70%) Advertising
11 2 (1.80%) Games
11 2 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.80%) Legal
11 2 (1.80%) Retail
12 1 (0.90%) Back Office
12 1 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 34 (30.63%) Developer
2 22 (19.82%) DevOps Engineer
3 17 (15.32%) .NET Developer
4 12 (10.81%) Lead
5 11 (9.91%) Analyst
6 9 (8.11%) Cloud Engineer
7 8 (7.21%) Azure Engineer
7 8 (7.21%) Software Engineer
8 7 (6.31%) Business Analyst
8 7 (6.31%) Senior
9 6 (5.41%) Full-Stack Developer
10 5 (4.50%) AWS Developer
10 5 (4.50%) Scrum Master
11 4 (3.60%) .NET Software Engineer
11 4 (3.60%) Lead Cloud Engineer
11 4 (3.60%) Test Engineer
12 3 (2.70%) AWS DevOps
12 3 (2.70%) Data Engineer
12 3 (2.70%) Power Platform Developer
12 3 (2.70%) Serverless Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (29.73%) .NET
2 25 (22.52%) .NET Core
3 23 (20.72%) ASP.NET
3 23 (20.72%) React
4 21 (18.92%) RESTful
5 18 (16.22%) Elastic Stack
6 17 (15.32%) ASP.NET Core
6 17 (15.32%) Blazor
7 13 (11.71%) AWS CDK
8 10 (9.01%) AngularJS
8 10 (9.01%) CSS
8 10 (9.01%) HTML
9 7 (6.31%) ARM Templates
10 6 (5.41%) Node.js
10 6 (5.41%) REST
11 5 (4.50%) CSS3
11 5 (4.50%) HTML5
11 5 (4.50%) SOAP
12 4 (3.60%) .NET Framework
12 4 (3.60%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 18 (16.22%) Cloud Native
2 11 (9.91%) Product Ownership
3 4 (3.60%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (3.60%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.80%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.80%) Driving Licence
5 2 (1.80%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.80%) Mainframe
5 2 (1.80%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.80%) PMI
5 2 (1.80%) Social Network
6 1 (0.90%) BBC
6 1 (0.90%) EPoS
6 1 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.90%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.90%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.90%) Reinsurance
6 1 (0.90%) Social Media
6 1 (0.90%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.70%) Linux
2 1 (0.90%) VMS
2 1 (0.90%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (100.00%) DevOps
2 70 (63.06%) CI/CD
3 52 (46.85%) Agile
4 48 (43.24%) Infrastructure as Code
5 42 (37.84%) Containerisation
6 23 (20.72%) High Availability
7 22 (19.82%) Problem-Solving
7 22 (19.82%) SDLC
8 20 (18.02%) Continuous Delivery
8 20 (18.02%) Continuous Integration
8 20 (18.02%) Roadmaps
9 19 (17.12%) DevSecOps
9 19 (17.12%) Static Code Analysis
9 19 (17.12%) Vulnerability Scanning
10 18 (16.22%) Microservices
10 18 (16.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 17 (15.32%) Data Modelling
12 15 (13.51%) Deployment Automation
12 15 (13.51%) Mentoring
12 15 (13.51%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 39 (35.14%) SQL
2 28 (25.23%) Python
3 22 (19.82%) Bash
4 21 (18.92%) Go
5 19 (17.12%) JavaScript
6 18 (16.22%) C#
7 9 (8.11%) PowerShell
8 6 (5.41%) Java
8 6 (5.41%) TypeScript
9 5 (4.50%) Bicep
10 4 (3.60%) T-SQL
11 3 (2.70%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.90%) C++
12 1 (0.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 11 (9.91%) AWS Certification
1 11 (9.91%) AWS Certified Developer
2 7 (6.31%) Azure Certification
3 6 (5.41%) SC Cleared
3 6 (5.41%) Security Cleared
4 4 (3.60%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (2.70%) Degree
6 2 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.80%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.90%) CSPO
7 1 (0.90%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.90%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.90%) MCITP
7 1 (0.90%) MCSE
7 1 (0.90%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.70%) GDPR
2 1 (0.90%) Data Quality
System Software
1 20 (18.02%) Docker
2 3 (2.70%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.70%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.80%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.90%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 46 (41.44%) Terraform
2 23 (20.72%) Ansible
3 20 (18.02%) Prometheus
4 19 (17.12%) Grafana
5 9 (8.11%) Kubernetes
6 1 (0.90%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (0.90%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 29 (26.13%) Microsoft
2 3 (2.70%) Databricks
2 3 (2.70%) Oracle
2 3 (2.70%) Pega
2 3 (2.70%) Salesforce
2 3 (2.70%) Sparx
3 2 (1.80%) Foundry
4 1 (0.90%) Apple
4 1 (0.90%) DevExpress
4 1 (0.90%) Dynatrace
4 1 (0.90%) Facebook
4 1 (0.90%) Fortinet
4 1 (0.90%) Google
4 1 (0.90%) ServiceNow
4 1 (0.90%) Sony
4 1 (0.90%) Splunk
4 1 (0.90%) WooCommerce
4 1 (0.90%) Yahoo!