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 14 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 172 116 63
Rank change year-on-year -56 -53 +2
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 96 233 346
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.98% 1.87% 4.55%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.20% 6.53% 10.37%
Number of salaries quoted 80 132 288
10th Percentile £42,000 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £62,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +0.81% +3.33%
75th Percentile £70,000 £82,813 £74,063
90th Percentile £79,000 £92,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.96% +3.85% -2.67%

All Cloud 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 2,996 3,570 3,335
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 30.50% 28.72% 43.85%
Number of salaries quoted 1,894 2,004 2,740
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £33,125 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £71,250 £69,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £83,200 £82,500 £84,056
England median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% -3.85%

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 14 November 2025.

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 14 November 2025. 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 -18 46 £65,000 +6.56% 52
Yorkshire -40 32 £55,000 -18.19% 30
North East -10 18 £50,000 -9.09% 17
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 6 (6.25%) Confluence
2 1 (1.04%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.04%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (3.13%) MS Visio
2 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (3.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.08%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 96 (100.00%) Azure
2 24 (25.00%) GitHub
3 17 (17.71%) SaaS
4 15 (15.63%) AWS
4 15 (15.63%) GitHub Actions
5 11 (11.46%) PaaS
5 11 (11.46%) Power Automate
6 10 (10.42%) AWS CloudFormation
6 10 (10.42%) Power Platform
7 9 (9.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 9 (9.38%) Azure Monitor
8 7 (7.29%) IaaS
8 7 (7.29%) Serverless
9 5 (5.21%) Azure AKS
9 5 (5.21%) Azure Logic Apps
9 5 (5.21%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (4.17%) Amazon EventBridge
10 4 (4.17%) AWS Step Functions
10 4 (4.17%) Copilot Studio
10 4 (4.17%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.21%) Firewall
2 3 (3.13%) Network Security
3 2 (2.08%) DNS
3 2 (2.08%) WAN
4 1 (1.04%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (10.42%) SQL Server
2 8 (8.33%) Relational Database
3 4 (4.17%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (4.17%) DynamoDB
3 4 (4.17%) NoSQL
3 4 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (4.17%) RDBMS
4 3 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.08%) Power BI
5 2 (2.08%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 2 (2.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (2.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (1.04%) Data Mining
6 1 (1.04%) Redis
6 1 (1.04%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 19 (19.79%) Git
2 13 (13.54%) JIRA
3 5 (5.21%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.08%) Cucumber
4 2 (2.08%) Gatling
4 2 (2.08%) GitLab
4 2 (2.08%) JMeter
4 2 (2.08%) Selenium
5 1 (1.04%) CircleCI
5 1 (1.04%) ESLint
5 1 (1.04%) git-flow
5 1 (1.04%) NUnit
5 1 (1.04%) Storybook
5 1 (1.04%) webpack
General
1 28 (29.17%) Social Skills
2 17 (17.71%) Finance
3 8 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (5.21%) Banking
5 4 (4.17%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.13%) Law
6 3 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (3.13%) Retail
7 2 (2.08%) Advertising
8 1 (1.04%) Digital Health
8 1 (1.04%) Digital Healthcare
8 1 (1.04%) Legal
8 1 (1.04%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 28 (29.17%) Developer
2 16 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
3 15 (15.63%) Lead
4 13 (13.54%) Azure Engineer
4 13 (13.54%) DevOps Engineer
5 10 (10.42%) Analyst
5 10 (10.42%) Software Engineer
6 9 (9.38%) Senior
7 8 (8.33%) .NET Developer
7 8 (8.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 8 (8.33%) Business Analyst
8 7 (7.29%) .NET Software Engineer
9 6 (6.25%) Lead DevOps
10 5 (5.21%) Power Platform Developer
11 4 (4.17%) Full-Stack Developer
11 4 (4.17%) Lead DevOps Engineer
12 3 (3.13%) Integration Developer
12 3 (3.13%) IT Engineer
12 3 (3.13%) Senior Cloud Engineer
12 3 (3.13%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (36.46%) .NET
2 13 (13.54%) ASP.NET
3 12 (12.50%) React
4 11 (11.46%) .NET Core
5 9 (9.38%) .NET Framework
5 9 (9.38%) AngularJS
5 9 (9.38%) Blazor
6 8 (8.33%) ASP.NET Core
6 8 (8.33%) REST
6 8 (8.33%) RESTful
7 6 (6.25%) ARM Templates
8 5 (5.21%) Entity Framework
8 5 (5.21%) Lightning Web Components
8 5 (5.21%) Node.js
9 4 (4.17%) AWS CDK
9 4 (4.17%) CSS
9 4 (4.17%) HTML
9 4 (4.17%) WinForms
10 3 (3.13%) JWT
10 3 (3.13%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (17.71%) Cloud Native
2 14 (14.58%) Product Ownership
3 5 (5.21%) Data Centre
4 4 (4.17%) AI Agents
5 3 (3.13%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (3.13%) Mobile App
5 3 (3.13%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.08%) Blog
6 2 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.08%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.08%) Driving Licence
6 2 (2.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (2.08%) Social Media
7 1 (1.04%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.04%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (1.04%) EPoS
7 1 (1.04%) IoT
7 1 (1.04%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.04%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.29%) Windows
2 3 (3.13%) Android
3 2 (2.08%) Apple iOS
3 2 (2.08%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (100.00%) DevOps
2 50 (52.08%) Agile
3 47 (48.96%) CI/CD
4 29 (30.21%) Infrastructure as Code
5 21 (21.88%) Microservices
6 20 (20.83%) Mentoring
7 19 (19.79%) SDLC
7 19 (19.79%) Software Engineering
8 16 (16.67%) Containerisation
8 16 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
9 14 (14.58%) Continuous Improvement
10 11 (11.46%) Full-Stack Development
11 10 (10.42%) Cloud Security
12 8 (8.33%) CRM
12 8 (8.33%) Data Modelling
12 8 (8.33%) Infrastructure Automation
12 8 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 8 (8.33%) Roadmaps
12 8 (8.33%) SOLID
13 7 (7.29%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 30 (31.25%) C#
2 28 (29.17%) SQL
3 19 (19.79%) PowerShell
4 13 (13.54%) Python
5 9 (9.38%) Bash
5 9 (9.38%) Bicep
6 7 (7.29%) JavaScript
7 5 (5.21%) Apex Code
8 4 (4.17%) TypeScript
9 2 (2.08%) Go
9 2 (2.08%) SOQL
10 1 (1.04%) Perl
10 1 (1.04%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 9 (9.38%) Azure Certification
2 8 (8.33%) SC Cleared
2 8 (8.33%) Security Cleared
3 6 (6.25%) AWS Certification
4 4 (4.17%) AWS Certified Developer
5 3 (3.13%) Degree
6 2 (2.08%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 2 (2.08%) ISTQB
6 2 (2.08%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.04%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.04%) CSPO
7 1 (1.04%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.04%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.08%) GDPR
1 2 (2.08%) QA
2 1 (1.04%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.04%) Data Quality
System Software
1 17 (17.71%) Docker
2 5 (5.21%) Active Directory
2 5 (5.21%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 27 (28.13%) Terraform
2 14 (14.58%) Kubernetes
3 7 (7.29%) Ansible
4 6 (6.25%) Prometheus
5 3 (3.13%) Grafana
6 1 (1.04%) Argo
Vendors
1 31 (32.29%) Microsoft
2 5 (5.21%) Salesforce
3 4 (4.17%) Foundry
4 2 (2.08%) Google
4 2 (2.08%) Xamarin
5 1 (1.04%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.04%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.04%) Splunk