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 9 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 168 129 112
Rank change year-on-year -39 -17 0
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 106 154 285
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.87% 1.88% 2.30%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.40% 5.58% 6.18%
Number of salaries quoted 92 78 248
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £39,667
25th Percentile £47,188 £49,063 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £67,363 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year -18.35% +13.17% -6.26%
75th Percentile £67,500 £83,438 £74,063
90th Percentile £77,500 £93,758 £90,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -6.72%

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 4,422 2,762 4,612
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 36.38% 33.77% 37.28%
Number of salaries quoted 2,006 1,550 4,019
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £34,125 £41,813 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,507 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £83,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -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 9 February 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 9 February 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 -46 41 £55,000 -21.43% 27
North West -21 35 £64,000 -1.54% 49
North East +10 30 £50,000 -27.27% 12
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 7 (6.60%) Confluence
2 2 (1.89%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.94%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.94%) IIS
3 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.94%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (2.83%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (2.83%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (2.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (2.83%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (5.66%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.89%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 106 (100.00%) Azure
2 46 (43.40%) GitHub
3 38 (35.85%) AWS
3 38 (35.85%) GitHub Actions
4 17 (16.04%) AWS CloudFormation
4 17 (16.04%) Serverless
5 16 (15.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 16 (15.09%) GCP
6 13 (12.26%) Amazon EventBridge
6 13 (12.26%) Amazon S3
6 13 (12.26%) Amazon SQS
6 13 (12.26%) AWS Lambda
6 13 (12.26%) AWS Step Functions
7 9 (8.49%) PaaS
7 9 (8.49%) SaaS
8 7 (6.60%) Azure Monitor
8 7 (6.60%) IaaS
8 7 (6.60%) Power Automate
9 6 (5.66%) Azure AKS
9 6 (5.66%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 16 (15.09%) DNS
2 15 (14.15%) Firewall
3 13 (12.26%) HTTP
3 13 (12.26%) TCP/IP
4 3 (2.83%) WAN
5 1 (0.94%) DHCP
5 1 (0.94%) Network Security
5 1 (0.94%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.94%) VLAN
5 1 (0.94%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (19.81%) SQL Server
2 13 (12.26%) DynamoDB
2 13 (12.26%) NoSQL
2 13 (12.26%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (5.66%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (2.83%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (2.83%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.89%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 2 (1.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (1.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.94%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.94%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.94%) Redis
6 1 (0.94%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 24 (22.64%) Git
2 17 (16.04%) Jenkins
3 9 (8.49%) JIRA
4 1 (0.94%) CircleCI
4 1 (0.94%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.94%) git-flow
4 1 (0.94%) NUnit
4 1 (0.94%) Postman
4 1 (0.94%) Selenium
General
1 31 (29.25%) Social Skills
2 17 (16.04%) Finance
3 14 (13.21%) Law
4 12 (11.32%) Telecoms
5 11 (10.38%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (4.72%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.83%) Advertising
7 3 (2.83%) Banking
7 3 (2.83%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.83%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.89%) Retail
9 1 (0.94%) Back Office
9 1 (0.94%) Games
Job Titles
1 33 (31.13%) Developer
2 20 (18.87%) DevOps Engineer
3 16 (15.09%) .NET Developer
4 14 (13.21%) Cloud Engineer
4 14 (13.21%) Software Engineer
5 11 (10.38%) Analyst
5 11 (10.38%) Lead
6 9 (8.49%) Senior
7 8 (7.55%) .NET Software Engineer
7 8 (7.55%) Business Analyst
8 5 (4.72%) AWS Developer
8 5 (4.72%) Azure Engineer
8 5 (4.72%) C# Software Engineer
8 5 (4.72%) Full-Stack Developer
8 5 (4.72%) Senior C# Software Engineer
8 5 (4.72%) Senior Software Engineer
9 4 (3.77%) Lead Cloud Engineer
10 3 (2.83%) Integration Developer
10 3 (2.83%) Power Platform Developer
10 3 (2.83%) Software Development Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (40.57%) .NET
2 25 (23.58%) React
3 24 (22.64%) .NET Core
4 21 (19.81%) ASP.NET
5 16 (15.09%) Blazor
5 16 (15.09%) RESTful
6 14 (13.21%) ASP.NET Core
7 13 (12.26%) AngularJS
7 13 (12.26%) AWS CDK
8 12 (11.32%) Elastic Stack
9 8 (7.55%) CSS
9 8 (7.55%) HTML
9 8 (7.55%) Node.js
10 7 (6.60%) .NET Framework
11 5 (4.72%) ARM Templates
11 5 (4.72%) Vue
12 3 (2.83%) HTML5
12 3 (2.83%) Lightning Web Components
12 3 (2.83%) REST
12 3 (2.83%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 24 (22.64%) Cloud Native
2 9 (8.49%) Product Ownership
3 4 (3.77%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (3.77%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (3.77%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.89%) AI Agents
4 2 (1.89%) Data Centre
4 2 (1.89%) Driving Licence
4 2 (1.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (0.94%) EPoS
5 1 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.94%) IoT
5 1 (0.94%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.94%) Legacy Code
5 1 (0.94%) Low-Code
5 1 (0.94%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.94%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.94%) PMI
5 1 (0.94%) Reinsurance
5 1 (0.94%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.89%) Linux
2 1 (0.94%) Android
2 1 (0.94%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (100.00%) DevOps
2 57 (53.77%) CI/CD
3 48 (45.28%) Agile
4 46 (43.40%) Infrastructure as Code
5 41 (38.68%) Containerisation
6 26 (24.53%) Problem-Solving
7 24 (22.64%) Microservices
8 22 (20.75%) Mentoring
9 21 (19.81%) Software Engineering
10 19 (17.92%) SDLC
11 17 (16.04%) High Availability
12 16 (15.09%) Roadmaps
13 15 (14.15%) DevSecOps
13 15 (14.15%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 14 (13.21%) Deployment Automation
15 13 (12.26%) Application Security
15 13 (12.26%) Continuous Delivery
15 13 (12.26%) Root Cause Analysis
15 13 (12.26%) Static Code Analysis
15 13 (12.26%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 35 (33.02%) SQL
2 29 (27.36%) C#
3 24 (22.64%) Python
4 20 (18.87%) Bash
5 16 (15.09%) Go
5 16 (15.09%) PowerShell
6 14 (13.21%) JavaScript
7 9 (8.49%) Bicep
8 8 (7.55%) TypeScript
9 3 (2.83%) Apex Code
10 2 (1.89%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (10.38%) AWS Certification
1 11 (10.38%) AWS Certified Developer
2 8 (7.55%) Azure Certification
3 4 (3.77%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.77%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.89%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.94%) CSPO
5 1 (0.94%) Degree
5 1 (0.94%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (0.94%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.94%) MCITP
5 1 (0.94%) MCSE
5 1 (0.94%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.94%) SAFe Agilist
System Software
1 24 (22.64%) Docker
2 5 (4.72%) Active Directory
3 4 (3.77%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (3.77%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.94%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 47 (44.34%) Terraform
2 18 (16.98%) Ansible
3 17 (16.04%) Prometheus
4 14 (13.21%) Grafana
4 14 (13.21%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.94%) Argo
5 1 (0.94%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (0.94%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 24 (22.64%) Microsoft
2 3 (2.83%) Foundry
2 3 (2.83%) Salesforce
2 3 (2.83%) Sparx
3 1 (0.94%) Databricks
3 1 (0.94%) Dynatrace
3 1 (0.94%) Fortinet
3 1 (0.94%) OpenAI
3 1 (0.94%) Oracle
3 1 (0.94%) ServiceNow
3 1 (0.94%) Splunk