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

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 172 170 94
Rank change year-on-year -2 -76 +22
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 161 101 425
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.88% 1.38% 2.54%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.76% 4.19% 7.18%
Number of salaries quoted 135 84 327
10th Percentile £43,500 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,438 £45,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £68,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% +14.58% -2.44%
75th Percentile £75,250 £82,813 £74,375
90th Percentile £85,000 £91,875 £90,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £68,250 £61,500
% change year-on-year -1.10% +10.98% -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 2,412 5,917
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 31.76% 32.85% 35.30%
Number of salaries quoted 2,812 1,690 4,955
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £28,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,239 £55,271 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.56% +5.28% -4.55%
75th Percentile £77,500 £74,258 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £82,548
England median annual salary £62,500 £61,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +1.63% +6.96% -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 8 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 8 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 +10 79 £70,000 +3.70% 36
Yorkshire -44 49 £64,655 -7.64% 19
North East -10 33 £50,000 -16.67% 22
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 (9.32%) Confluence
2 11 (6.83%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (4.35%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.24%) CICS
4 2 (1.24%) IIS
5 1 (0.62%) CMS
5 1 (0.62%) PegaRULES
5 1 (0.62%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.62%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (1.86%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (1.24%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.62%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.62%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (2.48%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.62%) Magento
2 1 (0.62%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 161 (100.00%) Azure
2 58 (36.02%) AWS
2 58 (36.02%) GitHub
3 46 (28.57%) GitHub Actions
4 26 (16.15%) Power Platform
5 24 (14.91%) GCP
6 22 (13.66%) Serverless
7 16 (9.94%) Azure AKS
7 16 (9.94%) Dynamics 365
8 15 (9.32%) Azure Logic Apps
9 14 (8.70%) Azure Service Bus
10 13 (8.07%) Azure Monitor
11 12 (7.45%) Azure Functions
11 12 (7.45%) Boomi
12 11 (6.83%) AWS CloudFormation
12 11 (6.83%) Microsoft 365
13 10 (6.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 10 (6.21%) Amazon S3
13 10 (6.21%) Amazon SQS
13 10 (6.21%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 21 (13.04%) Firewall
2 20 (12.42%) DNS
3 19 (11.80%) TCP/IP
4 18 (11.18%) HTTP
5 1 (0.62%) DHCP
5 1 (0.62%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.62%) LTE
5 1 (0.62%) Network Security
5 1 (0.62%) SAN
5 1 (0.62%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.62%) VLAN
5 1 (0.62%) VPN
5 1 (0.62%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (14.91%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (11.80%) MongoDB
2 19 (11.80%) SQL Server
3 18 (11.18%) Power BI
4 12 (7.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 11 (6.83%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (6.21%) Azure SQL Database
6 10 (6.21%) DynamoDB
6 10 (6.21%) NoSQL
7 8 (4.97%) Spark SQL
8 3 (1.86%) Power Query
8 3 (1.86%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.24%) DB2
9 2 (1.24%) Hazelcast
10 1 (0.62%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.62%) GIS
10 1 (0.62%) MySQL
10 1 (0.62%) NonStop SQL
10 1 (0.62%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 38 (23.60%) JIRA
2 29 (18.01%) Jenkins
3 24 (14.91%) Git
4 14 (8.70%) GitLab
5 13 (8.07%) Postman
6 3 (1.86%) Eclipse
6 3 (1.86%) IntelliJ
6 3 (1.86%) REST Assured
6 3 (1.86%) Visual Studio
7 2 (1.24%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.24%) NUnit
7 2 (1.24%) Selenium
7 2 (1.24%) TestRail
8 1 (0.62%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.62%) GDB
8 1 (0.62%) WinDbg
General
1 38 (23.60%) Social Skills
2 24 (14.91%) Finance
3 22 (13.66%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (11.80%) Law
4 19 (11.80%) Public Sector
5 18 (11.18%) Telecoms
6 13 (8.07%) Retail
7 12 (7.45%) Marketing
8 9 (5.59%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (4.35%) Banking
9 7 (4.35%) Games
9 7 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (2.48%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.24%) Advertising
11 2 (1.24%) Legal
12 1 (0.62%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 53 (32.92%) Developer
2 39 (24.22%) Senior
3 35 (21.74%) DevOps Engineer
4 20 (12.42%) Lead
5 19 (11.80%) .NET Developer
6 17 (10.56%) Senior Developer
7 14 (8.70%) Senior DevOps
7 14 (8.70%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 12 (7.45%) Azure Engineer
8 12 (7.45%) Platform Engineer
9 11 (6.83%) Data Engineer
10 9 (5.59%) Analyst
11 8 (4.97%) Azure Platform Engineer
11 8 (4.97%) Cloud Engineer
11 8 (4.97%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 8 (4.97%) Lead Data Engineer
12 7 (4.35%) Full-Stack Developer
12 7 (4.35%) Head of Testing
13 6 (3.73%) Delivery Manager
13 6 (3.73%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (26.71%) .NET
2 27 (16.77%) REST
3 25 (15.53%) .NET Core
4 24 (14.91%) ASP.NET
5 23 (14.29%) React
6 19 (11.80%) RESTful
7 18 (11.18%) ASP.NET Core
7 18 (11.18%) Elastic Stack
7 18 (11.18%) Node.js
7 18 (11.18%) SOAP
8 17 (10.56%) ARM Templates
9 16 (9.94%) Middleware
10 15 (9.32%) Blazor
10 15 (9.32%) CSS
10 15 (9.32%) HTML
10 15 (9.32%) JSON
11 12 (7.45%) EDI
11 12 (7.45%) XML
12 10 (6.21%) AWS CDK
13 9 (5.59%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 18 (11.18%) Cloud Native
2 12 (7.45%) Product Ownership
3 9 (5.59%) Enterprise Cloud
4 6 (3.73%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (3.11%) PMI
6 4 (2.48%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (2.48%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.86%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.86%) Low-Code
7 3 (1.86%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.86%) Social Network
8 2 (1.24%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.24%) Mainframe
9 1 (0.62%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.62%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.62%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.62%) Reinsurance
9 1 (0.62%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.62%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 16 (9.94%) Linux
2 14 (8.70%) Windows
3 13 (8.07%) Unix
4 1 (0.62%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (100.00%) DevOps
2 108 (67.08%) CI/CD
3 78 (48.45%) Agile
4 55 (34.16%) Infrastructure as Code
5 41 (25.47%) Continuous Integration
6 39 (24.22%) Containerisation
7 37 (22.98%) Scrum
8 36 (22.36%) Test Automation
9 34 (21.12%) Roadmaps
10 33 (20.50%) Problem-Solving
11 29 (18.01%) Mentoring
12 27 (16.77%) Microservices
13 25 (15.53%) Release Management
14 24 (14.91%) High Availability
14 24 (14.91%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 23 (14.29%) Continuous Delivery
15 23 (14.29%) SDLC
16 21 (13.04%) Data Modelling
16 21 (13.04%) Deployment Automation
16 21 (13.04%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 59 (36.65%) SQL
2 44 (27.33%) Python
3 29 (18.01%) Bash
4 27 (16.77%) C#
5 25 (15.53%) JavaScript
6 21 (13.04%) Go
7 19 (11.80%) Java
8 11 (6.83%) PowerShell
9 10 (6.21%) TypeScript
10 8 (4.97%) Bicep
11 6 (3.73%) T-SQL
12 3 (1.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (1.86%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.62%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.62%) C++
13 1 (0.62%) SOQL
13 1 (0.62%) SOSL
13 1 (0.62%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 10 (6.21%) Degree
2 9 (5.59%) AWS Certification
3 8 (4.97%) AWS Certified Developer
3 8 (4.97%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (3.11%) Azure Certification
4 5 (3.11%) PMI Certification
5 4 (2.48%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (2.48%) SC Cleared
5 4 (2.48%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.62%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (0.62%) MCITP
6 1 (0.62%) MCSE
6 1 (0.62%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (7.45%) TickIT
2 9 (5.59%) GDPR
3 5 (3.11%) QA
4 3 (1.86%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.62%) GRC
System Software
1 20 (12.42%) Docker
2 3 (1.86%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.86%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.62%) Firmware
3 1 (0.62%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 66 (40.99%) Terraform
2 22 (13.66%) Grafana
2 22 (13.66%) Prometheus
3 20 (12.42%) Ansible
4 14 (8.70%) Kubernetes
5 13 (8.07%) Argo
6 1 (0.62%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (0.62%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 51 (31.68%) Microsoft
2 10 (6.21%) Salesforce
3 9 (5.59%) Databricks
4 3 (1.86%) Oracle
4 3 (1.86%) Pega
4 3 (1.86%) Sparx
5 2 (1.24%) DevExpress
6 1 (0.62%) Apple
6 1 (0.62%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.62%) Facebook
6 1 (0.62%) Fortinet
6 1 (0.62%) Foundry
6 1 (0.62%) Google
6 1 (0.62%) Sony
6 1 (0.62%) Splunk
6 1 (0.62%) VMware
6 1 (0.62%) WooCommerce
6 1 (0.62%) Yahoo!