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 21 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 223 89
Rank change year-on-year +93 -134 +4
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 260 95 403
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.24% 1.01% 2.39%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.97% 3.73% 7.40%
Number of salaries quoted 229 70 302
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,150 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,000 £50,688 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -1.93%
75th Percentile £74,987 £75,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £81,250 £90,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -

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 5,227 2,547 5,446
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 24.84% 27.01% 32.35%
Number of salaries quoted 3,627 1,757 4,210
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.27% - -
75th Percentile £78,750 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £84,919
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -7.69%

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 21 July 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 21 July 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 +82 141 £65,500 +0.77% 46
Yorkshire -12 65 £69,308 +2.68% 30
North East -1 54 £51,310 -6.71% 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 18 (6.92%) Confluence
2 14 (5.38%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (3.08%) SharePoint
4 6 (2.31%) IIS
4 6 (2.31%) SharePoint Server
5 5 (1.92%) CMS
6 3 (1.15%) Anypoint
6 3 (1.15%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (0.77%) CICS
7 2 (0.77%) nginx
7 2 (0.77%) Umbraco
7 2 (0.77%) WordPress
8 1 (0.38%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 7 (2.69%) Trello
2 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.38%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.54%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (1.54%) Shopify
2 3 (1.15%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.38%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 260 (100.00%) Azure
2 64 (24.62%) GitHub
3 61 (23.46%) AWS
4 48 (18.46%) Power Platform
5 45 (17.31%) GitHub Actions
6 36 (13.85%) Dynamics 365
7 23 (8.85%) Serverless
8 21 (8.08%) Azure Functions
8 21 (8.08%) Azure Service Bus
8 21 (8.08%) GCP
8 21 (8.08%) Power Automate
9 20 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
10 19 (7.31%) Azure AI
10 19 (7.31%) Azure AKS
10 19 (7.31%) Azure Logic Apps
11 15 (5.77%) Azure Data Factory
12 13 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
13 12 (4.62%) Boomi
14 11 (4.23%) Firebase
15 9 (3.46%) Google Play
Communications & Networking
1 19 (7.31%) Firewall
2 14 (5.38%) DNS
2 14 (5.38%) HTTP
3 12 (4.62%) TCP/IP
4 5 (1.92%) SAN
5 4 (1.54%) Internet
6 3 (1.15%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.38%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (19.62%) MongoDB
2 41 (15.77%) Azure SQL Database
3 25 (9.62%) Power BI
3 25 (9.62%) SQL Server
4 16 (6.15%) PostgreSQL
5 15 (5.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 13 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
7 9 (3.46%) Spark SQL
8 8 (3.08%) Relational Database
9 6 (2.31%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (2.31%) NonStop SQL
9 6 (2.31%) Redis
10 5 (1.92%) MySQL
11 4 (1.54%) NoSQL
11 4 (1.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (1.15%) Power Query
13 2 (0.77%) Amazon RDS
13 2 (0.77%) GIS
13 2 (0.77%) Hazelcast
13 2 (0.77%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 50 (19.23%) JIRA
2 40 (15.38%) Git
2 40 (15.38%) Jenkins
3 20 (7.69%) GitLab
4 12 (4.62%) Postman
5 11 (4.23%) fastlane
6 7 (2.69%) Visual Studio
7 6 (2.31%) Xcode
8 5 (1.92%) Android Studio
8 5 (1.92%) Crashlytics
8 5 (1.92%) Gradle
9 3 (1.15%) Eclipse
9 3 (1.15%) IntelliJ
9 3 (1.15%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.77%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.77%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.77%) NUnit
10 2 (0.77%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.77%) TestRail
11 1 (0.38%) MLflow
General
1 56 (21.54%) Social Skills
2 34 (13.08%) Finance
2 34 (13.08%) Public Sector
3 24 (9.23%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (8.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 17 (6.54%) Retail
6 12 (4.62%) Law
6 12 (4.62%) Marketing
6 12 (4.62%) Telecoms
7 11 (4.23%) Games
8 9 (3.46%) Banking
9 6 (2.31%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.15%) Legal
11 2 (0.77%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.38%) Local Government
12 1 (0.38%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 109 (41.92%) Developer
2 66 (25.38%) Senior
3 41 (15.77%) DevOps Engineer
4 39 (15.00%) .NET Developer
5 30 (11.54%) Senior Developer
6 23 (8.85%) Lead
7 19 (7.31%) Azure Engineer
8 17 (6.54%) Data Engineer
8 17 (6.54%) Platform Engineer
8 17 (6.54%) Senior DevOps
8 17 (6.54%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 14 (5.38%) Cloud Engineer
10 12 (4.62%) Software Engineer
11 11 (4.23%) Software Developer
12 10 (3.85%) Azure Platform Engineer
12 10 (3.85%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 9 (3.46%) Delivery Manager
13 9 (3.46%) Lead Data Engineer
13 9 (3.46%) Scrum Master
14 8 (3.08%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (35.00%) .NET
2 49 (18.85%) ASP.NET
3 43 (16.54%) ASP.NET Core
4 42 (16.15%) .NET Core
5 41 (15.77%) REST
6 39 (15.00%) RESTful
7 37 (14.23%) CSS
7 37 (14.23%) HTML
8 33 (12.69%) React
9 32 (12.31%) Entity Framework
10 27 (10.38%) ARM Templates
10 27 (10.38%) Node.js
11 23 (8.85%) Blazor
12 20 (7.69%) Middleware
12 20 (7.69%) SOAP
13 19 (7.31%) ML.NET
14 17 (6.54%) JSON
15 15 (5.77%) EDI
16 12 (4.62%) Elastic Stack
16 12 (4.62%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 30 (11.54%) Product Ownership
2 17 (6.54%) Cloud Native
2 17 (6.54%) Mobile App
3 11 (4.23%) Greenfield Project
4 10 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (3.85%) Enterprise Cloud
4 10 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (2.31%) BBC
5 6 (2.31%) Legacy Applications
5 6 (2.31%) Onboarding
5 6 (2.31%) Social Media
6 5 (1.92%) PMI
6 5 (1.92%) Social Network
7 4 (1.54%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (1.54%) iPhone
8 3 (1.15%) AI Agents
8 3 (1.15%) Distributed Architecture
8 3 (1.15%) Learning Management System
8 3 (1.15%) Low-Code
8 3 (1.15%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 21 (8.08%) Linux
2 14 (5.38%) Windows
3 13 (5.00%) Unix
4 9 (3.46%) Android
5 6 (2.31%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.38%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 260 (100.00%) DevOps
2 177 (68.08%) CI/CD
3 154 (59.23%) Agile
4 74 (28.46%) Scrum
5 62 (23.85%) AI
6 61 (23.46%) Full-Stack Development
6 61 (23.46%) Infrastructure as Code
7 54 (20.77%) Test Automation
8 48 (18.46%) Mentoring
9 47 (18.08%) Kanban
10 41 (15.77%) Continuous Improvement
11 37 (14.23%) Problem-Solving
12 35 (13.46%) Coaching
12 35 (13.46%) Continuous Integration
13 34 (13.08%) Analytics
13 34 (13.08%) Roadmaps
14 33 (12.69%) Observability
15 31 (11.92%) Deployment Automation
15 31 (11.92%) Platform Engineering
16 29 (11.15%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 103 (39.62%) SQL
2 91 (35.00%) C#
3 64 (24.62%) JavaScript
3 64 (24.62%) Python
4 34 (13.08%) Bash
5 33 (12.69%) Java
6 28 (10.77%) PowerShell
7 24 (9.23%) Bicep
8 16 (6.15%) Go
9 13 (5.00%) TypeScript
10 8 (3.08%) T-SQL
11 7 (2.69%) C++
12 6 (2.31%) Swift
13 5 (1.92%) Kotlin
14 3 (1.15%) Apex Code
14 3 (1.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 3 (1.15%) DataWeave
14 3 (1.15%) PL/SQL
14 3 (1.15%) SOQL
14 3 (1.15%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 17 (6.54%) Degree
2 12 (4.62%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (3.46%) PMI Certification
4 7 (2.69%) Azure Certification
5 4 (1.54%) PMP
5 4 (1.54%) SC Cleared
5 4 (1.54%) Security Cleared
6 3 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.77%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.38%) CSPO
8 1 (0.38%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.38%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 1 (0.38%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.38%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (6.54%) QA
2 12 (4.62%) TickIT
3 11 (4.23%) Accessibility
3 11 (4.23%) WCAG
4 10 (3.85%) GDPR
5 8 (3.08%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.77%) PMO
7 1 (0.38%) GRC
System Software
1 19 (7.31%) Docker
2 5 (1.92%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.54%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 74 (28.46%) Terraform
2 25 (9.62%) Kubernetes
3 16 (6.15%) Grafana
3 16 (6.15%) Prometheus
4 14 (5.38%) Ansible
4 14 (5.38%) Argo
5 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.38%) Istio
6 1 (0.38%) linkerd
Vendors
1 108 (41.54%) Microsoft
2 15 (5.77%) Google
3 13 (5.00%) Databricks
4 12 (4.62%) Apple
4 12 (4.62%) Salesforce
5 11 (4.23%) Dynatrace
6 7 (2.69%) VMware
7 6 (2.31%) Facebook
7 6 (2.31%) Sony
7 6 (2.31%) Yahoo!
8 3 (1.15%) MuleSoft
8 3 (1.15%) Oracle
8 3 (1.15%) Pega
8 3 (1.15%) Splunk
8 3 (1.15%) webMethods
9 2 (0.77%) DevExpress
10 1 (0.38%) Progress
10 1 (0.38%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.38%) WooCommerce