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

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 173 161 100
Rank change year-on-year -12 -61 +14
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 157 100 421
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.86% 1.41% 2.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.60% 4.44% 7.14%
Number of salaries quoted 129 84 324
10th Percentile £44,500 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,438 £44,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,250 £82,813 £74,063
90th Percentile £85,000 £91,875 £90,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £61,750
% change year-on-year - +9.31% -5.00%

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 6,038 2,251 5,898
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 33.03% 31.73% 35.46%
Number of salaries quoted 2,760 1,707 4,940
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £55,043 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.74% +4.84% -4.55%
75th Percentile £77,424 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £82,548
England median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +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 2 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 2 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 +6 75 £70,000 +3.70% 39
Yorkshire -57 49 £60,000 -14.29% 16
North East -14 33 £50,000 -16.67% 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 15 (9.55%) Confluence
2 11 (7.01%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (3.82%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.27%) CICS
5 1 (0.64%) IIS
5 1 (0.64%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 3 (1.91%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (1.27%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.64%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (2.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.64%) Magento
2 1 (0.64%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 157 (100.00%) Azure
2 61 (38.85%) GitHub
3 58 (36.94%) AWS
4 48 (30.57%) GitHub Actions
5 25 (15.92%) Power Platform
6 24 (15.29%) GCP
7 23 (14.65%) Serverless
8 17 (10.83%) Azure AKS
9 16 (10.19%) Dynamics 365
10 15 (9.55%) Azure Logic Apps
11 14 (8.92%) Azure Service Bus
12 12 (7.64%) AWS CloudFormation
12 12 (7.64%) Azure Functions
12 12 (7.64%) Azure Monitor
12 12 (7.64%) Boomi
13 11 (7.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 11 (7.01%) Amazon EventBridge
13 11 (7.01%) Amazon S3
13 11 (7.01%) Amazon SQS
13 11 (7.01%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 21 (13.38%) Firewall
2 20 (12.74%) DNS
3 19 (12.10%) HTTP
3 19 (12.10%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.64%) DHCP
4 1 (0.64%) LTE
4 1 (0.64%) Network Security
4 1 (0.64%) SAN
4 1 (0.64%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.64%) VLAN
4 1 (0.64%) VPN
4 1 (0.64%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (15.92%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (12.10%) SQL Server
3 18 (11.46%) Power BI
4 17 (10.83%) MongoDB
5 12 (7.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 11 (7.01%) DynamoDB
6 11 (7.01%) NoSQL
7 10 (6.37%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (4.46%) Azure SQL Database
8 7 (4.46%) Spark SQL
9 3 (1.91%) Power Query
10 2 (1.27%) DB2
10 2 (1.27%) Hazelcast
10 2 (1.27%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.64%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.64%) GIS
11 1 (0.64%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 37 (23.57%) JIRA
2 29 (18.47%) Jenkins
3 24 (15.29%) Git
4 13 (8.28%) GitLab
5 12 (7.64%) Postman
6 3 (1.91%) Eclipse
6 3 (1.91%) IntelliJ
6 3 (1.91%) NUnit
6 3 (1.91%) REST Assured
6 3 (1.91%) Visual Studio
7 2 (1.27%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.27%) Selenium
7 2 (1.27%) TestRail
8 1 (0.64%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.64%) GDB
8 1 (0.64%) WinDbg
General
1 38 (24.20%) Social Skills
2 24 (15.29%) Finance
3 21 (13.38%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (12.74%) Public Sector
5 19 (12.10%) Law
6 18 (11.46%) Telecoms
7 14 (8.92%) Retail
8 12 (7.64%) Marketing
9 9 (5.73%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (4.46%) Games
10 7 (4.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (3.82%) Banking
12 4 (2.55%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (1.27%) Advertising
13 2 (1.27%) Legal
14 1 (0.64%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 49 (31.21%) Developer
2 36 (22.93%) Senior
3 34 (21.66%) DevOps Engineer
4 21 (13.38%) Lead
5 18 (11.46%) .NET Developer
6 15 (9.55%) Senior Developer
7 14 (8.92%) Senior DevOps
7 14 (8.92%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 11 (7.01%) Azure Engineer
9 10 (6.37%) Platform Engineer
10 9 (5.73%) Analyst
10 9 (5.73%) Cloud Engineer
10 9 (5.73%) Data Engineer
11 7 (4.46%) Azure Platform Engineer
11 7 (4.46%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 7 (4.46%) Full-Stack Developer
11 7 (4.46%) Head of Testing
11 7 (4.46%) Lead Data Engineer
12 6 (3.82%) Scrum Master
12 6 (3.82%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (25.48%) .NET
2 24 (15.29%) .NET Core
3 23 (14.65%) REST
4 22 (14.01%) ASP.NET
4 22 (14.01%) React
5 20 (12.74%) RESTful
6 18 (11.46%) Elastic Stack
6 18 (11.46%) Node.js
7 17 (10.83%) ASP.NET Core
7 17 (10.83%) SOAP
8 16 (10.19%) ARM Templates
9 15 (9.55%) Blazor
10 14 (8.92%) JSON
10 14 (8.92%) Middleware
11 13 (8.28%) CSS
11 13 (8.28%) HTML
12 12 (7.64%) EDI
12 12 (7.64%) XML
13 11 (7.01%) AWS CDK
14 9 (5.73%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 19 (12.10%) Cloud Native
2 11 (7.01%) Product Ownership
3 9 (5.73%) Enterprise Cloud
4 6 (3.82%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (3.18%) PMI
6 4 (2.55%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (2.55%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.91%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.91%) Low-Code
7 3 (1.91%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.27%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.27%) Mainframe
8 2 (1.27%) Social Network
9 1 (0.64%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.64%) Driving Licence
9 1 (0.64%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.64%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.64%) Reinsurance
9 1 (0.64%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 16 (10.19%) Linux
2 14 (8.92%) Windows
3 13 (8.28%) Unix
4 1 (0.64%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (100.00%) DevOps
2 106 (67.52%) CI/CD
3 74 (47.13%) Agile
4 56 (35.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 42 (26.75%) Containerisation
6 41 (26.11%) Continuous Integration
7 37 (23.57%) Scrum
8 36 (22.93%) Roadmaps
9 34 (21.66%) Problem-Solving
9 34 (21.66%) Test Automation
10 28 (17.83%) Mentoring
10 28 (17.83%) Microservices
11 25 (15.92%) High Availability
12 24 (15.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 23 (14.65%) Continuous Delivery
13 23 (14.65%) Release Management
14 22 (14.01%) SDLC
15 21 (13.38%) Deployment Automation
16 20 (12.74%) Coaching
16 20 (12.74%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 55 (35.03%) SQL
2 42 (26.75%) Python
3 28 (17.83%) Bash
4 24 (15.29%) C#
5 23 (14.65%) JavaScript
6 21 (13.38%) Go
7 19 (12.10%) Java
8 12 (7.64%) PowerShell
9 9 (5.73%) Bicep
9 9 (5.73%) TypeScript
10 6 (3.82%) T-SQL
11 3 (1.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (1.91%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.64%) C++
12 1 (0.64%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 10 (6.37%) AWS Certification
2 9 (5.73%) AWS Certified Developer
2 9 (5.73%) Degree
3 7 (4.46%) Azure Certification
3 7 (4.46%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (3.18%) PMI Certification
4 5 (3.18%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.18%) Security Cleared
5 4 (2.55%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.64%) CSPO
6 1 (0.64%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (0.64%) MCITP
6 1 (0.64%) MCSE
6 1 (0.64%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (7.64%) TickIT
2 8 (5.10%) GDPR
3 3 (1.91%) QA
4 2 (1.27%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.64%) GRC
System Software
1 22 (14.01%) Docker
2 4 (2.55%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.55%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.64%) Firmware
3 1 (0.64%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.64%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 67 (42.68%) Terraform
2 22 (14.01%) Grafana
2 22 (14.01%) Prometheus
3 21 (13.38%) Ansible
4 15 (9.55%) Kubernetes
5 13 (8.28%) Argo
6 1 (0.64%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (0.64%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 51 (32.48%) Microsoft
2 9 (5.73%) Salesforce
3 8 (5.10%) Databricks
4 3 (1.91%) Oracle
4 3 (1.91%) Pega
4 3 (1.91%) Sparx
5 2 (1.27%) DevExpress
6 1 (0.64%) Apple
6 1 (0.64%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.64%) Facebook
6 1 (0.64%) Fortinet
6 1 (0.64%) Foundry
6 1 (0.64%) Google
6 1 (0.64%) Sony
6 1 (0.64%) VMware
6 1 (0.64%) WooCommerce
6 1 (0.64%) Yahoo!