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

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 194 145 94
Rank change year-on-year -49 -51 +20
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 128 98 421
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.78% 1.54% 2.62%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.27% 4.36% 7.32%
Number of salaries quoted 104 84 324
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,975 £38,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £49,688 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,250 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.79% +16.67% -1.93%
75th Percentile £75,250 £82,813 £76,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £91,875 £90,000
England median annual salary £65,500 £69,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -5.07% +10.40% -3.85%

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 5,634 2,248 5,754
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 34.36% 35.22% 35.75%
Number of salaries quoted 2,608 1,725 4,838
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,675 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,988 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £74,258 £70,000
90th Percentile £93,668 £88,750 £83,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +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 9 April 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 April 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 -22 56 £67,500 +1.89% 41
Yorkshire -61 41 £58,750 -16.07% 22
North East -11 31 £50,000 -23.08% 11
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 13 (10.16%) Confluence
2 5 (3.91%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (3.91%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.56%) CICS
4 1 (0.78%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.78%) IIS
4 1 (0.78%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 3 (2.34%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (2.34%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (2.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (2.34%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.78%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (3.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.78%) Magento
2 1 (0.78%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 128 (100.00%) Azure
2 57 (44.53%) GitHub
3 47 (36.72%) AWS
3 47 (36.72%) GitHub Actions
4 24 (18.75%) GCP
5 23 (17.97%) Serverless
6 15 (11.72%) AWS CloudFormation
7 14 (10.94%) Power Platform
8 13 (10.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 13 (10.16%) Amazon EventBridge
8 13 (10.16%) Amazon S3
8 13 (10.16%) Amazon SQS
8 13 (10.16%) AWS Lambda
8 13 (10.16%) AWS Step Functions
9 11 (8.59%) Azure Logic Apps
10 10 (7.81%) Azure Functions
11 9 (7.03%) Azure Monitor
11 9 (7.03%) Entra ID
12 8 (6.25%) Dynamics 365
13 7 (5.47%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 20 (15.63%) DNS
2 19 (14.84%) Firewall
2 19 (14.84%) HTTP
2 19 (14.84%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.78%) DHCP
3 1 (0.78%) LTE
3 1 (0.78%) Network Security
3 1 (0.78%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.78%) VLAN
3 1 (0.78%) VPN
3 1 (0.78%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (15.63%) SQL Server
2 14 (10.94%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (10.16%) DynamoDB
3 13 (10.16%) NoSQL
4 10 (7.81%) Power BI
5 7 (5.47%) Azure SQL Database
5 7 (5.47%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (3.91%) Spark SQL
6 5 (3.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 4 (3.13%) MongoDB
7 4 (3.13%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.56%) DB2
8 2 (1.56%) Hazelcast
8 2 (1.56%) Power Query
9 1 (0.78%) Data Mining
9 1 (0.78%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 28 (21.88%) Jenkins
2 26 (20.31%) JIRA
3 25 (19.53%) Git
4 10 (7.81%) Postman
5 3 (2.34%) Eclipse
5 3 (2.34%) IntelliJ
5 3 (2.34%) NUnit
5 3 (2.34%) REST Assured
6 2 (1.56%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.56%) Selenium
6 2 (1.56%) TestRail
6 2 (1.56%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.78%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.78%) GDB
7 1 (0.78%) GitLab
7 1 (0.78%) WinDbg
General
1 33 (25.78%) Social Skills
2 24 (18.75%) Finance
3 19 (14.84%) Law
4 18 (14.06%) Telecoms
5 17 (13.28%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (7.03%) Influencing Skills
7 8 (6.25%) Public Sector
8 7 (5.47%) Retail
9 6 (4.69%) Banking
10 5 (3.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (3.91%) Marketing
11 4 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (2.34%) Advertising
12 3 (2.34%) Games
13 2 (1.56%) Legal
14 1 (0.78%) Back Office
14 1 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 39 (30.47%) Developer
2 24 (18.75%) DevOps Engineer
3 17 (13.28%) .NET Developer
3 17 (13.28%) Lead
4 14 (10.94%) Senior
5 11 (8.59%) Analyst
6 9 (7.03%) Azure Engineer
6 9 (7.03%) Cloud Engineer
7 8 (6.25%) Software Engineer
8 7 (5.47%) Senior Developer
9 6 (4.69%) Business Analyst
9 6 (4.69%) Full-Stack Developer
9 6 (4.69%) Scrum Master
10 5 (3.91%) AWS Developer
10 5 (3.91%) Data Engineer
10 5 (3.91%) Head of Testing
10 5 (3.91%) Platform Engineer
11 4 (3.13%) .NET Software Engineer
11 4 (3.13%) Delivery Manager
11 4 (3.13%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (28.91%) .NET
2 25 (19.53%) .NET Core
3 24 (18.75%) ASP.NET
4 23 (17.97%) React
5 22 (17.19%) RESTful
6 18 (14.06%) ASP.NET Core
6 18 (14.06%) Elastic Stack
7 17 (13.28%) Blazor
8 13 (10.16%) AWS CDK
8 13 (10.16%) REST
9 12 (9.38%) ARM Templates
10 11 (8.59%) AngularJS
10 11 (8.59%) CSS
10 11 (8.59%) HTML
11 10 (7.81%) SOAP
12 7 (5.47%) JSON
12 7 (5.47%) Middleware
12 7 (5.47%) Node.js
13 6 (4.69%) Playwright
14 5 (3.91%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 20 (15.63%) Cloud Native
2 12 (9.38%) Product Ownership
3 5 (3.91%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (3.13%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (3.13%) Enterprise Cloud
4 4 (3.13%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.34%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.34%) PMI
6 2 (1.56%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.56%) Driving Licence
6 2 (1.56%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.56%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.56%) Social Network
7 1 (0.78%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.78%) BBC
7 1 (0.78%) EPoS
7 1 (0.78%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.78%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.78%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.78%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.13%) Linux
2 2 (1.56%) Windows
3 1 (0.78%) Unix
3 1 (0.78%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (100.00%) DevOps
2 82 (64.06%) CI/CD
3 60 (46.88%) Agile
4 53 (41.41%) Infrastructure as Code
5 44 (34.38%) Containerisation
6 28 (21.88%) Problem-Solving
7 26 (20.31%) Continuous Integration
8 25 (19.53%) Roadmaps
9 24 (18.75%) High Availability
9 24 (18.75%) SDLC
10 21 (16.41%) Continuous Delivery
10 21 (16.41%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 19 (14.84%) Deployment Automation
11 19 (14.84%) DevSecOps
11 19 (14.84%) Microservices
11 19 (14.84%) Scrum
11 19 (14.84%) Static Code Analysis
11 19 (14.84%) Vulnerability Scanning
12 18 (14.06%) Data Modelling
13 17 (13.28%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 46 (35.94%) SQL
2 34 (26.56%) Python
3 24 (18.75%) Bash
4 21 (16.41%) C#
4 21 (16.41%) Go
5 20 (15.63%) JavaScript
6 11 (8.59%) PowerShell
7 7 (5.47%) Bicep
7 7 (5.47%) Java
7 7 (5.47%) TypeScript
8 5 (3.91%) T-SQL
9 3 (2.34%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.78%) C++
Qualifications
1 11 (8.59%) AWS Certification
1 11 (8.59%) AWS Certified Developer
2 7 (5.47%) Azure Certification
3 6 (4.69%) SC Cleared
3 6 (4.69%) Security Cleared
4 5 (3.91%) Degree
5 4 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (2.34%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.78%) CSPO
7 1 (0.78%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.78%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.78%) MCITP
7 1 (0.78%) MCSE
7 1 (0.78%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.91%) GDPR
1 5 (3.91%) TickIT
2 2 (1.56%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.56%) QA
System Software
1 22 (17.19%) Docker
2 4 (3.13%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.78%) Firmware
3 1 (0.78%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 50 (39.06%) Terraform
2 22 (17.19%) Ansible
3 21 (16.41%) Grafana
3 21 (16.41%) Prometheus
4 12 (9.38%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.78%) Argo
5 1 (0.78%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (0.78%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 39 (30.47%) Microsoft
2 7 (5.47%) Salesforce
3 5 (3.91%) Databricks
4 3 (2.34%) Oracle
4 3 (2.34%) Pega
4 3 (2.34%) Sparx
5 2 (1.56%) DevExpress
6 1 (0.78%) Apple
6 1 (0.78%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.78%) Facebook
6 1 (0.78%) Fortinet
6 1 (0.78%) Foundry
6 1 (0.78%) Google
6 1 (0.78%) Sony
6 1 (0.78%) Splunk
6 1 (0.78%) WooCommerce
6 1 (0.78%) Yahoo!