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 19 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 168 123 61
Rank change year-on-year -45 -62 +9
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 97 226 334
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.01% 1.85% 4.44%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.22% 6.42% 10.17%
Number of salaries quoted 82 127 281
10th Percentile £42,050 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £47,788
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.80% +4.17%
75th Percentile £70,000 £83,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £78,625 £91,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £66,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.48% +3.85% -2.67%

All Cloud 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 3,013 3,522 3,283
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 31.31% 28.85% 43.64%
Number of salaries quoted 1,882 1,969 2,699
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £34,000 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £71,250 £70,000 £71,625
90th Percentile £83,400 £83,800 £84,056
England median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% -3.85%

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 19 November 2025.

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 19 November 2025. 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 -36 43 £65,000 +7.00% 57
Yorkshire -32 33 £55,000 -18.35% 29
North East -9 21 £50,000 -9.09% 15
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 5 (5.15%) Confluence
2 1 (1.03%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.03%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (4.12%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (4.12%) MS Visio
2 3 (3.09%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (3.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (3.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.06%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 97 (100.00%) Azure
2 27 (27.84%) GitHub
3 18 (18.56%) GitHub Actions
4 17 (17.53%) AWS
4 17 (17.53%) SaaS
5 11 (11.34%) PaaS
5 11 (11.34%) Power Automate
6 10 (10.31%) AWS CloudFormation
7 9 (9.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 9 (9.28%) Azure Monitor
7 9 (9.28%) Power Platform
8 7 (7.22%) IaaS
8 7 (7.22%) Serverless
9 5 (5.15%) Azure AKS
9 5 (5.15%) Azure Logic Apps
9 5 (5.15%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (5.15%) GCP
10 4 (4.12%) Amazon EventBridge
10 4 (4.12%) Copilot Studio
10 4 (4.12%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 8 (8.25%) Firewall
2 5 (5.15%) DNS
3 4 (4.12%) HTTP
4 3 (3.09%) Network Security
4 3 (3.09%) TCP/IP
5 2 (2.06%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (10.31%) SQL Server
2 8 (8.25%) Relational Database
3 4 (4.12%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (4.12%) DynamoDB
3 4 (4.12%) NoSQL
3 4 (4.12%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (4.12%) RDBMS
4 3 (3.09%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.06%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 2 (2.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (2.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (1.03%) Data Mining
6 1 (1.03%) Power BI
6 1 (1.03%) Redis
6 1 (1.03%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 18 (18.56%) Git
2 12 (12.37%) JIRA
3 7 (7.22%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.06%) Cucumber
4 2 (2.06%) Gatling
4 2 (2.06%) GitLab
4 2 (2.06%) JMeter
4 2 (2.06%) Selenium
5 1 (1.03%) CircleCI
5 1 (1.03%) ESLint
5 1 (1.03%) git-flow
5 1 (1.03%) NUnit
5 1 (1.03%) Storybook
5 1 (1.03%) webpack
General
1 27 (27.84%) Social Skills
2 18 (18.56%) Finance
3 9 (9.28%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (6.19%) Law
5 5 (5.15%) Banking
6 4 (4.12%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.09%) Advertising
7 3 (3.09%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (3.09%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.06%) Retail
9 1 (1.03%) Digital Health
9 1 (1.03%) Digital Healthcare
9 1 (1.03%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 29 (29.90%) Developer
2 15 (15.46%) Cloud Engineer
2 15 (15.46%) DevOps Engineer
2 15 (15.46%) Lead
3 11 (11.34%) Azure Engineer
4 10 (10.31%) Analyst
4 10 (10.31%) Software Engineer
5 8 (8.25%) .NET Developer
5 8 (8.25%) Senior
6 7 (7.22%) .NET Software Engineer
6 7 (7.22%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 7 (7.22%) Business Analyst
7 6 (6.19%) Lead DevOps
8 5 (5.15%) Full-Stack Developer
8 5 (5.15%) Power Platform Developer
9 4 (4.12%) Lead DevOps Engineer
10 3 (3.09%) AWS Developer
10 3 (3.09%) Integration Developer
10 3 (3.09%) IT Engineer
10 3 (3.09%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (37.11%) .NET
2 14 (14.43%) ASP.NET
3 12 (12.37%) .NET Core
3 12 (12.37%) React
4 9 (9.28%) .NET Framework
4 9 (9.28%) AngularJS
4 9 (9.28%) Blazor
5 8 (8.25%) ASP.NET Core
5 8 (8.25%) REST
5 8 (8.25%) RESTful
6 6 (6.19%) Node.js
7 5 (5.15%) ARM Templates
7 5 (5.15%) CSS
7 5 (5.15%) Entity Framework
7 5 (5.15%) HTML
7 5 (5.15%) Lightning Web Components
8 4 (4.12%) AWS CDK
8 4 (4.12%) WinForms
9 3 (3.09%) OAuth
9 3 (3.09%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (17.53%) Cloud Native
2 15 (15.46%) Product Ownership
3 5 (5.15%) Data Centre
4 4 (4.12%) AI Agents
5 3 (3.09%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (3.09%) Mobile App
5 3 (3.09%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.06%) Blog
6 2 (2.06%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.06%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.06%) Driving Licence
6 2 (2.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (2.06%) Social Media
7 1 (1.03%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (1.03%) EPoS
7 1 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.03%) IoT
7 1 (1.03%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.03%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.22%) Windows
2 3 (3.09%) Android
3 2 (2.06%) Apple iOS
3 2 (2.06%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (100.00%) DevOps
2 50 (51.55%) Agile
3 49 (50.52%) CI/CD
4 31 (31.96%) Infrastructure as Code
5 22 (22.68%) Microservices
6 21 (21.65%) Mentoring
7 20 (20.62%) SDLC
8 19 (19.59%) Containerisation
9 18 (18.56%) Software Engineering
10 16 (16.49%) Problem-Solving
11 14 (14.43%) Continuous Improvement
12 12 (12.37%) Full-Stack Development
13 10 (10.31%) Cloud Security
14 9 (9.28%) Data Modelling
14 9 (9.28%) High Availability
14 9 (9.28%) Roadmaps
15 8 (8.25%) CRM
15 8 (8.25%) SOLID
16 7 (7.22%) Identity Access Management
16 7 (7.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 31 (31.96%) C#
2 27 (27.84%) SQL
3 19 (19.59%) PowerShell
4 14 (14.43%) Python
5 12 (12.37%) Bash
6 9 (9.28%) Bicep
7 8 (8.25%) JavaScript
8 5 (5.15%) Apex Code
8 5 (5.15%) Go
9 4 (4.12%) TypeScript
10 2 (2.06%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 8 (8.25%) Azure Certification
1 8 (8.25%) SC Cleared
1 8 (8.25%) Security Cleared
2 6 (6.19%) AWS Certification
3 4 (4.12%) AWS Certified Developer
4 2 (2.06%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 2 (2.06%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.03%) CSPO
5 1 (1.03%) Degree
5 1 (1.03%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (1.03%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.06%) GDPR
1 2 (2.06%) QA
System Software
1 17 (17.53%) Docker
2 5 (5.15%) Active Directory
2 5 (5.15%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (3.09%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 29 (29.90%) Terraform
2 13 (13.40%) Kubernetes
3 9 (9.28%) Ansible
3 9 (9.28%) Prometheus
4 6 (6.19%) Grafana
5 1 (1.03%) Argo
Vendors
1 31 (31.96%) Microsoft
2 5 (5.15%) Salesforce
3 4 (4.12%) Foundry
4 2 (2.06%) Xamarin
5 1 (1.03%) Google
5 1 (1.03%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.03%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.03%) Splunk