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

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 171 116 65
Rank change year-on-year -55 -51 +5
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 99 229 307
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.05% 1.89% 4.21%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.26% 6.38% 9.61%
Number of salaries quoted 85 131 260
10th Percentile £42,000 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £49,000 £50,000 £49,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,000 £62,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +1.61% +3.33%
75th Percentile £70,000 £83,875 £73,750
90th Percentile £78,250 £93,778 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +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 3,038 3,587 3,196
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 32.17% 29.58% 43.79%
Number of salaries quoted 1,889 2,042 2,638
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £72,433
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £84,056
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +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 28 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 28 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 -19 42 £65,000 +7.00% 22
Yorkshire -27 33 £55,000 -18.19% 15
North East +3 24 £50,000 -9.09% 16
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 (5.05%) Confluence
2 1 (1.01%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.01%) IIS
2 1 (1.01%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (4.04%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (4.04%) MS Visio
2 3 (3.03%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (3.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (3.03%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.02%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 99 (100.00%) Azure
2 30 (30.30%) GitHub
3 21 (21.21%) GitHub Actions
4 19 (19.19%) AWS
5 15 (15.15%) SaaS
6 12 (12.12%) AWS CloudFormation
7 11 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 11 (11.11%) PaaS
7 11 (11.11%) Power Automate
8 10 (10.10%) Azure Monitor
9 9 (9.09%) Power Platform
9 9 (9.09%) Serverless
10 7 (7.07%) IaaS
11 6 (6.06%) Amazon EventBridge
11 6 (6.06%) Amazon S3
11 6 (6.06%) Amazon SQS
11 6 (6.06%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (6.06%) AWS Step Functions
11 6 (6.06%) Azure Logic Apps
12 5 (5.05%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (8.08%) Firewall
2 6 (6.06%) DNS
3 4 (4.04%) HTTP
4 3 (3.03%) Network Security
4 3 (3.03%) TCP/IP
5 2 (2.02%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (14.14%) SQL Server
2 6 (6.06%) DynamoDB
2 6 (6.06%) NoSQL
2 6 (6.06%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (6.06%) Relational Database
3 5 (5.05%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.02%) RDBMS
5 2 (2.02%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 2 (2.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (2.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (1.01%) Data Mining
6 1 (1.01%) Power BI
6 1 (1.01%) Redis
6 1 (1.01%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 19 (19.19%) Git
2 10 (10.10%) JIRA
3 8 (8.08%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.02%) Cucumber
4 2 (2.02%) Gatling
4 2 (2.02%) GitLab
4 2 (2.02%) JMeter
4 2 (2.02%) Selenium
5 1 (1.01%) CircleCI
5 1 (1.01%) ESLint
5 1 (1.01%) git-flow
5 1 (1.01%) NUnit
5 1 (1.01%) Storybook
5 1 (1.01%) webpack
General
1 27 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 18 (18.18%) Finance
3 9 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (6.06%) Law
5 4 (4.04%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.03%) Advertising
6 3 (3.03%) Banking
6 3 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (3.03%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.02%) Retail
8 1 (1.01%) Back Office
8 1 (1.01%) Digital Health
8 1 (1.01%) Digital Healthcare
8 1 (1.01%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 31 (31.31%) Developer
2 16 (16.16%) Lead
3 15 (15.15%) DevOps Engineer
4 14 (14.14%) Cloud Engineer
5 11 (11.11%) Analyst
6 10 (10.10%) Azure Engineer
6 10 (10.10%) Software Engineer
7 9 (9.09%) .NET Developer
8 8 (8.08%) Business Analyst
9 7 (7.07%) .NET Software Engineer
9 7 (7.07%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 7 (7.07%) Senior
10 6 (6.06%) Full-Stack Developer
10 6 (6.06%) Lead DevOps
11 5 (5.05%) Power Platform Developer
12 4 (4.04%) AWS Developer
12 4 (4.04%) Lead DevOps Engineer
13 3 (3.03%) IT Engineer
13 3 (3.03%) Salesforce Developer
13 3 (3.03%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (38.38%) .NET
2 15 (15.15%) .NET Core
2 15 (15.15%) ASP.NET
2 15 (15.15%) React
3 11 (11.11%) Blazor
4 10 (10.10%) .NET Framework
4 10 (10.10%) RESTful
5 9 (9.09%) AngularJS
6 8 (8.08%) ASP.NET Core
7 7 (7.07%) Node.js
8 6 (6.06%) AWS CDK
8 6 (6.06%) CSS
8 6 (6.06%) HTML
8 6 (6.06%) REST
9 5 (5.05%) ARM Templates
9 5 (5.05%) Entity Framework
10 4 (4.04%) OAuth
11 3 (3.03%) CSS3
11 3 (3.03%) HTML5
11 3 (3.03%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (19.19%) Cloud Native
2 13 (13.13%) Product Ownership
3 5 (5.05%) Data Centre
4 4 (4.04%) AI Agents
4 4 (4.04%) Mobile App
5 3 (3.03%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (3.03%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.02%) Blog
6 2 (2.02%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.02%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.02%) Driving Licence
6 2 (2.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (2.02%) Social Media
7 1 (1.01%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (1.01%) EPoS
7 1 (1.01%) IoT
7 1 (1.01%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.01%) Legacy Code
7 1 (1.01%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.01%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.05%) Windows
2 3 (3.03%) Android
3 2 (2.02%) Apple iOS
3 2 (2.02%) Linux
4 1 (1.01%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (100.00%) DevOps
2 53 (53.54%) CI/CD
3 51 (51.52%) Agile
4 33 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 22 (22.22%) Microservices
6 21 (21.21%) Containerisation
6 21 (21.21%) SDLC
7 20 (20.20%) Mentoring
8 19 (19.19%) Software Engineering
9 18 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
10 14 (14.14%) Continuous Improvement
11 13 (13.13%) Full-Stack Development
12 10 (10.10%) Cloud Security
12 10 (10.10%) Roadmaps
13 9 (9.09%) CRM
13 9 (9.09%) Data Modelling
13 9 (9.09%) High Availability
14 8 (8.08%) Root Cause Analysis
14 8 (8.08%) SOLID
14 8 (8.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 31 (31.31%) C#
2 28 (28.28%) SQL
3 20 (20.20%) PowerShell
4 15 (15.15%) Python
5 13 (13.13%) Bash
6 9 (9.09%) Bicep
6 9 (9.09%) JavaScript
7 5 (5.05%) Go
7 5 (5.05%) TypeScript
8 3 (3.03%) Apex Code
9 2 (2.02%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (9.09%) SC Cleared
1 9 (9.09%) Security Cleared
2 8 (8.08%) AWS Certification
3 7 (7.07%) Azure Certification
4 6 (6.06%) AWS Certified Developer
5 2 (2.02%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 2 (2.02%) ISTQB
5 2 (2.02%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.01%) CSPO
6 1 (1.01%) Degree
6 1 (1.01%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (1.01%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.01%) MCITP
6 1 (1.01%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.02%) GDPR
1 2 (2.02%) QA
System Software
1 20 (20.20%) Docker
2 5 (5.05%) Active Directory
2 5 (5.05%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 31 (31.31%) Terraform
2 12 (12.12%) Kubernetes
3 10 (10.10%) Prometheus
4 9 (9.09%) Ansible
5 7 (7.07%) Grafana
6 1 (1.01%) Argo
6 1 (1.01%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 32 (32.32%) Microsoft
2 5 (5.05%) Foundry
3 3 (3.03%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.02%) Xamarin
5 1 (1.01%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.01%) Google
5 1 (1.01%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.01%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.01%) Splunk