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

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 162 207 91
Rank change year-on-year +45 -116 +20
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 185 87 432
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.95% 1.12% 2.51%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.23% 3.62% 7.18%
Number of salaries quoted 160 64 334
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,000 £49,063 £45,605
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,500 £68,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.73% +14.58% -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,250 £80,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £90,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year -3.57% +13.82% -5.38%

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 5,728 2,405 6,018
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 29.32% 31.08% 34.91%
Number of salaries quoted 3,071 1,535 5,008
10th Percentile £28,750 £28,350 £28,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £56,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% +6.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,886 £69,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £88,750 £82,548
England median annual salary £62,500 £61,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +2.46% +6.09% -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 24 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 24 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 +54 98 £70,000 +15.70% 51
Yorkshire -36 48 £69,310 -0.99% 19
North East -8 39 £50,000 -9.09% 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 14 (7.57%) Confluence
2 13 (7.03%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (4.32%) SharePoint
4 6 (3.24%) SharePoint Server
5 3 (1.62%) IIS
6 2 (1.08%) CICS
6 2 (1.08%) CMS
6 2 (1.08%) Umbraco
6 2 (1.08%) WordPress
7 1 (0.54%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 2 (1.08%) Trello
2 1 (0.54%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (2.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.08%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.54%) Magento
3 1 (0.54%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 185 (100.00%) Azure
2 65 (35.14%) GitHub
3 60 (32.43%) AWS
4 48 (25.95%) GitHub Actions
5 30 (16.22%) Power Platform
6 22 (11.89%) Serverless
7 21 (11.35%) GCP
8 19 (10.27%) Dynamics 365
9 18 (9.73%) Azure Monitor
10 16 (8.65%) Azure AKS
10 16 (8.65%) Azure Logic Apps
11 14 (7.57%) Azure Functions
11 14 (7.57%) Azure Service Bus
11 14 (7.57%) Microsoft 365
12 12 (6.49%) Azure Data Factory
12 12 (6.49%) Boomi
13 10 (5.41%) Power Automate
14 9 (4.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 9 (4.86%) Amazon S3
14 9 (4.86%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 21 (11.35%) Firewall
2 18 (9.73%) DNS
3 16 (8.65%) TCP/IP
4 15 (8.11%) HTTP
5 3 (1.62%) HTTPS
5 3 (1.62%) SAN
6 1 (0.54%) DHCP
6 1 (0.54%) LTE
6 1 (0.54%) Network Security
6 1 (0.54%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.54%) VLAN
6 1 (0.54%) VPN
6 1 (0.54%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (13.51%) MongoDB
2 23 (12.43%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (11.89%) SQL Server
4 20 (10.81%) Azure SQL Database
5 19 (10.27%) Power BI
6 14 (7.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 12 (6.49%) Data Warehouse
8 10 (5.41%) NoSQL
9 9 (4.86%) Spark SQL
10 8 (4.32%) DynamoDB
10 8 (4.32%) Relational Database
11 3 (1.62%) MySQL
11 3 (1.62%) Power Query
12 2 (1.08%) Amazon RDS
12 2 (1.08%) DB2
12 2 (1.08%) GIS
12 2 (1.08%) Hazelcast
12 2 (1.08%) NonStop SQL
13 1 (0.54%) Elasticsearch
13 1 (0.54%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 38 (20.54%) Git
2 37 (20.00%) JIRA
3 35 (18.92%) Jenkins
4 18 (9.73%) GitLab
5 13 (7.03%) Postman
6 6 (3.24%) fastlane
7 4 (2.16%) Visual Studio
8 3 (1.62%) Android Studio
8 3 (1.62%) Crashlytics
8 3 (1.62%) Eclipse
8 3 (1.62%) Gradle
8 3 (1.62%) IntelliJ
8 3 (1.62%) REST Assured
8 3 (1.62%) Xcode
9 2 (1.08%) Bitbucket
9 2 (1.08%) NUnit
9 2 (1.08%) Selenium
9 2 (1.08%) TestRail
10 1 (0.54%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.54%) WinDbg
General
1 41 (22.16%) Social Skills
2 31 (16.76%) Public Sector
3 22 (11.89%) Finance
4 20 (10.81%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (8.11%) Law
5 15 (8.11%) Telecoms
6 13 (7.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 13 (7.03%) Retail
7 12 (6.49%) Marketing
8 9 (4.86%) Banking
8 9 (4.86%) Influencing Skills
9 8 (4.32%) Games
10 5 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.08%) Legal
12 1 (0.54%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 69 (37.30%) Developer
2 57 (30.81%) Senior
3 35 (18.92%) DevOps Engineer
4 25 (13.51%) Senior Developer
5 21 (11.35%) .NET Developer
6 19 (10.27%) Lead
7 15 (8.11%) Data Engineer
7 15 (8.11%) Platform Engineer
8 14 (7.57%) Azure Engineer
8 14 (7.57%) Senior DevOps
8 14 (7.57%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 12 (6.49%) Cloud Engineer
9 12 (6.49%) Software Engineer
10 9 (4.86%) Azure Platform Engineer
10 9 (4.86%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 9 (4.86%) Lead Data Engineer
10 9 (4.86%) Senior Software Engineer
10 9 (4.86%) Software Developer
11 7 (3.78%) Full-Stack Developer
11 7 (3.78%) Head of Testing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (30.81%) .NET
2 33 (17.84%) REST
3 29 (15.68%) .NET Core
3 29 (15.68%) ASP.NET
4 24 (12.97%) React
4 24 (12.97%) RESTful
5 22 (11.89%) ASP.NET Core
6 21 (11.35%) CSS
6 21 (11.35%) HTML
7 20 (10.81%) ARM Templates
7 20 (10.81%) Middleware
7 20 (10.81%) SOAP
8 19 (10.27%) Node.js
9 17 (9.19%) Blazor
9 17 (9.19%) JSON
10 15 (8.11%) Elastic Stack
11 13 (7.03%) Entity Framework
12 12 (6.49%) EDI
12 12 (6.49%) XML
13 11 (5.95%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 18 (9.73%) Cloud Native
1 18 (9.73%) Product Ownership
2 9 (4.86%) Enterprise Cloud
3 7 (3.78%) Legacy Applications
3 7 (3.78%) Mobile App
4 6 (3.24%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (3.24%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (3.24%) Onboarding
5 5 (2.70%) PMI
6 4 (2.16%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (2.16%) Low-Code
7 3 (1.62%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.62%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.62%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.62%) Social Network
8 2 (1.08%) BBC
8 2 (1.08%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.08%) Mainframe
8 2 (1.08%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 17 (9.19%) Linux
2 14 (7.57%) Windows
3 13 (7.03%) Unix
4 3 (1.62%) Android
4 3 (1.62%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.54%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 185 (100.00%) DevOps
2 133 (71.89%) CI/CD
3 87 (47.03%) Agile
4 59 (31.89%) Infrastructure as Code
5 46 (24.86%) Scrum
5 46 (24.86%) Test Automation
6 40 (21.62%) Mentoring
7 38 (20.54%) Continuous Integration
8 35 (18.92%) Containerisation
9 34 (18.38%) Roadmaps
10 33 (17.84%) Problem-Solving
11 30 (16.22%) Full-Stack Development
11 30 (16.22%) Kanban
12 29 (15.68%) Coaching
13 28 (15.14%) AI
13 28 (15.14%) Release Management
14 27 (14.59%) Deployment Automation
15 25 (13.51%) API Integration
15 25 (13.51%) Microservices
16 24 (12.97%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 76 (41.08%) SQL
2 51 (27.57%) Python
3 43 (23.24%) C#
4 37 (20.00%) JavaScript
5 31 (16.76%) Bash
6 30 (16.22%) Java
7 18 (9.73%) Go
8 16 (8.65%) PowerShell
9 12 (6.49%) Bicep
10 10 (5.41%) TypeScript
11 7 (3.78%) C++
11 7 (3.78%) T-SQL
12 3 (1.62%) Apex Code
12 3 (1.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (1.62%) Kotlin
12 3 (1.62%) PL/SQL
12 3 (1.62%) SOQL
12 3 (1.62%) SOSL
12 3 (1.62%) Swift
13 1 (0.54%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 13 (7.03%) Degree
2 9 (4.86%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (4.32%) AWS Certification
4 6 (3.24%) AWS Certified Developer
5 5 (2.70%) Azure Certification
5 5 (2.70%) PMI Certification
6 3 (1.62%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.62%) SC Cleared
6 3 (1.62%) Security Cleared
7 1 (0.54%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.54%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.49%) TickIT
2 10 (5.41%) GDPR
3 7 (3.78%) QA
4 6 (3.24%) Accessibility
4 6 (3.24%) Data Quality
4 6 (3.24%) WCAG
5 1 (0.54%) GRC
System Software
1 24 (12.97%) Docker
2 4 (2.16%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.16%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.54%) Firmware
4 1 (0.54%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 71 (38.38%) Terraform
2 19 (10.27%) Grafana
2 19 (10.27%) Prometheus
3 18 (9.73%) Kubernetes
4 17 (9.19%) Ansible
5 13 (7.03%) Argo
6 2 (1.08%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.54%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.54%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 59 (31.89%) Microsoft
2 12 (6.49%) Salesforce
3 11 (5.95%) Databricks
4 7 (3.78%) Dynatrace
5 5 (2.70%) Apple
5 5 (2.70%) Google
6 4 (2.16%) Oracle
6 4 (2.16%) VMware
7 3 (1.62%) Pega
7 3 (1.62%) Sparx
7 3 (1.62%) Splunk
8 2 (1.08%) DevExpress
8 2 (1.08%) Facebook
8 2 (1.08%) Sony
8 2 (1.08%) Yahoo!
9 1 (0.54%) Fortinet
9 1 (0.54%) Foundry
9 1 (0.54%) WooCommerce