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

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 211 116
Rank change year-on-year +74 -95 -59
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 270 92 246
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.13% 0.97% 1.88%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.63% 3.72% 6.52%
Number of salaries quoted 230 75 145
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,200 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £90,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,750 £67,500
% change year-on-year -1.14% -2.59% +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 4,797 2,470 3,775
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 20.05% 26.05% 28.83%
Number of salaries quoted 3,568 1,700 2,181
10th Percentile £30,500 £27,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £32,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £53,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.98% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £69,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £82,500 £83,750
England median annual salary £63,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -7.69% +4.00%

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 12 October 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 12 October 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 +65 154 £60,000 -7.69% 84
Yorkshire -5 67 £65,000 +18.18% 79
North East -31 49 £52,000 +4.00% 27
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 (4.81%) SharePoint
2 9 (3.33%) Confluence
2 9 (3.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (2.59%) IIS
4 6 (2.22%) SharePoint Server
5 5 (1.85%) CMS
6 3 (1.11%) Anypoint
6 3 (1.11%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (0.74%) nginx
7 2 (0.74%) Umbraco
7 2 (0.74%) WordPress
8 1 (0.37%) CICS
Applications
1 7 (2.59%) Trello
2 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.37%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.37%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (2.96%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.11%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (1.11%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 270 (100.00%) Azure
2 53 (19.63%) Power Platform
3 49 (18.15%) GitHub
4 45 (16.67%) AWS
5 41 (15.19%) Dynamics 365
6 35 (12.96%) GitHub Actions
7 29 (10.74%) Power Automate
8 23 (8.52%) Microsoft 365
9 18 (6.67%) Azure AI
9 18 (6.67%) Azure Monitor
9 18 (6.67%) Azure Service Bus
10 17 (6.30%) Azure AKS
10 17 (6.30%) PowerApps
11 16 (5.93%) Entra ID
11 16 (5.93%) Serverless
12 13 (4.81%) Azure Data Factory
12 13 (4.81%) Azure Functions
13 12 (4.44%) Azure Logic Apps
14 11 (4.07%) Firebase
15 10 (3.70%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.59%) Firewall
1 7 (2.59%) TCP/IP
2 5 (1.85%) SAN
3 4 (1.48%) Internet
4 3 (1.11%) DNS
4 3 (1.11%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.74%) HTTP
6 1 (0.37%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (17.41%) MongoDB
2 40 (14.81%) Azure SQL Database
3 25 (9.26%) SQL Server
4 18 (6.67%) Power BI
5 16 (5.93%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (3.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 7 (2.59%) Relational Database
8 6 (2.22%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (2.22%) NonStop SQL
8 6 (2.22%) Redis
9 5 (1.85%) MySQL
9 5 (1.85%) Spark SQL
10 4 (1.48%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (1.48%) GIS
10 4 (1.48%) NoSQL
11 3 (1.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (1.11%) Star Schema
12 2 (0.74%) Data Lake
12 2 (0.74%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 40 (14.81%) JIRA
2 38 (14.07%) Git
3 24 (8.89%) GitLab
3 24 (8.89%) Jenkins
4 11 (4.07%) fastlane
5 6 (2.22%) Android Studio
5 6 (2.22%) Visual Studio
5 6 (2.22%) Xcode
6 5 (1.85%) Crashlytics
6 5 (1.85%) Cypress.io
6 5 (1.85%) Gradle
7 3 (1.11%) Postman
8 2 (0.74%) Selenium
8 2 (0.74%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.37%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.37%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.37%) MLflow
9 1 (0.37%) NUnit
9 1 (0.37%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 67 (24.81%) Social Skills
2 33 (12.22%) Public Sector
3 32 (11.85%) Finance
4 24 (8.89%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (3.70%) Retail
7 7 (2.59%) Games
7 7 (2.59%) Marketing
8 6 (2.22%) Legal
9 4 (1.48%) Banking
9 4 (1.48%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.74%) Advertising
11 2 (0.74%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.37%) Law
12 1 (0.37%) Local Government
12 1 (0.37%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.37%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 103 (38.15%) Developer
2 63 (23.33%) Senior
3 46 (17.04%) DevOps Engineer
4 36 (13.33%) .NET Developer
5 33 (12.22%) Azure Engineer
6 22 (8.15%) Senior Developer
7 19 (7.04%) Analyst
7 19 (7.04%) Platform Engineer
8 18 (6.67%) Data Engineer
9 17 (6.30%) Lead
10 16 (5.93%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 14 (5.19%) Automation Engineer
12 13 (4.81%) Senior DevOps
12 13 (4.81%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 11 (4.07%) Cloud Engineer
13 11 (4.07%) Senior Data Engineer
13 11 (4.07%) Senior Platform Engineer
13 11 (4.07%) Software Engineer
14 9 (3.33%) Power Platform Developer
14 9 (3.33%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (32.96%) .NET
2 61 (22.59%) Terraform
3 45 (16.67%) ASP.NET
4 41 (15.19%) ASP.NET Core
5 40 (14.81%) .NET Core
6 37 (13.70%) CSS
6 37 (13.70%) HTML
7 35 (12.96%) RESTful
8 34 (12.59%) REST
9 32 (11.85%) React
10 31 (11.48%) Entity Framework
11 26 (9.63%) Node.js
12 22 (8.15%) Blazor
13 19 (7.04%) ARM Templates
14 18 (6.67%) ML.NET
15 12 (4.44%) Middleware
16 11 (4.07%) .NET Framework
16 11 (4.07%) Playwright
17 10 (3.70%) YAML
18 9 (3.33%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 29 (10.74%) Product Ownership
2 19 (7.04%) Cloud Native
2 19 (7.04%) Mobile App
3 11 (4.07%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
4 10 (3.70%) Onboarding
5 8 (2.96%) Legacy Applications
5 8 (2.96%) Low-Code
6 5 (1.85%) BBC
6 5 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (1.85%) Enterprise Cloud
6 5 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (1.85%) Social Media
7 4 (1.48%) iPhone
7 4 (1.48%) Renewable Energy
7 4 (1.48%) Social Network
8 3 (1.11%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.11%) Distributed Architecture
8 3 (1.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.11%) Learning Management System
Operating Systems
1 17 (6.30%) Linux
2 11 (4.07%) Unix
2 11 (4.07%) Windows
3 10 (3.70%) Android
4 6 (2.22%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.74%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.37%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.37%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 270 (100.00%) DevOps
2 159 (58.89%) Agile
3 152 (56.30%) CI/CD
4 64 (23.70%) AI
5 57 (21.11%) Full-Stack Development
6 56 (20.74%) Scrum
7 53 (19.63%) Continuous Improvement
7 53 (19.63%) Infrastructure as Code
8 46 (17.04%) Test Automation
9 45 (16.67%) Mentoring
10 40 (14.81%) Analytics
11 39 (14.44%) SDLC
12 35 (12.96%) Platform Engineering
13 34 (12.59%) Coaching
14 33 (12.22%) Observability
15 31 (11.48%) Kanban
15 31 (11.48%) Problem-Solving
16 30 (11.11%) Deployment Automation
16 30 (11.11%) Software Engineering
17 29 (10.74%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 102 (37.78%) SQL
2 96 (35.56%) C#
3 62 (22.96%) JavaScript
4 54 (20.00%) Python
5 32 (11.85%) PowerShell
6 29 (10.74%) Bash
6 29 (10.74%) Bicep
7 24 (8.89%) Java
8 13 (4.81%) TypeScript
9 7 (2.59%) T-SQL
10 6 (2.22%) C++
10 6 (2.22%) Swift
11 5 (1.85%) Kotlin
12 4 (1.48%) Apex Code
13 3 (1.11%) DataWeave
13 3 (1.11%) SOQL
13 3 (1.11%) SOSL
14 2 (0.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.74%) Go
14 2 (0.74%) PHP
Qualifications
1 19 (7.04%) Degree
2 8 (2.96%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (2.59%) Microsoft Certification
3 7 (2.59%) PMI Certification
3 7 (2.59%) SC Cleared
3 7 (2.59%) Security Cleared
4 6 (2.22%) Azure Certification
5 5 (1.85%) PMP
6 4 (1.48%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.74%) ISTQB
7 2 (0.74%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.37%) CSPO
8 1 (0.37%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.37%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 1 (0.37%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (10.00%) QA
2 13 (4.81%) Accessibility
2 13 (4.81%) Data Quality
3 11 (4.07%) WCAG
4 7 (2.59%) PMO
5 5 (1.85%) GDPR
5 5 (1.85%) TickIT
System Software
1 24 (8.89%) Docker
2 12 (4.44%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.48%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 26 (9.63%) Kubernetes
2 11 (4.07%) Argo
2 11 (4.07%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (1.85%) Grafana
3 5 (1.85%) Prometheus
4 3 (1.11%) Ansible
5 1 (0.37%) Istio
5 1 (0.37%) linkerd
Vendors
1 114 (42.22%) Microsoft
2 14 (5.19%) Google
3 11 (4.07%) Apple
3 11 (4.07%) Dynatrace
4 9 (3.33%) Databricks
5 7 (2.59%) Cisco
5 7 (2.59%) VMware
6 6 (2.22%) Salesforce
6 6 (2.22%) Splunk
7 5 (1.85%) Facebook
7 5 (1.85%) Sony
7 5 (1.85%) Yahoo!
8 3 (1.11%) MuleSoft
8 3 (1.11%) webMethods
9 2 (0.74%) HP
10 1 (0.37%) IBM
10 1 (0.37%) Informatica
10 1 (0.37%) Oracle
10 1 (0.37%) Progress
10 1 (0.37%) ServiceNow