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

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 179 120 61
Rank change year-on-year -59 -59 +7
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 95 228 332
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.99% 1.86% 4.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.16% 6.43% 10.13%
Number of salaries quoted 82 129 281
10th Percentile £42,050 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £47,788
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £70,000 £84,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £78,625 £93,778 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,250 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% +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 3,003 3,545 3,278
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 31.36% 28.92% 43.58%
Number of salaries quoted 1,883 2,002 2,698
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £33,625 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £71,250 £70,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £83,300 £84,000 £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 21 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 21 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 -26 43 £65,000 +7.00% 60
Yorkshire -34 31 £55,000 -20.00% 32
North East -4 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 (5.26%) Confluence
2 1 (1.05%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.05%) IIS
2 1 (1.05%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (4.21%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (4.21%) MS Visio
2 3 (3.16%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (3.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (3.16%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.11%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 95 (100.00%) Azure
2 27 (28.42%) GitHub
3 18 (18.95%) GitHub Actions
4 17 (17.89%) AWS
5 16 (16.84%) SaaS
6 11 (11.58%) PaaS
6 11 (11.58%) Power Automate
7 10 (10.53%) AWS CloudFormation
8 9 (9.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 9 (9.47%) Azure Monitor
8 9 (9.47%) Power Platform
9 7 (7.37%) IaaS
9 7 (7.37%) Serverless
10 5 (5.26%) Azure AKS
10 5 (5.26%) Azure Logic Apps
10 5 (5.26%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (5.26%) GCP
11 4 (4.21%) Amazon EventBridge
11 4 (4.21%) AWS Step Functions
11 4 (4.21%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 8 (8.42%) Firewall
2 5 (5.26%) DNS
3 4 (4.21%) HTTP
4 3 (3.16%) Network Security
4 3 (3.16%) TCP/IP
5 2 (2.11%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (11.58%) SQL Server
2 7 (7.37%) Relational Database
3 4 (4.21%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (4.21%) DynamoDB
3 4 (4.21%) NoSQL
3 4 (4.21%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (3.16%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (3.16%) RDBMS
5 2 (2.11%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 2 (2.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (2.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (1.05%) Data Mining
6 1 (1.05%) Power BI
6 1 (1.05%) Redis
6 1 (1.05%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 17 (17.89%) Git
2 10 (10.53%) JIRA
3 7 (7.37%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.11%) Cucumber
4 2 (2.11%) Gatling
4 2 (2.11%) GitLab
4 2 (2.11%) JMeter
4 2 (2.11%) Selenium
5 1 (1.05%) CircleCI
5 1 (1.05%) ESLint
5 1 (1.05%) git-flow
5 1 (1.05%) NUnit
5 1 (1.05%) Storybook
5 1 (1.05%) webpack
General
1 25 (26.32%) Social Skills
2 16 (16.84%) Finance
3 9 (9.47%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (6.32%) Law
5 4 (4.21%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.16%) Advertising
6 3 (3.16%) Banking
6 3 (3.16%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (3.16%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.11%) Retail
8 1 (1.05%) Digital Health
8 1 (1.05%) Digital Healthcare
8 1 (1.05%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 28 (29.47%) Developer
2 16 (16.84%) Lead
3 15 (15.79%) Cloud Engineer
3 15 (15.79%) DevOps Engineer
4 11 (11.58%) Azure Engineer
5 10 (10.53%) Analyst
5 10 (10.53%) Software Engineer
6 8 (8.42%) Senior
7 7 (7.37%) .NET Developer
7 7 (7.37%) .NET Software Engineer
7 7 (7.37%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 7 (7.37%) Business Analyst
8 6 (6.32%) Lead DevOps
9 5 (5.26%) Full-Stack Developer
9 5 (5.26%) Power Platform Developer
10 4 (4.21%) Lead DevOps Engineer
11 3 (3.16%) AWS Developer
11 3 (3.16%) Integration Developer
11 3 (3.16%) IT Engineer
11 3 (3.16%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (36.84%) .NET
2 13 (13.68%) ASP.NET
3 12 (12.63%) .NET Core
3 12 (12.63%) React
4 9 (9.47%) .NET Framework
4 9 (9.47%) AngularJS
4 9 (9.47%) Blazor
5 8 (8.42%) RESTful
6 7 (7.37%) ASP.NET Core
6 7 (7.37%) REST
7 6 (6.32%) Node.js
8 5 (5.26%) ARM Templates
8 5 (5.26%) CSS
8 5 (5.26%) Entity Framework
8 5 (5.26%) HTML
9 4 (4.21%) AWS CDK
10 3 (3.16%) JWT
10 3 (3.16%) Lightning Web Components
10 3 (3.16%) WinForms
10 3 (3.16%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (17.89%) Cloud Native
2 14 (14.74%) Product Ownership
3 5 (5.26%) Data Centre
4 4 (4.21%) AI Agents
5 3 (3.16%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (3.16%) Mobile App
5 3 (3.16%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.11%) Blog
6 2 (2.11%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.11%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.11%) Driving Licence
6 2 (2.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (2.11%) Social Media
7 1 (1.05%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (1.05%) EPoS
7 1 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.05%) IoT
7 1 (1.05%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.05%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.32%) Windows
2 3 (3.16%) Android
3 2 (2.11%) Apple iOS
3 2 (2.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (100.00%) DevOps
2 49 (51.58%) CI/CD
3 48 (50.53%) Agile
4 31 (32.63%) Infrastructure as Code
5 21 (22.11%) Microservices
6 20 (21.05%) SDLC
7 19 (20.00%) Containerisation
7 19 (20.00%) Mentoring
8 18 (18.95%) Software Engineering
9 16 (16.84%) Problem-Solving
10 14 (14.74%) Continuous Improvement
11 12 (12.63%) Full-Stack Development
12 10 (10.53%) Cloud Security
13 9 (9.47%) Data Modelling
13 9 (9.47%) High Availability
13 9 (9.47%) Roadmaps
14 8 (8.42%) CRM
14 8 (8.42%) SOLID
15 7 (7.37%) Identity Access Management
15 7 (7.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 30 (31.58%) C#
2 26 (27.37%) SQL
3 20 (21.05%) PowerShell
4 14 (14.74%) Python
5 12 (12.63%) Bash
6 9 (9.47%) Bicep
7 8 (8.42%) JavaScript
8 5 (5.26%) Go
9 4 (4.21%) TypeScript
10 3 (3.16%) Apex Code
11 1 (1.05%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (8.42%) Azure Certification
1 8 (8.42%) SC Cleared
1 8 (8.42%) Security Cleared
2 6 (6.32%) AWS Certification
3 4 (4.21%) AWS Certified Developer
4 2 (2.11%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 2 (2.11%) ISTQB
4 2 (2.11%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.05%) CSPO
5 1 (1.05%) Degree
5 1 (1.05%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (1.05%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.05%) MCITP
5 1 (1.05%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.11%) GDPR
1 2 (2.11%) QA
System Software
1 17 (17.89%) Docker
2 5 (5.26%) Active Directory
2 5 (5.26%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (3.16%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 29 (30.53%) Terraform
2 13 (13.68%) Kubernetes
3 9 (9.47%) Ansible
3 9 (9.47%) Prometheus
4 6 (6.32%) Grafana
5 1 (1.05%) Argo
Vendors
1 32 (33.68%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.21%) Foundry
3 3 (3.16%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.11%) Xamarin
5 1 (1.05%) Google
5 1 (1.05%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.05%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.05%) Splunk