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 11 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 180 156 97
Rank change year-on-year -24 -59 +20
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 136 97 415
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.82% 1.50% 2.57%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.40% 4.31% 7.19%
Number of salaries quoted 110 83 318
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,350 £38,848
25th Percentile £46,563 £49,375 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +16.67% -1.93%
75th Percentile £75,250 £83,125 £76,250
90th Percentile £85,125 £92,500 £90,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £69,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -2.88% +11.20% -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 5,661 2,251 5,774
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 34.25% 34.91% 35.71%
Number of salaries quoted 2,637 1,723 4,844
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,650 £28,445
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,620 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £74,258 £70,000
90th Percentile £93,903 £89,750 £83,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -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 11 April 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 11 April 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 -15 62 £70,000 +7.69% 41
Yorkshire -54 43 £60,000 -14.29% 22
North East -6 31 £50,000 -23.08% 11
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 15 (11.03%) Confluence
2 6 (4.41%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (3.68%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.47%) CICS
5 1 (0.74%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.74%) IIS
5 1 (0.74%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 2 (1.47%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.47%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (1.47%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.74%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (2.94%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.74%) Magento
2 1 (0.74%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 136 (100.00%) Azure
2 60 (44.12%) GitHub
3 50 (36.76%) AWS
4 48 (35.29%) GitHub Actions
5 24 (17.65%) GCP
6 23 (16.91%) Serverless
7 16 (11.76%) Power Platform
8 15 (11.03%) AWS CloudFormation
9 13 (9.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 13 (9.56%) Amazon EventBridge
9 13 (9.56%) Amazon S3
9 13 (9.56%) Amazon SQS
9 13 (9.56%) AWS Lambda
9 13 (9.56%) AWS Step Functions
10 11 (8.09%) Azure Logic Apps
11 10 (7.35%) Azure Functions
11 10 (7.35%) Dynamics 365
12 9 (6.62%) Azure Monitor
12 9 (6.62%) Entra ID
13 7 (5.15%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (14.71%) DNS
2 19 (13.97%) Firewall
2 19 (13.97%) HTTP
2 19 (13.97%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.74%) DHCP
3 1 (0.74%) LTE
3 1 (0.74%) Network Security
3 1 (0.74%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.74%) VLAN
3 1 (0.74%) VPN
3 1 (0.74%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (14.71%) SQL Server
2 16 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (9.56%) DynamoDB
3 13 (9.56%) NoSQL
4 12 (8.82%) Power BI
5 7 (5.15%) Azure SQL Database
5 7 (5.15%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (5.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 6 (4.41%) MongoDB
7 5 (3.68%) Spark SQL
8 4 (2.94%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.47%) DB2
9 2 (1.47%) Hazelcast
9 2 (1.47%) Power Query
10 1 (0.74%) Data Mining
10 1 (0.74%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 30 (22.06%) JIRA
2 29 (21.32%) Jenkins
3 25 (18.38%) Git
4 11 (8.09%) Postman
5 3 (2.21%) Eclipse
5 3 (2.21%) GitLab
5 3 (2.21%) IntelliJ
5 3 (2.21%) NUnit
5 3 (2.21%) REST Assured
6 2 (1.47%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.47%) Selenium
6 2 (1.47%) TestRail
6 2 (1.47%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.74%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.74%) GDB
7 1 (0.74%) WinDbg
General
1 35 (25.74%) Social Skills
2 26 (19.12%) Finance
3 19 (13.97%) Law
4 18 (13.24%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (13.24%) Telecoms
5 10 (7.35%) Public Sector
6 9 (6.62%) Influencing Skills
6 9 (6.62%) Retail
7 7 (5.15%) Marketing
8 6 (4.41%) Banking
8 6 (4.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (3.68%) Games
10 4 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.47%) Advertising
11 2 (1.47%) Legal
12 1 (0.74%) Back Office
12 1 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 41 (30.15%) Developer
2 26 (19.12%) DevOps Engineer
3 18 (13.24%) Lead
3 18 (13.24%) Senior
4 17 (12.50%) .NET Developer
5 10 (7.35%) Analyst
5 10 (7.35%) Cloud Engineer
6 9 (6.62%) Azure Engineer
6 9 (6.62%) Senior Developer
7 8 (5.88%) Software Engineer
8 6 (4.41%) Business Analyst
8 6 (4.41%) Full-Stack Developer
8 6 (4.41%) Head of Testing
8 6 (4.41%) Scrum Master
9 5 (3.68%) AWS Developer
9 5 (3.68%) Data Engineer
9 5 (3.68%) Delivery Manager
9 5 (3.68%) Platform Engineer
9 5 (3.68%) Senior DevOps
9 5 (3.68%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (27.94%) .NET
2 25 (18.38%) .NET Core
3 24 (17.65%) ASP.NET
4 23 (16.91%) React
5 22 (16.18%) RESTful
6 18 (13.24%) ASP.NET Core
6 18 (13.24%) Elastic Stack
7 17 (12.50%) Blazor
8 15 (11.03%) REST
9 14 (10.29%) ARM Templates
10 13 (9.56%) AWS CDK
11 12 (8.82%) SOAP
12 11 (8.09%) AngularJS
12 11 (8.09%) CSS
12 11 (8.09%) HTML
13 9 (6.62%) JSON
13 9 (6.62%) Middleware
13 9 (6.62%) Node.js
14 7 (5.15%) EDI
14 7 (5.15%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (15.44%) Cloud Native
2 11 (8.09%) Product Ownership
3 6 (4.41%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (3.68%) Enterprise Cloud
5 4 (2.94%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (2.94%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.94%) PMI
6 3 (2.21%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.47%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.47%) Driving Licence
7 2 (1.47%) Mainframe
7 2 (1.47%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.47%) Social Network
8 1 (0.74%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.74%) BBC
8 1 (0.74%) EPoS
8 1 (0.74%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.74%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.74%) Social Media
8 1 (0.74%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.41%) Linux
2 4 (2.94%) Windows
3 3 (2.21%) Unix
4 1 (0.74%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (100.00%) DevOps
2 87 (63.97%) CI/CD
3 65 (47.79%) Agile
4 55 (40.44%) Infrastructure as Code
5 45 (33.09%) Containerisation
6 31 (22.79%) Problem-Solving
7 30 (22.06%) Continuous Integration
8 29 (21.32%) Roadmaps
9 26 (19.12%) High Availability
10 24 (17.65%) Scrum
11 23 (16.91%) SDLC
11 23 (16.91%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 22 (16.18%) Continuous Delivery
13 20 (14.71%) Deployment Automation
13 20 (14.71%) Microservices
13 20 (14.71%) Test Automation
14 19 (13.97%) DevSecOps
14 19 (13.97%) Static Code Analysis
14 19 (13.97%) Vulnerability Scanning
15 18 (13.24%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 48 (35.29%) SQL
2 36 (26.47%) Python
3 26 (19.12%) Bash
4 22 (16.18%) C#
5 21 (15.44%) Go
6 20 (14.71%) JavaScript
7 13 (9.56%) PowerShell
8 9 (6.62%) Java
9 8 (5.88%) Bicep
10 7 (5.15%) TypeScript
11 5 (3.68%) T-SQL
12 3 (2.21%) PL/SQL
13 2 (1.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.74%) C++
Qualifications
1 11 (8.09%) AWS Certification
1 11 (8.09%) AWS Certified Developer
2 7 (5.15%) Azure Certification
3 6 (4.41%) SC Cleared
3 6 (4.41%) Security Cleared
4 5 (3.68%) Degree
5 4 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.94%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (2.94%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.74%) CSPO
6 1 (0.74%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (0.74%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.74%) MCITP
6 1 (0.74%) MCSE
6 1 (0.74%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.15%) TickIT
2 5 (3.68%) GDPR
3 2 (1.47%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.47%) QA
4 1 (0.74%) GRC
System Software
1 23 (16.91%) Docker
2 4 (2.94%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.94%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.74%) Firmware
3 1 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 54 (39.71%) Terraform
2 22 (16.18%) Ansible
2 22 (16.18%) Grafana
2 22 (16.18%) Prometheus
3 14 (10.29%) Kubernetes
4 3 (2.21%) Argo
5 1 (0.74%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (0.74%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 42 (30.88%) Microsoft
2 8 (5.88%) Salesforce
3 5 (3.68%) Databricks
4 3 (2.21%) Oracle
4 3 (2.21%) Pega
4 3 (2.21%) Sparx
5 2 (1.47%) DevExpress
6 1 (0.74%) Apple
6 1 (0.74%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.74%) Facebook
6 1 (0.74%) Fortinet
6 1 (0.74%) Foundry
6 1 (0.74%) Google
6 1 (0.74%) Sony
6 1 (0.74%) Splunk
6 1 (0.74%) WooCommerce
6 1 (0.74%) Yahoo!