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

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 160 187 98
Rank change year-on-year +27 -89 +23
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 174 103 424
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.94% 1.36% 2.51%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.12% 4.03% 7.13%
Number of salaries quoted 149 82 327
10th Percentile £44,500 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £49,063 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +16.67% -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,250 £82,188 £75,000
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 5,579 2,556 5,949
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 30.27% 33.72% 35.24%
Number of salaries quoted 2,896 1,700 4,980
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,250 £28,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,239 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.07% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £77,500 £74,258 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £83,188
England median annual salary £62,500 £61,250 £57,500
% change year-on-year +2.04% +6.52% -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 12 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 12 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 +31 86 £70,000 +3.70% 40
Yorkshire -49 49 £60,000 -14.29% 20
North East -5 39 £50,000 -23.08% 22
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 (8.05%) Confluence
2 12 (6.90%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (4.02%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.72%) IIS
5 2 (1.15%) CICS
5 2 (1.15%) CMS
5 2 (1.15%) Umbraco
5 2 (1.15%) WordPress
6 1 (0.57%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 2 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.15%) Trello
2 1 (0.57%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.57%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (2.30%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.57%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.57%) Magento
2 1 (0.57%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 174 (100.00%) Azure
2 63 (36.21%) GitHub
3 61 (35.06%) AWS
4 48 (27.59%) GitHub Actions
5 27 (15.52%) Power Platform
6 24 (13.79%) GCP
7 22 (12.64%) Serverless
8 17 (9.77%) Dynamics 365
9 16 (9.20%) Azure AKS
10 15 (8.62%) Azure Logic Apps
11 14 (8.05%) Azure Monitor
11 14 (8.05%) Azure Service Bus
12 12 (6.90%) Azure Functions
12 12 (6.90%) Boomi
12 12 (6.90%) Microsoft 365
13 10 (5.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 10 (5.75%) Amazon S3
13 10 (5.75%) Amazon SQS
13 10 (5.75%) AWS CloudFormation
13 10 (5.75%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 22 (12.64%) Firewall
2 20 (11.49%) DNS
3 19 (10.92%) TCP/IP
4 18 (10.34%) HTTP
5 2 (1.15%) HTTPS
5 2 (1.15%) SAN
6 1 (0.57%) DHCP
6 1 (0.57%) LTE
6 1 (0.57%) Network Security
6 1 (0.57%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.57%) VLAN
6 1 (0.57%) VPN
6 1 (0.57%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (14.37%) MongoDB
2 24 (13.79%) PostgreSQL
3 21 (12.07%) SQL Server
4 18 (10.34%) Power BI
5 14 (8.05%) Azure SQL Database
6 13 (7.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 12 (6.90%) NoSQL
8 11 (6.32%) Data Warehouse
9 10 (5.75%) DynamoDB
10 8 (4.60%) Spark SQL
11 6 (3.45%) Relational Database
12 3 (1.72%) Power Query
13 2 (1.15%) DB2
13 2 (1.15%) Hazelcast
13 2 (1.15%) MySQL
13 2 (1.15%) NonStop SQL
14 1 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
14 1 (0.57%) GIS
14 1 (0.57%) RDBMS
14 1 (0.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 37 (21.26%) JIRA
2 35 (20.11%) Jenkins
3 29 (16.67%) Git
4 17 (9.77%) GitLab
5 13 (7.47%) Postman
6 4 (2.30%) fastlane
7 3 (1.72%) Eclipse
7 3 (1.72%) IntelliJ
7 3 (1.72%) REST Assured
7 3 (1.72%) Visual Studio
8 2 (1.15%) Android Studio
8 2 (1.15%) Bitbucket
8 2 (1.15%) Crashlytics
8 2 (1.15%) Gradle
8 2 (1.15%) NUnit
8 2 (1.15%) Selenium
8 2 (1.15%) TestRail
8 2 (1.15%) Xcode
9 1 (0.57%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.57%) WinDbg
General
1 39 (22.41%) Social Skills
2 24 (13.79%) Finance
3 23 (13.22%) Public Sector
4 21 (12.07%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (10.34%) Law
5 18 (10.34%) Telecoms
6 13 (7.47%) Retail
7 12 (6.90%) Marketing
8 11 (6.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (5.17%) Influencing Skills
10 8 (4.60%) Banking
10 8 (4.60%) Games
11 4 (2.30%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (1.15%) Legal
13 1 (0.57%) Advertising
13 1 (0.57%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 64 (36.78%) Developer
2 44 (25.29%) Senior
3 36 (20.69%) DevOps Engineer
4 23 (13.22%) .NET Developer
5 21 (12.07%) Senior Developer
6 19 (10.92%) Lead
7 14 (8.05%) Senior DevOps
7 14 (8.05%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 12 (6.90%) Azure Engineer
8 12 (6.90%) Platform Engineer
9 11 (6.32%) Data Engineer
10 9 (5.17%) Cloud Engineer
11 8 (4.60%) Azure Platform Engineer
11 8 (4.60%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 8 (4.60%) Lead Data Engineer
12 7 (4.02%) Analyst
12 7 (4.02%) Full-Stack Developer
12 7 (4.02%) Head of Testing
12 7 (4.02%) Software Developer
13 6 (3.45%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (29.31%) .NET
2 31 (17.82%) ASP.NET
3 30 (17.24%) .NET Core
4 29 (16.67%) REST
5 26 (14.94%) React
6 24 (13.79%) ASP.NET Core
6 24 (13.79%) RESTful
7 19 (10.92%) CSS
7 19 (10.92%) HTML
7 19 (10.92%) Node.js
7 19 (10.92%) SOAP
8 18 (10.34%) Blazor
8 18 (10.34%) Elastic Stack
8 18 (10.34%) Middleware
9 17 (9.77%) ARM Templates
10 16 (9.20%) JSON
11 12 (6.90%) EDI
11 12 (6.90%) Entity Framework
11 12 (6.90%) XML
12 11 (6.32%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 20 (11.49%) Cloud Native
2 16 (9.20%) Product Ownership
3 9 (5.17%) Enterprise Cloud
4 6 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (2.87%) Mobile App
5 5 (2.87%) PMI
6 4 (2.30%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (2.30%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.72%) Low-Code
7 3 (1.72%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.72%) Social Network
8 2 (1.15%) BBC
8 2 (1.15%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.15%) Mainframe
8 2 (1.15%) Social Media
9 1 (0.57%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.57%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.57%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 16 (9.20%) Linux
2 14 (8.05%) Windows
3 13 (7.47%) Unix
4 2 (1.15%) Android
4 2 (1.15%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.57%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 174 (100.00%) DevOps
2 119 (68.39%) CI/CD
3 88 (50.57%) Agile
4 58 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 42 (24.14%) Scrum
5 42 (24.14%) Test Automation
6 41 (23.56%) Continuous Integration
7 39 (22.41%) Containerisation
8 34 (19.54%) Problem-Solving
8 34 (19.54%) Roadmaps
9 31 (17.82%) Mentoring
10 28 (16.09%) Microservices
11 26 (14.94%) Kanban
11 26 (14.94%) Release Management
12 25 (14.37%) Deployment Automation
13 24 (13.79%) Full-Stack Development
13 24 (13.79%) High Availability
13 24 (13.79%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 23 (13.22%) AI
14 23 (13.22%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 65 (37.36%) SQL
2 46 (26.44%) Python
3 35 (20.11%) C#
4 30 (17.24%) Bash
5 29 (16.67%) JavaScript
6 23 (13.22%) Java
7 21 (12.07%) Go
8 13 (7.47%) PowerShell
9 10 (5.75%) Bicep
9 10 (5.75%) TypeScript
10 7 (4.02%) T-SQL
11 3 (1.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (1.72%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.15%) Apex Code
12 2 (1.15%) Kotlin
12 2 (1.15%) SOQL
12 2 (1.15%) SOSL
12 2 (1.15%) Swift
13 1 (0.57%) C++
13 1 (0.57%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 10 (5.75%) Degree
2 9 (5.17%) AWS Certification
3 8 (4.60%) AWS Certified Developer
3 8 (4.60%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (2.87%) Azure Certification
4 5 (2.87%) PMI Certification
5 4 (2.30%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.72%) SC Cleared
6 3 (1.72%) Security Cleared
7 1 (0.57%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.57%) MCITP
7 1 (0.57%) MCSE
7 1 (0.57%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.90%) TickIT
2 9 (5.17%) GDPR
3 6 (3.45%) QA
4 4 (2.30%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.30%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.30%) WCAG
5 1 (0.57%) GRC
System Software
1 23 (13.22%) Docker
2 3 (1.72%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.72%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.57%) Firmware
4 1 (0.57%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 69 (39.66%) Terraform
2 22 (12.64%) Grafana
2 22 (12.64%) Prometheus
3 19 (10.92%) Ansible
4 15 (8.62%) Kubernetes
5 13 (7.47%) Argo
6 1 (0.57%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (0.57%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 56 (32.18%) Microsoft
2 11 (6.32%) Salesforce
3 9 (5.17%) Databricks
4 5 (2.87%) Dynatrace
5 4 (2.30%) Apple
5 4 (2.30%) Google
6 3 (1.72%) Oracle
6 3 (1.72%) Pega
6 3 (1.72%) Sparx
7 2 (1.15%) DevExpress
7 2 (1.15%) Facebook
7 2 (1.15%) Sony
7 2 (1.15%) Splunk
7 2 (1.15%) VMware
7 2 (1.15%) Yahoo!
8 1 (0.57%) Fortinet
8 1 (0.57%) Foundry
8 1 (0.57%) WooCommerce