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

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 187 117 62
Rank change year-on-year -70 -55 +8
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 95 228 356
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.99% 1.83% 4.63%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.82% 6.36% 10.50%
Number of salaries quoted 78 128 294
10th Percentile £42,000 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £62,250
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +0.40% +3.75%
75th Percentile £70,000 £81,563 £75,000
90th Percentile £77,875 £90,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £66,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.48% +3.85% -2.99%

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 2,485 3,587 3,390
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 25.92% 28.72% 44.11%
Number of salaries quoted 1,871 2,027 2,787
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,925 £30,000
25th Percentile £33,125 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - -
75th Percentile £71,250 £69,775 £72,433
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £84,056
England median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% -3.10%

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 7 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 7 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 -36 47 £65,000 +7.00% 122
Yorkshire -29 33 £55,000 -18.19% 47
North East -10 15 £50,000 -9.09% 24
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 4 (4.21%) Confluence
2 1 (1.05%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.05%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (2.11%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.11%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (3.16%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.11%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 95 (100.00%) Azure
2 22 (23.16%) GitHub
3 21 (22.11%) SaaS
4 18 (18.95%) AWS
5 15 (15.79%) Power Automate
6 14 (14.74%) GitHub Actions
6 14 (14.74%) PaaS
6 14 (14.74%) Power Platform
7 13 (13.68%) Azure Monitor
8 10 (10.53%) IaaS
9 8 (8.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 8 (8.42%) AWS CloudFormation
10 7 (7.37%) Entra ID
11 6 (6.32%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 6 (6.32%) Azure Service Bus
11 6 (6.32%) Serverless
12 5 (5.26%) Azure AKS
12 5 (5.26%) Azure Key Vault
12 5 (5.26%) Azure Logic Apps
12 5 (5.26%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 10 (10.53%) Firewall
2 7 (7.37%) DNS
3 6 (6.32%) WAN
4 5 (5.26%) VPN
5 4 (4.21%) SD-WAN
6 3 (3.16%) Network Security
7 1 (1.05%) DHCP
7 1 (1.05%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.47%) SQL Server
2 8 (8.42%) Relational Database
3 6 (6.32%) Power BI
4 4 (4.21%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (4.21%) Data Lake
4 4 (4.21%) MySQL
4 4 (4.21%) RDBMS
5 3 (3.16%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (3.16%) DynamoDB
5 3 (3.16%) NoSQL
5 3 (3.16%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (2.11%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 2 (2.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (2.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (1.05%) Data Mining
7 1 (1.05%) Redis
7 1 (1.05%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 22 (23.16%) Git
2 10 (10.53%) JIRA
3 6 (6.32%) 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 15 (15.79%) Finance
3 5 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (5.26%) Banking
4 4 (4.21%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.16%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (3.16%) Retail
6 2 (2.11%) Law
7 1 (1.05%) Advertising
7 1 (1.05%) Digital Health
7 1 (1.05%) Digital Healthcare
7 1 (1.05%) Legal
7 1 (1.05%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 27 (28.42%) Developer
2 17 (17.89%) Cloud Engineer
3 14 (14.74%) DevOps Engineer
4 13 (13.68%) Azure Engineer
4 13 (13.68%) Lead
5 10 (10.53%) Senior
5 10 (10.53%) Software Engineer
6 8 (8.42%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 7 (7.37%) .NET Developer
7 7 (7.37%) .NET Software Engineer
8 6 (6.32%) Analyst
8 6 (6.32%) Architect
9 5 (5.26%) Business Analyst
9 5 (5.26%) Power Platform Developer
10 4 (4.21%) Cloud Architect
10 4 (4.21%) Full-Stack Developer
10 4 (4.21%) Lead DevOps
10 4 (4.21%) Lead DevOps Engineer
10 4 (4.21%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 4 (4.21%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (35.79%) .NET
2 12 (12.63%) ASP.NET
3 11 (11.58%) React
4 10 (10.53%) .NET Core
5 9 (9.47%) .NET Framework
5 9 (9.47%) AngularJS
6 8 (8.42%) Blazor
6 8 (8.42%) REST
7 7 (7.37%) ASP.NET Core
7 7 (7.37%) RESTful
8 5 (5.26%) ARM Templates
8 5 (5.26%) Entity Framework
8 5 (5.26%) Lightning Web Components
8 5 (5.26%) Node.js
9 4 (4.21%) CSS
9 4 (4.21%) HTML
9 4 (4.21%) WinForms
10 3 (3.16%) CSS3
10 3 (3.16%) Sass
10 3 (3.16%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (18.95%) Cloud Native
2 13 (13.68%) Product Ownership
3 9 (9.47%) Data Centre
4 4 (4.21%) AI Agents
4 4 (4.21%) NHS
5 3 (3.16%) Distributed Systems
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 Architecture
6 2 (2.11%) Driving Licence
6 2 (2.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (2.11%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (2.11%) Social Media
7 1 (1.05%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.05%) EPoS
7 1 (1.05%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.05%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.42%) Windows
2 3 (3.16%) Android
2 3 (3.16%) Linux
3 2 (2.11%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.05%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (100.00%) DevOps
2 51 (53.68%) CI/CD
3 49 (51.58%) Agile
4 32 (33.68%) Infrastructure as Code
5 20 (21.05%) Software Engineering
6 19 (20.00%) Mentoring
6 19 (20.00%) Microservices
7 15 (15.79%) Containerisation
7 15 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
7 15 (15.79%) SDLC
8 14 (14.74%) Continuous Improvement
9 11 (11.58%) Cloud Security
9 11 (11.58%) Full-Stack Development
9 11 (11.58%) Roadmaps
10 10 (10.53%) Project Management
11 9 (9.47%) AI
11 9 (9.47%) Network Virtualisation
12 8 (8.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 8 (8.42%) Migration
12 8 (8.42%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 30 (31.58%) C#
1 30 (31.58%) SQL
2 24 (25.26%) PowerShell
3 15 (15.79%) Python
4 13 (13.68%) Bicep
5 10 (10.53%) Bash
6 8 (8.42%) JavaScript
7 5 (5.26%) Apex Code
8 4 (4.21%) TypeScript
9 3 (3.16%) Go
10 2 (2.11%) SOQL
11 1 (1.05%) Perl
11 1 (1.05%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 13 (13.68%) Azure Certification
2 7 (7.37%) SC Cleared
2 7 (7.37%) Security Cleared
3 5 (5.26%) AWS Certification
4 4 (4.21%) DBS Check
5 3 (3.16%) AWS Certified Developer
5 3 (3.16%) Degree
6 2 (2.11%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 2 (2.11%) ISTQB
6 2 (2.11%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.05%) CSPO
7 1 (1.05%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.05%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.11%) GDPR
1 2 (2.11%) QA
2 1 (1.05%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.05%) Data Quality
System Software
1 15 (15.79%) Docker
2 8 (8.42%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (6.32%) Active Directory
4 5 (5.26%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (1.05%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (1.05%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 26 (27.37%) Terraform
2 15 (15.79%) Kubernetes
3 6 (6.32%) Ansible
3 6 (6.32%) Prometheus
4 4 (4.21%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (3.16%) Grafana
6 1 (1.05%) Argo
Vendors
1 29 (30.53%) Microsoft
2 5 (5.26%) Salesforce
3 4 (4.21%) Databricks
3 4 (4.21%) Foundry
3 4 (4.21%) Meraki
4 2 (2.11%) Google
4 2 (2.11%) Xamarin
5 1 (1.05%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.05%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.05%) Splunk
5 1 (1.05%) VMware