Azure DevOps Job Trends in the North West

Microsoft Azure DevOps
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Azure DevOps skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 175 118 56
Rank change year-on-year -57 -62 +14
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 47 116 199
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.97% 1.68% 4.88%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.16% 5.85% 11.57%
Number of salaries quoted 36 67 180
10th Percentile £52,375 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £50,000 £49,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £61,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.56% -6.15% +8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £88,500 £110,000 -
England median annual salary £67,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -0.74% +3.85% -2.99%

All Cloud Skills
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,487 1,982 1,720
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 30.65% 28.66% 42.20%
Number of salaries quoted 939 1,118 1,449
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £72,500 £68,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £82,220 £85,000
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 West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Azure DevOps relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Azure DevOps job vacancy trend in the North West

Azure DevOps
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Azure DevOps.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Azure DevOps

Azure DevOps
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure DevOps in the North West over the 6 months to 30 October 2025.

Salary histogram for Azure DevOps in the North West

Azure DevOps
Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 30 October 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
Manchester -23 39 £65,000 +4.00% 23
Merseyside -10 4 £71,250 -35.23% 2
Cumbria +5 2 £64,250 +15.77% 2
Lancashire -5 2 £52,750 +5.50% 14
Azure DevOps
England

Azure DevOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 1 (2.13%) Confluence
1 1 (2.13%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 47 (100.00%) Azure
2 11 (23.40%) Power Automate
2 11 (23.40%) SaaS
3 10 (21.28%) AWS
3 10 (21.28%) Azure Monitor
3 10 (21.28%) Power Platform
4 9 (19.15%) PaaS
5 6 (12.77%) GitHub
6 5 (10.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 5 (10.64%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (10.64%) Azure Service Bus
6 5 (10.64%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (10.64%) IaaS
7 4 (8.51%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 4 (8.51%) Copilot Studio
7 4 (8.51%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (8.51%) Entra ID
7 4 (8.51%) Microsoft Copilot
8 3 (6.38%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (4.26%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.51%) DNS
1 4 (8.51%) Firewall
1 4 (8.51%) WAN
2 2 (4.26%) SD-WAN
2 2 (4.26%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.38%) Power BI
2 2 (4.26%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (4.26%) Data Lake
2 2 (4.26%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 8 (17.02%) Git
2 5 (10.64%) Jenkins
3 4 (8.51%) JIRA
4 2 (4.26%) Cucumber
4 2 (4.26%) ESLint
4 2 (4.26%) Gatling
4 2 (4.26%) GitLab
4 2 (4.26%) JMeter
4 2 (4.26%) Selenium
4 2 (4.26%) Storybook
4 2 (4.26%) webpack
5 1 (2.13%) git-flow
5 1 (2.13%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 8 (17.02%) Finance
2 3 (6.38%) Banking
2 3 (6.38%) Social Skills
3 2 (4.26%) Public Sector
3 2 (4.26%) Retail
4 1 (2.13%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.13%) Digital Health
4 1 (2.13%) Legal
Job Titles
1 13 (27.66%) Cloud Engineer
2 11 (23.40%) Developer
3 8 (17.02%) Azure Engineer
3 8 (17.02%) DevOps Engineer
3 8 (17.02%) Senior
4 7 (14.89%) Lead
5 4 (8.51%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 4 (8.51%) Power Platform Developer
6 3 (6.38%) C# Software Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) Integration Developer
6 3 (6.38%) Salesforce Developer
6 3 (6.38%) Senior C# Software Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) Senior Software Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) Software Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) Technical Leader
7 2 (4.26%) .NET Developer
7 2 (4.26%) Architect
7 2 (4.26%) Consultant
7 2 (4.26%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (25.53%) .NET
2 6 (12.77%) React
3 5 (10.64%) ARM Templates
3 5 (10.64%) REST
4 3 (6.38%) AngularJS
4 3 (6.38%) JSON
4 3 (6.38%) JWT
4 3 (6.38%) Lightning Web Components
4 3 (6.38%) Loki
4 3 (6.38%) Next.js
4 3 (6.38%) OAuth
4 3 (6.38%) React Native
5 2 (4.26%) ASP.NET Web API
5 2 (4.26%) Blazor
5 2 (4.26%) Jest
5 2 (4.26%) MassTransit
5 2 (4.26%) Material-UI
5 2 (4.26%) MediatR
5 2 (4.26%) Playwright
5 2 (4.26%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.77%) Cloud Native
2 4 (8.51%) AI Agents
2 4 (8.51%) Data Centre
3 3 (6.38%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (6.38%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (6.38%) Mobile App
3 3 (6.38%) Product Ownership
4 2 (4.26%) Blog
4 2 (4.26%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (4.26%) NHS
4 2 (4.26%) Onboarding
4 2 (4.26%) Social Media
5 1 (2.13%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.13%) Driving Licence
5 1 (2.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (2.13%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (2.13%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.26%) Android
1 2 (4.26%) Apple iOS
2 1 (2.13%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (100.00%) DevOps
2 33 (70.21%) CI/CD
3 24 (51.06%) Agile
4 19 (40.43%) Infrastructure as Code
5 12 (25.53%) Mentoring
6 10 (21.28%) Continuous Improvement
7 9 (19.15%) Microservices
8 8 (17.02%) Infrastructure Automation
8 8 (17.02%) SDLC
8 8 (17.02%) Software Engineering
9 7 (14.89%) AI
9 7 (14.89%) Containerisation
9 7 (14.89%) Full-Stack Development
9 7 (14.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 6 (12.77%) CRM
10 6 (12.77%) Disaster Recovery
10 6 (12.77%) SOLID
11 5 (10.64%) Cloud Security
11 5 (10.64%) High Availability
11 5 (10.64%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 16 (34.04%) PowerShell
2 9 (19.15%) C#
3 7 (14.89%) Python
4 6 (12.77%) Bash
4 6 (12.77%) Bicep
5 5 (10.64%) SQL
6 3 (6.38%) Apex Code
7 2 (4.26%) TypeScript
8 1 (2.13%) Go
8 1 (2.13%) JavaScript
8 1 (2.13%) Perl
8 1 (2.13%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 8 (17.02%) Azure Certification
2 6 (12.77%) SC Cleared
2 6 (12.77%) Security Cleared
3 3 (6.38%) DBS Check
3 3 (6.38%) Degree
4 2 (4.26%) AWS Certification
4 2 (4.26%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 2 (4.26%) ISTQB
5 1 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.13%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (2.13%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.13%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.38%) QA
2 2 (4.26%) GDPR
3 1 (2.13%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.13%) Data Quality
System Software
1 9 (19.15%) Docker
2 5 (10.64%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (8.51%) Active Directory
3 4 (8.51%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (27.66%) Terraform
2 8 (17.02%) Kubernetes
3 6 (12.77%) Prometheus
4 5 (10.64%) Ansible
5 4 (8.51%) Grafana
6 2 (4.26%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (2.13%) Argo
7 1 (2.13%) Progress Chef
7 1 (2.13%) Puppet
Vendors
1 20 (42.55%) Microsoft
2 4 (8.51%) Foundry
3 3 (6.38%) Google
3 3 (6.38%) Salesforce
4 2 (4.26%) Databricks
4 2 (4.26%) Meraki
4 2 (4.26%) Xamarin
5 1 (2.13%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.13%) Splunk