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

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 189 72
Rank change year-on-year +54 -117 +48
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 98 42 280
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.90% 0.93% 2.91%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.99% 2.98% 8.63%
Number of salaries quoted 83 29 217
10th Percentile £45,250 £40,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £54,750 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.70% +0.83% -7.69%
75th Percentile £76,375 £81,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £87,250 £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 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 3,283 1,409 3,245
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 30.19% 31.06% 33.70%
Number of salaries quoted 1,761 811 2,674
10th Percentile £29,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,840 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £93,778 £85,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £61,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +2.46% +6.09% -11.54%

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 24 May 2026.

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 24 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
Manchester +21 60 £70,400 -2.90% 42
Lancashire +28 16 £62,500 +47.06% 12
Cheshire +5 15 £73,500 +30.67%
Merseyside -11 6 £60,000 -5.88% 3
Cumbria - 1 £45,000 - 2
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 14 (14.29%) Confluence
2 13 (13.27%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (5.10%) SharePoint
4 3 (3.06%) IIS
4 3 (3.06%) SharePoint Server
5 2 (2.04%) CICS
5 2 (2.04%) CMS
5 2 (2.04%) Umbraco
5 2 (2.04%) WordPress
6 1 (1.02%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 2 (2.04%) Trello
2 1 (1.02%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.04%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (2.04%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 98 (100.00%) Azure
2 35 (35.71%) GitHub
3 21 (21.43%) AWS
4 19 (19.39%) GitHub Actions
4 19 (19.39%) Power Platform
5 16 (16.33%) Dynamics 365
6 12 (12.24%) Boomi
7 8 (8.16%) Azure Monitor
7 8 (8.16%) Microsoft 365
8 7 (7.14%) Entra ID
9 6 (6.12%) Azure AKS
10 5 (5.10%) GCP
10 5 (5.10%) Snowflake
11 4 (4.08%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 4 (4.08%) Azure Functions
11 4 (4.08%) Power Automate
11 4 (4.08%) Serverless
12 3 (3.06%) Azure Logic Apps
12 3 (3.06%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 3 (3.06%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.12%) Firewall
2 4 (4.08%) DNS
3 3 (3.06%) HTTPS
3 3 (3.06%) SAN
3 3 (3.06%) TCP/IP
4 2 (2.04%) HTTP
5 1 (1.02%) DHCP
5 1 (1.02%) LTE
5 1 (1.02%) Network Security
5 1 (1.02%) SD-WAN
5 1 (1.02%) VLAN
5 1 (1.02%) VPN
5 1 (1.02%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (14.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 13 (13.27%) Power BI
3 12 (12.24%) Azure SQL Database
4 11 (11.22%) SQL Server
5 10 (10.20%) MongoDB
6 7 (7.14%) Relational Database
7 3 (3.06%) MySQL
7 3 (3.06%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (2.04%) DB2
8 2 (2.04%) Hazelcast
9 1 (1.02%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (1.02%) NoSQL
9 1 (1.02%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 31 (31.63%) JIRA
2 20 (20.41%) Git
3 11 (11.22%) Jenkins
4 10 (10.20%) Postman
5 7 (7.14%) GitLab
6 3 (3.06%) Eclipse
6 3 (3.06%) IntelliJ
7 2 (2.04%) Bitbucket
7 2 (2.04%) NUnit
7 2 (2.04%) Selenium
7 2 (2.04%) TestRail
8 1 (1.02%) Cypress.io
8 1 (1.02%) GDB
8 1 (1.02%) Terragrunt
8 1 (1.02%) Visual Studio
8 1 (1.02%) WinDbg
General
1 26 (26.53%) Social Skills
2 16 (16.33%) Analytical Skills
2 16 (16.33%) Finance
3 13 (13.27%) Retail
4 12 (12.24%) Marketing
5 9 (9.18%) Banking
6 8 (8.16%) Games
7 7 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (6.12%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (6.12%) Public Sector
9 2 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (2.04%) Law
9 2 (2.04%) Telecoms
10 1 (1.02%) Legal
Job Titles
1 40 (40.82%) Developer
2 39 (39.80%) Senior
3 20 (20.41%) Senior Developer
4 9 (9.18%) Cloud Engineer
4 9 (9.18%) Software Developer
5 8 (8.16%) .NET Developer
6 7 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
6 7 (7.14%) Head of Testing
6 7 (7.14%) Software Engineer
7 6 (6.12%) Delivery Manager
7 6 (6.12%) Lead
7 6 (6.12%) Scrum Master
7 6 (6.12%) Senior Software Engineer
8 5 (5.10%) Data Engineer
8 5 (5.10%) Platform Engineer
8 5 (5.10%) Senior Data Engineer
8 5 (5.10%) Senior Platform Engineer
8 5 (5.10%) Snowflake Engineer
8 5 (5.10%) Software Delivery Manager
8 5 (5.10%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (24.49%) .NET
2 22 (22.45%) REST
3 20 (20.41%) Middleware
4 18 (18.37%) SOAP
5 15 (15.31%) JSON
6 13 (13.27%) ASP.NET
7 12 (12.24%) CSS
7 12 (12.24%) EDI
7 12 (12.24%) HTML
7 12 (12.24%) React
7 12 (12.24%) XML
8 11 (11.22%) .NET Core
9 10 (10.20%) Entity Framework
10 9 (9.18%) ASP.NET Core
11 8 (8.16%) AngularJS
11 8 (8.16%) RESTful
12 6 (6.12%) .NET Framework
12 6 (6.12%) CSS3
12 6 (6.12%) HTML5
12 6 (6.12%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.20%) Product Ownership
2 9 (9.18%) Enterprise Cloud
3 6 (6.12%) Cloud Native
4 5 (5.10%) Onboarding
4 5 (5.10%) PMI
5 3 (3.06%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (3.06%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (3.06%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (3.06%) Legacy Applications
5 3 (3.06%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (3.06%) Social Network
6 2 (2.04%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (2.04%) Low-Code
6 2 (2.04%) Mainframe
7 1 (1.02%) AI Agents
7 1 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.02%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.10%) Linux
2 4 (4.08%) Windows
3 3 (3.06%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (100.00%) DevOps
2 66 (67.35%) CI/CD
3 49 (50.00%) Agile
4 26 (26.53%) Roadmaps
5 21 (21.43%) Mentoring
5 21 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
6 20 (20.41%) Collaborative Working
6 20 (20.41%) Scrum
7 19 (19.39%) Infrastructure as Code
7 19 (19.39%) Release Management
8 18 (18.37%) CRM
9 17 (17.35%) API Integration
9 17 (17.35%) Full-Stack Development
9 17 (17.35%) Test Automation
10 16 (16.33%) AI
10 16 (16.33%) Continuous Improvement
11 15 (15.31%) Continuous Integration
12 14 (14.29%) Coaching
12 14 (14.29%) Kanban
12 14 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 43 (43.88%) SQL
2 20 (20.41%) C#
3 18 (18.37%) Python
4 16 (16.33%) JavaScript
5 12 (12.24%) Bash
6 11 (11.22%) PowerShell
7 10 (10.20%) Java
8 7 (7.14%) Bicep
8 7 (7.14%) TypeScript
9 4 (4.08%) C++
10 3 (3.06%) Apex Code
10 3 (3.06%) PL/SQL
10 3 (3.06%) SOQL
10 3 (3.06%) SOSL
11 2 (2.04%) Go
11 2 (2.04%) T-SQL
12 1 (1.02%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (1.02%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 5 (5.10%) PMI Certification
2 4 (4.08%) Azure Certification
3 2 (2.04%) Degree
4 1 (1.02%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.02%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (12.24%) TickIT
2 7 (7.14%) QA
3 4 (4.08%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.02%) GRC
System Software
1 12 (12.24%) Docker
2 4 (4.08%) Active Directory
2 4 (4.08%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (3.06%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.02%) Firmware
4 1 (1.02%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 21 (21.43%) Terraform
2 8 (8.16%) Kubernetes
3 5 (5.10%) Grafana
3 5 (5.10%) Prometheus
4 3 (3.06%) Ansible
4 3 (3.06%) Argo
5 2 (2.04%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.02%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 39 (39.80%) Microsoft
2 12 (12.24%) Salesforce
3 4 (4.08%) Oracle
3 4 (4.08%) VMware
4 3 (3.06%) Pega
4 3 (3.06%) Splunk
5 2 (2.04%) DevExpress
6 1 (1.02%) Databricks
6 1 (1.02%) Fortinet