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

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 195 73
Rank change year-on-year +57 -122 +48
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 109 45 281
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.98% 0.97% 2.82%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.25% 3.14% 8.47%
Number of salaries quoted 92 30 217
10th Percentile £45,000 £40,875 £38,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,188 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,310 £64,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.30% +6.67% -8.19%
75th Percentile £75,250 £82,188 £85,000
90th Percentile £87,375 £88,125 £91,000
England median annual salary £65,500 £70,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year -6.43% +13.82% -5.89%

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 3,359 1,435 3,317
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 30.12% 31.06% 33.34%
Number of salaries quoted 1,829 829 2,698
10th Percentile £29,750 £29,900 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £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 £76,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £93,778 £84,964
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -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 31 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 31 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 +23 69 £70,400 -2.90% 32
Lancashire +29 16 £62,500 +47.06% 8
Cheshire +9 15 £73,500 +30.67%
Merseyside -12 7 £60,000 -5.88% 1
Cumbria - 2 £45,000 - 1
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 (12.84%) Confluence
2 13 (11.93%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (5.50%) SharePoint
4 3 (2.75%) IIS
4 3 (2.75%) SharePoint Server
5 2 (1.83%) CICS
5 2 (1.83%) CMS
5 2 (1.83%) Umbraco
5 2 (1.83%) WordPress
6 1 (0.92%) nginx
6 1 (0.92%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 2 (1.83%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.83%) Trello
2 1 (0.92%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (2.75%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (2.75%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 109 (100.00%) Azure
2 37 (33.94%) GitHub
3 24 (22.02%) AWS
4 22 (20.18%) Power Platform
5 20 (18.35%) GitHub Actions
6 18 (16.51%) Dynamics 365
7 12 (11.01%) Boomi
8 9 (8.26%) Azure Monitor
8 9 (8.26%) Microsoft 365
9 8 (7.34%) Entra ID
10 7 (6.42%) Serverless
11 6 (5.50%) Azure AKS
11 6 (5.50%) Azure Functions
11 6 (5.50%) Power Automate
12 5 (4.59%) Azure Logic Apps
12 5 (4.59%) Azure Service Bus
12 5 (4.59%) GCP
12 5 (4.59%) Snowflake
13 4 (3.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 4 (3.67%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.50%) Firewall
2 5 (4.59%) DNS
3 3 (2.75%) HTTPS
3 3 (2.75%) SAN
3 3 (2.75%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.83%) HTTP
5 1 (0.92%) DHCP
5 1 (0.92%) LTE
5 1 (0.92%) Network Security
5 1 (0.92%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.92%) VLAN
5 1 (0.92%) VPN
5 1 (0.92%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (13.76%) Azure SQL Database
1 15 (13.76%) Power BI
1 15 (13.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 13 (11.93%) SQL Server
3 12 (11.01%) MongoDB
4 7 (6.42%) Relational Database
5 4 (3.67%) MySQL
5 4 (3.67%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.83%) DB2
6 2 (1.83%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.83%) Hazelcast
6 2 (1.83%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.92%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 32 (29.36%) JIRA
2 23 (21.10%) Git
3 11 (10.09%) Jenkins
4 10 (9.17%) Postman
5 7 (6.42%) GitLab
6 3 (2.75%) Eclipse
6 3 (2.75%) IntelliJ
7 2 (1.83%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.83%) NUnit
7 2 (1.83%) Selenium
7 2 (1.83%) Terragrunt
7 2 (1.83%) TestRail
8 1 (0.92%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.92%) GDB
8 1 (0.92%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.92%) WinDbg
General
1 31 (28.44%) Social Skills
2 18 (16.51%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (15.60%) Finance
4 14 (12.84%) Retail
5 12 (11.01%) Marketing
6 9 (8.26%) Banking
6 9 (8.26%) Games
7 7 (6.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (5.50%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (5.50%) Public Sector
9 3 (2.75%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.83%) Law
10 2 (1.83%) Legal
10 2 (1.83%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.92%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 47 (43.12%) Developer
2 40 (36.70%) Senior
3 21 (19.27%) Senior Developer
4 11 (10.09%) .NET Developer
5 10 (9.17%) Cloud Engineer
5 10 (9.17%) Software Developer
6 7 (6.42%) DevOps Engineer
6 7 (6.42%) Head of Testing
6 7 (6.42%) Software Engineer
7 6 (5.50%) Delivery Manager
7 6 (5.50%) Lead
7 6 (5.50%) Scrum Master
7 6 (5.50%) Senior Software Engineer
8 5 (4.59%) Data Engineer
8 5 (4.59%) Platform Engineer
8 5 (4.59%) Senior Data Engineer
8 5 (4.59%) Senior Platform Engineer
8 5 (4.59%) Snowflake Engineer
8 5 (4.59%) Software Delivery Manager
8 5 (4.59%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (26.61%) .NET
2 26 (23.85%) REST
3 20 (18.35%) Middleware
4 18 (16.51%) SOAP
5 17 (15.60%) CSS
5 17 (15.60%) HTML
6 16 (14.68%) ASP.NET
7 15 (13.76%) JSON
8 14 (12.84%) .NET Core
9 13 (11.93%) Entity Framework
9 13 (11.93%) React
10 12 (11.01%) EDI
10 12 (11.01%) XML
11 11 (10.09%) ASP.NET Core
12 8 (7.34%) AngularJS
12 8 (7.34%) RESTful
13 7 (6.42%) .NET Framework
14 6 (5.50%) CSS3
14 6 (5.50%) HTML5
14 6 (5.50%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.09%) Product Ownership
2 10 (9.17%) Enterprise Cloud
3 7 (6.42%) Cloud Native
4 5 (4.59%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (4.59%) Onboarding
4 5 (4.59%) PMI
5 4 (3.67%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (2.75%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.75%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (2.75%) Legacy Applications
6 3 (2.75%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.75%) Social Network
7 2 (1.83%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.83%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.92%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.92%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.92%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.92%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.50%) Linux
2 4 (3.67%) Windows
3 3 (2.75%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (100.00%) DevOps
2 75 (68.81%) CI/CD
3 56 (51.38%) Agile
4 27 (24.77%) Roadmaps
5 25 (22.94%) Problem-Solving
6 24 (22.02%) Mentoring
7 22 (20.18%) Scrum
8 21 (19.27%) Collaborative Working
9 20 (18.35%) Continuous Improvement
9 20 (18.35%) Full-Stack Development
10 19 (17.43%) AI
10 19 (17.43%) CRM
10 19 (17.43%) Infrastructure as Code
10 19 (17.43%) Release Management
11 18 (16.51%) Test Automation
12 17 (15.60%) API Integration
13 16 (14.68%) Analytics
14 15 (13.76%) Continuous Integration
14 15 (13.76%) Kanban
14 15 (13.76%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 48 (44.04%) SQL
2 27 (24.77%) C#
3 20 (18.35%) JavaScript
3 20 (18.35%) Python
4 12 (11.01%) Bash
4 12 (11.01%) PowerShell
5 11 (10.09%) Java
6 8 (7.34%) TypeScript
7 7 (6.42%) Bicep
8 4 (3.67%) C++
9 3 (2.75%) Apex Code
9 3 (2.75%) PL/SQL
9 3 (2.75%) SOQL
9 3 (2.75%) SOSL
9 3 (2.75%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.83%) Go
10 2 (1.83%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.92%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.92%) PHP
Qualifications
1 5 (4.59%) PMI Certification
2 4 (3.67%) Azure Certification
3 3 (2.75%) Degree
4 1 (0.92%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.92%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (11.01%) TickIT
2 9 (8.26%) QA
3 4 (3.67%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.92%) GRC
System Software
1 13 (11.93%) Docker
2 5 (4.59%) Active Directory
2 5 (4.59%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (2.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.92%) Firmware
4 1 (0.92%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 22 (20.18%) Terraform
2 8 (7.34%) Kubernetes
3 5 (4.59%) Grafana
3 5 (4.59%) Prometheus
4 3 (2.75%) Ansible
4 3 (2.75%) Argo
4 3 (2.75%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.92%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 47 (43.12%) Microsoft
2 12 (11.01%) Salesforce
3 4 (3.67%) Oracle
3 4 (3.67%) VMware
4 3 (2.75%) Pega
4 3 (2.75%) Splunk
5 2 (1.83%) DevExpress
6 1 (0.92%) Databricks
6 1 (0.92%) Fortinet