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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 182 92 49
Rank change year-on-year -90 -43 +24
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 51 170 232
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.99% 2.19% 5.15%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.61% 7.51% 12.51%
Number of salaries quoted 36 105 202
10th Percentile £46,250 £37,800 £41,425
25th Percentile £55,375 £43,500 £51,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £66,425
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -9.67% +15.52%
75th Percentile £77,813 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £88,500 £103,000 -
England median annual salary £67,500 £66,863 £65,000
% change year-on-year +0.95% +2.87% -

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 1,414 2,263 1,854
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 27.45% 29.19% 41.15%
Number of salaries quoted 871 1,388 1,543
10th Percentile £28,571 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £42,500
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 £70,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £84,000 £84,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £63,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -5.51% -2.31% +4.00%

Azure DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Azure DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Azure DevOps 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 -41 42 £65,000 +8.33% 30
Lancashire -13 4 £45,000 -21.74% 20
Merseyside -17 4 £71,250 -35.23% 2
Cheshire -26 1 £72,500 +48.72% 4
Azure DevOps
England

Azure DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.96%) Confluence
1 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (1.96%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (1.96%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 51 (100.00%) Azure
2 14 (27.45%) Power Platform
3 11 (21.57%) Power Automate
4 9 (17.65%) AWS
4 9 (17.65%) SaaS
5 8 (15.69%) Azure Monitor
5 8 (15.69%) PaaS
6 6 (11.76%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (9.80%) Azure Service Bus
8 4 (7.84%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 4 (7.84%) Entra ID
8 4 (7.84%) IaaS
9 3 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (5.88%) Copilot Studio
9 3 (5.88%) Microsoft Copilot
10 2 (3.92%) Azure AI
10 2 (3.92%) Azure AKS
10 2 (3.92%) Google Ads
10 2 (3.92%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.84%) DNS
1 4 (7.84%) Firewall
1 4 (7.84%) WAN
2 2 (3.92%) SD-WAN
2 2 (3.92%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (9.80%) Power BI
2 3 (5.88%) Data Lake
3 2 (3.92%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (3.92%) MySQL
3 2 (3.92%) SQL Server
3 2 (3.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (1.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 9 (17.65%) Git
2 5 (9.80%) Jenkins
3 3 (5.88%) JIRA
4 2 (3.92%) Cucumber
4 2 (3.92%) ESLint
4 2 (3.92%) Gatling
4 2 (3.92%) GitLab
4 2 (3.92%) JMeter
4 2 (3.92%) Selenium
4 2 (3.92%) Storybook
4 2 (3.92%) webpack
5 1 (1.96%) git-flow
5 1 (1.96%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 7 (13.73%) Finance
2 4 (7.84%) Social Skills
3 2 (3.92%) Banking
3 2 (3.92%) Public Sector
3 2 (3.92%) Retail
4 1 (1.96%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.96%) Digital Health
4 1 (1.96%) Health Technology
4 1 (1.96%) Law
4 1 (1.96%) Legal
Job Titles
1 13 (25.49%) Developer
2 12 (23.53%) Azure Engineer
2 12 (23.53%) Cloud Engineer
2 12 (23.53%) Senior
3 9 (17.65%) DevOps Engineer
4 7 (13.73%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 5 (9.80%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 5 (9.80%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (9.80%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (9.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (9.80%) Lead
5 5 (9.80%) Power Platform Developer
5 5 (9.80%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (5.88%) .NET Developer
6 3 (5.88%) C# Software Engineer
6 3 (5.88%) Dynamics 365 Developer
6 3 (5.88%) Senior C# Software Engineer
6 3 (5.88%) Senior Software Engineer
6 3 (5.88%) Software Engineer
6 3 (5.88%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (29.41%) .NET
2 7 (13.73%) ARM Templates
3 6 (11.76%) React
4 4 (7.84%) .NET Framework
4 4 (7.84%) REST
5 3 (5.88%) AngularJS
5 3 (5.88%) Entity Framework
5 3 (5.88%) JWT
5 3 (5.88%) Loki
5 3 (5.88%) Next.js
5 3 (5.88%) OAuth
5 3 (5.88%) React Native
6 2 (3.92%) Blazor
6 2 (3.92%) Jest
6 2 (3.92%) JSON
6 2 (3.92%) MassTransit
6 2 (3.92%) MediatR
6 2 (3.92%) Playwright
6 2 (3.92%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (3.92%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 7 (13.73%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (9.80%) Cloud Native
3 4 (7.84%) Data Centre
4 3 (5.88%) AI Agents
4 3 (5.88%) Blog
4 3 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (5.88%) Mobile App
4 3 (5.88%) Product Ownership
4 3 (5.88%) Social Media
5 2 (3.92%) Algorithms
5 2 (3.92%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (3.92%) NHS
5 2 (3.92%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.96%) Data Fabric
6 1 (1.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.96%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.96%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.92%) Android
1 2 (3.92%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.96%) Linux
2 1 (1.96%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (100.00%) DevOps
2 32 (62.75%) CI/CD
3 23 (45.10%) Agile
4 20 (39.22%) Infrastructure as Code
5 11 (21.57%) Infrastructure Automation
5 11 (21.57%) Mentoring
6 9 (17.65%) Microservices
6 9 (17.65%) SDLC
7 8 (15.69%) Configuration Management
7 8 (15.69%) Continuous Improvement
7 8 (15.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 8 (15.69%) Software Engineering
8 7 (13.73%) Full-Stack Development
9 6 (11.76%) Artificial Intelligence
9 6 (11.76%) Containerisation
9 6 (11.76%) SOLID
10 5 (9.80%) Analytics
10 5 (9.80%) CRM
11 4 (7.84%) Test Automation
11 4 (7.84%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 11 (21.57%) C#
1 11 (21.57%) PowerShell
2 8 (15.69%) SQL
3 7 (13.73%) Python
4 5 (9.80%) Bicep
5 4 (7.84%) Bash
6 2 (3.92%) Apex Code
6 2 (3.92%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.96%) Go
7 1 (1.96%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.96%) Perl
7 1 (1.96%) Ruby
7 1 (1.96%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.96%) X++
Qualifications
1 12 (23.53%) Azure Certification
2 6 (11.76%) Degree
2 6 (11.76%) SC Cleared
2 6 (11.76%) Security Cleared
3 3 (5.88%) DBS Check
4 2 (3.92%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.92%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 2 (3.92%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.92%) ISTQB
4 2 (3.92%) Master's Degree
4 2 (3.92%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (3.92%) PhD
5 1 (1.96%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.88%) QA
2 2 (3.92%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.92%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.92%) GDPR
System Software
1 9 (17.65%) Docker
2 4 (7.84%) Active Directory
3 3 (5.88%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (3.92%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (31.37%) Terraform
2 12 (23.53%) Kubernetes
3 9 (17.65%) Ansible
4 5 (9.80%) Grafana
5 4 (7.84%) Prometheus
6 2 (3.92%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.96%) Argo
7 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (1.96%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.96%) Puppet
Vendors
1 24 (47.06%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.88%) Foundry
2 3 (5.88%) Google
3 2 (3.92%) Databricks
3 2 (3.92%) Meraki
3 2 (3.92%) Salesforce
3 2 (3.92%) Xamarin