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

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 164 137 80
Rank change year-on-year -27 -57 +64
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 39 48 244
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.46% 1.29% 2.92%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.23% 3.79% 8.24%
Number of salaries quoted 33 40 192
10th Percentile £46,250 £42,375 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,000 £47,188 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,000 £65,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.08% +6.56% +2.48%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,813 £85,000
90th Percentile £87,250 £88,125 £90,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -3.85%

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 3,162 1,267 2,961
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 37.14% 34.08% 35.46%
Number of salaries quoted 1,266 922 2,493
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £57,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.75% +3.64% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £91,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -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 March 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 March 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 -14 28 £66,250 -8.62% 25
Lancashire -9 5 £50,000 +25.00% 16
Cumbria - 3 £65,500 - 1
Cheshire -37 2 £63,750 +18.60% 8
Merseyside -18 1 £56,000 +4.19% 4
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 8 (20.51%) Confluence
2 3 (7.69%) SharePoint
3 2 (5.13%) CICS
4 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (2.56%) PegaRULES
Business Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 39 (100.00%) Azure
2 11 (28.21%) GitHub
3 10 (25.64%) AWS
3 10 (25.64%) GitHub Actions
4 6 (15.38%) GCP
5 5 (12.82%) Entra ID
6 4 (10.26%) Azure Functions
6 4 (10.26%) Azure Logic Apps
6 4 (10.26%) Azure Monitor
6 4 (10.26%) Power Automate
6 4 (10.26%) Serverless
7 3 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (7.69%) Azure AKS
7 3 (7.69%) IaaS
7 3 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (7.69%) PaaS
7 3 (7.69%) SaaS
8 2 (5.13%) Azure AI
8 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Copilot
8 2 (5.13%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.26%) DNS
1 4 (10.26%) Firewall
1 4 (10.26%) HTTP
1 4 (10.26%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.56%) DHCP
2 1 (2.56%) LTE
2 1 (2.56%) Network Security
2 1 (2.56%) SD-WAN
2 1 (2.56%) VLAN
2 1 (2.56%) VPN
2 1 (2.56%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.26%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (7.69%) SQL Server
3 2 (5.13%) DB2
3 2 (5.13%) Hazelcast
3 2 (5.13%) MongoDB
3 2 (5.13%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.56%) Power BI
4 1 (2.56%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 10 (25.64%) JIRA
2 7 (17.95%) Jenkins
3 6 (15.38%) Git
4 4 (10.26%) Postman
5 3 (7.69%) Eclipse
5 3 (7.69%) IntelliJ
6 2 (5.13%) NUnit
6 2 (5.13%) Selenium
7 1 (2.56%) Bitbucket
7 1 (2.56%) Cypress.io
7 1 (2.56%) GDB
7 1 (2.56%) Visual Studio
7 1 (2.56%) WinDbg
General
1 11 (28.21%) Finance
2 5 (12.82%) Banking
2 5 (12.82%) Influencing Skills
3 4 (10.26%) Law
4 3 (7.69%) Telecoms
5 2 (5.13%) Games
5 2 (5.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (5.13%) Retail
6 1 (2.56%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.56%) Legal
6 1 (2.56%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.56%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (25.64%) Developer
2 6 (15.38%) Lead
3 5 (12.82%) Cloud Engineer
3 5 (12.82%) Scrum Master
3 5 (12.82%) Senior
4 4 (10.26%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (10.26%) Software Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) .NET Developer
5 3 (7.69%) Java Developer
5 3 (7.69%) Lead Cloud Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) Pega Developer
5 3 (7.69%) Senior Software Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) C# Software Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Delivery Manager
6 2 (5.13%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (5.13%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 2 (5.13%) Power Platform Developer
6 2 (5.13%) Senior C# Software Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Software Developer
6 2 (5.13%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (20.51%) .NET
1 8 (20.51%) React
2 7 (17.95%) RESTful
3 6 (15.38%) AngularJS
4 4 (10.26%) .NET Core
4 4 (10.26%) ARM Templates
4 4 (10.26%) CSS
4 4 (10.26%) HTML
5 3 (7.69%) ASP.NET
5 3 (7.69%) ASP.NET Core
5 3 (7.69%) Blazor
5 3 (7.69%) CSS3
5 3 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (7.69%) HTML5
5 3 (7.69%) J2EE
5 3 (7.69%) Kafka
5 3 (7.69%) SOAP
6 2 (5.13%) JMS
6 2 (5.13%) Middleware
6 2 (5.13%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.82%) Product Ownership
2 2 (5.13%) Cloud Native
2 2 (5.13%) Driving Licence
2 2 (5.13%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (5.13%) Mainframe
2 2 (5.13%) PMI
2 2 (5.13%) Social Network
3 1 (2.56%) AI Agents
3 1 (2.56%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.56%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.56%) Low-Code
3 1 (2.56%) Reinsurance
3 1 (2.56%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.56%) Linux
1 1 (2.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (100.00%) DevOps
2 30 (76.92%) CI/CD
3 23 (58.97%) Agile
4 12 (30.77%) Infrastructure as Code
5 11 (28.21%) SDLC
6 10 (25.64%) Scrum
7 9 (23.08%) Roadmaps
8 8 (20.51%) Containerisation
8 8 (20.51%) Full-Stack Development
8 8 (20.51%) High Availability
8 8 (20.51%) Mentoring
8 8 (20.51%) TDD
9 7 (17.95%) Kanban
9 7 (17.95%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 7 (17.95%) Software Delivery
9 7 (17.95%) Stakeholder Management
10 6 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
10 6 (15.38%) Software Engineering
10 6 (15.38%) Sprint Planning
11 5 (12.82%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 10 (25.64%) SQL
2 8 (20.51%) PowerShell
3 6 (15.38%) Bash
3 6 (15.38%) C#
3 6 (15.38%) JavaScript
3 6 (15.38%) Python
4 5 (12.82%) Bicep
5 3 (7.69%) Go
5 3 (7.69%) Java
5 3 (7.69%) PL/SQL
5 3 (7.69%) TypeScript
6 1 (2.56%) C++
Qualifications
1 4 (10.26%) Azure Certification
2 3 (7.69%) SC Cleared
2 3 (7.69%) Security Cleared
3 2 (5.13%) PMI Certification
4 1 (2.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.56%) SAFe Agilist
System Software
1 3 (7.69%) Active Directory
1 3 (7.69%) Docker
1 3 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (5.13%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (2.56%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 9 (23.08%) Terraform
2 4 (10.26%) Ansible
2 4 (10.26%) Prometheus
3 3 (7.69%) Grafana
3 3 (7.69%) Kubernetes
4 1 (2.56%) FortiGate
4 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 15 (38.46%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.69%) Oracle
2 3 (7.69%) Pega
2 3 (7.69%) Salesforce
3 1 (2.56%) Databricks
3 1 (2.56%) DevExpress
3 1 (2.56%) Fortinet
3 1 (2.56%) Foundry
3 1 (2.56%) ServiceNow
3 1 (2.56%) Splunk