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

6 months to
14 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 155 144 77
Rank change year-on-year -11 -67 +55
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 62 46 263
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.65% 1.24% 2.93%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.80% 3.71% 8.53%
Number of salaries quoted 50 37 201
10th Percentile £46,250 £39,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £54,125 £47,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,750 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.77% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £90,000
England median annual salary £66,750 £69,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.26% +10.40% -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 3,440 1,239 3,085
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 35.80% 33.50% 34.42%
Number of salaries quoted 1,436 922 2,578
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,250 £39,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £93,750 £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 14 April 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 14 April 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 -10 38 £80,000 +10.34% 33
Cheshire -35 10 £71,750 +33.49% 3
Lancashire +1 7 £50,000 +25.00% 20
Cumbria - 4 £64,250 -
Merseyside -20 3 £80,000 +48.84% 3
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 12 (19.35%) Confluence
2 6 (9.68%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (4.84%) SharePoint
4 2 (3.23%) CICS
5 1 (1.61%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 1 (1.61%) Chatbot
1 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.61%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 62 (100.00%) Azure
2 23 (37.10%) GitHub
3 16 (25.81%) GitHub Actions
4 13 (20.97%) AWS
5 9 (14.52%) Power Platform
6 8 (12.90%) Dynamics 365
7 7 (11.29%) Boomi
7 7 (11.29%) Entra ID
8 6 (9.68%) GCP
9 5 (8.06%) Azure Functions
9 5 (8.06%) Azure Logic Apps
9 5 (8.06%) Serverless
10 4 (6.45%) Azure AKS
10 4 (6.45%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (4.84%) Azure Storage
11 3 (4.84%) Datadog
11 3 (4.84%) IaaS
11 3 (4.84%) Microsoft 365
11 3 (4.84%) PaaS
11 3 (4.84%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.45%) DNS
1 4 (6.45%) Firewall
1 4 (6.45%) HTTP
1 4 (6.45%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.61%) DHCP
2 1 (1.61%) LTE
2 1 (1.61%) Network Security
2 1 (1.61%) SD-WAN
2 1 (1.61%) VLAN
2 1 (1.61%) VPN
2 1 (1.61%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (12.90%) Power BI
2 7 (11.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 4 (6.45%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (6.45%) SQL Server
4 2 (3.23%) DB2
4 2 (3.23%) Hazelcast
4 2 (3.23%) MongoDB
4 2 (3.23%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.61%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 23 (37.10%) JIRA
2 10 (16.13%) Jenkins
3 9 (14.52%) Git
4 8 (12.90%) Postman
5 3 (4.84%) Eclipse
5 3 (4.84%) IntelliJ
5 3 (4.84%) NUnit
6 2 (3.23%) Bitbucket
6 2 (3.23%) Selenium
6 2 (3.23%) TestRail
7 1 (1.61%) Cypress.io
7 1 (1.61%) GDB
7 1 (1.61%) Visual Studio
7 1 (1.61%) WinDbg
General
1 18 (29.03%) Finance
2 10 (16.13%) Retail
2 10 (16.13%) Social Skills
3 8 (12.90%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (11.29%) Marketing
5 6 (9.68%) Banking
5 6 (9.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (9.68%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (8.06%) Games
7 4 (6.45%) Law
8 3 (4.84%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.61%) Legal
9 1 (1.61%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 19 (30.65%) Developer
2 13 (20.97%) Senior
3 10 (16.13%) Lead
4 8 (12.90%) Senior Developer
5 6 (9.68%) Cloud Engineer
5 6 (9.68%) Head of Testing
5 6 (9.68%) Scrum Master
6 5 (8.06%) Delivery Manager
7 4 (6.45%) .NET Developer
7 4 (6.45%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (6.45%) Software Delivery Manager
7 4 (6.45%) Software Engineer
7 4 (6.45%) Software Manager
8 3 (4.84%) CloudOps Engineer
8 3 (4.84%) Java Developer
8 3 (4.84%) Lead Cloud Engineer
8 3 (4.84%) Pega Developer
8 3 (4.84%) Senior Software Engineer
8 3 (4.84%) Site Engineer
8 3 (4.84%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (19.35%) .NET
2 10 (16.13%) SOAP
3 9 (14.52%) Middleware
3 9 (14.52%) REST
4 8 (12.90%) React
4 8 (12.90%) RESTful
5 7 (11.29%) AngularJS
5 7 (11.29%) ARM Templates
5 7 (11.29%) EDI
5 7 (11.29%) JSON
5 7 (11.29%) XML
6 5 (8.06%) .NET Core
6 5 (8.06%) ASP.NET
6 5 (8.06%) CSS
6 5 (8.06%) HTML
7 4 (6.45%) .NET Framework
7 4 (6.45%) ASP.NET Core
8 3 (4.84%) CSS3
8 3 (4.84%) J2EE
8 3 (4.84%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.68%) Product Ownership
2 5 (8.06%) Cloud Native
2 5 (8.06%) Enterprise Cloud
3 4 (6.45%) PMI
4 3 (4.84%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (4.84%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (3.23%) Driving Licence
5 2 (3.23%) Mainframe
5 2 (3.23%) Social Network
6 1 (1.61%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.61%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.61%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.61%) Linux
1 1 (1.61%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (100.00%) DevOps
2 43 (69.35%) CI/CD
3 32 (51.61%) Agile
4 19 (30.65%) Roadmaps
5 15 (24.19%) Infrastructure as Code
5 15 (24.19%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (24.19%) Scrum
6 14 (22.58%) Collaborative Working
6 14 (22.58%) Continuous Improvement
6 14 (22.58%) Stakeholder Management
7 13 (20.97%) SDLC
8 12 (19.35%) Containerisation
8 12 (19.35%) Continuous Integration
8 12 (19.35%) Kanban
9 11 (17.74%) High Availability
9 11 (17.74%) Scaled Agile Framework
10 10 (16.13%) Mentoring
10 10 (16.13%) Software Delivery
10 10 (16.13%) Software Engineering
10 10 (16.13%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 18 (29.03%) SQL
2 10 (16.13%) PowerShell
2 10 (16.13%) Python
3 9 (14.52%) Bash
3 9 (14.52%) C#
4 7 (11.29%) JavaScript
5 6 (9.68%) Bicep
6 5 (8.06%) TypeScript
7 3 (4.84%) Go
7 3 (4.84%) Java
7 3 (4.84%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.61%) C++
8 1 (1.61%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 5 (8.06%) Azure Certification
2 4 (6.45%) PMI Certification
3 2 (3.23%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.23%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.61%) Degree
4 1 (1.61%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.61%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.29%) TickIT
2 3 (4.84%) QA
3 1 (1.61%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.61%) GRC
System Software
1 8 (12.90%) Docker
2 4 (6.45%) Active Directory
2 4 (6.45%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.61%) Firmware
3 1 (1.61%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 11 (17.74%) Terraform
2 8 (12.90%) Kubernetes
3 6 (9.68%) Grafana
3 6 (9.68%) Prometheus
4 4 (6.45%) Ansible
5 1 (1.61%) FortiGate
5 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 28 (45.16%) Microsoft
2 8 (12.90%) Salesforce
3 3 (4.84%) Oracle
3 3 (4.84%) Pega
4 2 (3.23%) DevExpress
5 1 (1.61%) Databricks
5 1 (1.61%) Fortinet