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

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 116 81
Rank change year-on-year -28 -35 +5
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 35 89 117
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.57% 1.71% 3.01%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.28% 5.45% 7.74%
Number of salaries quoted 31 51 111
10th Percentile £51,250 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £53,875 £46,875 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £62,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.84% +3.33%
75th Percentile £73,750 £81,875 £77,500
90th Percentile £87,000 £93,750 £90,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -3.70%

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 2,737 1,634 1,512
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 44.41% 31.42% 38.91%
Number of salaries quoted 993 923 1,292
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £42,375 £40,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -
75th Percentile £72,500 £71,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -3.85%

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 1 January 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 1 January 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 -19 29 £62,500 -7.41% 35
Cumbria +5 3 £65,500 +9.17%
Merseyside -7 2 £65,000 -13.33% 6
Lancashire +10 1 £60,000 +29.73% 15
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 2 (5.71%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.86%) Confluence
2 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.86%) nginx
Business Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 35 (100.00%) Azure
2 9 (25.71%) GitHub
2 9 (25.71%) Power Automate
3 8 (22.86%) GitHub Actions
3 8 (22.86%) SaaS
4 7 (20.00%) AWS
4 7 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
4 7 (20.00%) PaaS
5 5 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (11.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (11.43%) Entra ID
6 4 (11.43%) Power Platform
7 3 (8.57%) Copilot Studio
7 3 (8.57%) IaaS
7 3 (8.57%) Microsoft Copilot
8 2 (5.71%) Azure AKS
8 2 (5.71%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (5.71%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (5.71%) Azure Storage
8 2 (5.71%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.43%) DNS
1 4 (11.43%) Firewall
2 3 (8.57%) WAN
3 2 (5.71%) HTTP
3 2 (5.71%) TCP/IP
4 1 (2.86%) DHCP
4 1 (2.86%) Network Security
4 1 (2.86%) SD-WAN
4 1 (2.86%) VLAN
4 1 (2.86%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.57%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (5.71%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (11.43%) Git
2 3 (8.57%) JIRA
3 2 (5.71%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.86%) Cypress.io
4 1 (2.86%) ESLint
4 1 (2.86%) git-flow
4 1 (2.86%) NUnit
4 1 (2.86%) Postman
4 1 (2.86%) Selenium
4 1 (2.86%) Storybook
4 1 (2.86%) webpack
General
1 7 (20.00%) Finance
2 3 (8.57%) Banking
2 3 (8.57%) Public Sector
3 2 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (5.71%) Law
3 2 (5.71%) Retail
4 1 (2.86%) Social Skills
4 1 (2.86%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (28.57%) Cloud Engineer
2 8 (22.86%) Developer
3 6 (17.14%) Senior
4 5 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
4 5 (14.29%) Lead
5 4 (11.43%) Software Engineer
6 3 (8.57%) C# Software Engineer
6 3 (8.57%) Integration Developer
6 3 (8.57%) Lead Cloud Engineer
6 3 (8.57%) Salesforce Developer
6 3 (8.57%) Senior C# Software Engineer
6 3 (8.57%) Senior Software Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) .NET Developer
7 2 (5.71%) Azure Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Consultant
7 2 (5.71%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
7 2 (5.71%) Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (5.71%) Power Platform Consultant
7 2 (5.71%) Power Platform Developer
7 2 (5.71%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (28.57%) .NET
2 6 (17.14%) React
3 4 (11.43%) ARM Templates
3 4 (11.43%) REST
4 3 (8.57%) .NET Framework
4 3 (8.57%) AngularJS
4 3 (8.57%) Lightning Web Components
4 3 (8.57%) RESTful
5 2 (5.71%) Blazor
5 2 (5.71%) Entity Framework
5 2 (5.71%) JSON
5 2 (5.71%) JWT
5 2 (5.71%) OAuth
6 1 (2.86%) CSS
6 1 (2.86%) HTML
6 1 (2.86%) Material-UI
6 1 (2.86%) Node.js
6 1 (2.86%) Playwright
6 1 (2.86%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (2.86%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.57%) AI Agents
1 3 (8.57%) Cloud Native
1 3 (8.57%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (5.71%) Data Centre
2 2 (5.71%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (5.71%) Driving Licence
2 2 (5.71%) Mobile App
2 2 (5.71%) Onboarding
2 2 (5.71%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.86%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (2.86%) Low-Code
3 1 (2.86%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.71%) Android
1 2 (5.71%) Apple iOS
2 1 (2.86%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (100.00%) DevOps
2 25 (71.43%) CI/CD
3 16 (45.71%) Agile
4 14 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 9 (25.71%) Mentoring
6 8 (22.86%) Containerisation
7 7 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (20.00%) CRM
7 7 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
8 6 (17.14%) Full-Stack Development
8 6 (17.14%) High Availability
8 6 (17.14%) Software Engineering
9 5 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
9 5 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
9 5 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 5 (14.29%) Microservices
9 5 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
10 4 (11.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 4 (11.43%) SOLID
10 4 (11.43%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 14 (40.00%) PowerShell
2 8 (22.86%) C#
3 6 (17.14%) Bash
3 6 (17.14%) Bicep
4 5 (14.29%) Python
4 5 (14.29%) SQL
5 3 (8.57%) Apex Code
6 2 (5.71%) Go
6 2 (5.71%) JavaScript
6 2 (5.71%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 5 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 4 (11.43%) Azure Certification
3 2 (5.71%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.71%) GDPR
2 1 (2.86%) QA
System Software
1 6 (17.14%) Active Directory
1 6 (17.14%) Docker
2 5 (14.29%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (11.43%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (2.86%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 13 (37.14%) Terraform
2 6 (17.14%) Prometheus
3 5 (14.29%) Kubernetes
4 3 (8.57%) Ansible
4 3 (8.57%) Grafana
5 1 (2.86%) Argo
5 1 (2.86%) FortiGate
5 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 14 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (8.57%) Foundry
2 3 (8.57%) Salesforce
3 2 (5.71%) Xamarin
4 1 (2.86%) Fortinet
4 1 (2.86%) Google
4 1 (2.86%) Oracle
4 1 (2.86%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.86%) Splunk