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

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 181 115
Rank change year-on-year +61 -66 -69
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 154 49 125
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.20% 0.96% 1.73%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.71% 3.40% 5.98%
Number of salaries quoted 131 36 76
10th Percentile £42,500 £51,375 £40,000
25th Percentile £48,125 £57,500 £43,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -8.19%
75th Percentile £71,000 £77,813 £75,313
90th Percentile £77,500 £88,500 £110,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year - -3.70% +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 2,698 1,442 2,090
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 20.98% 28.23% 28.93%
Number of salaries quoted 2,037 890 1,180
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £79,500 £70,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £83,750 £82,000
England median annual salary £63,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -7.69% +4.00%

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 13 October 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 13 October 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 +8 110 £60,000 -7.69% 62
Lancashire +22 17 £65,000 +44.44% 7
Merseyside +2 15 £60,000 -15.79% 2
Cheshire - 7 £73,500 - 3
Cumbria - 5 £50,000 -
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 10 (6.49%) SharePoint
2 9 (5.84%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (3.25%) Confluence
4 4 (2.60%) IIS
5 3 (1.95%) Anypoint
5 3 (1.95%) BizTalk Server
5 3 (1.95%) SharePoint Server
6 2 (1.30%) CMS
6 2 (1.30%) nginx
6 2 (1.30%) Umbraco
6 2 (1.30%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (4.55%) Trello
2 2 (1.30%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.65%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.65%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (5.19%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.95%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 154 (100.00%) Azure
2 38 (24.68%) Power Platform
3 35 (22.73%) GitHub
4 30 (19.48%) Dynamics 365
5 27 (17.53%) AWS
6 24 (15.58%) GitHub Actions
7 20 (12.99%) Power Automate
8 13 (8.44%) Microsoft 365
9 12 (7.79%) Azure Monitor
9 12 (7.79%) PowerApps
10 9 (5.84%) Snowflake
11 8 (5.19%) Azure AKS
11 8 (5.19%) Entra ID
12 7 (4.55%) Azure Key Vault
12 7 (4.55%) Azure Service Bus
12 7 (4.55%) Copilot Studio
12 7 (4.55%) Microsoft Copilot
12 7 (4.55%) Serverless
13 6 (3.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 6 (3.90%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.25%) Firewall
1 5 (3.25%) SAN
2 3 (1.95%) DNS
2 3 (1.95%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.65%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
2 21 (13.64%) MongoDB
3 11 (7.14%) Power BI
3 11 (7.14%) SQL Server
4 8 (5.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 6 (3.90%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (3.90%) Relational Database
6 5 (3.25%) MySQL
6 5 (3.25%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (1.95%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.30%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.65%) Data Vault
9 1 (0.65%) Delta Lake
9 1 (0.65%) Metadata
9 1 (0.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.65%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 32 (20.78%) JIRA
2 22 (14.29%) Git
3 11 (7.14%) GitLab
4 4 (2.60%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.95%) Postman
6 2 (1.30%) Cypress.io
6 2 (1.30%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.65%) Android Studio
7 1 (0.65%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.65%) MLflow
7 1 (0.65%) NUnit
7 1 (0.65%) Selenium
7 1 (0.65%) Visual Studio
General
1 53 (34.42%) Social Skills
2 17 (11.04%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (10.39%) Finance
4 11 (7.14%) Public Sector
5 9 (5.84%) Retail
6 7 (4.55%) Games
6 7 (4.55%) Marketing
7 4 (2.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.60%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (2.60%) Legal
8 3 (1.95%) Banking
8 3 (1.95%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.30%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.65%) Law
10 1 (0.65%) Local Government
10 1 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.65%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 59 (38.31%) Developer
2 39 (25.32%) Senior
3 21 (13.64%) Azure Engineer
3 21 (13.64%) DevOps Engineer
4 18 (11.69%) .NET Developer
5 16 (10.39%) Senior Developer
6 14 (9.09%) Platform Engineer
7 12 (7.79%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 11 (7.14%) Analyst
8 11 (7.14%) Senior Platform Engineer
9 10 (6.49%) Automation Engineer
10 9 (5.84%) Cloud Engineer
10 9 (5.84%) Data Engineer
10 9 (5.84%) Senior Data Engineer
10 9 (5.84%) Snowflake Engineer
11 8 (5.19%) Dynamics 365 Developer
11 8 (5.19%) Lead
11 8 (5.19%) Software Developer
12 7 (4.55%) Power Platform Developer
12 7 (4.55%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (24.03%) .NET
2 29 (18.83%) Terraform
3 26 (16.88%) REST
4 23 (14.94%) ASP.NET
4 23 (14.94%) CSS
4 23 (14.94%) HTML
5 22 (14.29%) .NET Core
6 19 (12.34%) ASP.NET Core
7 18 (11.69%) Entity Framework
8 13 (8.44%) React
9 12 (7.79%) Middleware
10 11 (7.14%) Node.js
11 10 (6.49%) RESTful
12 9 (5.84%) Blazor
12 9 (5.84%) SOAP
13 8 (5.19%) EDI
13 8 (5.19%) JSON
14 6 (3.90%) .NET Framework
14 6 (3.90%) OAuth
14 6 (3.90%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.49%) Onboarding
1 10 (6.49%) Product Ownership
2 6 (3.90%) Greenfield Project
3 5 (3.25%) Cloud Native
3 5 (3.25%) Enterprise Cloud
3 5 (3.25%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (3.25%) Low-Code
4 4 (2.60%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (2.60%) Mobile App
4 4 (2.60%) Social Network
5 3 (1.95%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.30%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.30%) PMI
6 2 (1.30%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.65%) BBC
7 1 (0.65%) Social Media
7 1 (0.65%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.84%) Linux
2 4 (2.60%) Unix
2 4 (2.60%) Windows
3 1 (0.65%) Android
3 1 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.65%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.65%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 154 (100.00%) DevOps
2 84 (54.55%) Agile
3 82 (53.25%) CI/CD
4 36 (23.38%) Continuous Improvement
5 28 (18.18%) AI
5 28 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
5 28 (18.18%) Mentoring
6 27 (17.53%) SDLC
7 24 (15.58%) Analytics
7 24 (15.58%) Full-Stack Development
8 22 (14.29%) Digital Transformation Programme
9 21 (13.64%) Requirements Gathering
9 21 (13.64%) Software Engineering
9 21 (13.64%) Stakeholder Management
10 20 (12.99%) Problem-Solving
11 19 (12.34%) Coaching
12 18 (11.69%) CRM
13 17 (11.04%) Scrum
13 17 (11.04%) Test Automation
14 16 (10.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 60 (38.96%) SQL
2 45 (29.22%) C#
3 29 (18.83%) JavaScript
4 26 (16.88%) Python
5 16 (10.39%) Bash
5 16 (10.39%) PowerShell
6 12 (7.79%) Bicep
7 8 (5.19%) Java
8 4 (2.60%) Apex Code
8 4 (2.60%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.95%) C++
9 3 (1.95%) DataWeave
9 3 (1.95%) SOQL
9 3 (1.95%) SOSL
9 3 (1.95%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.30%) PHP
11 1 (0.65%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.65%) Scala
11 1 (0.65%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 7 (4.55%) PMI Certification
1 7 (4.55%) SC Cleared
1 7 (4.55%) Security Cleared
2 6 (3.90%) Azure Certification
2 6 (3.90%) Degree
2 6 (3.90%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (3.25%) PMP
4 1 (0.65%) DBS Check
4 1 (0.65%) ISTQB
4 1 (0.65%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
4 1 (0.65%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (0.65%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (12.34%) QA
2 9 (5.84%) Data Quality
3 7 (4.55%) PMO
4 5 (3.25%) TickIT
System Software
1 13 (8.44%) Docker
2 5 (3.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (2.60%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.60%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (4.55%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.60%) Argo
2 4 (2.60%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.30%) Ansible
3 2 (1.30%) Grafana
3 2 (1.30%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.65%) Istio
4 1 (0.65%) linkerd
Vendors
1 68 (44.16%) Microsoft
2 6 (3.90%) Salesforce
2 6 (3.90%) VMware
3 3 (1.95%) MuleSoft
3 3 (1.95%) Splunk
3 3 (1.95%) webMethods
4 2 (1.30%) HP
5 1 (0.65%) Apple
5 1 (0.65%) Databricks
5 1 (0.65%) Facebook
5 1 (0.65%) Google
5 1 (0.65%) Oracle
5 1 (0.65%) Sony
5 1 (0.65%) Yahoo!
5 1 (0.65%) YouTube