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

6 months to
6 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 184 78
Rank change year-on-year +60 -106 +11
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 136 51 286
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.21% 1.01% 2.69%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.98% 3.40% 8.32%
Number of salaries quoted 115 36 213
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,875 £38,750
25th Percentile £49,500 £52,813 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,500 £66,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.13% +10.42% -8.19%
75th Percentile £75,250 £81,250 £84,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £88,750 £92,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +12.00% -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 2,729 1,502 3,437
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 24.37% 29.84% 32.30%
Number of salaries quoted 2,071 901 2,668
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,500 £29,175
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,500 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £73,886 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -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 6 July 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 6 July 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 +28 86 £70,000 -3.45% 39
Lancashire +36 19 £62,500 +47.06% 11
Cheshire +17 15 £73,500 +30.67% 2
Merseyside -8 11 £60,000 -5.88% 4
Cumbria - 5 £45,000 - 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 15 (11.03%) Confluence
2 14 (10.29%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (3.68%) SharePoint
4 3 (2.21%) IIS
4 3 (2.21%) SharePoint Server
5 2 (1.47%) CICS
5 2 (1.47%) CMS
5 2 (1.47%) nginx
5 2 (1.47%) Umbraco
5 2 (1.47%) WordPress
6 1 (0.74%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.74%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.74%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 5 (3.68%) Trello
2 2 (1.47%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.74%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (2.94%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (2.21%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 136 (100.00%) Azure
2 41 (30.15%) GitHub
3 32 (23.53%) Power Platform
4 31 (22.79%) AWS
5 24 (17.65%) Dynamics 365
5 24 (17.65%) GitHub Actions
6 12 (8.82%) Boomi
7 10 (7.35%) Azure Monitor
7 10 (7.35%) Microsoft 365
7 10 (7.35%) Serverless
8 9 (6.62%) Power Automate
9 8 (5.88%) Azure Functions
10 7 (5.15%) Azure AI
10 7 (5.15%) Azure AKS
10 7 (5.15%) Azure Logic Apps
10 7 (5.15%) Azure Service Bus
10 7 (5.15%) Entra ID
11 6 (4.41%) GCP
12 5 (3.68%) Snowflake
13 4 (2.94%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.15%) Firewall
2 5 (3.68%) SAN
3 4 (2.94%) DNS
4 3 (2.21%) HTTPS
5 2 (1.47%) HTTP
5 2 (1.47%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.74%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (17.65%) Azure SQL Database
2 22 (16.18%) MongoDB
3 17 (12.50%) Power BI
4 15 (11.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 11 (8.09%) SQL Server
6 7 (5.15%) Relational Database
7 6 (4.41%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (3.68%) MySQL
9 4 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (2.21%) NoSQL
11 2 (1.47%) Db2
11 2 (1.47%) Hazelcast
12 1 (0.74%) Data Vault
12 1 (0.74%) Delta Lake
12 1 (0.74%) RDBMS
12 1 (0.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 1 (0.74%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 37 (27.21%) JIRA
2 25 (18.38%) Git
3 11 (8.09%) Jenkins
4 9 (6.62%) Postman
5 7 (5.15%) GitLab
6 3 (2.21%) Eclipse
6 3 (2.21%) IntelliJ
7 2 (1.47%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.47%) NUnit
7 2 (1.47%) Terragrunt
7 2 (1.47%) TestRail
8 1 (0.74%) GDB
8 1 (0.74%) MLflow
8 1 (0.74%) Selenium
8 1 (0.74%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.74%) WinDbg
General
1 40 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 20 (14.71%) Finance
3 17 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (11.76%) Retail
5 12 (8.82%) Games
5 12 (8.82%) Marketing
6 9 (6.62%) Banking
7 7 (5.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (4.41%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (4.41%) Public Sector
9 3 (2.21%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.47%) Law
10 2 (1.47%) Legal
10 2 (1.47%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.47%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.74%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 62 (45.59%) Developer
2 41 (30.15%) Senior
3 21 (15.44%) .NET Developer
3 21 (15.44%) Senior Developer
4 10 (7.35%) Cloud Engineer
4 10 (7.35%) Software Developer
5 9 (6.62%) DevOps Engineer
6 8 (5.88%) Delivery Manager
6 8 (5.88%) Lead
6 8 (5.88%) Platform Engineer
7 7 (5.15%) Head of Testing
7 7 (5.15%) Senior Platform Engineer
8 6 (4.41%) Azure Engineer
8 6 (4.41%) Scrum Master
8 6 (4.41%) Senior DevOps
8 6 (4.41%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 6 (4.41%) Senior Software Engineer
8 6 (4.41%) Software Delivery Manager
8 6 (4.41%) Software Engineer
8 6 (4.41%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (30.15%) .NET
2 29 (21.32%) REST
3 26 (19.12%) ASP.NET
4 24 (17.65%) .NET Core
5 23 (16.91%) CSS
5 23 (16.91%) HTML
6 21 (15.44%) ASP.NET Core
7 20 (14.71%) Middleware
8 19 (13.97%) Entity Framework
9 18 (13.24%) SOAP
10 17 (12.50%) React
11 15 (11.03%) JSON
12 13 (9.56%) EDI
12 13 (9.56%) RESTful
13 12 (8.82%) XML
14 11 (8.09%) Node.js
15 10 (7.35%) Blazor
16 8 (5.88%) AngularJS
17 7 (5.15%) .NET Framework
17 7 (5.15%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.82%) Product Ownership
2 10 (7.35%) Enterprise Cloud
3 9 (6.62%) Cloud Native
4 7 (5.15%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (4.41%) PMI
5 6 (4.41%) Social Network
6 5 (3.68%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (3.68%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.21%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.21%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (2.21%) Legacy Applications
7 3 (2.21%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.47%) Mainframe
8 2 (1.47%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.74%) BBC
9 1 (0.74%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.74%) Reinsurance
9 1 (0.74%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.74%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.88%) Linux
2 4 (2.94%) Windows
3 3 (2.21%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (100.00%) DevOps
2 93 (68.38%) CI/CD
3 78 (57.35%) Agile
4 31 (22.79%) Full-Stack Development
5 29 (21.32%) Roadmaps
6 28 (20.59%) AI
7 27 (19.85%) Scrum
8 26 (19.12%) Continuous Improvement
8 26 (19.12%) Mentoring
8 26 (19.12%) Problem-Solving
9 23 (16.91%) Infrastructure as Code
10 22 (16.18%) Collaborative Working
11 21 (15.44%) Stakeholder Management
12 20 (14.71%) Analytics
12 20 (14.71%) CRM
12 20 (14.71%) SDLC
13 18 (13.24%) Release Management
13 18 (13.24%) Test Automation
14 17 (12.50%) Kanban
14 17 (12.50%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 60 (44.12%) SQL
2 41 (30.15%) C#
3 26 (19.12%) JavaScript
4 25 (18.38%) Python
5 14 (10.29%) PowerShell
6 13 (9.56%) Bash
7 11 (8.09%) Java
8 10 (7.35%) Bicep
9 7 (5.15%) TypeScript
10 4 (2.94%) C++
11 3 (2.21%) Apex Code
11 3 (2.21%) PL/SQL
11 3 (2.21%) SOQL
11 3 (2.21%) SOSL
11 3 (2.21%) T-SQL
12 2 (1.47%) Go
12 2 (1.47%) PHP
12 2 (1.47%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.74%) DataWeave
13 1 (0.74%) Scala
Qualifications
1 8 (5.88%) PMI Certification
2 5 (3.68%) Azure Certification
3 3 (2.21%) Degree
4 2 (1.47%) PMP
4 2 (1.47%) SAFe Agilist
4 2 (1.47%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.47%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (8.82%) TickIT
2 10 (7.35%) QA
3 4 (2.94%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.74%) GRC
4 1 (0.74%) PMO
System Software
1 13 (9.56%) Docker
2 5 (3.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (2.94%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.94%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 26 (19.12%) Terraform
2 8 (5.88%) Kubernetes
3 6 (4.41%) Grafana
3 6 (4.41%) Prometheus
4 4 (2.94%) Argo
5 3 (2.21%) Ansible
6 2 (1.47%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.74%) Istio
7 1 (0.74%) linkerd
Vendors
1 64 (47.06%) Microsoft
2 12 (8.82%) Salesforce
3 6 (4.41%) VMware
4 3 (2.21%) Oracle
4 3 (2.21%) Pega
4 3 (2.21%) Splunk
5 2 (1.47%) Databricks
5 2 (1.47%) DevExpress
6 1 (0.74%) Apple
6 1 (0.74%) Facebook
6 1 (0.74%) Google
6 1 (0.74%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.74%) Sony
6 1 (0.74%) webMethods
6 1 (0.74%) Yahoo!