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 4 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 143 121 64
Rank change year-on-year -22 -57 +7
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 38 109 143
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.77% 1.75% 3.96%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.10% 5.76% 9.53%
Number of salaries quoted 33 64 132
10th Percentile £52,150 £42,500 £38,313
25th Percentile £57,500 £46,250 £50,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,750 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.00% -2.80% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,563 £77,500
90th Percentile £85,850 £104,750 £84,000
England median annual salary £65,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.96% +3.85% -2.67%

All Cloud 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 1,809 1,892 1,500
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 36.54% 30.30% 41.56%
Number of salaries quoted 967 1,075 1,291
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £29,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.45% - -
75th Percentile £73,125 £69,275 £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 4 December 2025.

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 4 December 2025. 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 32 £65,000 - 31
Cumbria -1 3 £65,500 +13.91%
Merseyside -4 2 £65,000 -13.33% 1
Lancashire +14 1 £60,000 +29.73% 13
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 1 (2.63%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 38 (100.00%) Azure
2 9 (23.68%) AWS
2 9 (23.68%) Azure Monitor
2 9 (23.68%) GitHub
3 8 (21.05%) GitHub Actions
3 8 (21.05%) Power Automate
3 8 (21.05%) SaaS
4 7 (18.42%) PaaS
5 6 (15.79%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (13.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (10.53%) Copilot Studio
7 4 (10.53%) Microsoft Copilot
7 4 (10.53%) Power Platform
8 3 (7.89%) Entra ID
8 3 (7.89%) IaaS
9 2 (5.26%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 2 (5.26%) Azure Functions
9 2 (5.26%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (5.26%) GCP
9 2 (5.26%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.89%) DNS
1 3 (7.89%) Firewall
2 2 (5.26%) HTTP
2 2 (5.26%) WAN
3 1 (2.63%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.26%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 4 (10.53%) Git
1 4 (10.53%) Jenkins
1 4 (10.53%) JIRA
2 2 (5.26%) Cucumber
2 2 (5.26%) Gatling
2 2 (5.26%) GitLab
2 2 (5.26%) JMeter
2 2 (5.26%) Selenium
3 1 (2.63%) ESLint
3 1 (2.63%) git-flow
3 1 (2.63%) NUnit
3 1 (2.63%) Storybook
3 1 (2.63%) webpack
General
1 8 (21.05%) Finance
2 3 (7.89%) Banking
2 3 (7.89%) Public Sector
3 2 (5.26%) Law
3 2 (5.26%) Retail
4 1 (2.63%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.63%) Digital Health
4 1 (2.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (28.95%) Cloud Engineer
2 8 (21.05%) Lead
3 7 (18.42%) Developer
3 7 (18.42%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (10.53%) Azure Engineer
4 4 (10.53%) Senior
5 3 (7.89%) C# Software Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Integration Developer
5 3 (7.89%) Lead Cloud Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Salesforce Developer
5 3 (7.89%) Senior C# Software Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Senior Software Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Software Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) .NET Developer
6 2 (5.26%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Consultant
6 2 (5.26%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (5.26%) Power Platform Consultant
6 2 (5.26%) Technical Consultant
6 2 (5.26%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (26.32%) .NET
2 5 (13.16%) React
3 4 (10.53%) ARM Templates
3 4 (10.53%) REST
4 3 (7.89%) .NET Framework
4 3 (7.89%) AngularJS
4 3 (7.89%) JWT
4 3 (7.89%) Lightning Web Components
4 3 (7.89%) OAuth
4 3 (7.89%) RESTful
5 2 (5.26%) Blazor
5 2 (5.26%) Entity Framework
5 2 (5.26%) JSON
5 2 (5.26%) Loki
5 2 (5.26%) Next.js
5 2 (5.26%) Playwright
5 2 (5.26%) React Native
6 1 (2.63%) .NET Core
6 1 (2.63%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (2.63%) Material-UI
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.79%) Cloud Native
2 4 (10.53%) AI Agents
3 3 (7.89%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (7.89%) Mobile App
4 2 (5.26%) Data Centre
4 2 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (5.26%) Driving Licence
4 2 (5.26%) Onboarding
4 2 (5.26%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.63%) Blog
5 1 (2.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (2.63%) Social Media
5 1 (2.63%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.26%) Android
1 2 (5.26%) Apple iOS
2 1 (2.63%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (100.00%) DevOps
2 30 (78.95%) CI/CD
3 19 (50.00%) Agile
4 18 (47.37%) Infrastructure as Code
5 11 (28.95%) Mentoring
6 9 (23.68%) Containerisation
6 9 (23.68%) Continuous Improvement
7 8 (21.05%) Microservices
7 8 (21.05%) SDLC
8 7 (18.42%) Disaster Recovery
8 7 (18.42%) Full-Stack Development
8 7 (18.42%) High Availability
9 6 (15.79%) CRM
9 6 (15.79%) Infrastructure Automation
10 5 (13.16%) AI
10 5 (13.16%) Identity Access Management
10 5 (13.16%) Incident Response
10 5 (13.16%) Observability
10 5 (13.16%) Software Engineering
10 5 (13.16%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 16 (42.11%) PowerShell
2 9 (23.68%) C#
3 8 (21.05%) Bash
4 7 (18.42%) Python
5 6 (15.79%) Bicep
6 3 (7.89%) Apex Code
6 3 (7.89%) SQL
7 2 (5.26%) Go
8 1 (2.63%) JavaScript
8 1 (2.63%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (15.79%) SC Cleared
1 6 (15.79%) Security Cleared
2 3 (7.89%) Azure Certification
3 2 (5.26%) AWS Certification
3 2 (5.26%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 2 (5.26%) ISTQB
4 1 (2.63%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.26%) GDPR
1 2 (5.26%) QA
System Software
1 8 (21.05%) Docker
2 5 (13.16%) Active Directory
2 5 (13.16%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (7.89%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (36.84%) Terraform
2 7 (18.42%) Prometheus
3 5 (13.16%) Kubernetes
4 4 (10.53%) Grafana
5 3 (7.89%) Ansible
6 1 (2.63%) Argo
Vendors
1 14 (36.84%) Microsoft
2 4 (10.53%) Foundry
3 3 (7.89%) Salesforce
4 2 (5.26%) Xamarin
5 1 (2.63%) Google
5 1 (2.63%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.63%) Splunk