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 24 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 188 72
Rank change year-on-year +87 -116 -10
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 169 51 232
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.39% 0.97% 2.75%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.00% 3.38% 9.06%
Number of salaries quoted 140 35 169
10th Percentile £42,500 £44,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,938 £54,375 £43,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -9.67%
75th Percentile £74,987 £80,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £97,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
% 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 2,819 1,509 2,560
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 23.24% 28.85% 30.34%
Number of salaries quoted 2,146 919 1,757
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £87,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £64,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% - -7.69%

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 24 August 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 24 August 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 +39 114 £61,500 -10.55% 34
Lancashire +23 17 £62,500 +38.89% 20
Merseyside -1 17 £60,000 -5.88% 3
Cheshire +18 15 £73,500 +13.08% 2
Cumbria - 6 £47,500 -
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 14 (8.28%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (7.10%) Confluence
3 9 (5.33%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.78%) Anypoint
4 3 (1.78%) BizTalk Server
4 3 (1.78%) IIS
4 3 (1.78%) SharePoint Server
5 2 (1.18%) CICS
5 2 (1.18%) CMS
5 2 (1.18%) nginx
5 2 (1.18%) Umbraco
5 2 (1.18%) WordPress
6 1 (0.59%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 7 (4.14%) Trello
2 2 (1.18%) Chatbot
2 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (3.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.78%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 169 (100.00%) Azure
2 45 (26.63%) GitHub
3 42 (24.85%) Power Platform
4 32 (18.93%) Dynamics 365
5 31 (18.34%) AWS
6 28 (16.57%) GitHub Actions
7 19 (11.24%) Power Automate
8 14 (8.28%) Microsoft 365
9 12 (7.10%) Boomi
10 10 (5.92%) Azure Monitor
11 9 (5.33%) PowerApps
11 9 (5.33%) Serverless
11 9 (5.33%) Snowflake
12 7 (4.14%) Azure AI
12 7 (4.14%) Azure Functions
12 7 (4.14%) Azure Service Bus
12 7 (4.14%) Entra ID
13 6 (3.55%) Azure AKS
13 6 (3.55%) Copilot Studio
13 6 (3.55%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.96%) Firewall
1 5 (2.96%) SAN
2 3 (1.78%) HTTPS
3 2 (1.18%) DNS
4 1 (0.59%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (13.61%) Azure SQL Database
2 22 (13.02%) MongoDB
3 17 (10.06%) Power BI
4 15 (8.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 12 (7.10%) SQL Server
6 8 (4.73%) Relational Database
7 6 (3.55%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (2.96%) MySQL
8 5 (2.96%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (1.78%) NoSQL
10 2 (1.18%) Db2
10 2 (1.18%) Hazelcast
11 1 (0.59%) Data Vault
11 1 (0.59%) Delta Lake
11 1 (0.59%) Metadata
11 1 (0.59%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.59%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 45 (26.63%) JIRA
2 27 (15.98%) Git
3 10 (5.92%) Jenkins
4 8 (4.73%) GitLab
4 8 (4.73%) Postman
5 3 (1.78%) Eclipse
5 3 (1.78%) IntelliJ
5 3 (1.78%) NUnit
6 2 (1.18%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.18%) Terragrunt
6 2 (1.18%) TestRail
7 1 (0.59%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.59%) GDB
7 1 (0.59%) MLflow
7 1 (0.59%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.59%) WinDbg
General
1 58 (34.32%) Social Skills
2 26 (15.38%) Finance
3 22 (13.02%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (9.47%) Retail
5 14 (8.28%) Marketing
6 10 (5.92%) Games
7 8 (4.73%) Banking
7 8 (4.73%) Public Sector
8 7 (4.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (4.14%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (2.37%) Legal
10 3 (1.78%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.18%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.59%) Law
12 1 (0.59%) Local Government
12 1 (0.59%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.59%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 72 (42.60%) Developer
2 47 (27.81%) Senior
3 23 (13.61%) Senior Developer
4 20 (11.83%) .NET Developer
5 12 (7.10%) Platform Engineer
6 11 (6.51%) DevOps Engineer
6 11 (6.51%) Senior Platform Engineer
7 10 (5.92%) Automation Engineer
7 10 (5.92%) Azure Engineer
7 10 (5.92%) Cloud Engineer
7 10 (5.92%) Lead
7 10 (5.92%) Software Developer
8 9 (5.33%) Analyst
8 9 (5.33%) Data Engineer
8 9 (5.33%) Senior Data Engineer
8 9 (5.33%) Snowflake Engineer
9 8 (4.73%) Power Platform Developer
10 7 (4.14%) Head of Testing
10 7 (4.14%) Senior Automation Engineer
11 6 (3.55%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (25.44%) .NET
2 35 (20.71%) REST
3 29 (17.16%) Terraform
4 27 (15.98%) ASP.NET
4 27 (15.98%) CSS
4 27 (15.98%) HTML
5 24 (14.20%) .NET Core
6 22 (13.02%) ASP.NET Core
7 21 (12.43%) Entity Framework
7 21 (12.43%) Middleware
8 19 (11.24%) SOAP
9 17 (10.06%) React
10 16 (9.47%) RESTful
11 15 (8.88%) EDI
11 15 (8.88%) JSON
12 12 (7.10%) XML
13 11 (6.51%) Node.js
14 10 (5.92%) Blazor
15 9 (5.33%) .NET Framework
16 8 (4.73%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 14 (8.28%) Product Ownership
2 10 (5.92%) Enterprise Cloud
2 10 (5.92%) Onboarding
3 9 (5.33%) Cloud Native
4 7 (4.14%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (2.96%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (2.96%) Social Network
6 4 (2.37%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (2.37%) Mobile App
6 4 (2.37%) PMI
7 3 (1.78%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.78%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.78%) Legacy Applications
7 3 (1.78%) Low-Code
8 2 (1.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.18%) Mainframe
8 2 (1.18%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.59%) BBC
9 1 (0.59%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.73%) Linux
2 4 (2.37%) Windows
3 3 (1.78%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 169 (100.00%) DevOps
2 103 (60.95%) CI/CD
3 99 (58.58%) Agile
4 39 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
5 32 (18.93%) AI
6 30 (17.75%) Full-Stack Development
7 29 (17.16%) Problem-Solving
7 29 (17.16%) Stakeholder Management
8 28 (16.57%) Infrastructure as Code
8 28 (16.57%) Roadmaps
8 28 (16.57%) Scrum
9 27 (15.98%) SDLC
9 27 (15.98%) Software Engineering
10 26 (15.38%) Mentoring
11 24 (14.20%) Analytics
11 24 (14.20%) CRM
12 23 (13.61%) Test Automation
13 21 (12.43%) Collaborative Working
14 20 (11.83%) Software Delivery
14 20 (11.83%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 71 (42.01%) SQL
2 47 (27.81%) C#
3 33 (19.53%) JavaScript
4 27 (15.98%) Python
5 15 (8.88%) Bash
6 14 (8.28%) PowerShell
7 11 (6.51%) Java
8 10 (5.92%) Bicep
9 7 (4.14%) TypeScript
10 4 (2.37%) Apex Code
10 4 (2.37%) C++
11 3 (1.78%) DataWeave
11 3 (1.78%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.78%) SOQL
11 3 (1.78%) SOSL
11 3 (1.78%) T-SQL
12 2 (1.18%) PHP
12 2 (1.18%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.59%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.59%) Scala
Qualifications
1 9 (5.33%) PMI Certification
2 7 (4.14%) Degree
2 7 (4.14%) SC Cleared
2 7 (4.14%) Security Cleared
3 6 (3.55%) Azure Certification
4 5 (2.96%) PMP
5 3 (1.78%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.59%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.59%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 1 (0.59%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (0.59%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (11.83%) QA
2 12 (7.10%) TickIT
3 8 (4.73%) Data Quality
4 6 (3.55%) PMO
5 1 (0.59%) GRC
System Software
1 14 (8.28%) Docker
2 5 (2.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (2.37%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.37%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (4.73%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.37%) Argo
2 4 (2.37%) Grafana
2 4 (2.37%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (2.37%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.59%) Ansible
3 1 (0.59%) Istio
3 1 (0.59%) linkerd
Vendors
1 77 (45.56%) Microsoft
2 13 (7.69%) Salesforce
3 6 (3.55%) VMware
4 3 (1.78%) MuleSoft
4 3 (1.78%) Oracle
4 3 (1.78%) Pega
4 3 (1.78%) Splunk
4 3 (1.78%) webMethods
5 2 (1.18%) DevExpress
6 1 (0.59%) Apple
6 1 (0.59%) Databricks
6 1 (0.59%) Facebook
6 1 (0.59%) Google
6 1 (0.59%) Sony
6 1 (0.59%) Yahoo!