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

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 190 72
Rank change year-on-year +76 -118 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 147 50 260
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.28% 0.97% 2.92%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.24% 3.29% 9.14%
Number of salaries quoted 124 34 193
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £38,350
25th Percentile £49,750 £53,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.77% +8.33% -11.11%
75th Percentile £75,250 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £87,125 £89,250 £95,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -

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 2,804 1,518 2,846
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 24.49% 29.50% 31.91%
Number of salaries quoted 2,124 920 2,093
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,688 £41,933
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -0.90%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £87,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -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 27 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 27 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 +32 93 £65,500 -6.43% 40
Lancashire +26 19 £62,500 +38.89% 12
Merseyside -9 15 £60,000 -5.88% 5
Cheshire +21 14 £73,500 +30.67% 3
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 (9.52%) Confluence
1 14 (9.52%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (4.08%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.04%) Anypoint
3 3 (2.04%) BizTalk Server
3 3 (2.04%) IIS
3 3 (2.04%) SharePoint Server
4 2 (1.36%) CICS
4 2 (1.36%) CMS
4 2 (1.36%) nginx
4 2 (1.36%) Umbraco
4 2 (1.36%) WordPress
5 1 (0.68%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 7 (4.76%) Trello
2 2 (1.36%) Chatbot
2 2 (1.36%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (2.72%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (2.04%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 147 (100.00%) Azure
2 42 (28.57%) GitHub
3 36 (24.49%) Power Platform
4 32 (21.77%) AWS
5 27 (18.37%) Dynamics 365
6 25 (17.01%) GitHub Actions
7 13 (8.84%) Power Automate
8 12 (8.16%) Boomi
9 11 (7.48%) Microsoft 365
10 10 (6.80%) Azure Monitor
11 9 (6.12%) Serverless
12 7 (4.76%) Azure AKS
12 7 (4.76%) Azure Functions
12 7 (4.76%) Azure Service Bus
12 7 (4.76%) Entra ID
13 6 (4.08%) Azure AI
13 6 (4.08%) Azure Logic Apps
13 6 (4.08%) GCP
14 5 (3.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 5 (3.40%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.76%) Firewall
2 5 (3.40%) SAN
3 4 (2.72%) DNS
4 3 (2.04%) HTTPS
5 2 (1.36%) HTTP
5 2 (1.36%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.68%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (14.97%) Azure SQL Database
2 21 (14.29%) MongoDB
3 17 (11.56%) Power BI
4 15 (10.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 11 (7.48%) SQL Server
6 7 (4.76%) Relational Database
7 6 (4.08%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (3.40%) MySQL
8 5 (3.40%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (2.04%) NoSQL
10 2 (1.36%) Db2
10 2 (1.36%) Hazelcast
11 1 (0.68%) Data Vault
11 1 (0.68%) Delta Lake
11 1 (0.68%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.68%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 41 (27.89%) JIRA
2 26 (17.69%) Git
3 12 (8.16%) Jenkins
4 9 (6.12%) Postman
5 8 (5.44%) GitLab
6 3 (2.04%) Eclipse
6 3 (2.04%) IntelliJ
7 2 (1.36%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.36%) NUnit
7 2 (1.36%) Terragrunt
7 2 (1.36%) TestRail
8 1 (0.68%) GDB
8 1 (0.68%) MLflow
8 1 (0.68%) Selenium
8 1 (0.68%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.68%) WinDbg
General
1 46 (31.29%) Social Skills
2 22 (14.97%) Finance
3 19 (12.93%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (10.88%) Retail
5 13 (8.84%) Marketing
6 11 (7.48%) Games
7 9 (6.12%) Banking
8 7 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (4.76%) Public Sector
9 6 (4.08%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (2.72%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.36%) Law
11 2 (1.36%) Legal
11 2 (1.36%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.36%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.68%) Local Government
12 1 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.68%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 66 (44.90%) Developer
2 42 (28.57%) Senior
3 23 (15.65%) Senior Developer
4 19 (12.93%) .NET Developer
5 10 (6.80%) Cloud Engineer
5 10 (6.80%) DevOps Engineer
5 10 (6.80%) Software Developer
6 9 (6.12%) Lead
7 8 (5.44%) Platform Engineer
8 7 (4.76%) Automation Engineer
8 7 (4.76%) Azure Engineer
8 7 (4.76%) Delivery Manager
8 7 (4.76%) Head of Testing
8 7 (4.76%) Senior Platform Engineer
9 6 (4.08%) Scrum Master
9 6 (4.08%) Senior Automation Engineer
9 6 (4.08%) Senior DevOps
9 6 (4.08%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 5 (3.40%) Microsoft Developer
10 5 (3.40%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (27.21%) .NET
2 31 (21.09%) REST
3 26 (17.69%) ASP.NET
4 24 (16.33%) CSS
4 24 (16.33%) HTML
5 22 (14.97%) .NET Core
6 21 (14.29%) ASP.NET Core
7 20 (13.61%) Entity Framework
7 20 (13.61%) Middleware
8 18 (12.24%) SOAP
9 15 (10.20%) EDI
9 15 (10.20%) JSON
9 15 (10.20%) React
10 14 (9.52%) RESTful
11 12 (8.16%) XML
12 11 (7.48%) Node.js
13 10 (6.80%) Blazor
14 8 (5.44%) .NET Framework
15 7 (4.76%) AngularJS
15 7 (4.76%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 13 (8.84%) Product Ownership
2 10 (6.80%) Cloud Native
2 10 (6.80%) Enterprise Cloud
3 7 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
4 6 (4.08%) Onboarding
5 5 (3.40%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (3.40%) PMI
5 5 (3.40%) Social Network
6 3 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.04%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (2.04%) Legacy Applications
6 3 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.04%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.36%) Mainframe
7 2 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.68%) BBC
8 1 (0.68%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.68%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.68%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.44%) Linux
2 4 (2.72%) Windows
3 3 (2.04%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (100.00%) DevOps
2 98 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 85 (57.82%) Agile
4 32 (21.77%) Continuous Improvement
5 29 (19.73%) Full-Stack Development
5 29 (19.73%) Roadmaps
6 28 (19.05%) AI
6 28 (19.05%) Scrum
7 26 (17.69%) Mentoring
7 26 (17.69%) Problem-Solving
8 25 (17.01%) Infrastructure as Code
9 24 (16.33%) Stakeholder Management
10 22 (14.97%) Collaborative Working
10 22 (14.97%) SDLC
10 22 (14.97%) Software Engineering
11 21 (14.29%) CRM
12 20 (13.61%) Analytics
12 20 (13.61%) Software Delivery
12 20 (13.61%) Test Automation
13 18 (12.24%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 63 (42.86%) SQL
2 41 (27.89%) C#
3 28 (19.05%) JavaScript
4 25 (17.01%) Python
5 14 (9.52%) PowerShell
6 13 (8.84%) Bash
7 11 (7.48%) Java
8 10 (6.80%) Bicep
9 7 (4.76%) TypeScript
10 4 (2.72%) C++
11 3 (2.04%) Apex Code
11 3 (2.04%) DataWeave
11 3 (2.04%) PL/SQL
11 3 (2.04%) SOQL
11 3 (2.04%) SOSL
11 3 (2.04%) T-SQL
12 2 (1.36%) Go
12 2 (1.36%) PHP
12 2 (1.36%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.68%) Scala
Qualifications
1 9 (6.12%) PMI Certification
2 6 (4.08%) Azure Certification
3 4 (2.72%) Degree
3 4 (2.72%) PMP
3 4 (2.72%) SC Cleared
3 4 (2.72%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.68%) ISTQB
4 1 (0.68%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
4 1 (0.68%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.68%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (10.20%) QA
2 12 (8.16%) TickIT
3 5 (3.40%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.04%) PMO
5 1 (0.68%) GRC
System Software
1 14 (9.52%) Docker
2 5 (3.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (2.72%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.72%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 27 (18.37%) Terraform
2 8 (5.44%) Kubernetes
3 6 (4.08%) Grafana
3 6 (4.08%) Prometheus
4 4 (2.72%) Argo
5 3 (2.04%) Ansible
5 3 (2.04%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.68%) Istio
6 1 (0.68%) linkerd
Vendors
1 69 (46.94%) Microsoft
2 12 (8.16%) Salesforce
3 6 (4.08%) VMware
4 3 (2.04%) MuleSoft
4 3 (2.04%) Oracle
4 3 (2.04%) Pega
4 3 (2.04%) Splunk
4 3 (2.04%) webMethods
5 2 (1.36%) Databricks
5 2 (1.36%) DevExpress
6 1 (0.68%) Apple
6 1 (0.68%) Facebook
6 1 (0.68%) Google
6 1 (0.68%) Sony
6 1 (0.68%) Yahoo!