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 10 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 126 105
Rank change year-on-year -22 -21 +46
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 35 76 144
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.49% 1.61% 2.18%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.22% 5.15% 6.11%
Number of salaries quoted 34 39 130
10th Percentile £48,250 £42,500 £42,375
25th Percentile £52,750 £46,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £65,000 £62,250
Median % change year-on-year -1.54% +4.42% -4.23%
75th Percentile £71,125 £81,875 £86,875
90th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £90,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -6.42%

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 2,877 1,476 2,355
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 40.21% 31.36% 35.67%
Number of salaries quoted 1,087 853 2,064
10th Percentile £28,250 £33,050 £29,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,250 £84,919
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -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 10 February 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 10 February 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 -14 27 £65,000 -3.70% 29
Lancashire +2 3 £50,000 +11.11% 19
Cumbria - 3 £65,500 -
Merseyside -17 1 £65,000 -13.33% 6
Cheshire -27 1 £60,000 +14.29% 5
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 2 (5.71%) Confluence
1 2 (5.71%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.86%) nginx
Business Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 35 (100.00%) Azure
2 10 (28.57%) AWS
2 10 (28.57%) GitHub
3 9 (25.71%) GitHub Actions
4 6 (17.14%) Azure Monitor
4 6 (17.14%) Power Automate
4 6 (17.14%) SaaS
5 5 (14.29%) PaaS
6 4 (11.43%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (8.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (8.57%) Azure AKS
7 3 (8.57%) Azure Functions
7 3 (8.57%) Azure Logic Apps
7 3 (8.57%) Entra ID
7 3 (8.57%) GCP
7 3 (8.57%) IaaS
7 3 (8.57%) Serverless
8 2 (5.71%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (5.71%) Azure Storage
8 2 (5.71%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (14.29%) DNS
1 5 (14.29%) Firewall
2 3 (8.57%) HTTP
2 3 (8.57%) TCP/IP
2 3 (8.57%) WAN
3 1 (2.86%) DHCP
3 1 (2.86%) Network Security
3 1 (2.86%) SD-WAN
3 1 (2.86%) VLAN
3 1 (2.86%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.57%) Azure SQL Database
1 3 (8.57%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.86%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (11.43%) JIRA
2 3 (8.57%) Git
2 3 (8.57%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.86%) Cypress.io
3 1 (2.86%) git-flow
3 1 (2.86%) NUnit
3 1 (2.86%) Postman
3 1 (2.86%) Selenium
General
1 7 (20.00%) Finance
2 3 (8.57%) Banking
2 3 (8.57%) Law
3 2 (5.71%) Retail
3 2 (5.71%) Telecoms
4 1 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.86%) Games
4 1 (2.86%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.86%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (25.71%) Cloud Engineer
2 8 (22.86%) Developer
2 8 (22.86%) Senior
3 6 (17.14%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (17.14%) Software Engineer
4 5 (14.29%) C# Software Engineer
4 5 (14.29%) Lead
4 5 (14.29%) Senior C# Software Engineer
4 5 (14.29%) Senior Software Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Integration Developer
5 3 (8.57%) Lead Cloud Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Salesforce Developer
6 2 (5.71%) .NET Developer
6 2 (5.71%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Power Platform Developer
7 1 (2.86%) Azure Developer
7 1 (2.86%) C# .NET Developer
7 1 (2.86%) Dynamics 365 Developer
7 1 (2.86%) Senior Dynamics 365 Developer
7 1 (2.86%) Software Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (31.43%) .NET
2 8 (22.86%) React
3 5 (14.29%) AngularJS
4 4 (11.43%) ARM Templates
5 3 (8.57%) .NET Core
5 3 (8.57%) Lightning Web Components
5 3 (8.57%) REST
6 2 (5.71%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (5.71%) RESTful
7 1 (2.86%) .NET Framework
7 1 (2.86%) ASP.NET Core
7 1 (2.86%) Blazor
7 1 (2.86%) HTML
7 1 (2.86%) JSON
7 1 (2.86%) JWT
7 1 (2.86%) ML.NET
7 1 (2.86%) Node.js
7 1 (2.86%) OAuth
7 1 (2.86%) Playwright
7 1 (2.86%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.57%) Cloud Native
2 2 (5.71%) AI Agents
2 2 (5.71%) Data Centre
2 2 (5.71%) Driving Licence
3 1 (2.86%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (2.86%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.86%) Low-Code
3 1 (2.86%) PMI
3 1 (2.86%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.86%) Reinsurance
3 1 (2.86%) Social Network
3 1 (2.86%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.86%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (100.00%) DevOps
2 23 (65.71%) CI/CD
3 17 (48.57%) Agile
4 14 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 12 (34.29%) Mentoring
6 11 (31.43%) Containerisation
7 8 (22.86%) Software Engineering
8 7 (20.00%) High Availability
9 6 (17.14%) Disaster Recovery
9 6 (17.14%) Full-Stack Development
9 6 (17.14%) Microservices
9 6 (17.14%) Process Improvement
9 6 (17.14%) SDLC
9 6 (17.14%) TDD
10 5 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
10 5 (14.29%) CRM
10 5 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
10 5 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 5 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 5 (14.29%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 12 (34.29%) PowerShell
2 9 (25.71%) C#
3 7 (20.00%) Bash
4 6 (17.14%) Bicep
4 6 (17.14%) Python
5 5 (14.29%) SQL
6 3 (8.57%) Apex Code
6 3 (8.57%) Go
7 2 (5.71%) JavaScript
7 2 (5.71%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (11.43%) Azure Certification
2 3 (8.57%) SC Cleared
2 3 (8.57%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.86%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.86%) PMI Certification
3 1 (2.86%) SAFe Agilist
System Software
1 5 (14.29%) Active Directory
1 5 (14.29%) Docker
2 4 (11.43%) Virtual Desktop
2 4 (11.43%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.86%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 13 (37.14%) Terraform
2 6 (17.14%) Prometheus
3 5 (14.29%) Kubernetes
4 4 (11.43%) Ansible
5 3 (8.57%) Grafana
6 1 (2.86%) Argo
6 1 (2.86%) FortiGate
6 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 12 (34.29%) Microsoft
2 3 (8.57%) Salesforce
3 2 (5.71%) Foundry
4 1 (2.86%) Databricks
4 1 (2.86%) Fortinet
4 1 (2.86%) Oracle
4 1 (2.86%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.86%) Splunk