Azure DevOps Jobs in the North West

Microsoft Azure DevOps
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Azure DevOps skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Azure DevOps over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 243 87 77
Rank change year-on-year -156 -10 +1
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 51 287 295
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.65% 2.60% 4.25%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.37% 7.99% 10.20%
Number of salaries quoted 36 214 184
10th Percentile £41,875 £38,750 £40,375
25th Percentile £52,813 £46,563 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £60,000 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year +10.42% -8.19% +18.82%
75th Percentile £81,250 £84,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £92,500 -
England median annual salary £70,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +12.00% -3.85% -

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 1,515 3,593 2,891
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 19.28% 32.49% 41.62%
Number of salaries quoted 904 2,671 1,853
10th Percentile £29,500 £29,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,875 £41,125 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,002 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.64% - -
75th Percentile £74,258 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% +4.00%

Azure DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Azure DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Azure DevOps in the North West

Azure DevOps
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Azure DevOps in the North West.

Salary trend for Azure DevOps in the North West

Azure DevOps
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure DevOps in the North West over the 6 months to 5 July 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 5 July 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 -57 38 £72,500 +19.83% 123
Lancashire -71 6 £42,500 -26.09% 35
Cheshire -9 4 £56,250 +4.65% 35
Merseyside +1 3 £63,750 -29.17% 24
Azure DevOps
England

Azure DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.96%) Confluence
1 1 (1.96%) IIS
1 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 51 (100.00%) Azure
2 16 (31.37%) Power Platform
3 10 (19.61%) Azure Monitor
4 9 (17.65%) Power Automate
5 8 (15.69%) Dynamics 365
6 6 (11.76%) PaaS
6 6 (11.76%) SaaS
7 5 (9.80%) AWS
7 5 (9.80%) Azure Service Bus
8 4 (7.84%) IaaS
9 3 (5.88%) Azure AKS
9 3 (5.88%) Azure Key Vault
9 3 (5.88%) Entra ID
10 2 (3.92%) Azure AI
10 2 (3.92%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 2 (3.92%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (3.92%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (3.92%) PowerApps
11 1 (1.96%) Azure Sentinel
11 1 (1.96%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.88%) Firewall
2 2 (3.92%) DNS
2 2 (3.92%) SD-WAN
2 2 (3.92%) VPN
2 2 (3.92%) WAN
3 1 (1.96%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (13.73%) Power BI
2 5 (9.80%) SQL Server
3 4 (7.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 3 (5.88%) Data Lake
5 2 (3.92%) MySQL
6 1 (1.96%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 10 (19.61%) Git
2 9 (17.65%) Jenkins
3 3 (5.88%) JIRA
4 2 (3.92%) Cucumber
4 2 (3.92%) Gatling
4 2 (3.92%) GitLab
4 2 (3.92%) JMeter
4 2 (3.92%) Selenium
5 1 (1.96%) ESLint
5 1 (1.96%) Jasmine
5 1 (1.96%) Karma Test Runner
5 1 (1.96%) Storybook
5 1 (1.96%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (1.96%) webpack
General
1 11 (21.57%) Finance
2 10 (19.61%) Social Skills
3 3 (5.88%) Retail
4 2 (3.92%) Law
5 1 (1.96%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.96%) Automotive
5 1 (1.96%) Digital Health
5 1 (1.96%) Health Technology
5 1 (1.96%) Legal
5 1 (1.96%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.96%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 17 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
2 13 (25.49%) Developer
2 13 (25.49%) DevOps Engineer
3 10 (19.61%) Cloud Engineer
4 9 (17.65%) Senior
5 8 (15.69%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 7 (13.73%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 6 (11.76%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
7 6 (11.76%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 6 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (9.80%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (7.84%) Dynamics 365 Developer
9 4 (7.84%) Lead
9 4 (7.84%) Power Platform Developer
10 3 (5.88%) Software Developer
11 2 (3.92%) .NET Developer
11 2 (3.92%) Architect
11 2 (3.92%) C# Developer
11 2 (3.92%) Senior Developer
11 2 (3.92%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (27.45%) .NET
2 11 (21.57%) ARM Templates
3 6 (11.76%) .NET Framework
4 4 (7.84%) ASP.NET
4 4 (7.84%) CSS
4 4 (7.84%) HTML
5 3 (5.88%) ASP.NET Web API
5 3 (5.88%) Entity Framework
6 2 (3.92%) AngularJS
6 2 (3.92%) JSON
6 2 (3.92%) JWT
6 2 (3.92%) Loki
6 2 (3.92%) Next.js
6 2 (3.92%) OAuth
6 2 (3.92%) Playwright
6 2 (3.92%) React
6 2 (3.92%) React Native
6 2 (3.92%) REST
7 1 (1.96%) Material-UI
7 1 (1.96%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 7 (13.73%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (7.84%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (5.88%) Blog
3 3 (5.88%) Cloud Native
3 3 (5.88%) Social Media
4 2 (3.92%) Algorithms
4 2 (3.92%) Data Centre
4 2 (3.92%) NHS
5 1 (1.96%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.96%) Data Fabric
5 1 (1.96%) IoT
5 1 (1.96%) Life Science
5 1 (1.96%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.96%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.96%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.96%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.96%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (100.00%) DevOps
2 28 (54.90%) CI/CD
3 22 (43.14%) Agile
3 22 (43.14%) Infrastructure as Code
4 14 (27.45%) SDLC
5 9 (17.65%) Analytics
5 9 (17.65%) Infrastructure Automation
5 9 (17.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 9 (17.65%) Microservices
6 8 (15.69%) Configuration Management
7 7 (13.73%) Mentoring
7 7 (13.73%) Software Engineering
8 6 (11.76%) Containerisation
8 6 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (11.76%) Log Analytics
8 6 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (9.80%) Business Intelligence
9 5 (9.80%) Project Management
10 4 (7.84%) Artificial Intelligence
10 4 (7.84%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 13 (25.49%) PowerShell
2 10 (19.61%) Python
2 10 (19.61%) SQL
3 9 (17.65%) C#
4 6 (11.76%) Bicep
5 4 (7.84%) T-SQL
6 3 (5.88%) Bash
6 3 (5.88%) TypeScript
7 2 (3.92%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.96%) Perl
8 1 (1.96%) Ruby
8 1 (1.96%) VB
8 1 (1.96%) VB.NET
8 1 (1.96%) VB6
8 1 (1.96%) X++
Qualifications
1 16 (31.37%) Azure Certification
2 7 (13.73%) Degree
3 6 (11.76%) SC Cleared
3 6 (11.76%) Security Cleared
4 3 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (5.88%) DBS Check
5 2 (3.92%) AWS Certification
5 2 (3.92%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 2 (3.92%) ISTQB
5 2 (3.92%) Master's Degree
5 2 (3.92%) PhD
6 1 (1.96%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (1.96%) CCSP
6 1 (1.96%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.96%) CISSP
6 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.80%) QA
2 4 (7.84%) GDPR
2 4 (7.84%) HIPAA
2 4 (7.84%) SOC 2
3 3 (5.88%) Accessibility
4 2 (3.92%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.96%) NIST
System Software
1 10 (19.61%) Docker
2 6 (11.76%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.96%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.96%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 18 (35.29%) Terraform
2 15 (29.41%) Kubernetes
3 8 (15.69%) Ansible
4 3 (5.88%) Grafana
5 2 (3.92%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.96%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.96%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.96%) Puppet
Vendors
1 29 (56.86%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.92%) Databricks
2 2 (3.92%) Google
2 2 (3.92%) Meraki
3 1 (1.96%) Facebook
3 1 (1.96%) Foundry
3 1 (1.96%) Hitachi