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 21 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 196 78
Rank change year-on-year +80 -118 +27
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 126 46 298
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.15% 0.97% 2.65%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.81% 3.20% 8.41%
Number of salaries quoted 105 32 224
10th Percentile £43,500 £41,375 £38,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £49,063 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,305 £66,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.61% +10.42% -8.19%
75th Percentile £75,250 £82,813 £85,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £93,125 £92,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +12.00% -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 2,618 1,438 3,543
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 23.98% 30.43% 31.50%
Number of salaries quoted 1,984 839 2,816
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,500 £29,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,500 £40,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £93,756 £85,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -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 21 June 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 21 June 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 +28 79 £70,400 -2.90% 33
Lancashire +32 17 £62,500 +47.06% 12
Cheshire +18 15 £73,500 +30.67%
Merseyside -14 10 £60,000 -5.88% 2
Cumbria - 5 £45,000 - 2
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 15 (11.90%) Confluence
2 12 (9.52%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (3.97%) SharePoint
4 3 (2.38%) IIS
4 3 (2.38%) SharePoint Server
5 2 (1.59%) CICS
5 2 (1.59%) CMS
5 2 (1.59%) nginx
5 2 (1.59%) Umbraco
5 2 (1.59%) WordPress
6 1 (0.79%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 3 (2.38%) Trello
2 2 (1.59%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.79%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (2.38%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (2.38%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 126 (100.00%) Azure
2 39 (30.95%) GitHub
3 29 (23.02%) Power Platform
4 28 (22.22%) AWS
5 22 (17.46%) Dynamics 365
5 22 (17.46%) GitHub Actions
6 12 (9.52%) Boomi
7 9 (7.14%) Azure Monitor
7 9 (7.14%) Serverless
8 8 (6.35%) Microsoft 365
8 8 (6.35%) Power Automate
9 7 (5.56%) Azure AKS
9 7 (5.56%) Azure Functions
9 7 (5.56%) Azure Logic Apps
9 7 (5.56%) Entra ID
10 6 (4.76%) Azure Service Bus
10 6 (4.76%) GCP
11 5 (3.97%) Azure AI
11 5 (3.97%) Snowflake
12 4 (3.17%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.97%) Firewall
2 4 (3.17%) DNS
3 3 (2.38%) HTTPS
3 3 (2.38%) SAN
4 2 (1.59%) HTTP
4 2 (1.59%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.79%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (15.87%) Azure SQL Database
2 18 (14.29%) MongoDB
3 17 (13.49%) Power BI
4 15 (11.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 11 (8.73%) SQL Server
6 7 (5.56%) Relational Database
7 5 (3.97%) MySQL
8 4 (3.17%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (3.17%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (2.38%) NoSQL
10 2 (1.59%) Db2
10 2 (1.59%) Hazelcast
11 1 (0.79%) Data Vault
11 1 (0.79%) Delta Lake
11 1 (0.79%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.79%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 35 (27.78%) JIRA
2 25 (19.84%) Git
3 11 (8.73%) Jenkins
4 10 (7.94%) Postman
5 7 (5.56%) GitLab
6 3 (2.38%) Eclipse
6 3 (2.38%) IntelliJ
7 2 (1.59%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.59%) NUnit
7 2 (1.59%) Selenium
7 2 (1.59%) Terragrunt
7 2 (1.59%) TestRail
8 1 (0.79%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.79%) GDB
8 1 (0.79%) MLflow
8 1 (0.79%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.79%) WinDbg
General
1 34 (26.98%) Social Skills
2 18 (14.29%) Finance
3 17 (13.49%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (12.70%) Retail
5 12 (9.52%) Games
5 12 (9.52%) Marketing
6 9 (7.14%) Banking
7 7 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (4.76%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (4.76%) Public Sector
9 3 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.59%) Law
10 2 (1.59%) Legal
10 2 (1.59%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.59%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.79%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 55 (43.65%) Developer
2 38 (30.16%) Senior
3 20 (15.87%) Senior Developer
4 17 (13.49%) .NET Developer
5 10 (7.94%) Cloud Engineer
6 9 (7.14%) Software Developer
7 8 (6.35%) Delivery Manager
8 7 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
8 7 (5.56%) Head of Testing
8 7 (5.56%) Lead
8 7 (5.56%) Software Engineer
9 6 (4.76%) Azure Engineer
9 6 (4.76%) Platform Engineer
9 6 (4.76%) Scrum Master
9 6 (4.76%) Senior Software Engineer
9 6 (4.76%) Software Delivery Manager
9 6 (4.76%) Software Manager
10 5 (3.97%) C# Developer
10 5 (3.97%) Data Engineer
10 5 (3.97%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (27.78%) .NET
2 29 (23.02%) REST
3 22 (17.46%) ASP.NET
4 21 (16.67%) CSS
4 21 (16.67%) HTML
5 20 (15.87%) .NET Core
5 20 (15.87%) Middleware
6 18 (14.29%) SOAP
7 17 (13.49%) ASP.NET Core
7 17 (13.49%) Entity Framework
8 15 (11.90%) JSON
8 15 (11.90%) React
9 12 (9.52%) EDI
9 12 (9.52%) XML
10 10 (7.94%) RESTful
11 9 (7.14%) Node.js
12 8 (6.35%) AngularJS
12 8 (6.35%) Blazor
13 7 (5.56%) .NET Framework
13 7 (5.56%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 12 (9.52%) Product Ownership
2 10 (7.94%) Enterprise Cloud
3 9 (7.14%) Cloud Native
4 7 (5.56%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (4.76%) PMI
6 5 (3.97%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (3.97%) Onboarding
7 4 (3.17%) Social Network
8 3 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (2.38%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (2.38%) Legacy Applications
8 3 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.59%) Mainframe
9 2 (1.59%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.79%) AI Agents
10 1 (0.79%) BBC
10 1 (0.79%) Reinsurance
10 1 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.79%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 8 (6.35%) Linux
2 4 (3.17%) Windows
3 3 (2.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (100.00%) DevOps
2 88 (69.84%) CI/CD
3 70 (55.56%) Agile
4 28 (22.22%) Roadmaps
5 27 (21.43%) Full-Stack Development
6 26 (20.63%) Problem-Solving
7 25 (19.84%) Continuous Improvement
7 25 (19.84%) Scrum
8 24 (19.05%) AI
9 23 (18.25%) Mentoring
10 22 (17.46%) Collaborative Working
11 21 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
12 20 (15.87%) Analytics
13 19 (15.08%) CRM
13 19 (15.08%) Stakeholder Management
14 18 (14.29%) Release Management
14 18 (14.29%) Test Automation
15 17 (13.49%) Coaching
15 17 (13.49%) Kanban
16 16 (12.70%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 54 (42.86%) SQL
2 35 (27.78%) C#
3 23 (18.25%) JavaScript
3 23 (18.25%) Python
4 13 (10.32%) Bash
5 12 (9.52%) PowerShell
6 11 (8.73%) Java
7 8 (6.35%) Bicep
8 7 (5.56%) TypeScript
9 4 (3.17%) C++
10 3 (2.38%) Apex Code
10 3 (2.38%) PL/SQL
10 3 (2.38%) SOQL
10 3 (2.38%) SOSL
10 3 (2.38%) T-SQL
11 2 (1.59%) Go
11 2 (1.59%) PHP
11 2 (1.59%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.79%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.79%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (4.76%) PMI Certification
2 4 (3.17%) Azure Certification
3 3 (2.38%) Degree
4 2 (1.59%) SAFe Agilist
4 2 (1.59%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.59%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (9.52%) TickIT
2 9 (7.14%) QA
3 4 (3.17%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.79%) GRC
4 1 (0.79%) PMO
System Software
1 13 (10.32%) Docker
2 4 (3.17%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.17%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 24 (19.05%) Terraform
2 8 (6.35%) Kubernetes
3 6 (4.76%) Grafana
3 6 (4.76%) Prometheus
4 4 (3.17%) Argo
5 3 (2.38%) Ansible
6 2 (1.59%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.79%) Istio
7 1 (0.79%) linkerd
Vendors
1 59 (46.83%) Microsoft
2 12 (9.52%) Salesforce
3 4 (3.17%) VMware
4 3 (2.38%) Oracle
4 3 (2.38%) Pega
4 3 (2.38%) Splunk
5 2 (1.59%) Databricks
5 2 (1.59%) DevExpress
6 1 (0.79%) Apple
6 1 (0.79%) Facebook
6 1 (0.79%) Google
6 1 (0.79%) Sony
6 1 (0.79%) Yahoo!