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 29 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 185 113
Rank change year-on-year +76 -72 -64
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 171 51 140
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.32% 0.98% 1.86%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.05% 3.63% 6.36%
Number of salaries quoted 141 37 87
10th Percentile £42,500 £48,500 £37,950
25th Percentile £50,000 £57,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile £74,750 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £88,200 £99,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,750 £67,500
% change year-on-year -1.14% -2.59% +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 2,827 1,405 2,200
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 21.86% 27.13% 29.18%
Number of salaries quoted 2,127 858 1,286
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,500 £32,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,125 £42,500
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 £70,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £95,500 £83,750 £81,625
England median annual salary £64,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -7.69% +1.56%

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 29 September 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 29 September 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 +17 116 £59,500 -8.46% 60
Lancashire +25 18 £67,153 +49.23% 10
Merseyside -1 17 £60,000 -15.79% 9
Cheshire - 14 £73,500 - 6
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 (8.19%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (5.85%) SharePoint
3 7 (4.09%) Confluence
4 4 (2.34%) IIS
5 3 (1.75%) Anypoint
5 3 (1.75%) BizTalk Server
5 3 (1.75%) SharePoint Server
6 2 (1.17%) CMS
6 2 (1.17%) nginx
6 2 (1.17%) Umbraco
6 2 (1.17%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (4.09%) Trello
2 2 (1.17%) Chatbot
2 2 (1.17%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (4.68%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.75%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 171 (100.00%) Azure
2 48 (28.07%) GitHub
3 45 (26.32%) Power Platform
4 37 (21.64%) Dynamics 365
5 30 (17.54%) AWS
5 30 (17.54%) GitHub Actions
6 20 (11.70%) Power Automate
7 13 (7.60%) Azure Monitor
7 13 (7.60%) Microsoft 365
8 12 (7.02%) Boomi
8 12 (7.02%) PowerApps
9 10 (5.85%) Entra ID
10 9 (5.26%) Azure AKS
10 9 (5.26%) Snowflake
11 8 (4.68%) Azure Key Vault
11 8 (4.68%) Serverless
12 7 (4.09%) Azure Service Bus
12 7 (4.09%) Copilot Studio
12 7 (4.09%) Microsoft Copilot
13 6 (3.51%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.92%) Firewall
1 5 (2.92%) SAN
2 3 (1.75%) DNS
2 3 (1.75%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.58%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (12.87%) Azure SQL Database
2 21 (12.28%) MongoDB
3 18 (10.53%) Power BI
4 15 (8.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 12 (7.02%) SQL Server
6 6 (3.51%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (3.51%) Relational Database
7 5 (2.92%) MySQL
7 5 (2.92%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (1.75%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.17%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.58%) Data Vault
10 1 (0.58%) Delta Lake
10 1 (0.58%) Metadata
10 1 (0.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.58%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 41 (23.98%) JIRA
2 25 (14.62%) Git
3 11 (6.43%) GitLab
4 7 (4.09%) Jenkins
4 7 (4.09%) Postman
5 2 (1.17%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.17%) NUnit
5 2 (1.17%) Terragrunt
5 2 (1.17%) TestRail
6 1 (0.58%) Android Studio
6 1 (0.58%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.58%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.58%) MLflow
6 1 (0.58%) Selenium
6 1 (0.58%) Visual Studio
General
1 61 (35.67%) Social Skills
2 23 (13.45%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (12.87%) Finance
4 16 (9.36%) Retail
5 14 (8.19%) Marketing
6 10 (5.85%) Public Sector
7 9 (5.26%) Games
8 7 (4.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (2.34%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (2.34%) Legal
10 3 (1.75%) Banking
10 3 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.17%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.58%) Law
12 1 (0.58%) Local Government
12 1 (0.58%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.58%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 68 (39.77%) Developer
2 47 (27.49%) Senior
3 23 (13.45%) Senior Developer
4 19 (11.11%) .NET Developer
5 18 (10.53%) DevOps Engineer
6 17 (9.94%) Azure Engineer
7 14 (8.19%) Platform Engineer
8 12 (7.02%) Cloud Engineer
8 12 (7.02%) Lead
9 11 (6.43%) Analyst
9 11 (6.43%) Senior Platform Engineer
10 10 (5.85%) Automation Engineer
11 9 (5.26%) Data Engineer
11 9 (5.26%) Senior Data Engineer
11 9 (5.26%) Snowflake Engineer
11 9 (5.26%) Software Developer
12 8 (4.68%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 8 (4.68%) Dynamics 365 Developer
13 7 (4.09%) Power Platform Developer
13 7 (4.09%) Senior Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (23.98%) .NET
2 33 (19.30%) REST
2 33 (19.30%) Terraform
3 25 (14.62%) ASP.NET
4 24 (14.04%) CSS
4 24 (14.04%) HTML
5 23 (13.45%) .NET Core
6 20 (11.70%) ASP.NET Core
6 20 (11.70%) Entity Framework
7 19 (11.11%) Middleware
8 16 (9.36%) SOAP
9 15 (8.77%) EDI
9 15 (8.77%) JSON
10 13 (7.60%) React
11 12 (7.02%) XML
12 11 (6.43%) Node.js
12 11 (6.43%) RESTful
13 9 (5.26%) Blazor
14 8 (4.68%) ARM Templates
14 8 (4.68%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.85%) Enterprise Cloud
1 10 (5.85%) Onboarding
1 10 (5.85%) Product Ownership
2 9 (5.26%) Cloud Native
3 6 (3.51%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (2.92%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (2.92%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (2.92%) Low-Code
5 4 (2.34%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.34%) Mobile App
5 4 (2.34%) Social Network
6 3 (1.75%) Legacy Applications
6 3 (1.75%) PMI
7 2 (1.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.17%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.58%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.58%) BBC
8 1 (0.58%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.58%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.26%) Linux
2 4 (2.34%) Unix
2 4 (2.34%) Windows
3 1 (0.58%) Android
3 1 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.58%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.58%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 171 (100.00%) DevOps
2 96 (56.14%) CI/CD
3 91 (53.22%) Agile
4 42 (24.56%) Continuous Improvement
5 34 (19.88%) AI
6 33 (19.30%) Infrastructure as Code
7 31 (18.13%) Problem-Solving
8 30 (17.54%) Mentoring
9 26 (15.20%) Analytics
10 25 (14.62%) CRM
10 25 (14.62%) Full-Stack Development
10 25 (14.62%) Software Engineering
10 25 (14.62%) Stakeholder Management
11 24 (14.04%) SDLC
12 23 (13.45%) Roadmaps
12 23 (13.45%) Test Automation
13 22 (12.87%) Digital Transformation Programme
14 21 (12.28%) Coaching
15 20 (11.70%) Release Management
15 20 (11.70%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 68 (39.77%) SQL
2 48 (28.07%) C#
3 30 (17.54%) JavaScript
3 30 (17.54%) Python
4 20 (11.70%) PowerShell
5 19 (11.11%) Bash
6 14 (8.19%) Bicep
7 8 (4.68%) Java
8 6 (3.51%) TypeScript
9 4 (2.34%) Apex Code
10 3 (1.75%) C++
10 3 (1.75%) DataWeave
10 3 (1.75%) SOQL
10 3 (1.75%) SOSL
10 3 (1.75%) T-SQL
11 2 (1.17%) PHP
11 2 (1.17%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.58%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.58%) Scala
Qualifications
1 8 (4.68%) PMI Certification
2 7 (4.09%) Azure Certification
2 7 (4.09%) Degree
2 7 (4.09%) SC Cleared
2 7 (4.09%) Security Cleared
3 6 (3.51%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (2.92%) PMP
5 1 (0.58%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.58%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 1 (0.58%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (0.58%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (12.87%) QA
2 12 (7.02%) TickIT
3 9 (5.26%) Data Quality
4 6 (3.51%) PMO
5 1 (0.58%) GRC
System Software
1 18 (10.53%) Docker
2 5 (2.92%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.92%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (2.92%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (7.02%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.92%) Grafana
2 5 (2.92%) Prometheus
3 4 (2.34%) Argo
3 4 (2.34%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.17%) Ansible
5 1 (0.58%) Istio
5 1 (0.58%) linkerd
Vendors
1 81 (47.37%) Microsoft
2 10 (5.85%) Salesforce
3 6 (3.51%) VMware
4 3 (1.75%) MuleSoft
4 3 (1.75%) Splunk
4 3 (1.75%) webMethods
5 2 (1.17%) HP
6 1 (0.58%) Apple
6 1 (0.58%) Databricks
6 1 (0.58%) DevExpress
6 1 (0.58%) Facebook
6 1 (0.58%) Google
6 1 (0.58%) Oracle
6 1 (0.58%) Sony
6 1 (0.58%) Yahoo!
6 1 (0.58%) YouTube