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

6 months to
7 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 190 75
Rank change year-on-year +85 -115 -21
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 170 50 207
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.37% 0.97% 2.59%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.01% 3.48% 8.70%
Number of salaries quoted 141 35 137
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £49,000 £55,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -8.19%
75th Percentile £74,987 £78,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £97,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +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 2,828 1,436 2,380
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 22.72% 27.80% 29.84%
Number of salaries quoted 2,144 885 1,536
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,528 £31,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £42,434
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 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £87,500 £84,964
England median annual salary £64,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% -4.00% -3.85%

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 7 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 7 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 +28 113 £60,750 -6.54% 62
Lancashire +24 19 £65,000 +44.44% 15
Merseyside -4 17 £60,000 -22.58% 5
Cheshire +27 15 £73,500 +1.38% 8
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 (8.24%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (5.88%) Confluence
3 9 (5.29%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.76%) Anypoint
4 3 (1.76%) BizTalk Server
4 3 (1.76%) IIS
4 3 (1.76%) SharePoint Server
5 2 (1.18%) CMS
5 2 (1.18%) nginx
5 2 (1.18%) Umbraco
5 2 (1.18%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (4.12%) Trello
2 2 (1.18%) Chatbot
2 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (3.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.76%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 170 (100.00%) Azure
2 47 (27.65%) GitHub
3 42 (24.71%) Power Platform
4 34 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
5 30 (17.65%) AWS
5 30 (17.65%) GitHub Actions
6 18 (10.59%) Power Automate
7 13 (7.65%) Microsoft 365
8 12 (7.06%) Azure Monitor
8 12 (7.06%) Boomi
9 9 (5.29%) PowerApps
9 9 (5.29%) Snowflake
10 8 (4.71%) Azure AKS
10 8 (4.71%) Serverless
11 7 (4.12%) Azure AI
11 7 (4.12%) Azure Key Vault
11 7 (4.12%) Azure Service Bus
11 7 (4.12%) Entra ID
12 6 (3.53%) Azure Functions
12 6 (3.53%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.94%) Firewall
1 5 (2.94%) SAN
2 3 (1.76%) HTTPS
3 2 (1.18%) DNS
4 1 (0.59%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (13.53%) Azure SQL Database
2 22 (12.94%) MongoDB
3 17 (10.00%) Power BI
4 15 (8.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 12 (7.06%) SQL Server
6 6 (3.53%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (3.53%) Relational Database
7 5 (2.94%) MySQL
7 5 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (1.76%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.59%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.59%) Data Vault
9 1 (0.59%) Delta Lake
9 1 (0.59%) Metadata
9 1 (0.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.59%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 45 (26.47%) JIRA
2 25 (14.71%) Git
3 10 (5.88%) GitLab
4 8 (4.71%) Postman
5 7 (4.12%) Jenkins
6 3 (1.76%) NUnit
7 2 (1.18%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.18%) Terragrunt
7 2 (1.18%) TestRail
8 1 (0.59%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.59%) GDB
8 1 (0.59%) MLflow
8 1 (0.59%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.59%) WinDbg
General
1 58 (34.12%) Social Skills
2 26 (15.29%) Finance
3 23 (13.53%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (9.41%) Retail
5 14 (8.24%) Marketing
6 10 (5.88%) Games
6 10 (5.88%) Public Sector
7 8 (4.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (3.53%) Banking
9 5 (2.94%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (2.35%) Legal
11 3 (1.76%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (1.18%) Manufacturing
12 2 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.59%) Law
13 1 (0.59%) Local Government
13 1 (0.59%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.59%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 69 (40.59%) Developer
2 47 (27.65%) Senior
3 23 (13.53%) Senior Developer
4 20 (11.76%) .NET Developer
5 14 (8.24%) DevOps Engineer
6 13 (7.65%) Lead
7 12 (7.06%) Platform Engineer
8 11 (6.47%) Analyst
8 11 (6.47%) Azure Engineer
8 11 (6.47%) Senior Platform Engineer
9 10 (5.88%) Automation Engineer
9 10 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
9 10 (5.88%) Software Developer
10 9 (5.29%) Data Engineer
10 9 (5.29%) Senior Data Engineer
10 9 (5.29%) Snowflake Engineer
11 7 (4.12%) Dynamics 365 Developer
11 7 (4.12%) Head of Testing
11 7 (4.12%) Power Platform Developer
11 7 (4.12%) Senior Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (25.29%) .NET
2 33 (19.41%) REST
3 31 (18.24%) Terraform
4 27 (15.88%) ASP.NET
5 24 (14.12%) .NET Core
5 24 (14.12%) CSS
5 24 (14.12%) HTML
6 22 (12.94%) ASP.NET Core
7 21 (12.35%) Entity Framework
8 19 (11.18%) Middleware
9 16 (9.41%) SOAP
10 15 (8.82%) EDI
10 15 (8.82%) JSON
11 14 (8.24%) React
12 13 (7.65%) RESTful
13 12 (7.06%) XML
14 11 (6.47%) Node.js
15 10 (5.88%) Blazor
16 9 (5.29%) .NET Framework
17 7 (4.12%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 13 (7.65%) Product Ownership
2 10 (5.88%) Enterprise Cloud
2 10 (5.88%) Onboarding
3 9 (5.29%) Cloud Native
4 7 (4.12%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (2.94%) Social Network
6 4 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (2.35%) Mobile App
6 4 (2.35%) PMI
7 3 (1.76%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.76%) Legacy Applications
7 3 (1.76%) Low-Code
8 2 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.18%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.59%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.59%) BBC
9 1 (0.59%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.71%) Linux
2 4 (2.35%) Windows
3 3 (1.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (100.00%) DevOps
2 100 (58.82%) CI/CD
3 96 (56.47%) Agile
4 40 (23.53%) Continuous Improvement
5 32 (18.82%) AI
6 30 (17.65%) Infrastructure as Code
6 30 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
7 29 (17.06%) Mentoring
7 29 (17.06%) Stakeholder Management
8 27 (15.88%) Full-Stack Development
8 27 (15.88%) Roadmaps
8 27 (15.88%) SDLC
8 27 (15.88%) Software Engineering
9 26 (15.29%) Analytics
10 25 (14.71%) Test Automation
11 24 (14.12%) CRM
11 24 (14.12%) Scrum
12 21 (12.35%) Collaborative Working
13 20 (11.76%) Coaching
13 20 (11.76%) Digital Transformation Programme
Programming Languages
1 68 (40.00%) SQL
2 48 (28.24%) C#
3 30 (17.65%) JavaScript
4 29 (17.06%) Python
5 17 (10.00%) Bash
6 16 (9.41%) PowerShell
7 12 (7.06%) Bicep
8 8 (4.71%) Java
9 7 (4.12%) TypeScript
10 4 (2.35%) Apex Code
10 4 (2.35%) C++
11 3 (1.76%) DataWeave
11 3 (1.76%) SOQL
11 3 (1.76%) SOSL
11 3 (1.76%) T-SQL
12 2 (1.18%) PHP
12 2 (1.18%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.59%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.59%) Scala
Qualifications
1 9 (5.29%) PMI Certification
2 7 (4.12%) Degree
2 7 (4.12%) SC Cleared
2 7 (4.12%) Security Cleared
3 6 (3.53%) Azure Certification
4 5 (2.94%) PMP
5 3 (1.76%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.59%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.59%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 1 (0.59%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (0.59%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (12.35%) QA
2 12 (7.06%) TickIT
3 8 (4.71%) Data Quality
4 6 (3.53%) PMO
5 1 (0.59%) GRC
System Software
1 16 (9.41%) Docker
2 5 (2.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (2.35%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.35%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (5.88%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.35%) Argo
2 4 (2.35%) Grafana
2 4 (2.35%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (2.35%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.59%) Ansible
3 1 (0.59%) Istio
3 1 (0.59%) linkerd
Vendors
1 79 (46.47%) Microsoft
2 13 (7.65%) Salesforce
3 6 (3.53%) VMware
4 3 (1.76%) MuleSoft
4 3 (1.76%) Splunk
4 3 (1.76%) webMethods
5 2 (1.18%) DevExpress
6 1 (0.59%) Apple
6 1 (0.59%) Databricks
6 1 (0.59%) Facebook
6 1 (0.59%) Google
6 1 (0.59%) HP
6 1 (0.59%) Oracle
6 1 (0.59%) Sony
6 1 (0.59%) Yahoo!