Azure DevOps Job Trends in the West Midlands

Microsoft Azure DevOps
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Azure DevOps skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 76 99
Rank change year-on-year -27 +23 -37
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 70 171 92
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 2.16% 3.18% 2.62%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.05% 11.10% 6.84%
Number of salaries quoted 64 104 88
10th Percentile £43,400 £46,650 £40,875
25th Percentile £50,750 £53,438 £47,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +13.64% -10.50%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £84,250 £77,500 £70,000
England median annual salary £66,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.48% +3.85% -2.99%

All Cloud Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 993 1,541 1,346
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 30.57% 28.65% 38.39%
Number of salaries quoted 796 938 1,167
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £29,150
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +12.75% -2.86%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £66,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% -3.10%

Azure DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Azure DevOps relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Azure DevOps job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Azure DevOps
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Azure DevOps.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Azure DevOps

Azure DevOps
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure DevOps in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 29 October 2025.

Salary histogram for Azure DevOps in the West Midlands

Azure DevOps
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure DevOps within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 29 October 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
Birmingham +7 37 £60,000 - 40
Warwickshire +17 9 £55,000 -21.43% 8
Staffordshire -4 7 £51,500 +5.64% 6
Herefordshire -1 3 £92,500 -
Wolverhampton +5 2 £67,500 +63.64%
Worcestershire +2 2 £42,500 -34.62%
Sutton Coldfield - 2 £65,000 - 1
Walsall +6 1 £45,000 +5.88%
Coventry -7 1 - - 2
Shropshire -10 1 £70,000 -
Azure DevOps
England

Azure DevOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 1 (1.43%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.43%) Trello
Business Applications
1 20 (28.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.86%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 70 (100.00%) Azure
2 27 (38.57%) Power Platform
3 19 (27.14%) Dynamics 365
4 15 (21.43%) GitHub
4 15 (21.43%) Power Automate
5 14 (20.00%) Azure Key Vault
6 13 (18.57%) Azure Logic Apps
6 13 (18.57%) PaaS
6 13 (18.57%) PowerApps
6 13 (18.57%) SaaS
7 12 (17.14%) Azure Functions
7 12 (17.14%) IaaS
7 12 (17.14%) Serverless
8 10 (14.29%) AWS
9 9 (12.86%) Azure Service Bus
10 8 (11.43%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (10.00%) Entra ID
12 6 (8.57%) Azure AKS
13 4 (5.71%) Azure Data Factory
13 4 (5.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.57%) Firewall
1 6 (8.57%) VPN
2 5 (7.14%) DNS
2 5 (7.14%) SD-WAN
2 5 (7.14%) WAN
3 3 (4.29%) BGP
3 3 (4.29%) DHCP
3 3 (4.29%) IPsec
3 3 (4.29%) Network Security
3 3 (4.29%) OSPF
3 3 (4.29%) VLAN
3 3 (4.29%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (4.29%) Wireshark
4 1 (1.43%) ADSL2
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (24.29%) SQL Server
2 8 (11.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 6 (8.57%) Power BI
4 4 (5.71%) Data Lake
5 3 (4.29%) MySQL
6 2 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (2.86%) Metadata
6 2 (2.86%) Relational Database
6 2 (2.86%) Tableau
7 1 (1.43%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.43%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.43%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (1.43%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.43%) Power Query
7 1 (1.43%) SAP BW
7 1 (1.43%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 8 (11.43%) Git
2 5 (7.14%) NUnit
3 4 (5.71%) Jenkins
3 4 (5.71%) JIRA
3 4 (5.71%) MSTest
4 2 (2.86%) GitLab
4 2 (2.86%) Moq
4 2 (2.86%) NSubstitute
4 2 (2.86%) Postman
4 2 (2.86%) TestComplete
5 1 (1.43%) ER Studio
5 1 (1.43%) JUnit
5 1 (1.43%) Selenium
5 1 (1.43%) SoapUI
5 1 (1.43%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (1.43%) Visual Studio
General
1 10 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 9 (12.86%) Law
3 5 (7.14%) Finance
4 3 (4.29%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (4.29%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (2.86%) Retail
6 1 (1.43%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.43%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.43%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 32 (45.71%) Developer
2 13 (18.57%) Lead
3 12 (17.14%) Senior
4 10 (14.29%) Dynamics 365 Developer
5 9 (12.86%) CRM Developer
5 9 (12.86%) Dynamics CRM Developer
6 8 (11.43%) Architect
6 8 (11.43%) Lead Developer
7 7 (10.00%) C# Developer
8 6 (8.57%) Automation Developer
8 6 (8.57%) Senior Developer
8 6 (8.57%) Software Developer
9 5 (7.14%) .NET Developer
9 5 (7.14%) Applications Developer
9 5 (7.14%) C# Application Developer
9 5 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
9 5 (7.14%) Power Apps Developer
9 5 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
10 4 (5.71%) Analyst
10 4 (5.71%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (50.00%) .NET
2 20 (28.57%) .NET Framework
3 11 (15.71%) Entity Framework
4 9 (12.86%) ARM Templates
5 5 (7.14%) AngularJS
5 5 (7.14%) ASP.NET
5 5 (7.14%) Blazor
5 5 (7.14%) YAML
6 4 (5.71%) .NET Core
6 4 (5.71%) ASP.NET Web API
6 4 (5.71%) REST
7 2 (2.86%) React
7 2 (2.86%) RESTful
8 1 (1.43%) ASP.NET MVC
8 1 (1.43%) Dapper ORM
8 1 (1.43%) Express.js
8 1 (1.43%) Node.js
8 1 (1.43%) SOAP
8 1 (1.43%) XML
8 1 (1.43%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
2 9 (12.86%) Cloud Native
3 7 (10.00%) Product Ownership
4 6 (8.57%) Onboarding
5 5 (7.14%) Data Centre
6 4 (5.71%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (4.29%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (2.86%) NHS
9 1 (1.43%) Algorithms
9 1 (1.43%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (1.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (1.43%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (1.43%) Mobile App
9 1 (1.43%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (100.00%) DevOps
2 38 (54.29%) CI/CD
3 34 (48.57%) Agile
4 23 (32.86%) CRM
5 18 (25.71%) Infrastructure as Code
6 14 (20.00%) Migration
7 13 (18.57%) Continuous Integration
8 12 (17.14%) Data Migration
8 12 (17.14%) SDLC
9 10 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (14.29%) Scrum
10 9 (12.86%) SOA
11 8 (11.43%) Analytics
11 8 (11.43%) TDD
12 7 (10.00%) AI
12 7 (10.00%) Cloud Security
12 7 (10.00%) Code Quality
12 7 (10.00%) Customer Engagement
13 6 (8.57%) Front End Development
13 6 (8.57%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 35 (50.00%) C#
2 26 (37.14%) SQL
3 16 (22.86%) Bicep
4 13 (18.57%) TypeScript
5 12 (17.14%) JavaScript
5 12 (17.14%) PowerShell
6 11 (15.71%) Python
7 4 (5.71%) VB
8 3 (4.29%) Bash
8 3 (4.29%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.43%) C++
9 1 (1.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (1.43%) Go
9 1 (1.43%) Scala
Qualifications
1 17 (24.29%) Azure Certification
2 5 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (4.29%) CCNP
4 2 (2.86%) CCNA
4 2 (2.86%) DBS Check
4 2 (2.86%) Degree
4 2 (2.86%) ISTQB
4 2 (2.86%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.43%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.43%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.43%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (17.14%) QA
2 3 (4.29%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.43%) COBIT
3 1 (1.43%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (5.71%) Docker
2 3 (4.29%) Firmware
2 3 (4.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.86%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 24 (34.29%) Terraform
2 4 (5.71%) Kubernetes
3 3 (4.29%) Dell DRAC
4 2 (2.86%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.43%) Ansible
5 1 (1.43%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.43%) Puppet
Vendors
1 24 (34.29%) Microsoft
2 7 (10.00%) Databricks
3 6 (8.57%) SolarWinds
4 5 (7.14%) Meraki
5 3 (4.29%) Cisco
5 3 (4.29%) Dell
5 3 (4.29%) LogicMonitor
5 3 (4.29%) Palo Alto
5 3 (4.29%) VMware
5 3 (4.29%) Zscaler
6 2 (2.86%) OpenAI
6 2 (2.86%) Oracle
7 1 (1.43%) Autodesk
7 1 (1.43%) Blue Prism
7 1 (1.43%) Google
7 1 (1.43%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.43%) SAP