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 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 68 91
Rank change year-on-year -45 +23 -21
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 62 169 90
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.20% 3.80% 2.95%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.04% 11.58% 7.49%
Number of salaries quoted 52 120 86
10th Percentile £46,750 £48,500 £40,625
25th Percentile £53,000 £56,250 £47,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +18.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,375 £77,500 £111,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -3.70%

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 2,040 1,460 1,202
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 39.41% 32.82% 39.41%
Number of salaries quoted 882 844 1,086
10th Percentile £29,250 £32,500 £28,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -3.85%

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 20 December 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 20 December 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 -1 36 £60,000 -2.04% 13
Warwickshire +3 8 £48,500 -30.71% 1
Staffordshire -13 8 £60,000 +41.18% 4
Herefordshire -6 3 £92,500 -
Wolverhampton -2 1 £70,000 +69.70% 1
Solihull -3 1 £60,000 -9.09%
Walsall - 1 £45,000 -
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 (1.61%) Confluence
1 1 (1.61%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (3.23%) Trello
2 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 14 (22.58%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 62 (100.00%) Azure
2 24 (38.71%) Power Platform
3 18 (29.03%) Dynamics 365
4 13 (20.97%) GitHub
4 13 (20.97%) Power Automate
5 12 (19.35%) PowerApps
6 11 (17.74%) AWS
7 9 (14.52%) Azure Functions
7 9 (14.52%) Azure Logic Apps
7 9 (14.52%) GitHub Actions
7 9 (14.52%) IaaS
7 9 (14.52%) PaaS
7 9 (14.52%) Serverless
8 7 (11.29%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (9.68%) Azure AKS
9 6 (9.68%) Azure Key Vault
9 6 (9.68%) Azure Service Bus
9 6 (9.68%) Entra ID
10 5 (8.06%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (6.45%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.45%) Firewall
1 4 (6.45%) VPN
2 3 (4.84%) BGP
2 3 (4.84%) DHCP
2 3 (4.84%) DNS
2 3 (4.84%) IPsec
2 3 (4.84%) Network Security
2 3 (4.84%) OSPF
2 3 (4.84%) SD-WAN
2 3 (4.84%) VLAN
2 3 (4.84%) WAN
2 3 (4.84%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (4.84%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (14.52%) SQL Server
2 8 (12.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (4.84%) Data Lake
3 3 (4.84%) Metadata
3 3 (4.84%) Power BI
3 3 (4.84%) Relational Database
4 2 (3.23%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (3.23%) Tableau
5 1 (1.61%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (1.61%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 7 (11.29%) JIRA
2 5 (8.06%) Jenkins
2 5 (8.06%) NUnit
3 4 (6.45%) MSTest
4 3 (4.84%) Git
4 3 (4.84%) GitLab
5 2 (3.23%) Moq
5 2 (3.23%) NSubstitute
6 1 (1.61%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.61%) Selenium
6 1 (1.61%) Visual Studio
General
1 16 (25.81%) Social Skills
2 8 (12.90%) Finance
2 8 (12.90%) Law
3 4 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (6.45%) Legal
4 3 (4.84%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (3.23%) Manufacturing
5 2 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.61%) Automotive
6 1 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.61%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.61%) Retail
Job Titles
1 26 (41.94%) Developer
2 13 (20.97%) Senior
3 11 (17.74%) Lead
4 10 (16.13%) Dynamics 365 Developer
5 9 (14.52%) CRM Developer
5 9 (14.52%) Dynamics CRM Developer
6 8 (12.90%) Architect
7 7 (11.29%) C# Developer
7 7 (11.29%) Lead Developer
7 7 (11.29%) Solutions Architect
8 6 (9.68%) Automation Developer
9 5 (8.06%) Applications Developer
9 5 (8.06%) C# Application Developer
9 5 (8.06%) Power Apps Developer
10 4 (6.45%) Analyst
10 4 (6.45%) DevOps Engineer
10 4 (6.45%) Dynamics 365 CRM Developer
10 4 (6.45%) Full-Stack Developer
11 3 (4.84%) Business Analyst
11 3 (4.84%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (50.00%) .NET
2 16 (25.81%) .NET Framework
3 10 (16.13%) ARM Templates
4 8 (12.90%) Entity Framework
5 5 (8.06%) AngularJS
6 4 (6.45%) .NET Core
6 4 (6.45%) ASP.NET Web API
6 4 (6.45%) YAML
7 3 (4.84%) ASP.NET
7 3 (4.84%) React
7 3 (4.84%) REST
8 2 (3.23%) Blazor
8 2 (3.23%) Node.js
8 2 (3.23%) RESTful
9 1 (1.61%) ASP.NET MVC
9 1 (1.61%) Dapper ORM
9 1 (1.61%) Playwright
9 1 (1.61%) XML
9 1 (1.61%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 14 (22.58%) Cloud Native
1 14 (22.58%) Enterprise Software
2 7 (11.29%) Product Ownership
3 3 (4.84%) Data Centre
3 3 (4.84%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (4.84%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (3.23%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (3.23%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.61%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.61%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.61%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (100.00%) DevOps
2 35 (56.45%) Agile
3 33 (53.23%) CI/CD
4 20 (32.26%) CRM
5 14 (22.58%) Infrastructure as Code
6 13 (20.97%) Continuous Integration
7 10 (16.13%) Data Migration
7 10 (16.13%) Migration
7 10 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (16.13%) SDLC
7 10 (16.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 9 (14.52%) Code Quality
8 9 (14.52%) Scrum
8 9 (14.52%) SOA
9 8 (12.90%) TDD
9 8 (12.90%) Technical Leadership
10 7 (11.29%) Continuous Improvement
10 7 (11.29%) Customer Engagement
10 7 (11.29%) Roadmaps
10 7 (11.29%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 31 (50.00%) C#
2 15 (24.19%) SQL
3 14 (22.58%) Bicep
3 14 (22.58%) TypeScript
4 11 (17.74%) JavaScript
4 11 (17.74%) Python
5 8 (12.90%) PowerShell
6 4 (6.45%) Bash
7 3 (4.84%) Scala
7 3 (4.84%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.61%) C++
8 1 (1.61%) Go
8 1 (1.61%) VB
Qualifications
1 11 (17.74%) Azure Certification
2 6 (9.68%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (8.06%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (4.84%) CCNP
4 3 (4.84%) Degree
5 2 (3.23%) CCNA
5 2 (3.23%) PMI Certification
5 2 (3.23%) PMP
5 2 (3.23%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.61%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.61%) CISSP
6 1 (1.61%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.61%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.61%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (27.42%) QA
2 4 (6.45%) GDPR
3 3 (4.84%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.61%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.61%) COBIT
4 1 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.61%) PMO
4 1 (1.61%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (6.45%) Active Directory
1 4 (6.45%) Docker
2 3 (4.84%) Firmware
2 3 (4.84%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 21 (33.87%) Terraform
2 4 (6.45%) Kubernetes
3 3 (4.84%) Dell DRAC
4 1 (1.61%) Ansible
Vendors
1 24 (38.71%) Microsoft
2 7 (11.29%) SolarWinds
3 4 (6.45%) LogicMonitor
4 3 (4.84%) Cisco
4 3 (4.84%) Databricks
4 3 (4.84%) Dell
4 3 (4.84%) Meraki
4 3 (4.84%) Palo Alto
4 3 (4.84%) VMware
4 3 (4.84%) Zscaler
5 1 (1.61%) Autodesk
5 1 (1.61%) Blue Prism
5 1 (1.61%) Google
5 1 (1.61%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.61%) Oracle
5 1 (1.61%) Salesforce