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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 107 99
Rank change year-on-year -26 -8 +21
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 61 63 191
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.80% 2.09% 2.24%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.38% 6.02% 7.44%
Number of salaries quoted 46 59 154
10th Percentile £44,248 £38,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £51,674 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £85,000 £70,000 £71,875
90th Percentile £90,000 £81,250 £95,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £68,250 £61,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +10.98% -5.38%

All Cloud Computing 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 1,807 1,046 2,566
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 23.83% 34.74% 30.10%
Number of salaries quoted 1,251 819 2,141
10th Percentile £32,000 £28,500 £26,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £35,250 £36,298
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -2.78% +1.41%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £82,500
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 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 12 June 2026.

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 12 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
Birmingham -14 30 £70,000 +21.74% 19
Warwickshire -3 9 £77,500 +26.53% 3
Shropshire -12 9 £45,000 -30.77%
Wolverhampton -17 2 £62,000 -0.80%
Solihull +14 1 £60,000 +26.32%
Staffordshire -1 1 £52,500 -11.02% 1
Coventry -20 1 £42,500 -37.04% 2
West Bromwich - 1 £60,000 -
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 3 (4.92%) Confluence
2 1 (1.64%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (1.64%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.64%) Integrated Workplace Management System
1 1 (1.64%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 61 (100.00%) Azure
2 15 (24.59%) PaaS
3 11 (18.03%) Power Platform
4 9 (14.75%) Azure App Service
5 6 (9.84%) IaaS
6 5 (8.20%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (6.56%) Azure AKS
7 4 (6.56%) Entra ID
7 4 (6.56%) GitHub
8 3 (4.92%) AWS
8 3 (4.92%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 3 (4.92%) Siteimprove
8 3 (4.92%) Tricentis Tosca
9 2 (3.28%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (3.28%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (3.28%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (3.28%) Azure Service Bus
9 2 (3.28%) GCP
9 2 (3.28%) Google Play
9 2 (3.28%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.64%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (22.95%) Azure SQL Database
2 5 (8.20%) SQL Server
3 4 (6.56%) Power BI
4 3 (4.92%) MongoDB
5 2 (3.28%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.64%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.64%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 10 (16.39%) Git
2 8 (13.11%) JIRA
2 8 (13.11%) Selenium
3 6 (9.84%) Cypress.io
3 6 (9.84%) GitLab
3 6 (9.84%) Postman
4 5 (8.20%) Jenkins
4 5 (8.20%) JMeter
4 5 (8.20%) LoadRunner
4 5 (8.20%) REST Assured
5 4 (6.56%) Burp Suite
5 4 (6.56%) Cucumber
5 4 (6.56%) Gatling
5 4 (6.56%) SonarQube
6 3 (4.92%) HP UFT
6 3 (4.92%) TestRail
6 3 (4.92%) Toad
6 3 (4.92%) Zephyr
7 2 (3.28%) SoapUI
General
1 14 (22.95%) Finance
2 13 (21.31%) Social Skills
3 12 (19.67%) Public Sector
4 11 (18.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (6.56%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (6.56%) Legal
6 2 (3.28%) Advertising
7 1 (1.64%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.64%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.64%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (24.59%) DevOps Engineer
2 14 (22.95%) Azure Engineer
3 12 (19.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 12 (19.67%) Senior
4 10 (16.39%) Developer
5 8 (13.11%) Scrum Master
6 7 (11.48%) Agile Scrum Master
6 7 (11.48%) Lead
7 6 (9.84%) Platform Engineer
8 5 (8.20%) .NET Developer
8 5 (8.20%) Analyst
8 5 (8.20%) Azure Platform Engineer
8 5 (8.20%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 5 (8.20%) DevOps Platform Engineer
9 4 (6.56%) Architect
9 4 (6.56%) Cloud Engineer
9 4 (6.56%) QA Analyst
9 4 (6.56%) Solutions Architect
10 3 (4.92%) Automation Engineer
10 3 (4.92%) Senior QA Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (14.75%) .NET
2 5 (8.20%) .NET Core
2 5 (8.20%) ASP.NET
2 5 (8.20%) ASP.NET Core
2 5 (8.20%) Playwright
3 4 (6.56%) Entity Framework
4 3 (4.92%) CSS
4 3 (4.92%) HTML
4 3 (4.92%) React
4 3 (4.92%) RESTful
5 2 (3.28%) .NET Framework
5 2 (3.28%) Blazor
5 2 (3.28%) Kafka
5 2 (3.28%) LINQ
5 2 (3.28%) Middleware
5 2 (3.28%) ML.NET
5 2 (3.28%) Node.js
5 2 (3.28%) REST
6 1 (1.64%) Bootstrap
6 1 (1.64%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 9 (14.75%) Enterprise Software
2 8 (13.11%) Cloud Native
3 6 (9.84%) Product Ownership
4 3 (4.92%) Management Information System
4 3 (4.92%) Mobile App
5 2 (3.28%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (3.28%) iPhone
5 2 (3.28%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (3.28%) Onboarding
5 2 (3.28%) Robotics
6 1 (1.64%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.64%) Augmented Reality
6 1 (1.64%) Blockchain
6 1 (1.64%) CMDB
6 1 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.64%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.64%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.64%) N-Tier
6 1 (1.64%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.20%) Linux
2 4 (6.56%) Kali Linux
2 4 (6.56%) Windows
3 2 (3.28%) Android
4 1 (1.64%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (100.00%) DevOps
2 35 (57.38%) Agile
3 26 (42.62%) CI/CD
4 15 (24.59%) Scrum
5 14 (22.95%) Infrastructure as Code
6 13 (21.31%) API Management
6 13 (21.31%) Continuous Improvement
6 13 (21.31%) Test Automation
7 11 (18.03%) Platform Engineering
8 10 (16.39%) Coaching
9 8 (13.11%) AI
9 8 (13.11%) Kanban
9 8 (13.11%) Roadmaps
9 8 (13.11%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 8 (13.11%) SDLC
9 8 (13.11%) Software Testing
10 7 (11.48%) Enterprise Architecture
10 7 (11.48%) Full-Stack Development
10 7 (11.48%) Mentoring
11 6 (9.84%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 20 (32.79%) SQL
2 10 (16.39%) C#
3 7 (11.48%) Java
3 7 (11.48%) Python
4 6 (9.84%) JavaScript
5 3 (4.92%) PowerShell
6 2 (3.28%) Bicep
7 1 (1.64%) Bash
7 1 (1.64%) C++
7 1 (1.64%) JCL
Qualifications
1 9 (14.75%) Degree
2 3 (4.92%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (4.92%) Master's Degree
3 2 (3.28%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 1 (1.64%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.64%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.64%) PMP
4 1 (1.64%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.64%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (36.07%) QA
2 4 (6.56%) Accessibility
3 3 (4.92%) Software Quality Assurance
4 1 (1.64%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.64%) GDPR
4 1 (1.64%) GRC
4 1 (1.64%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (6.56%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (24.59%) Terraform
2 5 (8.20%) Grafana
3 4 (6.56%) HP Fortify
4 3 (4.92%) HP ALM
5 2 (3.28%) Argo
6 1 (1.64%) Kubernetes
6 1 (1.64%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 24 (39.34%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.56%) Veracode
3 3 (4.92%) Databricks
3 3 (4.92%) HP
3 3 (4.92%) Oracle
4 2 (3.28%) Facebook
4 2 (3.28%) Google
4 2 (3.28%) YouTube
5 1 (1.64%) AppDynamics
5 1 (1.64%) Planon
5 1 (1.64%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.64%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.64%) Splunk