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 18 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 65 97
Rank change year-on-year -49 +32 +12
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 58 167 105
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.08% 4.07% 2.56%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.82% 11.97% 7.10%
Number of salaries quoted 45 117 97
10th Percentile £46,750 £44,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,750 £56,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -4.17%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £81,250 £76,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -3.70%

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 2,055 1,395 1,478
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 38.40% 33.98% 36.10%
Number of salaries quoted 878 788 1,317
10th Percentile £29,425 £32,500 £28,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £37,090
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £86,627 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%

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 18 January 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 18 January 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 -8 32 £60,000 +4.35% 11
Warwickshire -2 9 £54,250 -22.50% 4
Staffordshire -13 5 £60,000 +41.18% 3
Herefordshire -11 2 £93,750 -
Solihull +4 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 (1.72%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (3.45%) Trello
2 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 14 (24.14%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 58 (100.00%) Azure
2 20 (34.48%) Power Platform
3 18 (31.03%) Dynamics 365
4 11 (18.97%) Power Automate
4 11 (18.97%) PowerApps
5 9 (15.52%) GitHub
6 7 (12.07%) AWS
6 7 (12.07%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (12.07%) IaaS
6 7 (12.07%) PaaS
7 6 (10.34%) Azure Functions
7 6 (10.34%) Azure Logic Apps
7 6 (10.34%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (10.34%) Serverless
8 5 (8.62%) Entra ID
9 4 (6.90%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (6.90%) Azure AKS
9 4 (6.90%) Azure Service Bus
9 4 (6.90%) SaaS
10 3 (5.17%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.90%) Firewall
1 4 (6.90%) VPN
2 3 (5.17%) BGP
2 3 (5.17%) DHCP
2 3 (5.17%) DNS
2 3 (5.17%) IPsec
2 3 (5.17%) Network Security
2 3 (5.17%) OSPF
2 3 (5.17%) SD-WAN
2 3 (5.17%) VLAN
2 3 (5.17%) WAN
2 3 (5.17%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (5.17%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (13.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 6 (10.34%) SQL Server
3 2 (3.45%) Data Lake
3 2 (3.45%) Metadata
4 1 (1.72%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.72%) Power BI
4 1 (1.72%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (12.07%) Git
1 7 (12.07%) JIRA
2 4 (6.90%) Jenkins
3 3 (5.17%) MSTest
3 3 (5.17%) NUnit
4 2 (3.45%) GitLab
5 1 (1.72%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.72%) Moq
5 1 (1.72%) NSubstitute
5 1 (1.72%) Selenium
General
1 19 (32.76%) Social Skills
2 11 (18.97%) Finance
3 7 (12.07%) Law
4 5 (8.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (8.62%) Public Sector
5 4 (6.90%) Legal
6 3 (5.17%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (5.17%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (3.45%) Manufacturing
7 2 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.72%) Automotive
8 1 (1.72%) Retail
Job Titles
1 24 (41.38%) Developer
2 11 (18.97%) Lead
2 11 (18.97%) Senior
3 10 (17.24%) Dynamics 365 Developer
4 9 (15.52%) CRM Developer
4 9 (15.52%) Dynamics CRM Developer
5 7 (12.07%) Architect
5 7 (12.07%) C# Developer
5 7 (12.07%) Lead Developer
6 6 (10.34%) Solutions Architect
7 5 (8.62%) Agile Scrum Master
7 5 (8.62%) Applications Developer
7 5 (8.62%) Automation Developer
7 5 (8.62%) C# Application Developer
7 5 (8.62%) Power Apps Developer
7 5 (8.62%) Scrum Master
8 4 (6.90%) Dynamics 365 CRM Developer
8 4 (6.90%) Senior Developer
9 3 (5.17%) Cisco Engineer
9 3 (5.17%) Junior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (46.55%) .NET
2 13 (22.41%) .NET Framework
3 8 (13.79%) ARM Templates
4 5 (8.62%) Entity Framework
5 4 (6.90%) AngularJS
5 4 (6.90%) ASP.NET
5 4 (6.90%) YAML
6 3 (5.17%) .NET Core
6 3 (5.17%) ASP.NET Web API
6 3 (5.17%) React
6 3 (5.17%) REST
7 2 (3.45%) Node.js
7 2 (3.45%) RESTful
8 1 (1.72%) ASP.NET Core
8 1 (1.72%) ASP.NET MVC
8 1 (1.72%) Blazor
8 1 (1.72%) Bootstrap
8 1 (1.72%) jQuery
8 1 (1.72%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 13 (22.41%) Enterprise Software
2 11 (18.97%) Cloud Native
3 5 (8.62%) Product Ownership
4 3 (5.17%) Data Centre
4 3 (5.17%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.72%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.72%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.72%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.90%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (100.00%) DevOps
2 38 (65.52%) Agile
3 34 (58.62%) CI/CD
4 19 (32.76%) CRM
5 13 (22.41%) Scrum
6 12 (20.69%) Continuous Integration
6 12 (20.69%) Infrastructure as Code
7 11 (18.97%) Data Migration
7 11 (18.97%) Migration
8 10 (17.24%) SDLC
8 10 (17.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 9 (15.52%) Code Quality
9 9 (15.52%) Problem-Solving
9 9 (15.52%) SOA
10 8 (13.79%) Kanban
10 8 (13.79%) Technical Leadership
11 7 (12.07%) Continuous Improvement
11 7 (12.07%) Data Protection
11 7 (12.07%) TDD
11 7 (12.07%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 27 (46.55%) C#
2 13 (22.41%) TypeScript
3 10 (17.24%) Bicep
3 10 (17.24%) JavaScript
3 10 (17.24%) SQL
4 7 (12.07%) Python
5 5 (8.62%) PowerShell
6 3 (5.17%) Bash
7 2 (3.45%) Scala
7 2 (3.45%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.72%) Go
Qualifications
1 8 (13.79%) Azure Certification
2 4 (6.90%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (6.90%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (5.17%) CCNP
4 2 (3.45%) PMI Certification
4 2 (3.45%) PMP
5 1 (1.72%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.72%) CCNA
5 1 (1.72%) CISSP
5 1 (1.72%) Degree
5 1 (1.72%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.72%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.72%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (37.93%) QA
2 3 (5.17%) GDPR
3 2 (3.45%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.72%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.72%) PMO
4 1 (1.72%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (6.90%) Active Directory
2 3 (5.17%) Docker
2 3 (5.17%) Firmware
2 3 (5.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (25.86%) Terraform
2 3 (5.17%) Dell DRAC
2 3 (5.17%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.72%) Ansible
Vendors
1 22 (37.93%) Microsoft
2 6 (10.34%) SolarWinds
3 3 (5.17%) Cisco
3 3 (5.17%) Dell
3 3 (5.17%) LogicMonitor
3 3 (5.17%) Meraki
3 3 (5.17%) Palo Alto
3 3 (5.17%) VMware
3 3 (5.17%) Zscaler
4 2 (3.45%) Databricks
5 1 (1.72%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.72%) Salesforce