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 28 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 76 91
Rank change year-on-year -17 +15 -18
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 72 184 89
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.92% 3.42% 2.71%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.59% 11.41% 6.95%
Number of salaries quoted 65 121 86
10th Percentile £46,000 £48,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,097 £56,250 £48,188
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 £84,000 £77,500 £78,125
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -2.67%

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 1,093 1,612 1,281
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 29.21% 29.94% 39.02%
Number of salaries quoted 879 950 1,116
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £38,000 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.84% -2.95%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £78,125
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 28 November 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 28 November 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 +9 40 £60,000 -5.88% 15
Warwickshire +21 10 £48,500 -30.71% 6
Staffordshire +7 8 £55,250 +30.00% 3
Herefordshire -5 3 £92,500 -
Sutton Coldfield - 2 £65,000 -
Wolverhampton +7 1 £70,000 +69.70% 1
Solihull +3 1 £60,000 -9.09% 1
Worcestershire +3 1 £42,500 -34.62%
Shropshire -5 1 £70,000 - 2
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 (1.39%) Confluence
1 1 (1.39%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.78%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (2.78%) Trello
2 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 19 (26.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.78%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 72 (100.00%) Azure
2 26 (36.11%) Power Platform
3 21 (29.17%) Dynamics 365
4 14 (19.44%) GitHub
5 13 (18.06%) Power Automate
5 13 (18.06%) PowerApps
6 12 (16.67%) Azure Logic Apps
7 11 (15.28%) Azure Functions
7 11 (15.28%) Serverless
8 10 (13.89%) Azure Key Vault
8 10 (13.89%) IaaS
8 10 (13.89%) PaaS
9 9 (12.50%) AWS
9 9 (12.50%) SaaS
10 8 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (8.33%) Azure Service Bus
11 6 (8.33%) Entra ID
12 5 (6.94%) Azure AKS
12 5 (6.94%) Azure Data Factory
13 4 (5.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.56%) Firewall
1 4 (5.56%) VPN
2 3 (4.17%) BGP
2 3 (4.17%) DHCP
2 3 (4.17%) DNS
2 3 (4.17%) IPsec
2 3 (4.17%) Network Security
2 3 (4.17%) OSPF
2 3 (4.17%) SD-WAN
2 3 (4.17%) VLAN
2 3 (4.17%) WAN
2 3 (4.17%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (4.17%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (22.22%) SQL Server
2 10 (13.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 4 (5.56%) Power BI
4 3 (4.17%) Data Lake
5 2 (2.78%) Metadata
5 2 (2.78%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.78%) Tableau
6 1 (1.39%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.39%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.39%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.39%) MySQL
6 1 (1.39%) Power Query
6 1 (1.39%) SAP BW
6 1 (1.39%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 6 (8.33%) JIRA
2 5 (6.94%) NUnit
3 4 (5.56%) Git
3 4 (5.56%) MSTest
4 3 (4.17%) Jenkins
5 2 (2.78%) GitLab
5 2 (2.78%) Moq
5 2 (2.78%) NSubstitute
5 2 (2.78%) Selenium
5 2 (2.78%) TestComplete
6 1 (1.39%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.39%) JUnit
6 1 (1.39%) Postman
6 1 (1.39%) SoapUI
6 1 (1.39%) Visual Studio
General
1 15 (20.83%) Social Skills
2 10 (13.89%) Law
3 7 (9.72%) Finance
4 5 (6.94%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.78%) Legal
6 2 (2.78%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.78%) Retail
7 1 (1.39%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.39%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 33 (45.83%) Developer
2 15 (20.83%) Senior
3 14 (19.44%) Lead
4 12 (16.67%) Dynamics 365 Developer
5 9 (12.50%) CRM Developer
5 9 (12.50%) Dynamics CRM Developer
6 8 (11.11%) Architect
6 8 (11.11%) Lead Developer
7 7 (9.72%) C# Developer
7 7 (9.72%) Solutions Architect
8 6 (8.33%) Automation Developer
8 6 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
8 6 (8.33%) Senior Developer
9 5 (6.94%) Applications Developer
9 5 (6.94%) C# Application Developer
9 5 (6.94%) Power Apps Developer
9 5 (6.94%) Software Developer
10 4 (5.56%) .NET Developer
10 4 (5.56%) Analyst
10 4 (5.56%) Dynamics 365 CRM Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (50.00%) .NET
2 18 (25.00%) .NET Framework
3 10 (13.89%) Entity Framework
4 9 (12.50%) ARM Templates
5 5 (6.94%) AngularJS
5 5 (6.94%) YAML
6 4 (5.56%) .NET Core
6 4 (5.56%) ASP.NET
6 4 (5.56%) ASP.NET Web API
6 4 (5.56%) Blazor
6 4 (5.56%) REST
7 3 (4.17%) React
8 2 (2.78%) Node.js
8 2 (2.78%) RESTful
9 1 (1.39%) ASP.NET MVC
9 1 (1.39%) Dapper ORM
9 1 (1.39%) Playwright
9 1 (1.39%) SOAP
9 1 (1.39%) XML
9 1 (1.39%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 12 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
2 11 (15.28%) Cloud Native
3 8 (11.11%) Product Ownership
4 4 (5.56%) Onboarding
5 3 (4.17%) Data Centre
5 3 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (4.17%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.39%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.39%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.39%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.39%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.39%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.39%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.78%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (100.00%) DevOps
2 36 (50.00%) Agile
3 35 (48.61%) CI/CD
4 24 (33.33%) CRM
5 16 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
6 13 (18.06%) Continuous Integration
6 13 (18.06%) SDLC
7 12 (16.67%) Data Migration
7 12 (16.67%) Migration
8 11 (15.28%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (13.89%) Scrum
10 9 (12.50%) Code Quality
10 9 (12.50%) Customer Engagement
10 9 (12.50%) SOA
11 8 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
11 8 (11.11%) Customer Service
11 8 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 8 (11.11%) TDD
12 7 (9.72%) Analytics
12 7 (9.72%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 36 (50.00%) C#
2 23 (31.94%) SQL
3 15 (20.83%) TypeScript
4 14 (19.44%) Bicep
5 13 (18.06%) JavaScript
6 11 (15.28%) Python
7 9 (12.50%) PowerShell
8 3 (4.17%) Bash
8 3 (4.17%) T-SQL
8 3 (4.17%) VB
9 2 (2.78%) Scala
10 1 (1.39%) C++
10 1 (1.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (1.39%) Go
Qualifications
1 13 (18.06%) Azure Certification
2 5 (6.94%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (6.94%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (4.17%) CCNP
3 3 (4.17%) Degree
4 2 (2.78%) CCNA
4 2 (2.78%) ISTQB
4 2 (2.78%) PMI Certification
4 2 (2.78%) PMP
4 2 (2.78%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.39%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.39%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.39%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (22.22%) QA
2 4 (5.56%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.78%) GDPR
4 1 (1.39%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.39%) COBIT
4 1 (1.39%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (4.17%) Docker
1 3 (4.17%) Firmware
1 3 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (2.78%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 23 (31.94%) Terraform
2 3 (4.17%) Dell DRAC
2 3 (4.17%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 25 (34.72%) Microsoft
2 6 (8.33%) SolarWinds
3 5 (6.94%) Databricks
4 3 (4.17%) Cisco
4 3 (4.17%) Dell
4 3 (4.17%) LogicMonitor
4 3 (4.17%) Meraki
4 3 (4.17%) Palo Alto
4 3 (4.17%) VMware
4 3 (4.17%) Zscaler
5 2 (2.78%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.39%) Autodesk
6 1 (1.39%) Blue Prism
6 1 (1.39%) Google
6 1 (1.39%) Oracle
6 1 (1.39%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.39%) SAP