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 16 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 110 105 81
Rank change year-on-year -5 -24 +18
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 114 67 160
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.26% 2.10% 2.87%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.88% 6.72% 10.27%
Number of salaries quoted 64 62 93
10th Percentile £46,250 £45,575 £46,350
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,198 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £74,985 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £84,750 £77,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £66,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -2.26% -1.48% +3.85%

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 1,939 997 1,558
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 21.47% 31.25% 27.91%
Number of salaries quoted 1,436 801 954
10th Percentile £32,625 £28,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,687 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £75,000 £69,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £81,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £63,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -7.69% +4.00%

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 16 October 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 16 October 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 -6 74 £65,000 +2.36% 21
Coventry +2 22 £62,500 - 5
Shropshire -13 10 £47,500 -32.14% 1
Wolverhampton -3 3 £62,000 -8.15%
Warwickshire -21 2 £60,000 - 8
Dudley - 2 £47,500 -
Solihull - 1 £65,000 - 5
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 9 (7.89%) SharePoint
2 8 (7.02%) CICS
3 3 (2.63%) Confluence
4 1 (0.88%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.88%) nginx
4 1 (0.88%) Oracle HTTP Server
4 1 (0.88%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (0.88%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (3.51%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (7.02%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 114 (100.00%) Azure
2 35 (30.70%) GitHub
3 25 (21.93%) Power Platform
4 22 (19.30%) GitHub Actions
5 19 (16.67%) Azure Functions
5 19 (16.67%) PaaS
5 19 (16.67%) Serverless
6 15 (13.16%) Dynamics 365
7 13 (11.40%) Power Automate
8 11 (9.65%) Azure App Service
9 10 (8.77%) AWS
9 10 (8.77%) IaaS
10 9 (7.89%) Azure Logic Apps
11 7 (6.14%) Azure Service Bus
12 6 (5.26%) Microsoft Copilot
13 5 (4.39%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 5 (4.39%) PowerApps
14 4 (3.51%) Azure AKS
14 4 (3.51%) SaaS
15 3 (2.63%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.39%) VPN
2 2 (1.75%) Firewall
2 2 (1.75%) WAN
3 1 (0.88%) HTTP
3 1 (0.88%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.88%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (18.42%) Azure SQL Database
2 16 (14.04%) SQL Server
3 13 (11.40%) Relational Database
4 9 (7.89%) Power BI
5 8 (7.02%) Db2
6 7 (6.14%) MongoDB
7 4 (3.51%) Delta Lake
7 4 (3.51%) Parquet
8 2 (1.75%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.75%) Power Query
9 1 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.88%) GIS
9 1 (0.88%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.88%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 30 (26.32%) Git
2 29 (25.44%) Jenkins
3 8 (7.02%) JIRA
4 6 (5.26%) Cucumber
4 6 (5.26%) Cypress.io
4 6 (5.26%) GitLab
4 6 (5.26%) JMeter
4 6 (5.26%) Postman
4 6 (5.26%) Selenium
5 4 (3.51%) Octopus Deploy
5 4 (3.51%) REST Assured
5 4 (3.51%) Visual Studio Code
6 3 (2.63%) Burp Suite
6 3 (2.63%) Gatling
6 3 (2.63%) HP UFT
6 3 (2.63%) LoadRunner
6 3 (2.63%) Maven
6 3 (2.63%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.75%) Ant
7 2 (1.75%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 34 (29.82%) Finance
2 32 (28.07%) Social Skills
3 31 (27.19%) Public Sector
4 20 (17.54%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (10.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (5.26%) Advertising
7 5 (4.39%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.75%) Retail
9 1 (0.88%) Banking
9 1 (0.88%) Electronics
9 1 (0.88%) Police
Job Titles
1 33 (28.95%) Developer
2 25 (21.93%) Senior
3 22 (19.30%) DevOps Engineer
4 20 (17.54%) Applications Consultant
4 20 (17.54%) Azure Engineer
4 20 (17.54%) Consultant
4 20 (17.54%) Mainframe Consultant
5 13 (11.40%) .NET Developer
6 11 (9.65%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 11 (9.65%) Dynamics 365 Developer
7 10 (8.77%) Senior DevOps
7 10 (8.77%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 8 (7.02%) COBOL Consultant
8 8 (7.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 8 (7.02%) Java Consultant
8 8 (7.02%) Lead
8 8 (7.02%) Platform Engineer
9 6 (5.26%) Azure Platform Engineer
9 6 (5.26%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 6 (5.26%) DevOps Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (35.96%) .NET
2 27 (23.68%) Terraform
3 20 (17.54%) ISPF
3 20 (17.54%) Spring
3 20 (17.54%) Spring Boot
4 12 (10.53%) Entity Framework
5 11 (9.65%) .NET Core
5 11 (9.65%) JSON
5 11 (9.65%) XML
6 10 (8.77%) ASP.NET
7 9 (7.89%) ASP.NET Core
8 8 (7.02%) XSLT
9 7 (6.14%) CSS
9 7 (6.14%) HTML
10 6 (5.26%) .NET Framework
10 6 (5.26%) LINQ
10 6 (5.26%) Playwright
10 6 (5.26%) REST
11 5 (4.39%) RESTful
11 5 (4.39%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 31 (27.19%) Enterprise Software
2 22 (19.30%) Legacy Applications
3 20 (17.54%) Mainframe
4 18 (15.79%) Cloud Native
5 8 (7.02%) Management Information System
5 8 (7.02%) Taxonomies
6 7 (6.14%) Product Ownership
6 7 (6.14%) Virtual Team
7 4 (3.51%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (3.51%) Onboarding
8 3 (2.63%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (2.63%) PMI
9 2 (1.75%) Driving Licence
9 2 (1.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.75%) iPhone
9 2 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.75%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.75%) Robotics
10 1 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.88%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.14%) Linux
2 3 (2.63%) Kali Linux
2 3 (2.63%) Solaris
2 3 (2.63%) Windows
3 2 (1.75%) Android
3 2 (1.75%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (100.00%) DevOps
2 61 (53.51%) CI/CD
3 38 (33.33%) Agile
3 38 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 36 (31.58%) Problem-Solving
5 28 (24.56%) AI
6 26 (22.81%) Collaborative Culture
6 26 (22.81%) Roadmaps
7 22 (19.30%) Platform Engineering
8 20 (17.54%) Batch Processing
8 20 (17.54%) Re-Platforming
8 20 (17.54%) Technical Leadership
9 19 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
10 17 (14.91%) Data Modelling
11 14 (12.28%) Full-Stack Development
11 14 (12.28%) Mentoring
12 13 (11.40%) Service Management
12 13 (11.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 12 (10.53%) Business Development
13 12 (10.53%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 41 (35.96%) SQL
2 29 (25.44%) C#
2 29 (25.44%) Java
3 20 (17.54%) COBOL
3 20 (17.54%) JCL
4 16 (14.04%) Python
5 14 (12.28%) JavaScript
6 7 (6.14%) PowerShell
7 4 (3.51%) T-SQL
8 3 (2.63%) Bicep
8 3 (2.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (1.75%) Bash
9 2 (1.75%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.88%) C++
10 1 (0.88%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (11.40%) Azure Certification
2 11 (9.65%) Degree
3 8 (7.02%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (3.51%) Security Cleared
5 3 (2.63%) CBAP
5 3 (2.63%) IIBA
5 3 (2.63%) Master's Degree
5 3 (2.63%) PMI Certification
5 3 (2.63%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.75%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.75%) ISEB
6 2 (1.75%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.89%) GDPR
2 8 (7.02%) Accessibility
2 8 (7.02%) Data Quality
2 8 (7.02%) WCAG
3 7 (6.14%) QA
4 2 (1.75%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (4.39%) Docker
2 1 (0.88%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (0.88%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (3.51%) Grafana
1 4 (3.51%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.63%) Ansible
2 3 (2.63%) HP Fortify
3 2 (1.75%) Argo
3 2 (1.75%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.75%) Progress Chef
3 2 (1.75%) Puppet
3 2 (1.75%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.88%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (0.88%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 42 (36.84%) Microsoft
2 12 (10.53%) Broadcom
3 6 (5.26%) Databricks
3 6 (5.26%) Facebook
3 6 (5.26%) YouTube
4 3 (2.63%) Veracode
5 2 (1.75%) Google
5 2 (1.75%) Pega
5 2 (1.75%) SAP
5 2 (1.75%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.88%) Adobe
6 1 (0.88%) Oracle
6 1 (0.88%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.88%) VMware