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

6 months to
12 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 118 82 84
Rank change year-on-year -36 +2 -15
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 63 174 91
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.35% 3.49% 2.78%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.62% 11.37% 7.11%
Number of salaries quoted 55 118 87
10th Percentile £46,750 £48,000 £40,750
25th Percentile £52,250 £56,250 £47,750
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 £85,750 £77,500 £89,250
England median annual salary £65,250 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% +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 1,738 1,531 1,279
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 37.22% 30.71% 39.03%
Number of salaries quoted 853 915 1,125
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £79,840 £77,500
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 12 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 12 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 +11 37 £60,000 -4.00% 14
Staffordshire -11 8 £55,250 +30.00% 7
Warwickshire +5 7 £48,500 -30.71% 3
Herefordshire -4 3 £92,500 -
Wolverhampton -1 1 £70,000 +69.70% 4
Solihull -1 1 £60,000 -9.09%
Worcestershire -13 1 £42,500 -34.62% 4
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 (1.59%) Confluence
1 1 (1.59%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (3.17%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (3.17%) Trello
2 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 15 (23.81%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 63 (100.00%) Azure
2 23 (36.51%) Power Platform
3 18 (28.57%) Dynamics 365
4 13 (20.63%) GitHub
4 13 (20.63%) Power Automate
5 12 (19.05%) PowerApps
6 10 (15.87%) Azure Functions
6 10 (15.87%) Azure Logic Apps
6 10 (15.87%) Serverless
7 9 (14.29%) AWS
7 9 (14.29%) IaaS
7 9 (14.29%) PaaS
8 8 (12.70%) Azure Key Vault
8 8 (12.70%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (9.52%) Azure Service Bus
9 6 (9.52%) Entra ID
10 5 (7.94%) Azure AKS
10 5 (7.94%) Microsoft 365
10 5 (7.94%) SaaS
11 4 (6.35%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.35%) Firewall
1 4 (6.35%) VPN
2 3 (4.76%) BGP
2 3 (4.76%) DHCP
2 3 (4.76%) DNS
2 3 (4.76%) IPsec
2 3 (4.76%) Network Security
2 3 (4.76%) OSPF
2 3 (4.76%) SD-WAN
2 3 (4.76%) VLAN
2 3 (4.76%) WAN
2 3 (4.76%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (4.76%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (15.87%) SQL Server
2 8 (12.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (4.76%) Power BI
4 2 (3.17%) Data Lake
4 2 (3.17%) Metadata
4 2 (3.17%) Relational Database
4 2 (3.17%) Tableau
5 1 (1.59%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.59%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (1.59%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 6 (9.52%) JIRA
2 5 (7.94%) NUnit
3 4 (6.35%) Git
3 4 (6.35%) MSTest
4 3 (4.76%) Jenkins
5 2 (3.17%) GitLab
5 2 (3.17%) Moq
5 2 (3.17%) NSubstitute
6 1 (1.59%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.59%) Postman
6 1 (1.59%) Selenium
6 1 (1.59%) SoapUI
6 1 (1.59%) TestComplete
6 1 (1.59%) Visual Studio
General
1 15 (23.81%) Social Skills
2 8 (12.70%) Finance
2 8 (12.70%) Law
3 4 (6.35%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (4.76%) Legal
5 2 (3.17%) Manufacturing
5 2 (3.17%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (3.17%) Retail
6 1 (1.59%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.59%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 28 (44.44%) Developer
2 12 (19.05%) Lead
2 12 (19.05%) Senior
3 10 (15.87%) Dynamics 365 Developer
4 9 (14.29%) CRM Developer
4 9 (14.29%) Dynamics CRM Developer
5 7 (11.11%) Architect
5 7 (11.11%) C# Developer
5 7 (11.11%) Lead Developer
6 6 (9.52%) Automation Developer
6 6 (9.52%) Solutions Architect
7 5 (7.94%) Applications Developer
7 5 (7.94%) C# Application Developer
7 5 (7.94%) Full-Stack Developer
7 5 (7.94%) Power Apps Developer
8 4 (6.35%) .NET Developer
8 4 (6.35%) Analyst
8 4 (6.35%) Dynamics 365 CRM Developer
8 4 (6.35%) Software Developer
9 3 (4.76%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (50.79%) .NET
2 17 (26.98%) .NET Framework
3 9 (14.29%) Entity Framework
4 8 (12.70%) ARM Templates
5 5 (7.94%) AngularJS
6 4 (6.35%) .NET Core
6 4 (6.35%) ASP.NET
6 4 (6.35%) ASP.NET Web API
6 4 (6.35%) YAML
7 3 (4.76%) Blazor
7 3 (4.76%) React
7 3 (4.76%) REST
8 2 (3.17%) Node.js
8 2 (3.17%) RESTful
9 1 (1.59%) ASP.NET MVC
9 1 (1.59%) Dapper ORM
9 1 (1.59%) Playwright
9 1 (1.59%) XML
9 1 (1.59%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 13 (20.63%) Enterprise Software
2 12 (19.05%) Cloud Native
3 8 (12.70%) Product Ownership
4 3 (4.76%) Data Centre
4 3 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (4.76%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.59%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.59%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.59%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.59%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.59%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (100.00%) DevOps
2 34 (53.97%) Agile
3 32 (50.79%) CI/CD
4 20 (31.75%) CRM
5 14 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
6 12 (19.05%) Continuous Integration
7 11 (17.46%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (17.46%) SDLC
8 10 (15.87%) Data Migration
8 10 (15.87%) Migration
9 9 (14.29%) Code Quality
9 9 (14.29%) Scrum
9 9 (14.29%) SOA
9 9 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 8 (12.70%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (12.70%) TDD
11 7 (11.11%) Customer Engagement
11 7 (11.11%) Mentoring
11 7 (11.11%) Roadmaps
11 7 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 32 (50.79%) C#
2 18 (28.57%) SQL
3 14 (22.22%) TypeScript
4 13 (20.63%) Bicep
5 11 (17.46%) JavaScript
5 11 (17.46%) Python
6 8 (12.70%) PowerShell
7 3 (4.76%) Bash
7 3 (4.76%) T-SQL
8 2 (3.17%) Scala
8 2 (3.17%) VB
9 1 (1.59%) C++
9 1 (1.59%) Go
Qualifications
1 12 (19.05%) Azure Certification
2 5 (7.94%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (7.94%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (4.76%) CCNP
3 3 (4.76%) Degree
4 2 (3.17%) CCNA
4 2 (3.17%) ISTQB
4 2 (3.17%) PMI Certification
4 2 (3.17%) PMP
4 2 (3.17%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.59%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.59%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.59%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (26.98%) QA
2 3 (4.76%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.17%) GDPR
4 1 (1.59%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.59%) COBIT
4 1 (1.59%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (4.76%) Active Directory
1 3 (4.76%) Docker
1 3 (4.76%) Firmware
1 3 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 20 (31.75%) Terraform
2 3 (4.76%) Dell DRAC
2 3 (4.76%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 21 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 6 (9.52%) SolarWinds
3 3 (4.76%) Cisco
3 3 (4.76%) Databricks
3 3 (4.76%) Dell
3 3 (4.76%) LogicMonitor
3 3 (4.76%) Meraki
3 3 (4.76%) Palo Alto
3 3 (4.76%) VMware
3 3 (4.76%) Zscaler
4 2 (3.17%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.59%) Autodesk
5 1 (1.59%) Blue Prism
5 1 (1.59%) Google
5 1 (1.59%) Oracle