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 11 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 116 88
Rank change year-on-year 0 -28 +18
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 97 61 157
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.10% 1.84% 2.59%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.80% 5.55% 9.45%
Number of salaries quoted 61 56 98
10th Percentile £46,250 £45,875 £39,625
25th Percentile £52,500 £51,760 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £67,188
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £77,875
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +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 2,022 1,099 1,661
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 22.93% 33.14% 27.36%
Number of salaries quoted 1,468 879 1,171
10th Percentile £33,513 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £34,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £53,688 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -5.81% +8.57%
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £63,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% -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 11 September 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 11 September 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 -2 55 £65,000 +8.33% 18
Coventry -7 17 £62,500 - 3
Shropshire -10 13 £47,500 -32.14%
Warwickshire -16 4 £72,500 +20.83% 1
Wolverhampton -13 3 £62,000 -8.15%
Dudley - 2 £47,500 - 1
Solihull +9 1 £60,000 +26.32% 3
Staffordshire -3 1 £52,500 -4.98% 1
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 6 (6.19%) SharePoint
2 5 (5.15%) Confluence
3 4 (4.12%) CICS
4 1 (1.03%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (1.03%) nginx
4 1 (1.03%) Oracle HTTP Server
4 1 (1.03%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (1.03%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (3.09%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (6.19%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 97 (100.00%) Azure
2 24 (24.74%) GitHub
3 21 (21.65%) Power Platform
4 15 (15.46%) PaaS
5 14 (14.43%) Azure Functions
5 14 (14.43%) GitHub Actions
5 14 (14.43%) Serverless
6 12 (12.37%) Dynamics 365
7 10 (10.31%) AWS
7 10 (10.31%) Azure App Service
7 10 (10.31%) Power Automate
8 7 (7.22%) IaaS
9 6 (6.19%) Azure Logic Apps
9 6 (6.19%) Azure Service Bus
10 5 (5.15%) Microsoft Copilot
11 4 (4.12%) Azure AKS
11 4 (4.12%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 4 (4.12%) PowerApps
11 4 (4.12%) Tricentis Tosca
12 3 (3.09%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.09%) VPN
2 1 (1.03%) Firewall
2 1 (1.03%) HTTP
2 1 (1.03%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (19.59%) Azure SQL Database
2 14 (14.43%) SQL Server
3 9 (9.28%) Relational Database
4 7 (7.22%) Power BI
5 6 (6.19%) MongoDB
6 4 (4.12%) Db2
7 2 (2.06%) Data Lake
7 2 (2.06%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (2.06%) Delta Lake
7 2 (2.06%) Parquet
7 2 (2.06%) Power Query
8 1 (1.03%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (1.03%) GIS
8 1 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 25 (25.77%) Git
2 22 (22.68%) Jenkins
3 9 (9.28%) JIRA
3 9 (9.28%) Selenium
4 7 (7.22%) Cucumber
4 7 (7.22%) Cypress.io
4 7 (7.22%) GitLab
4 7 (7.22%) JMeter
4 7 (7.22%) Postman
5 5 (5.15%) REST Assured
6 4 (4.12%) Burp Suite
6 4 (4.12%) Gatling
6 4 (4.12%) HP UFT
6 4 (4.12%) LoadRunner
6 4 (4.12%) SonarQube
6 4 (4.12%) Zephyr
7 3 (3.09%) Maven
7 3 (3.09%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (2.06%) IBM UrbanCode
8 2 (2.06%) TestRail
General
1 25 (25.77%) Finance
2 24 (24.74%) Social Skills
3 23 (23.71%) Public Sector
4 11 (11.34%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (10.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (5.15%) Advertising
7 4 (4.12%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.03%) Banking
8 1 (1.03%) Police
8 1 (1.03%) Retail
Job Titles
1 26 (26.80%) Developer
2 25 (25.77%) Senior
3 24 (24.74%) DevOps Engineer
4 18 (18.56%) Azure Engineer
5 13 (13.40%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 12 (12.37%) Applications Consultant
6 12 (12.37%) Consultant
6 12 (12.37%) Mainframe Consultant
7 10 (10.31%) .NET Developer
7 10 (10.31%) Senior DevOps
7 10 (10.31%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 8 (8.25%) Dynamics 365 Developer
8 8 (8.25%) Platform Engineer
9 6 (6.19%) Azure Platform Engineer
9 6 (6.19%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 6 (6.19%) DevOps Platform Engineer
9 6 (6.19%) Lead
10 5 (5.15%) Automation Engineer
10 5 (5.15%) Cloud Engineer
10 5 (5.15%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (28.87%) .NET
2 23 (23.71%) Terraform
3 12 (12.37%) ISPF
3 12 (12.37%) Spring
3 12 (12.37%) Spring Boot
4 10 (10.31%) Entity Framework
5 9 (9.28%) .NET Core
5 9 (9.28%) JSON
5 9 (9.28%) XML
6 7 (7.22%) ASP.NET
6 7 (7.22%) ASP.NET Core
6 7 (7.22%) Playwright
7 6 (6.19%) CSS
7 6 (6.19%) HTML
7 6 (6.19%) XSLT
8 5 (5.15%) .NET Framework
8 5 (5.15%) LINQ
8 5 (5.15%) RESTful
8 5 (5.15%) SOAP
9 4 (4.12%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 21 (21.65%) Enterprise Software
2 14 (14.43%) Legacy Applications
3 12 (12.37%) Cloud Native
3 12 (12.37%) Mainframe
4 8 (8.25%) Management Information System
5 7 (7.22%) Product Ownership
6 6 (6.19%) Taxonomies
6 6 (6.19%) Virtual Team
7 4 (4.12%) Onboarding
8 3 (3.09%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (3.09%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (3.09%) PMI
9 2 (2.06%) iPhone
9 2 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (2.06%) Mobile App
9 2 (2.06%) Robotics
10 1 (1.03%) Driving Licence
10 1 (1.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 1 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.25%) Linux
2 4 (4.12%) Kali Linux
3 3 (3.09%) Solaris
3 3 (3.09%) Windows
4 2 (2.06%) Android
4 2 (2.06%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.03%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (100.00%) DevOps
2 47 (48.45%) CI/CD
3 35 (36.08%) Agile
4 31 (31.96%) Continuous Improvement
5 24 (24.74%) Problem-Solving
6 22 (22.68%) AI
7 20 (20.62%) Platform Engineering
8 19 (19.59%) Roadmaps
9 18 (18.56%) Collaborative Culture
9 18 (18.56%) Infrastructure as Code
10 15 (15.46%) Technical Leadership
11 14 (14.43%) Test Automation
12 13 (13.40%) Mentoring
13 12 (12.37%) Batch Processing
13 12 (12.37%) Re-Platforming
14 11 (11.34%) Data Modelling
14 11 (11.34%) Full-Stack Development
14 11 (11.34%) Service Management
14 11 (11.34%) Stakeholder Management
15 10 (10.31%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 36 (37.11%) SQL
2 22 (22.68%) C#
2 22 (22.68%) Java
3 12 (12.37%) COBOL
3 12 (12.37%) JCL
3 12 (12.37%) Python
4 11 (11.34%) JavaScript
5 6 (6.19%) PowerShell
6 3 (3.09%) T-SQL
7 2 (2.06%) Bash
7 2 (2.06%) Bicep
7 2 (2.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (1.03%) C++
8 1 (1.03%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.03%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (13.40%) Degree
2 9 (9.28%) Azure Certification
3 6 (6.19%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (5.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (4.12%) Master's Degree
5 4 (4.12%) Security Cleared
6 3 (3.09%) CBAP
6 3 (3.09%) IIBA
6 3 (3.09%) PMI Certification
6 3 (3.09%) SC Cleared
7 2 (2.06%) AWS Certification
7 2 (2.06%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (2.06%) ISEB
7 2 (2.06%) ISTQB
8 1 (1.03%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.31%) QA
2 8 (8.25%) Accessibility
3 6 (6.19%) GDPR
3 6 (6.19%) WCAG
4 4 (4.12%) Data Quality
5 2 (2.06%) SLA
5 2 (2.06%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 5 (5.15%) Docker
2 1 (1.03%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (1.03%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (1.03%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (5.15%) Grafana
2 4 (4.12%) HP Fortify
2 4 (4.12%) Kubernetes
3 3 (3.09%) Ansible
4 2 (2.06%) Argo
4 2 (2.06%) HP ALM
4 2 (2.06%) Progress Chef
4 2 (2.06%) Puppet
5 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.03%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (1.03%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 34 (35.05%) Microsoft
2 8 (8.25%) Broadcom
3 5 (5.15%) Facebook
3 5 (5.15%) YouTube
4 4 (4.12%) Databricks
4 4 (4.12%) Veracode
5 3 (3.09%) Oracle
6 2 (2.06%) Google
6 2 (2.06%) HP
6 2 (2.06%) Pega
6 2 (2.06%) SAP
6 2 (2.06%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.03%) Adobe
7 1 (1.03%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.03%) VMware