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

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 115 98
Rank change year-on-year +1 -17 +8
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 87 56 153
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.02% 1.62% 2.38%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.30% 4.87% 8.63%
Number of salaries quoted 60 51 119
10th Percentile £46,125 £45,500 £39,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £54,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £77,500 £71,250 £70,625
90th Percentile £90,000 £86,250 £87,750
England median annual salary £65,000 £69,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -5.80% +6.15% -

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 2,025 1,150 1,772
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 23.74% 33.31% 27.53%
Number of salaries quoted 1,444 925 1,397
10th Percentile £32,752 £28,500 £29,800
25th Percentile £45,000 £34,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £53,688 £56,282
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -4.61% +7.20%
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,750 £84,978
England median annual salary £64,169 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.95% - -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 16 August 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 August 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 52 £67,153 +11.92% 18
Shropshire -12 13 £50,000 -23.08% 1
Coventry -14 8 £42,500 - 9
Warwickshire -12 5 £85,000 +54.55% 3
Wolverhampton -15 3 £62,000 -4.62%
Dudley - 2 £47,500 -
Solihull +14 1 £60,000 +26.32% 3
Staffordshire -3 1 £52,500 -11.76% 2
West Bromwich - 1 £60,000 -
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 4 (4.60%) CICS
2 3 (3.45%) Confluence
3 1 (1.15%) nginx
3 1 (1.15%) Oracle HTTP Server
3 1 (1.15%) SharePoint Server
3 1 (1.15%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 87 (100.00%) Azure
2 20 (22.99%) Power Platform
3 19 (21.84%) PaaS
4 18 (20.69%) GitHub
5 11 (12.64%) IaaS
6 10 (11.49%) Azure App Service
6 10 (11.49%) GitHub Actions
7 8 (9.20%) AWS
7 8 (9.20%) Azure Functions
7 8 (9.20%) Serverless
8 6 (6.90%) Azure Logic Apps
8 6 (6.90%) Azure Service Bus
8 6 (6.90%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (5.75%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (5.75%) Microsoft Copilot
10 4 (4.60%) Azure AKS
10 4 (4.60%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 4 (4.60%) Entra ID
10 4 (4.60%) Power Automate
10 4 (4.60%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.30%) VPN
2 1 (1.15%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (20.69%) Azure SQL Database
2 8 (9.20%) Power BI
2 8 (9.20%) SQL Server
3 6 (6.90%) MongoDB
4 5 (5.75%) Relational Database
5 4 (4.60%) Db2
6 2 (2.30%) Data Lake
6 2 (2.30%) Power Query
7 1 (1.15%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.15%) GIS
7 1 (1.15%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.15%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 17 (19.54%) Jenkins
2 16 (18.39%) Git
3 9 (10.34%) Selenium
4 8 (9.20%) Cypress.io
5 7 (8.05%) JIRA
5 7 (8.05%) Postman
6 6 (6.90%) GitLab
6 6 (6.90%) JMeter
6 6 (6.90%) REST Assured
7 5 (5.75%) Cucumber
7 5 (5.75%) LoadRunner
8 4 (4.60%) Burp Suite
8 4 (4.60%) Gatling
8 4 (4.60%) SonarQube
9 3 (3.45%) HP UFT
9 3 (3.45%) Maven
9 3 (3.45%) TestRail
9 3 (3.45%) Toad
9 3 (3.45%) Visual Studio Code
9 3 (3.45%) Zephyr
General
1 22 (25.29%) Finance
2 14 (16.09%) Public Sector
2 14 (16.09%) Social Skills
3 7 (8.05%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (5.75%) Advertising
4 5 (5.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (4.60%) Legal
6 3 (3.45%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.15%) Banking
7 1 (1.15%) Police
7 1 (1.15%) Retail
Job Titles
1 22 (25.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 20 (22.99%) Developer
2 20 (22.99%) Senior
3 19 (21.84%) Azure Engineer
4 14 (16.09%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 10 (11.49%) .NET Developer
6 8 (9.20%) Applications Consultant
6 8 (9.20%) Consultant
6 8 (9.20%) Mainframe Consultant
6 8 (9.20%) Platform Engineer
7 7 (8.05%) Analyst
7 7 (8.05%) Senior DevOps
7 7 (8.05%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 6 (6.90%) Azure Platform Engineer
8 6 (6.90%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 6 (6.90%) DevOps Platform Engineer
8 6 (6.90%) Lead
8 6 (6.90%) Senior Analyst
9 4 (4.60%) Architect
9 4 (4.60%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (27.59%) .NET
2 10 (11.49%) Entity Framework
3 9 (10.34%) .NET Core
4 8 (9.20%) ISPF
4 8 (9.20%) Spring
4 8 (9.20%) Spring Boot
5 7 (8.05%) ASP.NET
5 7 (8.05%) ASP.NET Core
6 6 (6.90%) CSS
6 6 (6.90%) HTML
6 6 (6.90%) Playwright
7 5 (5.75%) .NET Framework
7 5 (5.75%) LINQ
7 5 (5.75%) RESTful
8 4 (4.60%) React
8 4 (4.60%) REST
9 3 (3.45%) EDI
9 3 (3.45%) SOAP
9 3 (3.45%) Web Services
10 2 (2.30%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 22 (25.29%) Enterprise Software
2 14 (16.09%) Cloud Native
3 10 (11.49%) Legacy Applications
4 9 (10.34%) Product Ownership
5 8 (9.20%) Mainframe
6 4 (4.60%) Onboarding
7 3 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (3.45%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (3.45%) Management Information System
7 3 (3.45%) PMI
8 2 (2.30%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (2.30%) iPhone
8 2 (2.30%) Mobile App
8 2 (2.30%) Robotics
9 1 (1.15%) Augmented Reality
9 1 (1.15%) Blockchain
9 1 (1.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (1.15%) N-Tier
9 1 (1.15%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 8 (9.20%) Linux
2 6 (6.90%) Windows
3 4 (4.60%) Kali Linux
4 3 (3.45%) Solaris
5 2 (2.30%) Android
5 2 (2.30%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.15%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (100.00%) DevOps
2 38 (43.68%) CI/CD
3 33 (37.93%) Agile
4 23 (26.44%) Continuous Improvement
5 17 (19.54%) AI
5 17 (19.54%) Infrastructure as Code
5 17 (19.54%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (17.24%) Roadmaps
6 15 (17.24%) Test Automation
7 14 (16.09%) API Management
7 14 (16.09%) Collaborative Culture
7 14 (16.09%) Platform Engineering
8 11 (12.64%) Full-Stack Development
8 11 (12.64%) SDLC
9 10 (11.49%) Technical Leadership
10 8 (9.20%) Batch Processing
10 8 (9.20%) Enterprise Architecture
10 8 (9.20%) Re-Platforming
10 8 (9.20%) Scrum
10 8 (9.20%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 31 (35.63%) SQL
2 17 (19.54%) C#
2 17 (19.54%) Java
3 11 (12.64%) Python
4 9 (10.34%) JCL
5 8 (9.20%) COBOL
6 7 (8.05%) JavaScript
7 5 (5.75%) PowerShell
8 3 (3.45%) T-SQL
9 2 (2.30%) Bash
9 2 (2.30%) Bicep
9 2 (2.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (1.15%) C++
10 1 (1.15%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.15%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (11.49%) Degree
2 5 (5.75%) Azure Certification
3 4 (4.60%) Security Cleared
4 3 (3.45%) CBAP
4 3 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (3.45%) IIBA
4 3 (3.45%) Master's Degree
4 3 (3.45%) PMI Certification
4 3 (3.45%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.30%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.30%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.15%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (16.09%) QA
2 3 (3.45%) Accessibility
2 3 (3.45%) Software Quality Assurance
3 2 (2.30%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.30%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (5.75%) Docker
2 4 (4.60%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.15%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (1.15%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.15%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 22 (25.29%) Terraform
2 5 (5.75%) Grafana
3 4 (4.60%) HP Fortify
3 4 (4.60%) Kubernetes
4 3 (3.45%) Ansible
4 3 (3.45%) HP ALM
5 2 (2.30%) Argo
5 2 (2.30%) Progress Chef
5 2 (2.30%) Puppet
6 1 (1.15%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (1.15%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 27 (31.03%) Microsoft
2 5 (5.75%) Facebook
2 5 (5.75%) YouTube
3 4 (4.60%) Broadcom
3 4 (4.60%) Databricks
3 4 (4.60%) Oracle
3 4 (4.60%) Veracode
4 3 (3.45%) HP
5 2 (2.30%) Google
5 2 (2.30%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.15%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.15%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.15%) Splunk
6 1 (1.15%) VMware