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

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 88 88
Rank change year-on-year -41 0 +32
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 55 120 167
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.82% 3.38% 2.67%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.40% 10.20% 7.47%
Number of salaries quoted 35 105 151
10th Percentile £44,598 £46,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £51,875 £56,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +15.38% +6.36%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £76,500 £105,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -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 2,290 1,176 2,237
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 34.35% 33.10% 35.81%
Number of salaries quoted 974 816 1,934
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,844 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.15% +5.58% -7.27%
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £66,188
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

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 17 March 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 17 March 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 -10 23 £60,000 - 22
Warwickshire -7 10 £54,250 -22.50% 5
Staffordshire -12 5 £60,000 +41.18% 5
Shropshire -19 4 £58,750 -2.08% 2
Solihull - 2 £60,000 - 1
Walsall - 1 £45,000 -
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 1 (1.82%) Confluence
1 1 (1.82%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (5.45%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (3.64%) Trello
3 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.82%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (10.91%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.82%) Integrated Workplace Management System
2 1 (1.82%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 55 (100.00%) Azure
2 17 (30.91%) Power Platform
3 11 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
3 11 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (16.36%) IaaS
4 9 (16.36%) PaaS
5 8 (14.55%) Entra ID
6 6 (10.91%) PowerApps
7 5 (9.09%) AWS
7 5 (9.09%) Power Automate
8 4 (7.27%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (7.27%) GitHub
8 4 (7.27%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (5.45%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (5.45%) SaaS
10 2 (3.64%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (3.64%) Asana
10 2 (3.64%) Azure AKS
10 2 (3.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (3.64%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.82%) BGP
1 1 (1.82%) DHCP
1 1 (1.82%) DNS
1 1 (1.82%) Firewall
1 1 (1.82%) IPsec
1 1 (1.82%) Network Security
1 1 (1.82%) OSPF
1 1 (1.82%) SD-WAN
1 1 (1.82%) VLAN
1 1 (1.82%) VPN
1 1 (1.82%) WAN
1 1 (1.82%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (1.82%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 3 (5.45%) Power BI
3 2 (3.64%) Data Lake
3 2 (3.64%) Metadata
3 2 (3.64%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.82%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.82%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.82%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 11 (20.00%) JIRA
2 10 (18.18%) Git
3 5 (9.09%) Jenkins
4 4 (7.27%) Selenium
5 3 (5.45%) Cypress.io
5 3 (5.45%) GitLab
5 3 (5.45%) Postman
6 2 (3.64%) JMeter
6 2 (3.64%) LoadRunner
6 2 (3.64%) REST Assured
6 2 (3.64%) SoapUI
7 1 (1.82%) Burp Suite
7 1 (1.82%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.82%) Gatling
7 1 (1.82%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.82%) TestRail
7 1 (1.82%) Toad
7 1 (1.82%) Zephyr
General
1 23 (41.82%) Social Skills
2 18 (32.73%) Finance
3 9 (16.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 9 (16.36%) Public Sector
4 8 (14.55%) Legal
5 7 (12.73%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (7.27%) Law
7 3 (5.45%) Manufacturing
8 2 (3.64%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (3.64%) Retail
9 1 (1.82%) Automotive
9 1 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (23.64%) Developer
2 10 (18.18%) Senior
3 9 (16.36%) Architect
3 9 (16.36%) Lead
4 8 (14.55%) Scrum Master
4 8 (14.55%) Solutions Architect
5 7 (12.73%) Agile Scrum Master
5 7 (12.73%) Dynamics 365 Developer
6 6 (10.91%) Analyst
7 5 (9.09%) CRM Developer
7 5 (9.09%) Dynamics CRM Developer
8 4 (7.27%) Data Engineer
8 4 (7.27%) Project Manager
8 4 (7.27%) QA Leader
8 4 (7.27%) Senior Data Engineer
9 3 (5.45%) Automation Developer
9 3 (5.45%) Business Analyst
9 3 (5.45%) Dynamics 365 CRM Developer
9 3 (5.45%) Junior
9 3 (5.45%) Power Apps Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (25.45%) .NET
2 5 (9.09%) .NET Framework
3 4 (7.27%) ARM Templates
4 3 (5.45%) Playwright
5 2 (3.64%) Middleware
5 2 (3.64%) Node.js
5 2 (3.64%) React
6 1 (1.82%) ASP.NET
6 1 (1.82%) ASP.NET Core
6 1 (1.82%) Bootstrap
6 1 (1.82%) Entity Framework
6 1 (1.82%) jQuery
6 1 (1.82%) REST
6 1 (1.82%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (25.45%) Enterprise Software
2 10 (18.18%) Cloud Native
3 7 (12.73%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.64%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.82%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.82%) Augmented Reality
5 1 (1.82%) Blockchain
5 1 (1.82%) CMDB
5 1 (1.82%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.82%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.82%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.82%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.82%) N-Tier
5 1 (1.82%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 7 (12.73%) Windows
2 1 (1.82%) Kali Linux
2 1 (1.82%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (100.00%) DevOps
2 41 (74.55%) Agile
3 24 (43.64%) CI/CD
4 19 (34.55%) Scrum
5 15 (27.27%) CRM
6 11 (20.00%) Kanban
7 10 (18.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 9 (16.36%) Continuous Improvement
8 9 (16.36%) Project Delivery
8 9 (16.36%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 9 (16.36%) Translating Business Requirements
9 8 (14.55%) AI
9 8 (14.55%) API Management
9 8 (14.55%) Coaching
9 8 (14.55%) Identity Access Management
9 8 (14.55%) Integration Patterns
9 8 (14.55%) Roadmaps
9 8 (14.55%) User Acceptance Testing
10 7 (12.73%) Business Analysis
10 7 (12.73%) Document Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (27.27%) C#
2 9 (16.36%) JavaScript
3 8 (14.55%) SQL
4 7 (12.73%) TypeScript
5 6 (10.91%) Python
6 4 (7.27%) Bicep
7 2 (3.64%) Bash
7 2 (3.64%) Java
7 2 (3.64%) PowerShell
7 2 (3.64%) Scala
7 2 (3.64%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.82%) JCL
Qualifications
1 5 (9.09%) Degree
2 3 (5.45%) PMI Certification
2 3 (5.45%) PMP
3 2 (3.64%) Azure Certification
3 2 (3.64%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (3.64%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 1 (1.82%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.82%) CCNP
4 1 (1.82%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.82%) CISSP
4 1 (1.82%) ISTQB
4 1 (1.82%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.82%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (49.09%) QA
2 4 (7.27%) GDPR
3 3 (5.45%) Accessibility
4 2 (3.64%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.82%) GRC
5 1 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.82%) PMO
5 1 (1.82%) SOC 2
5 1 (1.82%) Software Quality Assurance
5 1 (1.82%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (14.55%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.82%) Docker
2 1 (1.82%) Firmware
2 1 (1.82%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (12.73%) Terraform
2 1 (1.82%) Ansible
2 1 (1.82%) Dell DRAC
2 1 (1.82%) Grafana
2 1 (1.82%) HP ALM
2 1 (1.82%) HP Fortify
2 1 (1.82%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 26 (47.27%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.45%) SolarWinds
3 2 (3.64%) Databricks
3 2 (3.64%) LogicMonitor
3 2 (3.64%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.82%) AppDynamics
4 1 (1.82%) Cisco
4 1 (1.82%) Dell
4 1 (1.82%) HP
4 1 (1.82%) Meraki
4 1 (1.82%) Oracle
4 1 (1.82%) Palo Alto
4 1 (1.82%) Planon
4 1 (1.82%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.82%) Splunk
4 1 (1.82%) Veracode
4 1 (1.82%) VMware
4 1 (1.82%) Zscaler