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

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 116 93
Rank change year-on-year +4 -23 +16
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 97 58 162
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.13% 1.70% 2.57%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.85% 5.20% 9.35%
Number of salaries quoted 62 52 113
10th Percentile £46,250 £45,575 £39,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,399 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,625 £71,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £84,750 £83,500
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 2,000 1,116 1,733
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 23.23% 32.72% 27.50%
Number of salaries quoted 1,455 894 1,287
10th Percentile £33,675 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £33,813 £39,500
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 £83,750
England median annual salary £64,110 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +6.85% -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 3 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 3 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 -9 53 £65,000 +8.33% 26
Shropshire -10 16 £48,750 -25.00%
Coventry -4 15 £62,500 - 3
Warwickshire -14 4 £72,500 +20.83% 2
Wolverhampton -14 3 £62,000 -4.62%
Dudley - 2 £47,500 - 1
Solihull +9 1 £60,000 +26.32% 2
Staffordshire +3 1 £52,500 -4.98% 1
West Bromwich - 1 £60,000 - 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 5 (5.15%) Confluence
2 4 (4.12%) CICS
2 4 (4.12%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.03%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (1.03%) nginx
3 1 (1.03%) Oracle HTTP Server
3 1 (1.03%) SharePoint Server
3 1 (1.03%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (3.09%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (4.12%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 97 (100.00%) Azure
2 22 (22.68%) GitHub
3 20 (20.62%) Power Platform
4 15 (15.46%) PaaS
5 13 (13.40%) GitHub Actions
6 12 (12.37%) Azure Functions
6 12 (12.37%) Serverless
7 10 (10.31%) AWS
7 10 (10.31%) Azure App Service
7 10 (10.31%) Dynamics 365
8 8 (8.25%) Power Automate
9 7 (7.22%) IaaS
10 6 (6.19%) Azure Logic Apps
10 6 (6.19%) Azure Service Bus
11 5 (5.15%) Microsoft Copilot
12 4 (4.12%) Azure AKS
12 4 (4.12%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 4 (4.12%) PowerApps
12 4 (4.12%) Tricentis Tosca
13 3 (3.09%) Azure Data Factory
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 13 (13.40%) SQL Server
3 8 (8.25%) Power BI
3 8 (8.25%) Relational Database
4 6 (6.19%) MongoDB
5 4 (4.12%) Db2
6 2 (2.06%) Data Lake
6 2 (2.06%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (2.06%) Power Query
7 1 (1.03%) Delta Lake
7 1 (1.03%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.03%) GIS
7 1 (1.03%) Parquet
7 1 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.03%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 23 (23.71%) Git
1 23 (23.71%) Jenkins
2 12 (12.37%) Selenium
3 10 (10.31%) JIRA
3 10 (10.31%) Postman
4 9 (9.28%) Cypress.io
4 9 (9.28%) GitLab
4 9 (9.28%) JMeter
5 8 (8.25%) Cucumber
6 7 (7.22%) REST Assured
7 6 (6.19%) LoadRunner
8 5 (5.15%) Burp Suite
8 5 (5.15%) Gatling
8 5 (5.15%) SonarQube
8 5 (5.15%) Zephyr
9 4 (4.12%) HP UFT
9 4 (4.12%) SoapUI
10 3 (3.09%) Maven
10 3 (3.09%) Toad
10 3 (3.09%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 23 (23.71%) Finance
2 22 (22.68%) Social Skills
3 20 (20.62%) Public Sector
4 11 (11.34%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (8.25%) 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%) Senior
2 24 (24.74%) Developer
2 24 (24.74%) DevOps Engineer
3 18 (18.56%) Azure Engineer
4 13 (13.40%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 11 (11.34%) Applications Consultant
5 11 (11.34%) Consultant
5 11 (11.34%) Mainframe Consultant
6 10 (10.31%) .NET Developer
6 10 (10.31%) Senior DevOps
6 10 (10.31%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 8 (8.25%) Lead
7 8 (8.25%) Platform Engineer
8 7 (7.22%) Analyst
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%) Dynamics 365 Developer
9 6 (6.19%) Senior Analyst
10 5 (5.15%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (27.84%) .NET
2 23 (23.71%) Terraform
3 11 (11.34%) ISPF
3 11 (11.34%) Spring
3 11 (11.34%) Spring Boot
4 10 (10.31%) Entity Framework
5 9 (9.28%) .NET Core
5 9 (9.28%) Playwright
6 7 (7.22%) ASP.NET
6 7 (7.22%) ASP.NET Core
6 7 (7.22%) JSON
6 7 (7.22%) XML
7 6 (6.19%) CSS
7 6 (6.19%) HTML
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
9 4 (4.12%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 22 (22.68%) Enterprise Software
2 13 (13.40%) Legacy Applications
3 11 (11.34%) Cloud Native
3 11 (11.34%) Mainframe
4 9 (9.28%) Product Ownership
5 7 (7.22%) Management Information System
6 4 (4.12%) Onboarding
6 4 (4.12%) Taxonomies
6 4 (4.12%) Virtual Team
7 3 (3.09%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (3.09%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (3.09%) PMI
8 2 (2.06%) iPhone
8 2 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (2.06%) Mobile App
8 2 (2.06%) Robotics
9 1 (1.03%) Blockchain
9 1 (1.03%) Driving Licence
9 1 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (1.03%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 9 (9.28%) Linux
2 5 (5.15%) 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 23 (23.71%) Problem-Solving
6 20 (20.62%) AI
7 18 (18.56%) Infrastructure as Code
7 18 (18.56%) Platform Engineering
7 18 (18.56%) Test Automation
8 17 (17.53%) Collaborative Culture
8 17 (17.53%) Roadmaps
9 13 (13.40%) Technical Leadership
10 12 (12.37%) SDLC
11 11 (11.34%) Batch Processing
11 11 (11.34%) Full-Stack Development
11 11 (11.34%) Mentoring
11 11 (11.34%) Re-Platforming
11 11 (11.34%) Software Testing
12 10 (10.31%) API Management
12 10 (10.31%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 36 (37.11%) SQL
2 23 (23.71%) Java
3 21 (21.65%) C#
4 13 (13.40%) Python
5 12 (12.37%) JCL
6 11 (11.34%) COBOL
6 11 (11.34%) JavaScript
7 6 (6.19%) PowerShell
8 3 (3.09%) T-SQL
9 2 (2.06%) Bash
9 2 (2.06%) Bicep
9 2 (2.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (1.03%) C++
10 1 (1.03%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.03%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (13.40%) Degree
2 8 (8.25%) Azure Certification
3 4 (4.12%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (4.12%) Master's Degree
3 4 (4.12%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (4.12%) Security Cleared
4 3 (3.09%) CBAP
4 3 (3.09%) IIBA
4 3 (3.09%) PMI Certification
4 3 (3.09%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.06%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.06%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.06%) ISEB
5 2 (2.06%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.03%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (14.43%) QA
2 7 (7.22%) Accessibility
3 4 (4.12%) GDPR
3 4 (4.12%) WCAG
4 3 (3.09%) Data Quality
4 3 (3.09%) Software Quality Assurance
5 2 (2.06%) SLA
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 6 (6.19%) Grafana
2 5 (5.15%) HP Fortify
3 4 (4.12%) Kubernetes
4 3 (3.09%) Ansible
4 3 (3.09%) HP ALM
5 2 (2.06%) Argo
5 2 (2.06%) Progress Chef
5 2 (2.06%) Puppet
6 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.03%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (1.03%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 31 (31.96%) Microsoft
2 7 (7.22%) Broadcom
3 5 (5.15%) Facebook
3 5 (5.15%) Veracode
3 5 (5.15%) YouTube
4 4 (4.12%) Databricks
4 4 (4.12%) Oracle
5 3 (3.09%) HP
6 2 (2.06%) Google
6 2 (2.06%) Pega
6 2 (2.06%) SAP
6 2 (2.06%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.03%) Adobe
7 1 (1.03%) AppDynamics
7 1 (1.03%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.03%) Splunk
7 1 (1.03%) VMware