Azure DevOps Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Microsoft Azure DevOps
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Azure DevOps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 58 55
Rank change year-on-year -6 -3 +21
Contract jobs citing Azure DevOps 27 25 45
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 2.34% 2.28% 2.89%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.67% 6.23% 6.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 16 43
10th Percentile £316 £403 £401
25th Percentile £361 £509 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £556 £525
Median % change year-on-year -23.60% +5.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £631
90th Percentile - £653 £674
North West median daily rate £405 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -26.36% +4.76% -

All Cloud Skills
Manchester

Azure DevOps falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 476 401 662
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 41.18% 36.62% 42.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 364 271 522
10th Percentile £313 £324 £285
25th Percentile £400 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £575
90th Percentile £639 £675 £650
North West median daily rate £448 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.79% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 4 16
10th Percentile £19.13 £29.15 £15.74
25th Percentile £21.46 £29.38 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.33 £44.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -18.37% +151.13% -72.74%
75th Percentile £70.00 £60.94 £36.25
90th Percentile £73.38 £66.23 £78.13
North West median hourly rate £40.00 £31.00 £23.61
% change year-on-year +29.03% +31.30% -22.35%

Azure DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure DevOps relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Azure DevOps job vacancy trend in Manchester

Azure DevOps
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Azure DevOps.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Azure DevOps

Azure DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure DevOps in Manchester over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure DevOps in Manchester

Azure DevOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 (14.81%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 3 (11.11%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 27 (100.00%) Azure
2 10 (37.04%) Power Platform
3 5 (18.52%) Figma
3 5 (18.52%) GitHub
3 5 (18.52%) Power Automate
3 5 (18.52%) PowerApps
4 4 (14.81%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (11.11%) AWS
5 3 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (7.41%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (7.41%) AWS CodePipeline
6 2 (7.41%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (7.41%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (7.41%) Serverless
7 1 (3.70%) Azure AKS
7 1 (3.70%) Azure Functions
7 1 (3.70%) Azure Storage
7 1 (3.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (3.70%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (3.70%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (22.22%) Power BI
2 1 (3.70%) Data Lake
2 1 (3.70%) Oracle Database
2 1 (3.70%) Power Query
2 1 (3.70%) RDBMS
2 1 (3.70%) Relational Database
2 1 (3.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (44.44%) JIRA
2 2 (7.41%) Git
2 2 (7.41%) Gradle
2 2 (7.41%) Storybook
2 2 (7.41%) Xcode
3 1 (3.70%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.70%) Selenium
3 1 (3.70%) Spinnaker
General
1 9 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 7 (25.93%) Social Skills
3 3 (11.11%) Banking
3 3 (11.11%) Law
4 2 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.70%) Finance
5 1 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.70%) Legal
Job Titles
1 9 (33.33%) Developer
2 6 (22.22%) Change Manager
2 6 (22.22%) ITIL Change Manager
2 6 (22.22%) ITIL Manager
3 5 (18.52%) Analyst
3 5 (18.52%) Business Analyst
4 4 (14.81%) Senior
5 3 (11.11%) Microsoft Developer
5 3 (11.11%) Power Apps Developer
6 2 (7.41%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Banking Analyst
6 2 (7.41%) Banking Business Analyst
6 2 (7.41%) Data Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Digital Analyst
6 2 (7.41%) Digital Business Analyst
6 2 (7.41%) Lead
6 2 (7.41%) Lead DevOps
6 2 (7.41%) Power Platform Developer
6 2 (7.41%) Senior Tester
6 2 (7.41%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (18.52%) HTML5 Canvas
2 4 (14.81%) HTML
2 4 (14.81%) JSON
3 2 (7.41%) ARM Templates
3 2 (7.41%) D3.js
3 2 (7.41%) OAuth
3 2 (7.41%) React Native
3 2 (7.41%) SVG
4 1 (3.70%) .NET
4 1 (3.70%) Node.js
4 1 (3.70%) OpenAPI
4 1 (3.70%) PySpark
4 1 (3.70%) REST
4 1 (3.70%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.81%) Low-Code
2 3 (11.11%) Mobile App
2 3 (11.11%) Onboarding
3 2 (7.41%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.70%) Data Fabric
4 1 (3.70%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.41%) Android
1 2 (7.41%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (100.00%) DevOps
2 16 (59.26%) CI/CD
3 11 (40.74%) Agile
3 11 (40.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 7 (25.93%) Roadmaps
5 6 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
5 6 (22.22%) Change Control
5 6 (22.22%) Change Management
5 6 (22.22%) ITIL
5 6 (22.22%) ITSM
5 6 (22.22%) Process Improvement
5 6 (22.22%) Release Management
5 6 (22.22%) Service Management
6 5 (18.52%) Scrum
6 5 (18.52%) User Stories
7 4 (14.81%) Acceptance Criteria
7 4 (14.81%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (14.81%) Mentoring
7 4 (14.81%) User Experience
8 3 (11.11%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 4 (14.81%) C#
2 3 (11.11%) Python
2 3 (11.11%) SQL
3 2 (7.41%) Bicep
3 2 (7.41%) JavaScript
3 2 (7.41%) TypeScript
4 1 (3.70%) Bash
4 1 (3.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (3.70%) Java
4 1 (3.70%) PL/SQL
4 1 (3.70%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (14.81%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (7.41%) SC Cleared
2 2 (7.41%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.70%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.70%) Degree
3 1 (3.70%) ISEB
3 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (3.70%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (22.22%) Accessibility
2 4 (14.81%) GDPR
3 3 (11.11%) PSD2
4 2 (7.41%) QA
System Software
1 2 (7.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (11.11%) Terraform
2 2 (7.41%) Ansible
3 1 (3.70%) Istio
3 1 (3.70%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 6 (22.22%) ServiceNow
3 1 (3.70%) Databricks
3 1 (3.70%) Dynatrace
3 1 (3.70%) MuleSoft
3 1 (3.70%) Oracle