Azure DevOps Job Trends in Manchester

Microsoft Azure DevOps
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Azure DevOps skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 133 59
Rank change year-on-year +45 -74 -6
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 107 38 172
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.56% 1.53% 3.85%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.66% 4.00% 10.34%
Number of salaries quoted 81 23 122
10th Percentile £45,000 £54,000 £38,300
25th Percentile £49,000 £57,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £60,250
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +16.18% -16.90%
75th Percentile £77,500 £87,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £94,000 £90,000
North West median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -9.67%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,890 950 1,663
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 27.62% 38.24% 37.20%
Number of salaries quoted 1,472 618 1,160
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,750 £34,875
25th Percentile £47,500 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.17% - -
75th Percentile £85,000 £75,938 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £85,175
North West median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -4.35%

Azure DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Azure DevOps job vacancy trend in Manchester

Azure DevOps
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Azure DevOps.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Azure DevOps

Azure DevOps
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure DevOps in Manchester over the 6 months to 12 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure DevOps in Manchester

Azure DevOps
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure DevOps within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 12 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
Altrincham - 5 £35,500 - 1
Oldham - 3 £54,250 -
Ashton-under-Lyne - 1 £51,000 -
Azure DevOps
North West

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 13 (12.15%) Confluence
2 8 (7.48%) SharePoint
3 5 (4.67%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.87%) CICS
4 2 (1.87%) CMS
4 2 (1.87%) nginx
4 2 (1.87%) Umbraco
4 2 (1.87%) WordPress
5 1 (0.93%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 7 (6.54%) Trello
2 2 (1.87%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (3.74%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (2.80%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 107 (100.00%) Azure
2 28 (26.17%) GitHub
3 24 (22.43%) GitHub Actions
3 24 (22.43%) Power Platform
4 22 (20.56%) AWS
5 13 (12.15%) Dynamics 365
5 13 (12.15%) Microsoft 365
5 13 (12.15%) Power Automate
6 8 (7.48%) PowerApps
7 7 (6.54%) Azure Monitor
7 7 (6.54%) Snowflake
8 6 (5.61%) Copilot Studio
8 6 (5.61%) Microsoft Copilot
8 6 (5.61%) Serverless
9 5 (4.67%) Entra ID
9 5 (4.67%) SaaS
10 4 (3.74%) Azure Functions
10 4 (3.74%) Azure Logic Apps
10 4 (3.74%) GCP
11 3 (2.80%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.67%) Firewall
1 5 (4.67%) SAN
2 2 (1.87%) DNS
3 1 (0.93%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (9.35%) Azure SQL Database
2 9 (8.41%) MongoDB
3 7 (6.54%) SQL Server
4 6 (5.61%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (4.67%) Power BI
6 4 (3.74%) Relational Database
7 3 (2.80%) NoSQL
7 3 (2.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (1.87%) Db2
8 2 (1.87%) Hazelcast
8 2 (1.87%) MySQL
8 2 (1.87%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.93%) Data Vault
9 1 (0.93%) Delta Lake
9 1 (0.93%) Metadata
9 1 (0.93%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.93%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 28 (26.17%) JIRA
2 17 (15.89%) Git
3 10 (9.35%) Jenkins
4 8 (7.48%) Postman
5 3 (2.80%) Eclipse
5 3 (2.80%) IntelliJ
6 2 (1.87%) GitLab
6 2 (1.87%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.93%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.93%) GDB
7 1 (0.93%) MLflow
7 1 (0.93%) NUnit
7 1 (0.93%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.93%) WinDbg
General
1 31 (28.97%) Social Skills
2 24 (22.43%) Finance
3 9 (8.41%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (7.48%) Influencing Skills
5 7 (6.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (5.61%) Banking
7 5 (4.67%) Games
8 3 (2.80%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.80%) Retail
9 2 (1.87%) Legal
9 2 (1.87%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.87%) Marketing
9 2 (1.87%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.93%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 34 (31.78%) Developer
2 18 (16.82%) Senior
3 10 (9.35%) Cloud Engineer
3 10 (9.35%) Platform Engineer
4 9 (8.41%) .NET Developer
4 9 (8.41%) Senior Platform Engineer
5 8 (7.48%) Azure Engineer
6 7 (6.54%) Data Engineer
6 7 (6.54%) Head of Testing
6 7 (6.54%) Power Platform Developer
6 7 (6.54%) Senior Data Engineer
6 7 (6.54%) Snowflake Engineer
7 6 (5.61%) Dynamics 365 Developer
7 6 (5.61%) Project Manager
7 6 (5.61%) Scrum Master
8 5 (4.67%) Analyst
8 5 (4.67%) Coordinator
8 5 (4.67%) Delivery Manager
8 5 (4.67%) Project Coordinator
8 5 (4.67%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (20.56%) .NET
2 17 (15.89%) CSS
2 17 (15.89%) HTML
3 16 (14.95%) REST
4 12 (11.21%) React
5 11 (10.28%) ASP.NET
6 10 (9.35%) .NET Core
6 10 (9.35%) ASP.NET Core
6 10 (9.35%) Entity Framework
7 8 (7.48%) Node.js
8 7 (6.54%) ARM Templates
8 7 (6.54%) SOAP
9 6 (5.61%) AngularJS
9 6 (5.61%) Middleware
9 6 (5.61%) RESTful
10 4 (3.74%) Blazor
10 4 (3.74%) HTML5 Canvas
10 4 (3.74%) Lightning Web Components
10 4 (3.74%) Visualforce
11 3 (2.80%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 12 (11.21%) Product Ownership
2 8 (7.48%) Cloud Native
2 8 (7.48%) Onboarding
3 5 (4.67%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (3.74%) PMI
5 3 (2.80%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (2.80%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.87%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.87%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.87%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.87%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.93%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.93%) BBC
7 1 (0.93%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.93%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.67%) Linux
2 1 (0.93%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (100.00%) DevOps
2 73 (68.22%) Agile
3 71 (66.36%) CI/CD
4 28 (26.17%) Continuous Improvement
5 24 (22.43%) AI
5 24 (22.43%) Infrastructure as Code
6 21 (19.63%) Scrum
6 21 (19.63%) Stakeholder Management
7 20 (18.69%) Software Delivery
8 18 (16.82%) Mentoring
9 17 (15.89%) Analytics
9 17 (15.89%) Software Engineering
10 16 (14.95%) Problem-Solving
10 16 (14.95%) Requirements Gathering
10 16 (14.95%) Roadmaps
10 16 (14.95%) Sprint Planning
11 15 (14.02%) Full-Stack Development
12 14 (13.08%) Digital Transformation Programme
12 14 (13.08%) Observability
12 14 (13.08%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 34 (31.78%) SQL
2 26 (24.30%) C#
3 24 (22.43%) Python
4 18 (16.82%) JavaScript
5 14 (13.08%) PowerShell
6 13 (12.15%) Bash
7 8 (7.48%) Bicep
8 5 (4.67%) Java
9 4 (3.74%) Apex Code
9 4 (3.74%) TypeScript
10 3 (2.80%) PL/SQL
10 3 (2.80%) SOQL
10 3 (2.80%) SOSL
10 3 (2.80%) T-SQL
11 2 (1.87%) PHP
12 1 (0.93%) C++
12 1 (0.93%) Scala
12 1 (0.93%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 9 (8.41%) PMI Certification
2 6 (5.61%) SC Cleared
2 6 (5.61%) Security Cleared
3 5 (4.67%) PMP
4 4 (3.74%) Degree
5 3 (2.80%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.80%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.93%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.48%) Data Quality
1 8 (7.48%) QA
2 5 (4.67%) PMO
3 1 (0.93%) GRC
System Software
1 10 (9.35%) Docker
2 5 (4.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (3.74%) Active Directory
3 4 (3.74%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 24 (22.43%) Terraform
2 7 (6.54%) Kubernetes
3 4 (3.74%) Grafana
3 4 (3.74%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.87%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.93%) Ansible
5 1 (0.93%) Argo
5 1 (0.93%) Istio
5 1 (0.93%) linkerd
Vendors
1 43 (40.19%) Microsoft
2 14 (13.08%) Salesforce
3 6 (5.61%) VMware
4 3 (2.80%) Oracle
4 3 (2.80%) Pega
5 1 (0.93%) Apple
5 1 (0.93%) Databricks
5 1 (0.93%) Facebook
5 1 (0.93%) Google
5 1 (0.93%) Sony
5 1 (0.93%) Yahoo!