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

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 130 69
Rank change year-on-year +37 -61 -4
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 88 35 178
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.37% 1.41% 3.36%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.85% 3.64% 8.99%
Number of salaries quoted 66 21 127
10th Percentile £45,000 £53,750 £38,550
25th Percentile £47,813 £57,500 £44,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,500 £70,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.43% +14.75% -18.67%
75th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £90,000
North West median annual salary £65,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.77% +8.33% -11.11%

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 1,815 962 1,980
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 28.23% 38.65% 37.35%
Number of salaries quoted 1,425 622 1,494
10th Percentile £34,550 £30,750 £31,825
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £85,000 £76,840 £71,991
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,778 £85,000
North West median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -

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 19 July 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 19 July 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 - 2 £35,500 - 1
Ashton-under-Lyne - 1 £51,000 -
Oldham - 1 £54,250 - 1
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 14 (15.91%) Confluence
2 5 (5.68%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (5.68%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.27%) CICS
3 2 (2.27%) CMS
3 2 (2.27%) nginx
3 2 (2.27%) Umbraco
3 2 (2.27%) WordPress
4 1 (1.14%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 7 (7.95%) Trello
2 1 (1.14%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (3.41%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (2.27%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 88 (100.00%) Azure
2 24 (27.27%) GitHub
3 21 (23.86%) AWS
4 20 (22.73%) GitHub Actions
5 17 (19.32%) Power Platform
6 10 (11.36%) Microsoft 365
7 9 (10.23%) Dynamics 365
8 7 (7.95%) Azure Monitor
9 6 (6.82%) Power Automate
9 6 (6.82%) Serverless
10 5 (5.68%) Entra ID
10 5 (5.68%) Snowflake
11 4 (4.55%) Azure AKS
11 4 (4.55%) Azure Functions
11 4 (4.55%) Azure Logic Apps
11 4 (4.55%) Copilot Studio
11 4 (4.55%) GCP
11 4 (4.55%) Microsoft Copilot
12 3 (3.41%) Datadog
12 3 (3.41%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.68%) Firewall
1 5 (5.68%) SAN
2 2 (2.27%) DNS
3 1 (1.14%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (10.23%) Azure SQL Database
2 8 (9.09%) MongoDB
3 6 (6.82%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (5.68%) Power BI
4 5 (5.68%) SQL Server
5 3 (3.41%) NoSQL
5 3 (3.41%) Relational Database
5 3 (3.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (2.27%) Db2
6 2 (2.27%) Hazelcast
6 2 (2.27%) MySQL
7 1 (1.14%) Data Vault
7 1 (1.14%) Delta Lake
7 1 (1.14%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.14%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (1.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 24 (27.27%) JIRA
2 15 (17.05%) Git
3 9 (10.23%) Jenkins
4 8 (9.09%) Postman
5 3 (3.41%) Eclipse
5 3 (3.41%) IntelliJ
6 2 (2.27%) Terragrunt
7 1 (1.14%) GDB
7 1 (1.14%) GitLab
7 1 (1.14%) MLflow
7 1 (1.14%) Visual Studio
7 1 (1.14%) WinDbg
General
1 25 (28.41%) Social Skills
2 22 (25.00%) Finance
3 7 (7.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (6.82%) Banking
4 6 (6.82%) Games
4 6 (6.82%) Influencing Skills
5 5 (5.68%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.41%) Retail
7 2 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.27%) Legal
7 2 (2.27%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.14%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 27 (30.68%) Developer
2 17 (19.32%) Senior
3 10 (11.36%) Cloud Engineer
4 8 (9.09%) .NET Developer
4 8 (9.09%) Platform Engineer
5 7 (7.95%) Head of Testing
5 7 (7.95%) Senior Platform Engineer
6 6 (6.82%) Azure Engineer
6 6 (6.82%) Delivery Manager
6 6 (6.82%) Scrum Master
7 5 (5.68%) Automation Engineer
7 5 (5.68%) Data Engineer
7 5 (5.68%) Project Manager
7 5 (5.68%) Senior Automation Engineer
7 5 (5.68%) Senior Data Engineer
7 5 (5.68%) Senior Developer
7 5 (5.68%) Snowflake Engineer
7 5 (5.68%) Software Delivery Manager
7 5 (5.68%) Software Manager
8 4 (4.55%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (20.45%) .NET
2 14 (15.91%) CSS
2 14 (15.91%) HTML
3 11 (12.50%) REST
4 10 (11.36%) React
5 9 (10.23%) ASP.NET
6 8 (9.09%) .NET Core
6 8 (9.09%) ASP.NET Core
6 8 (9.09%) Entity Framework
6 8 (9.09%) Node.js
7 7 (7.95%) ARM Templates
8 6 (6.82%) SOAP
9 5 (5.68%) AngularJS
9 5 (5.68%) Middleware
10 4 (4.55%) RESTful
11 3 (3.41%) HTML5
11 3 (3.41%) J2EE
11 3 (3.41%) Kafka
11 3 (3.41%) Visualforce
11 3 (3.41%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 12 (13.64%) Product Ownership
2 8 (9.09%) Cloud Native
3 5 (5.68%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (5.68%) Onboarding
3 5 (5.68%) PMI
4 3 (3.41%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.27%) Mainframe
5 2 (2.27%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.14%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.14%) BBC
6 1 (1.14%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.14%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.14%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.14%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.68%) Linux
2 1 (1.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (100.00%) DevOps
2 66 (75.00%) CI/CD
3 62 (70.45%) Agile
4 22 (25.00%) Scrum
5 21 (23.86%) Continuous Improvement
6 19 (21.59%) AI
6 19 (21.59%) Infrastructure as Code
6 19 (21.59%) Stakeholder Management
7 18 (20.45%) Mentoring
7 18 (20.45%) Software Delivery
8 16 (18.18%) Roadmaps
9 15 (17.05%) Analytics
10 14 (15.91%) Full-Stack Development
10 14 (15.91%) Software Engineering
10 14 (15.91%) Sprint Planning
11 13 (14.77%) Kanban
11 13 (14.77%) Problem-Solving
11 13 (14.77%) Scaled Agile Framework
11 13 (14.77%) SDLC
12 12 (13.64%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 27 (30.68%) SQL
2 22 (25.00%) Python
3 19 (21.59%) C#
4 14 (15.91%) PowerShell
5 12 (13.64%) JavaScript
6 11 (12.50%) Bash
7 8 (9.09%) Bicep
8 5 (5.68%) Java
9 4 (4.55%) TypeScript
10 3 (3.41%) Apex Code
10 3 (3.41%) PL/SQL
10 3 (3.41%) SOQL
10 3 (3.41%) SOSL
10 3 (3.41%) T-SQL
11 2 (2.27%) PHP
12 1 (1.14%) C++
12 1 (1.14%) Scala
12 1 (1.14%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 9 (10.23%) PMI Certification
2 4 (4.55%) PMP
3 3 (3.41%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.27%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.27%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.14%) Degree
5 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.14%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.68%) QA
2 4 (4.55%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.27%) PMO
4 1 (1.14%) GRC
System Software
1 9 (10.23%) Docker
2 5 (5.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (4.55%) Active Directory
3 4 (4.55%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (23.86%) Terraform
2 7 (7.95%) Kubernetes
3 4 (4.55%) Grafana
3 4 (4.55%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.27%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.14%) Ansible
5 1 (1.14%) Argo
5 1 (1.14%) Istio
5 1 (1.14%) linkerd
Vendors
1 35 (39.77%) Microsoft
2 12 (13.64%) Salesforce
3 6 (6.82%) VMware
4 3 (3.41%) Oracle
4 3 (3.41%) Pega
5 2 (2.27%) Databricks
6 1 (1.14%) Apple
6 1 (1.14%) Facebook
6 1 (1.14%) Google
6 1 (1.14%) Sony
6 1 (1.14%) Yahoo!