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 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 90 50
Rank change year-on-year -7 -40 +49
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 40 85 134
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.68% 2.32% 5.56%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.92% 6.60% 11.93%
Number of salaries quoted 32 42 125
10th Percentile £52,000 £42,500 £43,800
25th Percentile £57,000 £46,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,750 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year +3.59% -3.98% +8.92%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,625 £80,000
90th Percentile £89,700 £88,000 -
North West median annual salary £65,000 £60,750 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.00% -6.54% +8.33%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 813 1,287 1,123
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 34.05% 35.18% 46.58%
Number of salaries quoted 610 704 964
10th Percentile £29,500 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.35%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,625 £85,000 £85,700
North West median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -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 7 November 2025.

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 7 November 2025. 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
Oldham - 2 £57,500 -
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 1 (2.50%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 40 (100.00%) Azure
2 10 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
2 10 (25.00%) Power Automate
3 9 (22.50%) AWS
4 8 (20.00%) Power Platform
5 7 (17.50%) SaaS
6 5 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 5 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (12.50%) PaaS
7 4 (10.00%) Azure Logic Apps
7 4 (10.00%) Copilot Studio
7 4 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (10.00%) Entra ID
7 4 (10.00%) Microsoft Copilot
8 3 (7.50%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 3 (7.50%) Azure Service Bus
8 3 (7.50%) GitHub
9 2 (5.00%) Azure Functions
9 2 (5.00%) GCP
9 2 (5.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.50%) DNS
1 3 (7.50%) Firewall
1 3 (7.50%) WAN
2 1 (2.50%) HTTP
2 1 (2.50%) SD-WAN
2 1 (2.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (2.50%) Data Lake
2 1 (2.50%) MySQL
2 1 (2.50%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (10.00%) Git
1 4 (10.00%) Jenkins
1 4 (10.00%) JIRA
2 2 (5.00%) Cucumber
2 2 (5.00%) Gatling
2 2 (5.00%) GitLab
2 2 (5.00%) JMeter
2 2 (5.00%) Selenium
3 1 (2.50%) NUnit
General
1 5 (12.50%) Finance
2 3 (7.50%) Banking
2 3 (7.50%) Public Sector
2 3 (7.50%) Social Skills
3 2 (5.00%) Retail
4 1 (2.50%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.50%) Digital Health
4 1 (2.50%) Legal
Job Titles
1 11 (27.50%) Developer
2 10 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 7 (17.50%) Azure Engineer
4 6 (15.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 6 (15.00%) Senior
5 4 (10.00%) Power Platform Developer
6 3 (7.50%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) C# Software Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) Integration Developer
6 3 (7.50%) Lead
6 3 (7.50%) Salesforce Developer
6 3 (7.50%) Senior C# Software Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) Senior Software Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) Software Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) .NET Developer
7 2 (5.00%) Consultant
7 2 (5.00%) Dynamics 365 Developer
7 2 (5.00%) Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (5.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (25.00%) .NET
2 5 (12.50%) ARM Templates
3 3 (7.50%) .NET Framework
3 3 (7.50%) AngularJS
3 3 (7.50%) Lightning Web Components
3 3 (7.50%) React
3 3 (7.50%) REST
3 3 (7.50%) RESTful
4 2 (5.00%) ASP.NET Web API
4 2 (5.00%) Blazor
4 2 (5.00%) Entity Framework
4 2 (5.00%) JWT
4 2 (5.00%) OAuth
4 2 (5.00%) Playwright
5 1 (2.50%) .NET Core
5 1 (2.50%) JSON
5 1 (2.50%) Loki
5 1 (2.50%) Next.js
5 1 (2.50%) React Native
5 1 (2.50%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.00%) Cloud Native
2 4 (10.00%) AI Agents
3 3 (7.50%) Data Centre
3 3 (7.50%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (7.50%) Mobile App
4 2 (5.00%) Blog
4 2 (5.00%) Driving Licence
4 2 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (5.00%) Onboarding
4 2 (5.00%) Social Media
5 1 (2.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (2.50%) NHS
5 1 (2.50%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.50%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.00%) Android
1 2 (5.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (100.00%) DevOps
2 29 (72.50%) CI/CD
3 21 (52.50%) Agile
4 16 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 9 (22.50%) Software Engineering
6 8 (20.00%) Mentoring
6 8 (20.00%) SDLC
7 7 (17.50%) Containerisation
7 7 (17.50%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (17.50%) Disaster Recovery
7 7 (17.50%) Infrastructure Automation
8 6 (15.00%) AI
8 6 (15.00%) CRM
8 6 (15.00%) Full-Stack Development
8 6 (15.00%) High Availability
8 6 (15.00%) Microservices
9 5 (12.50%) Cloud Security
9 5 (12.50%) Identity Access Management
9 5 (12.50%) Incident Response
9 5 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 13 (32.50%) PowerShell
2 8 (20.00%) C#
3 7 (17.50%) Python
4 6 (15.00%) Bicep
5 4 (10.00%) SQL
6 3 (7.50%) Apex Code
6 3 (7.50%) Bash
7 1 (2.50%) Go
7 1 (2.50%) Perl
7 1 (2.50%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 7 (17.50%) SC Cleared
1 7 (17.50%) Security Cleared
2 6 (15.00%) Azure Certification
3 2 (5.00%) AWS Certification
3 2 (5.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 2 (5.00%) ISTQB
4 1 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.50%) DBS Check
4 1 (2.50%) Degree
4 1 (2.50%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.00%) GDPR
2 1 (2.50%) QA
System Software
1 6 (15.00%) Docker
2 5 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 5 (12.50%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (30.00%) Terraform
2 6 (15.00%) Kubernetes
3 5 (12.50%) Prometheus
4 2 (5.00%) Ansible
5 1 (2.50%) Grafana
5 1 (2.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (42.50%) Microsoft
2 4 (10.00%) Foundry
3 3 (7.50%) Salesforce
4 2 (5.00%) Xamarin
5 1 (2.50%) Databricks
5 1 (2.50%) Google
5 1 (2.50%) Meraki
5 1 (2.50%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.50%) Splunk