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 15 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 101 90
Rank change year-on-year -1 -11 -44
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 111 43 92
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.44% 1.84% 2.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.83% 5.06% 6.83%
Number of salaries quoted 87 32 49
10th Percentile £44,000 £52,975 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,875 £57,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -12.73%
75th Percentile £70,575 £77,813 £76,250
90th Percentile £78,000 £89,700 £88,000
North West median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -8.19%

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 1,904 849 1,347
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 24.68% 36.34% 34.77%
Number of salaries quoted 1,406 570 745
10th Percentile £34,625 £29,500 £35,300
25th Percentile £46,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £87,500 £85,000
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 15 October 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 15 October 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 -
Oldham +4 3 £54,250 -5.65%
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 11 (9.91%) SharePoint
2 5 (4.50%) Confluence
2 5 (4.50%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.80%) CMS
3 2 (1.80%) nginx
3 2 (1.80%) Umbraco
3 2 (1.80%) WordPress
4 1 (0.90%) IIS
Applications
1 7 (6.31%) Trello
2 1 (0.90%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (5.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (2.70%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 111 (100.00%) Azure
2 29 (26.13%) Power Platform
3 26 (23.42%) GitHub
4 21 (18.92%) Dynamics 365
4 21 (18.92%) GitHub Actions
5 16 (14.41%) AWS
6 15 (13.51%) Power Automate
7 13 (11.71%) Microsoft 365
8 12 (10.81%) PowerApps
9 9 (8.11%) Snowflake
10 8 (7.21%) Microsoft Copilot
11 7 (6.31%) Copilot Studio
11 7 (6.31%) Entra ID
12 6 (5.41%) Azure Monitor
12 6 (5.41%) SaaS
13 5 (4.50%) Azure Key Vault
13 5 (4.50%) Serverless
14 3 (2.70%) Azure Data Factory
14 3 (2.70%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
14 3 (2.70%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.50%) Firewall
1 5 (4.50%) SAN
2 3 (2.70%) DNS
3 1 (0.90%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (9.01%) Azure SQL Database
2 9 (8.11%) MongoDB
3 7 (6.31%) SQL Server
4 6 (5.41%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (5.41%) Power BI
5 3 (2.70%) NoSQL
5 3 (2.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (1.80%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.80%) MySQL
6 2 (1.80%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.80%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.90%) Data Vault
7 1 (0.90%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.90%) Metadata
7 1 (0.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.90%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 23 (20.72%) JIRA
2 15 (13.51%) Git
3 4 (3.60%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.70%) GitLab
4 3 (2.70%) Postman
5 2 (1.80%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.80%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.90%) Android Studio
6 1 (0.90%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.90%) MLflow
6 1 (0.90%) NUnit
6 1 (0.90%) Selenium
6 1 (0.90%) Visual Studio
General
1 36 (32.43%) Social Skills
2 17 (15.32%) Finance
3 10 (9.01%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (3.60%) Influencing Skills
4 4 (3.60%) Legal
5 3 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (2.70%) Retail
6 2 (1.80%) Games
6 2 (1.80%) Manufacturing
6 2 (1.80%) Marketing
6 2 (1.80%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.90%) Billing
7 1 (0.90%) Law
7 1 (0.90%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 35 (31.53%) Developer
2 21 (18.92%) Senior
3 20 (18.02%) Azure Engineer
4 16 (14.41%) DevOps Engineer
5 14 (12.61%) Platform Engineer
6 12 (10.81%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 11 (9.91%) Senior Platform Engineer
8 9 (8.11%) .NET Developer
8 9 (8.11%) Analyst
8 9 (8.11%) Data Engineer
8 9 (8.11%) Dynamics 365 Developer
8 9 (8.11%) Senior Data Engineer
8 9 (8.11%) Snowflake Engineer
9 8 (7.21%) Cloud Engineer
10 7 (6.31%) Power Platform Developer
11 6 (5.41%) Consultant
11 6 (5.41%) Project Manager
11 6 (5.41%) Senior Developer
12 5 (4.50%) Coordinator
12 5 (4.50%) Project Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (21.62%) .NET
2 23 (20.72%) Terraform
3 15 (13.51%) CSS
3 15 (13.51%) HTML
3 15 (13.51%) REST
4 11 (9.91%) ASP.NET
5 10 (9.01%) .NET Core
5 10 (9.01%) ASP.NET Core
5 10 (9.01%) Entity Framework
6 9 (8.11%) React
7 8 (7.21%) Node.js
8 5 (4.50%) HTML5 Canvas
8 5 (4.50%) Middleware
9 4 (3.60%) ARM Templates
9 4 (3.60%) Blazor
9 4 (3.60%) Lightning Web Components
9 4 (3.60%) SOAP
9 4 (3.60%) Visualforce
10 3 (2.70%) Microsoft Graph
10 3 (2.70%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.01%) Onboarding
2 7 (6.31%) Product Ownership
3 5 (4.50%) Cloud Native
3 5 (4.50%) Low-Code
4 4 (3.60%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.80%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (1.80%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.80%) PMI
5 2 (1.80%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.90%) BBC
6 1 (0.90%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.90%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.41%) Linux
2 1 (0.90%) Android
2 1 (0.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.90%) Ubuntu
2 1 (0.90%) Unix
2 1 (0.90%) Windows
2 1 (0.90%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (100.00%) DevOps
2 61 (54.95%) Agile
3 55 (49.55%) CI/CD
4 26 (23.42%) Continuous Improvement
5 25 (22.52%) Infrastructure as Code
6 24 (21.62%) AI
7 20 (18.02%) Requirements Gathering
8 19 (17.12%) Mentoring
9 18 (16.22%) SDLC
10 17 (15.32%) Digital Transformation Programme
10 17 (15.32%) Stakeholder Management
11 16 (14.41%) Analytics
11 16 (14.41%) Platform Engineering
12 15 (13.51%) Business Analysis
12 15 (13.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 14 (12.61%) Problem-Solving
13 14 (12.61%) Software Engineering
14 13 (11.71%) Full-Stack Development
14 13 (11.71%) RBAC
15 12 (10.81%) Cost Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 35 (31.53%) SQL
2 31 (27.93%) C#
3 23 (20.72%) Python
4 18 (16.22%) JavaScript
5 13 (11.71%) Bash
5 13 (11.71%) PowerShell
6 10 (9.01%) Bicep
7 4 (3.60%) Apex Code
7 4 (3.60%) TypeScript
8 3 (2.70%) SOQL
8 3 (2.70%) SOSL
8 3 (2.70%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.80%) Java
9 2 (1.80%) PHP
10 1 (0.90%) Scala
10 1 (0.90%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 7 (6.31%) PMI Certification
1 7 (6.31%) SC Cleared
1 7 (6.31%) Security Cleared
2 6 (5.41%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (4.50%) Degree
3 5 (4.50%) PMP
4 2 (1.80%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.90%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.91%) QA
2 9 (8.11%) Data Quality
3 5 (4.50%) PMO
System Software
1 7 (6.31%) Docker
2 5 (4.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (2.70%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.70%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (3.60%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.80%) Ansible
2 2 (1.80%) Grafana
2 2 (1.80%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (1.80%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.90%) Argo
3 1 (0.90%) Istio
3 1 (0.90%) linkerd
Vendors
1 42 (37.84%) Microsoft
2 7 (6.31%) Salesforce
3 6 (5.41%) VMware
4 2 (1.80%) HP
5 1 (0.90%) Apple
5 1 (0.90%) Databricks
5 1 (0.90%) Facebook
5 1 (0.90%) Google
5 1 (0.90%) Oracle
5 1 (0.90%) Sony
5 1 (0.90%) Yahoo!
5 1 (0.90%) YouTube