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

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 134 72
Rank change year-on-year +31 -62 +21
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 75 33 186
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.24% 1.45% 3.17%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.51% 3.47% 8.73%
Number of salaries quoted 55 19 134
10th Percentile £46,250 £52,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £54,750 £60,875 £46,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,400 £72,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.90% +20.83% -14.29%
75th Percentile £86,250 £87,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £90,000
North West median annual salary £69,308 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +2.68% +12.50% -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 1,663 952 2,131
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 27.39% 41.96% 36.35%
Number of salaries quoted 1,300 605 1,678
10th Percentile £33,750 £30,950 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £44,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,528 £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 15 June 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 June 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
Ashton-under-Lyne - 1 £51,000 - 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 (18.67%) Confluence
2 5 (6.67%) SharePoint
3 3 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (2.67%) CICS
4 2 (2.67%) CMS
4 2 (2.67%) nginx
4 2 (2.67%) Umbraco
4 2 (2.67%) WordPress
5 1 (1.33%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 2 (2.67%) Trello
2 1 (1.33%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (4.00%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (1.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 75 (100.00%) Azure
2 22 (29.33%) GitHub
3 19 (25.33%) AWS
4 18 (24.00%) GitHub Actions
5 12 (16.00%) Power Platform
6 8 (10.67%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (8.00%) Azure Monitor
8 5 (6.67%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (6.67%) Entra ID
8 5 (6.67%) Serverless
8 5 (6.67%) Snowflake
9 4 (5.33%) Azure AKS
9 4 (5.33%) Azure Logic Apps
9 4 (5.33%) Copilot Studio
9 4 (5.33%) GCP
9 4 (5.33%) Microsoft Copilot
9 4 (5.33%) Power Automate
10 3 (4.00%) PowerApps
10 3 (4.00%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 3 (4.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.00%) Firewall
1 3 (4.00%) SAN
2 2 (2.67%) DNS
3 1 (1.33%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 5 (6.67%) MongoDB
2 5 (6.67%) Power BI
2 5 (6.67%) SQL Server
3 3 (4.00%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (4.00%) NoSQL
3 3 (4.00%) Relational Database
3 3 (4.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (2.67%) Db2
4 2 (2.67%) Hazelcast
4 2 (2.67%) MySQL
5 1 (1.33%) Data Vault
5 1 (1.33%) Delta Lake
5 1 (1.33%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.33%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 18 (24.00%) JIRA
2 15 (20.00%) Git
3 9 (12.00%) Jenkins
3 9 (12.00%) Postman
4 3 (4.00%) Eclipse
4 3 (4.00%) IntelliJ
5 2 (2.67%) Terragrunt
6 1 (1.33%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.33%) GDB
6 1 (1.33%) GitLab
6 1 (1.33%) MLflow
6 1 (1.33%) Selenium
6 1 (1.33%) Visual Studio
6 1 (1.33%) WinDbg
General
1 17 (22.67%) Finance
1 17 (22.67%) Social Skills
2 7 (9.33%) Games
2 7 (9.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 6 (8.00%) Banking
3 6 (8.00%) Influencing Skills
4 5 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.67%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (2.67%) Legal
5 2 (2.67%) Retail
6 1 (1.33%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.33%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 21 (28.00%) Developer
2 16 (21.33%) Senior
3 10 (13.33%) Cloud Engineer
4 7 (9.33%) Head of Testing
5 6 (8.00%) Azure Engineer
5 6 (8.00%) Delivery Manager
5 6 (8.00%) Platform Engineer
5 6 (8.00%) Scrum Master
5 6 (8.00%) Software Delivery Manager
5 6 (8.00%) Software Manager
6 5 (6.67%) .NET Developer
6 5 (6.67%) Data Engineer
6 5 (6.67%) Senior Data Engineer
6 5 (6.67%) Senior Developer
6 5 (6.67%) Senior Platform Engineer
6 5 (6.67%) Snowflake Engineer
7 4 (5.33%) Software Engineer
8 3 (4.00%) Business Developer
8 3 (4.00%) Java Developer
8 3 (4.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (17.33%) .NET
2 11 (14.67%) CSS
2 11 (14.67%) HTML
2 11 (14.67%) React
2 11 (14.67%) REST
3 7 (9.33%) ARM Templates
4 6 (8.00%) AngularJS
4 6 (8.00%) ASP.NET
4 6 (8.00%) SOAP
5 5 (6.67%) .NET Core
5 5 (6.67%) ASP.NET Core
5 5 (6.67%) Entity Framework
5 5 (6.67%) Middleware
5 5 (6.67%) Node.js
6 4 (5.33%) RESTful
7 3 (4.00%) CSS3
7 3 (4.00%) HTML5
7 3 (4.00%) Kafka
7 3 (4.00%) Visualforce
7 3 (4.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 12 (16.00%) Product Ownership
2 8 (10.67%) Cloud Native
3 6 (8.00%) PMI
4 5 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (6.67%) Onboarding
5 3 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (2.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (2.67%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.67%) Mainframe
6 2 (2.67%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.33%) AI Agents
7 1 (1.33%) BBC
7 1 (1.33%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.33%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.33%) Reinsurance
7 1 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.33%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.67%) Linux
2 1 (1.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (100.00%) DevOps
2 59 (78.67%) CI/CD
3 50 (66.67%) Agile
4 19 (25.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 18 (24.00%) Scrum
6 17 (22.67%) AI
6 17 (22.67%) Infrastructure as Code
7 16 (21.33%) Mentoring
8 15 (20.00%) Analytics
8 15 (20.00%) Roadmaps
8 15 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
9 14 (18.67%) Kanban
10 13 (17.33%) Problem-Solving
10 13 (17.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
10 13 (17.33%) Software Delivery
10 13 (17.33%) Sprint Planning
11 12 (16.00%) Full-Stack Development
11 12 (16.00%) Observability
11 12 (16.00%) Test Automation
12 10 (13.33%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 22 (29.33%) SQL
2 20 (26.67%) Python
3 14 (18.67%) C#
4 12 (16.00%) PowerShell
5 11 (14.67%) Bash
6 10 (13.33%) JavaScript
7 6 (8.00%) Bicep
8 5 (6.67%) Java
9 4 (5.33%) TypeScript
10 3 (4.00%) Apex Code
10 3 (4.00%) PL/SQL
10 3 (4.00%) SOQL
10 3 (4.00%) SOSL
10 3 (4.00%) T-SQL
11 2 (2.67%) PHP
12 1 (1.33%) C++
12 1 (1.33%) Scala
12 1 (1.33%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 6 (8.00%) PMI Certification
2 4 (5.33%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.33%) Degree
3 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.33%) SAFe Agilist
3 1 (1.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.33%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.00%) QA
3 1 (1.33%) GRC
System Software
1 9 (12.00%) Docker
2 4 (5.33%) Active Directory
2 4 (5.33%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 19 (25.33%) Terraform
2 7 (9.33%) Kubernetes
3 4 (5.33%) Grafana
3 4 (5.33%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.67%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.33%) Ansible
5 1 (1.33%) Argo
5 1 (1.33%) Istio
5 1 (1.33%) linkerd
Vendors
1 29 (38.67%) Microsoft
2 12 (16.00%) Salesforce
3 4 (5.33%) VMware
4 3 (4.00%) Oracle
4 3 (4.00%) Pega
5 2 (2.67%) Databricks
6 1 (1.33%) Apple
6 1 (1.33%) Facebook
6 1 (1.33%) Google
6 1 (1.33%) Sony
6 1 (1.33%) Yahoo!