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

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 92 109
Rank change year-on-year -30 +17 +25
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 26 54 85
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.71% 2.29% 2.20%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.97% 5.60% 5.57%
Number of salaries quoted 25 28 72
10th Percentile £50,500 £45,575 £44,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,438 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £72,500 £63,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +15.08% -3.08%
75th Percentile £77,500 £84,688 £80,625
90th Percentile £87,500 £89,375 £90,000
North West median annual salary £63,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.08% - +8.33%

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 1,317 964 1,526
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 35.84% 40.80% 39.42%
Number of salaries quoted 733 591 1,330
10th Percentile £30,500 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,250 £85,000
North West median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% -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 1 March 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 1 March 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
Oldham - 1 £50,000 -
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 5 (19.23%) Confluence
2 3 (11.54%) SharePoint
3 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 26 (100.00%) Azure
2 6 (23.08%) AWS
2 6 (23.08%) Power Automate
3 5 (19.23%) Azure Monitor
4 4 (15.38%) Entra ID
4 4 (15.38%) GitHub
5 3 (11.54%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (11.54%) Azure AKS
5 3 (11.54%) Azure Functions
5 3 (11.54%) Azure Logic Apps
5 3 (11.54%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (11.54%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (11.54%) Power Platform
5 3 (11.54%) Serverless
6 2 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (7.69%) Azure Storage
6 2 (7.69%) Copilot Studio
6 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Copilot
6 2 (7.69%) SaaS
7 1 (3.85%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.69%) DNS
1 2 (7.69%) Firewall
1 2 (7.69%) WAN
2 1 (3.85%) DHCP
2 1 (3.85%) HTTP
2 1 (3.85%) Network Security
2 1 (3.85%) SD-WAN
2 1 (3.85%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.85%) VLAN
2 1 (3.85%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.69%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.85%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (3.85%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (26.92%) JIRA
2 2 (7.69%) Git
3 1 (3.85%) Cypress.io
3 1 (3.85%) NUnit
3 1 (3.85%) Postman
3 1 (3.85%) Selenium
General
1 5 (19.23%) Finance
2 4 (15.38%) Banking
3 2 (7.69%) Games
3 2 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (7.69%) Retail
4 1 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Law
4 1 (3.85%) Legal
4 1 (3.85%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.85%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (23.08%) Developer
1 6 (23.08%) Senior
2 5 (19.23%) Software Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) C# Software Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) Cloud Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) Senior C# Software Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) Senior Software Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Power Platform Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Delivery Manager
5 2 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Integration Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Lead
5 2 (7.69%) Salesforce Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Scrum Master
5 2 (7.69%) Software Delivery Manager
5 2 (7.69%) Software Manager
6 1 (3.85%) ITIL Manager
6 1 (3.85%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (26.92%) .NET
2 5 (19.23%) React
3 4 (15.38%) AngularJS
3 4 (15.38%) ARM Templates
4 2 (7.69%) Lightning Web Components
4 2 (7.69%) REST
5 1 (3.85%) .NET Core
5 1 (3.85%) .NET Framework
5 1 (3.85%) CSS
5 1 (3.85%) HTML
5 1 (3.85%) JSON
5 1 (3.85%) JWT
5 1 (3.85%) OAuth
5 1 (3.85%) Playwright
5 1 (3.85%) RESTful
5 1 (3.85%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.54%) Product Ownership
2 2 (7.69%) Cloud Native
2 2 (7.69%) Driving Licence
2 2 (7.69%) PMI
3 1 (3.85%) AI Agents
3 1 (3.85%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (3.85%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (3.85%) Low-Code
3 1 (3.85%) Reinsurance
3 1 (3.85%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (100.00%) DevOps
2 16 (61.54%) CI/CD
3 14 (53.85%) Agile
4 8 (30.77%) Mentoring
5 7 (26.92%) Containerisation
5 7 (26.92%) Software Engineering
5 7 (26.92%) TDD
6 6 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
6 6 (23.08%) Process Improvement
6 6 (23.08%) Roadmaps
6 6 (23.08%) SDLC
7 5 (19.23%) CRM
7 5 (19.23%) Disaster Recovery
7 5 (19.23%) High Availability
8 4 (15.38%) Kanban
8 4 (15.38%) Microservices
8 4 (15.38%) Scrum
8 4 (15.38%) Software Delivery
8 4 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
8 4 (15.38%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (26.92%) PowerShell
2 6 (23.08%) C#
3 4 (15.38%) Bicep
4 3 (11.54%) Python
4 3 (11.54%) SQL
5 2 (7.69%) Apex Code
5 2 (7.69%) TypeScript
6 1 (3.85%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (15.38%) Azure Certification
2 3 (11.54%) SC Cleared
2 3 (11.54%) Security Cleared
3 2 (7.69%) PMI Certification
4 1 (3.85%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (3.85%) SAFe Agilist
System Software
1 4 (15.38%) Active Directory
1 4 (15.38%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (11.54%) Docker
2 3 (11.54%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (3.85%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (23.08%) Terraform
2 3 (11.54%) Kubernetes
3 2 (7.69%) Prometheus
4 1 (3.85%) Ansible
4 1 (3.85%) FortiGate
4 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 8 (30.77%) Microsoft
2 3 (11.54%) Salesforce
3 1 (3.85%) Databricks
3 1 (3.85%) Fortinet
3 1 (3.85%) Foundry
3 1 (3.85%) Oracle
3 1 (3.85%) ServiceNow
3 1 (3.85%) Splunk