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 13 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 89 43
Rank change year-on-year -19 -46 +59
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 42 93 158
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.79% 2.41% 6.05%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.95% 6.92% 13.06%
Number of salaries quoted 31 50 142
10th Percentile £52,750 £37,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £42,500 £55,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £68,750
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -12.73% +14.58%
75th Percentile £78,125 £75,938 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £88,000 -
North West median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £65,351
% change year-on-year +8.33% -8.19% +8.92%

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 848 1,344 1,210
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 36.21% 34.79% 46.31%
Number of salaries quoted 568 741 1,043
10th Percentile £29,500 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £45,225
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £85,000
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 13 October 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 13 October 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 (2.38%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 42 (100.00%) Azure
2 11 (26.19%) Power Automate
3 9 (21.43%) Power Platform
4 8 (19.05%) AWS
4 8 (19.05%) Azure Monitor
4 8 (19.05%) SaaS
5 6 (14.29%) Dynamics 365
6 5 (11.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 5 (11.90%) PaaS
7 4 (9.52%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (9.52%) Copilot Studio
7 4 (9.52%) Microsoft Copilot
8 3 (7.14%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 3 (7.14%) Azure Service Bus
9 2 (4.76%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (4.76%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (4.76%) Entra ID
9 2 (4.76%) GCP
10 1 (2.38%) Azure AKS
10 1 (2.38%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.14%) DNS
1 3 (7.14%) Firewall
1 3 (7.14%) WAN
2 1 (2.38%) SD-WAN
2 1 (2.38%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.76%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (2.38%) Data Lake
2 1 (2.38%) MySQL
2 1 (2.38%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (9.52%) Jenkins
1 4 (9.52%) JIRA
2 2 (4.76%) Cucumber
2 2 (4.76%) Gatling
2 2 (4.76%) Git
2 2 (4.76%) GitLab
2 2 (4.76%) JMeter
2 2 (4.76%) Selenium
General
1 6 (14.29%) Finance
2 4 (9.52%) Social Skills
3 3 (7.14%) Banking
4 2 (4.76%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.38%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.38%) Digital Health
5 1 (2.38%) Health Technology
5 1 (2.38%) Law
5 1 (2.38%) Legal
Job Titles
1 13 (30.95%) Developer
2 12 (28.57%) Cloud Engineer
3 9 (21.43%) Azure Engineer
3 9 (21.43%) Senior
4 6 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
5 5 (11.90%) Power Platform Developer
5 5 (11.90%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 4 (9.52%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 3 (7.14%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (7.14%) C# Software Engineer
7 3 (7.14%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (7.14%) Dynamics 365 Developer
7 3 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (7.14%) Integration Developer
7 3 (7.14%) Lead
7 3 (7.14%) Salesforce Developer
7 3 (7.14%) Senior C# Software Engineer
7 3 (7.14%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (7.14%) Senior Software Engineer
7 3 (7.14%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (23.81%) .NET
2 5 (11.90%) ARM Templates
3 3 (7.14%) .NET Framework
3 3 (7.14%) AngularJS
3 3 (7.14%) Lightning Web Components
3 3 (7.14%) React
3 3 (7.14%) REST
4 2 (4.76%) ASP.NET Web API
4 2 (4.76%) Blazor
4 2 (4.76%) Entity Framework
4 2 (4.76%) Playwright
4 2 (4.76%) RESTful
5 1 (2.38%) JWT
5 1 (2.38%) Loki
5 1 (2.38%) Next.js
5 1 (2.38%) OAuth
5 1 (2.38%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 6 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 5 (11.90%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (9.52%) AI Agents
4 3 (7.14%) Blog
4 3 (7.14%) Data Centre
4 3 (7.14%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (7.14%) Mobile App
4 3 (7.14%) Social Media
5 2 (4.76%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (2.38%) NHS
6 1 (2.38%) Product Ownership
6 1 (2.38%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.76%) Android
1 2 (4.76%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (100.00%) DevOps
2 28 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 21 (50.00%) Agile
4 17 (40.48%) Infrastructure as Code
5 10 (23.81%) Infrastructure Automation
6 8 (19.05%) Mentoring
6 8 (19.05%) SDLC
6 8 (19.05%) Software Engineering
7 6 (14.29%) AI
7 6 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (14.29%) CRM
7 6 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
7 6 (14.29%) Microservices
8 5 (11.90%) Cloud Security
8 5 (11.90%) Configuration Management
8 5 (11.90%) Containerisation
8 5 (11.90%) Disaster Recovery
8 5 (11.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 4 (9.52%) Process Improvement
9 4 (9.52%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 10 (23.81%) PowerShell
2 8 (19.05%) C#
3 4 (9.52%) Python
4 3 (7.14%) Apex Code
4 3 (7.14%) Bash
4 3 (7.14%) Bicep
4 3 (7.14%) SQL
5 1 (2.38%) Go
5 1 (2.38%) Perl
5 1 (2.38%) Ruby
5 1 (2.38%) X++
Qualifications
1 7 (16.67%) Azure Certification
2 6 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 6 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 2 (4.76%) AWS Certification
3 2 (4.76%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 2 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.76%) Degree
3 2 (4.76%) ISTQB
3 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.38%) DBS Check
4 1 (2.38%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.76%) GDPR
2 1 (2.38%) QA
System Software
1 5 (11.90%) Virtual Desktop
2 4 (9.52%) Docker
3 3 (7.14%) Active Directory
4 2 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (30.95%) Terraform
2 8 (19.05%) Kubernetes
3 5 (11.90%) Ansible
3 5 (11.90%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.38%) Grafana
4 1 (2.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (47.62%) Microsoft
2 4 (9.52%) Foundry
3 3 (7.14%) Salesforce
4 2 (4.76%) Xamarin
5 1 (2.38%) Databricks
5 1 (2.38%) Google
5 1 (2.38%) Meraki
5 1 (2.38%) ServiceNow