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

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 134 70
Rank change year-on-year +21 -64 +30
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 60 29 174
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.04% 1.35% 3.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.44% 3.11% 8.81%
Number of salaries quoted 45 17 133
10th Percentile £46,750 £50,750 £38,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,400 £72,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.90% +20.83% -13.60%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £90,000
North West median annual salary £70,000 £60,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +15.70% +0.83% -7.69%

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 1,745 932 1,974
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 30.15% 43.35% 38.65%
Number of salaries quoted 1,158 594 1,627
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £44,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.44% +5.22% -3.40%
75th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £72,433
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 24 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure DevOps in Manchester

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 (23.33%) Confluence
2 5 (8.33%) SharePoint
3 4 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (3.33%) CICS
4 2 (3.33%) CMS
4 2 (3.33%) Umbraco
4 2 (3.33%) WordPress
5 1 (1.67%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 2 (3.33%) Trello
2 1 (1.67%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (3.33%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (3.33%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 60 (100.00%) Azure
2 18 (30.00%) GitHub
3 15 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
4 13 (21.67%) AWS
5 8 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (11.67%) Power Platform
7 5 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
7 5 (8.33%) Entra ID
7 5 (8.33%) Snowflake
8 4 (6.67%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (6.67%) Power Automate
9 3 (5.00%) Azure AKS
9 3 (5.00%) Datadog
9 3 (5.00%) GCP
9 3 (5.00%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 3 (5.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 2 (3.33%) Azure Functions
10 2 (3.33%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Copilot
10 2 (3.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.67%) Firewall
2 3 (5.00%) SAN
3 2 (3.33%) DNS
4 1 (1.67%) DHCP
4 1 (1.67%) LTE
4 1 (1.67%) Network Security
4 1 (1.67%) SD-WAN
4 1 (1.67%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.67%) VLAN
4 1 (1.67%) VPN
4 1 (1.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.33%) SQL Server
2 3 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (5.00%) Relational Database
3 2 (3.33%) DB2
3 2 (3.33%) Hazelcast
3 2 (3.33%) MongoDB
3 2 (3.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (1.67%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.67%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.67%) Power BI
4 1 (1.67%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 17 (28.33%) JIRA
2 10 (16.67%) Git
3 9 (15.00%) Jenkins
3 9 (15.00%) Postman
4 3 (5.00%) Eclipse
4 3 (5.00%) IntelliJ
5 1 (1.67%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.67%) GDB
5 1 (1.67%) GitLab
5 1 (1.67%) Selenium
5 1 (1.67%) Terragrunt
5 1 (1.67%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.67%) WinDbg
General
1 16 (26.67%) Finance
2 12 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 7 (11.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (10.00%) Banking
4 6 (10.00%) Games
4 6 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.67%) Legal
Job Titles
1 17 (28.33%) Senior
2 15 (25.00%) Developer
3 9 (15.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 7 (11.67%) Head of Testing
5 6 (10.00%) Scrum Master
6 5 (8.33%) Data Engineer
6 5 (8.33%) Delivery Manager
6 5 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
6 5 (8.33%) Senior Data Engineer
6 5 (8.33%) Senior Developer
6 5 (8.33%) Senior Platform Engineer
6 5 (8.33%) Snowflake Engineer
6 5 (8.33%) Software Delivery Manager
6 5 (8.33%) Software Manager
7 4 (6.67%) Software Engineer
8 3 (5.00%) Java Developer
8 3 (5.00%) Salesforce Developer
8 3 (5.00%) Senior Software Engineer
8 3 (5.00%) Site Engineer
8 3 (5.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (15.00%) React
2 7 (11.67%) .NET
3 6 (10.00%) AngularJS
3 6 (10.00%) CSS
3 6 (10.00%) HTML
3 6 (10.00%) REST
3 6 (10.00%) SOAP
4 5 (8.33%) ARM Templates
4 5 (8.33%) Middleware
5 3 (5.00%) CSS3
5 3 (5.00%) HTML5
5 3 (5.00%) J2EE
5 3 (5.00%) Kafka
5 3 (5.00%) Lightning Web Components
5 3 (5.00%) RESTful
5 3 (5.00%) Visualforce
6 2 (3.33%) ASP.NET
6 2 (3.33%) ASP.NET Core
6 2 (3.33%) Entity Framework
6 2 (3.33%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 10 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 5 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 5 (8.33%) Onboarding
2 5 (8.33%) PMI
3 3 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (3.33%) Low-Code
4 2 (3.33%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.67%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.67%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.33%) Linux
2 1 (1.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (100.00%) DevOps
2 46 (76.67%) CI/CD
3 40 (66.67%) Agile
4 15 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 15 (25.00%) Scrum
5 14 (23.33%) Mentoring
5 14 (23.33%) Roadmaps
6 12 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 12 (20.00%) Kanban
6 12 (20.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 11 (18.33%) Analytics
7 11 (18.33%) Software Delivery
7 11 (18.33%) Stakeholder Management
7 11 (18.33%) Test Automation
8 10 (16.67%) AI
8 10 (16.67%) Business Strategy
8 10 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
8 10 (16.67%) TDD
9 9 (15.00%) Containerisation
9 9 (15.00%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 16 (26.67%) SQL
2 15 (25.00%) Python
3 11 (18.33%) PowerShell
4 10 (16.67%) Bash
5 6 (10.00%) JavaScript
6 5 (8.33%) Bicep
7 4 (6.67%) C#
7 4 (6.67%) Java
7 4 (6.67%) TypeScript
8 3 (5.00%) Apex Code
8 3 (5.00%) PL/SQL
8 3 (5.00%) SOQL
8 3 (5.00%) SOSL
9 2 (3.33%) T-SQL
10 1 (1.67%) C++
Qualifications
1 5 (8.33%) PMI Certification
2 4 (6.67%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.67%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.67%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.67%) GRC
2 1 (1.67%) QA
System Software
1 8 (13.33%) Docker
2 4 (6.67%) Active Directory
2 4 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.67%) Firmware
4 1 (1.67%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 16 (26.67%) Terraform
2 7 (11.67%) Kubernetes
3 3 (5.00%) Grafana
3 3 (5.00%) Prometheus
4 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.67%) Ansible
5 1 (1.67%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 19 (31.67%) Microsoft
2 12 (20.00%) Salesforce
3 4 (6.67%) Oracle
3 4 (6.67%) VMware
4 3 (5.00%) Pega
5 1 (1.67%) Databricks
5 1 (1.67%) Fortinet