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

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 131 71
Rank change year-on-year +23 -60 +27
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 69 32 174
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.15% 1.45% 3.30%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.80% 3.36% 8.64%
Number of salaries quoted 52 18 132
10th Percentile £46,250 £51,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £54,000 £58,188 £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 £94,125 £90,000
North West median annual salary £69,310 £64,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.30% +6.67% -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 1,817 951 2,014
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 30.41% 43.19% 38.14%
Number of salaries quoted 1,218 605 1,635
10th Percentile £33,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £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 31 May 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 31 May 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 (20.29%) Confluence
2 6 (8.70%) SharePoint
3 4 (5.80%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (2.90%) CICS
4 2 (2.90%) CMS
4 2 (2.90%) Umbraco
4 2 (2.90%) WordPress
5 1 (1.45%) nginx
5 1 (1.45%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 2 (2.90%) Trello
2 1 (1.45%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (4.35%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (2.90%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 69 (100.00%) Azure
2 20 (28.99%) GitHub
3 16 (23.19%) AWS
3 16 (23.19%) GitHub Actions
4 9 (13.04%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (13.04%) Power Platform
5 6 (8.70%) Azure Monitor
5 6 (8.70%) Entra ID
6 5 (7.25%) Dynamics 365
6 5 (7.25%) Power Automate
6 5 (7.25%) Snowflake
7 4 (5.80%) Serverless
8 3 (4.35%) Azure AKS
8 3 (4.35%) Azure Functions
8 3 (4.35%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (4.35%) Datadog
8 3 (4.35%) GCP
8 3 (4.35%) Microsoft Copilot
8 3 (4.35%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 3 (4.35%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.80%) Firewall
2 3 (4.35%) DNS
2 3 (4.35%) SAN
3 1 (1.45%) DHCP
3 1 (1.45%) LTE
3 1 (1.45%) Network Security
3 1 (1.45%) SD-WAN
3 1 (1.45%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.45%) VLAN
3 1 (1.45%) VPN
3 1 (1.45%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.14%) SQL Server
2 5 (7.25%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (4.35%) MongoDB
3 3 (4.35%) Power BI
3 3 (4.35%) Relational Database
3 3 (4.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (2.90%) DB2
4 2 (2.90%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (2.90%) Hazelcast
4 2 (2.90%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.45%) MySQL
5 1 (1.45%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.45%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 18 (26.09%) JIRA
2 13 (18.84%) Git
3 9 (13.04%) Jenkins
3 9 (13.04%) Postman
4 3 (4.35%) Eclipse
4 3 (4.35%) IntelliJ
5 2 (2.90%) Terragrunt
6 1 (1.45%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.45%) GDB
6 1 (1.45%) GitLab
6 1 (1.45%) Selenium
6 1 (1.45%) Visual Studio
6 1 (1.45%) WinDbg
General
1 17 (24.64%) Finance
2 16 (23.19%) Social Skills
3 7 (10.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (8.70%) Banking
4 6 (8.70%) Games
4 6 (8.70%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (2.90%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (2.90%) Legal
6 1 (1.45%) Retail
6 1 (1.45%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 20 (28.99%) Developer
2 18 (26.09%) Senior
3 10 (14.49%) Cloud Engineer
4 7 (10.14%) Head of Testing
5 6 (8.70%) Scrum Master
5 6 (8.70%) Senior Developer
6 5 (7.25%) Data Engineer
6 5 (7.25%) Delivery Manager
6 5 (7.25%) Platform Engineer
6 5 (7.25%) Senior Data Engineer
6 5 (7.25%) Senior Platform Engineer
6 5 (7.25%) Snowflake Engineer
6 5 (7.25%) Software Delivery Manager
6 5 (7.25%) Software Manager
7 4 (5.80%) Azure Engineer
7 4 (5.80%) Software Developer
7 4 (5.80%) Software Engineer
8 3 (4.35%) .NET Developer
8 3 (4.35%) Business Developer
8 3 (4.35%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (15.94%) .NET
2 10 (14.49%) CSS
2 10 (14.49%) HTML
2 10 (14.49%) React
3 9 (13.04%) REST
4 6 (8.70%) AngularJS
4 6 (8.70%) ARM Templates
4 6 (8.70%) SOAP
5 5 (7.25%) Middleware
6 4 (5.80%) ASP.NET
6 4 (5.80%) Entity Framework
7 3 (4.35%) .NET Core
7 3 (4.35%) ASP.NET Core
7 3 (4.35%) CSS3
7 3 (4.35%) J2EE
7 3 (4.35%) Kafka
7 3 (4.35%) Lightning Web Components
7 3 (4.35%) Node.js
7 3 (4.35%) RESTful
7 3 (4.35%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 11 (15.94%) Product Ownership
2 6 (8.70%) Cloud Native
3 5 (7.25%) Onboarding
3 5 (7.25%) PMI
4 4 (5.80%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (2.90%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.90%) Low-Code
6 2 (2.90%) Mainframe
7 1 (1.45%) AI Agents
7 1 (1.45%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.45%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.45%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.45%) Reinsurance
7 1 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.35%) Linux
2 1 (1.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (100.00%) DevOps
2 53 (76.81%) CI/CD
3 45 (65.22%) Agile
4 17 (24.64%) Mentoring
4 17 (24.64%) Scrum
5 16 (23.19%) Continuous Improvement
6 15 (21.74%) Infrastructure as Code
6 15 (21.74%) Roadmaps
7 13 (18.84%) AI
7 13 (18.84%) Analytics
7 13 (18.84%) Kanban
8 12 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
8 12 (17.39%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 12 (17.39%) Software Delivery
8 12 (17.39%) Stakeholder Management
8 12 (17.39%) Test Automation
9 11 (15.94%) Sprint Planning
10 10 (14.49%) Continuous Integration
10 10 (14.49%) Observability
10 10 (14.49%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 20 (28.99%) SQL
2 17 (24.64%) Python
3 12 (17.39%) PowerShell
4 10 (14.49%) Bash
4 10 (14.49%) C#
5 9 (13.04%) JavaScript
6 5 (7.25%) Bicep
6 5 (7.25%) Java
6 5 (7.25%) TypeScript
7 3 (4.35%) Apex Code
7 3 (4.35%) PL/SQL
7 3 (4.35%) SOQL
7 3 (4.35%) SOSL
7 3 (4.35%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.45%) C++
8 1 (1.45%) PHP
8 1 (1.45%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 5 (7.25%) PMI Certification
2 4 (5.80%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.45%) Degree
3 1 (1.45%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.45%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.80%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.35%) QA
3 1 (1.45%) GRC
System Software
1 9 (13.04%) Docker
2 5 (7.25%) Active Directory
2 5 (7.25%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.45%) Firmware
4 1 (1.45%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 17 (24.64%) Terraform
2 7 (10.14%) Kubernetes
3 3 (4.35%) Grafana
3 3 (4.35%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (4.35%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.45%) Ansible
4 1 (1.45%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 25 (36.23%) Microsoft
2 12 (17.39%) Salesforce
3 4 (5.80%) Oracle
3 4 (5.80%) VMware
4 3 (4.35%) Pega
5 1 (1.45%) Databricks
5 1 (1.45%) Fortinet