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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 72 41
Rank change year-on-year -42 -31 +53
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 43 125 188
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 1.79% 3.07% 6.51%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.95% 8.72% 13.91%
Number of salaries quoted 30 69 164
10th Percentile £52,475 £37,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £42,500 £53,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -14.29% +21.74%
75th Percentile £78,750 £71,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,500 £84,000 -
North West median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -11.11% +17.39%

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 868 1,433 1,352
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 36.14% 35.17% 46.83%
Number of salaries quoted 579 853 1,138
10th Percentile £29,500 £35,800 £36,606
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +6.37%
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £89,000 £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

Job postings citing Azure DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Azure DevOps 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 September 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 September 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 - 6
Azure DevOps
North West

Azure DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.33%) Confluence
1 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 43 (100.00%) Azure
2 10 (23.26%) Power Automate
2 10 (23.26%) Power Platform
3 8 (18.60%) AWS
3 8 (18.60%) SaaS
4 6 (13.95%) Azure Monitor
4 6 (13.95%) Dynamics 365
5 5 (11.63%) PaaS
6 3 (6.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (6.98%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (6.98%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 3 (6.98%) Azure Service Bus
6 3 (6.98%) Copilot Studio
6 3 (6.98%) Entra ID
6 3 (6.98%) Microsoft Copilot
7 2 (4.65%) Azure AKS
7 2 (4.65%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (4.65%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (4.65%) GCP
8 1 (2.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.98%) DNS
1 3 (6.98%) Firewall
1 3 (6.98%) WAN
2 1 (2.33%) SD-WAN
2 1 (2.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.65%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (4.65%) Data Lake
2 1 (2.33%) MySQL
2 1 (2.33%) Power BI
2 1 (2.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (2.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (9.30%) Jenkins
2 3 (6.98%) JIRA
3 2 (4.65%) Cucumber
3 2 (4.65%) Gatling
3 2 (4.65%) Git
3 2 (4.65%) GitLab
3 2 (4.65%) JMeter
3 2 (4.65%) Selenium
General
1 6 (13.95%) Finance
2 4 (9.30%) Social Skills
3 2 (4.65%) Banking
3 2 (4.65%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.33%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.33%) Digital Health
4 1 (2.33%) Health Technology
4 1 (2.33%) Law
4 1 (2.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 12 (27.91%) Azure Engineer
1 12 (27.91%) Cloud Engineer
1 12 (27.91%) Developer
2 11 (25.58%) Senior
3 7 (16.28%) DevOps Engineer
3 7 (16.28%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 5 (11.63%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 5 (11.63%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (11.63%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (11.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (11.63%) Power Platform Developer
4 5 (11.63%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (6.98%) C# Software Engineer
5 3 (6.98%) Dynamics 365 Developer
5 3 (6.98%) Lead
5 3 (6.98%) Senior C# Software Engineer
5 3 (6.98%) Senior Software Engineer
5 3 (6.98%) Software Engineer
6 2 (4.65%) .NET Developer
6 2 (4.65%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (23.26%) .NET
2 7 (16.28%) ARM Templates
3 3 (6.98%) .NET Framework
3 3 (6.98%) AngularJS
3 3 (6.98%) React
4 2 (4.65%) ASP.NET Web API
4 2 (4.65%) Blazor
4 2 (4.65%) Entity Framework
4 2 (4.65%) Lightning Web Components
4 2 (4.65%) Playwright
4 2 (4.65%) REST
4 2 (4.65%) RESTful
5 1 (2.33%) JWT
5 1 (2.33%) Loki
5 1 (2.33%) Next.js
5 1 (2.33%) OAuth
5 1 (2.33%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 7 (16.28%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (11.63%) Cloud Native
3 3 (6.98%) AI Agents
3 3 (6.98%) Blog
3 3 (6.98%) Data Centre
3 3 (6.98%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (6.98%) Mobile App
3 3 (6.98%) Social Media
4 2 (4.65%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.33%) Data Fabric
5 1 (2.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (2.33%) NHS
5 1 (2.33%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.65%) Android
1 2 (4.65%) Apple iOS
2 1 (2.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (100.00%) DevOps
2 28 (65.12%) CI/CD
3 21 (48.84%) Agile
4 19 (44.19%) Infrastructure as Code
5 11 (25.58%) Infrastructure Automation
6 9 (20.93%) Software Engineering
7 8 (18.60%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 8 (18.60%) Mentoring
7 8 (18.60%) SDLC
8 7 (16.28%) Configuration Management
8 7 (16.28%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (13.95%) Full-Stack Development
9 6 (13.95%) Microservices
10 5 (11.63%) Artificial Intelligence
10 5 (11.63%) Containerisation
10 5 (11.63%) CRM
11 4 (9.30%) Incident Response
11 4 (9.30%) SOLID
11 4 (9.30%) Test Automation
12 3 (6.98%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 9 (20.93%) PowerShell
2 8 (18.60%) C#
3 5 (11.63%) Python
4 4 (9.30%) SQL
5 3 (6.98%) Bash
5 3 (6.98%) Bicep
6 2 (4.65%) Apex Code
7 1 (2.33%) Go
7 1 (2.33%) Perl
7 1 (2.33%) Ruby
7 1 (2.33%) X++
Qualifications
1 9 (20.93%) Azure Certification
2 6 (13.95%) SC Cleared
2 6 (13.95%) Security Cleared
3 3 (6.98%) Degree
4 2 (4.65%) AWS Certification
4 2 (4.65%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 2 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (4.65%) ISTQB
4 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.33%) DBS Check
5 1 (2.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.65%) GDPR
2 1 (2.33%) QA
System Software
1 4 (9.30%) Active Directory
1 4 (9.30%) Docker
2 3 (6.98%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (2.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (34.88%) Terraform
2 11 (25.58%) Kubernetes
3 7 (16.28%) Ansible
4 3 (6.98%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.33%) Grafana
5 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (2.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 22 (51.16%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.98%) Foundry
3 2 (4.65%) Salesforce
3 2 (4.65%) Xamarin
4 1 (2.33%) Databricks
4 1 (2.33%) Google
4 1 (2.33%) Meraki