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 30 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 116 71
Rank change year-on-year -5 -45 +43
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 43 34 168
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.82% 1.62% 3.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.56% 3.80% 8.76%
Number of salaries quoted 29 24 128
10th Percentile £51,850 £49,375 £38,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £63,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £72,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% +20.83% -7.69%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £71,250
90th Percentile - £108,625 £90,000
North West median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% +12.50% -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 1,682 894 1,917
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 32.17% 42.55% 38.92%
Number of salaries quoted 980 657 1,599
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +8.70% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,511 £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 30 April 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 13 (30.23%) Confluence
2 3 (6.98%) SharePoint
3 2 (4.65%) CICS
3 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (2.33%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 43 (100.00%) Azure
2 11 (25.58%) GitHub
2 11 (25.58%) GitHub Actions
3 10 (23.26%) AWS
4 5 (11.63%) Entra ID
5 4 (9.30%) Azure AKS
5 4 (9.30%) Azure Monitor
5 4 (9.30%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (6.98%) Azure Functions
6 3 (6.98%) Azure Logic Apps
6 3 (6.98%) Datadog
6 3 (6.98%) GCP
6 3 (6.98%) Power Automate
6 3 (6.98%) Power Platform
6 3 (6.98%) Serverless
7 2 (4.65%) Azure Storage
7 2 (4.65%) Snowflake
8 1 (2.33%) Copilot Studio
8 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Copilot
8 1 (2.33%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.65%) Firewall
2 1 (2.33%) DHCP
2 1 (2.33%) DNS
2 1 (2.33%) HTTP
2 1 (2.33%) LTE
2 1 (2.33%) Network Security
2 1 (2.33%) SAN
2 1 (2.33%) SD-WAN
2 1 (2.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.33%) VLAN
2 1 (2.33%) VPN
2 1 (2.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.65%) DB2
1 2 (4.65%) Hazelcast
1 2 (4.65%) Relational Database
1 2 (4.65%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.33%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (2.33%) Power BI
2 1 (2.33%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 15 (34.88%) JIRA
2 8 (18.60%) Postman
3 7 (16.28%) Jenkins
4 5 (11.63%) Git
5 3 (6.98%) Eclipse
5 3 (6.98%) IntelliJ
6 1 (2.33%) Cypress.io
6 1 (2.33%) GDB
6 1 (2.33%) NUnit
6 1 (2.33%) Selenium
6 1 (2.33%) Visual Studio
6 1 (2.33%) WinDbg
General
1 16 (37.21%) Finance
2 7 (16.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 6 (13.95%) Banking
3 6 (13.95%) Games
3 6 (13.95%) Influencing Skills
4 4 (9.30%) Social Skills
5 1 (2.33%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.33%) Law
5 1 (2.33%) Legal
5 1 (2.33%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (18.60%) Senior
2 7 (16.28%) Head of Testing
3 6 (13.95%) Developer
3 6 (13.95%) Scrum Master
4 5 (11.63%) Cloud Engineer
4 5 (11.63%) Delivery Manager
4 5 (11.63%) Software Delivery Manager
4 5 (11.63%) Software Manager
5 4 (9.30%) Software Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) CloudOps Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) Java Developer
6 3 (6.98%) Lead
6 3 (6.98%) Pega Developer
6 3 (6.98%) Senior Software Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) Site Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) Azure Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 2 (4.65%) Power Platform Developer
7 2 (4.65%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (13.95%) ARM Templates
1 6 (13.95%) React
2 5 (11.63%) AngularJS
3 4 (9.30%) .NET
3 4 (9.30%) CSS
3 4 (9.30%) HTML
3 4 (9.30%) RESTful
4 3 (6.98%) CSS3
4 3 (6.98%) HTML5
4 3 (6.98%) J2EE
4 3 (6.98%) Kafka
4 3 (6.98%) SOAP
5 2 (4.65%) JMS
5 2 (4.65%) Middleware
5 2 (4.65%) REST
6 1 (2.33%) .NET Core
6 1 (2.33%) .NET Framework
6 1 (2.33%) OAuth
6 1 (2.33%) Playwright
6 1 (2.33%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.95%) Product Ownership
2 5 (11.63%) PMI
3 4 (9.30%) Cloud Native
4 3 (6.98%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (4.65%) Mainframe
5 2 (4.65%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.33%) AI Agents
6 1 (2.33%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (2.33%) Driving Licence
6 1 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (2.33%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (2.33%) Low-Code
6 1 (2.33%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.33%) Linux
1 1 (2.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (100.00%) DevOps
2 34 (79.07%) CI/CD
3 30 (69.77%) Agile
4 15 (34.88%) Scrum
5 13 (30.23%) Roadmaps
6 12 (27.91%) Kanban
6 12 (27.91%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 11 (25.58%) Software Delivery
7 11 (25.58%) Stakeholder Management
8 10 (23.26%) Continuous Integration
8 10 (23.26%) Infrastructure as Code
9 9 (20.93%) Containerisation
9 9 (20.93%) Continuous Improvement
9 9 (20.93%) SDLC
9 9 (20.93%) TDD
10 8 (18.60%) Analytics
10 8 (18.60%) Business Strategy
10 8 (18.60%) Mentoring
10 8 (18.60%) Software Engineering
10 8 (18.60%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 10 (23.26%) Python
2 8 (18.60%) PowerShell
2 8 (18.60%) SQL
3 6 (13.95%) Bash
4 4 (9.30%) Bicep
4 4 (9.30%) JavaScript
5 3 (6.98%) C#
5 3 (6.98%) Java
5 3 (6.98%) PL/SQL
6 2 (4.65%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.33%) C++
Qualifications
1 5 (11.63%) Azure Certification
1 5 (11.63%) PMI Certification
2 2 (4.65%) SC Cleared
2 2 (4.65%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.33%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.33%) Data Quality
1 1 (2.33%) GRC
System Software
1 7 (16.28%) Docker
2 4 (9.30%) Active Directory
2 4 (9.30%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.33%) Firmware
3 1 (2.33%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (2.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (23.26%) Terraform
2 7 (16.28%) Kubernetes
3 3 (6.98%) Grafana
3 3 (6.98%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.33%) Ansible
4 1 (2.33%) FortiGate
4 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 14 (32.56%) Microsoft
2 9 (20.93%) Salesforce
3 3 (6.98%) Oracle
3 3 (6.98%) Pega
4 1 (2.33%) Databricks
4 1 (2.33%) Fortinet
4 1 (2.33%) VMware