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

 6 months to
11 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 109 68
Rank change year-on-year -10 -41 +55
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 39 32 159
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.82% 1.60% 3.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.49% 3.59% 8.63%
Number of salaries quoted 27 25 119
10th Percentile £51,700 £46,750 £41,296
25th Percentile £53,500 £62,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £72,500 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% +18.85% -6.15%
75th Percentile £86,875 £87,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £106,500 £90,000
North West median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% +0.80%

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 1,567 892 1,842
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 33.11% 44.71% 39.03%
Number of salaries quoted 904 661 1,549
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £57,662
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +8.39% +0.28%
75th Percentile £84,813 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £86,250
North West median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +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 11 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 12 (30.77%) Confluence
2 3 (7.69%) SharePoint
3 2 (5.13%) CICS
4 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (2.56%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 39 (100.00%) Azure
2 11 (28.21%) AWS
3 9 (23.08%) GitHub
4 8 (20.51%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (12.82%) Entra ID
6 4 (10.26%) Azure AKS
6 4 (10.26%) Azure Functions
6 4 (10.26%) Azure Logic Apps
6 4 (10.26%) Azure Monitor
6 4 (10.26%) Serverless
7 3 (7.69%) Azure Storage
7 3 (7.69%) Datadog
7 3 (7.69%) GCP
7 3 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (7.69%) Power Automate
8 2 (5.13%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (5.13%) Power Platform
9 1 (2.56%) AWS CodePipeline
9 1 (2.56%) Miro
9 1 (2.56%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.56%) DHCP
1 1 (2.56%) DNS
1 1 (2.56%) Firewall
1 1 (2.56%) HTTP
1 1 (2.56%) LTE
1 1 (2.56%) Network Security
1 1 (2.56%) SD-WAN
1 1 (2.56%) TCP/IP
1 1 (2.56%) VLAN
1 1 (2.56%) VPN
1 1 (2.56%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.13%) DB2
1 2 (5.13%) Hazelcast
1 2 (5.13%) Relational Database
1 2 (5.13%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.56%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (2.56%) Power BI
2 1 (2.56%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 14 (35.90%) JIRA
2 7 (17.95%) Jenkins
2 7 (17.95%) Postman
3 6 (15.38%) Git
4 3 (7.69%) Eclipse
4 3 (7.69%) IntelliJ
5 1 (2.56%) Cypress.io
5 1 (2.56%) GDB
5 1 (2.56%) NUnit
5 1 (2.56%) Selenium
5 1 (2.56%) Visual Studio
5 1 (2.56%) WinDbg
General
1 15 (38.46%) Finance
2 6 (15.38%) Banking
2 6 (15.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 6 (15.38%) Influencing Skills
3 5 (12.82%) Games
4 2 (5.13%) Retail
5 1 (2.56%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.56%) Law
5 1 (2.56%) Legal
5 1 (2.56%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.56%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (15.38%) Developer
1 6 (15.38%) Head of Testing
1 6 (15.38%) Scrum Master
2 5 (12.82%) Senior
3 4 (10.26%) Cloud Engineer
3 4 (10.26%) Delivery Manager
3 4 (10.26%) Software Delivery Manager
3 4 (10.26%) Software Engineer
3 4 (10.26%) Software Manager
4 3 (7.69%) CloudOps Engineer
4 3 (7.69%) Java Developer
4 3 (7.69%) Lead
4 3 (7.69%) Pega Developer
4 3 (7.69%) Senior Software Engineer
4 3 (7.69%) Site Engineer
4 3 (7.69%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) C# Software Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 2 (5.13%) Power Platform Developer
5 2 (5.13%) Senior C# Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (20.51%) ARM Templates
2 6 (15.38%) React
3 5 (12.82%) AngularJS
4 4 (10.26%) .NET
4 4 (10.26%) CSS
4 4 (10.26%) HTML
4 4 (10.26%) RESTful
5 3 (7.69%) CSS3
5 3 (7.69%) HTML5
5 3 (7.69%) J2EE
5 3 (7.69%) Kafka
5 3 (7.69%) SOAP
6 2 (5.13%) JMS
6 2 (5.13%) Middleware
6 2 (5.13%) REST
7 1 (2.56%) .NET Core
7 1 (2.56%) .NET Framework
7 1 (2.56%) JSON
7 1 (2.56%) OAuth
7 1 (2.56%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.38%) Product Ownership
2 4 (10.26%) Cloud Native
2 4 (10.26%) PMI
3 3 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (5.13%) Driving Licence
4 2 (5.13%) Mainframe
5 1 (2.56%) AI Agents
5 1 (2.56%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.56%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.56%) Low-Code
5 1 (2.56%) Reinsurance
5 1 (2.56%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.56%) Linux
1 1 (2.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (100.00%) DevOps
2 30 (76.92%) CI/CD
3 28 (71.79%) Agile
4 14 (35.90%) Scrum
5 12 (30.77%) Roadmaps
6 11 (28.21%) Kanban
6 11 (28.21%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 11 (28.21%) Stakeholder Management
7 10 (25.64%) Software Delivery
8 9 (23.08%) Containerisation
8 9 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
8 9 (23.08%) Continuous Integration
8 9 (23.08%) SDLC
8 9 (23.08%) TDD
9 8 (20.51%) High Availability
9 8 (20.51%) Infrastructure as Code
9 8 (20.51%) Software Engineering
10 7 (17.95%) Observability
10 7 (17.95%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (17.95%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 8 (20.51%) PowerShell
1 8 (20.51%) Python
2 6 (15.38%) SQL
3 4 (10.26%) Bicep
3 4 (10.26%) JavaScript
4 3 (7.69%) Bash
4 3 (7.69%) C#
4 3 (7.69%) Java
4 3 (7.69%) PL/SQL
5 2 (5.13%) TypeScript
6 1 (2.56%) C++
Qualifications
1 5 (12.82%) Azure Certification
2 4 (10.26%) PMI Certification
3 3 (7.69%) SC Cleared
3 3 (7.69%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.56%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.56%) Data Quality
1 1 (2.56%) GRC
System Software
1 7 (17.95%) Docker
2 4 (10.26%) Active Directory
2 4 (10.26%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.56%) Firmware
3 1 (2.56%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 8 (20.51%) Terraform
2 7 (17.95%) Kubernetes
3 3 (7.69%) Grafana
3 3 (7.69%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.56%) Ansible
4 1 (2.56%) FortiGate
4 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 13 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 8 (20.51%) Salesforce
3 3 (7.69%) Oracle
3 3 (7.69%) Pega
4 1 (2.56%) Databricks
4 1 (2.56%) Fortinet
4 1 (2.56%) Splunk
23 Azure DevOps jobs in Manchester