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 25 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 128 62
Rank change year-on-year +36 -66 0
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 93 36 181
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.43% 1.44% 3.71%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.07% 3.76% 9.87%
Number of salaries quoted 70 22 130
10th Percentile £45,000 £53,875 £38,700
25th Percentile £48,813 £57,500 £46,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,500 £70,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.43% +14.75% -18.67%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,625 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £94,500 £90,250
North West median annual salary £65,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.77% +8.33% -11.11%

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 1,835 957 1,833
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 28.31% 38.34% 37.57%
Number of salaries quoted 1,436 621 1,341
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,840 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.73% - -
75th Percentile £85,000 £76,840 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,778 £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 25 July 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 25 July 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
Altrincham - 3 £35,500 - 2
Ashton-under-Lyne - 1 £51,000 -
Oldham - 1 £54,250 - 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 (15.05%) Confluence
2 6 (6.45%) SharePoint
3 5 (5.38%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (2.15%) CICS
4 2 (2.15%) CMS
4 2 (2.15%) nginx
4 2 (2.15%) Umbraco
4 2 (2.15%) WordPress
5 1 (1.08%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 7 (7.53%) Trello
2 2 (2.15%) Chatbot
3 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (3.23%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (2.15%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 93 (100.00%) Azure
2 25 (26.88%) GitHub
3 22 (23.66%) AWS
4 21 (22.58%) GitHub Actions
5 18 (19.35%) Power Platform
6 11 (11.83%) Microsoft 365
7 9 (9.68%) Dynamics 365
8 7 (7.53%) Azure Monitor
8 7 (7.53%) Power Automate
9 6 (6.45%) Serverless
10 5 (5.38%) Entra ID
10 5 (5.38%) Snowflake
11 4 (4.30%) Azure AKS
11 4 (4.30%) Azure Functions
11 4 (4.30%) Azure Logic Apps
11 4 (4.30%) Copilot Studio
11 4 (4.30%) GCP
11 4 (4.30%) Microsoft Copilot
11 4 (4.30%) PowerApps
12 3 (3.23%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.38%) Firewall
1 5 (5.38%) SAN
2 2 (2.15%) DNS
3 1 (1.08%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.68%) Azure SQL Database
2 8 (8.60%) MongoDB
3 6 (6.45%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (6.45%) SQL Server
4 5 (5.38%) Power BI
5 3 (3.23%) NoSQL
5 3 (3.23%) Relational Database
5 3 (3.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (2.15%) Db2
6 2 (2.15%) Hazelcast
6 2 (2.15%) MySQL
6 2 (2.15%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.08%) Data Vault
7 1 (1.08%) Delta Lake
7 1 (1.08%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (1.08%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 26 (27.96%) JIRA
2 16 (17.20%) Git
3 10 (10.75%) Jenkins
4 8 (8.60%) Postman
5 3 (3.23%) Eclipse
5 3 (3.23%) IntelliJ
6 2 (2.15%) GitLab
6 2 (2.15%) Terragrunt
7 1 (1.08%) GDB
7 1 (1.08%) MLflow
7 1 (1.08%) Visual Studio
7 1 (1.08%) WinDbg
General
1 25 (26.88%) Social Skills
2 22 (23.66%) Finance
3 7 (7.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (6.45%) Banking
4 6 (6.45%) Games
4 6 (6.45%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (3.23%) Retail
6 2 (2.15%) Legal
6 2 (2.15%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.15%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.08%) Marketing
7 1 (1.08%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 28 (30.11%) Developer
2 17 (18.28%) Senior
3 10 (10.75%) Cloud Engineer
4 8 (8.60%) .NET Developer
4 8 (8.60%) Platform Engineer
5 7 (7.53%) Azure Engineer
5 7 (7.53%) Head of Testing
5 7 (7.53%) Senior Platform Engineer
6 6 (6.45%) Delivery Manager
6 6 (6.45%) Scrum Master
7 5 (5.38%) Automation Engineer
7 5 (5.38%) Data Engineer
7 5 (5.38%) Power Platform Developer
7 5 (5.38%) Project Manager
7 5 (5.38%) Senior Automation Engineer
7 5 (5.38%) Senior Data Engineer
7 5 (5.38%) Senior Developer
7 5 (5.38%) Snowflake Engineer
7 5 (5.38%) Software Delivery Manager
7 5 (5.38%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (20.43%) .NET
2 15 (16.13%) CSS
2 15 (16.13%) HTML
3 13 (13.98%) REST
4 11 (11.83%) React
5 10 (10.75%) ASP.NET
6 9 (9.68%) ASP.NET Core
6 9 (9.68%) Entity Framework
7 8 (8.60%) .NET Core
7 8 (8.60%) Node.js
8 7 (7.53%) ARM Templates
9 6 (6.45%) AngularJS
9 6 (6.45%) SOAP
10 5 (5.38%) Middleware
11 4 (4.30%) RESTful
12 3 (3.23%) CSS3
12 3 (3.23%) HTML5
12 3 (3.23%) Jakarta EE
12 3 (3.23%) Kafka
12 3 (3.23%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 12 (12.90%) Product Ownership
2 9 (9.68%) Cloud Native
3 6 (6.45%) Onboarding
4 5 (5.38%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (5.38%) PMI
5 3 (3.23%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (2.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (2.15%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.15%) Mainframe
6 2 (2.15%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.08%) AI Agents
7 1 (1.08%) BBC
7 1 (1.08%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.08%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.08%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.08%) Reinsurance
7 1 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.08%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.38%) Linux
2 1 (1.08%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (100.00%) DevOps
2 67 (72.04%) CI/CD
3 65 (69.89%) Agile
4 23 (24.73%) Continuous Improvement
5 22 (23.66%) Scrum
6 21 (22.58%) Infrastructure as Code
7 20 (21.51%) AI
7 20 (21.51%) Stakeholder Management
8 19 (20.43%) Mentoring
8 19 (20.43%) Software Delivery
9 16 (17.20%) Roadmaps
10 15 (16.13%) Analytics
10 15 (16.13%) Full-Stack Development
10 15 (16.13%) Software Engineering
11 14 (15.05%) SDLC
11 14 (15.05%) Sprint Planning
12 13 (13.98%) Decision-Making
12 13 (13.98%) Kanban
12 13 (13.98%) Problem-Solving
12 13 (13.98%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 27 (29.03%) SQL
2 22 (23.66%) Python
3 21 (22.58%) C#
4 14 (15.05%) PowerShell
5 13 (13.98%) JavaScript
6 11 (11.83%) Bash
7 8 (8.60%) Bicep
8 5 (5.38%) Java
9 4 (4.30%) TypeScript
10 3 (3.23%) Apex Code
10 3 (3.23%) PL/SQL
10 3 (3.23%) SOQL
10 3 (3.23%) SOSL
10 3 (3.23%) T-SQL
11 2 (2.15%) PHP
12 1 (1.08%) C++
12 1 (1.08%) Scala
12 1 (1.08%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 9 (9.68%) PMI Certification
2 4 (4.30%) PMP
2 4 (4.30%) SC Cleared
2 4 (4.30%) Security Cleared
3 3 (3.23%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.15%) Degree
5 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.08%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.38%) Data Quality
1 5 (5.38%) QA
2 3 (3.23%) PMO
3 1 (1.08%) GRC
System Software
1 10 (10.75%) Docker
2 5 (5.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (4.30%) Active Directory
3 4 (4.30%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (23.66%) Terraform
2 7 (7.53%) Kubernetes
3 4 (4.30%) Grafana
3 4 (4.30%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.15%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.08%) Ansible
5 1 (1.08%) Argo
5 1 (1.08%) Istio
5 1 (1.08%) linkerd
Vendors
1 37 (39.78%) Microsoft
2 12 (12.90%) Salesforce
3 6 (6.45%) VMware
4 3 (3.23%) Oracle
4 3 (3.23%) Pega
5 2 (2.15%) Databricks
6 1 (1.08%) Apple
6 1 (1.08%) Facebook
6 1 (1.08%) Google
6 1 (1.08%) Sony
6 1 (1.08%) Yahoo!