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

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 108 72
Rank change year-on-year -14 -36 +66
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 28 34 151
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.67% 1.66% 3.35%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.98% 3.82% 8.39%
Number of salaries quoted 22 28 112
10th Percentile £51,325 £46,250 £41,933
25th Percentile £53,000 £60,313 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £72,500 £62,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.62% +16.94% -4.62%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £100,125 £90,000
North West median annual salary £63,000 £65,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year -3.08% +6.56% +2.48%

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 1,416 891 1,800
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 33.83% 43.38% 39.98%
Number of salaries quoted 792 655 1,529
10th Percentile £30,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% -0.54%
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,778 £85,250
North West median annual salary £56,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.61% +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 March 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 8 (28.57%) Confluence
2 3 (10.71%) SharePoint
3 2 (7.14%) CICS
4 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (3.57%) PegaRULES
Business Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 28 (100.00%) Azure
2 7 (25.00%) AWS
3 5 (17.86%) GitHub
4 4 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
4 4 (14.29%) Entra ID
4 4 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
4 4 (14.29%) Power Automate
5 3 (10.71%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (10.71%) Azure AKS
5 3 (10.71%) Azure Functions
5 3 (10.71%) Azure Logic Apps
5 3 (10.71%) GCP
5 3 (10.71%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (10.71%) Serverless
6 2 (7.14%) Azure Storage
6 2 (7.14%) Copilot Studio
6 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Copilot
6 2 (7.14%) Power Platform
7 1 (3.57%) AWS CodePipeline
7 1 (3.57%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.57%) DHCP
1 1 (3.57%) DNS
1 1 (3.57%) Firewall
1 1 (3.57%) HTTP
1 1 (3.57%) LTE
1 1 (3.57%) Network Security
1 1 (3.57%) SD-WAN
1 1 (3.57%) TCP/IP
1 1 (3.57%) VLAN
1 1 (3.57%) VPN
1 1 (3.57%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.14%) DB2
1 2 (7.14%) Hazelcast
1 2 (7.14%) Relational Database
1 2 (7.14%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.57%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (3.57%) Power BI
2 1 (3.57%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 10 (35.71%) JIRA
2 5 (17.86%) Git
3 4 (14.29%) Jenkins
4 3 (10.71%) Eclipse
4 3 (10.71%) IntelliJ
4 3 (10.71%) Postman
5 1 (3.57%) Cypress.io
5 1 (3.57%) GDB
5 1 (3.57%) NUnit
5 1 (3.57%) Selenium
5 1 (3.57%) Visual Studio
5 1 (3.57%) WinDbg
General
1 8 (28.57%) Finance
2 5 (17.86%) Banking
2 5 (17.86%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (7.14%) Games
3 2 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (7.14%) Retail
4 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Law
4 1 (3.57%) Legal
4 1 (3.57%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.57%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (21.43%) Developer
2 5 (17.86%) Scrum Master
2 5 (17.86%) Senior
3 4 (14.29%) Software Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Java Developer
4 3 (10.71%) Pega Developer
4 3 (10.71%) Senior Software Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) C# Software Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Delivery Manager
5 2 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (7.14%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 2 (7.14%) Head of Testing
5 2 (7.14%) Lead
5 2 (7.14%) Power Platform Developer
5 2 (7.14%) Senior C# Software Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Software Delivery Manager
5 2 (7.14%) Software Manager
6 1 (3.57%) ITIL Change Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (21.43%) React
2 5 (17.86%) AngularJS
3 4 (14.29%) .NET
3 4 (14.29%) ARM Templates
3 4 (14.29%) CSS
3 4 (14.29%) HTML
3 4 (14.29%) RESTful
4 3 (10.71%) CSS3
4 3 (10.71%) HTML5
4 3 (10.71%) J2EE
4 3 (10.71%) Kafka
4 3 (10.71%) SOAP
5 2 (7.14%) JMS
5 2 (7.14%) Middleware
5 2 (7.14%) REST
6 1 (3.57%) .NET Framework
6 1 (3.57%) JSON
6 1 (3.57%) JWT
6 1 (3.57%) OAuth
6 1 (3.57%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.86%) Product Ownership
2 2 (7.14%) Cloud Native
2 2 (7.14%) Driving Licence
2 2 (7.14%) Mainframe
2 2 (7.14%) PMI
3 1 (3.57%) AI Agents
3 1 (3.57%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.57%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (3.57%) Low-Code
3 1 (3.57%) Reinsurance
3 1 (3.57%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.57%) Linux
1 1 (3.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (100.00%) DevOps
2 22 (78.57%) CI/CD
3 19 (67.86%) Agile
4 10 (35.71%) Scrum
5 9 (32.14%) Roadmaps
6 8 (28.57%) SDLC
6 8 (28.57%) TDD
7 7 (25.00%) Kanban
7 7 (25.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 7 (25.00%) Software Delivery
7 7 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
8 6 (21.43%) Mentoring
8 6 (21.43%) Sprint Planning
9 5 (17.86%) Backlog Management
9 5 (17.86%) Burndown Charts
9 5 (17.86%) Community of Practice
9 5 (17.86%) Infrastructure as Code
9 5 (17.86%) Servant Leadership
9 5 (17.86%) Sprint Retrospective
9 5 (17.86%) Sprint Review
Programming Languages
1 6 (21.43%) SQL
2 5 (17.86%) PowerShell
3 4 (14.29%) JavaScript
4 3 (10.71%) Bicep
4 3 (10.71%) C#
4 3 (10.71%) Java
4 3 (10.71%) PL/SQL
4 3 (10.71%) Python
5 2 (7.14%) TypeScript
6 1 (3.57%) C++
Qualifications
1 4 (14.29%) Azure Certification
2 3 (10.71%) SC Cleared
2 3 (10.71%) Security Cleared
3 2 (7.14%) PMI Certification
4 1 (3.57%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (3.57%) SAFe Agilist
System Software
1 3 (10.71%) Active Directory
1 3 (10.71%) Docker
1 3 (10.71%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (7.14%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (3.57%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (17.86%) Terraform
2 3 (10.71%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.57%) Ansible
3 1 (3.57%) FortiGate
3 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (3.57%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (32.14%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.71%) Oracle
2 3 (10.71%) Pega
2 3 (10.71%) Salesforce
3 1 (3.57%) Databricks
3 1 (3.57%) Fortinet
3 1 (3.57%) Foundry
3 1 (3.57%) ServiceNow
3 1 (3.57%) Splunk