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

 6 months to
29 Jan 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 97 100
Rank change year-on-year -8 +3 +18
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 29 60 66
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.92% 2.32% 2.05%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.43% 5.92% 5.14%
Number of salaries quoted 26 29 62
10th Percentile £50,625 £42,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £52,750 £46,250 £52,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £59,763
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.95% -8.06%
75th Percentile £72,188 £87,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £97,000 £88,875
North West median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +4.00% +4.17%

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 1,195 1,014 1,284
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 38.05% 39.15% 39.81%
Number of salaries quoted 637 584 1,139
10th Percentile £28,500 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,418 £60,000 £57,662
Median % change year-on-year +2.36% +4.06% +0.28%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £85,000
North West median annual salary £55,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +0.91% +4.76% -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 29 January 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 29 January 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
Oldham - 2 £57,500 -
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 2 (6.90%) Confluence
1 2 (6.90%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 29 (100.00%) Azure
2 8 (27.59%) AWS
3 7 (24.14%) Power Automate
4 6 (20.69%) Azure Monitor
5 5 (17.24%) SaaS
6 4 (13.79%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (13.79%) GitHub
6 4 (13.79%) PaaS
7 3 (10.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (10.34%) Entra ID
7 3 (10.34%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (10.34%) Power Platform
8 2 (6.90%) Azure AKS
8 2 (6.90%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 2 (6.90%) Azure Functions
8 2 (6.90%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (6.90%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (6.90%) Azure Storage
8 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Copilot
8 2 (6.90%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.34%) DNS
1 3 (10.34%) Firewall
1 3 (10.34%) WAN
2 1 (3.45%) DHCP
2 1 (3.45%) HTTP
2 1 (3.45%) Network Security
2 1 (3.45%) SD-WAN
2 1 (3.45%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.45%) VLAN
2 1 (3.45%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.34%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (6.90%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (13.79%) JIRA
2 2 (6.90%) Git
3 1 (3.45%) Cypress.io
3 1 (3.45%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.45%) NUnit
3 1 (3.45%) Postman
3 1 (3.45%) Selenium
General
1 4 (13.79%) Finance
2 3 (10.34%) Banking
3 2 (6.90%) Public Sector
3 2 (6.90%) Retail
4 1 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.45%) Games
4 1 (3.45%) Law
4 1 (3.45%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (27.59%) Developer
2 7 (24.14%) Senior
3 6 (20.69%) Cloud Engineer
3 6 (20.69%) Software Engineer
4 5 (17.24%) C# Software Engineer
4 5 (17.24%) Senior C# Software Engineer
4 5 (17.24%) Senior Software Engineer
5 3 (10.34%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (10.34%) Integration Developer
5 3 (10.34%) Salesforce Developer
6 2 (6.90%) .NET Developer
6 2 (6.90%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
6 2 (6.90%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (6.90%) Power Platform Developer
7 1 (3.45%) Delivery Manager
7 1 (3.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) ITIL Manager
7 1 (3.45%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (34.48%) .NET
2 6 (20.69%) React
3 5 (17.24%) AngularJS
4 4 (13.79%) ARM Templates
5 3 (10.34%) .NET Framework
5 3 (10.34%) Lightning Web Components
5 3 (10.34%) REST
5 3 (10.34%) RESTful
6 2 (6.90%) Blazor
6 2 (6.90%) Entity Framework
7 1 (3.45%) .NET Core
7 1 (3.45%) CSS
7 1 (3.45%) HTML
7 1 (3.45%) JSON
7 1 (3.45%) JWT
7 1 (3.45%) OAuth
7 1 (3.45%) Playwright
7 1 (3.45%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.34%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (6.90%) AI Agents
2 2 (6.90%) Cloud Native
2 2 (6.90%) Data Centre
2 2 (6.90%) Driving Licence
2 2 (6.90%) Mobile App
2 2 (6.90%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.45%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (3.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (3.45%) Low-Code
3 1 (3.45%) PMI
3 1 (3.45%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.45%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.90%) Android
1 2 (6.90%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (100.00%) DevOps
2 20 (68.97%) CI/CD
3 15 (51.72%) Agile
4 9 (31.03%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (27.59%) Containerisation
5 8 (27.59%) Mentoring
5 8 (27.59%) Software Engineering
6 7 (24.14%) CRM
6 7 (24.14%) Full-Stack Development
7 6 (20.69%) Disaster Recovery
7 6 (20.69%) Process Improvement
7 6 (20.69%) TDD
8 5 (17.24%) High Availability
8 5 (17.24%) Identity Access Management
8 5 (17.24%) Microservices
8 5 (17.24%) SDLC
8 5 (17.24%) SOLID
8 5 (17.24%) Unit Testing
9 4 (13.79%) Infrastructure Automation
9 4 (13.79%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 9 (31.03%) C#
2 8 (27.59%) PowerShell
3 5 (17.24%) Bicep
3 5 (17.24%) SQL
4 4 (13.79%) Python
5 3 (10.34%) Apex Code
6 1 (3.45%) Bash
6 1 (3.45%) Go
6 1 (3.45%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (13.79%) Azure Certification
1 4 (13.79%) SC Cleared
1 4 (13.79%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.45%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (3.45%) PMI Certification
2 1 (3.45%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.90%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (17.24%) Active Directory
2 4 (13.79%) Docker
2 4 (13.79%) Virtual Desktop
2 4 (13.79%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (3.45%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 9 (31.03%) Terraform
2 4 (13.79%) Kubernetes
3 3 (10.34%) Prometheus
4 1 (3.45%) Ansible
4 1 (3.45%) FortiGate
4 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 8 (27.59%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.34%) Salesforce
3 2 (6.90%) Foundry
3 2 (6.90%) Xamarin
4 1 (3.45%) Fortinet
4 1 (3.45%) Oracle
4 1 (3.45%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.45%) Splunk
29 Azure DevOps jobs in Manchester