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

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 108 85
Rank change year-on-year +5 -23 -41
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 110 42 95
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.44% 1.79% 2.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.81% 4.96% 7.00%
Number of salaries quoted 87 31 52
10th Percentile £44,000 £52,750 £37,575
25th Percentile £48,875 £57,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile £70,575 £78,125 £75,313
90th Percentile £78,000 £90,000 £87,600
North West median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -8.19%

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 1,892 846 1,357
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 24.74% 36.06% 34.94%
Number of salaries quoted 1,397 566 752
10th Percentile £34,700 £29,500 £35,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -
75th Percentile £81,000 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £87,500 £85,000
North West median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -4.35%

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 12 October 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 12 October 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 - 5 £35,500 - 1
Oldham +4 3 £54,250 -5.65% 1
Ashton-under-Lyne - 1 £51,000 - 2
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 10 (9.09%) SharePoint
2 5 (4.55%) Confluence
2 5 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.82%) CMS
3 2 (1.82%) nginx
3 2 (1.82%) Umbraco
3 2 (1.82%) WordPress
4 1 (0.91%) IIS
Applications
1 7 (6.36%) Trello
2 1 (0.91%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (5.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (2.73%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 110 (100.00%) Azure
2 28 (25.45%) Power Platform
3 27 (24.55%) GitHub
4 22 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
5 20 (18.18%) Dynamics 365
6 16 (14.55%) AWS
7 15 (13.64%) Power Automate
8 13 (11.82%) Microsoft 365
9 12 (10.91%) PowerApps
10 9 (8.18%) Snowflake
11 8 (7.27%) Entra ID
12 7 (6.36%) Azure Monitor
12 7 (6.36%) Copilot Studio
12 7 (6.36%) Microsoft Copilot
13 6 (5.45%) SaaS
14 5 (4.55%) Azure Key Vault
15 4 (3.64%) Serverless
16 3 (2.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 3 (2.73%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
16 3 (2.73%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.55%) Firewall
1 5 (4.55%) SAN
2 3 (2.73%) DNS
3 1 (0.91%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
2 9 (8.18%) MongoDB
3 7 (6.36%) SQL Server
4 6 (5.45%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (5.45%) Power BI
5 3 (2.73%) NoSQL
5 3 (2.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (1.82%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.82%) MySQL
6 2 (1.82%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.82%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.91%) Data Vault
7 1 (0.91%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.91%) Metadata
7 1 (0.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.91%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 23 (20.91%) JIRA
2 15 (13.64%) Git
3 4 (3.64%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.73%) GitLab
4 3 (2.73%) Postman
5 2 (1.82%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.82%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.91%) Android Studio
6 1 (0.91%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.91%) MLflow
6 1 (0.91%) NUnit
6 1 (0.91%) Selenium
6 1 (0.91%) Visual Studio
General
1 36 (32.73%) Social Skills
2 16 (14.55%) Finance
3 10 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (3.64%) Influencing Skills
4 4 (3.64%) Legal
5 3 (2.73%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (2.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (2.73%) Retail
6 2 (1.82%) Games
6 2 (1.82%) Manufacturing
6 2 (1.82%) Marketing
6 2 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.91%) Law
7 1 (0.91%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 33 (30.00%) Developer
2 21 (19.09%) Azure Engineer
3 20 (18.18%) Senior
4 16 (14.55%) DevOps Engineer
5 14 (12.73%) Platform Engineer
6 12 (10.91%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 11 (10.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
8 9 (8.18%) .NET Developer
8 9 (8.18%) Analyst
8 9 (8.18%) Cloud Engineer
8 9 (8.18%) Data Engineer
8 9 (8.18%) Senior Data Engineer
8 9 (8.18%) Snowflake Engineer
9 8 (7.27%) Dynamics 365 Developer
10 7 (6.36%) Power Platform Developer
11 6 (5.45%) Consultant
11 6 (5.45%) Project Manager
12 5 (4.55%) Coordinator
12 5 (4.55%) Project Coordinator
12 5 (4.55%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (21.82%) Terraform
2 22 (20.00%) .NET
3 15 (13.64%) CSS
3 15 (13.64%) HTML
3 15 (13.64%) REST
4 11 (10.00%) ASP.NET
5 10 (9.09%) .NET Core
5 10 (9.09%) ASP.NET Core
5 10 (9.09%) Entity Framework
6 9 (8.18%) React
7 8 (7.27%) Node.js
8 5 (4.55%) HTML5 Canvas
9 4 (3.64%) ARM Templates
9 4 (3.64%) Blazor
9 4 (3.64%) Lightning Web Components
9 4 (3.64%) Middleware
9 4 (3.64%) SOAP
9 4 (3.64%) Visualforce
10 3 (2.73%) .NET Framework
10 3 (2.73%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.09%) Onboarding
2 7 (6.36%) Product Ownership
3 5 (4.55%) Cloud Native
3 5 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (4.55%) Low-Code
4 2 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (1.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (1.82%) Mobile App
4 2 (1.82%) PMI
4 2 (1.82%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.91%) BBC
5 1 (0.91%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.91%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.45%) Linux
2 1 (0.91%) Android
2 1 (0.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.91%) Ubuntu
2 1 (0.91%) Unix
2 1 (0.91%) Windows
2 1 (0.91%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (100.00%) DevOps
2 62 (56.36%) Agile
3 55 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 26 (23.64%) Continuous Improvement
4 26 (23.64%) Infrastructure as Code
5 23 (20.91%) AI
6 20 (18.18%) Requirements Gathering
7 19 (17.27%) Mentoring
8 18 (16.36%) SDLC
9 17 (15.45%) Analytics
9 17 (15.45%) Digital Transformation Programme
9 17 (15.45%) Stakeholder Management
10 16 (14.55%) Platform Engineering
11 15 (13.64%) Business Analysis
11 15 (13.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 14 (12.73%) Problem-Solving
13 13 (11.82%) RBAC
13 13 (11.82%) Software Engineering
14 12 (10.91%) Disaster Recovery
14 12 (10.91%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 35 (31.82%) SQL
2 29 (26.36%) C#
3 23 (20.91%) Python
4 17 (15.45%) JavaScript
5 14 (12.73%) Bash
5 14 (12.73%) PowerShell
6 10 (9.09%) Bicep
7 4 (3.64%) Apex Code
7 4 (3.64%) TypeScript
8 3 (2.73%) SOQL
8 3 (2.73%) SOSL
8 3 (2.73%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.82%) Java
9 2 (1.82%) PHP
10 1 (0.91%) Scala
10 1 (0.91%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 7 (6.36%) PMI Certification
1 7 (6.36%) SC Cleared
1 7 (6.36%) Security Cleared
2 6 (5.45%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (4.55%) Degree
3 5 (4.55%) PMP
4 3 (2.73%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.91%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (9.09%) QA
2 9 (8.18%) Data Quality
3 5 (4.55%) PMO
System Software
1 8 (7.27%) Docker
2 5 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (3.64%) Active Directory
3 4 (3.64%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (4.55%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.82%) Ansible
2 2 (1.82%) Grafana
2 2 (1.82%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (1.82%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.91%) Argo
3 1 (0.91%) Istio
3 1 (0.91%) linkerd
Vendors
1 43 (39.09%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.45%) Salesforce
2 6 (5.45%) VMware
3 2 (1.82%) HP
4 1 (0.91%) Apple
4 1 (0.91%) Databricks
4 1 (0.91%) Facebook
4 1 (0.91%) Google
4 1 (0.91%) Oracle
4 1 (0.91%) Sony
4 1 (0.91%) Yahoo!
4 1 (0.91%) YouTube