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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 110 129 71
Rank change year-on-year +19 -58 +37
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 59 33 171
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.04% 1.48% 3.38%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.44% 3.41% 8.72%
Number of salaries quoted 44 21 130
10th Percentile £46,625 £47,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £58,938 £55,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,400 £72,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.90% +20.83% -13.60%
75th Percentile £85,313 £87,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £87,500 - £90,000
North West median annual salary £70,000 £60,250 £60,000
% change year-on-year +16.18% +0.42% -7.69%

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 1,716 969 1,962
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 30.16% 43.39% 38.80%
Number of salaries quoted 1,132 637 1,614
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,750 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% -3.40%
75th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,650 £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 21 May 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 13 (22.03%) Confluence
2 4 (6.78%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (6.78%) SharePoint
3 2 (3.39%) CICS
3 2 (3.39%) CMS
3 2 (3.39%) Umbraco
3 2 (3.39%) WordPress
4 1 (1.69%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 2 (3.39%) Trello
2 1 (1.69%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (3.39%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (1.69%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 59 (100.00%) Azure
2 18 (30.51%) GitHub
3 15 (25.42%) GitHub Actions
4 13 (22.03%) AWS
5 7 (11.86%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (10.17%) Power Platform
7 5 (8.47%) Entra ID
7 5 (8.47%) Snowflake
8 4 (6.78%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (5.08%) Azure AKS
9 3 (5.08%) Datadog
9 3 (5.08%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (5.08%) GCP
9 3 (5.08%) Power Automate
9 3 (5.08%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 3 (5.08%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 2 (3.39%) Azure Functions
10 2 (3.39%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (3.39%) Microsoft Copilot
10 2 (3.39%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.78%) Firewall
2 3 (5.08%) SAN
3 2 (3.39%) DNS
4 1 (1.69%) DHCP
4 1 (1.69%) LTE
4 1 (1.69%) Network Security
4 1 (1.69%) SD-WAN
4 1 (1.69%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.69%) VLAN
4 1 (1.69%) VPN
4 1 (1.69%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.78%) SQL Server
2 3 (5.08%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (5.08%) Relational Database
3 2 (3.39%) DB2
3 2 (3.39%) Hazelcast
3 2 (3.39%) MongoDB
3 2 (3.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.69%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.69%) Power BI
4 1 (1.69%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 16 (27.12%) JIRA
2 10 (16.95%) Git
3 9 (15.25%) Jenkins
3 9 (15.25%) Postman
4 3 (5.08%) Eclipse
4 3 (5.08%) IntelliJ
5 1 (1.69%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.69%) GDB
5 1 (1.69%) GitLab
5 1 (1.69%) Selenium
5 1 (1.69%) Terragrunt
5 1 (1.69%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.69%) WinDbg
General
1 16 (27.12%) Finance
2 12 (20.34%) Social Skills
3 7 (11.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (10.17%) Banking
4 6 (10.17%) Games
4 6 (10.17%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (6.78%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.69%) Legal
Job Titles
1 16 (27.12%) Senior
2 14 (23.73%) Developer
3 9 (15.25%) Cloud Engineer
4 7 (11.86%) Head of Testing
5 6 (10.17%) Scrum Master
6 5 (8.47%) Data Engineer
6 5 (8.47%) Delivery Manager
6 5 (8.47%) Platform Engineer
6 5 (8.47%) Senior Data Engineer
6 5 (8.47%) Senior Platform Engineer
6 5 (8.47%) Snowflake Engineer
6 5 (8.47%) Software Delivery Manager
6 5 (8.47%) Software Manager
7 4 (6.78%) Senior Developer
7 4 (6.78%) Software Engineer
8 3 (5.08%) Java Developer
8 3 (5.08%) Salesforce Developer
8 3 (5.08%) Senior Software Engineer
8 3 (5.08%) Site Engineer
8 3 (5.08%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (15.25%) React
2 7 (11.86%) .NET
3 6 (10.17%) AngularJS
3 6 (10.17%) REST
3 6 (10.17%) SOAP
4 5 (8.47%) ARM Templates
4 5 (8.47%) CSS
4 5 (8.47%) HTML
4 5 (8.47%) Middleware
5 3 (5.08%) CSS3
5 3 (5.08%) HTML5
5 3 (5.08%) J2EE
5 3 (5.08%) Kafka
5 3 (5.08%) Lightning Web Components
5 3 (5.08%) RESTful
5 3 (5.08%) Visualforce
6 2 (3.39%) ASP.NET
6 2 (3.39%) ASP.NET Core
6 2 (3.39%) Entity Framework
6 2 (3.39%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 10 (16.95%) Product Ownership
2 5 (8.47%) Cloud Native
2 5 (8.47%) Onboarding
2 5 (8.47%) PMI
3 3 (5.08%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.39%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (3.39%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.69%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.69%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.69%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.39%) Linux
2 1 (1.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (100.00%) DevOps
2 45 (76.27%) CI/CD
3 39 (66.10%) Agile
4 15 (25.42%) Infrastructure as Code
4 15 (25.42%) Scrum
5 14 (23.73%) Mentoring
6 13 (22.03%) Roadmaps
7 12 (20.34%) Continuous Improvement
7 12 (20.34%) Kanban
7 12 (20.34%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 11 (18.64%) Analytics
8 11 (18.64%) Software Delivery
8 11 (18.64%) Stakeholder Management
9 10 (16.95%) AI
9 10 (16.95%) Business Strategy
9 10 (16.95%) Continuous Integration
9 10 (16.95%) Test Automation
10 9 (15.25%) Containerisation
10 9 (15.25%) Observability
10 9 (15.25%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 16 (27.12%) SQL
2 15 (25.42%) Python
3 11 (18.64%) PowerShell
4 10 (16.95%) Bash
5 5 (8.47%) Bicep
5 5 (8.47%) JavaScript
6 4 (6.78%) C#
6 4 (6.78%) Java
6 4 (6.78%) TypeScript
7 3 (5.08%) Apex Code
7 3 (5.08%) PL/SQL
7 3 (5.08%) SOQL
7 3 (5.08%) SOSL
8 2 (3.39%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.69%) C++
Qualifications
1 5 (8.47%) PMI Certification
2 4 (6.78%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.69%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.69%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.78%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.69%) GRC
2 1 (1.69%) QA
System Software
1 8 (13.56%) Docker
2 4 (6.78%) Active Directory
2 4 (6.78%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (5.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.69%) Firmware
4 1 (1.69%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 16 (27.12%) Terraform
2 7 (11.86%) Kubernetes
3 3 (5.08%) Grafana
3 3 (5.08%) Prometheus
4 2 (3.39%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.69%) Ansible
5 1 (1.69%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 18 (30.51%) Microsoft
2 12 (20.34%) Salesforce
3 4 (6.78%) VMware
4 3 (5.08%) Oracle
4 3 (5.08%) Pega
5 1 (1.69%) Databricks
5 1 (1.69%) Fortinet