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

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 103 88
Rank change year-on-year -24 -15 +44
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 27 42 112
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.69% 1.89% 2.61%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.99% 4.40% 6.57%
Number of salaries quoted 23 28 98
10th Percentile £51,400 £46,250 £41,933
25th Percentile £53,750 £60,313 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £72,500 £62,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% +16.94% -4.62%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £79,688
90th Percentile £87,500 £89,375 £90,750
North West median annual salary £64,000 £65,000 £62,000
% change year-on-year -1.54% +4.84% +4.16%

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 1,357 955 1,704
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 34.67% 42.86% 39.64%
Number of salaries quoted 757 643 1,484
10th Percentile £30,650 £35,000 £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% -
75th Percentile £81,250 £77,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,778 £85,000
North West median annual salary £57,500 £56,000 £52,501
% change year-on-year +2.68% +6.67% -4.54%

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 11 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 7 (25.93%) Confluence
2 3 (11.11%) SharePoint
3 2 (7.41%) CICS
4 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (3.70%) PegaRULES
Business Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 27 (100.00%) Azure
2 7 (25.93%) AWS
3 5 (18.52%) Azure Monitor
3 5 (18.52%) Power Automate
4 4 (14.81%) Entra ID
4 4 (14.81%) GitHub
5 3 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (11.11%) Azure AKS
5 3 (11.11%) Azure Functions
5 3 (11.11%) Azure Logic Apps
5 3 (11.11%) GCP
5 3 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (11.11%) Serverless
6 2 (7.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (7.41%) Azure Storage
6 2 (7.41%) Copilot Studio
6 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Copilot
6 2 (7.41%) Power Platform
6 2 (7.41%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.70%) DHCP
1 1 (3.70%) DNS
1 1 (3.70%) Firewall
1 1 (3.70%) HTTP
1 1 (3.70%) Network Security
1 1 (3.70%) SD-WAN
1 1 (3.70%) TCP/IP
1 1 (3.70%) VLAN
1 1 (3.70%) VPN
1 1 (3.70%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.41%) DB2
1 2 (7.41%) Hazelcast
1 2 (7.41%) Relational Database
1 2 (7.41%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.70%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (3.70%) Power BI
2 1 (3.70%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 9 (33.33%) JIRA
2 5 (18.52%) Git
3 3 (11.11%) Eclipse
3 3 (11.11%) IntelliJ
3 3 (11.11%) Jenkins
4 1 (3.70%) Cypress.io
4 1 (3.70%) NUnit
4 1 (3.70%) Postman
4 1 (3.70%) Selenium
General
1 7 (25.93%) Finance
2 6 (22.22%) Banking
3 4 (14.81%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (7.41%) Games
4 2 (7.41%) Retail
5 1 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.70%) Law
5 1 (3.70%) Legal
5 1 (3.70%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.70%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (29.63%) Developer
2 4 (14.81%) Scrum Master
2 4 (14.81%) Senior
3 3 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
3 3 (11.11%) Java Developer
3 3 (11.11%) Pega Developer
3 3 (11.11%) Software Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) C# Software Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Delivery Manager
4 2 (7.41%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (7.41%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 2 (7.41%) Integration Developer
4 2 (7.41%) Lead
4 2 (7.41%) Power Platform Developer
4 2 (7.41%) Salesforce Developer
4 2 (7.41%) Senior C# Software Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Senior Software Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Software Delivery Manager
4 2 (7.41%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (22.22%) React
2 5 (18.52%) AngularJS
3 4 (14.81%) .NET
3 4 (14.81%) ARM Templates
3 4 (14.81%) CSS
3 4 (14.81%) HTML
3 4 (14.81%) REST
3 4 (14.81%) RESTful
4 3 (11.11%) CSS3
4 3 (11.11%) HTML5
4 3 (11.11%) J2EE
4 3 (11.11%) Kafka
4 3 (11.11%) SOAP
5 2 (7.41%) JMS
5 2 (7.41%) Lightning Web Components
5 2 (7.41%) Middleware
6 1 (3.70%) .NET Core
6 1 (3.70%) JWT
6 1 (3.70%) Playwright
6 1 (3.70%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.81%) Product Ownership
2 2 (7.41%) Cloud Native
2 2 (7.41%) Driving Licence
2 2 (7.41%) Mainframe
2 2 (7.41%) PMI
3 1 (3.70%) AI Agents
3 1 (3.70%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.70%) Low-Code
3 1 (3.70%) Reinsurance
3 1 (3.70%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (100.00%) DevOps
2 18 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 15 (55.56%) Agile
4 9 (33.33%) Scrum
5 8 (29.63%) Roadmaps
6 7 (25.93%) TDD
7 6 (22.22%) Kanban
7 6 (22.22%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 6 (22.22%) SDLC
7 6 (22.22%) Software Delivery
7 6 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
8 5 (18.52%) Containerisation
8 5 (18.52%) Disaster Recovery
8 5 (18.52%) Full-Stack Development
8 5 (18.52%) High Availability
8 5 (18.52%) Infrastructure as Code
8 5 (18.52%) Mentoring
8 5 (18.52%) Sprint Planning
9 4 (14.81%) CRM
9 4 (14.81%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 6 (22.22%) PowerShell
1 6 (22.22%) SQL
2 4 (14.81%) JavaScript
3 3 (11.11%) Bicep
3 3 (11.11%) C#
3 3 (11.11%) Java
3 3 (11.11%) PL/SQL
3 3 (11.11%) Python
4 2 (7.41%) Apex Code
4 2 (7.41%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (14.81%) Azure Certification
2 3 (11.11%) SC Cleared
2 3 (11.11%) Security Cleared
3 2 (7.41%) PMI Certification
4 1 (3.70%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (3.70%) SAFe Agilist
System Software
1 4 (14.81%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (11.11%) Active Directory
2 3 (11.11%) Docker
2 3 (11.11%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (3.70%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (18.52%) Terraform
2 3 (11.11%) Kubernetes
3 2 (7.41%) Prometheus
4 1 (3.70%) Ansible
4 1 (3.70%) FortiGate
4 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 8 (29.63%) Microsoft
2 3 (11.11%) Oracle
2 3 (11.11%) Pega
2 3 (11.11%) Salesforce
3 1 (3.70%) Databricks
3 1 (3.70%) Fortinet
3 1 (3.70%) Foundry
3 1 (3.70%) ServiceNow
3 1 (3.70%) Splunk