DevOps Jobs in the North West

DevOps
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for DevOps skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited DevOps over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 17 11 8
Rank change year-on-year -6 -3 +1
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 916 1,103 1,602
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 8.55% 14.96% 16.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.61% 15.67% 17.45%
Number of salaries quoted 559 592 855
10th Percentile £38,500 £42,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% +11.11%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +7.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

DevOps is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,635 7,040 9,179
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 80.63% 95.51% 95.50%
Number of salaries quoted 6,406 3,845 5,293
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £29,800
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £38,947
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.03%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £81,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in the North West

DevOps
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DevOps in the North West.

Salary trend for DevOps in the North West

DevOps
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps in the North West over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for DevOps in the North West

DevOps
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps within the North West region over the 6 months to 2 June 2024. 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
Manchester -3 635 £65,000 -3.70% 140
Merseyside -4 98 £63,217 +5.36% 8
Cheshire -4 82 £55,000 -8.33% 10
Lancashire -8 64 £62,783 +14.15% 7
Cumbria +14 34 £60,000 +9.09% 3
DevOps
England

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 57 (6.22%) ArcGIS
1 57 (6.22%) GeoServer
2 20 (2.18%) Confluence
3 19 (2.07%) SharePoint
4 15 (1.64%) IIS
5 12 (1.31%) CMS
6 9 (0.98%) Apache Solr
7 8 (0.87%) Apache Spark
7 8 (0.87%) Umbraco
8 6 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.44%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 3 (0.33%) Drupal
10 3 (0.33%) WordPress
11 2 (0.22%) BizTalk Server
12 1 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.11%) Apache
12 1 (0.11%) Jetty
12 1 (0.11%) Kentico
12 1 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 6 (0.66%) Photoshop
2 5 (0.55%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.33%) Trello
4 2 (0.22%) Adobe XD
4 2 (0.22%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.22%) Sketch
5 1 (0.11%) GNU Octave
5 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 29 (3.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (1.09%) Dynamics AX
3 9 (0.98%) Magento
4 7 (0.76%) Shopify
5 6 (0.66%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.11%) BambooHR
6 1 (0.11%) iTrent
6 1 (0.11%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.11%) Primavera
6 1 (0.11%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 514 (56.11%) Azure
2 370 (40.39%) AWS
3 267 (29.15%) Azure DevOps
4 78 (8.52%) IBM Cloud
5 77 (8.41%) Power Platform
6 75 (8.19%) Serverless
7 63 (6.88%) GCP
8 57 (6.22%) Amazon S3
9 54 (5.90%) GitHub
10 47 (5.13%) Amazon EKS
10 47 (5.13%) Azure Functions
10 47 (5.13%) Azure Service Bus
11 45 (4.91%) Azure Logic Apps
11 45 (4.91%) Dynamics 365
12 43 (4.69%) Amazon Kinesis
12 43 (4.69%) OCI
13 42 (4.59%) Azure API Management
14 36 (3.93%) Amazon ECR
14 36 (3.93%) Route 53
14 36 (3.93%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (2.18%) DNS
2 14 (1.53%) Firewall
3 7 (0.76%) MQTT
3 7 (0.76%) WAN
4 6 (0.66%) HTTP
4 6 (0.66%) LAN
4 6 (0.66%) VoIP
5 5 (0.55%) WLAN
6 4 (0.44%) Network Security
6 4 (0.44%) Unified Communications
6 4 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.33%) Skype
8 1 (0.11%) Asterisk PBX
8 1 (0.11%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.11%) IMAP
8 1 (0.11%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.11%) SMTP
8 1 (0.11%) SSL
8 1 (0.11%) VSAN
8 1 (0.11%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 152 (16.59%) PostgreSQL
2 96 (10.48%) SQL Server
3 92 (10.04%) NoSQL
4 62 (6.77%) Relational Database
5 58 (6.33%) Data Warehouse
6 57 (6.22%) GIS
6 57 (6.22%) QGIS
7 53 (5.79%) MongoDB
8 49 (5.35%) Amazon RDS
8 49 (5.35%) DynamoDB
9 47 (5.13%) MySQL
10 41 (4.48%) DB2
11 38 (4.15%) Power BI
12 35 (3.82%) Amazon Aurora
13 32 (3.49%) BigQuery
14 28 (3.06%) Looker
15 27 (2.95%) Data Vault
16 22 (2.40%) Redis
17 19 (2.07%) Metadata
18 16 (1.75%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 89 (9.72%) Git
2 76 (8.30%) JIRA
3 51 (5.57%) Jenkins
4 44 (4.80%) GitLab
5 20 (2.18%) Gatling
5 20 (2.18%) Postman
5 20 (2.18%) Team Foundation Server
6 17 (1.86%) Visual Studio
7 16 (1.75%) Jasmine
8 11 (1.20%) Karma Test Runner
9 9 (0.98%) Bitbucket
9 9 (0.98%) Selenium
10 8 (0.87%) Cypress.io
10 8 (0.87%) SonarQube
11 7 (0.76%) TeamCity
12 5 (0.55%) Android Studio
12 5 (0.55%) Appium
12 5 (0.55%) Clang
13 4 (0.44%) CMake
13 4 (0.44%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 199 (21.72%) Social Skills
2 108 (11.79%) Public Sector
3 100 (10.92%) Finance
4 71 (7.75%) Analytical Skills
5 61 (6.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 56 (6.11%) Retail
7 29 (3.17%) Law
8 28 (3.06%) Legal
9 20 (2.18%) Billing
9 20 (2.18%) Electronics
10 18 (1.97%) Aerospace
11 17 (1.86%) Marketing
11 17 (1.86%) Presentation Skills
12 15 (1.64%) Automotive
13 14 (1.53%) Banking
13 14 (1.53%) Games
14 9 (0.98%) Influencing Skills
14 9 (0.98%) Manufacturing
15 7 (0.76%) Back Office
16 5 (0.55%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 244 (26.64%) Developer
2 223 (24.34%) Senior
3 138 (15.07%) Software Engineer
4 118 (12.88%) DevOps Engineer
5 109 (11.90%) Lead
6 81 (8.84%) Architect
7 74 (8.08%) Data Engineer
8 63 (6.88%) Full Stack Developer
9 56 (6.11%) Senior Software Engineer
10 55 (6.00%) Senior DevOps
10 55 (6.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 52 (5.68%) Platform Engineer
12 50 (5.46%) Senior Developer
13 48 (5.24%) Azure Developer
14 46 (5.02%) .NET Developer
15 40 (4.37%) Technical Leader
16 36 (3.93%) Azure Engineer
17 32 (3.49%) Principal Engineer
18 29 (3.17%) Principal Data Engineer
19 26 (2.84%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 231 (25.22%) .NET
2 191 (20.85%) React
3 159 (17.36%) CSS
4 129 (14.08%) Node.js
5 116 (12.66%) HTML
6 106 (11.57%) AngularJS
7 104 (11.35%) REST
8 90 (9.83%) Web Services
9 81 (8.84%) .NET Core
10 69 (7.53%) ASP.NET
11 65 (7.10%) Vue
12 60 (6.55%) jQuery
13 57 (6.22%) Leaflet
13 57 (6.22%) OpenLayers
13 57 (6.22%) PostGIS
14 56 (6.11%) Twitter Bootstrap
15 48 (5.24%) GraphQL
16 46 (5.02%) JSON
17 42 (4.59%) ASP.NET Core
18 41 (4.48%) Ember.js
Miscellaneous
1 91 (9.93%) Hybrid Cloud
2 78 (8.52%) Blockchain
3 64 (6.99%) Data Structures
4 57 (6.22%) Cloud Native
5 48 (5.24%) Public Cloud
6 47 (5.13%) Self-Motivation
7 42 (4.59%) Algorithms
8 37 (4.04%) e-Learning
9 35 (3.82%) Blog
10 30 (3.28%) Media Streaming
11 29 (3.17%) Management Information System
12 26 (2.84%) Product Ownership
13 21 (2.29%) Distributed Systems
14 19 (2.07%) Greenfield Project
15 17 (1.86%) Reinsurance
16 15 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
17 14 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
18 13 (1.42%) Data Centre
18 13 (1.42%) IoT
18 13 (1.42%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 119 (12.99%) Linux
2 92 (10.04%) Windows
3 52 (5.68%) Android
4 48 (5.24%) Apple iOS
5 18 (1.97%) Windows Server
6 11 (1.20%) VMS
7 9 (0.98%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.33%) Embedded Linux
9 3 (0.33%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
10 1 (0.11%) CentOS
10 1 (0.11%) HPUX
10 1 (0.11%) Solaris
10 1 (0.11%) Unix
10 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 527 (57.53%) Agile
2 251 (27.40%) Software Engineering
3 212 (23.14%) CI/CD
4 188 (20.52%) Mentoring
5 138 (15.07%) Problem-Solving
6 137 (14.96%) Web Development
7 120 (13.10%) Coaching
8 111 (12.12%) Scrum
9 110 (12.01%) Infrastructure as Code
10 107 (11.68%) Artificial Intelligence
11 106 (11.57%) Full Stack Development
12 103 (11.24%) Continuous Integration
13 99 (10.81%) Analytics
14 95 (10.37%) Actionable Insight
14 95 (10.37%) Roadmaps
15 89 (9.72%) Design Patterns
16 87 (9.50%) Test Automation
17 85 (9.28%) User Experience
18 69 (7.53%) Containerisation
19 67 (7.31%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 240 (26.20%) JavaScript
2 234 (25.55%) C#
3 202 (22.05%) Python
4 162 (17.69%) SQL
5 137 (14.96%) Java
6 89 (9.72%) TypeScript
7 39 (4.26%) PowerShell
8 36 (3.93%) PHP
9 33 (3.60%) Scala
10 27 (2.95%) Bash
11 24 (2.62%) C
11 24 (2.62%) Go
12 22 (2.40%) VB.NET
13 18 (1.97%) T-SQL
14 11 (1.20%) VB
14 11 (1.20%) VB6
15 8 (0.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 8 (0.87%) Rust
16 7 (0.76%) C++
16 7 (0.76%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 131 (14.30%) Security Cleared
2 99 (10.81%) SC Cleared
3 96 (10.48%) Degree
4 40 (4.37%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (2.51%) Microsoft Certification
6 17 (1.86%) DV Cleared
7 13 (1.42%) AWS Certification
7 13 (1.42%) Azure Certification
8 9 (0.98%) Master's Degree
9 8 (0.87%) BC Cleared
10 7 (0.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 6 (0.66%) HND
12 4 (0.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 4 (0.44%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.44%) PMI Certification
13 3 (0.33%) CISSP
14 2 (0.22%) DBS Check
15 1 (0.11%) AWS Certified Developer
15 1 (0.11%) BPSS Clearance
15 1 (0.11%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (5.46%) QA
2 48 (5.24%) Data Quality
3 44 (4.80%) GDPR
4 11 (1.20%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (0.98%) NIST
6 9 (0.98%) PCI DSS
7 7 (0.76%) SLA
8 3 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.33%) PMO
9 1 (0.11%) P3O
System Software
1 94 (10.26%) Docker
2 22 (2.40%) Active Directory
3 14 (1.53%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (0.87%) Firmware
5 7 (0.76%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.44%) Embedded Firmware
7 2 (0.22%) IAG
8 1 (0.11%) Dovecot
8 1 (0.11%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 175 (19.10%) Terraform
2 139 (15.17%) Kubernetes
3 59 (6.44%) Ansible
4 40 (4.37%) Prometheus
5 24 (2.62%) Progress Chef
6 9 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (0.87%) Puppet
8 7 (0.76%) CA Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (0.44%) Grafana
11 3 (0.33%) Podman
12 2 (0.22%) Rundeck
13 1 (0.11%) Packer
Vendors
1 148 (16.16%) Microsoft
2 82 (8.95%) IBM
2 82 (8.95%) Red Hat
3 57 (6.22%) ESRI
4 47 (5.13%) Google
5 36 (3.93%) Dynatrace
6 35 (3.82%) Databricks
7 27 (2.95%) Informatica
7 27 (2.95%) Oracle
8 17 (1.86%) ServiceNow
9 13 (1.42%) Adobe
9 13 (1.42%) Atlassian
10 10 (1.09%) YouTube
11 7 (0.76%) CA
11 7 (0.76%) CyberArk
12 6 (0.66%) Actuate
13 5 (0.55%) BT
13 5 (0.55%) LogicMonitor
13 5 (0.55%) PagerDuty
13 5 (0.55%) SAP