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 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 17 11 8
Rank change year-on-year -6 -3 +1
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 902 1,183 1,593
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 8.78% 15.61% 16.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.80% 16.38% 17.38%
Number of salaries quoted 560 571 862
10th Percentile £38,625 £42,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £49,875 £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 8,352 7,224 9,166
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 81.31% 95.30% 95.49%
Number of salaries quoted 6,302 3,841 5,330
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,125 £30,000
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% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £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 28 May 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 28 May 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 -2 623 £65,000 -3.70% 133
Merseyside -6 99 £61,609 -1.43% 7
Cheshire -7 81 £55,000 -8.33% 14
Lancashire -14 63 £62,783 +14.15% 10
Cumbria +10 33 £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 (6.32%) ArcGIS
1 57 (6.32%) GeoServer
2 19 (2.11%) SharePoint
3 18 (2.00%) Confluence
4 15 (1.66%) IIS
5 12 (1.33%) CMS
6 9 (1.00%) Apache Solr
7 8 (0.89%) Umbraco
8 7 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
9 6 (0.67%) Apache Spark
10 4 (0.44%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
11 2 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.22%) BizTalk Server
11 2 (0.22%) Drupal
11 2 (0.22%) WordPress
12 1 (0.11%) Captiva
12 1 (0.11%) Jetty
12 1 (0.11%) Kentico
12 1 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (0.67%) 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 (3.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (1.11%) Dynamics AX
3 8 (0.89%) Magento
4 7 (0.78%) Shopify
5 6 (0.67%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.11%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.11%) Primavera
6 1 (0.11%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 508 (56.32%) Azure
2 358 (39.69%) AWS
3 261 (28.94%) Azure DevOps
4 80 (8.87%) Serverless
5 78 (8.65%) IBM Cloud
6 75 (8.31%) Power Platform
7 67 (7.43%) GCP
8 57 (6.32%) Amazon S3
9 54 (5.99%) GitHub
10 48 (5.32%) Azure Functions
10 48 (5.32%) Azure Service Bus
11 47 (5.21%) Amazon EKS
12 45 (4.99%) Azure Logic Apps
13 43 (4.77%) Azure API Management
13 43 (4.77%) Dynamics 365
13 43 (4.77%) OCI
14 39 (4.32%) Amazon Kinesis
15 36 (3.99%) Amazon ECR
15 36 (3.99%) Route 53
16 32 (3.55%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (2.22%) DNS
2 13 (1.44%) Firewall
3 7 (0.78%) MQTT
3 7 (0.78%) WAN
4 6 (0.67%) HTTP
4 6 (0.67%) LAN
4 6 (0.67%) 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 2 (0.22%) 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
1 148 (16.41%) PostgreSQL
2 96 (10.64%) SQL Server
3 85 (9.42%) NoSQL
4 66 (7.32%) Relational Database
5 57 (6.32%) GIS
5 57 (6.32%) QGIS
6 55 (6.10%) Data Warehouse
7 53 (5.88%) MongoDB
8 49 (5.43%) Amazon RDS
9 48 (5.32%) MySQL
10 44 (4.88%) DynamoDB
11 41 (4.55%) DB2
12 35 (3.88%) Power BI
13 32 (3.55%) BigQuery
14 31 (3.44%) Amazon Aurora
15 28 (3.10%) Data Vault
15 28 (3.10%) Looker
16 19 (2.11%) Metadata
16 19 (2.11%) Redis
17 18 (2.00%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 94 (10.42%) Git
2 75 (8.31%) JIRA
3 54 (5.99%) Jenkins
4 44 (4.88%) GitLab
5 20 (2.22%) Postman
5 20 (2.22%) Team Foundation Server
6 17 (1.88%) Gatling
6 17 (1.88%) Jasmine
6 17 (1.88%) Visual Studio
7 11 (1.22%) Karma Test Runner
8 9 (1.00%) Bitbucket
8 9 (1.00%) Cypress.io
8 9 (1.00%) Selenium
9 8 (0.89%) SonarQube
10 7 (0.78%) TeamCity
11 5 (0.55%) Android Studio
11 5 (0.55%) Appium
11 5 (0.55%) Clang
12 4 (0.44%) git-flow
12 4 (0.44%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 192 (21.29%) Social Skills
2 108 (11.97%) Public Sector
3 101 (11.20%) Finance
4 73 (8.09%) Analytical Skills
5 60 (6.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 55 (6.10%) Retail
7 28 (3.10%) Legal
8 26 (2.88%) Law
9 19 (2.11%) Banking
10 18 (2.00%) Aerospace
10 18 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
11 17 (1.88%) Billing
11 17 (1.88%) Electronics
11 17 (1.88%) Marketing
12 14 (1.55%) Automotive
12 14 (1.55%) Games
13 9 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
13 9 (1.00%) Manufacturing
14 7 (0.78%) Back Office
15 6 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 240 (26.61%) Developer
2 221 (24.50%) Senior
3 138 (15.30%) Software Engineer
4 118 (13.08%) DevOps Engineer
5 104 (11.53%) Lead
6 75 (8.31%) Architect
7 73 (8.09%) Data Engineer
8 62 (6.87%) Full Stack Developer
9 56 (6.21%) Senior DevOps
9 56 (6.21%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 55 (6.10%) Senior Software Engineer
11 51 (5.65%) Platform Engineer
12 50 (5.54%) Senior Developer
13 48 (5.32%) Azure Developer
14 46 (5.10%) .NET Developer
15 38 (4.21%) Technical Leader
16 36 (3.99%) Azure Engineer
17 32 (3.55%) Principal Engineer
18 29 (3.22%) Principal Data Engineer
19 26 (2.88%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 229 (25.39%) .NET
2 192 (21.29%) React
3 158 (17.52%) CSS
4 130 (14.41%) Node.js
5 115 (12.75%) HTML
6 107 (11.86%) AngularJS
7 99 (10.98%) REST
8 86 (9.53%) Web Services
9 81 (8.98%) .NET Core
10 69 (7.65%) ASP.NET
11 64 (7.10%) Vue
12 59 (6.54%) jQuery
13 57 (6.32%) Leaflet
13 57 (6.32%) OpenLayers
13 57 (6.32%) PostGIS
14 56 (6.21%) Twitter Bootstrap
15 45 (4.99%) JSON
16 44 (4.88%) GraphQL
17 42 (4.66%) ASP.NET Core
18 41 (4.55%) Ember.js
Miscellaneous
1 91 (10.09%) Hybrid Cloud
2 78 (8.65%) Blockchain
3 62 (6.87%) Data Structures
4 57 (6.32%) Cloud Native
5 49 (5.43%) Public Cloud
6 46 (5.10%) Self-Motivation
7 42 (4.66%) Algorithms
8 37 (4.10%) e-Learning
9 31 (3.44%) Blog
10 29 (3.22%) Management Information System
10 29 (3.22%) Product Ownership
11 26 (2.88%) Media Streaming
12 19 (2.11%) Distributed Systems
12 19 (2.11%) Greenfield Project
13 17 (1.88%) Reinsurance
14 14 (1.55%) Enterprise Software
15 13 (1.44%) IoT
15 13 (1.44%) Private Cloud
16 12 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
16 12 (1.33%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 120 (13.30%) Linux
2 92 (10.20%) Windows
3 50 (5.54%) Android
4 47 (5.21%) Apple iOS
5 17 (1.88%) Windows Server
6 11 (1.22%) VMS
7 9 (1.00%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.33%) Embedded Linux
9 3 (0.33%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.33%) Unix
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%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 516 (57.21%) Agile
2 248 (27.49%) Software Engineering
3 207 (22.95%) CI/CD
4 184 (20.40%) Mentoring
5 144 (15.96%) Problem-Solving
6 136 (15.08%) Web Development
7 117 (12.97%) Coaching
8 113 (12.53%) Infrastructure as Code
9 109 (12.08%) Scrum
10 105 (11.64%) Artificial Intelligence
11 103 (11.42%) Full Stack Development
12 99 (10.98%) Actionable Insight
13 98 (10.86%) Continuous Integration
14 92 (10.20%) Analytics
14 92 (10.20%) Roadmaps
15 91 (10.09%) Design Patterns
16 85 (9.42%) Test Automation
17 82 (9.09%) User Experience
18 74 (8.20%) Containerisation
19 68 (7.54%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 241 (26.72%) JavaScript
2 232 (25.72%) C#
3 201 (22.28%) Python
4 159 (17.63%) SQL
5 139 (15.41%) Java
6 88 (9.76%) TypeScript
7 39 (4.32%) PowerShell
8 35 (3.88%) PHP
9 31 (3.44%) Bash
10 29 (3.22%) Scala
11 28 (3.10%) Go
12 23 (2.55%) C
13 22 (2.44%) VB.NET
14 18 (2.00%) T-SQL
15 11 (1.22%) VB
15 11 (1.22%) VB6
16 10 (1.11%) Ruby
17 8 (0.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 7 (0.78%) Kotlin
18 7 (0.78%) Rust
Qualifications
1 129 (14.30%) Security Cleared
2 99 (10.98%) SC Cleared
3 92 (10.20%) Degree
4 36 (3.99%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (2.55%) Microsoft Certification
6 17 (1.88%) DV Cleared
7 13 (1.44%) AWS Certification
7 13 (1.44%) Azure Certification
8 9 (1.00%) Master's Degree
9 7 (0.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 6 (0.67%) BC Cleared
10 6 (0.67%) HND
11 4 (0.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 4 (0.44%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.44%) PMI Certification
12 3 (0.33%) CISSP
13 2 (0.22%) DBS Check
14 1 (0.11%) AWS Certified Developer
14 1 (0.11%) BPSS Clearance
14 1 (0.11%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (5.76%) QA
2 47 (5.21%) Data Quality
3 44 (4.88%) GDPR
4 11 (1.22%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (1.00%) NIST
6 9 (1.00%) PCI DSS
7 8 (0.89%) SLA
8 3 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.33%) PMO
9 1 (0.11%) P3O
System Software
1 97 (10.75%) Docker
2 22 (2.44%) Active Directory
3 14 (1.55%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (0.89%) Firmware
5 7 (0.78%) 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
1 176 (19.51%) Terraform
2 142 (15.74%) Kubernetes
3 59 (6.54%) Ansible
4 41 (4.55%) Prometheus
5 24 (2.66%) Progress Chef
6 9 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (0.78%) CA Single Sign-On
7 7 (0.78%) Puppet
8 5 (0.55%) Grafana
8 5 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (0.33%) Podman
10 2 (0.22%) Rundeck
11 1 (0.11%) Packer
Vendors
1 148 (16.41%) Microsoft
2 84 (9.31%) IBM
3 82 (9.09%) Red Hat
4 57 (6.32%) ESRI
5 49 (5.43%) Google
6 36 (3.99%) Dynatrace
7 33 (3.66%) Databricks
8 31 (3.44%) Oracle
9 25 (2.77%) Informatica
10 18 (2.00%) ServiceNow
11 14 (1.55%) Adobe
12 12 (1.33%) Atlassian
13 10 (1.11%) YouTube
14 7 (0.78%) CA
14 7 (0.78%) CyberArk
15 6 (0.67%) Actuate
16 5 (0.55%) LogicMonitor
16 5 (0.55%) PagerDuty
16 5 (0.55%) SAP
17 4 (0.44%) MuleSoft