DevOps Engineer Jobs in the North West

Development Operations Engineer
England > North West

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in the North West is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 178 130 103
Rank change year-on-year -48 -27 -37
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 114 213 310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 1.18% 2.67% 3.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.24% 3.00% 3.43%
Number of salaries quoted 56 131 131
10th Percentile £48,750 £43,750 £38,947
25th Percentile £50,000 £53,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% +20.37%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £92,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £70,576 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -5.90% +3.45% +11.54%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the North West. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the North West with a recognized job title 9,192 7,102 9,035
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.80% 89.19% 96.01%
Number of salaries quoted 7,069 4,115 5,476
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,000 £28,625
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
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 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £81,800 £82,500
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,732 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.91% +1.22% +9.09%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings that featured DevOps Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in the North West

DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for DevOps Engineer in the North West

DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in the North West over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for DevOps Engineer in the North West

DevOps Engineer
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 Engineer within the North West region over the 6 months to 27 April 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 -33 90 £60,000 -14.29% 17
Cheshire -2 14 £55,000 -13.24% 5
Merseyside -2 4 £55,000 -4.35% 1
Cumbria - 3 £65,000 -
Lancashire -14 2 £85,000 +47.83%
DevOps Engineer
England

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, DevOps Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the North West region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 114 (100.00%) DevOps
2 90 (78.95%) Terraform
3 87 (76.32%) Kubernetes
4 82 (71.93%) AWS
5 70 (61.40%) Agile
6 56 (49.12%) CI/CD
7 47 (41.23%) Azure
8 46 (40.35%) Containerisation
9 44 (38.60%) Amazon EKS
9 44 (38.60%) Docker
9 44 (38.60%) Mentoring
10 40 (35.09%) Coaching
10 40 (35.09%) Prometheus
11 39 (34.21%) Artificial Intelligence
11 39 (34.21%) IBM
12 38 (33.33%) Public Sector
13 37 (32.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 37 (32.46%) Observability
13 37 (32.46%) Test Automation
13 37 (32.46%) Amazon RDS
14 36 (31.58%) Route 53
14 36 (31.58%) Amazon S3
14 36 (31.58%) Hybrid Cloud
14 36 (31.58%) Dynatrace
14 36 (31.58%) Red Hat
14 36 (31.58%) e-Learning
14 36 (31.58%) Secrets Management
14 36 (31.58%) IBM Cloud
14 36 (31.58%) Blockchain
14 36 (31.58%) Amazon ECR

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
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 1 (0.88%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 82 (71.93%) AWS
2 47 (41.23%) Azure
3 44 (38.60%) Amazon EKS
4 36 (31.58%) Amazon ECR
4 36 (31.58%) Amazon S3
4 36 (31.58%) IBM Cloud
4 36 (31.58%) OCI
4 36 (31.58%) Route 53
5 23 (20.18%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (12.28%) GitHub
7 11 (9.65%) AWS CloudFormation
8 7 (6.14%) GCP
8 7 (6.14%) SaaS
9 5 (4.39%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (3.51%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (3.51%) IaaS
10 4 (3.51%) Serverless
11 3 (2.63%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (2.63%) NuGet
11 3 (2.63%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.51%) DNS
2 3 (2.63%) HTTP
3 1 (0.88%) Internet
3 1 (0.88%) Network Security
3 1 (0.88%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.88%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.88%) VSAN
3 1 (0.88%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (32.46%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (6.14%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.75%) InfluxDB
3 2 (1.75%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.75%) MySQL
4 1 (0.88%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (0.88%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.88%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 18 (15.79%) JIRA
2 13 (11.40%) Git
2 13 (11.40%) Jenkins
3 9 (7.89%) GitLab
4 4 (3.51%) git-flow
4 4 (3.51%) IBM UrbanCode
5 3 (2.63%) MSBuild
5 3 (2.63%) Subversion
5 3 (2.63%) Team Foundation Server
5 3 (2.63%) TeamCity
5 3 (2.63%) Visual Studio Team System
6 2 (1.75%) SonarQube
General
1 38 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 37 (32.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 16 (14.04%) Aerospace
4 9 (7.89%) Finance
4 9 (7.89%) Social Skills
5 6 (5.26%) Banking
6 3 (2.63%) Law
6 3 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.88%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.88%) Games
7 1 (0.88%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.88%) Legal
7 1 (0.88%) Marketing
7 1 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (0.88%) Retail Banking
7 1 (0.88%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.26%) .NET
2 4 (3.51%) Node.js
3 3 (2.63%) .NET Framework
3 3 (2.63%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (1.75%) JWT
4 2 (1.75%) RESTful
5 1 (0.88%) AWS CDK
5 1 (0.88%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 36 (31.58%) Blockchain
1 36 (31.58%) e-Learning
1 36 (31.58%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (4.39%) Public Cloud
3 2 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (0.88%) Cloud Native
4 1 (0.88%) Data Centre
4 1 (0.88%) Mainframe
4 1 (0.88%) PKI
4 1 (0.88%) Product Ownership
4 1 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 33 (28.95%) Linux
2 13 (11.40%) Windows
3 1 (0.88%) CoreOS
3 1 (0.88%) Unix
3 1 (0.88%) VMS
3 1 (0.88%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.88%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (100.00%) DevOps
2 70 (61.40%) Agile
3 56 (49.12%) CI/CD
4 46 (40.35%) Containerisation
5 44 (38.60%) Mentoring
6 40 (35.09%) Coaching
7 39 (34.21%) Artificial Intelligence
8 37 (32.46%) Observability
8 37 (32.46%) Test Automation
9 36 (31.58%) Secrets Management
10 22 (19.30%) Continuous Integration
11 18 (15.79%) Kanban
11 18 (15.79%) Scrum
12 17 (14.91%) Actionable Insight
12 17 (14.91%) Infrastructure as Code
12 17 (14.91%) SDLC
13 16 (14.04%) Collaborative Working
13 16 (14.04%) Continuous Deployment
13 16 (14.04%) Validation
14 10 (8.77%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 14 (12.28%) PowerShell
2 10 (8.77%) C#
3 6 (5.26%) Python
4 4 (3.51%) SQL
5 3 (2.63%) Bash
5 3 (2.63%) Groovy
5 3 (2.63%) JavaScript
5 3 (2.63%) PHP
6 2 (1.75%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.88%) Go
Qualifications
1 23 (20.18%) Security Cleared
2 16 (14.04%) DV Cleared
3 2 (1.75%) Degree
4 1 (0.88%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.88%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.88%) SLA
System Software
1 44 (38.60%) Docker
2 4 (3.51%) Hyper-V
3 2 (1.75%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 90 (78.95%) Terraform
2 87 (76.32%) Kubernetes
3 40 (35.09%) Prometheus
4 34 (29.82%) Ansible
5 12 (10.53%) Progress Chef
6 6 (5.26%) Puppet
7 4 (3.51%) Grafana
8 1 (0.88%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 39 (34.21%) IBM
2 36 (31.58%) Dynatrace
2 36 (31.58%) Red Hat
3 12 (10.53%) Microsoft
4 4 (3.51%) Google
4 4 (3.51%) Oracle
5 3 (2.63%) Veeam
6 1 (0.88%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.88%) VMware
6 1 (0.88%) YouTube