DevOps Jobs in Cheshire

DevOps
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Cheshire requiring DevOps skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited DevOps over the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 30 20
Rank change year-on-year +16 -10 -10
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 110 81 90
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 14.08% 5.23% 9.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.64% 6.59% 10.47%
Number of salaries quoted 11 50 46
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £45,625 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £53,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.63% -2.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £75,125 £98,125
North West median annual salary £69,384 £62,783 £65,000
% change year-on-year +10.51% -3.41% +8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

DevOps falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Cheshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 661 1,229 860
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 84.64% 79.34% 94.30%
Number of salaries quoted 238 927 454
10th Percentile £20,280 £25,000 £25,420
25th Percentile £23,504 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £47,500 £49,500
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% -4.04% +4.21%
75th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £74,869 £88,750
North West median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in Cheshire

DevOps
Salary Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DevOps in Cheshire.

Salary trend for DevOps in Cheshire

DevOps
Salary Histogram in Cheshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps in Cheshire over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for DevOps in Cheshire

DevOps
Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 16 May 2025. 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
Warrington +9 9 £65,000 +40.54% 9
Crewe +11 7 £57,500 +64.29% 3
Wilmslow +3 7 £45,000 -20.30% 2
Knutsford +17 5 £80,000 -17.53% 7
Chester +15 5 £62,500 +13.64% 16
Ellesmere Port -5 3 - -
Macclesfield - 3 - -
Widnes - 3 - -
Northwich - 3 - -
Runcorn - 3 - -
Sandbach - 2 - - 1
Middlewich - 2 - -
Lymm - 2 - -
Congleton - 2 - -
Winsford +4 1 - -
Alderley Edge - 1 - -
DevOps
North West

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 21 (19.09%) Confluence
2 1 (0.91%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 66 (60.00%) Azure
2 65 (59.09%) AWS
3 25 (22.73%) GCP
4 6 (5.45%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (2.73%) NuGet
6 2 (1.82%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (1.82%) Pulumi
7 1 (0.91%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (0.91%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (0.91%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (0.91%) IaaS
7 1 (0.91%) PaaS
7 1 (0.91%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 39 (35.45%) Cisco IOS
1 39 (35.45%) VPN
2 3 (2.73%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.82%) Broadband
4 1 (0.91%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (51.82%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.73%) NoSQL
3 2 (1.82%) RDBMS
3 2 (1.82%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.91%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.91%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.91%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 55 (50.00%) Bitbucket
1 55 (50.00%) Cucumber
1 55 (50.00%) GitLab
1 55 (50.00%) JIRA
1 55 (50.00%) Maven
1 55 (50.00%) Selenium
1 55 (50.00%) SonarQube
1 55 (50.00%) Sonatype Nexus
2 3 (2.73%) Git
3 2 (1.82%) Jaeger
3 2 (1.82%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.91%) CircleCI
4 1 (0.91%) Jasmine
4 1 (0.91%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 96 (87.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 55 (50.00%) Banking
2 55 (50.00%) Finance
3 41 (37.27%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (30.91%) Corporate Banking
4 34 (30.91%) Investment Banking
4 34 (30.91%) Retail
5 5 (4.55%) Social Skills
6 1 (0.91%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 57 (51.82%) Software Engineer
2 39 (35.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (5.45%) Senior
4 4 (3.64%) C# Developer
4 4 (3.64%) Developer
5 3 (2.73%) Senior C# Developer
5 3 (2.73%) Senior Developer
6 2 (1.82%) AWS Developer
6 2 (1.82%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (1.82%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (1.82%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (1.82%) Lead
6 2 (1.82%) Team Leader
7 1 (0.91%) Agile Product Owner
7 1 (0.91%) AWS DevOps
7 1 (0.91%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.91%) AWS Engineer
7 1 (0.91%) Azure Platform Engineer
7 1 (0.91%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 1 (0.91%) PHP Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (52.73%) Kafka
2 56 (50.91%) CSS
2 56 (50.91%) HTML
2 56 (50.91%) React
3 55 (50.00%) JPA
3 55 (50.00%) Redux
3 55 (50.00%) Spring
3 55 (50.00%) Spring Boot
4 41 (37.27%) Elastic Stack
5 37 (33.64%) REST
6 36 (32.73%) RESTful
7 35 (31.82%) CSS3
7 35 (31.82%) HTML5
7 35 (31.82%) Sass
8 34 (30.91%) Jest
9 21 (19.09%) Hibernate
10 7 (6.36%) .NET
11 4 (3.64%) .NET Core
11 4 (3.64%) .NET Framework
12 3 (2.73%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 56 (50.91%) Enterprise Software
1 56 (50.91%) Product Ownership
2 39 (35.45%) Cyberattack
3 1 (0.91%) Cloud Native
3 1 (0.91%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (0.91%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 44 (40.00%) Linux
2 40 (36.36%) Windows
3 39 (35.45%) Android
4 3 (2.73%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (60.00%) Agile
2 64 (58.18%) CI/CD
3 61 (55.45%) Containerisation
4 60 (54.55%) Microservices
5 58 (52.73%) Performance Optimisation
5 58 (52.73%) SDLC
6 57 (51.82%) Software Engineering
7 56 (50.91%) Full-Stack Development
8 55 (50.00%) Front End Development
8 55 (50.00%) Test Automation
9 45 (40.91%) Problem-Solving
10 42 (38.18%) Platform Engineering
11 41 (37.27%) Task Automation
12 40 (36.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 40 (36.36%) Risk Management
13 39 (35.45%) Line Management
13 39 (35.45%) Mathematics
13 39 (35.45%) Mentoring
13 39 (35.45%) Storage Management
14 35 (31.82%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 61 (55.45%) JavaScript
2 58 (52.73%) SQL
3 57 (51.82%) Java
4 42 (38.18%) Bash
4 42 (38.18%) Python
5 40 (36.36%) PowerShell
6 36 (32.73%) TypeScript
7 6 (5.45%) C#
8 3 (2.73%) Go
9 2 (1.82%) Bicep
10 1 (0.91%) PHP
10 1 (0.91%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.91%) VB
10 1 (0.91%) VB.NET
10 1 (0.91%) VB6
Qualifications
1 4 (3.64%) AWS Certification
2 3 (2.73%) Azure Certification
2 3 (2.73%) Degree
3 2 (1.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.91%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (0.91%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (0.91%) CCSP
4 1 (0.91%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (0.91%) CISSP
4 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (53.64%) QA
2 34 (30.91%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.91%) NIST
System Software
1 103 (93.64%) Docker
2 40 (36.36%) Hyper-V
3 39 (35.45%) VMware NSX
3 39 (35.45%) vSphere
4 1 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 64 (58.18%) Kubernetes
2 44 (40.00%) Terraform
3 41 (37.27%) Ansible
4 2 (1.82%) Argo
4 2 (1.82%) Kustomize
4 2 (1.82%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.91%) Grafana
Vendors
1 55 (50.00%) Solace
2 39 (35.45%) 3PAR
2 39 (35.45%) Cisco
2 39 (35.45%) Juniper
2 39 (35.45%) Splunk
3 5 (4.55%) Microsoft
4 4 (3.64%) Google
5 1 (0.91%) VMware