DevOps Job Trends in Chester

DevOps
Cheshire > Chester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Chester requiring DevOps skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 12 21
Rank change year-on-year +2 +9 -5
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 11 5 9
As % of all permanent jobs in Chester 7.91% 7.46% 7.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.28% 8.93% 8.82%
Number of salaries quoted 6 2 9
10th Percentile £51,625 £48,875 £62,405
25th Percentile £52,500 £49,063 £63,631
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,750 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -23.84% +56.83%
75th Percentile £67,813 £59,063 £84,056
90th Percentile £71,250 £59,625 £85,632
Cheshire median annual salary £67,500 £48,750 £65,000
% change year-on-year +38.46% -25.00% +33.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Chester

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 Chester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 107 56 102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Chester 76.98% 83.58% 84.30%
Number of salaries quoted 60 31 77
10th Percentile £36,000 £32,500 £27,101
25th Percentile £45,500 £37,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.58% -5.00% +9.29%
75th Percentile £65,313 £65,000 £66,778
90th Percentile £75,000 - £72,460
Cheshire median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +11.11%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Chester

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing DevOps relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Chester.

DevOps job vacancy trend in Chester

DevOps
Salary Trend in Chester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Chester citing DevOps.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Chester citing DevOps

DevOps
Salary Histogram in Chester

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps in Chester over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for DevOps in Chester

DevOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Chester 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 4 (36.36%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) AWS
2 1 (9.09%) Azure
2 1 (9.09%) GCP
2 1 (9.09%) GitHub
2 1 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 6 (54.55%) Jenkins
2 5 (45.45%) Bitbucket
2 5 (45.45%) GitLab
2 5 (45.45%) SonarQube
2 5 (45.45%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (9.09%) Cypress.io
General
1 5 (45.45%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (100.00%) Developer
2 9 (81.82%) Backend Developer
3 5 (45.45%) Software Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Senior
4 2 (18.18%) Senior Backend Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Senior Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
5 1 (9.09%) JavaScript Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) REST
2 1 (9.09%) AngularJS
2 1 (9.09%) Jest
2 1 (9.09%) Next.js
2 1 (9.09%) React
2 1 (9.09%) Redux
2 1 (9.09%) RESTful
2 1 (9.09%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) IoT
2 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (27.27%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) Code Quality
2 7 (63.64%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (54.55%) Agile
4 5 (45.45%) Business Strategy
4 5 (45.45%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (45.45%) Decision-Making
4 5 (45.45%) Product Roadmap
4 5 (45.45%) Roadmaps
4 5 (45.45%) Secure Coding
4 5 (45.45%) Strategic Thinking
4 5 (45.45%) Unit Testing
5 4 (36.36%) API Development
6 3 (27.27%) Clean Code
6 3 (27.27%) Microservices
7 2 (18.18%) Collaborative Culture
7 2 (18.18%) Critical Thinking
7 2 (18.18%) Front End Development
7 2 (18.18%) Mentoring
7 2 (18.18%) Project Delivery
8 1 (9.09%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) Java
2 5 (45.45%) Elixir
2 5 (45.45%) Go
2 5 (45.45%) Ruby
2 5 (45.45%) SQL
3 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
3 1 (9.09%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (45.45%) QA
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Google