DevOps Jobs in Lancashire

DevOps
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Lancashire 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 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 28 24
Rank change year-on-year -36 -4 -15
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 106 64 72
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Lancashire 4.81% 4.91% 10.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.88% 6.20% 10.83%
Number of salaries quoted 20 38 33
10th Percentile £37,500 £39,941 £41,500
25th Percentile £37,716 £46,875 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,567 £62,783 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -30.61% +14.15% +4.76%
75th Percentile £53,093 £80,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £62,325 £85,000 £65,250
North West median annual salary £70,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +12.00% -3.85% +8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,172 1,033 665
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Lancashire 98.59% 79.28% 94.59%
Number of salaries quoted 1,267 870 353
10th Percentile £41,250 £28,000 £28,894
25th Percentile £47,683 £36,000 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £54,793 £62,250 £58,750
90th Percentile £58,943 £75,772 £68,600
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 Lancashire

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in Lancashire

DevOps
Salary Trend in Lancashire

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

Salary trend for DevOps in Lancashire

DevOps
Salary Histogram in Lancashire

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps in Lancashire over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

Salary histogram for DevOps in Lancashire

DevOps
Job Locations in Lancashire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps within the Lancashire region over the 6 months to 12 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
Blackpool -24 15 - - 2
Lancaster +15 8 £46,512 +16.28% 1
Chorley -8 4 £40,000 -50.00% 2
Blackburn -29 4 £65,000 -13.33% 8
Preston -44 1 - - 7
Skelmersdale - 1 - - 1
Accrington - 1 - -
Carnforth - 1 £40,000 - 1
Darwen - 1 - -
Nelson - 1 £45,000 -
DevOps
North West

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Lancashire 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 15 (14.15%) Oracle Application Server
2 6 (5.66%) Confluence
3 2 (1.89%) Apache
Business Applications
1 2 (1.89%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 28 (26.42%) Azure
2 20 (18.87%) AWS
3 7 (6.60%) GCP
4 6 (5.66%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (4.72%) Power Platform
6 2 (1.89%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (0.94%) Azure AKS
7 1 (0.94%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (0.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (0.94%) GitHub
7 1 (0.94%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (0.94%) IaaS
7 1 (0.94%) PaaS
7 1 (0.94%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 52 (49.06%) VPN
2 49 (46.23%) Cisco IOS
3 4 (3.77%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.89%) DNS
4 2 (1.89%) Firewall
4 2 (1.89%) FTP
4 2 (1.89%) HTTP
4 2 (1.89%) HTTPS
4 2 (1.89%) SSH
4 2 (1.89%) SSL
5 1 (0.94%) BGP
5 1 (0.94%) EIGRP
5 1 (0.94%) MPLS
5 1 (0.94%) Network Security
5 1 (0.94%) OSPF
5 1 (0.94%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.94%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (24.53%) SQL Server
2 17 (16.04%) Oracle Reports
3 16 (15.09%) Data Warehouse
4 15 (14.15%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 5 (4.72%) Power BI
6 3 (2.83%) Relational Database
6 3 (2.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (1.89%) MySQL
8 1 (0.94%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 21 (19.81%) Cucumber
2 18 (16.98%) Bitbucket
2 18 (16.98%) GitLab
2 18 (16.98%) JIRA
2 18 (16.98%) Maven
2 18 (16.98%) Selenium
2 18 (16.98%) SonarQube
2 18 (16.98%) Sonatype Nexus
3 5 (4.72%) Git
4 3 (2.83%) Robot Framework
5 1 (0.94%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.94%) Postman
5 1 (0.94%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.94%) TestComplete
General
1 70 (66.04%) Analytical Skills
1 70 (66.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 34 (32.08%) Finance
3 21 (19.81%) Social Skills
4 18 (16.98%) Banking
5 15 (14.15%) Military
5 15 (14.15%) Organisational Skills
6 14 (13.21%) Retail
7 12 (11.32%) Corporate Banking
7 12 (11.32%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.83%) Legal
8 3 (2.83%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.89%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.94%) Law
Job Titles
1 51 (48.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 18 (16.98%) Software Engineer
3 11 (10.38%) Developer
4 5 (4.72%) Database Engineer
4 5 (4.72%) Senior
5 3 (2.83%) Security Engineer
5 3 (2.83%) Senior Developer
5 3 (2.83%) Software Developer
5 3 (2.83%) Test Automation Engineer
5 3 (2.83%) Test Engineer
6 2 (1.89%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (1.89%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 2 (1.89%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (1.89%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
7 1 (0.94%) Azure Data Engineer
7 1 (0.94%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.94%) C# .NET Developer
7 1 (0.94%) Data Engineer
7 1 (0.94%) Linux/Unix DevOps
7 1 (0.94%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (46.23%) Elastic Stack
2 21 (19.81%) CSS
2 21 (19.81%) HTML
3 18 (16.98%) JPA
3 18 (16.98%) Kafka
3 18 (16.98%) React
3 18 (16.98%) Redux
3 18 (16.98%) Spring
3 18 (16.98%) Spring Boot
4 12 (11.32%) CSS3
4 12 (11.32%) HTML5
4 12 (11.32%) Jest
4 12 (11.32%) REST
4 12 (11.32%) RESTful
4 12 (11.32%) Sass
5 9 (8.49%) .NET
6 6 (5.66%) Hibernate
7 5 (4.72%) AngularJS
7 5 (4.72%) ASP.NET Web Forms
7 5 (4.72%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 49 (46.23%) Cyberattack
2 18 (16.98%) Enterprise Software
2 18 (16.98%) Product Ownership
3 5 (4.72%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (2.83%) Security Posture
5 2 (1.89%) Cyber Security Posture
5 2 (1.89%) Life Science
5 2 (1.89%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.89%) Renewable Energy
5 2 (1.89%) Replication
6 1 (0.94%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.94%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (0.94%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (0.94%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.94%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 54 (50.94%) Linux
2 52 (49.06%) Windows
3 49 (46.23%) Android
4 2 (1.89%) AIX
4 2 (1.89%) CentOS
4 2 (1.89%) Oracle Linux
4 2 (1.89%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (55.66%) Problem-Solving
2 53 (50.00%) Line Management
3 52 (49.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 50 (47.17%) Mathematics
5 49 (46.23%) Platform Engineering
5 49 (46.23%) Risk Management
5 49 (46.23%) Storage Management
5 49 (46.23%) Task Automation
6 39 (36.79%) Agile
7 30 (28.30%) CI/CD
8 26 (24.53%) Containerisation
9 24 (22.64%) Mentoring
9 24 (22.64%) SDLC
9 24 (22.64%) Test Automation
10 23 (21.70%) Software Engineering
11 21 (19.81%) Full-Stack Development
11 21 (19.81%) Microservices
12 18 (16.98%) Front End Development
12 18 (16.98%) Performance Optimisation
13 17 (16.04%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 57 (53.77%) Python
2 53 (50.00%) Bash
3 52 (49.06%) PowerShell
4 24 (22.64%) SQL
5 22 (20.75%) JavaScript
6 18 (16.98%) Java
7 17 (16.04%) TypeScript
8 8 (7.55%) C#
9 3 (2.83%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.89%) AWK
10 2 (1.89%) C
10 2 (1.89%) C++
10 2 (1.89%) Korn
10 2 (1.89%) Perl
10 2 (1.89%) PHP
Qualifications
1 16 (15.09%) DBS Check
2 7 (6.60%) Degree
3 1 (0.94%) AWS Certification
3 1 (0.94%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 1 (0.94%) Azure Certification
3 1 (0.94%) CCIE
3 1 (0.94%) CCNP
3 1 (0.94%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (0.94%) JNCIE
3 1 (0.94%) Master's Degree
3 1 (0.94%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (20.75%) QA
2 13 (12.26%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.83%) GDPR
4 2 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.89%) NIST
5 1 (0.94%) Data Quality
System Software
1 68 (64.15%) Docker
2 49 (46.23%) Hyper-V
2 49 (46.23%) VMware NSX
2 49 (46.23%) vSphere
3 2 (1.89%) KVM
3 2 (1.89%) Postfix
3 2 (1.89%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 51 (48.11%) Ansible
2 50 (47.17%) Terraform
3 22 (20.75%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.89%) Grafana
4 2 (1.89%) Nagios
4 2 (1.89%) Nessus
5 1 (0.94%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.94%) Puppet
Vendors
1 50 (47.17%) Cisco
1 50 (47.17%) Juniper
2 49 (46.23%) 3PAR
2 49 (46.23%) Splunk
3 18 (16.98%) Solace
4 17 (16.04%) Oracle
5 7 (6.60%) Microsoft
6 2 (1.89%) IBM
6 2 (1.89%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.89%) SAP
6 2 (1.89%) Tenable
7 1 (0.94%) Fortinet