DevOps Job Trends in Lancashire

DevOps
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Lancashire 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 55 53 24
Rank change year-on-year -2 -29 +5
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 6 18 21
As % of all permanent jobs in Lancashire 0.52% 2.26% 4.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.62% 2.48% 5.63%
Number of salaries quoted 5 14 15
10th Percentile £44,000 £37,716 £36,052
25th Percentile £46,250 £39,217 £36,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £47,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +26.32% +11.76% -15.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £62,188 £52,000
90th Percentile - £67,827 £64,300
North West median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +4.00% -2.14%

All Process & 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 968 727 373
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Lancashire 84.62% 91.22% 77.71%
Number of salaries quoted 282 435 300
10th Percentile £25,087 £36,450 £28,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £41,250 £33,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,055 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.10% +8.81% +2.22%
75th Percentile £54,798 £58,943 £57,500
90th Percentile £67,500 £66,606 £70,000
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,084 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% -0.79% -4.55%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

DevOps job vacancy trend in Lancashire

DevOps
Salary Trend in Lancashire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing DevOps.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing DevOps

DevOps
Salary Histogram in Lancashire

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

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 14 January 2026. 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
Nelson 0 3 £65,000 +44.44% 1
Preston +7 2 £48,750 -11.36% 9
Burnley - 1 £60,000 -
DevOps
North West

DevOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Lancashire 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) AWS
2 3 (50.00%) GitHub
2 3 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) Slack
4 1 (16.67%) Azure AI
4 1 (16.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) DNS
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
1 1 (16.67%) HTTP
1 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (16.67%) MongoDB
1 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (33.33%) GitLab
3 1 (16.67%) Git
General
1 3 (50.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (16.67%) Law
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) .NET Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Operations Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) .NET
1 2 (33.33%) .NET Core
1 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET
2 1 (16.67%) AngularJS
2 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET Core
2 1 (16.67%) Blazor
2 1 (16.67%) CSS
2 1 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (16.67%) HTML
2 1 (16.67%) ML.NET
2 1 (16.67%) React
2 1 (16.67%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) IoT
1 1 (16.67%) Social Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (33.33%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) ChatOps
3 2 (33.33%) Incident Response
3 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 2 (33.33%) Observability
3 2 (33.33%) People Management
3 2 (33.33%) SDLC
4 1 (16.67%) AI
4 1 (16.67%) Analytics
4 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
4 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (16.67%) High Availability
4 1 (16.67%) Machine Learning
4 1 (16.67%) Multithreading
4 1 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Scrum
4 1 (16.67%) Static Code Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) C#
1 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (16.67%) Bash
2 1 (16.67%) Go
2 1 (16.67%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Grafana
1 3 (50.00%) Prometheus
1 3 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (16.67%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft