AWS DevOps Engineer Job Trends in Manchester

DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services
North West > Manchester

The median DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services salary in Manchester is £100,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 8 November 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

 6 months to
8 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 143 165 120
Rank change year-on-year +22 -45 +127
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS DevOps Engineer 3 4 30
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.12% 0.11% 1.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.12% 1.28%
Number of salaries quoted 1 3 29
10th Percentile - - £60,000
25th Percentile - £51,250 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £52,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +90.48% -30.00% +33.72%
75th Percentile - £59,375 £83,750
90th Percentile - £62,750 £85,000
North West median annual salary £100,000 £52,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +90.48% -25.00% +22.43%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Manchester. 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 Manchester with a recognized job title 2,276 3,449 2,346
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.71% 95.14% 96.62%
Number of salaries quoted 1,467 1,747 1,916
10th Percentile £28,250 £33,650 £34,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £55,000 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% -6.78% +7.27%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,850 £84,056
North West median annual salary £48,979 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.04% -9.09% +4.76%

AWS DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'AWS DevOps Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

AWS DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend in Manchester

AWS DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for AWS DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Manchester.

Salary distribution trend for AWS DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Manchester

AWS DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester

For the 6 months to 8 November 2025, AWS DevOps Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Manchester region featuring AWS DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Kafka
2 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (66.67%) Python
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (33.33%) Ansible
3 1 (33.33%) Ant
3 1 (33.33%) Apache
3 1 (33.33%) Artifactory
3 1 (33.33%) AWS CDK
3 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) Bash
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (33.33%) Git
3 1 (33.33%) Groovy
3 1 (33.33%) JBoss
3 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (33.33%) JIRA
3 1 (33.33%) Kong
3 1 (33.33%) Linux
3 1 (33.33%) Load Balancing
3 1 (33.33%) Maven
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) Middleware

AWS DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 1 (33.33%) Apache
1 1 (33.33%) JBoss
1 1 (33.33%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Kong
2 1 (33.33%) OpenShift
2 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Ant
1 1 (33.33%) Artifactory
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
1 1 (33.33%) Maven
1 1 (33.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Kafka
2 1 (33.33%) AWS CDK
2 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (33.33%) Middleware
2 1 (33.33%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 1 (33.33%) Load Balancing
2 1 (33.33%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) Release Management
2 1 (33.33%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Bash
2 1 (33.33%) Groovy
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) Podman
2 1 (33.33%) Puppet
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform
6 AWS DevOps Engineer jobs in the North West