DevOps Engineer Jobs in Manchester

Development Operations Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in Manchester is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 July 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 131 125 79
Rank change year-on-year -6 -46 +41
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 36 98 195
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 1.49% 1.65% 4.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.63% 1.74% 4.86%
Number of salaries quoted 27 37 128
10th Percentile £42,500 £48,750 £51,750
25th Percentile £54,625 £51,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -14.29% +12.00%
75th Percentile £88,125 £80,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £90,000
North West median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% -14.29% +12.00%

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 2,204 5,642 4,010
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.07% 95.10% 92.18%
Number of salaries quoted 1,306 4,136 2,567
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,988 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,159 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.46% -7.55% +4.55%
75th Percentile £74,258 £67,968 £72,500
90th Percentile £91,036 £80,000 £82,500
North West median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings that featured DevOps Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in Manchester

DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in Manchester

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

Salary trend for DevOps Engineer in Manchester

DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in Manchester over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Salary histogram for DevOps Engineer in Manchester

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester

For the 6 months to 2 July 2025, DevOps Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Manchester region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 36 (100.00%) DevOps
2 26 (72.22%) Terraform
3 23 (63.89%) Kubernetes
3 23 (63.89%) CI/CD
4 20 (55.56%) Infrastructure as Code
5 19 (52.78%) Docker
6 18 (50.00%) AWS
6 18 (50.00%) Containerisation
7 16 (44.44%) Python
8 15 (41.67%) Azure
9 14 (38.89%) Jenkins
10 13 (36.11%) Ansible
11 12 (33.33%) Linux
12 11 (30.56%) Azure DevOps
13 10 (27.78%) Bash
14 9 (25.00%) Configuration Management
15 8 (22.22%) Finance
15 8 (22.22%) PowerShell
15 8 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
16 7 (19.44%) Mentoring
16 7 (19.44%) GitLab
16 7 (19.44%) QA
16 7 (19.44%) Amazon EC2
16 7 (19.44%) Agile
17 6 (16.67%) Grafana
17 6 (16.67%) SDLC
17 6 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
17 6 (16.67%) Analytics
17 6 (16.67%) Prometheus
17 6 (16.67%) Social Skills

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Cloud Services
1 18 (50.00%) AWS
2 15 (41.67%) Azure
3 11 (30.56%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (19.44%) Amazon EC2
5 6 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
5 6 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
6 4 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (11.11%) AWS CodeBuild
6 4 (11.11%) GCP
6 4 (11.11%) Route 53
6 4 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 3 (8.33%) Amazon S3
8 2 (5.56%) Azure AKS
8 2 (5.56%) SaaS
9 1 (2.78%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (2.78%) GitHub
9 1 (2.78%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.78%) Firewall
1 1 (2.78%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.56%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 14 (38.89%) Jenkins
2 7 (19.44%) GitLab
3 4 (11.11%) CircleCI
4 2 (5.56%) JIRA
General
1 8 (22.22%) Finance
2 6 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 3 (8.33%) Retail
4 2 (5.56%) Advertising
4 2 (5.56%) Cantonese Language
4 2 (5.56%) Mandarin Language
4 2 (5.56%) Marketing
4 2 (5.56%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.78%) Automotive
5 1 (2.78%) Banking
5 1 (2.78%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.78%) Health Technology
5 1 (2.78%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (13.89%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (11.11%) ARM Templates
3 1 (2.78%) Azure Blueprints
3 1 (2.78%) Node.js
3 1 (2.78%) Spring
3 1 (2.78%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.89%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (5.56%) Tandem
3 1 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.78%) IoT
3 1 (2.78%) Life Science
3 1 (2.78%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 12 (33.33%) Linux
2 5 (13.89%) Windows
3 4 (11.11%) Debian
3 4 (11.11%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (100.00%) DevOps
2 23 (63.89%) CI/CD
3 20 (55.56%) Infrastructure as Code
4 18 (50.00%) Containerisation
5 9 (25.00%) Configuration Management
6 8 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (19.44%) Agile
7 7 (19.44%) Mentoring
8 6 (16.67%) Analytics
8 6 (16.67%) SDLC
9 5 (13.89%) Continuous Integration
9 5 (13.89%) Microservices
9 5 (13.89%) Platform Engineering
10 4 (11.11%) Auto-Scaling
10 4 (11.11%) Computer Science
10 4 (11.11%) Log Analytics
10 4 (11.11%) Logistics
11 3 (8.33%) Coaching
11 3 (8.33%) Cost Management
11 3 (8.33%) GitOps
Programming Languages
1 16 (44.44%) Python
2 10 (27.78%) Bash
3 8 (22.22%) PowerShell
4 3 (8.33%) Shell Script
5 2 (5.56%) Go
5 2 (5.56%) Java
6 1 (2.78%) Bicep
6 1 (2.78%) C++
6 1 (2.78%) Perl
6 1 (2.78%) Ruby
6 1 (2.78%) Rust
6 1 (2.78%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (11.11%) Azure Certification
1 4 (11.11%) Degree
2 3 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (5.56%) DV Cleared
3 2 (5.56%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.78%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (19.44%) QA
2 4 (11.11%) GDPR
2 4 (11.11%) HIPAA
2 4 (11.11%) SOC 2
System Software
1 19 (52.78%) Docker
2 4 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 26 (72.22%) Terraform
2 23 (63.89%) Kubernetes
3 13 (36.11%) Ansible
4 6 (16.67%) Grafana
4 6 (16.67%) Prometheus
5 5 (13.89%) Puppet
6 2 (5.56%) Salt
7 1 (2.78%) Argo
7 1 (2.78%) Karpenter
7 1 (2.78%) Rancher
Vendors
1 4 (11.11%) Splunk
2 1 (2.78%) Google
2 1 (2.78%) Hitachi
2 1 (2.78%) Microsoft