DevOps Engineer Jobs in Manchester

Development Operations Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in Manchester is £72,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 19 April 2025.

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

 6 months to
19 Apr 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 137 97
Rank change year-on-year +17 -40 -1
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 31 78 187
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 1.49% 1.55% 3.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.62% 1.64% 3.96%
Number of salaries quoted 21 39 115
10th Percentile £53,750 £48,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £50,625 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.83% -14.29% +7.69%
75th Percentile £88,750 £74,375 £83,125
90th Percentile £95,000 £88,000 £93,250
North West median annual salary £72,246 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +20.41% -14.29% +7.69%

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 1,910 4,769 4,717
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.69% 95.00% 91.91%
Number of salaries quoted 1,269 3,723 2,742
10th Percentile £32,450 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,988 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £55,000 £56,875
Median % change year-on-year +7.27% -3.30% +3.41%
75th Percentile £77,500 £68,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £90,822 £81,250 £83,750
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 19 April 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 19 April 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 31 (100.00%) DevOps
2 27 (87.10%) Terraform
3 22 (70.97%) Kubernetes
4 20 (64.52%) Infrastructure as Code
5 19 (61.29%) CI/CD
6 17 (54.84%) AWS
7 16 (51.61%) Azure
8 15 (48.39%) Docker
9 14 (45.16%) Containerisation
10 13 (41.94%) Python
11 12 (38.71%) Jenkins
12 11 (35.48%) Azure DevOps
13 10 (32.26%) Ansible
13 10 (32.26%) Finance
14 8 (25.81%) Linux
15 7 (22.58%) QA
15 7 (22.58%) PowerShell
15 7 (22.58%) Problem-Solving
15 7 (22.58%) Social Skills
16 6 (19.35%) Bash
16 6 (19.35%) Windows
16 6 (19.35%) Configuration Management
17 5 (16.13%) Agile
17 5 (16.13%) Puppet
17 5 (16.13%) Microservices
17 5 (16.13%) GCP
17 5 (16.13%) GitLab
17 5 (16.13%) Analytics
17 5 (16.13%) Mentoring
17 5 (16.13%) Platform Engineering

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.23%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 17 (54.84%) AWS
2 16 (51.61%) Azure
3 11 (35.48%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (16.13%) GCP
5 4 (12.90%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (12.90%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (12.90%) Azure AKS
5 4 (12.90%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (9.68%) Amazon S3
6 3 (9.68%) SaaS
7 2 (6.45%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (6.45%) GitHub
7 2 (6.45%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (6.45%) Power Platform
8 1 (3.23%) AWS CodeBuild
8 1 (3.23%) Cloud Composer
8 1 (3.23%) dbt
8 1 (3.23%) Kong
8 1 (3.23%) Route 53
8 1 (3.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.45%) Firewall
1 2 (6.45%) Network Security
2 1 (3.23%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.45%) Power BI
2 1 (3.23%) BigQuery
2 1 (3.23%) Cloud Spanner
2 1 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.23%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (38.71%) Jenkins
2 5 (16.13%) GitLab
3 2 (6.45%) CircleCI
4 1 (3.23%) Git
4 1 (3.23%) IBM UrbanCode
4 1 (3.23%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (3.23%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (3.23%) TeamCity
4 1 (3.23%) Travis CI
General
1 10 (32.26%) Finance
2 7 (22.58%) Social Skills
3 4 (12.90%) Manufacturing
4 3 (9.68%) Automotive
5 2 (6.45%) Banking
5 2 (6.45%) Health Technology
6 1 (3.23%) Electronics
6 1 (3.23%) Financial Institution
6 1 (3.23%) Marketing
6 1 (3.23%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.23%) Retail
6 1 (3.23%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.90%) ARM Templates
2 2 (6.45%) Azure Blueprints
2 2 (6.45%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (3.23%) .NET
3 1 (3.23%) Kafka
3 1 (3.23%) Node.js
3 1 (3.23%) Spring
3 1 (3.23%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.13%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (12.90%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (9.68%) Life Science
4 2 (6.45%) Security Posture
5 1 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (3.23%) IoT
5 1 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (3.23%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (25.81%) Linux
2 6 (19.35%) Windows
3 1 (3.23%) Debian
3 1 (3.23%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (100.00%) DevOps
2 20 (64.52%) Infrastructure as Code
3 19 (61.29%) CI/CD
4 14 (45.16%) Containerisation
5 7 (22.58%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (19.35%) Configuration Management
7 5 (16.13%) Agile
7 5 (16.13%) Analytics
7 5 (16.13%) Mentoring
7 5 (16.13%) Microservices
7 5 (16.13%) Platform Engineering
8 4 (12.90%) Digital Engineering
8 4 (12.90%) Infrastructure Automation
8 4 (12.90%) Log Analytics
8 4 (12.90%) SDLC
9 3 (9.68%) Business Intelligence
9 3 (9.68%) Cloud Security
9 3 (9.68%) Coaching
9 3 (9.68%) Continuous Improvement
9 3 (9.68%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 13 (41.94%) Python
2 7 (22.58%) PowerShell
3 6 (19.35%) Bash
4 3 (9.68%) Java
5 2 (6.45%) Bicep
5 2 (6.45%) Go
5 2 (6.45%) SQL
6 1 (3.23%) C++
6 1 (3.23%) Rust
6 1 (3.23%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (12.90%) Azure Certification
2 3 (9.68%) AWS Certification
2 3 (9.68%) Security Cleared
3 2 (6.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (6.45%) Degree
3 2 (6.45%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.23%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (22.58%) QA
2 4 (12.90%) GDPR
2 4 (12.90%) HIPAA
2 4 (12.90%) SOC 2
System Software
1 15 (48.39%) Docker
2 4 (12.90%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (3.23%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 27 (87.10%) Terraform
2 22 (70.97%) Kubernetes
3 10 (32.26%) Ansible
4 5 (16.13%) Puppet
5 3 (9.68%) Grafana
5 3 (9.68%) Prometheus
6 2 (6.45%) Salt
7 1 (3.23%) Argo
7 1 (3.23%) Automic
7 1 (3.23%) Consul
7 1 (3.23%) Istio
7 1 (3.23%) Karpenter
7 1 (3.23%) Rancher
Vendors
1 4 (12.90%) Hitachi
2 2 (6.45%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.23%) Confluent
3 1 (3.23%) IBM
3 1 (3.23%) SAP
3 1 (3.23%) Splunk
32 DevOps Engineer jobs in the North West