DevOps Jobs in Manchester

DevOps
North West > Manchester

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

6 months to
12 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 11 6
Rank change year-on-year -4 -5 +1
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 311 684 785
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 12.24% 12.08% 18.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.27% 14.48% 19.70%
Number of salaries quoted 165 395 475
10th Percentile £46,642 £38,750 £43,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,384 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.74% -7.14% +21.74%
75th Percentile £82,751 £83,625 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,750 £95,750 £90,000
North West median annual salary £65,000 £62,783 £65,351
% change year-on-year +3.53% -3.93% +13.65%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,343 4,725 3,985
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 92.21% 83.45% 96.23%
Number of salaries quoted 1,346 3,321 2,477
10th Percentile £29,750 £30,000 £33,524
25th Percentile £37,750 £41,250 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -9.28% +8.23%
75th Percentile £72,500 £68,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £82,500 £83,750
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 Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in Manchester

DevOps
Salary Trend in Manchester

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

Salary trend for DevOps in Manchester

DevOps
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps in Manchester over the 6 months to 12 July 2025.

Salary histogram for DevOps in Manchester

DevOps
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 12 July 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
Altrincham -2 17 £65,000 +13.04% 1
Stockport +5 10 £32,500 -44.68% 14
Salford +7 9 £69,384 -7.67% 6
Oldham +1 6 - - 1
Sale - 6 - -
Bolton -18 5 - - 12
Ashton-under-Lyne - 5 - - 1
Wigan - 5 - -
Bury +5 4 £60,000 +33.33% 1
Cheadle +2 3 - - 3
Dukinfield - 2 - -
Heywood - 2 - -
Stalybridge - 2 - -
Rochdale -4 1 - -
Littleborough - 1 - -
DevOps
North West

DevOps
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 26 (8.36%) Confluence
2 5 (1.61%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.29%) IIS
3 4 (1.29%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.64%) CMS
5 1 (0.32%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.32%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 5 (1.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (1.29%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.64%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 152 (48.87%) AWS
2 136 (43.73%) Azure
3 51 (16.40%) GCP
4 37 (11.90%) Azure DevOps
5 18 (5.79%) Serverless
6 14 (4.50%) AWS CloudFormation
6 14 (4.50%) AWS Lambda
7 13 (4.18%) SaaS
8 11 (3.54%) Cloud Computing
8 11 (3.54%) GitHub
9 9 (2.89%) Amazon EKS
9 9 (2.89%) Azure Monitor
9 9 (2.89%) Power Platform
10 8 (2.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 8 (2.57%) Amazon EC2
10 8 (2.57%) AWS CodeBuild
11 7 (2.25%) Dynamics 365
11 7 (2.25%) Power Automate
12 6 (1.93%) Entra ID
13 5 (1.61%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 47 (15.11%) VPN
2 43 (13.83%) Cisco IOS
3 3 (0.96%) Firewall
3 3 (0.96%) Internet
3 3 (0.96%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.64%) VLAN
5 1 (0.32%) DMZ
5 1 (0.32%) DNS
5 1 (0.32%) FTP
5 1 (0.32%) Network Security
5 1 (0.32%) RTP
5 1 (0.32%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.32%) STUN
5 1 (0.32%) VoIP
5 1 (0.32%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (12.22%) SQL Server
2 36 (11.58%) NoSQL
3 19 (6.11%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (5.14%) MongoDB
5 10 (3.22%) DynamoDB
6 8 (2.57%) Relational Database
7 7 (2.25%) MySQL
8 6 (1.93%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (1.93%) Data Lake
9 5 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (0.96%) Big Data
10 3 (0.96%) BigQuery
10 3 (0.96%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (0.96%) Redis
11 1 (0.32%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.32%) Data Mining
11 1 (0.32%) Oracle Exadata
11 1 (0.32%) Power BI
11 1 (0.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 52 (16.72%) JIRA
2 51 (16.40%) GitLab
3 37 (11.90%) Selenium
4 36 (11.58%) SonarQube
5 35 (11.25%) Cucumber
6 32 (10.29%) Jenkins
7 31 (9.97%) Git
7 31 (9.97%) Maven
8 30 (9.65%) Sonatype Nexus
9 29 (9.32%) Bitbucket
10 7 (2.25%) JMeter
11 5 (1.61%) CircleCI
12 4 (1.29%) Balsamiq
13 3 (0.96%) JUnit
14 2 (0.64%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 2 (0.64%) Cypress.io
14 2 (0.64%) Gatling
14 2 (0.64%) LoadRunner
14 2 (0.64%) NeoLoad
14 2 (0.64%) WebDriver
General
1 102 (32.80%) Finance
2 77 (24.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 67 (21.54%) Social Skills
4 64 (20.58%) Analytical Skills
5 51 (16.40%) Banking
6 26 (8.36%) Retail
7 18 (5.79%) Corporate Banking
7 18 (5.79%) Investment Banking
8 12 (3.86%) Games
9 6 (1.93%) Manufacturing
10 5 (1.61%) Financial Institution
10 5 (1.61%) Law
11 4 (1.29%) Marketing
12 3 (0.96%) Cantonese Language
12 3 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.96%) Mandarin Language
12 3 (0.96%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.64%) Health Technology
13 2 (0.64%) Public Sector
13 2 (0.64%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 60 (19.29%) Software Engineer
2 53 (17.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 52 (16.72%) Senior
4 50 (16.08%) Developer
5 49 (15.76%) Lead
6 36 (11.58%) DevOps Engineer
7 22 (7.07%) Senior Developer
8 20 (6.43%) Cloud Engineer
9 16 (5.14%) .NET Developer
9 16 (5.14%) Azure Engineer
10 15 (4.82%) Architect
11 13 (4.18%) Solutions Architect
12 12 (3.86%) AWS Architect
12 12 (3.86%) AWS DevOps
12 12 (3.86%) AWS Solution Architect
13 11 (3.54%) DevOps Architect
13 11 (3.54%) Java Developer
13 11 (3.54%) Senior Architect
13 11 (3.54%) Senior DevOps
13 11 (3.54%) TOGAF Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (18.65%) React
2 54 (17.36%) Kafka
2 54 (17.36%) Spring
3 50 (16.08%) Elastic Stack
4 48 (15.43%) Spring Boot
5 40 (12.86%) CSS
6 39 (12.54%) HTML
7 38 (12.22%) .NET
8 31 (9.97%) RESTful
9 30 (9.65%) Redux
10 27 (8.68%) JPA
11 24 (7.72%) REST
11 24 (7.72%) Sass
12 23 (7.40%) Jest
13 20 (6.43%) .NET Core
13 20 (6.43%) CSS3
14 19 (6.11%) Node.js
15 18 (5.79%) HTML5
16 16 (5.14%) Hibernate
17 11 (3.54%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 54 (17.36%) Product Ownership
2 43 (13.83%) Cyberattack
3 38 (12.22%) Cloud Native
4 27 (8.68%) Enterprise Software
5 15 (4.82%) Distributed Systems
6 12 (3.86%) Mobile App
7 11 (3.54%) Management Information System
8 10 (3.22%) Hybrid Cloud
8 10 (3.22%) Wiki
9 9 (2.89%) e-Learning
10 8 (2.57%) Security Posture
11 7 (2.25%) Public Cloud
12 4 (1.29%) Data Centre
12 4 (1.29%) Greenfield Project
13 3 (0.96%) Blog
13 3 (0.96%) Low-Code
13 3 (0.96%) Social Media
14 2 (0.64%) Data Protection Act
14 2 (0.64%) Life Science
14 2 (0.64%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 81 (26.05%) Linux
2 51 (16.40%) Windows
3 44 (14.15%) Android
4 10 (3.22%) Ubuntu
5 7 (2.25%) Debian
5 7 (2.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (2.25%) Unix
6 5 (1.61%) CentOS
7 1 (0.32%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.32%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.32%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (49.20%) Agile
2 152 (48.87%) CI/CD
3 111 (35.69%) Software Engineering
4 93 (29.90%) Microservices
5 86 (27.65%) Problem-Solving
6 83 (26.69%) Containerisation
7 62 (19.94%) Full-Stack Development
7 62 (19.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 60 (19.29%) Infrastructure as Code
9 59 (18.97%) TDD
10 57 (18.33%) Mentoring
11 56 (18.01%) Roadmaps
12 55 (17.68%) Platform Engineering
12 55 (17.68%) Test Automation
13 54 (17.36%) SDLC
14 53 (17.04%) Line Management
15 47 (15.11%) Task Automation
16 46 (14.79%) Risk Management
16 46 (14.79%) User Experience
17 45 (14.47%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 108 (34.73%) Python
2 101 (32.48%) Java
3 73 (23.47%) SQL
4 60 (19.29%) PowerShell
5 59 (18.97%) Bash
6 55 (17.68%) JavaScript
7 53 (17.04%) TypeScript
8 42 (13.50%) C#
9 10 (3.22%) Go
10 3 (0.96%) Bicep
10 3 (0.96%) PHP
10 3 (0.96%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.32%) C++
11 1 (0.32%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.32%) Objective-C
11 1 (0.32%) Perl
11 1 (0.32%) Ruby
11 1 (0.32%) Swift
11 1 (0.32%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.32%) X++
Qualifications
1 28 (9.00%) Azure Certification
2 25 (8.04%) Degree
3 18 (5.79%) AWS Certification
4 15 (4.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (4.50%) Security Cleared
6 11 (3.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 11 (3.54%) SC Cleared
7 4 (1.29%) Linux+ Certification
7 4 (1.29%) RHCE
8 3 (0.96%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.64%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 2 (0.64%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.64%) Postgraduate
10 1 (0.32%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (12.54%) QA
2 21 (6.75%) Accessibility
3 19 (6.11%) GDPR
3 19 (6.11%) HIPAA
4 11 (3.54%) NIST
5 6 (1.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (1.29%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.32%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.32%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 169 (54.34%) Docker
2 47 (15.11%) Hyper-V
3 43 (13.83%) VMware NSX
3 43 (13.83%) vSphere
4 12 (3.86%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (1.61%) Active Directory
6 4 (1.29%) Dovecot
6 4 (1.29%) Postfix
6 4 (1.29%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.32%) Kamailio
7 1 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 131 (42.12%) Terraform
2 126 (40.51%) Kubernetes
3 67 (21.54%) Ansible
4 15 (4.82%) Grafana
5 10 (3.22%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.61%) Puppet
7 3 (0.96%) AWS Copilot
7 3 (0.96%) Istio
7 3 (0.96%) Kibana
8 2 (0.64%) Salt
9 1 (0.32%) Argo
9 1 (0.32%) Karpenter
9 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.32%) Proxmox
9 1 (0.32%) Rancher
9 1 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 52 (16.72%) Splunk
2 43 (13.83%) 3PAR
2 43 (13.83%) Cisco
2 43 (13.83%) Juniper
3 36 (11.58%) Microsoft
4 30 (9.65%) Google
5 27 (8.68%) Solace
6 5 (1.61%) IBM
6 5 (1.61%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.29%) Okta
7 4 (1.29%) Oracle
7 4 (1.29%) Ping Identity
7 4 (1.29%) Red Hat
7 4 (1.29%) SAP
7 4 (1.29%) VMware
8 3 (0.96%) AppDynamics
8 3 (0.96%) Bloomberg
8 3 (0.96%) Moogsoft
8 3 (0.96%) Workday
9 2 (0.64%) Databricks