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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 13 7
Rank change year-on-year 0 -6 0
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 237 580 1,009
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 11.12% 11.34% 20.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.70% 13.07% 20.97%
Number of salaries quoted 175 395 465
10th Percentile £47,231 £39,300 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £50,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% - +8.33%
75th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £98,474 £95,750 £92,500
North West median annual salary £69,692 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +11.51% - +4.17%

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 2,025 4,439 4,811
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 95.03% 86.82% 96.68%
Number of salaries quoted 1,283 3,402 2,563
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,988 £41,250 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £76,920 £69,886 £72,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £82,500 £84,056
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 1 May 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 1 May 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
Salford +5 6 £69,384 -7.98% 12
Altrincham +7 5 £55,000 - 17
Stockport +4 4 £75,000 +11.11% 15
Bolton -26 2 £47,500 -17.39% 18
Bury +3 1 £60,000 +33.33% 25
Rochdale -4 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 13 (5.49%) Confluence
2 4 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (1.69%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.27%) IIS
3 3 (1.27%) nginx
4 2 (0.84%) CMS
5 1 (0.42%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.42%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.42%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.42%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 8 (3.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (1.69%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 112 (47.26%) Azure
2 109 (45.99%) AWS
3 46 (19.41%) GCP
4 34 (14.35%) Azure DevOps
5 22 (9.28%) SaaS
6 14 (5.91%) GitHub
7 13 (5.49%) Cloud Computing
8 11 (4.64%) Amazon EKS
9 10 (4.22%) Serverless
10 9 (3.80%) AWS CloudFormation
10 9 (3.80%) Power Platform
11 8 (3.38%) Dynamics 365
11 8 (3.38%) Entra ID
12 7 (2.95%) Microsoft 365
13 6 (2.53%) PaaS
14 5 (2.11%) Amazon ECS
14 5 (2.11%) AWS Lambda
14 5 (2.11%) Azure Monitor
14 5 (2.11%) GitHub Actions
14 5 (2.11%) IBM Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.11%) Firewall
2 4 (1.69%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.27%) DNS
3 3 (1.27%) Internet
3 3 (1.27%) Network Security
4 2 (0.84%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (0.84%) VPN
5 1 (0.42%) FTP
5 1 (0.42%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.42%) IPsec
5 1 (0.42%) RTP
5 1 (0.42%) VLAN
5 1 (0.42%) VoIP
5 1 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (9.28%) NoSQL
2 13 (5.49%) SQL Server
3 12 (5.06%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (4.22%) MySQL
5 8 (3.38%) MongoDB
6 6 (2.53%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (2.53%) BigQuery
7 5 (2.11%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (2.11%) Redis
8 4 (1.69%) Data Lake
8 4 (1.69%) Power BI
8 4 (1.69%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.27%) Cloud Spanner
9 3 (1.27%) DynamoDB
9 3 (1.27%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.84%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (0.84%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.42%) Oracle Exadata
11 1 (0.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 38 (16.03%) Git
2 30 (12.66%) Jenkins
3 20 (8.44%) JIRA
4 15 (6.33%) GitLab
5 13 (5.49%) SonarQube
6 9 (3.80%) Maven
7 5 (2.11%) JMeter
8 4 (1.69%) Balsamiq
8 4 (1.69%) JUnit
9 3 (1.27%) Selenium
9 3 (1.27%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.84%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.84%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.84%) CircleCI
10 2 (0.84%) LoadRunner
10 2 (0.84%) NeoLoad
10 2 (0.84%) NUnit
10 2 (0.84%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.84%) WebDriver
11 1 (0.42%) HP UFT
General
1 75 (31.65%) Finance
2 63 (26.58%) Social Skills
3 38 (16.03%) Banking
4 25 (10.55%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (5.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (3.80%) Law
6 9 (3.80%) Manufacturing
6 9 (3.80%) Retail
7 8 (3.38%) Public Sector
8 5 (2.11%) Financial Institution
8 5 (2.11%) Marketing
9 4 (1.69%) Automotive
9 4 (1.69%) Games
9 4 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.69%) Legal
9 4 (1.69%) Tech for Good
10 3 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.84%) Cantonese Language
11 2 (0.84%) Mandarin Language
11 2 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 54 (22.78%) Lead
2 40 (16.88%) Developer
3 38 (16.03%) Senior
4 34 (14.35%) Software Engineer
5 30 (12.66%) DevOps Engineer
6 19 (8.02%) Cloud Engineer
7 17 (7.17%) .NET Developer
8 14 (5.91%) Senior Developer
9 13 (5.49%) Azure Engineer
9 13 (5.49%) Technical Leader
10 12 (5.06%) Analyst
10 12 (5.06%) Security Engineer
11 10 (4.22%) Architect
11 10 (4.22%) AWS Engineer
11 10 (4.22%) Cloud Security Engineer
11 10 (4.22%) Java Engineer
11 10 (4.22%) Lead Developer
12 9 (3.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 9 (3.80%) Lead DevOps
13 8 (3.38%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (21.94%) .NET
2 27 (11.39%) React
3 26 (10.97%) Node.js
4 25 (10.55%) .NET Core
5 21 (8.86%) Spring
6 20 (8.44%) Kafka
7 14 (5.91%) RESTful
8 12 (5.06%) AngularJS
8 12 (5.06%) CSS
8 12 (5.06%) Spring Boot
9 11 (4.64%) HTML
10 10 (4.22%) ARM Templates
11 9 (3.80%) GraphQL
12 8 (3.38%) REST
13 6 (2.53%) ASP.NET
13 6 (2.53%) Hibernate
13 6 (2.53%) Web Services
14 5 (2.11%) React Native
14 5 (2.11%) Sass
14 5 (2.11%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 32 (13.50%) Cloud Native
2 26 (10.97%) Product Ownership
3 15 (6.33%) Hybrid Cloud
4 11 (4.64%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (4.64%) Mobile App
5 10 (4.22%) Security Posture
6 9 (3.80%) Greenfield Project
6 9 (3.80%) Public Cloud
7 6 (2.53%) e-Learning
8 5 (2.11%) Blockchain
8 5 (2.11%) Life Science
9 3 (1.27%) IoT
9 3 (1.27%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.27%) Wiki
10 2 (0.84%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.84%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.84%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.84%) Housing Association
10 2 (0.84%) Learning Management System
10 2 (0.84%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 30 (12.66%) Linux
2 11 (4.64%) Windows
3 9 (3.80%) Unix
4 7 (2.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (2.11%) Ubuntu
6 4 (1.69%) CentOS
7 3 (1.27%) zOS
8 2 (0.84%) CoreOS
8 2 (0.84%) Debian
8 2 (0.84%) VMS
9 1 (0.42%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.42%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (48.52%) Agile
2 108 (45.57%) CI/CD
3 75 (31.65%) Software Engineering
4 62 (26.16%) Microservices
5 58 (24.47%) Infrastructure as Code
6 52 (21.94%) Mentoring
7 50 (21.10%) TDD
8 49 (20.68%) Roadmaps
9 41 (17.30%) Problem-Solving
10 39 (16.46%) Containerisation
11 32 (13.50%) SDLC
12 31 (13.08%) Full-Stack Development
13 29 (12.24%) Continuous Improvement
14 27 (11.39%) Coaching
14 27 (11.39%) Continuous Integration
15 23 (9.70%) Event-Driven
16 21 (8.86%) Code Quality
17 19 (8.02%) User Experience
18 18 (7.59%) Customer Service
18 18 (7.59%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 61 (25.74%) Java
2 57 (24.05%) Python
3 45 (18.99%) C#
4 37 (15.61%) SQL
5 29 (12.24%) JavaScript
6 27 (11.39%) TypeScript
7 17 (7.17%) PowerShell
8 14 (5.91%) Bash
9 11 (4.64%) Go
10 5 (2.11%) Bicep
11 4 (1.69%) PHP
12 2 (0.84%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.84%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.42%) Dart
13 1 (0.42%) R
13 1 (0.42%) Ruby
13 1 (0.42%) Rust
13 1 (0.42%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.42%) VBA
13 1 (0.42%) X++
Qualifications
1 26 (10.97%) Degree
2 19 (8.02%) Security Cleared
3 15 (6.33%) Azure Certification
4 11 (4.64%) SC Cleared
5 10 (4.22%) AWS Certification
5 10 (4.22%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (2.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (1.69%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.27%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.27%) Linux+ Certification
8 3 (1.27%) RHCE
9 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.84%) PhD
10 1 (0.42%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (9.28%) QA
2 12 (5.06%) GDPR
3 10 (4.22%) HIPAA
4 8 (3.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 5 (2.11%) NIST
6 4 (1.69%) SOC 2
7 3 (1.27%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.27%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.84%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.42%) SEPA
9 1 (0.42%) TARGET2
System Software
1 76 (32.07%) Docker
2 11 (4.64%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (2.53%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.27%) Dovecot
4 3 (1.27%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.27%) Postfix
4 3 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.42%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 83 (35.02%) Kubernetes
2 80 (33.76%) Terraform
3 19 (8.02%) Ansible
4 12 (5.06%) Grafana
5 7 (2.95%) Puppet
6 6 (2.53%) Prometheus
7 5 (2.11%) Istio
8 4 (1.69%) Kibana
9 3 (1.27%) AWS Copilot
10 2 (0.84%) CA Endevor
10 2 (0.84%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.84%) Salt
11 1 (0.42%) Argo
11 1 (0.42%) Automic
11 1 (0.42%) Consul
11 1 (0.42%) HP ALM
11 1 (0.42%) Karpenter
11 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.42%) Proxmox
11 1 (0.42%) Rancher
Vendors
1 38 (16.03%) Microsoft
2 26 (10.97%) Google
3 9 (3.80%) IBM
4 8 (3.38%) Red Hat
5 7 (2.95%) ServiceNow
6 6 (2.53%) Oracle
7 5 (2.11%) Hitachi
8 4 (1.69%) SAP
8 4 (1.69%) Splunk
9 3 (1.27%) Okta
9 3 (1.27%) Ping Identity
9 3 (1.27%) VMware
9 3 (1.27%) Workday
10 2 (0.84%) Databricks
10 2 (0.84%) Dynatrace
10 2 (0.84%) Planview
10 2 (0.84%) Sage
11 1 (0.42%) Facebook
11 1 (0.42%) HP
11 1 (0.42%) New Relic