Lead DevOps Jobs in Manchester

Lead Development Operations
North West > Manchester

The median Lead Development Operations salary in Manchester is £90,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 5 May 2025.

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

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 137 217 225
Rank change year-on-year +80 +8 +15
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead DevOps 9 2 16
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 0.42% 0.039% 0.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.46% 0.041% 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 7 1 16
10th Percentile £84,000 - £73,125
25th Percentile £85,625 £105,000 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £110,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +22.22% +33.33%
75th Percentile £97,362 £115,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £98,474 - -
North West median annual salary £90,000 £110,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% +22.22% +33.33%

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 1,941 4,849 4,551
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.15% 94.50% 91.61%
Number of salaries quoted 1,286 3,739 2,670
10th Percentile £32,500 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,988 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £54,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.26% -6.09% +4.55%
75th Percentile £77,500 £68,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £92,000 £81,250 £82,500
North West median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%

Lead DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead DevOps in Manchester

Lead DevOps
Salary Trend in Manchester

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

Salary trend for Lead DevOps in Manchester

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

For the 6 months to 5 May 2025, Lead DevOps 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 Lead DevOps in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) DevOps
2 8 (88.89%) CI/CD
2 8 (88.89%) Terraform
3 7 (77.78%) Kubernetes
4 6 (66.67%) AWS
5 5 (55.56%) Ansible
5 5 (55.56%) Docker
5 5 (55.56%) Python
5 5 (55.56%) Finance
5 5 (55.56%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (44.44%) Containerisation
6 4 (44.44%) Azure
6 4 (44.44%) Mentoring
6 4 (44.44%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (33.33%) GCP
7 3 (33.33%) Bash
7 3 (33.33%) GitHub
7 3 (33.33%) Jenkins
7 3 (33.33%) Windows
7 3 (33.33%) Linux
7 3 (33.33%) Banking
7 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (33.33%) Cloud Security
8 2 (22.22%) Digital Engineering
8 2 (22.22%) Decision-Making
8 2 (22.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (22.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 2 (22.22%) Thought Leadership
8 2 (22.22%) Platform Engineering
8 2 (22.22%) Retail Banking

Lead DevOps 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 2 (22.22%) nginx
2 1 (11.11%) Apache Solr
Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) AWS
2 4 (44.44%) Azure
3 3 (33.33%) GCP
3 3 (33.33%) GitHub
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (11.11%) Azure AKS
4 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
4 1 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) DNS
1 1 (11.11%) HTTPS
1 1 (11.11%) IPsec
1 1 (11.11%) Reverse Proxy
1 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Couchbase
1 1 (11.11%) MySQL
1 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
1 1 (11.11%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (11.11%) CircleCI
2 1 (11.11%) Git
2 1 (11.11%) IBM UrbanCode
2 1 (11.11%) Octopus Deploy
2 1 (11.11%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (11.11%) TeamCity
2 1 (11.11%) Travis CI
General
1 5 (55.56%) Finance
2 3 (33.33%) Banking
3 2 (22.22%) Retail Banking
4 1 (11.11%) Automotive
4 1 (11.11%) Financial Institution
4 1 (11.11%) Manufacturing
4 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) .NET
1 1 (11.11%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (11.11%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Linux
1 3 (33.33%) Windows
2 2 (22.22%) CoreOS
2 2 (22.22%) Unix
2 2 (22.22%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) DevOps
2 8 (88.89%) CI/CD
3 5 (55.56%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (44.44%) Containerisation
4 4 (44.44%) Mentoring
5 3 (33.33%) Cloud Security
5 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (22.22%) Coaching
6 2 (22.22%) Decision-Making
6 2 (22.22%) Digital Engineering
6 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Management
6 2 (22.22%) Platform Engineering
6 2 (22.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (22.22%) Thought Leadership
7 1 (11.11%) Analytics
7 1 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
7 1 (11.11%) Configuration Management
7 1 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
7 1 (11.11%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) Python
2 3 (33.33%) Bash
3 1 (11.11%) Go
3 1 (11.11%) Java
3 1 (11.11%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) AWS Certification
1 2 (22.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Degree
System Software
1 5 (55.56%) Docker
2 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (88.89%) Terraform
2 7 (77.78%) Kubernetes
3 5 (55.56%) Ansible
4 2 (22.22%) CA Endevor
4 2 (22.22%) Progress Chef
4 2 (22.22%) Puppet
5 1 (11.11%) Automic
5 1 (11.11%) Consul
5 1 (11.11%) Rancher
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Hitachi
2 1 (11.11%) IBM
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft