Job Vacancy Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 21 April 2021

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Manchester with a requirement for Opscode Chef skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Opscode Chef over the 6 months to 21 April 2021 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Opscode Chef
North West > Manchester
6 months to
21 Apr 2021		 Same period 2020 Same period 2019
Rank 83 151 143
Rank change year-on-year +68 -8 -25
Permanent jobs citing Opscode Chef 122 68 131
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 3.29% 1.45% 2.09%
As % of the Systems Management category 17.50% 11.41% 18.14%
Number of salaries quoted 97 60 105
10th Percentile " £42,500 £36,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £46,625 £44,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,625 £62,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £74,225 £70,000
North West median annual salary £59,500 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +3.48% - -

Opscode Chef is in the Systems Management category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Manchester with a requirement for systems management skills.

All Systems Management Skills
Manchester
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 697 596 722
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in Manchester 18.81% 12.74% 11.54%
Number of salaries quoted 596 437 576
10th Percentile £38,750 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,844 £41,250 £41,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -4.55% +13.40%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £77,500
North West median annual salary £54,000 £52,500 £50,375
% change year-on-year +2.86% +4.22% +4.95%

Opscode Chef
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Opscode Chef in Manchester

Opscode Chef
Salary Trend in Manchester

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

Salary trend for Opscode Chef in Manchester

Opscode Chef
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Opscode Chef in Manchester over the 6 months to 21 April 2021.

Salary histogram for Opscode Chef in Manchester

Opscode Chef
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Opscode Chef within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 21 April 2021. 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
Job
Vacancies
Altrincham +8 12 - - 1
Bolton - 1 £40,000 -
Opscode Chef
North West

For the 6 months to 21 April 2021, IT jobs citing Opscode Chef also mentioned the following skills 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 with a requirement for Opscode Chef.

1 104 (85.25%) DevOps
2 86 (70.49%) Docker
3 80 (65.57%) Terraform
3 80 (65.57%) Puppet
4 77 (63.11%) Kubernetes
5 71 (58.20%) Agile Software Development
6 68 (55.74%) AWS
7 66 (54.10%) Ansible
8 65 (53.28%) Linux
9 57 (46.72%) Jenkins
10 46 (37.70%) Continuous Integration
11 43 (35.25%) Python
12 42 (34.43%) AWS CloudFormation
13 38 (31.15%) Deployment Automation
13 38 (31.15%) Scrum
13 38 (31.15%) Configuration Management
14 37 (30.33%) Git (software)
15 36 (29.51%) Infrastructure as Code
16 33 (27.05%) Problem-Solving
16 33 (27.05%) Migration
16 33 (27.05%) JavaScript
17 32 (26.23%) SQL
18 31 (25.41%) PowerShell
19 27 (22.13%) MySQL
19 27 (22.13%) Go
20 26 (21.31%) Java
21 24 (19.67%) Games
22 23 (18.85%) Azure
23 22 (18.03%) Bash Shell
23 22 (18.03%) Continuous Improvement

Opscode Chef
Co-occurring IT Skills in Manchester by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 13 (10.66%) Apache
2 4 (3.28%) IIS
2 4 (3.28%) MS Exchange
2 4 (3.28%) nginx
2 4 (3.28%) OpenStack
3 3 (2.46%) Cloud Foundry
3 3 (2.46%) CloudStack
3 3 (2.46%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.64%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 68 (55.74%) AWS
2 42 (34.43%) AWS CloudFormation
3 23 (18.85%) Azure
4 17 (13.93%) IaaS
5 16 (13.11%) PaaS
6 14 (11.48%) Pulumi
7 13 (10.66%) SaaS
8 11 (9.02%) Amazon EKS
9 8 (6.56%) Azure Active Directory
10 7 (5.74%) GCP
11 6 (4.92%) Datadog
11 6 (4.92%) Microsoft 365
11 6 (4.92%) OpenShift
12 4 (3.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 4 (3.28%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
13 3 (2.46%) Amazon ECS
13 3 (2.46%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 3 (2.46%) GitHub
13 3 (2.46%) npm
13 3 (2.46%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.92%) TCP/IP
2 5 (4.10%) VLAN
3 3 (2.46%) DNS
3 3 (2.46%) Firewall
4 2 (1.64%) MPLS
4 2 (1.64%) SSL
4 2 (1.64%) WAN
5 1 (0.82%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (22.13%) MySQL
2 11 (9.02%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (5.74%) MongoDB
4 6 (4.92%) MariaDB
4 6 (4.92%) Redis
5 3 (2.46%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (2.46%) Big Data
5 3 (2.46%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.82%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.82%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 57 (46.72%) Jenkins
2 37 (30.33%) Git (software)
3 20 (16.39%) Vagrant
4 16 (13.11%) Gradle
5 14 (11.48%) Cucumber
6 12 (9.84%) Artifactory
6 12 (9.84%) IntelliJ
6 12 (9.84%) JIRA
7 10 (8.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 10 (8.20%) GitLab
8 5 (4.10%) webpack
9 4 (3.28%) Selenium
9 4 (3.28%) TeamCity
10 3 (2.46%) Hudson
10 3 (2.46%) Maven
10 3 (2.46%) Team Foundation Server
11 1 (0.82%) Octopus Deploy
11 1 (0.82%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.82%) SpecFlow
11 1 (0.82%) WebDriver
General
1 24 (19.67%) Games
2 16 (13.11%) Finance
3 4 (3.28%) Law
4 1 (0.82%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 74 (60.66%) DevOps Engineer
2 45 (36.89%) AWS Engineer
3 43 (35.25%) AWS DevOps
4 42 (34.43%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 19 (15.57%) Developer
6 14 (11.48%) Azure Engineer
7 12 (9.84%) Platform Engineer
8 9 (7.38%) Automation Engineer
8 9 (7.38%) Senior DevOps
9 8 (6.56%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 7 (5.74%) DevOps Automation Engineer
10 7 (5.74%) Java Developer
10 7 (5.74%) Linux Engineer
10 7 (5.74%) Principal Developer
11 6 (4.92%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
11 6 (4.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 6 (4.92%) Linux DevOps Engineer
11 6 (4.92%) Linux/Unix DevOps
12 5 (4.10%) Cloud Engineer
13 4 (3.28%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (9.84%) Apache Flex
1 12 (9.84%) Kafka
1 12 (9.84%) OpenJDK
2 8 (6.56%) Node.js
3 6 (4.92%) CSS
3 6 (4.92%) HTML
4 5 (4.10%) Laravel
5 4 (3.28%) Spring Boot
6 3 (2.46%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (2.46%) LEMP Stack
6 3 (2.46%) React
7 2 (1.64%) Spring
7 2 (1.64%) Web Services
8 1 (0.82%) Django
8 1 (0.82%) Flask
8 1 (0.82%) REST
8 1 (0.82%) Vue.js
Miscellaneous
1 13 (10.66%) Public Cloud
2 12 (9.84%) e-Learning
2 12 (9.84%) Greenfield Project
3 8 (6.56%) Enterprise Cloud
4 7 (5.74%) Data Centre
5 4 (3.28%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (2.46%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (2.46%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 65 (53.28%) Linux
2 19 (15.57%) Windows
3 11 (9.02%) Unix
4 8 (6.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (5.74%) CentOS
5 7 (5.74%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (85.25%) DevOps
2 71 (58.20%) Agile Software Development
3 46 (37.70%) Continuous Integration
4 38 (31.15%) Configuration Management
4 38 (31.15%) Deployment Automation
4 38 (31.15%) Scrum
5 36 (29.51%) Infrastructure as Code
6 33 (27.05%) Migration
6 33 (27.05%) Problem-Solving
7 22 (18.03%) Continuous Improvement
8 19 (15.57%) Coaching
9 15 (12.30%) Test Automation
10 13 (10.66%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 13 (10.66%) Pair Programming
11 12 (9.84%) Community of Practice
12 8 (6.56%) Visualisation
13 7 (5.74%) Load Balancing
13 7 (5.74%) Open Source
13 7 (5.74%) Project Management
13 7 (5.74%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 43 (35.25%) Python
2 33 (27.05%) JavaScript
3 32 (26.23%) SQL
4 31 (25.41%) PowerShell
5 27 (22.13%) Go
6 26 (21.31%) Java
7 22 (18.03%) Bash Shell
8 16 (13.11%) Groovy
9 12 (9.84%) Ruby
10 8 (6.56%) PHP
11 7 (5.74%) Perl
12 4 (3.28%) C#
12 4 (3.28%) Kotlin
12 4 (3.28%) PHP 7
13 3 (2.46%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.82%) Jython
14 1 (0.82%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (6.56%) AWS Certification
1 8 (6.56%) SC Cleared
1 8 (6.56%) Security Cleared
2 4 (3.28%) Degree
2 4 (3.28%) RHCE
3 3 (2.46%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.64%) QA
2 1 (0.82%) GDPR
2 1 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 86 (70.49%) Docker
2 8 (6.56%) Active Directory
3 6 (4.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.82%) KVM
Systems Management
1 80 (65.57%) Puppet
1 80 (65.57%) Terraform
2 77 (63.11%) Kubernetes
3 66 (54.10%) Ansible
4 16 (13.11%) Packer
5 10 (8.20%) Prometheus
6 7 (5.74%) CFEngine
6 7 (5.74%) Graphite
6 7 (5.74%) ZABBIX
7 6 (4.92%) Grafana
8 4 (3.28%) Salt
9 3 (2.46%) Consul
9 3 (2.46%) Docker Swarm
9 3 (2.46%) Nagios
9 3 (2.46%) Opsview
10 2 (1.64%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (1.64%) SCCM
10 2 (1.64%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.82%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 15 (12.30%) Microsoft
2 13 (10.66%) SaltStack
3 12 (9.84%) Aquila
4 10 (8.20%) VMware
5 6 (4.92%) Oracle
5 6 (4.92%) Splunk
6 3 (2.46%) Google
6 3 (2.46%) New Relic
6 3 (2.46%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.64%) Veeam