Senior DevOps Engineer Job Trends in Manchester

Senior Development Operations Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median Senior Development Operations Engineer salary in Manchester is £95,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 May 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 157 157 174
Rank change year-on-year 0 +17 +9
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 10 1 44
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.19% 0.045% 0.88%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.049% 0.93%
Number of salaries quoted 9 0 13
10th Percentile £69,000 - £57,000
25th Percentile £80,000 - £68,718
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 - £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.38%
75th Percentile - - £87,500
90th Percentile - - £90,000
North West median annual salary £80,000 - £85,000
% change year-on-year - - +6.25%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 4,995 2,028 4,727
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.48% 90.58% 94.24%
Number of salaries quoted 3,715 1,277 3,788
10th Percentile £31,000 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £40,988
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year - +10.09% -5.22%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £81,250
North West median annual salary £55,000 £54,793 £50,000
% change year-on-year +0.38% +9.59% -9.09%

Senior DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior DevOps Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Senior DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend in Manchester

Senior DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for Senior DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Manchester.

Salary distribution trend for Senior DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Manchester

Senior DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior DevOps Engineer in Manchester over the 6 months to 12 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Senior DevOps Engineer in Manchester

Senior DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester

For the 6 months to 12 May 2026, Senior DevOps Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Manchester region featuring Senior DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) DevOps
2 6 (60.00%) GCP
2 6 (60.00%) Google
2 6 (60.00%) Platform Engineering
3 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (30.00%) Kubernetes
3 3 (30.00%) Terraform
4 2 (20.00%) Containerisation
4 2 (20.00%) Docker
4 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
5 1 (10.00%) AI
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
5 1 (10.00%) Ansible
5 1 (10.00%) AWS
5 1 (10.00%) Azure
5 1 (10.00%) Bash
5 1 (10.00%) E-Commerce
5 1 (10.00%) GitHub
5 1 (10.00%) GitOps
5 1 (10.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (10.00%) Istio
5 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
5 1 (10.00%) Linux
5 1 (10.00%) Mentoring
5 1 (10.00%) Observability
5 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
5 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving

Senior DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) GCP
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (10.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) GitHub
2 1 (10.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 1 (10.00%) SaaS
2 1 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (10.00%) Finance
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) DevOps
2 6 (60.00%) Platform Engineering
3 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (20.00%) Containerisation
4 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
5 1 (10.00%) AI
5 1 (10.00%) E-Commerce
5 1 (10.00%) GitOps
5 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (10.00%) Mentoring
5 1 (10.00%) Observability
5 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) Bash
1 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (10.00%) Python
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Docker
2 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (10.00%) VMware NSX
2 1 (10.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (30.00%) Terraform
2 1 (10.00%) Ansible
2 1 (10.00%) Istio
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Google
2 1 (10.00%) VMware