Senior DevOps Engineer Job Trends in Manchester

Senior Development Operations Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median Senior Development Operations Engineer salary in Manchester is £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 October 2025.

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

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 151 138 142
Rank change year-on-year -13 +4 +71
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 1 42 17
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.044% 1.11% 0.66%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.048% 1.18% 0.69%
Number of salaries quoted 1 6 14
10th Percentile - £80,000 £61,180
25th Percentile £63,750 £80,625 £65,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £85,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.59% +13.33% -11.76%
75th Percentile £71,250 £87,500 £100,731
90th Percentile - - £106,289
North West median annual salary £67,500 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -15.63% +6.67% -11.76%

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 2,075 3,563 2,477
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.73% 94.56% 96.61%
Number of salaries quoted 1,280 1,832 2,009
10th Percentile £28,250 £33,525 £35,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,438 £43,800
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £69,250 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £84,750 £84,056
North West median annual salary £49,250 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -1.50% -9.09% +4.76%

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 Skill Set
Top 29 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester

For the 6 months to 20 October 2025, 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 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) GitOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (100.00%) Security Hardening
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) VMS
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) VMware NSX
1 1 (100.00%) vSphere
1 1 (100.00%) WCF
1 1 (100.00%) Windows

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 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (100.00%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) VMS
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GitOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Security Hardening
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) VMware NSX
1 1 (100.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) VMware