Senior DevOps Job Trends in Manchester

Senior Development Operations
North West > Manchester

The median Senior Development Operations salary in Manchester is £77,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 27 September 2026.

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

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 157 143 124
Rank change year-on-year -14 -19 +15
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 48 12 57
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.63% 0.50% 1.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.67% 0.56% 1.50%
Number of salaries quoted 44 0 7
10th Percentile £70,000 - £76,500
25th Percentile £73,750 - £80,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 - £85,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.94%
75th Percentile £87,500 - £87,500
90th Percentile £98,500 - -
North West median annual salary £77,500 £70,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +10.71% -12.50% +0.46%

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 7,136 2,160 3,794
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.77% 90.83% 94.43%
Number of salaries quoted 5,443 1,277 2,074
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £33,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £35,500 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £85,500 £83,500
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%

Senior DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Senior DevOps job vacancy trend in Manchester

Senior DevOps
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for Senior DevOps job vacancies in Manchester.

Salary distribution trend for Senior DevOps job vacancies in Manchester

Senior DevOps
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior DevOps in Manchester over the 6 months to 27 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Senior DevOps in Manchester

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

For the 6 months to 27 September 2026, Senior DevOps 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 in the job title.

1 48 (100.00%) DevOps
2 24 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 23 (47.92%) Infrastructure as Code
4 20 (41.67%) Platform Engineering
5 13 (27.08%) Azure
5 13 (27.08%) Terraform
6 11 (22.92%) Kubernetes
6 11 (22.92%) Python
7 10 (20.83%) Containerisation
8 7 (14.58%) AWS
8 7 (14.58%) Docker
8 7 (14.58%) GCP
8 7 (14.58%) Google
8 7 (14.58%) Security Cleared
8 7 (14.58%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 6 (12.50%) Ansible
9 6 (12.50%) Coaching
9 6 (12.50%) DV Cleared
9 6 (12.50%) Java
9 6 (12.50%) Spring
9 6 (12.50%) Spring Boot
9 6 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
10 5 (10.42%) PowerShell
11 4 (8.33%) AI
11 4 (8.33%) GitHub
11 4 (8.33%) Mentoring
11 4 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
11 4 (8.33%) VMware
11 4 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
12 3 (6.25%) Agile

Senior DevOps 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (4.17%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 13 (27.08%) Azure
2 7 (14.58%) AWS
2 7 (14.58%) GCP
3 4 (8.33%) GitHub
4 2 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (4.17%) PaaS
4 2 (4.17%) Power Platform
4 2 (4.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (2.08%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (2.08%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (2.08%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (2.08%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.17%) Firewall
1 2 (4.17%) SAN
Development Applications
1 1 (2.08%) GitLab
1 1 (2.08%) Jenkins
1 1 (2.08%) JIRA
General
1 3 (6.25%) Social Skills
2 2 (4.17%) Marketing
3 1 (2.08%) Finance
3 1 (2.08%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (27.08%) Terraform
2 6 (12.50%) Spring
2 6 (12.50%) Spring Boot
3 1 (2.08%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.08%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.08%) Linux
1 1 (2.08%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (100.00%) DevOps
2 24 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 23 (47.92%) Infrastructure as Code
4 20 (41.67%) Platform Engineering
5 10 (20.83%) Containerisation
6 7 (14.58%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 6 (12.50%) Coaching
7 6 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
8 4 (8.33%) AI
8 4 (8.33%) Mentoring
8 4 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (6.25%) Agile
9 3 (6.25%) Deployment Automation
9 3 (6.25%) Technical Leadership
10 2 (4.17%) Analytics
10 2 (4.17%) Data Architecture
10 2 (4.17%) Load Balancing
10 2 (4.17%) Observability
10 2 (4.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 1 (2.08%) Major Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (22.92%) Python
2 6 (12.50%) Java
3 5 (10.42%) PowerShell
4 2 (4.17%) Bash
4 2 (4.17%) Bicep
5 1 (2.08%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (14.58%) Security Cleared
2 6 (12.50%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.08%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.08%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (2.08%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 7 (14.58%) Docker
2 4 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (22.92%) Kubernetes
2 6 (12.50%) Ansible
3 1 (2.08%) Grafana
3 1 (2.08%) Istio
Vendors
1 7 (14.58%) Google
2 4 (8.33%) VMware
3 1 (2.08%) Pega
3 1 (2.08%) ServiceNow
3 1 (2.08%) Splunk