Senior DevOps Job Trends in Manchester

Senior Development Operations
North West > Manchester

The median Senior Development Operations salary in Manchester is £76,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 October 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 141 123
Rank change year-on-year +2 -18 +17
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 61 11 58
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.80% 0.47% 1.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.85% 0.52% 1.57%
Number of salaries quoted 54 1 7
10th Percentile £65,000 - £76,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £80,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,250 £67,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.96% -20.59% +13.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £71,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £95,000 - -
North West median annual salary £75,000 £67,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -15.63% +6.67%

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 7,164 2,135 3,686
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.55% 90.54% 94.59%
Number of salaries quoted 5,381 1,278 1,939
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,250 £33,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £35,000 £41,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £85,000 £84,150
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 11 October 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 11 October 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 61 (100.00%) DevOps
2 29 (47.54%) CI/CD
3 26 (42.62%) Infrastructure as Code
4 22 (36.07%) Platform Engineering
5 15 (24.59%) Azure
5 15 (24.59%) Terraform
6 13 (21.31%) AWS
6 13 (21.31%) Kubernetes
7 12 (19.67%) Python
7 12 (19.67%) Security Cleared
8 11 (18.03%) Containerisation
9 9 (14.75%) Docker
9 9 (14.75%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 8 (13.11%) Ansible
10 8 (13.11%) Coaching
11 7 (11.48%) Agile
11 7 (11.48%) DV Cleared
11 7 (11.48%) Java
11 7 (11.48%) Spring
11 7 (11.48%) Spring Boot
11 7 (11.48%) Stakeholder Management
12 6 (9.84%) AI
12 6 (9.84%) GCP
12 6 (9.84%) Google
13 5 (8.20%) Mentoring
13 5 (8.20%) PowerShell
13 5 (8.20%) SC Cleared
14 4 (6.56%) Problem-Solving
14 4 (6.56%) Technical Leadership
14 4 (6.56%) VMware

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 (3.28%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.64%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 15 (24.59%) Azure
2 13 (21.31%) AWS
3 6 (9.84%) GCP
4 3 (4.92%) GitHub
5 2 (3.28%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (3.28%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (3.28%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (3.28%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (3.28%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (3.28%) PaaS
5 2 (3.28%) Power Platform
5 2 (3.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (1.64%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.64%) Azure AKS
6 1 (1.64%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.28%) Firewall
1 2 (3.28%) SAN
2 1 (1.64%) DNS
Development Applications
1 2 (3.28%) GitLab
1 2 (3.28%) JIRA
2 1 (1.64%) Artifactory
General
1 3 (4.92%) Social Skills
2 2 (3.28%) Marketing
2 2 (3.28%) Public Sector
3 1 (1.64%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (24.59%) Terraform
2 7 (11.48%) Spring
2 7 (11.48%) Spring Boot
3 1 (1.64%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (1.64%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (1.64%) Enterprise Cloud
1 1 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (1.64%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.64%) Linux
1 1 (1.64%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (100.00%) DevOps
2 29 (47.54%) CI/CD
3 26 (42.62%) Infrastructure as Code
4 22 (36.07%) Platform Engineering
5 11 (18.03%) Containerisation
6 9 (14.75%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 8 (13.11%) Coaching
8 7 (11.48%) Agile
8 7 (11.48%) Stakeholder Management
9 6 (9.84%) AI
10 5 (8.20%) Mentoring
11 4 (6.56%) Problem-Solving
11 4 (6.56%) Technical Leadership
12 3 (4.92%) Deployment Automation
13 2 (3.28%) Analytics
13 2 (3.28%) Data Architecture
13 2 (3.28%) Load Balancing
13 2 (3.28%) Observability
13 2 (3.28%) Proactive Monitoring
13 2 (3.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 12 (19.67%) Python
2 7 (11.48%) Java
3 5 (8.20%) PowerShell
4 3 (4.92%) Bash
5 2 (3.28%) Bicep
6 1 (1.64%) Go
6 1 (1.64%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (19.67%) Security Cleared
2 7 (11.48%) DV Cleared
3 5 (8.20%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.64%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
System Software
1 9 (14.75%) Docker
2 4 (6.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (3.28%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (21.31%) Kubernetes
2 8 (13.11%) Ansible
3 1 (1.64%) Grafana
3 1 (1.64%) Opsview
Vendors
1 6 (9.84%) Google
2 4 (6.56%) VMware
3 1 (1.64%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.64%) Pega
3 1 (1.64%) ServiceNow
3 1 (1.64%) Splunk
3 1 (1.64%) YouTube