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 19 July 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 153 166
Rank change year-on-year +2 +13 -1
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 29 12 50
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.45% 0.48% 0.94%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% 0.53% 0.99%
Number of salaries quoted 26 0 13
10th Percentile £65,125 - £57,000
25th Percentile £72,188 - £71,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,250 - £85,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +6.25%
75th Percentile £91,250 - £87,500
90th Percentile £95,000 - £89,500
North West median annual salary £77,500 £75,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% -11.76% +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 6,071 2,280 5,043
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.42% 91.60% 95.13%
Number of salaries quoted 4,790 1,364 3,722
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £30,525
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £76,100 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £81,250
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 19 July 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 19 July 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 29 (100.00%) DevOps
2 17 (58.62%) CI/CD
2 17 (58.62%) Platform Engineering
3 16 (55.17%) Infrastructure as Code
4 10 (34.48%) Azure
4 10 (34.48%) Terraform
5 8 (27.59%) Kubernetes
6 7 (24.14%) Containerisation
6 7 (24.14%) GCP
6 7 (24.14%) Google
6 7 (24.14%) Python
7 5 (17.24%) Docker
7 5 (17.24%) VMware
7 5 (17.24%) VMware Infrastructure
8 4 (13.79%) AI
8 4 (13.79%) Ansible
8 4 (13.79%) PowerShell
8 4 (13.79%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 3 (10.34%) AWS
9 3 (10.34%) Coaching
9 3 (10.34%) DV Cleared
9 3 (10.34%) GitHub
9 3 (10.34%) Java
9 3 (10.34%) Mentoring
9 3 (10.34%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (10.34%) Security Cleared
9 3 (10.34%) Spring
9 3 (10.34%) Spring Boot
9 3 (10.34%) Stakeholder Management
9 3 (10.34%) Virtual Private Cloud

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 (6.90%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 10 (34.48%) Azure
2 7 (24.14%) GCP
3 3 (10.34%) AWS
3 3 (10.34%) GitHub
3 3 (10.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 2 (6.90%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (6.90%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (6.90%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (6.90%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.45%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (3.45%) Amazon S3
5 1 (3.45%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (3.45%) PaaS
5 1 (3.45%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.90%) Firewall
1 2 (6.90%) SAN
Development Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Jenkins
1 1 (3.45%) JIRA
General
1 3 (10.34%) Social Skills
2 1 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (3.45%) Finance
2 1 (3.45%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.34%) Spring
1 3 (10.34%) Spring Boot
2 1 (3.45%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.90%) Linux
2 1 (3.45%) Unix
2 1 (3.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (100.00%) DevOps
2 17 (58.62%) CI/CD
2 17 (58.62%) Platform Engineering
3 16 (55.17%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (24.14%) Containerisation
5 4 (13.79%) AI
5 4 (13.79%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 3 (10.34%) Coaching
6 3 (10.34%) Mentoring
6 3 (10.34%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (10.34%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (6.90%) Analytics
7 2 (6.90%) Data Architecture
7 2 (6.90%) Infrastructure Automation
7 2 (6.90%) Load Balancing
7 2 (6.90%) Observability
7 2 (6.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 1 (3.45%) High Availability
8 1 (3.45%) Major Incident Management
8 1 (3.45%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 7 (24.14%) Python
2 4 (13.79%) PowerShell
3 3 (10.34%) Java
4 2 (6.90%) Bicep
5 1 (3.45%) Bash
5 1 (3.45%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (10.34%) DV Cleared
1 3 (10.34%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (17.24%) Docker
1 5 (17.24%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (6.90%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (3.45%) VMware NSX
3 1 (3.45%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (34.48%) Terraform
2 8 (27.59%) Kubernetes
3 4 (13.79%) Ansible
4 1 (3.45%) Grafana
4 1 (3.45%) Istio
Vendors
1 7 (24.14%) Google
2 5 (17.24%) VMware
3 1 (3.45%) Pega
3 1 (3.45%) ServiceNow
3 1 (3.45%) Splunk