Senior DevOps Job Trends in Manchester

Senior Development Operations
North West > Manchester

The median Senior Development Operations salary in Manchester is £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 October 2025.

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

6 months to
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 144 123 142
Rank change year-on-year -21 +19 +83
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 11 58 19
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.47% 1.50% 0.73%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.52% 1.59% 0.76%
Number of salaries quoted 1 7 14
10th Percentile - £76,500 £61,180
25th Percentile £63,750 £80,000 £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 2,121 3,649 2,505
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.60% 94.63% 96.57%
Number of salaries quoted 1,277 1,897 2,035
10th Percentile £28,250 £33,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £43,800
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £69,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £84,300 £84,056
North West median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%

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

For the 6 months to 14 October 2025, 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 11 (100.00%) AWS
1 11 (100.00%) Docker
1 11 (100.00%) Microservices
1 11 (100.00%) DevOps
1 11 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 11 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 11 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 11 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 10 (90.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 10 (90.91%) Azure Certification
2 10 (90.91%) Roadmaps
2 10 (90.91%) GDPR
2 10 (90.91%) Data Privacy
2 10 (90.91%) Technology Roadmap
2 10 (90.91%) NIST
2 10 (90.91%) Architectural Design
2 10 (90.91%) AWS Certification
2 10 (90.91%) GCP
2 10 (90.91%) Azure
2 10 (90.91%) NoSQL
2 10 (90.91%) C#
2 10 (90.91%) Java
2 10 (90.91%) SQL
2 10 (90.91%) Disaster Recovery
2 10 (90.91%) Management Information System
2 10 (90.91%) Agile
2 10 (90.91%) Data Management
2 10 (90.91%) TOGAF
2 10 (90.91%) Google
2 10 (90.91%) Enterprise Architecture

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:

Cloud Services
1 11 (100.00%) AWS
2 10 (90.91%) Azure
2 10 (90.91%) GCP
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon S3
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (90.91%) NoSQL
2 1 (9.09%) MongoDB
2 1 (9.09%) MySQL
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) .NET
1 1 (9.09%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (9.09%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (9.09%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 11 (100.00%) Cloud Native
2 10 (90.91%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
1 1 (9.09%) VMS
1 1 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 11 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 11 (100.00%) DevOps
1 11 (100.00%) Microservices
2 10 (90.91%) Agile
2 10 (90.91%) Architectural Design
2 10 (90.91%) Data Management
2 10 (90.91%) Data Privacy
2 10 (90.91%) Disaster Recovery
2 10 (90.91%) Enterprise Architecture
2 10 (90.91%) Roadmaps
2 10 (90.91%) Technology Roadmap
2 10 (90.91%) TOGAF
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Security
3 1 (9.09%) GitOps
3 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (9.09%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (9.09%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 10 (90.91%) C#
1 10 (90.91%) Java
1 10 (90.91%) Python
1 10 (90.91%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (90.91%) AWS Certification
1 10 (90.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 10 (90.91%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (90.91%) GDPR
1 10 (90.91%) HIPAA
1 10 (90.91%) NIST
System Software
1 11 (100.00%) Docker
2 1 (9.09%) VMware NSX
2 1 (9.09%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (9.09%) Ansible
2 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (90.91%) Google
2 1 (9.09%) VMware