Senior DevOps Job Trends in Merseyside

Senior Development Operations
North West > Merseyside

The median Senior Development Operations salary in Merseyside is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 September 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 62 -
Rank change year-on-year -2 - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 1 1 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merseyside 0.17% 0.12% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.13% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £62,500 £56,250 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 -
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% - -
75th Percentile £67,500 £58,750 -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median annual salary £70,000 £82,500 £79,632
% change year-on-year -15.15% +3.60% -6.32%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Merseyside

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Merseyside. 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 Merseyside with a recognized job title 525 784 485
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.99% 96.08% 88.67%
Number of salaries quoted 244 538 357
10th Percentile £25,750 £30,000 £29,900
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £49,250
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +1.52% +2.07%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £80,873 £70,000
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 Merseyside

Job postings that featured Senior DevOps in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Merseyside.

Job vacancy trend for Senior DevOps in Merseyside

Senior DevOps
Salary Trend in Merseyside

Salary distribution trend for Senior DevOps job vacancies in Merseyside.

Salary distribution trend for Senior DevOps job vacancies in Merseyside

Senior DevOps
Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior DevOps within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 14 September 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Liverpool +5 1 £65,000 +13.04% 1
Senior DevOps
North West

Senior DevOps Skill Set
Top 29 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside

For the 6 months to 14 September 2025, Senior DevOps job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Merseyside region featuring Senior DevOps in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) nginx
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) git-flow
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Trunk-Based Development
1 1 (100.00%) Argo
1 1 (100.00%) GitOps
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation

Senior DevOps Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) git-flow
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
1 1 (100.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GitOps
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Trunk-Based Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Argo
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform