DevOps Engineer Jobs in the North West

Development Operations Engineer
England > North West

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in the North West is £72,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 2025.

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

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 223 175 128
Rank change year-on-year -48 -47 -30
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 34 116 208
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.45% 1.19% 2.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.50% 1.26% 2.96%
Number of salaries quoted 23 56 126
10th Percentile £52,750 £48,750 £43,125
25th Percentile £55,625 £50,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.83% -14.29% +7.69%
75th Percentile £88,750 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £92,500
England median annual salary £82,500 £70,576 £75,000
% change year-on-year +16.90% -5.90% +3.45%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North West. 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 the North West with a recognized job title 6,852 9,205 7,037
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.47% 94.71% 89.10%
Number of salaries quoted 4,054 7,083 4,090
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,620 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £68,938
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,700 £81,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,773 £60,567
% change year-on-year +6.93% -11.22% +0.95%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings that featured DevOps Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in the North West

DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DevOps Engineer in the North West.

Salary trend for DevOps Engineer in the North West

DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in the North West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for DevOps Engineer in the North West

DevOps Engineer
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps Engineer within the North West region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Manchester +9 30 £72,500 +20.83% 29
Cheshire +29 2 £68,750 +25.00% 6
Lancashire -48 1 £55,000 -35.29% 10
Cumbria -74 1 - -
DevOps Engineer
England

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, DevOps Engineer 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 North West region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 34 (100.00%) DevOps
2 27 (79.41%) Terraform
3 21 (61.76%) Kubernetes
4 20 (58.82%) Infrastructure as Code
4 20 (58.82%) CI/CD
5 18 (52.94%) AWS
6 17 (50.00%) Azure
7 16 (47.06%) Docker
8 14 (41.18%) Python
8 14 (41.18%) Containerisation
9 13 (38.24%) Jenkins
10 11 (32.35%) Azure DevOps
11 10 (29.41%) Ansible
11 10 (29.41%) Linux
11 10 (29.41%) Finance
12 9 (26.47%) Problem-Solving
12 9 (26.47%) Social Skills
13 8 (23.53%) QA
14 7 (20.59%) PowerShell
14 7 (20.59%) Configuration Management
14 7 (20.59%) Windows
15 6 (17.65%) Agile
15 6 (17.65%) Bash
15 6 (17.65%) Mentoring
15 6 (17.65%) Platform Engineering
16 5 (14.71%) Azure Monitor
16 5 (14.71%) Azure Certification
16 5 (14.71%) Distributed Systems
16 5 (14.71%) SDLC
16 5 (14.71%) Grafana

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (2.94%) Apache
1 1 (2.94%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (2.94%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 18 (52.94%) AWS
2 17 (50.00%) Azure
3 11 (32.35%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (14.71%) Azure Monitor
4 5 (14.71%) GCP
5 4 (11.76%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (11.76%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (8.82%) Amazon S3
6 3 (8.82%) Azure AKS
6 3 (8.82%) SaaS
7 2 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (5.88%) GitHub
7 2 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (5.88%) Power Platform
8 1 (2.94%) AWS CodeBuild
8 1 (2.94%) Cloudflare
8 1 (2.94%) dbt
8 1 (2.94%) IaaS
8 1 (2.94%) Kong
8 1 (2.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.82%) Firewall
2 2 (5.88%) Network Security
2 2 (5.88%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (2.94%) DNS
3 1 (2.94%) FTP
3 1 (2.94%) HTTP
3 1 (2.94%) HTTPS
3 1 (2.94%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (2.94%) SSH
3 1 (2.94%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.88%) MySQL
1 2 (5.88%) Power BI
2 1 (2.94%) BigQuery
2 1 (2.94%) Cloud Spanner
2 1 (2.94%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.94%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (38.24%) Jenkins
2 5 (14.71%) GitLab
3 3 (8.82%) CircleCI
4 1 (2.94%) Git
4 1 (2.94%) IBM UrbanCode
4 1 (2.94%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (2.94%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (2.94%) TeamCity
4 1 (2.94%) Travis CI
General
1 10 (29.41%) Finance
2 9 (26.47%) Social Skills
3 5 (14.71%) Manufacturing
4 3 (8.82%) Automotive
5 2 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.88%) Banking
6 1 (2.94%) Electronics
6 1 (2.94%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.94%) Health Technology
6 1 (2.94%) Marketing
6 1 (2.94%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.94%) Retail
6 1 (2.94%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.76%) ARM Templates
2 2 (5.88%) .NET
2 2 (5.88%) Azure Blueprints
2 2 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (2.94%) EDI
3 1 (2.94%) Kafka
3 1 (2.94%) LAMP
3 1 (2.94%) Loki
3 1 (2.94%) ModSecurity
3 1 (2.94%) Node.js
3 1 (2.94%) Spring
3 1 (2.94%) Spring Boot
3 1 (2.94%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.71%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (11.76%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (11.76%) Life Science
3 2 (5.88%) Management Information System
3 2 (5.88%) Replication
4 1 (2.94%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.94%) IoT
4 1 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.94%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.94%) PKI
4 1 (2.94%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.94%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (2.94%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 10 (29.41%) Linux
2 7 (20.59%) Windows
3 1 (2.94%) AIX
3 1 (2.94%) CentOS
3 1 (2.94%) Debian
3 1 (2.94%) Oracle Linux
3 1 (2.94%) Ubuntu
3 1 (2.94%) Unix
3 1 (2.94%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (100.00%) DevOps
2 20 (58.82%) CI/CD
2 20 (58.82%) Infrastructure as Code
3 14 (41.18%) Containerisation
4 9 (26.47%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (20.59%) Configuration Management
6 6 (17.65%) Agile
6 6 (17.65%) Mentoring
6 6 (17.65%) Platform Engineering
7 5 (14.71%) Analytics
7 5 (14.71%) Microservices
7 5 (14.71%) SDLC
8 4 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (11.76%) Digital Engineering
8 4 (11.76%) Infrastructure Automation
8 4 (11.76%) Log Analytics
9 3 (8.82%) Business Intelligence
9 3 (8.82%) Cloud Security
9 3 (8.82%) Coaching
9 3 (8.82%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (41.18%) Python
2 7 (20.59%) PowerShell
3 6 (17.65%) Bash
4 3 (8.82%) Bicep
4 3 (8.82%) Java
5 2 (5.88%) C++
5 2 (5.88%) Go
5 2 (5.88%) SQL
6 1 (2.94%) AWK
6 1 (2.94%) C
6 1 (2.94%) Korn
6 1 (2.94%) Perl
6 1 (2.94%) PHP
6 1 (2.94%) Rust
6 1 (2.94%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (14.71%) Azure Certification
2 4 (11.76%) AWS Certification
3 3 (8.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 3 (8.82%) Degree
3 3 (8.82%) Security Cleared
4 2 (5.88%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.94%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.94%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (23.53%) QA
2 5 (14.71%) SOC 2
3 4 (11.76%) GDPR
3 4 (11.76%) HIPAA
4 1 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.94%) NCSC
4 1 (2.94%) NIST
4 1 (2.94%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 16 (47.06%) Docker
2 4 (11.76%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.94%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.94%) KVM
3 1 (2.94%) NFS
3 1 (2.94%) Postfix
3 1 (2.94%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 27 (79.41%) Terraform
2 21 (61.76%) Kubernetes
3 10 (29.41%) Ansible
4 5 (14.71%) Grafana
4 5 (14.71%) Puppet
5 3 (8.82%) Prometheus
6 2 (5.88%) Salt
7 1 (2.94%) Argo
7 1 (2.94%) Automic
7 1 (2.94%) Consul
7 1 (2.94%) cPanel
7 1 (2.94%) Istio
7 1 (2.94%) Karpenter
7 1 (2.94%) Nagios
7 1 (2.94%) Nessus
7 1 (2.94%) Rancher
Vendors
1 4 (11.76%) Hitachi
2 3 (8.82%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.88%) IBM
3 2 (5.88%) SAP
4 1 (2.94%) Confluent
4 1 (2.94%) Oracle
4 1 (2.94%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.94%) Splunk
4 1 (2.94%) Tenable