DevOps Engineer Jobs in the North West

Development Operations Engineer
England > North West

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in the North West is £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 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
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 253 184 122
Rank change year-on-year -69 -62 -21
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 38 114 218
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.47% 1.15% 2.81%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.52% 1.22% 3.15%
Number of salaries quoted 27 55 131
10th Percentile £48,500 £48,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £54,625 £50,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -14.29% +7.69%
75th Percentile £88,125 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £92,500
England median annual salary £80,000 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -6.67% +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 7,357 9,353 6,927
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.84% 94.63% 89.36%
Number of salaries quoted 4,011 7,192 4,022
10th Percentile £26,500 £27,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £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 £61,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £57,000 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +6.54% -12.01% +1.33%

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 16 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 16 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 0 33 £71,991 +19.99% 48
Cheshire -7 2 £68,750 +27.91% 4
Lancashire -72 2 £57,750 -32.06% 15
Cumbria -68 1 - -
DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 16 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 38 (100.00%) DevOps
2 28 (73.68%) Terraform
3 24 (63.16%) Kubernetes
3 24 (63.16%) CI/CD
4 21 (55.26%) Infrastructure as Code
5 20 (52.63%) AWS
6 18 (47.37%) Azure
6 18 (47.37%) Docker
7 15 (39.47%) Jenkins
7 15 (39.47%) Python
7 15 (39.47%) Containerisation
8 12 (31.58%) Ansible
8 12 (31.58%) Azure DevOps
8 12 (31.58%) Linux
9 10 (26.32%) Finance
9 10 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (23.68%) Social Skills
10 9 (23.68%) Configuration Management
11 8 (21.05%) QA
11 8 (21.05%) Mentoring
12 7 (18.42%) Bash
12 7 (18.42%) Windows
12 7 (18.42%) Agile
13 6 (15.79%) Puppet
13 6 (15.79%) Analytics
13 6 (15.79%) PowerShell
13 6 (15.79%) Grafana
13 6 (15.79%) GCP
13 6 (15.79%) GitLab
13 6 (15.79%) Platform Engineering

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 (2.63%) Apache
1 1 (2.63%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (2.63%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 20 (52.63%) AWS
2 18 (47.37%) Azure
3 12 (31.58%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (15.79%) GCP
5 5 (13.16%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (13.16%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (13.16%) Azure Monitor
6 4 (10.53%) Azure AKS
6 4 (10.53%) SaaS
7 3 (7.89%) Amazon S3
7 3 (7.89%) GitHub
7 3 (7.89%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (5.26%) AWS CodeBuild
8 2 (5.26%) IaaS
8 2 (5.26%) PaaS
8 2 (5.26%) Power Platform
8 2 (5.26%) Route 53
8 2 (5.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.26%) Firewall
1 2 (5.26%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (2.63%) DNS
2 1 (2.63%) FTP
2 1 (2.63%) HTTP
2 1 (2.63%) HTTPS
2 1 (2.63%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (2.63%) Network Security
2 1 (2.63%) SSH
2 1 (2.63%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.26%) MySQL
1 2 (5.26%) Power BI
2 1 (2.63%) Big Data
2 1 (2.63%) BigQuery
2 1 (2.63%) Cloud Spanner
2 1 (2.63%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.63%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (39.47%) Jenkins
2 6 (15.79%) GitLab
3 4 (10.53%) CircleCI
4 2 (5.26%) Git
4 2 (5.26%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (2.63%) IBM UrbanCode
5 1 (2.63%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (2.63%) TeamCity
5 1 (2.63%) Travis CI
General
1 10 (26.32%) Finance
2 9 (23.68%) Social Skills
3 4 (10.53%) Manufacturing
4 2 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.26%) Automotive
4 2 (5.26%) Banking
4 2 (5.26%) Marketing
4 2 (5.26%) Retail
4 2 (5.26%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.63%) Advertising
5 1 (2.63%) Cantonese Language
5 1 (2.63%) Electronics
5 1 (2.63%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.63%) Health Technology
5 1 (2.63%) Mandarin Language
5 1 (2.63%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.53%) ARM Templates
2 3 (7.89%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (5.26%) .NET
4 1 (2.63%) Azure Blueprints
4 1 (2.63%) EDI
4 1 (2.63%) Kafka
4 1 (2.63%) LAMP
4 1 (2.63%) Loki
4 1 (2.63%) ModSecurity
4 1 (2.63%) Node.js
4 1 (2.63%) Spring
4 1 (2.63%) Spring Boot
4 1 (2.63%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.16%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (10.53%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (7.89%) Life Science
4 2 (5.26%) Management Information System
4 2 (5.26%) Replication
5 1 (2.63%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.63%) IoT
5 1 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.63%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.63%) PKI
5 1 (2.63%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.63%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (2.63%) Security Posture
5 1 (2.63%) Tandem
5 1 (2.63%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (31.58%) Linux
2 7 (18.42%) Windows
3 2 (5.26%) Debian
3 2 (5.26%) Ubuntu
4 1 (2.63%) AIX
4 1 (2.63%) CentOS
4 1 (2.63%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (2.63%) Unix
4 1 (2.63%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (100.00%) DevOps
2 24 (63.16%) CI/CD
3 21 (55.26%) Infrastructure as Code
4 15 (39.47%) Containerisation
5 10 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (23.68%) Configuration Management
7 8 (21.05%) Mentoring
8 7 (18.42%) Agile
9 6 (15.79%) Analytics
9 6 (15.79%) Platform Engineering
10 5 (13.16%) Microservices
10 5 (13.16%) SDLC
11 4 (10.53%) Coaching
11 4 (10.53%) Computer Science
11 4 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
11 4 (10.53%) Continuous Integration
11 4 (10.53%) Log Analytics
12 3 (7.89%) Business Intelligence
12 3 (7.89%) Culture Change
12 3 (7.89%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (39.47%) Python
2 7 (18.42%) Bash
3 6 (15.79%) PowerShell
4 3 (7.89%) Java
5 2 (5.26%) Bicep
5 2 (5.26%) C++
5 2 (5.26%) Go
5 2 (5.26%) Perl
5 2 (5.26%) Shell Script
5 2 (5.26%) SQL
6 1 (2.63%) AWK
6 1 (2.63%) C
6 1 (2.63%) Korn
6 1 (2.63%) PHP
6 1 (2.63%) Ruby
6 1 (2.63%) Rust
Qualifications
1 6 (15.79%) Azure Certification
2 5 (13.16%) Degree
3 4 (10.53%) AWS Certification
4 3 (7.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 3 (7.89%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (7.89%) Security Cleared
5 2 (5.26%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (2.63%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (21.05%) QA
2 5 (13.16%) SOC 2
3 4 (10.53%) GDPR
3 4 (10.53%) HIPAA
4 1 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.63%) NCSC
4 1 (2.63%) NIST
4 1 (2.63%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 18 (47.37%) Docker
2 4 (10.53%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.63%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.63%) KVM
3 1 (2.63%) NFS
3 1 (2.63%) Postfix
3 1 (2.63%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 28 (73.68%) Terraform
2 24 (63.16%) Kubernetes
3 12 (31.58%) Ansible
4 6 (15.79%) Grafana
4 6 (15.79%) Puppet
5 4 (10.53%) Prometheus
6 2 (5.26%) Salt
7 1 (2.63%) Argo
7 1 (2.63%) Automic
7 1 (2.63%) Consul
7 1 (2.63%) cPanel
7 1 (2.63%) Istio
7 1 (2.63%) Karpenter
7 1 (2.63%) Nagios
7 1 (2.63%) Nessus
7 1 (2.63%) Progress Chef
7 1 (2.63%) Rancher
Vendors
1 4 (10.53%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.89%) Hitachi
3 2 (5.26%) IBM
3 2 (5.26%) SAP
3 2 (5.26%) Splunk
4 1 (2.63%) Confluent
4 1 (2.63%) Google
4 1 (2.63%) Oracle
4 1 (2.63%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.63%) Tenable