DevOps Jobs in the North West

DevOps
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring DevOps skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited DevOps over the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 17 10
Rank change year-on-year -15 -7 -2
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 646 867 1,292
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 8.08% 8.79% 16.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.43% 10.62% 17.30%
Number of salaries quoted 198 558 579
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £51,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,692 £62,641 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.26% -3.63% +8.33%
75th Percentile £86,875 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £90,000
England median annual salary £71,991 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +10.76% -7.14% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

DevOps falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 7,665 8,164 7,468
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 95.84% 82.78% 95.61%
Number of salaries quoted 3,991 6,201 3,904
10th Percentile £25,856 £27,500 £31,077
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £41,250
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 £82,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in the North West

DevOps
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for DevOps in the North West

DevOps
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps in the North West over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Salary histogram for DevOps in the North West

DevOps
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 within the North West region over the 6 months to 15 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 -3 289 £72,500 +11.54% 468
Lancashire -14 219 £45,000 -28.32% 136
Cheshire +18 110 £60,000 +14.29% 76
Merseyside -9 25 £64,500 +7.50% 33
Cumbria -97 3 £72,500 +20.83% 1
DevOps
England

DevOps
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 51 (7.89%) Confluence
2 15 (2.32%) Oracle Application Server
3 5 (0.77%) SharePoint
4 4 (0.62%) IIS
4 4 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.46%) nginx
6 2 (0.31%) Apache
6 2 (0.31%) CMS
7 1 (0.15%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.15%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.15%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 8 (1.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (0.62%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.31%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 1 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 246 (38.08%) Azure
2 234 (36.22%) AWS
3 88 (13.62%) GCP
4 48 (7.43%) Azure DevOps
5 24 (3.72%) SaaS
6 18 (2.79%) Power Platform
7 15 (2.32%) Cloud Computing
8 12 (1.86%) GitHub
8 12 (1.86%) Serverless
9 11 (1.70%) Amazon EKS
10 10 (1.55%) AWS CloudFormation
10 10 (1.55%) Microsoft 365
11 9 (1.39%) Entra ID
11 9 (1.39%) PaaS
12 8 (1.24%) Azure Monitor
12 8 (1.24%) Dynamics 365
12 8 (1.24%) Power Automate
13 7 (1.08%) AWS Lambda
14 6 (0.93%) GitHub Actions
14 6 (0.93%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 258 (39.94%) VPN
2 250 (38.70%) Cisco IOS
3 12 (1.86%) TCP/IP
4 10 (1.55%) Firewall
5 6 (0.93%) DNS
6 3 (0.46%) Broadband
6 3 (0.46%) FTP
6 3 (0.46%) HTTPS
6 3 (0.46%) Internet
6 3 (0.46%) Network Security
6 3 (0.46%) Reverse Proxy
6 3 (0.46%) SD-WAN
6 3 (0.46%) WAN
7 2 (0.31%) HTTP
7 2 (0.31%) SSH
7 2 (0.31%) SSL
8 1 (0.15%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (0.15%) MPLS
8 1 (0.15%) VLAN
8 1 (0.15%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (20.12%) SQL Server
2 27 (4.18%) NoSQL
3 17 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
3 17 (2.63%) Oracle Reports
4 16 (2.48%) MySQL
5 15 (2.32%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 13 (2.01%) Power BI
7 12 (1.86%) PostgreSQL
8 10 (1.55%) Relational Database
9 9 (1.39%) MongoDB
10 6 (0.93%) BigQuery
10 6 (0.93%) Data Lake
11 5 (0.77%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (0.77%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (0.77%) DynamoDB
12 4 (0.62%) Redis
12 4 (0.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 3 (0.46%) Cloud Spanner
13 3 (0.46%) Elasticsearch
13 3 (0.46%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 127 (19.66%) JIRA
2 126 (19.50%) GitLab
3 122 (18.89%) SonarQube
4 113 (17.49%) Cucumber
4 113 (17.49%) Maven
5 112 (17.34%) Sonatype Nexus
6 111 (17.18%) Bitbucket
6 111 (17.18%) Selenium
7 41 (6.35%) Git
8 34 (5.26%) Jenkins
9 5 (0.77%) JMeter
10 4 (0.62%) Balsamiq
10 4 (0.62%) CircleCI
10 4 (0.62%) Robot Framework
11 3 (0.46%) Jaeger
11 3 (0.46%) JUnit
12 2 (0.31%) LoadRunner
12 2 (0.31%) NUnit
12 2 (0.31%) Team Foundation Server
12 2 (0.31%) WebDriver
General
1 373 (57.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 293 (45.36%) Analytical Skills
3 200 (30.96%) Finance
4 142 (21.98%) Banking
5 89 (13.78%) Social Skills
6 79 (12.23%) Retail
7 70 (10.84%) Corporate Banking
7 70 (10.84%) Investment Banking
8 16 (2.48%) Organisational Skills
9 15 (2.32%) Military
10 9 (1.39%) Law
11 8 (1.24%) Manufacturing
12 6 (0.93%) Games
12 6 (0.93%) Marketing
12 6 (0.93%) Telecoms
13 5 (0.77%) Financial Institution
14 4 (0.62%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (0.46%) Automotive
15 3 (0.46%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.46%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 260 (40.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 145 (22.45%) Software Engineer
3 59 (9.13%) Developer
4 55 (8.51%) Lead
5 46 (7.12%) Senior
6 37 (5.73%) DevOps Engineer
7 24 (3.72%) Cloud Engineer
8 21 (3.25%) Senior Developer
9 19 (2.94%) .NET Developer
10 18 (2.79%) Azure Engineer
11 14 (2.17%) Technical Leader
12 13 (2.01%) Architect
12 13 (2.01%) Security Engineer
13 12 (1.86%) AWS Engineer
14 11 (1.70%) Cloud Security Engineer
14 11 (1.70%) Team Leader
15 10 (1.55%) Lead Developer
16 8 (1.24%) Analyst
16 8 (1.24%) AWS DevOps
16 8 (1.24%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 257 (39.78%) Elastic Stack
2 141 (21.83%) React
3 132 (20.43%) Kafka
4 130 (20.12%) Spring
5 124 (19.20%) CSS
6 123 (19.04%) HTML
7 121 (18.73%) Spring Boot
8 110 (17.03%) Redux
9 109 (16.87%) JPA
10 85 (13.16%) RESTful
11 83 (12.85%) REST
12 76 (11.76%) Sass
13 74 (11.46%) Jest
14 71 (10.99%) CSS3
14 71 (10.99%) HTML5
15 66 (10.22%) .NET
16 45 (6.97%) Hibernate
17 34 (5.26%) .NET Core
18 25 (3.87%) Node.js
19 17 (2.63%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 250 (38.70%) Cyberattack
2 138 (21.36%) Product Ownership
3 112 (17.34%) Enterprise Software
4 33 (5.11%) Cloud Native
5 13 (2.01%) Hybrid Cloud
6 12 (1.86%) Distributed Systems
7 11 (1.70%) Security Posture
8 9 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
8 9 (1.39%) Mobile App
8 9 (1.39%) Public Cloud
9 7 (1.08%) Management Information System
10 6 (0.93%) Life Science
10 6 (0.93%) Linux Command Line
11 5 (0.77%) Data Centre
12 4 (0.62%) Data Structures
13 3 (0.46%) e-Learning
13 3 (0.46%) Private Cloud
13 3 (0.46%) Replication
13 3 (0.46%) Wiki
14 2 (0.31%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 291 (45.05%) Linux
2 265 (41.02%) Windows
3 250 (38.70%) Android
4 13 (2.01%) Unix
5 7 (1.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.93%) CentOS
6 6 (0.93%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.46%) Debian
8 2 (0.31%) AIX
8 2 (0.31%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (0.31%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.15%) VMS
9 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.15%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 306 (47.37%) Problem-Solving
2 272 (42.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 265 (41.02%) Line Management
4 263 (40.71%) Platform Engineering
5 257 (39.78%) Risk Management
6 255 (39.47%) Agile
7 253 (39.16%) Task Automation
8 251 (38.85%) Mathematics
9 250 (38.70%) Storage Management
10 237 (36.69%) CI/CD
11 187 (28.95%) Software Engineering
12 179 (27.71%) Microservices
13 162 (25.08%) Containerisation
14 144 (22.29%) Full-Stack Development
15 141 (21.83%) SDLC
16 131 (20.28%) Mentoring
17 130 (20.12%) Test Automation
18 122 (18.89%) Performance Optimisation
19 118 (18.27%) Front End Development
20 93 (14.40%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 318 (49.23%) Python
2 272 (42.11%) Bash
3 270 (41.80%) PowerShell
4 168 (26.01%) Java
5 158 (24.46%) SQL
6 148 (22.91%) JavaScript
7 107 (16.56%) TypeScript
8 56 (8.67%) C#
9 15 (2.32%) Go
10 8 (1.24%) T-SQL
11 7 (1.08%) Bicep
11 7 (1.08%) PHP
12 3 (0.46%) C++
12 3 (0.46%) Perl
12 3 (0.46%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.31%) AWK
13 2 (0.31%) C
13 2 (0.31%) Korn
14 1 (0.15%) Ruby
14 1 (0.15%) X++
Qualifications
1 35 (5.42%) Degree
2 24 (3.72%) Azure Certification
3 19 (2.94%) DBS Check
4 17 (2.63%) AWS Certification
5 15 (2.32%) Security Cleared
6 13 (2.01%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (1.86%) SC Cleared
8 9 (1.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (0.46%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.46%) Linux+ Certification
9 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.46%) RHCE
10 2 (0.31%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.31%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.15%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.15%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 1 (0.15%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.15%) CCIE
11 1 (0.15%) CCSP
11 1 (0.15%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 140 (21.67%) QA
2 76 (11.76%) Accessibility
3 14 (2.17%) GDPR
4 11 (1.70%) HIPAA
5 8 (1.24%) NIST
6 5 (0.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 5 (0.77%) SOC 2
7 4 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.15%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.15%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.15%) NCSC
8 1 (0.15%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 446 (69.04%) Docker
2 254 (39.32%) Hyper-V
3 250 (38.70%) VMware NSX
3 250 (38.70%) vSphere
4 13 (2.01%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.93%) Active Directory
6 5 (0.77%) Postfix
7 4 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
8 3 (0.46%) Dovecot
9 2 (0.31%) KVM
9 2 (0.31%) Sendmail
10 1 (0.15%) NFS
Systems Management
1 339 (52.48%) Terraform
2 275 (42.57%) Ansible
3 207 (32.04%) Kubernetes
4 17 (2.63%) Grafana
5 10 (1.55%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.93%) Puppet
7 5 (0.77%) Istio
8 4 (0.62%) Argo
8 4 (0.62%) Kibana
9 3 (0.46%) AWS Copilot
9 3 (0.46%) Kustomize
10 2 (0.31%) Nagios
10 2 (0.31%) Nessus
10 2 (0.31%) Salt
10 2 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.15%) Consul
11 1 (0.15%) cPanel
11 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.15%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.15%) Rancher
Vendors
1 255 (39.47%) Splunk
2 251 (38.85%) Cisco
2 251 (38.85%) Juniper
3 250 (38.70%) 3PAR
4 109 (16.87%) Solace
5 46 (7.12%) Microsoft
6 32 (4.95%) Google
7 23 (3.56%) Oracle
8 6 (0.93%) SAP
9 5 (0.77%) IBM
9 5 (0.77%) Red Hat
10 4 (0.62%) Hitachi
10 4 (0.62%) ServiceNow
10 4 (0.62%) VMware
11 3 (0.46%) Databricks
11 3 (0.46%) Okta
11 3 (0.46%) Ping Identity
11 3 (0.46%) Workday
12 2 (0.31%) Dynatrace
12 2 (0.31%) Tenable