DevOps Job Trends in the North West

DevOps
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring DevOps skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 23 23
Rank change year-on-year -27 0 -12
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 245 308 645
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 2.97% 7.89% 7.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.90% 8.33% 9.42%
Number of salaries quoted 203 206 504
10th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,235 £51,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,269 £62,783
Median % change year-on-year +4.06% +7.15% +2.62%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £94,625
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year - +3.70% -3.57%

All Process & 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 6,290 3,697 6,850
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 76.21% 94.75% 84.62%
Number of salaries quoted 3,454 2,165 5,512
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,620 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,793 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.75% +9.59% -9.09%
75th Percentile £68,750 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing DevOps relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North West.

DevOps job vacancy trend in the North West

DevOps
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing DevOps.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing DevOps

DevOps
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps in the North West over the 6 months to 17 March 2026.

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 17 March 2026. 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 -18 197 £70,000 - 120
Cheshire -23 21 £66,250 +17.78% 26
Lancashire -30 15 £50,000 +14.77% 41
Cumbria +4 10 £80,000 +10.34% 2
Merseyside -21 1 £56,000 -2.61% 11
DevOps
England

DevOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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:

Application Platforms
1 11 (4.49%) Confluence
1 11 (4.49%) SharePoint
2 9 (3.67%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.63%) OpenStack
4 3 (1.22%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (0.82%) Apache Solr
5 2 (0.82%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.82%) CICS
6 1 (0.41%) Apache
6 1 (0.41%) CMS
6 1 (0.41%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.41%) IIS
6 1 (0.41%) nginx
6 1 (0.41%) PegaRULES
Business Applications
1 1 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.41%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.41%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 130 (53.06%) Azure
2 101 (41.22%) AWS
3 44 (17.96%) GCP
4 37 (15.10%) Azure DevOps
5 28 (11.43%) Serverless
6 26 (10.61%) GitHub
7 23 (9.39%) Microsoft 365
8 20 (8.16%) SaaS
9 18 (7.35%) Azure AKS
9 18 (7.35%) Entra ID
9 18 (7.35%) Power Platform
10 17 (6.94%) GitHub Actions
11 14 (5.71%) AWS CloudFormation
11 14 (5.71%) Azure Monitor
12 13 (5.31%) Amazon EKS
13 11 (4.49%) Amazon ECS
14 9 (3.67%) OneDrive
15 8 (3.27%) Amazon S3
15 8 (3.27%) Microsoft Purview
15 8 (3.27%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.08%) TCP/IP
2 8 (3.27%) Firewall
3 7 (2.86%) HTTP
4 5 (2.04%) SAN
5 4 (1.63%) DNS
6 2 (0.82%) Network Security
6 2 (0.82%) VPN
7 1 (0.41%) BIG-IP
7 1 (0.41%) Broadband
7 1 (0.41%) DHCP
7 1 (0.41%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.41%) VLAN
7 1 (0.41%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (10.20%) NoSQL
2 21 (8.57%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (6.94%) MongoDB
4 11 (4.49%) SQL Server
5 9 (3.67%) Relational Database
6 8 (3.27%) Elasticsearch
7 6 (2.45%) MySQL
8 5 (2.04%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (1.63%) DynamoDB
9 4 (1.63%) Power BI
10 3 (1.22%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (1.22%) Redis
10 3 (1.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (0.82%) Big Data
11 2 (0.82%) DB2
11 2 (0.82%) DocumentDB
11 2 (0.82%) Hadoop
11 2 (0.82%) Hazelcast
11 2 (0.82%) Neo4j
12 1 (0.41%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 21 (8.57%) Git
2 20 (8.16%) Jenkins
3 14 (5.71%) GitLab
4 13 (5.31%) JIRA
5 5 (2.04%) Octopus Deploy
6 4 (1.63%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.22%) Eclipse
7 3 (1.22%) IntelliJ
7 3 (1.22%) NUnit
7 3 (1.22%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.82%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.82%) Postman
8 2 (0.82%) Selenium
8 2 (0.82%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.82%) Vagrant
9 1 (0.41%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.41%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.41%) JMeter
9 1 (0.41%) Locust
9 1 (0.41%) TeamCity
General
1 49 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 21 (8.57%) Finance
3 19 (7.76%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (4.49%) Banking
5 10 (4.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (2.45%) Public Sector
6 6 (2.45%) Telecoms
7 5 (2.04%) Retail
7 5 (2.04%) Retail Banking
8 4 (1.63%) Games
8 4 (1.63%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (1.63%) Law
9 3 (1.22%) Marketing
10 2 (0.82%) Legal
10 2 (0.82%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.41%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.41%) Electronics
11 1 (0.41%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.41%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 66 (26.94%) Senior
2 53 (21.63%) Developer
3 49 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 36 (14.69%) Software Engineer
5 26 (10.61%) Lead
6 19 (7.76%) Senior Developer
7 18 (7.35%) Cloud Engineer
7 18 (7.35%) Java Developer
7 18 (7.35%) Senior Software Engineer
8 17 (6.94%) AWS Engineer
9 16 (6.53%) Python Engineer
10 15 (6.12%) Platform Engineer
11 13 (5.31%) AWS DevOps
11 13 (5.31%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 12 (4.90%) Architect
13 11 (4.49%) Full-Stack Developer
14 10 (4.08%) .NET Software Engineer
14 10 (4.08%) Software Developer
15 9 (3.67%) Engineering Manager
16 8 (3.27%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (16.73%) .NET
2 37 (15.10%) RESTful
3 34 (13.88%) React
4 20 (8.16%) Spring
4 20 (8.16%) Spring Boot
5 19 (7.76%) Node.js
6 18 (7.35%) AngularJS
7 16 (6.53%) Vue
8 14 (5.71%) .NET Framework
8 14 (5.71%) REST
9 13 (5.31%) CSS
9 13 (5.31%) HTML
10 11 (4.49%) ASP.NET
10 11 (4.49%) Django
11 10 (4.08%) ASP.NET Core
12 8 (3.27%) .NET Core
12 8 (3.27%) FastAPI
13 7 (2.86%) CSS3
13 7 (2.86%) Hibernate
13 7 (2.86%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 47 (19.18%) Cloud Native
2 13 (5.31%) Enterprise Software
3 11 (4.49%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (3.67%) Product Ownership
5 7 (2.86%) Public Cloud
6 6 (2.45%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (2.04%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (1.63%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.22%) Client/Server
9 3 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.22%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.22%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.82%) Driving Licence
10 2 (0.82%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (0.82%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (0.82%) Mainframe
10 2 (0.82%) PMI
10 2 (0.82%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.82%) Social Network
11 1 (0.41%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 15 (6.12%) Linux
2 8 (3.27%) Windows
3 5 (2.04%) VMS
4 3 (1.22%) Unix
5 2 (0.82%) Debian
5 2 (0.82%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.41%) Android
6 1 (0.41%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (57.96%) CI/CD
2 103 (42.04%) Agile
3 60 (24.49%) Infrastructure as Code
4 57 (23.27%) Software Engineering
5 52 (21.22%) Containerisation
6 43 (17.55%) AI
7 39 (15.92%) Microservices
8 38 (15.51%) Scrum
9 36 (14.69%) Problem-Solving
10 35 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
11 34 (13.88%) Observability
12 32 (13.06%) Mentoring
13 31 (12.65%) TDD
14 28 (11.43%) Platform Engineering
15 27 (11.02%) Full-Stack Development
15 27 (11.02%) Roadmaps
16 26 (10.61%) Clean Code
17 20 (8.16%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 19 (7.76%) High Availability
18 19 (7.76%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 47 (19.18%) Python
2 39 (15.92%) SQL
3 35 (14.29%) Java
4 34 (13.88%) C#
5 24 (9.80%) JavaScript
6 22 (8.98%) TypeScript
7 15 (6.12%) PowerShell
8 11 (4.49%) Bicep
9 8 (3.27%) Bash
10 7 (2.86%) Go
11 4 (1.63%) PL/SQL
12 3 (1.22%) C++
13 2 (0.82%) Apex Code
13 2 (0.82%) Scala
14 1 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.41%) PHP
14 1 (0.41%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.41%) SOQL
14 1 (0.41%) SOSL
14 1 (0.41%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 24 (9.80%) Security Cleared
2 21 (8.57%) SC Cleared
3 9 (3.67%) Azure Certification
4 8 (3.27%) Degree
5 7 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.63%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.63%) TOGAF Certification
8 2 (0.82%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.41%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.41%) CISM
9 1 (0.41%) CISSP
9 1 (0.41%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.41%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.41%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.08%) QA
2 5 (2.04%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.82%) GDPR
4 1 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.41%) NIST
4 1 (0.41%) WCAG
System Software
1 43 (17.55%) Docker
2 12 (4.90%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.86%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (2.04%) vSphere
5 4 (1.63%) VMware NSX
6 3 (1.22%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.41%) Firmware
7 1 (0.41%) KVM
7 1 (0.41%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 63 (25.71%) Kubernetes
2 56 (22.86%) Terraform
3 25 (10.20%) Ansible
4 11 (4.49%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (3.67%) Grafana
5 9 (3.67%) Prometheus
6 8 (3.27%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (1.22%) Rancher
8 2 (0.82%) AWS Copilot
8 2 (0.82%) Packer
8 2 (0.82%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.41%) Argo
9 1 (0.41%) Fluentd
9 1 (0.41%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.41%) Nagios
Vendors
1 42 (17.14%) Microsoft
2 11 (4.49%) Splunk
3 10 (4.08%) VMware
4 9 (3.67%) Google
5 8 (3.27%) New Relic
5 8 (3.27%) Oracle
6 5 (2.04%) Pega
7 4 (1.63%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.22%) Software AG
8 3 (1.22%) webMethods
9 2 (0.82%) DevExpress
9 2 (0.82%) F5
9 2 (0.82%) WSO2
10 1 (0.41%) Adobe
10 1 (0.41%) Fortinet
10 1 (0.41%) Foundry
10 1 (0.41%) HP
10 1 (0.41%) SaltStack
10 1 (0.41%) SAP
10 1 (0.41%) ServiceNow