DevOps Jobs in the North West

DevOps
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for DevOps skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited DevOps over the 6 months to 6 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 11 7 8
Rank change year-on-year -4 +1 +5
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 550 1,685 1,321
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 13.38% 18.65% 15.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.10% 19.45% 16.28%
Number of salaries quoted 391 747 1,004
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,836 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,351 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.92% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £95,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - - +12.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

DevOps is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,902 8,665 8,112
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 94.94% 95.89% 95.29%
Number of salaries quoted 2,637 5,036 5,846
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,831 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,875 £40,834 £37,914
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% +8.00% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +9.09%

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 6 December 2023.

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 6 December 2023. 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 -3 364 £69,447 +15.75% 134
Merseyside -2 114 £58,750 -12.96% 16
Cheshire -7 40 £65,351 +30.70% 16
Lancashire +4 22 £52,000 +4.00% 21
Cumbria +10 4 £73,750 - 7
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 14 (2.55%) Confluence
2 8 (1.45%) CMS
3 7 (1.27%) WebSphere
4 5 (0.91%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.73%) Captiva
5 4 (0.73%) FileNet
5 4 (0.73%) Jetty
5 4 (0.73%) SAS
5 4 (0.73%) SharePoint
5 4 (0.73%) Tomcat
6 3 (0.55%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.55%) NServiceBus
6 3 (0.55%) Sitecore CMS
6 3 (0.55%) WebSphere Application Server
7 1 (0.18%) Apache
7 1 (0.18%) Apache Synapse
7 1 (0.18%) IIS
7 1 (0.18%) Moodle
7 1 (0.18%) nginx
7 1 (0.18%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (0.36%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.18%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 20 (3.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.36%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.36%) Unit4 Business World
2 2 (0.36%) Visualfiles
3 1 (0.18%) ReMetrica
Cloud Services
1 351 (63.82%) Azure
2 184 (33.45%) Azure DevOps
3 174 (31.64%) AWS
4 77 (14.00%) PaaS
5 74 (13.45%) GCP
6 72 (13.09%) IaaS
7 61 (11.09%) Power Platform
8 53 (9.64%) Dynamics 365
9 46 (8.36%) Serverless
10 45 (8.18%) GitHub
11 43 (7.82%) SaaS
12 31 (5.64%) OpenShift
13 23 (4.18%) Microsoft 365
14 22 (4.00%) Azure Monitor
15 21 (3.82%) Azure Service Bus
16 20 (3.64%) Azure Storage
17 19 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
17 19 (3.45%) Azure App Service
18 18 (3.27%) Entra ID
19 15 (2.73%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 15 (2.73%) Internet
2 11 (2.00%) DNS
2 11 (2.00%) Firewall
2 11 (2.00%) VPN
3 8 (1.45%) TCP/IP
4 7 (1.27%) HTTP
5 6 (1.09%) Network Security
6 5 (0.91%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 5 (0.91%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 5 (0.91%) IPv4
6 5 (0.91%) OSPF
6 5 (0.91%) VLAN
7 2 (0.36%) FTP
7 2 (0.36%) IPFIX
7 2 (0.36%) MPLS
7 2 (0.36%) VoIP
7 2 (0.36%) WAN
8 1 (0.18%) Ethernet VPN
8 1 (0.18%) LAN
8 1 (0.18%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (7.82%) SQL Server
2 29 (5.27%) MongoDB
3 26 (4.73%) Elasticsearch
4 23 (4.18%) Power BI
5 20 (3.64%) Relational Database
6 18 (3.27%) RDBMS
7 17 (3.09%) Data Lake
7 17 (3.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 14 (2.55%) Azure SQL Database
8 14 (2.55%) Oracle Database
9 13 (2.36%) Big Data
9 13 (2.36%) Data Warehouse
10 12 (2.18%) InterSystems Cache
11 9 (1.64%) MySQL
12 8 (1.45%) PostgreSQL
13 7 (1.27%) NoSQL
14 6 (1.09%) DataStage
14 6 (1.09%) IBM InfoSphere
14 6 (1.09%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 6 (1.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 100 (18.18%) Jenkins
2 96 (17.45%) Git
3 33 (6.00%) Cypress.io
4 31 (5.64%) JIRA
5 29 (5.27%) Cucumber
6 26 (4.73%) Selenium
7 15 (2.73%) GitLab
8 9 (1.64%) Bitbucket
8 9 (1.64%) SonarQube
9 8 (1.45%) IBM UrbanCode
9 8 (1.45%) Spinnaker
10 6 (1.09%) JDeveloper
11 5 (0.91%) Postman
11 5 (0.91%) SoapUI
11 5 (0.91%) Sonatype Nexus
11 5 (0.91%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 4 (0.73%) NUnit
12 4 (0.73%) Oracle Forms
13 3 (0.55%) Jasmine
13 3 (0.55%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 139 (25.27%) Finance
2 112 (20.36%) Social Skills
3 75 (13.64%) Banking
4 40 (7.27%) Retail
5 38 (6.91%) Analytical Skills
6 28 (5.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 22 (4.00%) Aerospace
8 17 (3.09%) Telecoms
9 10 (1.82%) Law
9 10 (1.82%) Public Sector
10 9 (1.64%) Marketing
10 9 (1.64%) Retail Banking
11 8 (1.45%) Police
12 7 (1.27%) Tech for Good
13 6 (1.09%) Legal
14 5 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
16 3 (0.55%) Manufacturing
17 2 (0.36%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 100 (18.18%) DevOps Engineer
2 94 (17.09%) Developer
3 91 (16.55%) Senior
4 77 (14.00%) Software Engineer
5 68 (12.36%) Architect
6 58 (10.55%) Lead
7 52 (9.45%) Solutions Architect
8 45 (8.18%) Cloud Engineer
9 38 (6.91%) Azure Engineer
10 30 (5.45%) Consultant
10 30 (5.45%) Dynamics 365 Architect
11 25 (4.55%) Azure Consultant
11 25 (4.55%) Cloud Consultant
12 24 (4.36%) Dynamics 365 Solution Architect
13 22 (4.00%) .NET Developer
14 21 (3.82%) Angular Developer
15 20 (3.64%) Senior Developer
16 18 (3.27%) AWS DevOps
16 18 (3.27%) AWS Engineer
16 18 (3.27%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (14.36%) .NET
2 55 (10.00%) React
3 47 (8.55%) Node.js
4 43 (7.82%) AngularJS
5 40 (7.27%) HTML
6 35 (6.36%) .NET Core
7 34 (6.18%) CSS
8 23 (4.18%) Kafka
9 22 (4.00%) Spring
10 18 (3.27%) ARM Templates
10 18 (3.27%) ASP.NET
11 17 (3.09%) RESTful
12 15 (2.73%) REST
13 14 (2.55%) JSON
13 14 (2.55%) Web Services
14 12 (2.18%) CSS3
14 12 (2.18%) jQuery
14 12 (2.18%) SOAP
15 11 (2.00%) HTML5
15 11 (2.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 53 (9.64%) Public Cloud
2 40 (7.27%) Cloud Native
3 39 (7.09%) Product Ownership
4 22 (4.00%) Data Centre
5 21 (3.82%) Private Cloud
6 17 (3.09%) Enterprise Software
7 13 (2.36%) Online Banking
8 9 (1.64%) Onboarding
8 9 (1.64%) Virtual Team
9 7 (1.27%) Mobile App
10 6 (1.09%) Hybrid Cloud
11 5 (0.91%) Distributed Systems
11 5 (0.91%) IoT
11 5 (0.91%) Mainframe
12 4 (0.73%) Data Protection Act
12 4 (0.73%) DataPower
12 4 (0.73%) Greenfield Project
12 4 (0.73%) Linux Command Line
12 4 (0.73%) Robotics
12 4 (0.73%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 51 (9.27%) Linux
2 22 (4.00%) Unix
3 20 (3.64%) Windows
4 8 (1.45%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.36%) Android
5 2 (0.36%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.36%) HPUX
5 2 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.36%) Solaris
6 1 (0.18%) CoreOS
6 1 (0.18%) VMS
6 1 (0.18%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 324 (58.91%) Agile
2 205 (37.27%) CI/CD
3 124 (22.55%) Software Engineering
4 115 (20.91%) Infrastructure as Code
5 103 (18.73%) Actionable Insight
6 102 (18.55%) Problem-Solving
7 75 (13.64%) Mentoring
8 71 (12.91%) Roadmaps
9 70 (12.73%) Microservices
10 64 (11.64%) Containerisation
11 53 (9.64%) TDD
12 48 (8.73%) Continuous Integration
13 43 (7.82%) Deployment Automation
13 43 (7.82%) Open Source
13 43 (7.82%) Project Delivery
14 40 (7.27%) Customer Engagement
15 38 (6.91%) Customer Experience
15 38 (6.91%) Requirements Gathering
15 38 (6.91%) User Acceptance Testing
16 37 (6.73%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 147 (26.73%) Python
2 119 (21.64%) SQL
3 110 (20.00%) JavaScript
4 102 (18.55%) Java
5 65 (11.82%) C#
6 60 (10.91%) PowerShell
7 54 (9.82%) Bash
8 43 (7.82%) TypeScript
9 27 (4.91%) C++
9 27 (4.91%) Go
10 21 (3.82%) T-SQL
11 19 (3.45%) Ruby
12 18 (3.27%) Perl
13 10 (1.82%) PHP
14 9 (1.64%) PL/SQL
15 8 (1.45%) Kotlin
16 6 (1.09%) Shell Script
17 5 (0.91%) Groovy
17 5 (0.91%) Scala
18 4 (0.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 95 (17.27%) Security Cleared
2 55 (10.00%) Degree
3 47 (8.55%) SC Cleared
4 24 (4.36%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (3.09%) AWS Certification
6 16 (2.91%) Azure Certification
7 15 (2.73%) TOGAF Certification
8 9 (1.64%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (1.45%) DV Cleared
10 6 (1.09%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 5 (0.91%) GIAC
11 5 (0.91%) RHCE
12 3 (0.55%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.36%) CISM
13 2 (0.36%) MCSE
14 1 (0.18%) BPSS Clearance
14 1 (0.18%) Cisco Certification
14 1 (0.18%) JNCIA
14 1 (0.18%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (6.18%) QA
2 8 (1.45%) GDPR
3 7 (1.27%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (0.55%) SLA
5 2 (0.36%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.36%) NCSC
6 1 (0.18%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.18%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.18%) PMO
System Software
1 158 (28.73%) Docker
2 27 (4.91%) Active Directory
3 17 (3.09%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.18%) KVM
5 1 (0.18%) RACF
5 1 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.18%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 193 (35.09%) Kubernetes
2 151 (27.45%) Terraform
3 57 (10.36%) Ansible
4 13 (2.36%) Grafana
5 8 (1.45%) Istio
5 8 (1.45%) Prometheus
5 8 (1.45%) Puppet
6 7 (1.27%) SCCM
7 6 (1.09%) Argo
8 3 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (0.55%) MIIS
8 3 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.36%) Nagios
10 1 (0.18%) CA Endevor
10 1 (0.18%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.18%) Kibana
10 1 (0.18%) linkerd
10 1 (0.18%) logstash
10 1 (0.18%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.18%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 141 (25.64%) Microsoft
2 40 (7.27%) Oracle
3 29 (5.27%) Google
4 20 (3.64%) IBM
5 19 (3.45%) ServiceNow
6 11 (2.00%) Confluent
7 10 (1.82%) VMware
8 9 (1.64%) Splunk
9 6 (1.09%) Red Hat
9 6 (1.09%) SAP
10 5 (0.91%) CheckPoint
10 5 (0.91%) Cisco
10 5 (0.91%) F5
10 5 (0.91%) Fortinet
10 5 (0.91%) Sitecore
11 4 (0.73%) Pega
11 4 (0.73%) Remedy
11 4 (0.73%) Software AG
11 4 (0.73%) Sun
11 4 (0.73%) webMethods