Senior DevOps Job Trends in the North West

Senior Development Operations
England > North West

The median Senior Development Operations salary in the North West is £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 January 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 180 177 189
Rank change year-on-year -3 +12 +65
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 6 28 14
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.094% 0.55% 0.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.60% 0.33%
Number of salaries quoted 5 0 13
10th Percentile £63,000 - £61,180
25th Percentile £63,750 - £68,718
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 - £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -15.01%
75th Percentile £90,000 - £84,056
90th Percentile £96,000 - £88,811
England median annual salary £82,500 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -2.94% +6.25% -5.88%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 5,478 4,660 4,269
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 85.98% 92.20% 95.33%
Number of salaries quoted 3,043 2,452 3,359
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £38,734
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -5.87%
75th Percentile £67,500 £66,113 £67,500
90th Percentile £81,250 £78,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -6.50%

Senior DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Senior DevOps job vacancy trend in the North West

Senior DevOps
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for Senior DevOps job vacancies in the North West.

Salary distribution trend for Senior DevOps job vacancies in the North West

Senior DevOps
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior DevOps in the North West over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Senior DevOps in the North West

Senior 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 Senior DevOps within the North West region over the 6 months to 14 January 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 +4 5 £78,750 - 2
Merseyside - 1 £65,000 -
Senior DevOps
England

Senior DevOps Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 14 January 2026, Senior DevOps job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the North West region featuring Senior DevOps in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (66.67%) AWS
2 4 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 4 (66.67%) Docker
2 4 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 4 (66.67%) Microservices
3 3 (50.00%) .NET
3 3 (50.00%) Ansible
3 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (50.00%) GitOps
3 3 (50.00%) Linux
3 3 (50.00%) Terraform
4 2 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (33.33%) Amazon S3
4 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET Web API
4 2 (33.33%) Azure
4 2 (33.33%) Cloud Security
4 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (33.33%) MongoDB
4 2 (33.33%) MySQL
4 2 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (33.33%) Python
4 2 (33.33%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (33.33%) Security Hardening
4 2 (33.33%) VMS
4 2 (33.33%) VMware
4 2 (33.33%) VMware NSX
4 2 (33.33%) vSphere
4 2 (33.33%) WCF

Senior DevOps Skill Set
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 1 (16.67%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon S3
2 2 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) GCP
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) MongoDB
1 2 (33.33%) MySQL
2 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) git-flow
General
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
1 1 (16.67%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) .NET
2 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET Web API
2 2 (33.33%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (33.33%) WCF
3 1 (16.67%) AWS CDK
3 1 (16.67%) Node.js
3 1 (16.67%) React
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Linux
2 2 (33.33%) VMS
2 2 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 4 (66.67%) Microservices
3 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (50.00%) GitOps
4 2 (33.33%) Cloud Security
4 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (33.33%) Security Hardening
5 1 (16.67%) Agile
5 1 (16.67%) Data Management
5 1 (16.67%) Data Privacy
5 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
5 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (16.67%) E-Commerce
5 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Architecture
5 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
5 1 (16.67%) TOGAF
5 1 (16.67%) Trunk-Based Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) Bash
2 1 (16.67%) C#
2 1 (16.67%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) AWS Certification
1 1 (16.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) GDPR
1 1 (16.67%) HIPAA
1 1 (16.67%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Docker
2 2 (33.33%) VMware NSX
2 2 (33.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 3 (50.00%) Ansible
2 3 (50.00%) Terraform
3 1 (16.67%) Argo
3 1 (16.67%) Grafana
3 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) VMware
2 1 (16.67%) Google