Senior DevOps Jobs in the North West

Senior Development Operations
England > North West

The median Senior Development Operations salary in the North West is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 August 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 254 186 225
Rank change year-on-year -68 +39 +79
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 13 86 44
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.17% 0.98% 0.70%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 1.03% 0.78%
Number of salaries quoted 1 16 26
10th Percentile - £54,375 £67,500
25th Percentile - £67,500 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +6.25% -5.88%
75th Percentile - £87,500 £90,000
90th Percentile - £88,750 £106,289
England median annual salary £82,500 £77,500 £85,000
% change year-on-year +6.45% -8.82% -

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 6,823 8,376 5,609
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.69% 95.51% 89.72%
Number of salaries quoted 3,554 5,754 3,650
10th Percentile £25,750 £30,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £39,750 £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 £61,250 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £76,840 £80,000 £81,600
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

Senior DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings that featured Senior DevOps in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Senior DevOps in the North West

Senior DevOps
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend 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 3 August 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 -15 12 - - 7
Lancashire -53 1 £75,000 +7.14% 10
Senior DevOps
England

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

For the 6 months to 3 August 2025, Senior DevOps 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 Senior DevOps in the job title.

1 13 (100.00%) DevOps
2 12 (92.31%) Docker
2 12 (92.31%) Data Privacy
2 12 (92.31%) Microservices
2 12 (92.31%) AWS Certification
2 12 (92.31%) GCP
2 12 (92.31%) Kubernetes
2 12 (92.31%) Cloud Native
2 12 (92.31%) GDPR
2 12 (92.31%) Technology Roadmap
2 12 (92.31%) NIST
2 12 (92.31%) Architectural Design
2 12 (92.31%) CI/CD
2 12 (92.31%) Containerisation
2 12 (92.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 12 (92.31%) Azure Certification
2 12 (92.31%) Roadmaps
2 12 (92.31%) C#
2 12 (92.31%) Java
2 12 (92.31%) SQL
2 12 (92.31%) Python
2 12 (92.31%) Disaster Recovery
2 12 (92.31%) Management Information System
2 12 (92.31%) Agile
2 12 (92.31%) Data Management
2 12 (92.31%) TOGAF
2 12 (92.31%) Google
2 12 (92.31%) Enterprise Architecture
2 12 (92.31%) HIPAA
2 12 (92.31%) Azure

Senior DevOps 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:

Cloud Services
1 12 (92.31%) AWS
1 12 (92.31%) Azure
1 12 (92.31%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (92.31%) NoSQL
Miscellaneous
1 12 (92.31%) Cloud Native
1 12 (92.31%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) DevOps
2 12 (92.31%) Agile
2 12 (92.31%) Architectural Design
2 12 (92.31%) CI/CD
2 12 (92.31%) Containerisation
2 12 (92.31%) Data Management
2 12 (92.31%) Data Privacy
2 12 (92.31%) Disaster Recovery
2 12 (92.31%) Enterprise Architecture
2 12 (92.31%) Microservices
2 12 (92.31%) Roadmaps
2 12 (92.31%) Technology Roadmap
2 12 (92.31%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 12 (92.31%) C#
1 12 (92.31%) Java
1 12 (92.31%) Python
1 12 (92.31%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (92.31%) AWS Certification
1 12 (92.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 12 (92.31%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (92.31%) GDPR
1 12 (92.31%) HIPAA
1 12 (92.31%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (92.31%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (92.31%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (92.31%) Google