DevOps Engineer Job Trends in Stockport

Development Operations Engineer
Manchester > Stockport

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in Stockport is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 July 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 - 23
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 1 0 8
As % of all permanent jobs in Stockport 1.96% - 6.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.38% - 7.08%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 - -
75th Percentile £77,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Manchester median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% -14.29%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Stockport

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Stockport. 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 Stockport with a recognized job title 42 66 113
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 82.35% 92.96% 94.96%
Number of salaries quoted 29 27 71
10th Percentile £30,150 £29,750 £26,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £31,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% +20.48%
75th Percentile £57,500 £58,625 £61,250
90th Percentile £63,000 £68,750 £65,000
Manchester median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% +1.85% -6.09%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Stockport

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

DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend in Stockport

DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in Stockport

Salary distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Stockport.

Salary distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Stockport

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 24 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Stockport

For the 6 months to 9 July 2026, DevOps Engineer 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 Stockport region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) GitOps
1 1 (100.00%) Go
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Stockport 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
General
1 1 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GitOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Go
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google