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 15 September 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 - 15
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 5 0 13
As % of all permanent jobs in Stockport 7.69% - 12.87%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.80% - 15.66%
Number of salaries quoted 3 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 £75,000 £60,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +25.00% -17.24% -3.33%

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 51 57 83
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 78.46% 93.44% 82.18%
Number of salaries quoted 34 20 33
10th Percentile £27,450 £29,575 £33,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £30,938 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £35,375 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +41.34% -32.62% +40.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £52,813 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,125 £58,125 £65,000
Manchester median annual salary £60,000 £54,143 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.82% -1.56% -8.33%

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 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Stockport

For the 6 months to 15 September 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 5 (100.00%) Bash
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
1 5 (100.00%) Go
1 5 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 5 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
1 5 (100.00%) Python
1 5 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) Cloud Security
2 3 (60.00%) Collaborative Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (60.00%) GCP
2 3 (60.00%) GitOps
2 3 (60.00%) Google
2 3 (60.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 3 (60.00%) Grafana
2 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (60.00%) Observability
2 3 (60.00%) Platform Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) Prometheus
2 3 (60.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) Terraform
3 2 (40.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) Ansible
3 2 (40.00%) Bill of Materials
3 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (40.00%) Docker
3 2 (40.00%) Podman

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 3 (60.00%) GCP
1 3 (60.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
General
1 3 (60.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (40.00%) Aerospace
2 2 (40.00%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Terraform
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
1 5 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 5 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 5 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) Cloud Security
2 3 (60.00%) Collaborative Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (60.00%) GitOps
2 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) Observability
2 3 (60.00%) Platform Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) Bill of Materials
3 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (40.00%) SBOM
3 2 (40.00%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Bash
1 5 (100.00%) Go
1 5 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Grafana
1 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (60.00%) Prometheus
2 2 (40.00%) Ansible
2 2 (40.00%) Podman
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Google
2 2 (40.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (40.00%) Thales