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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 17 11 8
Rank change year-on-year -6 -3 +1
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 854 1,289 1,561
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 8.69% 16.46% 16.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.49% 17.21% 17.54%
Number of salaries quoted 547 579 868
10th Percentile £38,750 £42,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% +11.11%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £93,750 £90,000 £88,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +7.69%

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 8,141 7,491 8,900
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 82.81% 95.67% 95.37%
Number of salaries quoted 6,183 3,900 5,267
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £39,124
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £81,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +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 9 May 2024.

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 9 May 2024. 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 -4 584 £65,000 - 129
Merseyside -7 90 £60,000 - 14
Cheshire -11 79 £52,500 -4.55% 18
Lancashire -6 64 £62,783 +14.15% 6
Cumbria +15 33 £60,000 +9.09% 3
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 57 (6.67%) ArcGIS
1 57 (6.67%) GeoServer
2 19 (2.22%) SharePoint
3 16 (1.87%) Confluence
4 15 (1.76%) IIS
5 11 (1.29%) CMS
6 8 (0.94%) Apache Solr
6 8 (0.94%) Umbraco
7 7 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.70%) Apache Spark
9 4 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.47%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 4 (0.47%) Captiva
9 4 (0.47%) FileNet
9 4 (0.47%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.23%) BizTalk Server
11 1 (0.12%) Drupal
11 1 (0.12%) Jetty
11 1 (0.12%) Kentico
11 1 (0.12%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (0.70%) Photoshop
2 5 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.35%) Trello
4 2 (0.23%) Adobe XD
4 2 (0.23%) Sketch
5 1 (0.12%) GNU Octave
5 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.12%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 31 (3.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (1.17%) Dynamics AX
3 7 (0.82%) Magento
3 7 (0.82%) Shopify
4 6 (0.70%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.12%) NEC Housing
5 1 (0.12%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 487 (57.03%) Azure
2 314 (36.77%) AWS
3 256 (29.98%) Azure DevOps
4 83 (9.72%) Serverless
5 78 (9.13%) IBM Cloud
6 71 (8.31%) Power Platform
7 66 (7.73%) GCP
8 58 (6.79%) GitHub
9 56 (6.56%) Amazon S3
10 51 (5.97%) Azure Service Bus
11 48 (5.62%) Amazon EKS
11 48 (5.62%) Azure Functions
12 45 (5.27%) Azure API Management
12 45 (5.27%) Azure Logic Apps
13 42 (4.92%) Dynamics 365
14 41 (4.80%) OCI
15 36 (4.22%) Amazon ECR
15 36 (4.22%) Route 53
16 27 (3.16%) SaaS
17 23 (2.69%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 19 (2.22%) DNS
2 13 (1.52%) Firewall
3 7 (0.82%) HTTP
3 7 (0.82%) WAN
4 6 (0.70%) LAN
4 6 (0.70%) MQTT
4 6 (0.70%) VoIP
5 5 (0.59%) WLAN
6 4 (0.47%) Network Security
6 4 (0.47%) Unified Communications
6 4 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.23%) Skype
7 2 (0.23%) SSL
8 1 (0.12%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.12%) Internet
8 1 (0.12%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.12%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.12%) SMTP
8 1 (0.12%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.12%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (14.64%) PostgreSQL
2 94 (11.01%) SQL Server
3 68 (7.96%) Relational Database
4 59 (6.91%) NoSQL
5 57 (6.67%) GIS
5 57 (6.67%) QGIS
6 54 (6.32%) MongoDB
7 50 (5.85%) Amazon RDS
8 48 (5.62%) MySQL
9 46 (5.39%) Data Warehouse
10 41 (4.80%) DB2
11 32 (3.75%) BigQuery
11 32 (3.75%) Power BI
12 28 (3.28%) Looker
13 21 (2.46%) Data Vault
13 21 (2.46%) DynamoDB
14 20 (2.34%) RDBMS
15 18 (2.11%) Metadata
16 14 (1.64%) Amazon Redshift
17 12 (1.41%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 97 (11.36%) Git
2 72 (8.43%) JIRA
3 59 (6.91%) Jenkins
4 37 (4.33%) GitLab
5 20 (2.34%) Postman
6 19 (2.22%) Jasmine
6 19 (2.22%) Team Foundation Server
7 17 (1.99%) Visual Studio
8 14 (1.64%) Cypress.io
9 12 (1.41%) Selenium
10 11 (1.29%) Karma Test Runner
11 8 (0.94%) Bitbucket
12 7 (0.82%) SonarQube
13 6 (0.70%) JDeveloper
14 5 (0.59%) Android Studio
14 5 (0.59%) Appium
14 5 (0.59%) Clang
14 5 (0.59%) Cucumber
14 5 (0.59%) Spinnaker
14 5 (0.59%) TeamCity
General
1 163 (19.09%) Social Skills
2 105 (12.30%) Public Sector
3 98 (11.48%) Finance
4 76 (8.90%) Analytical Skills
5 62 (7.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 55 (6.44%) Retail
7 28 (3.28%) Legal
8 24 (2.81%) Law
9 21 (2.46%) Banking
10 18 (2.11%) Aerospace
11 16 (1.87%) Marketing
12 14 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
13 13 (1.52%) Automotive
13 13 (1.52%) Games
14 10 (1.17%) Influencing Skills
15 9 (1.05%) Manufacturing
16 7 (0.82%) Back Office
17 6 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
18 5 (0.59%) Retail Finance
19 4 (0.47%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 229 (26.81%) Developer
2 214 (25.06%) Senior
3 129 (15.11%) Software Engineer
4 115 (13.47%) DevOps Engineer
5 99 (11.59%) Lead
6 71 (8.31%) Data Engineer
7 61 (7.14%) Architect
8 60 (7.03%) Full Stack Developer
9 56 (6.56%) Senior Software Engineer
10 52 (6.09%) Senior DevOps
10 52 (6.09%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 47 (5.50%) Azure Developer
12 46 (5.39%) Platform Engineer
12 46 (5.39%) Senior Developer
13 43 (5.04%) .NET Developer
14 41 (4.80%) Azure Engineer
15 34 (3.98%) Principal Engineer
16 32 (3.75%) Technical Leader
17 29 (3.40%) Principal Data Engineer
18 25 (2.93%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 226 (26.46%) .NET
2 192 (22.48%) React
3 152 (17.80%) CSS
4 127 (14.87%) Node.js
5 110 (12.88%) HTML
6 109 (12.76%) AngularJS
7 81 (9.48%) .NET Core
8 71 (8.31%) ASP.NET
9 69 (8.08%) REST
10 63 (7.38%) Vue
11 62 (7.26%) Web Services
12 58 (6.79%) jQuery
13 57 (6.67%) Leaflet
13 57 (6.67%) OpenLayers
13 57 (6.67%) PostGIS
14 55 (6.44%) Twitter Bootstrap
15 45 (5.27%) JSON
16 43 (5.04%) ASP.NET Core
17 41 (4.80%) Backbone.js
17 41 (4.80%) Ember.js
Miscellaneous
1 92 (10.77%) Hybrid Cloud
2 78 (9.13%) Blockchain
3 59 (6.91%) Data Structures
4 56 (6.56%) Cloud Native
5 52 (6.09%) Public Cloud
6 42 (4.92%) Algorithms
7 41 (4.80%) Self-Motivation
8 37 (4.33%) e-Learning
9 29 (3.40%) Product Ownership
10 26 (3.04%) Management Information System
11 18 (2.11%) Greenfield Project
12 15 (1.76%) Reinsurance
13 14 (1.64%) Private Cloud
14 13 (1.52%) IoT
15 12 (1.41%) Data Centre
16 11 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
17 10 (1.17%) Device Driver
17 10 (1.17%) FMCG
18 9 (1.05%) Mobile App
19 8 (0.94%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 127 (14.87%) Linux
2 93 (10.89%) Windows
3 49 (5.74%) Android
4 47 (5.50%) Apple iOS
5 17 (1.99%) Windows Server
6 11 (1.29%) VMS
7 9 (1.05%) Ubuntu
8 6 (0.70%) Unix
9 4 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.35%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.35%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.12%) CentOS
11 1 (0.12%) HPUX
11 1 (0.12%) Solaris
11 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 485 (56.79%) Agile
2 238 (27.87%) Software Engineering
3 202 (23.65%) CI/CD
4 167 (19.56%) Mentoring
5 143 (16.74%) Problem-Solving
6 136 (15.93%) Web Development
7 110 (12.88%) Infrastructure as Code
8 105 (12.30%) Coaching
8 105 (12.30%) Scrum
9 104 (12.18%) Artificial Intelligence
10 103 (12.06%) Actionable Insight
11 101 (11.83%) Full Stack Development
12 92 (10.77%) Design Patterns
12 92 (10.77%) Roadmaps
13 81 (9.48%) Test Automation
14 78 (9.13%) User Experience
15 76 (8.90%) Containerisation
16 74 (8.67%) Continuous Integration
17 68 (7.96%) Analytics
18 64 (7.49%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 236 (27.63%) JavaScript
2 229 (26.81%) C#
3 198 (23.19%) Python
4 162 (18.97%) SQL
5 130 (15.22%) Java
6 87 (10.19%) TypeScript
7 37 (4.33%) PowerShell
8 36 (4.22%) PHP
9 35 (4.10%) Bash
10 27 (3.16%) Go
11 23 (2.69%) C
12 22 (2.58%) VB.NET
13 19 (2.22%) T-SQL
14 12 (1.41%) Ruby
15 11 (1.29%) VB
15 11 (1.29%) VB6
16 9 (1.05%) C++
17 8 (0.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 8 (0.94%) Kotlin
18 7 (0.82%) Rust
Qualifications
1 129 (15.11%) Security Cleared
2 96 (11.24%) SC Cleared
3 73 (8.55%) Degree
4 22 (2.58%) Microsoft Certification
5 19 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (2.11%) DV Cleared
7 11 (1.29%) AWS Certification
7 11 (1.29%) Azure Certification
8 9 (1.05%) Master's Degree
9 7 (0.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 6 (0.70%) BC Cleared
10 6 (0.70%) HND
11 4 (0.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 4 (0.47%) PMI Certification
12 3 (0.35%) CISSP
13 2 (0.23%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.23%) ISTQB
14 1 (0.12%) APMP
14 1 (0.12%) AWS Certified Developer
14 1 (0.12%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (5.74%) QA
2 47 (5.50%) GDPR
3 41 (4.80%) Data Quality
4 11 (1.29%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (0.94%) SLA
7 7 (0.82%) NIST
8 6 (0.70%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.47%) PMO
10 1 (0.12%) P3O
System Software
1 102 (11.94%) Docker
2 22 (2.58%) Active Directory
3 14 (1.64%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (0.94%) Firmware
5 7 (0.82%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.47%) Embedded Firmware
7 2 (0.23%) IAG
8 1 (0.12%) Dovecot
8 1 (0.12%) Postfix
8 1 (0.12%) RACF
8 1 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 173 (20.26%) Terraform
2 144 (16.86%) Kubernetes
3 52 (6.09%) Ansible
4 44 (5.15%) Prometheus
5 23 (2.69%) Progress Chef
6 8 (0.94%) Grafana
6 8 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (0.82%) CA Single Sign-On
8 6 (0.70%) Puppet
9 5 (0.59%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (0.35%) Podman
11 2 (0.23%) Rundeck
12 1 (0.12%) Packer
12 1 (0.12%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 147 (17.21%) Microsoft
2 86 (10.07%) IBM
3 82 (9.60%) Red Hat
4 57 (6.67%) ESRI
5 48 (5.62%) Google
6 36 (4.22%) Dynatrace
7 34 (3.98%) Oracle
8 30 (3.51%) Databricks
9 20 (2.34%) Informatica
10 18 (2.11%) ServiceNow
11 16 (1.87%) Adobe
12 10 (1.17%) YouTube
13 8 (0.94%) SAP
14 7 (0.82%) Atlassian
14 7 (0.82%) CA
14 7 (0.82%) CyberArk
15 6 (0.70%) Actuate
15 6 (0.70%) Splunk
16 5 (0.59%) LogicMonitor
16 5 (0.59%) PagerDuty