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

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 17 10 8
Rank change year-on-year -7 -2 +1
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 879 1,292 1,568
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 8.81% 16.77% 16.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.69% 17.55% 17.47%
Number of salaries quoted 560 572 858
10th Percentile £38,750 £42,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,812 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,783 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.41% +8.33% +11.11%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £86,250
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 8,221 7,360 8,977
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 82.40% 95.55% 95.41%
Number of salaries quoted 6,231 3,864 5,251
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,017 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £39,000
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 £81,500 £81,250
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 18 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 18 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 -4 603 £65,000 -0.54% 142
Merseyside -7 94 £60,000 - 8
Cheshire -8 81 £53,750 -2.27% 15
Lancashire -12 64 £62,783 +14.15% 8
Cumbria +13 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 (6.48%) ArcGIS
1 57 (6.48%) GeoServer
2 19 (2.16%) SharePoint
3 17 (1.93%) Confluence
4 15 (1.71%) IIS
5 11 (1.25%) CMS
6 8 (0.91%) Apache Solr
6 8 (0.91%) Umbraco
7 7 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.68%) Apache Spark
9 4 (0.46%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 3 (0.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.34%) Captiva
10 3 (0.34%) FileNet
10 3 (0.34%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.23%) BizTalk Server
12 1 (0.11%) Apache
12 1 (0.11%) Drupal
12 1 (0.11%) Jetty
12 1 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (0.68%) Photoshop
2 5 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.34%) Trello
4 2 (0.23%) Adobe XD
4 2 (0.23%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.23%) Sketch
5 1 (0.11%) GNU Octave
5 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 31 (3.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (1.14%) Dynamics AX
3 7 (0.80%) Magento
3 7 (0.80%) Shopify
4 6 (0.68%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.11%) NEC Housing
5 1 (0.11%) Primavera
5 1 (0.11%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 496 (56.43%) Azure
2 334 (38.00%) AWS
3 255 (29.01%) Azure DevOps
4 83 (9.44%) Serverless
5 78 (8.87%) IBM Cloud
6 71 (8.08%) Power Platform
7 66 (7.51%) GCP
8 57 (6.48%) GitHub
9 56 (6.37%) Amazon S3
10 50 (5.69%) Azure Service Bus
11 48 (5.46%) Amazon EKS
11 48 (5.46%) Azure Functions
12 45 (5.12%) Azure Logic Apps
13 44 (5.01%) Azure API Management
14 42 (4.78%) Dynamics 365
15 41 (4.66%) OCI
16 36 (4.10%) Amazon ECR
16 36 (4.10%) Route 53
17 30 (3.41%) SaaS
18 25 (2.84%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 19 (2.16%) DNS
2 13 (1.48%) Firewall
3 7 (0.80%) HTTP
3 7 (0.80%) WAN
4 6 (0.68%) LAN
4 6 (0.68%) MQTT
4 6 (0.68%) VoIP
5 5 (0.57%) WLAN
6 4 (0.46%) Network Security
6 4 (0.46%) Unified Communications
6 4 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.23%) Skype
7 2 (0.23%) SSL
8 1 (0.11%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.11%) Internet
8 1 (0.11%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.11%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.11%) SMTP
8 1 (0.11%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.11%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 134 (15.24%) PostgreSQL
2 95 (10.81%) SQL Server
3 69 (7.85%) NoSQL
4 68 (7.74%) Relational Database
5 57 (6.48%) GIS
5 57 (6.48%) QGIS
6 56 (6.37%) MongoDB
7 50 (5.69%) Amazon RDS
8 49 (5.57%) Data Warehouse
9 48 (5.46%) MySQL
10 41 (4.66%) DB2
11 32 (3.64%) BigQuery
11 32 (3.64%) Power BI
12 30 (3.41%) DynamoDB
13 28 (3.19%) Looker
14 22 (2.50%) Data Vault
15 20 (2.28%) RDBMS
16 19 (2.16%) Metadata
17 18 (2.05%) Amazon Aurora
18 14 (1.59%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 95 (10.81%) Git
2 72 (8.19%) JIRA
3 57 (6.48%) Jenkins
4 36 (4.10%) GitLab
5 20 (2.28%) Postman
5 20 (2.28%) Team Foundation Server
6 18 (2.05%) Jasmine
7 17 (1.93%) Visual Studio
8 13 (1.48%) Cypress.io
9 12 (1.37%) Selenium
10 11 (1.25%) Karma Test Runner
11 7 (0.80%) Bitbucket
11 7 (0.80%) Gatling
12 6 (0.68%) JDeveloper
12 6 (0.68%) SonarQube
13 5 (0.57%) Android Studio
13 5 (0.57%) Appium
13 5 (0.57%) Clang
13 5 (0.57%) Spinnaker
13 5 (0.57%) TeamCity
General
1 177 (20.14%) Social Skills
2 108 (12.29%) Public Sector
3 101 (11.49%) Finance
4 74 (8.42%) Analytical Skills
5 62 (7.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 57 (6.48%) Retail
7 28 (3.19%) Legal
8 24 (2.73%) Law
9 23 (2.62%) Banking
10 18 (2.05%) Aerospace
11 16 (1.82%) Marketing
12 14 (1.59%) Games
12 14 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
13 13 (1.48%) Automotive
14 10 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
15 9 (1.02%) Manufacturing
16 7 (0.80%) Back Office
16 7 (0.80%) Billing
16 7 (0.80%) Electronics
17 6 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 231 (26.28%) Developer
2 219 (24.91%) Senior
3 138 (15.70%) Software Engineer
4 115 (13.08%) DevOps Engineer
5 102 (11.60%) Lead
6 74 (8.42%) Data Engineer
7 68 (7.74%) Architect
8 60 (6.83%) Full Stack Developer
9 56 (6.37%) Senior Software Engineer
10 55 (6.26%) Senior DevOps
10 55 (6.26%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 48 (5.46%) Azure Developer
12 47 (5.35%) Senior Developer
13 45 (5.12%) Platform Engineer
14 43 (4.89%) .NET Developer
15 37 (4.21%) Azure Engineer
16 34 (3.87%) Principal Engineer
16 34 (3.87%) Technical Leader
17 29 (3.30%) Principal Data Engineer
18 25 (2.84%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 226 (25.71%) .NET
2 194 (22.07%) React
3 153 (17.41%) CSS
4 129 (14.68%) Node.js
5 110 (12.51%) HTML
6 108 (12.29%) AngularJS
7 81 (9.22%) .NET Core
8 80 (9.10%) REST
9 72 (8.19%) Web Services
10 71 (8.08%) ASP.NET
11 63 (7.17%) Vue
12 58 (6.60%) jQuery
13 57 (6.48%) Leaflet
13 57 (6.48%) OpenLayers
13 57 (6.48%) PostGIS
14 55 (6.26%) Twitter Bootstrap
15 45 (5.12%) JSON
16 43 (4.89%) ASP.NET Core
17 41 (4.66%) Backbone.js
17 41 (4.66%) Ember.js
Miscellaneous
1 92 (10.47%) Hybrid Cloud
2 78 (8.87%) Blockchain
3 60 (6.83%) Data Structures
4 57 (6.48%) Cloud Native
5 50 (5.69%) Public Cloud
6 43 (4.89%) Self-Motivation
7 42 (4.78%) Algorithms
8 37 (4.21%) e-Learning
9 31 (3.53%) Product Ownership
10 27 (3.07%) Management Information System
11 18 (2.05%) Greenfield Project
12 17 (1.93%) Blog
12 17 (1.93%) Reinsurance
13 13 (1.48%) IoT
13 13 (1.48%) Private Cloud
14 12 (1.37%) Data Centre
14 12 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
14 12 (1.37%) Media Streaming
15 10 (1.14%) Device Driver
15 10 (1.14%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 125 (14.22%) Linux
2 91 (10.35%) Windows
3 50 (5.69%) Android
4 47 (5.35%) Apple iOS
5 17 (1.93%) Windows Server
6 11 (1.25%) VMS
7 9 (1.02%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.57%) Unix
9 4 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.34%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.34%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.11%) CentOS
11 1 (0.11%) HPUX
11 1 (0.11%) Solaris
11 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 503 (57.22%) Agile
2 247 (28.10%) Software Engineering
3 202 (22.98%) CI/CD
4 172 (19.57%) Mentoring
5 141 (16.04%) Problem-Solving
6 136 (15.47%) Web Development
7 109 (12.40%) Coaching
8 108 (12.29%) Infrastructure as Code
9 105 (11.95%) Artificial Intelligence
10 103 (11.72%) Full Stack Development
10 103 (11.72%) Scrum
11 101 (11.49%) Actionable Insight
12 96 (10.92%) Roadmaps
13 94 (10.69%) Design Patterns
14 85 (9.67%) Continuous Integration
15 83 (9.44%) Test Automation
16 78 (8.87%) User Experience
17 77 (8.76%) Containerisation
18 76 (8.65%) Analytics
19 63 (7.17%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 239 (27.19%) JavaScript
2 230 (26.17%) C#
3 200 (22.75%) Python
4 162 (18.43%) SQL
5 140 (15.93%) Java
6 87 (9.90%) TypeScript
7 36 (4.10%) PHP
8 35 (3.98%) PowerShell
9 33 (3.75%) Bash
10 28 (3.19%) Go
11 23 (2.62%) C
12 22 (2.50%) VB.NET
13 19 (2.16%) T-SQL
14 15 (1.71%) Scala
15 12 (1.37%) Ruby
16 11 (1.25%) VB
16 11 (1.25%) VB6
17 10 (1.14%) C++
18 8 (0.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 8 (0.91%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 128 (14.56%) Security Cleared
2 96 (10.92%) SC Cleared
3 81 (9.22%) Degree
4 26 (2.96%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (2.62%) Microsoft Certification
6 18 (2.05%) DV Cleared
7 12 (1.37%) AWS Certification
7 12 (1.37%) Azure Certification
8 9 (1.02%) Master's Degree
9 7 (0.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 6 (0.68%) BC Cleared
10 6 (0.68%) HND
11 4 (0.46%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 4 (0.46%) PMI Certification
12 3 (0.34%) CISSP
12 3 (0.34%) ISTQB
13 2 (0.23%) DBS Check
14 1 (0.11%) APMP
14 1 (0.11%) BPSS Clearance
14 1 (0.11%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (5.92%) QA
2 46 (5.23%) GDPR
3 45 (5.12%) Data Quality
4 11 (1.25%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (0.91%) SLA
7 7 (0.80%) NIST
8 6 (0.68%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.34%) PMO
10 1 (0.11%) P3O
System Software
1 101 (11.49%) Docker
2 22 (2.50%) Active Directory
3 14 (1.59%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (0.91%) Firmware
5 7 (0.80%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.46%) Embedded Firmware
7 2 (0.23%) IAG
8 1 (0.11%) Dovecot
8 1 (0.11%) Postfix
8 1 (0.11%) RACF
8 1 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 172 (19.57%) Terraform
2 144 (16.38%) Kubernetes
3 53 (6.03%) Ansible
4 42 (4.78%) Prometheus
5 24 (2.73%) Progress Chef
6 10 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (0.80%) CA Single Sign-On
7 7 (0.80%) Puppet
8 6 (0.68%) Grafana
9 5 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (0.34%) Podman
11 2 (0.23%) Rundeck
12 1 (0.11%) Packer
12 1 (0.11%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 149 (16.95%) Microsoft
2 86 (9.78%) IBM
3 82 (9.33%) Red Hat
4 57 (6.48%) ESRI
5 51 (5.80%) Google
6 36 (4.10%) Dynatrace
7 35 (3.98%) Oracle
8 31 (3.53%) Databricks
9 23 (2.62%) Informatica
10 17 (1.93%) ServiceNow
11 15 (1.71%) Adobe
12 10 (1.14%) YouTube
13 8 (0.91%) Atlassian
14 7 (0.80%) CA
14 7 (0.80%) CyberArk
14 7 (0.80%) SAP
15 6 (0.68%) Actuate
16 5 (0.57%) LogicMonitor
16 5 (0.57%) PagerDuty
16 5 (0.57%) Splunk