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

6 months to
24 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 17 10 8
Rank change year-on-year -7 -2 +1
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 892 1,288 1,591
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 8.80% 16.73% 16.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.78% 17.54% 17.48%
Number of salaries quoted 559 574 865
10th Percentile £38,500 £42,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £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 8,275 7,343 9,103
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 81.67% 95.40% 95.44%
Number of salaries quoted 6,268 3,851 5,316
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £38,947
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.03%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £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 24 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 24 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 -3 616 £65,000 -3.70% 134
Merseyside -6 97 £60,000 +4.35% 7
Cheshire -9 80 £55,000 -4.35% 14
Lancashire -13 63 £62,783 +14.15% 8
Cumbria +10 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 (6.39%) ArcGIS
1 57 (6.39%) GeoServer
2 19 (2.13%) Confluence
2 19 (2.13%) SharePoint
3 15 (1.68%) IIS
4 11 (1.23%) CMS
5 9 (1.01%) Apache Solr
6 8 (0.90%) Umbraco
7 7 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.67%) Apache Spark
9 4 (0.45%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 2 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.22%) BizTalk Server
10 2 (0.22%) Captiva
10 2 (0.22%) Drupal
10 2 (0.22%) FileNet
10 2 (0.22%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.22%) WordPress
11 1 (0.11%) Kentico
11 1 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 6 (0.67%) Photoshop
2 5 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.34%) Trello
4 2 (0.22%) Adobe XD
4 2 (0.22%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.22%) Sketch
5 1 (0.11%) GNU Octave
5 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 28 (3.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (1.12%) Dynamics AX
3 8 (0.90%) Magento
4 7 (0.78%) Shopify
5 6 (0.67%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.11%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.11%) Primavera
6 1 (0.11%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 505 (56.61%) Azure
2 352 (39.46%) AWS
3 259 (29.04%) Azure DevOps
4 79 (8.86%) Serverless
5 78 (8.74%) IBM Cloud
6 74 (8.30%) Power Platform
7 69 (7.74%) GCP
8 57 (6.39%) Amazon S3
9 56 (6.28%) GitHub
10 48 (5.38%) Amazon EKS
10 48 (5.38%) Azure Functions
10 48 (5.38%) Azure Service Bus
11 45 (5.04%) Azure Logic Apps
12 43 (4.82%) Azure API Management
12 43 (4.82%) OCI
13 42 (4.71%) Dynamics 365
14 36 (4.04%) Amazon ECR
14 36 (4.04%) Route 53
15 35 (3.92%) Amazon Kinesis
16 31 (3.48%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (2.35%) DNS
2 13 (1.46%) Firewall
3 7 (0.78%) HTTP
3 7 (0.78%) WAN
4 6 (0.67%) LAN
4 6 (0.67%) MQTT
4 6 (0.67%) VoIP
5 5 (0.56%) WLAN
6 4 (0.45%) Network Security
6 4 (0.45%) Unified Communications
6 4 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.22%) Skype
8 1 (0.11%) Asterisk PBX
8 1 (0.11%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.11%) IMAP
8 1 (0.11%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.11%) SMTP
8 1 (0.11%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.11%) VSAN
8 1 (0.11%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (16.14%) PostgreSQL
2 96 (10.76%) SQL Server
3 80 (8.97%) NoSQL
4 66 (7.40%) Relational Database
5 57 (6.39%) GIS
5 57 (6.39%) QGIS
6 54 (6.05%) Data Warehouse
7 53 (5.94%) MongoDB
8 50 (5.61%) Amazon RDS
9 48 (5.38%) MySQL
10 41 (4.60%) DB2
11 40 (4.48%) DynamoDB
12 35 (3.92%) Power BI
13 32 (3.59%) BigQuery
14 28 (3.14%) Amazon Aurora
14 28 (3.14%) Looker
15 27 (3.03%) Data Vault
16 19 (2.13%) Metadata
17 18 (2.02%) RDBMS
18 16 (1.79%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 93 (10.43%) Git
2 76 (8.52%) JIRA
3 55 (6.17%) Jenkins
4 42 (4.71%) GitLab
5 20 (2.24%) Postman
5 20 (2.24%) Team Foundation Server
6 17 (1.91%) Jasmine
6 17 (1.91%) Visual Studio
7 13 (1.46%) Gatling
8 11 (1.23%) Karma Test Runner
9 9 (1.01%) Bitbucket
10 8 (0.90%) Cypress.io
10 8 (0.90%) Selenium
10 8 (0.90%) SonarQube
11 5 (0.56%) Android Studio
11 5 (0.56%) Appium
11 5 (0.56%) Clang
11 5 (0.56%) TeamCity
12 4 (0.45%) CMake
12 4 (0.45%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 185 (20.74%) Social Skills
2 108 (12.11%) Public Sector
3 100 (11.21%) Finance
4 72 (8.07%) Analytical Skills
5 60 (6.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 55 (6.17%) Retail
7 28 (3.14%) Legal
8 25 (2.80%) Law
9 21 (2.35%) Banking
10 18 (2.02%) Aerospace
10 18 (2.02%) Presentation Skills
11 16 (1.79%) Marketing
12 14 (1.57%) Automotive
12 14 (1.57%) Games
13 13 (1.46%) Billing
13 13 (1.46%) Electronics
14 9 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
14 9 (1.01%) Manufacturing
15 7 (0.78%) Back Office
16 6 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 236 (26.46%) Developer
2 218 (24.44%) Senior
3 137 (15.36%) Software Engineer
4 119 (13.34%) DevOps Engineer
5 104 (11.66%) Lead
6 74 (8.30%) Architect
7 73 (8.18%) Data Engineer
8 61 (6.84%) Full Stack Developer
9 57 (6.39%) Senior DevOps
9 57 (6.39%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 55 (6.17%) Senior Software Engineer
11 51 (5.72%) Platform Engineer
12 49 (5.49%) Senior Developer
13 48 (5.38%) Azure Developer
14 45 (5.04%) .NET Developer
15 38 (4.26%) Technical Leader
16 36 (4.04%) Azure Engineer
17 32 (3.59%) Principal Engineer
18 29 (3.25%) Principal Data Engineer
19 25 (2.80%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 226 (25.34%) .NET
2 191 (21.41%) React
3 157 (17.60%) CSS
4 129 (14.46%) Node.js
5 114 (12.78%) HTML
6 107 (12.00%) AngularJS
7 93 (10.43%) REST
8 81 (9.08%) .NET Core
8 81 (9.08%) Web Services
9 69 (7.74%) ASP.NET
10 64 (7.17%) Vue
11 59 (6.61%) jQuery
12 57 (6.39%) Leaflet
12 57 (6.39%) OpenLayers
12 57 (6.39%) PostGIS
13 56 (6.28%) Twitter Bootstrap
14 45 (5.04%) JSON
15 42 (4.71%) ASP.NET Core
16 41 (4.60%) Backbone.js
16 41 (4.60%) Ember.js
Miscellaneous
1 91 (10.20%) Hybrid Cloud
2 78 (8.74%) Blockchain
3 61 (6.84%) Data Structures
4 58 (6.50%) Cloud Native
5 50 (5.61%) Public Cloud
6 47 (5.27%) Self-Motivation
7 42 (4.71%) Algorithms
8 37 (4.15%) e-Learning
9 29 (3.25%) Product Ownership
10 28 (3.14%) Management Information System
11 27 (3.03%) Blog
12 22 (2.47%) Media Streaming
13 18 (2.02%) Greenfield Project
14 17 (1.91%) Distributed Systems
14 17 (1.91%) Reinsurance
15 13 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
15 13 (1.46%) IoT
15 13 (1.46%) Private Cloud
16 12 (1.35%) Mobile App
17 11 (1.23%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 122 (13.68%) Linux
2 92 (10.31%) Windows
3 50 (5.61%) Android
4 47 (5.27%) Apple iOS
5 17 (1.91%) Windows Server
6 11 (1.23%) VMS
7 9 (1.01%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (0.45%) Unix
9 3 (0.34%) Embedded Linux
9 3 (0.34%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
10 1 (0.11%) CentOS
10 1 (0.11%) HPUX
10 1 (0.11%) Solaris
10 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 506 (56.73%) Agile
2 246 (27.58%) Software Engineering
3 206 (23.09%) CI/CD
4 182 (20.40%) Mentoring
5 143 (16.03%) Problem-Solving
6 136 (15.25%) Web Development
7 116 (13.00%) Coaching
8 113 (12.67%) Infrastructure as Code
9 106 (11.88%) Scrum
10 105 (11.77%) Artificial Intelligence
11 103 (11.55%) Full Stack Development
12 99 (11.10%) Actionable Insight
13 93 (10.43%) Continuous Integration
14 91 (10.20%) Design Patterns
14 91 (10.20%) Roadmaps
15 86 (9.64%) Analytics
16 84 (9.42%) Test Automation
17 82 (9.19%) User Experience
18 75 (8.41%) Containerisation
19 66 (7.40%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 239 (26.79%) JavaScript
2 229 (25.67%) C#
3 200 (22.42%) Python
4 157 (17.60%) SQL
5 137 (15.36%) Java
6 87 (9.75%) TypeScript
7 39 (4.37%) PowerShell
8 35 (3.92%) PHP
9 30 (3.36%) Bash
10 28 (3.14%) Go
11 25 (2.80%) Scala
12 23 (2.58%) C
13 22 (2.47%) VB.NET
14 18 (2.02%) T-SQL
15 11 (1.23%) VB
15 11 (1.23%) VB6
16 10 (1.12%) Ruby
17 8 (0.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 8 (0.90%) Kotlin
18 7 (0.78%) Rust
Qualifications
1 129 (14.46%) Security Cleared
2 99 (11.10%) SC Cleared
3 87 (9.75%) Degree
4 32 (3.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (2.58%) Microsoft Certification
6 17 (1.91%) DV Cleared
7 13 (1.46%) AWS Certification
7 13 (1.46%) Azure Certification
8 9 (1.01%) Master's Degree
9 7 (0.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 6 (0.67%) BC Cleared
10 6 (0.67%) HND
11 4 (0.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 4 (0.45%) PMI Certification
12 3 (0.34%) CISSP
12 3 (0.34%) ISTQB
13 2 (0.22%) DBS Check
14 1 (0.11%) APMP
14 1 (0.11%) AWS Certified Developer
14 1 (0.11%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (5.61%) QA
2 46 (5.16%) Data Quality
3 45 (5.04%) GDPR
4 11 (1.23%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (1.01%) NIST
6 9 (1.01%) PCI DSS
7 8 (0.90%) SLA
8 3 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.34%) PMO
9 1 (0.11%) P3O
System Software
1 97 (10.87%) Docker
2 22 (2.47%) Active Directory
3 14 (1.57%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (0.90%) Firmware
5 7 (0.78%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.45%) Embedded Firmware
7 2 (0.22%) IAG
8 1 (0.11%) Dovecot
8 1 (0.11%) Postfix
8 1 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 176 (19.73%) Terraform
2 142 (15.92%) Kubernetes
3 59 (6.61%) Ansible
4 42 (4.71%) Prometheus
5 24 (2.69%) Progress Chef
6 9 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (0.78%) CA Single Sign-On
7 7 (0.78%) Puppet
8 6 (0.67%) Grafana
9 5 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (0.34%) Podman
11 2 (0.22%) Rundeck
12 1 (0.11%) Packer
12 1 (0.11%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 147 (16.48%) Microsoft
2 85 (9.53%) IBM
3 82 (9.19%) Red Hat
4 57 (6.39%) ESRI
5 50 (5.61%) Google
6 36 (4.04%) Dynatrace
7 32 (3.59%) Databricks
7 32 (3.59%) Oracle
8 24 (2.69%) Informatica
9 19 (2.13%) ServiceNow
10 14 (1.57%) Adobe
11 12 (1.35%) Atlassian
12 10 (1.12%) YouTube
13 7 (0.78%) CA
13 7 (0.78%) CyberArk
14 6 (0.67%) Actuate
14 6 (0.67%) SAP
15 5 (0.56%) LogicMonitor
15 5 (0.56%) PagerDuty
16 4 (0.45%) MuleSoft