DevOps Jobs in Cheshire

DevOps
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Cheshire requiring DevOps skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited DevOps over the 6 months leading up to 29 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 30 30
Rank change year-on-year +14 0 -17
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 118 86 57
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 13.02% 4.77% 7.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.21% 6.29% 7.76%
Number of salaries quoted 13 48 45
10th Percentile £43,650 £40,000 £43,150
25th Percentile £53,750 £46,875 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +16.50%
75th Percentile £73,750 £62,813 £79,750
90th Percentile £84,750 £74,500 £100,000
North West median annual salary £67,037 £62,641 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.02% -3.63% +12.07%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

DevOps falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Cheshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 728 1,368 735
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 80.35% 75.83% 93.39%
Number of salaries quoted 280 980 428
10th Percentile £23,504 £26,250 £25,420
25th Percentile £23,504 £32,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £47,507 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.06% -4.99% +5.26%
75th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £67,750 £71,973 £91,250
North West median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in Cheshire

DevOps
Salary Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DevOps in Cheshire.

Salary trend for DevOps in Cheshire

DevOps
Salary Histogram in Cheshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps in Cheshire over the 6 months to 29 June 2025.

Salary histogram for DevOps in Cheshire

DevOps
Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 29 June 2025. 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
Knutsford +21 11 £69,875 -27.96% 10
Crewe +10 10 £57,500 +64.29% 1
Warrington +8 9 £65,000 +30.00% 33
Wilmslow - 6 - - 3
Chester +7 4 £72,500 +31.82% 30
Ellesmere Port -3 3 - -
Northwich -4 3 - -
Runcorn - 3 - - 1
Widnes - 3 - - 1
Macclesfield - 3 - - 4
Middlewich - 2 - -
Lymm - 2 - -
Congleton - 2 - -
Sandbach - 2 - -
Winsford +3 1 - -
Alderley Edge - 1 - - 3
DevOps
North West

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 22 (18.64%) Confluence
2 1 (0.85%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 71 (60.17%) AWS
2 68 (57.63%) Azure
3 27 (22.88%) GCP
4 5 (4.24%) NuGet
5 4 (3.39%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (1.69%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (1.69%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (1.69%) Pulumi
7 1 (0.85%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (0.85%) Azure App Service
7 1 (0.85%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (0.85%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (0.85%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (0.85%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (0.85%) IaaS
7 1 (0.85%) PaaS
7 1 (0.85%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 39 (33.05%) Cisco IOS
1 39 (33.05%) VPN
2 5 (4.24%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.69%) Broadband
3 2 (1.69%) Firewall
4 1 (0.85%) DNS
4 1 (0.85%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (49.15%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.54%) NoSQL
3 2 (1.69%) RDBMS
3 2 (1.69%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.85%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.85%) MySQL
4 1 (0.85%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.85%) Redis
Development Applications
1 58 (49.15%) GitLab
2 57 (48.31%) JIRA
3 56 (47.46%) Bitbucket
3 56 (47.46%) Cucumber
3 56 (47.46%) Maven
3 56 (47.46%) Selenium
3 56 (47.46%) SonarQube
3 56 (47.46%) Sonatype Nexus
4 6 (5.08%) Git
5 4 (3.39%) Jenkins
6 2 (1.69%) Jaeger
7 1 (0.85%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.85%) Jasmine
7 1 (0.85%) JUnit
7 1 (0.85%) Karma Test Runner
7 1 (0.85%) Mockito
General
1 96 (81.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 56 (47.46%) Banking
2 56 (47.46%) Finance
3 43 (36.44%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (28.81%) Corporate Banking
4 34 (28.81%) Investment Banking
4 34 (28.81%) Retail
5 6 (5.08%) Social Skills
6 1 (0.85%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 57 (48.31%) Software Engineer
2 39 (33.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 8 (6.78%) Developer
4 7 (5.93%) Senior
5 6 (5.08%) C# Developer
6 5 (4.24%) Senior C# Developer
6 5 (4.24%) Senior Developer
7 3 (2.54%) AWS Developer
7 3 (2.54%) DevOps Engineer
8 2 (1.69%) Azure Engineer
8 2 (1.69%) Azure Platform Engineer
8 2 (1.69%) Cloud Engineer
8 2 (1.69%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 2 (1.69%) Engineering Manager
8 2 (1.69%) Lead
8 2 (1.69%) Platform Engineer
8 2 (1.69%) Team Leader
9 1 (0.85%) Senior Support Engineer
9 1 (0.85%) Technical Engineer
9 1 (0.85%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (50.00%) Kafka
2 58 (49.15%) React
3 57 (48.31%) CSS
3 57 (48.31%) HTML
4 56 (47.46%) JPA
4 56 (47.46%) Redux
4 56 (47.46%) Spring Boot
5 55 (46.61%) Spring
6 41 (34.75%) Elastic Stack
7 38 (32.20%) RESTful
8 37 (31.36%) REST
9 35 (29.66%) CSS3
9 35 (29.66%) HTML5
9 35 (29.66%) Jest
9 35 (29.66%) Sass
10 22 (18.64%) Hibernate
11 9 (7.63%) .NET
12 7 (5.93%) .NET Core
13 6 (5.08%) .NET Framework
14 5 (4.24%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 56 (47.46%) Enterprise Software
2 55 (46.61%) Product Ownership
3 39 (33.05%) Cyberattack
4 5 (4.24%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.85%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.85%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 46 (38.98%) Linux
2 40 (33.90%) Windows
3 39 (33.05%) Android
4 3 (2.54%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (60.17%) CI/CD
2 68 (57.63%) Agile
3 64 (54.24%) Microservices
4 62 (52.54%) Containerisation
5 59 (50.00%) Software Engineering
6 58 (49.15%) Performance Optimisation
6 58 (49.15%) SDLC
7 56 (47.46%) Front End Development
7 56 (47.46%) Full-Stack Development
7 56 (47.46%) Test Automation
8 47 (39.83%) Problem-Solving
9 43 (36.44%) Platform Engineering
9 43 (36.44%) Risk Management
10 42 (35.59%) Task Automation
11 40 (33.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 39 (33.05%) Line Management
12 39 (33.05%) Mathematics
12 39 (33.05%) Mentoring
12 39 (33.05%) Storage Management
13 36 (30.51%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 63 (53.39%) JavaScript
2 62 (52.54%) SQL
3 58 (49.15%) Java
4 47 (39.83%) Python
5 45 (38.14%) Bash
6 41 (34.75%) PowerShell
7 37 (31.36%) TypeScript
8 8 (6.78%) C#
9 3 (2.54%) Bicep
9 3 (2.54%) Go
10 1 (0.85%) PHP
10 1 (0.85%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.85%) VB
10 1 (0.85%) VB.NET
10 1 (0.85%) VB6
Qualifications
1 4 (3.39%) AWS Certification
1 4 (3.39%) Azure Certification
2 2 (1.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (1.69%) Degree
3 1 (0.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (0.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (0.85%) CCSP
3 1 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (0.85%) CISSP
3 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (48.31%) QA
2 34 (28.81%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.85%) NIST
System Software
1 108 (91.53%) Docker
2 40 (33.90%) Hyper-V
3 39 (33.05%) VMware NSX
3 39 (33.05%) vSphere
4 1 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 70 (59.32%) Kubernetes
2 46 (38.98%) Terraform
3 43 (36.44%) Ansible
4 3 (2.54%) Grafana
4 3 (2.54%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.69%) Argo
5 2 (1.69%) Kustomize
6 1 (0.85%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (0.85%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.85%) Puppet
Vendors
1 55 (46.61%) Solace
2 39 (33.05%) 3PAR
2 39 (33.05%) Cisco
2 39 (33.05%) Juniper
2 39 (33.05%) Splunk
3 6 (5.08%) Google
4 4 (3.39%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.85%) Oracle
5 1 (0.85%) TOWER Software
5 1 (0.85%) Veracode
5 1 (0.85%) VMware
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