DevOps Engineer Jobs in the North of England

Development Operations Engineer
England > North of England

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in the North of England is £65,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 209 140 98
Rank change year-on-year -69 -42 -43
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 198 432 604
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 1.13% 2.50% 3.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.19% 2.80% 3.49%
Number of salaries quoted 121 248 361
10th Percentile £48,250 £45,875 £40,853
25th Percentile £50,000 £54,688 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £72,433 £80,313 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +3.45% +11.54%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the North of England. 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 16,599 15,406 17,329
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.93% 89.33% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 12,835 8,145 11,008
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,500 £27,875
25th Percentile £36,250 £39,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £81,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings that featured DevOps Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in the North of England

DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DevOps Engineer in the North of England.

Salary trend for DevOps Engineer in the North of England

DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for DevOps Engineer in the North of England

DevOps Engineer
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps Engineer within the North of England region over the 6 months to 8 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
North West -57 116 £60,000 -14.29% 29
Yorkshire -29 60 £68,000 +4.62% 13
North East +1 22 £57,500 -13.21% 2
DevOps Engineer
England

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 8 May 2024, DevOps Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the North of England region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 198 (100.00%) DevOps
2 134 (67.68%) Terraform
3 129 (65.15%) Kubernetes
4 127 (64.14%) AWS
5 110 (55.56%) CI/CD
6 107 (54.04%) Agile
7 98 (49.49%) Azure
8 82 (41.41%) Containerisation
9 74 (37.37%) Docker
10 69 (34.85%) Mentoring
11 68 (34.34%) Infrastructure as Code
12 59 (29.80%) Public Sector
13 58 (29.29%) Linux
14 50 (25.25%) Prometheus
15 47 (23.74%) Azure DevOps
15 47 (23.74%) Coaching
15 47 (23.74%) IBM
16 46 (23.23%) Ansible
17 44 (22.22%) Amazon EKS
18 43 (21.72%) Observability
18 43 (21.72%) Test Automation
19 41 (20.71%) Artificial Intelligence
20 40 (20.20%) Secrets Management
21 39 (19.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
21 39 (19.70%) Continuous Integration
22 38 (19.19%) Amazon RDS
23 37 (18.69%) Social Skills
23 37 (18.69%) Amazon S3
24 36 (18.18%) Route 53
24 36 (18.18%) e-Learning

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Cloud Services
1 127 (64.14%) AWS
2 98 (49.49%) Azure
3 47 (23.74%) Azure DevOps
4 44 (22.22%) Amazon EKS
5 37 (18.69%) Amazon S3
6 36 (18.18%) Amazon ECR
6 36 (18.18%) IBM Cloud
6 36 (18.18%) OCI
6 36 (18.18%) Route 53
7 30 (15.15%) GCP
8 27 (13.64%) GitHub
9 18 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
10 16 (8.08%) AWS CloudFormation
11 13 (6.57%) OpenShift
12 12 (6.06%) SaaS
13 7 (3.54%) Amazon ECS
14 6 (3.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 6 (3.03%) Serverless
15 5 (2.53%) AWS CodePipeline
15 5 (2.53%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.03%) DNS
2 5 (2.53%) HTTP
3 2 (1.01%) WAN
4 1 (0.51%) Internet
4 1 (0.51%) Network Security
4 1 (0.51%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.51%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.51%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (19.19%) Amazon RDS
2 13 (6.57%) SQL Server
3 5 (2.53%) Relational Database
4 3 (1.52%) InfluxDB
5 2 (1.01%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.01%) MySQL
5 2 (1.01%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.51%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.51%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.51%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 19 (9.60%) JIRA
2 17 (8.59%) GitLab
3 16 (8.08%) Git
4 14 (7.07%) IBM UrbanCode
5 13 (6.57%) CircleCI
5 13 (6.57%) Jenkins
6 4 (2.02%) git-flow
7 3 (1.52%) MSBuild
7 3 (1.52%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.52%) Subversion
7 3 (1.52%) Team Foundation Server
7 3 (1.52%) TeamCity
7 3 (1.52%) Visual Studio Team System
8 2 (1.01%) Artifactory
8 2 (1.01%) Gradle
9 1 (0.51%) Travis CI
General
1 59 (29.80%) Public Sector
2 39 (19.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 37 (18.69%) Social Skills
4 24 (12.12%) Finance
5 20 (10.10%) Banking
6 17 (8.59%) Aerospace
7 11 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (4.04%) Games
9 7 (3.54%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (2.53%) Analytical Skills
10 5 (2.53%) Law
11 3 (1.52%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.51%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.51%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.51%) Legal
12 1 (0.51%) Marketing
12 1 (0.51%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (5.56%) .NET
1 11 (5.56%) Node.js
2 6 (3.03%) YAML
3 5 (2.53%) AWS CDK
4 4 (2.02%) .NET Core
4 4 (2.02%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (2.02%) JSON
4 4 (2.02%) JWT
4 4 (2.02%) Lambda Expressions
4 4 (2.02%) React
4 4 (2.02%) RESTful
5 3 (1.52%) .NET Framework
6 2 (1.01%) ADO
6 2 (1.01%) Spring
6 2 (1.01%) Spring Boot
7 1 (0.51%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 36 (18.18%) Blockchain
1 36 (18.18%) e-Learning
1 36 (18.18%) Hybrid Cloud
2 27 (13.64%) Public Cloud
3 16 (8.08%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (4.04%) Cloud Native
5 5 (2.53%) Client/Server
5 5 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (2.53%) Online Games
6 4 (2.02%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (2.02%) Private Cloud
7 3 (1.52%) Mainframe
8 2 (1.01%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.01%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (1.01%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.51%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.51%) NHS
9 1 (0.51%) PKI
9 1 (0.51%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.51%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 58 (29.29%) Linux
2 31 (15.66%) Windows
3 7 (3.54%) Unix
4 3 (1.52%) CoreOS
4 3 (1.52%) zOS
5 2 (1.01%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.51%) VMS
6 1 (0.51%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 198 (100.00%) DevOps
2 110 (55.56%) CI/CD
3 107 (54.04%) Agile
4 82 (41.41%) Containerisation
5 69 (34.85%) Mentoring
6 68 (34.34%) Infrastructure as Code
7 47 (23.74%) Coaching
8 43 (21.72%) Observability
8 43 (21.72%) Test Automation
9 41 (20.71%) Artificial Intelligence
10 40 (20.20%) Secrets Management
11 39 (19.70%) Continuous Integration
12 26 (13.13%) Continuous Deployment
13 23 (11.62%) Scrum
14 22 (11.11%) Kanban
15 21 (10.61%) SDLC
16 20 (10.10%) Problem-Solving
16 20 (10.10%) Software Delivery
17 18 (9.09%) Actionable Insight
17 18 (9.09%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 31 (15.66%) PowerShell
2 20 (10.10%) C#
3 19 (9.60%) Python
4 15 (7.58%) SQL
5 12 (6.06%) Bash
6 11 (5.56%) Groovy
7 6 (3.03%) Java
7 6 (3.03%) JavaScript
8 4 (2.02%) Go
8 4 (2.02%) PHP
8 4 (2.02%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.01%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.51%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 26 (13.13%) Security Cleared
2 17 (8.59%) DV Cleared
3 11 (5.56%) Degree
4 6 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.52%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.01%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (1.01%) BC Cleared
6 2 (1.01%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.52%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.51%) SLA
System Software
1 74 (37.37%) Docker
2 7 (3.54%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (3.03%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.01%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.51%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.51%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 134 (67.68%) Terraform
2 129 (65.15%) Kubernetes
3 50 (25.25%) Prometheus
4 46 (23.23%) Ansible
5 21 (10.61%) Progress Chef
6 16 (8.08%) Grafana
7 6 (3.03%) Puppet
8 4 (2.02%) Istio
9 3 (1.52%) CA Endevor
10 2 (1.01%) Kibana
Vendors
1 47 (23.74%) IBM
2 36 (18.18%) Dynatrace
2 36 (18.18%) Red Hat
3 28 (14.14%) Microsoft
4 14 (7.07%) Google
5 10 (5.05%) Oracle
6 4 (2.02%) Splunk
7 3 (1.52%) Databricks
7 3 (1.52%) Veeam
8 2 (1.01%) VMware
9 1 (0.51%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.51%) PagerDuty
9 1 (0.51%) ScienceLogic
9 1 (0.51%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.51%) YouTube