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 £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 22 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
22 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 194 133 97
Rank change year-on-year -61 -36 -42
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 203 451 602
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 1.15% 2.68% 3.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.21% 3.00% 3.43%
Number of salaries quoted 125 257 361
10th Percentile £48,250 £45,750 £40,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £69,447 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.60% +6.84% +13.04%
75th Percentile £72,433 £82,500 £77,500
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 16,822 15,055 17,564
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.99% 89.50% 96.24%
Number of salaries quoted 13,007 8,057 10,946
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,500 £27,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £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 £53,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.83% +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 22 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 22 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 -61 119 £60,000 -14.29% 30
Yorkshire -36 62 £66,732 -1.14% 11
North East -5 22 £57,500 -13.21% 4
DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 22 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.

1 203 (100.00%) DevOps
2 142 (69.95%) Terraform
3 137 (67.49%) AWS
4 131 (64.53%) Kubernetes
5 118 (58.13%) CI/CD
6 104 (51.23%) Agile
7 97 (47.78%) Azure
8 82 (40.39%) Containerisation
9 78 (38.42%) Docker
10 72 (35.47%) Infrastructure as Code
10 72 (35.47%) Mentoring
11 66 (32.51%) Public Sector
12 54 (26.60%) Linux
13 49 (24.14%) Ansible
14 48 (23.65%) Test Automation
15 47 (23.15%) IBM
15 47 (23.15%) Prometheus
16 45 (22.17%) Social Skills
17 44 (21.67%) Amazon EKS
17 44 (21.67%) Coaching
18 41 (20.20%) Azure DevOps
18 41 (20.20%) Artificial Intelligence
18 41 (20.20%) Observability
19 40 (19.70%) Secrets Management
19 40 (19.70%) GCP
20 39 (19.21%) OCI
20 39 (19.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
21 38 (18.72%) Amazon RDS
21 38 (18.72%) Continuous Integration
22 37 (18.23%) Amazon S3

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (0.49%) Apache
1 1 (0.49%) Confluence
1 1 (0.49%) Moodle
Cloud Services
1 137 (67.49%) AWS
2 97 (47.78%) Azure
3 44 (21.67%) Amazon EKS
4 41 (20.20%) Azure DevOps
5 40 (19.70%) GCP
6 39 (19.21%) OCI
7 37 (18.23%) Amazon S3
8 36 (17.73%) Amazon ECR
8 36 (17.73%) IBM Cloud
8 36 (17.73%) Route 53
9 31 (15.27%) GitHub
10 22 (10.84%) GitHub Actions
11 17 (8.37%) AWS CloudFormation
12 13 (6.40%) OpenShift
13 12 (5.91%) SaaS
14 7 (3.45%) Amazon ECS
15 6 (2.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 6 (2.96%) Serverless
16 5 (2.46%) AWS Lambda
16 5 (2.46%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.45%) DNS
2 5 (2.46%) HTTP
3 2 (0.99%) WAN
4 1 (0.49%) Internet
4 1 (0.49%) Network Security
4 1 (0.49%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.49%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.49%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (18.72%) Amazon RDS
2 14 (6.90%) SQL Server
3 5 (2.46%) Relational Database
4 3 (1.48%) MySQL
5 2 (0.99%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (0.99%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.99%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.49%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.49%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.49%) Flink
6 1 (0.49%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 23 (11.33%) JIRA
2 17 (8.37%) CircleCI
2 17 (8.37%) GitLab
3 14 (6.90%) Git
4 13 (6.40%) Jenkins
5 11 (5.42%) IBM UrbanCode
6 4 (1.97%) git-flow
7 3 (1.48%) MSBuild
7 3 (1.48%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.48%) Subversion
7 3 (1.48%) Team Foundation Server
7 3 (1.48%) TeamCity
7 3 (1.48%) Terragrunt
7 3 (1.48%) Visual Studio Team System
8 2 (0.99%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.99%) Gradle
9 1 (0.49%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.49%) Travis CI
General
1 66 (32.51%) Public Sector
2 45 (22.17%) Social Skills
3 39 (19.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 19 (9.36%) Finance
5 17 (8.37%) Aerospace
6 15 (7.39%) Banking
7 11 (5.42%) Presentation Skills
8 9 (4.43%) Games
8 9 (4.43%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (2.46%) Law
10 4 (1.97%) Analytical Skills
11 1 (0.49%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.49%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.49%) Legal
11 1 (0.49%) Marketing
11 1 (0.49%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (5.91%) Node.js
2 9 (4.43%) .NET
3 6 (2.96%) AWS CDK
4 4 (1.97%) JWT
4 4 (1.97%) Lambda Expressions
4 4 (1.97%) RESTful
4 4 (1.97%) YAML
5 3 (1.48%) .NET Framework
5 3 (1.48%) ARM Templates
6 2 (0.99%) .NET Core
6 2 (0.99%) ADO
6 2 (0.99%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (0.99%) JSON
6 2 (0.99%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (0.99%) React
6 2 (0.99%) Spring
6 2 (0.99%) Spring Boot
7 1 (0.49%) Apache NiFi
7 1 (0.49%) REST
7 1 (0.49%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 36 (17.73%) Blockchain
1 36 (17.73%) e-Learning
1 36 (17.73%) Hybrid Cloud
2 28 (13.79%) Public Cloud
3 18 (8.87%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (5.42%) Cloud Native
5 5 (2.46%) Client/Server
5 5 (2.46%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (2.46%) Online Games
5 5 (2.46%) Product Ownership
6 4 (1.97%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (1.97%) Private Cloud
7 2 (0.99%) Data Centre
7 2 (0.99%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (0.99%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (0.99%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.49%) NHS
8 1 (0.49%) PKI
8 1 (0.49%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.49%) VLE
Operating Systems
1 54 (26.60%) Linux
2 25 (12.32%) Windows
3 4 (1.97%) Unix
4 2 (0.99%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.49%) VMS
5 1 (0.49%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 203 (100.00%) DevOps
2 118 (58.13%) CI/CD
3 104 (51.23%) Agile
4 82 (40.39%) Containerisation
5 72 (35.47%) Infrastructure as Code
5 72 (35.47%) Mentoring
6 48 (23.65%) Test Automation
7 44 (21.67%) Coaching
8 41 (20.20%) Artificial Intelligence
8 41 (20.20%) Observability
9 40 (19.70%) Secrets Management
10 38 (18.72%) Continuous Integration
11 24 (11.82%) Continuous Deployment
12 23 (11.33%) Scrum
12 23 (11.33%) Software Delivery
13 21 (10.34%) Deployment Automation
14 20 (9.85%) Problem-Solving
14 20 (9.85%) SDLC
15 19 (9.36%) Kanban
16 18 (8.87%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 28 (13.79%) PowerShell
2 24 (11.82%) Python
3 20 (9.85%) C#
4 16 (7.88%) SQL
5 11 (5.42%) Groovy
6 9 (4.43%) JavaScript
7 8 (3.94%) Bash
8 7 (3.45%) Java
9 5 (2.46%) Go
10 4 (1.97%) PHP
10 4 (1.97%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.99%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.49%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 27 (13.30%) Security Cleared
2 17 (8.37%) DV Cleared
3 12 (5.91%) Degree
4 6 (2.96%) AWS Certification
4 6 (2.96%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.46%) SC Cleared
6 3 (1.48%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.99%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (0.99%) BC Cleared
8 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.48%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (0.49%) NIST
2 1 (0.49%) PCI DSS
2 1 (0.49%) SLA
System Software
1 78 (38.42%) Docker
2 7 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (2.96%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.99%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.49%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 142 (69.95%) Terraform
2 131 (64.53%) Kubernetes
3 49 (24.14%) Ansible
4 47 (23.15%) Prometheus
5 22 (10.84%) Progress Chef
6 13 (6.40%) Grafana
7 7 (3.45%) Puppet
8 2 (0.99%) Istio
8 2 (0.99%) Kibana
9 1 (0.49%) yum
Vendors
1 47 (23.15%) IBM
2 36 (17.73%) Dynatrace
2 36 (17.73%) Red Hat
3 29 (14.29%) Microsoft
4 11 (5.42%) Google
5 10 (4.93%) Oracle
6 5 (2.46%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.97%) Splunk
8 3 (1.48%) Black Duck
8 3 (1.48%) Databricks
8 3 (1.48%) Veeam
9 2 (0.99%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.99%) VMware
10 1 (0.49%) Blackboard
10 1 (0.49%) PagerDuty
10 1 (0.49%) ScienceLogic
10 1 (0.49%) Talend
10 1 (0.49%) YouTube