DevOps Job Trends in County Down

DevOps
Northern Ireland > County Down

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in County Down requiring DevOps skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 7 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in County Down 4.05% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.93% - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - -
Northern Ireland median annual salary £73,151 £80,000 £75,150
% change year-on-year -8.56% +6.45% +3.66%

All Process & Methodology Skills
County Down

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 County Down.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 142 17 17
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in County Down 82.08% 100.00% 100.00%
Number of salaries quoted 13 8 8
10th Percentile £54,250 - £27,000
25th Percentile - £32,851 £33,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,426 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.32% +63.80% -21.05%
75th Percentile £70,000 £90,000 £48,750
90th Percentile - - £54,375
Northern Ireland median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% - +10.00%

DevOps
Job Locations in County Down

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps within the County Down region over the 6 months to 3 July 2026. 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
Donaghadee - 1 - -
Downpatrick - 1 - -
DevOps
Northern Ireland

DevOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in County Down by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) SaaS
2 5 (71.43%) AWS
2 5 (71.43%) Azure
General
1 7 (100.00%) Law
2 2 (28.57%) Legal
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) IT Manager
1 5 (71.43%) IT Services Manager
1 5 (71.43%) Resilience Manager
1 5 (71.43%) Service Manager
2 2 (28.57%) Senior
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Manager
2 2 (28.57%) Testing Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (71.43%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (28.57%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 7 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 7 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 7 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (71.43%) Agile
2 5 (71.43%) Business Continuity
2 5 (71.43%) Business Continuity Management
2 5 (71.43%) Contingency Planning
2 5 (71.43%) Contract Negotiation
2 5 (71.43%) Disaster Recovery
2 5 (71.43%) Graceful Degradation
2 5 (71.43%) Information Security
2 5 (71.43%) ITIL
2 5 (71.43%) Programme Delivery
2 5 (71.43%) Runbook
2 5 (71.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 5 (71.43%) Waterfall
3 2 (28.57%) Data Management
3 2 (28.57%) IT Strategy
3 2 (28.57%) Virtual Team Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) C#
1 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
1 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
1 2 (28.57%) Python
1 2 (28.57%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) CISM
1 5 (71.43%) CISSP
1 5 (71.43%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (71.43%) ISO 22301
1 5 (71.43%) NIST
2 2 (28.57%) QA