DevOps Jobs in Durham

DevOps
North East > Durham

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Durham 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 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 39 32
Rank change year-on-year +15 -7 +11
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 10 13 21
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Durham 4.13% 3.04% 6.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.05% 3.51% 6.84%
Number of salaries quoted 10 9 14
10th Percentile £26,700 £55,675 -
25th Percentile £53,627 £63,750 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,384 £70,000 £27,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.88% +154.55% +71.88%
75th Percentile £74,258 £75,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £74,657 £75,920 -
North East median annual salary £65,000 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +12.07% +5.45% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Durham

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 Durham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 198 370 307
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Durham 81.82% 86.65% 97.77%
Number of salaries quoted 61 261 125
10th Percentile £23,504 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £25,087 £32,500 £33,064
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £45,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.78% +12.50% +6.01%
75th Percentile £51,250 £58,750 £52,500
90th Percentile £74,258 £70,000 £61,700
North East median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £48,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% -1.04% +12.94%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Durham

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in Durham

DevOps
Salary Trend in Durham

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

Salary trend for DevOps in Durham

DevOps
Salary Histogram in Durham

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps in Durham over the 6 months to 11 May 2025.

Salary histogram for DevOps in Durham

DevOps
Job Locations in Durham

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps within the Durham region over the 6 months to 11 May 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
Darlington +11 6 £69,384 -7.98%
Billingham - 2 £28,000 - 1
DevOps
North East

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Durham 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 7 (70.00%) Azure
2 6 (60.00%) AWS
3 3 (30.00%) Amazon ECR
3 3 (30.00%) Amazon ECS
3 3 (30.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
3 3 (30.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 3 (30.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (30.00%) AWS CodeBuild
3 3 (30.00%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (30.00%) dbt
3 3 (30.00%) GCP
3 3 (30.00%) Pulumi
3 3 (30.00%) Sentry
4 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (30.00%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (30.00%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (30.00%) Redis
General
1 10 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (10.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Senior
2 3 (30.00%) Site Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Architect
3 2 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Junior
3 2 (20.00%) Junior DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) Junior DevOps Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Platform Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Digital Product Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Lead
4 1 (10.00%) Lead Cloud Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) Django
2 1 (10.00%) .NET
2 1 (10.00%) .NET Core
2 1 (10.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (10.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (10.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (60.00%) Linux
2 3 (30.00%) Unix
3 2 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (60.00%) Agile
3 4 (40.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 4 (40.00%) Roadmaps
4 3 (30.00%) Application Performance Monitoring
4 3 (30.00%) Clean Code
4 3 (30.00%) Containerisation
4 3 (30.00%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (30.00%) Observability
4 3 (30.00%) Open Source
4 3 (30.00%) Performance Monitoring
4 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (30.00%) Prototyping
4 3 (30.00%) Service-Level Objective
4 3 (30.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 3 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (20.00%) ERP
5 2 (20.00%) Microservices
5 2 (20.00%) Migration
5 2 (20.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) Python
2 1 (10.00%) Bash
2 1 (10.00%) Bicep
2 1 (10.00%) C#
2 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) TOGAF Certification
3 1 (10.00%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) Terraform
2 3 (30.00%) AWS Copilot
3 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Google