DevOps Engineer Job Trends in Lancaster

Development Operations Engineer
Lancashire > Lancaster

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in Lancaster is £57,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 29 May 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Lancaster 0.86% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.89% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 - -
75th Percentile £63,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Lancashire median annual salary £69,310 £60,500 £85,000
% change year-on-year +14.56% -28.82% +47.83%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Lancaster

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Lancaster. 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 Lancaster with a recognized job title 112 30 117
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.55% 88.24% 99.15%
Number of salaries quoted 58 29 112
10th Percentile £31,746 £32,110 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,442 £42,384 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.14% -0.27% -14.14%
75th Percentile £53,750 £53,093 £52,540
90th Percentile £57,276 £54,300 £62,025
Lancashire median annual salary £45,000 £50,055 £45,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +11.23% -5.26%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancaster

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'DevOps Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Lancaster.

DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend in Lancaster

DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in Lancaster

Salary distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Lancaster.

Salary distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Lancaster

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 21 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Lancaster

For the 6 months to 29 May 2026, DevOps Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Lancaster region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Argo
1 1 (100.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GitOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Lancaster 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (100.00%) Bitbucket
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GitOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Argo
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes