DevOps Engineer Jobs in Leeds

Development Operations Engineer
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in Leeds is £58,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 4 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 99 76
Rank change year-on-year +29 -23 -7
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 11 34 120
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 1.42% 1.51% 3.96%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.51% 1.57% 4.16%
Number of salaries quoted 8 30 67
10th Percentile £47,650 £43,750 £52,500
25th Percentile £48,250 £48,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £68,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.60% +4.62% -7.14%
75th Percentile £69,500 £72,433 £87,500
90th Percentile £71,150 £87,500 £92,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £68,000 £68,000 £63,750
% change year-on-year - +6.67% -8.93%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Leeds

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Leeds. 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 Leeds with a recognized job title 728 2,167 2,886
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.81% 96.01% 95.22%
Number of salaries quoted 506 1,568 1,734
10th Percentile £28,813 £31,250 £32,044
25th Percentile £40,013 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,250 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.24% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £69,936 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £84,315 £86,250
West Yorkshire median annual salary £57,250 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +14.50% -9.09% +4.76%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in Leeds

DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in Leeds

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

Salary trend for DevOps Engineer in Leeds

DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram in Leeds

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in Leeds over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Salary histogram for DevOps Engineer in Leeds

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds

For the 6 months to 4 May 2025, 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 Leeds region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 11 (100.00%) DevOps
1 11 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 10 (90.91%) Azure
2 10 (90.91%) AWS
3 9 (81.82%) GCP
3 9 (81.82%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (72.73%) Kubernetes
4 8 (72.73%) Terraform
5 7 (63.64%) Public Cloud
5 7 (63.64%) Docker
5 7 (63.64%) GitHub
5 7 (63.64%) Containerisation
5 7 (63.64%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (63.64%) Social Skills
5 7 (63.64%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (54.55%) Public Sector
6 6 (54.55%) CircleCI
6 6 (54.55%) Deployment Automation
7 5 (45.45%) Test Automation
8 3 (27.27%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (27.27%) Mentoring
8 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
8 3 (27.27%) Open Source
8 3 (27.27%) Python
9 2 (18.18%) Software Engineering
9 2 (18.18%) Finance
9 2 (18.18%) Agile
9 2 (18.18%) Jenkins
9 2 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (18.18%) Continuous Deployment

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 (9.09%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 10 (90.91%) AWS
1 10 (90.91%) Azure
2 9 (81.82%) GCP
3 7 (63.64%) GitHub
3 7 (63.64%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (9.09%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 6 (54.55%) CircleCI
2 2 (18.18%) Jenkins
3 1 (9.09%) Git
3 1 (9.09%) GitLab
3 1 (9.09%) Gradle
3 1 (9.09%) JUnit
3 1 (9.09%) Maven
3 1 (9.09%) Selenium
3 1 (9.09%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (9.09%) Spinnaker
3 1 (9.09%) TestNG
General
1 7 (63.64%) Social Skills
2 6 (54.55%) Public Sector
3 3 (27.27%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (18.18%) Finance
5 1 (9.09%) Banking
5 1 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
Miscellaneous
1 7 (63.64%) Distributed Systems
1 7 (63.64%) Public Cloud
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 1 (9.09%) Credit Risk
2 1 (9.09%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (9.09%) Market Risk
2 1 (9.09%) Private Cloud
2 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
1 1 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 11 (100.00%) DevOps
2 9 (81.82%) Infrastructure as Code
3 7 (63.64%) Containerisation
4 6 (54.55%) Deployment Automation
5 5 (45.45%) Test Automation
6 3 (27.27%) Mentoring
6 3 (27.27%) Open Source
6 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (18.18%) Agile
7 2 (18.18%) Continuous Deployment
7 2 (18.18%) Software Engineering
8 1 (9.09%) Cloud Security
8 1 (9.09%) Collaborative Working
8 1 (9.09%) Data Management
8 1 (9.09%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 1 (9.09%) End-to-End Testing
8 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Automation
8 1 (9.09%) Regulatory Compliance
8 1 (9.09%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) Python
2 1 (9.09%) Go
2 1 (9.09%) Java
2 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) Basel III
1 1 (9.09%) GDPR
1 1 (9.09%) IFRS
1 1 (9.09%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 7 (63.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (72.73%) Kubernetes
1 8 (72.73%) Terraform
2 1 (9.09%) Grafana
2 1 (9.09%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Dynatrace
1 1 (9.09%) VMware