DevOps Engineer Job Trends in Leicester

Development Operations Engineer
Leicestershire > Leicester

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in Leicester is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 January 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 30 36
Rank change year-on-year +3 +6 +12
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 12 3 13
As % of all permanent jobs in Leicester 3.54% 1.61% 4.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.77% 1.76% 4.50%
Number of salaries quoted 10 3 13
10th Percentile £65,725 £59,500 £50,500
25th Percentile £67,375 £62,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +16.67% -21.31%
75th Percentile - £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile - - -
Leicestershire median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +16.67% -7.69%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Leicester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Leicester. 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 Leicester with a recognized job title 318 170 289
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.81% 91.40% 95.70%
Number of salaries quoted 246 99 248
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,950 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,875 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.89% +1.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £77,100 £67,500
Leicestershire median annual salary £45,000 £43,750 £49,990
% change year-on-year +2.86% -12.48% +8.09%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicester

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 Leicester.

DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend in Leicester

DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in Leicester

Salary distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Leicester.

Salary distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Leicester

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leicester

For the 6 months to 13 January 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 Leicester region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 12 (100.00%) DevOps
2 7 (58.33%) Azure
3 3 (25.00%) .NET
3 3 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (25.00%) Bash
3 3 (25.00%) C#
3 3 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (25.00%) CrowdStrike
3 3 (25.00%) DevSecOps
3 3 (25.00%) Docker
3 3 (25.00%) Git
3 3 (25.00%) IIS
3 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 3 (25.00%) Linux
3 3 (25.00%) Microservices
3 3 (25.00%) Node.js
3 3 (25.00%) NoSQL
3 3 (25.00%) npm
3 3 (25.00%) NuGet
3 3 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 3 (25.00%) React
3 3 (25.00%) SonarCloud
3 3 (25.00%) Terraform
3 3 (25.00%) Windows
3 3 (25.00%) YAML
4 2 (16.67%) .NET Core
4 2 (16.67%) .NET Framework
4 2 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (16.67%) Migration

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

Application Platforms
1 3 (25.00%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 7 (58.33%) Azure
2 3 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (25.00%) npm
2 3 (25.00%) NuGet
2 3 (25.00%) SonarCloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Git
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) .NET
1 3 (25.00%) Node.js
1 3 (25.00%) React
1 3 (25.00%) YAML
2 2 (16.67%) .NET Core
2 2 (16.67%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (25.00%) Linux
1 3 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (25.00%) DevSecOps
2 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (25.00%) Microservices
3 2 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (16.67%) Migration
3 2 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (16.67%) Test Automation
4 1 (8.33%) Agile
4 1 (8.33%) Containerisation
4 1 (8.33%) Volume Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) Bash
1 3 (25.00%) C#
1 3 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (8.33%) SQL
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) CrowdStrike