DevOps Engineer Job Trends in Leicestershire

Development Operations Engineer
East Midlands > Leicestershire

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in Leicestershire is £68,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 December 2025.

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

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 61 48
Rank change year-on-year +14 -13 +15
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 2 4 10
As % of all permanent jobs in Leicestershire 0.39% 0.67% 2.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.43% 0.73% 2.67%
Number of salaries quoted 2 3 10
10th Percentile £65,950 £59,500 £50,225
25th Percentile £66,625 £62,500 £53,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,500 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.14% +16.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £69,625 £72,500 £66,563
90th Percentile £69,850 - £67,500
East Midlands median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Leicestershire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Leicestershire. 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 Leicestershire with a recognized job title 470 547 375
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.09% 91.47% 93.28%
Number of salaries quoted 313 261 278
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £33,750 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £49,990
Median % change year-on-year - -9.98% +11.09%
75th Percentile £59,000 £60,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £67,500
East Midlands median annual salary £42,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -15.00% - -

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicestershire

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 Leicestershire.

DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend in Leicestershire

DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in Leicestershire

Salary distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Leicestershire.

Salary distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Leicestershire

DevOps Engineer
Job Locations in Leicestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps Engineer within the Leicestershire region over the 6 months to 3 December 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
Leicester +4 2 £68,500 -2.14% 2
DevOps Engineer
East Midlands

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

For the 6 months to 3 December 2025, 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 Leicestershire region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Bash
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) IIS
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Node.js
2 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (50.00%) npm
2 1 (50.00%) NuGet
2 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (50.00%) React
2 1 (50.00%) SonarCloud
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Volume Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) YAML

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leicestershire 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 1 (50.00%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) npm
1 1 (50.00%) NuGet
1 1 (50.00%) SonarCloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) Node.js
1 1 (50.00%) React
1 1 (50.00%) YAML
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Volume Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) CrowdStrike