DevOps Engineer Job Trends in Liverpool

Development Operations Engineer
Merseyside > Liverpool

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in Liverpool is £65,000 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 55 - 47
Rank change year-on-year - - +28
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 1 0 5
As % of all permanent jobs in Liverpool 0.20% - 1.04%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% - 1.10%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £55,500
25th Percentile £62,500 - £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 - £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -11.54%
75th Percentile £67,500 - £58,750
90th Percentile - - £59,500
Merseyside median annual salary £65,000 - £57,500
% change year-on-year - - -11.54%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Liverpool

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Liverpool. 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 Liverpool with a recognized job title 460 348 453
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.31% 90.16% 94.38%
Number of salaries quoted 274 200 334
10th Percentile £27,650 £31,250 £29,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £32,188 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £46,000 £47,250
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -2.65% -0.53%
75th Percentile £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,025 £77,500
Merseyside median annual salary £41,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -8.89% - -5.26%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Liverpool

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 Liverpool.

DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend in Liverpool

DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in Liverpool

Salary distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Liverpool.

Salary distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Liverpool

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 28 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Liverpool

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 Liverpool region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Argo
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) git-flow
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) GitOps
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) nginx
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) Trunk-Based Development

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Liverpool 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 (100.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) git-flow
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
1 1 (100.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GitOps
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Trunk-Based Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Argo
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform