DevOps Engineer Jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne

Development Operations Engineer
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in Newcastle upon Tyne is £57,500 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 38 73 72
Rank change year-on-year +35 -1 -30
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 4 12 16
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 1.28% 1.18% 2.04%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.35% 1.21% 2.41%
Number of salaries quoted 3 6 16
10th Percentile £45,050 £50,625 £38,688
25th Percentile £45,500 £52,500 £46,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £75,625 £59,375 £74,375
90th Percentile £79,750 £60,625 £84,375
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £57,500 £56,250 £66,250
% change year-on-year +2.22% -15.09% +6.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Newcastle upon Tyne

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Newcastle upon Tyne. 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 Newcastle upon Tyne with a recognized job title 296 993 665
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.87% 97.45% 84.82%
Number of salaries quoted 227 836 411
10th Percentile £29,400 £30,000 £31,875
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,400 £41,058
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.95% -13.64% +12.54%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £75,000
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +16.67%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in Newcastle upon Tyne

DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DevOps Engineer in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Salary trend for DevOps Engineer in Newcastle upon Tyne

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne

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 Newcastle upon Tyne region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
1 4 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Docker Swarm
2 3 (75.00%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (75.00%) Terraform
2 3 (75.00%) Grafana
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (75.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (75.00%) Ansible
2 3 (75.00%) Docker
2 3 (75.00%) TeamCity
2 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) VMware
2 3 (75.00%) Linux
2 3 (75.00%) Python
2 3 (75.00%) C#
2 3 (75.00%) Java
3 2 (50.00%) SAN
3 2 (50.00%) Degree
3 2 (50.00%) Advertising
3 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (50.00%) Atlassian
3 2 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (50.00%) AWS

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) GCP
3 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) TeamCity
2 2 (50.00%) Artifactory
2 2 (50.00%) Octopus Deploy
2 2 (50.00%) SonarQube
3 1 (25.00%) Bitbucket
3 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Advertising
2 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (25.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
2 3 (75.00%) Linux
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (25.00%) Analytics
4 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
4 1 (25.00%) Fintech
4 1 (25.00%) Log Analytics
4 1 (25.00%) Migration
4 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (25.00%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (75.00%) C#
2 3 (75.00%) Java
2 3 (75.00%) Python
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
2 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (50.00%) vSphere
3 1 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Ansible
1 3 (75.00%) Docker Swarm
1 3 (75.00%) Grafana
1 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) Control-M
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (75.00%) VMware
3 2 (50.00%) Atlassian