DevOps Engineer Jobs in the North East

Development Operations Engineer
England > North East

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in the North East is £56,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 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
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 96 95
Rank change year-on-year +30 -1 -19
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 6 22 19
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 0.79% 1.18% 1.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.87% 1.24% 1.87%
Number of salaries quoted 5 16 18
10th Percentile £26,450 £50,625 £39,913
25th Percentile £26,750 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £57,500 £66,250
Median % change year-on-year -1.74% -13.21% +6.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £76,563 £78,750
90th Percentile £77,000 £77,500 £82,625
England median annual salary £80,000 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -6.67% +3.45%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North East. 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 the North East with a recognized job title 692 1,778 1,016
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.05% 95.59% 80.06%
Number of salaries quoted 388 1,432 600
10th Percentile £25,000 £27,500 £30,733
25th Percentile £28,375 £35,920 £37,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £47,672
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -0.36% +19.18%
75th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,675 £72,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in the North East

DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in the North East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DevOps Engineer in the North East.

Salary trend for DevOps Engineer in the North East

DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North East

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in the North East over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

Salary histogram for DevOps Engineer in the North East

DevOps Engineer
Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps Engineer within the North East region over the 6 months to 12 May 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
Tyne and Wear +20 4 £57,500 - 6
Durham +16 2 £28,000 -51.30%
DevOps Engineer
England

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East

For the 6 months to 12 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 North East region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Windows
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 5 (83.33%) Linux
3 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
3 4 (66.67%) AWS
3 4 (66.67%) Finance
3 4 (66.67%) PowerShell
3 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
4 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (50.00%) Docker Swarm
4 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (50.00%) Terraform
4 3 (50.00%) Grafana
4 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
4 3 (50.00%) TeamCity
4 3 (50.00%) Azure
4 3 (50.00%) Ansible
4 3 (50.00%) Docker
4 3 (50.00%) SQL Server
4 3 (50.00%) Migration
4 3 (50.00%) VMware
4 3 (50.00%) Python
4 3 (50.00%) C#
4 3 (50.00%) Java
5 2 (33.33%) ERP
5 2 (33.33%) Agile
5 2 (33.33%) Degree
5 2 (33.33%) SAN

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 4 (66.67%) AWS
2 3 (50.00%) Azure
3 2 (33.33%) GCP
4 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) TeamCity
2 2 (33.33%) Artifactory
2 2 (33.33%) Octopus Deploy
2 2 (33.33%) SonarQube
3 1 (16.67%) Bitbucket
3 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 4 (66.67%) Finance
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (16.67%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
2 5 (83.33%) Linux
3 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (50.00%) Migration
2 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (33.33%) ERP
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
3 2 (33.33%) Server Management
4 1 (16.67%) Analytics
4 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security
4 1 (16.67%) Fintech
4 1 (16.67%) Log Analytics
4 1 (16.67%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 3 (50.00%) C#
2 3 (50.00%) Java
2 3 (50.00%) Python
3 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Docker
2 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (33.33%) vSphere
3 1 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Ansible
1 3 (50.00%) Docker Swarm
1 3 (50.00%) Grafana
1 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (16.67%) Control-M
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (50.00%) VMware
3 2 (33.33%) Atlassian