DevOps Job Trends in the North East

DevOps
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North East requiring DevOps skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 27 11
Rank change year-on-year -2 -16 +4
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 59 80 58
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 5.40% 6.13% 11.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.61% 7.77% 11.79%
Number of salaries quoted 48 38 55
10th Percentile £31,250 £49,475 £47,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £51,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,965 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.43% -3.39% -11.11%
75th Percentile £75,625 £74,144 £69,800
90th Percentile £82,318 £86,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,000

All Process and Methodology Skills
North East

DevOps falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the North East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 893 1,030 492
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 81.70% 78.93% 94.98%
Number of salaries quoted 585 504 409
10th Percentile £25,087 £25,002 £28,681
25th Percentile £28,250 £36,250 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,000 £49,285 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.72% -1.43% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing DevOps relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North East.

DevOps job vacancy trend in the North East

DevOps
Salary Trend in the North East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing DevOps.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing DevOps

DevOps
Salary Histogram in the North East

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps in the North East over the 6 months to 7 November 2025.

Salary histogram for DevOps in the North East

DevOps
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 within the North East region over the 6 months to 7 November 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 +5 48 £50,000 -9.09% 47
Durham -7 11 £73,801 +6.48% 4
DevOps
England

DevOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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 (1.69%) Apache Spark
1 1 (1.69%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (5.08%) Siemens NX
2 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.69%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (5.08%) Teamcenter
2 2 (3.39%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (1.69%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 42 (71.19%) Azure
2 26 (44.07%) AWS
3 15 (25.42%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (15.25%) GCP
5 7 (11.86%) GitHub
5 7 (11.86%) SaaS
6 6 (10.17%) PaaS
7 4 (6.78%) dbt
8 3 (5.08%) Amazon ECR
8 3 (5.08%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (5.08%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (5.08%) Pulumi
8 3 (5.08%) Serverless
9 2 (3.39%) Amazon ElastiCache
9 2 (3.39%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 2 (3.39%) Azure AKS
9 2 (3.39%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (3.39%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (3.39%) IaaS
9 2 (3.39%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.08%) SAN
1 3 (5.08%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (18.64%) SQL Server
2 4 (6.78%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (6.78%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (5.08%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (5.08%) Redis
4 1 (1.69%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.69%) Data Mining
4 1 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.69%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.69%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 4 (6.78%) Bitbucket
1 4 (6.78%) JIRA
1 4 (6.78%) SonarQube
2 3 (5.08%) Artifactory
2 3 (5.08%) Cucumber
2 3 (5.08%) GitLab
2 3 (5.08%) Octopus Deploy
2 3 (5.08%) TeamCity
3 2 (3.39%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.39%) Selenium
4 1 (1.69%) Git
4 1 (1.69%) JMeter
4 1 (1.69%) JUnit
4 1 (1.69%) Locust
4 1 (1.69%) Maven
4 1 (1.69%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 16 (27.12%) Social Skills
2 6 (10.17%) Finance
3 4 (6.78%) Electronics
4 3 (5.08%) Advertising
4 3 (5.08%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (5.08%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (3.39%) Back Office
5 2 (3.39%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (3.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.69%) Banking
6 1 (1.69%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (1.69%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.69%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.69%) Retail
6 1 (1.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (23.73%) Developer
2 13 (22.03%) Senior
3 11 (18.64%) DevOps Engineer
4 9 (15.25%) Lead
5 7 (11.86%) Full-Stack Developer
5 7 (11.86%) Software Engineer
6 6 (10.17%) Senior Software Engineer
7 5 (8.47%) .NET Developer
7 5 (8.47%) Lead DevOps
7 5 (8.47%) Lead DevOps Engineer
8 4 (6.78%) C# .NET Developer
8 4 (6.78%) C# Developer
8 4 (6.78%) Coordinator
8 4 (6.78%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
8 4 (6.78%) Full-Stack C# Developer
8 4 (6.78%) Project Coordinator
9 3 (5.08%) Administrator
9 3 (5.08%) Analyst
9 3 (5.08%) Architect
9 3 (5.08%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (32.20%) .NET
2 7 (11.86%) CSS
2 7 (11.86%) HTML
3 6 (10.17%) .NET Framework
3 6 (10.17%) AngularJS
4 4 (6.78%) Apache Cordova
4 4 (6.78%) Django
4 4 (6.78%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (5.08%) .NET Core
5 3 (5.08%) Blazor
5 3 (5.08%) Entity Framework
5 3 (5.08%) Itk
5 3 (5.08%) React
5 3 (5.08%) Spring
5 3 (5.08%) Spring Boot
6 2 (3.39%) CSS3
6 2 (3.39%) HTML5
6 2 (3.39%) Node.js
6 2 (3.39%) REST
6 2 (3.39%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (15.25%) Cloud Native
2 6 (10.17%) Mobile App
3 5 (8.47%) Greenfield Project
3 5 (8.47%) Renewable Energy
4 4 (6.78%) Product Ownership
5 2 (3.39%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (3.39%) NHS
6 1 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.69%) EPoS
6 1 (1.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.69%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.69%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 7 (11.86%) Linux
2 6 (10.17%) Windows
3 4 (6.78%) Android
3 4 (6.78%) Apple iOS
4 3 (5.08%) Unix
4 3 (5.08%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (50.85%) Agile
2 25 (42.37%) CI/CD
3 16 (27.12%) Continuous Improvement
4 15 (25.42%) Full-Stack Development
4 15 (25.42%) Roadmaps
5 14 (23.73%) Mentoring
6 13 (22.03%) Infrastructure as Code
7 12 (20.34%) User Experience
8 10 (16.95%) Containerisation
8 10 (16.95%) Software Engineering
9 9 (15.25%) Computer Science
9 9 (15.25%) Microservices
10 8 (13.56%) Problem-Solving
11 7 (11.86%) Change Management
11 7 (11.86%) Clean Code
11 7 (11.86%) Test Automation
12 6 (10.17%) Cybersecurity
12 6 (10.17%) Product Roadmap
13 5 (8.47%) Observability
13 5 (8.47%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 20 (33.90%) Python
2 18 (30.51%) C#
3 14 (23.73%) Java
4 9 (15.25%) PowerShell
4 9 (15.25%) SQL
5 8 (13.56%) TypeScript
6 7 (11.86%) JavaScript
7 4 (6.78%) XAML
8 3 (5.08%) Tcl
9 2 (3.39%) Bash
9 2 (3.39%) Bicep
9 2 (3.39%) C
10 1 (1.69%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 9 (15.25%) Security Cleared
2 8 (13.56%) Degree
3 7 (11.86%) SC Cleared
4 5 (8.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (5.08%) HNC
5 3 (5.08%) HND
6 2 (3.39%) Azure Certification
6 2 (3.39%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (3.39%) PMI Certification
6 2 (3.39%) PMP
7 1 (1.69%) CSPO
7 1 (1.69%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.69%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.47%) QA
2 4 (6.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (6.78%) PMO
3 2 (3.39%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.39%) ISO 9001
3 2 (3.39%) NCSC
4 1 (1.69%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (20.34%) Docker
2 6 (10.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (5.08%) Hyper-V
3 3 (5.08%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (23.73%) Terraform
2 13 (22.03%) Kubernetes
3 6 (10.17%) Grafana
4 5 (8.47%) Ansible
5 3 (5.08%) Control-M
5 3 (5.08%) Docker Swarm
6 2 (3.39%) AWS Copilot
7 1 (1.69%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 14 (23.73%) Microsoft
2 7 (11.86%) Google
3 6 (10.17%) VMware
4 3 (5.08%) Atlassian
4 3 (5.08%) Siemens
5 1 (1.69%) Oracle
5 1 (1.69%) Solace