DevOps Jobs in the North East

DevOps
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North East requiring DevOps skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited DevOps over the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 34 33
Rank change year-on-year +3 -1 -9
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 49 95 101
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 6.27% 5.10% 8.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.98% 5.87% 8.26%
Number of salaries quoted 41 67 74
10th Percentile £35,000 £46,800 £27,938
25th Percentile £46,250 £51,250 £47,942
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £58,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.07% +5.45% +10.00%
75th Percentile £74,258 £73,125 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £78,340 £78,375
England median annual salary £72,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +10.77% -7.14% -

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 702 1,619 1,223
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 89.77% 86.86% 96.91%
Number of salaries quoted 380 1,318 590
10th Percentile £25,000 £27,962 £30,500
25th Percentile £26,500 £36,250 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £47,875
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -0.78% +12.65%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £61,250
90th Percentile £78,025 £75,772 £73,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in the North East

DevOps
Salary Trend in the North East

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

Salary trend for DevOps in the North East

DevOps
Salary Histogram in the North East

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps in the North East over the 6 months to 16 May 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 16 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 +6 38 £65,000 +13.04% 70
Durham +13 10 £69,384 -0.88% 2
Northumberland +2 1 - -
DevOps
England

DevOps
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (6.12%) Confluence
2 1 (2.04%) Apache
2 1 (2.04%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.04%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 32 (65.31%) Azure
2 26 (53.06%) AWS
3 8 (16.33%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (14.29%) GCP
5 6 (12.24%) OCI
6 4 (8.16%) dbt
6 4 (8.16%) Pulumi
6 4 (8.16%) SaaS
7 3 (6.12%) Amazon ECR
7 3 (6.12%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (6.12%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 3 (6.12%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 3 (6.12%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (6.12%) AWS CodeBuild
7 3 (6.12%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (6.12%) Sentry
8 2 (4.08%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (4.08%) GitHub
8 2 (4.08%) Power Platform
8 2 (4.08%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.16%) SAN
2 3 (6.12%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.04%) Broadband
3 1 (2.04%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (18.37%) SQL Server
2 4 (8.16%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (6.12%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (6.12%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (6.12%) Redis
4 1 (2.04%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (2.04%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (2.04%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (2.04%) BigQuery
4 1 (2.04%) Data Lake
4 1 (2.04%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.04%) RDBMS
4 1 (2.04%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (10.20%) Selenium
1 5 (10.20%) SonarQube
2 4 (8.16%) Bitbucket
2 4 (8.16%) GitLab
2 4 (8.16%) JIRA
3 3 (6.12%) Cucumber
3 3 (6.12%) Maven
3 3 (6.12%) Sonatype Nexus
3 3 (6.12%) TeamCity
4 2 (4.08%) Artifactory
4 2 (4.08%) Git
4 2 (4.08%) Jenkins
4 2 (4.08%) NUnit
4 2 (4.08%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (4.08%) SpecFlow
4 2 (4.08%) Visual Studio
5 1 (2.04%) CircleCI
5 1 (2.04%) Jaeger
General
1 13 (26.53%) Finance
1 13 (26.53%) Social Skills
2 7 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (6.12%) Advertising
3 3 (6.12%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (6.12%) Banking
4 2 (4.08%) Corporate Banking
4 2 (4.08%) Investment Banking
4 2 (4.08%) Law
4 2 (4.08%) Legal
4 2 (4.08%) Retail
5 1 (2.04%) Games
Job Titles
1 12 (24.49%) Senior
2 11 (22.45%) Architect
3 10 (20.41%) Software Engineer
4 6 (12.24%) DevOps Engineer
4 6 (12.24%) Infrastructure Architect
5 5 (10.20%) Lead
6 4 (8.16%) Cloud Architect
6 4 (8.16%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
6 4 (8.16%) Developer
6 4 (8.16%) Senior Software Engineer
7 3 (6.12%) Security Architect
7 3 (6.12%) Site Engineer
7 3 (6.12%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 2 (4.08%) Cloud Engineer
8 2 (4.08%) DBA
8 2 (4.08%) Full-Stack Developer
8 2 (4.08%) Junior DevOps
8 2 (4.08%) Junior DevOps Engineer
8 2 (4.08%) Security Engineer
8 2 (4.08%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (24.49%) .NET
2 5 (10.20%) AngularJS
3 4 (8.16%) .NET Framework
3 4 (8.16%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (8.16%) Kafka
3 4 (8.16%) React
3 4 (8.16%) REST
4 3 (6.12%) CSS
4 3 (6.12%) Django
4 3 (6.12%) HTML
4 3 (6.12%) JPA
4 3 (6.12%) Node.js
4 3 (6.12%) Redux
4 3 (6.12%) RESTful
4 3 (6.12%) Spring
4 3 (6.12%) Spring Boot
5 2 (4.08%) .NET Core
5 2 (4.08%) CSS3
5 2 (4.08%) Jest
5 2 (4.08%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.24%) Data Centre
1 6 (12.24%) Greenfield Project
1 6 (12.24%) Operational Technology
1 6 (12.24%) SCADA
2 4 (8.16%) Product Ownership
2 4 (8.16%) Renewable Energy
3 3 (6.12%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (6.12%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (4.08%) Management Information System
4 2 (4.08%) Security Posture
5 1 (2.04%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.04%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (2.04%) Cyber Security Posture
5 1 (2.04%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 16 (32.65%) Linux
2 12 (24.49%) Windows
3 4 (8.16%) Unix
4 1 (2.04%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (61.22%) Agile
2 22 (44.90%) CI/CD
3 15 (30.61%) Software Engineering
4 10 (20.41%) Containerisation
4 10 (20.41%) Full-Stack Development
4 10 (20.41%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (18.37%) Mentoring
5 9 (18.37%) Roadmaps
5 9 (18.37%) SDLC
6 8 (16.33%) Infrastructure as Code
6 8 (16.33%) TOGAF
7 7 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
7 7 (14.29%) Fintech
7 7 (14.29%) Test Automation
8 6 (12.24%) Cloud Security
8 6 (12.24%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (12.24%) Microservices
8 6 (12.24%) Performance Optimisation
8 6 (12.24%) User Experience
9 5 (10.20%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 15 (30.61%) Java
1 15 (30.61%) Python
2 14 (28.57%) C#
3 9 (18.37%) JavaScript
4 8 (16.33%) SQL
5 7 (14.29%) PowerShell
5 7 (14.29%) TypeScript
6 2 (4.08%) Bash
7 1 (2.04%) Bicep
7 1 (2.04%) Go
7 1 (2.04%) Scala
Qualifications
1 9 (18.37%) Degree
2 8 (16.33%) TOGAF Certification
3 4 (8.16%) SC Cleared
3 4 (8.16%) Security Cleared
4 2 (4.08%) AWS Certification
4 2 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.04%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 1 (2.04%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.04%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (16.33%) QA
2 4 (8.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (6.12%) Accessibility
3 3 (6.12%) NCSC
4 1 (2.04%) GDPR
4 1 (2.04%) NIST
4 1 (2.04%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (24.49%) Docker
2 2 (4.08%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (4.08%) vSphere
3 1 (2.04%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (32.65%) Terraform
2 10 (20.41%) Kubernetes
3 5 (10.20%) Ansible
4 3 (6.12%) AWS Copilot
4 3 (6.12%) Docker Swarm
4 3 (6.12%) Grafana
5 1 (2.04%) Argo
5 1 (2.04%) Control-M
5 1 (2.04%) Kustomize
5 1 (2.04%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (18.37%) Microsoft
1 9 (18.37%) VMware
2 7 (14.29%) Oracle
3 4 (8.16%) Google
4 3 (6.12%) Solace
5 2 (4.08%) Atlassian
5 2 (4.08%) Nimble Storage
6 1 (2.04%) Databricks