DevOps Engineer Job Trends in the North of England

Development Operations Engineer
England > North of England

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in the North of England is £66,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 August 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 247 164
Rank change year-on-year +160 -83 -60
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 386 67 205
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.77% 0.70% 1.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.87% 0.79% 1.43%
Number of salaries quoted 320 53 97
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £48,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.31% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,840 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,250 £87,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £68,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +6.62% -9.33%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North of England. 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 of England with a recognized job title 20,678 8,475 14,328
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.74% 88.44% 95.04%
Number of salaries quoted 15,101 4,573 10,030
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £48,136 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.26% -3.73% -8.41%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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 the North of England.

DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend in the North of England

DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in the North of England.

Salary distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in the North of England

DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 6 August 2026.

Salary histogram for DevOps Engineer in the North of England

DevOps Engineer
Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 6 August 2026. 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
North West +119 191 £70,000 +15.70% 29
North East +36 133 £60,000 -4.00% 17
Yorkshire +18 62 £80,000 +14.29% 12
DevOps Engineer
England

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 6 August 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 North of England region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 386 (100.00%) DevOps
2 131 (33.94%) CI/CD
3 112 (29.02%) Terraform
4 111 (28.76%) AWS
5 104 (26.94%) Infrastructure as Code
6 97 (25.13%) Kubernetes
7 89 (23.06%) Platform Engineering
8 77 (19.95%) Security Cleared
9 73 (18.91%) Azure
10 62 (16.06%) Linux
11 61 (15.80%) Python
12 60 (15.54%) Containerisation
13 59 (15.28%) Agile
14 58 (15.03%) Ansible
15 50 (12.95%) Docker
16 49 (12.69%) Mentoring
16 49 (12.69%) SC Cleared
17 47 (12.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 45 (11.66%) GitLab
19 38 (9.84%) Jenkins
20 37 (9.59%) Azure DevOps
20 37 (9.59%) Bash
20 37 (9.59%) Java
21 36 (9.33%) DV Cleared
21 36 (9.33%) GitHub
22 34 (8.81%) Test Automation
23 33 (8.55%) Continuous Integration
24 32 (8.29%) Coaching
25 31 (8.03%) Observability
26 30 (7.77%) Microservices

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 3 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.26%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 4 (1.04%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 111 (28.76%) AWS
2 73 (18.91%) Azure
3 37 (9.59%) Azure DevOps
4 36 (9.33%) GitHub
5 23 (5.96%) GCP
6 21 (5.44%) GitHub Actions
7 16 (4.15%) AWS CloudFormation
7 16 (4.15%) Azure AKS
8 14 (3.63%) Serverless
9 13 (3.37%) Azure Service Bus
10 9 (2.33%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (1.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 7 (1.81%) Amazon EC2
11 7 (1.81%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (1.55%) Amazon S3
13 5 (1.30%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 4 (1.04%) Amazon ECS
14 4 (1.04%) Entra ID
14 4 (1.04%) OpenShift
14 4 (1.04%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.59%) Firewall
2 8 (2.07%) DNS
3 7 (1.81%) HTTP
3 7 (1.81%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.52%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (4.92%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (4.66%) MongoDB
3 13 (3.37%) SQL Server
4 3 (0.78%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.52%) DynamoDB
5 2 (0.52%) MySQL
5 2 (0.52%) Power BI
6 1 (0.26%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.26%) Big Data
6 1 (0.26%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.26%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 45 (11.66%) GitLab
2 38 (9.84%) Jenkins
3 24 (6.22%) Git
4 17 (4.40%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 9 (2.33%) SonarQube
6 8 (2.07%) JIRA
7 7 (1.81%) Bitbucket
8 6 (1.55%) Artifactory
9 4 (1.04%) TeamCity
10 3 (0.78%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.78%) Octopus Deploy
11 1 (0.26%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 45 (11.66%) Public Sector
2 29 (7.51%) Social Skills
3 8 (2.07%) Finance
4 7 (1.81%) Law
4 7 (1.81%) Telecoms
5 4 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (0.78%) Financial Institution
7 2 (0.52%) Banking
7 2 (0.52%) Marketing
8 1 (0.26%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.26%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (0.26%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (4.15%) .NET
1 16 (4.15%) Spring
1 16 (4.15%) Spring Boot
1 16 (4.15%) YAML
2 14 (3.63%) Elastic Stack
2 14 (3.63%) Node.js
3 7 (1.81%) ARM Templates
4 6 (1.55%) .NET Core
5 5 (1.30%) Kafka
6 4 (1.04%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (0.78%) AWS CDK
7 3 (0.78%) JSON
7 3 (0.78%) REST
8 1 (0.26%) OpenTelemetry
8 1 (0.26%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 66 (17.10%) Cloud Native
2 4 (1.04%) Enterprise Cloud
2 4 (1.04%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (0.78%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (0.78%) Private Cloud
4 2 (0.52%) Culture of Ownership
4 2 (0.52%) Onboarding
4 2 (0.52%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.26%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.26%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.26%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.26%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 62 (16.06%) Linux
2 29 (7.51%) Windows
3 20 (5.18%) Unix
4 13 (3.37%) CentOS
4 13 (3.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.78%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.52%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.26%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 386 (100.00%) DevOps
2 131 (33.94%) CI/CD
3 104 (26.94%) Infrastructure as Code
4 89 (23.06%) Platform Engineering
5 60 (15.54%) Containerisation
6 59 (15.28%) Agile
7 49 (12.69%) Mentoring
8 47 (12.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 34 (8.81%) Test Automation
10 33 (8.55%) Continuous Integration
11 32 (8.29%) Coaching
12 31 (8.03%) Observability
13 30 (7.77%) Microservices
14 28 (7.25%) Scrum
15 24 (6.22%) Continuous Improvement
16 20 (5.18%) Technical Leadership
17 19 (4.92%) Problem-Solving
18 17 (4.40%) Deployment Automation
19 15 (3.89%) Collaborative Engineering
19 15 (3.89%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 61 (15.80%) Python
2 37 (9.59%) Bash
2 37 (9.59%) Java
3 29 (7.51%) PowerShell
4 12 (3.11%) Bicep
4 12 (3.11%) C#
4 12 (3.11%) Go
5 4 (1.04%) Groovy
6 3 (0.78%) SQL
7 2 (0.52%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.26%) Perl
8 1 (0.26%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 77 (19.95%) Security Cleared
2 49 (12.69%) SC Cleared
3 36 (9.33%) DV Cleared
4 3 (0.78%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.04%) QA
System Software
1 50 (12.95%) Docker
2 5 (1.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.04%) vSphere
4 2 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.26%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.26%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 112 (29.02%) Terraform
2 97 (25.13%) Kubernetes
3 58 (15.03%) Ansible
4 20 (5.18%) Argo
5 17 (4.40%) Grafana
6 14 (3.63%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.78%) Control-M
7 3 (0.78%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (0.78%) Packer
8 2 (0.52%) Istio
8 2 (0.52%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.26%) Fluentd
9 1 (0.26%) Kibana
9 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.26%) Puppet
Vendors
1 18 (4.66%) Microsoft
1 18 (4.66%) Pega
2 10 (2.59%) Google
3 9 (2.33%) VMware
4 3 (0.78%) AppDynamics
4 3 (0.78%) Atlassian
4 3 (0.78%) IBM
5 2 (0.52%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.26%) Dynatrace