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 £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 July 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 246 214
Rank change year-on-year +156 -32 -90
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 346 68 186
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.66% 0.72% 1.02%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.75% 0.82% 1.07%
Number of salaries quoted 293 53 103
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £48,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £53,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £74,870 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.50% +6.96% -6.67%

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 19,726 8,307 17,354
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.72% 88.19% 95.16%
Number of salaries quoted 14,355 4,458 13,056
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £27,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -7.41%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £88,148 £80,475 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% +3.77% -11.67%

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 16 July 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 16 July 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 +109 172 £70,000 +7.69% 23
North East +21 111 £60,000 - 14
Yorkshire +12 63 £80,000 +18.52% 7
DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 16 July 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.

1 346 (100.00%) DevOps
2 120 (34.68%) CI/CD
3 110 (31.79%) AWS
4 106 (30.64%) Terraform
5 91 (26.30%) Infrastructure as Code
6 88 (25.43%) Kubernetes
7 74 (21.39%) Platform Engineering
8 68 (19.65%) Azure
9 65 (18.79%) Security Cleared
10 58 (16.76%) Containerisation
10 58 (16.76%) Python
11 56 (16.18%) Ansible
12 55 (15.90%) Linux
13 54 (15.61%) Agile
14 50 (14.45%) Mentoring
15 43 (12.43%) SC Cleared
15 43 (12.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 40 (11.56%) Azure DevOps
16 40 (11.56%) Docker
17 39 (11.27%) Bash
17 39 (11.27%) GitLab
18 37 (10.69%) Jenkins
19 36 (10.40%) Continuous Integration
20 35 (10.12%) GitHub
21 33 (9.54%) Java
22 31 (8.96%) Coaching
22 31 (8.96%) Test Automation
23 28 (8.09%) DV Cleared
23 28 (8.09%) GCP
23 28 (8.09%) Windows

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 4 (1.16%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.29%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 110 (31.79%) AWS
2 68 (19.65%) Azure
3 40 (11.56%) Azure DevOps
4 35 (10.12%) GitHub
5 28 (8.09%) GCP
6 23 (6.65%) GitHub Actions
7 17 (4.91%) Azure AKS
8 13 (3.76%) Azure Service Bus
9 12 (3.47%) AWS CloudFormation
10 9 (2.60%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (2.02%) Serverless
12 5 (1.45%) Amazon EC2
13 4 (1.16%) Amazon S3
13 4 (1.16%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 4 (1.16%) Microsoft 365
13 4 (1.16%) OpenShift
14 3 (0.87%) AWS Lambda
14 3 (0.87%) Entra ID
14 3 (0.87%) Pulumi
14 3 (0.87%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.62%) Firewall
2 12 (3.47%) DNS
2 12 (3.47%) HTTP
2 12 (3.47%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.58%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (5.20%) MongoDB
1 18 (5.20%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (3.47%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.29%) Big Data
3 1 (0.29%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 39 (11.27%) GitLab
2 37 (10.69%) Jenkins
3 18 (5.20%) Git
4 14 (4.05%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 8 (2.31%) JIRA
6 7 (2.02%) Bitbucket
6 7 (2.02%) SonarQube
7 6 (1.73%) Artifactory
8 3 (0.87%) Cucumber
8 3 (0.87%) Octopus Deploy
8 3 (0.87%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 42 (12.14%) Public Sector
2 24 (6.94%) Social Skills
3 12 (3.47%) Law
3 12 (3.47%) Telecoms
4 6 (1.73%) Finance
5 3 (0.87%) Financial Institution
5 3 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (0.58%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (0.58%) Banking
7 1 (0.29%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.29%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (5.49%) Elastic Stack
2 15 (4.34%) YAML
3 14 (4.05%) Node.js
4 12 (3.47%) Spring
4 12 (3.47%) Spring Boot
5 9 (2.60%) .NET
6 6 (1.73%) ARM Templates
7 5 (1.45%) Kafka
8 4 (1.16%) RabbitMQ
9 3 (0.87%) JSON
9 3 (0.87%) REST
10 1 (0.29%) AWS CDK
10 1 (0.29%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 54 (15.61%) Cloud Native
2 4 (1.16%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (1.16%) Enterprise Cloud
2 4 (1.16%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (0.58%) Mobile App
3 2 (0.58%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (0.29%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (0.29%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (0.29%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 55 (15.90%) Linux
2 28 (8.09%) Windows
3 20 (5.78%) Unix
4 10 (2.89%) CentOS
4 10 (2.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.87%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.58%) Debian
6 2 (0.58%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 346 (100.00%) DevOps
2 120 (34.68%) CI/CD
3 91 (26.30%) Infrastructure as Code
4 74 (21.39%) Platform Engineering
5 58 (16.76%) Containerisation
6 54 (15.61%) Agile
7 50 (14.45%) Mentoring
8 43 (12.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 36 (10.40%) Continuous Integration
10 31 (8.96%) Coaching
10 31 (8.96%) Test Automation
11 27 (7.80%) Microservices
11 27 (7.80%) Scrum
12 23 (6.65%) Observability
13 19 (5.49%) Continuous Improvement
14 18 (5.20%) DevSecOps
14 18 (5.20%) Problem-Solving
15 15 (4.34%) Cybersecurity
15 15 (4.34%) Deployment Automation
16 14 (4.05%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 58 (16.76%) Python
2 39 (11.27%) Bash
3 33 (9.54%) Java
4 27 (7.80%) PowerShell
5 17 (4.91%) Go
6 11 (3.18%) Bicep
6 11 (3.18%) C#
7 4 (1.16%) Groovy
8 3 (0.87%) SQL
9 1 (0.29%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.29%) Perl
9 1 (0.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 65 (18.79%) Security Cleared
2 43 (12.43%) SC Cleared
3 28 (8.09%) DV Cleared
4 3 (0.87%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (0.87%) QA
System Software
1 40 (11.56%) Docker
2 5 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.16%) vSphere
4 2 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.29%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.29%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 106 (30.64%) Terraform
2 88 (25.43%) Kubernetes
3 56 (16.18%) Ansible
4 21 (6.07%) Grafana
5 20 (5.78%) Argo
6 18 (5.20%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.87%) Control-M
7 3 (0.87%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (0.87%) Packer
8 2 (0.58%) Istio
8 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.58%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.29%) Puppet
Vendors
1 18 (5.20%) Pega
2 16 (4.62%) Microsoft
3 9 (2.60%) Google
3 9 (2.60%) VMware
4 3 (0.87%) AppDynamics
4 3 (0.87%) Atlassian
4 3 (0.87%) IBM