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 £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 7 January 2026.

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

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 209 179 122
Rank change year-on-year -30 -57 +45
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 56 100 186
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.52% 1.08% 2.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.59% 1.15% 2.41%
Number of salaries quoted 49 45 164
10th Percentile £46,200 £46,150 £49,125
25th Percentile £55,000 £48,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -7.90% +4.56%
75th Percentile £82,500 £69,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £88,000 £74,600 £92,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -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 9,475 8,687 7,704
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 88.61% 94.02% 95.79%
Number of salaries quoted 5,467 4,136 6,105
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,055 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% +0.11% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £82,300
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -2.04%

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 7 January 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 7 January 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 -7 27 £67,500 +22.73% 18
Yorkshire -27 20 £70,000 +2.94% 23
North East +9 9 £82,500 -2.94% 19
DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 7 January 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 56 (100.00%) DevOps
2 39 (69.64%) AWS
2 39 (69.64%) CI/CD
2 39 (69.64%) Terraform
3 33 (58.93%) Infrastructure as Code
3 33 (58.93%) Kubernetes
4 32 (57.14%) Azure
5 27 (48.21%) Docker
6 25 (44.64%) Grafana
7 24 (42.86%) Ansible
8 23 (41.07%) Agile
8 23 (41.07%) Observability
9 22 (39.29%) Prometheus
10 20 (35.71%) Containerisation
10 20 (35.71%) GCP
11 19 (33.93%) GitLab
11 19 (33.93%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 16 (28.57%) Jenkins
13 14 (25.00%) Python
14 13 (23.21%) Incident Response
14 13 (23.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 12 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
16 11 (19.64%) Azure DevOps
16 11 (19.64%) GitHub
16 11 (19.64%) Line Management
17 10 (17.86%) Bash
17 10 (17.86%) Linux
17 10 (17.86%) Performance Optimisation
18 9 (16.07%) Elastic Stack
18 9 (16.07%) GitHub Actions

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 1 (1.79%) Apache
1 1 (1.79%) IIS
1 1 (1.79%) JBoss
1 1 (1.79%) nginx
1 1 (1.79%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (1.79%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 39 (69.64%) AWS
2 32 (57.14%) Azure
3 20 (35.71%) GCP
4 11 (19.64%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (19.64%) GitHub
5 9 (16.07%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (8.93%) Amazon SQS
7 5 (8.93%) PaaS
8 4 (7.14%) OpenShift
9 3 (5.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (3.57%) Amazon S3
10 2 (3.57%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 2 (3.57%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (3.57%) Slack
11 1 (1.79%) Amazon ECS
11 1 (1.79%) Amazon EKS
11 1 (1.79%) IaaS
11 1 (1.79%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (14.29%) Firewall
2 7 (12.50%) DNS
3 4 (7.14%) HTTP
3 4 (7.14%) TCP/IP
4 3 (5.36%) WAN
5 2 (3.57%) SAN
6 1 (1.79%) DHCP
6 1 (1.79%) LAN
6 1 (1.79%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.36%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.57%) MongoDB
2 2 (3.57%) MySQL
3 1 (1.79%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.79%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 19 (33.93%) GitLab
2 16 (28.57%) Jenkins
3 4 (7.14%) SonarQube
4 3 (5.36%) Artifactory
4 3 (5.36%) Git
4 3 (5.36%) JIRA
4 3 (5.36%) TeamCity
5 2 (3.57%) Bitbucket
5 2 (3.57%) CircleCI
5 2 (3.57%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (3.57%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.79%) Ant
6 1 (1.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (1.79%) CA Release Automation
6 1 (1.79%) git-flow
6 1 (1.79%) Maven
General
1 8 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 7 (12.50%) Finance
2 7 (12.50%) Telecoms
3 6 (10.71%) Law
4 2 (3.57%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.79%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.79%) Banking
5 1 (1.79%) Electronics
5 1 (1.79%) Legal
5 1 (1.79%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.79%) Marketing
5 1 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.79%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (16.07%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (10.71%) RabbitMQ
3 5 (8.93%) .NET
4 2 (3.57%) ASP.NET Web API
4 2 (3.57%) Kafka
4 2 (3.57%) React
4 2 (3.57%) WCF
5 1 (1.79%) ARM Templates
5 1 (1.79%) AWS CDK
5 1 (1.79%) JSON
5 1 (1.79%) LDAP
5 1 (1.79%) Middleware
5 1 (1.79%) Node.js
5 1 (1.79%) RESTful
5 1 (1.79%) SOAP
5 1 (1.79%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (26.79%) Cloud Native
2 2 (3.57%) Data Centre
2 2 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.79%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.79%) Private Cloud
3 1 (1.79%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 10 (17.86%) Linux
2 9 (16.07%) Windows
3 2 (3.57%) VMS
4 1 (1.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.79%) Unix
4 1 (1.79%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (100.00%) DevOps
2 39 (69.64%) CI/CD
3 33 (58.93%) Infrastructure as Code
4 23 (41.07%) Agile
4 23 (41.07%) Observability
5 20 (35.71%) Containerisation
6 19 (33.93%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 13 (23.21%) Incident Response
7 13 (23.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 12 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (19.64%) Line Management
10 10 (17.86%) Performance Optimisation
11 8 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
12 7 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
13 6 (10.71%) Cloud Security
13 6 (10.71%) DevSecOps
13 6 (10.71%) High Availability
13 6 (10.71%) Mentoring
13 6 (10.71%) Root Cause Analysis
13 6 (10.71%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 14 (25.00%) Python
2 10 (17.86%) Bash
3 8 (14.29%) Go
4 7 (12.50%) PowerShell
5 6 (10.71%) Java
6 4 (7.14%) Bicep
6 4 (7.14%) C#
7 3 (5.36%) SQL
8 2 (3.57%) JavaScript
9 1 (1.79%) Groovy
9 1 (1.79%) PHP
Qualifications
1 5 (8.93%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (3.57%) Degree
2 2 (3.57%) DV Cleared
3 1 (1.79%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.79%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.57%) QA
2 1 (1.79%) GDPR
2 1 (1.79%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 27 (48.21%) Docker
2 4 (7.14%) vSphere
3 3 (5.36%) Active Directory
4 2 (3.57%) VMware NSX
5 1 (1.79%) Squid
5 1 (1.79%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (1.79%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 39 (69.64%) Terraform
2 33 (58.93%) Kubernetes
3 25 (44.64%) Grafana
4 24 (42.86%) Ansible
5 22 (39.29%) Prometheus
6 2 (3.57%) Argo
6 2 (3.57%) Control-M
6 2 (3.57%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (1.79%) Kibana
7 1 (1.79%) Podman
7 1 (1.79%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (8.93%) VMware
2 3 (5.36%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.57%) AppDynamics
3 2 (3.57%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.79%) Duck Creek
4 1 (1.79%) F5
4 1 (1.79%) Google
4 1 (1.79%) New Relic
4 1 (1.79%) SAP
4 1 (1.79%) Splunk