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 £69,310 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 September 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 245 154
Rank change year-on-year +156 -91 -58
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 404 60 211
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.76% 0.64% 1.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.87% 0.72% 1.50%
Number of salaries quoted 322 50 96
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,425 -
25th Percentile £55,000 £54,063 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,310 £62,750 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.45% -3.46% -7.90%
75th Percentile £81,250 £75,000 £72,431
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,625 £87,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% +3.70% -10.00%

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 21,584 8,297 14,057
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.22% 87.87% 95.06%
Number of salaries quoted 15,777 4,555 9,010
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £71,250 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £77,500
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 3 September 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 3 September 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 +116 203 £75,000 +19.52% 37
North East +37 139 £60,000 - 12
Yorkshire -8 62 £80,000 +23.08% 28
DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 3 September 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.

1 404 (100.00%) DevOps
2 138 (34.16%) CI/CD
3 116 (28.71%) Terraform
4 111 (27.48%) Infrastructure as Code
5 110 (27.23%) AWS
6 107 (26.49%) Kubernetes
7 94 (23.27%) Platform Engineering
8 90 (22.28%) Security Cleared
9 77 (19.06%) Azure
10 66 (16.34%) Linux
11 65 (16.09%) Agile
12 64 (15.84%) Python
13 61 (15.10%) Ansible
13 61 (15.10%) Docker
14 59 (14.60%) Containerisation
15 57 (14.11%) GitLab
15 57 (14.11%) SC Cleared
16 49 (12.13%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 47 (11.63%) Mentoring
18 44 (10.89%) DV Cleared
19 41 (10.15%) Jenkins
20 40 (9.90%) Java
20 40 (9.90%) Test Automation
21 38 (9.41%) GitHub
22 37 (9.16%) Azure DevOps
23 36 (8.91%) Bash
24 35 (8.66%) Coaching
25 33 (8.17%) Microservices
25 33 (8.17%) Observability
26 32 (7.92%) Continuous Integration

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 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.25%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 7 (1.73%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 110 (27.23%) AWS
2 77 (19.06%) Azure
3 38 (9.41%) GitHub
4 37 (9.16%) Azure DevOps
5 21 (5.20%) Serverless
6 20 (4.95%) AWS CloudFormation
6 20 (4.95%) GCP
6 20 (4.95%) GitHub Actions
7 17 (4.21%) Azure AKS
8 13 (3.22%) Azure Service Bus
9 10 (2.48%) Amazon EC2
10 9 (2.23%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (1.98%) Amazon EKS
12 7 (1.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 7 (1.73%) OpenShift
13 6 (1.49%) Amazon S3
14 5 (1.24%) Azure Key Vault
14 5 (1.24%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 5 (1.24%) Power Platform
14 5 (1.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.99%) Firewall
2 3 (0.74%) DNS
3 2 (0.50%) HTTP
3 2 (0.50%) SAN
3 2 (0.50%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (4.95%) MongoDB
2 19 (4.70%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (3.22%) SQL Server
4 3 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (0.74%) MySQL
4 3 (0.74%) Power BI
5 2 (0.50%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.25%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.25%) Big Data
6 1 (0.25%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 57 (14.11%) GitLab
2 41 (10.15%) Jenkins
3 27 (6.68%) Git
4 20 (4.95%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 13 (3.22%) SonarQube
6 8 (1.98%) JIRA
7 7 (1.73%) Bitbucket
8 6 (1.49%) Artifactory
9 4 (0.99%) TeamCity
10 3 (0.74%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.74%) Octopus Deploy
11 1 (0.25%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 50 (12.38%) Public Sector
2 34 (8.42%) Social Skills
3 8 (1.98%) Finance
4 4 (0.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (0.74%) Financial Institution
6 2 (0.50%) Banking
6 2 (0.50%) Law
6 2 (0.50%) Marketing
6 2 (0.50%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.25%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.25%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.25%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 116 (28.71%) Terraform
2 21 (5.20%) .NET
3 19 (4.70%) Spring
3 19 (4.70%) Spring Boot
4 17 (4.21%) Node.js
5 16 (3.96%) YAML
6 11 (2.72%) .NET Core
7 9 (2.23%) Elastic Stack
8 7 (1.73%) ARM Templates
9 5 (1.24%) AWS CDK
9 5 (1.24%) Kafka
10 3 (0.74%) JSON
10 3 (0.74%) Pulumi
10 3 (0.74%) RabbitMQ
10 3 (0.74%) REST
11 2 (0.50%) Web Services
12 1 (0.25%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 79 (19.55%) Cloud Native
2 7 (1.73%) Private Cloud
3 4 (0.99%) Enterprise Cloud
3 4 (0.99%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (0.74%) Culture of Ownership
4 3 (0.74%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (0.74%) Onboarding
5 2 (0.50%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.25%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.25%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 66 (16.34%) Linux
2 29 (7.18%) Windows
3 20 (4.95%) Unix
4 16 (3.96%) CentOS
4 16 (3.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.74%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.25%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 404 (100.00%) DevOps
2 138 (34.16%) CI/CD
3 111 (27.48%) Infrastructure as Code
4 94 (23.27%) Platform Engineering
5 65 (16.09%) Agile
6 59 (14.60%) Containerisation
7 49 (12.13%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 47 (11.63%) Mentoring
9 40 (9.90%) Test Automation
10 35 (8.66%) Coaching
11 33 (8.17%) Microservices
11 33 (8.17%) Observability
12 32 (7.92%) Continuous Integration
12 32 (7.92%) Technical Leadership
13 28 (6.93%) Scrum
14 26 (6.44%) Continuous Improvement
15 22 (5.45%) Problem-Solving
16 19 (4.70%) Deployment Automation
17 15 (3.71%) Collaborative Engineering
17 15 (3.71%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 64 (15.84%) Python
2 40 (9.90%) Java
3 36 (8.91%) Bash
4 31 (7.67%) PowerShell
5 14 (3.47%) Bicep
6 12 (2.97%) C#
7 7 (1.73%) Go
8 5 (1.24%) Groovy
9 3 (0.74%) SQL
9 3 (0.74%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.50%) Rust
10 2 (0.50%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.25%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.25%) Perl
Qualifications
1 90 (22.28%) Security Cleared
2 57 (14.11%) SC Cleared
3 44 (10.89%) DV Cleared
4 3 (0.74%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (0.99%) QA
System Software
1 61 (15.10%) Docker
2 5 (1.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.99%) vSphere
4 2 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.25%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.25%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 107 (26.49%) Kubernetes
2 61 (15.10%) Ansible
3 20 (4.95%) Argo
4 11 (2.72%) Grafana
5 8 (1.98%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.24%) Progress Chef
7 3 (0.74%) Control-M
7 3 (0.74%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (0.74%) Packer
7 3 (0.74%) Puppet
8 2 (0.50%) Istio
8 2 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.25%) Fluentd
9 1 (0.25%) Kibana
Vendors
1 18 (4.46%) Microsoft
1 18 (4.46%) Pega
2 10 (2.48%) Google
3 9 (2.23%) VMware
4 3 (0.74%) AppDynamics
4 3 (0.74%) Atlassian
4 3 (0.74%) IBM
4 3 (0.74%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.25%) Dynatrace