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 £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 March 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 187 200 206
Rank change year-on-year +13 +6 -41
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 104 49 162
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.73% 0.71% 1.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.81% 0.77% 1.16%
Number of salaries quoted 99 34 143
10th Percentile £30,800 £45,200 £48,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £71,875 £76,692 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £89,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £85,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -17.65% +17.24% -6.45%

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 12,845 6,371 13,916
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.53% 92.66% 95.36%
Number of salaries quoted 8,074 3,629 11,300
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £84,470 £79,640
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -9.69%

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 13 March 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 13 March 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 +9 49 £65,000 - 22
North East +4 33 £47,500 -16.67% 23
Yorkshire -48 22 £62,500 -8.09% 9
DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 13 March 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.

1 104 (100.00%) DevOps
2 56 (53.85%) AWS
3 47 (45.19%) CI/CD
3 47 (45.19%) Terraform
4 45 (43.27%) Infrastructure as Code
5 41 (39.42%) Azure
6 35 (33.65%) Ansible
7 33 (31.73%) Containerisation
8 30 (28.85%) GCP
8 30 (28.85%) Grafana
9 28 (26.92%) Prometheus
9 28 (26.92%) Python
10 27 (25.96%) GitHub
10 27 (25.96%) Kubernetes
10 27 (25.96%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 25 (24.04%) GitHub Actions
11 25 (24.04%) Jenkins
12 22 (21.15%) Azure DevOps
12 22 (21.15%) Bash
13 21 (20.19%) Elastic Stack
13 21 (20.19%) Firewall
14 20 (19.23%) Continuous Integration
14 20 (19.23%) Go
14 20 (19.23%) High Availability
15 19 (18.27%) DevSecOps
15 19 (18.27%) Vulnerability Scanning
16 18 (17.31%) Continuous Delivery
16 18 (17.31%) DNS
16 18 (17.31%) HTTP
16 18 (17.31%) Static Code Analysis

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 (1.92%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.96%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 56 (53.85%) AWS
2 41 (39.42%) Azure
3 30 (28.85%) GCP
4 27 (25.96%) GitHub
5 25 (24.04%) GitHub Actions
6 22 (21.15%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (3.85%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (3.85%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (1.92%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (1.92%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (1.92%) Amazon S3
8 2 (1.92%) Azure AKS
8 2 (1.92%) Entra ID
8 2 (1.92%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (1.92%) Slack
9 1 (0.96%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (0.96%) Datadog
9 1 (0.96%) IaaS
9 1 (0.96%) PaaS
9 1 (0.96%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (20.19%) Firewall
2 18 (17.31%) DNS
2 18 (17.31%) HTTP
2 18 (17.31%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.92%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.88%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.92%) MongoDB
2 2 (1.92%) MySQL
3 1 (0.96%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.96%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 25 (24.04%) Jenkins
2 15 (14.42%) GitLab
3 2 (1.92%) Artifactory
3 2 (1.92%) Bitbucket
3 2 (1.92%) JIRA
3 2 (1.92%) Octopus Deploy
3 2 (1.92%) SonarQube
3 2 (1.92%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.96%) CircleCI
General
1 21 (20.19%) Telecoms
2 18 (17.31%) Law
3 6 (5.77%) Social Skills
4 5 (4.81%) Finance
5 3 (2.88%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.92%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.96%) Electronics
7 1 (0.96%) Legal
7 1 (0.96%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.96%) Marketing
7 1 (0.96%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (20.19%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (2.88%) .NET
2 3 (2.88%) RabbitMQ
2 3 (2.88%) YAML
3 2 (1.92%) ASP.NET Web API
3 2 (1.92%) WCF
4 1 (0.96%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.96%) AWS CDK
4 1 (0.96%) JSON
4 1 (0.96%) LDAP
4 1 (0.96%) RESTful
4 1 (0.96%) SOAP
4 1 (0.96%) Spring
4 1 (0.96%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 12 (11.54%) Cloud Native
2 2 (1.92%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (1.92%) Enterprise Cloud
2 2 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (1.92%) Mobile App
2 2 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (0.96%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.69%) Linux
2 6 (5.77%) Windows
3 2 (1.92%) Debian
3 2 (1.92%) Ubuntu
3 2 (1.92%) VMS
3 2 (1.92%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (100.00%) DevOps
2 47 (45.19%) CI/CD
3 45 (43.27%) Infrastructure as Code
4 33 (31.73%) Containerisation
5 27 (25.96%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 20 (19.23%) Continuous Integration
6 20 (19.23%) High Availability
7 19 (18.27%) DevSecOps
7 19 (18.27%) Vulnerability Scanning
8 18 (17.31%) Continuous Delivery
8 18 (17.31%) Static Code Analysis
9 13 (12.50%) Agile
10 12 (11.54%) Mentoring
11 11 (10.58%) Observability
12 10 (9.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 9 (8.65%) Incident Response
14 7 (6.73%) Platform Engineering
14 7 (6.73%) Problem-Solving
15 6 (5.77%) Line Management
15 6 (5.77%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 28 (26.92%) Python
2 22 (21.15%) Bash
3 20 (19.23%) Go
4 8 (7.69%) PowerShell
5 4 (3.85%) Java
6 3 (2.88%) C#
7 2 (1.92%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.96%) Bicep
8 1 (0.96%) SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 9 (8.65%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.92%) Degree
3 2 (1.92%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.92%) QA
2 1 (0.96%) GDPR
2 1 (0.96%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 16 (15.38%) Docker
2 4 (3.85%) vSphere
3 2 (1.92%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.96%) Squid
4 1 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 47 (45.19%) Terraform
2 35 (33.65%) Ansible
3 30 (28.85%) Grafana
4 28 (26.92%) Prometheus
5 27 (25.96%) Kubernetes
6 2 (1.92%) Control-M
6 2 (1.92%) Docker Swarm
6 2 (1.92%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.96%) Kibana
Vendors
1 8 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.81%) VMware
3 2 (1.92%) Atlassian
4 1 (0.96%) Duck Creek
4 1 (0.96%) F5
4 1 (0.96%) Google
4 1 (0.96%) New Relic
4 1 (0.96%) SAP
4 1 (0.96%) Splunk