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 30 October 2026.

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

6 months to
30 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 244 171
Rank change year-on-year +174 -73 -69
Permanent DevOps Engineer jobs 508 60 143
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.09% 0.64% 1.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.28% 0.72% 1.20%
Number of salaries quoted 397 48 74
10th Percentile £50,000 £45,075 -
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -0.71% -11.23%
75th Percentile £81,250 £75,000 £74,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £82,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% - -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 adverts in the North of England matching a recognised job title. The table also shows what proportion of all permanent IT job adverts they make up.

6 months to
30 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Permanent job adverts in the North of England matching a recognised job title 22,293 8,315 11,869
% of permanent job adverts matching a recognised job title 91.73% 88.84% 95.11%
Number of salaries quoted 16,169 4,711 6,324
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £73,205 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £59,490 £53,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +11.20% -6.96% -4.17%

DevOps Engineer Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent DevOps Engineer job postings 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 DevOps Engineer jobs in the North of England over the 6 months to 30 October 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 DevOps Engineer jobs within the North of England region over the 6 months to 30 October 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		 Job Ads
Past 6 Months		 Median Salary
Past 6 Months		 Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Live
Jobs
North West +122 279 £72,500 +11.54% 23
North East +27 155 £60,000 -22.58% 6
Yorkshire +34 83 £70,000 +7.69% 8
DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 30 October 2026, DevOps Engineer job ads cited 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 DevOps Engineer job ads across the North of England region.

RankSkillShareJob Ads
1DevOps100.0%508
2CI/CD35.6%181
3Infrastructure as Code31.9%162
4Platform Engineering28.3%144
5AWS27.6%140
6Security Cleared27.4%139
7Kubernetes25.0%127
8Azure24.6%125
9Terraform24.0%122
10Docker18.9%96
11SC Cleared18.7%95
12Linux17.3%88
13Agile16.1%82
13Python16.1%82
15Ansible15.6%79
16Containerisation15.0%76
17Site Reliability Engineering14.4%73
18DV Cleared11.8%60
19GitLab11.2%57
20Microsoft10.4%53
21Bash10.2%52
22Technical Leadership10.0%51
23Continuous Improvement9.1%46
23GitHub9.1%46
23Observability9.1%46
26Jenkins8.9%45
26Mentoring8.9%45
28Azure DevOps8.5%43
29Git8.3%42
30PowerShell7.9%40

DevOps Engineer Skill Set Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Job Titles

RankJob TitleShareJob Ads
1Senior DevOps Engineer25.8%131
2Lead DevOps Engineer11.0%56
3Cloud Engineer8.1%41
4Cloud Native Engineer5.9%30
4Principal DevOps Engineer5.9%30
6AWS DevOps Engineer5.1%26
7DevOps Platform Engineer4.5%23
8Azure DevOps Engineer4.3%22
9DevOps Systems Engineer4.1%21
10Systems Engineer3.0%15
11DevOps Automation Engineer2.8%14
11Senior Automation Engineer2.8%14
13Senior Platform Engineer2.4%12
14Operations Engineer1.6%8
15Junior DevOps Engineer1.4%7
15Network Engineer1.4%7
15Senior AWS DevOps Engineer1.4%7
15Senior Systems Engineer1.4%7
19Software Engineer1.2%6
20Infrastructure Operations Engineer0.4%2
37 DevOps Engineer jobs in the North of England