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 £67,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 December 2025.

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

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 207 187 109
Rank change year-on-year -20 -78 +67
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 58 122 208
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.62% 1.07% 2.91%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.71% 1.13% 3.02%
Number of salaries quoted 46 57 183
10th Percentile £50,375 - £51,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £48,250 £61,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,750 £65,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.23% -10.34% +7.41%
75th Percentile £82,500 £70,000 £84,056
90th Percentile £86,250 £87,500 £95,731
England median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% -3.33% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 8,223 10,783 6,895
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 87.88% 94.32% 96.49%
Number of salaries quoted 4,944 5,571 5,330
10th Percentile £26,500 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,548
England median annual salary £55,000 £58,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.98% -2.50% -

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 2 December 2025.

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 2 December 2025. 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 +8 30 £65,000 +18.18% 15
Yorkshire -27 16 £68,000 - 5
North East +18 12 £82,500 -17.50% 10
DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 2 December 2025, 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 58 (100.00%) DevOps
2 40 (68.97%) CI/CD
3 39 (67.24%) AWS
4 38 (65.52%) Terraform
5 35 (60.34%) Kubernetes
6 33 (56.90%) Azure
7 32 (55.17%) Infrastructure as Code
8 30 (51.72%) Docker
9 24 (41.38%) Agile
10 23 (39.66%) Containerisation
10 23 (39.66%) Grafana
11 22 (37.93%) Ansible
12 19 (32.76%) Observability
13 18 (31.03%) GCP
13 18 (31.03%) Prometheus
13 18 (31.03%) Python
14 17 (29.31%) GitLab
15 16 (27.59%) Jenkins
15 16 (27.59%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 14 (24.14%) Azure DevOps
17 13 (22.41%) Linux
18 12 (20.69%) Bash
18 12 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
19 11 (18.97%) Incident Response
19 11 (18.97%) Windows
20 10 (17.24%) Elastic Stack
20 10 (17.24%) GitHub
20 10 (17.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
21 9 (15.52%) Continuous Integration
21 9 (15.52%) PowerShell

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 (1.72%) Apache
1 1 (1.72%) JBoss
1 1 (1.72%) nginx
1 1 (1.72%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (1.72%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 39 (67.24%) AWS
2 33 (56.90%) Azure
3 18 (31.03%) GCP
4 14 (24.14%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (17.24%) GitHub
6 8 (13.79%) AWS CloudFormation
6 8 (13.79%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (8.62%) Amazon SQS
7 5 (8.62%) PaaS
8 4 (6.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (6.90%) OpenShift
9 3 (5.17%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (3.45%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (3.45%) Amazon S3
10 2 (3.45%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 2 (3.45%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (3.45%) Azure Sentinel
11 1 (1.72%) Azure AKS
11 1 (1.72%) Kong
11 1 (1.72%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (13.79%) Firewall
2 6 (10.34%) DNS
3 3 (5.17%) HTTP
3 3 (5.17%) SAN
3 3 (5.17%) TCP/IP
3 3 (5.17%) WAN
4 2 (3.45%) Network Security
5 1 (1.72%) DHCP
5 1 (1.72%) LAN
5 1 (1.72%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.17%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.45%) MongoDB
2 2 (3.45%) MySQL
3 1 (1.72%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.72%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 17 (29.31%) GitLab
2 16 (27.59%) Jenkins
3 6 (10.34%) JIRA
4 5 (8.62%) SonarQube
5 4 (6.90%) Artifactory
5 4 (6.90%) CircleCI
5 4 (6.90%) TeamCity
6 3 (5.17%) Bitbucket
6 3 (5.17%) Git
6 3 (5.17%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (3.45%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (1.72%) Ant
8 1 (1.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (1.72%) CA Release Automation
8 1 (1.72%) git-flow
8 1 (1.72%) Maven
General
1 12 (20.69%) Social Skills
2 6 (10.34%) Finance
3 5 (8.62%) Law
3 5 (8.62%) Telecoms
4 3 (5.17%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.72%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.72%) Banking
5 1 (1.72%) Electronics
5 1 (1.72%) Legal
5 1 (1.72%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.72%) Marketing
5 1 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.72%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (17.24%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (10.34%) .NET
2 6 (10.34%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (3.45%) ASP.NET Web API
3 2 (3.45%) Kafka
3 2 (3.45%) React
3 2 (3.45%) WCF
4 1 (1.72%) ARM Templates
4 1 (1.72%) AWS CDK
4 1 (1.72%) JSON
4 1 (1.72%) LDAP
4 1 (1.72%) Middleware
4 1 (1.72%) Node.js
4 1 (1.72%) RESTful
4 1 (1.72%) SOAP
4 1 (1.72%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (20.69%) Cloud Native
2 4 (6.90%) Data Centre
3 3 (5.17%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.72%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.72%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.72%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.72%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.72%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 13 (22.41%) Linux
2 11 (18.97%) Windows
3 2 (3.45%) VMS
4 1 (1.72%) Debian
4 1 (1.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.72%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.72%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (100.00%) DevOps
2 40 (68.97%) CI/CD
3 32 (55.17%) Infrastructure as Code
4 24 (41.38%) Agile
5 23 (39.66%) Containerisation
6 19 (32.76%) Observability
7 16 (27.59%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 12 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (18.97%) Incident Response
10 10 (17.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 9 (15.52%) Continuous Integration
12 8 (13.79%) Line Management
13 7 (12.07%) Cloud Security
13 7 (12.07%) Infrastructure Automation
13 7 (12.07%) Mentoring
13 7 (12.07%) Performance Optimisation
14 6 (10.34%) High Availability
15 5 (8.62%) DevSecOps
15 5 (8.62%) Microservices
15 5 (8.62%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 18 (31.03%) Python
2 12 (20.69%) Bash
3 9 (15.52%) PowerShell
4 7 (12.07%) Go
4 7 (12.07%) Java
5 5 (8.62%) C#
6 4 (6.90%) Bicep
7 3 (5.17%) SQL
8 2 (3.45%) JavaScript
9 1 (1.72%) Groovy
9 1 (1.72%) PHP
Qualifications
1 5 (8.62%) Security Cleared
2 3 (5.17%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (5.17%) Degree
3 2 (3.45%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.72%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.72%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.45%) QA
2 1 (1.72%) GDPR
2 1 (1.72%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 30 (51.72%) Docker
2 5 (8.62%) vSphere
3 3 (5.17%) Active Directory
4 2 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (3.45%) VMware NSX
5 1 (1.72%) Squid
5 1 (1.72%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 38 (65.52%) Terraform
2 35 (60.34%) Kubernetes
3 23 (39.66%) Grafana
4 22 (37.93%) Ansible
5 18 (31.03%) Prometheus
6 3 (5.17%) Control-M
6 3 (5.17%) Docker Swarm
7 2 (3.45%) Argo
8 1 (1.72%) Kibana
8 1 (1.72%) Podman
8 1 (1.72%) Puppet
8 1 (1.72%) Rancher
Vendors
1 6 (10.34%) Microsoft
2 5 (8.62%) VMware
3 3 (5.17%) Atlassian
4 2 (3.45%) AppDynamics
4 2 (3.45%) Google
4 2 (3.45%) Splunk
5 1 (1.72%) New Relic
5 1 (1.72%) SAP