DevOps Engineer Jobs in the North of England

Development Operations Engineer
England > North of England

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in the North of England is £68,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 262 211 142
Rank change year-on-year -51 -69 -46
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 57 193 430
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.52% 1.12% 2.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.56% 1.18% 2.76%
Number of salaries quoted 42 118 241
10th Percentile £44,900 £48,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £48,250 £50,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,000 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% -3.70% +8.00%
75th Percentile £81,085 £72,433 £80,000
90th Percentile £94,500 £87,500 £90,000
England median annual salary £82,500 £70,576 £75,000
% change year-on-year +16.90% -5.90% +3.45%

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 10,102 16,419 15,601
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.50% 94.97% 89.41%
Number of salaries quoted 5,845 12,705 8,277
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £39,500 £36,250 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £78,500 £81,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings that featured DevOps Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in the North of England

DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DevOps Engineer in the North of England.

Salary trend for DevOps Engineer 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 May 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 3 May 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 -50 34 £72,500 +20.83% 38
Yorkshire +34 17 £68,000 - 21
North East +33 6 £56,500 -1.74% 5
DevOps Engineer
England

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 3 May 2025, DevOps Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number 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 57 (100.00%) DevOps
2 41 (71.93%) Terraform
3 38 (66.67%) CI/CD
4 35 (61.40%) Kubernetes
5 34 (59.65%) Azure
6 32 (56.14%) AWS
6 32 (56.14%) Infrastructure as Code
7 29 (50.88%) Docker
8 24 (42.11%) Social Skills
9 23 (40.35%) Containerisation
9 23 (40.35%) Python
10 20 (35.09%) Finance
10 20 (35.09%) GCP
10 20 (35.09%) Jenkins
11 17 (29.82%) Ansible
12 16 (28.07%) Linux
13 15 (26.32%) Windows
14 14 (24.56%) Azure DevOps
15 13 (22.81%) GitHub
15 13 (22.81%) PowerShell
16 12 (21.05%) Grafana
16 12 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
16 12 (21.05%) Distributed Systems
17 11 (19.30%) Agile
18 9 (15.79%) QA
18 9 (15.79%) Test Automation
18 9 (15.79%) CircleCI
18 9 (15.79%) Mentoring
18 9 (15.79%) GitHub Actions
19 8 (14.04%) Deployment Automation

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (5.26%) Confluence
2 1 (1.75%) Apache
2 1 (1.75%) CICS
2 1 (1.75%) nginx
2 1 (1.75%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (1.75%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 34 (59.65%) Azure
2 32 (56.14%) AWS
3 20 (35.09%) GCP
4 14 (24.56%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (22.81%) GitHub
6 9 (15.79%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (10.53%) Azure Monitor
8 4 (7.02%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (7.02%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (5.26%) Amazon S3
9 3 (5.26%) Azure AKS
9 3 (5.26%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 3 (5.26%) SaaS
10 2 (3.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (3.51%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (3.51%) IaaS
10 2 (3.51%) Power Platform
11 1 (1.75%) Apigee
11 1 (1.75%) Entra ID
11 1 (1.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.26%) Firewall
1 3 (5.26%) Network Security
2 2 (3.51%) Reverse Proxy
2 2 (3.51%) SAN
3 1 (1.75%) DNS
3 1 (1.75%) FTP
3 1 (1.75%) HTTP
3 1 (1.75%) HTTPS
3 1 (1.75%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (1.75%) SMTP
3 1 (1.75%) SSH
3 1 (1.75%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.02%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (5.26%) MongoDB
2 3 (5.26%) Relational Database
2 3 (5.26%) SQL Server
3 2 (3.51%) MySQL
3 2 (3.51%) Power BI
4 1 (1.75%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.75%) Cloud Spanner
4 1 (1.75%) DB2
4 1 (1.75%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.75%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (1.75%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 20 (35.09%) Jenkins
2 9 (15.79%) CircleCI
3 7 (12.28%) GitLab
4 5 (8.77%) Git
4 5 (8.77%) IBM UrbanCode
4 5 (8.77%) SonarQube
5 4 (7.02%) JIRA
5 4 (7.02%) Selenium
5 4 (7.02%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (7.02%) TeamCity
6 3 (5.26%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (3.51%) Artifactory
8 1 (1.75%) Bitbucket
8 1 (1.75%) Gradle
8 1 (1.75%) JUnit
8 1 (1.75%) Maven
8 1 (1.75%) Spinnaker
8 1 (1.75%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (1.75%) TestNG
8 1 (1.75%) Travis CI
General
1 24 (42.11%) Social Skills
2 20 (35.09%) Finance
3 7 (12.28%) Banking
3 7 (12.28%) Public Sector
4 5 (8.77%) Manufacturing
5 3 (5.26%) Automotive
5 3 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (3.51%) Advertising
6 2 (3.51%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.75%) Electronics
7 1 (1.75%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.75%) Health Technology
7 1 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.75%) Marketing
7 1 (1.75%) Retail
7 1 (1.75%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.77%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (7.02%) .NET
2 4 (7.02%) ARM Templates
3 3 (5.26%) Django
3 3 (5.26%) FastAPI
3 3 (5.26%) Flask
3 3 (5.26%) Playwright
4 2 (3.51%) Azure Blueprints
5 1 (1.75%) EDI
5 1 (1.75%) Kafka
5 1 (1.75%) LDAP
5 1 (1.75%) Loki
5 1 (1.75%) ModSecurity
5 1 (1.75%) Node.js
5 1 (1.75%) REST
5 1 (1.75%) RESTful
5 1 (1.75%) SOAP
5 1 (1.75%) Spring
5 1 (1.75%) Spring Boot
5 1 (1.75%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (21.05%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (14.04%) Public Cloud
3 4 (7.02%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (7.02%) Life Science
3 4 (7.02%) Mainframe
4 2 (3.51%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.51%) Private Cloud
4 2 (3.51%) Replication
5 1 (1.75%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.75%) Credit Risk
5 1 (1.75%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.75%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.75%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.75%) IoT
5 1 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.75%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.75%) Market Risk
5 1 (1.75%) PKI
5 1 (1.75%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 16 (28.07%) Linux
2 15 (26.32%) Windows
3 2 (3.51%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.75%) AIX
4 1 (1.75%) CentOS
4 1 (1.75%) Debian
4 1 (1.75%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (1.75%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.75%) Unix
4 1 (1.75%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (100.00%) DevOps
2 38 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 32 (56.14%) Infrastructure as Code
4 23 (40.35%) Containerisation
5 12 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (19.30%) Agile
7 9 (15.79%) Mentoring
7 9 (15.79%) Test Automation
8 8 (14.04%) Configuration Management
8 8 (14.04%) Deployment Automation
8 8 (14.04%) Microservices
9 7 (12.28%) Analytics
9 7 (12.28%) Infrastructure Automation
10 6 (10.53%) Continuous Integration
10 6 (10.53%) Platform Engineering
10 6 (10.53%) SDLC
11 5 (8.77%) Cloud Security
11 5 (8.77%) End-to-End Testing
11 5 (8.77%) Log Analytics
11 5 (8.77%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 23 (40.35%) Python
2 13 (22.81%) PowerShell
3 8 (14.04%) Java
4 7 (12.28%) Bash
5 4 (7.02%) C#
6 3 (5.26%) Bicep
6 3 (5.26%) Go
6 3 (5.26%) Groovy
6 3 (5.26%) SQL
7 2 (3.51%) C++
8 1 (1.75%) AWK
8 1 (1.75%) C
8 1 (1.75%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.75%) JCL
8 1 (1.75%) Korn
8 1 (1.75%) Perl
8 1 (1.75%) PHP
8 1 (1.75%) Rust
8 1 (1.75%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (8.77%) Azure Certification
1 5 (8.77%) Degree
2 4 (7.02%) AWS Certification
2 4 (7.02%) Security Cleared
3 3 (5.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 3 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (5.26%) OCP
3 3 (5.26%) Oracle Certification
4 2 (3.51%) DV Cleared
4 2 (3.51%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (15.79%) QA
2 6 (10.53%) GDPR
3 5 (8.77%) SOC 2
4 4 (7.02%) HIPAA
5 2 (3.51%) PCI DSS
6 1 (1.75%) Basel III
6 1 (1.75%) IFRS
6 1 (1.75%) IFRS 9
6 1 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (1.75%) NCSC
6 1 (1.75%) NIST
System Software
1 29 (50.88%) Docker
2 5 (8.77%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (3.51%) Active Directory
3 2 (3.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (3.51%) vSphere
4 1 (1.75%) KVM
4 1 (1.75%) NFS
4 1 (1.75%) Postfix
4 1 (1.75%) Sendmail
4 1 (1.75%) Squid
Systems Management
1 41 (71.93%) Terraform
2 35 (61.40%) Kubernetes
3 17 (29.82%) Ansible
4 12 (21.05%) Grafana
5 7 (12.28%) Prometheus
6 5 (8.77%) Puppet
7 4 (7.02%) Argo
7 4 (7.02%) Istio
8 3 (5.26%) Docker Swarm
8 3 (5.26%) Progress Chef
9 2 (3.51%) Salt
10 1 (1.75%) Automic
10 1 (1.75%) CA Service Virtualization
10 1 (1.75%) Consul
10 1 (1.75%) Control-M
10 1 (1.75%) cPanel
10 1 (1.75%) Kibana
10 1 (1.75%) Nagios
10 1 (1.75%) Nessus
10 1 (1.75%) Rancher
Vendors
1 7 (12.28%) Microsoft
2 6 (10.53%) IBM
3 5 (8.77%) Atlassian
4 4 (7.02%) Dynatrace
4 4 (7.02%) Hitachi
4 4 (7.02%) VMware
5 2 (3.51%) SAP
6 1 (1.75%) Confluent
6 1 (1.75%) New Relic
6 1 (1.75%) Oracle
6 1 (1.75%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.75%) Splunk
6 1 (1.75%) Tenable