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 £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 July 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 243 203
Rank change year-on-year +148 -40 -85
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 339 70 188
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.64% 0.75% 1.01%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.73% 0.85% 1.06%
Number of salaries quoted 286 54 105
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £48,250
25th Percentile £51,750 £53,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,692 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £88,750 £87,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +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 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 19,546 8,220 17,658
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.69% 88.09% 95.11%
Number of salaries quoted 14,231 4,396 13,366
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,438 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -7.41%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £88,148 £81,625 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £56,000 £52,837
% change year-on-year +2.68% +5.99% -11.94%

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 9 July 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 9 July 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 +104 166 £69,310 +6.63% 26
North East +31 110 £60,000 - 13
Yorkshire +11 63 £70,000 +7.69% 10
DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 9 July 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.

1 339 (100.00%) DevOps
2 117 (34.51%) CI/CD
3 107 (31.56%) AWS
4 103 (30.38%) Terraform
5 88 (25.96%) Infrastructure as Code
6 83 (24.48%) Kubernetes
7 68 (20.06%) Azure
7 68 (20.06%) Platform Engineering
8 62 (18.29%) Security Cleared
9 58 (17.11%) Containerisation
9 58 (17.11%) Python
10 55 (16.22%) Ansible
11 51 (15.04%) Agile
11 51 (15.04%) Linux
12 50 (14.75%) Mentoring
13 41 (12.09%) Azure DevOps
13 41 (12.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 40 (11.80%) SC Cleared
15 39 (11.50%) Bash
16 38 (11.21%) Docker
17 37 (10.91%) Continuous Integration
17 37 (10.91%) GitLab
17 37 (10.91%) Jenkins
18 35 (10.32%) GitHub
19 33 (9.73%) Java
20 30 (8.85%) Coaching
20 30 (8.85%) Test Automation
21 29 (8.55%) GCP
22 27 (7.96%) Windows
23 26 (7.67%) 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 4 (1.18%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.29%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 107 (31.56%) AWS
2 68 (20.06%) Azure
3 41 (12.09%) Azure DevOps
4 35 (10.32%) GitHub
5 29 (8.55%) GCP
6 25 (7.37%) GitHub Actions
7 17 (5.01%) Azure AKS
8 13 (3.83%) Azure Service Bus
9 11 (3.24%) AWS CloudFormation
10 9 (2.65%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (1.77%) Serverless
12 5 (1.47%) Amazon EC2
13 4 (1.18%) Amazon S3
13 4 (1.18%) Microsoft 365
13 4 (1.18%) OpenShift
14 3 (0.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 3 (0.88%) AWS Lambda
14 3 (0.88%) Entra ID
14 3 (0.88%) Pulumi
14 3 (0.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 18 (5.31%) Firewall
2 14 (4.13%) DNS
2 14 (4.13%) HTTP
2 14 (4.13%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.59%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (5.31%) MongoDB
1 18 (5.31%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (3.54%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.29%) Big Data
3 1 (0.29%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 37 (10.91%) GitLab
1 37 (10.91%) Jenkins
2 16 (4.72%) Git
3 12 (3.54%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 8 (2.36%) JIRA
5 7 (2.06%) Bitbucket
5 7 (2.06%) SonarQube
6 6 (1.77%) Artifactory
7 3 (0.88%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.88%) Octopus Deploy
7 3 (0.88%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 39 (11.50%) Public Sector
2 22 (6.49%) Social Skills
3 14 (4.13%) Law
3 14 (4.13%) Telecoms
4 6 (1.77%) Finance
5 3 (0.88%) Financial Institution
6 2 (0.59%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (0.59%) Banking
6 2 (0.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.29%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (6.19%) Elastic Stack
2 14 (4.13%) Node.js
2 14 (4.13%) YAML
3 12 (3.54%) Spring
3 12 (3.54%) Spring Boot
4 8 (2.36%) .NET
5 5 (1.47%) ARM Templates
5 5 (1.47%) Kafka
6 4 (1.18%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (0.88%) JSON
7 3 (0.88%) REST
8 1 (0.29%) AWS CDK
8 1 (0.29%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 51 (15.04%) Cloud Native
2 4 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (1.18%) Enterprise Cloud
2 4 (1.18%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (0.59%) Mobile App
3 2 (0.59%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (0.29%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (0.29%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (0.29%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 51 (15.04%) Linux
2 27 (7.96%) Windows
3 19 (5.60%) Unix
4 8 (2.36%) CentOS
4 8 (2.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.88%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.59%) Debian
6 2 (0.59%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 339 (100.00%) DevOps
2 117 (34.51%) CI/CD
3 88 (25.96%) Infrastructure as Code
4 68 (20.06%) Platform Engineering
5 58 (17.11%) Containerisation
6 51 (15.04%) Agile
7 50 (14.75%) Mentoring
8 41 (12.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 37 (10.91%) Continuous Integration
10 30 (8.85%) Coaching
10 30 (8.85%) Test Automation
11 25 (7.37%) Microservices
11 25 (7.37%) Scrum
12 21 (6.19%) Observability
13 20 (5.90%) DevSecOps
14 18 (5.31%) Continuous Improvement
14 18 (5.31%) Problem-Solving
15 16 (4.72%) Continuous Delivery
16 15 (4.42%) Deployment Automation
16 15 (4.42%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 58 (17.11%) Python
2 39 (11.50%) Bash
3 33 (9.73%) Java
4 26 (7.67%) PowerShell
5 18 (5.31%) Go
6 10 (2.95%) Bicep
6 10 (2.95%) C#
7 4 (1.18%) Groovy
8 3 (0.88%) SQL
9 1 (0.29%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.29%) Perl
9 1 (0.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 62 (18.29%) Security Cleared
2 40 (11.80%) SC Cleared
3 25 (7.37%) DV Cleared
4 3 (0.88%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (0.88%) QA
System Software
1 38 (11.21%) Docker
2 5 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.18%) vSphere
4 2 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.29%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.29%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 103 (30.38%) Terraform
2 83 (24.48%) Kubernetes
3 55 (16.22%) Ansible
4 22 (6.49%) Grafana
5 20 (5.90%) Argo
6 19 (5.60%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.88%) Control-M
7 3 (0.88%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (0.88%) Packer
8 2 (0.59%) Istio
8 2 (0.59%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.59%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.29%) Puppet
Vendors
1 18 (5.31%) Pega
2 15 (4.42%) Microsoft
3 9 (2.65%) VMware
4 8 (2.36%) Google
5 3 (0.88%) AppDynamics
5 3 (0.88%) Atlassian
5 3 (0.88%) IBM