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 30 April 2026.

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

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 163 201 211
Rank change year-on-year +38 +10 -68
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 178 58 188
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.98% 0.81% 1.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.06% 0.91% 1.19%
Number of salaries quoted 157 42 124
10th Percentile £24,000 £44,900 £48,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £68,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.41% +4.62% -3.70%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,085 £72,433
90th Percentile £90,000 £94,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £82,500 £70,576
% change year-on-year -15.15% +16.90% -5.90%

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 16,762 6,363 15,813
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.11% 89.39% 95.05%
Number of salaries quoted 10,856 3,810 12,642
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £27,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -5.66%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -10.84%

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 30 April 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 30 April 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 +11 78 £69,655 -3.92% 15
North East +14 58 £57,500 +1.77% 18
Yorkshire -39 42 £69,310 +1.93% 4
DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 30 April 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.

1 178 (100.00%) DevOps
2 84 (47.19%) AWS
3 72 (40.45%) CI/CD
4 68 (38.20%) Terraform
5 53 (29.78%) Azure
6 52 (29.21%) Infrastructure as Code
7 37 (20.79%) Ansible
8 35 (19.66%) Continuous Integration
9 34 (19.10%) Azure DevOps
9 34 (19.10%) Containerisation
9 34 (19.10%) Mentoring
10 32 (17.98%) GCP
10 32 (17.98%) GitLab
10 32 (17.98%) Kubernetes
10 32 (17.98%) Python
11 30 (16.85%) Agile
12 29 (16.29%) GitHub
12 29 (16.29%) Jenkins
12 29 (16.29%) Security Cleared
13 28 (15.73%) Grafana
14 27 (15.17%) GitHub Actions
14 27 (15.17%) Prometheus
15 26 (14.61%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 25 (14.04%) Linux
17 22 (12.36%) Bash
17 22 (12.36%) Elastic Stack
18 21 (11.80%) Firewall
19 20 (11.24%) Go
20 19 (10.67%) SC Cleared
21 18 (10.11%) Continuous Delivery

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 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.56%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 84 (47.19%) AWS
2 53 (29.78%) Azure
3 34 (19.10%) Azure DevOps
4 32 (17.98%) GCP
5 29 (16.29%) GitHub
6 27 (15.17%) GitHub Actions
7 15 (8.43%) Azure AKS
8 13 (7.30%) Azure Service Bus
9 9 (5.06%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (2.81%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (2.81%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (2.25%) Amazon S3
12 3 (1.69%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (1.69%) Serverless
13 2 (1.12%) Amazon ECS
13 2 (1.12%) Entra ID
13 2 (1.12%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 2 (1.12%) Microsoft 365
13 2 (1.12%) Slack
14 1 (0.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 21 (11.80%) Firewall
2 18 (10.11%) DNS
2 18 (10.11%) HTTP
2 18 (10.11%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.56%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (7.30%) MongoDB
1 13 (7.30%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (1.12%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.56%) Big Data
3 1 (0.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 32 (17.98%) GitLab
2 29 (16.29%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.81%) JIRA
4 4 (2.25%) Artifactory
4 4 (2.25%) Git
4 4 (2.25%) SonarQube
5 3 (1.69%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.56%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.56%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.56%) TeamCity
General
1 20 (11.24%) Public Sector
1 20 (11.24%) Telecoms
2 18 (10.11%) Law
3 9 (5.06%) Social Skills
4 3 (1.69%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (1.69%) Finance
5 1 (0.56%) Aerospace
5 1 (0.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (0.56%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (12.36%) Elastic Stack
2 13 (7.30%) Node.js
3 7 (3.93%) YAML
4 4 (2.25%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (1.69%) JSON
5 3 (1.69%) REST
6 1 (0.56%) AWS CDK
6 1 (0.56%) Spring
6 1 (0.56%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.56%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (6.18%) Cloud Native
2 5 (2.81%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (2.25%) Enterprise Cloud
3 4 (2.25%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (1.12%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (1.12%) Mobile App
4 2 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.56%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.56%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 25 (14.04%) Linux
2 18 (10.11%) Windows
3 13 (7.30%) Unix
4 3 (1.69%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.12%) Debian
5 2 (1.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 178 (100.00%) DevOps
2 72 (40.45%) CI/CD
3 52 (29.21%) Infrastructure as Code
4 35 (19.66%) Continuous Integration
5 34 (19.10%) Containerisation
5 34 (19.10%) Mentoring
6 30 (16.85%) Agile
7 26 (14.61%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 18 (10.11%) Continuous Delivery
8 18 (10.11%) DevSecOps
8 18 (10.11%) High Availability
8 18 (10.11%) Static Code Analysis
8 18 (10.11%) Test Automation
8 18 (10.11%) Vulnerability Scanning
9 17 (9.55%) Microservices
10 16 (8.99%) Platform Engineering
11 14 (7.87%) Coaching
11 14 (7.87%) Scrum
12 12 (6.74%) Observability
13 11 (6.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 32 (17.98%) Python
2 22 (12.36%) Bash
3 20 (11.24%) Go
4 18 (10.11%) Java
5 5 (2.81%) PowerShell
6 4 (2.25%) Groovy
7 2 (1.12%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.56%) C#
8 1 (0.56%) Perl
Qualifications
1 29 (16.29%) Security Cleared
2 19 (10.67%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.12%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.69%) QA
System Software
1 16 (8.99%) Docker
2 2 (1.12%) vSphere
3 1 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.56%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 68 (38.20%) Terraform
2 37 (20.79%) Ansible
3 32 (17.98%) Kubernetes
4 28 (15.73%) Grafana
5 27 (15.17%) Prometheus
6 13 (7.30%) Argo
7 3 (1.69%) Packer
8 2 (1.12%) Istio
8 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.56%) Control-M
9 1 (0.56%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.56%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 7 (3.93%) Microsoft
2 4 (2.25%) Google
3 3 (1.69%) AppDynamics
3 3 (1.69%) IBM
3 3 (1.69%) VMware
4 1 (0.56%) Atlassian
4 1 (0.56%) Duck Creek
4 1 (0.56%) F5