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 £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 July 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 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 275 223 126
Rank change year-on-year -52 -97 0
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 69 198 406
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.53% 1.00% 2.75%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.61% 1.05% 3.08%
Number of salaries quoted 53 111 251
10th Percentile £43,250 £48,250 £46,350
25th Percentile £53,750 £48,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -14.29% +7.69%
75th Percentile £76,840 £77,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £88,750 £87,500 £90,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% -

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 11,270 18,769 13,170
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 87.28% 95.19% 89.20%
Number of salaries quoted 6,007 13,950 7,840
10th Percentile £25,084 £27,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £32,250 £36,250 £39,710
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year - -8.26% +9.00%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £69,650
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £81,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

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 July 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 July 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 -64 42 £65,000 +8.33% 85
Yorkshire +9 17 £65,000 +4.00% 53
North East +40 10 £60,000 -8.35% 9
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 July 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 69 (100.00%) DevOps
2 44 (63.77%) CI/CD
3 41 (59.42%) Terraform
4 37 (53.62%) Kubernetes
5 35 (50.72%) Azure
6 33 (47.83%) AWS
7 32 (46.38%) Infrastructure as Code
8 31 (44.93%) Docker
9 29 (42.03%) Python
10 25 (36.23%) Jenkins
11 23 (33.33%) Containerisation
12 22 (31.88%) Ansible
13 21 (30.43%) Azure DevOps
14 19 (27.54%) Social Skills
14 19 (27.54%) Linux
15 17 (24.64%) Finance
15 17 (24.64%) Agile
15 17 (24.64%) Grafana
16 16 (23.19%) GCP
17 15 (21.74%) Windows
17 15 (21.74%) PowerShell
18 13 (18.84%) Problem-Solving
19 12 (17.39%) GitLab
19 12 (17.39%) Mentoring
19 12 (17.39%) Bash
20 11 (15.94%) Prometheus
21 10 (14.49%) QA
21 10 (14.49%) Microsoft
21 10 (14.49%) Configuration Management
22 9 (13.04%) Continuous Integration

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 (4.35%) Confluence
2 1 (1.45%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 35 (50.72%) Azure
2 33 (47.83%) AWS
3 21 (30.43%) Azure DevOps
4 16 (23.19%) GCP
5 9 (13.04%) GitHub
6 8 (11.59%) Azure Monitor
7 7 (10.14%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (8.70%) AWS CloudFormation
8 6 (8.70%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (7.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (5.80%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (5.80%) AWS CodeBuild
10 4 (5.80%) Route 53
10 4 (5.80%) SaaS
10 4 (5.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 3 (4.35%) Amazon S3
11 3 (4.35%) Azure AKS
11 3 (4.35%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 3 (4.35%) IaaS
12 2 (2.90%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.25%) Network Security
2 4 (5.80%) Firewall
3 3 (4.35%) SAN
4 1 (1.45%) Broadband
4 1 (1.45%) SSH
4 1 (1.45%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.80%) SQL Server
2 3 (4.35%) MongoDB
2 3 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (4.35%) Relational Database
3 2 (2.90%) Big Data
3 2 (2.90%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 25 (36.23%) Jenkins
2 12 (17.39%) GitLab
3 8 (11.59%) JIRA
4 6 (8.70%) CircleCI
4 6 (8.70%) SonarQube
5 4 (5.80%) Git
5 4 (5.80%) TeamCity
6 3 (4.35%) Artifactory
6 3 (4.35%) Bitbucket
6 3 (4.35%) IBM UrbanCode
6 3 (4.35%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (4.35%) Selenium
6 3 (4.35%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (1.45%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 19 (27.54%) Social Skills
2 17 (24.64%) Finance
3 4 (5.80%) Banking
4 3 (4.35%) Advertising
4 3 (4.35%) Retail
5 2 (2.90%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.90%) Cantonese Language
5 2 (2.90%) Mandarin Language
5 2 (2.90%) Marketing
5 2 (2.90%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.45%) Automotive
6 1 (1.45%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.45%) Health Technology
6 1 (1.45%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.45%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (13.04%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (7.25%) .NET
3 4 (5.80%) ARM Templates
4 3 (4.35%) Django
4 3 (4.35%) FastAPI
4 3 (4.35%) Flask
4 3 (4.35%) Playwright
4 3 (4.35%) RESTful
5 2 (2.90%) LDAP
5 2 (2.90%) SOAP
6 1 (1.45%) Azure Blueprints
6 1 (1.45%) Node.js
6 1 (1.45%) Spring
6 1 (1.45%) Spring Boot
6 1 (1.45%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (13.04%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (5.80%) Cloud Native
3 3 (4.35%) Data Centre
3 3 (4.35%) Distributed Architecture
3 3 (4.35%) Mainframe
4 2 (2.90%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.90%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.90%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.90%) Tandem
5 1 (1.45%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.45%) Cyberattack
5 1 (1.45%) IoT
5 1 (1.45%) Life Science
5 1 (1.45%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.45%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.45%) PKI
5 1 (1.45%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.45%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.45%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 19 (27.54%) Linux
2 15 (21.74%) Windows
3 4 (5.80%) Debian
3 4 (5.80%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (100.00%) DevOps
2 44 (63.77%) CI/CD
3 32 (46.38%) Infrastructure as Code
4 23 (33.33%) Containerisation
5 17 (24.64%) Agile
6 13 (18.84%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (17.39%) Mentoring
8 10 (14.49%) Configuration Management
9 9 (13.04%) Continuous Integration
10 8 (11.59%) Computer Science
10 8 (11.59%) Microservices
10 8 (11.59%) SDLC
11 7 (10.14%) Analytics
12 6 (8.70%) Platform Engineering
13 5 (7.25%) Cloud Security
13 5 (7.25%) Deployment Automation
13 5 (7.25%) Infrastructure Automation
13 5 (7.25%) Log Analytics
13 5 (7.25%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 5 (7.25%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 29 (42.03%) Python
2 15 (21.74%) PowerShell
3 12 (17.39%) Bash
4 8 (11.59%) Java
5 6 (8.70%) C#
6 5 (7.25%) Go
7 3 (4.35%) Groovy
7 3 (4.35%) JavaScript
7 3 (4.35%) Shell Script
8 2 (2.90%) Bicep
8 2 (2.90%) SQL
9 1 (1.45%) C++
9 1 (1.45%) Perl
9 1 (1.45%) Ruby
9 1 (1.45%) Rust
Qualifications
1 8 (11.59%) Degree
2 7 (10.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (8.70%) Azure Certification
4 3 (4.35%) OCP
4 3 (4.35%) Oracle Certification
4 3 (4.35%) Security Cleared
5 2 (2.90%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.90%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.45%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (14.49%) QA
2 6 (8.70%) GDPR
3 4 (5.80%) HIPAA
3 4 (5.80%) SOC 2
4 2 (2.90%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.45%) NIST
System Software
1 31 (44.93%) Docker
2 5 (7.25%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (5.80%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (5.80%) vSphere
4 2 (2.90%) Squid
5 1 (1.45%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 41 (59.42%) Terraform
2 37 (53.62%) Kubernetes
3 22 (31.88%) Ansible
4 17 (24.64%) Grafana
5 11 (15.94%) Prometheus
6 6 (8.70%) Puppet
7 4 (5.80%) Argo
7 4 (5.80%) Docker Swarm
7 4 (5.80%) Progress Chef
8 3 (4.35%) Control-M
8 3 (4.35%) Istio
9 2 (2.90%) Kibana
9 2 (2.90%) Salt
10 1 (1.45%) Karpenter
10 1 (1.45%) Rancher
Vendors
1 10 (14.49%) Microsoft
2 6 (8.70%) Atlassian
3 5 (7.25%) VMware
4 4 (5.80%) Dynatrace
4 4 (5.80%) Splunk
5 3 (4.35%) Google
5 3 (4.35%) IBM
6 2 (2.90%) New Relic
7 1 (1.45%) Hitachi
7 1 (1.45%) Thales