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 £69,310 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 10 September 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 237 146
Rank change year-on-year +148 -91 -44
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 404 63 209
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.73% 0.67% 1.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.84% 0.77% 1.55%
Number of salaries quoted 319 51 94
10th Percentile £43,500 £42,500 -
25th Percentile £56,625 £54,375 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,310 £65,000 £66,732
Median % change year-on-year +6.63% -2.60% -4.67%
75th Percentile £81,250 £75,000 £73,938
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% +3.70% -10.00%

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 21,905 8,200 13,475
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.77% 87.31% 94.96%
Number of salaries quoted 16,022 4,445 8,213
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -5.66%
75th Percentile £71,500 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £78,700
England median annual salary £57,591 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.71% - -8.33%

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 10 September 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 10 September 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 +113 206 £75,000 +15.38% 26
North East +37 136 £60,000 - 12
Yorkshire -1 62 £80,000 +23.08% 15
DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 10 September 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.

1 404 (100.00%) DevOps
2 138 (34.16%) CI/CD
3 115 (28.47%) Terraform
4 110 (27.23%) Infrastructure as Code
5 108 (26.73%) Kubernetes
6 107 (26.49%) AWS
7 94 (23.27%) Platform Engineering
8 93 (23.02%) Security Cleared
9 76 (18.81%) Azure
10 68 (16.83%) Agile
10 68 (16.83%) Linux
11 64 (15.84%) Docker
11 64 (15.84%) Python
12 62 (15.35%) Ansible
13 59 (14.60%) SC Cleared
14 57 (14.11%) Containerisation
14 57 (14.11%) GitLab
15 47 (11.63%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 46 (11.39%) Mentoring
17 45 (11.14%) DV Cleared
18 40 (9.90%) Java
18 40 (9.90%) Test Automation
19 39 (9.65%) Jenkins
20 36 (8.91%) Bash
20 36 (8.91%) GitHub
21 35 (8.66%) Azure DevOps
21 35 (8.66%) Coaching
22 33 (8.17%) Microservices
22 33 (8.17%) Observability
23 32 (7.92%) Technical Leadership

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 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.25%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 7 (1.73%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 107 (26.49%) AWS
2 76 (18.81%) Azure
3 36 (8.91%) GitHub
4 35 (8.66%) Azure DevOps
5 21 (5.20%) Serverless
6 20 (4.95%) AWS CloudFormation
7 18 (4.46%) GCP
7 18 (4.46%) GitHub Actions
8 17 (4.21%) Azure AKS
9 13 (3.22%) Azure Service Bus
10 10 (2.48%) Amazon EC2
11 9 (2.23%) AWS Lambda
12 8 (1.98%) Amazon EKS
13 7 (1.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 7 (1.73%) OpenShift
14 6 (1.49%) Amazon S3
15 5 (1.24%) Azure Key Vault
15 5 (1.24%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 5 (1.24%) Power Platform
15 5 (1.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.50%) Firewall
1 2 (0.50%) SAN
2 1 (0.25%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (4.95%) MongoDB
2 19 (4.70%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (3.22%) SQL Server
4 3 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (0.74%) MySQL
4 3 (0.74%) Power BI
5 2 (0.50%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.25%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.25%) Big Data
6 1 (0.25%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 57 (14.11%) GitLab
2 39 (9.65%) Jenkins
3 27 (6.68%) Git
4 20 (4.95%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 13 (3.22%) SonarQube
6 9 (2.23%) JIRA
7 7 (1.73%) Bitbucket
8 6 (1.49%) Artifactory
9 4 (0.99%) TeamCity
10 3 (0.74%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.74%) Octopus Deploy
11 1 (0.25%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 49 (12.13%) Public Sector
2 34 (8.42%) Social Skills
3 8 (1.98%) Finance
4 4 (0.99%) Aerospace
4 4 (0.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (0.74%) Financial Institution
6 2 (0.50%) Banking
6 2 (0.50%) Marketing
6 2 (0.50%) Retail
7 1 (0.25%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.25%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (28.47%) Terraform
2 21 (5.20%) .NET
3 19 (4.70%) Spring
3 19 (4.70%) Spring Boot
4 17 (4.21%) Node.js
5 16 (3.96%) YAML
6 11 (2.72%) .NET Core
7 7 (1.73%) ARM Templates
7 7 (1.73%) Elastic Stack
8 5 (1.24%) AWS CDK
8 5 (1.24%) Kafka
9 3 (0.74%) JSON
9 3 (0.74%) Pulumi
9 3 (0.74%) RabbitMQ
9 3 (0.74%) REST
10 2 (0.50%) Web Services
11 1 (0.25%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 80 (19.80%) Cloud Native
2 7 (1.73%) Private Cloud
3 4 (0.99%) Enterprise Cloud
3 4 (0.99%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (0.74%) Culture of Ownership
4 3 (0.74%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (0.74%) Onboarding
5 2 (0.50%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.25%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.25%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 68 (16.83%) Linux
2 29 (7.18%) Windows
3 20 (4.95%) Unix
4 18 (4.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 16 (3.96%) CentOS
6 3 (0.74%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.25%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 404 (100.00%) DevOps
2 138 (34.16%) CI/CD
3 110 (27.23%) Infrastructure as Code
4 94 (23.27%) Platform Engineering
5 68 (16.83%) Agile
6 57 (14.11%) Containerisation
7 47 (11.63%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 46 (11.39%) Mentoring
9 40 (9.90%) Test Automation
10 35 (8.66%) Coaching
11 33 (8.17%) Microservices
11 33 (8.17%) Observability
12 32 (7.92%) Technical Leadership
13 31 (7.67%) Continuous Integration
14 29 (7.18%) Scrum
15 26 (6.44%) Continuous Improvement
16 22 (5.45%) Problem-Solving
17 19 (4.70%) Deployment Automation
18 17 (4.21%) Cybersecurity
18 17 (4.21%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 64 (15.84%) Python
2 40 (9.90%) Java
3 36 (8.91%) Bash
4 31 (7.67%) PowerShell
5 14 (3.47%) Bicep
6 12 (2.97%) C#
7 7 (1.73%) Go
8 5 (1.24%) Groovy
9 3 (0.74%) SQL
9 3 (0.74%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.50%) Rust
10 2 (0.50%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.25%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.25%) Perl
Qualifications
1 93 (23.02%) Security Cleared
2 59 (14.60%) SC Cleared
3 45 (11.14%) DV Cleared
4 3 (0.74%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (0.99%) QA
System Software
1 64 (15.84%) Docker
2 5 (1.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.99%) vSphere
4 2 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.25%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.25%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 108 (26.73%) Kubernetes
2 62 (15.35%) Ansible
3 20 (4.95%) Argo
4 9 (2.23%) Grafana
5 6 (1.49%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.24%) Progress Chef
7 3 (0.74%) Control-M
7 3 (0.74%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (0.74%) Packer
7 3 (0.74%) Puppet
8 2 (0.50%) Istio
8 2 (0.50%) Podman
8 2 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.25%) Fluentd
9 1 (0.25%) Kibana
Vendors
1 18 (4.46%) Microsoft
1 18 (4.46%) Pega
2 10 (2.48%) Google
3 9 (2.23%) VMware
4 5 (1.24%) Red Hat
5 3 (0.74%) AppDynamics
5 3 (0.74%) Atlassian
5 3 (0.74%) IBM
6 2 (0.50%) Thales
7 1 (0.25%) Dynatrace