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 11 February 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 201 193 180
Rank change year-on-year -8 -13 -24
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 73 71 162
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.59% 0.89% 1.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.67% 0.96% 1.37%
Number of salaries quoted 67 43 149
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,950 £48,750
25th Percentile £47,125 £48,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £68,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.41% -2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £74,500 £76,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £93,500 £91,934
England median annual salary £70,000 £80,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -12.50% +10.34% -6.45%

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 10,974 7,390 11,789
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.32% 92.94% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 6,601 3,677 9,677
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £27,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,050 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £66,250 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%

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 11 February 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 11 February 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 +23 34 £67,500 +3.85% 22
Yorkshire -35 21 £60,000 -11.76% 11
North East +4 18 £60,000 +4.35% 5
DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 11 February 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 73 (100.00%) DevOps
2 45 (61.64%) AWS
3 43 (58.90%) Terraform
4 42 (57.53%) CI/CD
5 38 (52.05%) Infrastructure as Code
6 37 (50.68%) Azure
7 28 (38.36%) Ansible
7 28 (38.36%) Containerisation
7 28 (38.36%) Kubernetes
8 27 (36.99%) Grafana
9 25 (34.25%) GCP
9 25 (34.25%) Prometheus
10 22 (30.14%) Jenkins
10 22 (30.14%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 21 (28.77%) GitHub
12 20 (27.40%) Azure DevOps
12 20 (27.40%) Docker
12 20 (27.40%) Python
13 19 (26.03%) GitHub Actions
14 17 (23.29%) Agile
14 17 (23.29%) Firewall
15 16 (21.92%) Bash
15 16 (21.92%) Continuous Integration
15 16 (21.92%) Elastic Stack
15 16 (21.92%) Go
15 16 (21.92%) Observability
16 15 (20.55%) DNS
17 14 (19.18%) GitLab
17 14 (19.18%) High Availability
18 13 (17.81%) DevSecOps

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 1 (1.37%) Apache
1 1 (1.37%) IIS
1 1 (1.37%) JBoss
1 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (1.37%) nginx
1 1 (1.37%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 45 (61.64%) AWS
2 37 (50.68%) Azure
3 25 (34.25%) GCP
4 21 (28.77%) GitHub
5 20 (27.40%) Azure DevOps
6 19 (26.03%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (8.22%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (6.85%) PaaS
9 4 (5.48%) Amazon SQS
10 3 (4.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (4.11%) OpenShift
11 2 (2.74%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (2.74%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (2.74%) Amazon S3
11 2 (2.74%) Azure AKS
11 2 (2.74%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 2 (2.74%) Azure Sentinel
11 2 (2.74%) Slack
12 1 (1.37%) Datadog
12 1 (1.37%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 17 (23.29%) Firewall
2 15 (20.55%) DNS
3 12 (16.44%) HTTP
3 12 (16.44%) TCP/IP
4 3 (4.11%) WAN
5 2 (2.74%) SAN
6 1 (1.37%) DHCP
6 1 (1.37%) LAN
6 1 (1.37%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.11%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.74%) MongoDB
2 2 (2.74%) MySQL
3 1 (1.37%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 22 (30.14%) Jenkins
2 14 (19.18%) GitLab
3 4 (5.48%) SonarQube
4 3 (4.11%) Artifactory
4 3 (4.11%) JIRA
5 2 (2.74%) Bitbucket
5 2 (2.74%) CircleCI
5 2 (2.74%) Git
5 2 (2.74%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (2.74%) TeamCity
6 1 (1.37%) Ant
6 1 (1.37%) git-flow
6 1 (1.37%) Maven
6 1 (1.37%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 15 (20.55%) Telecoms
2 13 (17.81%) Law
3 7 (9.59%) Social Skills
4 6 (8.22%) Finance
5 2 (2.74%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.74%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.37%) Electronics
6 1 (1.37%) Legal
6 1 (1.37%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.37%) Marketing
6 1 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.37%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (21.92%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (6.85%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (5.48%) .NET
4 2 (2.74%) ASP.NET Web API
4 2 (2.74%) Kafka
4 2 (2.74%) React
4 2 (2.74%) WCF
5 1 (1.37%) ARM Templates
5 1 (1.37%) AWS CDK
5 1 (1.37%) JSON
5 1 (1.37%) LDAP
5 1 (1.37%) Middleware
5 1 (1.37%) Node.js
5 1 (1.37%) RESTful
5 1 (1.37%) SOAP
5 1 (1.37%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (16.44%) Cloud Native
2 3 (4.11%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (2.74%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (2.74%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.37%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.37%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.37%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 8 (10.96%) Linux
2 7 (9.59%) Windows
3 2 (2.74%) VMS
4 1 (1.37%) Debian
4 1 (1.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.37%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.37%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (100.00%) DevOps
2 42 (57.53%) CI/CD
3 38 (52.05%) Infrastructure as Code
4 28 (38.36%) Containerisation
5 22 (30.14%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 17 (23.29%) Agile
7 16 (21.92%) Continuous Integration
7 16 (21.92%) Observability
8 14 (19.18%) High Availability
9 13 (17.81%) DevSecOps
9 13 (17.81%) Vulnerability Scanning
10 12 (16.44%) Continuous Delivery
10 12 (16.44%) Static Code Analysis
11 10 (13.70%) Problem-Solving
12 9 (12.33%) Incident Response
12 9 (12.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 8 (10.96%) Mentoring
14 7 (9.59%) Infrastructure Automation
15 6 (8.22%) Line Management
15 6 (8.22%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 20 (27.40%) Python
2 16 (21.92%) Bash
2 16 (21.92%) Go
3 7 (9.59%) PowerShell
4 5 (6.85%) Java
5 4 (5.48%) Bicep
6 3 (4.11%) C#
7 2 (2.74%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.37%) Groovy
8 1 (1.37%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (8.22%) Security Cleared
2 3 (4.11%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.74%) Degree
4 1 (1.37%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.74%) QA
2 1 (1.37%) GDPR
2 1 (1.37%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 20 (27.40%) Docker
2 4 (5.48%) vSphere
3 3 (4.11%) Active Directory
4 2 (2.74%) VMware NSX
5 1 (1.37%) Squid
5 1 (1.37%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (1.37%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 43 (58.90%) Terraform
2 28 (38.36%) Ansible
2 28 (38.36%) Kubernetes
3 27 (36.99%) Grafana
4 25 (34.25%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.74%) Control-M
5 2 (2.74%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (1.37%) Argo
6 1 (1.37%) Kibana
6 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.37%) Podman
6 1 (1.37%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (6.85%) VMware
2 4 (5.48%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.74%) AppDynamics
3 2 (2.74%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.37%) Duck Creek
4 1 (1.37%) F5
4 1 (1.37%) Google
4 1 (1.37%) New Relic
4 1 (1.37%) SAP
4 1 (1.37%) Splunk