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 £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 November 2026.

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

6 months to
6 Nov 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 226 169
Rank change year-on-year +153 -57 -70
Permanent DevOps Engineer jobs 504 62 142
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.09% 0.65% 1.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.28% 0.73% 1.20%
Number of salaries quoted 393 50 72
10th Percentile £50,250 £46,025 -
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -0.71% -12.71%
75th Percentile £81,250 £76,875 £74,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £86,375 £87,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +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 adverts in the North of England matching a recognised job title. The table also shows what proportion of all permanent IT job adverts they make up.

6 months to
6 Nov 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Permanent job adverts in the North of England matching a recognised job title 22,105 8,468 11,816
% of permanent job adverts matching a recognised job title 91.46% 88.92% 95.04%
Number of salaries quoted 15,958 5,019 6,261
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -6.54%
75th Percentile £73,750 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £59,539 £53,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +12.34% -7.83% -4.17%

DevOps Engineer Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent DevOps Engineer job postings 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 DevOps Engineer jobs in the North of England over the 6 months to 6 November 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 DevOps Engineer jobs within the North of England region over the 6 months to 6 November 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		 Job Ads
Past 6 Months		 Median Salary
Past 6 Months		 Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Live
Jobs
North West +107 284 £72,500 +11.54% 25
North East +31 145 £65,000 -21.21% 9
Yorkshire +30 84 £70,000 +7.69% 8
DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 6 November 2026, DevOps Engineer job ads cited 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 DevOps Engineer job ads across the North of England region.

RankSkillShareJob Ads
1DevOps100.0%504
2CI/CD37.1%187
3Infrastructure as Code33.1%167
4Platform Engineering28.6%144
5AWS28.0%141
5Security Cleared28.0%141
7Azure25.0%126
8Kubernetes24.6%124
9Terraform24.4%123
10SC Cleared19.4%98
11Docker19.2%97
12Linux18.1%91
13Agile16.7%84
14Python16.5%83
15Ansible15.9%80
16Containerisation15.3%77
17Site Reliability Engineering14.5%73
18DV Cleared11.9%60
19GitLab11.5%58
20Microsoft11.3%57
21Bash10.5%53
22Technical Leadership10.1%51
23Continuous Improvement9.7%49
24GitHub9.1%46
24Jenkins9.1%46
24Observability9.1%46
27Azure DevOps8.7%44
28Git8.5%43
28Mentoring8.5%43
30PowerShell7.7%39

DevOps Engineer Skill Set Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Job Titles

RankJob TitleShareJob Ads
1Senior DevOps Engineer26.8%135
2Lead DevOps Engineer11.7%59
3Cloud Engineer8.3%42
4Cloud Native Engineer6.2%31
5Principal DevOps Engineer6.0%30
6AWS DevOps Engineer5.2%26
7Azure DevOps Engineer4.8%24
7DevOps Systems Engineer4.8%24
9DevOps Platform Engineer4.6%23
10Systems Engineer3.4%17
11DevOps Automation Engineer2.8%14
11Senior Automation Engineer2.8%14
13Senior Platform Engineer2.4%12
14Operations Engineer1.8%9
14Senior Systems Engineer1.8%9
16Network Engineer1.4%7
16Senior AWS DevOps Engineer1.4%7
16Software Engineer1.4%7
19Junior DevOps Engineer0.8%4
20Infrastructure Operations Engineer0.4%2
42 DevOps Engineer jobs in the North of England