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 £65,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 July 2026.

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

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 244 178
Rank change year-on-year +159 -66 -62
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 379 67 208
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.77% 0.70% 1.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.87% 0.80% 1.40%
Number of salaries quoted 318 52 100
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,875 £48,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £54,688 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,250 £65,000 £61,250
Median % change year-on-year +0.38% +6.12% -12.50%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,875 £87,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £68,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +6.62% -9.33%

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 20,302 8,419 14,874
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.95% 88.47% 95.06%
Number of salaries quoted 14,769 4,540 10,701
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -8.26%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,063 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -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 30 July 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 July 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 +111 188 £70,000 +7.69% 24
North East +35 127 £60,000 -4.00% 12
Yorkshire +16 64 £80,000 +14.29% 13
DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 30 July 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.

1 379 (100.00%) DevOps
2 132 (34.83%) CI/CD
3 117 (30.87%) AWS
4 116 (30.61%) Terraform
5 105 (27.70%) Infrastructure as Code
6 98 (25.86%) Kubernetes
7 85 (22.43%) Platform Engineering
8 76 (20.05%) Security Cleared
9 73 (19.26%) Azure
10 65 (17.15%) Python
11 64 (16.89%) Containerisation
12 61 (16.09%) Ansible
12 61 (16.09%) Linux
13 58 (15.30%) Agile
14 50 (13.19%) Docker
14 50 (13.19%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 49 (12.93%) Mentoring
15 49 (12.93%) SC Cleared
16 43 (11.35%) GitLab
17 41 (10.82%) Jenkins
18 40 (10.55%) Azure DevOps
18 40 (10.55%) Bash
19 39 (10.29%) GitHub
20 37 (9.76%) Java
21 36 (9.50%) DV Cleared
22 35 (9.23%) Continuous Integration
23 33 (8.71%) Test Automation
24 32 (8.44%) Coaching
25 30 (7.92%) Microservices
25 30 (7.92%) Observability

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 3 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.26%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 3 (0.79%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 117 (30.87%) AWS
2 73 (19.26%) Azure
3 40 (10.55%) Azure DevOps
4 39 (10.29%) GitHub
5 27 (7.12%) GCP
6 24 (6.33%) GitHub Actions
7 16 (4.22%) AWS CloudFormation
7 16 (4.22%) Azure AKS
8 13 (3.43%) Azure Service Bus
8 13 (3.43%) Serverless
9 9 (2.37%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (1.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 7 (1.85%) Amazon EC2
10 7 (1.85%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (1.58%) Amazon S3
12 5 (1.32%) Amazon ECS
12 5 (1.32%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 4 (1.06%) OpenShift
14 3 (0.79%) Microsoft 365
14 3 (0.79%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.43%) Firewall
2 11 (2.90%) DNS
3 10 (2.64%) HTTP
3 10 (2.64%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.53%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (5.01%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (4.75%) MongoDB
3 13 (3.43%) SQL Server
4 3 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.53%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.26%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.26%) Big Data
6 1 (0.26%) MySQL
6 1 (0.26%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.26%) Power BI
6 1 (0.26%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 43 (11.35%) GitLab
2 41 (10.82%) Jenkins
3 24 (6.33%) Git
4 17 (4.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 8 (2.11%) JIRA
5 8 (2.11%) SonarQube
6 7 (1.85%) Bitbucket
7 6 (1.58%) Artifactory
8 4 (1.06%) TeamCity
9 3 (0.79%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.79%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.26%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 45 (11.87%) Public Sector
2 29 (7.65%) Social Skills
3 10 (2.64%) Law
3 10 (2.64%) Telecoms
4 8 (2.11%) Finance
5 4 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (0.79%) Financial Institution
7 2 (0.53%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (0.53%) Banking
8 1 (0.26%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.26%) Games
8 1 (0.26%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (4.49%) Elastic Stack
2 16 (4.22%) Spring
2 16 (4.22%) Spring Boot
2 16 (4.22%) YAML
3 14 (3.69%) .NET
3 14 (3.69%) Node.js
4 7 (1.85%) ARM Templates
5 5 (1.32%) Kafka
6 4 (1.06%) .NET Core
6 4 (1.06%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (0.79%) AWS CDK
7 3 (0.79%) JSON
7 3 (0.79%) REST
8 1 (0.26%) OpenTelemetry
8 1 (0.26%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 64 (16.89%) Cloud Native
2 4 (1.06%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (1.06%) Enterprise Cloud
2 4 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (0.53%) Private Cloud
4 1 (0.26%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (0.26%) Culture of Ownership
4 1 (0.26%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (0.26%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (0.26%) Mobile App
4 1 (0.26%) Onboarding
4 1 (0.26%) Public Cloud
4 1 (0.26%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 61 (16.09%) Linux
2 29 (7.65%) Windows
3 20 (5.28%) Unix
4 13 (3.43%) CentOS
4 13 (3.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.79%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.53%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.26%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 379 (100.00%) DevOps
2 132 (34.83%) CI/CD
3 105 (27.70%) Infrastructure as Code
4 85 (22.43%) Platform Engineering
5 64 (16.89%) Containerisation
6 58 (15.30%) Agile
7 50 (13.19%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 49 (12.93%) Mentoring
9 35 (9.23%) Continuous Integration
10 33 (8.71%) Test Automation
11 32 (8.44%) Coaching
12 30 (7.92%) Microservices
12 30 (7.92%) Observability
13 28 (7.39%) Scrum
14 22 (5.80%) Continuous Improvement
15 20 (5.28%) Problem-Solving
16 18 (4.75%) Technical Leadership
17 17 (4.49%) DevSecOps
18 16 (4.22%) Deployment Automation
19 15 (3.96%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 65 (17.15%) Python
2 40 (10.55%) Bash
3 37 (9.76%) Java
4 29 (7.65%) PowerShell
5 16 (4.22%) Go
6 12 (3.17%) Bicep
6 12 (3.17%) C#
7 4 (1.06%) Groovy
8 3 (0.79%) SQL
9 2 (0.53%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.26%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.26%) Perl
10 1 (0.26%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 76 (20.05%) Security Cleared
2 49 (12.93%) SC Cleared
3 36 (9.50%) DV Cleared
4 3 (0.79%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.06%) QA
System Software
1 50 (13.19%) Docker
2 5 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.06%) vSphere
4 2 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.26%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.26%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 116 (30.61%) Terraform
2 98 (25.86%) Kubernetes
3 61 (16.09%) Ansible
4 20 (5.28%) Argo
4 20 (5.28%) Grafana
5 17 (4.49%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.79%) Control-M
6 3 (0.79%) Docker Swarm
6 3 (0.79%) Packer
7 2 (0.53%) Istio
7 2 (0.53%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.26%) Fluentd
8 1 (0.26%) Kibana
8 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.26%) Puppet
Vendors
1 18 (4.75%) Pega
2 17 (4.49%) Microsoft
3 10 (2.64%) Google
4 9 (2.37%) VMware
5 3 (0.79%) AppDynamics
5 3 (0.79%) Atlassian
5 3 (0.79%) IBM
6 1 (0.26%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.26%) Red Hat