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 23 July 2026.

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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 250 179
Rank change year-on-year +161 -71 -56
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 363 67 198
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.72% 0.71% 1.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.82% 0.80% 1.25%
Number of salaries quoted 307 52 100
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £48,250
25th Percentile £54,375 £53,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £77,813
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 19,992 8,355 15,828
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.83% 88.44% 95.18%
Number of salaries quoted 14,556 4,502 11,673
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,750 £36,565
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -8.26%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,250 £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 23 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 23 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 +112 180 £70,000 +11.55% 27
North East +31 120 £60,000 - 20
Yorkshire +14 63 £80,000 +14.29% 14
DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 23 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.

1 363 (100.00%) DevOps
2 126 (34.71%) CI/CD
3 115 (31.68%) AWS
4 112 (30.85%) Terraform
5 99 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
6 93 (25.62%) Kubernetes
7 81 (22.31%) Platform Engineering
8 74 (20.39%) Azure
9 69 (19.01%) Security Cleared
10 62 (17.08%) Containerisation
10 62 (17.08%) Python
11 59 (16.25%) Ansible
12 58 (15.98%) Linux
13 56 (15.43%) Agile
14 49 (13.50%) Mentoring
15 47 (12.95%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 46 (12.67%) SC Cleared
17 43 (11.85%) Docker
18 42 (11.57%) Azure DevOps
19 41 (11.29%) Bash
20 40 (11.02%) GitLab
21 39 (10.74%) Jenkins
22 38 (10.47%) GitHub
23 36 (9.92%) Continuous Integration
24 34 (9.37%) Java
25 31 (8.54%) Coaching
25 31 (8.54%) DV Cleared
25 31 (8.54%) Test Automation
26 29 (7.99%) GCP
27 28 (7.71%) Microservices

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 4 (1.10%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.28%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (0.28%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 115 (31.68%) AWS
2 74 (20.39%) Azure
3 42 (11.57%) Azure DevOps
4 38 (10.47%) GitHub
5 29 (7.99%) GCP
6 25 (6.89%) GitHub Actions
7 17 (4.68%) Azure AKS
8 14 (3.86%) AWS CloudFormation
9 13 (3.58%) Azure Service Bus
10 9 (2.48%) Amazon EKS
10 9 (2.48%) Serverless
11 6 (1.65%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (1.38%) Amazon S3
12 5 (1.38%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 4 (1.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 4 (1.10%) AWS Lambda
13 4 (1.10%) Entra ID
13 4 (1.10%) Microsoft 365
13 4 (1.10%) OpenShift
14 3 (0.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.41%) Firewall
2 12 (3.31%) DNS
2 12 (3.31%) HTTP
2 12 (3.31%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.55%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (4.96%) MongoDB
1 18 (4.96%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (3.31%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.28%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.28%) Big Data
3 1 (0.28%) MySQL
3 1 (0.28%) Power BI
3 1 (0.28%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 40 (11.02%) GitLab
2 39 (10.74%) Jenkins
3 20 (5.51%) Git
4 15 (4.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 8 (2.20%) JIRA
6 7 (1.93%) Bitbucket
6 7 (1.93%) SonarQube
7 6 (1.65%) Artifactory
8 3 (0.83%) Cucumber
8 3 (0.83%) Octopus Deploy
8 3 (0.83%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.28%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 43 (11.85%) Public Sector
2 26 (7.16%) Social Skills
3 12 (3.31%) Law
3 12 (3.31%) Telecoms
4 7 (1.93%) Finance
5 4 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (0.83%) Financial Institution
7 2 (0.55%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (0.55%) Banking
8 1 (0.28%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.28%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (5.23%) Elastic Stack
2 16 (4.41%) YAML
3 14 (3.86%) Node.js
4 13 (3.58%) .NET
4 13 (3.58%) Spring
4 13 (3.58%) Spring Boot
5 7 (1.93%) ARM Templates
6 5 (1.38%) Kafka
7 4 (1.10%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (0.83%) .NET Core
8 3 (0.83%) JSON
8 3 (0.83%) REST
9 2 (0.55%) AWS CDK
10 1 (0.28%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 58 (15.98%) Cloud Native
2 4 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (1.10%) Enterprise Cloud
2 4 (1.10%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (0.55%) Mobile App
3 2 (0.55%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (0.28%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (0.28%) Culture of Ownership
4 1 (0.28%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (0.28%) Onboarding
4 1 (0.28%) Private Cloud
4 1 (0.28%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 58 (15.98%) Linux
2 28 (7.71%) Windows
3 20 (5.51%) Unix
4 11 (3.03%) CentOS
4 11 (3.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.83%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.55%) Debian
6 2 (0.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 363 (100.00%) DevOps
2 126 (34.71%) CI/CD
3 99 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
4 81 (22.31%) Platform Engineering
5 62 (17.08%) Containerisation
6 56 (15.43%) Agile
7 49 (13.50%) Mentoring
8 47 (12.95%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 36 (9.92%) Continuous Integration
10 31 (8.54%) Coaching
10 31 (8.54%) Test Automation
11 28 (7.71%) Microservices
11 28 (7.71%) Scrum
12 27 (7.44%) Observability
13 21 (5.79%) Continuous Improvement
14 19 (5.23%) Problem-Solving
15 18 (4.96%) DevSecOps
16 16 (4.41%) Deployment Automation
17 15 (4.13%) Continuous Delivery
17 15 (4.13%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 62 (17.08%) Python
2 41 (11.29%) Bash
3 34 (9.37%) Java
4 28 (7.71%) PowerShell
5 18 (4.96%) Go
6 12 (3.31%) Bicep
6 12 (3.31%) C#
7 4 (1.10%) Groovy
8 3 (0.83%) SQL
9 1 (0.28%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.28%) Perl
9 1 (0.28%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.28%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 69 (19.01%) Security Cleared
2 46 (12.67%) SC Cleared
3 31 (8.54%) DV Cleared
4 3 (0.83%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (0.83%) QA
System Software
1 43 (11.85%) Docker
2 5 (1.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.10%) vSphere
4 2 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.28%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.28%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 112 (30.85%) Terraform
2 93 (25.62%) Kubernetes
3 59 (16.25%) Ansible
4 22 (6.06%) Grafana
5 20 (5.51%) Argo
6 19 (5.23%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.83%) Control-M
7 3 (0.83%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (0.83%) Packer
8 2 (0.55%) Istio
8 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.55%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.28%) Puppet
Vendors
1 18 (4.96%) Microsoft
1 18 (4.96%) Pega
2 10 (2.75%) Google
3 9 (2.48%) VMware
4 3 (0.83%) AppDynamics
4 3 (0.83%) Atlassian
4 3 (0.83%) IBM
5 1 (0.28%) Red Hat