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 1 October 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 233 154
Rank change year-on-year +152 -79 -62
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 464 60 187
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.93% 0.63% 1.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.07% 0.72% 1.45%
Number of salaries quoted 363 48 88
10th Percentile £48,750 £45,075 -
25th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -0.71% -6.48%
75th Percentile £81,250 £75,000 £72,431
90th Percentile £95,000 £86,625 £87,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £68,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% +2.94% -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 22,380 8,342 12,913
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.98% 87.38% 94.92%
Number of salaries quoted 16,344 4,289 7,282
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,250 £38,890
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £78,725
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -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 1 October 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 1 October 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 +124 242 £75,000 +15.38% 85
North East +34 148 £60,000 -11.11% 26
Yorkshire +27 80 £80,000 +23.08% 34
DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 October 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.

1 464 (100.00%) DevOps
2 166 (35.78%) CI/CD
3 142 (30.60%) AWS
4 137 (29.53%) Infrastructure as Code
5 125 (26.94%) Terraform
6 122 (26.29%) Platform Engineering
7 117 (25.22%) Kubernetes
8 110 (23.71%) Azure
9 109 (23.49%) Security Cleared
10 92 (19.83%) Linux
11 84 (18.10%) Docker
12 82 (17.67%) Agile
13 76 (16.38%) Python
14 74 (15.95%) SC Cleared
15 73 (15.73%) Containerisation
16 68 (14.66%) Ansible
17 67 (14.44%) GitLab
18 66 (14.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 63 (13.58%) Mentoring
20 52 (11.21%) DV Cleared
21 50 (10.78%) Test Automation
22 48 (10.34%) Continuous Integration
23 45 (9.70%) Bash
23 45 (9.70%) Jenkins
24 44 (9.48%) Coaching
25 43 (9.27%) Azure DevOps
25 43 (9.27%) GitHub
26 42 (9.05%) Git
26 42 (9.05%) Java
26 42 (9.05%) 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 3 (0.65%) Confluence
2 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.43%) nginx
Business Applications
1 7 (1.51%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 142 (30.60%) AWS
2 110 (23.71%) Azure
3 43 (9.27%) Azure DevOps
3 43 (9.27%) GitHub
4 31 (6.68%) GCP
5 22 (4.74%) AWS CloudFormation
5 22 (4.74%) Serverless
6 20 (4.31%) GitHub Actions
7 18 (3.88%) Azure AKS
8 13 (2.80%) Azure Service Bus
9 12 (2.59%) Amazon EC2
9 12 (2.59%) Cloud Computing
10 10 (2.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 10 (2.16%) Amazon ECS
11 9 (1.94%) AWS Lambda
12 8 (1.72%) OpenShift
13 7 (1.51%) Amazon S3
14 6 (1.29%) Amazon EKS
15 5 (1.08%) Azure Monitor
15 5 (1.08%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.59%) Internet
2 2 (0.43%) DNS
2 2 (0.43%) Firewall
2 2 (0.43%) Reverse Proxy
2 2 (0.43%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (4.31%) MongoDB
2 19 (4.09%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (2.80%) SQL Server
4 3 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (0.65%) MySQL
4 3 (0.65%) Power BI
5 2 (0.43%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.43%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.22%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.22%) Big Data
6 1 (0.22%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 67 (14.44%) GitLab
2 45 (9.70%) Jenkins
3 42 (9.05%) Git
4 23 (4.96%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 13 (2.80%) SonarQube
6 11 (2.37%) JIRA
7 8 (1.72%) Artifactory
8 7 (1.51%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.86%) TeamCity
10 3 (0.65%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.65%) Octopus Deploy
11 1 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 64 (13.79%) Public Sector
2 36 (7.76%) Social Skills
3 17 (3.66%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (3.66%) Finance
4 5 (1.08%) Aerospace
5 4 (0.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (0.86%) Retail
6 3 (0.65%) Financial Institution
7 2 (0.43%) Banking
7 2 (0.43%) Marketing
8 1 (0.22%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 125 (26.94%) Terraform
2 21 (4.53%) .NET
2 21 (4.53%) Spring
2 21 (4.53%) Spring Boot
3 18 (3.88%) Node.js
4 12 (2.59%) YAML
5 11 (2.37%) .NET Core
6 8 (1.72%) Elastic Stack
7 7 (1.51%) ARM Templates
7 7 (1.51%) Kafka
8 6 (1.29%) AWS CDK
9 4 (0.86%) Pulumi
10 3 (0.65%) JSON
10 3 (0.65%) RabbitMQ
10 3 (0.65%) REST
11 2 (0.43%) Web Services
12 1 (0.22%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 91 (19.61%) Cloud Native
2 13 (2.80%) Linux Command Line
3 7 (1.51%) Culture of Ownership
3 7 (1.51%) Private Cloud
4 3 (0.65%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (0.65%) Onboarding
5 2 (0.43%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (0.43%) Public Cloud
5 2 (0.43%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.22%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.22%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.22%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 92 (19.83%) Linux
2 27 (5.82%) Windows
3 26 (5.60%) Unix
4 22 (4.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 19 (4.09%) CentOS
6 1 (0.22%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 464 (100.00%) DevOps
2 166 (35.78%) CI/CD
3 137 (29.53%) Infrastructure as Code
4 122 (26.29%) Platform Engineering
5 82 (17.67%) Agile
6 73 (15.73%) Containerisation
7 66 (14.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 63 (13.58%) Mentoring
9 50 (10.78%) Test Automation
10 48 (10.34%) Continuous Integration
11 44 (9.48%) Coaching
12 42 (9.05%) Technical Leadership
13 40 (8.62%) Observability
14 36 (7.76%) Continuous Improvement
14 36 (7.76%) Microservices
15 34 (7.33%) Scrum
16 29 (6.25%) Problem-Solving
17 27 (5.82%) Deployment Automation
18 26 (5.60%) Cloud Security
19 24 (5.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 76 (16.38%) Python
2 45 (9.70%) Bash
3 42 (9.05%) Java
4 35 (7.54%) PowerShell
5 15 (3.23%) Bicep
6 14 (3.02%) Shell Script
7 12 (2.59%) C#
8 10 (2.16%) Go
9 5 (1.08%) Groovy
10 4 (0.86%) TypeScript
11 3 (0.65%) SQL
12 2 (0.43%) Rust
13 1 (0.22%) JavaScript
13 1 (0.22%) Perl
Qualifications
1 109 (23.49%) Security Cleared
2 74 (15.95%) SC Cleared
3 52 (11.21%) DV Cleared
4 3 (0.65%) Degree
5 2 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.22%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (1.08%) QA
System Software
1 84 (18.10%) Docker
2 4 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.65%) vSphere
4 2 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.22%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 117 (25.22%) Kubernetes
2 68 (14.66%) Ansible
3 21 (4.53%) Argo
4 14 (3.02%) Grafana
5 11 (2.37%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.08%) Progress Chef
7 3 (0.65%) Control-M
7 3 (0.65%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (0.65%) Packer
7 3 (0.65%) Podman
7 3 (0.65%) Puppet
8 2 (0.43%) Istio
8 2 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.22%) Fluentd
9 1 (0.22%) Kibana
9 1 (0.22%) Opsview
Vendors
1 31 (6.68%) Microsoft
2 22 (4.74%) Google
3 18 (3.88%) Pega
4 8 (1.72%) VMware
5 6 (1.29%) Red Hat
6 3 (0.65%) AppDynamics
6 3 (0.65%) Atlassian
6 3 (0.65%) IBM
6 3 (0.65%) Thales
6 3 (0.65%) YouTube
7 2 (0.43%) Databricks
8 1 (0.22%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.22%) Splunk