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 £69,310 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 September 2026.

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

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 230 154
Rank change year-on-year +148 -76 -52
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 412 64 201
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.74% 0.68% 1.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.86% 0.78% 1.51%
Number of salaries quoted 325 50 92
10th Percentile £47,500 £42,425 -
25th Percentile £57,000 £55,000 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,310 £65,000 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year +6.63% -0.71% -6.48%
75th Percentile £81,250 £75,000 £72,431
90th Percentile £95,000 £86,375 £87,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% +3.70% -10.00%

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 22,199 8,178 13,337
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.53% 87.15% 94.99%
Number of salaries quoted 16,144 4,384 7,948
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,438 £38,734
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -5.66%
75th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £78,000
England median annual salary £59,853 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.82% - -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 17 September 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 17 September 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 +108 210 £75,000 +15.38% 82
North East +33 137 £60,000 - 29
Yorkshire +6 65 £80,000 +23.08% 39
DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 17 September 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.

1 412 (100.00%) DevOps
2 141 (34.22%) CI/CD
3 115 (27.91%) Terraform
4 113 (27.43%) Infrastructure as Code
5 112 (27.18%) AWS
6 109 (26.46%) Kubernetes
7 99 (24.03%) Platform Engineering
8 93 (22.57%) Security Cleared
9 83 (20.15%) Azure
10 70 (16.99%) Linux
11 69 (16.75%) Agile
12 68 (16.50%) Docker
13 67 (16.26%) Python
14 60 (14.56%) Ansible
14 60 (14.56%) Containerisation
15 58 (14.08%) SC Cleared
16 57 (13.83%) GitLab
17 49 (11.89%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 48 (11.65%) Mentoring
19 46 (11.17%) DV Cleared
20 41 (9.95%) Jenkins
21 40 (9.71%) Java
21 40 (9.71%) Test Automation
22 38 (9.22%) Bash
22 38 (9.22%) GitHub
23 37 (8.98%) Azure DevOps
23 37 (8.98%) Coaching
24 35 (8.50%) Observability
25 34 (8.25%) Technical Leadership
26 33 (8.01%) Continuous Integration

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 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.24%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 7 (1.70%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 112 (27.18%) AWS
2 83 (20.15%) Azure
3 38 (9.22%) GitHub
4 37 (8.98%) Azure DevOps
5 21 (5.10%) GCP
5 21 (5.10%) Serverless
6 20 (4.85%) AWS CloudFormation
6 20 (4.85%) GitHub Actions
7 17 (4.13%) Azure AKS
8 13 (3.16%) Azure Service Bus
9 10 (2.43%) Amazon EC2
10 9 (2.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 9 (2.18%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (1.94%) OpenShift
12 6 (1.46%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (1.46%) Amazon S3
13 5 (1.21%) Azure Key Vault
13 5 (1.21%) Azure Monitor
13 5 (1.21%) Power Platform
13 5 (1.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.49%) Firewall
1 2 (0.49%) Internet
1 2 (0.49%) SAN
2 1 (0.24%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (4.85%) MongoDB
2 19 (4.61%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (3.16%) SQL Server
4 3 (0.73%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (0.73%) MySQL
4 3 (0.73%) Power BI
5 2 (0.49%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.24%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.24%) Big Data
6 1 (0.24%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 57 (13.83%) GitLab
2 41 (9.95%) Jenkins
3 29 (7.04%) Git
4 20 (4.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 13 (3.16%) SonarQube
6 9 (2.18%) JIRA
7 7 (1.70%) Bitbucket
8 6 (1.46%) Artifactory
9 4 (0.97%) TeamCity
10 3 (0.73%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.73%) Octopus Deploy
11 1 (0.24%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 51 (12.38%) Public Sector
2 34 (8.25%) Social Skills
3 11 (2.67%) Finance
4 4 (0.97%) Aerospace
4 4 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (0.73%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (0.73%) Financial Institution
5 3 (0.73%) Retail
6 2 (0.49%) Banking
6 2 (0.49%) Marketing
7 1 (0.24%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (27.91%) Terraform
2 21 (5.10%) .NET
3 19 (4.61%) Spring
3 19 (4.61%) Spring Boot
4 18 (4.37%) Node.js
5 14 (3.40%) YAML
6 11 (2.67%) .NET Core
7 7 (1.70%) ARM Templates
7 7 (1.70%) Elastic Stack
8 6 (1.46%) AWS CDK
9 5 (1.21%) Kafka
10 4 (0.97%) Pulumi
11 3 (0.73%) JSON
11 3 (0.73%) RabbitMQ
11 3 (0.73%) REST
12 2 (0.49%) Web Services
13 1 (0.24%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 85 (20.63%) Cloud Native
2 7 (1.70%) Private Cloud
3 3 (0.73%) Culture of Ownership
3 3 (0.73%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (0.73%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (0.73%) Onboarding
4 2 (0.49%) Enterprise Cloud
4 2 (0.49%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (0.49%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.24%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 70 (16.99%) Linux
2 28 (6.80%) Windows
3 20 (4.85%) Unix
4 18 (4.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 16 (3.88%) CentOS
6 2 (0.49%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.24%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 412 (100.00%) DevOps
2 141 (34.22%) CI/CD
3 113 (27.43%) Infrastructure as Code
4 99 (24.03%) Platform Engineering
5 69 (16.75%) Agile
6 60 (14.56%) Containerisation
7 49 (11.89%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 48 (11.65%) Mentoring
9 40 (9.71%) Test Automation
10 37 (8.98%) Coaching
11 35 (8.50%) Observability
12 34 (8.25%) Technical Leadership
13 33 (8.01%) Continuous Integration
13 33 (8.01%) Microservices
14 29 (7.04%) Scrum
15 25 (6.07%) Continuous Improvement
16 23 (5.58%) Problem-Solving
17 20 (4.85%) Deployment Automation
18 18 (4.37%) Infrastructure Automation
19 17 (4.13%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 67 (16.26%) Python
2 40 (9.71%) Java
3 38 (9.22%) Bash
4 33 (8.01%) PowerShell
5 15 (3.64%) Bicep
6 12 (2.91%) C#
7 7 (1.70%) Go
8 5 (1.21%) Groovy
9 4 (0.97%) Shell Script
9 4 (0.97%) TypeScript
10 3 (0.73%) SQL
11 2 (0.49%) Rust
12 1 (0.24%) JavaScript
12 1 (0.24%) Perl
Qualifications
1 93 (22.57%) Security Cleared
2 58 (14.08%) SC Cleared
3 46 (11.17%) DV Cleared
4 3 (0.73%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (1.21%) QA
System Software
1 68 (16.50%) Docker
2 5 (1.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.97%) vSphere
4 2 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.24%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.24%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 109 (26.46%) Kubernetes
2 60 (14.56%) Ansible
3 21 (5.10%) Argo
4 11 (2.67%) Grafana
5 8 (1.94%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.21%) Progress Chef
7 3 (0.73%) Control-M
7 3 (0.73%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (0.73%) Packer
7 3 (0.73%) Puppet
8 2 (0.49%) Istio
8 2 (0.49%) Podman
8 2 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.24%) Fluentd
9 1 (0.24%) Kibana
Vendors
1 19 (4.61%) Microsoft
2 18 (4.37%) Pega
3 12 (2.91%) Google
4 9 (2.18%) VMware
5 5 (1.21%) Red Hat
6 3 (0.73%) AppDynamics
6 3 (0.73%) Atlassian
6 3 (0.73%) IBM
7 2 (0.49%) Thales
8 1 (0.24%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.24%) Splunk