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 May 2026.

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

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 150 226 194
Rank change year-on-year +76 -32 -57
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 219 61 193
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.12% 0.79% 1.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.21% 0.88% 1.19%
Number of salaries quoted 187 47 125
10th Percentile £24,000 £42,500 £48,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -13.60%
75th Percentile £80,000 £79,670 £72,433
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,000 £87,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £80,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% +14.29% -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 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 18,138 6,895 16,229
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.10% 89.74% 95.02%
Number of salaries quoted 12,431 3,441 12,951
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,968 £27,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,445 £52,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.86% +4.00% -6.54%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £55,457 £57,560 £53,250
% change year-on-year -3.65% +8.09% -12.42%

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 May 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 May 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 +47 89 £70,000 +3.70% 24
North East +18 84 £60,000 +6.19% 16
Yorkshire -13 46 £70,000 - 11
DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 23 May 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.

1 219 (100.00%) DevOps
2 83 (37.90%) AWS
3 71 (32.42%) CI/CD
3 71 (32.42%) Terraform
4 59 (26.94%) Azure
5 52 (23.74%) Infrastructure as Code
6 41 (18.72%) Kubernetes
7 38 (17.35%) Mentoring
8 35 (15.98%) Azure DevOps
8 35 (15.98%) Python
9 34 (15.53%) Ansible
9 34 (15.53%) Containerisation
10 33 (15.07%) Agile
11 31 (14.16%) Continuous Integration
11 31 (14.16%) GCP
11 31 (14.16%) GitLab
11 31 (14.16%) Security Cleared
12 30 (13.70%) Platform Engineering
13 28 (12.79%) Jenkins
14 27 (12.33%) Linux
15 26 (11.87%) GitHub
16 25 (11.42%) Bash
17 24 (10.96%) GitHub Actions
17 24 (10.96%) Grafana
18 22 (10.05%) Prometheus
18 22 (10.05%) SC Cleared
19 21 (9.59%) Site Reliability Engineering
20 20 (9.13%) Elastic Stack
21 19 (8.68%) Java
21 19 (8.68%) Test Automation

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 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.46%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.46%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 83 (37.90%) AWS
2 59 (26.94%) Azure
3 35 (15.98%) Azure DevOps
4 31 (14.16%) GCP
5 26 (11.87%) GitHub
6 24 (10.96%) GitHub Actions
7 15 (6.85%) Azure AKS
8 13 (5.94%) Azure Service Bus
9 9 (4.11%) Amazon EKS
10 6 (2.74%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (2.28%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (1.83%) Amazon S3
13 3 (1.37%) AWS Lambda
13 3 (1.37%) Serverless
14 2 (0.91%) Amazon ECS
14 2 (0.91%) Entra ID
14 2 (0.91%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 2 (0.91%) Microsoft 365
14 2 (0.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 1 (0.46%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 18 (8.22%) Firewall
2 15 (6.85%) DNS
2 15 (6.85%) HTTP
2 15 (6.85%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (5.94%) MongoDB
1 13 (5.94%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (1.37%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.46%) Big Data
3 1 (0.46%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 31 (14.16%) GitLab
2 28 (12.79%) Jenkins
3 6 (2.74%) JIRA
4 5 (2.28%) Artifactory
4 5 (2.28%) Git
4 5 (2.28%) SonarQube
5 3 (1.37%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.91%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.91%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (0.91%) TeamCity
General
1 21 (9.59%) Public Sector
2 16 (7.31%) Telecoms
3 15 (6.85%) Law
4 8 (3.65%) Social Skills
5 4 (1.83%) Finance
6 3 (1.37%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (0.91%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.46%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (9.13%) Elastic Stack
2 13 (5.94%) Node.js
3 10 (4.57%) YAML
4 4 (1.83%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (1.37%) .NET
5 3 (1.37%) ARM Templates
5 3 (1.37%) JSON
5 3 (1.37%) REST
6 1 (0.46%) Spring
6 1 (0.46%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.46%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (4.57%) Cloud Native
2 5 (2.28%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (1.83%) Enterprise Cloud
3 4 (1.83%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (0.91%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (0.91%) Mobile App
4 2 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.46%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.46%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 27 (12.33%) Linux
2 19 (8.68%) Windows
3 13 (5.94%) Unix
4 3 (1.37%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.91%) Debian
5 2 (0.91%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 219 (100.00%) DevOps
2 71 (32.42%) CI/CD
3 52 (23.74%) Infrastructure as Code
4 38 (17.35%) Mentoring
5 34 (15.53%) Containerisation
6 33 (15.07%) Agile
7 31 (14.16%) Continuous Integration
8 30 (13.70%) Platform Engineering
9 21 (9.59%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 19 (8.68%) Test Automation
11 17 (7.76%) DevSecOps
11 17 (7.76%) Microservices
11 17 (7.76%) Scrum
12 15 (6.85%) Coaching
12 15 (6.85%) Continuous Delivery
12 15 (6.85%) Cybersecurity
12 15 (6.85%) High Availability
12 15 (6.85%) Static Code Analysis
12 15 (6.85%) Vulnerability Scanning
13 13 (5.94%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 35 (15.98%) Python
2 25 (11.42%) Bash
3 19 (8.68%) Java
4 17 (7.76%) Go
5 11 (5.02%) PowerShell
6 5 (2.28%) C#
7 4 (1.83%) Groovy
8 3 (1.37%) Bicep
9 2 (0.91%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.91%) SQL
10 1 (0.46%) Perl
Qualifications
1 31 (14.16%) Security Cleared
2 22 (10.05%) SC Cleared
3 2 (0.91%) Degree
3 2 (0.91%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.37%) QA
System Software
1 17 (7.76%) Docker
2 3 (1.37%) vSphere
3 2 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.46%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 71 (32.42%) Terraform
2 41 (18.72%) Kubernetes
3 34 (15.53%) Ansible
4 24 (10.96%) Grafana
5 22 (10.05%) Prometheus
6 14 (6.39%) Argo
7 3 (1.37%) Packer
8 2 (0.91%) Control-M
8 2 (0.91%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (0.91%) Istio
8 2 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.46%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 11 (5.02%) Microsoft
2 7 (3.20%) Google
3 6 (2.74%) VMware
4 3 (1.37%) AppDynamics
4 3 (1.37%) IBM
5 2 (0.91%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.46%) Duck Creek
6 1 (0.46%) F5