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 18 May 2026.

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

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 233 207
Rank change year-on-year +82 -26 -72
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 209 60 187
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.10% 0.76% 1.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.18% 0.84% 1.16%
Number of salaries quoted 181 46 121
10th Percentile £24,000 £43,625 £48,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £49,313 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.06% +12.92% -12.09%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,085 £72,433
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £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 17,675 7,136 16,174
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.99% 90.48% 95.01%
Number of salaries quoted 12,049 3,769 12,914
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £27,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £51,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% +2.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £53,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +7.48% -12.01%

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 18 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 18 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 +55 84 £70,000 +3.70% 18
North East +26 80 £60,000 +6.19% 16
Yorkshire -13 45 £70,000 - 12
DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 18 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.

1 209 (100.00%) DevOps
2 79 (37.80%) AWS
3 68 (32.54%) CI/CD
4 67 (32.06%) Terraform
5 57 (27.27%) Azure
6 49 (23.44%) Infrastructure as Code
7 38 (18.18%) Mentoring
8 37 (17.70%) Kubernetes
9 34 (16.27%) Azure DevOps
10 33 (15.79%) Ansible
10 33 (15.79%) Python
11 32 (15.31%) Agile
12 31 (14.83%) Containerisation
12 31 (14.83%) Continuous Integration
12 31 (14.83%) GCP
13 30 (14.35%) GitLab
14 29 (13.88%) Security Cleared
15 26 (12.44%) Jenkins
15 26 (12.44%) Linux
15 26 (12.44%) Platform Engineering
16 25 (11.96%) GitHub
17 23 (11.00%) Bash
17 23 (11.00%) GitHub Actions
17 23 (11.00%) Grafana
18 21 (10.05%) Prometheus
18 21 (10.05%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 20 (9.57%) Elastic Stack
19 20 (9.57%) SC Cleared
20 19 (9.09%) Java
20 19 (9.09%) 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 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.48%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.48%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 79 (37.80%) AWS
2 57 (27.27%) Azure
3 34 (16.27%) Azure DevOps
4 31 (14.83%) GCP
5 25 (11.96%) GitHub
6 23 (11.00%) GitHub Actions
7 15 (7.18%) Azure AKS
8 13 (6.22%) Azure Service Bus
9 9 (4.31%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (2.39%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (2.39%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (1.91%) Amazon S3
12 3 (1.44%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (1.44%) Serverless
13 2 (0.96%) Amazon ECS
13 2 (0.96%) Entra ID
13 2 (0.96%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 2 (0.96%) Microsoft 365
14 1 (0.48%) Amazon SQS
14 1 (0.48%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (8.61%) Firewall
2 15 (7.18%) DNS
2 15 (7.18%) HTTP
2 15 (7.18%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (6.22%) MongoDB
1 13 (6.22%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (1.44%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.48%) Big Data
3 1 (0.48%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 30 (14.35%) GitLab
2 26 (12.44%) Jenkins
3 6 (2.87%) JIRA
4 5 (2.39%) Artifactory
4 5 (2.39%) Git
4 5 (2.39%) SonarQube
5 3 (1.44%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.96%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.96%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (0.96%) TeamCity
General
1 21 (10.05%) Public Sector
2 16 (7.66%) Telecoms
3 15 (7.18%) Law
4 8 (3.83%) Social Skills
5 4 (1.91%) Finance
6 3 (1.44%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (0.96%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.48%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (9.57%) Elastic Stack
2 13 (6.22%) Node.js
3 10 (4.78%) YAML
4 4 (1.91%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (1.44%) .NET
5 3 (1.44%) ARM Templates
5 3 (1.44%) JSON
5 3 (1.44%) REST
6 1 (0.48%) Spring
6 1 (0.48%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.48%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (4.31%) Cloud Native
2 5 (2.39%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (1.91%) Enterprise Cloud
3 4 (1.91%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (0.96%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (0.96%) Mobile App
4 2 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.48%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.48%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 26 (12.44%) Linux
2 19 (9.09%) Windows
3 13 (6.22%) Unix
4 3 (1.44%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.96%) Debian
5 2 (0.96%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 209 (100.00%) DevOps
2 68 (32.54%) CI/CD
3 49 (23.44%) Infrastructure as Code
4 38 (18.18%) Mentoring
5 32 (15.31%) Agile
6 31 (14.83%) Containerisation
6 31 (14.83%) Continuous Integration
7 26 (12.44%) Platform Engineering
8 21 (10.05%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 19 (9.09%) Test Automation
10 17 (8.13%) Microservices
10 17 (8.13%) Scrum
11 15 (7.18%) Coaching
11 15 (7.18%) Continuous Delivery
11 15 (7.18%) DevSecOps
11 15 (7.18%) High Availability
11 15 (7.18%) Static Code Analysis
11 15 (7.18%) Vulnerability Scanning
12 12 (5.74%) Cybersecurity
12 12 (5.74%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 33 (15.79%) Python
2 23 (11.00%) Bash
3 19 (9.09%) Java
4 17 (8.13%) Go
5 9 (4.31%) PowerShell
6 5 (2.39%) C#
7 4 (1.91%) Groovy
8 3 (1.44%) Bicep
9 2 (0.96%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.96%) SQL
10 1 (0.48%) Perl
Qualifications
1 29 (13.88%) Security Cleared
2 20 (9.57%) SC Cleared
3 2 (0.96%) Degree
3 2 (0.96%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.44%) QA
System Software
1 15 (7.18%) Docker
2 3 (1.44%) vSphere
3 1 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.48%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 67 (32.06%) Terraform
2 37 (17.70%) Kubernetes
3 33 (15.79%) Ansible
4 23 (11.00%) Grafana
5 21 (10.05%) Prometheus
6 13 (6.22%) Argo
7 3 (1.44%) Packer
8 2 (0.96%) Control-M
8 2 (0.96%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (0.96%) Istio
8 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.48%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 11 (5.26%) Microsoft
2 7 (3.35%) Google
3 4 (1.91%) VMware
4 3 (1.44%) AppDynamics
4 3 (1.44%) IBM
5 2 (0.96%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.48%) Duck Creek
6 1 (0.48%) F5