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 24 September 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 243 161
Rank change year-on-year +152 -82 -67
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 436 62 191
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.82% 0.66% 1.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.95% 0.76% 1.45%
Number of salaries quoted 340 49 89
10th Percentile £48,285 £42,350 -
25th Percentile £60,000 £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 £83,750 £75,000 £71,991
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,750 £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 22,377 8,209 13,153
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.23% 87.06% 94.92%
Number of salaries quoted 16,276 4,375 7,593
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £78,000
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 24 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 24 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 +115 225 £75,000 +15.38% 74
North East +29 140 £60,000 -11.11% 26
Yorkshire +17 74 £80,000 +23.08% 32
DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 24 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.

1 436 (100.00%) DevOps
2 156 (35.78%) CI/CD
3 130 (29.82%) AWS
4 127 (29.13%) Infrastructure as Code
5 121 (27.75%) Terraform
6 115 (26.38%) Platform Engineering
7 114 (26.15%) Kubernetes
8 101 (23.17%) Azure
9 99 (22.71%) Security Cleared
10 83 (19.04%) Linux
11 82 (18.81%) Docker
12 73 (16.74%) Agile
13 71 (16.28%) Containerisation
13 71 (16.28%) Python
14 65 (14.91%) Ansible
15 64 (14.68%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 63 (14.45%) SC Cleared
17 62 (14.22%) GitLab
18 56 (12.84%) Mentoring
19 52 (11.93%) DV Cleared
20 45 (10.32%) Jenkins
21 42 (9.63%) Continuous Integration
21 42 (9.63%) GitHub
21 42 (9.63%) Java
21 42 (9.63%) Test Automation
22 41 (9.40%) Git
23 40 (9.17%) Azure DevOps
23 40 (9.17%) Bash
24 38 (8.72%) Coaching
24 38 (8.72%) 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 2 (0.46%) Confluence
1 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.23%) nginx
Business Applications
1 7 (1.61%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 130 (29.82%) AWS
2 101 (23.17%) Azure
3 42 (9.63%) GitHub
4 40 (9.17%) Azure DevOps
5 30 (6.88%) GCP
6 22 (5.05%) AWS CloudFormation
6 22 (5.05%) Serverless
7 20 (4.59%) GitHub Actions
8 17 (3.90%) Azure AKS
9 13 (2.98%) Azure Service Bus
10 11 (2.52%) Cloud Computing
11 10 (2.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 10 (2.29%) Amazon EC2
12 9 (2.06%) AWS Lambda
13 8 (1.83%) OpenShift
14 6 (1.38%) Amazon S3
15 5 (1.15%) Amazon ECS
15 5 (1.15%) Amazon EKS
15 5 (1.15%) Azure Key Vault
15 5 (1.15%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.52%) Internet
2 2 (0.46%) Firewall
2 2 (0.46%) SAN
3 1 (0.23%) DNS
3 1 (0.23%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (4.59%) MongoDB
2 19 (4.36%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (2.98%) SQL Server
4 3 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (0.69%) MySQL
4 3 (0.69%) Power BI
5 2 (0.46%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.23%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.23%) Big Data
6 1 (0.23%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.23%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 62 (14.22%) GitLab
2 45 (10.32%) Jenkins
3 41 (9.40%) Git
4 23 (5.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 13 (2.98%) SonarQube
6 10 (2.29%) JIRA
7 7 (1.61%) Artifactory
7 7 (1.61%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.92%) TeamCity
9 3 (0.69%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.69%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.23%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 57 (13.07%) Public Sector
2 36 (8.26%) Social Skills
3 15 (3.44%) Finance
4 13 (2.98%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (0.92%) Aerospace
5 4 (0.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (0.69%) Financial Institution
6 3 (0.69%) Retail
7 2 (0.46%) Banking
7 2 (0.46%) Marketing
8 1 (0.23%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (27.75%) Terraform
2 21 (4.82%) .NET
2 21 (4.82%) Spring
2 21 (4.82%) Spring Boot
3 18 (4.13%) Node.js
4 13 (2.98%) YAML
5 11 (2.52%) .NET Core
6 8 (1.83%) Elastic Stack
7 7 (1.61%) ARM Templates
8 6 (1.38%) AWS CDK
8 6 (1.38%) Kafka
9 4 (0.92%) Pulumi
10 3 (0.69%) JSON
10 3 (0.69%) RabbitMQ
10 3 (0.69%) REST
11 2 (0.46%) Web Services
12 1 (0.23%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 89 (20.41%) Cloud Native
2 12 (2.75%) Linux Command Line
3 7 (1.61%) Private Cloud
4 3 (0.69%) Culture of Ownership
4 3 (0.69%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (0.69%) Onboarding
5 2 (0.46%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.23%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (0.23%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.23%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.23%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 83 (19.04%) Linux
2 26 (5.96%) Windows
3 21 (4.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 21 (4.82%) Unix
4 19 (4.36%) CentOS
5 1 (0.23%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 436 (100.00%) DevOps
2 156 (35.78%) CI/CD
3 127 (29.13%) Infrastructure as Code
4 115 (26.38%) Platform Engineering
5 73 (16.74%) Agile
6 71 (16.28%) Containerisation
7 64 (14.68%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 56 (12.84%) Mentoring
9 42 (9.63%) Continuous Integration
9 42 (9.63%) Test Automation
10 38 (8.72%) Coaching
10 38 (8.72%) Technical Leadership
11 36 (8.26%) Microservices
11 36 (8.26%) Observability
12 29 (6.65%) Scrum
13 27 (6.19%) Continuous Improvement
14 25 (5.73%) Problem-Solving
15 24 (5.50%) Deployment Automation
16 23 (5.28%) Cloud Security
17 21 (4.82%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 71 (16.28%) Python
2 42 (9.63%) Java
3 40 (9.17%) Bash
4 34 (7.80%) PowerShell
5 15 (3.44%) Bicep
6 13 (2.98%) Shell Script
7 12 (2.75%) C#
8 7 (1.61%) Go
9 5 (1.15%) Groovy
10 4 (0.92%) TypeScript
11 3 (0.69%) SQL
12 2 (0.46%) Rust
13 1 (0.23%) JavaScript
13 1 (0.23%) Perl
Qualifications
1 99 (22.71%) Security Cleared
2 63 (14.45%) SC Cleared
3 52 (11.93%) DV Cleared
4 3 (0.69%) Degree
5 2 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (1.15%) QA
System Software
1 82 (18.81%) Docker
2 4 (0.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.69%) vSphere
4 2 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.23%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 114 (26.15%) Kubernetes
2 65 (14.91%) Ansible
3 21 (4.82%) Argo
4 13 (2.98%) Grafana
5 10 (2.29%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.15%) Progress Chef
7 3 (0.69%) Control-M
7 3 (0.69%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (0.69%) Packer
7 3 (0.69%) Puppet
8 2 (0.46%) Istio
8 2 (0.46%) Podman
8 2 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.23%) Fluentd
9 1 (0.23%) Kibana
Vendors
1 28 (6.42%) Microsoft
2 21 (4.82%) Google
3 18 (4.13%) Pega
4 8 (1.83%) VMware
5 5 (1.15%) Red Hat
6 3 (0.69%) AppDynamics
6 3 (0.69%) Atlassian
6 3 (0.69%) IBM
7 2 (0.46%) Thales
8 1 (0.23%) Databricks
8 1 (0.23%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.23%) Splunk
8 1 (0.23%) YouTube