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 £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 25 June 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 237 221
Rank change year-on-year +128 -16 -88
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 296 66 193
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.46% 0.78% 0.99%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.55% 0.89% 1.04%
Number of salaries quoted 248 53 114
10th Percentile £24,000 £42,500 £48,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £53,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,840 £75,625
90th Percentile £90,000 £89,750 £87,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -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 19,077 7,456 18,555
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.33% 87.99% 95.12%
Number of salaries quoted 13,903 3,814 14,238
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,125 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -8.26%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £77,896
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +9.52% -12.50%

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 25 June 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 25 June 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 +90 139 £69,310 +6.63% 25
North East +22 102 £60,000 +5.26% 12
Yorkshire +6 55 £75,000 +11.11% 13
DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 25 June 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.

1 296 (100.00%) DevOps
2 92 (31.08%) AWS
3 87 (29.39%) CI/CD
4 83 (28.04%) Terraform
5 61 (20.61%) Azure
5 61 (20.61%) Infrastructure as Code
5 61 (20.61%) Kubernetes
6 51 (17.23%) Platform Engineering
7 45 (15.20%) Mentoring
7 45 (15.20%) Security Cleared
8 44 (14.86%) Python
9 43 (14.53%) Containerisation
10 40 (13.51%) Agile
10 40 (13.51%) Linux
11 38 (12.84%) Azure DevOps
12 37 (12.50%) Ansible
13 36 (12.16%) Bash
14 33 (11.15%) Continuous Integration
15 32 (10.81%) GitLab
15 32 (10.81%) SC Cleared
16 30 (10.14%) Jenkins
17 27 (9.12%) GCP
17 27 (9.12%) GitHub
18 24 (8.11%) Java
18 24 (8.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 24 (8.11%) Windows
19 23 (7.77%) Docker
19 23 (7.77%) GitHub Actions
19 23 (7.77%) Grafana
20 22 (7.43%) PowerShell

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 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 92 (31.08%) AWS
2 61 (20.61%) Azure
3 38 (12.84%) Azure DevOps
4 27 (9.12%) GCP
4 27 (9.12%) GitHub
5 23 (7.77%) GitHub Actions
6 17 (5.74%) Azure AKS
7 13 (4.39%) Azure Service Bus
8 9 (3.04%) Amazon EKS
9 8 (2.70%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (1.69%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (1.35%) Amazon S3
12 3 (1.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 3 (1.01%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (1.01%) Pulumi
12 3 (1.01%) Serverless
12 3 (1.01%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 2 (0.68%) Entra ID
13 2 (0.68%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 2 (0.68%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 16 (5.41%) Firewall
2 14 (4.73%) DNS
2 14 (4.73%) HTTP
2 14 (4.73%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (6.08%) MongoDB
1 18 (6.08%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (3.04%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.34%) Big Data
3 1 (0.34%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 32 (10.81%) GitLab
2 30 (10.14%) Jenkins
3 8 (2.70%) Git
4 7 (2.36%) Bitbucket
4 7 (2.36%) JIRA
5 6 (2.03%) Artifactory
5 6 (2.03%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 6 (2.03%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.01%) Cucumber
6 3 (1.01%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (1.01%) TeamCity
General
1 26 (8.78%) Public Sector
2 15 (5.07%) Telecoms
3 14 (4.73%) Law
4 11 (3.72%) Social Skills
5 4 (1.35%) Finance
6 3 (1.01%) Financial Institution
7 2 (0.68%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (0.68%) Banking
8 1 (0.34%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (7.09%) Elastic Stack
2 14 (4.73%) YAML
3 13 (4.39%) Node.js
4 7 (2.36%) .NET
5 5 (1.69%) ARM Templates
5 5 (1.69%) Kafka
6 4 (1.35%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (1.35%) Spring
6 4 (1.35%) Spring Boot
7 3 (1.01%) JSON
7 3 (1.01%) REST
8 1 (0.34%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 42 (14.19%) Cloud Native
2 4 (1.35%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (1.35%) Enterprise Cloud
2 4 (1.35%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (0.68%) Mobile App
3 2 (0.68%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (0.34%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (0.34%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 40 (13.51%) Linux
2 24 (8.11%) Windows
3 16 (5.41%) Unix
4 3 (1.01%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.68%) CentOS
5 2 (0.68%) Debian
5 2 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.68%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 296 (100.00%) DevOps
2 87 (29.39%) CI/CD
3 61 (20.61%) Infrastructure as Code
4 51 (17.23%) Platform Engineering
5 45 (15.20%) Mentoring
6 43 (14.53%) Containerisation
7 40 (13.51%) Agile
8 33 (11.15%) Continuous Integration
9 24 (8.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 22 (7.43%) Scrum
10 22 (7.43%) Test Automation
11 21 (7.09%) Coaching
12 19 (6.42%) DevSecOps
12 19 (6.42%) Microservices
13 18 (6.08%) Observability
14 15 (5.07%) Continuous Delivery
14 15 (5.07%) Continuous Improvement
14 15 (5.07%) Cybersecurity
15 14 (4.73%) High Availability
15 14 (4.73%) Static Code Analysis
Programming Languages
1 44 (14.86%) Python
2 36 (12.16%) Bash
3 24 (8.11%) Java
4 22 (7.43%) PowerShell
5 16 (5.41%) Go
6 10 (3.38%) C#
7 7 (2.36%) Bicep
8 4 (1.35%) Groovy
9 3 (1.01%) SQL
10 1 (0.34%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.34%) Perl
Qualifications
1 45 (15.20%) Security Cleared
2 32 (10.81%) SC Cleared
3 8 (2.70%) DV Cleared
4 3 (1.01%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.01%) QA
System Software
1 23 (7.77%) Docker
2 4 (1.35%) vSphere
3 3 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.34%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 83 (28.04%) Terraform
2 61 (20.61%) Kubernetes
3 37 (12.50%) Ansible
4 23 (7.77%) Grafana
5 20 (6.76%) Argo
5 20 (6.76%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.01%) Control-M
6 3 (1.01%) Docker Swarm
6 3 (1.01%) Packer
7 2 (0.68%) Istio
7 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.34%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 14 (4.73%) Microsoft
2 11 (3.72%) Pega
3 7 (2.36%) Google
3 7 (2.36%) VMware
4 3 (1.01%) AppDynamics
4 3 (1.01%) Atlassian
4 3 (1.01%) IBM