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 £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 October 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 234 154
Rank change year-on-year +159 -80 -53
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 493 58 172
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.05% 0.64% 1.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.22% 0.72% 1.41%
Number of salaries quoted 387 46 81
10th Percentile £50,000 £44,125 -
25th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -0.71% -7.24%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £74,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £82,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £68,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% +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 22,201 8,014 12,240
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.35% 87.84% 94.96%
Number of salaries quoted 16,195 4,365 6,612
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £59,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +7.27% -4.35% -4.17%

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 16 October 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 16 October 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 +129 268 £75,000 +15.38% 20
North East +30 154 £60,000 -11.11% 6
Yorkshire +26 80 £70,000 +7.69% 12
DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 16 October 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.

1 493 (100.00%) DevOps
2 179 (36.31%) CI/CD
3 154 (31.24%) Infrastructure as Code
4 149 (30.22%) AWS
5 138 (27.99%) Platform Engineering
6 133 (26.98%) Terraform
7 128 (25.96%) Security Cleared
8 126 (25.56%) Kubernetes
9 122 (24.75%) Azure
10 95 (19.27%) Docker
10 95 (19.27%) Linux
11 89 (18.05%) SC Cleared
12 88 (17.85%) Agile
13 81 (16.43%) Python
14 78 (15.82%) Containerisation
15 76 (15.42%) Ansible
16 73 (14.81%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 69 (14.00%) GitLab
18 60 (12.17%) DV Cleared
19 58 (11.76%) Mentoring
20 52 (10.55%) Bash
21 49 (9.94%) Technical Leadership
22 47 (9.53%) Azure DevOps
22 47 (9.53%) GitHub
22 47 (9.53%) Jenkins
22 47 (9.53%) Test Automation
23 45 (9.13%) Continuous Improvement
23 45 (9.13%) Observability
24 43 (8.72%) Coaching
24 43 (8.72%) Git

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 3 (0.61%) Confluence
1 3 (0.61%) nginx
2 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 6 (1.22%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 149 (30.22%) AWS
2 122 (24.75%) Azure
3 47 (9.53%) Azure DevOps
3 47 (9.53%) GitHub
4 31 (6.29%) GCP
5 29 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
6 21 (4.26%) GitHub Actions
7 20 (4.06%) Serverless
8 15 (3.04%) Azure AKS
9 12 (2.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 12 (2.43%) Amazon ECS
9 12 (2.43%) Cloud Computing
10 11 (2.23%) OpenShift
11 10 (2.03%) Amazon EC2
11 10 (2.03%) Azure Service Bus
12 6 (1.22%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (1.22%) Power Platform
13 5 (1.01%) Amazon S3
13 5 (1.01%) Azure Key Vault
13 5 (1.01%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.43%) Internet
2 3 (0.61%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (0.41%) DNS
3 2 (0.41%) Firewall
3 2 (0.41%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (3.45%) MongoDB
2 16 (3.25%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (2.64%) SQL Server
4 3 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (0.61%) Data Lake
4 3 (0.61%) MySQL
4 3 (0.61%) Power BI
5 2 (0.41%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.20%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.20%) Big Data
6 1 (0.20%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 69 (14.00%) GitLab
2 47 (9.53%) Jenkins
3 43 (8.72%) Git
4 26 (5.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 10 (2.03%) SonarQube
6 7 (1.42%) Bitbucket
6 7 (1.42%) JIRA
7 5 (1.01%) Artifactory
8 4 (0.81%) TeamCity
9 3 (0.61%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.20%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.20%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.20%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 73 (14.81%) Public Sector
2 38 (7.71%) Social Skills
3 20 (4.06%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (3.65%) Finance
5 5 (1.01%) Aerospace
5 5 (1.01%) Retail
6 4 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (0.61%) Financial Institution
8 2 (0.41%) Banking
8 2 (0.41%) Marketing
9 1 (0.20%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 133 (26.98%) Terraform
2 24 (4.87%) Spring
2 24 (4.87%) Spring Boot
3 22 (4.46%) .NET
4 17 (3.45%) Node.js
5 11 (2.23%) .NET Core
6 9 (1.83%) YAML
7 8 (1.62%) AWS CDK
7 8 (1.62%) Kafka
8 7 (1.42%) ARM Templates
9 5 (1.01%) Elastic Stack
10 4 (0.81%) Pulumi
11 2 (0.41%) Web Services
12 1 (0.20%) ADO
12 1 (0.20%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 96 (19.47%) Cloud Native
2 13 (2.64%) Linux Command Line
3 7 (1.42%) Culture of Ownership
3 7 (1.42%) Private Cloud
4 3 (0.61%) Enterprise Cloud
4 3 (0.61%) Onboarding
4 3 (0.61%) Public Cloud
4 3 (0.61%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.20%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.20%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.20%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 95 (19.27%) Linux
2 26 (5.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 24 (4.87%) Windows
4 23 (4.67%) Unix
5 22 (4.46%) CentOS
6 1 (0.20%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.20%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 493 (100.00%) DevOps
2 179 (36.31%) CI/CD
3 154 (31.24%) Infrastructure as Code
4 138 (27.99%) Platform Engineering
5 88 (17.85%) Agile
6 78 (15.82%) Containerisation
7 73 (14.81%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 58 (11.76%) Mentoring
9 49 (9.94%) Technical Leadership
10 47 (9.53%) Test Automation
11 45 (9.13%) Continuous Improvement
11 45 (9.13%) Observability
12 43 (8.72%) Coaching
13 42 (8.52%) Continuous Integration
14 33 (6.69%) Microservices
15 32 (6.49%) Problem-Solving
16 30 (6.09%) Scrum
17 28 (5.68%) Deployment Automation
18 27 (5.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 26 (5.27%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 81 (16.43%) Python
2 52 (10.55%) Bash
3 40 (8.11%) Java
4 38 (7.71%) PowerShell
5 18 (3.65%) Bicep
6 14 (2.84%) Shell Script
7 13 (2.64%) C#
7 13 (2.64%) Go
8 6 (1.22%) TypeScript
9 3 (0.61%) SQL
10 2 (0.41%) Groovy
10 2 (0.41%) Rust
11 1 (0.20%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 128 (25.96%) Security Cleared
2 89 (18.05%) SC Cleared
3 60 (12.17%) DV Cleared
4 3 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (0.61%) Degree
5 2 (0.41%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.20%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (0.41%) QA
System Software
1 95 (19.27%) Docker
2 4 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.61%) vSphere
4 2 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.20%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 126 (25.56%) Kubernetes
2 76 (15.42%) Ansible
3 18 (3.65%) Argo
3 18 (3.65%) Grafana
4 15 (3.04%) Prometheus
5 5 (1.01%) Progress Chef
6 4 (0.81%) Podman
7 3 (0.61%) Control-M
7 3 (0.61%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (0.61%) Puppet
8 2 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.20%) Fluentd
9 1 (0.20%) Kibana
9 1 (0.20%) Opsview
Vendors
1 41 (8.32%) Microsoft
2 20 (4.06%) Google
3 18 (3.65%) Pega
4 8 (1.62%) VMware
5 7 (1.42%) Red Hat
6 4 (0.81%) Thales
6 4 (0.81%) YouTube
7 3 (0.61%) Atlassian
7 3 (0.61%) Databricks
7 3 (0.61%) Splunk
8 1 (0.20%) Dynatrace