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 2 November 2025.

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

6 months to
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 231 172 99
Rank change year-on-year -59 -73 +81
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 62 144 244
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.65% 1.15% 3.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.73% 1.22% 3.20%
Number of salaries quoted 50 74 207
10th Percentile £46,025 - £50,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £48,250 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,465 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.71% -9.70% +5.82%
75th Percentile £75,000 £74,750 £84,056
90th Percentile £85,125 £87,500 £92,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - -6.67% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 8,436 11,847 7,615
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.02% 94.99% 96.81%
Number of salaries quoted 4,835 6,290 5,768
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -7.41% +2.86%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £67,594
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £53,065 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.71% -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 2 November 2025.

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 2 November 2025. 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 -36 35 £65,000 +1.96% 17
Yorkshire -21 17 £65,000 -4.41% 4
North East +12 10 £80,000 -5.88% 9
DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 2 November 2025, 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 62 (100.00%) DevOps
2 42 (67.74%) CI/CD
3 37 (59.68%) AWS
3 37 (59.68%) Kubernetes
4 36 (58.06%) Terraform
5 31 (50.00%) Azure
5 31 (50.00%) Docker
6 29 (46.77%) Infrastructure as Code
7 25 (40.32%) Agile
8 22 (35.48%) Containerisation
9 20 (32.26%) Ansible
10 19 (30.65%) Grafana
10 19 (30.65%) Python
11 18 (29.03%) Jenkins
12 17 (27.42%) GitLab
12 17 (27.42%) Linux
12 17 (27.42%) Observability
13 15 (24.19%) Azure DevOps
13 15 (24.19%) GCP
14 14 (22.58%) Problem-Solving
14 14 (22.58%) Prometheus
15 12 (19.35%) Bash
15 12 (19.35%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 12 (19.35%) Windows
16 10 (16.13%) AWS CloudFormation
16 10 (16.13%) PowerShell
17 9 (14.52%) Elastic Stack
17 9 (14.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 9 (14.52%) Mentoring
18 8 (12.90%) Cloud Security

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 1 (1.61%) Apache
1 1 (1.61%) JBoss
1 1 (1.61%) nginx
1 1 (1.61%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (1.61%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 37 (59.68%) AWS
2 31 (50.00%) Azure
3 15 (24.19%) Azure DevOps
3 15 (24.19%) GCP
4 10 (16.13%) AWS CloudFormation
5 8 (12.90%) GitHub
6 6 (9.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 6 (9.68%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (9.68%) PaaS
7 5 (8.06%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (8.06%) Amazon SQS
8 4 (6.45%) OpenShift
9 3 (4.84%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (4.84%) AWS CodeBuild
9 3 (4.84%) Route 53
9 3 (4.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (3.23%) Amazon S3
10 2 (3.23%) Azure AKS
10 2 (3.23%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (3.23%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (9.68%) Firewall
2 3 (4.84%) DNS
2 3 (4.84%) Network Security
2 3 (4.84%) SAN
2 3 (4.84%) WAN
3 1 (1.61%) DHCP
3 1 (1.61%) LAN
3 1 (1.61%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.84%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.23%) Big Data
2 2 (3.23%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (3.23%) MongoDB
2 2 (3.23%) MySQL
3 1 (1.61%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 18 (29.03%) Jenkins
2 17 (27.42%) GitLab
3 6 (9.68%) CircleCI
3 6 (9.68%) JIRA
4 5 (8.06%) SonarQube
5 4 (6.45%) Artifactory
5 4 (6.45%) Git
5 4 (6.45%) TeamCity
6 3 (4.84%) Bitbucket
6 3 (4.84%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (3.23%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (1.61%) Ant
8 1 (1.61%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (1.61%) CA Release Automation
8 1 (1.61%) git-flow
8 1 (1.61%) Maven
8 1 (1.61%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 13 (20.97%) Social Skills
2 8 (12.90%) Finance
3 3 (4.84%) Marketing
3 3 (4.84%) Public Sector
3 3 (4.84%) Telecoms
4 2 (3.23%) Advertising
4 2 (3.23%) Cantonese Language
4 2 (3.23%) Law
4 2 (3.23%) Mandarin Language
4 2 (3.23%) Retail
5 1 (1.61%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.61%) Banking
5 1 (1.61%) Electronics
5 1 (1.61%) Legal
5 1 (1.61%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.61%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (14.52%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (11.29%) .NET
3 6 (9.68%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (3.23%) ASP.NET Web API
4 2 (3.23%) Kafka
4 2 (3.23%) LDAP
4 2 (3.23%) React
4 2 (3.23%) RESTful
4 2 (3.23%) SOAP
4 2 (3.23%) WCF
5 1 (1.61%) ARM Templates
5 1 (1.61%) AWS CDK
5 1 (1.61%) JSON
5 1 (1.61%) Middleware
5 1 (1.61%) Node.js
5 1 (1.61%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (17.74%) Cloud Native
2 5 (8.06%) Data Centre
3 4 (6.45%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (3.23%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (3.23%) Tandem
5 1 (1.61%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.61%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.61%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.61%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (1.61%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (27.42%) Linux
2 12 (19.35%) Windows
3 3 (4.84%) Debian
3 3 (4.84%) Ubuntu
4 2 (3.23%) VMS
5 1 (1.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.61%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (100.00%) DevOps
2 42 (67.74%) CI/CD
3 29 (46.77%) Infrastructure as Code
4 25 (40.32%) Agile
5 22 (35.48%) Containerisation
6 17 (27.42%) Observability
7 14 (22.58%) Problem-Solving
8 12 (19.35%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 9 (14.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 9 (14.52%) Mentoring
10 8 (12.90%) Cloud Security
10 8 (12.90%) Continuous Integration
10 8 (12.90%) Incident Response
10 8 (12.90%) Infrastructure Automation
11 6 (9.68%) Computer Science
11 6 (9.68%) GitOps
12 5 (8.06%) Deployment Automation
12 5 (8.06%) Line Management
12 5 (8.06%) Microservices
12 5 (8.06%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 19 (30.65%) Python
2 12 (19.35%) Bash
3 10 (16.13%) PowerShell
4 8 (12.90%) Java
5 6 (9.68%) C#
6 5 (8.06%) Go
7 4 (6.45%) Bicep
8 3 (4.84%) JavaScript
8 3 (4.84%) SQL
9 2 (3.23%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.61%) Groovy
10 1 (1.61%) Perl
10 1 (1.61%) PHP
10 1 (1.61%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 6 (9.68%) Computer Science Degree
1 6 (9.68%) Degree
2 4 (6.45%) Security Cleared
3 2 (3.23%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.61%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.61%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.61%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.84%) QA
2 2 (3.23%) GDPR
2 2 (3.23%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 31 (50.00%) Docker
2 5 (8.06%) vSphere
3 3 (4.84%) Active Directory
3 3 (4.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (3.23%) Squid
4 2 (3.23%) VMware NSX
5 1 (1.61%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 37 (59.68%) Kubernetes
2 36 (58.06%) Terraform
3 20 (32.26%) Ansible
4 19 (30.65%) Grafana
5 14 (22.58%) Prometheus
6 3 (4.84%) Control-M
6 3 (4.84%) Docker Swarm
7 2 (3.23%) Argo
7 2 (3.23%) Kibana
7 2 (3.23%) Puppet
8 1 (1.61%) Podman
8 1 (1.61%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.61%) Rancher
Vendors
1 8 (12.90%) Microsoft
2 5 (8.06%) VMware
3 4 (6.45%) Google
3 4 (6.45%) Splunk
4 3 (4.84%) Atlassian
5 2 (3.23%) AppDynamics
5 2 (3.23%) New Relic
6 1 (1.61%) SAP