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 27 March 2026.

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

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 176 194 201
Rank change year-on-year +18 +7 -40
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 121 55 173
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.80% 0.87% 1.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.88% 0.95% 1.17%
Number of salaries quoted 111 39 138
10th Percentile £24,000 £44,300 £48,375
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -7.14% +4.81%
75th Percentile £71,875 £76,840 £77,188
90th Percentile £82,500 £90,000 £90,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £82,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -15.15% +13.79% -6.45%

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 13,692 5,817 14,755
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.95% 92.26% 95.26%
Number of salaries quoted 8,725 3,668 11,873
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -6.54%
75th Percentile £68,750 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £84,580 £78,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -9.09%

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 27 March 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 27 March 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 +5 55 £65,000 -5.10% 22
North East +7 43 £47,500 -16.67% 26
Yorkshire -51 23 £65,000 -4.41% 8
DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 27 March 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.

1 121 (100.00%) DevOps
2 60 (49.59%) AWS
3 50 (41.32%) Terraform
4 49 (40.50%) CI/CD
5 47 (38.84%) Infrastructure as Code
6 41 (33.88%) Azure
7 36 (29.75%) Ansible
8 33 (27.27%) Containerisation
9 29 (23.97%) GCP
9 29 (23.97%) Grafana
10 28 (23.14%) Kubernetes
10 28 (23.14%) Prometheus
11 27 (22.31%) GitHub
11 27 (22.31%) Python
12 26 (21.49%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 25 (20.66%) GitHub Actions
14 24 (19.83%) Jenkins
15 22 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
16 21 (17.36%) Bash
16 21 (17.36%) Firewall
17 20 (16.53%) Elastic Stack
17 20 (16.53%) Go
18 19 (15.70%) Continuous Integration
18 19 (15.70%) DevSecOps
18 19 (15.70%) High Availability
18 19 (15.70%) Vulnerability Scanning
19 18 (14.88%) Continuous Delivery
19 18 (14.88%) DNS
19 18 (14.88%) HTTP
19 18 (14.88%) Security Cleared

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 (1.65%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.83%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 60 (49.59%) AWS
2 41 (33.88%) Azure
3 29 (23.97%) GCP
4 27 (22.31%) GitHub
5 25 (20.66%) GitHub Actions
6 22 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (4.13%) Amazon EKS
7 5 (4.13%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (2.48%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (2.48%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.65%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (1.65%) Azure AKS
9 2 (1.65%) Entra ID
9 2 (1.65%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (1.65%) Slack
10 1 (0.83%) Datadog
10 1 (0.83%) IaaS
10 1 (0.83%) PaaS
10 1 (0.83%) SaaS
10 1 (0.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 21 (17.36%) Firewall
2 18 (14.88%) DNS
2 18 (14.88%) HTTP
2 18 (14.88%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.83%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.65%) MongoDB
1 2 (1.65%) MySQL
1 2 (1.65%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.83%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 24 (19.83%) Jenkins
2 15 (12.40%) GitLab
3 1 (0.83%) Artifactory
3 1 (0.83%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.83%) CircleCI
3 1 (0.83%) JIRA
3 1 (0.83%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (0.83%) SonarQube
3 1 (0.83%) TeamCity
General
1 21 (17.36%) Telecoms
2 18 (14.88%) Law
3 6 (4.96%) Social Skills
4 5 (4.13%) Public Sector
5 4 (3.31%) Finance
6 3 (2.48%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.83%) Electronics
7 1 (0.83%) Legal
7 1 (0.83%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.83%) Marketing
7 1 (0.83%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (16.53%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (3.31%) YAML
3 3 (2.48%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (1.65%) .NET
4 2 (1.65%) ASP.NET Web API
4 2 (1.65%) WCF
5 1 (0.83%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.83%) AWS CDK
5 1 (0.83%) JSON
5 1 (0.83%) Spring
5 1 (0.83%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 12 (9.92%) Cloud Native
2 3 (2.48%) Enterprise Cloud
2 3 (2.48%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (1.65%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (1.65%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (1.65%) Mobile App
3 2 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (0.83%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 9 (7.44%) Linux
2 7 (5.79%) Windows
3 3 (2.48%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.65%) Debian
4 2 (1.65%) Ubuntu
4 2 (1.65%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (100.00%) DevOps
2 49 (40.50%) CI/CD
3 47 (38.84%) Infrastructure as Code
4 33 (27.27%) Containerisation
5 26 (21.49%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 19 (15.70%) Continuous Integration
6 19 (15.70%) DevSecOps
6 19 (15.70%) High Availability
6 19 (15.70%) Vulnerability Scanning
7 18 (14.88%) Continuous Delivery
7 18 (14.88%) Static Code Analysis
8 15 (12.40%) Mentoring
9 13 (10.74%) Agile
9 13 (10.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 11 (9.09%) Observability
11 9 (7.44%) Incident Response
11 9 (7.44%) Platform Engineering
12 7 (5.79%) Continuous Improvement
13 6 (4.96%) Line Management
13 6 (4.96%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 27 (22.31%) Python
2 21 (17.36%) Bash
3 20 (16.53%) Go
4 6 (4.96%) PowerShell
5 2 (1.65%) Java
5 2 (1.65%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.83%) Bicep
6 1 (0.83%) C#
6 1 (0.83%) SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (14.88%) Security Cleared
2 12 (9.92%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.65%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.83%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.83%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.83%) QA
System Software
1 16 (13.22%) Docker
2 4 (3.31%) vSphere
3 3 (2.48%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 50 (41.32%) Terraform
2 36 (29.75%) Ansible
3 29 (23.97%) Grafana
4 28 (23.14%) Kubernetes
4 28 (23.14%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.65%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.83%) Control-M
6 1 (0.83%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 8 (6.61%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.13%) VMware
3 1 (0.83%) Atlassian
3 1 (0.83%) Duck Creek
3 1 (0.83%) F5
3 1 (0.83%) SAP
3 1 (0.83%) Splunk