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 18 April 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 180 202 212
Rank change year-on-year +22 +10 -63
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 150 61 176
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.86% 0.89% 1.07%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.94% 0.98% 1.12%
Number of salaries quoted 133 45 126
10th Percentile £24,000 £45,350 £48,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £68,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +4.62% -3.70%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,840 £75,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £93,000 £85,625
England median annual salary £70,000 £82,500 £70,576
% change year-on-year -15.15% +16.90% -5.90%

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 15,936 6,195 15,707
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.70% 90.56% 95.21%
Number of salaries quoted 10,291 3,794 12,570
10th Percentile £29,000 £28,750 £27,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,716 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -5.66%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £78,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -10.04%

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 18 April 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 18 April 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 +6 65 £67,500 -6.57% 31
North East +10 51 £47,500 -16.67% 21
Yorkshire -51 34 £69,310 +1.93% 10
DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 18 April 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.

1 150 (100.00%) DevOps
2 70 (46.67%) AWS
3 60 (40.00%) CI/CD
4 57 (38.00%) Terraform
5 50 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
6 44 (29.33%) Azure
7 39 (26.00%) Ansible
8 34 (22.67%) Containerisation
9 32 (21.33%) Kubernetes
10 31 (20.67%) GCP
11 30 (20.00%) Python
12 29 (19.33%) GitHub
13 28 (18.67%) Grafana
14 27 (18.00%) Jenkins
14 27 (18.00%) Prometheus
15 26 (17.33%) Azure DevOps
15 26 (17.33%) Continuous Integration
15 26 (17.33%) GitHub Actions
15 26 (17.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 25 (16.67%) Security Cleared
17 22 (14.67%) Elastic Stack
17 22 (14.67%) Mentoring
18 21 (14.00%) Firewall
18 21 (14.00%) GitLab
19 20 (13.33%) Bash
19 20 (13.33%) Go
20 19 (12.67%) Agile
21 18 (12.00%) Continuous Delivery
21 18 (12.00%) DevSecOps
21 18 (12.00%) DNS

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 (1.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.67%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.67%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 70 (46.67%) AWS
2 44 (29.33%) Azure
3 31 (20.67%) GCP
4 29 (19.33%) GitHub
5 26 (17.33%) Azure DevOps
5 26 (17.33%) GitHub Actions
6 9 (6.00%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (4.00%) Azure AKS
8 5 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (3.33%) Amazon S3
9 4 (2.67%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (2.67%) Azure Service Bus
10 3 (2.00%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (2.00%) Serverless
11 2 (1.33%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (1.33%) Entra ID
11 2 (1.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 2 (1.33%) Microsoft 365
11 2 (1.33%) Slack
12 1 (0.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (14.00%) Firewall
2 18 (12.00%) DNS
2 18 (12.00%) HTTP
2 18 (12.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.67%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.33%) MongoDB
2 4 (2.67%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.33%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.67%) MySQL
4 1 (0.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 27 (18.00%) Jenkins
2 21 (14.00%) GitLab
3 5 (3.33%) JIRA
4 4 (2.67%) Artifactory
4 4 (2.67%) SonarQube
5 3 (2.00%) Cucumber
5 3 (2.00%) Git
6 1 (0.67%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.67%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.67%) TeamCity
General
1 20 (13.33%) Telecoms
2 18 (12.00%) Law
3 9 (6.00%) Public Sector
3 9 (6.00%) Social Skills
4 3 (2.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (2.00%) Finance
5 1 (0.67%) Aerospace
5 1 (0.67%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (14.67%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (4.67%) YAML
3 5 (3.33%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (2.67%) Node.js
5 3 (2.00%) JSON
5 3 (2.00%) REST
6 1 (0.67%) .NET
6 1 (0.67%) ASP.NET Web API
6 1 (0.67%) AWS CDK
6 1 (0.67%) Spring
6 1 (0.67%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.67%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.00%) Cloud Native
2 5 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (2.67%) Enterprise Cloud
3 4 (2.67%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (1.33%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (1.33%) Mobile App
4 2 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.67%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 16 (10.67%) Linux
2 10 (6.67%) Windows
3 4 (2.67%) Unix
4 3 (2.00%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.33%) Debian
5 2 (1.33%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.67%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (100.00%) DevOps
2 60 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 50 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 34 (22.67%) Containerisation
5 26 (17.33%) Continuous Integration
5 26 (17.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 22 (14.67%) Mentoring
7 19 (12.67%) Agile
8 18 (12.00%) Continuous Delivery
8 18 (12.00%) DevSecOps
8 18 (12.00%) High Availability
8 18 (12.00%) Static Code Analysis
8 18 (12.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
9 13 (8.67%) Platform Engineering
10 12 (8.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 11 (7.33%) Observability
12 9 (6.00%) Microservices
13 8 (5.33%) Incident Response
14 7 (4.67%) Test Automation
15 6 (4.00%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 30 (20.00%) Python
2 20 (13.33%) Bash
2 20 (13.33%) Go
3 9 (6.00%) Java
4 4 (2.67%) PowerShell
5 3 (2.00%) Groovy
6 2 (1.33%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.67%) C#
7 1 (0.67%) Perl
7 1 (0.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 16 (10.67%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.33%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.00%) QA
System Software
1 16 (10.67%) Docker
2 3 (2.00%) vSphere
3 2 (1.33%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 57 (38.00%) Terraform
2 39 (26.00%) Ansible
3 32 (21.33%) Kubernetes
4 28 (18.67%) Grafana
5 27 (18.00%) Prometheus
6 4 (2.67%) Argo
7 3 (2.00%) Packer
8 2 (1.33%) Istio
8 2 (1.33%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.67%) Control-M
9 1 (0.67%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 8 (5.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (2.67%) VMware
3 3 (2.00%) AppDynamics
3 3 (2.00%) Google
3 3 (2.00%) IBM
4 1 (0.67%) Atlassian
4 1 (0.67%) Duck Creek
4 1 (0.67%) F5