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 8 October 2026.

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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 237 156
Rank change year-on-year +163 -81 -60
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 473 58 183
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.98% 0.61% 1.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.13% 0.69% 1.44%
Number of salaries quoted 372 46 84
10th Percentile £48,750 £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% -6.48%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £73,813
90th Percentile £95,000 £82,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £68,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% +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 22,209 8,368 12,727
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.73% 87.29% 95.01%
Number of salaries quoted 16,199 4,316 7,051
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,500 £39,221
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -8.26%
75th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £79,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £59,250 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.73% - -8.33%

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 8 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 8 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 +129 252 £75,000 +15.38% 84
North East +40 150 £60,000 -11.11% 28
Yorkshire +27 80 £70,000 +7.69% 33
DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 8 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.

1 473 (100.00%) DevOps
2 166 (35.10%) CI/CD
3 143 (30.23%) AWS
4 137 (28.96%) Infrastructure as Code
5 127 (26.85%) Platform Engineering
6 124 (26.22%) Terraform
7 117 (24.74%) Azure
8 115 (24.31%) Kubernetes
9 112 (23.68%) Security Cleared
10 91 (19.24%) Linux
11 86 (18.18%) Agile
12 85 (17.97%) Docker
13 78 (16.49%) SC Cleared
14 73 (15.43%) Python
15 72 (15.22%) Containerisation
16 67 (14.16%) GitLab
17 66 (13.95%) Ansible
18 65 (13.74%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 62 (13.11%) Mentoring
20 52 (10.99%) DV Cleared
21 49 (10.36%) Test Automation
22 47 (9.94%) Azure DevOps
22 47 (9.94%) Bash
23 46 (9.73%) Continuous Integration
24 44 (9.30%) Coaching
25 43 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
26 42 (8.88%) Observability
27 41 (8.67%) Continuous Improvement
27 41 (8.67%) GitHub
27 41 (8.67%) Jenkins

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 (0.63%) Confluence
1 3 (0.63%) nginx
2 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 6 (1.27%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 143 (30.23%) AWS
2 117 (24.74%) Azure
3 47 (9.94%) Azure DevOps
4 41 (8.67%) GitHub
5 30 (6.34%) GCP
6 25 (5.29%) AWS CloudFormation
7 20 (4.23%) GitHub Actions
8 19 (4.02%) Serverless
9 18 (3.81%) Azure AKS
10 13 (2.75%) Azure Service Bus
11 12 (2.54%) Cloud Computing
12 11 (2.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 11 (2.33%) Amazon ECS
13 10 (2.11%) Amazon EC2
14 9 (1.90%) OpenShift
15 6 (1.27%) AWS Lambda
16 5 (1.06%) Amazon S3
16 5 (1.06%) Azure Key Vault
16 5 (1.06%) Azure Monitor
16 5 (1.06%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.54%) Internet
2 3 (0.63%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (0.42%) DNS
3 2 (0.42%) Firewall
3 2 (0.42%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (4.23%) MongoDB
2 19 (4.02%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (2.75%) SQL Server
4 3 (0.63%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (0.63%) Data Lake
4 3 (0.63%) MySQL
4 3 (0.63%) Power BI
5 2 (0.42%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.21%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.21%) Big Data
6 1 (0.21%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 67 (14.16%) GitLab
2 41 (8.67%) Jenkins
3 39 (8.25%) Git
4 23 (4.86%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 10 (2.11%) SonarQube
6 8 (1.69%) JIRA
7 7 (1.48%) Bitbucket
8 5 (1.06%) Artifactory
9 4 (0.85%) TeamCity
10 3 (0.63%) Octopus Deploy
11 1 (0.21%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 67 (14.16%) Public Sector
2 33 (6.98%) Social Skills
3 19 (4.02%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (3.59%) Finance
5 5 (1.06%) Aerospace
6 4 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (0.85%) Retail
7 3 (0.63%) Financial Institution
8 2 (0.42%) Banking
8 2 (0.42%) Marketing
9 1 (0.21%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 124 (26.22%) Terraform
2 21 (4.44%) .NET
2 21 (4.44%) Spring
2 21 (4.44%) Spring Boot
3 19 (4.02%) Node.js
4 11 (2.33%) .NET Core
5 9 (1.90%) YAML
6 8 (1.69%) Kafka
7 7 (1.48%) ARM Templates
7 7 (1.48%) AWS CDK
8 5 (1.06%) Elastic Stack
9 4 (0.85%) Pulumi
10 2 (0.42%) Web Services
11 1 (0.21%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 90 (19.03%) Cloud Native
2 13 (2.75%) Linux Command Line
3 7 (1.48%) Culture of Ownership
3 7 (1.48%) Private Cloud
4 3 (0.63%) Onboarding
4 3 (0.63%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (0.42%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (0.42%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.21%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.21%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.21%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 91 (19.24%) Linux
2 27 (5.71%) Windows
3 26 (5.50%) Unix
4 22 (4.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 19 (4.02%) CentOS
6 1 (0.21%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.21%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 473 (100.00%) DevOps
2 166 (35.10%) CI/CD
3 137 (28.96%) Infrastructure as Code
4 127 (26.85%) Platform Engineering
5 86 (18.18%) Agile
6 72 (15.22%) Containerisation
7 65 (13.74%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 62 (13.11%) Mentoring
9 49 (10.36%) Test Automation
10 46 (9.73%) Continuous Integration
11 44 (9.30%) Coaching
12 43 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
13 42 (8.88%) Observability
14 41 (8.67%) Continuous Improvement
15 34 (7.19%) Scrum
16 33 (6.98%) Microservices
17 30 (6.34%) Problem-Solving
18 27 (5.71%) Deployment Automation
19 26 (5.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
20 25 (5.29%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 73 (15.43%) Python
2 47 (9.94%) Bash
3 39 (8.25%) Java
4 36 (7.61%) PowerShell
5 16 (3.38%) Bicep
6 14 (2.96%) Shell Script
7 12 (2.54%) C#
8 10 (2.11%) Go
9 5 (1.06%) TypeScript
10 3 (0.63%) SQL
11 2 (0.42%) Groovy
11 2 (0.42%) Rust
12 1 (0.21%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 112 (23.68%) Security Cleared
2 78 (16.49%) SC Cleared
3 52 (10.99%) DV Cleared
4 3 (0.63%) Degree
5 2 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.21%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.21%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (0.42%) QA
System Software
1 85 (17.97%) Docker
2 4 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.63%) vSphere
4 2 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.21%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 115 (24.31%) Kubernetes
2 66 (13.95%) Ansible
3 21 (4.44%) Argo
4 16 (3.38%) Grafana
5 13 (2.75%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.06%) Progress Chef
7 3 (0.63%) Control-M
7 3 (0.63%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (0.63%) Podman
7 3 (0.63%) Puppet
8 2 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.21%) Fluentd
9 1 (0.21%) Kibana
9 1 (0.21%) Opsview
Vendors
1 35 (7.40%) Microsoft
2 21 (4.44%) Google
3 18 (3.81%) Pega
4 8 (1.69%) VMware
5 6 (1.27%) Red Hat
6 3 (0.63%) Atlassian
6 3 (0.63%) Databricks
6 3 (0.63%) Thales
6 3 (0.63%) YouTube
7 2 (0.42%) Splunk
8 1 (0.21%) Dynatrace