DevOps Engineer Jobs in the North of England

Development Operations Engineer
England > North of England

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in the North of England is £68,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 10 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 263 197 138
Rank change year-on-year -66 -59 -43
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 57 196 430
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.50% 1.12% 2.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.54% 1.18% 2.79%
Number of salaries quoted 42 119 249
10th Percentile £44,900 £48,250 £46,000
25th Percentile £49,313 £49,375 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,000 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% -3.70% +8.00%
75th Percentile £81,085 £72,433 £80,000
90th Percentile £94,500 £79,750 £90,000
England median annual salary £81,250 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +16.07% -6.67% +3.45%

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 10,508 16,576 15,393
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.81% 94.91% 89.36%
Number of salaries quoted 5,880 12,833 8,151
10th Percentile £26,000 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £39,500 £36,250 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £69,649
90th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £81,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings that featured DevOps Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in the North of England

DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DevOps Engineer in the North of England.

Salary trend for DevOps Engineer 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 10 May 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 10 May 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 -64 35 £72,246 +20.41% 47
Yorkshire +18 16 £70,000 +2.94% 34
North East +35 6 £56,500 -1.74% 7
DevOps Engineer
England

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 10 May 2025, DevOps Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number 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 57 (100.00%) DevOps
2 40 (70.18%) Terraform
3 38 (66.67%) CI/CD
4 35 (61.40%) Kubernetes
5 34 (59.65%) Azure
6 31 (54.39%) AWS
6 31 (54.39%) Infrastructure as Code
7 28 (49.12%) Docker
8 24 (42.11%) Python
9 22 (38.60%) Jenkins
9 22 (38.60%) Social Skills
10 21 (36.84%) Containerisation
11 20 (35.09%) Finance
12 19 (33.33%) GCP
13 18 (31.58%) Ansible
14 16 (28.07%) Azure DevOps
14 16 (28.07%) Linux
15 15 (26.32%) Windows
16 13 (22.81%) PowerShell
16 13 (22.81%) Agile
16 13 (22.81%) GitHub
17 12 (21.05%) Grafana
17 12 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
18 11 (19.30%) Distributed Systems
19 9 (15.79%) GitHub Actions
19 9 (15.79%) Mentoring
19 9 (15.79%) QA
19 9 (15.79%) Configuration Management
20 8 (14.04%) Microsoft
20 8 (14.04%) Java

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (5.26%) Confluence
2 1 (1.75%) Apache
2 1 (1.75%) CICS
2 1 (1.75%) nginx
2 1 (1.75%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (1.75%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 34 (59.65%) Azure
2 31 (54.39%) AWS
3 19 (33.33%) GCP
4 16 (28.07%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (22.81%) GitHub
6 9 (15.79%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (10.53%) Azure Monitor
8 4 (7.02%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (7.02%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (7.02%) Azure AKS
8 4 (7.02%) SaaS
9 3 (5.26%) Amazon S3
9 3 (5.26%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 3 (5.26%) IaaS
10 2 (3.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (3.51%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (3.51%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (3.51%) PaaS
10 2 (3.51%) Power Platform
11 1 (1.75%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.26%) Firewall
1 3 (5.26%) Network Security
2 2 (3.51%) Reverse Proxy
2 2 (3.51%) SAN
3 1 (1.75%) DNS
3 1 (1.75%) FTP
3 1 (1.75%) HTTP
3 1 (1.75%) HTTPS
3 1 (1.75%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (1.75%) SMTP
3 1 (1.75%) SSH
3 1 (1.75%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.02%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (5.26%) MongoDB
2 3 (5.26%) Relational Database
2 3 (5.26%) SQL Server
3 2 (3.51%) MySQL
3 2 (3.51%) Power BI
4 1 (1.75%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.75%) Cloud Spanner
4 1 (1.75%) DB2
4 1 (1.75%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.75%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (1.75%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 22 (38.60%) Jenkins
2 7 (12.28%) CircleCI
2 7 (12.28%) GitLab
3 6 (10.53%) Git
4 5 (8.77%) IBM UrbanCode
4 5 (8.77%) SonarQube
5 4 (7.02%) JIRA
5 4 (7.02%) Selenium
5 4 (7.02%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (7.02%) TeamCity
6 3 (5.26%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (3.51%) Artifactory
7 2 (3.51%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (1.75%) Bitbucket
8 1 (1.75%) Gradle
8 1 (1.75%) JUnit
8 1 (1.75%) Maven
8 1 (1.75%) Spinnaker
8 1 (1.75%) TestNG
8 1 (1.75%) Travis CI
General
1 22 (38.60%) Social Skills
2 20 (35.09%) Finance
3 7 (12.28%) Banking
4 5 (8.77%) Manufacturing
4 5 (8.77%) Public Sector
5 3 (5.26%) Automotive
6 2 (3.51%) Advertising
6 2 (3.51%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.51%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.75%) Electronics
7 1 (1.75%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.75%) Health Technology
7 1 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.75%) Marketing
7 1 (1.75%) Retail
7 1 (1.75%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.77%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (7.02%) .NET
2 4 (7.02%) ARM Templates
3 3 (5.26%) Django
3 3 (5.26%) FastAPI
3 3 (5.26%) Flask
3 3 (5.26%) Playwright
4 2 (3.51%) Azure Blueprints
5 1 (1.75%) EDI
5 1 (1.75%) Kafka
5 1 (1.75%) LAMP
5 1 (1.75%) LDAP
5 1 (1.75%) Loki
5 1 (1.75%) ModSecurity
5 1 (1.75%) Node.js
5 1 (1.75%) REST
5 1 (1.75%) RESTful
5 1 (1.75%) SOAP
5 1 (1.75%) Spring Boot
5 1 (1.75%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (19.30%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (10.53%) Public Cloud
3 4 (7.02%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (7.02%) Life Science
3 4 (7.02%) Mainframe
4 2 (3.51%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.51%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (3.51%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.51%) Private Cloud
4 2 (3.51%) Replication
5 1 (1.75%) Credit Risk
5 1 (1.75%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.75%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.75%) IoT
5 1 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.75%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.75%) Market Risk
5 1 (1.75%) PKI
5 1 (1.75%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.75%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (28.07%) Linux
2 15 (26.32%) Windows
3 2 (3.51%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.75%) AIX
4 1 (1.75%) CentOS
4 1 (1.75%) Debian
4 1 (1.75%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (1.75%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.75%) Unix
4 1 (1.75%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (100.00%) DevOps
2 38 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 31 (54.39%) Infrastructure as Code
4 21 (36.84%) Containerisation
5 13 (22.81%) Agile
6 12 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (15.79%) Configuration Management
7 9 (15.79%) Mentoring
8 8 (14.04%) Microservices
8 8 (14.04%) Test Automation
9 7 (12.28%) Analytics
9 7 (12.28%) Infrastructure Automation
10 6 (10.53%) Cloud Security
10 6 (10.53%) Continuous Integration
10 6 (10.53%) Deployment Automation
10 6 (10.53%) Platform Engineering
10 6 (10.53%) SDLC
11 5 (8.77%) Log Analytics
11 5 (8.77%) Migration
11 5 (8.77%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 24 (42.11%) Python
2 13 (22.81%) PowerShell
3 8 (14.04%) Java
4 7 (12.28%) Bash
5 4 (7.02%) C#
5 4 (7.02%) Go
6 3 (5.26%) Bicep
6 3 (5.26%) Groovy
6 3 (5.26%) SQL
7 2 (3.51%) C++
7 2 (3.51%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.75%) AWK
8 1 (1.75%) C
8 1 (1.75%) JCL
8 1 (1.75%) Korn
8 1 (1.75%) Perl
8 1 (1.75%) PHP
8 1 (1.75%) Rust
8 1 (1.75%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (10.53%) Azure Certification
2 5 (8.77%) Degree
3 4 (7.02%) AWS Certification
3 4 (7.02%) Security Cleared
4 3 (5.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 3 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (5.26%) OCP
4 3 (5.26%) Oracle Certification
5 2 (3.51%) DV Cleared
5 2 (3.51%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (15.79%) QA
2 6 (10.53%) GDPR
3 5 (8.77%) SOC 2
4 4 (7.02%) HIPAA
5 2 (3.51%) PCI DSS
6 1 (1.75%) Basel III
6 1 (1.75%) IFRS
6 1 (1.75%) IFRS 9
6 1 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (1.75%) NCSC
6 1 (1.75%) NIST
System Software
1 28 (49.12%) Docker
2 5 (8.77%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (3.51%) Active Directory
3 2 (3.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (3.51%) vSphere
4 1 (1.75%) KVM
4 1 (1.75%) NFS
4 1 (1.75%) Postfix
4 1 (1.75%) Sendmail
4 1 (1.75%) Squid
Systems Management
1 40 (70.18%) Terraform
2 35 (61.40%) Kubernetes
3 18 (31.58%) Ansible
4 12 (21.05%) Grafana
5 7 (12.28%) Prometheus
6 6 (10.53%) Puppet
7 4 (7.02%) Argo
7 4 (7.02%) Istio
7 4 (7.02%) Progress Chef
8 3 (5.26%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (3.51%) Salt
10 1 (1.75%) CA Service Virtualization
10 1 (1.75%) Consul
10 1 (1.75%) Control-M
10 1 (1.75%) cPanel
10 1 (1.75%) Karpenter
10 1 (1.75%) Kibana
10 1 (1.75%) Nagios
10 1 (1.75%) Nessus
10 1 (1.75%) Rancher
Vendors
1 8 (14.04%) Microsoft
2 6 (10.53%) IBM
3 5 (8.77%) Atlassian
4 4 (7.02%) Dynatrace
4 4 (7.02%) Hitachi
4 4 (7.02%) VMware
5 2 (3.51%) SAP
6 1 (1.75%) Confluent
6 1 (1.75%) New Relic
6 1 (1.75%) Oracle
6 1 (1.75%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.75%) Splunk
6 1 (1.75%) Tenable