DevOps Jobs in the North of England

DevOps
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for DevOps skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited DevOps over the 6 months to 6 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 10 8 8
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 +4
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 1,049 3,044 2,678
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 13.41% 17.76% 16.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.10% 18.47% 16.97%
Number of salaries quoted 759 1,532 2,108
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% +11.63%
75th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £91,934 £92,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - - +12.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

DevOps is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 7,440 16,479 15,779
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 95.13% 96.13% 95.19%
Number of salaries quoted 5,200 9,425 11,548
10th Percentile £29,750 £30,831 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,227 £40,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,461 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.73% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £68,750 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £78,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +9.09%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in the North of England

DevOps
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for DevOps in the North of England

DevOps
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps in the North of England over the 6 months to 6 December 2023.

Salary histogram for DevOps in the North of England

DevOps
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 within the North of England region over the 6 months to 6 December 2023. 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 -4 550 £65,351 +8.92% 198
Yorkshire -4 437 £65,000 -3.70% 106
North East +6 62 £57,500 -14.81% 34
DevOps
England

DevOps
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 36 (3.43%) Confluence
2 16 (1.53%) WebSphere
3 14 (1.33%) Tomcat
4 13 (1.24%) CMS
5 12 (1.14%) Captiva
5 12 (1.14%) FileNet
6 8 (0.76%) Apache
6 8 (0.76%) Apache Spark
6 8 (0.76%) Jetty
7 7 (0.67%) SharePoint
8 6 (0.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 5 (0.48%) IIS
10 4 (0.38%) SAS
10 4 (0.38%) Umbraco
10 4 (0.38%) WebSphere Application Server
11 3 (0.29%) nginx
11 3 (0.29%) NServiceBus
11 3 (0.29%) Sitecore CMS
12 2 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
12 2 (0.19%) Kentico
Applications
1 5 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
1 5 (0.48%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.19%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.095%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.095%) Trello
Business Applications
1 31 (2.96%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.76%) Unit4 Business World
3 2 (0.19%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.19%) Visualfiles
4 1 (0.095%) ReMetrica
4 1 (0.095%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.095%) Shopify
4 1 (0.095%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 656 (62.54%) Azure
2 355 (33.84%) Azure DevOps
3 316 (30.12%) AWS
4 164 (15.63%) GCP
5 122 (11.63%) Power Platform
6 106 (10.10%) PaaS
7 86 (8.20%) Dynamics 365
8 82 (7.82%) Serverless
9 81 (7.72%) IaaS
10 80 (7.63%) SaaS
11 78 (7.44%) GitHub
12 38 (3.62%) AWS CloudFormation
13 37 (3.53%) OpenShift
14 33 (3.15%) Microsoft 365
15 32 (3.05%) Cloud Computing
16 26 (2.48%) Azure Monitor
17 23 (2.19%) Azure Storage
18 22 (2.10%) Azure Service Bus
19 20 (1.91%) Azure App Service
19 20 (1.91%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 34 (3.24%) Firewall
2 27 (2.57%) Internet
3 24 (2.29%) DNS
4 19 (1.81%) TCP/IP
5 14 (1.33%) VPN
6 13 (1.24%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 13 (1.24%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 12 (1.14%) Network Security
8 8 (0.76%) HTTP
9 7 (0.67%) SSL
10 5 (0.48%) IPv4
10 5 (0.48%) OSPF
10 5 (0.48%) VLAN
10 5 (0.48%) WAN
11 4 (0.38%) LAN
12 3 (0.29%) FTP
13 2 (0.19%) MPLS
13 2 (0.19%) Reverse Proxy
13 2 (0.19%) VoIP
13 2 (0.19%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (8.77%) SQL Server
2 64 (6.10%) Power BI
3 41 (3.91%) Relational Database
4 38 (3.62%) Elasticsearch
4 38 (3.62%) MongoDB
5 28 (2.67%) RDBMS
5 28 (2.67%) Star Schema
6 27 (2.57%) Data Lake
6 27 (2.57%) PostgreSQL
7 25 (2.38%) Big Data
7 25 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
8 24 (2.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 23 (2.19%) MySQL
10 22 (2.10%) Azure SQL Database
10 22 (2.10%) NoSQL
10 22 (2.10%) Oracle Database
11 21 (2.00%) Power Query
12 14 (1.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 13 (1.24%) BigQuery
14 12 (1.14%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 171 (16.30%) Git
2 170 (16.21%) Jenkins
3 102 (9.72%) JIRA
4 42 (4.00%) GitLab
5 40 (3.81%) Cucumber
5 40 (3.81%) SonarQube
6 35 (3.34%) Selenium
7 33 (3.15%) Cypress.io
8 21 (2.00%) IBM UrbanCode
9 17 (1.62%) Maven
9 17 (1.62%) Sonatype Nexus
10 16 (1.53%) Artifactory
11 15 (1.43%) Spinnaker
12 14 (1.33%) Bitbucket
13 13 (1.24%) SoapUI
14 12 (1.14%) Oracle Forms
15 11 (1.05%) CircleCI
15 11 (1.05%) Octopus Deploy
16 10 (0.95%) Postman
17 9 (0.86%) Gradle
General
1 291 (27.74%) Finance
2 207 (19.73%) Social Skills
3 176 (16.78%) Banking
4 101 (9.63%) Analytical Skills
5 86 (8.20%) Retail
6 43 (4.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 37 (3.53%) Marketing
8 35 (3.34%) Public Sector
9 33 (3.15%) Manufacturing
10 26 (2.48%) Telecoms
11 25 (2.38%) Electronics
12 23 (2.19%) Aerospace
13 22 (2.10%) Law
14 20 (1.91%) Retail Banking
15 19 (1.81%) Legal
16 15 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
17 12 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
17 12 (1.14%) Police
18 11 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
19 10 (0.95%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 214 (20.40%) DevOps Engineer
2 211 (20.11%) Developer
3 189 (18.02%) Senior
4 126 (12.01%) Software Engineer
5 114 (10.87%) Lead
6 110 (10.49%) Architect
7 79 (7.53%) Solutions Architect
8 67 (6.39%) Azure Engineer
9 66 (6.29%) Cloud Engineer
10 55 (5.24%) Senior Developer
11 51 (4.86%) Senior DevOps
12 49 (4.67%) .NET Developer
13 48 (4.58%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 46 (4.39%) Dynamics 365 Architect
15 39 (3.72%) Consultant
16 38 (3.62%) Angular Developer
17 36 (3.43%) Dynamics 365 Solution Architect
18 33 (3.15%) Security Engineer
19 31 (2.96%) AWS Engineer
20 30 (2.86%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 200 (19.07%) .NET
2 97 (9.25%) AngularJS
3 89 (8.48%) React
4 87 (8.29%) HTML
5 85 (8.10%) CSS
6 79 (7.53%) Node.js
7 67 (6.39%) .NET Core
8 46 (4.39%) RESTful
9 41 (3.91%) ASP.NET
10 33 (3.15%) JSON
11 31 (2.96%) Spring
12 30 (2.86%) .NET Framework
12 30 (2.86%) Kafka
13 29 (2.76%) Web Services
14 25 (2.38%) ARM Templates
15 24 (2.29%) SOAP
16 23 (2.19%) REST
17 20 (1.91%) Elastic Stack
17 20 (1.91%) HTML5
17 20 (1.91%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 92 (8.77%) Public Cloud
2 88 (8.39%) Cloud Native
3 73 (6.96%) Product Ownership
4 42 (4.00%) Private Cloud
5 33 (3.15%) Data Centre
6 23 (2.19%) Greenfield Project
7 21 (2.00%) Online Banking
7 21 (2.00%) Virtual Team
8 19 (1.81%) Enterprise Software
9 17 (1.62%) Onboarding
10 15 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
10 15 (1.43%) Linux Command Line
11 14 (1.33%) Mainframe
12 13 (1.24%) Mobile App
13 12 (1.14%) DataPower
14 9 (0.86%) Hybrid Cloud
14 9 (0.86%) Management Information System
14 9 (0.86%) Self-Motivation
15 8 (0.76%) IoT
15 8 (0.76%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 133 (12.68%) Linux
2 54 (5.15%) Windows
3 47 (4.48%) Unix
4 18 (1.72%) Windows Server
5 11 (1.05%) Ubuntu
6 8 (0.76%) Debian
7 7 (0.67%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (0.48%) Windows Server 2012
8 5 (0.48%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.29%) Android
9 3 (0.29%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.29%) CoreOS
9 3 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.29%) zOS
10 2 (0.19%) HPUX
10 2 (0.19%) Solaris
10 2 (0.19%) VMS
10 2 (0.19%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.19%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 631 (60.15%) Agile
2 403 (38.42%) CI/CD
3 216 (20.59%) Software Engineering
4 210 (20.02%) Infrastructure as Code
5 193 (18.40%) Problem-Solving
6 157 (14.97%) Actionable Insight
7 155 (14.78%) Mentoring
8 134 (12.77%) Microservices
9 127 (12.11%) Roadmaps
10 119 (11.34%) Containerisation
11 106 (10.10%) Scrum
12 103 (9.82%) Continuous Integration
13 91 (8.67%) TDD
14 83 (7.91%) Cloud Security
14 83 (7.91%) Test Automation
15 74 (7.05%) Analytics
16 71 (6.77%) Computer Science
17 68 (6.48%) Open Source
18 66 (6.29%) Business Intelligence
19 64 (6.10%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 271 (25.83%) Python
2 236 (22.50%) SQL
3 202 (19.26%) JavaScript
4 194 (18.49%) Java
5 139 (13.25%) C#
6 108 (10.30%) PowerShell
7 105 (10.01%) Bash
8 62 (5.91%) TypeScript
9 42 (4.00%) Ruby
10 41 (3.91%) Go
11 36 (3.43%) Perl
12 34 (3.24%) T-SQL
13 31 (2.96%) C++
14 25 (2.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 17 (1.62%) PHP
16 16 (1.53%) Kotlin
17 13 (1.24%) Groovy
18 12 (1.14%) Bicep
18 12 (1.14%) PL/SQL
19 11 (1.05%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 151 (14.39%) Degree
2 133 (12.68%) Security Cleared
3 82 (7.82%) SC Cleared
4 54 (5.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 32 (3.05%) Azure Certification
6 23 (2.19%) AWS Certification
6 23 (2.19%) TOGAF Certification
7 15 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
8 9 (0.86%) DV Cleared
9 6 (0.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 6 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (0.57%) GIAC
10 5 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
10 5 (0.48%) RHCE
11 4 (0.38%) PMI Certification
11 4 (0.38%) PMP
11 4 (0.38%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 3 (0.29%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (0.29%) ISTQB
13 2 (0.19%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (6.48%) QA
2 24 (2.29%) GDPR
3 21 (2.00%) Data Quality
4 13 (1.24%) SLA
5 10 (0.95%) PMO
6 9 (0.86%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.38%) WCAG
8 3 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.19%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.19%) NCSC
9 2 (0.19%) NIST
10 1 (0.095%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.095%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.095%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.095%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.095%) PSD2
System Software
1 251 (23.93%) Docker
2 41 (3.91%) Active Directory
3 25 (2.38%) Virtual Machines
4 17 (1.62%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.48%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.38%) KVM
6 4 (0.38%) vSphere
7 3 (0.29%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.095%) Firmware
9 1 (0.095%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.095%) RACF
9 1 (0.095%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 325 (30.98%) Kubernetes
2 266 (25.36%) Terraform
3 112 (10.68%) Ansible
4 37 (3.53%) Grafana
5 32 (3.05%) Prometheus
6 29 (2.76%) Puppet
7 22 (2.10%) Istio
8 15 (1.43%) Progress Chef
9 10 (0.95%) Argo
10 9 (0.86%) Nagios
11 8 (0.76%) Kibana
12 7 (0.67%) SCCM
13 5 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
14 4 (0.38%) Kustomize
14 4 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
15 3 (0.29%) CA Endevor
15 3 (0.29%) MIIS
15 3 (0.29%) Packer
16 1 (0.095%) Nmap
16 1 (0.095%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 270 (25.74%) Microsoft
2 75 (7.15%) Google
3 67 (6.39%) Oracle
4 42 (4.00%) IBM
4 42 (4.00%) ServiceNow
5 32 (3.05%) Splunk
6 22 (2.10%) VMware
7 16 (1.53%) SAP
8 15 (1.43%) Veracode
9 13 (1.24%) CheckPoint
9 13 (1.24%) Cisco
9 13 (1.24%) F5
9 13 (1.24%) Fortinet
9 13 (1.24%) Pega
10 12 (1.14%) Kofax
11 11 (1.05%) Confluent
12 10 (0.95%) New Relic
12 10 (0.95%) Salesforce
13 8 (0.76%) Dynatrace
13 8 (0.76%) Red Hat