DevOps Job Trends in Northampton

DevOps
Northamptonshire > Northampton

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Northampton requiring DevOps skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 26 9
Rank change year-on-year +3 -17 +19
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 13 4 28
As % of all permanent jobs in Northampton 5.06% 1.67% 11.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.88% 2.13% 13.79%
Number of salaries quoted 9 1 27
10th Percentile £61,250 - £57,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £31,250 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £32,500 £64,000
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -49.22% -1.54%
75th Percentile £72,500 £33,750 £69,375
90th Percentile £75,140 - £87,500
Northamptonshire median annual salary £65,000 £32,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +100.00% -48.00% -3.85%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Northampton

DevOps falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Northampton.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 221 188 203
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northampton 85.99% 78.33% 86.38%
Number of salaries quoted 149 82 180
10th Percentile £29,700 £24,175 £26,925
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,438 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £72,500 £64,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £74,875 £70,100
Northamptonshire median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +5.26%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Northampton

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing DevOps relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Northampton.

DevOps job vacancy trend in Northampton

DevOps
Salary Trend in Northampton

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northampton citing DevOps.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northampton citing DevOps

DevOps
Salary Histogram in Northampton

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps in Northampton over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Salary histogram for DevOps in Northampton

DevOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northampton 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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (69.23%) AWS
2 7 (53.85%) Azure
3 2 (15.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (15.38%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (15.38%) OpenShift
3 2 (15.38%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (30.77%) Redis
1 4 (30.77%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (46.15%) Git
2 3 (23.08%) GitLab
2 3 (23.08%) Jenkins
3 2 (15.38%) SonarQube
4 1 (7.69%) Bitbucket Server
4 1 (7.69%) Cucumber
4 1 (7.69%) JUnit
4 1 (7.69%) Mockito
4 1 (7.69%) REST Assured
4 1 (7.69%) Selenium
General
1 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Lead
1 4 (30.77%) Lead Software Engineer
1 4 (30.77%) Senior
1 4 (30.77%) Senior Software Engineer
1 4 (30.77%) Software Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Architect
2 3 (23.08%) Cloud Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Software Architect
3 2 (15.38%) AWS DevOps
3 2 (15.38%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Technical Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Automation Tester
4 1 (7.69%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Integration Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Java Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (30.77%) .NET
1 4 (30.77%) .NET Core
1 4 (30.77%) RabbitMQ
2 3 (23.08%) Middleware
3 1 (7.69%) CSS
3 1 (7.69%) Hibernate
3 1 (7.69%) HTML
3 1 (7.69%) J2EE
3 1 (7.69%) Jest
3 1 (7.69%) JPA
3 1 (7.69%) Node.js
3 1 (7.69%) React
3 1 (7.69%) Redux
3 1 (7.69%) REST
3 1 (7.69%) RESTful
3 1 (7.69%) SOAP
3 1 (7.69%) Spring
3 1 (7.69%) Spring Boot
3 1 (7.69%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) Agile
1 9 (69.23%) CI/CD
2 7 (53.85%) Mentoring
3 5 (38.46%) SDLC
4 4 (30.77%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (30.77%) Design Patterns
4 4 (30.77%) E-Commerce
4 4 (30.77%) Software Engineering
4 4 (30.77%) Technical Leadership
5 3 (23.08%) Computer Science
5 3 (23.08%) Configuration Management
5 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (23.08%) Open Source
5 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (23.08%) Test Automation
5 3 (23.08%) UML
5 3 (23.08%) Waterfall
6 2 (15.38%) Containerisation
6 2 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (15.38%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) C#
1 4 (30.77%) Java
1 4 (30.77%) SQL
2 2 (15.38%) Bash
2 2 (15.38%) Go
2 2 (15.38%) JavaScript
2 2 (15.38%) PowerShell
2 2 (15.38%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) BPSS Clearance
1 3 (23.08%) Chartered Engineer
1 3 (23.08%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (23.08%) Degree
2 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) ISO/IEC 12207
System Software
1 5 (38.46%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (38.46%) Kubernetes
2 4 (30.77%) Terraform
3 2 (15.38%) Ansible
4 1 (7.69%) CA Service Virtualization
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) AppDynamics