DevOps Job Trends in Northamptonshire

DevOps
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Northamptonshire requiring DevOps skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 29 44
Rank change year-on-year -20 +15 -27
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 8 40 27
As % of all permanent jobs in Northamptonshire 1.00% 7.30% 3.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.45% 7.86% 4.73%
Number of salaries quoted 5 4 9
10th Percentile - £32,375 £48,600
25th Percentile £62,500 £34,063 £49,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £45,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +44.44% -37.93% +20.83%
75th Percentile £72,500 £62,188 £76,250
90th Percentile £86,000 £70,625 £85,000
East Midlands median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +16.67% +4.35% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 553 509 571
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 68.95% 92.88% 77.48%
Number of salaries quoted 337 202 421
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,250 £24,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £35,188 £31,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £41,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +28.05% -25.45%
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,625 £53,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £68,750
East Midlands median annual salary £45,000 £43,500 £44,050
% change year-on-year +3.45% -1.25% -11.90%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

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

DevOps job vacancy trend in Northamptonshire

DevOps
Salary Trend in Northamptonshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing DevOps.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing DevOps

DevOps
Salary Histogram in Northamptonshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps in Northamptonshire over the 6 months to 19 May 2026.

Salary histogram for DevOps in Northamptonshire

DevOps
Job Locations in Northamptonshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps within the Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 19 May 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
Northampton -17 5 £65,000 +44.44% 2
Brackley +3 1 - -
Wellingborough -3 1 - -
DevOps
East Midlands

DevOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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 8 (100.00%) Azure
2 7 (87.50%) AWS
3 2 (25.00%) GCP
4 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Key Vault
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (37.50%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Git
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Lead
1 3 (37.50%) Lead Software Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) Senior
1 3 (37.50%) Senior Software Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) Software Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Technical Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Engineering Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Python Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Rust Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) RabbitMQ
2 3 (37.50%) .NET
2 3 (37.50%) .NET Core
3 1 (12.50%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) CI/CD
2 5 (62.50%) Software Engineering
2 5 (62.50%) Technical Leadership
3 4 (50.00%) Agile
3 4 (50.00%) Containerisation
4 3 (37.50%) E-Commerce
4 3 (37.50%) Mentoring
4 3 (37.50%) Microservices
5 2 (25.00%) Data Modelling
5 2 (25.00%) Design Patterns
5 2 (25.00%) Event-Driven
5 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (25.00%) Roadmaps
5 2 (25.00%) Technical Debt
5 2 (25.00%) Technology Roadmap
5 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
6 1 (12.50%) API Management
6 1 (12.50%) Cloud Operations
6 1 (12.50%) Cloud Security
6 1 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) C#
2 4 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 4 (50.00%) Python
3 3 (37.50%) SQL
4 2 (25.00%) Java
4 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
4 2 (25.00%) TypeScript
5 1 (12.50%) Bash
5 1 (12.50%) Rust
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (62.50%) Kubernetes
2 2 (25.00%) Terraform
3 1 (12.50%) Ansible