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 3 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 45 9
Rank change year-on-year +13 -36 +9
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 15 6 49
As % of all permanent jobs in Northamptonshire 3.68% 1.35% 12.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.67% 1.60% 14.20%
Number of salaries quoted 11 1 48
10th Percentile £61,250 - £56,375
25th Percentile £62,500 £31,250 £59,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £32,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -48.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £79,100 £33,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £95,000 - £86,250
East Midlands median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +8.70% -8.00% -

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 321 374 345
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 78.68% 84.42% 90.31%
Number of salaries quoted 222 147 280
10th Percentile £27,550 £28,500 £32,464
25th Percentile £31,563 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £76,375
East Midlands median annual salary £42,500 £47,683 £50,000
% change year-on-year -10.87% -4.63% -4.76%

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 3 January 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 3 January 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 0 13 £65,000 +100.00% 2
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.67%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 10 (66.67%) AWS
2 8 (53.33%) Azure
3 2 (13.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (13.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (13.33%) OpenShift
3 2 (13.33%) PaaS
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Key Vault
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (26.67%) Redis
1 4 (26.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (40.00%) Git
2 3 (20.00%) GitLab
2 3 (20.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (13.33%) SonarQube
4 1 (6.67%) Bitbucket Server
4 1 (6.67%) Cucumber
4 1 (6.67%) JUnit
4 1 (6.67%) Mockito
4 1 (6.67%) REST Assured
4 1 (6.67%) Selenium
General
1 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Architect
1 4 (26.67%) Lead
1 4 (26.67%) Lead Software Engineer
1 4 (26.67%) Senior
1 4 (26.67%) Senior Software Engineer
1 4 (26.67%) Software Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Software Architect
3 2 (13.33%) AWS DevOps
3 2 (13.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Technical Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Automation Tester
4 1 (6.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Engineering Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Integration Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) .NET
1 4 (26.67%) .NET Core
1 4 (26.67%) RabbitMQ
2 3 (20.00%) Middleware
3 1 (6.67%) CSS
3 1 (6.67%) Hibernate
3 1 (6.67%) HTML
3 1 (6.67%) J2EE
3 1 (6.67%) Jest
3 1 (6.67%) JPA
3 1 (6.67%) Node.js
3 1 (6.67%) React
3 1 (6.67%) Redux
3 1 (6.67%) REST
3 1 (6.67%) RESTful
3 1 (6.67%) SOAP
3 1 (6.67%) Spring
3 1 (6.67%) Spring Boot
3 1 (6.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
1 1 (6.67%) Mobile App
1 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) Agile
1 9 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 7 (46.67%) Mentoring
3 5 (33.33%) E-Commerce
3 5 (33.33%) SDLC
4 4 (26.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (26.67%) Design Patterns
4 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (26.67%) Software Engineering
4 4 (26.67%) Technical Leadership
5 3 (20.00%) Computer Science
5 3 (20.00%) Configuration Management
5 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (20.00%) Open Source
5 3 (20.00%) Test Automation
5 3 (20.00%) UML
5 3 (20.00%) Waterfall
6 2 (13.33%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (13.33%) Observability
6 2 (13.33%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 4 (26.67%) C#
1 4 (26.67%) Java
1 4 (26.67%) SQL
2 3 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (13.33%) Bash
3 2 (13.33%) Go
3 2 (13.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 3 (20.00%) Chartered Engineer
1 3 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 12207
System Software
1 5 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (33.33%) Terraform
3 2 (13.33%) Ansible
4 1 (6.67%) CA Service Virtualization
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) AppDynamics