DevOps Job Trends in Northern Ireland

DevOps
UK > Northern Ireland

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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 26 46
Rank change year-on-year -1 +20 -2
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 109 10 13
As % of all permanent jobs in Northern Ireland 8.37% 3.30% 2.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.70% 3.73% 3.04%
Number of salaries quoted 3 6 8
10th Percentile £68,089 £66,250 -
25th Percentile £68,360 £91,875 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £130,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -44.23% +147.62% -28.81%
75th Percentile £77,432 £132,500 £73,244
90th Percentile £78,247 - £79,338
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year - +3.70% -3.57%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 932 268 427
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 71.53% 88.45% 78.64%
Number of salaries quoted 248 108 277
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,925 £29,500
25th Percentile £33,063 £32,851 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £81,500 £90,000 £82,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.84%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

DevOps job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

DevOps
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing DevOps.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing DevOps

DevOps
Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 12 August 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
County Antrim 0 54 £72,500 +31.82% 63
County Down - 33 - - 2
County Armagh -12 18 - - 1
County Tyrone - 4 - -
Newry - 1 - -
DevOps
UK

DevOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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
1 106 (97.25%) SaaS
2 59 (54.13%) Azure
3 49 (44.95%) AWS
4 9 (8.26%) Dynamics 365
4 9 (8.26%) GitHub
5 2 (1.83%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (1.83%) dbt
5 2 (1.83%) GCP
6 1 (0.92%) Amazon ECR
6 1 (0.92%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (0.92%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 1 (0.92%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 1 (0.92%) AWS CodeBuild
6 1 (0.92%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (0.92%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (0.92%) OpenShift
6 1 (0.92%) PaaS
6 1 (0.92%) Pulumi
6 1 (0.92%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.83%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.26%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.92%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (0.92%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (0.92%) MongoDB
2 1 (0.92%) Pinecone
2 1 (0.92%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.92%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (0.92%) GitLab
1 1 (0.92%) Jenkins
General
1 60 (55.05%) Social Skills
2 59 (54.13%) Legal
3 51 (46.79%) Law
4 9 (8.26%) Finance
4 9 (8.26%) Legal Technology
5 1 (0.92%) Advertising
5 1 (0.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 53 (48.62%) Senior
2 50 (45.87%) Senior Manager
2 50 (45.87%) Testing Manager
3 47 (43.12%) IT Manager
3 47 (43.12%) IT Services Manager
3 47 (43.12%) Resilience Manager
3 47 (43.12%) Service Manager
4 9 (8.26%) Administrator
4 9 (8.26%) DBA
5 1 (0.92%) Developer
5 1 (0.92%) Gen AI Developer
5 1 (0.92%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (0.92%) Python Developer
5 1 (0.92%) Python Engineer
5 1 (0.92%) Senior Developer
5 1 (0.92%) Senior Platform Engineer
5 1 (0.92%) Senior Python Developer
5 1 (0.92%) Site Engineer
5 1 (0.92%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (43.12%) Middleware
2 1 (0.92%) Django
2 1 (0.92%) FastAPI
2 1 (0.92%) LangChain
2 1 (0.92%) LlamaIndex
2 1 (0.92%) NumPy
2 1 (0.92%) Pandas
2 1 (0.92%) pgvector
Miscellaneous
1 50 (45.87%) Virtual Team
2 47 (43.12%) Cyber Threat
3 9 (8.26%) Clustering
3 9 (8.26%) Replication
4 1 (0.92%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (0.92%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 11 (10.09%) Linux
2 2 (1.83%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (88.99%) Enterprise Architecture
1 97 (88.99%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 97 (88.99%) Test Automation
2 78 (71.56%) Project Delivery
3 51 (46.79%) Continuous Improvement
3 51 (46.79%) Mentoring
3 51 (46.79%) Software Engineering
4 50 (45.87%) Budget Management
4 50 (45.87%) Change Advisory Board
4 50 (45.87%) Data Management
4 50 (45.87%) Manual Testing
4 50 (45.87%) Performance Management
4 50 (45.87%) Programme Management
4 50 (45.87%) Software Testing
4 50 (45.87%) Strategic Planning
4 50 (45.87%) Test Strategy
4 50 (45.87%) Virtual Team Management
5 48 (44.04%) Agile
5 48 (44.04%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 47 (43.12%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 59 (54.13%) PowerShell
2 53 (48.62%) Python
3 50 (45.87%) C#
3 50 (45.87%) JavaScript
3 50 (45.87%) TypeScript
4 9 (8.26%) SQL
5 1 (0.92%) Java
Qualifications
1 47 (43.12%) CISM
1 47 (43.12%) CISSP
1 47 (43.12%) ITIL Certification
2 2 (1.83%) SC Cleared
2 2 (1.83%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (45.87%) QA
2 47 (43.12%) ISO 22301
2 47 (43.12%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (0.92%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (1.83%) Terraform
2 1 (0.92%) AWS Copilot
2 1 (0.92%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (8.26%) Microsoft
2 2 (1.83%) Google