DevOps Job Trends in Sunderland

DevOps
Tyne and Wear > Sunderland

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

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 - 20
Rank change year-on-year - - -9
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 3 0 16
As % of all permanent jobs in Sunderland 2.14% - 10.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.97% - 11.68%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 12
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £42,500 - £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 - £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +13.64%
75th Percentile £47,500 - £77,500
90th Percentile - - -
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £51,000 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -21.54% +18.18% -4.35%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Sunderland

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 Sunderland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 101 37 137
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Sunderland 72.14% 100.00% 90.13%
Number of salaries quoted 63 16 117
10th Percentile £27,900 - £35,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £38,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.42% -30.91% +37.50%
75th Percentile £55,000 £44,092 £72,500
90th Percentile £59,750 £71,250 £77,500
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Sunderland

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

DevOps job vacancy trend in Sunderland

DevOps
Salary Trend in Sunderland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Sunderland citing DevOps.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Sunderland citing DevOps

DevOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sunderland 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 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Head of Operations
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) React
1 1 (33.33%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Educational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) API Design
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) Strategic Roadmap
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) PHP