DevOps Engineer Jobs in Tyne and Wear

Development Operations Engineer
North East > Tyne and Wear

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in Tyne and Wear is £57,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 77 74
Rank change year-on-year +29 -3 -18
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 4 20 18
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 0.90% 1.51% 1.95%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.95% 1.57% 2.39%
Number of salaries quoted 3 14 18
10th Percentile £45,050 £49,875 £39,913
25th Percentile £45,500 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £56,250 £66,250
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -15.09% +6.00%
75th Percentile £75,625 £77,188 £78,750
90th Percentile £79,750 £77,500 £82,625
North East median annual salary £56,500 £57,500 £66,250
% change year-on-year -1.74% -13.21% +6.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Tyne and Wear

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Tyne and Wear. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Tyne and Wear with a recognized job title 422 1,276 752
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.48% 96.52% 81.30%
Number of salaries quoted 306 1,066 462
10th Percentile £25,087 £29,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £33,000 £36,250 £38,644
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +16.67%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £76,011 £75,900
North East median annual salary £47,750 £47,500 £47,672
% change year-on-year +0.53% -0.36% +19.18%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Job postings that featured DevOps Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in Tyne and Wear

DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DevOps Engineer in Tyne and Wear.

Salary trend for DevOps Engineer in Tyne and Wear

DevOps Engineer
Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps Engineer within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 2 May 2025. 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
Newcastle upon Tyne +34 4 £57,500 +4.55% 5
DevOps Engineer
North East

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, DevOps Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Tyne and Wear region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
1 4 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Docker Swarm
2 3 (75.00%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (75.00%) Terraform
2 3 (75.00%) Grafana
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (75.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (75.00%) Ansible
2 3 (75.00%) Docker
2 3 (75.00%) TeamCity
2 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) VMware
2 3 (75.00%) Linux
2 3 (75.00%) Python
2 3 (75.00%) C#
2 3 (75.00%) Java
3 2 (50.00%) SAN
3 2 (50.00%) Degree
3 2 (50.00%) Advertising
3 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (50.00%) Atlassian
3 2 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (50.00%) AWS

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) GCP
3 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) TeamCity
2 2 (50.00%) Artifactory
2 2 (50.00%) Octopus Deploy
2 2 (50.00%) SonarQube
3 1 (25.00%) Bitbucket
3 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Advertising
2 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (25.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
2 3 (75.00%) Linux
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (25.00%) Analytics
4 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
4 1 (25.00%) Fintech
4 1 (25.00%) Log Analytics
4 1 (25.00%) Migration
4 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (25.00%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (75.00%) C#
2 3 (75.00%) Java
2 3 (75.00%) Python
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
2 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (50.00%) vSphere
3 1 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Ansible
1 3 (75.00%) Docker Swarm
1 3 (75.00%) Grafana
1 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) Control-M
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (75.00%) VMware
3 2 (50.00%) Atlassian