DevOps Jobs in Tyne and Wear

DevOps
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear requiring DevOps skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited DevOps over the 6 months leading up to 7 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 31 27
Rank change year-on-year +9 -4 -2
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 37 82 82
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 8.30% 6.17% 8.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.81% 7.04% 9.11%
Number of salaries quoted 32 57 62
10th Percentile £38,194 £41,895 £47,500
25th Percentile £44,500 £51,250 £51,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £72,569 £67,968 £71,188
90th Percentile £83,625 £78,500 £79,875
North East median annual salary £65,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +13.04% +4.55% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 420 1,165 900
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 94.17% 87.59% 96.77%
Number of salaries quoted 297 980 455
10th Percentile £25,087 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,074 £38,697
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £75,820 £75,600
North East median annual salary £47,750 £47,500 £48,500
% change year-on-year +0.53% -2.06% +14.12%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in Tyne and Wear

DevOps
Salary Trend in Tyne and Wear

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

Salary trend for DevOps in Tyne and Wear

DevOps
Salary Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 7 May 2025.

Salary histogram for DevOps in Tyne and Wear

DevOps
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 within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 7 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 +13 33 £65,000 +20.93% 53
Prudhoe - 2 £45,000 -
Gateshead +5 1 £47,500 -9.95% 1
DevOps
North East

DevOps
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (8.11%) Confluence
2 1 (2.70%) Apache
2 1 (2.70%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.70%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (2.70%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 23 (62.16%) Azure
2 17 (45.95%) AWS
3 8 (21.62%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (16.22%) OCI
5 4 (10.81%) GCP
5 4 (10.81%) SaaS
6 2 (5.41%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (5.41%) GitHub
6 2 (5.41%) Power Platform
6 2 (5.41%) Slack
7 1 (2.70%) Amazon Kinesis
7 1 (2.70%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (2.70%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (2.70%) dbt
7 1 (2.70%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (2.70%) IaaS
7 1 (2.70%) Serverless
7 1 (2.70%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.81%) SAN
2 2 (5.41%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (21.62%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.70%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (2.70%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (2.70%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (2.70%) BigQuery
2 1 (2.70%) Data Lake
2 1 (2.70%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (2.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (10.81%) Selenium
1 4 (10.81%) SonarQube
2 3 (8.11%) Bitbucket
2 3 (8.11%) GitLab
2 3 (8.11%) JIRA
2 3 (8.11%) TeamCity
3 2 (5.41%) Artifactory
3 2 (5.41%) Cucumber
3 2 (5.41%) Git
3 2 (5.41%) Jenkins
3 2 (5.41%) Maven
3 2 (5.41%) NUnit
3 2 (5.41%) Octopus Deploy
3 2 (5.41%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (5.41%) SpecFlow
3 2 (5.41%) Visual Studio
4 1 (2.70%) CircleCI
General
1 11 (29.73%) Finance
2 4 (10.81%) Advertising
2 4 (10.81%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (8.11%) Law
3 3 (8.11%) Social Skills
4 2 (5.41%) Banking
4 2 (5.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (5.41%) Legal
5 1 (2.70%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (2.70%) Games
5 1 (2.70%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (24.32%) Architect
2 7 (18.92%) Software Engineer
3 6 (16.22%) Infrastructure Architect
3 6 (16.22%) Senior
4 4 (10.81%) Cloud Architect
4 4 (10.81%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
4 4 (10.81%) Developer
4 4 (10.81%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) Lead
5 3 (8.11%) Security Architect
5 3 (8.11%) Security Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Cloud Security Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) DBA
6 2 (5.41%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (5.41%) Senior Software Engineer
7 1 (2.70%) Analyst
7 1 (2.70%) Development Manager
7 1 (2.70%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (24.32%) .NET
2 3 (8.11%) .NET Framework
2 3 (8.11%) AngularJS
2 3 (8.11%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (8.11%) Kafka
2 3 (8.11%) Node.js
2 3 (8.11%) React
2 3 (8.11%) REST
3 2 (5.41%) CSS
3 2 (5.41%) HTML
3 2 (5.41%) JPA
3 2 (5.41%) Redux
3 2 (5.41%) RESTful
3 2 (5.41%) Spring
3 2 (5.41%) Spring Boot
4 1 (2.70%) .NET Core
4 1 (2.70%) CSS3
4 1 (2.70%) Entity Framework
4 1 (2.70%) Hibernate
4 1 (2.70%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.22%) Data Centre
1 6 (16.22%) Operational Technology
1 6 (16.22%) SCADA
2 4 (10.81%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (8.11%) Product Ownership
3 3 (8.11%) Security Posture
4 2 (5.41%) Cloud Security Posture
4 2 (5.41%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (5.41%) Management Information System
4 2 (5.41%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (2.70%) Cyber Security Posture
5 1 (2.70%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 10 (27.03%) Windows
2 9 (24.32%) Linux
3 1 (2.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (56.76%) Agile
2 12 (32.43%) CI/CD
2 12 (32.43%) Software Engineering
3 9 (24.32%) SDLC
4 7 (18.92%) Full-Stack Development
4 7 (18.92%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (16.22%) Continuous Improvement
5 6 (16.22%) Mentoring
5 6 (16.22%) Test Automation
5 6 (16.22%) TOGAF
6 5 (13.51%) Cloud Security
6 5 (13.51%) Containerisation
6 5 (13.51%) Data Engineering
6 5 (13.51%) Fintech
6 5 (13.51%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (13.51%) Roadmaps
7 4 (10.81%) Microservices
7 4 (10.81%) OO
7 4 (10.81%) Performance Optimisation
7 4 (10.81%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 13 (35.14%) C#
2 11 (29.73%) Java
3 8 (21.62%) Python
4 7 (18.92%) JavaScript
4 7 (18.92%) SQL
5 6 (16.22%) PowerShell
6 4 (10.81%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.70%) Scala
Qualifications
1 8 (21.62%) Degree
2 6 (16.22%) TOGAF Certification
3 2 (5.41%) AWS Certification
3 2 (5.41%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 2 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.70%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.70%) Numerate Degree
4 1 (2.70%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (18.92%) QA
2 4 (10.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (8.11%) NCSC
4 2 (5.41%) Accessibility
5 1 (2.70%) GDPR
5 1 (2.70%) NIST
5 1 (2.70%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (18.92%) Docker
2 2 (5.41%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (5.41%) vSphere
3 1 (2.70%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (27.03%) Terraform
2 6 (16.22%) Kubernetes
3 4 (10.81%) Ansible
4 3 (8.11%) Docker Swarm
4 3 (8.11%) Grafana
5 1 (2.70%) Control-M
Vendors
1 10 (27.03%) Microsoft
2 9 (24.32%) VMware
3 7 (18.92%) Oracle
4 2 (5.41%) Atlassian
4 2 (5.41%) Nimble Storage
4 2 (5.41%) Solace
5 1 (2.70%) Databricks