DevOps Engineer Jobs in the North of England

Development Operations Engineer
England > North of England

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in the North of England is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 209 131 102
Rank change year-on-year -78 -29 -47
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 195 446 587
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 1.10% 2.65% 3.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.16% 2.96% 3.37%
Number of salaries quoted 121 256 348
10th Percentile £48,250 £45,625 £40,853
25th Percentile £48,750 £54,688 £53,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £68,250 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year -12.09% +7.06% +12.33%
75th Percentile £72,433 £81,563 £77,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +3.45% +11.54%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the North of England. 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 16,773 15,070 17,403
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.97% 89.52% 96.19%
Number of salaries quoted 12,974 8,056 10,901
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,500 £27,875
25th Percentile £36,250 £39,577 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +7.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £69,063 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £81,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £53,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.83% +1.33% +9.09%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings that featured DevOps Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in the North of England

DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DevOps Engineer in the North of England.

Salary trend for DevOps Engineer in the North of England

DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Salary histogram for DevOps Engineer in the North of England

DevOps Engineer
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps Engineer within the North of England region over the 6 months to 17 May 2024. 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
North West -69 115 £60,000 -14.29% 25
Yorkshire -41 58 £65,465 -3.02% 12
North East 0 22 £57,500 -13.21% 3
DevOps Engineer
England

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 17 May 2024, 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 North of England region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 195 (100.00%) DevOps
2 134 (68.72%) Terraform
3 130 (66.67%) AWS
4 124 (63.59%) Kubernetes
5 111 (56.92%) CI/CD
6 100 (51.28%) Agile
7 91 (46.67%) Azure
8 80 (41.03%) Containerisation
9 71 (36.41%) Docker
10 67 (34.36%) Mentoring
11 66 (33.85%) Infrastructure as Code
12 62 (31.79%) Public Sector
13 54 (27.69%) Linux
14 47 (24.10%) IBM
14 47 (24.10%) Prometheus
15 45 (23.08%) Ansible
16 44 (22.56%) Coaching
16 44 (22.56%) Amazon EKS
16 44 (22.56%) Test Automation
17 41 (21.03%) Artificial Intelligence
17 41 (21.03%) Observability
18 40 (20.51%) Social Skills
18 40 (20.51%) Azure DevOps
18 40 (20.51%) Secrets Management
19 39 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
20 38 (19.49%) Amazon RDS
21 37 (18.97%) Amazon S3
21 37 (18.97%) Continuous Integration
22 36 (18.46%) e-Learning
22 36 (18.46%) Red Hat

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 1 (0.51%) Apache
1 1 (0.51%) Moodle
Cloud Services
1 130 (66.67%) AWS
2 91 (46.67%) Azure
3 44 (22.56%) Amazon EKS
4 40 (20.51%) Azure DevOps
5 37 (18.97%) Amazon S3
6 36 (18.46%) Amazon ECR
6 36 (18.46%) IBM Cloud
6 36 (18.46%) OCI
6 36 (18.46%) Route 53
7 33 (16.92%) GCP
8 28 (14.36%) GitHub
9 20 (10.26%) GitHub Actions
10 14 (7.18%) AWS CloudFormation
11 13 (6.67%) OpenShift
12 12 (6.15%) SaaS
13 7 (3.59%) Amazon ECS
14 6 (3.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 6 (3.08%) Serverless
15 5 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
15 5 (2.56%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.08%) DNS
2 5 (2.56%) HTTP
3 2 (1.03%) WAN
4 1 (0.51%) Internet
4 1 (0.51%) Network Security
4 1 (0.51%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.51%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.51%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (19.49%) Amazon RDS
2 14 (7.18%) SQL Server
3 5 (2.56%) Relational Database
4 3 (1.54%) MySQL
5 2 (1.03%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (1.03%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.03%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.51%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.51%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.51%) Flink
6 1 (0.51%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 19 (9.74%) JIRA
2 15 (7.69%) CircleCI
2 15 (7.69%) GitLab
3 14 (7.18%) Git
4 11 (5.64%) IBM UrbanCode
5 10 (5.13%) Jenkins
6 4 (2.05%) git-flow
7 3 (1.54%) MSBuild
7 3 (1.54%) Subversion
7 3 (1.54%) Team Foundation Server
7 3 (1.54%) TeamCity
7 3 (1.54%) Visual Studio Team System
8 2 (1.03%) Artifactory
8 2 (1.03%) Gradle
9 1 (0.51%) Travis CI
General
1 62 (31.79%) Public Sector
2 40 (20.51%) Social Skills
3 39 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 19 (9.74%) Finance
5 17 (8.72%) Aerospace
6 15 (7.69%) Banking
7 11 (5.64%) Presentation Skills
8 9 (4.62%) Games
9 8 (4.10%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (2.56%) Law
11 4 (2.05%) Analytical Skills
12 1 (0.51%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.51%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.51%) Legal
12 1 (0.51%) Marketing
12 1 (0.51%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (4.62%) .NET
1 9 (4.62%) Node.js
2 6 (3.08%) AWS CDK
3 4 (2.05%) JWT
3 4 (2.05%) Lambda Expressions
3 4 (2.05%) RESTful
3 4 (2.05%) YAML
4 3 (1.54%) .NET Framework
5 2 (1.03%) .NET Core
5 2 (1.03%) ADO
5 2 (1.03%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (1.03%) JSON
5 2 (1.03%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (1.03%) React
5 2 (1.03%) Spring
5 2 (1.03%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.51%) Apache NiFi
6 1 (0.51%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 36 (18.46%) Blockchain
1 36 (18.46%) e-Learning
1 36 (18.46%) Hybrid Cloud
2 26 (13.33%) Public Cloud
3 15 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (4.10%) Cloud Native
5 5 (2.56%) Client/Server
5 5 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (2.56%) Online Games
6 4 (2.05%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (2.05%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.03%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.03%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (1.03%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.03%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.51%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.51%) NHS
8 1 (0.51%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.51%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.51%) VLE
Operating Systems
1 54 (27.69%) Linux
2 25 (12.82%) Windows
3 4 (2.05%) Unix
4 2 (1.03%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.51%) VMS
5 1 (0.51%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 195 (100.00%) DevOps
2 111 (56.92%) CI/CD
3 100 (51.28%) Agile
4 80 (41.03%) Containerisation
5 67 (34.36%) Mentoring
6 66 (33.85%) Infrastructure as Code
7 44 (22.56%) Coaching
7 44 (22.56%) Test Automation
8 41 (21.03%) Artificial Intelligence
8 41 (21.03%) Observability
9 40 (20.51%) Secrets Management
10 37 (18.97%) Continuous Integration
11 24 (12.31%) Continuous Deployment
12 20 (10.26%) Scrum
12 20 (10.26%) SDLC
12 20 (10.26%) Software Delivery
13 19 (9.74%) Deployment Automation
13 19 (9.74%) Kanban
13 19 (9.74%) Problem-Solving
14 18 (9.23%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 27 (13.85%) PowerShell
2 20 (10.26%) C#
2 20 (10.26%) Python
3 16 (8.21%) SQL
4 11 (5.64%) Groovy
5 8 (4.10%) Bash
6 7 (3.59%) Java
7 6 (3.08%) JavaScript
8 4 (2.05%) Go
8 4 (2.05%) PHP
8 4 (2.05%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.03%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.51%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 24 (12.31%) Security Cleared
2 17 (8.72%) DV Cleared
3 12 (6.15%) Degree
4 6 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.54%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.03%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (1.03%) BC Cleared
6 2 (1.03%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.54%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.51%) SLA
System Software
1 71 (36.41%) Docker
2 7 (3.59%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (3.08%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.03%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.51%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.51%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 134 (68.72%) Terraform
2 124 (63.59%) Kubernetes
3 47 (24.10%) Prometheus
4 45 (23.08%) Ansible
5 22 (11.28%) Progress Chef
6 13 (6.67%) Grafana
7 7 (3.59%) Puppet
8 2 (1.03%) Istio
8 2 (1.03%) Kibana
9 1 (0.51%) yum
Vendors
1 47 (24.10%) IBM
2 36 (18.46%) Dynatrace
2 36 (18.46%) Red Hat
3 29 (14.87%) Microsoft
4 11 (5.64%) Google
5 10 (5.13%) Oracle
6 4 (2.05%) Splunk
7 3 (1.54%) Databricks
7 3 (1.54%) Veeam
8 2 (1.03%) VMware
9 1 (0.51%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.51%) Blackboard
9 1 (0.51%) PagerDuty
9 1 (0.51%) ScienceLogic
9 1 (0.51%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.51%) Talend
9 1 (0.51%) YouTube