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 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 208 136 106
Rank change year-on-year -72 -30 -52
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 200 435 589
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 1.06% 2.70% 3.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.11% 3.02% 3.32%
Number of salaries quoted 119 248 349
10th Percentile £48,100 £46,350 £40,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +12.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £72,433 £82,548 £80,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £74,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +1.35% +13.85%

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 17,953 14,401 17,753
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.20% 89.25% 96.28%
Number of salaries quoted 13,711 7,947 10,940
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,500 £27,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,627 £80,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,331 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.98% +0.55% +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 1 June 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 1 June 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 -63 118 £60,000 -14.29% 24
Yorkshire -40 61 £65,000 -3.70% 17
North East -7 21 £57,500 -11.54% 4
DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 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.

1 200 (100.00%) DevOps
2 140 (70.00%) Terraform
3 135 (67.50%) AWS
4 129 (64.50%) Kubernetes
5 117 (58.50%) CI/CD
6 100 (50.00%) Agile
7 96 (48.00%) Azure
8 82 (41.00%) Containerisation
9 78 (39.00%) Docker
10 70 (35.00%) Mentoring
11 69 (34.50%) Public Sector
12 67 (33.50%) Infrastructure as Code
13 50 (25.00%) Linux
14 49 (24.50%) Test Automation
15 47 (23.50%) Ansible
16 46 (23.00%) Prometheus
17 45 (22.50%) Coaching
18 44 (22.00%) IBM
18 44 (22.00%) Social Skills
19 43 (21.50%) Amazon EKS
20 41 (20.50%) GCP
20 41 (20.50%) Artificial Intelligence
21 40 (20.00%) Secrets Management
22 39 (19.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
22 39 (19.50%) OCI
22 39 (19.50%) Observability
22 39 (19.50%) Azure DevOps
23 38 (19.00%) Continuous Integration
24 37 (18.50%) Amazon S3
24 37 (18.50%) Amazon RDS

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 (0.50%) Apache
1 1 (0.50%) Confluence
1 1 (0.50%) Moodle
Cloud Services
1 135 (67.50%) AWS
2 96 (48.00%) Azure
3 43 (21.50%) Amazon EKS
4 41 (20.50%) GCP
5 39 (19.50%) Azure DevOps
5 39 (19.50%) OCI
6 37 (18.50%) Amazon S3
7 36 (18.00%) Amazon ECR
7 36 (18.00%) IBM Cloud
7 36 (18.00%) Route 53
8 32 (16.00%) GitHub
9 24 (12.00%) GitHub Actions
10 16 (8.00%) AWS CloudFormation
11 11 (5.50%) SaaS
12 10 (5.00%) OpenShift
13 6 (3.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 6 (3.00%) Amazon ECS
13 6 (3.00%) Serverless
14 5 (2.50%) AWS CodePipeline
14 5 (2.50%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.00%) DNS
2 4 (2.00%) HTTP
3 2 (1.00%) WAN
4 1 (0.50%) Network Security
4 1 (0.50%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.50%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (18.50%) Amazon RDS
2 14 (7.00%) SQL Server
3 5 (2.50%) Relational Database
4 3 (1.50%) MySQL
5 2 (1.00%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (1.00%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.00%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.50%) Flink
6 1 (0.50%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 23 (11.50%) JIRA
2 19 (9.50%) CircleCI
3 18 (9.00%) GitLab
4 11 (5.50%) Jenkins
5 10 (5.00%) Git
6 8 (4.00%) IBM UrbanCode
7 4 (2.00%) git-flow
8 3 (1.50%) MSBuild
8 3 (1.50%) SonarQube
8 3 (1.50%) Subversion
8 3 (1.50%) Team Foundation Server
8 3 (1.50%) TeamCity
8 3 (1.50%) Terragrunt
8 3 (1.50%) Visual Studio Team System
9 2 (1.00%) Artifactory
9 2 (1.00%) Gradle
10 1 (0.50%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.50%) Travis CI
General
1 69 (34.50%) Public Sector
2 44 (22.00%) Social Skills
3 39 (19.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 17 (8.50%) Aerospace
5 15 (7.50%) Finance
6 10 (5.00%) Banking
6 10 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
7 9 (4.50%) Games
8 8 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (2.50%) Law
10 2 (1.00%) Analytical Skills
11 1 (0.50%) Automotive
11 1 (0.50%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.50%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.50%) Legal
11 1 (0.50%) Marketing
11 1 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (5.00%) Node.js
2 7 (3.50%) .NET
3 5 (2.50%) AWS CDK
4 4 (2.00%) JWT
4 4 (2.00%) RESTful
5 3 (1.50%) .NET Framework
5 3 (1.50%) ARM Templates
5 3 (1.50%) Lambda Expressions
6 2 (1.00%) ADO
6 2 (1.00%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (1.00%) Spring
6 2 (1.00%) Spring Boot
6 2 (1.00%) YAML
7 1 (0.50%) Apache NiFi
7 1 (0.50%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (0.50%) REST
7 1 (0.50%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 36 (18.00%) Blockchain
1 36 (18.00%) e-Learning
1 36 (18.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 27 (13.50%) Public Cloud
3 20 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (5.50%) Cloud Native
5 5 (2.50%) Client/Server
5 5 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (2.50%) Online Games
5 5 (2.50%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.50%) Enterprise Cloud
6 3 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.50%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.00%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.00%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.00%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.50%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.50%) NHS
8 1 (0.50%) PKI
8 1 (0.50%) VLE
Operating Systems
1 50 (25.00%) Linux
2 22 (11.00%) Windows
3 4 (2.00%) Unix
4 2 (1.00%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.50%) VMS
5 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 200 (100.00%) DevOps
2 117 (58.50%) CI/CD
3 100 (50.00%) Agile
4 82 (41.00%) Containerisation
5 70 (35.00%) Mentoring
6 67 (33.50%) Infrastructure as Code
7 49 (24.50%) Test Automation
8 45 (22.50%) Coaching
9 41 (20.50%) Artificial Intelligence
10 40 (20.00%) Secrets Management
11 39 (19.50%) Observability
12 38 (19.00%) Continuous Integration
13 23 (11.50%) Deployment Automation
13 23 (11.50%) Scrum
14 21 (10.50%) Continuous Deployment
15 20 (10.00%) SDLC
15 20 (10.00%) Software Delivery
16 19 (9.50%) Kanban
17 18 (9.00%) Problem-Solving
18 17 (8.50%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 26 (13.00%) PowerShell
2 23 (11.50%) Python
3 20 (10.00%) C#
4 13 (6.50%) SQL
5 9 (4.50%) JavaScript
6 8 (4.00%) Groovy
7 6 (3.00%) Bash
8 5 (2.50%) Go
8 5 (2.50%) Java
9 4 (2.00%) PHP
9 4 (2.00%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.00%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.50%) C
11 1 (0.50%) C++
11 1 (0.50%) Ruby
11 1 (0.50%) Rust
Qualifications
1 26 (13.00%) Security Cleared
2 17 (8.50%) DV Cleared
3 10 (5.00%) Degree
4 6 (3.00%) AWS Certification
4 6 (3.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.50%) SC Cleared
6 3 (1.50%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.50%) BC Cleared
7 2 (1.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.50%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (0.50%) NIST
2 1 (0.50%) PCI DSS
2 1 (0.50%) SLA
System Software
1 78 (39.00%) Docker
2 7 (3.50%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (3.00%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.00%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.50%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 140 (70.00%) Terraform
2 129 (64.50%) Kubernetes
3 47 (23.50%) Ansible
4 46 (23.00%) Prometheus
5 20 (10.00%) Progress Chef
6 12 (6.00%) Grafana
7 8 (4.00%) Puppet
8 2 (1.00%) Kibana
9 1 (0.50%) yum
Vendors
1 44 (22.00%) IBM
2 36 (18.00%) Dynatrace
2 36 (18.00%) Red Hat
3 29 (14.50%) Microsoft
4 10 (5.00%) Oracle
5 9 (4.50%) Google
6 5 (2.50%) ServiceNow
7 4 (2.00%) Splunk
8 3 (1.50%) Black Duck
8 3 (1.50%) Databricks
8 3 (1.50%) Veeam
9 2 (1.00%) Atlassian
9 2 (1.00%) VMware
10 1 (0.50%) Blackboard
10 1 (0.50%) PagerDuty
10 1 (0.50%) ScienceLogic
10 1 (0.50%) Talend
10 1 (0.50%) YouTube