DevOps Job Trends in Leeds

DevOps
West Yorkshire > Leeds

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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 18 16
Rank change year-on-year -1 -2 -6
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 175 93 152
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 5.64% 9.77% 9.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.74% 11.19% 12.27%
Number of salaries quoted 104 79 125
10th Percentile £52,875 £41,075 £46,250
25th Percentile £63,627 £50,625 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £60,000 £68,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -11.76% +4.62%
75th Percentile £87,500 £75,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £78,750 £90,000
West Yorkshire median annual salary £75,000 £63,750 £68,000
% change year-on-year +17.65% -6.25% +4.62%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,260 831 1,239
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 72.79% 87.29% 78.32%
Number of salaries quoted 1,698 535 741
10th Percentile £32,000 £30,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £44,447 £44,750 £44,133
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,311
Median % change year-on-year - +4.69% -0.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £92,500 £85,000 £85,000
West Yorkshire median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

DevOps job vacancy trend in Leeds

DevOps
Salary Trend in Leeds

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing DevOps.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing DevOps

DevOps
Salary Histogram in Leeds

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps in Leeds over the 6 months to 6 October 2026.

Salary histogram for DevOps in Leeds

DevOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (1.71%) Apache Spark
1 3 (1.71%) CMS
1 3 (1.71%) IIS
1 3 (1.71%) nginx
2 2 (1.14%) Confluence
3 1 (0.57%) Apache
3 1 (0.57%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.71%) SAP S/4HANA
1 3 (1.71%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 80 (45.71%) AWS
2 44 (25.14%) Azure
3 41 (23.43%) AWS CloudFormation
3 41 (23.43%) GitHub
4 36 (20.57%) Amazon ECS
4 36 (20.57%) Amazon S3
5 32 (18.29%) AWS Lambda
5 32 (18.29%) Serverless
6 31 (17.71%) AWS Step Functions
7 28 (16.00%) GitHub Actions
8 22 (12.57%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 20 (11.43%) Azure DevOps
10 19 (10.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 18 (10.29%) Datadog
12 13 (7.43%) GCP
13 11 (6.29%) Amazon ECR
14 10 (5.71%) Power Platform
15 8 (4.57%) Apigee
15 8 (4.57%) Azure Data Factory
16 7 (4.00%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.71%) Internet
1 3 (1.71%) Reverse Proxy
2 2 (1.14%) BGP
2 2 (1.14%) DNS
2 2 (1.14%) Ethernet VPN
2 2 (1.14%) Firewall
2 2 (1.14%) HTTP
2 2 (1.14%) NGFW
2 2 (1.14%) OSPF
2 2 (1.14%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (17.71%) DynamoDB
2 19 (10.86%) NoSQL
3 18 (10.29%) Amazon Athena
4 7 (4.00%) SQL Server
5 5 (2.86%) Power BI
6 4 (2.29%) Metadata
6 4 (2.29%) Relational Database
6 4 (2.29%) Spark SQL
7 3 (1.71%) Data Lake
7 3 (1.71%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.71%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.71%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (1.71%) Redis
7 3 (1.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (1.14%) BigQuery
8 2 (1.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.57%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.57%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.57%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 33 (18.86%) Git
2 32 (18.29%) Jenkins
3 29 (16.57%) GitLab
4 11 (6.29%) Cypress.io
5 9 (5.14%) Maven
6 8 (4.57%) SonarQube
7 7 (4.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 5 (2.86%) JIRA
9 3 (1.71%) Visual Studio
General
1 42 (24.00%) Social Skills
2 31 (17.71%) Public Sector
3 16 (9.14%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (6.29%) Finance
5 4 (2.29%) Banking
6 3 (1.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.57%) Legal
7 1 (0.57%) Retail
Job Titles
1 52 (29.71%) DevOps Engineer
2 47 (26.86%) Developer
3 43 (24.57%) Senior
4 31 (17.71%) Java Developer
4 31 (17.71%) Lead
5 30 (17.14%) Cloud Engineer
6 19 (10.86%) AWS Developer
7 14 (8.00%) Senior DevOps
7 14 (8.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 13 (7.43%) Lead Cloud Engineer
9 12 (6.86%) Full-Stack Developer
9 12 (6.86%) Platform Engineer
9 12 (6.86%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 9 (5.14%) AWS Engineer
10 9 (5.14%) Data Engineer
10 9 (5.14%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 8 (4.57%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 7 (4.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 7 (4.00%) Lead DevOps
12 7 (4.00%) Principal DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (20.57%) Terraform
2 33 (18.86%) AngularJS
3 30 (17.14%) Node.js
4 22 (12.57%) Spring Boot
5 16 (9.14%) Spring
6 10 (5.71%) Jest
7 8 (4.57%) Gherkin
8 7 (4.00%) .NET
8 7 (4.00%) React
9 5 (2.86%) CSS
9 5 (2.86%) HTML
9 5 (2.86%) REST
10 4 (2.29%) ASP.NET
10 4 (2.29%) PySpark
11 3 (1.71%) ASP.NET Core
11 3 (1.71%) Entity Framework
11 3 (1.71%) Kafka
11 3 (1.71%) Playwright
11 3 (1.71%) RESTful
11 3 (1.71%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 31 (17.71%) Cloud Native
2 6 (3.43%) Product Ownership
3 4 (2.29%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (1.71%) AI Agents
4 3 (1.71%) Learning Management System
4 3 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.14%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.14%) Housing Association
5 2 (1.14%) Low-Code
5 2 (1.14%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.57%) Culture of Ownership
6 1 (0.57%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.57%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.57%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.57%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 22 (12.57%) Linux
2 8 (4.57%) Windows
3 7 (4.00%) CentOS
3 7 (4.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (4.00%) Unix
4 2 (1.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (53.71%) CI/CD
2 55 (31.43%) Agile
3 42 (24.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 33 (18.86%) Platform Engineering
5 29 (16.57%) Mentoring
6 25 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
7 23 (13.14%) Test Automation
8 22 (12.57%) Microservices
8 22 (12.57%) Problem-Solving
8 22 (12.57%) Technical Leadership
9 21 (12.00%) Coaching
9 21 (12.00%) DevSecOps
10 20 (11.43%) Scrum
10 20 (11.43%) Workflow
11 19 (10.86%) Continuous Improvement
11 19 (10.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 19 (10.86%) SDLC
12 17 (9.71%) Containerisation
13 15 (8.57%) Full-Stack Development
13 15 (8.57%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 39 (22.29%) Java
2 38 (21.71%) SQL
3 31 (17.71%) TypeScript
4 23 (13.14%) Kotlin
5 21 (12.00%) Python
6 13 (7.43%) Bash
7 12 (6.86%) Groovy
8 10 (5.71%) JavaScript
9 7 (4.00%) C#
10 3 (1.71%) Bicep
10 3 (1.71%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.14%) Go
11 2 (1.14%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.57%) C++
12 1 (0.57%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.57%) Scala
Qualifications
1 25 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 22 (12.57%) SC Cleared
3 9 (5.14%) AWS Certification
4 7 (4.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 7 (4.00%) DV Cleared
4 7 (4.00%) ITIL Certification
5 6 (3.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (3.43%) Degree
6 2 (1.14%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.57%) QA
2 4 (2.29%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.14%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.57%) GRC
4 1 (0.57%) WCAG
System Software
1 50 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (11.43%) Kubernetes
2 10 (5.71%) Ansible
3 8 (4.57%) HP Fortify
4 3 (1.71%) Argo
4 3 (1.71%) Grafana
4 3 (1.71%) Progress Chef
4 3 (1.71%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 17 (9.71%) Microsoft
2 6 (3.43%) Databricks
3 5 (2.86%) Google
4 4 (2.29%) Pega
4 4 (2.29%) ServiceNow
5 3 (1.71%) SAP
6 2 (1.14%) Arista
6 2 (1.14%) F5
6 2 (1.14%) Informatica
6 2 (1.14%) Palo Alto
6 2 (1.14%) Sophos
7 1 (0.57%) VMware