DevOps Job Trends in Sheffield

DevOps
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring DevOps skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 13 31
Rank change year-on-year -27 +18 -11
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 18 29 58
As % of all permanent jobs in Sheffield 2.84% 10.78% 5.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.04% 11.65% 6.61%
Number of salaries quoted 17 24 42
10th Percentile £40,200 £29,325 £35,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £31,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £46,250 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +53.37% -11.90% -31.15%
75th Percentile £83,750 £65,313 £59,688
90th Percentile - £70,000 £78,750
South Yorkshire median annual salary £70,932 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +49.33% -9.52% -28.81%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 445 249 877
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Sheffield 70.19% 92.57% 84.41%
Number of salaries quoted 346 171 713
10th Percentile £28,250 £28,800 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,563 £31,925 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,640 £75,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £86,250 £80,000
South Yorkshire median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -18.18% +15.79% +5.56%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

DevOps job vacancy trend in Sheffield

DevOps
Salary Trend in Sheffield

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing DevOps.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing DevOps

DevOps
Salary Histogram in Sheffield

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps in Sheffield over the 6 months to 12 April 2026.

Salary histogram for DevOps in Sheffield

DevOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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 1 (5.56%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 13 (72.22%) Azure
2 9 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (33.33%) AWS
3 6 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
4 4 (22.22%) Azure Functions
4 4 (22.22%) Azure Logic Apps
4 4 (22.22%) Azure Monitor
4 4 (22.22%) Serverless
5 2 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (11.11%) GCP
5 2 (11.11%) GitHub
5 2 (11.11%) Power Automate
5 2 (11.11%) Power Platform
5 2 (11.11%) PowerApps
6 1 (5.56%) Azure AKS
6 1 (5.56%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (5.56%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
1 6 (33.33%) Spark SQL
2 2 (11.11%) Metadata
2 2 (11.11%) Power BI
2 2 (11.11%) Power Query
2 2 (11.11%) Relational Database
3 1 (5.56%) MongoDB
3 1 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) JIRA
2 1 (5.56%) GitLab
2 1 (5.56%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (16.67%) Finance
1 3 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 3 (16.67%) Public Sector
1 3 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) Data Engineer
1 6 (33.33%) Lead
1 6 (33.33%) Lead Data Engineer
1 6 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) Azure Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) Azure Platform Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) Senior
3 3 (16.67%) Java Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) .NET Software Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Data Architect
4 2 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Senior Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Senior Data Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Senior DevOps
4 2 (11.11%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Software Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Power Platform Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (33.33%) Node.js
1 6 (33.33%) PySpark
2 4 (22.22%) ARM Templates
2 4 (22.22%) REST
3 3 (16.67%) .NET
3 3 (16.67%) CSS
3 3 (16.67%) HTML
3 3 (16.67%) Spring
4 2 (11.11%) .NET Core
4 2 (11.11%) AngularJS
4 2 (11.11%) ASP.NET
4 2 (11.11%) CSS3
4 2 (11.11%) HTML5
4 2 (11.11%) Sass
5 1 (5.56%) HTML5 Canvas
5 1 (5.56%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Product Ownership
1 2 (11.11%) Public Cloud
2 1 (5.56%) Data Structures
2 1 (5.56%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Linux
1 1 (5.56%) Unix
1 1 (5.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 10 (55.56%) Test Automation
3 7 (38.89%) Agile
3 7 (38.89%) Software Engineering
4 6 (33.33%) Coaching
4 6 (33.33%) Data Engineering
4 6 (33.33%) Data Governance
4 6 (33.33%) Data Modelling
4 6 (33.33%) Mentoring
4 6 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
5 5 (27.78%) ETL
6 4 (22.22%) Computer Science
6 4 (22.22%) Cost Optimisation
6 4 (22.22%) Dashboard Development
6 4 (22.22%) Data Integration
6 4 (22.22%) Deployment Automation
6 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (22.22%) Observability
6 4 (22.22%) Regulatory Compliance
6 4 (22.22%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (55.56%) SQL
2 4 (22.22%) Java
2 4 (22.22%) Python
3 3 (16.67%) C#
4 2 (11.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (5.56%) JavaScript
5 1 (5.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (22.22%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (22.22%) Degree
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (27.78%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 5 (27.78%) Terraform
2 1 (5.56%) Argo
Vendors
1 6 (33.33%) Databricks
2 4 (22.22%) Microsoft
3 2 (11.11%) Google