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 20 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 29 48
Rank change year-on-year -3 +19 -25
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 12 38 14
As % of all permanent jobs in Sheffield 3.15% 4.93% 3.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.93% 6.59% 3.35%
Number of salaries quoted 9 9 13
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,000 -
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £155,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +158.33% +4.35% -14.81%
75th Percentile £162,500 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £180,500 £76,000 £75,000
South Yorkshire median annual salary £155,000 £60,000 £56,250
% change year-on-year +158.33% +6.67% -1.39%

All Process and 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 305 577 418
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Sheffield 80.05% 74.84% 97.44%
Number of salaries quoted 220 268 330
10th Percentile £26,750 £36,000 £24,900
25th Percentile £31,250 £42,500 £32,050
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,750 £55,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +22.22% -10.00%
75th Percentile £63,125 £68,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £82,750 £80,375 £69,775
South Yorkshire median annual salary £40,500 £55,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -26.36% +22.22% -10.00%

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 20 October 2025.

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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) Azure
1 4 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (25.00%) SaaS
3 2 (16.67%) AWS
3 2 (16.67%) GitHub
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon S3
4 1 (8.33%) Azure AI
4 1 (8.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (8.33%) Entra ID
4 1 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (8.33%) IaaS
4 1 (8.33%) PaaS
4 1 (8.33%) Power Automate
4 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) DNS
1 1 (8.33%) Firewall
1 1 (8.33%) SD-WAN
1 1 (8.33%) VPN
1 1 (8.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Data Lake
1 1 (8.33%) MySQL
1 1 (8.33%) Power BI
1 1 (8.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Git
1 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (41.67%) Finance
2 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Digital Healthcare
Job Titles
1 2 (16.67%) Head of Service Management
1 2 (16.67%) Lead
1 2 (16.67%) Lead DevOps
1 2 (16.67%) Manual Tester
1 2 (16.67%) Team Leader
1 2 (16.67%) Tester
2 1 (8.33%) .NET Software Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Architect
2 1 (8.33%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) .NET
1 1 (8.33%) .NET Core
1 1 (8.33%) AngularJS
1 1 (8.33%) ASP.NET
1 1 (8.33%) CSS
1 1 (8.33%) CSS3
1 1 (8.33%) HTML
1 1 (8.33%) HTML5
1 1 (8.33%) LAMP
1 1 (8.33%) Node.js
1 1 (8.33%) Sass
1 1 (8.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) Cloud Native
2 2 (16.67%) CMDB
2 2 (16.67%) Data Centre
3 1 (8.33%) NHS
3 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 4 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 4 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 4 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
3 3 (25.00%) Chaos Engineering
3 3 (25.00%) Problem Management
3 3 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 3 (25.00%) Scenario Testing
3 3 (25.00%) Service Management
3 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (25.00%) Strategic Thinking
3 3 (25.00%) Tech Ops
4 2 (16.67%) Agile
4 2 (16.67%) High Availability
4 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (16.67%) Integration Testing
4 2 (16.67%) ITSM
4 2 (16.67%) Manual Testing
4 2 (16.67%) Product Management
4 2 (16.67%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) SQL
2 1 (8.33%) Bicep
2 1 (8.33%) C#
2 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) Azure Certification
1 1 (8.33%) DBS Check
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) Databricks
1 1 (8.33%) Meraki
1 1 (8.33%) VMware