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 3 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 21 34
Rank change year-on-year -1 +13 -5
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 53 28 56
As % of all permanent jobs in Sheffield 5.54% 7.63% 4.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.26% 9.24% 5.72%
Number of salaries quoted 50 23 40
10th Percentile £49,829 £29,050 £34,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £31,250 £43,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +47.37% -9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £82,500 £65,000 £59,063
90th Percentile £83,750 £69,750 £72,750
South Yorkshire median annual salary £70,000 £48,750 £52,500
% change year-on-year +43.59% -7.14% -4.55%

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 642 303 979
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Sheffield 67.08% 82.56% 79.14%
Number of salaries quoted 518 213 766
10th Percentile £33,750 £26,250 £29,750
25th Percentile £40,500 £31,250 £39,390
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,130 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.26% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £80,000
South Yorkshire median annual salary £50,000 £46,250 £47,500
% change year-on-year +8.11% -2.63% +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 3 July 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 2 (3.77%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.89%) Confluence
2 1 (1.89%) SharePoint Server
Cloud Services
1 38 (71.70%) Azure
2 26 (49.06%) Azure DevOps
3 13 (24.53%) AWS
3 13 (24.53%) Azure Functions
3 13 (24.53%) Serverless
4 12 (22.64%) Azure Data Factory
5 9 (16.98%) Azure Logic Apps
5 9 (16.98%) Azure Monitor
6 6 (11.32%) Dynamics 365
6 6 (11.32%) Power Automate
6 6 (11.32%) Power Platform
7 5 (9.43%) GCP
8 4 (7.55%) Azure AI
8 4 (7.55%) Azure AKS
8 4 (7.55%) Azure Service Bus
8 4 (7.55%) Google Play
9 3 (5.66%) PowerApps
10 1 (1.89%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 1 (1.89%) Entra ID
10 1 (1.89%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (22.64%) Data Warehouse
1 12 (22.64%) Spark SQL
2 8 (15.09%) MongoDB
3 5 (9.43%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (7.55%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (5.66%) Metadata
5 3 (5.66%) Power BI
5 3 (5.66%) Power Query
5 3 (5.66%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (9.43%) Git
1 5 (9.43%) GitLab
2 4 (7.55%) JIRA
3 2 (3.77%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.77%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.89%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 12 (22.64%) Public Sector
2 3 (5.66%) Social Skills
3 2 (3.77%) Banking
3 2 (3.77%) Finance
3 2 (3.77%) Tech for Good
4 1 (1.89%) Electronics
4 1 (1.89%) Games
Job Titles
1 20 (37.74%) DevOps Engineer
2 17 (32.08%) Lead
3 15 (28.30%) Senior
4 12 (22.64%) Data Engineer
4 12 (22.64%) Lead Data Engineer
4 12 (22.64%) Platform Engineer
5 11 (20.75%) Senior DevOps
5 11 (20.75%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 10 (18.87%) Azure Engineer
7 9 (16.98%) Azure Platform Engineer
7 9 (16.98%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 8 (15.09%) Developer
9 5 (9.43%) .NET Developer
9 5 (9.43%) Lead DevOps
9 5 (9.43%) Lead DevOps Engineer
10 3 (5.66%) Automation Engineer
10 3 (5.66%) Data Architect
10 3 (5.66%) Power Platform Engineer
10 3 (5.66%) Senior Architect
10 3 (5.66%) Senior Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (22.64%) .NET
1 12 (22.64%) PySpark
2 9 (16.98%) ARM Templates
2 9 (16.98%) REST
3 5 (9.43%) ASP.NET
3 5 (9.43%) ASP.NET Core
3 5 (9.43%) RESTful
4 4 (7.55%) .NET Core
4 4 (7.55%) Blazor
4 4 (7.55%) ML.NET
4 4 (7.55%) Node.js
4 4 (7.55%) React
5 2 (3.77%) CSS
5 2 (3.77%) HTML
5 2 (3.77%) HTML5 Canvas
5 2 (3.77%) JSON
5 2 (3.77%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.55%) iPhone
1 4 (7.55%) Mobile App
2 3 (5.66%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.89%) 3D Graphics
3 1 (1.89%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.89%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.89%) FPGA
3 1 (1.89%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.89%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (11.32%) Linux
1 6 (11.32%) Unix
1 6 (11.32%) Windows
2 4 (7.55%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (64.15%) CI/CD
2 25 (47.17%) Agile
3 22 (41.51%) Test Automation
4 14 (26.42%) Coaching
4 14 (26.42%) Deployment Automation
4 14 (26.42%) Infrastructure as Code
4 14 (26.42%) Mentoring
5 13 (24.53%) Platform Engineering
6 12 (22.64%) Data Engineering
6 12 (22.64%) Data Governance
6 12 (22.64%) Data Modelling
7 11 (20.75%) Continuous Integration
8 10 (18.87%) ETL
8 10 (18.87%) Observability
8 10 (18.87%) Release Management
9 9 (16.98%) Computer Science
9 9 (16.98%) Cost Optimisation
9 9 (16.98%) Dashboard Development
9 9 (16.98%) Data Integration
9 9 (16.98%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 20 (37.74%) SQL
2 14 (26.42%) C#
3 11 (20.75%) Python
4 7 (13.21%) JavaScript
5 5 (9.43%) Java
6 3 (5.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (3.77%) Bicep
7 2 (3.77%) C++
7 2 (3.77%) T-SQL
7 2 (3.77%) VB.NET
8 1 (1.89%) Bash
8 1 (1.89%) C
8 1 (1.89%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (16.98%) Computer Science Degree
1 9 (16.98%) Degree
2 1 (1.89%) Azure Certification
2 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (18.87%) GDPR
2 1 (1.89%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.89%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.89%) Embedded Firmware
1 1 (1.89%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 15 (28.30%) Terraform
2 4 (7.55%) Argo
3 1 (1.89%) Ansible
3 1 (1.89%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (22.64%) Databricks
1 12 (22.64%) Microsoft
2 7 (13.21%) Google
3 6 (11.32%) Pega