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 9 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 19 33
Rank change year-on-year -19 +14 -9
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 10 38 23
As % of all permanent jobs in Sheffield 2.46% 8.05% 5.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.14% 9.25% 6.10%
Number of salaries quoted 9 9 17
10th Percentile - £36,173 £39,118
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,716 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -25.00% -25.00%
75th Percentile £172,500 £63,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £180,500 £74,000 £82,250
South Yorkshire median annual salary £55,000 £45,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +22.22% -21.74% -28.13%

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 318 411 377
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Sheffield 78.13% 87.08% 85.68%
Number of salaries quoted 238 158 312
10th Percentile - £35,175 £24,910
25th Percentile £28,250 £42,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +20.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £59,750 £75,000 £63,500
90th Percentile £79,270 £83,425 £78,625
South Yorkshire median annual salary £40,000 £60,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -33.33% +26.32% +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 9 January 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) AWS
1 3 (30.00%) Azure
1 3 (30.00%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (30.00%) GitHub
2 1 (10.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) Relational Database
General
1 6 (60.00%) Finance
2 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (30.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) .NET Software Engineer
1 3 (30.00%) Java Engineer
1 3 (30.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Chief Technology Officer
2 1 (10.00%) Head of Service Management
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (60.00%) Node.js
2 3 (30.00%) .NET
2 3 (30.00%) .NET Core
2 3 (30.00%) AngularJS
2 3 (30.00%) ASP.NET
2 3 (30.00%) CSS
2 3 (30.00%) CSS3
2 3 (30.00%) HTML
2 3 (30.00%) HTML5
2 3 (30.00%) Sass
2 3 (30.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (30.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (10.00%) CMDB
2 1 (10.00%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Software Engineering
2 4 (40.00%) Agile
2 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (30.00%) Coaching
3 3 (30.00%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (30.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 3 (30.00%) Mentoring
3 3 (30.00%) Roadmaps
3 3 (30.00%) SDLC
3 3 (30.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 3 (30.00%) Test Automation
4 2 (20.00%) Chaos Engineering
4 2 (20.00%) Problem Management
4 2 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (20.00%) Scenario Testing
4 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (20.00%) Strategic Thinking
4 2 (20.00%) Tech Ops
4 2 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (10.00%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) C#
1 3 (30.00%) Java
1 3 (30.00%) SQL