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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 28 48
Rank change year-on-year 0 +20 -25
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 18 41 20
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Sheffield 4.62% 4.78% 4.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.88% 6.42% 4.13%
Number of salaries quoted 15 14 18
10th Percentile £28,500 £39,875 £41,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £46,250 £49,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -10.64% -9.62%
75th Percentile £65,625 £61,875 £74,375
90th Percentile £162,500 £67,250 £81,125
South Yorkshire median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% +3.06%

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 306 639 484
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Sheffield 78.46% 74.56% 98.37%
Number of salaries quoted 226 343 372
10th Percentile £27,375 £32,500 £24,900
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,988 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +16.67% -10.00%
75th Percentile £69,125 £65,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £78,750 £70,000
South Yorkshire median annual salary £46,000 £52,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -12.38% +16.67% -10.00%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Sheffield.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps 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 16 September 2025.

Salary histogram for DevOps in Sheffield

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 9 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (16.67%) AWS
2 3 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (16.67%) Azure Functions
2 3 (16.67%) Azure Service Bus
2 3 (16.67%) SaaS
2 3 (16.67%) Serverless
3 2 (11.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 2 (11.11%) Azure Storage
3 2 (11.11%) Azure WebJobs
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon S3
4 1 (5.56%) Azure AI
4 1 (5.56%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (5.56%) GitHub
4 1 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (5.56%) PaaS
4 1 (5.56%) Power Automate
4 1 (5.56%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) Multicast
1 2 (11.11%) SAN
2 1 (5.56%) DNS
2 1 (5.56%) Firewall
2 1 (5.56%) SD-WAN
2 1 (5.56%) VPN
2 1 (5.56%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (11.11%) DB2
1 2 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.56%) Data Lake
2 1 (5.56%) MySQL
2 1 (5.56%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Git
1 1 (5.56%) Jenkins
1 1 (5.56%) Selenium
General
1 6 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (16.67%) Finance
3 2 (11.11%) Digital Healthcare
4 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Publishing
4 1 (5.56%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) Developer
2 3 (16.67%) C# Developer
2 3 (16.67%) Java Developer
2 3 (16.67%) Junior
2 3 (16.67%) Junior Developer
2 3 (16.67%) Junior Java Developer
2 3 (16.67%) Lead
2 3 (16.67%) Senior
2 3 (16.67%) Senior C# Developer
2 3 (16.67%) Senior Developer
2 3 (16.67%) Tester
3 2 (11.11%) Azure Developer
3 2 (11.11%) C# .NET Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Lead DevOps
3 2 (11.11%) Senior .NET Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Senior .NET Software Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Senior C# ASP.NET Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Senior C# Software Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (16.67%) .NET
1 3 (16.67%) ASP.NET
1 3 (16.67%) ASP.NET Core
1 3 (16.67%) WPF
2 2 (11.11%) .NET Core
2 2 (11.11%) ASP.NET MVC
2 2 (11.11%) ASP.NET Web API
2 2 (11.11%) Blazor
2 2 (11.11%) SignalR
2 2 (11.11%) Skia Graphics Library
3 1 (5.56%) LAMP
3 1 (5.56%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 2 (11.11%) Data Centre
2 2 (11.11%) Enterprise Storage
2 2 (11.11%) Replication
3 1 (5.56%) CMDB
3 1 (5.56%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.11%) Windows
1 2 (11.11%) Windows 10
1 2 (11.11%) Windows Server 2012
1 2 (11.11%) Windows Server 2016
1 2 (11.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (38.89%) CI/CD
2 6 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 5 (27.78%) Integration Testing
4 3 (16.67%) B2B
4 3 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (16.67%) Product Management
4 3 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 3 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
4 3 (16.67%) Test Automation
4 3 (16.67%) User Experience
4 3 (16.67%) UX Design
5 2 (11.11%) Chaos Engineering
5 2 (11.11%) Containerisation
5 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (11.11%) Scenario Testing
5 2 (11.11%) Service Management
5 2 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (11.11%) Storage Management
5 2 (11.11%) Strategic Thinking
5 2 (11.11%) Tech Ops
Programming Languages
1 5 (27.78%) SQL
2 4 (22.22%) C#
3 3 (16.67%) Groovy
3 3 (16.67%) Java
4 1 (5.56%) Bicep
4 1 (5.56%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.56%) PowerShell
4 1 (5.56%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) Degree
2 1 (5.56%) Azure Certification
2 1 (5.56%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) QA
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Hyper-V
2 1 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (11.11%) Cisco
1 2 (11.11%) IBM
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.56%) Databricks
2 1 (5.56%) Meraki
2 1 (5.56%) VMware