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 2 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 30 29
Rank change year-on-year +6 -1 +20
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 57 15 43
As % of all permanent jobs in Sheffield 5.21% 3.77% 5.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.57% 4.73% 6.84%
Number of salaries quoted 52 12 12
10th Percentile £50,000 £35,000 £39,125
25th Percentile £54,688 £36,875 £45,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,310 £61,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.16% +2.08% +2.13%
75th Percentile £80,000 £162,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £178,250 £72,125
South Yorkshire median annual salary £69,306 £66,250 £56,250
% change year-on-year +4.61% +17.78% -2.17%

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 753 317 629
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Sheffield 68.77% 79.65% 75.42%
Number of salaries quoted 630 218 308
10th Percentile £35,000 £27,625 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £31,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +15.79%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,125 £65,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
South Yorkshire median annual salary £50,000 £46,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +8.70% -12.38% +16.67%

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 2 October 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 3 (5.26%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.51%) Confluence
3 1 (1.75%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 36 (63.16%) Azure
2 24 (42.11%) Azure DevOps
3 15 (26.32%) AWS
4 10 (17.54%) Azure Functions
4 10 (17.54%) Serverless
5 7 (12.28%) Azure Data Factory
6 6 (10.53%) Azure Logic Apps
6 6 (10.53%) Azure Monitor
6 6 (10.53%) Power Platform
7 5 (8.77%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (8.77%) GCP
7 5 (8.77%) Power Automate
8 4 (7.02%) Azure AI
8 4 (7.02%) Azure AKS
8 4 (7.02%) Azure Service Bus
8 4 (7.02%) Google Play
9 2 (3.51%) Entra ID
9 2 (3.51%) PowerApps
10 1 (1.75%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 1 (1.75%) Azure Databricks
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.75%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (15.79%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (14.04%) MongoDB
3 7 (12.28%) Spark SQL
4 5 (8.77%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (7.02%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (5.26%) Power BI
6 3 (5.26%) SQL Server
7 2 (3.51%) Metadata
7 2 (3.51%) Power Query
8 1 (1.75%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 7 (12.28%) Git
2 5 (8.77%) GitLab
2 5 (8.77%) JIRA
3 2 (3.51%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.51%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.75%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 15 (26.32%) Public Sector
2 3 (5.26%) Finance
2 3 (5.26%) Social Skills
2 3 (5.26%) Tech for Good
3 2 (3.51%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (3.51%) Banking
4 1 (1.75%) Electronics
4 1 (1.75%) Games
4 1 (1.75%) Law
4 1 (1.75%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 24 (42.11%) DevOps Engineer
2 20 (35.09%) Senior
3 14 (24.56%) Senior DevOps
3 14 (24.56%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 13 (22.81%) Lead
5 8 (14.04%) Developer
6 7 (12.28%) Azure Engineer
6 7 (12.28%) Data Engineer
6 7 (12.28%) Lead Data Engineer
6 7 (12.28%) Platform Engineer
7 6 (10.53%) Azure Platform Engineer
7 6 (10.53%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 6 (10.53%) Databricks Data Engineer
7 6 (10.53%) Databricks Engineer
8 5 (8.77%) .NET Developer
8 5 (8.77%) Lead DevOps
8 5 (8.77%) Lead DevOps Engineer
9 4 (7.02%) Software Engineer
10 3 (5.26%) .NET Software Engineer
10 3 (5.26%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (22.81%) .NET
1 13 (22.81%) Terraform
2 7 (12.28%) PySpark
3 6 (10.53%) ARM Templates
3 6 (10.53%) REST
4 5 (8.77%) ASP.NET
4 5 (8.77%) ASP.NET Core
4 5 (8.77%) RESTful
5 4 (7.02%) .NET Core
5 4 (7.02%) Blazor
5 4 (7.02%) ML.NET
5 4 (7.02%) Node.js
5 4 (7.02%) React
6 3 (5.26%) Next.js
7 2 (3.51%) CSS
7 2 (3.51%) HTML
7 2 (3.51%) HTML5 Canvas
7 2 (3.51%) JSON
7 2 (3.51%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.02%) iPhone
1 4 (7.02%) Mobile App
2 2 (3.51%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.75%) 3D Graphics
3 1 (1.75%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.75%) Culture of Ownership
3 1 (1.75%) FPGA
3 1 (1.75%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.75%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (1.75%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (14.04%) Linux
2 7 (12.28%) Unix
3 6 (10.53%) Windows
4 4 (7.02%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (61.40%) CI/CD
2 31 (54.39%) Agile
3 21 (36.84%) Test Automation
4 19 (33.33%) Mentoring
5 17 (29.82%) Coaching
6 14 (24.56%) Infrastructure as Code
7 13 (22.81%) Continuous Integration
8 12 (21.05%) Scrum
9 11 (19.30%) Deployment Automation
10 9 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
10 9 (15.79%) Platform Engineering
10 9 (15.79%) Software Engineering
11 8 (14.04%) Data Engineering
11 8 (14.04%) Data Governance
11 8 (14.04%) Data Modelling
11 8 (14.04%) Full-Stack Development
11 8 (14.04%) Observability
11 8 (14.04%) Release Management
12 7 (12.28%) Dashboard Development
12 7 (12.28%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 15 (26.32%) C#
1 15 (26.32%) SQL
2 10 (17.54%) Python
3 7 (12.28%) JavaScript
4 5 (8.77%) Java
5 3 (5.26%) VB.NET
6 2 (3.51%) Bicep
6 2 (3.51%) C++
6 2 (3.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (3.51%) PowerShell
6 2 (3.51%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.75%) Bash
7 1 (1.75%) C
7 1 (1.75%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (12.28%) Degree
2 6 (10.53%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.75%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.53%) GDPR
2 2 (3.51%) QA
3 1 (1.75%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.75%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (1.75%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (1.75%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.75%) Docker
1 1 (1.75%) Embedded Firmware
1 1 (1.75%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (7.02%) Argo
2 1 (1.75%) Ansible
2 1 (1.75%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (21.05%) Microsoft
2 7 (12.28%) Databricks
3 6 (10.53%) Google
3 6 (10.53%) Pega
4 1 (1.75%) Cisco