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 12 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 26 44
Rank change year-on-year -3 +18 -26
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 15 38 18
As % of all permanent jobs in Sheffield 3.37% 5.17% 4.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.24% 6.86% 5.11%
Number of salaries quoted 12 9 16
10th Percentile - £37,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £51,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,750
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -1.23% -24.06%
75th Percentile £162,500 £68,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £178,250 £76,000 £86,250
South Yorkshire median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £58,750
% change year-on-year -8.33% +2.13% -18.97%

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 354 554 352
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Sheffield 79.55% 75.37% 96.17%
Number of salaries quoted 268 251 287
10th Percentile £28,175 £37,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £44,738 £32,350
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £55,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.36% +15.79% -5.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £70,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £81,250 £70,000
South Yorkshire median annual salary £40,000 £55,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -27.27% +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 12 November 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 (26.67%) AWS
1 4 (26.67%) Azure
1 4 (26.67%) Azure DevOps
1 4 (26.67%) GitHub
2 1 (6.67%) Amazon S3
2 1 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (6.67%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (53.33%) Finance
2 6 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (6.67%) Digital Healthcare
Job Titles
1 3 (20.00%) .NET Software Engineer
1 3 (20.00%) Java Engineer
1 3 (20.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Head of Service Management
2 2 (13.33%) Lead
2 2 (13.33%) Lead DevOps
2 2 (13.33%) Team Leader
3 1 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Manual Tester
3 1 (6.67%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (40.00%) Node.js
2 3 (20.00%) .NET
2 3 (20.00%) .NET Core
2 3 (20.00%) AngularJS
2 3 (20.00%) ASP.NET
2 3 (20.00%) CSS
2 3 (20.00%) CSS3
2 3 (20.00%) HTML
2 3 (20.00%) HTML5
2 3 (20.00%) Sass
2 3 (20.00%) Spring
3 1 (6.67%) LAMP
3 1 (6.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 3 (20.00%) Product Ownership
3 2 (13.33%) CMDB
4 1 (6.67%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (40.00%) Software Engineering
2 5 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 4 (26.67%) Mentoring
3 4 (26.67%) Technical Leadership
4 3 (20.00%) Agile
4 3 (20.00%) Chaos Engineering
4 3 (20.00%) Coaching
4 3 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 3 (20.00%) Problem Management
4 3 (20.00%) Roadmaps
4 3 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 3 (20.00%) Scenario Testing
4 3 (20.00%) SDLC
4 3 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (20.00%) Strategic Thinking
4 3 (20.00%) Tech Ops
4 3 (20.00%) Test Automation
5 2 (13.33%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (20.00%) C#
1 3 (20.00%) Java
1 3 (20.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (6.67%) VMware