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

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 23 31
Rank change year-on-year +1 +8 +17
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 55 26 43
As % of all permanent jobs in Sheffield 5.30% 6.42% 4.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.66% 8.05% 6.20%
Number of salaries quoted 52 23 22
10th Percentile £50,000 £29,050 £39,125
25th Percentile £54,688 £31,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,655 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +26.65% +4.76% -10.64%
75th Percentile £82,813 £69,375 £58,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £144,000 £62,250
South Yorkshire median annual salary £69,310 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +26.02% +4.76% -8.70%

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 718 323 693
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Sheffield 69.17% 79.75% 75.16%
Number of salaries quoted 603 246 441
10th Percentile £35,000 £27,375 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £31,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% +18.64%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £75,000
South Yorkshire median annual salary £50,000 £46,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -8.00% +11.11%

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 September 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 (5.45%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.64%) Confluence
3 1 (1.82%) SharePoint Server
Cloud Services
1 39 (70.91%) Azure
2 26 (47.27%) Azure DevOps
3 13 (23.64%) AWS
3 13 (23.64%) Azure Functions
3 13 (23.64%) Serverless
4 12 (21.82%) Azure Data Factory
5 9 (16.36%) Azure Logic Apps
5 9 (16.36%) Azure Monitor
6 5 (9.09%) Dynamics 365
6 5 (9.09%) Power Automate
6 5 (9.09%) Power Platform
7 4 (7.27%) Azure AI
7 4 (7.27%) Azure AKS
7 4 (7.27%) Azure Service Bus
7 4 (7.27%) GCP
7 4 (7.27%) Google Play
8 3 (5.45%) Azure Databricks
9 2 (3.64%) Entra ID
9 2 (3.64%) PowerApps
10 1 (1.82%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (21.82%) Spark SQL
2 11 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (14.55%) MongoDB
4 5 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (7.27%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (5.45%) SQL Server
7 2 (3.64%) Metadata
7 2 (3.64%) Power BI
7 2 (3.64%) Power Query
8 1 (1.82%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 6 (10.91%) Git
2 5 (9.09%) GitLab
3 4 (7.27%) JIRA
4 2 (3.64%) Jenkins
4 2 (3.64%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.82%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 12 (21.82%) Public Sector
2 3 (5.45%) Tech for Good
3 2 (3.64%) Banking
3 2 (3.64%) Finance
3 2 (3.64%) Social Skills
4 1 (1.82%) Electronics
4 1 (1.82%) Games
4 1 (1.82%) Law
Job Titles
1 20 (36.36%) DevOps Engineer
2 18 (32.73%) Lead
3 15 (27.27%) Senior
4 12 (21.82%) Data Engineer
4 12 (21.82%) Lead Data Engineer
4 12 (21.82%) Platform Engineer
5 11 (20.00%) Senior DevOps
5 11 (20.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 10 (18.18%) Azure Engineer
7 9 (16.36%) Azure Platform Engineer
7 9 (16.36%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 9 (16.36%) Databricks Data Engineer
7 9 (16.36%) Databricks Engineer
8 8 (14.55%) Developer
9 5 (9.09%) .NET Developer
9 5 (9.09%) Lead DevOps
9 5 (9.09%) Lead DevOps Engineer
10 4 (7.27%) Software Engineer
11 3 (5.45%) .NET Software Engineer
11 3 (5.45%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (29.09%) Terraform
2 13 (23.64%) .NET
3 12 (21.82%) PySpark
4 9 (16.36%) ARM Templates
4 9 (16.36%) REST
5 5 (9.09%) ASP.NET
5 5 (9.09%) ASP.NET Core
5 5 (9.09%) RESTful
6 4 (7.27%) .NET Core
6 4 (7.27%) Blazor
6 4 (7.27%) ML.NET
6 4 (7.27%) Node.js
6 4 (7.27%) React
7 3 (5.45%) Next.js
8 2 (3.64%) CSS
8 2 (3.64%) HTML
8 2 (3.64%) HTML5 Canvas
8 2 (3.64%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.27%) iPhone
1 4 (7.27%) Mobile App
2 2 (3.64%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.82%) 3D Graphics
3 1 (1.82%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.82%) FPGA
3 1 (1.82%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.82%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (10.91%) Linux
1 6 (10.91%) Unix
1 6 (10.91%) Windows
2 4 (7.27%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (65.45%) CI/CD
2 27 (49.09%) Agile
3 23 (41.82%) Test Automation
4 15 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
4 15 (27.27%) Mentoring
5 14 (25.45%) Coaching
5 14 (25.45%) Deployment Automation
6 13 (23.64%) Platform Engineering
7 12 (21.82%) Data Engineering
7 12 (21.82%) Lakehouse
8 11 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
8 11 (20.00%) Data Governance
8 11 (20.00%) Data Modelling
8 11 (20.00%) Observability
8 11 (20.00%) Release Management
9 10 (18.18%) Scrum
10 9 (16.36%) Computer Science
10 9 (16.36%) Data Integration
10 9 (16.36%) ETL
10 9 (16.36%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 20 (36.36%) SQL
2 15 (27.27%) C#
3 11 (20.00%) Python
4 7 (12.73%) JavaScript
5 5 (9.09%) Java
6 3 (5.45%) VB.NET
7 2 (3.64%) Bicep
7 2 (3.64%) C++
7 2 (3.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (3.64%) PowerShell
7 2 (3.64%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.82%) Bash
8 1 (1.82%) C
Qualifications
1 9 (16.36%) Computer Science Degree
1 9 (16.36%) Degree
2 1 (1.82%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (16.36%) GDPR
2 2 (3.64%) QA
3 1 (1.82%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.82%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.82%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (1.82%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (1.82%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.82%) Embedded Firmware
1 1 (1.82%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (7.27%) Argo
2 1 (1.82%) Ansible
2 1 (1.82%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (21.82%) Databricks
2 10 (18.18%) Microsoft
3 6 (10.91%) Pega
4 5 (9.09%) Google
5 1 (1.82%) Cisco