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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 15 34
Rank change year-on-year -16 +19 -5
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 35 29 57
As % of all permanent jobs in Sheffield 4.03% 9.54% 4.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.17% 10.90% 5.61%
Number of salaries quoted 33 23 42
10th Percentile £47,000 £29,050 £35,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £31,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +49.33% -9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £83,750 £65,000 £58,750
90th Percentile - £69,750 £72,125
South Yorkshire median annual salary £70,932 £48,750 £52,500
% change year-on-year +45.50% -7.14% -4.55%

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 567 266 1,016
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Sheffield 65.32% 87.50% 79.75%
Number of salaries quoted 457 183 803
10th Percentile £31,900 £26,000 £28,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £70,000 £69,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £81,250 £78,750
South Yorkshire median annual salary £50,000 £46,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +8.70% -3.16% +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 12 June 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 2 (5.71%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.86%) SharePoint Server
Cloud Services
1 29 (82.86%) Azure
2 19 (54.29%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (34.29%) Azure Data Factory
4 10 (28.57%) Azure Functions
4 10 (28.57%) Serverless
5 9 (25.71%) Azure Logic Apps
5 9 (25.71%) Azure Monitor
6 7 (20.00%) AWS
7 4 (11.43%) Azure AKS
7 4 (11.43%) Azure Service Bus
8 3 (8.57%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (8.57%) Power Automate
8 3 (8.57%) Power Platform
8 3 (8.57%) PowerApps
9 2 (5.71%) Azure AI
9 2 (5.71%) GCP
9 2 (5.71%) Google Play
10 1 (2.86%) Azure Cosmos DB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (34.29%) Data Warehouse
1 12 (34.29%) Spark SQL
2 6 (17.14%) MongoDB
3 4 (11.43%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (8.57%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (8.57%) Power BI
4 3 (8.57%) Power Query
5 2 (5.71%) Metadata
5 2 (5.71%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (14.29%) GitLab
2 4 (11.43%) Git
3 3 (8.57%) JIRA
4 2 (5.71%) Visual Studio
5 1 (2.86%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (22.86%) Public Sector
2 2 (5.71%) Banking
2 2 (5.71%) Social Skills
2 2 (5.71%) Tech for Good
3 1 (2.86%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 17 (48.57%) Lead
2 12 (34.29%) Data Engineer
2 12 (34.29%) Lead Data Engineer
2 12 (34.29%) Platform Engineer
3 10 (28.57%) Azure Engineer
3 10 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
4 9 (25.71%) Azure Platform Engineer
4 9 (25.71%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 8 (22.86%) Senior
6 5 (14.29%) Developer
6 5 (14.29%) Lead DevOps
6 5 (14.29%) Lead DevOps Engineer
6 5 (14.29%) Senior DevOps
6 5 (14.29%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 3 (8.57%) .NET Developer
7 3 (8.57%) Software Engineer
8 2 (5.71%) .NET Software Engineer
8 2 (5.71%) Architect
8 2 (5.71%) Data Architect
8 2 (5.71%) Senior Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (34.29%) PySpark
2 9 (25.71%) ARM Templates
2 9 (25.71%) REST
3 8 (22.86%) .NET
4 4 (11.43%) Node.js
5 3 (8.57%) ASP.NET
5 3 (8.57%) ASP.NET Core
5 3 (8.57%) RESTful
6 2 (5.71%) .NET Core
6 2 (5.71%) Blazor
6 2 (5.71%) CSS
6 2 (5.71%) HTML
6 2 (5.71%) HTML5 Canvas
6 2 (5.71%) JSON
6 2 (5.71%) ML.NET
6 2 (5.71%) Next.js
6 2 (5.71%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.71%) iPhone
1 2 (5.71%) Mobile App
1 2 (5.71%) Public Cloud
2 1 (2.86%) Data Structures
2 1 (2.86%) FPGA
2 1 (2.86%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (11.43%) Linux
1 4 (11.43%) Unix
1 4 (11.43%) Windows
2 2 (5.71%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (68.57%) CI/CD
2 19 (54.29%) Test Automation
3 14 (40.00%) Agile
4 12 (34.29%) Data Engineering
4 12 (34.29%) Platform Engineering
5 11 (31.43%) Data Governance
5 11 (31.43%) Data Modelling
5 11 (31.43%) Infrastructure as Code
6 10 (28.57%) Coaching
6 10 (28.57%) ETL
6 10 (28.57%) Mentoring
7 9 (25.71%) Computer Science
7 9 (25.71%) Cost Optimisation
7 9 (25.71%) Dashboard Development
7 9 (25.71%) Data Integration
7 9 (25.71%) Deployment Automation
7 9 (25.71%) Observability
7 9 (25.71%) Regulatory Compliance
7 9 (25.71%) Release Management
8 8 (22.86%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 18 (51.43%) SQL
2 10 (28.57%) Python
3 8 (22.86%) C#
4 5 (14.29%) Java
4 5 (14.29%) JavaScript
5 3 (8.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (5.71%) C++
6 2 (5.71%) T-SQL
6 2 (5.71%) VB.NET
7 1 (2.86%) Bash
7 1 (2.86%) Bicep
7 1 (2.86%) C
Qualifications
1 9 (25.71%) Computer Science Degree
1 9 (25.71%) Degree
2 1 (2.86%) Azure Certification
2 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (28.57%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (2.86%) Embedded Firmware
1 1 (2.86%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 14 (40.00%) Terraform
2 4 (11.43%) Argo
Vendors
1 12 (34.29%) Databricks
2 8 (22.86%) Microsoft
3 4 (11.43%) Google