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

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 15 33
Rank change year-on-year -23 +18 -12
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 14 24 55
As % of all permanent jobs in Sheffield 2.40% 9.34% 5.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.38% 9.96% 6.60%
Number of salaries quoted 13 19 41
10th Percentile £39,250 - £35,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £31,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +49.33% -9.52% -34.38%
75th Percentile £83,750 £69,375 £60,000
90th Percentile £178,500 £70,000 £78,750
South Yorkshire median annual salary £75,466 £46,250 £52,500
% change year-on-year +63.17% -11.90% -31.15%

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 414 241 833
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Sheffield 71.01% 93.77% 85.09%
Number of salaries quoted 315 159 685
10th Percentile £28,250 £28,960 £27,700
25th Percentile £29,250 £32,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% +4.70%
75th Percentile £60,375 £75,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £79,583 £86,500 £80,261
South Yorkshire median annual salary £45,000 £57,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -21.74% +21.05% +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 26 March 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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (57.14%) Azure
2 5 (35.71%) AWS
2 5 (35.71%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (21.43%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (14.29%) Azure Functions
4 2 (14.29%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (14.29%) GCP
4 2 (14.29%) GitHub
4 2 (14.29%) Serverless
5 1 (7.14%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (7.14%) Power Automate
5 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
5 1 (7.14%) PowerApps
5 1 (7.14%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (21.43%) Spark SQL
2 2 (14.29%) Metadata
2 2 (14.29%) Relational Database
3 1 (7.14%) Power BI
3 1 (7.14%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 5 (35.71%) Finance
2 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 3 (21.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (21.43%) Data Engineer
1 3 (21.43%) Java Engineer
1 3 (21.43%) Lead
1 3 (21.43%) Lead Data Engineer
1 3 (21.43%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) .NET Software Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Architect
2 2 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Azure Platform Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Data Architect
2 2 (14.29%) Senior
2 2 (14.29%) Senior Architect
2 2 (14.29%) Senior Data Architect
2 2 (14.29%) Software Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Business Intelligence Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Chief Technology Officer
3 1 (7.14%) Data Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Head of Service Management
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (35.71%) Node.js
2 3 (21.43%) PySpark
2 3 (21.43%) Spring
3 2 (14.29%) .NET
3 2 (14.29%) .NET Core
3 2 (14.29%) AngularJS
3 2 (14.29%) ARM Templates
3 2 (14.29%) ASP.NET
3 2 (14.29%) CSS
3 2 (14.29%) CSS3
3 2 (14.29%) HTML
3 2 (14.29%) HTML5
3 2 (14.29%) REST
3 2 (14.29%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Cloud Native
1 2 (14.29%) Product Ownership
1 2 (14.29%) Public Cloud
2 1 (7.14%) CMDB
2 1 (7.14%) Data Structures
2 1 (7.14%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) CI/CD
2 6 (42.86%) Software Engineering
2 6 (42.86%) Test Automation
3 5 (35.71%) Agile
3 5 (35.71%) Coaching
3 5 (35.71%) Mentoring
4 4 (28.57%) Data Governance
4 4 (28.57%) Data Modelling
4 4 (28.57%) Platform Engineering
5 3 (21.43%) Data Engineering
5 3 (21.43%) ETL
5 3 (21.43%) Full-Stack Development
5 3 (21.43%) Observability
6 2 (14.29%) Computer Science
6 2 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
6 2 (14.29%) Data Management
6 2 (14.29%) Master Data Management
6 2 (14.29%) Metadata Management
6 2 (14.29%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) SQL
2 3 (21.43%) Java
3 2 (14.29%) C#
3 2 (14.29%) Python
4 1 (7.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (14.29%) Degree
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Databricks
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 2 (14.29%) Google