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 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 21 42
Rank change year-on-year -13 +21 -26
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 14 39 16
As % of all permanent jobs in Sheffield 3.16% 7.04% 5.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.95% 8.59% 5.61%
Number of salaries quoted 11 10 14
10th Percentile £37,500 £36,944 £49,875
25th Percentile £43,750 £37,975 £54,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £155,000 £45,000 £65,750
Median % change year-on-year +244.44% -31.56% -17.81%
75th Percentile £167,500 £62,813 £78,750
90th Percentile £180,000 £72,000 £86,750
South Yorkshire median annual salary £105,000 £45,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +133.33% -25.00% -25.00%

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 354 454 285
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Sheffield 79.91% 81.95% 95.64%
Number of salaries quoted 260 193 237
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,543 £25,750
25th Percentile £29,250 £44,738 £34,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £59,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.73% +18.00% +3.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £63,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,250 £78,750
South Yorkshire median annual salary £40,000 £59,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -32.77% +25.26% -

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 14 December 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 (28.57%) AWS
1 4 (28.57%) GitHub
2 3 (21.43%) Azure
2 3 (21.43%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon S3
3 1 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (7.14%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (57.14%) Finance
2 6 (42.86%) Social Skills
3 3 (21.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 3 (21.43%) .NET Software Engineer
1 3 (21.43%) Java Engineer
1 3 (21.43%) Software Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Head of Service Management
2 2 (14.29%) Lead
2 2 (14.29%) Lead DevOps
2 2 (14.29%) Team Leader
3 1 (7.14%) Chief Technology Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (42.86%) Node.js
2 3 (21.43%) .NET
2 3 (21.43%) .NET Core
2 3 (21.43%) AngularJS
2 3 (21.43%) ASP.NET
2 3 (21.43%) CSS
2 3 (21.43%) CSS3
2 3 (21.43%) HTML
2 3 (21.43%) HTML5
2 3 (21.43%) Sass
2 3 (21.43%) Spring
3 1 (7.14%) LAMP
3 1 (7.14%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) Cloud Native
2 3 (21.43%) Product Ownership
3 2 (14.29%) CMDB
4 1 (7.14%) Data Centre
4 1 (7.14%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) CI/CD
1 6 (42.86%) Software Engineering
2 5 (35.71%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 4 (28.57%) Agile
3 4 (28.57%) Mentoring
3 4 (28.57%) Roadmaps
3 4 (28.57%) Technical Leadership
4 3 (21.43%) Chaos Engineering
4 3 (21.43%) Coaching
4 3 (21.43%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (21.43%) Full-Stack Development
4 3 (21.43%) Problem Management
4 3 (21.43%) Root Cause Analysis
4 3 (21.43%) Scenario Testing
4 3 (21.43%) SDLC
4 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (21.43%) Strategic Thinking
4 3 (21.43%) Tech Ops
4 3 (21.43%) Test Automation
5 2 (14.29%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 3 (21.43%) C#
1 3 (21.43%) Java
1 3 (21.43%) SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (7.14%) VMware