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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 22 37
Rank change year-on-year -3 +15 -12
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 52 28 42
As % of all permanent jobs in Sheffield 5.29% 7.11% 3.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.76% 8.59% 4.75%
Number of salaries quoted 49 24 28
10th Percentile £49,658 £29,325 £35,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £31,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £48,750 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +43.59% -7.14% -4.55%
75th Percentile £82,500 £66,875 £59,063
90th Percentile £83,750 £70,000 £69,875
South Yorkshire median annual salary £69,655 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +39.31% -4.76% -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 670 326 885
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Sheffield 68.16% 82.74% 79.16%
Number of salaries quoted 542 235 681
10th Percentile £33,750 £26,950 £29,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £80,000
South Yorkshire median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £48,750
% change year-on-year +5.26% -2.56% +8.33%

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 18 July 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 (3.85%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.92%) Confluence
2 1 (1.92%) SharePoint Server
Cloud Services
1 37 (71.15%) Azure
2 26 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 13 (25.00%) Azure Functions
3 13 (25.00%) Serverless
4 12 (23.08%) Azure Data Factory
5 11 (21.15%) AWS
6 9 (17.31%) Azure Logic Apps
6 9 (17.31%) Azure Monitor
7 6 (11.54%) Dynamics 365
7 6 (11.54%) Power Automate
7 6 (11.54%) Power Platform
8 4 (7.69%) Azure AI
8 4 (7.69%) Azure AKS
8 4 (7.69%) Azure Service Bus
8 4 (7.69%) Google Play
9 3 (5.77%) GCP
9 3 (5.77%) PowerApps
10 1 (1.92%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 1 (1.92%) Entra ID
10 1 (1.92%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (23.08%) Data Warehouse
1 12 (23.08%) Spark SQL
2 8 (15.38%) MongoDB
3 5 (9.62%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (5.77%) Power BI
5 3 (5.77%) Power Query
5 3 (5.77%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.92%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 6 (11.54%) Git
2 5 (9.62%) GitLab
3 4 (7.69%) JIRA
4 2 (3.85%) Jenkins
4 2 (3.85%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.92%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 10 (19.23%) Public Sector
2 3 (5.77%) Social Skills
2 3 (5.77%) Tech for Good
3 2 (3.85%) Banking
3 2 (3.85%) Finance
4 1 (1.92%) Electronics
4 1 (1.92%) Games
Job Titles
1 20 (38.46%) DevOps Engineer
2 17 (32.69%) Lead
3 13 (25.00%) Senior
4 12 (23.08%) Data Engineer
4 12 (23.08%) Lead Data Engineer
4 12 (23.08%) Platform Engineer
5 11 (21.15%) Senior DevOps
5 11 (21.15%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 10 (19.23%) Azure Engineer
7 9 (17.31%) Azure Platform Engineer
7 9 (17.31%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 8 (15.38%) Developer
9 5 (9.62%) .NET Developer
9 5 (9.62%) Lead DevOps
9 5 (9.62%) Lead DevOps Engineer
10 4 (7.69%) Software Engineer
11 3 (5.77%) .NET Software Engineer
11 3 (5.77%) Automation Engineer
11 3 (5.77%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 3 (5.77%) Power Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (25.00%) .NET
2 12 (23.08%) PySpark
3 9 (17.31%) ARM Templates
3 9 (17.31%) REST
4 5 (9.62%) ASP.NET
4 5 (9.62%) ASP.NET Core
4 5 (9.62%) RESTful
5 4 (7.69%) .NET Core
5 4 (7.69%) Blazor
5 4 (7.69%) ML.NET
5 4 (7.69%) Node.js
5 4 (7.69%) React
6 3 (5.77%) Next.js
7 2 (3.85%) CSS
7 2 (3.85%) HTML
7 2 (3.85%) HTML5 Canvas
7 2 (3.85%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.69%) iPhone
1 4 (7.69%) Mobile App
2 1 (1.92%) 3D Graphics
2 1 (1.92%) Cloud Native
2 1 (1.92%) Data Structures
2 1 (1.92%) FPGA
2 1 (1.92%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (1.92%) Product Ownership
2 1 (1.92%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (11.54%) Linux
1 6 (11.54%) Unix
1 6 (11.54%) Windows
2 4 (7.69%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (63.46%) CI/CD
2 24 (46.15%) Agile
3 23 (44.23%) Test Automation
4 14 (26.92%) Deployment Automation
4 14 (26.92%) Infrastructure as Code
5 13 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
6 12 (23.08%) Coaching
6 12 (23.08%) Data Engineering
6 12 (23.08%) Mentoring
7 10 (19.23%) Continuous Integration
7 10 (19.23%) Data Governance
7 10 (19.23%) Data Modelling
7 10 (19.23%) ETL
7 10 (19.23%) Observability
7 10 (19.23%) Release Management
8 9 (17.31%) Computer Science
8 9 (17.31%) Cost Optimisation
8 9 (17.31%) Data Integration
8 9 (17.31%) Regulatory Compliance
8 9 (17.31%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 20 (38.46%) SQL
2 15 (28.85%) C#
3 11 (21.15%) Python
4 7 (13.46%) JavaScript
5 5 (9.62%) Java
6 3 (5.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (5.77%) VB.NET
7 2 (3.85%) Bicep
7 2 (3.85%) C++
7 2 (3.85%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.92%) Bash
8 1 (1.92%) C
8 1 (1.92%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (17.31%) Computer Science Degree
1 9 (17.31%) Degree
2 1 (1.92%) Azure Certification
2 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (19.23%) GDPR
2 1 (1.92%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.92%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.92%) Embedded Firmware
1 1 (1.92%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 15 (28.85%) Terraform
2 4 (7.69%) Argo
3 1 (1.92%) Ansible
3 1 (1.92%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (23.08%) Databricks
2 10 (19.23%) Microsoft
3 6 (11.54%) Pega
4 5 (9.62%) Google