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

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 33 29
Rank change year-on-year +13 -4 +19
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 56 12 39
As % of all permanent jobs in Sheffield 5.09% 3.03% 4.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.39% 3.77% 6.64%
Number of salaries quoted 51 9 10
10th Percentile £50,000 £35,000 £37,875
25th Percentile £55,000 £37,500 £45,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,306 £155,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -55.29% +158.33% +6.67%
75th Percentile £80,000 £162,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £180,500 £74,250
South Yorkshire median annual salary £69,305 £155,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -55.29% +158.33% +9.09%

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 758 318 587
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Sheffield 68.91% 80.30% 74.97%
Number of salaries quoted 633 226 276
10th Percentile £35,000 £27,375 £36,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £31,250 £42,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -13.64% +15.79%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,438 £68,113
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £80,000
South Yorkshire median annual salary £50,000 £41,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +21.95% -25.45% +22.22%

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 October 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 (5.36%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.57%) Confluence
3 1 (1.79%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 34 (60.71%) Azure
2 22 (39.29%) Azure DevOps
3 15 (26.79%) AWS
4 9 (16.07%) Azure Functions
4 9 (16.07%) Serverless
5 6 (10.71%) Azure Data Factory
5 6 (10.71%) Power Platform
6 5 (8.93%) Azure Logic Apps
6 5 (8.93%) Azure Monitor
6 5 (8.93%) Dynamics 365
6 5 (8.93%) GCP
6 5 (8.93%) Power Automate
7 4 (7.14%) Azure AI
7 4 (7.14%) Google Play
8 3 (5.36%) Azure AKS
8 3 (5.36%) Azure Service Bus
9 2 (3.57%) Entra ID
9 2 (3.57%) PowerApps
10 1 (1.79%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (1.79%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.79%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
1 7 (12.50%) MongoDB
2 6 (10.71%) Spark SQL
3 5 (8.93%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (5.36%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (5.36%) SQL Server
5 2 (3.57%) Metadata
5 2 (3.57%) Power BI
6 1 (1.79%) Metadata Repository
6 1 (1.79%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 7 (12.50%) Git
2 4 (7.14%) GitLab
2 4 (7.14%) JIRA
3 2 (3.57%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.79%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (1.79%) Visual Studio
General
1 15 (26.79%) Public Sector
2 3 (5.36%) Finance
2 3 (5.36%) Social Skills
2 3 (5.36%) Tech for Good
3 2 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (3.57%) Banking
4 1 (1.79%) Electronics
4 1 (1.79%) Games
4 1 (1.79%) Law
4 1 (1.79%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 23 (41.07%) DevOps Engineer
2 20 (35.71%) Senior
3 13 (23.21%) Senior DevOps
3 13 (23.21%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 12 (21.43%) Lead
5 8 (14.29%) Developer
6 6 (10.71%) Azure Engineer
6 6 (10.71%) Data Engineer
6 6 (10.71%) Lead Data Engineer
6 6 (10.71%) Platform Engineer
7 5 (8.93%) .NET Developer
7 5 (8.93%) Azure Platform Engineer
7 5 (8.93%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 5 (8.93%) Databricks Data Engineer
7 5 (8.93%) Databricks Engineer
7 5 (8.93%) Lead DevOps
7 5 (8.93%) Lead DevOps Engineer
7 5 (8.93%) Software Engineer
8 3 (5.36%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 3 (5.36%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (21.43%) .NET
1 12 (21.43%) Terraform
2 6 (10.71%) PySpark
3 5 (8.93%) ARM Templates
3 5 (8.93%) ASP.NET
3 5 (8.93%) ASP.NET Core
3 5 (8.93%) REST
3 5 (8.93%) RESTful
4 4 (7.14%) .NET Core
4 4 (7.14%) Blazor
4 4 (7.14%) ML.NET
4 4 (7.14%) React
5 3 (5.36%) Next.js
5 3 (5.36%) Node.js
6 2 (3.57%) HTML5 Canvas
6 2 (3.57%) pytest
7 1 (1.79%) CSS
7 1 (1.79%) HTML
7 1 (1.79%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.14%) iPhone
1 4 (7.14%) Mobile App
2 2 (3.57%) Cloud Native
2 2 (3.57%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.79%) 3D Graphics
3 1 (1.79%) Culture of Ownership
3 1 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.79%) FPGA
3 1 (1.79%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.79%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (1.79%) Low-Code
3 1 (1.79%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (12.50%) Linux
2 6 (10.71%) Unix
3 5 (8.93%) Windows
4 4 (7.14%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (60.71%) CI/CD
2 30 (53.57%) Agile
3 20 (35.71%) Test Automation
4 19 (33.93%) Mentoring
5 17 (30.36%) Coaching
6 14 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 12 (21.43%) Continuous Integration
8 11 (19.64%) Continuous Improvement
9 10 (17.86%) Deployment Automation
9 10 (17.86%) Scrum
9 10 (17.86%) Software Engineering
10 8 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
10 8 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
10 8 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
11 7 (12.50%) AI
11 7 (12.50%) Data Engineering
11 7 (12.50%) Data Governance
11 7 (12.50%) Data Modelling
11 7 (12.50%) Microservices
11 7 (12.50%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 15 (26.79%) C#
2 13 (23.21%) SQL
3 9 (16.07%) Python
4 7 (12.50%) JavaScript
5 5 (8.93%) Java
6 3 (5.36%) VB.NET
7 2 (3.57%) Bicep
7 2 (3.57%) C++
7 2 (3.57%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.79%) Bash
8 1 (1.79%) C
8 1 (1.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (1.79%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.79%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (10.71%) Degree
2 5 (8.93%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.79%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.93%) GDPR
2 2 (3.57%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.57%) QA
3 1 (1.79%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (1.79%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (3.57%) Docker
2 1 (1.79%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.79%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (1.79%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (5.36%) Argo
2 2 (3.57%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.79%) Ansible
Vendors
1 11 (19.64%) Microsoft
2 6 (10.71%) Databricks
2 6 (10.71%) Google
2 6 (10.71%) Pega
3 1 (1.79%) Cisco