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

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 13 27
Rank change year-on-year -31 +14 -6
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 14 27 58
As % of all permanent jobs in Sheffield 2.33% 10.11% 5.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.29% 10.89% 6.84%
Number of salaries quoted 13 22 42
10th Percentile £39,250 - £35,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £31,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £46,250 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +53.37% -11.90% -34.38%
75th Percentile £83,750 £65,000 £59,688
90th Percentile - £70,000 £78,750
South Yorkshire median annual salary £75,466 £46,250 £52,500
% change year-on-year +63.17% -11.90% -30.00%

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 425 248 848
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Sheffield 70.60% 92.88% 84.63%
Number of salaries quoted 334 170 696
10th Percentile £28,250 £28,800 £27,500
25th Percentile £29,500 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,436 £56,250 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% +12.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £64,375 £75,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,125 £80,000
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 2 April 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 10 (71.43%) Azure
2 6 (42.86%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (35.71%) AWS
3 5 (35.71%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (21.43%) Azure Functions
4 3 (21.43%) Azure Logic Apps
4 3 (21.43%) Azure Monitor
4 3 (21.43%) Serverless
5 2 (14.29%) GCP
5 2 (14.29%) GitHub
6 1 (7.14%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (7.14%) Power Automate
6 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
6 1 (7.14%) PowerApps
6 1 (7.14%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (35.71%) Spark SQL
2 4 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (14.29%) Metadata
3 2 (14.29%) Relational Database
4 1 (7.14%) Power BI
4 1 (7.14%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 3 (21.43%) Finance
1 3 (21.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Data Engineer
1 5 (35.71%) Lead
1 5 (35.71%) Lead Data Engineer
1 5 (35.71%) Platform Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Azure Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Azure Platform Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Java Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) .NET Software Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Architect
3 2 (14.29%) Data Architect
3 2 (14.29%) Senior
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Architect
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Data Architect
3 2 (14.29%) Software Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Business Intelligence Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Chief Technology Officer
4 1 (7.14%) Power BI Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (35.71%) Node.js
1 5 (35.71%) PySpark
2 3 (21.43%) ARM Templates
2 3 (21.43%) REST
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%) 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%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Product Ownership
1 2 (14.29%) Public Cloud
2 1 (7.14%) Data Structures
2 1 (7.14%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (71.43%) CI/CD
2 8 (57.14%) Test Automation
3 7 (50.00%) Software Engineering
4 5 (35.71%) Agile
4 5 (35.71%) Coaching
4 5 (35.71%) Data Engineering
4 5 (35.71%) Data Governance
4 5 (35.71%) Data Modelling
4 5 (35.71%) Mentoring
4 5 (35.71%) Platform Engineering
5 4 (28.57%) ETL
6 3 (21.43%) Computer Science
6 3 (21.43%) Cost Optimisation
6 3 (21.43%) Dashboard Development
6 3 (21.43%) Data Integration
6 3 (21.43%) Deployment Automation
6 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (21.43%) Observability
6 3 (21.43%) Regulatory Compliance
6 3 (21.43%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (57.14%) SQL
2 3 (21.43%) Java
2 3 (21.43%) Python
3 2 (14.29%) C#
4 1 (7.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (21.43%) Degree
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (28.57%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) Databricks
2 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
3 2 (14.29%) Google