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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 26 27
Rank change year-on-year +4 +1 +22
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 56 21 42
As % of all permanent jobs in Sheffield 5.25% 5.33% 4.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.61% 6.80% 6.52%
Number of salaries quoted 52 18 16
10th Percentile £50,000 £28,500 £38,125
25th Percentile £54,688 £31,250 £43,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,655 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +32.68% - -10.64%
75th Percentile £82,813 £65,938 £60,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £162,500 £65,625
South Yorkshire median annual salary £69,310 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +26.02% +4.76% -8.70%

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 736 309 644
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Sheffield 69.04% 78.43% 74.45%
Number of salaries quoted 618 230 365
10th Percentile £35,000 £26,700 £31,350
25th Percentile £41,250 £31,250 £40,988
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £70,000 £69,813 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,750 £82,500 £78,750
South Yorkshire median annual salary £50,000 £46,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +8.70% -12.38% +16.67%

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 11 September 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 40 (71.43%) Azure
2 27 (48.21%) Azure DevOps
3 13 (23.21%) AWS
3 13 (23.21%) Azure Functions
3 13 (23.21%) Serverless
4 12 (21.43%) Azure Data Factory
5 9 (16.07%) Azure Logic Apps
5 9 (16.07%) Azure Monitor
6 6 (10.71%) Power Platform
7 5 (8.93%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (8.93%) Power Automate
8 4 (7.14%) Azure AI
8 4 (7.14%) Azure AKS
8 4 (7.14%) Azure Service Bus
8 4 (7.14%) GCP
8 4 (7.14%) Google Play
9 3 (5.36%) Azure Databricks
10 2 (3.57%) Entra ID
10 2 (3.57%) PowerApps
11 1 (1.79%) Azure Cosmos DB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (21.43%) Data Warehouse
1 12 (21.43%) Spark SQL
2 8 (14.29%) MongoDB
3 5 (8.93%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (5.36%) Power BI
5 3 (5.36%) SQL Server
6 2 (3.57%) Metadata
6 2 (3.57%) Power Query
7 1 (1.79%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 6 (10.71%) Git
2 5 (8.93%) GitLab
2 5 (8.93%) JIRA
3 2 (3.57%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.57%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.79%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 12 (21.43%) Public Sector
2 3 (5.36%) Finance
2 3 (5.36%) Social Skills
2 3 (5.36%) Tech for Good
3 2 (3.57%) Banking
4 1 (1.79%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.79%) Electronics
4 1 (1.79%) Games
4 1 (1.79%) Law
4 1 (1.79%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 20 (35.71%) DevOps Engineer
2 18 (32.14%) Lead
3 15 (26.79%) Senior
4 12 (21.43%) Data Engineer
4 12 (21.43%) Lead Data Engineer
4 12 (21.43%) Platform Engineer
5 11 (19.64%) Senior DevOps
5 11 (19.64%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 10 (17.86%) Azure Engineer
7 9 (16.07%) Azure Platform Engineer
7 9 (16.07%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 9 (16.07%) Databricks Data Engineer
7 9 (16.07%) Databricks Engineer
8 8 (14.29%) Developer
9 5 (8.93%) .NET Developer
9 5 (8.93%) Lead DevOps
9 5 (8.93%) Lead DevOps Engineer
10 4 (7.14%) Software Engineer
11 3 (5.36%) .NET Software Engineer
11 3 (5.36%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (28.57%) Terraform
2 13 (23.21%) .NET
3 12 (21.43%) PySpark
4 9 (16.07%) ARM Templates
4 9 (16.07%) REST
5 5 (8.93%) ASP.NET
5 5 (8.93%) ASP.NET Core
5 5 (8.93%) RESTful
6 4 (7.14%) .NET Core
6 4 (7.14%) Blazor
6 4 (7.14%) ML.NET
6 4 (7.14%) Node.js
6 4 (7.14%) React
7 3 (5.36%) Next.js
8 2 (3.57%) CSS
8 2 (3.57%) HTML
8 2 (3.57%) HTML5 Canvas
8 2 (3.57%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.14%) iPhone
1 4 (7.14%) Mobile App
2 2 (3.57%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.79%) 3D Graphics
3 1 (1.79%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.79%) FPGA
3 1 (1.79%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.79%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (10.71%) Linux
1 6 (10.71%) Unix
1 6 (10.71%) Windows
2 4 (7.14%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (64.29%) CI/CD
2 28 (50.00%) Agile
3 23 (41.07%) Test Automation
4 15 (26.79%) Infrastructure as Code
4 15 (26.79%) Mentoring
5 14 (25.00%) Coaching
5 14 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
6 13 (23.21%) Data Engineering
6 13 (23.21%) Platform Engineering
7 12 (21.43%) Lakehouse
8 11 (19.64%) Continuous Integration
8 11 (19.64%) Data Governance
8 11 (19.64%) Data Modelling
8 11 (19.64%) Observability
8 11 (19.64%) Release Management
8 11 (19.64%) Scrum
9 10 (17.86%) Computer Science
9 10 (17.86%) Dashboard Development
9 10 (17.86%) Data Integration
10 9 (16.07%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 20 (35.71%) SQL
2 15 (26.79%) C#
3 11 (19.64%) 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%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (3.57%) PowerShell
7 2 (3.57%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.79%) Bash
8 1 (1.79%) C
Qualifications
1 10 (17.86%) Degree
2 9 (16.07%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.79%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (16.07%) GDPR
2 2 (3.57%) QA
3 1 (1.79%) Accessibility
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 1 (1.79%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.79%) Embedded Firmware
1 1 (1.79%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (7.14%) Argo
2 1 (1.79%) Ansible
2 1 (1.79%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (21.43%) Databricks
2 11 (19.64%) Microsoft
3 6 (10.71%) Pega
4 5 (8.93%) Google
5 1 (1.79%) Cisco