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

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 19 32
Rank change year-on-year -23 +13 -12
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 12 27 42
As % of all permanent jobs in Sheffield 2.26% 8.28% 5.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.14% 8.91% 5.92%
Number of salaries quoted 11 9 30
10th Percentile £37,500 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,875 £37,716 £37,252
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -10.00% -37.50%
75th Percentile £124,962 £63,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £180,000 £74,000 £79,625
South Yorkshire median annual salary £55,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +22.22% -5.26% -40.63%

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 382 303 710
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Sheffield 71.80% 92.94% 85.54%
Number of salaries quoted 285 138 579
10th Percentile - £30,363 £26,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £39,922 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +20.00% +4.70%
75th Percentile £60,000 £75,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £77,424 £87,500 £81,250
South Yorkshire median annual salary £40,000 £61,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -34.96% +29.47% +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 4 March 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 6 (50.00%) Azure
2 5 (41.67%) AWS
3 4 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (25.00%) GitHub
5 2 (16.67%) GCP
6 1 (8.33%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (8.33%) Power Automate
6 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
6 1 (8.33%) PowerApps
6 1 (8.33%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (16.67%) Metadata
3 1 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (8.33%) Power BI
3 1 (8.33%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 5 (41.67%) Finance
1 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) .NET Software Engineer
1 3 (25.00%) Java Engineer
1 3 (25.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Architect
2 2 (16.67%) Data Architect
2 2 (16.67%) Senior
2 2 (16.67%) Senior Architect
2 2 (16.67%) Senior Data Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Business Intelligence Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Chief Technology Officer
3 1 (8.33%) Data Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Head of Service Management
3 1 (8.33%) Power BI Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (50.00%) Node.js
2 3 (25.00%) .NET
2 3 (25.00%) .NET Core
2 3 (25.00%) AngularJS
2 3 (25.00%) ASP.NET
2 3 (25.00%) CSS
2 3 (25.00%) CSS3
2 3 (25.00%) HTML
2 3 (25.00%) HTML5
2 3 (25.00%) Sass
2 3 (25.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 2 (16.67%) Public Cloud
3 1 (8.33%) CMDB
3 1 (8.33%) Data Structures
3 1 (8.33%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Agile
1 6 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 5 (41.67%) Coaching
2 5 (41.67%) Mentoring
3 3 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 3 (25.00%) SDLC
3 3 (25.00%) Test Automation
4 2 (16.67%) Architectural Design
4 2 (16.67%) Containerisation
4 2 (16.67%) Continuous Delivery
4 2 (16.67%) Data Governance
4 2 (16.67%) Data Management
4 2 (16.67%) Data Strategy
4 2 (16.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 2 (16.67%) Master Data Management
4 2 (16.67%) Metadata Management
4 2 (16.67%) Roadmaps
4 2 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) SQL
2 3 (25.00%) C#
2 3 (25.00%) Java
3 1 (8.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) GDPR
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (16.67%) Google