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

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 19 32
Rank change year-on-year -4 +13 -1
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 47 28 56
As % of all permanent jobs in Sheffield 5.07% 8.48% 4.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.59% 9.93% 5.71%
Number of salaries quoted 44 23 40
10th Percentile £50,000 £29,050 £34,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £31,250 £43,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +49.33% -9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £83,750 £65,000 £59,063
90th Percentile - £69,750 £72,750
South Yorkshire median annual salary £70,932 £48,750 £52,500
% change year-on-year +45.50% -7.14% -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 619 282 981
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Sheffield 66.77% 85.45% 79.30%
Number of salaries quoted 501 194 767
10th Percentile £31,000 £26,075 £29,450
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,250 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £78,925 £80,000
South Yorkshire median annual salary £50,000 £46,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +8.70% -3.16% +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 27 June 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 (4.26%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.13%) Confluence
2 1 (2.13%) SharePoint Server
Cloud Services
1 35 (74.47%) Azure
2 23 (48.94%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (25.53%) Azure Data Factory
3 12 (25.53%) Azure Functions
3 12 (25.53%) Serverless
4 11 (23.40%) AWS
5 9 (19.15%) Azure Logic Apps
5 9 (19.15%) Azure Monitor
6 5 (10.64%) Dynamics 365
6 5 (10.64%) GCP
6 5 (10.64%) Power Automate
6 5 (10.64%) Power Platform
7 4 (8.51%) Azure AKS
7 4 (8.51%) Azure Service Bus
8 3 (6.38%) Azure AI
8 3 (6.38%) Google Play
8 3 (6.38%) PowerApps
9 1 (2.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (2.13%) Entra ID
9 1 (2.13%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (25.53%) Data Warehouse
1 12 (25.53%) Spark SQL
2 7 (14.89%) MongoDB
3 4 (8.51%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (8.51%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (6.38%) Metadata
4 3 (6.38%) Power BI
4 3 (6.38%) Power Query
4 3 (6.38%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (10.64%) Git
1 5 (10.64%) GitLab
2 4 (8.51%) JIRA
3 2 (4.26%) Jenkins
3 2 (4.26%) Visual Studio
4 1 (2.13%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 10 (21.28%) Public Sector
2 3 (6.38%) Social Skills
3 2 (4.26%) Banking
3 2 (4.26%) Finance
3 2 (4.26%) Tech for Good
4 1 (2.13%) Electronics
4 1 (2.13%) Games
Job Titles
1 17 (36.17%) DevOps Engineer
1 17 (36.17%) Lead
2 13 (27.66%) Senior
3 12 (25.53%) Data Engineer
3 12 (25.53%) Lead Data Engineer
3 12 (25.53%) Platform Engineer
4 10 (21.28%) Azure Engineer
5 9 (19.15%) Azure Platform Engineer
5 9 (19.15%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 9 (19.15%) Senior DevOps
5 9 (19.15%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 7 (14.89%) Developer
7 5 (10.64%) Lead DevOps
7 5 (10.64%) Lead DevOps Engineer
8 4 (8.51%) .NET Developer
9 3 (6.38%) Architect
9 3 (6.38%) Data Architect
9 3 (6.38%) Senior Architect
9 3 (6.38%) Senior Data Architect
9 3 (6.38%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (25.53%) PySpark
2 11 (23.40%) .NET
3 9 (19.15%) ARM Templates
3 9 (19.15%) REST
4 4 (8.51%) ASP.NET
4 4 (8.51%) ASP.NET Core
4 4 (8.51%) Node.js
4 4 (8.51%) RESTful
5 3 (6.38%) .NET Core
5 3 (6.38%) Blazor
5 3 (6.38%) ML.NET
5 3 (6.38%) React
6 2 (4.26%) CSS
6 2 (4.26%) HTML
6 2 (4.26%) HTML5 Canvas
6 2 (4.26%) JSON
6 2 (4.26%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.38%) iPhone
1 3 (6.38%) Mobile App
1 3 (6.38%) Public Cloud
2 1 (2.13%) 3D Graphics
2 1 (2.13%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.13%) Data Structures
2 1 (2.13%) FPGA
2 1 (2.13%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (10.64%) Linux
1 5 (10.64%) Unix
1 5 (10.64%) Windows
2 3 (6.38%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (63.83%) CI/CD
2 20 (42.55%) Agile
2 20 (42.55%) Test Automation
3 13 (27.66%) Infrastructure as Code
3 13 (27.66%) Platform Engineering
4 12 (25.53%) Coaching
4 12 (25.53%) Data Engineering
4 12 (25.53%) Data Governance
4 12 (25.53%) Data Modelling
4 12 (25.53%) Deployment Automation
4 12 (25.53%) Mentoring
5 10 (21.28%) Continuous Integration
5 10 (21.28%) ETL
5 10 (21.28%) Release Management
6 9 (19.15%) Computer Science
6 9 (19.15%) Cost Optimisation
6 9 (19.15%) Dashboard Development
6 9 (19.15%) Data Integration
6 9 (19.15%) Observability
6 9 (19.15%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 19 (40.43%) SQL
2 12 (25.53%) C#
3 11 (23.40%) Python
4 6 (12.77%) JavaScript
5 5 (10.64%) Java
6 3 (6.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (4.26%) Bicep
7 2 (4.26%) C++
7 2 (4.26%) T-SQL
7 2 (4.26%) VB.NET
8 1 (2.13%) Bash
8 1 (2.13%) C
8 1 (2.13%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (19.15%) Computer Science Degree
1 9 (19.15%) Degree
2 1 (2.13%) Azure Certification
2 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (21.28%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (2.13%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.13%) Embedded Firmware
1 1 (2.13%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 15 (31.91%) Terraform
2 4 (8.51%) Argo
3 1 (2.13%) Ansible
Vendors
1 12 (25.53%) Databricks
2 11 (23.40%) Microsoft
3 6 (12.77%) Google
4 4 (8.51%) Pega