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

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 15 35
Rank change year-on-year -23 +20 -14
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 12 37 37
As % of all permanent jobs in Sheffield 2.54% 8.79% 4.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.47% 9.89% 5.69%
Number of salaries quoted 11 9 27
10th Percentile £37,500 £36,173 £34,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £37,716 £38,585
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £45,000 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year +57.63% -17.43% -31.88%
75th Percentile £167,500 £63,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £180,000 £74,000 £82,250
South Yorkshire median annual salary £62,966 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +39.92% -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 346 374 650
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Sheffield 73.31% 88.84% 85.75%
Number of salaries quoted 259 141 537
10th Percentile - £35,250 £26,317
25th Percentile £28,250 £42,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £62,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -36.00% +31.58% -
75th Percentile £57,723 £77,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £85,000 £80,000
South Yorkshire median annual salary £40,000 £62,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -36.00% +31.58% +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 8 February 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 5 (41.67%) AWS
1 5 (41.67%) Azure
2 3 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (25.00%) GitHub
3 2 (16.67%) GCP
4 1 (8.33%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (16.67%) Metadata
General
1 6 (50.00%) Finance
2 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
3 3 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 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%) Chief Technology Officer
3 1 (8.33%) Head of Service Management
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%) Cloud Native
1 3 (25.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (16.67%) Public Cloud
3 1 (8.33%) CMDB
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%) Roadmaps
3 3 (25.00%) SDLC
3 3 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 3 (25.00%) Test Automation
4 2 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (16.67%) Data Architecture
4 2 (16.67%) Data Governance
4 2 (16.67%) Data Management
4 2 (16.67%) Data Modelling
4 2 (16.67%) Master Data Management
4 2 (16.67%) Metadata Management
4 2 (16.67%) Problem Management
4 2 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) C#
1 3 (25.00%) Java
1 3 (25.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Google
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft