DevOps Job Trends in South Yorkshire

DevOps
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring DevOps skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 40 29
Rank change year-on-year +6 -11 +22
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 60 15 46
As % of all permanent jobs in South Yorkshire 3.43% 2.52% 4.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.54% 3.35% 6.23%
Number of salaries quoted 54 10 15
10th Percentile £50,000 £35,000 £40,250
25th Percentile £55,625 £41,875 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,306 £108,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -36.27% +81.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £80,000 £162,500 £63,125
90th Percentile £83,750 £180,250 £71,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £70,000 £63,750 £62,500
% change year-on-year +9.80% +2.00% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,083 448 738
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 61.85% 75.17% 76.88%
Number of salaries quoted 817 301 348
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £29,250 £40,997
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £41,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.95% -25.45% +22.22%
75th Percentile £65,640 £60,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £79,000 £80,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £52,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +9.47% -9.52% -

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing DevOps relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

DevOps job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

DevOps
Salary Trend in South Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing DevOps.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing DevOps

DevOps
Salary Histogram in South Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 11 October 2026.

Salary histogram for DevOps in South Yorkshire

DevOps
Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 11 October 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Sheffield +11 56 £69,306 -36.27% 58
Doncaster - 2 £60,000 - 3
Barnsley - 1 £60,000 -
DevOps
Yorkshire

DevOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 (5.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.33%) Confluence
3 1 (1.67%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 37 (61.67%) Azure
2 25 (41.67%) Azure DevOps
3 15 (25.00%) AWS
4 9 (15.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 9 (15.00%) Azure Functions
4 9 (15.00%) Power Platform
4 9 (15.00%) Serverless
5 5 (8.33%) Azure Logic Apps
5 5 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
5 5 (8.33%) Dynamics 365
5 5 (8.33%) GCP
5 5 (8.33%) Power Automate
6 4 (6.67%) Azure AI
6 4 (6.67%) Google Play
7 3 (5.00%) Azure AKS
7 3 (5.00%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (3.33%) Entra ID
8 2 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (3.33%) PowerApps
9 1 (1.67%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.67%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (15.00%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (11.67%) MongoDB
3 6 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (10.00%) Spark SQL
4 5 (8.33%) Power BI
5 4 (6.67%) SQL Server
6 3 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (5.00%) Star Schema
7 2 (3.33%) Metadata
7 2 (3.33%) Power Query
8 1 (1.67%) Metadata Repository
8 1 (1.67%) Semantic Layer
8 1 (1.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (11.67%) Git
2 4 (6.67%) GitLab
2 4 (6.67%) JIRA
3 2 (3.33%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.33%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 15 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 5 (8.33%) Social Skills
3 4 (6.67%) Finance
4 3 (5.00%) Tech for Good
5 2 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.33%) Banking
6 1 (1.67%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.67%) Electronics
6 1 (1.67%) Games
6 1 (1.67%) Law
6 1 (1.67%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 23 (38.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 20 (33.33%) Senior
3 13 (21.67%) Senior DevOps
3 13 (21.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 12 (20.00%) Lead
5 9 (15.00%) Developer
6 8 (13.33%) Data Engineer
7 6 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
7 6 (10.00%) Lead Data Engineer
7 6 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
8 5 (8.33%) .NET Developer
8 5 (8.33%) Azure Platform Engineer
8 5 (8.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 5 (8.33%) Databricks Data Engineer
8 5 (8.33%) Databricks Engineer
8 5 (8.33%) Lead DevOps
8 5 (8.33%) Lead DevOps Engineer
8 5 (8.33%) Software Engineer
9 3 (5.00%) .NET Software Engineer
9 3 (5.00%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (21.67%) Terraform
2 12 (20.00%) .NET
3 6 (10.00%) PySpark
4 5 (8.33%) ARM Templates
4 5 (8.33%) ASP.NET
4 5 (8.33%) ASP.NET Core
4 5 (8.33%) REST
4 5 (8.33%) RESTful
5 4 (6.67%) .NET Core
5 4 (6.67%) Blazor
5 4 (6.67%) ML.NET
5 4 (6.67%) React
6 3 (5.00%) Next.js
6 3 (5.00%) Node.js
7 2 (3.33%) HTML5 Canvas
7 2 (3.33%) pytest
8 1 (1.67%) CSS
8 1 (1.67%) HTML
8 1 (1.67%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.67%) iPhone
1 4 (6.67%) Mobile App
2 2 (3.33%) Cloud Native
2 2 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (3.33%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.67%) 3D Graphics
3 1 (1.67%) Culture of Ownership
3 1 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.67%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (1.67%) FPGA
3 1 (1.67%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (1.67%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (1.67%) Low-Code
3 1 (1.67%) Private Cloud
3 1 (1.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (13.33%) Linux
2 6 (10.00%) Unix
3 5 (8.33%) Windows
4 4 (6.67%) Android
5 1 (1.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 32 (53.33%) Agile
3 20 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 20 (33.33%) Test Automation
4 18 (30.00%) Coaching
5 15 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 12 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 12 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
7 10 (16.67%) Data Modelling
7 10 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
7 10 (16.67%) Scrum
7 10 (16.67%) Software Engineering
8 9 (15.00%) AI
8 9 (15.00%) Data Engineering
9 8 (13.33%) Full-Stack Development
9 8 (13.33%) Lakehouse
9 8 (13.33%) Platform Engineering
9 8 (13.33%) Release Management
9 8 (13.33%) Technical Leadership
10 7 (11.67%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 16 (26.67%) SQL
2 15 (25.00%) C#
3 9 (15.00%) Python
4 7 (11.67%) JavaScript
5 5 (8.33%) Java
6 3 (5.00%) VB.NET
7 2 (3.33%) Bicep
7 2 (3.33%) C++
7 2 (3.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (3.33%) PowerShell
7 2 (3.33%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.67%) Bash
8 1 (1.67%) C
8 1 (1.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (11.67%) Degree
2 5 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.67%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.33%) GDPR
2 4 (6.67%) Data Quality
3 3 (5.00%) Accessibility
4 2 (3.33%) QA
5 1 (1.67%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (3.33%) Docker
2 1 (1.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.67%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (1.67%) Firmware
2 1 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.67%) VMware NSX
2 1 (1.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (5.00%) Argo
2 2 (3.33%) Ansible
2 2 (3.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.67%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 14 (23.33%) Microsoft
2 9 (15.00%) Databricks
3 6 (10.00%) Google
3 6 (10.00%) Pega
4 1 (1.67%) Cisco
4 1 (1.67%) Informatica
4 1 (1.67%) NetApp
4 1 (1.67%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.67%) Thales
4 1 (1.67%) VMware