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 6 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 19 40
Rank change year-on-year -28 +21 -13
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 11 41 27
As % of all permanent jobs in South Yorkshire 1.77% 7.26% 4.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.39% 8.23% 5.37%
Number of salaries quoted 10 10 19
10th Percentile £37,500 £36,944 £40,184
25th Percentile £38,125 £37,975 £45,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -21.74% -28.13%
75th Percentile £170,000 £62,813 £76,875
90th Percentile £180,250 £72,000 £80,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% -3.70%

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 461 498 503
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 74.24% 88.14% 85.98%
Number of salaries quoted 337 194 411
10th Percentile £26,250 £35,000 £25,200
25th Percentile £28,250 £42,500 £35,623
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £60,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +26.32% +1.06%
75th Percentile £57,500 £75,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £76,720 £82,500 £73,750
Yorkshire median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.52% - -4.55%

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 6 January 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 6 January 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 -19 10 £55,000 +22.22% 38
Doncaster -13 1 £40,000 -33.33% 7
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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) Azure
1 4 (36.36%) Azure DevOps
1 4 (36.36%) GitHub
2 3 (27.27%) AWS
3 1 (9.09%) Azure AI
3 1 (9.09%) Azure App Service
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (9.09%) Entra ID
3 1 (9.09%) Firebase
3 1 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (9.09%) SaaS
3 1 (9.09%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) Relational Database
2 1 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
General
1 7 (63.64%) Finance
2 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
3 3 (27.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (9.09%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) .NET Software Engineer
1 3 (27.27%) Java Engineer
1 3 (27.27%) Software Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) .NET Developer
2 1 (9.09%) .NET Web Developer
2 1 (9.09%) Chief Technology Officer
2 1 (9.09%) Developer
2 1 (9.09%) Head of Service Management
2 1 (9.09%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (54.55%) Node.js
2 4 (36.36%) .NET
3 3 (27.27%) .NET Core
3 3 (27.27%) AngularJS
3 3 (27.27%) ASP.NET
3 3 (27.27%) CSS
3 3 (27.27%) CSS3
3 3 (27.27%) HTML
3 3 (27.27%) HTML5
3 3 (27.27%) Sass
3 3 (27.27%) Spring
4 1 (9.09%) .NET Framework
4 1 (9.09%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (9.09%) ASP.NET Web Forms
4 1 (9.09%) OAuth
4 1 (9.09%) OAuth2
4 1 (9.09%) OpenID
4 1 (9.09%) React
4 1 (9.09%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Cloud Native
1 3 (27.27%) Product Ownership
2 1 (9.09%) CMDB
2 1 (9.09%) IoT
2 1 (9.09%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (9.09%) Legacy Code
2 1 (9.09%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Software Engineering
2 5 (45.45%) CI/CD
3 4 (36.36%) Agile
4 3 (27.27%) Coaching
4 3 (27.27%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (27.27%) Full-Stack Development
4 3 (27.27%) Mentoring
4 3 (27.27%) Roadmaps
4 3 (27.27%) SDLC
4 3 (27.27%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 3 (27.27%) Test Automation
5 2 (18.18%) Chaos Engineering
5 2 (18.18%) Problem Management
5 2 (18.18%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (18.18%) Scenario Testing
5 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (18.18%) Strategic Thinking
5 2 (18.18%) Tech Ops
5 2 (18.18%) Technical Leadership
6 1 (9.09%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) C#
1 4 (36.36%) SQL
2 3 (27.27%) Java
3 1 (9.09%) T-SQL
3 1 (9.09%) TypeScript
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Foundry
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft