DevOps Job Trends in Stoke-on-Trent

DevOps
Staffordshire > Stoke-on-Trent

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Stoke-on-Trent requiring DevOps skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 21 38
Rank change year-on-year -17 +17 -16
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 1 3 5
As % of all permanent jobs in Stoke-on-Trent 0.24% 2.56% 1.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 2.97% 2.22%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 - £40,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +6.67%
75th Percentile - - £77,500
90th Percentile - - -
Staffordshire median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +21.74% +15.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Stoke-on-Trent

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 Stoke-on-Trent.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 261 101 225
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Stoke-on-Trent 62.00% 86.32% 81.82%
Number of salaries quoted 197 45 190
10th Percentile £26,000 £28,000 £22,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £27,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £35,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +57.14% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £43,750 £55,000
90th Percentile £71,250 £65,750 £65,000
Staffordshire median annual salary £50,436 £42,500 £40,060
% change year-on-year +18.67% +6.09% -7.38%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Stoke-on-Trent

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing DevOps relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Stoke-on-Trent.

DevOps job vacancy trend in Stoke-on-Trent

DevOps
Salary Trend in Stoke-on-Trent

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Stoke-on-Trent citing DevOps.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Stoke-on-Trent citing DevOps

DevOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Stoke-on-Trent 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 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Billing
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (100.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Experience
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 1 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lineage
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Data Sharing
1 1 (100.00%) Data Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata Management
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft