DevOps Engineer Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Development Operations Engineer
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in West Yorkshire is £68,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 February 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 78 87
Rank change year-on-year -30 +9 +21
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 17 30 59
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 0.81% 2.34% 2.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.86% 2.45% 2.40%
Number of salaries quoted 17 21 54
10th Percentile £54,000 - £44,325
25th Percentile £60,000 £48,250 £63,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,000 £68,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year - -3.65% +12.92%
75th Percentile £82,500 £74,000 £87,500
90th Percentile - £76,840 £92,330
Yorkshire median annual salary £60,000 £68,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year -11.76% -3.65% +6.53%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
West Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in West Yorkshire. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in West Yorkshire with a recognized job title 1,975 1,222 2,455
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.56% 95.17% 96.73%
Number of salaries quoted 1,223 626 1,914
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,125 £27,575
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,000 £38,370
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,233 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.42% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £88,018 £97,514 £85,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £48,445 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.72% +5.00% -4.76%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'DevOps Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in West Yorkshire.

Salary distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in West Yorkshire

DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 16 February 2026.

Salary histogram for DevOps Engineer in West Yorkshire

DevOps Engineer
Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps Engineer within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 16 February 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
Leeds -35 16 £69,000 +1.47% 3
Bradford - 1 £65,000 - 1
DevOps Engineer
Yorkshire

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 16 February 2026, DevOps Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the West Yorkshire region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 17 (100.00%) DevOps
2 11 (64.71%) CI/CD
3 10 (58.82%) Azure
4 9 (52.94%) Infrastructure as Code
4 9 (52.94%) Terraform
5 8 (47.06%) AWS
5 8 (47.06%) GCP
5 8 (47.06%) Kubernetes
6 7 (41.18%) Agile
6 7 (41.18%) Docker
6 7 (41.18%) GitLab
6 7 (41.18%) Observability
6 7 (41.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 6 (35.29%) Ansible
7 6 (35.29%) Grafana
7 6 (35.29%) Incident Response
7 6 (35.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 6 (35.29%) Line Management
7 6 (35.29%) Performance Optimisation
7 6 (35.29%) Prometheus
8 3 (17.65%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (17.65%) Containerisation
8 3 (17.65%) GitHub
8 3 (17.65%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (17.65%) Jenkins
8 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
9 2 (11.76%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (11.76%) Go
9 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Automation
9 2 (11.76%) JavaScript

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West 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 1 (5.88%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 10 (58.82%) Azure
2 8 (47.06%) AWS
2 8 (47.06%) GCP
3 3 (17.65%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (17.65%) GitHub
3 3 (17.65%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (11.76%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (5.88%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (41.18%) GitLab
2 3 (17.65%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.88%) CircleCI
General
1 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (5.88%) Finance
2 1 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
2 1 (5.88%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) .NET
1 1 (5.88%) LDAP
1 1 (5.88%) RESTful
1 1 (5.88%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (47.06%) Cloud Native
2 3 (17.65%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (11.76%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Windows
1 1 (5.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (100.00%) DevOps
2 11 (64.71%) CI/CD
3 9 (52.94%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (41.18%) Agile
4 7 (41.18%) Observability
4 7 (41.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 6 (35.29%) Incident Response
5 6 (35.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 6 (35.29%) Line Management
5 6 (35.29%) Performance Optimisation
6 3 (17.65%) Containerisation
6 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Automation
8 1 (5.88%) API Development
8 1 (5.88%) Deployment Automation
8 1 (5.88%) E-Commerce
8 1 (5.88%) Performance Monitoring
8 1 (5.88%) Runbook
8 1 (5.88%) Secure Coding
8 1 (5.88%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.76%) Go
1 2 (11.76%) JavaScript
1 2 (11.76%) PowerShell
1 2 (11.76%) Python
2 1 (5.88%) Bash
2 1 (5.88%) Bicep
2 1 (5.88%) C#
2 1 (5.88%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) GDPR
1 1 (5.88%) PCI DSS
1 1 (5.88%) QA
System Software
1 7 (41.18%) Docker
2 1 (5.88%) Squid
Systems Management
1 9 (52.94%) Terraform
2 8 (47.06%) Kubernetes
3 6 (35.29%) Ansible
3 6 (35.29%) Grafana
3 6 (35.29%) Prometheus
4 1 (5.88%) Kibana
Vendors
1 1 (5.88%) Duck Creek
1 1 (5.88%) F5
1 1 (5.88%) New Relic
1 1 (5.88%) VMware