DevOps Job Trends in West Yorkshire

DevOps
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring DevOps skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 20 11
Rank change year-on-year -4 -9 -6
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 140 133 286
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 8.48% 7.94% 14.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.60% 9.63% 14.88%
Number of salaries quoted 110 103 243
10th Percentile £41,075 £47,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,563 £50,254 £50,593
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £68,000 £67,529
Median % change year-on-year -4.41% +0.70% +4.14%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,125 £81,875
90th Percentile £82,500 £93,000 £92,387
Yorkshire median annual salary £60,000 £57,965 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.51% -10.82% -3.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West 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 West Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,458 1,381 1,922
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 88.31% 82.40% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 863 734 1,423
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £36,750 £42,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £72,433
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £87,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.52% - -2.33%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

DevOps job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

DevOps
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing DevOps.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing DevOps

DevOps
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 12 December 2025.

Salary histogram for DevOps in West Yorkshire

DevOps
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 within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 12 December 2025. 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 -2 126 £60,000 -10.75% 86
Bradford -8 7 £65,000 -2.26% 39
Pontefract - 2 £58,250 - 2
Wetherby - 1 £110,000 -
DevOps
Yorkshire

DevOps
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 6 (4.29%) Confluence
2 5 (3.57%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.86%) OpenStack
4 3 (2.14%) Apache
5 2 (1.43%) Moodle
6 1 (0.71%) FileNet
6 1 (0.71%) IIS
Applications
1 7 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.71%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.14%) SAP ERP
2 2 (1.43%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.43%) Markit EDM
2 2 (1.43%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.71%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 77 (55.00%) AWS
2 70 (50.00%) Azure
3 36 (25.71%) Serverless
4 29 (20.71%) AWS CloudFormation
5 26 (18.57%) Azure DevOps
6 25 (17.86%) Amazon S3
6 25 (17.86%) GitHub
7 24 (17.14%) AWS Lambda
8 20 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
9 19 (13.57%) AWS Step Functions
10 17 (12.14%) GCP
11 16 (11.43%) GitHub Actions
12 12 (8.57%) Amazon SQS
13 10 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 10 (7.14%) SaaS
14 9 (6.43%) Amazon EventBridge
15 8 (5.71%) Amazon ECR
15 8 (5.71%) Amazon EKS
15 8 (5.71%) Apigee
16 4 (2.86%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.14%) Firewall
2 2 (1.43%) AMQP
2 2 (1.43%) Network Security
3 1 (0.71%) BGP
3 1 (0.71%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (15.00%) DynamoDB
2 17 (12.14%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (10.00%) SQL Server
4 12 (8.57%) NoSQL
5 9 (6.43%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (5.71%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 7 (5.00%) Relational Database
8 6 (4.29%) OLAP
9 3 (2.14%) Amazon Aurora
9 3 (2.14%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (2.14%) Apache Iceberg
9 3 (2.14%) Big Data
9 3 (2.14%) Data Lake
9 3 (2.14%) Data Vault
9 3 (2.14%) Metadata
10 2 (1.43%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (1.43%) Hadoop
10 2 (1.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (1.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (1.43%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 24 (17.14%) GitLab
2 23 (16.43%) Jenkins
3 21 (15.00%) Git
4 15 (10.71%) JIRA
5 12 (8.57%) SonarQube
6 9 (6.43%) Cypress.io
7 8 (5.71%) Maven
8 5 (3.57%) Selenium
9 3 (2.14%) JMeter
9 3 (2.14%) LoadRunner
10 2 (1.43%) CircleCI
11 1 (0.71%) Appium
11 1 (0.71%) JUnit
11 1 (0.71%) Postman
11 1 (0.71%) REST Assured
General
1 45 (32.14%) Social Skills
2 25 (17.86%) Finance
3 16 (11.43%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (10.00%) Financial Institution
5 10 (7.14%) Public Sector
6 9 (6.43%) Retail
7 6 (4.29%) Legal
8 4 (2.86%) Marketing
9 3 (2.14%) Law
10 2 (1.43%) Advertising
10 2 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.71%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 39 (27.86%) Developer
2 31 (22.14%) Lead
3 23 (16.43%) Senior
4 16 (11.43%) Software Engineer
5 13 (9.29%) Java Developer
6 12 (8.57%) DevOps Engineer
7 9 (6.43%) .NET Developer
7 9 (6.43%) Analyst
7 9 (6.43%) Architect
7 9 (6.43%) Data Engineer
7 9 (6.43%) Lead DevOps
7 9 (6.43%) Lead DevOps Engineer
8 8 (5.71%) Senior Software Engineer
9 6 (4.29%) Lead Data Engineer
9 6 (4.29%) SQL Developer
10 5 (3.57%) .NET Software Engineer
10 5 (3.57%) AWS Developer
10 5 (3.57%) Business Analyst
10 5 (3.57%) Software Developer
10 5 (3.57%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (17.14%) .NET
2 22 (15.71%) Spring Boot
3 20 (14.29%) React
4 19 (13.57%) Spring
5 17 (12.14%) AngularJS
6 14 (10.00%) RESTful
7 12 (8.57%) Micronaut
8 11 (7.86%) ASP.NET
9 10 (7.14%) .NET Core
10 9 (6.43%) Blazor
11 8 (5.71%) ASP.NET Core
11 8 (5.71%) AWS CDK
11 8 (5.71%) Gherkin
11 8 (5.71%) Jest
11 8 (5.71%) Node.js
12 7 (5.00%) Kafka
13 6 (4.29%) CSS
13 6 (4.29%) HTML
13 6 (4.29%) Vue
14 5 (3.57%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 38 (27.14%) Cloud Native
2 12 (8.57%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (2.86%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.14%) Enterprise Cloud
4 3 (2.14%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.14%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.14%) Virtual Team
5 2 (1.43%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.43%) e-Learning
5 2 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.43%) IoT
5 2 (1.43%) NHS
5 2 (1.43%) Operational Technology
5 2 (1.43%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.43%) SCADA
5 2 (1.43%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.71%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.71%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (0.71%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.71%) Hackathon
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.00%) Windows
2 5 (3.57%) Linux
3 2 (1.43%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.71%) Android
4 1 (0.71%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 71 (50.71%) Agile
3 49 (35.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 33 (23.57%) Software Engineering
5 32 (22.86%) Problem-Solving
6 30 (21.43%) Mentoring
7 28 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 23 (16.43%) Microservices
9 19 (13.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 19 (13.57%) Stakeholder Management
10 17 (12.14%) Containerisation
10 17 (12.14%) Scrum
11 16 (11.43%) Data Modelling
12 14 (10.00%) Data Engineering
12 14 (10.00%) ETL
12 14 (10.00%) Incident Response
12 14 (10.00%) Roadmaps
13 13 (9.29%) SDLC
14 12 (8.57%) Fintech
14 12 (8.57%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 48 (34.29%) SQL
2 42 (30.00%) Java
3 35 (25.00%) Python
4 24 (17.14%) JavaScript
4 24 (17.14%) TypeScript
5 17 (12.14%) Bash
6 15 (10.71%) C#
7 10 (7.14%) PowerShell
8 8 (5.71%) Groovy
9 7 (5.00%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.43%) R
11 1 (0.71%) Bicep
11 1 (0.71%) Go
Qualifications
1 22 (15.71%) AWS Certification
2 12 (8.57%) AWS Certified Developer
3 11 (7.86%) Degree
4 7 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (5.00%) Security Cleared
5 6 (4.29%) SC Cleared
6 3 (2.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.43%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.71%) MCITP
8 1 (0.71%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (10.00%) QA
2 6 (4.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (4.29%) PCI DSS
3 4 (2.86%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.86%) GDPR
4 2 (1.43%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.71%) NCSC
System Software
1 50 (35.71%) Docker
2 1 (0.71%) Squid
Systems Management
1 36 (25.71%) Kubernetes
2 34 (24.29%) Terraform
3 16 (11.43%) Ansible
4 11 (7.86%) HP Fortify
5 9 (6.43%) Prometheus
6 8 (5.71%) Grafana
7 2 (1.43%) Control-M
8 1 (0.71%) Argo
8 1 (0.71%) Kibana
Vendors
1 17 (12.14%) Microsoft
2 7 (5.00%) Databricks
3 4 (2.86%) Google
3 4 (2.86%) IBM
4 3 (2.14%) Oracle
4 3 (2.14%) Pega
4 3 (2.14%) SAP
4 3 (2.14%) WSO2
5 2 (1.43%) Adobe
5 2 (1.43%) New Relic
5 2 (1.43%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.43%) Sparx
6 1 (0.71%) Blue Prism
6 1 (0.71%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.71%) TOWER Software