DevOps Engineer Job Trends in Yorkshire

Development Operations Engineer
England > Yorkshire

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in Yorkshire is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 September 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 142 110 107
Rank change year-on-year -32 -3 +12
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 18 74 101
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.55% 1.50% 2.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.64% 1.58% 2.80%
Number of salaries quoted 17 62 77
10th Percentile £48,100 - £46,350
25th Percentile £55,000 £48,250 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £68,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.41% -2.86% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £69,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £84,625 £98,016
England median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% -10.00% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in 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 Yorkshire with a recognized job title 2,816 4,670 3,606
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 85.54% 94.67% 93.69%
Number of salaries quoted 1,568 2,593 2,680
10th Percentile £26,000 £28,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £30,945 £38,000 £37,885
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,250 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £79,300 £78,750 £82,548
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Job postings that featured DevOps Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in Yorkshire

DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Yorkshire.

Salary distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Yorkshire

DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 16 September 2025.

Salary histogram for DevOps Engineer in Yorkshire

DevOps Engineer
Job Locations in 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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 16 September 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
West Yorkshire -25 15 £69,000 +1.47% 12
South Yorkshire +14 1 £55,000 -2.22% 2
East Yorkshire -1 1 £55,000 +22.22%
North Yorkshire -4 1 £48,000 -31.43% 2
DevOps Engineer
England

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 16 September 2025, DevOps Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Yorkshire region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 18 (100.00%) DevOps
2 14 (77.78%) Azure
2 14 (77.78%) CI/CD
3 12 (66.67%) Terraform
4 11 (61.11%) Infrastructure as Code
4 11 (61.11%) AWS
4 11 (61.11%) Kubernetes
5 10 (55.56%) GCP
5 10 (55.56%) Agile
6 8 (44.44%) Cloud Native
6 8 (44.44%) Docker
7 7 (38.89%) GitLab
7 7 (38.89%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (38.89%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 7 (38.89%) Observability
8 6 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 6 (33.33%) Ansible
8 6 (33.33%) Jenkins
9 5 (27.78%) GitHub
9 5 (27.78%) Line Management
9 5 (27.78%) Performance Optimisation
9 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
9 5 (27.78%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (27.78%) Grafana
9 5 (27.78%) Prometheus
9 5 (27.78%) Incident Response
9 5 (27.78%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (22.22%) Firewall
10 4 (22.22%) JavaScript
10 4 (22.22%) Windows

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 14 (77.78%) Azure
2 11 (61.11%) AWS
3 10 (55.56%) GCP
4 7 (38.89%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (27.78%) GitHub
5 5 (27.78%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (5.56%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (22.22%) Firewall
2 3 (16.67%) Network Security
3 1 (5.56%) DHCP
3 1 (5.56%) DNS
3 1 (5.56%) LAN
3 1 (5.56%) VPN
3 1 (5.56%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 7 (38.89%) GitLab
2 6 (33.33%) Jenkins
3 2 (11.11%) CircleCI
General
1 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Law
2 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) .NET
1 2 (11.11%) LDAP
1 2 (11.11%) RESTful
1 2 (11.11%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (44.44%) Cloud Native
2 5 (27.78%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (16.67%) Data Centre
3 3 (16.67%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (5.56%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (22.22%) Windows
2 2 (11.11%) Linux
3 1 (5.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (100.00%) DevOps
2 14 (77.78%) CI/CD
3 11 (61.11%) Infrastructure as Code
4 10 (55.56%) Agile
5 7 (38.89%) Observability
5 7 (38.89%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 6 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 5 (27.78%) Incident Response
7 5 (27.78%) Line Management
7 5 (27.78%) Performance Optimisation
8 3 (16.67%) Cloud Security
8 3 (16.67%) Containerisation
8 3 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (16.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 3 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
8 3 (16.67%) Penetration Testing
8 3 (16.67%) Project Management
8 3 (16.67%) Software Engineering
8 3 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
8 3 (16.67%) Vendor Relationship Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (22.22%) JavaScript
1 4 (22.22%) Python
2 3 (16.67%) Go
3 2 (11.11%) Bash
3 2 (11.11%) C#
3 2 (11.11%) Java
3 2 (11.11%) PowerShell
4 1 (5.56%) Bicep
4 1 (5.56%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (5.56%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) GDPR
1 2 (11.11%) PCI DSS
1 2 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 8 (44.44%) Docker
2 2 (11.11%) Squid
3 1 (5.56%) Active Directory
3 1 (5.56%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 12 (66.67%) Terraform
2 11 (61.11%) Kubernetes
3 6 (33.33%) Ansible
4 5 (27.78%) Grafana
4 5 (27.78%) Prometheus
5 2 (11.11%) Kibana
6 1 (5.56%) Argo
Vendors
1 3 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.11%) New Relic