DevOps Engineer Job Trends in Yorkshire

Development Operations Engineer
England > Yorkshire

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in Yorkshire is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 October 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 139 110
Rank change year-on-year +21 -29 -13
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 80 18 64
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 1.06% 0.54% 1.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.15% 0.62% 1.51%
Number of salaries quoted 60 17 55
10th Percentile £54,500 £50,800 -
25th Percentile £62,094 £55,000 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £68,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -4.41% -3.25%
75th Percentile £82,037 £75,000 £69,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £82,500 £86,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £68,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% +2.94% -9.33%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 6,977 2,892 4,252
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 86.46% 94.62%
Number of salaries quoted 5,018 1,543 2,142
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £28,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £30,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.56% -10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £64,938 £65,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £59,000 £55,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year +7.27% -1.79% -6.67%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in 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 Yorkshire.

DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend 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 12 October 2026.

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 12 October 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
West Yorkshire +6 56 £70,000 +1.45% 26
South Yorkshire -14 23 £80,000 +45.45% 5
East Yorkshire -4 1 - - 1
DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 12 October 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 Yorkshire region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 80 (100.00%) DevOps
2 42 (52.50%) CI/CD
3 39 (48.75%) AWS
4 31 (38.75%) Infrastructure as Code
5 30 (37.50%) Platform Engineering
6 27 (33.75%) Linux
7 24 (30.00%) Agile
7 24 (30.00%) Mentoring
8 23 (28.75%) Terraform
9 22 (27.50%) Test Automation
10 21 (26.25%) GitLab
11 20 (25.00%) Azure
12 19 (23.75%) Coaching
13 17 (21.25%) Continuous Integration
14 16 (20.00%) Git
14 16 (20.00%) Security Cleared
15 15 (18.75%) Docker
15 15 (18.75%) SC Cleared
16 14 (17.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 13 (16.25%) Jenkins
17 13 (16.25%) Kubernetes
17 13 (16.25%) Microservices
18 12 (15.00%) Ansible
18 12 (15.00%) Scrum
18 12 (15.00%) Technical Leadership
18 12 (15.00%) Unix
19 11 (13.75%) Containerisation
19 11 (13.75%) GitHub
19 11 (13.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
20 10 (12.50%) Pega

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 3 (3.75%) nginx
2 1 (1.25%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 39 (48.75%) AWS
2 20 (25.00%) Azure
3 11 (13.75%) GitHub
4 7 (8.75%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (7.50%) GCP
6 5 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (6.25%) Azure AKS
6 5 (6.25%) Azure Service Bus
6 5 (6.25%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (3.75%) Amazon ECR
7 3 (3.75%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (3.75%) Amazon S3
7 3 (3.75%) AWS KMS
7 3 (3.75%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (3.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 3 (3.75%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (3.75%) Kong
7 3 (3.75%) Route 53
8 1 (1.25%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.25%) Internet
2 3 (3.75%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.25%) MongoDB
1 5 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (3.75%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 21 (26.25%) GitLab
2 16 (20.00%) Git
3 13 (16.25%) Jenkins
4 8 (10.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (1.25%) JIRA
5 1 (1.25%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 36 (45.00%) Public Sector
2 11 (13.75%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (12.50%) Social Skills
4 2 (2.50%) Banking
5 1 (1.25%) Finance
5 1 (1.25%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (28.75%) Terraform
2 5 (6.25%) Node.js
3 3 (3.75%) Kafka
4 2 (2.50%) Web Services
5 1 (1.25%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 14 (17.50%) Cloud Native
2 6 (7.50%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (3.75%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.50%) Culture of Ownership
Operating Systems
1 27 (33.75%) Linux
2 12 (15.00%) Unix
3 10 (12.50%) Windows
4 8 (10.00%) CentOS
4 8 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (100.00%) DevOps
2 42 (52.50%) CI/CD
3 31 (38.75%) Infrastructure as Code
4 30 (37.50%) Platform Engineering
5 24 (30.00%) Agile
5 24 (30.00%) Mentoring
6 22 (27.50%) Test Automation
7 19 (23.75%) Coaching
8 17 (21.25%) Continuous Integration
9 14 (17.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 13 (16.25%) Microservices
11 12 (15.00%) Scrum
11 12 (15.00%) Technical Leadership
12 11 (13.75%) Containerisation
12 11 (13.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 9 (11.25%) Deployment Automation
14 8 (10.00%) Cloud Operations
14 8 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
14 8 (10.00%) Observability
14 8 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 9 (11.25%) Python
2 5 (6.25%) Bash
2 5 (6.25%) Java
2 5 (6.25%) Shell Script
3 2 (2.50%) Groovy
4 1 (1.25%) Bicep
4 1 (1.25%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 16 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 15 (18.75%) SC Cleared
3 8 (10.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.25%) QA
System Software
1 15 (18.75%) Docker
2 1 (1.25%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (16.25%) Kubernetes
2 12 (15.00%) Ansible
3 5 (6.25%) Argo
4 3 (3.75%) Grafana
4 3 (3.75%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.50%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 10 (12.50%) Pega
2 8 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 5 (6.25%) Google
4 3 (3.75%) Databricks