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 22 December 2025.

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

6 months to
22 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 146 115 83
Rank change year-on-year -31 -32 +58
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 17 41 93
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 0.50% 1.22% 3.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.55% 1.26% 3.47%
Number of salaries quoted 16 33 87
10th Percentile £49,500 - £45,000
25th Percentile £58,750 £48,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £68,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -3.65% +4.56%
75th Percentile £82,500 £69,500 £91,934
90th Percentile - £70,000 £97,923
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% - -

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 3,110 3,248 2,683
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.96% 96.32% 96.72%
Number of salaries quoted 1,862 1,333 2,120
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £27,750
25th Percentile £30,000 £40,050 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,497 £50,000 £52,250
Median % change year-on-year -9.01% -4.31% -0.48%
75th Percentile £68,750 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £84,056
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

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 22 December 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 22 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
West Yorkshire -35 14 £80,000 +17.65% 29
East Yorkshire - 2 £57,500 - 6
North Yorkshire -9 1 £48,000 -12.73% 6
DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 22 December 2025, 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 17 (100.00%) DevOps
2 16 (94.12%) CI/CD
3 14 (82.35%) Azure
3 14 (82.35%) Terraform
4 13 (76.47%) AWS
4 13 (76.47%) Infrastructure as Code
5 12 (70.59%) GCP
5 12 (70.59%) Kubernetes
6 10 (58.82%) Agile
6 10 (58.82%) Ansible
6 10 (58.82%) Docker
6 10 (58.82%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 9 (52.94%) GitLab
7 9 (52.94%) Grafana
7 9 (52.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 9 (52.94%) Line Management
7 9 (52.94%) Observability
7 9 (52.94%) Prometheus
8 8 (47.06%) Incident Response
8 8 (47.06%) Performance Optimisation
9 5 (29.41%) Jenkins
10 4 (23.53%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (23.53%) Containerisation
10 4 (23.53%) GitHub
10 4 (23.53%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
10 4 (23.53%) Python
11 3 (17.65%) Firewall
11 3 (17.65%) Go
11 3 (17.65%) JavaScript

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 1 (5.88%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 14 (82.35%) Azure
2 13 (76.47%) AWS
3 12 (70.59%) GCP
4 4 (23.53%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (23.53%) GitHub
4 4 (23.53%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (11.76%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (11.76%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (5.88%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (17.65%) Firewall
2 2 (11.76%) DNS
3 1 (5.88%) DHCP
3 1 (5.88%) HTTP
3 1 (5.88%) LAN
3 1 (5.88%) TCP/IP
3 1 (5.88%) VPN
3 1 (5.88%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (52.94%) GitLab
2 5 (29.41%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.88%) CircleCI
General
1 3 (17.65%) Law
2 1 (5.88%) 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
2 1 (5.88%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) .NET
1 1 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (5.88%) LDAP
1 1 (5.88%) RESTful
1 1 (5.88%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 10 (58.82%) Cloud Native
2 3 (17.65%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (5.88%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (5.88%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.76%) Linux
1 2 (11.76%) Windows
2 1 (5.88%) Unix
2 1 (5.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (100.00%) DevOps
2 16 (94.12%) CI/CD
3 13 (76.47%) Infrastructure as Code
4 10 (58.82%) Agile
4 10 (58.82%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 9 (52.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 9 (52.94%) Line Management
5 9 (52.94%) Observability
6 8 (47.06%) Incident Response
6 8 (47.06%) Performance Optimisation
7 4 (23.53%) Containerisation
7 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
8 2 (11.76%) Disaster Recovery
8 2 (11.76%) High Availability
9 1 (5.88%) B2C
9 1 (5.88%) Continuous Integration
9 1 (5.88%) E-Commerce
9 1 (5.88%) Load Balancing
9 1 (5.88%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (23.53%) Python
2 3 (17.65%) Go
2 3 (17.65%) JavaScript
3 2 (11.76%) Bash
3 2 (11.76%) PowerShell
4 1 (5.88%) Bicep
4 1 (5.88%) C#
4 1 (5.88%) Java
4 1 (5.88%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) GDPR
1 1 (5.88%) PCI DSS
1 1 (5.88%) QA
System Software
1 10 (58.82%) Docker
2 1 (5.88%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.88%) Squid
2 1 (5.88%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 14 (82.35%) Terraform
2 12 (70.59%) Kubernetes
3 10 (58.82%) Ansible
4 9 (52.94%) Grafana
4 9 (52.94%) Prometheus
5 1 (5.88%) Argo
5 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