DevOps Engineer Job Trends in Yorkshire

Development Operations Engineer
England > Yorkshire

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in Yorkshire is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 21 September 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 142 112
Rank change year-on-year +15 -30 -6
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 71 18 72
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 0.92% 0.54% 1.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.99% 0.63% 1.55%
Number of salaries quoted 53 17 61
10th Percentile £55,000 £48,100 -
25th Percentile £63,627 £55,000 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £65,000 £68,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -4.41% -2.86%
75th Percentile £88,148 £75,000 £69,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £82,500 £85,000
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 7,179 2,840 4,657
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.22% 85.80% 94.65%
Number of salaries quoted 5,081 1,584 2,561
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £30,741 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,130 £46,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -8.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £59,773 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.68% - -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 21 September 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 21 September 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 -3 50 £80,000 +15.94% 30
South Yorkshire -14 21 £69,310 +26.02% 14
DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 21 September 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 71 (100.00%) DevOps
2 36 (50.70%) AWS
2 36 (50.70%) CI/CD
3 26 (36.62%) Linux
4 24 (33.80%) Terraform
5 23 (32.39%) Agile
5 23 (32.39%) Infrastructure as Code
6 21 (29.58%) GitLab
6 21 (29.58%) Mentoring
6 21 (29.58%) Test Automation
7 20 (28.17%) Platform Engineering
8 19 (26.76%) Coaching
9 17 (23.94%) Microservices
10 16 (22.54%) Continuous Integration
10 16 (22.54%) Jenkins
11 15 (21.13%) Azure
11 15 (21.13%) Git
11 15 (21.13%) Kubernetes
12 14 (19.72%) Security Cleared
13 12 (16.90%) Ansible
13 12 (16.90%) Docker
13 12 (16.90%) SC Cleared
13 12 (16.90%) Scrum
13 12 (16.90%) Unix
13 12 (16.90%) Windows
14 11 (15.49%) GitHub
14 11 (15.49%) Python
14 11 (15.49%) Technical Leadership
15 10 (14.08%) Containerisation
15 10 (14.08%) Java

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 (1.41%) Confluence
1 1 (1.41%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 36 (50.70%) AWS
2 15 (21.13%) Azure
3 11 (15.49%) GitHub
4 9 (12.68%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (9.86%) Azure AKS
5 7 (9.86%) Azure Service Bus
6 6 (8.45%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (5.63%) Amazon S3
7 4 (5.63%) GCP
8 3 (4.23%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (4.23%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (4.23%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (4.23%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (4.23%) Serverless
9 2 (2.82%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (1.41%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (1.41%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (1.41%) Entra ID
10 1 (1.41%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 1 (1.41%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.82%) Internet
2 1 (1.41%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (9.86%) MongoDB
1 7 (9.86%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.41%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.41%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 21 (29.58%) GitLab
2 16 (22.54%) Jenkins
3 15 (21.13%) Git
4 7 (9.86%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 4 (5.63%) JIRA
6 3 (4.23%) Artifactory
6 3 (4.23%) Cucumber
6 3 (4.23%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.41%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 29 (40.85%) Public Sector
2 12 (16.90%) Social Skills
3 4 (5.63%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.82%) Banking
5 1 (1.41%) Finance
5 1 (1.41%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (33.80%) Terraform
2 7 (9.86%) Node.js
3 3 (4.23%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (4.23%) JSON
3 3 (4.23%) RabbitMQ
3 3 (4.23%) REST
3 3 (4.23%) YAML
4 2 (2.82%) Web Services
5 1 (1.41%) .NET
5 1 (1.41%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 14 (19.72%) Cloud Native
2 3 (4.23%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (4.23%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 26 (36.62%) Linux
2 12 (16.90%) Unix
2 12 (16.90%) Windows
3 7 (9.86%) CentOS
3 7 (9.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (100.00%) DevOps
2 36 (50.70%) CI/CD
3 23 (32.39%) Agile
3 23 (32.39%) Infrastructure as Code
4 21 (29.58%) Mentoring
4 21 (29.58%) Test Automation
5 20 (28.17%) Platform Engineering
6 19 (26.76%) Coaching
7 17 (23.94%) Microservices
8 16 (22.54%) Continuous Integration
9 12 (16.90%) Scrum
10 11 (15.49%) Technical Leadership
11 10 (14.08%) Containerisation
11 10 (14.08%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 8 (11.27%) Deployment Automation
13 5 (7.04%) Cybersecurity
13 5 (7.04%) Problem-Solving
14 4 (5.63%) Auto-Scaling
14 4 (5.63%) Case Management
14 4 (5.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 11 (15.49%) Python
2 10 (14.08%) Java
3 5 (7.04%) Groovy
4 3 (4.23%) Bash
5 2 (2.82%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.41%) Bicep
6 1 (1.41%) Perl
6 1 (1.41%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 14 (19.72%) Security Cleared
2 12 (16.90%) SC Cleared
3 7 (9.86%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.63%) QA
System Software
1 12 (16.90%) Docker
2 1 (1.41%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 15 (21.13%) Kubernetes
2 12 (16.90%) Ansible
3 7 (9.86%) Argo
4 3 (4.23%) Packer
5 2 (2.82%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.41%) Grafana
6 1 (1.41%) Istio
6 1 (1.41%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (14.08%) Pega
2 3 (4.23%) AppDynamics
2 3 (4.23%) IBM
2 3 (4.23%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.82%) Google
4 1 (1.41%) Databricks