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 25 September 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 138 113
Rank change year-on-year +25 -25 -8
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 79 18 72
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 1.03% 0.54% 1.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.10% 0.63% 1.56%
Number of salaries quoted 58 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 £87,049 £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 7,154 2,878 4,602
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.15% 85.94% 94.59%
Number of salaries quoted 5,105 1,570 2,464
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,130 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.75% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -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 25 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 25 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 +8 56 £80,000 +15.94% 21
South Yorkshire -12 22 £74,655 +35.74% 8
East Yorkshire -7 1 - - 1
DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 25 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 79 (100.00%) DevOps
2 41 (51.90%) CI/CD
3 40 (50.63%) AWS
4 29 (36.71%) Linux
5 28 (35.44%) Infrastructure as Code
6 26 (32.91%) Terraform
7 25 (31.65%) Agile
7 25 (31.65%) Platform Engineering
8 24 (30.38%) Mentoring
9 23 (29.11%) GitLab
9 23 (29.11%) Test Automation
10 19 (24.05%) Azure
10 19 (24.05%) Coaching
10 19 (24.05%) Continuous Integration
11 18 (22.78%) Git
12 17 (21.52%) Microservices
13 16 (20.25%) Jenkins
13 16 (20.25%) Security Cleared
14 15 (18.99%) Docker
14 15 (18.99%) Kubernetes
15 14 (17.72%) SC Cleared
16 13 (16.46%) Ansible
16 13 (16.46%) Containerisation
16 13 (16.46%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 12 (15.19%) Python
17 12 (15.19%) Scrum
17 12 (15.19%) Unix
17 12 (15.19%) Windows
18 11 (13.92%) GitHub
18 11 (13.92%) Technical Leadership

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 2 (2.53%) nginx
2 1 (1.27%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 40 (50.63%) AWS
2 19 (24.05%) Azure
3 11 (13.92%) GitHub
4 9 (11.39%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (8.86%) Amazon EC2
5 7 (8.86%) Azure AKS
5 7 (8.86%) Azure Service Bus
5 7 (8.86%) GCP
6 5 (6.33%) Amazon S3
6 5 (6.33%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (5.06%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (3.80%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (3.80%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (3.80%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (3.80%) Serverless
9 2 (2.53%) Amazon ECR
9 2 (2.53%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (2.53%) AWS KMS
9 2 (2.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (2.53%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.33%) Internet
2 2 (2.53%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (8.86%) MongoDB
1 7 (8.86%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (2.53%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.27%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 23 (29.11%) GitLab
2 18 (22.78%) Git
3 16 (20.25%) Jenkins
4 7 (8.86%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 4 (5.06%) JIRA
6 3 (3.80%) Artifactory
6 3 (3.80%) Cucumber
6 3 (3.80%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.27%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 31 (39.24%) Public Sector
2 12 (15.19%) Social Skills
3 9 (11.39%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.53%) Banking
5 1 (1.27%) Finance
5 1 (1.27%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (32.91%) Terraform
2 7 (8.86%) Node.js
3 3 (3.80%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (3.80%) JSON
3 3 (3.80%) RabbitMQ
3 3 (3.80%) REST
3 3 (3.80%) YAML
4 2 (2.53%) Kafka
4 2 (2.53%) Web Services
5 1 (1.27%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 14 (17.72%) Cloud Native
2 6 (7.59%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (3.80%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.53%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 29 (36.71%) Linux
2 12 (15.19%) Unix
2 12 (15.19%) Windows
3 7 (8.86%) CentOS
3 7 (8.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (100.00%) DevOps
2 41 (51.90%) CI/CD
3 28 (35.44%) Infrastructure as Code
4 25 (31.65%) Agile
4 25 (31.65%) Platform Engineering
5 24 (30.38%) Mentoring
6 23 (29.11%) Test Automation
7 19 (24.05%) Coaching
7 19 (24.05%) Continuous Integration
8 17 (21.52%) Microservices
9 13 (16.46%) Containerisation
9 13 (16.46%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 12 (15.19%) Scrum
11 11 (13.92%) Technical Leadership
12 10 (12.66%) Deployment Automation
13 9 (11.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 7 (8.86%) Problem-Solving
15 6 (7.59%) Cloud Operations
15 6 (7.59%) DevSecOps
15 6 (7.59%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 12 (15.19%) Python
2 10 (12.66%) Java
3 5 (6.33%) Groovy
3 5 (6.33%) Shell Script
4 4 (5.06%) Bash
5 1 (1.27%) Bicep
5 1 (1.27%) Perl
5 1 (1.27%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 16 (20.25%) Security Cleared
2 14 (17.72%) SC Cleared
3 7 (8.86%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.06%) QA
System Software
1 15 (18.99%) Docker
2 1 (1.27%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 15 (18.99%) Kubernetes
2 13 (16.46%) Ansible
3 7 (8.86%) Argo
4 3 (3.80%) Packer
5 2 (2.53%) Grafana
5 2 (2.53%) Progress Chef
5 2 (2.53%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.27%) Istio
Vendors
1 10 (12.66%) Pega
2 6 (7.59%) Microsoft
3 5 (6.33%) Google
4 3 (3.80%) AppDynamics
4 3 (3.80%) IBM
5 2 (2.53%) Databricks