DevOps Engineer Job Trends in Yorkshire

Development Operations Engineer
England > Yorkshire

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in Yorkshire is £69,310 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 May 2026.

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

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 127 164
Rank change year-on-year -24 +37 -29
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 44 16 59
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 0.72% 0.65% 1.05%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.76% 0.70% 1.10%
Number of salaries quoted 39 13 50
10th Percentile £48,000 £47,950 £43,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £48,250 £48,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,310 £70,000 £68,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +2.94% +4.62%
75th Percentile £82,500 £76,840 £72,433
90th Percentile £90,000 - £76,250
England median annual salary £70,000 £80,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% +14.29% -6.67%

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 5,753 2,298 5,362
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.70% 93.38% 95.19%
Number of salaries quoted 3,715 1,277 4,278
10th Percentile £29,350 £26,250 £27,000
25th Percentile £36,125 £32,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £49,500
Median % change year-on-year - +1.01% -9.57%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £59,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year -7.56% +10.19% -11.18%

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 9 May 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 9 May 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 -24 33 £80,000 +15.94% 7
South Yorkshire -19 7 £69,310 -0.99% 4
East Yorkshire - 4 £48,750 -
DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 9 May 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 44 (100.00%) DevOps
2 27 (61.36%) CI/CD
3 25 (56.82%) Terraform
4 23 (52.27%) AWS
5 22 (50.00%) Azure
6 19 (43.18%) Infrastructure as Code
7 16 (36.36%) Agile
7 16 (36.36%) GitLab
8 14 (31.82%) Python
9 13 (29.55%) Azure DevOps
9 13 (29.55%) Continuous Integration
9 13 (29.55%) Kubernetes
10 12 (27.27%) Ansible
10 12 (27.27%) Containerisation
10 12 (27.27%) GCP
10 12 (27.27%) Jenkins
11 11 (25.00%) Linux
11 11 (25.00%) Test Automation
12 10 (22.73%) Java
12 10 (22.73%) Microservices
13 9 (20.45%) Docker
13 9 (20.45%) Grafana
13 9 (20.45%) Prometheus
13 9 (20.45%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 8 (18.18%) Coaching
14 8 (18.18%) GitHub
14 8 (18.18%) Mentoring
14 8 (18.18%) Windows
15 7 (15.91%) Argo
15 7 (15.91%) Azure AKS

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 (2.27%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 23 (52.27%) AWS
2 22 (50.00%) Azure
3 13 (29.55%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (27.27%) GCP
5 8 (18.18%) GitHub
6 7 (15.91%) Azure AKS
6 7 (15.91%) Azure Service Bus
6 7 (15.91%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (6.82%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (6.82%) Amazon S3
8 3 (6.82%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (6.82%) Serverless
9 2 (4.55%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (2.27%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (2.27%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 5 (11.36%) Firewall
2 4 (9.09%) DNS
2 4 (9.09%) HTTP
2 4 (9.09%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (15.91%) MongoDB
1 7 (15.91%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.27%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (36.36%) GitLab
2 12 (27.27%) Jenkins
3 4 (9.09%) Git
4 3 (6.82%) Artifactory
4 3 (6.82%) Cucumber
4 3 (6.82%) JIRA
4 3 (6.82%) SonarQube
General
1 8 (18.18%) Public Sector
2 4 (9.09%) Law
2 4 (9.09%) Telecoms
3 3 (6.82%) Social Skills
4 2 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.27%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (15.91%) Elastic Stack
1 7 (15.91%) Node.js
2 3 (6.82%) JSON
2 3 (6.82%) RabbitMQ
2 3 (6.82%) REST
2 3 (6.82%) YAML
3 1 (2.27%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (18.18%) Cloud Native
2 5 (11.36%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (4.55%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.27%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 11 (25.00%) Linux
2 8 (18.18%) Windows
3 7 (15.91%) Unix
4 1 (2.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (100.00%) DevOps
2 27 (61.36%) CI/CD
3 19 (43.18%) Infrastructure as Code
4 16 (36.36%) Agile
5 13 (29.55%) Continuous Integration
6 12 (27.27%) Containerisation
7 11 (25.00%) Test Automation
8 10 (22.73%) Microservices
9 9 (20.45%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 8 (18.18%) Coaching
10 8 (18.18%) Mentoring
11 7 (15.91%) Scrum
12 5 (11.36%) Incident Response
12 5 (11.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 5 (11.36%) Line Management
12 5 (11.36%) Observability
12 5 (11.36%) Performance Optimisation
13 4 (9.09%) DevSecOps
13 4 (9.09%) Platform Engineering
13 4 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 14 (31.82%) Python
2 10 (22.73%) Java
3 7 (15.91%) Bash
4 6 (13.64%) Go
5 4 (9.09%) Groovy
6 3 (6.82%) PowerShell
7 2 (4.55%) JavaScript
8 1 (2.27%) Perl
Qualifications
1 3 (6.82%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.55%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.82%) QA
System Software
1 9 (20.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 25 (56.82%) Terraform
2 13 (29.55%) Kubernetes
3 12 (27.27%) Ansible
4 9 (20.45%) Grafana
4 9 (20.45%) Prometheus
5 7 (15.91%) Argo
6 3 (6.82%) Packer
7 1 (2.27%) Istio
7 1 (2.27%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 3 (6.82%) AppDynamics
1 3 (6.82%) IBM
2 2 (4.55%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.27%) Duck Creek
3 1 (2.27%) F5
3 1 (2.27%) VMware