DevOps Job Trends in Yorkshire

DevOps
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring DevOps skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 43 26
Rank change year-on-year +13 -17 -12
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 291 170 328
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 4.06% 4.79% 6.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.04% 5.37% 8.13%
Number of salaries quoted 212 137 254
10th Percentile £47,500 £37,200 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% -0.41%
75th Percentile £82,813 £77,000 £74,721
90th Percentile £100,000 £84,150 £87,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year - +3.70% -3.57%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Yorkshire

DevOps falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,818 3,168 4,036
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 67.23% 89.24% 78.46%
Number of salaries quoted 3,466 1,535 2,624
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,000 £38,890
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -8.41%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,922 £80,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -12.00%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing DevOps relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

DevOps job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

DevOps
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing DevOps.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing DevOps

DevOps
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 4 August 2026.

Salary histogram for DevOps in Yorkshire

DevOps
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 within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 4 August 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 +7 210 £70,000 +3.70% 71
South Yorkshire -13 62 £69,310 +38.62% 28
North Yorkshire +3 12 £62,500 -10.71% 11
East Yorkshire -20 4 £47,000 +14.63% 7
DevOps
England

DevOps
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 6 (2.06%) Confluence
2 4 (1.37%) Apache Spark
2 4 (1.37%) Moodle
2 4 (1.37%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.03%) CMS
3 3 (1.03%) IIS
4 2 (0.69%) Apache
4 2 (0.69%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 7 (2.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.72%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (1.37%) Shopify
2 3 (1.03%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.34%) Magento
3 1 (0.34%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 114 (39.18%) Azure
2 111 (38.14%) AWS
3 66 (22.68%) Serverless
4 64 (21.99%) Azure DevOps
5 51 (17.53%) AWS Lambda
6 49 (16.84%) Amazon ECS
6 49 (16.84%) Amazon S3
7 46 (15.81%) AWS CloudFormation
8 44 (15.12%) GitHub
9 36 (12.37%) AWS Step Functions
10 28 (9.62%) GitHub Actions
11 25 (8.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 22 (7.56%) GCP
13 21 (7.22%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 20 (6.87%) Azure Data Factory
14 20 (6.87%) Power Platform
15 17 (5.84%) Amazon ECR
15 17 (5.84%) Apigee
16 16 (5.50%) Amazon SQS
17 14 (4.81%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.37%) HTTP
1 4 (1.37%) Internet
2 3 (1.03%) Firewall
3 2 (0.69%) BGP
3 2 (0.69%) DNS
3 2 (0.69%) Ethernet VPN
3 2 (0.69%) NGFW
3 2 (0.69%) OSPF
3 2 (0.69%) VXLAN
4 1 (0.34%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (13.75%) DynamoDB
2 21 (7.22%) Amazon Athena
2 21 (7.22%) MongoDB
2 21 (7.22%) NoSQL
3 18 (6.19%) Data Warehouse
4 17 (5.84%) Spark SQL
5 12 (4.12%) Power BI
6 11 (3.78%) Azure SQL Database
6 11 (3.78%) SQL Server
7 9 (3.09%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (1.72%) Relational Database
8 5 (1.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (1.37%) Metadata
10 3 (1.03%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (1.03%) BigQuery
10 3 (1.03%) Power Query
10 3 (1.03%) Redis
10 3 (1.03%) Star Schema
11 2 (0.69%) MySQL
11 2 (0.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 51 (17.53%) Jenkins
2 43 (14.78%) Git
3 41 (14.09%) GitLab
4 25 (8.59%) JIRA
5 20 (6.87%) Cypress.io
5 20 (6.87%) SonarQube
6 18 (6.19%) Maven
7 6 (2.06%) Visual Studio
8 5 (1.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (1.03%) Artifactory
9 3 (1.03%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.69%) JUnit
10 2 (0.69%) Postman
10 2 (0.69%) Selenium
11 1 (0.34%) PHPUnit
11 1 (0.34%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 62 (21.31%) Social Skills
2 35 (12.03%) Public Sector
3 25 (8.59%) Finance
4 14 (4.81%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (2.06%) Retail
6 4 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (1.37%) Legal
7 3 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (1.03%) Law
7 3 (1.03%) Local Government
7 3 (1.03%) Tech for Good
8 2 (0.69%) Advertising
8 2 (0.69%) Banking
8 2 (0.69%) Billing
8 2 (0.69%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.34%) Electronics
9 1 (0.34%) Games
9 1 (0.34%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.34%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 86 (29.55%) Developer
2 68 (23.37%) Senior
3 62 (21.31%) DevOps Engineer
4 45 (15.46%) Lead
5 43 (14.78%) Java Developer
6 27 (9.28%) Cloud Engineer
7 26 (8.93%) Data Engineer
7 26 (8.93%) Senior DevOps
7 26 (8.93%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 24 (8.25%) Platform Engineer
9 18 (6.19%) AWS Developer
10 17 (5.84%) Lead Data Engineer
11 16 (5.50%) Azure Engineer
11 16 (5.50%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 16 (5.50%) Full-Stack Developer
12 15 (5.15%) .NET Developer
13 13 (4.47%) Lead Cloud Engineer
14 12 (4.12%) Software Engineer
15 11 (3.78%) Azure Platform Engineer
15 11 (3.78%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (14.09%) AngularJS
2 35 (12.03%) React
3 34 (11.68%) .NET
4 33 (11.34%) Node.js
5 31 (10.65%) Spring Boot
6 22 (7.56%) REST
7 21 (7.22%) RESTful
8 20 (6.87%) Jest
9 19 (6.53%) ASP.NET
10 18 (6.19%) PySpark
11 17 (5.84%) ASP.NET Core
11 17 (5.84%) Gherkin
12 16 (5.50%) Spring
13 13 (4.47%) Blazor
13 13 (4.47%) ML.NET
14 12 (4.12%) .NET Core
14 12 (4.12%) CSS
15 11 (3.78%) ARM Templates
15 11 (3.78%) HTML
16 8 (2.75%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 24 (8.25%) Cloud Native
2 8 (2.75%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (2.75%) NHS
2 8 (2.75%) Product Ownership
3 6 (2.06%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (1.72%) BBC
4 5 (1.72%) Legacy Applications
4 5 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (1.72%) Mobile App
4 5 (1.72%) Social Media
5 4 (1.37%) e-Learning
5 4 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (1.37%) iPhone
5 4 (1.37%) Public Cloud
6 3 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (1.03%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.03%) Learning Management System
6 3 (1.03%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (1.03%) Low-Code
6 3 (1.03%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 26 (8.93%) Linux
2 16 (5.50%) Windows
3 12 (4.12%) Unix
4 5 (1.72%) CentOS
4 5 (1.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.37%) Android
5 4 (1.37%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (53.95%) CI/CD
2 106 (36.43%) Agile
3 56 (19.24%) Infrastructure as Code
4 47 (16.15%) Mentoring
5 45 (15.46%) Test Automation
6 41 (14.09%) Scrum
7 40 (13.75%) Continuous Improvement
8 38 (13.06%) Full-Stack Development
9 35 (12.03%) Microservices
9 35 (12.03%) Platform Engineering
10 33 (11.34%) Problem-Solving
11 31 (10.65%) Continuous Integration
12 28 (9.62%) Coaching
12 28 (9.62%) ITIL
13 27 (9.28%) SDLC
13 27 (9.28%) Stakeholder Management
14 26 (8.93%) AI
14 26 (8.93%) Containerisation
14 26 (8.93%) Data Engineering
15 25 (8.59%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 72 (24.74%) SQL
2 58 (19.93%) Java
3 48 (16.49%) Python
4 39 (13.40%) TypeScript
5 37 (12.71%) C#
6 35 (12.03%) JavaScript
7 27 (9.28%) Bash
8 23 (7.90%) Groovy
9 20 (6.87%) Kotlin
10 6 (2.06%) PowerShell
11 5 (1.72%) T-SQL
12 4 (1.37%) Bicep
12 4 (1.37%) VB.NET
13 3 (1.03%) C++
13 3 (1.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (1.03%) Go
14 2 (0.69%) C
14 2 (0.69%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.34%) Perl
15 1 (0.34%) PHP
Qualifications
1 30 (10.31%) Degree
2 26 (8.93%) Security Cleared
3 23 (7.90%) SC Cleared
4 19 (6.53%) AWS Certification
5 18 (6.19%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (5.15%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 15 (5.15%) ITIL Certification
7 5 (1.72%) DV Cleared
7 5 (1.72%) PMI Certification
7 5 (1.72%) PMP
8 2 (0.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 2 (0.69%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.69%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (0.69%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.34%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.34%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.34%) CSPO
9 1 (0.34%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (5.84%) QA
2 12 (4.12%) GDPR
3 8 (2.75%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.72%) GRC
4 5 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.03%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.03%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.34%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.34%) WCAG
System Software
1 60 (20.62%) Docker
2 2 (0.69%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.34%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.34%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 54 (18.56%) Terraform
2 27 (9.28%) Kubernetes
3 17 (5.84%) HP Fortify
4 11 (3.78%) Ansible
5 10 (3.44%) Argo
6 3 (1.03%) Packer
7 2 (0.69%) Kibana
7 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.69%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.34%) Istio
Vendors
1 49 (16.84%) Microsoft
2 22 (7.56%) Databricks
3 11 (3.78%) Google
4 10 (3.44%) Pega
5 9 (3.09%) ServiceNow
6 5 (1.72%) AppDynamics
6 5 (1.72%) Apple
6 5 (1.72%) Facebook
6 5 (1.72%) IBM
6 5 (1.72%) Sony
6 5 (1.72%) Yahoo!
7 3 (1.03%) SAP
8 2 (0.69%) Arista
8 2 (0.69%) F5
8 2 (0.69%) Informatica
8 2 (0.69%) Oracle
8 2 (0.69%) Palo Alto
8 2 (0.69%) Sophos
9 1 (0.34%) Automation Anywhere
9 1 (0.34%) WooCommerce