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 9 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 26 27
Rank change year-on-year -9 +1 -9
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 268 198 386
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 4.36% 8.05% 6.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.23% 8.54% 8.26%
Number of salaries quoted 180 151 310
10th Percentile £42,500 £37,716 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,938 £47,231 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £68,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% +13.33% -2.44%
75th Percentile £82,500 £92,842 £73,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £98,474 £87,500
England median annual salary £70,932 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +1.33% +7.69% -7.14%

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 4,302 2,318 4,672
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 70.07% 94.19% 82.94%
Number of salaries quoted 2,784 1,280 3,720
10th Percentile £29,625 £25,975 £27,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £31,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £48,507 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.08% -2.99% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £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 9 May 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 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 -6 219 £70,000 -11.18% 50
South Yorkshire -27 30 £80,000 +72.97% 19
North Yorkshire -7 6 £72,500 +3.57% 4
East Yorkshire -34 6 £46,250 +2.78% 4
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 7 (2.61%) Moodle
2 5 (1.87%) Confluence
2 5 (1.87%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.12%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.75%) IIS
4 2 (0.75%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.37%) Apache
Applications
1 7 (2.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.87%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 13 (4.85%) SAP ERP
2 3 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.12%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (1.12%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.37%) Magento
3 1 (0.37%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 139 (51.87%) AWS
2 113 (42.16%) Azure
3 94 (35.07%) Serverless
4 82 (30.60%) Amazon S3
4 82 (30.60%) AWS Lambda
5 70 (26.12%) AWS CloudFormation
6 67 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
7 65 (24.25%) AWS Step Functions
8 52 (19.40%) GitHub
9 49 (18.28%) Azure DevOps
10 38 (14.18%) GitHub Actions
11 36 (13.43%) Amazon ECR
11 36 (13.43%) Apigee
12 33 (12.31%) Amazon SQS
13 32 (11.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 29 (10.82%) GCP
15 22 (8.21%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 17 (6.34%) Amazon EKS
17 15 (5.60%) Azure Data Factory
17 15 (5.60%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.24%) Firewall
1 6 (2.24%) HTTP
2 5 (1.87%) DNS
3 4 (1.49%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.75%) Network Security
5 1 (0.37%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (27.99%) DynamoDB
2 34 (12.69%) NoSQL
3 22 (8.21%) Amazon Athena
4 21 (7.84%) PostgreSQL
5 19 (7.09%) SQL Server
6 16 (5.97%) Spark SQL
7 14 (5.22%) Data Warehouse
8 8 (2.99%) MongoDB
8 8 (2.99%) Power BI
9 7 (2.61%) Metadata
10 5 (1.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (1.49%) Relational Database
12 3 (1.12%) Power Query
13 2 (0.75%) Azure SQL Database
14 1 (0.37%) BigQuery
14 1 (0.37%) Data Lake
14 1 (0.37%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
14 1 (0.37%) MySQL
14 1 (0.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 1 (0.37%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 68 (25.37%) Jenkins
2 58 (21.64%) GitLab
3 40 (14.93%) SonarQube
4 39 (14.55%) Git
5 36 (13.43%) Cypress.io
5 36 (13.43%) Maven
6 23 (8.58%) JIRA
7 4 (1.49%) Selenium
8 3 (1.12%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.12%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.12%) JUnit
9 2 (0.75%) Postman
9 2 (0.75%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.37%) JMeter
10 1 (0.37%) LoadRunner
10 1 (0.37%) PHPUnit
General
1 76 (28.36%) Social Skills
2 26 (9.70%) Finance
3 20 (7.46%) Public Sector
4 18 (6.72%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (5.60%) Retail
6 7 (2.61%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (1.49%) Law
7 4 (1.49%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.12%) Marketing
9 2 (0.75%) Advertising
9 2 (0.75%) Billing
9 2 (0.75%) Games
9 2 (0.75%) Health Technology
9 2 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.37%) Back Office
10 1 (0.37%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 87 (32.46%) Developer
2 55 (20.52%) Java Developer
3 51 (19.03%) Lead
3 51 (19.03%) Senior
4 44 (16.42%) DevOps Engineer
5 23 (8.58%) Data Engineer
6 22 (8.21%) AWS Developer
7 17 (6.34%) Lead Data Engineer
7 17 (6.34%) Platform Engineer
8 15 (5.60%) Cloud Engineer
9 14 (5.22%) Senior Developer
9 14 (5.22%) Senior DevOps
9 14 (5.22%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 14 (5.22%) Software Engineer
10 12 (4.48%) .NET Developer
10 12 (4.48%) Full-Stack Developer
11 11 (4.10%) Lead DevOps
11 11 (4.10%) Lead DevOps Engineer
12 10 (3.73%) Azure Engineer
12 10 (3.73%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (22.76%) AngularJS
2 48 (17.91%) Spring Boot
3 37 (13.81%) Jest
3 37 (13.81%) Node.js
4 36 (13.43%) Gherkin
5 33 (12.31%) React
6 21 (7.84%) .NET
6 21 (7.84%) PySpark
6 21 (7.84%) RESTful
6 21 (7.84%) Spring
7 19 (7.09%) REST
8 14 (5.22%) ASP.NET
8 14 (5.22%) Elastic Stack
9 12 (4.48%) .NET Core
10 11 (4.10%) ASP.NET Core
10 11 (4.10%) Blazor
11 10 (3.73%) AWS CDK
12 8 (2.99%) ARM Templates
12 8 (2.99%) CSS
12 8 (2.99%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 31 (11.57%) Cloud Native
2 14 (5.22%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (3.36%) NHS
4 7 (2.61%) e-Learning
5 6 (2.24%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.49%) Product Ownership
6 4 (1.49%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.49%) SCADA
7 3 (1.12%) CMDB
7 3 (1.12%) Driving Licence
7 3 (1.12%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.12%) Social Media
8 2 (0.75%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.75%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (0.75%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (0.75%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.75%) Mobile App
8 2 (0.75%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.60%) Linux
1 15 (5.60%) Windows
2 7 (2.61%) Unix
3 5 (1.87%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.37%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 173 (64.55%) CI/CD
2 110 (41.04%) Agile
3 56 (20.90%) Infrastructure as Code
4 46 (17.16%) Microservices
5 43 (16.04%) Mentoring
6 41 (15.30%) Continuous Improvement
6 41 (15.30%) Problem-Solving
7 38 (14.18%) ITIL
8 37 (13.81%) Stakeholder Management
9 36 (13.43%) Containerisation
10 35 (13.06%) Continuous Integration
11 31 (11.57%) SDLC
11 31 (11.57%) Test Automation
12 29 (10.82%) Observability
12 29 (10.82%) Platform Engineering
13 28 (10.45%) Data Engineering
13 28 (10.45%) Secure Coding
14 27 (10.07%) Full-Stack Development
14 27 (10.07%) Scrum
15 25 (9.33%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 77 (28.73%) Java
2 73 (27.24%) SQL
3 62 (23.13%) TypeScript
4 47 (17.54%) Bash
5 46 (17.16%) Python
6 40 (14.93%) Groovy
7 21 (7.84%) JavaScript
7 21 (7.84%) Kotlin
8 10 (3.73%) C#
9 9 (3.36%) PowerShell
10 7 (2.61%) Go
11 6 (2.24%) T-SQL
12 3 (1.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.75%) Bicep
13 2 (0.75%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.37%) Perl
14 1 (0.37%) PHP
14 1 (0.37%) R
14 1 (0.37%) Scala
Qualifications
1 39 (14.55%) AWS Certification
2 27 (10.07%) Degree
3 23 (8.58%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 23 (8.58%) ITIL Certification
4 19 (7.09%) Security Cleared
5 14 (5.22%) AWS Certified Developer
6 13 (4.85%) SC Cleared
7 12 (4.48%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.87%) PMI Certification
8 5 (1.87%) PMP
9 2 (0.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 2 (0.75%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.75%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (0.75%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.37%) CBAP
10 1 (0.37%) IIBA
10 1 (0.37%) MCITP
10 1 (0.37%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (9.70%) QA
2 14 (5.22%) GDPR
3 8 (2.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (2.99%) PCI DSS
4 6 (2.24%) Data Quality
4 6 (2.24%) GRC
5 4 (1.49%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.75%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.37%) NIST
System Software
1 86 (32.09%) Docker
2 3 (1.12%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 3 (1.12%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 62 (23.13%) Terraform
2 37 (13.81%) HP Fortify
3 25 (9.33%) Kubernetes
4 15 (5.60%) Ansible
5 10 (3.73%) Argo
6 9 (3.36%) Grafana
6 9 (3.36%) Prometheus
7 3 (1.12%) Packer
8 2 (0.75%) Kibana
9 1 (0.37%) Istio
9 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.37%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 35 (13.06%) Microsoft
2 21 (7.84%) Databricks
3 16 (5.97%) SAP
4 9 (3.36%) ServiceNow
5 7 (2.61%) Google
6 6 (2.24%) IBM
7 5 (1.87%) AppDynamics
7 5 (1.87%) Oracle
8 3 (1.12%) IFS
8 3 (1.12%) Sparx
9 2 (0.75%) Adobe
9 2 (0.75%) Qualys
10 1 (0.37%) Apple
10 1 (0.37%) F5
10 1 (0.37%) Facebook
10 1 (0.37%) Foundry
10 1 (0.37%) Informatica
10 1 (0.37%) Sony
10 1 (0.37%) VMware
10 1 (0.37%) Yahoo!