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 14 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 42 29
Rank change year-on-year +15 -13 -15
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 296 169 305
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 4.03% 4.74% 5.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.04% 5.33% 7.29%
Number of salaries quoted 211 136 242
10th Percentile £46,000 £37,125 £41,375
25th Percentile £53,750 £48,156 £47,231
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £63,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.80% +6.25% -1.93%
75th Percentile £82,500 £75,000 £75,938
90th Percentile £97,500 £82,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £70,400 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +0.57% +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 4,900 3,173 4,186
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 66.76% 88.95% 79.21%
Number of salaries quoted 3,537 1,532 2,535
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £29,638
25th Percentile £40,000 £30,625 £38,890
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -8.26%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,922 £80,000 £77,500
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 14 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 14 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 +8 209 £72,500 +11.54% 61
South Yorkshire -7 61 £69,310 +38.62% 31
North Yorkshire 0 12 £62,500 -10.71% 12
East Yorkshire -18 7 £47,000 +12.57% 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 6 (2.03%) Confluence
2 5 (1.69%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.35%) Moodle
3 4 (1.35%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.01%) Apache
4 3 (1.01%) CMS
4 3 (1.01%) IIS
5 2 (0.68%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 7 (2.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.69%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (1.35%) Shopify
2 3 (1.01%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.68%) Sage 200
4 1 (0.34%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 117 (39.53%) AWS
2 115 (38.85%) Azure
3 70 (23.65%) Serverless
4 65 (21.96%) Azure DevOps
5 56 (18.92%) AWS Lambda
6 53 (17.91%) AWS CloudFormation
7 51 (17.23%) Amazon ECS
7 51 (17.23%) Amazon S3
8 47 (15.88%) GitHub
9 37 (12.50%) AWS Step Functions
10 32 (10.81%) GitHub Actions
11 28 (9.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 24 (8.11%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 21 (7.09%) Azure Data Factory
13 21 (7.09%) GCP
13 21 (7.09%) Power Platform
14 15 (5.07%) Amazon ECR
14 15 (5.07%) Amazon SQS
14 15 (5.07%) Apigee
14 15 (5.07%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.35%) HTTP
1 4 (1.35%) Internet
2 3 (1.01%) Firewall
3 2 (0.68%) BGP
3 2 (0.68%) DNS
3 2 (0.68%) Ethernet VPN
3 2 (0.68%) NGFW
3 2 (0.68%) OSPF
3 2 (0.68%) VXLAN
4 1 (0.34%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.34%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (13.85%) DynamoDB
2 22 (7.43%) Amazon Athena
2 22 (7.43%) NoSQL
3 21 (7.09%) MongoDB
4 19 (6.42%) Data Warehouse
5 17 (5.74%) Spark SQL
6 14 (4.73%) SQL Server
7 12 (4.05%) Power BI
8 11 (3.72%) Azure SQL Database
9 9 (3.04%) PostgreSQL
10 8 (2.70%) Relational Database
11 5 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (1.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 4 (1.35%) Metadata
13 3 (1.01%) BigQuery
13 3 (1.01%) Data Lake
13 3 (1.01%) Power Query
13 3 (1.01%) Redis
13 3 (1.01%) Star Schema
14 2 (0.68%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 50 (16.89%) Jenkins
2 46 (15.54%) Git
3 39 (13.18%) GitLab
4 24 (8.11%) JIRA
5 18 (6.08%) Cypress.io
5 18 (6.08%) SonarQube
6 16 (5.41%) Maven
7 6 (2.03%) Visual Studio
8 5 (1.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (1.01%) Artifactory
9 3 (1.01%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.68%) JUnit
10 2 (0.68%) Postman
10 2 (0.68%) Selenium
11 1 (0.34%) PHPUnit
11 1 (0.34%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 63 (21.28%) Social Skills
2 39 (13.18%) Public Sector
3 30 (10.14%) Finance
4 15 (5.07%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (2.36%) Legal
6 6 (2.03%) Local Government
7 5 (1.69%) Law
7 5 (1.69%) Retail
8 4 (1.35%) Banking
8 4 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.01%) Tech for Good
10 2 (0.68%) Advertising
10 2 (0.68%) Billing
10 2 (0.68%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.34%) Electronics
11 1 (0.34%) Games
11 1 (0.34%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 89 (30.07%) Developer
2 70 (23.65%) Senior
3 62 (20.95%) DevOps Engineer
4 45 (15.20%) Lead
5 44 (14.86%) Java Developer
6 29 (9.80%) Cloud Engineer
7 28 (9.46%) Data Engineer
8 26 (8.78%) Senior DevOps
8 26 (8.78%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 25 (8.45%) Platform Engineer
10 20 (6.76%) AWS Developer
11 18 (6.08%) Lead Data Engineer
12 17 (5.74%) Azure Engineer
12 17 (5.74%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 17 (5.74%) Full-Stack Developer
13 16 (5.41%) .NET Developer
14 13 (4.39%) Software Engineer
15 11 (3.72%) Azure Platform Engineer
15 11 (3.72%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
15 11 (3.72%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (14.53%) AngularJS
2 38 (12.84%) .NET
3 36 (12.16%) React
4 35 (11.82%) Node.js
5 30 (10.14%) Spring Boot
6 23 (7.77%) REST
7 21 (7.09%) RESTful
8 20 (6.76%) ASP.NET
9 18 (6.08%) Jest
9 18 (6.08%) PySpark
10 17 (5.74%) ASP.NET Core
10 17 (5.74%) Spring
11 15 (5.07%) .NET Core
11 15 (5.07%) CSS
11 15 (5.07%) Gherkin
12 13 (4.39%) Blazor
12 13 (4.39%) ML.NET
13 12 (4.05%) HTML
14 11 (3.72%) ARM Templates
15 7 (2.36%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 26 (8.78%) Cloud Native
2 11 (3.72%) NHS
3 9 (3.04%) Product Ownership
4 7 (2.36%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (2.36%) Mobile App
5 6 (2.03%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (2.03%) Legacy Applications
6 5 (1.69%) BBC
6 5 (1.69%) Blog
6 5 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (1.69%) Linux Command Line
6 5 (1.69%) Public Cloud
6 5 (1.69%) Social Media
7 4 (1.35%) e-Learning
7 4 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.35%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (1.35%) iPhone
7 4 (1.35%) Low-Code
8 3 (1.01%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.01%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 26 (8.78%) Linux
2 15 (5.07%) Windows
3 12 (4.05%) Unix
4 5 (1.69%) CentOS
4 5 (1.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.35%) Android
6 3 (1.01%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 165 (55.74%) CI/CD
2 111 (37.50%) Agile
3 63 (21.28%) Infrastructure as Code
4 49 (16.55%) Mentoring
5 45 (15.20%) Test Automation
6 44 (14.86%) Scrum
7 40 (13.51%) Continuous Improvement
8 38 (12.84%) Full-Stack Development
8 38 (12.84%) Microservices
9 36 (12.16%) Platform Engineering
10 34 (11.49%) Problem-Solving
11 32 (10.81%) Coaching
11 32 (10.81%) Continuous Integration
12 28 (9.46%) Containerisation
12 28 (9.46%) Software Engineering
13 27 (9.12%) SDLC
14 26 (8.78%) Data Engineering
14 26 (8.78%) ITIL
15 25 (8.45%) AI
15 25 (8.45%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 77 (26.01%) SQL
2 61 (20.61%) Java
3 52 (17.57%) Python
4 41 (13.85%) C#
5 40 (13.51%) TypeScript
6 34 (11.49%) JavaScript
7 26 (8.78%) Bash
8 23 (7.77%) Kotlin
9 22 (7.43%) Groovy
10 6 (2.03%) PowerShell
10 6 (2.03%) T-SQL
11 5 (1.69%) Bicep
11 5 (1.69%) VB.NET
12 3 (1.01%) C
12 3 (1.01%) C++
12 3 (1.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (1.01%) Ruby
13 2 (0.68%) Dart
13 2 (0.68%) Go
13 2 (0.68%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 29 (9.80%) Degree
1 29 (9.80%) Security Cleared
2 26 (8.78%) SC Cleared
3 18 (6.08%) Computer Science Degree
4 17 (5.74%) AWS Certification
5 14 (4.73%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 14 (4.73%) ITIL Certification
6 5 (1.69%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.69%) PMI Certification
6 5 (1.69%) PMP
7 2 (0.68%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 2 (0.68%) ISTQB
7 2 (0.68%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 2 (0.68%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.34%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.34%) CBAP
8 1 (0.34%) CSPO
8 1 (0.34%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.34%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.41%) QA
2 12 (4.05%) GDPR
3 9 (3.04%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.69%) GRC
5 3 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.68%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.68%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.34%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.34%) WCAG
System Software
1 65 (21.96%) Docker
2 3 (1.01%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.34%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.34%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 60 (20.27%) Terraform
2 27 (9.12%) Kubernetes
3 15 (5.07%) HP Fortify
4 11 (3.72%) Ansible
5 9 (3.04%) Argo
6 3 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (1.01%) Packer
6 3 (1.01%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.68%) Kibana
8 1 (0.34%) Istio
Vendors
1 49 (16.55%) Microsoft
2 23 (7.77%) Databricks
3 11 (3.72%) Google
4 10 (3.38%) Pega
5 7 (2.36%) ServiceNow
6 5 (1.69%) AppDynamics
6 5 (1.69%) Apple
6 5 (1.69%) Facebook
6 5 (1.69%) IBM
6 5 (1.69%) Sony
6 5 (1.69%) Yahoo!
7 3 (1.01%) SAP
8 2 (0.68%) Arista
8 2 (0.68%) Cisco
8 2 (0.68%) F5
8 2 (0.68%) Informatica
8 2 (0.68%) Oracle
8 2 (0.68%) Palo Alto
8 2 (0.68%) Sage
8 2 (0.68%) Sophos