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 12 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 20 17
Rank change year-on-year -12 -3 -3
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 215 212 390
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 5.46% 8.53% 8.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.07% 9.30% 10.10%
Number of salaries quoted 149 134 328
10th Percentile £42,482 £42,500 £38,848
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £46,292
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £77,500 £93,778 £78,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £98,474 £91,934
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year - +3.70% -6.90%

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 3,039 2,280 3,861
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 77.11% 91.71% 86.88%
Number of salaries quoted 1,802 1,049 3,103
10th Percentile £28,000 £28,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,950 £37,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,445 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.72% +5.00% -8.90%
75th Percentile £67,313 £73,886 £66,778
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,645 £83,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -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 12 February 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 12 February 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 -2 182 £65,000 -7.14% 55
South Yorkshire -37 13 £62,966 +39.92% 27
East Yorkshire -28 9 £46,250 +2.78% 2
North Yorkshire -2 4 £60,000 +11.63% 6
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 8 (3.72%) Confluence
2 5 (2.33%) OpenStack
3 4 (1.86%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.86%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.86%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.40%) Moodle
5 2 (0.93%) Apache
5 2 (0.93%) IIS
6 1 (0.47%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.47%) CMS
6 1 (0.47%) FileNet
6 1 (0.47%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 3 (1.40%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 14 (6.51%) SAP ERP
2 4 (1.86%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (1.40%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.93%) Markit EDM
4 2 (0.93%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 127 (59.07%) AWS
2 99 (46.05%) Azure
3 75 (34.88%) Serverless
4 64 (29.77%) Amazon S3
5 62 (28.84%) AWS Lambda
6 59 (27.44%) AWS CloudFormation
7 51 (23.72%) AWS Step Functions
8 48 (22.33%) GitHub
9 47 (21.86%) Amazon ECS
10 40 (18.60%) Azure DevOps
11 32 (14.88%) GitHub Actions
12 29 (13.49%) Amazon SQS
13 26 (12.09%) Amazon ECR
13 26 (12.09%) Apigee
14 25 (11.63%) GCP
15 24 (11.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 17 (7.91%) SaaS
17 15 (6.98%) Amazon EKS
18 14 (6.51%) Amazon EventBridge
19 10 (4.65%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.65%) Firewall
2 6 (2.79%) DNS
2 6 (2.79%) Network Security
3 4 (1.86%) HTTP
3 4 (1.86%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.47%) Broadband
4 1 (0.47%) DHCP
4 1 (0.47%) LAN
4 1 (0.47%) VPN
4 1 (0.47%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (27.91%) DynamoDB
2 29 (13.49%) NoSQL
3 23 (10.70%) PostgreSQL
4 20 (9.30%) SQL Server
5 10 (4.65%) Amazon Athena
5 10 (4.65%) Relational Database
6 6 (2.79%) Metadata
7 5 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (2.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 4 (1.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (1.40%) Big Data
9 3 (1.40%) OLAP
10 2 (0.93%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (0.93%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (0.93%) Apache Iceberg
10 2 (0.93%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.93%) Data Vault
10 2 (0.93%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.93%) RDBMS
10 2 (0.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 50 (23.26%) Jenkins
2 38 (17.67%) GitLab
3 35 (16.28%) Git
4 29 (13.49%) SonarQube
5 26 (12.09%) Cypress.io
5 26 (12.09%) Maven
6 12 (5.58%) JIRA
7 4 (1.86%) Selenium
8 3 (1.40%) JMeter
8 3 (1.40%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.47%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.47%) JUnit
General
1 74 (34.42%) Social Skills
2 35 (16.28%) Finance
3 22 (10.23%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (6.51%) Retail
5 12 (5.58%) Financial Institution
6 11 (5.12%) Public Sector
7 6 (2.79%) Law
8 5 (2.33%) Marketing
9 4 (1.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.86%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.86%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.40%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.93%) Advertising
11 2 (0.93%) Games
12 1 (0.47%) Back Office
12 1 (0.47%) Legal
12 1 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 67 (31.16%) Developer
2 40 (18.60%) Java Developer
3 34 (15.81%) Senior
4 32 (14.88%) Lead
5 25 (11.63%) Software Engineer
6 22 (10.23%) DevOps Engineer
7 16 (7.44%) AWS Developer
8 15 (6.98%) Cloud Engineer
9 14 (6.51%) .NET Developer
10 10 (4.65%) Architect
11 9 (4.19%) QA Manager
11 9 (4.19%) Senior Developer
11 9 (4.19%) Senior Software Engineer
12 8 (3.72%) .NET Software Engineer
12 8 (3.72%) Data Engineer
12 8 (3.72%) Lead DevOps
12 8 (3.72%) Lead DevOps Engineer
13 7 (3.26%) Full-Stack Developer
13 7 (3.26%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 7 (3.26%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (22.33%) AngularJS
2 41 (19.07%) Spring Boot
3 31 (14.42%) Node.js
4 30 (13.95%) React
5 29 (13.49%) .NET
6 27 (12.56%) Spring
7 26 (12.09%) Gherkin
7 26 (12.09%) Jest
8 25 (11.63%) RESTful
9 18 (8.37%) ASP.NET
10 17 (7.91%) .NET Core
11 13 (6.05%) ASP.NET Core
11 13 (6.05%) AWS CDK
11 13 (6.05%) Blazor
12 12 (5.58%) Micronaut
13 10 (4.65%) Elastic Stack
14 9 (4.19%) Kafka
15 8 (3.72%) REST
16 7 (3.26%) CSS
16 7 (3.26%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 46 (21.40%) Cloud Native
2 14 (6.51%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (2.79%) Product Ownership
4 5 (2.33%) Analytical Mindset
4 5 (2.33%) Management Information System
5 4 (1.86%) CMDB
5 4 (1.86%) SCADA
5 4 (1.86%) Security Posture
6 3 (1.40%) Driving Licence
6 3 (1.40%) e-Learning
6 3 (1.40%) Enterprise Cloud
6 3 (1.40%) IoT
6 3 (1.40%) NHS
6 3 (1.40%) Operational Technology
6 3 (1.40%) Public Cloud
7 2 (0.93%) Cloud Security Posture
7 2 (0.93%) Data Structures
7 2 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (0.93%) Mobile App
7 2 (0.93%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 12 (5.58%) Windows
2 7 (3.26%) Linux
3 5 (2.33%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.47%) Android
4 1 (0.47%) Unix
4 1 (0.47%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (67.44%) CI/CD
2 99 (46.05%) Agile
3 62 (28.84%) Infrastructure as Code
4 47 (21.86%) Problem-Solving
5 42 (19.53%) Mentoring
6 41 (19.07%) Software Engineering
7 38 (17.67%) Microservices
8 36 (16.74%) Continuous Improvement
9 33 (15.35%) Containerisation
10 29 (13.49%) Stakeholder Management
11 27 (12.56%) SDLC
12 23 (10.70%) Continuous Integration
12 23 (10.70%) Full-Stack Development
12 23 (10.70%) Observability
13 22 (10.23%) ITIL
13 22 (10.23%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 19 (8.84%) Secure Coding
15 18 (8.37%) Data Modelling
15 18 (8.37%) Waterfall
16 17 (7.91%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 69 (32.09%) Java
2 65 (30.23%) SQL
3 52 (24.19%) TypeScript
4 38 (17.67%) Python
5 37 (17.21%) Bash
6 26 (12.09%) Groovy
6 26 (12.09%) JavaScript
7 15 (6.98%) C#
8 12 (5.58%) PowerShell
9 10 (4.65%) Kotlin
10 7 (3.26%) Go
11 5 (2.33%) Bicep
11 5 (2.33%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.93%) R
13 1 (0.47%) Scala
Qualifications
1 34 (15.81%) AWS Certification
2 17 (7.91%) AWS Certified Developer
3 14 (6.51%) Degree
4 13 (6.05%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 13 (6.05%) ITIL Certification
5 8 (3.72%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (3.26%) Security Cleared
7 4 (1.86%) SC Cleared
8 2 (0.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.93%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.47%) MCITP
9 1 (0.47%) MCSE
9 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (9.30%) QA
2 10 (4.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (3.72%) PCI DSS
4 6 (2.79%) GDPR
5 4 (1.86%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.40%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.93%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.93%) GRC
7 2 (0.93%) NCSC
7 2 (0.93%) NIST
System Software
1 83 (38.60%) Docker
2 4 (1.86%) Virtual Servers
3 3 (1.40%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 1 (0.47%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.47%) Squid
Systems Management
1 51 (23.72%) Terraform
2 33 (15.35%) Kubernetes
3 29 (13.49%) HP Fortify
4 18 (8.37%) Ansible
5 11 (5.12%) Grafana
5 11 (5.12%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.93%) Control-M
7 1 (0.47%) Argo
7 1 (0.47%) Kibana
Vendors
1 26 (12.09%) Microsoft
2 14 (6.51%) SAP
3 8 (3.72%) Google
4 7 (3.26%) Databricks
5 6 (2.79%) Oracle
6 4 (1.86%) IBM
6 4 (1.86%) IFS
7 3 (1.40%) Pega
7 3 (1.40%) Sparx
7 3 (1.40%) WSO2
8 2 (0.93%) Adobe
8 2 (0.93%) New Relic
8 2 (0.93%) Qualys
8 2 (0.93%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.93%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.47%) Duck Creek
9 1 (0.47%) F5
9 1 (0.47%) Foundry
9 1 (0.47%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.47%) VMware