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

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 25 25
Rank change year-on-year -9 0 -7
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 272 191 387
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 4.39% 7.78% 6.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.31% 8.26% 8.28%
Number of salaries quoted 184 147 311
10th Percentile £44,125 £37,716 £37,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £47,231 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +12.50% -2.18%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £73,091
90th Percentile £92,500 £98,474 £85,000
England median annual salary £70,079 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% +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 4,314 2,313 4,672
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 69.61% 94.18% 82.93%
Number of salaries quoted 2,822 1,265 3,717
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £31,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £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 13 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 13 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 -5 220 £70,000 -9.68% 45
South Yorkshire -35 33 £80,000 +72.97% 17
North Yorkshire -9 8 £72,500 +3.57% 4
East Yorkshire -33 4 £48,750 +8.33% 3
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 (2.57%) Moodle
2 5 (1.84%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.10%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.10%) Confluence
3 3 (1.10%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.74%) IIS
4 2 (0.74%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.37%) Apache
Applications
1 7 (2.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.84%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 13 (4.78%) SAP ERP
2 3 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.10%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (1.10%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.37%) Magento
3 1 (0.37%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 138 (50.74%) AWS
2 112 (41.18%) Azure
3 95 (34.93%) Serverless
4 82 (30.15%) Amazon S3
4 82 (30.15%) AWS Lambda
5 70 (25.74%) AWS CloudFormation
6 68 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
7 65 (23.90%) AWS Step Functions
8 50 (18.38%) GitHub
9 49 (18.01%) Azure DevOps
10 36 (13.24%) Amazon ECR
10 36 (13.24%) Apigee
10 36 (13.24%) GitHub Actions
11 32 (11.76%) Amazon SQS
12 31 (11.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 29 (10.66%) GCP
14 22 (8.09%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 17 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
15 17 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
16 15 (5.51%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.21%) DNS
1 6 (2.21%) Firewall
1 6 (2.21%) HTTP
2 4 (1.47%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.37%) BGP
3 1 (0.37%) Broadband
3 1 (0.37%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (0.37%) NGFW
3 1 (0.37%) OSPF
3 1 (0.37%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (27.57%) DynamoDB
2 33 (12.13%) NoSQL
3 22 (8.09%) Amazon Athena
4 20 (7.35%) PostgreSQL
5 18 (6.62%) SQL Server
6 17 (6.25%) Spark SQL
7 15 (5.51%) Data Warehouse
8 9 (3.31%) MongoDB
8 9 (3.31%) Power BI
9 6 (2.21%) Metadata
10 5 (1.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (1.47%) Relational Database
12 3 (1.10%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (1.10%) Power Query
13 2 (0.74%) Star Schema
14 1 (0.37%) BigQuery
14 1 (0.37%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
14 1 (0.37%) MySQL
14 1 (0.37%) Semantic Layer
14 1 (0.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 70 (25.74%) Jenkins
2 60 (22.06%) GitLab
3 40 (14.71%) SonarQube
4 39 (14.34%) Git
5 37 (13.60%) Cypress.io
5 37 (13.60%) Maven
6 21 (7.72%) JIRA
7 4 (1.47%) Selenium
8 3 (1.10%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.10%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.10%) JUnit
8 3 (1.10%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.74%) Postman
10 1 (0.37%) JMeter
10 1 (0.37%) LoadRunner
10 1 (0.37%) PHPUnit
General
1 72 (26.47%) Social Skills
2 25 (9.19%) Finance
3 23 (8.46%) Public Sector
4 16 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (5.51%) Retail
6 7 (2.57%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (1.47%) Law
7 4 (1.47%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.74%) Billing
9 2 (0.74%) Games
9 2 (0.74%) Health Technology
9 2 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.74%) Marketing
10 1 (0.37%) Advertising
10 1 (0.37%) Back Office
10 1 (0.37%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.37%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 89 (32.72%) Developer
2 56 (20.59%) Java Developer
3 54 (19.85%) Senior
4 53 (19.49%) Lead
5 47 (17.28%) DevOps Engineer
6 24 (8.82%) Data Engineer
7 22 (8.09%) AWS Developer
8 18 (6.62%) Platform Engineer
9 17 (6.25%) Lead Data Engineer
10 15 (5.51%) Senior Developer
10 15 (5.51%) Software Engineer
11 14 (5.15%) Senior DevOps
11 14 (5.15%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 13 (4.78%) Cloud Engineer
12 13 (4.78%) Lead DevOps
12 13 (4.78%) Lead DevOps Engineer
13 12 (4.41%) .NET Developer
13 12 (4.41%) Full-Stack Developer
14 11 (4.04%) Azure Engineer
14 11 (4.04%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (22.79%) AngularJS
2 49 (18.01%) Spring Boot
3 38 (13.97%) Jest
4 37 (13.60%) Node.js
5 36 (13.24%) Gherkin
6 33 (12.13%) React
7 22 (8.09%) Spring
8 21 (7.72%) .NET
8 21 (7.72%) PySpark
8 21 (7.72%) RESTful
9 20 (7.35%) REST
10 14 (5.15%) ASP.NET
10 14 (5.15%) Elastic Stack
11 12 (4.41%) .NET Core
12 11 (4.04%) ASP.NET Core
12 11 (4.04%) Blazor
13 9 (3.31%) ARM Templates
13 9 (3.31%) AWS CDK
14 8 (2.94%) CSS
14 8 (2.94%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (9.93%) Cloud Native
2 14 (5.15%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (3.31%) NHS
4 7 (2.57%) e-Learning
5 6 (2.21%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.47%) Product Ownership
6 4 (1.47%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.47%) SCADA
6 4 (1.47%) Social Media
7 3 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.10%) CMDB
7 3 (1.10%) Driving Licence
7 3 (1.10%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.74%) BBC
8 2 (0.74%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.74%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (0.74%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.74%) Low-Code
8 2 (0.74%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 16 (5.88%) Linux
2 15 (5.51%) Windows
3 7 (2.57%) Unix
4 5 (1.84%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.37%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 176 (64.71%) CI/CD
2 110 (40.44%) Agile
3 56 (20.59%) Infrastructure as Code
4 45 (16.54%) Mentoring
4 45 (16.54%) Microservices
5 40 (14.71%) Continuous Improvement
5 40 (14.71%) ITIL
5 40 (14.71%) Problem-Solving
6 36 (13.24%) Containerisation
7 35 (12.87%) Continuous Integration
7 35 (12.87%) Stakeholder Management
8 33 (12.13%) Test Automation
9 30 (11.03%) Observability
9 30 (11.03%) Platform Engineering
9 30 (11.03%) SDLC
10 29 (10.66%) Data Engineering
11 28 (10.29%) Full-Stack Development
11 28 (10.29%) Scrum
11 28 (10.29%) Secure Coding
12 24 (8.82%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 78 (28.68%) Java
2 74 (27.21%) SQL
3 63 (23.16%) TypeScript
4 49 (18.01%) Bash
5 48 (17.65%) Python
6 41 (15.07%) Groovy
7 23 (8.46%) JavaScript
8 21 (7.72%) Kotlin
9 11 (4.04%) C#
10 8 (2.94%) PowerShell
11 7 (2.57%) Go
12 6 (2.21%) T-SQL
13 3 (1.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.74%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.37%) Perl
15 1 (0.37%) PHP
15 1 (0.37%) R
15 1 (0.37%) Scala
Qualifications
1 39 (14.34%) AWS Certification
2 29 (10.66%) Degree
3 23 (8.46%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 23 (8.46%) ITIL Certification
4 20 (7.35%) Security Cleared
5 14 (5.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (5.15%) SC Cleared
6 13 (4.78%) AWS Certified Developer
7 5 (1.84%) PMI Certification
7 5 (1.84%) PMP
8 2 (0.74%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 2 (0.74%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.74%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (0.74%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.37%) CBAP
9 1 (0.37%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.37%) IIBA
9 1 (0.37%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (9.19%) QA
2 13 (4.78%) GDPR
3 7 (2.57%) Data Quality
3 7 (2.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (2.57%) PCI DSS
4 5 (1.84%) GRC
5 3 (1.10%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.74%) Accessibility
System Software
1 87 (31.99%) Docker
2 3 (1.10%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 3 (1.10%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 61 (22.43%) Terraform
2 37 (13.60%) HP Fortify
3 25 (9.19%) Kubernetes
4 15 (5.51%) Ansible
5 10 (3.68%) Argo
6 9 (3.31%) Grafana
6 9 (3.31%) Prometheus
7 3 (1.10%) Packer
8 2 (0.74%) Kibana
9 1 (0.37%) Istio
9 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.37%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 34 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 22 (8.09%) Databricks
3 16 (5.88%) SAP
4 9 (3.31%) ServiceNow
5 8 (2.94%) Google
6 6 (2.21%) IBM
7 5 (1.84%) AppDynamics
7 5 (1.84%) Oracle
8 3 (1.10%) IFS
8 3 (1.10%) Sparx
9 2 (0.74%) Adobe
9 2 (0.74%) Apple
9 2 (0.74%) F5
9 2 (0.74%) Facebook
9 2 (0.74%) Qualys
9 2 (0.74%) Sony
9 2 (0.74%) Yahoo!
10 1 (0.37%) Foundry
10 1 (0.37%) Informatica
10 1 (0.37%) VMware