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 28 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 39 28
Rank change year-on-year +7 -11 -10
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 287 179 384
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 4.23% 5.63% 6.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.26% 6.13% 7.69%
Number of salaries quoted 201 139 302
10th Percentile £46,000 £37,350 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +16.67% -
75th Percentile £82,500 £84,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £98,474 £87,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £71,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.10% +10.00% -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 4,587 2,919 4,995
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 67.63% 91.76% 79.37%
Number of salaries quoted 3,248 1,350 3,725
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -8.90%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 28 June 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 28 June 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 +5 209 £70,000 -6.67% 40
South Yorkshire -14 56 £70,000 +43.59% 18
North Yorkshire -1 12 £62,500 -10.71% 7
East Yorkshire -28 4 £45,000 +11.11% 2
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 (2.44%) Confluence
2 6 (2.09%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.39%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.39%) Moodle
4 3 (1.05%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.70%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (0.35%) Apache
6 1 (0.35%) CMS
6 1 (0.35%) IIS
Applications
1 7 (2.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.74%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (1.39%) SAP ERP
2 3 (1.05%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (1.05%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.70%) Shopify
4 1 (0.35%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 123 (42.86%) AWS
2 117 (40.77%) Azure
3 77 (26.83%) Serverless
4 63 (21.95%) AWS Lambda
5 62 (21.60%) Amazon S3
6 61 (21.25%) Azure DevOps
7 59 (20.56%) Amazon ECS
8 53 (18.47%) AWS CloudFormation
9 48 (16.72%) GitHub
10 47 (16.38%) AWS Step Functions
11 30 (10.45%) GCP
11 30 (10.45%) GitHub Actions
12 27 (9.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 25 (8.71%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 24 (8.36%) Amazon ECR
14 24 (8.36%) Apigee
15 23 (8.01%) Amazon SQS
16 19 (6.62%) Azure Data Factory
17 17 (5.92%) Power Platform
18 14 (4.88%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.44%) HTTP
2 6 (2.09%) Firewall
3 5 (1.74%) DNS
4 3 (1.05%) Internet
4 3 (1.05%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.70%) BGP
5 2 (0.70%) Ethernet VPN
5 2 (0.70%) NGFW
5 2 (0.70%) OSPF
5 2 (0.70%) VXLAN
6 1 (0.35%) Broadband
6 1 (0.35%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (19.16%) DynamoDB
2 26 (9.06%) NoSQL
3 25 (8.71%) Amazon Athena
4 20 (6.97%) MongoDB
5 17 (5.92%) Spark SQL
6 16 (5.57%) Data Warehouse
7 12 (4.18%) Power BI
8 11 (3.83%) Azure SQL Database
8 11 (3.83%) SQL Server
9 9 (3.14%) PostgreSQL
10 7 (2.44%) Metadata
10 7 (2.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (1.39%) Relational Database
12 3 (1.05%) Power Query
12 3 (1.05%) Star Schema
13 2 (0.70%) BigQuery
13 2 (0.70%) MySQL
13 2 (0.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 1 (0.35%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
14 1 (0.35%) Redis
Development Applications
1 62 (21.60%) Jenkins
2 47 (16.38%) GitLab
3 39 (13.59%) Git
4 27 (9.41%) Cypress.io
4 27 (9.41%) SonarQube
5 26 (9.06%) JIRA
6 25 (8.71%) Maven
7 4 (1.39%) Visual Studio
8 3 (1.05%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.05%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (0.70%) JUnit
9 2 (0.70%) Postman
9 2 (0.70%) Selenium
10 1 (0.35%) PHPUnit
10 1 (0.35%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 60 (20.91%) Social Skills
2 28 (9.76%) Public Sector
3 23 (8.01%) Finance
4 16 (5.57%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (2.44%) Retail
6 4 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.05%) Law
7 3 (1.05%) Telecoms
8 2 (0.70%) Banking
8 2 (0.70%) Billing
8 2 (0.70%) Games
8 2 (0.70%) Health Technology
8 2 (0.70%) Tech for Good
9 1 (0.35%) Electronics
9 1 (0.35%) Local Government
9 1 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 93 (32.40%) Developer
2 63 (21.95%) Senior
3 61 (21.25%) DevOps Engineer
4 54 (18.82%) Java Developer
5 38 (13.24%) Lead
6 26 (9.06%) Data Engineer
7 22 (7.67%) Senior DevOps
7 22 (7.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 21 (7.32%) AWS Developer
9 20 (6.97%) Platform Engineer
10 16 (5.57%) Lead Data Engineer
11 15 (5.23%) Full-Stack Developer
12 14 (4.88%) Azure Engineer
12 14 (4.88%) Cloud Engineer
12 14 (4.88%) Software Engineer
13 13 (4.53%) .NET Developer
14 12 (4.18%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 12 (4.18%) Senior Developer
15 11 (3.83%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
15 11 (3.83%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (18.12%) AngularJS
2 38 (13.24%) Node.js
2 38 (13.24%) Spring Boot
3 34 (11.85%) React
4 27 (9.41%) .NET
5 26 (9.06%) Jest
6 24 (8.36%) Gherkin
6 24 (8.36%) RESTful
7 20 (6.97%) PySpark
7 20 (6.97%) REST
8 16 (5.57%) Spring
9 15 (5.23%) ASP.NET
10 14 (4.88%) ASP.NET Core
11 12 (4.18%) Blazor
11 12 (4.18%) ML.NET
12 11 (3.83%) ARM Templates
12 11 (3.83%) Elastic Stack
13 10 (3.48%) .NET Core
14 7 (2.44%) CSS
14 7 (2.44%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (6.97%) Cloud Native
2 9 (3.14%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (2.09%) NHS
3 6 (2.09%) Product Ownership
3 6 (2.09%) Public Cloud
3 6 (2.09%) Social Media
4 5 (1.74%) BBC
4 5 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (1.74%) Mobile App
5 4 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (1.39%) e-Learning
5 4 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (1.39%) iPhone
6 3 (1.05%) AI Agents
6 3 (1.05%) CMDB
6 3 (1.05%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.05%) Driving Licence
6 3 (1.05%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.05%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.05%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 20 (6.97%) Linux
2 16 (5.57%) Windows
3 10 (3.48%) Unix
4 4 (1.39%) Android
5 3 (1.05%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.70%) CentOS
6 2 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 166 (57.84%) CI/CD
2 106 (36.93%) Agile
3 52 (18.12%) Infrastructure as Code
4 46 (16.03%) Mentoring
5 41 (14.29%) Test Automation
6 40 (13.94%) Continuous Improvement
7 38 (13.24%) ITIL
8 37 (12.89%) Continuous Integration
8 37 (12.89%) Full-Stack Development
9 35 (12.20%) Problem-Solving
10 34 (11.85%) Microservices
10 34 (11.85%) Platform Engineering
11 33 (11.50%) Containerisation
11 33 (11.50%) SDLC
12 32 (11.15%) Scrum
13 30 (10.45%) Stakeholder Management
14 27 (9.41%) Data Engineering
14 27 (9.41%) DevSecOps
15 26 (9.06%) Coaching
15 26 (9.06%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 77 (26.83%) SQL
2 67 (23.34%) Java
3 52 (18.12%) Python
3 52 (18.12%) TypeScript
4 36 (12.54%) Bash
5 34 (11.85%) JavaScript
6 30 (10.45%) Groovy
7 29 (10.10%) C#
8 24 (8.36%) Kotlin
9 8 (2.79%) PowerShell
10 7 (2.44%) Go
11 5 (1.74%) T-SQL
12 4 (1.39%) Bicep
13 3 (1.05%) C++
13 3 (1.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.70%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.70%) VB.NET
15 1 (0.35%) C
15 1 (0.35%) Perl
15 1 (0.35%) PHP
Qualifications
1 33 (11.50%) Degree
2 26 (9.06%) AWS Certification
3 24 (8.36%) Security Cleared
4 22 (7.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 22 (7.67%) ITIL Certification
5 18 (6.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (6.27%) SC Cleared
6 5 (1.74%) PMI Certification
6 5 (1.74%) PMP
7 2 (0.70%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 2 (0.70%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.70%) ISTQB
7 2 (0.70%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 2 (0.70%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.35%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.35%) CBAP
8 1 (0.35%) CSPO
8 1 (0.35%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.35%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (6.62%) QA
2 12 (4.18%) GDPR
3 9 (3.14%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.74%) GRC
4 5 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.39%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.05%) SOC 2
System Software
1 64 (22.30%) Docker
2 3 (1.05%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 3 (1.05%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (0.70%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.35%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.35%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 54 (18.82%) Terraform
2 24 (8.36%) HP Fortify
2 24 (8.36%) Kubernetes
3 12 (4.18%) Ansible
4 10 (3.48%) Argo
5 4 (1.39%) Grafana
5 4 (1.39%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.05%) Packer
7 2 (0.70%) Kibana
7 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.70%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.35%) Istio
Vendors
1 47 (16.38%) Microsoft
2 23 (8.01%) Databricks
3 15 (5.23%) Google
4 10 (3.48%) ServiceNow
5 8 (2.79%) Pega
6 7 (2.44%) SAP
7 5 (1.74%) AppDynamics
7 5 (1.74%) Apple
7 5 (1.74%) Facebook
7 5 (1.74%) IBM
7 5 (1.74%) Oracle
7 5 (1.74%) Sony
7 5 (1.74%) Yahoo!
8 3 (1.05%) IFS
9 2 (0.70%) Arista
9 2 (0.70%) F5
9 2 (0.70%) Informatica
9 2 (0.70%) Palo Alto
9 2 (0.70%) Qualys
10 1 (0.35%) Progress