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 1 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 25 22
Rank change year-on-year -9 -3 -7
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 253 194 415
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 5.03% 8.84% 7.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.89% 9.28% 9.20%
Number of salaries quoted 170 151 330
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,890 £35,992
25th Percentile £52,500 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +12.50% -4.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £91,934 £76,250
90th Percentile £92,750 £98,474 £87,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,799
% change year-on-year - +6.38% -6.00%

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 3,672 2,090 4,510
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 73.03% 95.22% 84.36%
Number of salaries quoted 2,311 1,220 3,590
10th Percentile £28,250 £25,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £32,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £88,403 £81,250
England median annual salary £56,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +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 1 April 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 1 April 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 -5 216 £70,000 -10.43% 53
South Yorkshire -39 17 £75,466 +72.49% 26
East Yorkshire -29 9 £46,250 +2.78% 3
North Yorkshire -5 5 £72,500 +7.41% 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 (2.77%) Moodle
2 5 (1.98%) Confluence
2 5 (1.98%) OpenStack
3 4 (1.58%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.58%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.79%) IIS
5 1 (0.40%) Apache
5 1 (0.40%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 5 (1.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.58%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 14 (5.53%) SAP ERP
2 4 (1.58%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (1.19%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.40%) Magento
4 1 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.40%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 147 (58.10%) AWS
2 106 (41.90%) Azure
3 100 (39.53%) Serverless
4 86 (33.99%) Amazon S3
4 86 (33.99%) AWS Lambda
5 69 (27.27%) AWS CloudFormation
6 66 (26.09%) Amazon ECS
7 65 (25.69%) AWS Step Functions
8 56 (22.13%) GitHub
9 39 (15.42%) Azure DevOps
10 38 (15.02%) GitHub Actions
11 36 (14.23%) Amazon SQS
12 35 (13.83%) Amazon ECR
12 35 (13.83%) Apigee
13 33 (13.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 28 (11.07%) GCP
15 23 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
16 19 (7.51%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 14 (5.53%) Amazon EventBridge
18 13 (5.14%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.77%) Firewall
2 6 (2.37%) HTTP
3 5 (1.98%) DNS
4 4 (1.58%) Network Security
4 4 (1.58%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.40%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (30.83%) DynamoDB
2 33 (13.04%) NoSQL
3 22 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
4 20 (7.91%) SQL Server
5 19 (7.51%) Amazon Athena
6 10 (3.95%) Relational Database
7 6 (2.37%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (2.37%) Metadata
7 6 (2.37%) Spark SQL
8 3 (1.19%) Power BI
8 3 (1.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.79%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.79%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.40%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.40%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.40%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.40%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.40%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.40%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 67 (26.48%) Jenkins
2 50 (19.76%) GitLab
3 43 (17.00%) Git
4 40 (15.81%) SonarQube
5 35 (13.83%) Cypress.io
5 35 (13.83%) Maven
6 18 (7.11%) JIRA
7 5 (1.98%) Selenium
8 3 (1.19%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.19%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.19%) JUnit
9 2 (0.79%) JMeter
9 2 (0.79%) LoadRunner
9 2 (0.79%) Postman
10 1 (0.40%) PHPUnit
General
1 88 (34.78%) Social Skills
2 32 (12.65%) Finance
3 22 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (6.72%) Retail
5 15 (5.93%) Public Sector
6 7 (2.77%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (2.37%) Financial Institution
8 5 (1.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.58%) Law
9 4 (1.58%) Marketing
9 4 (1.58%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.79%) Advertising
11 2 (0.79%) Games
11 2 (0.79%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.40%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 89 (35.18%) Developer
2 57 (22.53%) Java Developer
3 44 (17.39%) Senior
4 37 (14.62%) Lead
5 26 (10.28%) DevOps Engineer
6 21 (8.30%) AWS Developer
6 21 (8.30%) Software Engineer
7 17 (6.72%) Cloud Engineer
8 15 (5.93%) .NET Developer
9 14 (5.53%) Data Engineer
9 14 (5.53%) Senior Developer
10 12 (4.74%) Full-Stack Developer
11 11 (4.35%) Platform Engineer
12 9 (3.56%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 9 (3.56%) Lead Data Engineer
12 9 (3.56%) QA Manager
13 8 (3.16%) Analyst
13 8 (3.16%) Senior Java Developer
14 7 (2.77%) Senior Software Engineer
14 7 (2.77%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (24.51%) AngularJS
2 54 (21.34%) Spring Boot
3 39 (15.42%) React
4 37 (14.62%) Node.js
5 36 (14.23%) Jest
6 35 (13.83%) Gherkin
7 31 (12.25%) Spring
8 26 (10.28%) RESTful
9 25 (9.88%) .NET
10 18 (7.11%) .NET Core
10 18 (7.11%) ASP.NET
10 18 (7.11%) REST
11 17 (6.72%) Elastic Stack
12 14 (5.53%) ASP.NET Core
12 14 (5.53%) Blazor
13 13 (5.14%) AWS CDK
14 11 (4.35%) PySpark
15 9 (3.56%) CSS
15 9 (3.56%) HTML
16 7 (2.77%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 40 (15.81%) Cloud Native
2 17 (6.72%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (3.56%) NHS
4 7 (2.77%) e-Learning
5 5 (1.98%) Analytical Mindset
5 5 (1.98%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.58%) Data Structures
6 4 (1.58%) Product Ownership
6 4 (1.58%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.58%) SCADA
6 4 (1.58%) Security Posture
7 3 (1.19%) CMDB
7 3 (1.19%) Driving Licence
7 3 (1.19%) Enterprise Cloud
7 3 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.19%) Social Media
8 2 (0.79%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (0.79%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (0.79%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.56%) Windows
2 7 (2.77%) Linux
3 5 (1.98%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.40%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 166 (65.61%) CI/CD
2 113 (44.66%) Agile
3 62 (24.51%) Infrastructure as Code
4 48 (18.97%) Continuous Improvement
5 47 (18.58%) Problem-Solving
6 45 (17.79%) Microservices
7 42 (16.60%) Mentoring
8 38 (15.02%) Containerisation
9 37 (14.62%) ITIL
10 36 (14.23%) Software Engineering
11 32 (12.65%) Stakeholder Management
12 31 (12.25%) Full-Stack Development
12 31 (12.25%) SDLC
13 28 (11.07%) Continuous Integration
14 27 (10.67%) Observability
14 27 (10.67%) Secure Coding
15 23 (9.09%) DevSecOps
15 23 (9.09%) Platform Engineering
16 22 (8.70%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
17 21 (8.30%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 79 (31.23%) Java
2 68 (26.88%) SQL
3 59 (23.32%) TypeScript
4 45 (17.79%) Bash
5 40 (15.81%) Python
6 38 (15.02%) Groovy
7 26 (10.28%) JavaScript
8 18 (7.11%) Kotlin
9 11 (4.35%) PowerShell
10 10 (3.95%) C#
11 7 (2.77%) Go
12 5 (1.98%) T-SQL
13 4 (1.58%) Bicep
14 2 (0.79%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.79%) R
15 1 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.40%) Perl
15 1 (0.40%) PHP
15 1 (0.40%) Scala
Qualifications
1 39 (15.42%) AWS Certification
2 22 (8.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 22 (8.70%) ITIL Certification
3 20 (7.91%) Degree
4 17 (6.72%) AWS Certified Developer
4 17 (6.72%) Security Cleared
5 13 (5.14%) SC Cleared
6 7 (2.77%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.58%) PMI Certification
7 4 (1.58%) PMP
8 2 (0.79%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.79%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.40%) CBAP
9 1 (0.40%) IIBA
9 1 (0.40%) MCITP
9 1 (0.40%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (9.88%) QA
2 11 (4.35%) GDPR
3 10 (3.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (3.56%) PCI DSS
5 6 (2.37%) GRC
6 5 (1.98%) SOC 2
7 4 (1.58%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.79%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.79%) NIST
System Software
1 96 (37.94%) Docker
2 3 (1.19%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 3 (1.19%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 62 (24.51%) Terraform
2 37 (14.62%) HP Fortify
3 32 (12.65%) Kubernetes
4 19 (7.51%) Ansible
5 11 (4.35%) Grafana
5 11 (4.35%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.19%) Argo
6 3 (1.19%) Packer
7 2 (0.79%) Kibana
8 1 (0.40%) Control-M
Vendors
1 32 (12.65%) Microsoft
2 14 (5.53%) SAP
3 13 (5.14%) Databricks
4 7 (2.77%) Google
4 7 (2.77%) IBM
4 7 (2.77%) Oracle
5 6 (2.37%) ServiceNow
6 5 (1.98%) AppDynamics
7 4 (1.58%) IFS
8 3 (1.19%) Pega
8 3 (1.19%) Sparx
8 3 (1.19%) WSO2
9 2 (0.79%) Adobe
9 2 (0.79%) Qualys
10 1 (0.40%) Apple
10 1 (0.40%) Foundry
10 1 (0.40%) New Relic
10 1 (0.40%) Sony
10 1 (0.40%) VMware
10 1 (0.40%) Yahoo!