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

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 21 18
Rank change year-on-year -11 -3 -4
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 208 213 397
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 5.44% 8.15% 8.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.06% 8.89% 10.19%
Number of salaries quoted 144 131 332
10th Percentile £42,437 £42,500 £38,976
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,625 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year - +2.46% -6.15%
75th Percentile £77,500 £93,764 £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 2,945 2,396 3,896
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 77.07% 91.66% 87.06%
Number of salaries quoted 1,735 1,035 3,131
10th Percentile £28,000 £29,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,994 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% -8.90%
75th Percentile £66,250 £73,750 £67,070
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £83,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -11.29% +12.73% -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 9 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 9 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 -3 175 £65,000 -7.14% 60
South Yorkshire -34 13 £62,966 +39.92% 29
East Yorkshire -26 9 £46,250 +2.78% 2
North Yorkshire -2 4 £60,000 +9.09% 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 (3.85%) Confluence
2 5 (2.40%) OpenStack
3 4 (1.92%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.92%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.92%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.44%) Moodle
5 2 (0.96%) Apache
5 2 (0.96%) IIS
6 1 (0.48%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.48%) CMS
6 1 (0.48%) FileNet
6 1 (0.48%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 3 (1.44%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 14 (6.73%) SAP ERP
2 4 (1.92%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (1.44%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.96%) Markit EDM
4 2 (0.96%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 122 (58.65%) AWS
2 99 (47.60%) Azure
3 71 (34.13%) Serverless
4 60 (28.85%) Amazon S3
5 59 (28.37%) AWS Lambda
6 56 (26.92%) AWS CloudFormation
7 48 (23.08%) AWS Step Functions
8 46 (22.12%) GitHub
9 44 (21.15%) Amazon ECS
10 41 (19.71%) Azure DevOps
11 31 (14.90%) GitHub Actions
12 28 (13.46%) Amazon SQS
13 24 (11.54%) Amazon ECR
13 24 (11.54%) Apigee
13 24 (11.54%) GCP
14 23 (11.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 17 (8.17%) SaaS
16 14 (6.73%) Amazon EKS
16 14 (6.73%) Amazon EventBridge
17 9 (4.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.81%) Firewall
2 6 (2.88%) DNS
2 6 (2.88%) Network Security
3 4 (1.92%) HTTP
3 4 (1.92%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.48%) Broadband
4 1 (0.48%) DHCP
4 1 (0.48%) LAN
4 1 (0.48%) VPN
4 1 (0.48%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (27.40%) DynamoDB
2 28 (13.46%) NoSQL
3 23 (11.06%) PostgreSQL
4 21 (10.10%) SQL Server
5 10 (4.81%) Relational Database
6 9 (4.33%) Amazon Athena
7 6 (2.88%) Metadata
8 5 (2.40%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (2.40%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 4 (1.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (1.44%) Big Data
10 3 (1.44%) OLAP
11 2 (0.96%) Amazon Aurora
11 2 (0.96%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (0.96%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (0.96%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.96%) Hadoop
11 2 (0.96%) RDBMS
11 2 (0.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (0.96%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 47 (22.60%) Jenkins
2 36 (17.31%) Git
2 36 (17.31%) GitLab
3 27 (12.98%) SonarQube
4 24 (11.54%) Cypress.io
4 24 (11.54%) Maven
5 12 (5.77%) JIRA
6 4 (1.92%) Selenium
7 3 (1.44%) JMeter
7 3 (1.44%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.48%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.48%) JUnit
General
1 73 (35.10%) Social Skills
2 35 (16.83%) Finance
3 21 (10.10%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (6.25%) Retail
5 12 (5.77%) Financial Institution
5 12 (5.77%) Public Sector
6 6 (2.88%) Law
7 5 (2.40%) Marketing
8 4 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.92%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (1.92%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.44%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.96%) Advertising
10 2 (0.96%) Games
11 1 (0.48%) Back Office
11 1 (0.48%) Legal
11 1 (0.48%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 64 (30.77%) Developer
2 37 (17.79%) Java Developer
3 31 (14.90%) Lead
4 30 (14.42%) Senior
5 26 (12.50%) Software Engineer
6 21 (10.10%) DevOps Engineer
7 16 (7.69%) AWS Developer
8 14 (6.73%) .NET Developer
8 14 (6.73%) Cloud Engineer
9 10 (4.81%) Architect
10 9 (4.33%) .NET Software Engineer
10 9 (4.33%) Data Engineer
10 9 (4.33%) QA Manager
10 9 (4.33%) Senior Software Engineer
11 8 (3.85%) Senior Developer
12 7 (3.37%) Full-Stack Developer
12 7 (3.37%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 7 (3.37%) Lead DevOps
12 7 (3.37%) Lead DevOps Engineer
13 6 (2.88%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (22.12%) AngularJS
2 38 (18.27%) Spring Boot
3 30 (14.42%) .NET
3 30 (14.42%) React
4 29 (13.94%) Node.js
5 26 (12.50%) Spring
6 25 (12.02%) RESTful
7 24 (11.54%) Gherkin
7 24 (11.54%) Jest
8 18 (8.65%) ASP.NET
9 17 (8.17%) .NET Core
10 13 (6.25%) ASP.NET Core
10 13 (6.25%) AWS CDK
10 13 (6.25%) Blazor
11 12 (5.77%) Micronaut
12 9 (4.33%) Elastic Stack
12 9 (4.33%) Kafka
13 8 (3.85%) Vue
14 7 (3.37%) CSS
14 7 (3.37%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 46 (22.12%) Cloud Native
2 14 (6.73%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (2.88%) Product Ownership
4 5 (2.40%) Analytical Mindset
4 5 (2.40%) Management Information System
5 4 (1.92%) CMDB
5 4 (1.92%) Security Posture
6 3 (1.44%) Driving Licence
6 3 (1.44%) e-Learning
6 3 (1.44%) Enterprise Cloud
6 3 (1.44%) IoT
6 3 (1.44%) NHS
6 3 (1.44%) Operational Technology
6 3 (1.44%) Public Cloud
6 3 (1.44%) SCADA
7 2 (0.96%) Data Structures
7 2 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (0.96%) Mobile App
7 2 (0.96%) Social Media
7 2 (0.96%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.29%) Windows
2 6 (2.88%) Linux
3 4 (1.92%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.48%) Android
4 1 (0.48%) Unix
4 1 (0.48%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (67.31%) CI/CD
2 96 (46.15%) Agile
3 61 (29.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 47 (22.60%) Problem-Solving
5 43 (20.67%) Software Engineering
6 42 (20.19%) Mentoring
7 37 (17.79%) Microservices
8 35 (16.83%) Continuous Improvement
9 32 (15.38%) Containerisation
10 28 (13.46%) Stakeholder Management
11 26 (12.50%) SDLC
12 23 (11.06%) Continuous Integration
13 22 (10.58%) Full-Stack Development
13 22 (10.58%) Observability
14 21 (10.10%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 20 (9.62%) ITIL
16 18 (8.65%) Data Modelling
16 18 (8.65%) Secure Coding
16 18 (8.65%) Waterfall
17 17 (8.17%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 66 (31.73%) Java
2 65 (31.25%) SQL
3 50 (24.04%) TypeScript
4 37 (17.79%) Python
5 34 (16.35%) Bash
6 26 (12.50%) JavaScript
7 24 (11.54%) Groovy
8 16 (7.69%) C#
9 12 (5.77%) PowerShell
10 9 (4.33%) Kotlin
11 7 (3.37%) Go
12 5 (2.40%) Bicep
12 5 (2.40%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.96%) R
14 1 (0.48%) Scala
Qualifications
1 32 (15.38%) AWS Certification
2 16 (7.69%) AWS Certified Developer
3 14 (6.73%) Degree
4 12 (5.77%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 12 (5.77%) ITIL Certification
5 8 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (3.85%) Security Cleared
6 5 (2.40%) SC Cleared
7 2 (0.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.96%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.48%) MCITP
8 1 (0.48%) MCSE
8 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (10.10%) QA
2 8 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (3.37%) PCI DSS
4 6 (2.88%) GDPR
5 5 (2.40%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.96%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.96%) GRC
6 2 (0.96%) NCSC
6 2 (0.96%) NIST
6 2 (0.96%) SOC 2
System Software
1 79 (37.98%) Docker
2 4 (1.92%) Virtual Servers
3 3 (1.44%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 1 (0.48%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.48%) Squid
Systems Management
1 50 (24.04%) Terraform
2 32 (15.38%) Kubernetes
3 27 (12.98%) HP Fortify
4 18 (8.65%) Ansible
5 11 (5.29%) Grafana
5 11 (5.29%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.96%) Control-M
7 1 (0.48%) Kibana
Vendors
1 26 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 14 (6.73%) SAP
3 8 (3.85%) Google
4 7 (3.37%) Databricks
5 6 (2.88%) Oracle
6 4 (1.92%) IBM
6 4 (1.92%) IFS
7 3 (1.44%) Pega
7 3 (1.44%) Sparx
7 3 (1.44%) WSO2
8 2 (0.96%) Adobe
8 2 (0.96%) New Relic
8 2 (0.96%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.48%) Duck Creek
9 1 (0.48%) F5
9 1 (0.48%) Foundry
9 1 (0.48%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.48%) Qualys
9 1 (0.48%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.48%) VMware