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

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 23 24
Rank change year-on-year -11 +1 -8
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 267 202 405
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 4.71% 8.82% 7.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.55% 9.33% 8.62%
Number of salaries quoted 180 159 324
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,655 £36,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £47,231 £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 £70,932 £70,000 £65,620
% change year-on-year +1.33% +6.68% -6.26%

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 4,074 2,165 4,700
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 71.90% 94.58% 83.94%
Number of salaries quoted 2,581 1,247 3,720
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,000 £27,484
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 £70,000 £71,042 £65,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £87,790 £80,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +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 17 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 17 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 -5 219 £70,000 -8.20% 58
South Yorkshire -35 26 £70,932 +49.33% 18
East Yorkshire -29 9 £46,250 +2.78% 6
North Yorkshire -9 6 £72,500 +3.57% 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 (2.62%) Moodle
2 6 (2.25%) Confluence
3 5 (1.87%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.50%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.75%) Apache
5 2 (0.75%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.75%) IIS
5 2 (0.75%) OpenStack
Applications
1 7 (2.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.87%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 14 (5.24%) SAP ERP
2 4 (1.50%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.37%) Magento
4 1 (0.37%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 151 (56.55%) AWS
2 112 (41.95%) Azure
3 100 (37.45%) Serverless
4 87 (32.58%) Amazon S3
4 87 (32.58%) AWS Lambda
5 70 (26.22%) AWS CloudFormation
6 66 (24.72%) AWS Step Functions
7 64 (23.97%) Amazon ECS
8 58 (21.72%) GitHub
9 45 (16.85%) Azure DevOps
10 39 (14.61%) GitHub Actions
11 36 (13.48%) Amazon SQS
12 35 (13.11%) Amazon ECR
12 35 (13.11%) Apigee
13 34 (12.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 31 (11.61%) GCP
15 20 (7.49%) Amazon EKS
15 20 (7.49%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 14 (5.24%) Amazon EventBridge
16 14 (5.24%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.62%) Firewall
2 6 (2.25%) HTTP
3 5 (1.87%) DNS
4 4 (1.50%) Network Security
4 4 (1.50%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.37%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (29.59%) DynamoDB
2 35 (13.11%) NoSQL
3 22 (8.24%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (8.24%) SQL Server
4 20 (7.49%) Amazon Athena
5 11 (4.12%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (3.75%) Spark SQL
7 8 (3.00%) Metadata
8 7 (2.62%) Relational Database
9 6 (2.25%) Power BI
10 4 (1.50%) MongoDB
10 4 (1.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (0.75%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (0.75%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.75%) Power Query
12 1 (0.37%) Amazon Aurora
12 1 (0.37%) Amazon Redshift
12 1 (0.37%) Apache Iceberg
12 1 (0.37%) Data Vault
12 1 (0.37%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 65 (24.34%) Jenkins
2 53 (19.85%) GitLab
3 40 (14.98%) Git
4 39 (14.61%) SonarQube
5 35 (13.11%) Cypress.io
5 35 (13.11%) Maven
6 20 (7.49%) JIRA
7 4 (1.50%) Selenium
8 3 (1.12%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.12%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.12%) JUnit
9 2 (0.75%) Postman
10 1 (0.37%) JMeter
10 1 (0.37%) LoadRunner
10 1 (0.37%) PHPUnit
10 1 (0.37%) Visual Studio
General
1 90 (33.71%) Social Skills
2 33 (12.36%) Finance
3 23 (8.61%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (5.62%) Public Sector
4 15 (5.62%) Retail
5 7 (2.62%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (1.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (1.50%) Financial Institution
7 4 (1.50%) Law
7 4 (1.50%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.12%) Marketing
9 2 (0.75%) Advertising
9 2 (0.75%) Billing
9 2 (0.75%) Games
9 2 (0.75%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.37%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 88 (32.96%) Developer
2 52 (19.48%) Java Developer
3 51 (19.10%) Senior
4 40 (14.98%) Lead
5 33 (12.36%) DevOps Engineer
6 22 (8.24%) AWS Developer
6 22 (8.24%) Software Engineer
7 19 (7.12%) Data Engineer
8 17 (6.37%) Cloud Engineer
9 15 (5.62%) .NET Developer
10 14 (5.24%) Senior Developer
11 13 (4.87%) Platform Engineer
12 12 (4.49%) Lead Data Engineer
13 11 (4.12%) Full-Stack Developer
14 10 (3.75%) Senior DevOps
14 10 (3.75%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 9 (3.37%) QA Manager
16 8 (3.00%) Analyst
16 8 (3.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
17 7 (2.62%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (22.47%) AngularJS
2 50 (18.73%) Spring Boot
3 40 (14.98%) React
4 38 (14.23%) Node.js
5 36 (13.48%) Jest
6 35 (13.11%) Gherkin
7 27 (10.11%) .NET
7 27 (10.11%) Spring
8 26 (9.74%) RESTful
9 19 (7.12%) ASP.NET
10 18 (6.74%) .NET Core
11 16 (5.99%) PySpark
11 16 (5.99%) REST
12 14 (5.24%) ASP.NET Core
12 14 (5.24%) Blazor
12 14 (5.24%) Elastic Stack
13 13 (4.87%) AWS CDK
14 11 (4.12%) CSS
14 11 (4.12%) HTML
15 7 (2.62%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 41 (15.36%) Cloud Native
2 14 (5.24%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (3.37%) NHS
4 7 (2.62%) e-Learning
5 5 (1.87%) Analytical Mindset
5 5 (1.87%) Management Information System
5 5 (1.87%) Product Ownership
6 4 (1.50%) Data Structures
6 4 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.50%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.50%) SCADA
6 4 (1.50%) Security Posture
7 3 (1.12%) CMDB
7 3 (1.12%) Driving Licence
7 3 (1.12%) Enterprise Cloud
7 3 (1.12%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.12%) Social Media
8 2 (0.75%) Cloud Security Posture
8 2 (0.75%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (0.75%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 12 (4.49%) Windows
2 10 (3.75%) Linux
3 5 (1.87%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.12%) Unix
5 1 (0.37%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 175 (65.54%) CI/CD
2 114 (42.70%) Agile
3 63 (23.60%) Infrastructure as Code
4 48 (17.98%) Microservices
5 47 (17.60%) Continuous Improvement
5 47 (17.60%) Problem-Solving
6 45 (16.85%) Mentoring
7 39 (14.61%) Containerisation
8 37 (13.86%) ITIL
9 35 (13.11%) Software Engineering
10 34 (12.73%) Stakeholder Management
11 32 (11.99%) Continuous Integration
12 31 (11.61%) SDLC
13 30 (11.24%) Observability
14 29 (10.86%) Full-Stack Development
15 27 (10.11%) Secure Coding
16 26 (9.74%) Platform Engineering
17 25 (9.36%) Data Engineering
18 24 (8.99%) DevSecOps
18 24 (8.99%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 77 (28.84%) Java
2 74 (27.72%) SQL
3 61 (22.85%) TypeScript
4 45 (16.85%) Bash
4 45 (16.85%) Python
5 38 (14.23%) Groovy
6 23 (8.61%) JavaScript
7 19 (7.12%) Kotlin
8 12 (4.49%) C#
9 11 (4.12%) PowerShell
10 7 (2.62%) Go
11 5 (1.87%) T-SQL
12 4 (1.50%) Bicep
13 2 (0.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.75%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.37%) Perl
14 1 (0.37%) PHP
14 1 (0.37%) R
14 1 (0.37%) Scala
Qualifications
1 41 (15.36%) AWS Certification
2 25 (9.36%) Degree
3 22 (8.24%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 22 (8.24%) ITIL Certification
4 19 (7.12%) Security Cleared
5 17 (6.37%) AWS Certified Developer
6 13 (4.87%) SC Cleared
7 9 (3.37%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.87%) PMI Certification
8 5 (1.87%) PMP
9 2 (0.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 2 (0.75%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.75%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (0.75%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.37%) CBAP
10 1 (0.37%) IIBA
10 1 (0.37%) MCITP
10 1 (0.37%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (9.36%) QA
2 12 (4.49%) GDPR
3 10 (3.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (3.00%) PCI DSS
5 7 (2.62%) Data Quality
5 7 (2.62%) GRC
6 5 (1.87%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.75%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.75%) NIST
System Software
1 93 (34.83%) Docker
2 3 (1.12%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 3 (1.12%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 65 (24.34%) Terraform
2 36 (13.48%) HP Fortify
3 28 (10.49%) Kubernetes
4 16 (5.99%) Ansible
5 11 (4.12%) Grafana
5 11 (4.12%) Prometheus
6 6 (2.25%) Argo
7 3 (1.12%) Packer
8 2 (0.75%) Kibana
9 1 (0.37%) Istio
9 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 36 (13.48%) Microsoft
2 16 (5.99%) Databricks
3 14 (5.24%) SAP
4 7 (2.62%) Google
5 6 (2.25%) IBM
5 6 (2.25%) Oracle
5 6 (2.25%) ServiceNow
6 5 (1.87%) AppDynamics
7 4 (1.50%) IFS
8 3 (1.12%) Sparx
9 2 (0.75%) Adobe
9 2 (0.75%) Qualys
10 1 (0.37%) Apple
10 1 (0.37%) Blue Prism
10 1 (0.37%) F5
10 1 (0.37%) Foundry
10 1 (0.37%) New Relic
10 1 (0.37%) Sony
10 1 (0.37%) VMware
10 1 (0.37%) Yahoo!