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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 32 28
Rank change year-on-year -3 -4 -10
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 266 177 389
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 4.00% 6.65% 6.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.94% 7.19% 7.77%
Number of salaries quoted 178 136 305
10th Percentile £45,000 £37,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £50,375 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +21.74% -4.17%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £73,750
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 4,476 2,463 5,007
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 67.38% 92.52% 79.41%
Number of salaries quoted 3,123 1,258 3,823
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £30,625 £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 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% +5.45% -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 10 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 10 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 +2 206 £70,000 -6.67% 40
South Yorkshire -29 40 £75,466 +54.80% 28
North Yorkshire -8 9 £72,500 +3.57% 7
East Yorkshire -29 4 £45,000 +5.88% 1
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 6 (2.26%) Confluence
2 5 (1.88%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.50%) Moodle
4 3 (1.13%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.13%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.75%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (0.38%) Apache
6 1 (0.38%) IIS
Applications
1 7 (2.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.88%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 11 (4.14%) SAP ERP
2 3 (1.13%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (1.13%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.38%) Magento
3 1 (0.38%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 120 (45.11%) AWS
2 112 (42.11%) Azure
3 78 (29.32%) Serverless
4 66 (24.81%) AWS Lambda
5 65 (24.44%) Amazon S3
6 60 (22.56%) Amazon ECS
7 57 (21.43%) AWS CloudFormation
8 51 (19.17%) AWS Step Functions
9 50 (18.80%) Azure DevOps
10 48 (18.05%) GitHub
11 31 (11.65%) GitHub Actions
12 29 (10.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 28 (10.53%) GCP
14 26 (9.77%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 25 (9.40%) Amazon ECR
15 25 (9.40%) Apigee
16 24 (9.02%) Amazon SQS
17 18 (6.77%) Azure Data Factory
18 15 (5.64%) Power Platform
19 14 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.63%) HTTP
2 6 (2.26%) Firewall
3 5 (1.88%) DNS
4 3 (1.13%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.75%) BGP
5 2 (0.75%) Ethernet VPN
5 2 (0.75%) NGFW
5 2 (0.75%) OSPF
5 2 (0.75%) VXLAN
6 1 (0.38%) Broadband
6 1 (0.38%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (22.18%) DynamoDB
2 30 (11.28%) NoSQL
3 26 (9.77%) Amazon Athena
4 17 (6.39%) Spark SQL
5 15 (5.64%) Data Warehouse
6 14 (5.26%) MongoDB
7 11 (4.14%) PostgreSQL
7 11 (4.14%) Power BI
7 11 (4.14%) SQL Server
8 7 (2.63%) Azure SQL Database
8 7 (2.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 6 (2.26%) Metadata
10 4 (1.50%) Relational Database
11 3 (1.13%) Power Query
12 2 (0.75%) BigQuery
12 2 (0.75%) MySQL
12 2 (0.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 2 (0.75%) Star Schema
13 1 (0.38%) Apache Cassandra
13 1 (0.38%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 60 (22.56%) Jenkins
2 49 (18.42%) GitLab
3 38 (14.29%) Git
4 28 (10.53%) Cypress.io
4 28 (10.53%) SonarQube
5 26 (9.77%) Maven
6 24 (9.02%) JIRA
7 3 (1.13%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.13%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.13%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.75%) JUnit
8 2 (0.75%) Postman
8 2 (0.75%) Selenium
9 1 (0.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.38%) PHPUnit
General
1 64 (24.06%) Social Skills
2 23 (8.65%) Public Sector
3 21 (7.89%) Finance
4 15 (5.64%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (3.01%) Retail
6 5 (1.88%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (1.13%) Law
7 3 (1.13%) Telecoms
8 2 (0.75%) Banking
8 2 (0.75%) Billing
8 2 (0.75%) Games
8 2 (0.75%) Health Technology
8 2 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.38%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.38%) Electronics
9 1 (0.38%) Local Government
9 1 (0.38%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 89 (33.46%) Developer
2 55 (20.68%) Java Developer
3 54 (20.30%) Senior
4 49 (18.42%) DevOps Engineer
5 40 (15.04%) Lead
6 25 (9.40%) Data Engineer
7 21 (7.89%) AWS Developer
8 20 (7.52%) Platform Engineer
9 16 (6.02%) Lead Data Engineer
10 14 (5.26%) Azure Engineer
10 14 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
10 14 (5.26%) Senior Developer
10 14 (5.26%) Senior DevOps
10 14 (5.26%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 13 (4.89%) Lead DevOps
11 13 (4.89%) Lead DevOps Engineer
11 13 (4.89%) Software Engineer
12 12 (4.51%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 11 (4.14%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14 10 (3.76%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (19.92%) AngularJS
2 38 (14.29%) Node.js
3 37 (13.91%) Spring Boot
4 27 (10.15%) Jest
4 27 (10.15%) React
5 25 (9.40%) Gherkin
6 20 (7.52%) PySpark
6 20 (7.52%) REST
7 19 (7.14%) .NET
7 19 (7.14%) RESTful
8 15 (5.64%) Spring
9 11 (4.14%) ARM Templates
9 11 (4.14%) Elastic Stack
10 10 (3.76%) ASP.NET
11 9 (3.38%) ASP.NET Core
12 8 (3.01%) .NET Core
12 8 (3.01%) Blazor
13 7 (2.63%) RabbitMQ
14 6 (2.26%) CSS
14 6 (2.26%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (6.77%) Cloud Native
2 8 (3.01%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (2.26%) NHS
4 5 (1.88%) Product Ownership
4 5 (1.88%) Public Cloud
5 4 (1.50%) e-Learning
5 4 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (1.50%) Management Information System
5 4 (1.50%) Social Media
6 3 (1.13%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (1.13%) BBC
6 3 (1.13%) CMDB
6 3 (1.13%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.13%) Driving Licence
6 3 (1.13%) Mobile App
6 3 (1.13%) Onboarding
7 2 (0.75%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (0.75%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (0.75%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 16 (6.02%) Linux
2 13 (4.89%) Windows
3 7 (2.63%) Unix
4 3 (1.13%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.75%) Android
6 1 (0.38%) CentOS
6 1 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 165 (62.03%) CI/CD
2 99 (37.22%) Agile
3 51 (19.17%) Infrastructure as Code
4 44 (16.54%) Mentoring
5 38 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
5 38 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
6 37 (13.91%) Test Automation
7 36 (13.53%) ITIL
8 35 (13.16%) Stakeholder Management
9 34 (12.78%) Microservices
9 34 (12.78%) Problem-Solving
10 32 (12.03%) Platform Engineering
10 32 (12.03%) SDLC
11 31 (11.65%) Containerisation
12 28 (10.53%) Scrum
13 27 (10.15%) DevSecOps
13 27 (10.15%) Full-Stack Development
13 27 (10.15%) Observability
14 26 (9.77%) Data Engineering
15 24 (9.02%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 74 (27.82%) SQL
2 69 (25.94%) Java
3 55 (20.68%) TypeScript
4 51 (19.17%) Python
5 37 (13.91%) Bash
6 31 (11.65%) Groovy
7 26 (9.77%) JavaScript
8 25 (9.40%) Kotlin
9 18 (6.77%) C#
10 8 (3.01%) PowerShell
11 6 (2.26%) Go
12 5 (1.88%) T-SQL
13 3 (1.13%) Bicep
13 3 (1.13%) C++
13 3 (1.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.75%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.38%) C
15 1 (0.38%) Perl
15 1 (0.38%) PHP
15 1 (0.38%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 33 (12.41%) Degree
2 27 (10.15%) AWS Certification
3 23 (8.65%) Security Cleared
4 21 (7.89%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 21 (7.89%) ITIL Certification
5 18 (6.77%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (6.39%) SC Cleared
7 5 (1.88%) PMI Certification
7 5 (1.88%) PMP
8 3 (1.13%) AWS Certified Developer
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 Certified Professional
10 1 (0.38%) CBAP
10 1 (0.38%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.38%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.38%) IIBA
10 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (7.89%) QA
2 12 (4.51%) GDPR
3 8 (3.01%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.88%) GRC
4 5 (1.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.50%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.13%) SOC 2
System Software
1 70 (26.32%) Docker
2 3 (1.13%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 3 (1.13%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (0.38%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.38%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 55 (20.68%) Terraform
2 25 (9.40%) HP Fortify
3 23 (8.65%) Kubernetes
4 12 (4.51%) Ansible
5 10 (3.76%) Argo
6 6 (2.26%) Grafana
6 6 (2.26%) Prometheus
7 3 (1.13%) Packer
8 2 (0.75%) Kibana
8 2 (0.75%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.38%) Istio
9 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 38 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 22 (8.27%) Databricks
3 14 (5.26%) SAP
4 10 (3.76%) Google
4 10 (3.76%) ServiceNow
5 5 (1.88%) AppDynamics
5 5 (1.88%) IBM
5 5 (1.88%) Oracle
6 3 (1.13%) Apple
6 3 (1.13%) F5
6 3 (1.13%) Facebook
6 3 (1.13%) IFS
6 3 (1.13%) Sony
6 3 (1.13%) Yahoo!
7 2 (0.75%) Arista
7 2 (0.75%) Informatica
7 2 (0.75%) Palo Alto
7 2 (0.75%) Qualys
7 2 (0.75%) VMware
8 1 (0.38%) Progress