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

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 22 23
Rank change year-on-year -13 +1 -7
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 263 201 414
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 4.89% 8.86% 7.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.73% 9.36% 8.99%
Number of salaries quoted 178 160 328
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,773 £37,125
25th Percentile £53,750 £46,985 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.48% +11.67% -4.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £91,934 £76,250
90th Percentile £93,250 £98,474 £87,500
England median annual salary £70,079 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +0.11% +3.70% -3.57%

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 3,909 2,147 4,605
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 72.66% 94.62% 84.08%
Number of salaries quoted 2,495 1,255 3,664
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 £70,000 £71,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,922 £89,290 £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 10 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 10 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 -4 218 £70,000 -6.67% 53
South Yorkshire -41 23 £75,466 +63.17% 26
East Yorkshire -29 9 £46,250 +2.78% 3
North Yorkshire -5 6 £72,500 +3.57% 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 (2.66%) Moodle
2 6 (2.28%) Confluence
3 5 (1.90%) OpenStack
3 5 (1.90%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.52%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.76%) IIS
6 1 (0.38%) Apache
6 1 (0.38%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 6 (2.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.90%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 14 (5.32%) SAP ERP
2 4 (1.52%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (1.14%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.38%) Magento
4 1 (0.38%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 150 (57.03%) AWS
2 112 (42.59%) Azure
3 101 (38.40%) Serverless
4 86 (32.70%) Amazon S3
4 86 (32.70%) AWS Lambda
5 69 (26.24%) AWS CloudFormation
6 66 (25.10%) Amazon ECS
7 65 (24.71%) AWS Step Functions
8 57 (21.67%) GitHub
9 43 (16.35%) Azure DevOps
10 38 (14.45%) GitHub Actions
11 36 (13.69%) Amazon SQS
12 35 (13.31%) Amazon ECR
12 35 (13.31%) Apigee
13 33 (12.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 29 (11.03%) GCP
15 23 (8.75%) Amazon EKS
16 19 (7.22%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 14 (5.32%) Amazon EventBridge
17 14 (5.32%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.66%) Firewall
2 6 (2.28%) HTTP
3 5 (1.90%) DNS
4 4 (1.52%) Network Security
4 4 (1.52%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.38%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (29.66%) DynamoDB
2 34 (12.93%) NoSQL
3 24 (9.13%) PostgreSQL
4 21 (7.98%) SQL Server
5 19 (7.22%) Amazon Athena
6 10 (3.80%) Relational Database
7 8 (3.04%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (2.66%) Spark SQL
9 6 (2.28%) Metadata
10 4 (1.52%) Power BI
10 4 (1.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (1.14%) MongoDB
12 2 (0.76%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (0.76%) Data Lake
12 2 (0.76%) Power Query
13 1 (0.38%) Amazon Aurora
13 1 (0.38%) Amazon Redshift
13 1 (0.38%) Apache Iceberg
13 1 (0.38%) Data Vault
13 1 (0.38%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 68 (25.86%) Jenkins
2 52 (19.77%) GitLab
3 43 (16.35%) Git
4 39 (14.83%) SonarQube
5 35 (13.31%) Cypress.io
5 35 (13.31%) Maven
6 20 (7.60%) JIRA
7 4 (1.52%) Selenium
8 3 (1.14%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.14%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.14%) JUnit
9 2 (0.76%) Postman
10 1 (0.38%) JMeter
10 1 (0.38%) LoadRunner
10 1 (0.38%) PHPUnit
10 1 (0.38%) Visual Studio
General
1 88 (33.46%) Social Skills
2 33 (12.55%) Finance
3 23 (8.75%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (6.46%) Public Sector
5 16 (6.08%) Retail
6 7 (2.66%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.52%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.52%) Law
8 4 (1.52%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.14%) Marketing
10 2 (0.76%) Advertising
10 2 (0.76%) Games
10 2 (0.76%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.38%) Back Office
11 1 (0.38%) Billing
Job Titles
1 90 (34.22%) Developer
2 55 (20.91%) Java Developer
3 51 (19.39%) Senior
4 37 (14.07%) Lead
5 31 (11.79%) DevOps Engineer
6 22 (8.37%) Software Engineer
7 21 (7.98%) AWS Developer
8 17 (6.46%) Cloud Engineer
9 16 (6.08%) Data Engineer
10 15 (5.70%) .NET Developer
10 15 (5.70%) Senior Developer
11 13 (4.94%) Full-Stack Developer
12 12 (4.56%) Platform Engineer
13 10 (3.80%) Lead Data Engineer
14 9 (3.42%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 9 (3.42%) QA Manager
14 9 (3.42%) Senior DevOps
14 9 (3.42%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 8 (3.04%) Analyst
15 8 (3.04%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (23.57%) AngularJS
2 54 (20.53%) Spring Boot
3 40 (15.21%) React
4 39 (14.83%) Node.js
5 36 (13.69%) Jest
6 35 (13.31%) Gherkin
7 31 (11.79%) Spring
8 26 (9.89%) .NET
8 26 (9.89%) RESTful
9 18 (6.84%) .NET Core
9 18 (6.84%) ASP.NET
9 18 (6.84%) REST
10 17 (6.46%) Elastic Stack
11 14 (5.32%) ASP.NET Core
11 14 (5.32%) Blazor
12 13 (4.94%) AWS CDK
12 13 (4.94%) PySpark
13 10 (3.80%) CSS
13 10 (3.80%) HTML
14 7 (2.66%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 41 (15.59%) Cloud Native
2 17 (6.46%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (3.42%) NHS
4 7 (2.66%) e-Learning
5 5 (1.90%) Analytical Mindset
5 5 (1.90%) Management Information System
5 5 (1.90%) Product Ownership
6 4 (1.52%) Data Structures
6 4 (1.52%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.52%) SCADA
6 4 (1.52%) Security Posture
7 3 (1.14%) CMDB
7 3 (1.14%) Driving Licence
7 3 (1.14%) Enterprise Cloud
7 3 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.14%) Social Media
8 2 (0.76%) Cloud Security Posture
8 2 (0.76%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (0.76%) Mobile App
8 2 (0.76%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 11 (4.18%) Windows
2 9 (3.42%) Linux
3 5 (1.90%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.76%) Unix
5 1 (0.38%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (64.64%) CI/CD
2 116 (44.11%) Agile
3 62 (23.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 49 (18.63%) Microservices
5 48 (18.25%) Continuous Improvement
6 47 (17.87%) Problem-Solving
7 44 (16.73%) Mentoring
8 39 (14.83%) Containerisation
9 37 (14.07%) ITIL
10 35 (13.31%) Software Engineering
11 34 (12.93%) Stakeholder Management
12 32 (12.17%) Full-Stack Development
13 30 (11.41%) Continuous Integration
13 30 (11.41%) SDLC
14 29 (11.03%) Observability
15 27 (10.27%) Secure Coding
16 24 (9.13%) Platform Engineering
17 23 (8.75%) DevSecOps
17 23 (8.75%) Scrum
17 23 (8.75%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 79 (30.04%) Java
2 71 (27.00%) SQL
3 60 (22.81%) TypeScript
4 45 (17.11%) Bash
5 43 (16.35%) Python
6 38 (14.45%) Groovy
7 26 (9.89%) JavaScript
8 18 (6.84%) Kotlin
9 11 (4.18%) C#
9 11 (4.18%) PowerShell
10 7 (2.66%) Go
11 5 (1.90%) T-SQL
12 4 (1.52%) Bicep
13 2 (0.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.76%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.76%) R
14 1 (0.38%) Perl
14 1 (0.38%) PHP
14 1 (0.38%) Scala
Qualifications
1 40 (15.21%) AWS Certification
2 22 (8.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 22 (8.37%) ITIL Certification
3 21 (7.98%) Degree
4 18 (6.84%) Security Cleared
5 17 (6.46%) AWS Certified Developer
6 13 (4.94%) SC Cleared
7 6 (2.28%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.90%) PMI Certification
8 5 (1.90%) PMP
9 2 (0.76%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.76%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.38%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 1 (0.38%) CBAP
10 1 (0.38%) IIBA
10 1 (0.38%) MCITP
10 1 (0.38%) MCSE
10 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (9.51%) QA
2 11 (4.18%) GDPR
3 10 (3.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (3.04%) PCI DSS
5 7 (2.66%) GRC
6 5 (1.90%) Data Quality
6 5 (1.90%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.76%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.76%) NIST
System Software
1 96 (36.50%) Docker
2 3 (1.14%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 3 (1.14%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 66 (25.10%) Terraform
2 36 (13.69%) HP Fortify
3 32 (12.17%) Kubernetes
4 19 (7.22%) Ansible
5 11 (4.18%) Grafana
5 11 (4.18%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.90%) Argo
7 3 (1.14%) Packer
8 2 (0.76%) Kibana
9 1 (0.38%) Istio
9 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 35 (13.31%) Microsoft
2 15 (5.70%) Databricks
3 14 (5.32%) SAP
4 7 (2.66%) Google
5 6 (2.28%) IBM
5 6 (2.28%) Oracle
5 6 (2.28%) ServiceNow
6 5 (1.90%) AppDynamics
7 4 (1.52%) IFS
8 3 (1.14%) Pega
8 3 (1.14%) Sparx
8 3 (1.14%) WSO2
9 2 (0.76%) Adobe
9 2 (0.76%) Qualys
10 1 (0.38%) Apple
10 1 (0.38%) Foundry
10 1 (0.38%) New Relic
10 1 (0.38%) Sony
10 1 (0.38%) VMware
10 1 (0.38%) Yahoo!