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

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 48 30
Rank change year-on-year +18 -18 -16
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 290 146 287
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 3.78% 4.33% 5.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.63% 4.98% 7.48%
Number of salaries quoted 200 123 201
10th Percentile £45,925 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £83,750 £75,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £92,500 £78,750 £87,500
England median annual salary £71,991 £70,000 £69,154
% change year-on-year +2.84% +1.22% -1.21%

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 5,150 2,931 3,838
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 67.21% 86.90% 79.86%
Number of salaries quoted 3,805 1,405 1,818
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -9.52% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,483 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £59,664
% change year-on-year +9.09% -7.82% -4.27%

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 27 September 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 27 September 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 +14 196 £75,000 +15.38% 114
South Yorkshire +4 63 £69,310 +15.52% 59
East Yorkshire -4 10 £47,000 +14.63% 6
North Yorkshire -2 9 £55,000 -21.43% 20
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 (2.07%) Confluence
2 5 (1.72%) Apache Spark
2 5 (1.72%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.03%) Apache
3 3 (1.03%) CMS
3 3 (1.03%) IIS
4 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.69%) nginx
4 2 (0.69%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (0.34%) CICS
Applications
1 5 (1.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.03%) SAP S/4HANA
1 3 (1.03%) Shopify
2 2 (0.69%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 117 (40.34%) AWS
1 117 (40.34%) Azure
2 67 (23.10%) Azure DevOps
3 57 (19.66%) Serverless
4 49 (16.90%) AWS CloudFormation
5 47 (16.21%) GitHub
6 46 (15.86%) AWS Lambda
7 45 (15.52%) Amazon S3
8 44 (15.17%) Amazon ECS
9 33 (11.38%) GitHub Actions
10 31 (10.69%) AWS Step Functions
11 26 (8.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 24 (8.28%) GCP
13 22 (7.59%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 20 (6.90%) Power Platform
15 18 (6.21%) Azure Data Factory
15 18 (6.21%) Datadog
16 17 (5.86%) Amazon EC2
16 17 (5.86%) Microsoft 365
17 13 (4.48%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.10%) Internet
2 6 (2.07%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.38%) Firewall
4 3 (1.03%) DNS
5 2 (0.69%) BGP
5 2 (0.69%) Ethernet VPN
5 2 (0.69%) HTTP
5 2 (0.69%) NGFW
5 2 (0.69%) OSPF
5 2 (0.69%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (0.69%) VXLAN
6 1 (0.34%) LAN
6 1 (0.34%) Network Security
6 1 (0.34%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.34%) VPN
6 1 (0.34%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (10.69%) DynamoDB
2 21 (7.24%) NoSQL
3 20 (6.90%) MongoDB
4 18 (6.21%) Amazon Athena
5 16 (5.52%) Data Warehouse
6 13 (4.48%) Spark SQL
7 12 (4.14%) SQL Server
8 11 (3.79%) Azure SQL Database
9 10 (3.45%) Power BI
10 9 (3.10%) PostgreSQL
10 9 (3.10%) Relational Database
11 7 (2.41%) Amazon RDS
12 6 (2.07%) Metadata
13 4 (1.38%) Data Lake
13 4 (1.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 3 (1.03%) Redis
15 2 (0.69%) BigQuery
15 2 (0.69%) Hadoop
15 2 (0.69%) Metadata Repository
15 2 (0.69%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 51 (17.59%) Git
2 40 (13.79%) Jenkins
3 35 (12.07%) GitLab
4 19 (6.55%) JIRA
5 12 (4.14%) Cypress.io
6 11 (3.79%) SonarQube
7 9 (3.10%) Maven
8 7 (2.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 6 (2.07%) Visual Studio
10 3 (1.03%) Artifactory
10 3 (1.03%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.34%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.34%) Selenium
11 1 (0.34%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 57 (19.66%) Social Skills
2 52 (17.93%) Public Sector
3 27 (9.31%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (8.62%) Finance
5 9 (3.10%) Legal
6 7 (2.41%) Law
7 6 (2.07%) Banking
7 6 (2.07%) Local Government
8 4 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.03%) Retail
9 3 (1.03%) Tech for Good
10 2 (0.69%) Advertising
10 2 (0.69%) Billing
11 1 (0.34%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.34%) Electronics
11 1 (0.34%) Games
11 1 (0.34%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.34%) Publishing
11 1 (0.34%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 77 (26.55%) DevOps Engineer
2 74 (25.52%) Developer
3 70 (24.14%) Senior
4 47 (16.21%) Lead
5 35 (12.07%) Cloud Engineer
5 35 (12.07%) Java Developer
6 26 (8.97%) Senior DevOps
6 26 (8.97%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 23 (7.93%) Data Engineer
8 22 (7.59%) Platform Engineer
9 19 (6.55%) AWS Developer
10 17 (5.86%) AWS Engineer
11 15 (5.17%) .NET Developer
11 15 (5.17%) Azure Engineer
11 15 (5.17%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 14 (4.83%) Full-Stack Developer
12 14 (4.83%) Lead Data Engineer
13 13 (4.48%) Lead Cloud Engineer
14 12 (4.14%) Lead DevOps
14 12 (4.14%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (22.41%) Terraform
2 38 (13.10%) .NET
3 37 (12.76%) AngularJS
4 34 (11.72%) Node.js
5 29 (10.00%) React
6 24 (8.28%) Spring Boot
7 21 (7.24%) REST
8 20 (6.90%) RESTful
9 19 (6.55%) ASP.NET
10 18 (6.21%) Spring
11 16 (5.52%) ASP.NET Core
12 14 (4.83%) PySpark
13 13 (4.48%) .NET Core
14 12 (4.14%) Blazor
14 12 (4.14%) CSS
14 12 (4.14%) ML.NET
15 10 (3.45%) Jest
16 9 (3.10%) ARM Templates
16 9 (3.10%) HTML
17 8 (2.76%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 37 (12.76%) Cloud Native
2 12 (4.14%) Linux Command Line
3 10 (3.45%) Product Ownership
4 7 (2.41%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (2.41%) Mobile App
5 6 (2.07%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (2.07%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (2.07%) Legacy Applications
6 5 (1.72%) Blog
6 5 (1.72%) NHS
6 5 (1.72%) Social Media
7 4 (1.38%) AI Agents
7 4 (1.38%) BBC
7 4 (1.38%) iPhone
7 4 (1.38%) Low-Code
7 4 (1.38%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.03%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.03%) Learning Management System
8 3 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 34 (11.72%) Linux
2 15 (5.17%) Windows
3 12 (4.14%) Unix
4 8 (2.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (2.41%) CentOS
6 4 (1.38%) Android
7 3 (1.03%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.34%) VMS
8 1 (0.34%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 163 (56.21%) CI/CD
2 113 (38.97%) Agile
3 71 (24.48%) Infrastructure as Code
4 54 (18.62%) Mentoring
5 50 (17.24%) Test Automation
6 45 (15.52%) Microservices
7 44 (15.17%) Platform Engineering
8 43 (14.83%) Scrum
9 41 (14.14%) Continuous Improvement
9 41 (14.14%) Problem-Solving
10 40 (13.79%) Continuous Integration
11 39 (13.45%) Coaching
12 35 (12.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 34 (11.72%) Full-Stack Development
14 33 (11.38%) Technical Leadership
15 30 (10.34%) AI
15 30 (10.34%) Containerisation
15 30 (10.34%) Software Engineering
16 26 (8.97%) SDLC
17 24 (8.28%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 77 (26.55%) SQL
2 53 (18.28%) Java
3 51 (17.59%) Python
4 41 (14.14%) C#
5 36 (12.41%) TypeScript
6 30 (10.34%) JavaScript
7 23 (7.93%) Kotlin
8 20 (6.90%) Bash
9 15 (5.17%) Groovy
10 5 (1.72%) Bicep
10 5 (1.72%) Shell Script
10 5 (1.72%) VB.NET
11 4 (1.38%) T-SQL
12 3 (1.03%) C
12 3 (1.03%) C++
12 3 (1.03%) PowerShell
12 3 (1.03%) Ruby
13 2 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.69%) Go
13 2 (0.69%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 35 (12.07%) Security Cleared
2 30 (10.34%) SC Cleared
3 21 (7.24%) Degree
4 15 (5.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (3.79%) AWS Certification
6 7 (2.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 7 (2.41%) DV Cleared
6 7 (2.41%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (0.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 2 (0.69%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.69%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 2 (0.69%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.69%) PMP
8 1 (0.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.34%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.34%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.52%) QA
2 10 (3.45%) Data Quality
3 7 (2.41%) GDPR
4 5 (1.72%) GRC
5 4 (1.38%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.34%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.34%) WCAG
System Software
1 67 (23.10%) Docker
2 9 (3.10%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.34%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.34%) Firmware
4 1 (0.34%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.34%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 29 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 16 (5.52%) Ansible
3 9 (3.10%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (2.76%) Argo
4 8 (2.76%) HP Fortify
5 3 (1.03%) Packer
5 3 (1.03%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.69%) Grafana
6 2 (0.69%) Kibana
6 2 (0.69%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.34%) Istio
7 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Satellite
7 1 (0.34%) VxRail
Vendors
1 50 (17.24%) Microsoft
2 19 (6.55%) Databricks
3 16 (5.52%) Google
4 10 (3.45%) Pega
5 8 (2.76%) Cisco
6 6 (2.07%) IBM
7 5 (1.72%) AppDynamics
8 4 (1.38%) Apple
8 4 (1.38%) Facebook
8 4 (1.38%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.38%) Sony
8 4 (1.38%) Yahoo!
9 3 (1.03%) SAP
9 3 (1.03%) VMware
10 2 (0.69%) F5
10 2 (0.69%) Informatica
10 2 (0.69%) Oracle
10 2 (0.69%) Palo Alto
10 2 (0.69%) Sage
10 2 (0.69%) Sophos