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

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 23 23
Rank change year-on-year -13 0 -8
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 251 195 416
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 4.95% 8.79% 7.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.79% 9.26% 9.19%
Number of salaries quoted 167 152 330
10th Percentile £42,500 £39,126 £35,992
25th Percentile £53,750 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.32% +12.92% -4.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £91,934 £76,250
90th Percentile £93,500 £98,474 £87,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,799
% change year-on-year - +6.38% -6.00%

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 3,697 2,105 4,527
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 72.88% 94.91% 84.25%
Number of salaries quoted 2,336 1,227 3,609
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 £68,750 £71,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £81,250
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 3 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 3 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 -3 213 £70,000 -11.18% 53
South Yorkshire -40 17 £75,466 +63.17% 26
East Yorkshire -26 9 £46,250 +2.78% 3
North Yorkshire -7 5 £72,500 +7.41% 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 (2.79%) Moodle
2 6 (2.39%) Confluence
3 5 (1.99%) OpenStack
4 4 (1.59%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.59%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.80%) IIS
6 1 (0.40%) Apache
6 1 (0.40%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (1.59%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (1.59%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 14 (5.58%) SAP ERP
2 4 (1.59%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.40%) Magento
4 1 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.40%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 146 (58.17%) AWS
2 107 (42.63%) Azure
3 100 (39.84%) Serverless
4 86 (34.26%) Amazon S3
4 86 (34.26%) AWS Lambda
5 69 (27.49%) AWS CloudFormation
6 66 (26.29%) Amazon ECS
7 65 (25.90%) AWS Step Functions
8 57 (22.71%) GitHub
9 39 (15.54%) Azure DevOps
10 38 (15.14%) GitHub Actions
11 36 (14.34%) Amazon SQS
12 35 (13.94%) Amazon ECR
12 35 (13.94%) Apigee
13 33 (13.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 29 (11.55%) GCP
15 23 (9.16%) Amazon EKS
16 19 (7.57%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 14 (5.58%) Amazon EventBridge
18 13 (5.18%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.79%) Firewall
2 6 (2.39%) HTTP
3 5 (1.99%) DNS
4 4 (1.59%) Network Security
4 4 (1.59%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.40%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (31.08%) DynamoDB
2 34 (13.55%) NoSQL
3 22 (8.76%) PostgreSQL
4 20 (7.97%) SQL Server
5 19 (7.57%) Amazon Athena
6 10 (3.98%) Relational Database
7 6 (2.39%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (2.39%) Metadata
7 6 (2.39%) Spark SQL
8 4 (1.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (1.20%) Power BI
10 2 (0.80%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (0.80%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.40%) Amazon Aurora
11 1 (0.40%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (0.40%) BigQuery
11 1 (0.40%) MongoDB
11 1 (0.40%) MySQL
11 1 (0.40%) Star Schema
11 1 (0.40%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 68 (27.09%) Jenkins
2 50 (19.92%) GitLab
3 43 (17.13%) Git
4 40 (15.94%) SonarQube
5 35 (13.94%) Cypress.io
5 35 (13.94%) Maven
6 18 (7.17%) JIRA
7 5 (1.99%) Selenium
8 3 (1.20%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.20%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.20%) JUnit
9 2 (0.80%) JMeter
9 2 (0.80%) LoadRunner
9 2 (0.80%) Postman
10 1 (0.40%) PHPUnit
General
1 86 (34.26%) Social Skills
2 31 (12.35%) Finance
3 22 (8.76%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (6.37%) Retail
5 15 (5.98%) Public Sector
6 7 (2.79%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (1.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.59%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.59%) Law
8 4 (1.59%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.20%) Marketing
10 2 (0.80%) Advertising
10 2 (0.80%) Games
10 2 (0.80%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.40%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 87 (34.66%) Developer
2 55 (21.91%) Java Developer
3 47 (18.73%) Senior
4 37 (14.74%) Lead
5 27 (10.76%) DevOps Engineer
6 21 (8.37%) AWS Developer
6 21 (8.37%) Software Engineer
7 17 (6.77%) Cloud Engineer
8 15 (5.98%) .NET Developer
8 15 (5.98%) Data Engineer
8 15 (5.98%) Senior Developer
9 13 (5.18%) Full-Stack Developer
10 11 (4.38%) Platform Engineer
11 9 (3.59%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 9 (3.59%) Lead Data Engineer
11 9 (3.59%) QA Manager
12 8 (3.19%) Analyst
12 8 (3.19%) Senior Java Developer
13 7 (2.79%) Senior Software Engineer
13 7 (2.79%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (24.70%) AngularJS
2 54 (21.51%) Spring Boot
3 40 (15.94%) React
4 37 (14.74%) Node.js
5 36 (14.34%) Jest
6 35 (13.94%) Gherkin
7 31 (12.35%) Spring
8 26 (10.36%) RESTful
9 25 (9.96%) .NET
10 18 (7.17%) .NET Core
10 18 (7.17%) ASP.NET
11 17 (6.77%) Elastic Stack
11 17 (6.77%) REST
12 14 (5.58%) ASP.NET Core
12 14 (5.58%) Blazor
13 13 (5.18%) AWS CDK
14 12 (4.78%) PySpark
15 9 (3.59%) CSS
15 9 (3.59%) HTML
16 7 (2.79%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 41 (16.33%) Cloud Native
2 17 (6.77%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (3.59%) NHS
4 7 (2.79%) e-Learning
5 5 (1.99%) Analytical Mindset
5 5 (1.99%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.59%) Data Structures
6 4 (1.59%) Product Ownership
6 4 (1.59%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.59%) SCADA
6 4 (1.59%) Security Posture
7 3 (1.20%) CMDB
7 3 (1.20%) Driving Licence
7 3 (1.20%) Enterprise Cloud
7 3 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.20%) Social Media
8 2 (0.80%) Cloud Security Posture
8 2 (0.80%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (0.80%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.80%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.59%) Windows
2 7 (2.79%) Linux
3 5 (1.99%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.40%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 165 (65.74%) CI/CD
2 111 (44.22%) Agile
3 61 (24.30%) Infrastructure as Code
4 47 (18.73%) Continuous Improvement
5 45 (17.93%) Microservices
5 45 (17.93%) Problem-Solving
6 41 (16.33%) Mentoring
7 39 (15.54%) Containerisation
8 37 (14.74%) ITIL
9 34 (13.55%) Software Engineering
10 32 (12.75%) Full-Stack Development
10 32 (12.75%) Stakeholder Management
11 30 (11.95%) SDLC
12 28 (11.16%) Continuous Integration
12 28 (11.16%) Observability
13 27 (10.76%) Secure Coding
14 23 (9.16%) DevSecOps
14 23 (9.16%) Platform Engineering
15 22 (8.76%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
16 21 (8.37%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 77 (30.68%) Java
2 68 (27.09%) SQL
3 60 (23.90%) TypeScript
4 45 (17.93%) Bash
5 43 (17.13%) Python
6 38 (15.14%) Groovy
7 26 (10.36%) JavaScript
8 18 (7.17%) Kotlin
9 11 (4.38%) PowerShell
10 10 (3.98%) C#
11 7 (2.79%) Go
12 4 (1.59%) Bicep
12 4 (1.59%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.80%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.80%) R
14 1 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.40%) Perl
14 1 (0.40%) PHP
14 1 (0.40%) Scala
Qualifications
1 39 (15.54%) AWS Certification
2 22 (8.76%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 22 (8.76%) ITIL Certification
3 18 (7.17%) Degree
3 18 (7.17%) Security Cleared
4 17 (6.77%) AWS Certified Developer
5 13 (5.18%) SC Cleared
6 5 (1.99%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.59%) PMI Certification
7 4 (1.59%) PMP
8 2 (0.80%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.80%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.40%) CBAP
9 1 (0.40%) IIBA
9 1 (0.40%) MCITP
9 1 (0.40%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (9.56%) QA
2 10 (3.98%) GDPR
2 10 (3.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (3.19%) PCI DSS
4 6 (2.39%) GRC
5 5 (1.99%) Data Quality
5 5 (1.99%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.80%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.80%) NIST
System Software
1 96 (38.25%) Docker
2 3 (1.20%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 3 (1.20%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 63 (25.10%) Terraform
2 37 (14.74%) HP Fortify
3 32 (12.75%) Kubernetes
4 19 (7.57%) Ansible
5 11 (4.38%) Grafana
5 11 (4.38%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.20%) Argo
6 3 (1.20%) Packer
7 2 (0.80%) Kibana
8 1 (0.40%) Control-M
8 1 (0.40%) Istio
Vendors
1 32 (12.75%) Microsoft
2 14 (5.58%) Databricks
2 14 (5.58%) SAP
3 7 (2.79%) Google
3 7 (2.79%) IBM
3 7 (2.79%) Oracle
4 6 (2.39%) ServiceNow
5 5 (1.99%) AppDynamics
6 4 (1.59%) IFS
7 3 (1.20%) Pega
7 3 (1.20%) Sparx
7 3 (1.20%) WSO2
8 2 (0.80%) Adobe
8 2 (0.80%) Qualys
9 1 (0.40%) Apple
9 1 (0.40%) Foundry
9 1 (0.40%) New Relic
9 1 (0.40%) Sony
9 1 (0.40%) VMware
9 1 (0.40%) Yahoo!