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

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 27 27
Rank change year-on-year -6 0 -9
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 270 198 386
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 4.37% 7.96% 6.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.27% 8.45% 8.26%
Number of salaries quoted 181 152 310
10th Percentile £42,500 £37,716 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £47,231 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £68,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% +13.33% -2.44%
75th Percentile £82,500 £92,388 £73,421
90th Percentile £92,500 £98,474 £85,250
England median annual salary £70,400 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +0.57% +7.69% -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 4,309 2,344 4,672
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 69.82% 94.21% 82.91%
Number of salaries quoted 2,807 1,295 3,720
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £37,625 £31,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £48,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +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 11 May 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 11 May 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 -11.18% 48
South Yorkshire -36 30 £80,000 +72.97% 17
North Yorkshire -4 8 £72,500 +3.57% 4
East Yorkshire -31 6 £46,250 +2.78% 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 (2.59%) Moodle
2 5 (1.85%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.48%) Confluence
4 3 (1.11%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.74%) IIS
5 2 (0.74%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.37%) Apache
Applications
1 7 (2.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.85%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 13 (4.81%) SAP ERP
2 3 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.11%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (1.11%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.37%) Magento
3 1 (0.37%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 139 (51.48%) AWS
2 113 (41.85%) Azure
3 94 (34.81%) Serverless
4 82 (30.37%) Amazon S3
4 82 (30.37%) AWS Lambda
5 70 (25.93%) AWS CloudFormation
6 67 (24.81%) Amazon ECS
7 65 (24.07%) AWS Step Functions
8 52 (19.26%) GitHub
9 49 (18.15%) Azure DevOps
10 38 (14.07%) GitHub Actions
11 36 (13.33%) Amazon ECR
11 36 (13.33%) Apigee
12 33 (12.22%) Amazon SQS
13 32 (11.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 29 (10.74%) GCP
15 22 (8.15%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 17 (6.30%) Amazon EKS
17 15 (5.56%) Azure Data Factory
17 15 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.22%) Firewall
1 6 (2.22%) HTTP
2 5 (1.85%) DNS
3 4 (1.48%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.74%) Network Security
5 1 (0.37%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (27.78%) DynamoDB
2 34 (12.59%) NoSQL
3 22 (8.15%) Amazon Athena
4 21 (7.78%) PostgreSQL
5 19 (7.04%) SQL Server
6 16 (5.93%) Spark SQL
7 14 (5.19%) Data Warehouse
8 9 (3.33%) MongoDB
9 8 (2.96%) Power BI
10 7 (2.59%) Metadata
11 5 (1.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 4 (1.48%) Relational Database
13 3 (1.11%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (1.11%) Power Query
14 1 (0.37%) BigQuery
14 1 (0.37%) Data Lake
14 1 (0.37%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
14 1 (0.37%) MySQL
14 1 (0.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 1 (0.37%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 68 (25.19%) Jenkins
2 58 (21.48%) GitLab
3 40 (14.81%) SonarQube
4 39 (14.44%) Git
5 36 (13.33%) Cypress.io
5 36 (13.33%) Maven
6 22 (8.15%) JIRA
7 4 (1.48%) Selenium
8 3 (1.11%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.11%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.11%) JUnit
9 2 (0.74%) Postman
9 2 (0.74%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.37%) JMeter
10 1 (0.37%) LoadRunner
10 1 (0.37%) PHPUnit
General
1 75 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 26 (9.63%) Finance
3 21 (7.78%) Public Sector
4 18 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (5.93%) Retail
6 7 (2.59%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (1.48%) Law
7 4 (1.48%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.11%) Marketing
9 2 (0.74%) Advertising
9 2 (0.74%) Billing
9 2 (0.74%) Games
9 2 (0.74%) Health Technology
9 2 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.37%) Back Office
10 1 (0.37%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.37%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 88 (32.59%) Developer
2 55 (20.37%) Java Developer
3 52 (19.26%) Senior
4 51 (18.89%) Lead
5 45 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
6 23 (8.52%) Data Engineer
7 22 (8.15%) AWS Developer
8 17 (6.30%) Lead Data Engineer
8 17 (6.30%) Platform Engineer
9 15 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
9 15 (5.56%) Software Engineer
10 14 (5.19%) Senior Developer
10 14 (5.19%) Senior DevOps
10 14 (5.19%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 13 (4.81%) .NET Developer
12 12 (4.44%) Full-Stack Developer
13 11 (4.07%) Lead DevOps
13 11 (4.07%) Lead DevOps Engineer
14 10 (3.70%) Azure Engineer
14 10 (3.70%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (22.59%) AngularJS
2 48 (17.78%) Spring Boot
3 37 (13.70%) Jest
3 37 (13.70%) Node.js
4 36 (13.33%) Gherkin
5 34 (12.59%) React
6 22 (8.15%) .NET
6 22 (8.15%) RESTful
7 21 (7.78%) PySpark
7 21 (7.78%) Spring
8 19 (7.04%) REST
9 15 (5.56%) ASP.NET
10 14 (5.19%) Elastic Stack
11 13 (4.81%) .NET Core
12 12 (4.44%) ASP.NET Core
12 12 (4.44%) Blazor
13 10 (3.70%) AWS CDK
14 8 (2.96%) ARM Templates
14 8 (2.96%) CSS
14 8 (2.96%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 31 (11.48%) Cloud Native
2 14 (5.19%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (3.33%) NHS
4 7 (2.59%) e-Learning
5 6 (2.22%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.48%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (1.48%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.48%) Product Ownership
6 4 (1.48%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.48%) SCADA
6 4 (1.48%) Social Media
7 3 (1.11%) CMDB
7 3 (1.11%) Driving Licence
7 3 (1.11%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.74%) BBC
8 2 (0.74%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.74%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (0.74%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (0.74%) Mobile App
8 2 (0.74%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 16 (5.93%) Linux
2 15 (5.56%) Windows
3 7 (2.59%) Unix
4 5 (1.85%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.37%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 174 (64.44%) CI/CD
2 110 (40.74%) Agile
3 56 (20.74%) Infrastructure as Code
4 46 (17.04%) Microservices
5 44 (16.30%) Mentoring
6 42 (15.56%) Continuous Improvement
6 42 (15.56%) Problem-Solving
7 38 (14.07%) ITIL
8 36 (13.33%) Containerisation
8 36 (13.33%) Continuous Integration
8 36 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
9 31 (11.48%) Test Automation
10 30 (11.11%) Platform Engineering
10 30 (11.11%) SDLC
11 29 (10.74%) Observability
12 28 (10.37%) Data Engineering
12 28 (10.37%) Full-Stack Development
12 28 (10.37%) Secure Coding
13 27 (10.00%) Scrum
14 25 (9.26%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 77 (28.52%) Java
2 74 (27.41%) SQL
3 62 (22.96%) TypeScript
4 47 (17.41%) Bash
4 47 (17.41%) Python
5 40 (14.81%) Groovy
6 23 (8.52%) JavaScript
7 21 (7.78%) Kotlin
8 11 (4.07%) C#
9 9 (3.33%) PowerShell
10 7 (2.59%) Go
11 6 (2.22%) T-SQL
12 3 (1.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.74%) Bicep
13 2 (0.74%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.37%) Perl
14 1 (0.37%) PHP
14 1 (0.37%) R
14 1 (0.37%) Scala
Qualifications
1 39 (14.44%) AWS Certification
2 27 (10.00%) Degree
3 23 (8.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 23 (8.52%) ITIL Certification
4 19 (7.04%) Security Cleared
5 14 (5.19%) AWS Certified Developer
6 13 (4.81%) SC Cleared
7 12 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.85%) PMI Certification
8 5 (1.85%) PMP
9 2 (0.74%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 2 (0.74%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.74%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (0.74%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.37%) CBAP
10 1 (0.37%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.37%) IIBA
10 1 (0.37%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (9.63%) QA
2 14 (5.19%) GDPR
3 8 (2.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (2.96%) PCI DSS
4 6 (2.22%) Data Quality
4 6 (2.22%) GRC
5 4 (1.48%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.74%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.37%) NIST
System Software
1 87 (32.22%) Docker
2 3 (1.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 3 (1.11%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 62 (22.96%) Terraform
2 37 (13.70%) HP Fortify
3 25 (9.26%) Kubernetes
4 15 (5.56%) Ansible
5 10 (3.70%) Argo
6 9 (3.33%) Grafana
6 9 (3.33%) Prometheus
7 3 (1.11%) Packer
8 2 (0.74%) Kibana
9 1 (0.37%) Istio
9 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.37%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 36 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 21 (7.78%) Databricks
3 16 (5.93%) SAP
4 9 (3.33%) ServiceNow
5 8 (2.96%) Google
6 6 (2.22%) IBM
7 5 (1.85%) AppDynamics
7 5 (1.85%) Oracle
8 3 (1.11%) IFS
8 3 (1.11%) Sparx
9 2 (0.74%) Adobe
9 2 (0.74%) Apple
9 2 (0.74%) Facebook
9 2 (0.74%) Qualys
9 2 (0.74%) Sony
9 2 (0.74%) Yahoo!
10 1 (0.37%) F5
10 1 (0.37%) Foundry
10 1 (0.37%) Informatica
10 1 (0.37%) VMware