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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 30 14
Rank change year-on-year -16 -16 -3
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 149 293 455
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 4.50% 5.93% 12.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.19% 7.48% 12.70%
Number of salaries quoted 125 209 335
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% -3.70%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £92,500
England median annual salary £70,298 £68,350 £70,000
% change year-on-year +2.85% -2.36% -

All Process and 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 2,871 3,918 3,582
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 86.68% 79.28% 95.98%
Number of salaries quoted 1,418 1,967 2,564
10th Percentile £26,178 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £38,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £65,938 £65,603 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £79,250 £83,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% -8.00% +4.17%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps 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 19 September 2025.

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 19 September 2025. 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 -17 101 £65,000 -4.41% 83
South Yorkshire -6 22 £55,000 +4.76% 22
North Yorkshire -4 19 £70,000 +7.69% 15
East Yorkshire -24 5 £41,000 -13.68%
DevOps
England

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (4.70%) Confluence
2 4 (2.68%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.34%) Apache
4 1 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.67%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.67%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.67%) CMS
4 1 (0.67%) FileNet
4 1 (0.67%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.67%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.67%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.67%) WebLogic
Applications
1 6 (4.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.67%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (2.68%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.67%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 78 (52.35%) Azure
2 53 (35.57%) AWS
3 32 (21.48%) Azure DevOps
4 21 (14.09%) GitHub
5 20 (13.42%) AWS CloudFormation
5 20 (13.42%) GCP
6 17 (11.41%) SaaS
7 16 (10.74%) Serverless
8 10 (6.71%) Amazon ECS
9 9 (6.04%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (6.04%) GitHub Actions
10 8 (5.37%) Power Platform
11 7 (4.70%) AWS Step Functions
12 6 (4.03%) Power Automate
13 5 (3.36%) IaaS
14 4 (2.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 4 (2.68%) Amazon S3
14 4 (2.68%) Azure Functions
14 4 (2.68%) Datadog
14 4 (2.68%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.04%) Firewall
2 5 (3.36%) DNS
2 5 (3.36%) VPN
3 4 (2.68%) Network Security
4 3 (2.01%) WAN
5 2 (1.34%) AMQP
5 2 (1.34%) DHCP
5 2 (1.34%) Multicast
5 2 (1.34%) SAN
5 2 (1.34%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.67%) BGP
6 1 (0.67%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (0.67%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.04%) SQL Server
2 8 (5.37%) NoSQL
3 7 (4.70%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (4.70%) Relational Database
4 6 (4.03%) RDBMS
5 5 (3.36%) OLAP
5 5 (3.36%) Power BI
5 5 (3.36%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 4 (2.68%) Data Lake
7 3 (2.01%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (2.01%) Big Data
7 3 (2.01%) MySQL
8 2 (1.34%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (1.34%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.34%) Data Vault
8 2 (1.34%) DB2
8 2 (1.34%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.34%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.34%) Hadoop
8 2 (1.34%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 22 (14.77%) Jenkins
2 19 (12.75%) JIRA
3 18 (12.08%) GitLab
4 15 (10.07%) Git
5 6 (4.03%) Selenium
6 4 (2.68%) SonarQube
7 3 (2.01%) JUnit
7 3 (2.01%) Postman
8 2 (1.34%) CircleCI
8 2 (1.34%) Maven
8 2 (1.34%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.67%) Appium
9 1 (0.67%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.67%) JMeter
9 1 (0.67%) Katalon Studio
9 1 (0.67%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.67%) SoapUI
General
1 44 (29.53%) Social Skills
2 20 (13.42%) Finance
3 13 (8.72%) Law
4 8 (5.37%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (4.70%) Financial Institution
5 7 (4.70%) Legal
6 5 (3.36%) Marketing
6 5 (3.36%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.68%) Banking
8 3 (2.01%) Retail
9 2 (1.34%) Digital Healthcare
9 2 (1.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.34%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.34%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.67%) Advertising
10 1 (0.67%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 37 (24.83%) Developer
2 28 (18.79%) Lead
2 28 (18.79%) Senior
3 18 (12.08%) Architect
3 18 (12.08%) DevOps Engineer
4 12 (8.05%) Software Engineer
5 11 (7.38%) Lead DevOps
5 11 (7.38%) Senior Developer
6 9 (6.04%) Analyst
6 9 (6.04%) Lead DevOps Engineer
7 8 (5.37%) .NET Developer
8 7 (4.70%) Cloud Engineer
9 6 (4.03%) Java Developer
9 6 (4.03%) Senior Software Engineer
9 6 (4.03%) Software Developer
10 5 (3.36%) Junior
10 5 (3.36%) Junior Developer
10 5 (3.36%) Lead Developer
10 5 (3.36%) Operations Manager
10 5 (3.36%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (20.13%) .NET
2 11 (7.38%) REST
2 11 (7.38%) RESTful
3 10 (6.71%) ASP.NET
3 10 (6.71%) SOAP
4 8 (5.37%) AngularJS
4 8 (5.37%) ASP.NET Core
4 8 (5.37%) React
5 6 (4.03%) Web Services
6 5 (3.36%) .NET Core
6 5 (3.36%) HTML
6 5 (3.36%) Spring
6 5 (3.36%) Spring Boot
6 5 (3.36%) Vue
6 5 (3.36%) WinForms
7 4 (2.68%) CSS
7 4 (2.68%) LDAP
7 4 (2.68%) Micronaut
7 4 (2.68%) Pandas
8 3 (2.01%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 30 (20.13%) Cloud Native
2 11 (7.38%) Product Ownership
3 8 (5.37%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (4.70%) Data Centre
5 6 (4.03%) CMDB
6 3 (2.01%) Distributed Architecture
6 3 (2.01%) Enterprise Storage
6 3 (2.01%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.01%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.34%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.34%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.34%) NHS
7 2 (1.34%) Operational Technology
7 2 (1.34%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.34%) Replication
7 2 (1.34%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.67%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.67%) SCADA
8 1 (0.67%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 19 (12.75%) Windows
2 11 (7.38%) Linux
3 4 (2.68%) Unix
4 2 (1.34%) Android
4 2 (1.34%) Windows 10
4 2 (1.34%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.34%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (1.34%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (1.34%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (55.03%) CI/CD
2 63 (42.28%) Agile
3 46 (30.87%) Infrastructure as Code
4 31 (20.81%) Problem-Solving
4 31 (20.81%) Software Engineering
5 25 (16.78%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 24 (16.11%) Continuous Improvement
6 24 (16.11%) Mentoring
7 20 (13.42%) Stakeholder Management
8 18 (12.08%) Scrum
9 17 (11.41%) Roadmaps
10 14 (9.40%) Analytics
10 14 (9.40%) Business Intelligence
10 14 (9.40%) Collaborative Culture
10 14 (9.40%) Microservices
10 14 (9.40%) Migration
10 14 (9.40%) Test Automation
11 13 (8.72%) Observability
12 12 (8.05%) Containerisation
12 12 (8.05%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 46 (30.87%) SQL
2 33 (22.15%) Python
3 31 (20.81%) C#
4 27 (18.12%) Java
4 27 (18.12%) JavaScript
5 17 (11.41%) TypeScript
6 16 (10.74%) PowerShell
7 12 (8.05%) Bash
8 5 (3.36%) Go
8 5 (3.36%) T-SQL
9 3 (2.01%) Bicep
9 3 (2.01%) Groovy
10 2 (1.34%) Apex Code
10 2 (1.34%) SOQL
11 1 (0.67%) PHP
Qualifications
1 12 (8.05%) AWS Certification
2 11 (7.38%) Degree
2 11 (7.38%) Security Cleared
3 10 (6.71%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.36%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.68%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (2.01%) CompTIA CySA+
6 3 (2.01%) CompTIA Security+
6 3 (2.01%) GSEC
7 2 (1.34%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.67%) Postgraduate
8 1 (0.67%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.04%) QA
2 4 (2.68%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.01%) GDPR
3 3 (2.01%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.34%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.67%) NCSC
System Software
1 24 (16.11%) Docker
2 4 (2.68%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.01%) Hyper-V
3 3 (2.01%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.34%) Squid
4 2 (1.34%) vSphere
5 1 (0.67%) NFS
5 1 (0.67%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.67%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 34 (22.82%) Kubernetes
2 29 (19.46%) Terraform
3 15 (10.07%) Ansible
4 10 (6.71%) Prometheus
5 6 (4.03%) Grafana
6 3 (2.01%) Argo
7 2 (1.34%) Istio
7 2 (1.34%) Kibana
7 2 (1.34%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (12.08%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.03%) Databricks
3 5 (3.36%) Oracle
3 5 (3.36%) ServiceNow
4 4 (2.68%) Google
4 4 (2.68%) Salesforce
5 3 (2.01%) Cisco
5 3 (2.01%) IBM
5 3 (2.01%) New Relic
5 3 (2.01%) OpenAI
5 3 (2.01%) Splunk
5 3 (2.01%) VMware
6 2 (1.34%) CyberSource
6 2 (1.34%) Meraki
7 1 (0.67%) 3PAR
7 1 (0.67%) Adobe
7 1 (0.67%) Blue Prism
7 1 (0.67%) Juniper
7 1 (0.67%) SAP
7 1 (0.67%) TOWER Software