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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 44 29
Rank change year-on-year +16 -15 -15
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 290 171 348
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 4.17% 4.94% 6.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.15% 5.48% 7.67%
Number of salaries quoted 213 135 276
10th Percentile £46,500 £37,050 £39,750
25th Percentile £53,750 £50,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +12.50% -
75th Percentile £82,500 £78,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,474 £87,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £71,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -2.10% +5.93% -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 4,713 3,119 4,536
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 67.78% 90.04% 79.20%
Number of salaries quoted 3,393 1,501 3,280
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -8.90%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £79,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 20 July 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 20 July 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 +8 212 £70,000 - 48
South Yorkshire -13 60 £69,310 +38.62% 15
North Yorkshire +1 12 £62,500 -10.71% 9
East Yorkshire -18 4 £47,000 +16.05% 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 5 (1.72%) Confluence
2 4 (1.38%) Moodle
2 4 (1.38%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.03%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.03%) CMS
3 3 (1.03%) IIS
4 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.69%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (0.34%) Apache
Applications
1 7 (2.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.72%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (1.38%) Shopify
2 3 (1.03%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.34%) Magento
3 1 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 115 (39.66%) AWS
2 114 (39.31%) Azure
3 71 (24.48%) Serverless
4 66 (22.76%) Azure DevOps
5 56 (19.31%) AWS Lambda
6 55 (18.97%) Amazon S3
7 54 (18.62%) Amazon ECS
8 48 (16.55%) AWS CloudFormation
9 47 (16.21%) GitHub
10 41 (14.14%) AWS Step Functions
11 29 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
12 26 (8.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 24 (8.28%) GCP
14 23 (7.93%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 20 (6.90%) Amazon ECR
15 20 (6.90%) Apigee
16 19 (6.55%) Amazon SQS
16 19 (6.55%) Azure Data Factory
17 18 (6.21%) Power Platform
18 13 (4.48%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.07%) HTTP
2 5 (1.72%) Firewall
3 4 (1.38%) DNS
3 4 (1.38%) Internet
4 2 (0.69%) BGP
4 2 (0.69%) Ethernet VPN
4 2 (0.69%) NGFW
4 2 (0.69%) OSPF
4 2 (0.69%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.69%) VXLAN
5 1 (0.34%) Broadband
5 1 (0.34%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (16.21%) DynamoDB
2 23 (7.93%) Amazon Athena
2 23 (7.93%) NoSQL
3 21 (7.24%) MongoDB
4 17 (5.86%) Spark SQL
5 16 (5.52%) Data Warehouse
6 12 (4.14%) Power BI
7 11 (3.79%) Azure SQL Database
7 11 (3.79%) SQL Server
8 9 (3.10%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (1.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 4 (1.38%) Metadata
10 4 (1.38%) Relational Database
11 3 (1.03%) Power Query
11 3 (1.03%) Redis
11 3 (1.03%) Star Schema
12 2 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
12 2 (0.69%) BigQuery
12 2 (0.69%) MySQL
12 2 (0.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 57 (19.66%) Jenkins
2 44 (15.17%) GitLab
3 43 (14.83%) Git
4 24 (8.28%) JIRA
5 23 (7.93%) Cypress.io
5 23 (7.93%) SonarQube
6 21 (7.24%) Maven
7 6 (2.07%) Visual Studio
8 4 (1.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (1.03%) Artifactory
9 3 (1.03%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.69%) JUnit
10 2 (0.69%) Postman
10 2 (0.69%) Selenium
11 1 (0.34%) PHPUnit
11 1 (0.34%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 60 (20.69%) Social Skills
2 31 (10.69%) Public Sector
3 22 (7.59%) Finance
4 15 (5.17%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (2.41%) Retail
6 5 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.03%) Law
8 3 (1.03%) Tech for Good
9 2 (0.69%) Banking
9 2 (0.69%) Billing
9 2 (0.69%) Games
9 2 (0.69%) Health Technology
9 2 (0.69%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.34%) Electronics
10 1 (0.34%) Local Government
10 1 (0.34%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 91 (31.38%) Developer
2 63 (21.72%) DevOps Engineer
2 63 (21.72%) Senior
3 48 (16.55%) Java Developer
4 42 (14.48%) Lead
5 25 (8.62%) Senior DevOps
5 25 (8.62%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 24 (8.28%) Data Engineer
7 22 (7.59%) Cloud Engineer
7 22 (7.59%) Platform Engineer
8 19 (6.55%) AWS Developer
9 17 (5.86%) Full-Stack Developer
10 16 (5.52%) Lead Data Engineer
11 15 (5.17%) Azure Engineer
12 14 (4.83%) .NET Developer
13 13 (4.48%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 12 (4.14%) Lead Cloud Engineer
14 12 (4.14%) Software Engineer
15 11 (3.79%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
16 10 (3.45%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (15.86%) AngularJS
2 37 (12.76%) Node.js
3 36 (12.41%) React
4 35 (12.07%) Spring Boot
5 31 (10.69%) .NET
6 23 (7.93%) Jest
6 23 (7.93%) RESTful
7 21 (7.24%) REST
8 20 (6.90%) Gherkin
9 18 (6.21%) ASP.NET
9 18 (6.21%) PySpark
10 17 (5.86%) ASP.NET Core
10 17 (5.86%) Spring
11 13 (4.48%) Blazor
11 13 (4.48%) ML.NET
12 11 (3.79%) ARM Templates
13 10 (3.45%) .NET Core
13 10 (3.45%) CSS
13 10 (3.45%) Elastic Stack
13 10 (3.45%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (6.90%) Cloud Native
2 9 (3.10%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (2.76%) Product Ownership
4 6 (2.07%) NHS
4 6 (2.07%) Social Media
5 5 (1.72%) BBC
5 5 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (1.72%) Mobile App
6 4 (1.38%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (1.38%) e-Learning
6 4 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.38%) iPhone
7 3 (1.03%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.03%) Learning Management System
7 3 (1.03%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.03%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.03%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.69%) AI Agents
8 2 (0.69%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 25 (8.62%) Linux
2 17 (5.86%) Windows
3 12 (4.14%) Unix
4 4 (1.38%) Android
4 4 (1.38%) CentOS
4 4 (1.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (54.48%) CI/CD
2 105 (36.21%) Agile
3 53 (18.28%) Infrastructure as Code
4 44 (15.17%) Test Automation
5 43 (14.83%) Mentoring
6 41 (14.14%) Continuous Improvement
7 40 (13.79%) Full-Stack Development
8 39 (13.45%) Scrum
9 35 (12.07%) Microservices
9 35 (12.07%) Platform Engineering
9 35 (12.07%) Problem-Solving
10 34 (11.72%) Continuous Integration
11 33 (11.38%) ITIL
12 29 (10.00%) Containerisation
12 29 (10.00%) SDLC
13 28 (9.66%) Stakeholder Management
14 26 (8.97%) AI
14 26 (8.97%) Coaching
15 25 (8.62%) Data Engineering
15 25 (8.62%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 72 (24.83%) SQL
2 61 (21.03%) Java
3 49 (16.90%) Python
4 47 (16.21%) TypeScript
5 38 (13.10%) JavaScript
6 34 (11.72%) C#
7 32 (11.03%) Bash
8 26 (8.97%) Groovy
9 22 (7.59%) Kotlin
10 6 (2.07%) Go
10 6 (2.07%) PowerShell
11 5 (1.72%) T-SQL
12 4 (1.38%) Bicep
13 3 (1.03%) C++
13 3 (1.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (1.03%) VB.NET
14 2 (0.69%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.34%) C
15 1 (0.34%) Perl
15 1 (0.34%) PHP
Qualifications
1 31 (10.69%) Degree
2 24 (8.28%) Security Cleared
3 22 (7.59%) AWS Certification
4 20 (6.90%) SC Cleared
5 18 (6.21%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 18 (6.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (6.21%) ITIL Certification
6 5 (1.72%) PMI Certification
6 5 (1.72%) PMP
7 4 (1.38%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 2 (0.69%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.69%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (0.69%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.34%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.34%) CBAP
9 1 (0.34%) CSPO
9 1 (0.34%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.34%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (5.86%) QA
2 12 (4.14%) GDPR
3 7 (2.41%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.72%) GRC
4 5 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.38%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.03%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.34%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.34%) WCAG
System Software
1 61 (21.03%) Docker
2 2 (0.69%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.34%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.34%) Firmware
3 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 1 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 54 (18.62%) Terraform
2 27 (9.31%) Kubernetes
3 20 (6.90%) HP Fortify
4 12 (4.14%) Ansible
5 10 (3.45%) Argo
6 3 (1.03%) Packer
7 2 (0.69%) Grafana
7 2 (0.69%) Kibana
7 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.69%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.69%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.34%) Istio
Vendors
1 45 (15.52%) Microsoft
2 21 (7.24%) Databricks
3 12 (4.14%) Google
4 10 (3.45%) Pega
4 10 (3.45%) ServiceNow
5 5 (1.72%) AppDynamics
5 5 (1.72%) Apple
5 5 (1.72%) Facebook
5 5 (1.72%) IBM
5 5 (1.72%) Sony
5 5 (1.72%) Yahoo!
6 3 (1.03%) Oracle
6 3 (1.03%) SAP
7 2 (0.69%) Arista
7 2 (0.69%) F5
7 2 (0.69%) Informatica
7 2 (0.69%) Palo Alto
7 2 (0.69%) Qualys
8 1 (0.34%) Automation Anywhere
8 1 (0.34%) WooCommerce