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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 41 29
Rank change year-on-year +11 -12 -14
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 289 174 360
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 4.19% 5.05% 5.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.17% 5.59% 7.52%
Number of salaries quoted 210 137 286
10th Percentile £47,500 £37,200 £39,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +16.67% -
75th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £75,938
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,474 £87,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £71,500 £65,620
% change year-on-year -2.10% +8.96% -6.26%

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 4,686 3,112 4,785
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 67.98% 90.26% 79.39%
Number of salaries quoted 3,352 1,493 3,494
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £27,825
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,250 £37,050
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 £82,500 £79,250
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 16 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 16 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 +8 213 £70,000 -6.50% 36
South Yorkshire -10 59 £69,655 +39.31% 9
North Yorkshire +5 12 £62,500 -10.71% 4
East Yorkshire -20 3 £48,750 +20.37% 1
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 (1.73%) Confluence
2 4 (1.38%) Moodle
2 4 (1.38%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.04%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.04%) CMS
3 3 (1.04%) IIS
4 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.69%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (0.35%) Apache
Applications
1 7 (2.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.73%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (1.38%) Shopify
2 3 (1.04%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.35%) Magento
3 1 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 116 (40.14%) AWS
2 112 (38.75%) Azure
3 73 (25.26%) Serverless
4 65 (22.49%) Azure DevOps
5 58 (20.07%) AWS Lambda
6 57 (19.72%) Amazon S3
7 55 (19.03%) Amazon ECS
8 49 (16.96%) AWS CloudFormation
9 48 (16.61%) GitHub
10 43 (14.88%) AWS Step Functions
11 30 (10.38%) GitHub Actions
12 26 (9.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 24 (8.30%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 24 (8.30%) GCP
14 21 (7.27%) Amazon ECR
14 21 (7.27%) Apigee
15 20 (6.92%) Amazon SQS
16 19 (6.57%) Azure Data Factory
17 18 (6.23%) Power Platform
18 14 (4.84%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.08%) HTTP
2 5 (1.73%) 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 (0.35%) Broadband
5 1 (0.35%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (17.30%) DynamoDB
2 24 (8.30%) Amazon Athena
2 24 (8.30%) NoSQL
3 21 (7.27%) MongoDB
4 17 (5.88%) Spark SQL
5 16 (5.54%) Data Warehouse
6 12 (4.15%) Power BI
7 11 (3.81%) Azure SQL Database
7 11 (3.81%) SQL Server
8 9 (3.11%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (1.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 4 (1.38%) Metadata
10 4 (1.38%) Relational Database
11 3 (1.04%) Power Query
11 3 (1.04%) Redis
11 3 (1.04%) Star Schema
12 2 (0.69%) BigQuery
12 2 (0.69%) MySQL
12 2 (0.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 1 (0.35%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 58 (20.07%) Jenkins
2 45 (15.57%) GitLab
3 43 (14.88%) Git
4 24 (8.30%) Cypress.io
4 24 (8.30%) JIRA
4 24 (8.30%) SonarQube
5 22 (7.61%) Maven
6 6 (2.08%) Visual Studio
7 4 (1.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 3 (1.04%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.04%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.69%) JUnit
9 2 (0.69%) Postman
9 2 (0.69%) Selenium
10 1 (0.35%) PHPUnit
10 1 (0.35%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 60 (20.76%) Social Skills
2 30 (10.38%) Public Sector
3 22 (7.61%) Finance
4 14 (4.84%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (2.42%) Retail
6 5 (1.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.04%) 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%) Law
9 2 (0.69%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.35%) Electronics
10 1 (0.35%) Local Government
10 1 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 92 (31.83%) Developer
2 63 (21.80%) DevOps Engineer
2 63 (21.80%) Senior
3 50 (17.30%) Java Developer
4 42 (14.53%) Lead
5 25 (8.65%) Senior DevOps
5 25 (8.65%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 24 (8.30%) Data Engineer
7 22 (7.61%) Platform Engineer
8 21 (7.27%) Cloud Engineer
9 20 (6.92%) AWS Developer
10 18 (6.23%) Full-Stack Developer
11 16 (5.54%) Lead Data Engineer
12 15 (5.19%) Azure Engineer
13 14 (4.84%) .NET Developer
14 13 (4.50%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 13 (4.50%) Software Engineer
15 12 (4.15%) Lead Cloud Engineer
16 11 (3.81%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
16 11 (3.81%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (16.61%) AngularJS
2 38 (13.15%) Node.js
3 36 (12.46%) React
3 36 (12.46%) Spring Boot
4 31 (10.73%) .NET
5 23 (7.96%) Jest
5 23 (7.96%) RESTful
6 21 (7.27%) Gherkin
7 20 (6.92%) REST
8 18 (6.23%) ASP.NET
8 18 (6.23%) PySpark
9 17 (5.88%) ASP.NET Core
9 17 (5.88%) Spring
10 13 (4.50%) Blazor
10 13 (4.50%) ML.NET
11 11 (3.81%) ARM Templates
12 10 (3.46%) .NET Core
12 10 (3.46%) Elastic Stack
13 9 (3.11%) CSS
13 9 (3.11%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (6.92%) Cloud Native
2 9 (3.11%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (2.42%) Product Ownership
4 6 (2.08%) NHS
4 6 (2.08%) Social Media
5 5 (1.73%) BBC
5 5 (1.73%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (1.73%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (1.73%) 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 (1.04%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.04%) Learning Management System
7 3 (1.04%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.04%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.04%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.69%) AI Agents
8 2 (0.69%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 24 (8.30%) Linux
2 16 (5.54%) Windows
3 12 (4.15%) Unix
4 4 (1.38%) Android
4 4 (1.38%) CentOS
4 4 (1.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.04%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (54.67%) CI/CD
2 104 (35.99%) Agile
3 53 (18.34%) Infrastructure as Code
4 44 (15.22%) Test Automation
5 42 (14.53%) Mentoring
6 41 (14.19%) Full-Stack Development
7 39 (13.49%) Continuous Improvement
8 37 (12.80%) Scrum
9 36 (12.46%) Platform Engineering
10 35 (12.11%) Continuous Integration
10 35 (12.11%) Microservices
11 34 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
12 33 (11.42%) ITIL
13 30 (10.38%) SDLC
14 29 (10.03%) Containerisation
15 27 (9.34%) Stakeholder Management
16 26 (9.00%) Coaching
17 25 (8.65%) AI
17 25 (8.65%) Data Engineering
17 25 (8.65%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 73 (25.26%) SQL
2 63 (21.80%) Java
3 49 (16.96%) TypeScript
4 48 (16.61%) Python
5 37 (12.80%) JavaScript
6 34 (11.76%) C#
7 32 (11.07%) Bash
8 27 (9.34%) Groovy
9 23 (7.96%) Kotlin
10 6 (2.08%) Go
10 6 (2.08%) PowerShell
11 5 (1.73%) T-SQL
12 4 (1.38%) Bicep
13 3 (1.04%) C++
13 3 (1.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (1.04%) VB.NET
14 2 (0.69%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.35%) C
15 1 (0.35%) Perl
15 1 (0.35%) PHP
Qualifications
1 31 (10.73%) Degree
2 23 (7.96%) AWS Certification
2 23 (7.96%) Security Cleared
3 19 (6.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 19 (6.57%) ITIL Certification
3 19 (6.57%) SC Cleared
4 18 (6.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.73%) PMI Certification
5 5 (1.73%) PMP
6 4 (1.38%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 2 (0.69%) ISTQB
7 2 (0.69%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 2 (0.69%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.35%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.35%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.35%) CSPO
8 1 (0.35%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.54%) QA
2 12 (4.15%) GDPR
3 7 (2.42%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.73%) GRC
4 5 (1.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.38%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.04%) SOC 2
System Software
1 61 (21.11%) Docker
2 2 (0.69%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.35%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.35%) Firmware
3 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 1 (0.35%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 54 (18.69%) Terraform
2 26 (9.00%) Kubernetes
3 21 (7.27%) HP Fortify
4 12 (4.15%) Ansible
5 10 (3.46%) Argo
6 3 (1.04%) 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 (0.35%) Istio
Vendors
1 44 (15.22%) Microsoft
2 21 (7.27%) Databricks
3 12 (4.15%) Google
4 10 (3.46%) Pega
4 10 (3.46%) ServiceNow
5 5 (1.73%) AppDynamics
5 5 (1.73%) Apple
5 5 (1.73%) Facebook
5 5 (1.73%) IBM
5 5 (1.73%) Sony
5 5 (1.73%) Yahoo!
6 3 (1.04%) Oracle
6 3 (1.04%) 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 (0.35%) IFS
8 1 (0.35%) WooCommerce