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 15 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 47 31
Rank change year-on-year +15 -16 -17
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 287 152 288
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 3.77% 4.62% 5.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.63% 5.32% 7.42%
Number of salaries quoted 203 124 209
10th Percentile £44,050 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,125 £50,375 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £83,750 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £92,000 £81,750 £88,000
England median annual salary £72,500 £71,000 £68,000
% change year-on-year +2.11% +4.41% -2.86%

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 5,094 2,855 3,882
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 66.88% 86.78% 78.81%
Number of salaries quoted 3,748 1,407 1,991
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,250 £65,603
90th Percentile £88,148 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -7.26%

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 15 September 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 15 September 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 +7 195 £75,000 +15.38% 161
South Yorkshire -1 62 £69,310 +26.02% 63
North Yorkshire 0 10 £55,000 -21.43% 19
East Yorkshire -7 9 £47,000 +14.63% 4
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 6 (2.09%) Confluence
2 5 (1.74%) Apache Spark
2 5 (1.74%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.05%) Apache
3 3 (1.05%) CMS
3 3 (1.05%) IIS
4 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.70%) Moodle
4 2 (0.70%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (0.35%) CICS
Applications
1 6 (2.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (1.05%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.05%) SAP S/4HANA
1 3 (1.05%) Shopify
2 2 (0.70%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 113 (39.37%) AWS
1 113 (39.37%) Azure
2 69 (24.04%) Azure DevOps
3 65 (22.65%) Serverless
4 53 (18.47%) AWS CloudFormation
5 52 (18.12%) AWS Lambda
6 49 (17.07%) GitHub
7 48 (16.72%) Amazon ECS
7 48 (16.72%) Amazon S3
8 37 (12.89%) AWS Step Functions
9 33 (11.50%) GitHub Actions
10 28 (9.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 24 (8.36%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 21 (7.32%) GCP
13 20 (6.97%) Power Platform
14 19 (6.62%) Datadog
15 18 (6.27%) Azure Data Factory
16 16 (5.57%) Microsoft 365
17 15 (5.23%) Amazon EC2
18 13 (4.53%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.74%) TCP/IP
2 4 (1.39%) Firewall
2 4 (1.39%) Internet
3 3 (1.05%) DNS
3 3 (1.05%) HTTP
4 2 (0.70%) BGP
4 2 (0.70%) Ethernet VPN
4 2 (0.70%) NGFW
4 2 (0.70%) OSPF
4 2 (0.70%) VXLAN
5 1 (0.35%) LAN
5 1 (0.35%) Network Security
5 1 (0.35%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.35%) VPN
5 1 (0.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (12.89%) DynamoDB
2 24 (8.36%) NoSQL
3 21 (7.32%) MongoDB
4 20 (6.97%) Amazon Athena
5 18 (6.27%) Data Warehouse
6 15 (5.23%) Spark SQL
7 12 (4.18%) Azure SQL Database
7 12 (4.18%) SQL Server
8 10 (3.48%) Power BI
9 9 (3.14%) Relational Database
10 8 (2.79%) PostgreSQL
11 7 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
12 6 (2.09%) Metadata
13 4 (1.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 3 (1.05%) BigQuery
14 3 (1.05%) Redis
15 2 (0.70%) Data Lake
15 2 (0.70%) Hadoop
15 2 (0.70%) Metadata Repository
15 2 (0.70%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 47 (16.38%) Git
2 45 (15.68%) Jenkins
3 34 (11.85%) GitLab
4 22 (7.67%) JIRA
5 16 (5.57%) Cypress.io
6 15 (5.23%) SonarQube
7 13 (4.53%) Maven
8 6 (2.09%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 6 (2.09%) Visual Studio
9 3 (1.05%) Artifactory
9 3 (1.05%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.70%) Selenium
11 1 (0.35%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.35%) JUnit
11 1 (0.35%) Postman
11 1 (0.35%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 56 (19.51%) Social Skills
2 41 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 29 (10.10%) Finance
4 19 (6.62%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (2.79%) Legal
6 7 (2.44%) Law
7 6 (2.09%) Banking
7 6 (2.09%) Local Government
8 4 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.05%) Retail
9 3 (1.05%) Tech for Good
10 2 (0.70%) Advertising
10 2 (0.70%) Billing
11 1 (0.35%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.35%) Electronics
11 1 (0.35%) Games
11 1 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.35%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 82 (28.57%) Developer
2 68 (23.69%) Senior
3 63 (21.95%) DevOps Engineer
4 46 (16.03%) Lead
5 41 (14.29%) Java Developer
6 33 (11.50%) Cloud Engineer
7 25 (8.71%) Data Engineer
7 25 (8.71%) Senior DevOps
7 25 (8.71%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 24 (8.36%) Platform Engineer
9 20 (6.97%) AWS Developer
10 17 (5.92%) Azure Engineer
10 17 (5.92%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 17 (5.92%) Full-Stack Developer
11 16 (5.57%) .NET Developer
11 16 (5.57%) Lead Data Engineer
12 13 (4.53%) AWS Engineer
12 13 (4.53%) Software Engineer
13 12 (4.18%) Lead Cloud Engineer
14 11 (3.83%) Azure Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (21.25%) Terraform
2 43 (14.98%) AngularJS
3 38 (13.24%) .NET
4 36 (12.54%) Node.js
5 31 (10.80%) React
6 28 (9.76%) Spring Boot
7 21 (7.32%) REST
7 21 (7.32%) RESTful
8 20 (6.97%) ASP.NET
9 18 (6.27%) Spring
10 17 (5.92%) ASP.NET Core
11 16 (5.57%) PySpark
12 14 (4.88%) .NET Core
12 14 (4.88%) Jest
13 13 (4.53%) Blazor
13 13 (4.53%) CSS
13 13 (4.53%) ML.NET
14 12 (4.18%) Gherkin
15 11 (3.83%) ARM Templates
16 10 (3.48%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 34 (11.85%) Cloud Native
2 11 (3.83%) Product Ownership
3 7 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (2.44%) Linux Command Line
3 7 (2.44%) Mobile App
3 7 (2.44%) NHS
4 6 (2.09%) Greenfield Project
4 6 (2.09%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (2.09%) Legacy Applications
4 6 (2.09%) Social Media
5 5 (1.74%) BBC
5 5 (1.74%) Blog
5 5 (1.74%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.39%) AI Agents
6 4 (1.39%) iPhone
6 4 (1.39%) Low-Code
7 3 (1.05%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.05%) Learning Management System
7 3 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 28 (9.76%) Linux
2 15 (5.23%) Windows
3 12 (4.18%) Unix
4 7 (2.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (2.09%) CentOS
6 4 (1.39%) Android
7 3 (1.05%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.35%) VMS
8 1 (0.35%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (56.10%) CI/CD
2 112 (39.02%) Agile
3 63 (21.95%) Infrastructure as Code
4 49 (17.07%) Mentoring
5 45 (15.68%) Test Automation
6 44 (15.33%) Scrum
7 43 (14.98%) Microservices
8 39 (13.59%) Continuous Improvement
9 38 (13.24%) Problem-Solving
10 37 (12.89%) Full-Stack Development
11 36 (12.54%) Coaching
11 36 (12.54%) Continuous Integration
11 36 (12.54%) Platform Engineering
12 29 (10.10%) AI
12 29 (10.10%) Technical Leadership
13 27 (9.41%) Software Engineering
14 25 (8.71%) Containerisation
14 25 (8.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 25 (8.71%) SDLC
15 23 (8.01%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 81 (28.22%) SQL
2 58 (20.21%) Java
3 50 (17.42%) Python
4 41 (14.29%) C#
4 41 (14.29%) TypeScript
5 30 (10.45%) JavaScript
6 24 (8.36%) Kotlin
7 22 (7.67%) Bash
8 19 (6.62%) Groovy
9 5 (1.74%) Bicep
9 5 (1.74%) VB.NET
10 4 (1.39%) PowerShell
10 4 (1.39%) T-SQL
11 3 (1.05%) C
11 3 (1.05%) C++
11 3 (1.05%) Ruby
12 2 (0.70%) Dart
12 2 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.70%) Go
12 2 (0.70%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 31 (10.80%) Security Cleared
2 27 (9.41%) Degree
2 27 (9.41%) SC Cleared
3 18 (6.27%) Computer Science Degree
4 15 (5.23%) AWS Certification
5 11 (3.83%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 11 (3.83%) ITIL Certification
6 6 (2.09%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.05%) PMI Certification
7 3 (1.05%) PMP
8 2 (0.70%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 2 (0.70%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.70%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.35%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.35%) CSPO
9 1 (0.35%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (5.92%) QA
2 10 (3.48%) Data Quality
2 10 (3.48%) GDPR
3 6 (2.09%) GRC
4 4 (1.39%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.35%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.35%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 65 (22.65%) Docker
2 8 (2.79%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.35%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.35%) Firmware
4 1 (0.35%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 27 (9.41%) Kubernetes
2 13 (4.53%) Ansible
3 12 (4.18%) HP Fortify
4 8 (2.79%) Argo
4 8 (2.79%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (1.05%) Packer
5 3 (1.05%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.70%) Kibana
7 1 (0.35%) Istio
7 1 (0.35%) Red Hat Satellite
7 1 (0.35%) VxRail
Vendors
1 46 (16.03%) Microsoft
2 20 (6.97%) Databricks
3 12 (4.18%) Google
4 10 (3.48%) Pega
5 7 (2.44%) Cisco
6 6 (2.09%) IBM
7 5 (1.74%) AppDynamics
7 5 (1.74%) Apple
7 5 (1.74%) Facebook
7 5 (1.74%) Sony
7 5 (1.74%) Yahoo!
8 4 (1.39%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.05%) SAP
9 3 (1.05%) VMware
10 2 (0.70%) F5
10 2 (0.70%) Informatica
10 2 (0.70%) Oracle
10 2 (0.70%) Palo Alto
10 2 (0.70%) Sage
10 2 (0.70%) Sophos