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 30 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 28 13
Rank change year-on-year -13 -15 -6
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 172 242 383
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 5.01% 6.06% 12.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.88% 7.25% 13.23%
Number of salaries quoted 139 157 306
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £49,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% -3.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £77,542
90th Percentile £82,500 £90,000 £91,934
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,000

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 2,926 3,337 2,896
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 85.26% 83.59% 94.95%
Number of salaries quoted 1,567 1,399 2,177
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £30,500 £41,250 £39,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.62% - -
75th Percentile £68,750 £69,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £81,250 £84,056
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -3.23%

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 30 November 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 30 November 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 -3 133 £65,000 -4.41% 39
South Yorkshire -16 16 £55,000 +22.22% 19
North Yorkshire +1 11 £65,000 +18.18% 6
East Yorkshire -19 11 £46,250 +2.78% 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 (3.49%) Confluence
2 5 (2.91%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.33%) OpenStack
4 3 (1.74%) Apache
5 1 (0.58%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.58%) CMS
5 1 (0.58%) FileNet
5 1 (0.58%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.58%) IIS
5 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.58%) Moodle
5 1 (0.58%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (4.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.58%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.74%) SAP ERP
2 2 (1.16%) Markit EDM
2 2 (1.16%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.58%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.58%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 86 (50.00%) Azure
2 85 (49.42%) AWS
3 33 (19.19%) Azure DevOps
3 33 (19.19%) Serverless
4 30 (17.44%) GitHub
5 28 (16.28%) AWS CloudFormation
6 23 (13.37%) Amazon S3
7 21 (12.21%) AWS Lambda
8 19 (11.05%) GCP
9 18 (10.47%) Amazon ECS
9 18 (10.47%) GitHub Actions
9 18 (10.47%) SaaS
10 16 (9.30%) AWS Step Functions
11 11 (6.40%) Amazon SQS
12 9 (5.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 9 (5.23%) Amazon EKS
13 8 (4.65%) Amazon EventBridge
14 6 (3.49%) Amazon ECR
14 6 (3.49%) Apigee
15 4 (2.33%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.81%) Firewall
2 9 (5.23%) Network Security
3 4 (2.33%) DNS
4 2 (1.16%) AMQP
5 1 (0.58%) BGP
5 1 (0.58%) DHCP
5 1 (0.58%) HTTP
5 1 (0.58%) LAN
5 1 (0.58%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.58%) VPN
5 1 (0.58%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (10.47%) DynamoDB
2 16 (9.30%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (8.72%) SQL Server
4 12 (6.98%) NoSQL
4 12 (6.98%) Relational Database
5 9 (5.23%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (4.65%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 6 (3.49%) OLAP
8 3 (1.74%) Amazon Aurora
8 3 (1.74%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (1.74%) Apache Iceberg
8 3 (1.74%) Big Data
8 3 (1.74%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.74%) Data Vault
8 3 (1.74%) RDBMS
9 2 (1.16%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (1.16%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (1.16%) Metadata
9 2 (1.16%) Power BI
9 2 (1.16%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 24 (13.95%) Jenkins
2 22 (12.79%) GitLab
3 21 (12.21%) Git
4 16 (9.30%) JIRA
5 10 (5.81%) SonarQube
6 7 (4.07%) Cypress.io
7 6 (3.49%) Maven
8 5 (2.91%) Selenium
9 3 (1.74%) JMeter
9 3 (1.74%) LoadRunner
10 2 (1.16%) CircleCI
11 1 (0.58%) Appium
11 1 (0.58%) JUnit
11 1 (0.58%) Postman
11 1 (0.58%) REST Assured
General
1 57 (33.14%) Social Skills
2 35 (20.35%) Finance
3 17 (9.88%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (8.14%) Financial Institution
5 12 (6.98%) Law
6 8 (4.65%) Public Sector
7 7 (4.07%) Retail
8 6 (3.49%) Legal
9 5 (2.91%) Marketing
10 3 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.16%) Advertising
11 2 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.58%) Back Office
12 1 (0.58%) Digital Healthcare
12 1 (0.58%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.58%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 41 (23.84%) Developer
2 35 (20.35%) Lead
3 21 (12.21%) Senior
4 20 (11.63%) Software Engineer
5 17 (9.88%) DevOps Engineer
6 13 (7.56%) Analyst
6 13 (7.56%) Java Developer
6 13 (7.56%) Lead DevOps
7 11 (6.40%) Lead DevOps Engineer
8 10 (5.81%) Architect
9 9 (5.23%) .NET Developer
10 8 (4.65%) .NET Software Engineer
10 8 (4.65%) Data Engineer
10 8 (4.65%) Senior Software Engineer
11 7 (4.07%) Cloud Engineer
12 6 (3.49%) Business Analyst
12 6 (3.49%) Java Engineer
12 6 (3.49%) SQL Developer
13 5 (2.91%) Software Developer
13 5 (2.91%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (18.60%) .NET
2 21 (12.21%) Spring
3 20 (11.63%) React
3 20 (11.63%) Spring Boot
4 18 (10.47%) AngularJS
5 14 (8.14%) ASP.NET
5 14 (8.14%) Node.js
5 14 (8.14%) RESTful
6 12 (6.98%) .NET Core
6 12 (6.98%) Micronaut
7 10 (5.81%) HTML
8 9 (5.23%) CSS
9 8 (4.65%) ASP.NET Core
9 8 (4.65%) Blazor
10 7 (4.07%) AWS CDK
10 7 (4.07%) Kafka
10 7 (4.07%) REST
11 6 (3.49%) Gherkin
11 6 (3.49%) HTML5
11 6 (3.49%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 46 (26.74%) Cloud Native
2 12 (6.98%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (5.23%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.33%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (2.33%) Data Centre
5 3 (1.74%) IoT
5 3 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.74%) Private Cloud
5 3 (1.74%) Security Posture
5 3 (1.74%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.16%) Cloud Security Posture
6 2 (1.16%) CMDB
6 2 (1.16%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.16%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (1.16%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.16%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.16%) Operational Technology
6 2 (1.16%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.58%) Client/Server
7 1 (0.58%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.81%) Windows
2 5 (2.91%) Linux
3 2 (1.16%) Unix
4 1 (0.58%) Android
4 1 (0.58%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (58.14%) CI/CD
2 82 (47.67%) Agile
3 55 (31.98%) Infrastructure as Code
4 43 (25.00%) Software Engineering
5 38 (22.09%) Problem-Solving
6 36 (20.93%) Mentoring
7 32 (18.60%) Continuous Improvement
8 29 (16.86%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 26 (15.12%) Stakeholder Management
10 23 (13.37%) Microservices
11 19 (11.05%) Scrum
11 19 (11.05%) SDLC
12 18 (10.47%) Containerisation
13 16 (9.30%) Cybersecurity
13 16 (9.30%) Incident Response
14 15 (8.72%) Data Modelling
14 15 (8.72%) Line Management
14 15 (8.72%) Roadmaps
14 15 (8.72%) Technical Leadership
15 14 (8.14%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 54 (31.40%) SQL
2 44 (25.58%) Java
3 38 (22.09%) Python
4 26 (15.12%) JavaScript
5 24 (13.95%) TypeScript
6 22 (12.79%) C#
7 16 (9.30%) Bash
8 14 (8.14%) PowerShell
9 8 (4.65%) T-SQL
10 6 (3.49%) Groovy
11 5 (2.91%) Bicep
12 2 (1.16%) Go
12 2 (1.16%) R
13 1 (0.58%) PHP
Qualifications
1 21 (12.21%) AWS Certification
2 13 (7.56%) Degree
3 10 (5.81%) AWS Certified Developer
4 9 (5.23%) Security Cleared
5 8 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (4.65%) SC Cleared
6 3 (1.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (1.74%) CompTIA CySA+
6 3 (1.74%) CompTIA Security+
6 3 (1.74%) GSEC
7 2 (1.16%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.58%) MCITP
8 1 (0.58%) MCSE
8 1 (0.58%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (7.56%) QA
2 7 (4.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (3.49%) GDPR
4 4 (2.33%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.33%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.16%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (1.16%) GRC
5 2 (1.16%) NCSC
5 2 (1.16%) NIST
5 2 (1.16%) SOC 2
System Software
1 48 (27.91%) Docker
2 1 (0.58%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.58%) Squid
2 1 (0.58%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 39 (22.67%) Terraform
2 38 (22.09%) Kubernetes
3 18 (10.47%) Ansible
4 10 (5.81%) Prometheus
5 9 (5.23%) Grafana
5 9 (5.23%) HP Fortify
6 2 (1.16%) Argo
6 2 (1.16%) Control-M
7 1 (0.58%) Kibana
Vendors
1 24 (13.95%) Microsoft
2 6 (3.49%) Databricks
3 4 (2.33%) Google
3 4 (2.33%) IBM
3 4 (2.33%) Oracle
4 3 (1.74%) Pega
4 3 (1.74%) Salesforce
4 3 (1.74%) SAP
4 3 (1.74%) WSO2
5 2 (1.16%) Adobe
5 2 (1.16%) New Relic
6 1 (0.58%) Blue Prism
6 1 (0.58%) Foundry
6 1 (0.58%) IFS
6 1 (0.58%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.58%) TOWER Software
6 1 (0.58%) VMware