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 18 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 34 28
Rank change year-on-year +1 -6 -9
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 269 179 398
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 4.01% 6.30% 6.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.95% 6.82% 7.76%
Number of salaries quoted 182 136 308
10th Percentile £45,000 £37,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £51,063 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +21.74% -4.17%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £92,250 £98,474 £90,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £71,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.41% +9.23% -7.14%

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 4,518 2,626 5,131
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 67.29% 92.46% 78.91%
Number of salaries quoted 3,174 1,275 3,885
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £30,625 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -8.41%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
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 18 June 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 18 June 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 0 204 £70,000 -6.67% 28
South Yorkshire -29 45 £70,932 +45.50% 26
North Yorkshire -5 10 £72,500 +3.57% 6
East Yorkshire -23 4 £45,000 +11.11% 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 6 (2.23%) Confluence
1 6 (2.23%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.49%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (1.49%) Moodle
3 3 (1.12%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.74%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (0.37%) Apache
5 1 (0.37%) IIS
Applications
1 7 (2.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.86%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (2.60%) SAP ERP
2 3 (1.12%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (1.12%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.37%) Magento
3 1 (0.37%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 119 (44.24%) AWS
2 109 (40.52%) Azure
3 78 (29.00%) Serverless
4 65 (24.16%) AWS Lambda
5 64 (23.79%) Amazon S3
6 60 (22.30%) Amazon ECS
7 55 (20.45%) AWS CloudFormation
8 50 (18.59%) Azure DevOps
9 49 (18.22%) AWS Step Functions
10 47 (17.47%) GitHub
11 29 (10.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 29 (10.78%) GitHub Actions
12 27 (10.04%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 27 (10.04%) GCP
13 24 (8.92%) Amazon ECR
13 24 (8.92%) Apigee
14 23 (8.55%) Amazon SQS
15 19 (7.06%) Azure Data Factory
16 16 (5.95%) Power Platform
17 14 (5.20%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.60%) Firewall
1 7 (2.60%) HTTP
2 5 (1.86%) DNS
3 3 (1.12%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.74%) BGP
4 2 (0.74%) Ethernet VPN
4 2 (0.74%) NGFW
4 2 (0.74%) OSPF
4 2 (0.74%) VXLAN
5 1 (0.37%) Broadband
5 1 (0.37%) Internet
5 1 (0.37%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (21.19%) DynamoDB
2 29 (10.78%) NoSQL
3 27 (10.04%) Amazon Athena
4 17 (6.32%) Spark SQL
5 16 (5.95%) Data Warehouse
6 14 (5.20%) MongoDB
7 12 (4.46%) Power BI
8 10 (3.72%) SQL Server
9 9 (3.35%) PostgreSQL
10 7 (2.60%) Azure SQL Database
10 7 (2.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 6 (2.23%) Metadata
12 4 (1.49%) Relational Database
13 3 (1.12%) Power Query
13 3 (1.12%) Star Schema
14 2 (0.74%) BigQuery
14 2 (0.74%) MySQL
14 2 (0.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 1 (0.37%) Amazon RDS
15 1 (0.37%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 60 (22.30%) Jenkins
2 47 (17.47%) GitLab
3 38 (14.13%) Git
4 27 (10.04%) Cypress.io
4 27 (10.04%) SonarQube
5 25 (9.29%) Maven
6 24 (8.92%) JIRA
7 3 (1.12%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.12%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.12%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.74%) JUnit
8 2 (0.74%) Postman
8 2 (0.74%) Selenium
9 1 (0.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.37%) PHPUnit
General
1 60 (22.30%) Social Skills
2 23 (8.55%) Public Sector
3 22 (8.18%) Finance
4 15 (5.58%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (2.97%) Retail
6 4 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (1.12%) Law
7 3 (1.12%) Telecoms
8 2 (0.74%) Banking
8 2 (0.74%) Billing
8 2 (0.74%) Games
8 2 (0.74%) Health Technology
8 2 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (0.74%) Tech for Good
9 1 (0.37%) Electronics
9 1 (0.37%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 88 (32.71%) Developer
2 57 (21.19%) Senior
3 56 (20.82%) Java Developer
4 52 (19.33%) DevOps Engineer
5 38 (14.13%) Lead
6 26 (9.67%) Data Engineer
7 23 (8.55%) AWS Developer
8 20 (7.43%) Platform Engineer
9 17 (6.32%) Senior DevOps
9 17 (6.32%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 16 (5.95%) Lead Data Engineer
11 14 (5.20%) Azure Engineer
11 14 (5.20%) Cloud Engineer
11 14 (5.20%) Senior Developer
11 14 (5.20%) Software Engineer
12 13 (4.83%) Full-Stack Developer
13 12 (4.46%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 12 (4.46%) Lead DevOps
13 12 (4.46%) Lead DevOps Engineer
14 11 (4.09%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (20.07%) AngularJS
2 39 (14.50%) Node.js
3 38 (14.13%) Spring Boot
4 27 (10.04%) React
5 26 (9.67%) Jest
6 24 (8.92%) Gherkin
7 20 (7.43%) PySpark
7 20 (7.43%) REST
8 18 (6.69%) .NET
8 18 (6.69%) RESTful
9 16 (5.95%) Spring
10 11 (4.09%) ARM Templates
10 11 (4.09%) Elastic Stack
11 8 (2.97%) ASP.NET
12 7 (2.60%) ASP.NET Core
12 7 (2.60%) RabbitMQ
13 6 (2.23%) .NET Core
13 6 (2.23%) CSS
13 6 (2.23%) HTML
13 6 (2.23%) ML.NET
Miscellaneous
1 16 (5.95%) Cloud Native
2 8 (2.97%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (2.23%) NHS
4 5 (1.86%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (1.86%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (1.86%) Product Ownership
4 5 (1.86%) Public Cloud
5 4 (1.49%) e-Learning
5 4 (1.49%) Social Media
6 3 (1.12%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (1.12%) BBC
6 3 (1.12%) CMDB
6 3 (1.12%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.12%) Driving Licence
6 3 (1.12%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.12%) Mobile App
6 3 (1.12%) Onboarding
7 2 (0.74%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (0.74%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (0.74%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 17 (6.32%) Linux
2 15 (5.58%) Windows
3 8 (2.97%) Unix
4 4 (1.49%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.74%) Android
6 1 (0.37%) CentOS
6 1 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 165 (61.34%) CI/CD
2 97 (36.06%) Agile
3 48 (17.84%) Infrastructure as Code
4 42 (15.61%) Mentoring
5 41 (15.24%) Continuous Improvement
6 39 (14.50%) Test Automation
7 38 (14.13%) Continuous Integration
7 38 (14.13%) ITIL
8 34 (12.64%) Microservices
8 34 (12.64%) Problem-Solving
9 33 (12.27%) SDLC
10 32 (11.90%) Platform Engineering
10 32 (11.90%) Stakeholder Management
11 30 (11.15%) Containerisation
12 29 (10.78%) Full-Stack Development
12 29 (10.78%) Scrum
13 28 (10.41%) DevSecOps
14 27 (10.04%) Data Engineering
15 26 (9.67%) Observability
16 25 (9.29%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 75 (27.88%) SQL
2 70 (26.02%) Java
3 54 (20.07%) TypeScript
4 51 (18.96%) Python
5 36 (13.38%) Bash
6 30 (11.15%) Groovy
7 26 (9.67%) JavaScript
7 26 (9.67%) Kotlin
8 20 (7.43%) C#
9 8 (2.97%) PowerShell
10 6 (2.23%) Go
11 5 (1.86%) T-SQL
12 3 (1.12%) Bicep
12 3 (1.12%) C++
12 3 (1.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.74%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.74%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.37%) C
14 1 (0.37%) Perl
14 1 (0.37%) PHP
Qualifications
1 33 (12.27%) Degree
2 26 (9.67%) AWS Certification
3 24 (8.92%) Security Cleared
4 22 (8.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 22 (8.18%) ITIL Certification
5 18 (6.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (6.69%) SC Cleared
6 5 (1.86%) PMI Certification
6 5 (1.86%) PMP
7 2 (0.74%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 2 (0.74%) ISTQB
7 2 (0.74%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 2 (0.74%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.37%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.37%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.37%) CBAP
8 1 (0.37%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.37%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.37%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (7.43%) QA
2 12 (4.46%) GDPR
3 9 (3.35%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.86%) GRC
4 5 (1.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.49%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.12%) SOC 2
System Software
1 67 (24.91%) Docker
2 3 (1.12%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 3 (1.12%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (0.37%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.37%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.37%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 52 (19.33%) Terraform
2 24 (8.92%) HP Fortify
3 22 (8.18%) Kubernetes
4 11 (4.09%) Ansible
5 10 (3.72%) Argo
6 5 (1.86%) Grafana
6 5 (1.86%) Prometheus
7 3 (1.12%) Packer
8 2 (0.74%) Kibana
8 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.74%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.37%) Istio
Vendors
1 39 (14.50%) Microsoft
2 23 (8.55%) Databricks
3 10 (3.72%) Google
3 10 (3.72%) SAP
3 10 (3.72%) ServiceNow
4 5 (1.86%) AppDynamics
4 5 (1.86%) IBM
4 5 (1.86%) Oracle
5 3 (1.12%) Apple
5 3 (1.12%) F5
5 3 (1.12%) Facebook
5 3 (1.12%) IFS
5 3 (1.12%) Sony
5 3 (1.12%) Yahoo!
6 2 (0.74%) Arista
6 2 (0.74%) Informatica
6 2 (0.74%) Palo Alto
6 2 (0.74%) Pega
6 2 (0.74%) Qualys
6 2 (0.74%) VMware