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

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 36 27
Rank change year-on-year +1 -9 -8
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 272 182 391
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 4.02% 6.01% 6.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.94% 6.51% 7.70%
Number of salaries quoted 190 142 305
10th Percentile £45,000 £37,625 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £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 £87,188 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,250 £98,474 £89,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £71,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.10% +10.00% -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 4,579 2,796 5,076
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 67.65% 92.40% 78.71%
Number of salaries quoted 3,236 1,313 3,815
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £27,600
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,000 £36,625
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 £68,750 £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 24 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 24 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 +3 200 £70,000 -6.67% 34
South Yorkshire -17 51 £70,932 +45.50% 23
North Yorkshire -1 11 £67,500 -3.57% 7
East Yorkshire -25 4 £45,000 +11.11% 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 6 (2.21%) Confluence
1 6 (2.21%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.47%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (1.47%) Moodle
3 3 (1.10%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.74%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (0.37%) Apache
5 1 (0.37%) CMS
5 1 (0.37%) IIS
Applications
1 7 (2.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.84%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (1.47%) SAP ERP
2 3 (1.10%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (1.10%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.74%) Shopify
4 1 (0.37%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 117 (43.01%) AWS
2 109 (40.07%) Azure
3 76 (27.94%) Serverless
4 63 (23.16%) AWS Lambda
5 62 (22.79%) Amazon S3
6 57 (20.96%) Amazon ECS
7 53 (19.49%) AWS CloudFormation
7 53 (19.49%) Azure DevOps
8 47 (17.28%) AWS Step Functions
9 44 (16.18%) GitHub
10 27 (9.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 27 (9.93%) GCP
10 27 (9.93%) GitHub Actions
11 25 (9.19%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 24 (8.82%) Amazon ECR
12 24 (8.82%) Apigee
13 23 (8.46%) Amazon SQS
14 19 (6.99%) Azure Data Factory
15 16 (5.88%) Power Platform
16 14 (5.15%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.57%) HTTP
2 6 (2.21%) Firewall
3 5 (1.84%) DNS
4 3 (1.10%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.74%) BGP
5 2 (0.74%) Ethernet VPN
5 2 (0.74%) Internet
5 2 (0.74%) NGFW
5 2 (0.74%) OSPF
5 2 (0.74%) VXLAN
6 1 (0.37%) Broadband
6 1 (0.37%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (20.22%) DynamoDB
2 26 (9.56%) NoSQL
3 25 (9.19%) Amazon Athena
4 17 (6.25%) MongoDB
4 17 (6.25%) Spark SQL
5 16 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
6 12 (4.41%) Power BI
7 10 (3.68%) SQL Server
8 9 (3.31%) Azure SQL Database
8 9 (3.31%) PostgreSQL
9 7 (2.57%) Metadata
9 7 (2.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 4 (1.47%) Relational Database
11 3 (1.10%) Power Query
11 3 (1.10%) Star Schema
12 2 (0.74%) BigQuery
12 2 (0.74%) MySQL
12 2 (0.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 1 (0.37%) Amazon RDS
13 1 (0.37%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 58 (21.32%) Jenkins
2 46 (16.91%) GitLab
3 37 (13.60%) Git
4 27 (9.93%) Cypress.io
4 27 (9.93%) SonarQube
5 25 (9.19%) Maven
6 24 (8.82%) JIRA
7 4 (1.47%) Visual Studio
8 3 (1.10%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.10%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.74%) JUnit
9 2 (0.74%) Postman
9 2 (0.74%) Selenium
10 1 (0.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.37%) PHPUnit
General
1 57 (20.96%) Social Skills
2 25 (9.19%) Public Sector
3 22 (8.09%) Finance
4 14 (5.15%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (2.57%) Retail
6 4 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.10%) Law
7 3 (1.10%) 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%) Tech for Good
9 1 (0.37%) Electronics
9 1 (0.37%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 90 (33.09%) Developer
2 59 (21.69%) Senior
3 55 (20.22%) DevOps Engineer
4 54 (19.85%) Java Developer
5 37 (13.60%) Lead
6 26 (9.56%) Data Engineer
7 21 (7.72%) AWS Developer
8 20 (7.35%) Platform Engineer
8 20 (7.35%) Senior DevOps
8 20 (7.35%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 16 (5.88%) Lead Data Engineer
10 15 (5.51%) Full-Stack Developer
11 14 (5.15%) Azure Engineer
11 14 (5.15%) Software Engineer
12 12 (4.41%) Cloud Engineer
12 12 (4.41%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 12 (4.41%) Senior Developer
13 11 (4.04%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 11 (4.04%) Lead DevOps
13 11 (4.04%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (19.12%) AngularJS
2 38 (13.97%) Node.js
2 38 (13.97%) Spring Boot
3 31 (11.40%) React
4 26 (9.56%) Jest
5 24 (8.82%) Gherkin
6 23 (8.46%) .NET
7 21 (7.72%) RESTful
8 20 (7.35%) PySpark
8 20 (7.35%) REST
9 16 (5.88%) Spring
10 12 (4.41%) ASP.NET
11 11 (4.04%) ARM Templates
11 11 (4.04%) ASP.NET Core
11 11 (4.04%) Elastic Stack
12 9 (3.31%) Blazor
12 9 (3.31%) ML.NET
13 8 (2.94%) .NET Core
14 7 (2.57%) CSS
14 7 (2.57%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (5.88%) Cloud Native
2 7 (2.57%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (2.21%) NHS
3 6 (2.21%) Public Cloud
4 5 (1.84%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (1.84%) Product Ownership
4 5 (1.84%) Social Media
5 4 (1.47%) BBC
5 4 (1.47%) e-Learning
5 4 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (1.47%) Mobile App
6 3 (1.10%) CMDB
6 3 (1.10%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.10%) Driving Licence
6 3 (1.10%) iPhone
6 3 (1.10%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.10%) Onboarding
7 2 (0.74%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (0.74%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (0.74%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 18 (6.62%) Linux
2 15 (5.51%) Windows
3 9 (3.31%) Unix
4 3 (1.10%) Android
4 3 (1.10%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.37%) CentOS
5 1 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (58.46%) CI/CD
2 98 (36.03%) Agile
3 47 (17.28%) Infrastructure as Code
4 42 (15.44%) Mentoring
5 40 (14.71%) Continuous Improvement
6 39 (14.34%) Test Automation
7 38 (13.97%) ITIL
8 36 (13.24%) Continuous Integration
9 34 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
10 33 (12.13%) Microservices
10 33 (12.13%) SDLC
11 32 (11.76%) Platform Engineering
11 32 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
12 31 (11.40%) Scrum
13 30 (11.03%) Containerisation
14 29 (10.66%) Stakeholder Management
15 27 (9.93%) Data Engineering
16 26 (9.56%) DevSecOps
16 26 (9.56%) Software Engineering
17 25 (9.19%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 75 (27.57%) SQL
2 67 (24.63%) Java
3 52 (19.12%) TypeScript
4 49 (18.01%) Python
5 36 (13.24%) Bash
6 30 (11.03%) Groovy
7 29 (10.66%) JavaScript
8 25 (9.19%) C#
9 24 (8.82%) Kotlin
10 7 (2.57%) PowerShell
11 5 (1.84%) Go
11 5 (1.84%) T-SQL
12 3 (1.10%) Bicep
12 3 (1.10%) C++
12 3 (1.10%) 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 (12.13%) Degree
2 26 (9.56%) AWS Certification
3 23 (8.46%) Security Cleared
4 22 (8.09%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 22 (8.09%) ITIL Certification
5 18 (6.62%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (6.25%) SC Cleared
7 5 (1.84%) PMI Certification
7 5 (1.84%) PMP
8 2 (0.74%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 2 (0.74%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.74%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (0.74%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.37%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.37%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.37%) CBAP
9 1 (0.37%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.37%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.37%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (6.99%) QA
2 12 (4.41%) GDPR
3 9 (3.31%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.84%) GRC
4 5 (1.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.47%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.10%) SOC 2
System Software
1 63 (23.16%) Docker
2 3 (1.10%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 3 (1.10%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (0.37%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.37%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.37%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 50 (18.38%) Terraform
2 24 (8.82%) HP Fortify
3 20 (7.35%) Kubernetes
4 10 (3.68%) Ansible
4 10 (3.68%) Argo
5 4 (1.47%) Grafana
5 4 (1.47%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.10%) Packer
7 2 (0.74%) Kibana
7 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.74%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.37%) Istio
Vendors
1 43 (15.81%) Microsoft
2 23 (8.46%) Databricks
3 13 (4.78%) Google
4 10 (3.68%) ServiceNow
5 7 (2.57%) SAP
6 6 (2.21%) Pega
7 5 (1.84%) AppDynamics
7 5 (1.84%) IBM
7 5 (1.84%) Oracle
8 4 (1.47%) Apple
8 4 (1.47%) Facebook
8 4 (1.47%) Sony
8 4 (1.47%) Yahoo!
9 3 (1.10%) IFS
10 2 (0.74%) Arista
10 2 (0.74%) F5
10 2 (0.74%) Informatica
10 2 (0.74%) Palo Alto
10 2 (0.74%) Qualys
11 1 (0.37%) Progress