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 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 48 30
Rank change year-on-year +21 -18 -17
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 301 165 297
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 4.07% 4.66% 5.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.10% 5.25% 7.15%
Number of salaries quoted 215 133 237
10th Percentile £46,000 £36,900 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £47,875 £47,231
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% +4.17% -1.93%
75th Percentile £82,500 £75,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £82,000 £87,500
England median annual salary £70,079 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +0.11% +3.70% -3.57%

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 4,932 3,140 4,156
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 66.70% 88.60% 78.95%
Number of salaries quoted 3,574 1,532 2,510
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £29,731
25th Percentile £40,000 £30,625 £38,890
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £46,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.53% -7.00% -8.26%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,922 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -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 17 August 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 17 August 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 +7 212 £72,500 +11.54% 70
South Yorkshire -9 61 £69,310 +32.02% 19
North Yorkshire +4 12 £62,500 -10.71% 9
East Yorkshire -17 8 £47,000 +12.57% 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 (1.99%) Confluence
2 5 (1.66%) Apache Spark
2 5 (1.66%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.33%) Moodle
4 3 (1.00%) Apache
4 3 (1.00%) CMS
4 3 (1.00%) IIS
5 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.66%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 7 (2.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.66%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (1.33%) Shopify
2 3 (1.00%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.66%) Sage 200
4 1 (0.33%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 119 (39.53%) AWS
2 117 (38.87%) Azure
3 71 (23.59%) Serverless
4 66 (21.93%) Azure DevOps
5 57 (18.94%) AWS Lambda
6 54 (17.94%) AWS CloudFormation
7 52 (17.28%) Amazon ECS
7 52 (17.28%) Amazon S3
8 48 (15.95%) GitHub
9 37 (12.29%) AWS Step Functions
10 32 (10.63%) GitHub Actions
11 29 (9.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 24 (7.97%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 21 (6.98%) Azure Data Factory
13 21 (6.98%) GCP
13 21 (6.98%) Power Platform
14 16 (5.32%) Microsoft 365
15 15 (4.98%) Amazon EC2
15 15 (4.98%) Amazon SQS
15 15 (4.98%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.33%) Firewall
1 4 (1.33%) HTTP
1 4 (1.33%) Internet
2 3 (1.00%) DNS
3 2 (0.66%) BGP
3 2 (0.66%) Ethernet VPN
3 2 (0.66%) NGFW
3 2 (0.66%) OSPF
3 2 (0.66%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.66%) VXLAN
4 1 (0.33%) LAN
4 1 (0.33%) Network Security
4 1 (0.33%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.33%) VPN
4 1 (0.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (13.62%) DynamoDB
2 22 (7.31%) Amazon Athena
2 22 (7.31%) NoSQL
3 21 (6.98%) MongoDB
4 19 (6.31%) Data Warehouse
5 17 (5.65%) Spark SQL
6 14 (4.65%) SQL Server
7 12 (3.99%) Azure SQL Database
7 12 (3.99%) Power BI
8 9 (2.99%) PostgreSQL
9 8 (2.66%) Relational Database
10 6 (1.99%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (1.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 4 (1.33%) Metadata
13 3 (1.00%) BigQuery
13 3 (1.00%) Data Lake
13 3 (1.00%) Power Query
13 3 (1.00%) Redis
13 3 (1.00%) Star Schema
14 2 (0.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 51 (16.94%) Jenkins
2 47 (15.61%) Git
3 40 (13.29%) GitLab
4 24 (7.97%) JIRA
5 18 (5.98%) Cypress.io
5 18 (5.98%) SonarQube
6 16 (5.32%) Maven
7 6 (1.99%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 6 (1.99%) Visual Studio
8 3 (1.00%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.00%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.66%) JUnit
9 2 (0.66%) Postman
9 2 (0.66%) Selenium
10 1 (0.33%) PHPUnit
10 1 (0.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 64 (21.26%) Social Skills
2 40 (13.29%) Public Sector
3 31 (10.30%) Finance
4 16 (5.32%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (2.33%) Legal
6 6 (1.99%) Law
6 6 (1.99%) Local Government
7 5 (1.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (1.66%) Retail
8 4 (1.33%) Banking
9 3 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.00%) Tech for Good
10 2 (0.66%) Advertising
10 2 (0.66%) Billing
10 2 (0.66%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.33%) Electronics
11 1 (0.33%) Games
11 1 (0.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 89 (29.57%) Developer
2 70 (23.26%) Senior
3 63 (20.93%) DevOps Engineer
4 46 (15.28%) Lead
5 44 (14.62%) Java Developer
6 31 (10.30%) Cloud Engineer
7 28 (9.30%) Data Engineer
8 26 (8.64%) Senior DevOps
8 26 (8.64%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 25 (8.31%) Platform Engineer
10 20 (6.64%) AWS Developer
11 18 (5.98%) Lead Data Engineer
12 17 (5.65%) Azure Engineer
12 17 (5.65%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 17 (5.65%) Full-Stack Developer
13 16 (5.32%) .NET Developer
14 13 (4.32%) Software Engineer
15 12 (3.99%) Lead Cloud Engineer
16 11 (3.65%) Azure Platform Engineer
16 11 (3.65%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (14.29%) AngularJS
2 38 (12.62%) .NET
3 36 (11.96%) React
4 35 (11.63%) Node.js
5 30 (9.97%) Spring Boot
6 23 (7.64%) REST
7 21 (6.98%) RESTful
8 20 (6.64%) ASP.NET
9 18 (5.98%) Jest
9 18 (5.98%) PySpark
10 17 (5.65%) ASP.NET Core
10 17 (5.65%) Spring
11 15 (4.98%) .NET Core
11 15 (4.98%) CSS
11 15 (4.98%) Gherkin
12 13 (4.32%) Blazor
12 13 (4.32%) ML.NET
13 12 (3.99%) HTML
14 11 (3.65%) ARM Templates
15 7 (2.33%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 27 (8.97%) Cloud Native
2 11 (3.65%) NHS
3 9 (2.99%) Product Ownership
4 7 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (2.33%) Mobile App
5 6 (1.99%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (1.99%) Legacy Applications
5 6 (1.99%) Linux Command Line
5 6 (1.99%) Social Media
6 5 (1.66%) BBC
6 5 (1.66%) Blog
6 5 (1.66%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (1.66%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (1.66%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.33%) e-Learning
7 4 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.33%) iPhone
7 4 (1.33%) Low-Code
8 3 (1.00%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 27 (8.97%) Linux
2 15 (4.98%) Windows
3 12 (3.99%) Unix
4 6 (1.99%) CentOS
4 6 (1.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.33%) Android
6 3 (1.00%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 167 (55.48%) CI/CD
2 111 (36.88%) Agile
3 65 (21.59%) Infrastructure as Code
4 49 (16.28%) Mentoring
5 45 (14.95%) Test Automation
6 44 (14.62%) Scrum
7 42 (13.95%) Continuous Improvement
8 39 (12.96%) Microservices
9 38 (12.62%) Full-Stack Development
10 37 (12.29%) Platform Engineering
11 36 (11.96%) Problem-Solving
12 32 (10.63%) Coaching
12 32 (10.63%) Continuous Integration
13 28 (9.30%) Containerisation
13 28 (9.30%) Software Engineering
14 27 (8.97%) ITIL
14 27 (8.97%) SDLC
15 26 (8.64%) Data Engineering
16 25 (8.31%) AI
16 25 (8.31%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 79 (26.25%) SQL
2 61 (20.27%) Java
3 53 (17.61%) Python
4 41 (13.62%) C#
5 40 (13.29%) TypeScript
6 34 (11.30%) JavaScript
7 27 (8.97%) Bash
8 23 (7.64%) Kotlin
9 22 (7.31%) Groovy
10 6 (1.99%) PowerShell
10 6 (1.99%) T-SQL
11 5 (1.66%) Bicep
11 5 (1.66%) VB.NET
12 3 (1.00%) C
12 3 (1.00%) C++
12 3 (1.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (1.00%) Ruby
13 2 (0.66%) Dart
13 2 (0.66%) Go
13 2 (0.66%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 30 (9.97%) Security Cleared
2 29 (9.63%) Degree
3 27 (8.97%) SC Cleared
4 18 (5.98%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (5.65%) AWS Certification
6 14 (4.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 14 (4.65%) ITIL Certification
7 6 (1.99%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.66%) PMI Certification
8 5 (1.66%) PMP
9 2 (0.66%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 2 (0.66%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.66%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.66%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (0.66%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.33%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.33%) CBAP
10 1 (0.33%) CSPO
10 1 (0.33%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.32%) QA
2 12 (3.99%) GDPR
3 9 (2.99%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.66%) GRC
5 3 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.66%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.66%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.33%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 67 (22.26%) Docker
2 5 (1.66%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.33%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.33%) Firmware
3 1 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 62 (20.60%) Terraform
2 28 (9.30%) Kubernetes
3 15 (4.98%) HP Fortify
4 12 (3.99%) Ansible
5 9 (2.99%) Argo
6 5 (1.66%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (1.00%) Packer
7 3 (1.00%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.66%) Kibana
9 1 (0.33%) Istio
9 1 (0.33%) VxRail
Vendors
1 50 (16.61%) Microsoft
2 23 (7.64%) Databricks
3 11 (3.65%) Google
4 10 (3.32%) Pega
5 7 (2.33%) ServiceNow
6 5 (1.66%) AppDynamics
6 5 (1.66%) Apple
6 5 (1.66%) Facebook
6 5 (1.66%) IBM
6 5 (1.66%) Sony
6 5 (1.66%) Yahoo!
7 4 (1.33%) Cisco
8 3 (1.00%) SAP
9 2 (0.66%) F5
9 2 (0.66%) Informatica
9 2 (0.66%) Oracle
9 2 (0.66%) Palo Alto
9 2 (0.66%) Sage
9 2 (0.66%) Sophos
9 2 (0.66%) VMware