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 31 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 25 23
Rank change year-on-year -10 -2 -8
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 250 193 415
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 5.00% 8.76% 7.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.84% 9.20% 9.20%
Number of salaries quoted 170 150 330
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,014 £35,992
25th Percentile £50,989 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,750 £67,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.48% +12.92% -4.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £91,934 £76,250
90th Percentile £92,750 £98,474 £87,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,799
% change year-on-year - +6.38% -6.00%

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 3,656 2,098 4,512
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 73.06% 95.23% 84.37%
Number of salaries quoted 2,295 1,227 3,588
10th Percentile £28,250 £25,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £32,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,790 £81,250
England median annual salary £55,163 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.06% +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 31 March 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 31 March 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 -6 213 £70,000 -10.43% 53
South Yorkshire -38 17 £75,466 +67.70% 26
East Yorkshire -28 9 £46,250 +2.78% 3
North Yorkshire -8 5 £72,500 +7.41% 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 7 (2.80%) Moodle
2 6 (2.40%) Confluence
3 5 (2.00%) OpenStack
4 4 (1.60%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.60%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.80%) IIS
6 1 (0.40%) Apache
6 1 (0.40%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 5 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.60%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 14 (5.60%) SAP ERP
2 4 (1.60%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.80%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.40%) Magento
5 1 (0.40%) Markit EDM
5 1 (0.40%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 142 (56.80%) AWS
2 105 (42.00%) Azure
3 95 (38.00%) Serverless
4 83 (33.20%) Amazon S3
5 81 (32.40%) AWS Lambda
6 69 (27.60%) AWS CloudFormation
7 65 (26.00%) AWS Step Functions
8 64 (25.60%) Amazon ECS
9 56 (22.40%) GitHub
10 40 (16.00%) Azure DevOps
11 38 (15.20%) GitHub Actions
12 36 (14.40%) Amazon SQS
13 35 (14.00%) Amazon ECR
13 35 (14.00%) Apigee
14 33 (13.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 28 (11.20%) GCP
16 19 (7.60%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 18 (7.20%) Amazon EKS
18 14 (5.60%) Amazon EventBridge
19 13 (5.20%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.80%) Firewall
2 6 (2.40%) HTTP
3 5 (2.00%) DNS
4 4 (1.60%) Network Security
4 4 (1.60%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.40%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (31.20%) DynamoDB
2 33 (13.20%) NoSQL
3 22 (8.80%) PostgreSQL
4 21 (8.40%) SQL Server
5 19 (7.60%) Amazon Athena
6 8 (3.20%) Relational Database
7 7 (2.80%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (2.40%) Metadata
8 6 (2.40%) Spark SQL
9 4 (1.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (1.20%) Power BI
11 2 (0.80%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (0.80%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.80%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 2 (0.80%) Tableau
12 1 (0.40%) MongoDB
12 1 (0.40%) MySQL
12 1 (0.40%) OLAP
12 1 (0.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 1 (0.40%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 62 (24.80%) Jenkins
2 47 (18.80%) GitLab
3 39 (15.60%) Git
4 38 (15.20%) SonarQube
5 35 (14.00%) Cypress.io
5 35 (14.00%) Maven
6 16 (6.40%) JIRA
7 6 (2.40%) Selenium
8 3 (1.20%) JMeter
8 3 (1.20%) JUnit
8 3 (1.20%) LoadRunner
9 2 (0.80%) Postman
10 1 (0.40%) PHPUnit
General
1 85 (34.00%) Social Skills
2 33 (13.20%) Finance
3 22 (8.80%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (6.80%) Retail
5 13 (5.20%) Public Sector
6 7 (2.80%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (2.40%) Financial Institution
8 5 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.60%) Law
9 4 (1.60%) Marketing
9 4 (1.60%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.80%) Advertising
11 2 (0.80%) Games
11 2 (0.80%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.40%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 86 (34.40%) Developer
2 53 (21.20%) Java Developer
3 44 (17.60%) Senior
4 38 (15.20%) Lead
5 23 (9.20%) DevOps Engineer
6 21 (8.40%) AWS Developer
6 21 (8.40%) Software Engineer
7 17 (6.80%) Cloud Engineer
8 15 (6.00%) .NET Developer
9 14 (5.60%) Data Engineer
9 14 (5.60%) Senior Developer
10 12 (4.80%) Full-Stack Developer
11 11 (4.40%) Platform Engineer
12 9 (3.60%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 9 (3.60%) Lead Data Engineer
12 9 (3.60%) QA Manager
13 8 (3.20%) Analyst
13 8 (3.20%) Senior Java Developer
14 7 (2.80%) Senior Software Engineer
14 7 (2.80%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (24.00%) AngularJS
2 52 (20.80%) Spring Boot
3 37 (14.80%) Node.js
3 37 (14.80%) React
4 36 (14.40%) Jest
5 35 (14.00%) Gherkin
6 29 (11.60%) Spring
7 25 (10.00%) .NET
8 24 (9.60%) RESTful
9 18 (7.20%) .NET Core
9 18 (7.20%) ASP.NET
10 14 (5.60%) ASP.NET Core
10 14 (5.60%) Blazor
11 13 (5.20%) AWS CDK
11 13 (5.20%) REST
12 12 (4.80%) Elastic Stack
13 11 (4.40%) PySpark
14 9 (3.60%) CSS
14 9 (3.60%) HTML
15 7 (2.80%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 40 (16.00%) Cloud Native
2 12 (4.80%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (3.60%) NHS
4 7 (2.80%) e-Learning
5 5 (2.00%) Analytical Mindset
5 5 (2.00%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.60%) Data Structures
6 4 (1.60%) Product Ownership
6 4 (1.60%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.60%) SCADA
6 4 (1.60%) Security Posture
7 3 (1.20%) CMDB
7 3 (1.20%) Driving Licence
7 3 (1.20%) Enterprise Cloud
7 3 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.20%) Social Media
8 2 (0.80%) Cloud Security Posture
8 2 (0.80%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (0.80%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.60%) Windows
2 5 (2.00%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.60%) Linux
4 1 (0.40%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (64.40%) CI/CD
2 108 (43.20%) Agile
3 59 (23.60%) Infrastructure as Code
4 48 (19.20%) Continuous Improvement
5 47 (18.80%) Problem-Solving
6 44 (17.60%) Mentoring
7 40 (16.00%) Microservices
8 37 (14.80%) Containerisation
8 37 (14.80%) ITIL
9 36 (14.40%) Software Engineering
10 32 (12.80%) Stakeholder Management
11 31 (12.40%) Full-Stack Development
11 31 (12.40%) SDLC
12 27 (10.80%) Observability
12 27 (10.80%) Secure Coding
13 26 (10.40%) Continuous Integration
14 23 (9.20%) DevSecOps
14 23 (9.20%) Platform Engineering
15 22 (8.80%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
16 21 (8.40%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 74 (29.60%) Java
2 67 (26.80%) SQL
3 59 (23.60%) TypeScript
4 45 (18.00%) Bash
5 38 (15.20%) Python
6 35 (14.00%) Groovy
7 27 (10.80%) JavaScript
8 18 (7.20%) Kotlin
9 11 (4.40%) PowerShell
10 10 (4.00%) C#
11 7 (2.80%) Go
12 5 (2.00%) T-SQL
13 4 (1.60%) Bicep
14 2 (0.80%) R
15 1 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.40%) PHP
15 1 (0.40%) Scala
Qualifications
1 39 (15.60%) AWS Certification
2 22 (8.80%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 22 (8.80%) ITIL Certification
3 20 (8.00%) Degree
4 17 (6.80%) AWS Certified Developer
5 12 (4.80%) Security Cleared
6 9 (3.60%) SC Cleared
7 7 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.60%) PMI Certification
8 4 (1.60%) PMP
9 2 (0.80%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.80%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.40%) CBAP
10 1 (0.40%) IIBA
10 1 (0.40%) MCITP
10 1 (0.40%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (8.80%) QA
2 11 (4.40%) GDPR
3 10 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (3.60%) PCI DSS
5 6 (2.40%) GRC
6 5 (2.00%) SOC 2
7 4 (1.60%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.80%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.80%) NIST
System Software
1 93 (37.20%) Docker
2 3 (1.20%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 3 (1.20%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 57 (22.80%) Terraform
2 38 (15.20%) HP Fortify
3 27 (10.80%) Kubernetes
4 14 (5.60%) Ansible
5 11 (4.40%) Grafana
5 11 (4.40%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.20%) Argo
7 2 (0.80%) Control-M
Vendors
1 32 (12.80%) Microsoft
2 14 (5.60%) SAP
3 13 (5.20%) Databricks
4 7 (2.80%) Google
5 6 (2.40%) Oracle
5 6 (2.40%) ServiceNow
6 4 (1.60%) IFS
7 3 (1.20%) IBM
7 3 (1.20%) Pega
7 3 (1.20%) Sparx
7 3 (1.20%) WSO2
8 2 (0.80%) Adobe
8 2 (0.80%) Qualys
9 1 (0.40%) Apple
9 1 (0.40%) F5
9 1 (0.40%) Facebook
9 1 (0.40%) Foundry
9 1 (0.40%) Sony
9 1 (0.40%) VMware
9 1 (0.40%) Yahoo!