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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 33 28
Rank change year-on-year 0 -5 -9
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 271 175 388
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 4.06% 6.58% 6.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.02% 7.11% 7.88%
Number of salaries quoted 180 134 304
10th Percentile £45,000 £36,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £57,188 £50,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +21.74% -5.15%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £98,474 £87,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £71,755 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.45% +10.39% -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 4,498 2,463 4,923
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 67.31% 92.63% 79.56%
Number of salaries quoted 3,142 1,260 3,804
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £30,500 £36,250
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 £67,653 £65,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% +5.45% -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 9 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 9 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 +4 212 £70,000 -6.67% 38
South Yorkshire -27 40 £75,466 +54.80% 29
North Yorkshire -7 8 £72,500 +3.57% 5
East Yorkshire -27 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 (2.21%) Confluence
2 5 (1.85%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.48%) Moodle
4 3 (1.11%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.74%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (0.37%) Apache
6 1 (0.37%) IIS
6 1 (0.37%) OpenStack
Applications
1 7 (2.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.85%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 11 (4.06%) SAP ERP
2 3 (1.11%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (1.11%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.37%) Magento
3 1 (0.37%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 128 (47.23%) AWS
2 113 (41.70%) Azure
3 86 (31.73%) Serverless
4 73 (26.94%) AWS Lambda
5 72 (26.57%) Amazon S3
6 63 (23.25%) Amazon ECS
7 62 (22.88%) AWS CloudFormation
8 56 (20.66%) AWS Step Functions
9 51 (18.82%) Azure DevOps
10 50 (18.45%) GitHub
11 33 (12.18%) GitHub Actions
12 31 (11.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 29 (10.70%) Amazon SQS
14 28 (10.33%) Amazon ECR
14 28 (10.33%) Apigee
14 28 (10.33%) GCP
15 25 (9.23%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 18 (6.64%) Azure Data Factory
17 17 (6.27%) Amazon EKS
18 15 (5.54%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.58%) HTTP
2 6 (2.21%) Firewall
3 5 (1.85%) DNS
4 3 (1.11%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.74%) BGP
5 2 (0.74%) Ethernet VPN
5 2 (0.74%) NGFW
5 2 (0.74%) OSPF
5 2 (0.74%) VXLAN
6 1 (0.37%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (24.35%) DynamoDB
2 33 (12.18%) NoSQL
3 25 (9.23%) Amazon Athena
4 17 (6.27%) Spark SQL
5 15 (5.54%) Data Warehouse
5 15 (5.54%) PostgreSQL
6 13 (4.80%) SQL Server
7 12 (4.43%) MongoDB
8 11 (4.06%) Power BI
9 7 (2.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 6 (2.21%) Azure SQL Database
10 6 (2.21%) Metadata
11 4 (1.48%) Relational Database
12 3 (1.11%) Power Query
13 2 (0.74%) BigQuery
13 2 (0.74%) MySQL
13 2 (0.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 2 (0.74%) Star Schema
14 1 (0.37%) Apache Cassandra
14 1 (0.37%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 64 (23.62%) Jenkins
2 52 (19.19%) GitLab
3 41 (15.13%) Git
4 31 (11.44%) Cypress.io
4 31 (11.44%) SonarQube
5 29 (10.70%) Maven
6 24 (8.86%) JIRA
7 3 (1.11%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.11%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.11%) 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 65 (23.99%) Social Skills
2 23 (8.49%) Public Sector
3 21 (7.75%) Finance
4 15 (5.54%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (2.95%) Retail
6 5 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (1.11%) Law
7 3 (1.11%) 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
9 1 (0.37%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.37%) Electronics
9 1 (0.37%) Local Government
9 1 (0.37%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 92 (33.95%) Developer
2 57 (21.03%) Java Developer
3 54 (19.93%) Senior
4 48 (17.71%) DevOps Engineer
5 41 (15.13%) Lead
6 25 (9.23%) Data Engineer
7 23 (8.49%) AWS Developer
8 20 (7.38%) Platform Engineer
9 16 (5.90%) Lead Data Engineer
10 15 (5.54%) Software Engineer
11 14 (5.17%) Azure Engineer
11 14 (5.17%) Cloud Engineer
11 14 (5.17%) Senior Developer
11 14 (5.17%) Senior DevOps
11 14 (5.17%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 13 (4.80%) Lead DevOps
12 13 (4.80%) Lead DevOps Engineer
13 12 (4.43%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 11 (4.06%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14 11 (4.06%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (20.30%) AngularJS
2 40 (14.76%) Node.js
2 40 (14.76%) Spring Boot
3 30 (11.07%) Jest
3 30 (11.07%) React
4 28 (10.33%) Gherkin
5 22 (8.12%) RESTful
6 21 (7.75%) REST
7 20 (7.38%) .NET
7 20 (7.38%) PySpark
8 16 (5.90%) Spring
9 12 (4.43%) Elastic Stack
10 11 (4.06%) ARM Templates
10 11 (4.06%) ASP.NET
11 10 (3.69%) .NET Core
11 10 (3.69%) ASP.NET Core
12 9 (3.32%) Blazor
13 7 (2.58%) RabbitMQ
14 6 (2.21%) CSS
14 6 (2.21%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (7.75%) Cloud Native
2 10 (3.69%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (2.21%) NHS
4 5 (1.85%) Product Ownership
4 5 (1.85%) Public Cloud
5 4 (1.48%) e-Learning
5 4 (1.48%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (1.48%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.11%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (1.11%) CMDB
6 3 (1.11%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.11%) Driving Licence
6 3 (1.11%) Mobile App
6 3 (1.11%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.11%) Social Media
7 2 (0.74%) Data Centre
7 2 (0.74%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (0.74%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (0.74%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 16 (5.90%) Linux
2 13 (4.80%) Windows
3 7 (2.58%) Unix
4 3 (1.11%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.74%) Android
6 1 (0.37%) CentOS
6 1 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 173 (63.84%) CI/CD
2 103 (38.01%) Agile
3 56 (20.66%) Infrastructure as Code
4 44 (16.24%) Mentoring
5 41 (15.13%) Microservices
6 39 (14.39%) Continuous Improvement
7 38 (14.02%) ITIL
8 37 (13.65%) Continuous Integration
8 37 (13.65%) Problem-Solving
8 37 (13.65%) Test Automation
9 35 (12.92%) Stakeholder Management
10 34 (12.55%) Containerisation
10 34 (12.55%) Platform Engineering
10 34 (12.55%) SDLC
11 30 (11.07%) Scrum
12 29 (10.70%) Observability
13 27 (9.96%) Full-Stack Development
14 26 (9.59%) Data Engineering
14 26 (9.59%) DevSecOps
14 26 (9.59%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 75 (27.68%) SQL
2 72 (26.57%) Java
3 59 (21.77%) TypeScript
4 51 (18.82%) Python
5 40 (14.76%) Bash
6 34 (12.55%) Groovy
7 25 (9.23%) JavaScript
8 24 (8.86%) Kotlin
9 16 (5.90%) C#
10 8 (2.95%) PowerShell
11 6 (2.21%) Go
12 5 (1.85%) T-SQL
13 3 (1.11%) Bicep
13 3 (1.11%) C++
13 3 (1.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.74%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.37%) C
15 1 (0.37%) Perl
15 1 (0.37%) PHP
15 1 (0.37%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 33 (12.18%) Degree
2 31 (11.44%) AWS Certification
3 23 (8.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 23 (8.49%) ITIL Certification
3 23 (8.49%) Security Cleared
4 18 (6.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (6.27%) SC Cleared
6 5 (1.85%) AWS Certified Developer
6 5 (1.85%) PMI Certification
6 5 (1.85%) 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%) CBAP
8 1 (0.37%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.37%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.37%) IIBA
8 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (8.12%) QA
2 12 (4.43%) GDPR
3 8 (2.95%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.85%) GRC
4 5 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.48%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.11%) SOC 2
System Software
1 76 (28.04%) Docker
2 3 (1.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 3 (1.11%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (0.37%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.37%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 60 (22.14%) Terraform
2 28 (10.33%) HP Fortify
3 24 (8.86%) Kubernetes
4 13 (4.80%) Ansible
5 10 (3.69%) Argo
6 6 (2.21%) Grafana
6 6 (2.21%) Prometheus
7 3 (1.11%) Packer
8 2 (0.74%) Kibana
8 2 (0.74%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.37%) Istio
9 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 36 (13.28%) Microsoft
2 22 (8.12%) Databricks
3 14 (5.17%) SAP
4 10 (3.69%) ServiceNow
5 9 (3.32%) Google
6 5 (1.85%) AppDynamics
6 5 (1.85%) IBM
6 5 (1.85%) Oracle
7 3 (1.11%) F5
7 3 (1.11%) IFS
8 2 (0.74%) Apple
8 2 (0.74%) Arista
8 2 (0.74%) Facebook
8 2 (0.74%) Informatica
8 2 (0.74%) Palo Alto
8 2 (0.74%) Qualys
8 2 (0.74%) Sony
8 2 (0.74%) VMware
8 2 (0.74%) Yahoo!
9 1 (0.37%) Progress