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 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 29 11
Rank change year-on-year -2 -18 -3
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 196 217 378
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 5.91% 6.62% 12.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.31% 7.39% 13.68%
Number of salaries quoted 143 135 303
10th Percentile £40,615 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,125 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% -3.70%
75th Percentile £78,125 £69,875 £78,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £90,000 £91,934
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - - -1.41%

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 2,681 2,938 2,763
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 80.85% 89.66% 91.55%
Number of salaries quoted 1,552 1,164 2,165
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £30,250 £41,000 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% - -4.34%
75th Percentile £70,000 £69,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £84,056
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 1 January 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 1 January 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 +1 166 £65,000 -2.79% 108
South Yorkshire -26 13 £105,000 +133.33% 53
East Yorkshire -25 8 £47,500 +5.56% 9
North Yorkshire 0 7 £65,000 +18.18% 10
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 (3.06%) Confluence
2 5 (2.55%) Apache Spark
2 5 (2.55%) OpenStack
3 3 (1.53%) Apache
3 3 (1.53%) Moodle
4 2 (1.02%) IIS
5 1 (0.51%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.51%) CMS
5 1 (0.51%) FileNet
5 1 (0.51%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.51%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.51%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 12 (6.12%) SAP ERP
2 3 (1.53%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.02%) Markit EDM
3 2 (1.02%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.51%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.51%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 107 (54.59%) AWS
2 97 (49.49%) Azure
3 56 (28.57%) Serverless
4 47 (23.98%) AWS CloudFormation
5 44 (22.45%) Amazon S3
6 43 (21.94%) AWS Lambda
7 37 (18.88%) GitHub
8 36 (18.37%) AWS Step Functions
9 35 (17.86%) Azure DevOps
10 32 (16.33%) Amazon ECS
11 24 (12.24%) GitHub Actions
12 21 (10.71%) Amazon SQS
12 21 (10.71%) GCP
13 18 (9.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 16 (8.16%) Amazon ECR
14 16 (8.16%) Apigee
14 16 (8.16%) SaaS
15 14 (7.14%) Amazon EventBridge
16 11 (5.61%) Amazon EKS
17 5 (2.55%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.08%) Firewall
2 6 (3.06%) Network Security
3 4 (2.04%) DNS
4 2 (1.02%) AMQP
5 1 (0.51%) BGP
5 1 (0.51%) DHCP
5 1 (0.51%) HTTP
5 1 (0.51%) LAN
5 1 (0.51%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.51%) VPN
5 1 (0.51%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (20.41%) DynamoDB
2 24 (12.24%) NoSQL
3 23 (11.73%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (9.18%) SQL Server
5 10 (5.10%) Relational Database
6 9 (4.59%) Data Warehouse
7 8 (4.08%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 6 (3.06%) OLAP
9 4 (2.04%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (1.53%) Amazon Aurora
10 3 (1.53%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (1.53%) Apache Iceberg
10 3 (1.53%) Big Data
10 3 (1.53%) Data Lake
10 3 (1.53%) Data Vault
10 3 (1.53%) Metadata
11 2 (1.02%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (1.02%) Hadoop
11 2 (1.02%) RDBMS
11 2 (1.02%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 35 (17.86%) Jenkins
2 34 (17.35%) GitLab
3 31 (15.82%) Git
4 20 (10.20%) SonarQube
5 17 (8.67%) Cypress.io
6 16 (8.16%) Maven
7 14 (7.14%) JIRA
8 5 (2.55%) Selenium
9 3 (1.53%) JMeter
9 3 (1.53%) LoadRunner
10 1 (0.51%) Appium
10 1 (0.51%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.51%) JUnit
10 1 (0.51%) Postman
10 1 (0.51%) REST Assured
General
1 72 (36.73%) Social Skills
2 35 (17.86%) Finance
3 19 (9.69%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (6.12%) Financial Institution
4 12 (6.12%) Retail
5 10 (5.10%) Public Sector
6 9 (4.59%) Law
7 5 (2.55%) Marketing
8 3 (1.53%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.53%) Legal
9 2 (1.02%) Advertising
9 2 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.51%) Back Office
10 1 (0.51%) Games
10 1 (0.51%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 57 (29.08%) Developer
2 37 (18.88%) Lead
3 24 (12.24%) Java Developer
3 24 (12.24%) Senior
4 21 (10.71%) Software Engineer
5 19 (9.69%) DevOps Engineer
6 15 (7.65%) .NET Developer
7 12 (6.12%) Analyst
7 12 (6.12%) AWS Developer
8 11 (5.61%) Architect
8 11 (5.61%) Lead DevOps
8 11 (5.61%) Lead DevOps Engineer
9 9 (4.59%) Cloud Engineer
10 8 (4.08%) Data Engineer
10 8 (4.08%) Senior Software Engineer
11 7 (3.57%) .NET Software Engineer
11 7 (3.57%) QA Manager
11 7 (3.57%) Senior Developer
12 6 (3.06%) SQL Developer
12 6 (3.06%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (16.84%) .NET
2 32 (16.33%) AngularJS
3 31 (15.82%) Spring Boot
4 27 (13.78%) React
4 27 (13.78%) Spring
5 22 (11.22%) RESTful
6 21 (10.71%) Node.js
7 18 (9.18%) ASP.NET
8 17 (8.67%) .NET Core
9 16 (8.16%) Gherkin
9 16 (8.16%) Jest
10 14 (7.14%) Blazor
11 13 (6.63%) ASP.NET Core
11 13 (6.63%) AWS CDK
12 12 (6.12%) Micronaut
13 9 (4.59%) CSS
13 9 (4.59%) HTML
13 9 (4.59%) Kafka
14 7 (3.57%) REST
15 6 (3.06%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 54 (27.55%) Cloud Native
2 14 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (3.57%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.04%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (2.04%) Management Information System
4 4 (2.04%) Security Posture
5 3 (1.53%) e-Learning
5 3 (1.53%) Enterprise Cloud
5 3 (1.53%) IoT
5 3 (1.53%) NHS
5 3 (1.53%) Operational Technology
5 3 (1.53%) Private Cloud
5 3 (1.53%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.02%) Cloud Security Posture
6 2 (1.02%) CMDB
6 2 (1.02%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.02%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.02%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.59%) Windows
2 7 (3.57%) Linux
3 3 (1.53%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.02%) Unix
5 1 (0.51%) Android
5 1 (0.51%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (65.31%) CI/CD
2 101 (51.53%) Agile
3 60 (30.61%) Infrastructure as Code
4 44 (22.45%) Problem-Solving
5 42 (21.43%) Software Engineering
6 41 (20.92%) Mentoring
7 36 (18.37%) Continuous Improvement
8 33 (16.84%) Microservices
8 33 (16.84%) Stakeholder Management
9 30 (15.31%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 24 (12.24%) Containerisation
11 22 (11.22%) Scrum
12 20 (10.20%) Incident Response
12 20 (10.20%) SDLC
13 19 (9.69%) Line Management
13 19 (9.69%) Observability
14 18 (9.18%) Full-Stack Development
14 18 (9.18%) Root Cause Analysis
14 18 (9.18%) Waterfall
15 17 (8.67%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 61 (31.12%) SQL
2 59 (30.10%) Java
3 38 (19.39%) TypeScript
4 35 (17.86%) Python
5 26 (13.27%) JavaScript
6 25 (12.76%) Bash
7 16 (8.16%) C#
7 16 (8.16%) Groovy
8 12 (6.12%) PowerShell
9 8 (4.08%) T-SQL
10 5 (2.55%) Bicep
11 4 (2.04%) Kotlin
12 2 (1.02%) Go
12 2 (1.02%) R
13 1 (0.51%) PHP
13 1 (0.51%) Scala
Qualifications
1 29 (14.80%) AWS Certification
2 16 (8.16%) AWS Certified Developer
3 13 (6.63%) Degree
4 11 (5.61%) Security Cleared
5 10 (5.10%) SC Cleared
6 8 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.04%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 4 (2.04%) ITIL Certification
8 3 (1.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (1.02%) Azure Certification
9 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.51%) CompTIA CySA+
10 1 (0.51%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.51%) GSEC
10 1 (0.51%) MCITP
10 1 (0.51%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (10.20%) QA
2 7 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (3.06%) GDPR
3 6 (3.06%) PCI DSS
4 4 (2.04%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.02%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.02%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.02%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (1.02%) GRC
5 2 (1.02%) NCSC
5 2 (1.02%) NIST
5 2 (1.02%) SOC 2
System Software
1 72 (36.73%) Docker
2 1 (0.51%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.51%) Squid
2 1 (0.51%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 46 (23.47%) Terraform
2 39 (19.90%) Kubernetes
3 21 (10.71%) Ansible
4 19 (9.69%) HP Fortify
5 12 (6.12%) Grafana
5 12 (6.12%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.02%) Control-M
7 1 (0.51%) Argo
7 1 (0.51%) Kibana
Vendors
1 21 (10.71%) Microsoft
2 12 (6.12%) SAP
3 6 (3.06%) Databricks
4 4 (2.04%) Google
4 4 (2.04%) IBM
4 4 (2.04%) Oracle
5 3 (1.53%) Pega
5 3 (1.53%) Salesforce
5 3 (1.53%) Sparx
5 3 (1.53%) WSO2
6 2 (1.02%) Adobe
6 2 (1.02%) New Relic
7 1 (0.51%) Blue Prism
7 1 (0.51%) Duck Creek
7 1 (0.51%) F5
7 1 (0.51%) Foundry
7 1 (0.51%) IFS
7 1 (0.51%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.51%) TOWER Software
7 1 (0.51%) VMware