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 22 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 23 25
Rank change year-on-year -11 +2 -8
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 275 203 401
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 4.68% 8.65% 7.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.53% 9.19% 8.61%
Number of salaries quoted 185 160 320
10th Percentile £42,500 £37,716 £36,225
25th Percentile £53,750 £47,231 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.48% +11.67% -4.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £91,934 £75,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £98,474 £87,500
England median annual salary £70,932 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +1.33% +7.69% -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 4,210 2,208 4,658
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 71.66% 94.12% 83.70%
Number of salaries quoted 2,671 1,266 3,686
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £49,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% -1.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,188 £65,000
90th Percentile £86,253 £87,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +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 22 April 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 22 April 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 -5 224 £70,000 -6.67% 57
South Yorkshire -40 29 £75,466 +63.17% 16
East Yorkshire -32 9 £46,250 +2.78% 7
North Yorkshire -3 6 £72,500 +3.57% 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 (2.55%) Moodle
2 6 (2.18%) Confluence
2 6 (2.18%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.45%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.73%) Apache
4 2 (0.73%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.73%) IIS
4 2 (0.73%) OpenStack
Applications
1 7 (2.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.82%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 13 (4.73%) SAP ERP
2 4 (1.45%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.36%) Magento
4 1 (0.36%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 155 (56.36%) AWS
2 116 (42.18%) Azure
3 102 (37.09%) Serverless
4 88 (32.00%) Amazon S3
4 88 (32.00%) AWS Lambda
5 72 (26.18%) AWS CloudFormation
6 67 (24.36%) AWS Step Functions
7 65 (23.64%) Amazon ECS
8 58 (21.09%) GitHub
9 49 (17.82%) Azure DevOps
10 40 (14.55%) GitHub Actions
11 37 (13.45%) Amazon SQS
12 36 (13.09%) Amazon ECR
12 36 (13.09%) Apigee
13 34 (12.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 31 (11.27%) GCP
15 20 (7.27%) Amazon EKS
15 20 (7.27%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 15 (5.45%) Microsoft 365
17 14 (5.09%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.55%) Firewall
2 6 (2.18%) HTTP
3 5 (1.82%) DNS
4 4 (1.45%) Network Security
4 4 (1.45%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.36%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (29.09%) DynamoDB
2 35 (12.73%) NoSQL
3 24 (8.73%) PostgreSQL
4 23 (8.36%) SQL Server
5 20 (7.27%) Amazon Athena
6 13 (4.73%) Data Warehouse
7 12 (4.36%) Spark SQL
8 8 (2.91%) Metadata
9 7 (2.55%) Power BI
10 6 (2.18%) MongoDB
10 6 (2.18%) Relational Database
11 4 (1.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (1.09%) Power Query
13 2 (0.73%) Azure SQL Database
13 2 (0.73%) Data Lake
14 1 (0.36%) Amazon Aurora
14 1 (0.36%) Amazon RDS
14 1 (0.36%) Amazon Redshift
14 1 (0.36%) MySQL
14 1 (0.36%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 67 (24.36%) Jenkins
2 56 (20.36%) GitLab
3 40 (14.55%) Git
3 40 (14.55%) SonarQube
4 36 (13.09%) Cypress.io
4 36 (13.09%) Maven
5 21 (7.64%) JIRA
6 4 (1.45%) Selenium
7 3 (1.09%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.09%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.09%) JUnit
8 2 (0.73%) Postman
8 2 (0.73%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.36%) JMeter
9 1 (0.36%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.36%) PHPUnit
General
1 88 (32.00%) Social Skills
2 33 (12.00%) Finance
3 23 (8.36%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (6.18%) Public Sector
5 15 (5.45%) Retail
6 7 (2.55%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.45%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.45%) Law
8 4 (1.45%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.09%) Marketing
10 2 (0.73%) Advertising
10 2 (0.73%) Billing
10 2 (0.73%) Games
10 2 (0.73%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.36%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 91 (33.09%) Developer
2 53 (19.27%) Java Developer
2 53 (19.27%) Senior
3 43 (15.64%) Lead
4 37 (13.45%) DevOps Engineer
5 23 (8.36%) AWS Developer
6 21 (7.64%) Data Engineer
6 21 (7.64%) Software Engineer
7 17 (6.18%) Cloud Engineer
8 16 (5.82%) Platform Engineer
9 15 (5.45%) .NET Developer
10 14 (5.09%) Lead Data Engineer
10 14 (5.09%) Senior Developer
11 12 (4.36%) Full-Stack Developer
11 12 (4.36%) Senior DevOps
11 12 (4.36%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 9 (3.27%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 9 (3.27%) QA Manager
13 8 (2.91%) Analyst
13 8 (2.91%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (21.82%) AngularJS
2 51 (18.55%) Spring Boot
3 41 (14.91%) React
4 39 (14.18%) Node.js
5 37 (13.45%) Jest
6 36 (13.09%) Gherkin
7 27 (9.82%) .NET
7 27 (9.82%) Spring
8 26 (9.45%) RESTful
9 18 (6.55%) ASP.NET
9 18 (6.55%) PySpark
10 17 (6.18%) .NET Core
10 17 (6.18%) REST
11 14 (5.09%) ASP.NET Core
11 14 (5.09%) Blazor
11 14 (5.09%) Elastic Stack
12 13 (4.73%) AWS CDK
13 11 (4.00%) CSS
13 11 (4.00%) HTML
14 7 (2.55%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 41 (14.91%) Cloud Native
2 14 (5.09%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (3.27%) NHS
4 7 (2.55%) e-Learning
5 5 (1.82%) Analytical Mindset
5 5 (1.82%) Management Information System
5 5 (1.82%) Product Ownership
6 4 (1.45%) Data Structures
6 4 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.45%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.45%) SCADA
6 4 (1.45%) Security Posture
7 3 (1.09%) CMDB
7 3 (1.09%) Driving Licence
7 3 (1.09%) Enterprise Cloud
7 3 (1.09%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.09%) Social Media
8 2 (0.73%) Cloud Security Posture
8 2 (0.73%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (0.73%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.09%) Windows
2 13 (4.73%) Linux
3 5 (1.82%) Unix
3 5 (1.82%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.36%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 181 (65.82%) CI/CD
2 116 (42.18%) Agile
3 65 (23.64%) Infrastructure as Code
4 50 (18.18%) Microservices
5 47 (17.09%) Continuous Improvement
5 47 (17.09%) Problem-Solving
6 46 (16.73%) Mentoring
7 40 (14.55%) Containerisation
8 38 (13.82%) ITIL
9 36 (13.09%) Software Engineering
10 34 (12.36%) Stakeholder Management
11 33 (12.00%) Continuous Integration
12 32 (11.64%) SDLC
13 31 (11.27%) Observability
14 30 (10.91%) Full-Stack Development
14 30 (10.91%) Platform Engineering
15 28 (10.18%) Secure Coding
15 28 (10.18%) Test Automation
16 27 (9.82%) Data Engineering
17 24 (8.73%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 80 (29.09%) Java
2 76 (27.64%) SQL
3 62 (22.55%) TypeScript
4 47 (17.09%) Python
5 46 (16.73%) Bash
6 40 (14.55%) Groovy
7 24 (8.73%) JavaScript
8 19 (6.91%) Kotlin
9 12 (4.36%) C#
10 11 (4.00%) PowerShell
11 7 (2.55%) Go
12 6 (2.18%) T-SQL
13 4 (1.45%) Bicep
14 3 (1.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 2 (0.73%) PL/SQL
16 1 (0.36%) Perl
16 1 (0.36%) PHP
16 1 (0.36%) R
16 1 (0.36%) Scala
Qualifications
1 42 (15.27%) AWS Certification
2 26 (9.45%) Degree
3 23 (8.36%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 23 (8.36%) ITIL Certification
4 19 (6.91%) Security Cleared
5 17 (6.18%) AWS Certified Developer
6 13 (4.73%) SC Cleared
7 10 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.82%) PMI Certification
8 5 (1.82%) PMP
9 2 (0.73%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 2 (0.73%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.73%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (0.73%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.36%) CBAP
10 1 (0.36%) IIBA
10 1 (0.36%) MCITP
10 1 (0.36%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (9.09%) QA
2 13 (4.73%) GDPR
3 10 (3.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (2.91%) PCI DSS
5 7 (2.55%) Data Quality
5 7 (2.55%) GRC
6 5 (1.82%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.73%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.73%) NIST
System Software
1 95 (34.55%) Docker
2 3 (1.09%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 3 (1.09%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 69 (25.09%) Terraform
2 37 (13.45%) HP Fortify
3 29 (10.55%) Kubernetes
4 16 (5.82%) Ansible
5 11 (4.00%) Grafana
5 11 (4.00%) Prometheus
6 8 (2.91%) Argo
7 3 (1.09%) Packer
8 2 (0.73%) Kibana
9 1 (0.36%) Istio
9 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.36%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 38 (13.82%) Microsoft
2 18 (6.55%) Databricks
3 13 (4.73%) SAP
4 7 (2.55%) Google
5 6 (2.18%) IBM
5 6 (2.18%) Oracle
5 6 (2.18%) ServiceNow
6 5 (1.82%) AppDynamics
7 4 (1.45%) IFS
8 3 (1.09%) Sparx
9 2 (0.73%) Adobe
9 2 (0.73%) Qualys
10 1 (0.36%) Apple
10 1 (0.36%) Blue Prism
10 1 (0.36%) F5
10 1 (0.36%) Facebook
10 1 (0.36%) Foundry
10 1 (0.36%) Sony
10 1 (0.36%) VMware
10 1 (0.36%) Yahoo!