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 23 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 30 13
Rank change year-on-year -15 -17 -4
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 159 253 386
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 4.62% 6.01% 12.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.41% 7.35% 12.87%
Number of salaries quoted 133 165 304
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% -3.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £77,542
90th Percentile £82,500 £90,000 £91,934
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,000

All Process and 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 2,941 3,442 2,999
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 85.44% 81.72% 95.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1,568 1,481 2,203
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £30,500 £41,103 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% - -
75th Percentile £68,750 £69,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £81,250 £84,045
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -1.93%

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 23 November 2025.

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 23 November 2025. 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 -4 119 £60,000 -11.76% 43
South Yorkshire -13 15 £55,000 +20.38% 10
North Yorkshire -2 13 £70,000 +27.27% 3
East Yorkshire -20 11 £46,250 +2.78% 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 (3.77%) Confluence
2 5 (3.14%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.89%) Apache
3 3 (1.89%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.63%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.63%) CMS
4 1 (0.63%) FileNet
4 1 (0.63%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.63%) IIS
4 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.63%) Moodle
4 1 (0.63%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.63%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.63%) WebLogic
Applications
1 7 (4.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.63%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.26%) Markit EDM
1 2 (1.26%) Oracle ERP
1 2 (1.26%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.63%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (0.63%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.63%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 83 (52.20%) Azure
2 74 (46.54%) AWS
3 32 (20.13%) Azure DevOps
4 27 (16.98%) GitHub
5 24 (15.09%) Serverless
6 20 (12.58%) AWS CloudFormation
7 19 (11.95%) SaaS
8 18 (11.32%) GCP
9 15 (9.43%) GitHub Actions
10 14 (8.81%) Amazon S3
11 13 (8.18%) AWS Lambda
12 11 (6.92%) Amazon ECS
13 8 (5.03%) Amazon EKS
13 8 (5.03%) Amazon SQS
13 8 (5.03%) AWS Step Functions
14 7 (4.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 6 (3.77%) Amazon EventBridge
16 4 (2.52%) Amazon GuardDuty
17 3 (1.89%) Azure Key Vault
17 3 (1.89%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 10 (6.29%) Firewall
2 9 (5.66%) Network Security
3 3 (1.89%) DNS
4 2 (1.26%) AMQP
5 1 (0.63%) BGP
5 1 (0.63%) DHCP
5 1 (0.63%) HTTP
5 1 (0.63%) LAN
5 1 (0.63%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.63%) VPN
5 1 (0.63%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (8.18%) Relational Database
2 12 (7.55%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (7.55%) SQL Server
3 10 (6.29%) DynamoDB
3 10 (6.29%) NoSQL
4 9 (5.66%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (5.03%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 6 (3.77%) OLAP
7 5 (3.14%) RDBMS
8 3 (1.89%) Amazon Aurora
8 3 (1.89%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (1.89%) Apache Iceberg
8 3 (1.89%) Big Data
8 3 (1.89%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.89%) Data Vault
9 2 (1.26%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (1.26%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (1.26%) Metadata
9 2 (1.26%) Power BI
9 2 (1.26%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 20 (12.58%) Git
2 17 (10.69%) Jenkins
3 16 (10.06%) JIRA
4 15 (9.43%) GitLab
5 3 (1.89%) Selenium
5 3 (1.89%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.26%) CircleCI
6 2 (1.26%) JMeter
6 2 (1.26%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.63%) Appium
7 1 (0.63%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.63%) Postman
7 1 (0.63%) REST Assured
General
1 53 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 33 (20.75%) Finance
3 15 (9.43%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (8.18%) Financial Institution
5 12 (7.55%) Law
6 7 (4.40%) Public Sector
6 7 (4.40%) Retail
7 6 (3.77%) Legal
8 4 (2.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.89%) Marketing
10 2 (1.26%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.63%) Advertising
11 1 (0.63%) Digital Healthcare
11 1 (0.63%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 39 (24.53%) Developer
2 28 (17.61%) Lead
3 19 (11.95%) Senior
4 17 (10.69%) DevOps Engineer
4 17 (10.69%) Software Engineer
5 13 (8.18%) Analyst
6 12 (7.55%) Lead DevOps
7 11 (6.92%) Java Developer
8 10 (6.29%) Architect
8 10 (6.29%) Lead DevOps Engineer
9 8 (5.03%) .NET Software Engineer
9 8 (5.03%) Data Engineer
10 7 (4.40%) .NET Developer
10 7 (4.40%) Cloud Engineer
11 6 (3.77%) Business Analyst
11 6 (3.77%) Java Engineer
11 6 (3.77%) SQL Developer
12 5 (3.14%) Senior Software Engineer
12 5 (3.14%) Software Developer
12 5 (3.14%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (18.87%) .NET
2 16 (10.06%) React
3 15 (9.43%) Spring
4 13 (8.18%) Node.js
4 13 (8.18%) RESTful
5 12 (7.55%) ASP.NET
5 12 (7.55%) Spring Boot
6 11 (6.92%) Micronaut
7 10 (6.29%) .NET Core
7 10 (6.29%) AngularJS
8 9 (5.66%) HTML
9 8 (5.03%) ASP.NET Core
9 8 (5.03%) CSS
9 8 (5.03%) REST
10 6 (3.77%) Blazor
10 6 (3.77%) Vue
11 5 (3.14%) AWS CDK
11 5 (3.14%) Kafka
11 5 (3.14%) Pandas
12 4 (2.52%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 41 (25.79%) Cloud Native
2 12 (7.55%) Product Ownership
3 9 (5.66%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (2.52%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (2.52%) Data Centre
5 3 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.89%) Private Cloud
5 3 (1.89%) Security Posture
5 3 (1.89%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.26%) Cloud Security Posture
6 2 (1.26%) CMDB
6 2 (1.26%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.26%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (1.26%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.26%) IoT
6 2 (1.26%) Operational Technology
6 2 (1.26%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.63%) Client/Server
7 1 (0.63%) e-Learning
7 1 (0.63%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 12 (7.55%) Windows
2 5 (3.14%) Linux
3 2 (1.26%) Unix
4 1 (0.63%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (55.97%) CI/CD
2 71 (44.65%) Agile
3 52 (32.70%) Infrastructure as Code
4 40 (25.16%) Software Engineering
5 34 (21.38%) Mentoring
5 34 (21.38%) Problem-Solving
6 29 (18.24%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 28 (17.61%) Continuous Improvement
8 24 (15.09%) Stakeholder Management
9 20 (12.58%) Microservices
10 18 (11.32%) SDLC
11 16 (10.06%) Cybersecurity
12 15 (9.43%) Containerisation
12 15 (9.43%) Data Modelling
12 15 (9.43%) Roadmaps
12 15 (9.43%) Scrum
13 14 (8.81%) ETL
13 14 (8.81%) Incident Response
13 14 (8.81%) Line Management
13 14 (8.81%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 52 (32.70%) SQL
2 37 (23.27%) Python
3 36 (22.64%) Java
4 23 (14.47%) C#
5 22 (13.84%) JavaScript
6 17 (10.69%) TypeScript
7 15 (9.43%) PowerShell
8 11 (6.92%) Bash
9 7 (4.40%) T-SQL
10 5 (3.14%) Bicep
11 2 (1.26%) Go
11 2 (1.26%) R
12 1 (0.63%) PHP
Qualifications
1 16 (10.06%) AWS Certification
2 13 (8.18%) Degree
3 9 (5.66%) Security Cleared
4 8 (5.03%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (5.03%) SC Cleared
5 5 (3.14%) AWS Certified Developer
6 3 (1.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (1.89%) CompTIA CySA+
6 3 (1.89%) CompTIA Security+
6 3 (1.89%) GSEC
7 2 (1.26%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.63%) MCITP
8 1 (0.63%) MCSE
8 1 (0.63%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.92%) QA
2 7 (4.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (3.77%) GDPR
4 4 (2.52%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.52%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.26%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (1.26%) GRC
5 2 (1.26%) NCSC
5 2 (1.26%) NIST
5 2 (1.26%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.63%) Accessibility
System Software
1 37 (23.27%) Docker
2 2 (1.26%) Squid
3 1 (0.63%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.63%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 36 (22.64%) Terraform
2 35 (22.01%) Kubernetes
3 17 (10.69%) Ansible
4 9 (5.66%) Prometheus
5 8 (5.03%) Grafana
6 2 (1.26%) Argo
6 2 (1.26%) Control-M
6 2 (1.26%) HP Fortify
6 2 (1.26%) Kibana
Vendors
1 22 (13.84%) Microsoft
2 6 (3.77%) Databricks
3 5 (3.14%) Oracle
4 3 (1.89%) Google
4 3 (1.89%) IBM
4 3 (1.89%) Pega
4 3 (1.89%) Salesforce
4 3 (1.89%) WSO2
5 2 (1.26%) New Relic
5 2 (1.26%) SAP
6 1 (0.63%) Blue Prism
6 1 (0.63%) IFS
6 1 (0.63%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.63%) TOWER Software
6 1 (0.63%) VMware