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

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 32 25
Rank change year-on-year 0 -7 -8
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 279 180 395
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 4.28% 6.96% 6.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.20% 7.40% 8.45%
Number of salaries quoted 188 134 318
10th Percentile £43,750 £38,792 £37,500
25th Percentile £57,188 £48,467 £44,803
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £59,763
Median % change year-on-year - +17.13% -2.32%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £92,500 £98,474 £87,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +11.54% -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 2,434 4,677
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 69.07% 94.16% 82.36%
Number of salaries quoted 2,984 1,189 3,724
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £39,050 £31,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -9.07%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +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 23 May 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 23 May 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 -8.20% 56
South Yorkshire -32 36 £80,000 +60.00% 29
North Yorkshire -12 8 £72,500 +3.57% 5
East Yorkshire -27 4 £45,000 - 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 (2.15%) Moodle
2 5 (1.79%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.08%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.08%) Confluence
3 3 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.72%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.72%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (0.36%) Apache
5 1 (0.36%) IIS
Applications
1 7 (2.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.79%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 12 (4.30%) SAP ERP
2 3 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.08%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (1.08%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.36%) Magento
3 1 (0.36%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 139 (49.82%) AWS
2 112 (40.14%) Azure
3 97 (34.77%) Serverless
4 83 (29.75%) Amazon S3
4 83 (29.75%) AWS Lambda
5 71 (25.45%) Amazon ECS
5 71 (25.45%) AWS CloudFormation
6 66 (23.66%) AWS Step Functions
7 50 (17.92%) GitHub
8 48 (17.20%) Azure DevOps
9 36 (12.90%) Amazon ECR
9 36 (12.90%) Apigee
10 35 (12.54%) GitHub Actions
11 33 (11.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 32 (11.47%) Amazon SQS
13 29 (10.39%) GCP
14 24 (8.60%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 18 (6.45%) Amazon EKS
16 17 (6.09%) Azure Data Factory
17 16 (5.73%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.15%) DNS
1 6 (2.15%) Firewall
2 5 (1.79%) HTTP
3 3 (1.08%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.72%) BGP
4 2 (0.72%) Ethernet VPN
4 2 (0.72%) NGFW
4 2 (0.72%) OSPF
4 2 (0.72%) VXLAN
5 1 (0.36%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (27.24%) DynamoDB
2 35 (12.54%) NoSQL
3 24 (8.60%) Amazon Athena
4 20 (7.17%) PostgreSQL
5 17 (6.09%) Spark SQL
6 16 (5.73%) SQL Server
7 15 (5.38%) Data Warehouse
8 10 (3.58%) MongoDB
8 10 (3.58%) Power BI
9 6 (2.15%) Metadata
9 6 (2.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 5 (1.79%) Azure SQL Database
10 5 (1.79%) Relational Database
11 3 (1.08%) Power Query
12 2 (0.72%) BigQuery
12 2 (0.72%) MySQL
12 2 (0.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 2 (0.72%) Star Schema
13 1 (0.36%) Apache Cassandra
13 1 (0.36%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 70 (25.09%) Jenkins
2 59 (21.15%) GitLab
3 40 (14.34%) Git
3 40 (14.34%) SonarQube
4 37 (13.26%) Cypress.io
4 37 (13.26%) Maven
5 21 (7.53%) JIRA
6 4 (1.43%) Selenium
7 3 (1.08%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.08%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.08%) JUnit
7 3 (1.08%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.72%) Postman
9 1 (0.36%) JMeter
9 1 (0.36%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.36%) PHPUnit
General
1 72 (25.81%) Social Skills
2 25 (8.96%) Public Sector
3 24 (8.60%) Finance
4 18 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (4.66%) Retail
6 7 (2.51%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.08%) Law
7 3 (1.08%) Telecoms
8 2 (0.72%) Billing
8 2 (0.72%) Games
8 2 (0.72%) Health Technology
8 2 (0.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (0.72%) Marketing
9 1 (0.36%) Advertising
9 1 (0.36%) Back Office
9 1 (0.36%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.36%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 92 (32.97%) Developer
2 57 (20.43%) Java Developer
3 56 (20.07%) Senior
4 51 (18.28%) Lead
5 46 (16.49%) DevOps Engineer
6 25 (8.96%) Data Engineer
7 22 (7.89%) AWS Developer
8 18 (6.45%) Platform Engineer
9 17 (6.09%) Lead Data Engineer
9 17 (6.09%) Software Engineer
10 14 (5.02%) Senior Developer
10 14 (5.02%) Senior DevOps
10 14 (5.02%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 13 (4.66%) Cloud Engineer
12 12 (4.30%) .NET Developer
12 12 (4.30%) Azure Engineer
12 12 (4.30%) Full-Stack Developer
12 12 (4.30%) Lead DevOps
12 12 (4.30%) Lead DevOps Engineer
13 11 (3.94%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (22.94%) AngularJS
2 49 (17.56%) Spring Boot
3 39 (13.98%) Node.js
4 38 (13.62%) Jest
5 36 (12.90%) Gherkin
6 32 (11.47%) React
7 23 (8.24%) .NET
8 22 (7.89%) RESTful
8 22 (7.89%) Spring
9 21 (7.53%) PySpark
10 20 (7.17%) REST
11 14 (5.02%) ASP.NET
12 13 (4.66%) Elastic Stack
13 11 (3.94%) .NET Core
13 11 (3.94%) ASP.NET Core
14 10 (3.58%) Blazor
15 9 (3.23%) ARM Templates
16 8 (2.87%) AWS CDK
16 8 (2.87%) CSS
16 8 (2.87%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (8.96%) Cloud Native
2 14 (5.02%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (2.87%) NHS
4 7 (2.51%) Management Information System
5 6 (2.15%) e-Learning
6 4 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.43%) Product Ownership
6 4 (1.43%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.43%) SCADA
6 4 (1.43%) Social Media
7 3 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.08%) CMDB
7 3 (1.08%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.08%) Driving Licence
7 3 (1.08%) Legacy Applications
7 3 (1.08%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.72%) BBC
8 2 (0.72%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (0.72%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 16 (5.73%) Linux
2 15 (5.38%) Windows
3 7 (2.51%) Unix
4 5 (1.79%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.36%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 180 (64.52%) CI/CD
2 110 (39.43%) Agile
3 55 (19.71%) Infrastructure as Code
4 45 (16.13%) Mentoring
4 45 (16.13%) Microservices
5 40 (14.34%) Problem-Solving
6 39 (13.98%) Continuous Improvement
6 39 (13.98%) ITIL
7 36 (12.90%) Containerisation
7 36 (12.90%) Stakeholder Management
8 35 (12.54%) Continuous Integration
9 34 (12.19%) Test Automation
10 31 (11.11%) Platform Engineering
11 30 (10.75%) Full-Stack Development
11 30 (10.75%) SDLC
12 29 (10.39%) Data Engineering
12 29 (10.39%) Observability
12 29 (10.39%) Scrum
13 28 (10.04%) Secure Coding
14 26 (9.32%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 82 (29.39%) Java
2 77 (27.60%) SQL
3 65 (23.30%) TypeScript
4 49 (17.56%) Python
5 48 (17.20%) Bash
6 41 (14.70%) Groovy
7 25 (8.96%) JavaScript
8 23 (8.24%) Kotlin
9 15 (5.38%) C#
10 7 (2.51%) PowerShell
11 6 (2.15%) Go
12 5 (1.79%) T-SQL
13 3 (1.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.72%) C++
14 2 (0.72%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.36%) Bicep
15 1 (0.36%) Perl
15 1 (0.36%) PHP
15 1 (0.36%) Scala
Qualifications
1 38 (13.62%) AWS Certification
2 30 (10.75%) Degree
3 23 (8.24%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 23 (8.24%) ITIL Certification
4 20 (7.17%) Security Cleared
5 15 (5.38%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (5.02%) SC Cleared
7 12 (4.30%) AWS Certified Developer
8 5 (1.79%) PMI Certification
8 5 (1.79%) PMP
9 2 (0.72%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 2 (0.72%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.72%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (0.72%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.36%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.36%) CBAP
10 1 (0.36%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.36%) IIBA
10 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (8.60%) QA
2 13 (4.66%) GDPR
3 7 (2.51%) Data Quality
3 7 (2.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (2.51%) PCI DSS
4 5 (1.79%) GRC
5 3 (1.08%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.72%) Accessibility
System Software
1 87 (31.18%) Docker
2 3 (1.08%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 3 (1.08%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 59 (21.15%) Terraform
2 37 (13.26%) HP Fortify
3 25 (8.96%) Kubernetes
4 13 (4.66%) Ansible
5 10 (3.58%) Argo
6 7 (2.51%) Grafana
6 7 (2.51%) Prometheus
7 3 (1.08%) Packer
8 2 (0.72%) Kibana
9 1 (0.36%) Istio
9 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.36%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 35 (12.54%) Microsoft
2 23 (8.24%) Databricks
3 15 (5.38%) SAP
4 9 (3.23%) ServiceNow
5 8 (2.87%) Google
6 6 (2.15%) IBM
7 5 (1.79%) AppDynamics
7 5 (1.79%) Oracle
8 3 (1.08%) F5
8 3 (1.08%) IFS
8 3 (1.08%) Sparx
9 2 (0.72%) Adobe
9 2 (0.72%) Apple
9 2 (0.72%) Arista
9 2 (0.72%) Facebook
9 2 (0.72%) Informatica
9 2 (0.72%) Palo Alto
9 2 (0.72%) Qualys
9 2 (0.72%) Sony
9 2 (0.72%) Yahoo!