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

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 39 29
Rank change year-on-year +12 -10 -15
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 293 164 317
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 3.91% 4.87% 5.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.89% 5.56% 7.51%
Number of salaries quoted 208 130 241
10th Percentile £46,000 £38,625 £41,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £63,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.80% +6.25% -4.00%
75th Percentile £82,813 £75,000 £74,000
90th Percentile £90,750 £82,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £71,500 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +2.14% +3.70% -3.57%

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 4,977 2,948 4,220
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 66.46% 87.45% 78.72%
Number of salaries quoted 3,658 1,513 2,457
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,000 £39,390
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.47% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £56,460
% change year-on-year +9.09% -2.59% -8.94%

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 28 August 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 28 August 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 +8 201 £75,000 +15.38% 71
South Yorkshire -2 62 £69,310 +26.02% 30
North Yorkshire 0 12 £62,500 -10.71% 5
East Yorkshire -11 9 £47,000 +14.63% 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 (2.05%) Confluence
2 5 (1.71%) Apache Spark
2 5 (1.71%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.02%) Apache
3 3 (1.02%) CMS
3 3 (1.02%) IIS
3 3 (1.02%) Moodle
4 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.68%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 7 (2.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.71%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (1.37%) Shopify
2 3 (1.02%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.68%) Sage 200
4 1 (0.34%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 117 (39.93%) Azure
2 114 (38.91%) AWS
3 68 (23.21%) Azure DevOps
4 65 (22.18%) Serverless
5 52 (17.75%) AWS Lambda
6 51 (17.41%) AWS CloudFormation
7 50 (17.06%) GitHub
8 48 (16.38%) Amazon ECS
8 48 (16.38%) Amazon S3
9 36 (12.29%) AWS Step Functions
10 33 (11.26%) GitHub Actions
11 28 (9.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 23 (7.85%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 22 (7.51%) GCP
14 21 (7.17%) Azure Data Factory
15 20 (6.83%) Power Platform
16 17 (5.80%) Datadog
17 16 (5.46%) Amazon EC2
18 15 (5.12%) Microsoft 365
19 14 (4.78%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.37%) Firewall
1 4 (1.37%) Internet
2 3 (1.02%) DNS
2 3 (1.02%) HTTP
2 3 (1.02%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.68%) BGP
3 2 (0.68%) Ethernet VPN
3 2 (0.68%) NGFW
3 2 (0.68%) OSPF
3 2 (0.68%) VXLAN
4 1 (0.34%) LAN
4 1 (0.34%) Network Security
4 1 (0.34%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.34%) VPN
4 1 (0.34%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (12.29%) DynamoDB
2 23 (7.85%) NoSQL
3 21 (7.17%) MongoDB
4 20 (6.83%) Amazon Athena
5 18 (6.14%) Data Warehouse
6 17 (5.80%) Spark SQL
7 14 (4.78%) SQL Server
8 12 (4.10%) Azure SQL Database
9 11 (3.75%) Power BI
10 8 (2.73%) PostgreSQL
10 8 (2.73%) Relational Database
11 7 (2.39%) Amazon RDS
12 6 (2.05%) Metadata
13 5 (1.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 3 (1.02%) BigQuery
14 3 (1.02%) Power Query
14 3 (1.02%) Redis
15 2 (0.68%) Data Lake
15 2 (0.68%) Metadata Repository
15 2 (0.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 47 (16.04%) Git
2 46 (15.70%) Jenkins
3 35 (11.95%) GitLab
4 24 (8.19%) JIRA
5 16 (5.46%) Cypress.io
6 15 (5.12%) SonarQube
7 13 (4.44%) Maven
8 6 (2.05%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 6 (2.05%) Visual Studio
9 3 (1.02%) Artifactory
9 3 (1.02%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.68%) Selenium
11 1 (0.34%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.34%) JUnit
11 1 (0.34%) Postman
11 1 (0.34%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 56 (19.11%) Social Skills
2 41 (13.99%) Public Sector
3 31 (10.58%) Finance
4 17 (5.80%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (2.73%) Legal
6 7 (2.39%) Law
7 6 (2.05%) Local Government
8 5 (1.71%) Banking
8 5 (1.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.37%) Retail
10 3 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.02%) Tech for Good
11 2 (0.68%) Advertising
11 2 (0.68%) Billing
12 1 (0.34%) Electronics
12 1 (0.34%) Games
12 1 (0.34%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.34%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 83 (28.33%) Developer
2 69 (23.55%) Senior
3 62 (21.16%) DevOps Engineer
4 47 (16.04%) Lead
5 40 (13.65%) Java Developer
6 32 (10.92%) Cloud Engineer
7 27 (9.22%) Data Engineer
8 26 (8.87%) Platform Engineer
9 25 (8.53%) Senior DevOps
9 25 (8.53%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 18 (6.14%) AWS Developer
10 18 (6.14%) Lead Data Engineer
11 17 (5.80%) Azure Engineer
11 17 (5.80%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 17 (5.80%) Full-Stack Developer
12 16 (5.46%) .NET Developer
13 13 (4.44%) Software Engineer
14 12 (4.10%) AWS Engineer
14 12 (4.10%) Lead Cloud Engineer
15 11 (3.75%) Azure Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (21.16%) Terraform
2 42 (14.33%) AngularJS
3 40 (13.65%) .NET
4 35 (11.95%) Node.js
5 32 (10.92%) React
6 28 (9.56%) Spring Boot
7 23 (7.85%) REST
8 21 (7.17%) RESTful
9 20 (6.83%) ASP.NET
10 18 (6.14%) PySpark
10 18 (6.14%) Spring
11 17 (5.80%) ASP.NET Core
12 15 (5.12%) .NET Core
13 14 (4.78%) Jest
14 13 (4.44%) Blazor
14 13 (4.44%) CSS
14 13 (4.44%) ML.NET
15 12 (4.10%) Gherkin
16 11 (3.75%) ARM Templates
17 10 (3.41%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 30 (10.24%) Cloud Native
2 10 (3.41%) Product Ownership
3 9 (3.07%) NHS
4 7 (2.39%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (2.39%) Linux Command Line
4 7 (2.39%) Mobile App
5 6 (2.05%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (2.05%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (2.05%) Legacy Applications
5 6 (2.05%) Social Media
6 5 (1.71%) BBC
6 5 (1.71%) Blog
6 5 (1.71%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.37%) iPhone
7 4 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.37%) Low-Code
8 3 (1.02%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.02%) e-Learning
8 3 (1.02%) Learning Management System
8 3 (1.02%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 27 (9.22%) Linux
2 15 (5.12%) Windows
3 12 (4.10%) Unix
4 6 (2.05%) CentOS
4 6 (2.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.37%) Android
6 3 (1.02%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.34%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 165 (56.31%) CI/CD
2 111 (37.88%) Agile
3 64 (21.84%) Infrastructure as Code
4 50 (17.06%) Mentoring
5 46 (15.70%) Test Automation
6 44 (15.02%) Scrum
7 41 (13.99%) Microservices
8 40 (13.65%) Continuous Improvement
9 37 (12.63%) Full-Stack Development
9 37 (12.63%) Platform Engineering
10 36 (12.29%) Problem-Solving
11 35 (11.95%) Continuous Integration
12 34 (11.60%) Coaching
13 29 (9.90%) Software Engineering
14 28 (9.56%) Containerisation
15 26 (8.87%) AI
16 25 (8.53%) SDLC
16 25 (8.53%) Technical Leadership
17 24 (8.19%) Data Engineering
17 24 (8.19%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 81 (27.65%) SQL
2 57 (19.45%) Java
3 52 (17.75%) Python
4 43 (14.68%) C#
5 39 (13.31%) TypeScript
6 31 (10.58%) JavaScript
7 24 (8.19%) Bash
8 23 (7.85%) Kotlin
9 19 (6.48%) Groovy
10 6 (2.05%) T-SQL
11 5 (1.71%) Bicep
11 5 (1.71%) PowerShell
11 5 (1.71%) VB.NET
12 3 (1.02%) C
12 3 (1.02%) C++
12 3 (1.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (1.02%) Ruby
13 2 (0.68%) Dart
13 2 (0.68%) Go
13 2 (0.68%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 29 (9.90%) Security Cleared
2 28 (9.56%) Degree
3 26 (8.87%) SC Cleared
4 18 (6.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (4.78%) AWS Certification
6 11 (3.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 11 (3.75%) ITIL Certification
7 6 (2.05%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.71%) PMI Certification
8 5 (1.71%) PMP
9 2 (0.68%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 2 (0.68%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.68%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.34%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.34%) CBAP
10 1 (0.34%) CSPO
10 1 (0.34%) IIBA
10 1 (0.34%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (5.80%) QA
2 11 (3.75%) Data Quality
2 11 (3.75%) GDPR
3 6 (2.05%) GRC
4 4 (1.37%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.68%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.34%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.34%) WCAG
System Software
1 65 (22.18%) Docker
2 6 (2.05%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.34%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.34%) Firmware
3 1 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 27 (9.22%) Kubernetes
2 12 (4.10%) Ansible
2 12 (4.10%) HP Fortify
3 9 (3.07%) Argo
4 6 (2.05%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (1.02%) Packer
5 3 (1.02%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.68%) Kibana
7 1 (0.34%) Istio
7 1 (0.34%) VxRail
Vendors
1 47 (16.04%) Microsoft
2 22 (7.51%) Databricks
3 11 (3.75%) Google
4 10 (3.41%) Pega
5 5 (1.71%) AppDynamics
5 5 (1.71%) Apple
5 5 (1.71%) Cisco
5 5 (1.71%) Facebook
5 5 (1.71%) IBM
5 5 (1.71%) ServiceNow
5 5 (1.71%) Sony
5 5 (1.71%) Yahoo!
6 3 (1.02%) SAP
7 2 (0.68%) Arista
7 2 (0.68%) F5
7 2 (0.68%) Informatica
7 2 (0.68%) Oracle
7 2 (0.68%) Sage
7 2 (0.68%) Sophos
7 2 (0.68%) VMware