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

6 months to
19 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 25 13
Rank change year-on-year -6 -12 -2
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 202 219 389
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 5.81% 7.06% 10.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.47% 7.76% 12.34%
Number of salaries quoted 143 132 313
10th Percentile £41,075 £42,500 £41,227
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,326 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.66% -8.28% -6.42%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £97,128 £91,934
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year - +3.70% -6.90%

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 2,705 2,822 3,152
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 77.82% 91.00% 88.66%
Number of salaries quoted 1,575 1,094 2,478
10th Percentile £27,750 £29,750 £27,675
25th Percentile £30,500 £40,991 £38,591
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £69,000 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £83,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £59,556
% change year-on-year -8.33% +0.75% -4.71%

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 19 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 19 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 -4 169 £65,000 -4.41% 97
South Yorkshire -29 13 £62,966 +39.92% 42
East Yorkshire -23 9 £46,250 +2.78% 23
North Yorkshire +7 5 £65,000 +18.18% 29
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 8 (3.96%) Confluence
2 5 (2.48%) Apache Spark
2 5 (2.48%) OpenStack
3 3 (1.49%) Apache
3 3 (1.49%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.49%) Moodle
3 3 (1.49%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.99%) IIS
5 1 (0.50%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.50%) CMS
5 1 (0.50%) FileNet
5 1 (0.50%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 5 (2.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.50%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 14 (6.93%) SAP ERP
2 3 (1.49%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.49%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.99%) Markit EDM
3 2 (0.99%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.50%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 114 (56.44%) AWS
2 100 (49.50%) Azure
3 61 (30.20%) Serverless
4 50 (24.75%) AWS CloudFormation
5 49 (24.26%) Amazon S3
6 48 (23.76%) AWS Lambda
7 40 (19.80%) AWS Step Functions
8 38 (18.81%) GitHub
9 36 (17.82%) Amazon ECS
9 36 (17.82%) Azure DevOps
10 24 (11.88%) Amazon SQS
10 24 (11.88%) GCP
10 24 (11.88%) GitHub Actions
11 19 (9.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 19 (9.41%) Amazon ECR
11 19 (9.41%) Apigee
12 17 (8.42%) SaaS
13 14 (6.93%) Amazon EventBridge
14 12 (5.94%) Amazon EKS
15 6 (2.97%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.46%) Firewall
2 6 (2.97%) Network Security
3 5 (2.48%) DNS
4 2 (0.99%) AMQP
4 2 (0.99%) HTTP
4 2 (0.99%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.50%) BGP
5 1 (0.50%) DHCP
5 1 (0.50%) LAN
5 1 (0.50%) VPN
5 1 (0.50%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (22.28%) DynamoDB
2 26 (12.87%) NoSQL
3 23 (11.39%) PostgreSQL
4 20 (9.90%) SQL Server
5 10 (4.95%) Relational Database
6 7 (3.47%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (2.97%) Metadata
7 6 (2.97%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 5 (2.48%) Amazon Athena
9 4 (1.98%) OLAP
9 4 (1.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (1.49%) Amazon Aurora
10 3 (1.49%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (1.49%) Apache Iceberg
10 3 (1.49%) Big Data
10 3 (1.49%) Data Lake
10 3 (1.49%) Data Vault
11 2 (0.99%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (0.99%) RDBMS
11 2 (0.99%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 39 (19.31%) Jenkins
2 35 (17.33%) GitLab
3 32 (15.84%) Git
4 23 (11.39%) SonarQube
5 19 (9.41%) Cypress.io
5 19 (9.41%) Maven
6 14 (6.93%) JIRA
7 4 (1.98%) Selenium
8 3 (1.49%) JMeter
8 3 (1.49%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.50%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.50%) JUnit
General
1 72 (35.64%) Social Skills
2 35 (17.33%) Finance
3 20 (9.90%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (6.44%) Public Sector
5 12 (5.94%) Financial Institution
5 12 (5.94%) Retail
6 9 (4.46%) Law
7 5 (2.48%) Marketing
8 3 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.49%) Legal
9 2 (0.99%) Advertising
9 2 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.99%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.50%) Back Office
10 1 (0.50%) Games
Job Titles
1 58 (28.71%) Developer
2 35 (17.33%) Lead
3 28 (13.86%) Java Developer
3 28 (13.86%) Senior
4 23 (11.39%) Software Engineer
5 20 (9.90%) DevOps Engineer
6 15 (7.43%) .NET Developer
7 13 (6.44%) AWS Developer
8 12 (5.94%) Architect
9 11 (5.45%) Cloud Engineer
10 10 (4.95%) Analyst
10 10 (4.95%) Data Engineer
11 9 (4.46%) Lead DevOps
11 9 (4.46%) Lead DevOps Engineer
11 9 (4.46%) QA Manager
11 9 (4.46%) Senior Software Engineer
12 7 (3.47%) .NET Software Engineer
12 7 (3.47%) Senior Developer
13 6 (2.97%) Java Engineer
13 6 (2.97%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (17.33%) AngularJS
2 34 (16.83%) Spring Boot
3 30 (14.85%) .NET
4 28 (13.86%) React
5 27 (13.37%) Spring
6 23 (11.39%) Node.js
6 23 (11.39%) RESTful
7 19 (9.41%) Gherkin
7 19 (9.41%) Jest
8 18 (8.91%) ASP.NET
9 17 (8.42%) .NET Core
10 14 (6.93%) Blazor
11 13 (6.44%) ASP.NET Core
11 13 (6.44%) AWS CDK
12 12 (5.94%) Micronaut
13 9 (4.46%) Kafka
14 8 (3.96%) CSS
14 8 (3.96%) HTML
15 7 (3.47%) Elastic Stack
15 7 (3.47%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 50 (24.75%) Cloud Native
2 14 (6.93%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (3.47%) Product Ownership
4 4 (1.98%) Management Information System
4 4 (1.98%) Public Cloud
4 4 (1.98%) Security Posture
5 3 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (1.49%) CMDB
5 3 (1.49%) e-Learning
5 3 (1.49%) Enterprise Cloud
5 3 (1.49%) IoT
5 3 (1.49%) NHS
5 3 (1.49%) Operational Technology
5 3 (1.49%) Virtual Team
6 2 (0.99%) Cloud Security Posture
6 2 (0.99%) Data Structures
6 2 (0.99%) Driving Licence
6 2 (0.99%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (0.99%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (0.99%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.45%) Windows
2 7 (3.47%) Linux
3 3 (1.49%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.99%) Unix
5 1 (0.50%) Android
5 1 (0.50%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 135 (66.83%) CI/CD
2 101 (50.00%) Agile
3 59 (29.21%) Infrastructure as Code
4 45 (22.28%) Problem-Solving
5 43 (21.29%) Mentoring
6 41 (20.30%) Software Engineering
7 40 (19.80%) Continuous Improvement
8 34 (16.83%) Microservices
9 31 (15.35%) Stakeholder Management
10 29 (14.36%) Containerisation
11 26 (12.87%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 21 (10.40%) Scrum
12 21 (10.40%) SDLC
13 20 (9.90%) Data Modelling
14 19 (9.41%) Full-Stack Development
14 19 (9.41%) Observability
14 19 (9.41%) Waterfall
15 18 (8.91%) Continuous Integration
15 18 (8.91%) Incident Response
16 17 (8.42%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 63 (31.19%) SQL
2 62 (30.69%) Java
3 41 (20.30%) TypeScript
4 37 (18.32%) Python
5 29 (14.36%) Bash
6 25 (12.38%) JavaScript
7 19 (9.41%) Groovy
8 14 (6.93%) C#
8 14 (6.93%) PowerShell
9 6 (2.97%) T-SQL
10 5 (2.48%) Bicep
10 5 (2.48%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.49%) Go
12 2 (0.99%) R
13 1 (0.50%) PHP
13 1 (0.50%) Scala
Qualifications
1 32 (15.84%) AWS Certification
2 16 (7.92%) AWS Certified Developer
3 15 (7.43%) Degree
4 12 (5.94%) Security Cleared
5 9 (4.46%) SC Cleared
6 8 (3.96%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (3.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 7 (3.47%) ITIL Certification
8 3 (1.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.99%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.50%) CompTIA CySA+
10 1 (0.50%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.50%) GSEC
10 1 (0.50%) MCITP
10 1 (0.50%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (10.40%) QA
2 7 (3.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (2.97%) Data Quality
3 6 (2.97%) GDPR
3 6 (2.97%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.99%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.99%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.99%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (0.99%) GRC
4 2 (0.99%) NCSC
4 2 (0.99%) NIST
4 2 (0.99%) SOC 2
System Software
1 74 (36.63%) Docker
2 3 (1.49%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 1 (0.50%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.50%) Squid
Systems Management
1 45 (22.28%) Terraform
2 37 (18.32%) Kubernetes
3 22 (10.89%) HP Fortify
4 20 (9.90%) Ansible
5 11 (5.45%) Grafana
5 11 (5.45%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.99%) Control-M
7 1 (0.50%) Argo
7 1 (0.50%) Kibana
Vendors
1 26 (12.87%) Microsoft
2 14 (6.93%) SAP
3 7 (3.47%) Databricks
3 7 (3.47%) Google
4 6 (2.97%) Oracle
5 4 (1.98%) IBM
6 3 (1.49%) IFS
6 3 (1.49%) Pega
6 3 (1.49%) Salesforce
6 3 (1.49%) Sparx
6 3 (1.49%) WSO2
7 2 (0.99%) Adobe
7 2 (0.99%) New Relic
8 1 (0.50%) Blue Prism
8 1 (0.50%) Duck Creek
8 1 (0.50%) F5
8 1 (0.50%) Foundry
8 1 (0.50%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.50%) TOWER Software
8 1 (0.50%) VMware