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

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 25 26
Rank change year-on-year -11 +1 -8
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 270 201 388
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 4.45% 8.40% 6.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.29% 8.93% 8.34%
Number of salaries quoted 182 156 311
10th Percentile £42,625 £37,716 £37,500
25th Percentile £54,625 £47,231 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £68,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% +13.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £91,934 £74,375
90th Percentile £92,500 £98,474 £87,500
England median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% +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 4,290 2,250 4,650
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 70.76% 94.06% 83.36%
Number of salaries quoted 2,745 1,276 3,697
10th Percentile £29,000 £26,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £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 £70,396 £65,000
90th Percentile £89,500 £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 3 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 3 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 -7 218 £70,000 -9.68% 51
South Yorkshire -39 30 £80,000 +72.97% 13
East Yorkshire -31 9 £46,250 +2.78% 2
North Yorkshire -8 6 £72,500 +3.57% 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 7 (2.59%) Moodle
2 6 (2.22%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.85%) Confluence
4 4 (1.48%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (1.11%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.74%) IIS
6 2 (0.74%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.37%) Apache
Applications
1 7 (2.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.85%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 13 (4.81%) SAP ERP
2 4 (1.48%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.74%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.37%) Magento
5 1 (0.37%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 146 (54.07%) AWS
2 117 (43.33%) Azure
3 94 (34.81%) Serverless
4 83 (30.74%) Amazon S3
4 83 (30.74%) AWS Lambda
5 70 (25.93%) AWS CloudFormation
6 66 (24.44%) Amazon ECS
7 65 (24.07%) AWS Step Functions
8 52 (19.26%) GitHub
9 49 (18.15%) Azure DevOps
10 38 (14.07%) GitHub Actions
11 36 (13.33%) Amazon ECR
11 36 (13.33%) Apigee
12 34 (12.59%) Amazon SQS
13 32 (11.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 30 (11.11%) GCP
15 21 (7.78%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 18 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
17 16 (5.93%) Microsoft 365
18 14 (5.19%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.59%) Firewall
2 6 (2.22%) HTTP
3 5 (1.85%) DNS
4 4 (1.48%) Network Security
4 4 (1.48%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.37%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (28.15%) DynamoDB
2 34 (12.59%) NoSQL
3 23 (8.52%) PostgreSQL
4 21 (7.78%) Amazon Athena
4 21 (7.78%) SQL Server
5 15 (5.56%) Spark SQL
6 13 (4.81%) Data Warehouse
7 8 (2.96%) MongoDB
8 7 (2.59%) Metadata
8 7 (2.59%) Power BI
9 4 (1.48%) Relational Database
9 4 (1.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (1.11%) Power Query
11 2 (0.74%) Azure SQL Database
12 1 (0.37%) BigQuery
12 1 (0.37%) Data Lake
12 1 (0.37%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.37%) MySQL
12 1 (0.37%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 68 (25.19%) Jenkins
2 59 (21.85%) GitLab
3 40 (14.81%) SonarQube
4 39 (14.44%) Git
5 36 (13.33%) Cypress.io
5 36 (13.33%) Maven
6 22 (8.15%) JIRA
7 4 (1.48%) Selenium
8 3 (1.11%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.11%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.11%) JUnit
9 2 (0.74%) Postman
9 2 (0.74%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.37%) JMeter
10 1 (0.37%) LoadRunner
10 1 (0.37%) PHPUnit
General
1 79 (29.26%) Social Skills
2 29 (10.74%) Finance
3 20 (7.41%) Public Sector
4 18 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (5.56%) Retail
6 7 (2.59%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (1.48%) Law
7 4 (1.48%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.11%) Marketing
9 2 (0.74%) Advertising
9 2 (0.74%) Billing
9 2 (0.74%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.74%) Games
9 2 (0.74%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.37%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 87 (32.22%) Developer
2 54 (20.00%) Java Developer
3 52 (19.26%) Senior
4 49 (18.15%) Lead
5 42 (15.56%) DevOps Engineer
6 22 (8.15%) AWS Developer
6 22 (8.15%) Data Engineer
7 17 (6.30%) Cloud Engineer
8 16 (5.93%) Lead Data Engineer
8 16 (5.93%) Platform Engineer
8 16 (5.93%) Software Engineer
9 14 (5.19%) Senior Developer
9 14 (5.19%) Senior DevOps
9 14 (5.19%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 13 (4.81%) .NET Developer
11 12 (4.44%) Full-Stack Developer
12 10 (3.70%) Lead DevOps
12 10 (3.70%) Lead DevOps Engineer
13 9 (3.33%) Azure Engineer
13 9 (3.33%) QA Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (22.22%) AngularJS
2 49 (18.15%) Spring Boot
3 39 (14.44%) Node.js
4 37 (13.70%) Jest
5 36 (13.33%) Gherkin
6 35 (12.96%) React
7 24 (8.89%) Spring
8 23 (8.52%) RESTful
9 22 (8.15%) .NET
10 20 (7.41%) PySpark
11 18 (6.67%) REST
12 15 (5.56%) ASP.NET
13 14 (5.19%) Elastic Stack
14 13 (4.81%) .NET Core
15 12 (4.44%) ASP.NET Core
15 12 (4.44%) Blazor
16 11 (4.07%) AWS CDK
17 8 (2.96%) CSS
17 8 (2.96%) HTML
18 7 (2.59%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 35 (12.96%) Cloud Native
2 14 (5.19%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (3.33%) NHS
4 7 (2.59%) e-Learning
5 5 (1.85%) Analytical Mindset
5 5 (1.85%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.48%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.48%) Product Ownership
6 4 (1.48%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.48%) SCADA
7 3 (1.11%) CMDB
7 3 (1.11%) Driving Licence
7 3 (1.11%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.11%) Security Posture
7 3 (1.11%) Social Media
8 2 (0.74%) Cloud Security Posture
8 2 (0.74%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.74%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (0.74%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (0.74%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 16 (5.93%) Windows
2 15 (5.56%) Linux
3 7 (2.59%) Unix
4 5 (1.85%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.37%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 178 (65.93%) CI/CD
2 111 (41.11%) Agile
3 60 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
4 48 (17.78%) Microservices
5 45 (16.67%) Mentoring
6 43 (15.93%) Continuous Improvement
6 43 (15.93%) Problem-Solving
7 38 (14.07%) ITIL
8 37 (13.70%) Containerisation
9 35 (12.96%) Continuous Integration
9 35 (12.96%) Stakeholder Management
10 32 (11.85%) Test Automation
11 31 (11.48%) SDLC
12 30 (11.11%) Observability
13 29 (10.74%) Full-Stack Development
13 29 (10.74%) Platform Engineering
14 28 (10.37%) Secure Coding
15 27 (10.00%) Data Engineering
15 27 (10.00%) Software Engineering
16 26 (9.63%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 79 (29.26%) Java
2 71 (26.30%) SQL
3 62 (22.96%) TypeScript
4 47 (17.41%) Bash
5 45 (16.67%) Python
6 40 (14.81%) Groovy
7 21 (7.78%) JavaScript
8 20 (7.41%) Kotlin
9 11 (4.07%) PowerShell
10 10 (3.70%) C#
11 7 (2.59%) Go
12 6 (2.22%) T-SQL
13 4 (1.48%) Bicep
14 3 (1.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 2 (0.74%) PL/SQL
16 1 (0.37%) Perl
16 1 (0.37%) PHP
16 1 (0.37%) R
16 1 (0.37%) Scala
Qualifications
1 40 (14.81%) AWS Certification
2 27 (10.00%) Degree
3 23 (8.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 23 (8.52%) ITIL Certification
4 19 (7.04%) Security Cleared
5 15 (5.56%) AWS Certified Developer
6 13 (4.81%) SC Cleared
7 11 (4.07%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.85%) PMI Certification
8 5 (1.85%) PMP
9 2 (0.74%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 2 (0.74%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.74%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (0.74%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.37%) CBAP
10 1 (0.37%) IIBA
10 1 (0.37%) MCITP
10 1 (0.37%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (9.26%) QA
2 14 (5.19%) GDPR
3 9 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (2.96%) PCI DSS
5 7 (2.59%) GRC
6 6 (2.22%) Data Quality
7 5 (1.85%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.74%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.74%) NIST
System Software
1 88 (32.59%) Docker
2 3 (1.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 3 (1.11%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 65 (24.07%) Terraform
2 37 (13.70%) HP Fortify
3 27 (10.00%) Kubernetes
4 16 (5.93%) Ansible
5 10 (3.70%) Argo
5 10 (3.70%) Grafana
5 10 (3.70%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.11%) Packer
7 2 (0.74%) Kibana
8 1 (0.37%) Istio
8 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.37%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 37 (13.70%) Microsoft
2 20 (7.41%) Databricks
3 15 (5.56%) SAP
4 8 (2.96%) ServiceNow
5 7 (2.59%) Google
6 6 (2.22%) IBM
6 6 (2.22%) Oracle
7 5 (1.85%) AppDynamics
8 4 (1.48%) IFS
9 3 (1.11%) Sparx
10 2 (0.74%) Adobe
10 2 (0.74%) Qualys
11 1 (0.37%) Apple
11 1 (0.37%) Blue Prism
11 1 (0.37%) Foundry
11 1 (0.37%) New Relic
11 1 (0.37%) Sony
11 1 (0.37%) VMware
11 1 (0.37%) WooCommerce
11 1 (0.37%) Yahoo!