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 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 26 12
Rank change year-on-year -13 -14 -5
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 183 224 367
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 5.21% 6.40% 13.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.21% 7.24% 13.80%
Number of salaries quoted 141 145 297
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -15.38% -3.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £69,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £86,500 £91,934
England median annual salary £70,313 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +0.45% - -

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 2,948 3,093 2,659
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 83.92% 88.42% 95.03%
Number of salaries quoted 1,585 1,225 2,048
10th Percentile £26,750 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £30,500 £41,250 £39,742
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -3.67%
75th Percentile £70,000 £69,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £84,056
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 17 December 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 17 December 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 -3 149 £65,000 -1.14% 65
South Yorkshire -19 14 £105,000 +133.33% 32
North Yorkshire 0 10 £60,000 +9.09% 10
East Yorkshire -25 8 £47,500 +5.56% 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 (3.28%) Confluence
2 5 (2.73%) Apache Spark
2 5 (2.73%) OpenStack
3 3 (1.64%) Apache
3 3 (1.64%) Moodle
4 1 (0.55%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.55%) CMS
4 1 (0.55%) FileNet
4 1 (0.55%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.55%) IIS
4 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.55%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (3.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.55%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (3.28%) SAP ERP
2 3 (1.64%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.09%) Markit EDM
3 2 (1.09%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.55%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.55%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 98 (53.55%) AWS
2 88 (48.09%) Azure
3 47 (25.68%) Serverless
4 39 (21.31%) AWS CloudFormation
5 35 (19.13%) Amazon S3
6 34 (18.58%) AWS Lambda
7 33 (18.03%) Azure DevOps
8 31 (16.94%) GitHub
9 27 (14.75%) AWS Step Functions
10 26 (14.21%) Amazon ECS
11 20 (10.93%) GitHub Actions
12 19 (10.38%) GCP
13 18 (9.84%) Amazon SQS
14 16 (8.74%) SaaS
15 13 (7.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 13 (7.10%) Amazon ECR
15 13 (7.10%) Apigee
16 12 (6.56%) Amazon EKS
16 12 (6.56%) Amazon EventBridge
17 5 (2.73%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.83%) Firewall
2 6 (3.28%) Network Security
3 4 (2.19%) DNS
4 2 (1.09%) AMQP
5 1 (0.55%) BGP
5 1 (0.55%) DHCP
5 1 (0.55%) HTTP
5 1 (0.55%) LAN
5 1 (0.55%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.55%) VPN
5 1 (0.55%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (16.94%) DynamoDB
2 21 (11.48%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (9.29%) NoSQL
4 16 (8.74%) SQL Server
5 10 (5.46%) Relational Database
6 9 (4.92%) Data Warehouse
7 8 (4.37%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 6 (3.28%) OLAP
9 3 (1.64%) Amazon Aurora
9 3 (1.64%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (1.64%) Apache Iceberg
9 3 (1.64%) Big Data
9 3 (1.64%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.64%) Data Vault
9 3 (1.64%) Metadata
10 2 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (1.09%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (1.09%) Hadoop
10 2 (1.09%) RDBMS
10 2 (1.09%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 31 (16.94%) Jenkins
2 30 (16.39%) GitLab
3 25 (13.66%) Git
4 17 (9.29%) SonarQube
5 15 (8.20%) JIRA
6 14 (7.65%) Cypress.io
7 13 (7.10%) Maven
8 5 (2.73%) Selenium
9 3 (1.64%) JMeter
9 3 (1.64%) LoadRunner
10 1 (0.55%) Appium
10 1 (0.55%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.55%) JUnit
10 1 (0.55%) Postman
10 1 (0.55%) REST Assured
General
1 65 (35.52%) Social Skills
2 35 (19.13%) Finance
3 19 (10.38%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (6.56%) Financial Institution
5 11 (6.01%) Retail
6 10 (5.46%) Public Sector
7 9 (4.92%) Law
8 5 (2.73%) Marketing
9 4 (2.19%) Legal
10 3 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.64%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.09%) Advertising
11 2 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.55%) Back Office
12 1 (0.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 48 (26.23%) Developer
2 37 (20.22%) Lead
3 22 (12.02%) Senior
4 21 (11.48%) Software Engineer
5 17 (9.29%) Java Developer
6 14 (7.65%) DevOps Engineer
7 13 (7.10%) .NET Developer
8 12 (6.56%) Analyst
9 11 (6.01%) Architect
10 10 (5.46%) Lead DevOps
11 9 (4.92%) AWS Developer
11 9 (4.92%) Data Engineer
11 9 (4.92%) Lead DevOps Engineer
12 8 (4.37%) Senior Software Engineer
13 7 (3.83%) .NET Software Engineer
13 7 (3.83%) Cloud Engineer
14 6 (3.28%) Business Analyst
14 6 (3.28%) Java Engineer
14 6 (3.28%) SQL Developer
14 6 (3.28%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (17.49%) .NET
2 28 (15.30%) Spring Boot
3 26 (14.21%) React
4 25 (13.66%) AngularJS
4 25 (13.66%) Spring
5 20 (10.93%) RESTful
6 17 (9.29%) Node.js
7 16 (8.74%) ASP.NET
8 15 (8.20%) .NET Core
9 13 (7.10%) Gherkin
9 13 (7.10%) Jest
10 12 (6.56%) Blazor
10 12 (6.56%) Micronaut
11 11 (6.01%) ASP.NET Core
11 11 (6.01%) AWS CDK
12 10 (5.46%) HTML
13 9 (4.92%) CSS
14 8 (4.37%) Kafka
15 7 (3.83%) REST
16 6 (3.28%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 52 (28.42%) Cloud Native
2 14 (7.65%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (3.83%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.19%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (2.19%) Management Information System
4 4 (2.19%) Security Posture
5 3 (1.64%) e-Learning
5 3 (1.64%) Enterprise Cloud
5 3 (1.64%) IoT
5 3 (1.64%) NHS
5 3 (1.64%) Operational Technology
5 3 (1.64%) Private Cloud
5 3 (1.64%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.09%) Cloud Security Posture
6 2 (1.09%) CMDB
6 2 (1.09%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.09%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.09%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.09%) SCADA
7 1 (0.55%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.37%) Windows
2 7 (3.83%) Linux
3 2 (1.09%) Unix
3 2 (1.09%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.55%) Android
4 1 (0.55%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (62.30%) CI/CD
2 94 (51.37%) Agile
3 58 (31.69%) Infrastructure as Code
4 44 (24.04%) Software Engineering
5 43 (23.50%) Problem-Solving
6 38 (20.77%) Mentoring
7 35 (19.13%) Continuous Improvement
8 31 (16.94%) Microservices
9 30 (16.39%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 28 (15.30%) Stakeholder Management
11 22 (12.02%) Scrum
12 21 (11.48%) Containerisation
13 20 (10.93%) SDLC
14 19 (10.38%) Incident Response
15 18 (9.84%) Roadmaps
16 17 (9.29%) Data Modelling
16 17 (9.29%) Full-Stack Development
16 17 (9.29%) Line Management
16 17 (9.29%) Observability
17 16 (8.74%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 57 (31.15%) SQL
2 52 (28.42%) Java
3 39 (21.31%) Python
4 33 (18.03%) TypeScript
5 26 (14.21%) JavaScript
6 23 (12.57%) Bash
7 17 (9.29%) C#
8 14 (7.65%) PowerShell
9 13 (7.10%) Groovy
10 8 (4.37%) T-SQL
11 5 (2.73%) Bicep
12 2 (1.09%) Go
12 2 (1.09%) R
13 1 (0.55%) PHP
Qualifications
1 28 (15.30%) AWS Certification
2 14 (7.65%) AWS Certified Developer
3 13 (7.10%) Degree
4 9 (4.92%) Security Cleared
5 8 (4.37%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (4.37%) SC Cleared
6 3 (1.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 3 (1.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (1.64%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (1.09%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.55%) CompTIA CySA+
8 1 (0.55%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.55%) GSEC
8 1 (0.55%) MCITP
8 1 (0.55%) MCSE
8 1 (0.55%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (8.74%) QA
2 7 (3.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (3.28%) GDPR
3 6 (3.28%) PCI DSS
4 4 (2.19%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.09%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.09%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.09%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (1.09%) GRC
5 2 (1.09%) NCSC
5 2 (1.09%) NIST
5 2 (1.09%) SOC 2
System Software
1 60 (32.79%) Docker
2 1 (0.55%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.55%) Squid
2 1 (0.55%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 44 (24.04%) Terraform
2 39 (21.31%) Kubernetes
3 20 (10.93%) Ansible
4 16 (8.74%) HP Fortify
5 11 (6.01%) Prometheus
6 10 (5.46%) Grafana
7 2 (1.09%) Argo
7 2 (1.09%) Control-M
8 1 (0.55%) Kibana
Vendors
1 22 (12.02%) Microsoft
2 7 (3.83%) Databricks
3 6 (3.28%) SAP
4 4 (2.19%) Google
4 4 (2.19%) IBM
4 4 (2.19%) Oracle
5 3 (1.64%) Pega
5 3 (1.64%) Salesforce
5 3 (1.64%) Sparx
5 3 (1.64%) WSO2
6 2 (1.09%) Adobe
6 2 (1.09%) New Relic
7 1 (0.55%) Blue Prism
7 1 (0.55%) Foundry
7 1 (0.55%) IFS
7 1 (0.55%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.55%) TOWER Software