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

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 24 23
Rank change year-on-year -11 -1 -8
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 239 193 405
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 4.96% 8.91% 7.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.70% 9.29% 9.11%
Number of salaries quoted 163 151 326
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £35,960
25th Percentile £50,576 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -4.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £91,934 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,474 £88,125
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year - +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 3,565 2,078 4,444
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 73.95% 95.89% 84.89%
Number of salaries quoted 2,194 1,184 3,527
10th Percentile £28,250 £25,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £34,563 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,563 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £90,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +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 25 March 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 25 March 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 -4 203 £65,000 -16.13% 53
South Yorkshire -36 17 £75,466 +63.17% 26
East Yorkshire -29 9 £46,250 +2.78% 3
North Yorkshire -7 4 £72,500 +11.54% 2
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 (2.93%) Confluence
2 6 (2.51%) Moodle
3 5 (2.09%) OpenStack
4 4 (1.67%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.67%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.84%) IIS
6 1 (0.42%) Apache
6 1 (0.42%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.26%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 14 (5.86%) SAP ERP
2 4 (1.67%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (1.26%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.84%) Markit EDM
4 2 (0.84%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.42%) Magento
5 1 (0.42%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 135 (56.49%) AWS
2 102 (42.68%) Azure
3 89 (37.24%) Serverless
4 77 (32.22%) Amazon S3
5 76 (31.80%) AWS Lambda
6 64 (26.78%) AWS CloudFormation
7 60 (25.10%) AWS Step Functions
8 59 (24.69%) Amazon ECS
9 51 (21.34%) GitHub
10 40 (16.74%) Azure DevOps
11 35 (14.64%) Amazon SQS
11 35 (14.64%) GitHub Actions
12 33 (13.81%) Amazon ECR
12 33 (13.81%) Apigee
13 30 (12.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 26 (10.88%) GCP
15 17 (7.11%) Amazon EKS
16 16 (6.69%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 14 (5.86%) Amazon EventBridge
18 13 (5.44%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.93%) Firewall
2 6 (2.51%) HTTP
3 5 (2.09%) DNS
4 4 (1.67%) Network Security
4 4 (1.67%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.42%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (30.54%) DynamoDB
2 29 (12.13%) NoSQL
3 22 (9.21%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (9.21%) SQL Server
4 16 (6.69%) Amazon Athena
5 8 (3.35%) Relational Database
6 7 (2.93%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (2.51%) Metadata
8 5 (2.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (1.67%) Spark SQL
10 3 (1.26%) Power BI
10 3 (1.26%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 2 (0.84%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (0.84%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (0.84%) Tableau
12 1 (0.42%) Amazon RDS
12 1 (0.42%) Amazon Redshift
12 1 (0.42%) Elasticsearch
12 1 (0.42%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 60 (25.10%) Jenkins
2 46 (19.25%) GitLab
3 38 (15.90%) Git
4 36 (15.06%) SonarQube
5 33 (13.81%) Cypress.io
5 33 (13.81%) Maven
6 16 (6.69%) JIRA
7 6 (2.51%) Selenium
8 3 (1.26%) JMeter
8 3 (1.26%) JUnit
8 3 (1.26%) LoadRunner
9 2 (0.84%) Postman
10 1 (0.42%) PHPUnit
General
1 83 (34.73%) Social Skills
2 34 (14.23%) Finance
3 22 (9.21%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (6.69%) Retail
5 12 (5.02%) Public Sector
6 7 (2.93%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (2.51%) Financial Institution
8 5 (2.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.67%) Law
9 4 (1.67%) Marketing
9 4 (1.67%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.26%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.84%) Advertising
11 2 (0.84%) Games
11 2 (0.84%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.42%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 81 (33.89%) Developer
2 49 (20.50%) Java Developer
3 41 (17.15%) Senior
4 36 (15.06%) Lead
5 22 (9.21%) DevOps Engineer
6 21 (8.79%) Software Engineer
7 19 (7.95%) AWS Developer
8 17 (7.11%) Cloud Engineer
9 15 (6.28%) .NET Developer
10 13 (5.44%) Senior Developer
11 12 (5.02%) Data Engineer
12 10 (4.18%) Full-Stack Developer
13 9 (3.77%) QA Manager
14 8 (3.35%) Analyst
14 8 (3.35%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 8 (3.35%) Platform Engineer
14 8 (3.35%) Senior Java Developer
15 7 (2.93%) Lead Data Engineer
15 7 (2.93%) Lead DevOps
15 7 (2.93%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (23.01%) AngularJS
2 49 (20.50%) Spring Boot
3 36 (15.06%) React
4 35 (14.64%) Node.js
5 34 (14.23%) Jest
6 33 (13.81%) Gherkin
7 28 (11.72%) Spring
8 27 (11.30%) .NET
9 25 (10.46%) RESTful
10 18 (7.53%) .NET Core
10 18 (7.53%) ASP.NET
11 14 (5.86%) ASP.NET Core
11 14 (5.86%) Blazor
12 13 (5.44%) AWS CDK
13 12 (5.02%) REST
14 11 (4.60%) Elastic Stack
15 9 (3.77%) CSS
15 9 (3.77%) HTML
15 9 (3.77%) PySpark
16 7 (2.93%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 43 (17.99%) Cloud Native
2 12 (5.02%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (3.35%) NHS
4 6 (2.51%) e-Learning
5 5 (2.09%) Analytical Mindset
5 5 (2.09%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.67%) CMDB
6 4 (1.67%) Data Structures
6 4 (1.67%) SCADA
6 4 (1.67%) Security Posture
7 3 (1.26%) Driving Licence
7 3 (1.26%) Enterprise Cloud
7 3 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.26%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.26%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.26%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.26%) Social Media
8 2 (0.84%) IoT
8 2 (0.84%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (0.84%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.77%) Windows
2 5 (2.09%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.67%) Linux
4 1 (0.42%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 154 (64.44%) CI/CD
2 105 (43.93%) Agile
3 56 (23.43%) Infrastructure as Code
4 47 (19.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 47 (19.67%) Problem-Solving
5 44 (18.41%) Mentoring
6 40 (16.74%) Microservices
7 37 (15.48%) Containerisation
8 35 (14.64%) Software Engineering
9 34 (14.23%) ITIL
10 32 (13.39%) Stakeholder Management
11 29 (12.13%) Full-Stack Development
11 29 (12.13%) SDLC
12 26 (10.88%) Observability
12 26 (10.88%) Secure Coding
13 24 (10.04%) Continuous Integration
14 21 (8.79%) Platform Engineering
15 20 (8.37%) DevSecOps
15 20 (8.37%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
15 20 (8.37%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 71 (29.71%) Java
2 64 (26.78%) SQL
3 54 (22.59%) TypeScript
4 43 (17.99%) Bash
5 35 (14.64%) Python
6 33 (13.81%) Groovy
7 27 (11.30%) JavaScript
8 15 (6.28%) Kotlin
9 12 (5.02%) C#
10 11 (4.60%) PowerShell
11 7 (2.93%) Go
12 5 (2.09%) T-SQL
13 4 (1.67%) Bicep
14 2 (0.84%) R
15 1 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.42%) PHP
15 1 (0.42%) Scala
Qualifications
1 37 (15.48%) AWS Certification
2 20 (8.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 20 (8.37%) ITIL Certification
3 17 (7.11%) AWS Certified Developer
3 17 (7.11%) Degree
4 11 (4.60%) Security Cleared
5 8 (3.35%) SC Cleared
6 5 (2.09%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.26%) PMI Certification
7 3 (1.26%) PMP
8 2 (0.84%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.84%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.42%) CBAP
9 1 (0.42%) IIBA
9 1 (0.42%) MCITP
9 1 (0.42%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (9.62%) QA
2 11 (4.60%) GDPR
3 10 (4.18%) PCI DSS
4 9 (3.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (2.09%) GRC
6 4 (1.67%) Data Quality
6 4 (1.67%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.84%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.84%) NIST
System Software
1 88 (36.82%) Docker
2 3 (1.26%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 3 (1.26%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (0.42%) Squid
Systems Management
1 54 (22.59%) Terraform
2 36 (15.06%) HP Fortify
3 27 (11.30%) Kubernetes
4 14 (5.86%) Ansible
5 11 (4.60%) Grafana
5 11 (4.60%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.84%) Argo
6 2 (0.84%) Control-M
7 1 (0.42%) Kibana
Vendors
1 32 (13.39%) Microsoft
2 14 (5.86%) SAP
3 11 (4.60%) Databricks
4 7 (2.93%) Google
5 6 (2.51%) Oracle
5 6 (2.51%) ServiceNow
6 4 (1.67%) IFS
7 3 (1.26%) IBM
7 3 (1.26%) Pega
7 3 (1.26%) Sparx
7 3 (1.26%) WSO2
8 2 (0.84%) Adobe
8 2 (0.84%) New Relic
8 2 (0.84%) Qualys
9 1 (0.42%) Automation Anywhere
9 1 (0.42%) Blue Prism
9 1 (0.42%) F5
9 1 (0.42%) Facebook
9 1 (0.42%) Foundry
9 1 (0.42%) WooCommerce