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 10 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 43 28
Rank change year-on-year +14 -15 -15
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 286 156 299
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 3.78% 4.71% 6.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.65% 5.42% 7.65%
Number of salaries quoted 207 128 213
10th Percentile £44,650 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £50,375 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £83,750 £75,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £91,000 £80,750 £87,500
England median annual salary £71,250 £72,250 £68,000
% change year-on-year -1.38% +6.25% -2.86%

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 5,060 2,878 3,910
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 66.96% 86.87% 78.62%
Number of salaries quoted 3,749 1,454 2,040
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,425 £65,000
90th Percentile £88,148 £80,000 £78,800
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -8.00%

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 10 September 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 10 September 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 +6 192 £75,000 +15.38% 67
South Yorkshire -6 62 £69,310 +20.54% 36
North Yorkshire -3 12 £62,500 -10.71% 7
East Yorkshire -8 9 £47,000 +14.63% 5
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 (2.10%) Confluence
2 5 (1.75%) Apache Spark
2 5 (1.75%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.05%) Apache
3 3 (1.05%) CMS
3 3 (1.05%) IIS
4 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.70%) Moodle
4 2 (0.70%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (0.35%) CICS
Applications
1 8 (2.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.75%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (1.05%) SAP S/4HANA
1 3 (1.05%) Shopify
2 2 (0.70%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 115 (40.21%) Azure
2 110 (38.46%) AWS
3 69 (24.13%) Azure DevOps
4 63 (22.03%) Serverless
5 50 (17.48%) AWS CloudFormation
5 50 (17.48%) AWS Lambda
6 47 (16.43%) Amazon S3
6 47 (16.43%) GitHub
7 46 (16.08%) Amazon ECS
8 35 (12.24%) AWS Step Functions
9 31 (10.84%) GitHub Actions
10 26 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 22 (7.69%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 21 (7.34%) GCP
13 20 (6.99%) Azure Data Factory
13 20 (6.99%) Power Platform
14 17 (5.94%) Datadog
15 16 (5.59%) Amazon EC2
15 16 (5.59%) Microsoft 365
16 14 (4.90%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.75%) TCP/IP
2 4 (1.40%) Firewall
2 4 (1.40%) Internet
3 3 (1.05%) DNS
3 3 (1.05%) HTTP
4 2 (0.70%) BGP
4 2 (0.70%) Ethernet VPN
4 2 (0.70%) NGFW
4 2 (0.70%) OSPF
4 2 (0.70%) VXLAN
5 1 (0.35%) LAN
5 1 (0.35%) Network Security
5 1 (0.35%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.35%) VPN
5 1 (0.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (12.24%) DynamoDB
2 22 (7.69%) NoSQL
3 21 (7.34%) MongoDB
4 18 (6.29%) Amazon Athena
4 18 (6.29%) Data Warehouse
5 17 (5.94%) Spark SQL
6 12 (4.20%) Azure SQL Database
6 12 (4.20%) SQL Server
7 10 (3.50%) Power BI
8 9 (3.15%) Relational Database
9 8 (2.80%) PostgreSQL
10 7 (2.45%) Amazon RDS
11 6 (2.10%) Metadata
12 4 (1.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 3 (1.05%) BigQuery
13 3 (1.05%) Redis
14 2 (0.70%) Data Lake
14 2 (0.70%) Hadoop
14 2 (0.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 2 (0.70%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 45 (15.73%) Git
2 44 (15.38%) Jenkins
3 34 (11.89%) GitLab
4 24 (8.39%) JIRA
5 16 (5.59%) Cypress.io
6 15 (5.24%) SonarQube
7 13 (4.55%) Maven
8 6 (2.10%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 6 (2.10%) Visual Studio
9 3 (1.05%) Artifactory
9 3 (1.05%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.70%) Selenium
11 1 (0.35%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.35%) JUnit
11 1 (0.35%) Postman
11 1 (0.35%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 52 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 40 (13.99%) Public Sector
3 31 (10.84%) Finance
4 19 (6.64%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (2.80%) Legal
6 7 (2.45%) Law
7 6 (2.10%) Banking
7 6 (2.10%) Local Government
8 4 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.05%) Retail
9 3 (1.05%) Tech for Good
10 2 (0.70%) Advertising
10 2 (0.70%) Billing
11 1 (0.35%) Electronics
11 1 (0.35%) Games
11 1 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.35%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 80 (27.97%) Developer
2 68 (23.78%) Senior
3 62 (21.68%) DevOps Engineer
4 46 (16.08%) Lead
5 39 (13.64%) Java Developer
6 31 (10.84%) Cloud Engineer
7 27 (9.44%) Data Engineer
8 26 (9.09%) Platform Engineer
9 25 (8.74%) Senior DevOps
9 25 (8.74%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 18 (6.29%) AWS Developer
10 18 (6.29%) Lead Data Engineer
11 17 (5.94%) Azure Engineer
11 17 (5.94%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 16 (5.59%) .NET Developer
12 16 (5.59%) Full-Stack Developer
13 13 (4.55%) Software Engineer
14 12 (4.20%) AWS Engineer
15 11 (3.85%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
15 11 (3.85%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (20.63%) Terraform
2 41 (14.34%) AngularJS
3 38 (13.29%) .NET
4 34 (11.89%) Node.js
5 31 (10.84%) React
6 28 (9.79%) Spring Boot
7 21 (7.34%) REST
7 21 (7.34%) RESTful
8 20 (6.99%) ASP.NET
9 18 (6.29%) PySpark
9 18 (6.29%) Spring
10 17 (5.94%) ASP.NET Core
11 14 (4.90%) .NET Core
11 14 (4.90%) Jest
12 13 (4.55%) Blazor
12 13 (4.55%) CSS
12 13 (4.55%) ML.NET
13 12 (4.20%) Gherkin
14 11 (3.85%) ARM Templates
15 10 (3.50%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 32 (11.19%) Cloud Native
2 11 (3.85%) Product Ownership
3 7 (2.45%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (2.45%) Linux Command Line
3 7 (2.45%) Mobile App
3 7 (2.45%) NHS
4 6 (2.10%) Greenfield Project
4 6 (2.10%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (2.10%) Legacy Applications
4 6 (2.10%) Social Media
5 5 (1.75%) BBC
5 5 (1.75%) Blog
5 5 (1.75%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.40%) AI Agents
6 4 (1.40%) iPhone
6 4 (1.40%) Low-Code
7 3 (1.05%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.05%) Learning Management System
7 3 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 27 (9.44%) Linux
2 15 (5.24%) Windows
3 12 (4.20%) Unix
4 6 (2.10%) CentOS
4 6 (2.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.40%) Android
6 3 (1.05%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.35%) VMS
7 1 (0.35%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (55.94%) CI/CD
2 112 (39.16%) Agile
3 61 (21.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 47 (16.43%) Mentoring
4 47 (16.43%) Test Automation
5 46 (16.08%) Scrum
6 43 (15.03%) Microservices
7 38 (13.29%) Continuous Improvement
8 37 (12.94%) Platform Engineering
8 37 (12.94%) Problem-Solving
9 36 (12.59%) Full-Stack Development
10 34 (11.89%) Coaching
10 34 (11.89%) Continuous Integration
11 29 (10.14%) AI
11 29 (10.14%) Software Engineering
12 28 (9.79%) Technical Leadership
13 25 (8.74%) Containerisation
13 25 (8.74%) Decision-Making
13 25 (8.74%) SDLC
14 24 (8.39%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 81 (28.32%) SQL
2 56 (19.58%) Java
3 50 (17.48%) Python
4 41 (14.34%) C#
5 39 (13.64%) TypeScript
6 30 (10.49%) JavaScript
7 23 (8.04%) Bash
8 22 (7.69%) Kotlin
9 19 (6.64%) Groovy
10 5 (1.75%) Bicep
10 5 (1.75%) VB.NET
11 4 (1.40%) PowerShell
11 4 (1.40%) T-SQL
12 3 (1.05%) C
12 3 (1.05%) C++
12 3 (1.05%) Ruby
13 2 (0.70%) Dart
13 2 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.70%) Go
13 2 (0.70%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 31 (10.84%) Security Cleared
2 28 (9.79%) Degree
2 28 (9.79%) SC Cleared
3 18 (6.29%) Computer Science Degree
4 15 (5.24%) AWS Certification
5 11 (3.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 11 (3.85%) ITIL Certification
6 6 (2.10%) DV Cleared
7 5 (1.75%) PMI Certification
7 5 (1.75%) PMP
8 2 (0.70%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 2 (0.70%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.70%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.35%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.35%) CSPO
9 1 (0.35%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (5.94%) QA
2 10 (3.50%) Data Quality
2 10 (3.50%) GDPR
3 8 (2.80%) GRC
4 4 (1.40%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.70%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.35%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 63 (22.03%) Docker
2 8 (2.80%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.35%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.35%) Firmware
3 1 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 26 (9.09%) Kubernetes
2 12 (4.20%) Ansible
2 12 (4.20%) HP Fortify
3 9 (3.15%) Argo
4 8 (2.80%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (1.05%) Packer
5 3 (1.05%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.70%) Kibana
7 1 (0.35%) Istio
7 1 (0.35%) VxRail
Vendors
1 46 (16.08%) Microsoft
2 22 (7.69%) Databricks
3 12 (4.20%) Google
4 10 (3.50%) Pega
5 7 (2.45%) Cisco
6 6 (2.10%) IBM
7 5 (1.75%) AppDynamics
7 5 (1.75%) Apple
7 5 (1.75%) Facebook
7 5 (1.75%) Sony
7 5 (1.75%) Yahoo!
8 4 (1.40%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.05%) SAP
10 2 (0.70%) Arista
10 2 (0.70%) F5
10 2 (0.70%) Informatica
10 2 (0.70%) Oracle
10 2 (0.70%) Sage
10 2 (0.70%) Sophos
10 2 (0.70%) VMware