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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 48 29
Rank change year-on-year +17 -19 -15
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 293 144 291
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 3.82% 4.28% 6.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.68% 4.93% 7.54%
Number of salaries quoted 202 121 203
10th Percentile £46,000 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £54,063 £51,250 £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 £83,438 £75,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £92,250 £78,750 £87,500
England median annual salary £71,991 £70,000 £68,825
% change year-on-year +2.84% +1.71% -1.68%

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 5,162 2,921 3,858
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 67.37% 86.83% 79.78%
Number of salaries quoted 3,818 1,407 1,844
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £52,250
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -9.09% -0.48%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,367 £66,351
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £58,800
% change year-on-year +9.09% -6.46% -5.66%

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 26 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 26 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 +13 199 £75,000 +15.38% 126
South Yorkshire +2 63 £69,310 +15.52% 64
East Yorkshire -3 10 £47,000 +14.63% 5
North Yorkshire -3 9 £55,000 -21.43% 20
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 (2.05%) Confluence
2 5 (1.71%) Apache Spark
2 5 (1.71%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.02%) Apache
3 3 (1.02%) CMS
3 3 (1.02%) IIS
4 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.68%) nginx
4 2 (0.68%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (0.34%) CICS
Applications
1 5 (1.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.02%) SAP S/4HANA
1 3 (1.02%) Shopify
2 2 (0.68%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 118 (40.27%) AWS
1 118 (40.27%) Azure
2 67 (22.87%) Azure DevOps
3 58 (19.80%) Serverless
4 50 (17.06%) AWS CloudFormation
5 48 (16.38%) GitHub
6 47 (16.04%) AWS Lambda
7 46 (15.70%) Amazon S3
8 45 (15.36%) Amazon ECS
9 33 (11.26%) GitHub Actions
10 32 (10.92%) AWS Step Functions
11 26 (8.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 25 (8.53%) GCP
13 22 (7.51%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 20 (6.83%) Power Platform
15 18 (6.14%) Azure Data Factory
15 18 (6.14%) Datadog
16 17 (5.80%) Amazon EC2
16 17 (5.80%) Microsoft 365
17 13 (4.44%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.07%) Internet
2 6 (2.05%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.37%) Firewall
4 3 (1.02%) DNS
5 2 (0.68%) BGP
5 2 (0.68%) Ethernet VPN
5 2 (0.68%) HTTP
5 2 (0.68%) NGFW
5 2 (0.68%) OSPF
5 2 (0.68%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (0.68%) VXLAN
6 1 (0.34%) LAN
6 1 (0.34%) Network Security
6 1 (0.34%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.34%) VPN
6 1 (0.34%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (10.92%) DynamoDB
2 21 (7.17%) NoSQL
3 20 (6.83%) MongoDB
4 18 (6.14%) Amazon Athena
5 16 (5.46%) Data Warehouse
6 13 (4.44%) Spark SQL
7 12 (4.10%) SQL Server
8 11 (3.75%) Azure SQL Database
9 10 (3.41%) Power BI
10 9 (3.07%) PostgreSQL
10 9 (3.07%) Relational Database
11 7 (2.39%) Amazon RDS
12 6 (2.05%) Metadata
13 4 (1.37%) Data Lake
13 4 (1.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 3 (1.02%) Redis
15 2 (0.68%) BigQuery
15 2 (0.68%) Hadoop
15 2 (0.68%) Metadata Repository
15 2 (0.68%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 51 (17.41%) Git
2 41 (13.99%) Jenkins
3 36 (12.29%) GitLab
4 19 (6.48%) JIRA
5 13 (4.44%) Cypress.io
6 12 (4.10%) SonarQube
7 10 (3.41%) Maven
8 7 (2.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 6 (2.05%) Visual Studio
10 3 (1.02%) Artifactory
10 3 (1.02%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.34%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.34%) Selenium
11 1 (0.34%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 57 (19.45%) Social Skills
2 52 (17.75%) Public Sector
3 27 (9.22%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (8.53%) Finance
5 9 (3.07%) Legal
6 7 (2.39%) Law
7 6 (2.05%) Banking
7 6 (2.05%) Local Government
8 4 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.02%) Retail
9 3 (1.02%) Tech for Good
10 2 (0.68%) Advertising
10 2 (0.68%) Billing
11 1 (0.34%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.34%) Electronics
11 1 (0.34%) Games
11 1 (0.34%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.34%) Publishing
11 1 (0.34%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 78 (26.62%) DevOps Engineer
2 75 (25.60%) Developer
3 71 (24.23%) Senior
4 47 (16.04%) Lead
5 36 (12.29%) Java Developer
6 35 (11.95%) Cloud Engineer
7 27 (9.22%) Senior DevOps
7 27 (9.22%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 23 (7.85%) Data Engineer
9 22 (7.51%) Platform Engineer
10 20 (6.83%) AWS Developer
11 17 (5.80%) AWS Engineer
12 15 (5.12%) .NET Developer
12 15 (5.12%) Azure Engineer
12 15 (5.12%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 14 (4.78%) Full-Stack Developer
13 14 (4.78%) Lead Data Engineer
14 13 (4.44%) Lead Cloud Engineer
15 12 (4.10%) Lead DevOps
15 12 (4.10%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (22.53%) Terraform
2 38 (12.97%) .NET
2 38 (12.97%) AngularJS
3 34 (11.60%) Node.js
4 29 (9.90%) React
5 25 (8.53%) Spring Boot
6 21 (7.17%) REST
7 20 (6.83%) RESTful
8 19 (6.48%) ASP.NET
9 18 (6.14%) Spring
10 16 (5.46%) ASP.NET Core
11 14 (4.78%) PySpark
12 13 (4.44%) .NET Core
13 12 (4.10%) Blazor
13 12 (4.10%) CSS
13 12 (4.10%) ML.NET
14 11 (3.75%) Jest
15 9 (3.07%) ARM Templates
15 9 (3.07%) Gherkin
15 9 (3.07%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 37 (12.63%) Cloud Native
2 12 (4.10%) Linux Command Line
3 11 (3.75%) Product Ownership
4 7 (2.39%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (2.39%) Mobile App
5 6 (2.05%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (2.05%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (2.05%) Legacy Applications
6 5 (1.71%) Blog
6 5 (1.71%) NHS
6 5 (1.71%) Public Cloud
6 5 (1.71%) Social Media
7 4 (1.37%) AI Agents
7 4 (1.37%) BBC
7 4 (1.37%) iPhone
7 4 (1.37%) Low-Code
8 3 (1.02%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.02%) Learning Management System
8 3 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 34 (11.60%) Linux
2 15 (5.12%) Windows
3 12 (4.10%) Unix
4 8 (2.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (2.39%) CentOS
6 4 (1.37%) Android
7 3 (1.02%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.34%) VMS
8 1 (0.34%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 165 (56.31%) CI/CD
2 114 (38.91%) Agile
3 72 (24.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 54 (18.43%) Mentoring
5 50 (17.06%) Test Automation
6 45 (15.36%) Microservices
7 44 (15.02%) Platform Engineering
8 43 (14.68%) Scrum
9 42 (14.33%) Continuous Improvement
10 41 (13.99%) Problem-Solving
11 40 (13.65%) Continuous Integration
12 39 (13.31%) Coaching
13 35 (11.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 34 (11.60%) Full-Stack Development
15 33 (11.26%) Technical Leadership
16 30 (10.24%) AI
16 30 (10.24%) Containerisation
16 30 (10.24%) Software Engineering
17 27 (9.22%) SDLC
18 25 (8.53%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 77 (26.28%) SQL
2 54 (18.43%) Java
3 52 (17.75%) Python
4 41 (13.99%) C#
5 37 (12.63%) TypeScript
6 30 (10.24%) JavaScript
7 23 (7.85%) Kotlin
8 21 (7.17%) Bash
9 16 (5.46%) Groovy
10 5 (1.71%) Bicep
10 5 (1.71%) Shell Script
10 5 (1.71%) VB.NET
11 4 (1.37%) PowerShell
11 4 (1.37%) T-SQL
12 3 (1.02%) C
12 3 (1.02%) C++
12 3 (1.02%) Ruby
13 2 (0.68%) Dart
13 2 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.68%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 35 (11.95%) Security Cleared
2 30 (10.24%) SC Cleared
3 21 (7.17%) Degree
4 15 (5.12%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (4.10%) AWS Certification
6 8 (2.73%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 8 (2.73%) ITIL Certification
7 7 (2.39%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.68%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 2 (0.68%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.68%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 2 (0.68%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.68%) PMP
9 1 (0.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.34%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.34%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.46%) QA
2 10 (3.41%) Data Quality
3 7 (2.39%) GDPR
4 5 (1.71%) GRC
5 4 (1.37%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.34%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.34%) WCAG
System Software
1 68 (23.21%) Docker
2 9 (3.07%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.34%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.34%) Firmware
4 1 (0.34%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.34%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 29 (9.90%) Kubernetes
2 16 (5.46%) Ansible
3 9 (3.07%) HP Fortify
3 9 (3.07%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (2.73%) Argo
5 3 (1.02%) Packer
5 3 (1.02%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.68%) Grafana
6 2 (0.68%) Kibana
6 2 (0.68%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.34%) Istio
7 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Satellite
7 1 (0.34%) VxRail
Vendors
1 50 (17.06%) Microsoft
2 19 (6.48%) Databricks
3 16 (5.46%) Google
4 10 (3.41%) Pega
5 8 (2.73%) Cisco
6 6 (2.05%) IBM
7 5 (1.71%) AppDynamics
8 4 (1.37%) Apple
8 4 (1.37%) Facebook
8 4 (1.37%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.37%) Sony
8 4 (1.37%) Yahoo!
9 3 (1.02%) SAP
9 3 (1.02%) VMware
10 2 (0.68%) F5
10 2 (0.68%) Informatica
10 2 (0.68%) Oracle
10 2 (0.68%) Palo Alto
10 2 (0.68%) Sage
10 2 (0.68%) Sophos