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 11 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 21 23
Rank change year-on-year -14 +2 -8
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 261 201 410
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 4.84% 8.82% 7.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.68% 9.32% 8.85%
Number of salaries quoted 178 160 327
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,773 £37,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £46,985 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.48% +11.67% -4.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £91,934 £76,250
90th Percentile £93,250 £98,474 £87,500
England median annual salary £70,079 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +0.11% +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 3,909 2,157 4,631
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 72.51% 94.65% 84.12%
Number of salaries quoted 2,496 1,256 3,681
10th Percentile £28,250 £25,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,981 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £89,113 £80,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +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 11 April 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 11 April 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 -4 215 £70,000 -6.67% 53
South Yorkshire -35 24 £70,932 +53.37% 26
East Yorkshire -29 9 £46,250 +2.78% 3
North Yorkshire -5 6 £72,500 +3.57% 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 (2.68%) Moodle
2 6 (2.30%) Confluence
3 5 (1.92%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.53%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.77%) IIS
5 2 (0.77%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.38%) Apache
6 1 (0.38%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 7 (2.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.92%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 14 (5.36%) SAP ERP
2 4 (1.53%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.38%) Magento
4 1 (0.38%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 148 (56.70%) AWS
2 109 (41.76%) Azure
3 98 (37.55%) Serverless
4 86 (32.95%) Amazon S3
4 86 (32.95%) AWS Lambda
5 69 (26.44%) AWS CloudFormation
6 65 (24.90%) AWS Step Functions
7 63 (24.14%) Amazon ECS
8 57 (21.84%) GitHub
9 43 (16.48%) Azure DevOps
10 38 (14.56%) GitHub Actions
11 36 (13.79%) Amazon SQS
12 35 (13.41%) Amazon ECR
12 35 (13.41%) Apigee
13 33 (12.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 29 (11.11%) GCP
15 20 (7.66%) Amazon EKS
16 19 (7.28%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 14 (5.36%) Amazon EventBridge
17 14 (5.36%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.68%) Firewall
2 6 (2.30%) HTTP
3 5 (1.92%) DNS
4 4 (1.53%) Network Security
4 4 (1.53%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.38%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (29.89%) DynamoDB
2 34 (13.03%) NoSQL
3 21 (8.05%) PostgreSQL
3 21 (8.05%) SQL Server
4 19 (7.28%) Amazon Athena
5 8 (3.07%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (2.68%) Relational Database
6 7 (2.68%) Spark SQL
7 6 (2.30%) Metadata
8 4 (1.53%) Power BI
8 4 (1.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (1.15%) MongoDB
10 2 (0.77%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (0.77%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.77%) Power Query
11 1 (0.38%) Amazon Aurora
11 1 (0.38%) Apache Iceberg
11 1 (0.38%) BigQuery
11 1 (0.38%) Data Vault
11 1 (0.38%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 65 (24.90%) Jenkins
2 52 (19.92%) GitLab
3 40 (15.33%) Git
4 39 (14.94%) SonarQube
5 35 (13.41%) Cypress.io
5 35 (13.41%) Maven
6 20 (7.66%) JIRA
7 4 (1.53%) Selenium
8 3 (1.15%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.15%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.15%) JUnit
9 2 (0.77%) Postman
10 1 (0.38%) JMeter
10 1 (0.38%) LoadRunner
10 1 (0.38%) PHPUnit
10 1 (0.38%) Visual Studio
General
1 89 (34.10%) Social Skills
2 33 (12.64%) Finance
3 23 (8.81%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (6.13%) Retail
5 14 (5.36%) Public Sector
6 7 (2.68%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.53%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.53%) Law
8 4 (1.53%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.15%) Marketing
10 2 (0.77%) Advertising
10 2 (0.77%) Billing
10 2 (0.77%) Games
10 2 (0.77%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.38%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 87 (33.33%) Developer
2 52 (19.92%) Java Developer
3 51 (19.54%) Senior
4 37 (14.18%) Lead
5 31 (11.88%) DevOps Engineer
6 22 (8.43%) Software Engineer
7 21 (8.05%) AWS Developer
8 17 (6.51%) Cloud Engineer
9 16 (6.13%) Data Engineer
10 15 (5.75%) .NET Developer
10 15 (5.75%) Senior Developer
11 12 (4.60%) Platform Engineer
12 11 (4.21%) Full-Stack Developer
13 10 (3.83%) Lead Data Engineer
14 9 (3.45%) QA Manager
14 9 (3.45%) Senior DevOps
14 9 (3.45%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 8 (3.07%) Analyst
15 8 (3.07%) Senior Java Developer
16 7 (2.68%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (22.61%) AngularJS
2 51 (19.54%) Spring Boot
3 40 (15.33%) React
4 36 (13.79%) Jest
4 36 (13.79%) Node.js
5 35 (13.41%) Gherkin
6 28 (10.73%) Spring
7 26 (9.96%) .NET
7 26 (9.96%) RESTful
8 18 (6.90%) .NET Core
8 18 (6.90%) ASP.NET
9 15 (5.75%) REST
10 14 (5.36%) ASP.NET Core
10 14 (5.36%) Blazor
10 14 (5.36%) Elastic Stack
11 13 (4.98%) AWS CDK
11 13 (4.98%) PySpark
12 10 (3.83%) CSS
12 10 (3.83%) HTML
13 7 (2.68%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 41 (15.71%) Cloud Native
2 14 (5.36%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (3.45%) NHS
4 7 (2.68%) e-Learning
5 5 (1.92%) Analytical Mindset
5 5 (1.92%) Management Information System
5 5 (1.92%) Product Ownership
6 4 (1.53%) Data Structures
6 4 (1.53%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.53%) SCADA
6 4 (1.53%) Security Posture
7 3 (1.15%) CMDB
7 3 (1.15%) Driving Licence
7 3 (1.15%) Enterprise Cloud
7 3 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.15%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.15%) Social Media
8 2 (0.77%) Cloud Security Posture
8 2 (0.77%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (0.77%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 11 (4.21%) Windows
2 9 (3.45%) Linux
3 5 (1.92%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.77%) Unix
5 1 (0.38%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 171 (65.52%) CI/CD
2 113 (43.30%) Agile
3 62 (23.75%) Infrastructure as Code
4 48 (18.39%) Continuous Improvement
5 47 (18.01%) Microservices
5 47 (18.01%) Problem-Solving
6 44 (16.86%) Mentoring
7 39 (14.94%) Containerisation
8 37 (14.18%) ITIL
9 35 (13.41%) Software Engineering
10 34 (13.03%) Stakeholder Management
11 30 (11.49%) Continuous Integration
11 30 (11.49%) SDLC
12 29 (11.11%) Full-Stack Development
12 29 (11.11%) Observability
13 27 (10.34%) Secure Coding
14 24 (9.20%) Platform Engineering
15 23 (8.81%) DevSecOps
15 23 (8.81%) Waterfall
16 22 (8.43%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 76 (29.12%) Java
2 71 (27.20%) SQL
3 60 (22.99%) TypeScript
4 45 (17.24%) Bash
5 43 (16.48%) Python
6 38 (14.56%) Groovy
7 23 (8.81%) JavaScript
8 18 (6.90%) Kotlin
9 11 (4.21%) C#
9 11 (4.21%) PowerShell
10 7 (2.68%) Go
11 5 (1.92%) T-SQL
12 4 (1.53%) Bicep
13 2 (0.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.77%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.77%) R
14 1 (0.38%) Perl
14 1 (0.38%) PHP
14 1 (0.38%) Scala
Qualifications
1 41 (15.71%) AWS Certification
2 22 (8.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 22 (8.43%) Degree
2 22 (8.43%) ITIL Certification
3 18 (6.90%) Security Cleared
4 17 (6.51%) AWS Certified Developer
5 13 (4.98%) SC Cleared
6 6 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.92%) PMI Certification
7 5 (1.92%) PMP
8 2 (0.77%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 2 (0.77%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.77%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.38%) CBAP
9 1 (0.38%) IIBA
9 1 (0.38%) MCITP
9 1 (0.38%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (9.58%) QA
2 11 (4.21%) GDPR
3 10 (3.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (3.07%) PCI DSS
5 7 (2.68%) GRC
6 5 (1.92%) Data Quality
6 5 (1.92%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.77%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.77%) NIST
System Software
1 93 (35.63%) Docker
2 3 (1.15%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 3 (1.15%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 63 (24.14%) Terraform
2 36 (13.79%) HP Fortify
3 29 (11.11%) Kubernetes
4 16 (6.13%) Ansible
5 11 (4.21%) Grafana
5 11 (4.21%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.92%) Argo
7 3 (1.15%) Packer
8 2 (0.77%) Kibana
9 1 (0.38%) Istio
9 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 36 (13.79%) Microsoft
2 15 (5.75%) Databricks
3 14 (5.36%) SAP
4 7 (2.68%) Google
5 6 (2.30%) IBM
5 6 (2.30%) Oracle
5 6 (2.30%) ServiceNow
6 5 (1.92%) AppDynamics
7 4 (1.53%) IFS
8 3 (1.15%) Sparx
9 2 (0.77%) Adobe
9 2 (0.77%) Qualys
10 1 (0.38%) Apple
10 1 (0.38%) Blue Prism
10 1 (0.38%) Foundry
10 1 (0.38%) New Relic
10 1 (0.38%) Sony
10 1 (0.38%) VMware
10 1 (0.38%) WooCommerce
10 1 (0.38%) Yahoo!