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 9 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 28 13
Rank change year-on-year -18 -15 -4
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 158 240 432
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 4.43% 5.75% 13.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.14% 7.13% 13.80%
Number of salaries quoted 130 157 328
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £41,600
25th Percentile £50,063 £47,231 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% -3.70%
75th Percentile £77,188 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £88,500 £91,934
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,000

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 3,075 3,364 3,130
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 86.18% 80.63% 95.19%
Number of salaries quoted 1,550 1,405 2,301
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £30,500 £41,250 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% - -
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £81,250 £80,000 £84,056
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

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 9 November 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 9 November 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 -10 117 £65,000 -4.41% 117
South Yorkshire -18 17 £55,000 -8.33% 17
North Yorkshire -4 14 £70,000 +27.27% 14
East Yorkshire -25 8 £45,000 - 8
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 5 (3.16%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.53%) Confluence
3 3 (1.90%) Apache
3 3 (1.90%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.63%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.63%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.63%) CMS
4 1 (0.63%) FileNet
4 1 (0.63%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.63%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.63%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.63%) WebLogic
Applications
1 7 (4.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.63%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.27%) Markit EDM
1 2 (1.27%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.63%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (0.63%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.63%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.63%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 78 (49.37%) Azure
2 71 (44.94%) AWS
3 29 (18.35%) Azure DevOps
4 24 (15.19%) GitHub
5 23 (14.56%) Serverless
6 19 (12.03%) AWS CloudFormation
7 18 (11.39%) GCP
8 17 (10.76%) SaaS
9 12 (7.59%) Amazon S3
9 12 (7.59%) AWS Lambda
10 11 (6.96%) Amazon ECS
10 11 (6.96%) GitHub Actions
11 9 (5.70%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (3.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 6 (3.80%) Amazon SQS
12 6 (3.80%) AWS Step Functions
13 5 (3.16%) Amazon EventBridge
14 4 (2.53%) Power Platform
15 3 (1.90%) dbt
15 3 (1.90%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.06%) Firewall
2 7 (4.43%) Network Security
3 2 (1.27%) AMQP
3 2 (1.27%) DNS
3 2 (1.27%) VPN
4 1 (0.63%) BGP
4 1 (0.63%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (0.63%) DHCP
4 1 (0.63%) LAN
4 1 (0.63%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (8.86%) Relational Database
2 10 (6.33%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (6.33%) SQL Server
3 9 (5.70%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (5.70%) DynamoDB
4 8 (5.06%) NoSQL
4 8 (5.06%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 6 (3.80%) OLAP
5 6 (3.80%) RDBMS
6 3 (1.90%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (1.90%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.90%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (1.90%) Apache Iceberg
6 3 (1.90%) Big Data
6 3 (1.90%) Data Lake
6 3 (1.90%) Data Vault
7 2 (1.27%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.27%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.27%) Power BI
7 2 (1.27%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 18 (11.39%) Git
2 17 (10.76%) Jenkins
3 16 (10.13%) JIRA
4 15 (9.49%) GitLab
5 3 (1.90%) Selenium
5 3 (1.90%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.27%) CircleCI
6 2 (1.27%) JMeter
6 2 (1.27%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.63%) Appium
7 1 (0.63%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.63%) Postman
7 1 (0.63%) REST Assured
General
1 48 (30.38%) Social Skills
2 34 (21.52%) Finance
3 14 (8.86%) Financial Institution
4 13 (8.23%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (7.59%) Law
6 8 (5.06%) Public Sector
7 7 (4.43%) Legal
8 5 (3.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (2.53%) Retail
10 2 (1.27%) Banking
10 2 (1.27%) Marketing
10 2 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.63%) Digital Healthcare
11 1 (0.63%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 39 (24.68%) Developer
2 28 (17.72%) Lead
3 20 (12.66%) Senior
4 17 (10.76%) DevOps Engineer
4 17 (10.76%) Software Engineer
5 14 (8.86%) Architect
6 12 (7.59%) Lead DevOps
7 11 (6.96%) Analyst
8 10 (6.33%) Java Developer
8 10 (6.33%) Lead DevOps Engineer
9 8 (5.06%) .NET Software Engineer
10 7 (4.43%) Data Engineer
11 6 (3.80%) .NET Developer
11 6 (3.80%) Java Engineer
11 6 (3.80%) SQL Developer
12 5 (3.16%) Cloud Engineer
12 5 (3.16%) Senior Developer
12 5 (3.16%) Senior Software Engineer
12 5 (3.16%) Software Developer
13 4 (2.53%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (18.99%) .NET
2 14 (8.86%) React
2 14 (8.86%) Spring
3 13 (8.23%) Node.js
4 12 (7.59%) RESTful
5 11 (6.96%) ASP.NET
5 11 (6.96%) Micronaut
5 11 (6.96%) Spring Boot
6 10 (6.33%) AngularJS
7 9 (5.70%) HTML
7 9 (5.70%) REST
8 8 (5.06%) .NET Core
8 8 (5.06%) CSS
9 7 (4.43%) ASP.NET Core
10 6 (3.80%) Vue
11 5 (3.16%) Kafka
11 5 (3.16%) Pandas
12 4 (2.53%) CSS3
12 4 (2.53%) HTML5
12 4 (2.53%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 38 (24.05%) Cloud Native
2 14 (8.86%) Product Ownership
3 9 (5.70%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (2.53%) Data Centre
4 4 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.90%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (1.90%) Private Cloud
5 3 (1.90%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.27%) CMDB
6 2 (1.27%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.27%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.27%) IoT
6 2 (1.27%) Operational Technology
6 2 (1.27%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.27%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.63%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (0.63%) Cyberattack
7 1 (0.63%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.63%) Hackathon
7 1 (0.63%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 14 (8.86%) Windows
2 6 (3.80%) Linux
3 2 (1.27%) Android
3 2 (1.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (53.80%) CI/CD
2 68 (43.04%) Agile
3 51 (32.28%) Infrastructure as Code
4 39 (24.68%) Software Engineering
5 33 (20.89%) Mentoring
5 33 (20.89%) Problem-Solving
6 29 (18.35%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 27 (17.09%) Continuous Improvement
8 22 (13.92%) Stakeholder Management
9 20 (12.66%) Microservices
10 16 (10.13%) SDLC
11 15 (9.49%) Cybersecurity
11 15 (9.49%) Observability
11 15 (9.49%) Scrum
12 14 (8.86%) Collaborative Culture
12 14 (8.86%) Data Modelling
12 14 (8.86%) ETL
12 14 (8.86%) Line Management
12 14 (8.86%) Roadmaps
12 14 (8.86%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 50 (31.65%) SQL
2 37 (23.42%) Python
3 35 (22.15%) Java
4 25 (15.82%) C#
5 21 (13.29%) JavaScript
6 17 (10.76%) TypeScript
7 15 (9.49%) PowerShell
8 11 (6.96%) Bash
9 6 (3.80%) T-SQL
10 3 (1.90%) Bicep
11 2 (1.27%) Apex Code
11 2 (1.27%) SOQL
12 1 (0.63%) Go
12 1 (0.63%) PHP
12 1 (0.63%) R
Qualifications
1 15 (9.49%) AWS Certification
2 13 (8.23%) Degree
3 9 (5.70%) Security Cleared
4 8 (5.06%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (5.06%) SC Cleared
5 3 (1.90%) AWS Certified Developer
5 3 (1.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (1.90%) CompTIA CySA+
5 3 (1.90%) CompTIA Security+
5 3 (1.90%) GSEC
6 2 (1.27%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.63%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.70%) QA
2 7 (4.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.53%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.53%) GDPR
4 3 (1.90%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.27%) NCSC
6 1 (0.63%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.63%) GRC
6 1 (0.63%) NIST
6 1 (0.63%) SOC 2
System Software
1 36 (22.78%) Docker
2 2 (1.27%) Squid
3 1 (0.63%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.63%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.63%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (0.63%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.63%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 37 (23.42%) Terraform
2 36 (22.78%) Kubernetes
3 18 (11.39%) Ansible
4 10 (6.33%) Prometheus
5 8 (5.06%) Grafana
6 3 (1.90%) Argo
7 2 (1.27%) Control-M
7 2 (1.27%) HP Fortify
7 2 (1.27%) Kibana
Vendors
1 19 (12.03%) Microsoft
2 5 (3.16%) Databricks
2 5 (3.16%) Oracle
2 5 (3.16%) Salesforce
3 3 (1.90%) Google
3 3 (1.90%) IBM
3 3 (1.90%) Pega
3 3 (1.90%) WSO2
4 2 (1.27%) New Relic
4 2 (1.27%) OpenAI
4 2 (1.27%) SAP
5 1 (0.63%) 3PAR
5 1 (0.63%) Blue Prism
5 1 (0.63%) Cisco
5 1 (0.63%) IFS
5 1 (0.63%) Juniper
5 1 (0.63%) Splunk
5 1 (0.63%) TOWER Software
5 1 (0.63%) VMware