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

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 24 18
Rank change year-on-year -7 -6 -4
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 229 203 395
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 5.46% 8.24% 8.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.15% 8.76% 10.09%
Number of salaries quoted 161 133 328
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £37,125
25th Percentile £50,250 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £93,778 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £98,474 £91,934
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year - +3.70% -4.26%

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 3,204 2,317 3,914
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 76.34% 94.03% 86.86%
Number of salaries quoted 1,922 1,030 3,130
10th Percentile £28,250 £27,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £32,125 £40,000 £37,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,445 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.72% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,886 £66,778
90th Percentile £83,750 £90,082 £83,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -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 February 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 February 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 0 197 £68,000 -9.18% 47
South Yorkshire -33 13 £62,966 +29.16% 27
East Yorkshire -28 9 £46,250 +2.78% 1
North Yorkshire +3 3 £60,000 -4.00% 4
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 8 (3.49%) Confluence
2 5 (2.18%) OpenStack
3 4 (1.75%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.75%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.75%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.31%) Moodle
5 2 (0.87%) Apache
5 2 (0.87%) IIS
6 1 (0.44%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.44%) CMS
6 1 (0.44%) FileNet
6 1 (0.44%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 3 (1.31%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 14 (6.11%) SAP ERP
2 4 (1.75%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (1.31%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.87%) Markit EDM
4 2 (0.87%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 138 (60.26%) AWS
2 101 (44.10%) Azure
3 84 (36.68%) Serverless
4 71 (31.00%) Amazon S3
5 70 (30.57%) AWS Lambda
6 64 (27.95%) AWS CloudFormation
7 54 (23.58%) Amazon ECS
7 54 (23.58%) AWS Step Functions
8 50 (21.83%) GitHub
9 39 (17.03%) Azure DevOps
10 33 (14.41%) GitHub Actions
11 31 (13.54%) Amazon SQS
12 28 (12.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 28 (12.23%) Amazon ECR
12 28 (12.23%) Apigee
13 27 (11.79%) GCP
14 17 (7.42%) SaaS
15 16 (6.99%) Amazon EKS
16 14 (6.11%) Amazon EventBridge
16 14 (6.11%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.37%) Firewall
2 6 (2.62%) DNS
2 6 (2.62%) Network Security
3 5 (2.18%) HTTP
4 4 (1.75%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.44%) Broadband
5 1 (0.44%) DHCP
5 1 (0.44%) LAN
5 1 (0.44%) VPN
5 1 (0.44%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (29.26%) DynamoDB
2 30 (13.10%) NoSQL
3 24 (10.48%) PostgreSQL
4 20 (8.73%) SQL Server
5 14 (6.11%) Amazon Athena
6 10 (4.37%) Relational Database
7 6 (2.62%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (2.62%) Metadata
8 5 (2.18%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 4 (1.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (1.31%) Big Data
10 3 (1.31%) Data Lake
10 3 (1.31%) OLAP
11 2 (0.87%) Amazon Aurora
11 2 (0.87%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (0.87%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (0.87%) Data Vault
11 2 (0.87%) Hadoop
11 2 (0.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (0.87%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 55 (24.02%) Jenkins
2 42 (18.34%) GitLab
3 36 (15.72%) Git
4 31 (13.54%) SonarQube
5 28 (12.23%) Cypress.io
5 28 (12.23%) Maven
6 13 (5.68%) JIRA
7 5 (2.18%) Selenium
8 3 (1.31%) JMeter
8 3 (1.31%) LoadRunner
9 2 (0.87%) JUnit
10 1 (0.44%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.44%) PHPUnit
10 1 (0.44%) Postman
General
1 79 (34.50%) Social Skills
2 34 (14.85%) Finance
3 22 (9.61%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (6.11%) Retail
5 12 (5.24%) Financial Institution
5 12 (5.24%) Public Sector
6 6 (2.62%) Law
7 5 (2.18%) Marketing
8 4 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (1.75%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.31%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.87%) Advertising
10 2 (0.87%) Games
11 1 (0.44%) Back Office
11 1 (0.44%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.44%) Legal
11 1 (0.44%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 76 (33.19%) Developer
2 46 (20.09%) Java Developer
3 40 (17.47%) Senior
4 31 (13.54%) Lead
5 25 (10.92%) Software Engineer
6 23 (10.04%) DevOps Engineer
7 19 (8.30%) AWS Developer
8 16 (6.99%) Cloud Engineer
9 14 (6.11%) .NET Developer
10 11 (4.80%) Senior Developer
11 10 (4.37%) Architect
12 9 (3.93%) QA Manager
12 9 (3.93%) Senior Software Engineer
13 8 (3.49%) Data Engineer
13 8 (3.49%) Full-Stack Developer
13 8 (3.49%) Lead DevOps
13 8 (3.49%) Lead DevOps Engineer
14 7 (3.06%) .NET Software Engineer
14 7 (3.06%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 7 (3.06%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (21.83%) AngularJS
2 45 (19.65%) Spring Boot
3 35 (15.28%) React
4 34 (14.85%) Node.js
5 29 (12.66%) Jest
5 29 (12.66%) Spring
6 28 (12.23%) Gherkin
7 27 (11.79%) .NET
8 26 (11.35%) RESTful
9 18 (7.86%) ASP.NET
10 17 (7.42%) .NET Core
11 13 (5.68%) ASP.NET Core
11 13 (5.68%) AWS CDK
11 13 (5.68%) Blazor
12 12 (5.24%) Micronaut
13 10 (4.37%) Elastic Stack
14 9 (3.93%) CSS
14 9 (3.93%) HTML
14 9 (3.93%) Kafka
14 9 (3.93%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 46 (20.09%) Cloud Native
2 14 (6.11%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (2.18%) Analytical Mindset
3 5 (2.18%) Management Information System
3 5 (2.18%) Product Ownership
4 4 (1.75%) CMDB
4 4 (1.75%) NHS
4 4 (1.75%) SCADA
4 4 (1.75%) Security Posture
5 3 (1.31%) Driving Licence
5 3 (1.31%) e-Learning
5 3 (1.31%) Enterprise Cloud
5 3 (1.31%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.31%) IoT
5 3 (1.31%) Operational Technology
5 3 (1.31%) Public Cloud
6 2 (0.87%) Data Structures
6 2 (0.87%) Mobile App
6 2 (0.87%) Social Media
6 2 (0.87%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (5.24%) Windows
2 7 (3.06%) Linux
3 5 (2.18%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.44%) Android
4 1 (0.44%) Unix
4 1 (0.44%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (67.69%) CI/CD
2 102 (44.54%) Agile
3 63 (27.51%) Infrastructure as Code
4 49 (21.40%) Problem-Solving
5 44 (19.21%) Mentoring
6 41 (17.90%) Continuous Improvement
6 41 (17.90%) Microservices
6 41 (17.90%) Software Engineering
7 37 (16.16%) Containerisation
8 30 (13.10%) Stakeholder Management
9 29 (12.66%) SDLC
10 26 (11.35%) Full-Stack Development
10 26 (11.35%) ITIL
11 24 (10.48%) Observability
12 23 (10.04%) Continuous Integration
13 21 (9.17%) Secure Coding
13 21 (9.17%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 18 (7.86%) Clean Code
14 18 (7.86%) DevSecOps
14 18 (7.86%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 76 (33.19%) Java
2 64 (27.95%) SQL
3 55 (24.02%) TypeScript
4 40 (17.47%) Bash
5 39 (17.03%) Python
6 28 (12.23%) Groovy
6 28 (12.23%) JavaScript
7 14 (6.11%) C#
8 13 (5.68%) Kotlin
8 13 (5.68%) PowerShell
9 7 (3.06%) Go
10 5 (2.18%) Bicep
10 5 (2.18%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.87%) R
12 1 (0.44%) PHP
12 1 (0.44%) Scala
Qualifications
1 36 (15.72%) AWS Certification
2 17 (7.42%) AWS Certified Developer
3 15 (6.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 15 (6.55%) ITIL Certification
4 14 (6.11%) Degree
5 8 (3.49%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (2.62%) Security Cleared
7 3 (1.31%) SC Cleared
8 2 (0.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.87%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.44%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.44%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.44%) MCITP
9 1 (0.44%) MCSE
9 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (9.17%) QA
2 10 (4.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (3.93%) PCI DSS
4 7 (3.06%) GDPR
5 4 (1.75%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.31%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.87%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.87%) GRC
7 2 (0.87%) NCSC
7 2 (0.87%) NIST
System Software
1 88 (38.43%) Docker
2 4 (1.75%) Virtual Servers
3 3 (1.31%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 1 (0.44%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.44%) Squid
Systems Management
1 52 (22.71%) Terraform
2 34 (14.85%) Kubernetes
3 31 (13.54%) HP Fortify
4 18 (7.86%) Ansible
5 11 (4.80%) Grafana
5 11 (4.80%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.87%) Control-M
7 1 (0.44%) Argo
7 1 (0.44%) Kibana
Vendors
1 30 (13.10%) Microsoft
2 14 (6.11%) SAP
3 9 (3.93%) Google
4 7 (3.06%) Databricks
5 6 (2.62%) Oracle
6 4 (1.75%) IBM
6 4 (1.75%) IFS
6 4 (1.75%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.31%) Pega
7 3 (1.31%) Sparx
7 3 (1.31%) WSO2
8 2 (0.87%) Adobe
8 2 (0.87%) New Relic
8 2 (0.87%) Qualys
9 1 (0.44%) Automation Anywhere
9 1 (0.44%) Blue Prism
9 1 (0.44%) F5
9 1 (0.44%) Foundry
9 1 (0.44%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.44%) VMware