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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 46 28
Rank change year-on-year +19 -18 -14
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 284 150 269
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 3.71% 4.45% 5.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.50% 5.07% 7.27%
Number of salaries quoted 197 127 183
10th Percentile £43,050 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £50,875 £47,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% - -
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £91,000 £80,000 £89,500
England median annual salary £70,200 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +0.29% - -

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 5,163 2,957 3,702
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 67.44% 87.67% 79.97%
Number of salaries quoted 3,814 1,382 1,680
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 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -9.52% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -1.64%

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 6 October 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 6 October 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 +10 192 £75,000 +17.65% 135
South Yorkshire +5 62 £69,306 +4.61% 68
East Yorkshire 0 10 £47,000 +14.63% 5
North Yorkshire 0 8 £55,000 -21.43% 24
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 (1.76%) Apache Spark
1 5 (1.76%) Confluence
1 5 (1.76%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.06%) Apache
2 3 (1.06%) CMS
2 3 (1.06%) IIS
2 3 (1.06%) nginx
3 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.70%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (0.35%) CICS
Applications
1 4 (1.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.06%) SAP S/4HANA
1 3 (1.06%) Shopify
2 2 (0.70%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 113 (39.79%) Azure
2 112 (39.44%) AWS
3 67 (23.59%) Azure DevOps
4 51 (17.96%) Serverless
5 50 (17.61%) AWS CloudFormation
6 45 (15.85%) GitHub
7 43 (15.14%) Amazon ECS
8 42 (14.79%) Amazon S3
9 41 (14.44%) AWS Lambda
10 32 (11.27%) GitHub Actions
11 31 (10.92%) AWS Step Functions
12 26 (9.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 22 (7.75%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 22 (7.75%) GCP
14 20 (7.04%) Power Platform
15 18 (6.34%) Datadog
15 18 (6.34%) Microsoft 365
16 17 (5.99%) Azure Data Factory
17 14 (4.93%) Amazon EC2
18 12 (4.23%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.17%) Internet
2 7 (2.46%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.41%) Firewall
4 3 (1.06%) DNS
4 3 (1.06%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (0.70%) BGP
5 2 (0.70%) Ethernet VPN
5 2 (0.70%) HTTP
5 2 (0.70%) NGFW
5 2 (0.70%) OSPF
5 2 (0.70%) VXLAN
6 1 (0.35%) LAN
6 1 (0.35%) Network Security
6 1 (0.35%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.35%) VPN
6 1 (0.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (10.92%) DynamoDB
2 20 (7.04%) MongoDB
2 20 (7.04%) NoSQL
3 18 (6.34%) Amazon Athena
4 15 (5.28%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (4.23%) SQL Server
6 11 (3.87%) Azure SQL Database
6 11 (3.87%) Spark SQL
7 10 (3.52%) Power BI
8 9 (3.17%) PostgreSQL
9 7 (2.46%) Amazon RDS
9 7 (2.46%) Relational Database
10 6 (2.11%) Metadata
11 5 (1.76%) Data Lake
12 3 (1.06%) Redis
12 3 (1.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 2 (0.70%) BigQuery
13 2 (0.70%) Hadoop
13 2 (0.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 2 (0.70%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 46 (16.20%) Git
2 34 (11.97%) GitLab
2 34 (11.97%) Jenkins
3 14 (4.93%) JIRA
4 12 (4.23%) Cypress.io
5 9 (3.17%) Maven
6 8 (2.82%) SonarQube
7 7 (2.46%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 6 (2.11%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.35%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.35%) Selenium
9 1 (0.35%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 54 (19.01%) Social Skills
2 53 (18.66%) Public Sector
3 29 (10.21%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (8.10%) Finance
5 9 (3.17%) Legal
6 7 (2.46%) Law
7 6 (2.11%) Banking
7 6 (2.11%) Local Government
8 4 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.06%) Retail
9 3 (1.06%) Tech for Good
10 2 (0.70%) Advertising
10 2 (0.70%) Billing
11 1 (0.35%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.35%) Electronics
11 1 (0.35%) Games
11 1 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.35%) Publishing
11 1 (0.35%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 78 (27.46%) DevOps Engineer
2 69 (24.30%) Senior
3 68 (23.94%) Developer
4 46 (16.20%) Lead
5 36 (12.68%) Cloud Engineer
6 31 (10.92%) Java Developer
7 27 (9.51%) Senior DevOps
7 27 (9.51%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 20 (7.04%) Data Engineer
9 19 (6.69%) AWS Developer
9 19 (6.69%) Platform Engineer
10 15 (5.28%) .NET Developer
10 15 (5.28%) AWS Engineer
11 14 (4.93%) Azure Engineer
12 13 (4.58%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 13 (4.58%) Full-Stack Developer
12 13 (4.58%) Lead Cloud Engineer
13 12 (4.23%) Lead Data Engineer
13 12 (4.23%) Lead DevOps Engineer
13 12 (4.23%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (20.77%) Terraform
2 38 (13.38%) .NET
3 35 (12.32%) AngularJS
4 34 (11.97%) Node.js
5 26 (9.15%) React
6 22 (7.75%) Spring Boot
7 19 (6.69%) ASP.NET
8 18 (6.34%) RESTful
9 16 (5.63%) ASP.NET Core
9 16 (5.63%) Spring
10 15 (5.28%) REST
11 13 (4.58%) .NET Core
12 12 (4.23%) Blazor
12 12 (4.23%) CSS
12 12 (4.23%) ML.NET
13 11 (3.87%) PySpark
14 10 (3.52%) Jest
15 9 (3.17%) HTML
16 8 (2.82%) ARM Templates
16 8 (2.82%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 36 (12.68%) Cloud Native
2 12 (4.23%) Linux Command Line
3 10 (3.52%) Product Ownership
4 7 (2.46%) Mobile App
5 6 (2.11%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (2.11%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (2.11%) Legacy Applications
6 5 (1.76%) Blog
6 5 (1.76%) NHS
6 5 (1.76%) Social Media
7 4 (1.41%) AI Agents
7 4 (1.41%) BBC
7 4 (1.41%) iPhone
7 4 (1.41%) Low-Code
7 4 (1.41%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.06%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.06%) Learning Management System
8 3 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.70%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 33 (11.62%) Linux
2 15 (5.28%) Windows
3 14 (4.93%) Unix
4 8 (2.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (2.46%) CentOS
6 4 (1.41%) Android
7 3 (1.06%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.35%) VMS
8 1 (0.35%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (54.93%) CI/CD
2 111 (39.08%) Agile
3 69 (24.30%) Infrastructure as Code
4 56 (19.72%) Mentoring
5 49 (17.25%) Test Automation
6 43 (15.14%) Continuous Improvement
6 43 (15.14%) Platform Engineering
7 42 (14.79%) Coaching
8 41 (14.44%) Problem-Solving
8 41 (14.44%) Scrum
9 40 (14.08%) Continuous Integration
9 40 (14.08%) Microservices
10 37 (13.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 33 (11.62%) Full-Stack Development
11 33 (11.62%) Technical Leadership
12 30 (10.56%) AI
13 29 (10.21%) Software Engineering
14 28 (9.86%) Containerisation
15 26 (9.15%) SDLC
16 24 (8.45%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 73 (25.70%) SQL
2 48 (16.90%) Java
3 44 (15.49%) Python
4 41 (14.44%) C#
5 35 (12.32%) TypeScript
6 30 (10.56%) JavaScript
7 23 (8.10%) Kotlin
8 20 (7.04%) Bash
9 12 (4.23%) Groovy
10 5 (1.76%) Bicep
10 5 (1.76%) Shell Script
10 5 (1.76%) VB.NET
11 4 (1.41%) T-SQL
12 3 (1.06%) C
12 3 (1.06%) C++
12 3 (1.06%) PowerShell
12 3 (1.06%) Ruby
13 2 (0.70%) Dart
13 2 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.70%) Go
Qualifications
1 31 (10.92%) Security Cleared
2 28 (9.86%) SC Cleared
3 18 (6.34%) Degree
4 13 (4.58%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (3.87%) AWS Certification
6 7 (2.46%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 7 (2.46%) DV Cleared
6 7 (2.46%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (0.70%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 2 (0.70%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.70%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.35%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.35%) CSPO
8 1 (0.35%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.35%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.58%) QA
2 9 (3.17%) Data Quality
3 6 (2.11%) GDPR
4 4 (1.41%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.41%) GRC
5 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 63 (22.18%) Docker
2 10 (3.52%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.35%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.35%) Firmware
4 1 (0.35%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 23 (8.10%) Kubernetes
2 12 (4.23%) Ansible
3 10 (3.52%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (2.82%) HP Fortify
5 7 (2.46%) Argo
6 3 (1.06%) Grafana
6 3 (1.06%) Progress Chef
6 3 (1.06%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.35%) Red Hat Satellite
7 1 (0.35%) VxRail
Vendors
1 50 (17.61%) Microsoft
2 17 (5.99%) Databricks
3 16 (5.63%) Google
4 10 (3.52%) Pega
5 9 (3.17%) Cisco
6 4 (1.41%) Apple
6 4 (1.41%) Facebook
6 4 (1.41%) ServiceNow
6 4 (1.41%) Sony
6 4 (1.41%) Yahoo!
7 3 (1.06%) SAP
7 3 (1.06%) VMware
8 2 (0.70%) Arista
8 2 (0.70%) F5
8 2 (0.70%) Informatica
8 2 (0.70%) Palo Alto
8 2 (0.70%) Sage
8 2 (0.70%) Sophos
9 1 (0.35%) Meraki
9 1 (0.35%) Thales