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

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 22 23
Rank change year-on-year -11 +1 -5
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 273 201 397
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 4.55% 8.48% 7.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.41% 9.01% 8.51%
Number of salaries quoted 183 155 318
10th Percentile £42,750 £37,716 £37,500
25th Percentile £54,750 £47,231 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £68,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% +13.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £91,934 £75,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £98,474 £87,500
England median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% +7.69% -7.14%

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 4,260 2,231 4,663
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 70.96% 94.10% 83.45%
Number of salaries quoted 2,725 1,260 3,702
10th Percentile £29,000 £26,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,663 £31,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £49,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% -1.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,396 £65,000
90th Percentile £89,500 £87,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +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 30 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 30 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 -6 221 £70,000 -9.68% 32
South Yorkshire -37 30 £80,000 +72.97% 10
East Yorkshire -25 9 £46,250 +2.78% 4
North Yorkshire -5 6 £72,500 +3.57% 1
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 (2.56%) Moodle
2 6 (2.20%) Confluence
2 6 (2.20%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.47%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.10%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.73%) Apache
5 2 (0.73%) IIS
5 2 (0.73%) OpenStack
Applications
1 7 (2.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.83%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 13 (4.76%) SAP ERP
2 4 (1.47%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.73%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.37%) Magento
5 1 (0.37%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 149 (54.58%) AWS
2 117 (42.86%) Azure
3 97 (35.53%) Serverless
4 84 (30.77%) Amazon S3
4 84 (30.77%) AWS Lambda
5 71 (26.01%) AWS CloudFormation
6 66 (24.18%) Amazon ECS
6 66 (24.18%) AWS Step Functions
7 55 (20.15%) GitHub
8 49 (17.95%) Azure DevOps
9 39 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
10 36 (13.19%) Amazon ECR
10 36 (13.19%) Apigee
11 35 (12.82%) Amazon SQS
12 32 (11.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 30 (10.99%) GCP
14 21 (7.69%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 18 (6.59%) Amazon EKS
16 15 (5.49%) Microsoft 365
17 13 (4.76%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.56%) Firewall
2 6 (2.20%) HTTP
3 5 (1.83%) DNS
4 4 (1.47%) Network Security
4 4 (1.47%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.37%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (27.84%) DynamoDB
2 34 (12.45%) NoSQL
3 23 (8.42%) PostgreSQL
4 21 (7.69%) Amazon Athena
4 21 (7.69%) SQL Server
5 14 (5.13%) Data Warehouse
5 14 (5.13%) Spark SQL
6 8 (2.93%) Metadata
6 8 (2.93%) MongoDB
7 7 (2.56%) Power BI
8 4 (1.47%) Relational Database
8 4 (1.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (1.10%) Power Query
10 2 (0.73%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (0.73%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.37%) Amazon Aurora
11 1 (0.37%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (0.37%) Apache Iceberg
11 1 (0.37%) BigQuery
11 1 (0.37%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 68 (24.91%) Jenkins
2 59 (21.61%) GitLab
3 40 (14.65%) SonarQube
4 39 (14.29%) Git
5 36 (13.19%) Cypress.io
5 36 (13.19%) Maven
6 23 (8.42%) JIRA
7 4 (1.47%) Selenium
8 3 (1.10%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.10%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.10%) JUnit
9 2 (0.73%) Postman
9 2 (0.73%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.37%) JMeter
10 1 (0.37%) LoadRunner
10 1 (0.37%) PHPUnit
General
1 83 (30.40%) Social Skills
2 30 (10.99%) Finance
3 22 (8.06%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (7.33%) Public Sector
5 15 (5.49%) Retail
6 7 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (1.47%) Law
7 4 (1.47%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.10%) Marketing
9 2 (0.73%) Advertising
9 2 (0.73%) Billing
9 2 (0.73%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.73%) Games
9 2 (0.73%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.37%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 88 (32.23%) Developer
2 54 (19.78%) Java Developer
2 54 (19.78%) Senior
3 48 (17.58%) Lead
4 42 (15.38%) DevOps Engineer
5 23 (8.42%) AWS Developer
5 23 (8.42%) Data Engineer
6 17 (6.23%) Cloud Engineer
7 16 (5.86%) Lead Data Engineer
7 16 (5.86%) Platform Engineer
7 16 (5.86%) Software Engineer
8 14 (5.13%) .NET Developer
8 14 (5.13%) Senior Developer
8 14 (5.13%) Senior DevOps
8 14 (5.13%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 12 (4.40%) Full-Stack Developer
10 10 (3.66%) Lead DevOps
10 10 (3.66%) Lead DevOps Engineer
11 9 (3.30%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 9 (3.30%) QA Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (21.98%) AngularJS
2 49 (17.95%) Spring Boot
3 39 (14.29%) Node.js
4 37 (13.55%) Jest
5 36 (13.19%) Gherkin
5 36 (13.19%) React
6 24 (8.79%) Spring
7 23 (8.42%) .NET
7 23 (8.42%) RESTful
8 20 (7.33%) PySpark
9 18 (6.59%) REST
10 15 (5.49%) ASP.NET
11 14 (5.13%) .NET Core
11 14 (5.13%) Elastic Stack
12 12 (4.40%) ASP.NET Core
12 12 (4.40%) Blazor
13 11 (4.03%) AWS CDK
14 9 (3.30%) CSS
14 9 (3.30%) HTML
15 7 (2.56%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 37 (13.55%) Cloud Native
2 14 (5.13%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (3.30%) NHS
4 7 (2.56%) e-Learning
5 5 (1.83%) Analytical Mindset
5 5 (1.83%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.47%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.47%) SCADA
7 3 (1.10%) CMDB
7 3 (1.10%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.10%) Driving Licence
7 3 (1.10%) Enterprise Cloud
7 3 (1.10%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.10%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.10%) Security Posture
7 3 (1.10%) Social Media
8 2 (0.73%) Cloud Security Posture
8 2 (0.73%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (0.73%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 16 (5.86%) Windows
2 15 (5.49%) Linux
3 7 (2.56%) Unix
4 5 (1.83%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.37%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 179 (65.57%) CI/CD
2 115 (42.12%) Agile
3 61 (22.34%) Infrastructure as Code
4 48 (17.58%) Microservices
5 46 (16.85%) Mentoring
6 45 (16.48%) Continuous Improvement
6 45 (16.48%) Problem-Solving
7 38 (13.92%) ITIL
8 37 (13.55%) Containerisation
9 36 (13.19%) Stakeholder Management
10 35 (12.82%) Continuous Integration
11 31 (11.36%) SDLC
11 31 (11.36%) Test Automation
12 30 (10.99%) Observability
13 29 (10.62%) Full-Stack Development
13 29 (10.62%) Platform Engineering
14 28 (10.26%) Data Engineering
14 28 (10.26%) Scrum
14 28 (10.26%) Secure Coding
14 28 (10.26%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 79 (28.94%) Java
2 73 (26.74%) SQL
3 62 (22.71%) TypeScript
4 47 (17.22%) Bash
4 47 (17.22%) Python
5 40 (14.65%) Groovy
6 22 (8.06%) JavaScript
7 20 (7.33%) Kotlin
8 11 (4.03%) PowerShell
9 10 (3.66%) C#
10 7 (2.56%) Go
11 6 (2.20%) T-SQL
12 4 (1.47%) Bicep
13 3 (1.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.73%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.37%) Perl
15 1 (0.37%) PHP
15 1 (0.37%) R
15 1 (0.37%) Scala
Qualifications
1 40 (14.65%) AWS Certification
2 27 (9.89%) Degree
3 23 (8.42%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 23 (8.42%) ITIL Certification
4 19 (6.96%) Security Cleared
5 15 (5.49%) AWS Certified Developer
6 13 (4.76%) SC Cleared
7 11 (4.03%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.83%) PMI Certification
8 5 (1.83%) PMP
9 2 (0.73%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 2 (0.73%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.73%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (0.73%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.37%) CBAP
10 1 (0.37%) IIBA
10 1 (0.37%) MCITP
10 1 (0.37%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (9.52%) QA
2 14 (5.13%) GDPR
3 9 (3.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (2.93%) PCI DSS
5 7 (2.56%) Data Quality
5 7 (2.56%) GRC
6 5 (1.83%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.73%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.73%) NIST
System Software
1 90 (32.97%) Docker
2 3 (1.10%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 3 (1.10%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 66 (24.18%) Terraform
2 37 (13.55%) HP Fortify
3 27 (9.89%) Kubernetes
4 16 (5.86%) Ansible
5 10 (3.66%) Argo
5 10 (3.66%) Grafana
5 10 (3.66%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.10%) Packer
7 2 (0.73%) Kibana
8 1 (0.37%) Istio
8 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.37%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 38 (13.92%) Microsoft
2 20 (7.33%) Databricks
3 15 (5.49%) SAP
4 8 (2.93%) ServiceNow
5 7 (2.56%) Google
6 6 (2.20%) IBM
6 6 (2.20%) Oracle
7 5 (1.83%) AppDynamics
8 4 (1.47%) IFS
9 3 (1.10%) Sparx
10 2 (0.73%) Adobe
10 2 (0.73%) Qualys
11 1 (0.37%) Apple
11 1 (0.37%) Blue Prism
11 1 (0.37%) F5
11 1 (0.37%) Facebook
11 1 (0.37%) Foundry
11 1 (0.37%) Sony
11 1 (0.37%) VMware
11 1 (0.37%) Yahoo!