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

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 41 26
Rank change year-on-year +14 -15 -14
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 288 155 311
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 3.86% 4.63% 5.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.77% 5.31% 7.60%
Number of salaries quoted 207 126 231
10th Percentile £44,650 £39,375 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,125 £50,000 £47,231
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £63,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.80% +6.25% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,125 £75,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £91,000 £82,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £71,991 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +2.84% +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 4,992 2,917 4,093
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 66.85% 87.13% 78.77%
Number of salaries quoted 3,684 1,498 2,297
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,130 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.75% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -8.00%

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 3 September 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 3 September 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 +11 196 £75,000 +15.38% 100
South Yorkshire -4 61 £69,310 +26.02% 42
North Yorkshire -2 12 £62,500 -10.71% 8
East Yorkshire -7 9 £47,000 +14.63% 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 6 (2.08%) Confluence
2 5 (1.74%) Apache Spark
2 5 (1.74%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.04%) Apache
3 3 (1.04%) CMS
3 3 (1.04%) IIS
3 3 (1.04%) Moodle
4 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.69%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (0.35%) CICS
Applications
1 7 (2.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.74%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (1.04%) SAP S/4HANA
1 3 (1.04%) Shopify
2 2 (0.69%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 116 (40.28%) Azure
2 111 (38.54%) AWS
3 67 (23.26%) Azure DevOps
4 62 (21.53%) Serverless
5 49 (17.01%) AWS CloudFormation
5 49 (17.01%) AWS Lambda
6 46 (15.97%) Amazon S3
6 46 (15.97%) GitHub
7 45 (15.63%) Amazon ECS
8 34 (11.81%) AWS Step Functions
9 30 (10.42%) GitHub Actions
10 26 (9.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 23 (7.99%) GCP
12 21 (7.29%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 20 (6.94%) Azure Data Factory
14 19 (6.60%) Power Platform
15 16 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
15 16 (5.56%) Datadog
15 16 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
16 14 (4.86%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.39%) Firewall
1 4 (1.39%) Internet
1 4 (1.39%) TCP/IP
2 3 (1.04%) DNS
2 3 (1.04%) HTTP
3 2 (0.69%) BGP
3 2 (0.69%) Ethernet VPN
3 2 (0.69%) NGFW
3 2 (0.69%) OSPF
3 2 (0.69%) VXLAN
4 1 (0.35%) LAN
4 1 (0.35%) Network Security
4 1 (0.35%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.35%) VPN
4 1 (0.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (11.81%) DynamoDB
2 22 (7.64%) NoSQL
3 21 (7.29%) MongoDB
4 18 (6.25%) Amazon Athena
5 17 (5.90%) Data Warehouse
5 17 (5.90%) Spark SQL
6 12 (4.17%) Azure SQL Database
6 12 (4.17%) SQL Server
7 9 (3.13%) Power BI
8 8 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
8 8 (2.78%) Relational Database
9 7 (2.43%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (2.08%) Metadata
11 4 (1.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (1.04%) BigQuery
12 3 (1.04%) Redis
13 2 (0.69%) Data Lake
13 2 (0.69%) Hadoop
13 2 (0.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 2 (0.69%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 45 (15.63%) Git
2 44 (15.28%) Jenkins
3 34 (11.81%) GitLab
4 23 (7.99%) JIRA
5 16 (5.56%) Cypress.io
6 15 (5.21%) SonarQube
7 13 (4.51%) Maven
8 6 (2.08%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 6 (2.08%) Visual Studio
9 3 (1.04%) Artifactory
9 3 (1.04%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.69%) Selenium
11 1 (0.35%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.35%) JUnit
11 1 (0.35%) Postman
11 1 (0.35%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 55 (19.10%) Social Skills
2 40 (13.89%) Public Sector
3 31 (10.76%) Finance
4 18 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (2.78%) Legal
6 7 (2.43%) Law
7 6 (2.08%) Local Government
8 5 (1.74%) Banking
8 5 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.39%) Retail
10 3 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.04%) Tech for Good
11 2 (0.69%) Advertising
11 2 (0.69%) Billing
12 1 (0.35%) Electronics
12 1 (0.35%) Games
12 1 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 79 (27.43%) Developer
2 68 (23.61%) Senior
3 62 (21.53%) DevOps Engineer
4 47 (16.32%) Lead
5 38 (13.19%) Java Developer
6 32 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
7 27 (9.38%) Data Engineer
8 26 (9.03%) Platform Engineer
9 25 (8.68%) Senior DevOps
9 25 (8.68%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 18 (6.25%) AWS Developer
10 18 (6.25%) Lead Data Engineer
11 17 (5.90%) Azure Engineer
11 17 (5.90%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 16 (5.56%) .NET Developer
12 16 (5.56%) Full-Stack Developer
13 13 (4.51%) Software Engineer
14 12 (4.17%) AWS Engineer
14 12 (4.17%) Lead Cloud Engineer
15 11 (3.82%) Azure Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (21.18%) Terraform
2 40 (13.89%) AngularJS
3 38 (13.19%) .NET
4 33 (11.46%) Node.js
5 31 (10.76%) React
6 27 (9.38%) Spring Boot
7 21 (7.29%) REST
7 21 (7.29%) RESTful
8 20 (6.94%) ASP.NET
9 18 (6.25%) PySpark
10 17 (5.90%) ASP.NET Core
10 17 (5.90%) Spring
11 14 (4.86%) .NET Core
11 14 (4.86%) Jest
12 13 (4.51%) Blazor
12 13 (4.51%) CSS
12 13 (4.51%) ML.NET
13 12 (4.17%) Gherkin
14 11 (3.82%) ARM Templates
15 10 (3.47%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 31 (10.76%) Cloud Native
2 11 (3.82%) Product Ownership
3 8 (2.78%) NHS
4 7 (2.43%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (2.43%) Linux Command Line
4 7 (2.43%) Mobile App
5 6 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (2.08%) Legacy Applications
5 6 (2.08%) Social Media
6 5 (1.74%) BBC
6 5 (1.74%) Blog
6 5 (1.74%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.39%) iPhone
7 4 (1.39%) Low-Code
8 3 (1.04%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.04%) e-Learning
8 3 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.04%) Learning Management System
8 3 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 27 (9.38%) Linux
2 15 (5.21%) Windows
3 12 (4.17%) Unix
4 6 (2.08%) CentOS
4 6 (2.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.39%) Android
6 3 (1.04%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.35%) VMS
7 1 (0.35%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (55.21%) CI/CD
2 111 (38.54%) Agile
3 63 (21.88%) Infrastructure as Code
4 50 (17.36%) Mentoring
5 45 (15.63%) Scrum
5 45 (15.63%) Test Automation
6 42 (14.58%) Microservices
7 40 (13.89%) Continuous Improvement
8 37 (12.85%) Platform Engineering
8 37 (12.85%) Problem-Solving
9 36 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
10 34 (11.81%) Coaching
10 34 (11.81%) Continuous Integration
11 29 (10.07%) Software Engineering
12 27 (9.38%) AI
13 26 (9.03%) SDLC
13 26 (9.03%) Technical Leadership
14 25 (8.68%) Containerisation
15 24 (8.33%) Data Engineering
15 24 (8.33%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 79 (27.43%) SQL
2 55 (19.10%) Java
3 50 (17.36%) Python
4 41 (14.24%) C#
5 38 (13.19%) TypeScript
6 30 (10.42%) JavaScript
7 23 (7.99%) Bash
8 21 (7.29%) Kotlin
9 19 (6.60%) Groovy
10 5 (1.74%) Bicep
10 5 (1.74%) VB.NET
11 4 (1.39%) PowerShell
11 4 (1.39%) T-SQL
12 3 (1.04%) C
12 3 (1.04%) C++
12 3 (1.04%) Ruby
13 2 (0.69%) Dart
13 2 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.69%) Go
13 2 (0.69%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 29 (10.07%) Security Cleared
2 28 (9.72%) Degree
3 26 (9.03%) SC Cleared
4 18 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (5.21%) AWS Certification
6 11 (3.82%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 11 (3.82%) ITIL Certification
7 6 (2.08%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.74%) PMI Certification
8 5 (1.74%) PMP
9 2 (0.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 2 (0.69%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.69%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.35%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.35%) CBAP
10 1 (0.35%) CSPO
10 1 (0.35%) IIBA
10 1 (0.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (5.90%) QA
2 10 (3.47%) Data Quality
2 10 (3.47%) GDPR
3 6 (2.08%) GRC
4 4 (1.39%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.69%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.35%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 62 (21.53%) Docker
2 7 (2.43%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.35%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.35%) Firmware
3 1 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 26 (9.03%) Kubernetes
2 12 (4.17%) Ansible
2 12 (4.17%) HP Fortify
3 9 (3.13%) Argo
4 7 (2.43%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (1.04%) Packer
5 3 (1.04%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.69%) Kibana
7 1 (0.35%) Istio
7 1 (0.35%) VxRail
Vendors
1 46 (15.97%) Microsoft
2 22 (7.64%) Databricks
3 12 (4.17%) Google
4 10 (3.47%) Pega
5 6 (2.08%) Cisco
5 6 (2.08%) IBM
6 5 (1.74%) AppDynamics
6 5 (1.74%) Apple
6 5 (1.74%) Facebook
6 5 (1.74%) ServiceNow
6 5 (1.74%) Sony
6 5 (1.74%) Yahoo!
7 3 (1.04%) SAP
8 2 (0.69%) Arista
8 2 (0.69%) F5
8 2 (0.69%) Informatica
8 2 (0.69%) Oracle
8 2 (0.69%) Sage
8 2 (0.69%) Sophos
8 2 (0.69%) VMware