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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 26 24
Rank change year-on-year -8 -2 -6
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 273 192 389
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 4.34% 7.75% 6.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.26% 8.23% 8.34%
Number of salaries quoted 185 148 313
10th Percentile £44,250 £37,716 £37,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £47,231 £44,738
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.32% +12.92% -2.18%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £92,500 £98,474 £85,000
England median annual salary £70,313 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +0.45% +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 4,359 2,332 4,667
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 69.37% 94.15% 82.88%
Number of salaries quoted 2,854 1,263 3,720
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £31,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £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 15 May 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 15 May 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% 46
South Yorkshire -34 34 £80,000 +72.97% 18
North Yorkshire -11 8 £72,500 +3.57% 5
East Yorkshire -36 3 £45,000 - 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 5 (1.83%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.10%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.10%) Confluence
3 3 (1.10%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.73%) IIS
4 2 (0.73%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.73%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (0.37%) Apache
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 3 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.10%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (1.10%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.37%) Magento
3 1 (0.37%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 136 (49.82%) AWS
2 112 (41.03%) Azure
3 95 (34.80%) Serverless
4 82 (30.04%) Amazon S3
4 82 (30.04%) AWS Lambda
5 70 (25.64%) AWS CloudFormation
6 68 (24.91%) Amazon ECS
7 65 (23.81%) AWS Step Functions
8 50 (18.32%) Azure DevOps
9 49 (17.95%) GitHub
10 36 (13.19%) Amazon ECR
10 36 (13.19%) Apigee
11 35 (12.82%) GitHub Actions
12 32 (11.72%) Amazon SQS
13 31 (11.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 27 (9.89%) GCP
15 22 (8.06%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 17 (6.23%) Amazon EKS
16 17 (6.23%) Azure Data Factory
17 15 (5.49%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.20%) DNS
1 6 (2.20%) Firewall
2 5 (1.83%) HTTP
3 3 (1.10%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.73%) BGP
4 2 (0.73%) Ethernet VPN
4 2 (0.73%) NGFW
4 2 (0.73%) OSPF
4 2 (0.73%) VXLAN
5 1 (0.37%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (27.47%) DynamoDB
2 33 (12.09%) NoSQL
3 22 (8.06%) Amazon Athena
4 20 (7.33%) PostgreSQL
5 18 (6.59%) SQL Server
6 17 (6.23%) Spark SQL
7 15 (5.49%) Data Warehouse
8 9 (3.30%) MongoDB
8 9 (3.30%) Power BI
9 6 (2.20%) Metadata
10 5 (1.83%) Azure SQL Database
10 5 (1.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (1.47%) Relational Database
12 3 (1.10%) Power Query
13 2 (0.73%) Star Schema
14 1 (0.37%) BigQuery
14 1 (0.37%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
14 1 (0.37%) MySQL
14 1 (0.37%) Semantic Layer
14 1 (0.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 69 (25.27%) Jenkins
2 59 (21.61%) GitLab
3 41 (15.02%) Git
4 40 (14.65%) SonarQube
5 37 (13.55%) Cypress.io
5 37 (13.55%) Maven
6 21 (7.69%) JIRA
7 4 (1.47%) Selenium
8 3 (1.10%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.10%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.10%) JUnit
8 3 (1.10%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.73%) Postman
10 1 (0.37%) JMeter
10 1 (0.37%) LoadRunner
10 1 (0.37%) PHPUnit
General
1 73 (26.74%) Social Skills
2 25 (9.16%) Finance
2 25 (9.16%) Public Sector
3 16 (5.86%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (5.49%) Retail
5 7 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (1.10%) Law
6 3 (1.10%) Telecoms
7 2 (0.73%) Billing
7 2 (0.73%) Games
7 2 (0.73%) Health Technology
7 2 (0.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (0.73%) Marketing
8 1 (0.37%) Advertising
8 1 (0.37%) Back Office
8 1 (0.37%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.37%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 89 (32.60%) Developer
2 57 (20.88%) Senior
3 56 (20.51%) Java Developer
4 52 (19.05%) Lead
5 45 (16.48%) DevOps Engineer
6 24 (8.79%) Data Engineer
7 22 (8.06%) AWS Developer
8 18 (6.59%) Platform Engineer
9 17 (6.23%) Lead Data Engineer
9 17 (6.23%) Software Engineer
10 15 (5.49%) Senior Developer
11 14 (5.13%) Senior DevOps
11 14 (5.13%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 13 (4.76%) Cloud Engineer
13 12 (4.40%) .NET Developer
13 12 (4.40%) Full-Stack Developer
13 12 (4.40%) Lead DevOps
13 12 (4.40%) Lead DevOps Engineer
14 11 (4.03%) Azure Engineer
14 11 (4.03%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (22.71%) AngularJS
2 49 (17.95%) Spring Boot
3 38 (13.92%) Jest
4 37 (13.55%) Node.js
5 36 (13.19%) Gherkin
6 33 (12.09%) React
7 23 (8.42%) .NET
8 22 (8.06%) Spring
9 21 (7.69%) PySpark
9 21 (7.69%) RESTful
10 20 (7.33%) REST
11 14 (5.13%) ASP.NET
12 13 (4.76%) Elastic Stack
13 12 (4.40%) .NET Core
14 11 (4.03%) ASP.NET Core
14 11 (4.03%) Blazor
15 9 (3.30%) ARM Templates
15 9 (3.30%) AWS CDK
16 8 (2.93%) CSS
16 8 (2.93%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (9.52%) Cloud Native
2 14 (5.13%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (3.30%) NHS
4 7 (2.56%) e-Learning
5 6 (2.20%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.47%) Product Ownership
6 4 (1.47%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.47%) SCADA
6 4 (1.47%) Social Media
7 3 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.10%) CMDB
7 3 (1.10%) Driving Licence
7 3 (1.10%) Legacy Applications
7 3 (1.10%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.73%) BBC
8 2 (0.73%) Data Centre
8 2 (0.73%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.73%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 16 (5.86%) Linux
2 15 (5.49%) Windows
3 7 (2.56%) Unix
4 5 (1.83%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.37%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 177 (64.84%) CI/CD
2 109 (39.93%) Agile
3 55 (20.15%) Infrastructure as Code
4 48 (17.58%) Mentoring
5 45 (16.48%) Microservices
6 40 (14.65%) Continuous Improvement
6 40 (14.65%) ITIL
6 40 (14.65%) Problem-Solving
7 35 (12.82%) Containerisation
7 35 (12.82%) Stakeholder Management
8 34 (12.45%) Continuous Integration
9 33 (12.09%) Test Automation
10 30 (10.99%) Full-Stack Development
10 30 (10.99%) Platform Engineering
10 30 (10.99%) SDLC
11 29 (10.62%) Data Engineering
11 29 (10.62%) Observability
12 28 (10.26%) Scrum
12 28 (10.26%) Secure Coding
13 25 (9.16%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 80 (29.30%) Java
2 76 (27.84%) SQL
3 63 (23.08%) TypeScript
4 48 (17.58%) Bash
5 47 (17.22%) Python
6 41 (15.02%) Groovy
7 25 (9.16%) JavaScript
8 21 (7.69%) Kotlin
9 13 (4.76%) C#
10 8 (2.93%) PowerShell
11 6 (2.20%) Go
11 6 (2.20%) T-SQL
12 3 (1.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.73%) C++
13 2 (0.73%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.37%) Perl
14 1 (0.37%) PHP
14 1 (0.37%) R
14 1 (0.37%) Scala
Qualifications
1 39 (14.29%) AWS Certification
2 29 (10.62%) Degree
3 23 (8.42%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 23 (8.42%) ITIL Certification
4 20 (7.33%) Security Cleared
5 14 (5.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (5.13%) SC Cleared
6 13 (4.76%) AWS Certified Developer
7 5 (1.83%) PMI Certification
7 5 (1.83%) PMP
8 2 (0.73%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 2 (0.73%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.73%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (0.73%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.37%) CBAP
9 1 (0.37%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.37%) IIBA
9 1 (0.37%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (9.16%) QA
2 13 (4.76%) GDPR
3 7 (2.56%) Data Quality
3 7 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (2.56%) PCI DSS
4 5 (1.83%) GRC
5 3 (1.10%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.73%) Accessibility
System Software
1 86 (31.50%) Docker
2 3 (1.10%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 3 (1.10%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 59 (21.61%) Terraform
2 37 (13.55%) HP Fortify
3 24 (8.79%) Kubernetes
4 13 (4.76%) Ansible
5 10 (3.66%) Argo
6 7 (2.56%) Grafana
6 7 (2.56%) Prometheus
7 3 (1.10%) Packer
8 2 (0.73%) Kibana
9 1 (0.37%) Istio
9 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.37%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 34 (12.45%) Microsoft
2 22 (8.06%) Databricks
3 16 (5.86%) SAP
4 9 (3.30%) ServiceNow
5 8 (2.93%) Google
6 6 (2.20%) IBM
7 5 (1.83%) AppDynamics
7 5 (1.83%) Oracle
8 3 (1.10%) F5
8 3 (1.10%) IFS
8 3 (1.10%) Sparx
9 2 (0.73%) Adobe
9 2 (0.73%) Apple
9 2 (0.73%) Arista
9 2 (0.73%) Facebook
9 2 (0.73%) Palo Alto
9 2 (0.73%) Qualys
9 2 (0.73%) Sony
9 2 (0.73%) Yahoo!
10 1 (0.37%) VMware