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

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 26 25
Rank change year-on-year -7 -1 -7
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 276 191 391
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 4.32% 7.38% 6.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.24% 7.83% 8.34%
Number of salaries quoted 187 148 314
10th Percentile £43,750 £37,716 £37,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £47,231 £43,997
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,750 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year +3.32% +13.82% -3.21%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £92,500 £98,474 £85,000
England median annual salary £70,356 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +0.51% +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 4,424 2,439 4,686
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 69.18% 94.21% 82.53%
Number of salaries quoted 2,925 1,281 3,732
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 £69,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £88,148 £86,250 £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 19 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 19 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 +6 224 £70,000 -9.68% 48
South Yorkshire -33 34 £80,000 +72.97% 22
North Yorkshire -7 8 £72,500 +3.57% 4
East Yorkshire -34 3 £45,000 - 2
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 (2.54%) Moodle
2 5 (1.81%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.09%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.09%) Confluence
3 3 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.72%) IIS
4 2 (0.72%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.72%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (0.36%) Apache
Applications
1 7 (2.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.81%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 12 (4.35%) SAP ERP
2 3 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.09%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (1.09%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.36%) Magento
3 1 (0.36%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 138 (50.00%) AWS
2 112 (40.58%) Azure
3 96 (34.78%) Serverless
4 83 (30.07%) Amazon S3
4 83 (30.07%) AWS Lambda
5 71 (25.72%) AWS CloudFormation
6 69 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
7 66 (23.91%) AWS Step Functions
8 50 (18.12%) Azure DevOps
8 50 (18.12%) GitHub
9 36 (13.04%) Amazon ECR
9 36 (13.04%) Apigee
9 36 (13.04%) GitHub Actions
10 32 (11.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 32 (11.59%) Amazon SQS
11 28 (10.14%) GCP
12 23 (8.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 17 (6.16%) Amazon EKS
13 17 (6.16%) Azure Data Factory
14 15 (5.43%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.17%) DNS
1 6 (2.17%) Firewall
2 5 (1.81%) HTTP
3 3 (1.09%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.72%) BGP
4 2 (0.72%) Ethernet VPN
4 2 (0.72%) NGFW
4 2 (0.72%) OSPF
4 2 (0.72%) VXLAN
5 1 (0.36%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (27.54%) DynamoDB
2 34 (12.32%) NoSQL
3 23 (8.33%) Amazon Athena
4 20 (7.25%) PostgreSQL
5 18 (6.52%) SQL Server
6 17 (6.16%) Spark SQL
7 15 (5.43%) Data Warehouse
8 9 (3.26%) MongoDB
8 9 (3.26%) Power BI
9 6 (2.17%) Metadata
10 5 (1.81%) Azure SQL Database
10 5 (1.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (1.45%) Relational Database
12 3 (1.09%) Power Query
13 2 (0.72%) BigQuery
13 2 (0.72%) Star Schema
14 1 (0.36%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
14 1 (0.36%) MySQL
14 1 (0.36%) Semantic Layer
14 1 (0.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 69 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 59 (21.38%) GitLab
3 42 (15.22%) Git
4 40 (14.49%) SonarQube
5 37 (13.41%) Cypress.io
5 37 (13.41%) Maven
6 21 (7.61%) JIRA
7 4 (1.45%) Selenium
8 3 (1.09%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.09%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.09%) JUnit
8 3 (1.09%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.72%) Postman
10 1 (0.36%) JMeter
10 1 (0.36%) LoadRunner
10 1 (0.36%) PHPUnit
General
1 73 (26.45%) Social Skills
2 25 (9.06%) Finance
2 25 (9.06%) Public Sector
3 17 (6.16%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (5.43%) Retail
5 7 (2.54%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (1.09%) Law
6 3 (1.09%) Telecoms
7 2 (0.72%) Billing
7 2 (0.72%) Games
7 2 (0.72%) Health Technology
7 2 (0.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (0.72%) Marketing
8 1 (0.36%) Advertising
8 1 (0.36%) Back Office
8 1 (0.36%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.36%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 91 (32.97%) Developer
2 57 (20.65%) Java Developer
2 57 (20.65%) Senior
3 52 (18.84%) Lead
4 46 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
5 25 (9.06%) Data Engineer
6 23 (8.33%) AWS Developer
7 18 (6.52%) Platform Engineer
8 17 (6.16%) Lead Data Engineer
8 17 (6.16%) Software Engineer
9 15 (5.43%) Senior Developer
10 14 (5.07%) Senior DevOps
10 14 (5.07%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 13 (4.71%) Cloud Engineer
12 12 (4.35%) .NET Developer
12 12 (4.35%) Full-Stack Developer
12 12 (4.35%) Lead DevOps
12 12 (4.35%) Lead DevOps Engineer
13 11 (3.99%) Azure Engineer
13 11 (3.99%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (22.83%) AngularJS
2 49 (17.75%) Spring Boot
3 38 (13.77%) Jest
3 38 (13.77%) Node.js
4 36 (13.04%) Gherkin
5 33 (11.96%) React
6 23 (8.33%) .NET
7 22 (7.97%) Spring
8 21 (7.61%) PySpark
8 21 (7.61%) RESTful
9 20 (7.25%) REST
10 14 (5.07%) ASP.NET
11 13 (4.71%) Elastic Stack
12 12 (4.35%) .NET Core
13 11 (3.99%) ASP.NET Core
13 11 (3.99%) Blazor
14 9 (3.26%) ARM Templates
14 9 (3.26%) AWS CDK
15 8 (2.90%) CSS
15 8 (2.90%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (9.42%) Cloud Native
2 14 (5.07%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (3.26%) NHS
4 7 (2.54%) e-Learning
5 6 (2.17%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.45%) Product Ownership
6 4 (1.45%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.45%) SCADA
6 4 (1.45%) Social Media
7 3 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.09%) CMDB
7 3 (1.09%) Driving Licence
7 3 (1.09%) Legacy Applications
7 3 (1.09%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.72%) BBC
8 2 (0.72%) Data Centre
8 2 (0.72%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.72%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 16 (5.80%) Linux
2 15 (5.43%) Windows
3 7 (2.54%) Unix
4 5 (1.81%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.36%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 177 (64.13%) CI/CD
2 109 (39.49%) Agile
3 55 (19.93%) Infrastructure as Code
4 47 (17.03%) Mentoring
5 45 (16.30%) Microservices
6 40 (14.49%) Continuous Improvement
6 40 (14.49%) ITIL
6 40 (14.49%) Problem-Solving
7 35 (12.68%) Containerisation
7 35 (12.68%) Continuous Integration
8 34 (12.32%) Stakeholder Management
9 33 (11.96%) Test Automation
10 31 (11.23%) Platform Engineering
11 30 (10.87%) Data Engineering
11 30 (10.87%) Full-Stack Development
11 30 (10.87%) SDLC
12 29 (10.51%) Observability
13 28 (10.14%) Scrum
13 28 (10.14%) Secure Coding
14 25 (9.06%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 81 (29.35%) Java
2 77 (27.90%) SQL
3 64 (23.19%) TypeScript
4 48 (17.39%) Bash
4 48 (17.39%) Python
5 41 (14.86%) Groovy
6 25 (9.06%) JavaScript
7 22 (7.97%) Kotlin
8 13 (4.71%) C#
9 8 (2.90%) PowerShell
10 6 (2.17%) Go
10 6 (2.17%) T-SQL
11 3 (1.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.72%) C++
12 2 (0.72%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.36%) Perl
13 1 (0.36%) PHP
13 1 (0.36%) R
13 1 (0.36%) Scala
Qualifications
1 39 (14.13%) AWS Certification
2 30 (10.87%) Degree
3 23 (8.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 23 (8.33%) ITIL Certification
4 20 (7.25%) Security Cleared
5 15 (5.43%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (5.07%) SC Cleared
7 13 (4.71%) AWS Certified Developer
8 5 (1.81%) PMI Certification
8 5 (1.81%) PMP
9 2 (0.72%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 2 (0.72%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.72%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (0.72%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.36%) CBAP
10 1 (0.36%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.36%) IIBA
10 1 (0.36%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (8.70%) QA
2 13 (4.71%) GDPR
3 7 (2.54%) Data Quality
3 7 (2.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (2.54%) PCI DSS
4 5 (1.81%) GRC
5 3 (1.09%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.72%) Accessibility
System Software
1 87 (31.52%) Docker
2 3 (1.09%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 3 (1.09%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 59 (21.38%) Terraform
2 37 (13.41%) HP Fortify
3 24 (8.70%) Kubernetes
4 13 (4.71%) Ansible
5 10 (3.62%) Argo
6 7 (2.54%) Grafana
6 7 (2.54%) Prometheus
7 3 (1.09%) Packer
8 2 (0.72%) Kibana
9 1 (0.36%) Istio
9 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.36%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 34 (12.32%) Microsoft
2 23 (8.33%) Databricks
3 15 (5.43%) SAP
4 9 (3.26%) ServiceNow
5 8 (2.90%) Google
6 6 (2.17%) IBM
7 5 (1.81%) AppDynamics
7 5 (1.81%) Oracle
8 3 (1.09%) F5
8 3 (1.09%) IFS
8 3 (1.09%) Sparx
9 2 (0.72%) Adobe
9 2 (0.72%) Apple
9 2 (0.72%) Arista
9 2 (0.72%) Facebook
9 2 (0.72%) Palo Alto
9 2 (0.72%) Qualys
9 2 (0.72%) Sony
9 2 (0.72%) Yahoo!
10 1 (0.36%) VMware