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 25 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 45 29
Rank change year-on-year +17 -16 -15
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 294 162 307
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 3.95% 4.75% 5.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.93% 5.42% 7.30%
Number of salaries quoted 208 129 238
10th Percentile £46,000 £38,500 £42,125
25th Percentile £53,750 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £75,000 £74,750
90th Percentile £93,250 £82,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £70,782 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +1.12% +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 4,955 2,990 4,208
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 66.49% 87.68% 78.74%
Number of salaries quoted 3,630 1,529 2,459
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £30,500 £39,110
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,560 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.55% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -1.79% -10.40%

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 25 August 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 25 August 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 +8 203 £75,000 +15.38% 72
South Yorkshire -4 62 £69,310 +26.02% 22
North Yorkshire -7 12 £62,500 -10.71% 6
East Yorkshire -9 8 £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 (2.04%) Confluence
2 5 (1.70%) Apache Spark
2 5 (1.70%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.36%) Moodle
4 3 (1.02%) Apache
4 3 (1.02%) CMS
4 3 (1.02%) IIS
5 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.68%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 7 (2.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.70%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (1.36%) Shopify
2 3 (1.02%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.68%) Sage 200
4 1 (0.34%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 117 (39.80%) Azure
2 112 (38.10%) AWS
3 68 (23.13%) Azure DevOps
4 65 (22.11%) Serverless
5 52 (17.69%) AWS Lambda
6 51 (17.35%) AWS CloudFormation
7 50 (17.01%) GitHub
8 48 (16.33%) Amazon ECS
8 48 (16.33%) Amazon S3
9 37 (12.59%) AWS Step Functions
10 33 (11.22%) GitHub Actions
11 27 (9.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 23 (7.82%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 21 (7.14%) Azure Data Factory
13 21 (7.14%) GCP
14 20 (6.80%) Power Platform
15 17 (5.78%) Datadog
16 16 (5.44%) Microsoft 365
17 15 (5.10%) Amazon EC2
18 13 (4.42%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.36%) Firewall
1 4 (1.36%) Internet
2 3 (1.02%) DNS
2 3 (1.02%) HTTP
2 3 (1.02%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.68%) BGP
3 2 (0.68%) Ethernet VPN
3 2 (0.68%) NGFW
3 2 (0.68%) OSPF
3 2 (0.68%) VXLAN
4 1 (0.34%) LAN
4 1 (0.34%) Network Security
4 1 (0.34%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.34%) VPN
4 1 (0.34%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (12.59%) DynamoDB
2 23 (7.82%) NoSQL
3 21 (7.14%) MongoDB
4 20 (6.80%) Amazon Athena
5 18 (6.12%) Data Warehouse
6 17 (5.78%) Spark SQL
7 14 (4.76%) SQL Server
8 12 (4.08%) Azure SQL Database
9 11 (3.74%) Power BI
10 8 (2.72%) PostgreSQL
10 8 (2.72%) Relational Database
11 6 (2.04%) Amazon RDS
12 5 (1.70%) Metadata
12 5 (1.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 3 (1.02%) BigQuery
13 3 (1.02%) Power Query
13 3 (1.02%) Redis
14 2 (0.68%) Data Lake
14 2 (0.68%) Hadoop
14 2 (0.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 47 (15.99%) Git
1 47 (15.99%) Jenkins
2 36 (12.24%) GitLab
3 24 (8.16%) JIRA
4 17 (5.78%) Cypress.io
5 16 (5.44%) SonarQube
6 14 (4.76%) Maven
7 6 (2.04%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 6 (2.04%) Visual Studio
8 3 (1.02%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.02%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.68%) Selenium
10 1 (0.34%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.34%) JUnit
10 1 (0.34%) Postman
10 1 (0.34%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 58 (19.73%) Social Skills
2 40 (13.61%) Public Sector
3 32 (10.88%) Finance
4 16 (5.44%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (2.38%) Legal
6 6 (2.04%) Law
6 6 (2.04%) Local Government
7 5 (1.70%) Banking
7 5 (1.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (1.70%) Retail
8 3 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.02%) Tech for Good
9 2 (0.68%) Advertising
9 2 (0.68%) Billing
10 1 (0.34%) Electronics
10 1 (0.34%) Games
10 1 (0.34%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.34%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 84 (28.57%) Developer
2 68 (23.13%) Senior
3 62 (21.09%) DevOps Engineer
4 47 (15.99%) Lead
5 41 (13.95%) Java Developer
6 32 (10.88%) Cloud Engineer
7 27 (9.18%) Data Engineer
8 26 (8.84%) Platform Engineer
9 25 (8.50%) Senior DevOps
9 25 (8.50%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 18 (6.12%) AWS Developer
10 18 (6.12%) Lead Data Engineer
11 17 (5.78%) Azure Engineer
11 17 (5.78%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 17 (5.78%) Full-Stack Developer
12 16 (5.44%) .NET Developer
13 13 (4.42%) Lead Cloud Engineer
13 13 (4.42%) Software Engineer
14 11 (3.74%) Azure Platform Engineer
14 11 (3.74%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (20.75%) Terraform
2 43 (14.63%) AngularJS
3 40 (13.61%) .NET
4 35 (11.90%) Node.js
5 32 (10.88%) React
6 29 (9.86%) Spring Boot
7 23 (7.82%) REST
8 21 (7.14%) RESTful
9 20 (6.80%) ASP.NET
10 18 (6.12%) PySpark
10 18 (6.12%) Spring
11 17 (5.78%) ASP.NET Core
12 15 (5.10%) .NET Core
12 15 (5.10%) Jest
13 13 (4.42%) Blazor
13 13 (4.42%) CSS
13 13 (4.42%) Gherkin
13 13 (4.42%) ML.NET
14 11 (3.74%) ARM Templates
15 10 (3.40%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 30 (10.20%) Cloud Native
2 10 (3.40%) NHS
2 10 (3.40%) Product Ownership
3 7 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (2.38%) Mobile App
4 6 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
4 6 (2.04%) Legacy Applications
4 6 (2.04%) Linux Command Line
4 6 (2.04%) Social Media
5 5 (1.70%) BBC
5 5 (1.70%) Blog
5 5 (1.70%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (1.70%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.36%) e-Learning
6 4 (1.36%) iPhone
6 4 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.36%) Low-Code
7 3 (1.02%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.02%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 27 (9.18%) Linux
2 15 (5.10%) Windows
3 12 (4.08%) Unix
4 6 (2.04%) CentOS
4 6 (2.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.36%) Android
6 3 (1.02%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.34%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 163 (55.44%) CI/CD
2 110 (37.41%) Agile
3 63 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
4 50 (17.01%) Mentoring
5 46 (15.65%) Test Automation
6 44 (14.97%) Scrum
7 41 (13.95%) Continuous Improvement
8 40 (13.61%) Microservices
9 37 (12.59%) Full-Stack Development
9 37 (12.59%) Platform Engineering
10 35 (11.90%) Problem-Solving
11 34 (11.56%) Continuous Integration
12 33 (11.22%) Coaching
13 28 (9.52%) Software Engineering
14 26 (8.84%) Containerisation
14 26 (8.84%) SDLC
15 25 (8.50%) AI
15 25 (8.50%) Data Engineering
16 24 (8.16%) ITIL
16 24 (8.16%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 81 (27.55%) SQL
2 58 (19.73%) Java
3 51 (17.35%) Python
4 43 (14.63%) C#
5 40 (13.61%) TypeScript
6 31 (10.54%) JavaScript
7 24 (8.16%) Bash
8 23 (7.82%) Kotlin
9 20 (6.80%) Groovy
10 6 (2.04%) T-SQL
11 5 (1.70%) Bicep
11 5 (1.70%) PowerShell
11 5 (1.70%) VB.NET
12 3 (1.02%) C
12 3 (1.02%) C++
12 3 (1.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (1.02%) Ruby
13 2 (0.68%) Dart
13 2 (0.68%) Go
13 2 (0.68%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 30 (10.20%) Security Cleared
2 28 (9.52%) Degree
3 27 (9.18%) SC Cleared
4 18 (6.12%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (5.10%) AWS Certification
6 12 (4.08%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 12 (4.08%) ITIL Certification
7 6 (2.04%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.70%) PMI Certification
8 5 (1.70%) PMP
9 2 (0.68%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 2 (0.68%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.68%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.34%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.34%) CBAP
10 1 (0.34%) CSPO
10 1 (0.34%) IIBA
10 1 (0.34%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (5.78%) QA
2 11 (3.74%) GDPR
3 10 (3.40%) Data Quality
4 6 (2.04%) GRC
5 3 (1.02%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.68%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.34%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.34%) WCAG
System Software
1 65 (22.11%) Docker
2 6 (2.04%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.34%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.34%) Firmware
3 1 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 27 (9.18%) Kubernetes
2 13 (4.42%) HP Fortify
3 12 (4.08%) Ansible
4 9 (3.06%) Argo
5 6 (2.04%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (1.02%) Packer
6 3 (1.02%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.68%) Kibana
8 1 (0.34%) Istio
8 1 (0.34%) VxRail
Vendors
1 48 (16.33%) Microsoft
2 22 (7.48%) Databricks
3 11 (3.74%) Google
4 10 (3.40%) Pega
5 6 (2.04%) ServiceNow
6 5 (1.70%) AppDynamics
6 5 (1.70%) Apple
6 5 (1.70%) Cisco
6 5 (1.70%) Facebook
6 5 (1.70%) IBM
6 5 (1.70%) Sony
6 5 (1.70%) Yahoo!
7 3 (1.02%) SAP
8 2 (0.68%) F5
8 2 (0.68%) Informatica
8 2 (0.68%) Oracle
8 2 (0.68%) Palo Alto
8 2 (0.68%) Sage
8 2 (0.68%) Sophos
8 2 (0.68%) VMware