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 31 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 42 28
Rank change year-on-year +14 -14 -14
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 298 173 333
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 4.19% 4.93% 6.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.23% 5.51% 8.00%
Number of salaries quoted 217 141 261
10th Percentile £46,150 £37,500 £41,103
25th Percentile £55,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,474 £87,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year - +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 4,781 3,142 4,162
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 67.24% 89.59% 78.72%
Number of salaries quoted 3,442 1,518 2,809
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £29,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -8.41%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £78,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,920 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.30% +1.67% -11.29%

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 31 July 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 31 July 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 +5 217 £70,000 - 58
South Yorkshire -12 62 £69,310 +38.62% 21
North Yorkshire +3 12 £62,500 -10.71% 9
East Yorkshire -15 4 £47,000 +14.63% 5
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 (2.01%) Confluence
2 4 (1.34%) Apache Spark
2 4 (1.34%) Moodle
2 4 (1.34%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.01%) CMS
3 3 (1.01%) IIS
4 2 (0.67%) Apache
4 2 (0.67%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 7 (2.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.68%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (1.34%) Shopify
2 3 (1.01%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.34%) Magento
3 1 (0.34%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 117 (39.26%) Azure
2 116 (38.93%) AWS
3 69 (23.15%) Serverless
4 66 (22.15%) Azure DevOps
5 54 (18.12%) AWS Lambda
6 52 (17.45%) Amazon ECS
6 52 (17.45%) Amazon S3
7 48 (16.11%) AWS CloudFormation
8 46 (15.44%) GitHub
9 38 (12.75%) AWS Step Functions
10 29 (9.73%) GitHub Actions
11 26 (8.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 23 (7.72%) GCP
13 22 (7.38%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 20 (6.71%) Azure Data Factory
14 20 (6.71%) Power Platform
15 18 (6.04%) Amazon ECR
15 18 (6.04%) Apigee
16 17 (5.70%) Amazon SQS
17 15 (5.03%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.34%) HTTP
1 4 (1.34%) Internet
2 3 (1.01%) Firewall
3 2 (0.67%) BGP
3 2 (0.67%) DNS
3 2 (0.67%) Ethernet VPN
3 2 (0.67%) NGFW
3 2 (0.67%) OSPF
3 2 (0.67%) VXLAN
4 1 (0.34%) Broadband
4 1 (0.34%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (14.43%) DynamoDB
2 22 (7.38%) Amazon Athena
2 22 (7.38%) NoSQL
3 21 (7.05%) MongoDB
4 18 (6.04%) Data Warehouse
5 17 (5.70%) Spark SQL
6 12 (4.03%) Power BI
7 11 (3.69%) Azure SQL Database
7 11 (3.69%) SQL Server
8 9 (3.02%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (1.68%) Relational Database
9 5 (1.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 4 (1.34%) Metadata
11 3 (1.01%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (1.01%) BigQuery
11 3 (1.01%) Power Query
11 3 (1.01%) Redis
11 3 (1.01%) Star Schema
12 2 (0.67%) MySQL
12 2 (0.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 54 (18.12%) Jenkins
2 44 (14.77%) Git
3 42 (14.09%) GitLab
4 25 (8.39%) JIRA
5 21 (7.05%) Cypress.io
5 21 (7.05%) SonarQube
6 19 (6.38%) Maven
7 6 (2.01%) Visual Studio
8 5 (1.68%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (1.01%) Artifactory
9 3 (1.01%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.67%) JUnit
10 2 (0.67%) Postman
10 2 (0.67%) Selenium
11 1 (0.34%) PHPUnit
11 1 (0.34%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 64 (21.48%) Social Skills
2 35 (11.74%) Public Sector
3 25 (8.39%) Finance
4 15 (5.03%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (2.01%) Retail
6 5 (1.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (1.34%) Legal
8 3 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.01%) Law
8 3 (1.01%) Local Government
8 3 (1.01%) Tech for Good
9 2 (0.67%) Advertising
9 2 (0.67%) Banking
9 2 (0.67%) Billing
9 2 (0.67%) Games
9 2 (0.67%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.34%) Electronics
10 1 (0.34%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.34%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 89 (29.87%) Developer
2 70 (23.49%) Senior
3 63 (21.14%) DevOps Engineer
4 45 (15.10%) Java Developer
4 45 (15.10%) Lead
5 29 (9.73%) Cloud Engineer
6 26 (8.72%) Data Engineer
6 26 (8.72%) Senior DevOps
6 26 (8.72%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 24 (8.05%) Platform Engineer
8 18 (6.04%) AWS Developer
9 17 (5.70%) Full-Stack Developer
9 17 (5.70%) Lead Data Engineer
10 16 (5.37%) Azure Engineer
10 16 (5.37%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 15 (5.03%) .NET Developer
12 13 (4.36%) Lead Cloud Engineer
12 13 (4.36%) Software Engineer
13 11 (3.69%) Azure Platform Engineer
13 11 (3.69%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (14.77%) AngularJS
2 37 (12.42%) React
3 35 (11.74%) .NET
3 35 (11.74%) Node.js
4 33 (11.07%) Spring Boot
5 22 (7.38%) REST
5 22 (7.38%) RESTful
6 21 (7.05%) Jest
7 19 (6.38%) ASP.NET
8 18 (6.04%) Gherkin
8 18 (6.04%) PySpark
9 17 (5.70%) ASP.NET Core
9 17 (5.70%) Spring
10 13 (4.36%) Blazor
10 13 (4.36%) ML.NET
11 12 (4.03%) .NET Core
11 12 (4.03%) CSS
12 11 (3.69%) ARM Templates
12 11 (3.69%) HTML
13 8 (2.68%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 24 (8.05%) Cloud Native
2 9 (3.02%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (2.68%) NHS
3 8 (2.68%) Product Ownership
4 6 (2.01%) Greenfield Project
4 6 (2.01%) Mobile App
4 6 (2.01%) Social Media
5 5 (1.68%) BBC
5 5 (1.68%) Legacy Applications
5 5 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.34%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (1.34%) e-Learning
6 4 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.34%) iPhone
6 4 (1.34%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.01%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.01%) Learning Management System
7 3 (1.01%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (1.01%) Low-Code
7 3 (1.01%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 26 (8.72%) Linux
2 16 (5.37%) Windows
3 12 (4.03%) Unix
4 5 (1.68%) CentOS
4 5 (1.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.34%) Android
5 4 (1.34%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (54.36%) CI/CD
2 108 (36.24%) Agile
3 58 (19.46%) Infrastructure as Code
4 47 (15.77%) Mentoring
5 45 (15.10%) Test Automation
6 41 (13.76%) Continuous Improvement
6 41 (13.76%) Scrum
7 40 (13.42%) Full-Stack Development
8 36 (12.08%) Microservices
8 36 (12.08%) Platform Engineering
8 36 (12.08%) Problem-Solving
9 31 (10.40%) Continuous Integration
10 30 (10.07%) ITIL
11 28 (9.40%) Coaching
11 28 (9.40%) Containerisation
11 28 (9.40%) SDLC
11 28 (9.40%) Stakeholder Management
12 27 (9.06%) AI
12 27 (9.06%) Software Engineering
13 26 (8.72%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 74 (24.83%) SQL
2 60 (20.13%) Java
3 49 (16.44%) Python
4 43 (14.43%) TypeScript
5 38 (12.75%) C#
5 38 (12.75%) JavaScript
6 28 (9.40%) Bash
7 24 (8.05%) Groovy
8 21 (7.05%) Kotlin
9 6 (2.01%) PowerShell
10 5 (1.68%) T-SQL
11 4 (1.34%) Bicep
11 4 (1.34%) Go
11 4 (1.34%) VB.NET
12 3 (1.01%) C++
12 3 (1.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.67%) C
13 2 (0.67%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.34%) Perl
14 1 (0.34%) PHP
Qualifications
1 30 (10.07%) Degree
2 26 (8.72%) Security Cleared
3 23 (7.72%) SC Cleared
4 20 (6.71%) AWS Certification
5 18 (6.04%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (5.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 16 (5.37%) ITIL Certification
7 5 (1.68%) DV Cleared
7 5 (1.68%) PMI Certification
7 5 (1.68%) PMP
8 2 (0.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 2 (0.67%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (0.67%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.34%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.34%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.34%) CBAP
9 1 (0.34%) CSPO
9 1 (0.34%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (5.70%) QA
2 12 (4.03%) GDPR
3 8 (2.68%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.68%) GRC
4 5 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.01%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.01%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.34%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.34%) WCAG
System Software
1 62 (20.81%) Docker
2 2 (0.67%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.34%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.34%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 56 (18.79%) Terraform
2 29 (9.73%) Kubernetes
3 18 (6.04%) HP Fortify
4 11 (3.69%) Ansible
5 10 (3.36%) Argo
6 3 (1.01%) Packer
7 2 (0.67%) Kibana
7 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.67%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.34%) Istio
Vendors
1 50 (16.78%) Microsoft
2 22 (7.38%) Databricks
3 11 (3.69%) Google
4 10 (3.36%) Pega
4 10 (3.36%) ServiceNow
5 5 (1.68%) AppDynamics
5 5 (1.68%) Apple
5 5 (1.68%) Facebook
5 5 (1.68%) IBM
5 5 (1.68%) Sony
5 5 (1.68%) Yahoo!
6 3 (1.01%) SAP
7 2 (0.67%) Arista
7 2 (0.67%) F5
7 2 (0.67%) Informatica
7 2 (0.67%) Oracle
7 2 (0.67%) Palo Alto
7 2 (0.67%) Sophos
8 1 (0.34%) Automation Anywhere
8 1 (0.34%) WooCommerce