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 5 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 30 12
Rank change year-on-year -13 -18 -5
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 176 238 378
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 5.08% 6.22% 12.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.93% 7.34% 13.46%
Number of salaries quoted 142 154 305
10th Percentile £40,050 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,451 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.65% -10.08% -3.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £77,542
90th Percentile £82,500 £89,250 £91,934
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,000

All Process and 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 2,969 3,244 2,809
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 85.71% 84.77% 94.96%
Number of salaries quoted 1,563 1,358 2,138
10th Percentile £26,500 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £30,500 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% - -2.33%
75th Percentile £68,750 £69,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,500 £81,250 £84,056
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 5 December 2025.

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 5 December 2025. 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 -2 140 £65,000 -4.41% 104
South Yorkshire -18 16 £55,000 +22.22% 45
North Yorkshire -3 10 £60,000 +9.09% 20
East Yorkshire -25 9 £47,500 +5.56% 15
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 (3.41%) Confluence
2 5 (2.84%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.27%) OpenStack
4 3 (1.70%) Apache
5 2 (1.14%) Moodle
6 1 (0.57%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.57%) CMS
6 1 (0.57%) FileNet
6 1 (0.57%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.57%) IIS
6 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.57%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (3.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.57%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.70%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (1.70%) SAP ERP
2 2 (1.14%) Markit EDM
2 2 (1.14%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.57%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.57%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 88 (50.00%) AWS
2 87 (49.43%) Azure
3 35 (19.89%) Serverless
4 33 (18.75%) Azure DevOps
5 31 (17.61%) GitHub
6 30 (17.05%) AWS CloudFormation
7 25 (14.20%) Amazon S3
8 23 (13.07%) AWS Lambda
9 20 (11.36%) Amazon ECS
10 19 (10.80%) GCP
10 19 (10.80%) GitHub Actions
11 18 (10.23%) AWS Step Functions
12 17 (9.66%) SaaS
13 11 (6.25%) Amazon SQS
14 9 (5.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 9 (5.11%) Amazon EKS
15 8 (4.55%) Amazon ECR
15 8 (4.55%) Amazon EventBridge
15 8 (4.55%) Apigee
16 5 (2.84%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.11%) Firewall
2 8 (4.55%) Network Security
3 4 (2.27%) DNS
4 2 (1.14%) AMQP
5 1 (0.57%) BGP
5 1 (0.57%) DHCP
5 1 (0.57%) HTTP
5 1 (0.57%) LAN
5 1 (0.57%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.57%) VPN
5 1 (0.57%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (11.36%) DynamoDB
2 16 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (8.52%) SQL Server
4 12 (6.82%) NoSQL
5 11 (6.25%) Relational Database
6 9 (5.11%) Data Warehouse
7 8 (4.55%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 6 (3.41%) OLAP
9 3 (1.70%) Amazon Aurora
9 3 (1.70%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (1.70%) Apache Iceberg
9 3 (1.70%) Big Data
9 3 (1.70%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.70%) Data Vault
9 3 (1.70%) Metadata
10 2 (1.14%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (1.14%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (1.14%) Power BI
10 2 (1.14%) RDBMS
10 2 (1.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 26 (14.77%) Jenkins
2 24 (13.64%) GitLab
3 20 (11.36%) Git
4 16 (9.09%) JIRA
5 12 (6.82%) SonarQube
6 9 (5.11%) Cypress.io
7 8 (4.55%) Maven
8 5 (2.84%) Selenium
9 3 (1.70%) JMeter
9 3 (1.70%) LoadRunner
10 2 (1.14%) CircleCI
11 1 (0.57%) Appium
11 1 (0.57%) JUnit
11 1 (0.57%) Postman
11 1 (0.57%) REST Assured
General
1 61 (34.66%) Social Skills
2 36 (20.45%) Finance
3 19 (10.80%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (7.95%) Financial Institution
5 10 (5.68%) Law
5 10 (5.68%) Public Sector
5 10 (5.68%) Retail
6 6 (3.41%) Legal
7 5 (2.84%) Marketing
8 3 (1.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.14%) Advertising
9 2 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.57%) Back Office
10 1 (0.57%) Digital Healthcare
10 1 (0.57%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 40 (22.73%) Developer
2 37 (21.02%) Lead
3 23 (13.07%) Senior
4 20 (11.36%) Software Engineer
5 16 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
6 13 (7.39%) Java Developer
7 12 (6.82%) Architect
7 12 (6.82%) Lead DevOps
8 11 (6.25%) Analyst
9 10 (5.68%) Lead DevOps Engineer
10 9 (5.11%) .NET Developer
10 9 (5.11%) Data Engineer
11 8 (4.55%) .NET Software Engineer
11 8 (4.55%) Senior Software Engineer
12 7 (3.98%) Cloud Engineer
13 6 (3.41%) Business Analyst
13 6 (3.41%) Java Engineer
13 6 (3.41%) Lead Data Engineer
13 6 (3.41%) SQL Developer
14 5 (2.84%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (17.61%) .NET
2 22 (12.50%) Spring
2 22 (12.50%) Spring Boot
3 20 (11.36%) AngularJS
3 20 (11.36%) React
4 14 (7.95%) Node.js
4 14 (7.95%) RESTful
5 13 (7.39%) ASP.NET
6 12 (6.82%) .NET Core
6 12 (6.82%) Micronaut
7 10 (5.68%) HTML
8 9 (5.11%) CSS
9 8 (4.55%) Blazor
9 8 (4.55%) Gherkin
9 8 (4.55%) Jest
10 7 (3.98%) ASP.NET Core
10 7 (3.98%) AWS CDK
10 7 (3.98%) Kafka
11 6 (3.41%) REST
11 6 (3.41%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 48 (27.27%) Cloud Native
2 13 (7.39%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (4.55%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.27%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (2.27%) Security Posture
5 3 (1.70%) Data Centre
5 3 (1.70%) Enterprise Cloud
5 3 (1.70%) IoT
5 3 (1.70%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.70%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.70%) Operational Technology
5 3 (1.70%) Private Cloud
5 3 (1.70%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.14%) Cloud Security Posture
6 2 (1.14%) CMDB
6 2 (1.14%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.14%) e-Learning
6 2 (1.14%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.14%) NHS
6 2 (1.14%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.68%) Windows
2 7 (3.98%) Linux
3 2 (1.14%) Unix
3 2 (1.14%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.57%) Android
4 1 (0.57%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (58.52%) CI/CD
2 84 (47.73%) Agile
3 55 (31.25%) Infrastructure as Code
4 43 (24.43%) Software Engineering
5 39 (22.16%) Problem-Solving
6 38 (21.59%) Mentoring
7 34 (19.32%) Continuous Improvement
8 29 (16.48%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 26 (14.77%) Stakeholder Management
10 23 (13.07%) Microservices
11 20 (11.36%) Scrum
12 19 (10.80%) SDLC
13 18 (10.23%) Containerisation
13 18 (10.23%) Incident Response
13 18 (10.23%) Roadmaps
14 17 (9.66%) Data Modelling
15 16 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
16 15 (8.52%) Line Management
16 15 (8.52%) Technical Leadership
17 14 (7.95%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 54 (30.68%) SQL
2 46 (26.14%) Java
3 39 (22.16%) Python
4 26 (14.77%) JavaScript
4 26 (14.77%) TypeScript
5 21 (11.93%) C#
6 18 (10.23%) Bash
7 14 (7.95%) PowerShell
8 8 (4.55%) Groovy
8 8 (4.55%) T-SQL
9 5 (2.84%) Bicep
10 2 (1.14%) Go
10 2 (1.14%) R
11 1 (0.57%) PHP
Qualifications
1 22 (12.50%) AWS Certification
2 13 (7.39%) Degree
3 11 (6.25%) AWS Certified Developer
4 9 (5.11%) Security Cleared
5 8 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (4.55%) SC Cleared
6 3 (1.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.14%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.57%) CompTIA CySA+
8 1 (0.57%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.57%) GSEC
8 1 (0.57%) MCITP
8 1 (0.57%) MCSE
8 1 (0.57%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (7.95%) QA
2 9 (5.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (3.41%) GDPR
3 6 (3.41%) PCI DSS
4 4 (2.27%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.14%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.14%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (1.14%) GRC
5 2 (1.14%) NCSC
5 2 (1.14%) NIST
5 2 (1.14%) SOC 2
System Software
1 50 (28.41%) Docker
2 1 (0.57%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.57%) Squid
2 1 (0.57%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 39 (22.16%) Terraform
2 38 (21.59%) Kubernetes
3 18 (10.23%) Ansible
4 11 (6.25%) HP Fortify
5 10 (5.68%) Prometheus
6 9 (5.11%) Grafana
7 2 (1.14%) Argo
7 2 (1.14%) Control-M
8 1 (0.57%) Kibana
Vendors
1 26 (14.77%) Microsoft
2 7 (3.98%) Databricks
3 4 (2.27%) Google
3 4 (2.27%) IBM
3 4 (2.27%) Oracle
4 3 (1.70%) Pega
4 3 (1.70%) Salesforce
4 3 (1.70%) SAP
4 3 (1.70%) WSO2
5 2 (1.14%) Adobe
5 2 (1.14%) New Relic
5 2 (1.14%) Sparx
6 1 (0.57%) Blue Prism
6 1 (0.57%) Foundry
6 1 (0.57%) IFS
6 1 (0.57%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.57%) TOWER Software
6 1 (0.57%) VMware