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 4 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 34 26
Rank change year-on-year -3 -8 -7
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 271 179 397
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 4.08% 6.65% 6.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.99% 7.11% 8.18%
Number of salaries quoted 180 135 315
10th Percentile £44,875 £37,550 £37,500
25th Percentile £58,438 £49,559 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year - +17.60% -2.42%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £73,125
90th Percentile £92,500 £98,474 £87,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £71,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.10% +10.00% -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 4,523 2,518 4,854
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 68.14% 93.50% 80.36%
Number of salaries quoted 3,085 1,221 3,798
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £30,625 £36,250
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 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £86,701 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% +5.45% -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 4 June 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 4 June 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 +4 215 £70,000 -6.67% 46
South Yorkshire -30 37 £80,000 +64.10% 30
North Yorkshire -10 8 £72,500 +3.57% 10
East Yorkshire -28 4 £45,000 +5.88% 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 6 (2.21%) Confluence
2 5 (1.85%) Moodle
2 5 (1.85%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.11%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.74%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (0.37%) Apache
5 1 (0.37%) IIS
5 1 (0.37%) OpenStack
Applications
1 7 (2.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.85%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 11 (4.06%) SAP ERP
2 3 (1.11%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (1.11%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.37%) Magento
3 1 (0.37%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 130 (47.97%) AWS
2 112 (41.33%) Azure
3 88 (32.47%) Serverless
4 75 (27.68%) AWS Lambda
5 74 (27.31%) Amazon S3
6 64 (23.62%) Amazon ECS
6 64 (23.62%) AWS CloudFormation
7 58 (21.40%) AWS Step Functions
8 51 (18.82%) Azure DevOps
8 51 (18.82%) GitHub
9 34 (12.55%) GitHub Actions
10 32 (11.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 30 (11.07%) Amazon SQS
12 29 (10.70%) Amazon ECR
12 29 (10.70%) Apigee
13 28 (10.33%) GCP
14 25 (9.23%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 18 (6.64%) Azure Data Factory
16 17 (6.27%) Amazon EKS
17 15 (5.54%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.58%) HTTP
2 6 (2.21%) Firewall
3 5 (1.85%) DNS
4 3 (1.11%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.74%) BGP
5 2 (0.74%) Ethernet VPN
5 2 (0.74%) NGFW
5 2 (0.74%) OSPF
5 2 (0.74%) VXLAN
6 1 (0.37%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (25.09%) DynamoDB
2 34 (12.55%) NoSQL
3 25 (9.23%) Amazon Athena
4 17 (6.27%) Spark SQL
5 16 (5.90%) PostgreSQL
6 15 (5.54%) Data Warehouse
7 14 (5.17%) SQL Server
8 11 (4.06%) MongoDB
8 11 (4.06%) Power BI
9 7 (2.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 6 (2.21%) Metadata
11 5 (1.85%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (1.48%) Relational Database
13 3 (1.11%) Power Query
14 2 (0.74%) BigQuery
14 2 (0.74%) MySQL
14 2 (0.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 2 (0.74%) Star Schema
15 1 (0.37%) Apache Cassandra
15 1 (0.37%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 65 (23.99%) Jenkins
2 53 (19.56%) GitLab
3 41 (15.13%) Git
4 32 (11.81%) Cypress.io
4 32 (11.81%) SonarQube
5 30 (11.07%) Maven
6 24 (8.86%) JIRA
7 3 (1.11%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.11%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.11%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.74%) JUnit
8 2 (0.74%) Postman
8 2 (0.74%) Selenium
9 1 (0.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.37%) PHPUnit
General
1 67 (24.72%) Social Skills
2 23 (8.49%) Public Sector
3 22 (8.12%) Finance
4 15 (5.54%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (3.32%) Retail
6 5 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (1.11%) Law
7 3 (1.11%) Telecoms
8 2 (0.74%) Billing
8 2 (0.74%) Games
8 2 (0.74%) Health Technology
8 2 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.37%) Banking
9 1 (0.37%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.37%) Electronics
9 1 (0.37%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 92 (33.95%) Developer
2 57 (21.03%) Java Developer
3 54 (19.93%) Senior
4 47 (17.34%) DevOps Engineer
5 41 (15.13%) Lead
6 25 (9.23%) Data Engineer
7 23 (8.49%) AWS Developer
8 20 (7.38%) Platform Engineer
9 16 (5.90%) Lead Data Engineer
10 14 (5.17%) Azure Engineer
10 14 (5.17%) Cloud Engineer
10 14 (5.17%) Senior Developer
10 14 (5.17%) Senior DevOps
10 14 (5.17%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 14 (5.17%) Software Engineer
11 12 (4.43%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 12 (4.43%) Lead DevOps
11 12 (4.43%) Lead DevOps Engineer
12 11 (4.06%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 11 (4.06%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (20.66%) AngularJS
2 41 (15.13%) Spring Boot
3 40 (14.76%) Node.js
4 31 (11.44%) Jest
5 30 (11.07%) React
6 29 (10.70%) Gherkin
7 22 (8.12%) RESTful
8 21 (7.75%) REST
9 20 (7.38%) PySpark
10 19 (7.01%) .NET
11 17 (6.27%) Spring
12 12 (4.43%) Elastic Stack
13 11 (4.06%) ARM Templates
13 11 (4.06%) ASP.NET
14 10 (3.69%) .NET Core
14 10 (3.69%) ASP.NET Core
15 9 (3.32%) Blazor
16 7 (2.58%) RabbitMQ
17 6 (2.21%) CSS
17 6 (2.21%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (8.12%) Cloud Native
2 10 (3.69%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (2.58%) NHS
4 5 (1.85%) e-Learning
4 5 (1.85%) Product Ownership
4 5 (1.85%) Public Cloud
5 4 (1.48%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (1.48%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.11%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (1.11%) CMDB
6 3 (1.11%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.11%) Driving Licence
6 3 (1.11%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.11%) Social Media
7 2 (0.74%) Data Centre
7 2 (0.74%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (0.74%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (0.74%) Low-Code
7 2 (0.74%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 16 (5.90%) Linux
2 13 (4.80%) Windows
3 7 (2.58%) Unix
4 3 (1.11%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.37%) Android
5 1 (0.37%) CentOS
5 1 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 173 (63.84%) CI/CD
2 102 (37.64%) Agile
3 57 (21.03%) Infrastructure as Code
4 44 (16.24%) Mentoring
5 41 (15.13%) Microservices
6 39 (14.39%) Continuous Improvement
7 38 (14.02%) ITIL
7 38 (14.02%) Problem-Solving
8 36 (13.28%) Continuous Integration
8 36 (13.28%) Test Automation
9 35 (12.92%) Containerisation
9 35 (12.92%) Stakeholder Management
10 34 (12.55%) Platform Engineering
10 34 (12.55%) SDLC
11 30 (11.07%) Scrum
12 29 (10.70%) Observability
13 27 (9.96%) Data Engineering
14 26 (9.59%) DevSecOps
14 26 (9.59%) Full-Stack Development
14 26 (9.59%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 75 (27.68%) SQL
2 73 (26.94%) Java
3 60 (22.14%) TypeScript
4 51 (18.82%) Python
5 41 (15.13%) Bash
6 35 (12.92%) Groovy
7 24 (8.86%) JavaScript
7 24 (8.86%) Kotlin
8 14 (5.17%) C#
9 8 (2.95%) PowerShell
10 6 (2.21%) Go
11 5 (1.85%) T-SQL
12 3 (1.11%) Bicep
12 3 (1.11%) C++
12 3 (1.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.74%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.37%) C
14 1 (0.37%) Perl
14 1 (0.37%) PHP
14 1 (0.37%) Scala
Qualifications
1 33 (12.18%) Degree
2 32 (11.81%) AWS Certification
3 23 (8.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 23 (8.49%) ITIL Certification
3 23 (8.49%) Security Cleared
4 18 (6.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (6.27%) SC Cleared
6 6 (2.21%) AWS Certified Developer
7 5 (1.85%) PMI Certification
7 5 (1.85%) PMP
8 2 (0.74%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 2 (0.74%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.74%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (0.74%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.37%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.37%) CBAP
9 1 (0.37%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.37%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.37%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (8.12%) QA
2 12 (4.43%) GDPR
3 8 (2.95%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.85%) GRC
4 5 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.48%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.11%) SOC 2
System Software
1 78 (28.78%) Docker
2 3 (1.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 3 (1.11%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (0.37%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.37%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 61 (22.51%) Terraform
2 29 (10.70%) HP Fortify
3 24 (8.86%) Kubernetes
4 13 (4.80%) Ansible
5 10 (3.69%) Argo
6 6 (2.21%) Grafana
6 6 (2.21%) Prometheus
7 3 (1.11%) Packer
8 2 (0.74%) Kibana
8 2 (0.74%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.37%) Istio
9 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 35 (12.92%) Microsoft
2 22 (8.12%) Databricks
3 14 (5.17%) SAP
4 10 (3.69%) ServiceNow
5 8 (2.95%) Google
6 5 (1.85%) AppDynamics
6 5 (1.85%) IBM
6 5 (1.85%) Oracle
7 3 (1.11%) F5
7 3 (1.11%) IFS
8 2 (0.74%) Apple
8 2 (0.74%) Arista
8 2 (0.74%) Facebook
8 2 (0.74%) Informatica
8 2 (0.74%) Palo Alto
8 2 (0.74%) Qualys
8 2 (0.74%) Sony
8 2 (0.74%) VMware
8 2 (0.74%) Yahoo!
9 1 (0.37%) Progress