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 16 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 46 30
Rank change year-on-year +15 -16 -17
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 290 152 291
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 3.80% 4.60% 5.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.68% 5.30% 7.47%
Number of salaries quoted 203 124 208
10th Percentile £44,050 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £51,063 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £83,750 £75,000 £76,563
90th Percentile £92,500 £81,750 £87,500
England median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £68,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% +2.94% -2.86%

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 5,108 2,869 3,896
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 66.98% 86.76% 79.09%
Number of salaries quoted 3,754 1,419 1,968
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,010 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -5.94% -3.81%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,367 £65,603
90th Percentile £88,148 £80,000 £79,475
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -7.26%

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 16 September 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 16 September 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 +8 198 £75,000 +15.38% 162
South Yorkshire -1 61 £69,310 +26.02% 62
North Yorkshire -3 11 £55,000 -21.43% 19
East Yorkshire -14 9 £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 (2.07%) Confluence
2 5 (1.72%) Apache Spark
2 5 (1.72%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.03%) Apache
3 3 (1.03%) CMS
3 3 (1.03%) IIS
4 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.69%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (0.34%) CICS
5 1 (0.34%) Moodle
Applications
1 6 (2.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (1.03%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.03%) SAP S/4HANA
1 3 (1.03%) Shopify
2 2 (0.69%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 117 (40.34%) AWS
2 113 (38.97%) Azure
3 68 (23.45%) Azure DevOps
4 65 (22.41%) Serverless
5 54 (18.62%) AWS CloudFormation
6 53 (18.28%) AWS Lambda
7 50 (17.24%) Amazon S3
7 50 (17.24%) GitHub
8 49 (16.90%) Amazon ECS
9 38 (13.10%) AWS Step Functions
10 34 (11.72%) GitHub Actions
11 28 (9.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 24 (8.28%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 21 (7.24%) GCP
14 20 (6.90%) Power Platform
15 19 (6.55%) Datadog
16 17 (5.86%) Azure Data Factory
17 16 (5.52%) Microsoft 365
18 15 (5.17%) Amazon EC2
19 13 (4.48%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.72%) TCP/IP
2 4 (1.38%) Firewall
2 4 (1.38%) Internet
3 3 (1.03%) DNS
4 2 (0.69%) BGP
4 2 (0.69%) Ethernet VPN
4 2 (0.69%) HTTP
4 2 (0.69%) NGFW
4 2 (0.69%) OSPF
4 2 (0.69%) VXLAN
5 1 (0.34%) LAN
5 1 (0.34%) Network Security
5 1 (0.34%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.34%) VPN
5 1 (0.34%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (13.10%) DynamoDB
2 24 (8.28%) NoSQL
3 21 (7.24%) MongoDB
4 20 (6.90%) Amazon Athena
5 17 (5.86%) Data Warehouse
6 14 (4.83%) Spark SQL
7 12 (4.14%) Azure SQL Database
7 12 (4.14%) SQL Server
8 10 (3.45%) Power BI
9 9 (3.10%) PostgreSQL
9 9 (3.10%) Relational Database
10 7 (2.41%) Amazon RDS
11 6 (2.07%) Metadata
12 4 (1.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 3 (1.03%) BigQuery
13 3 (1.03%) Redis
14 2 (0.69%) Data Lake
14 2 (0.69%) Hadoop
14 2 (0.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 2 (0.69%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 46 (15.86%) Git
2 45 (15.52%) Jenkins
3 35 (12.07%) GitLab
4 21 (7.24%) JIRA
5 17 (5.86%) Cypress.io
6 16 (5.52%) SonarQube
7 14 (4.83%) Maven
8 6 (2.07%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 6 (2.07%) Visual Studio
9 3 (1.03%) Artifactory
9 3 (1.03%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.34%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.34%) Selenium
10 1 (0.34%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 58 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 43 (14.83%) Public Sector
3 27 (9.31%) Finance
4 19 (6.55%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (3.10%) Legal
6 7 (2.41%) Law
7 6 (2.07%) Banking
7 6 (2.07%) Local Government
8 4 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.38%) Retail
9 3 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.03%) Tech for Good
10 2 (0.69%) Advertising
10 2 (0.69%) Billing
11 1 (0.34%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.34%) Electronics
11 1 (0.34%) Games
11 1 (0.34%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.34%) Publishing
11 1 (0.34%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 83 (28.62%) Developer
2 68 (23.45%) Senior
3 65 (22.41%) DevOps Engineer
4 47 (16.21%) Lead
5 41 (14.14%) Java Developer
6 34 (11.72%) Cloud Engineer
7 25 (8.62%) Data Engineer
7 25 (8.62%) Senior DevOps
7 25 (8.62%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 23 (7.93%) Platform Engineer
9 20 (6.90%) AWS Developer
10 17 (5.86%) Full-Stack Developer
11 16 (5.52%) .NET Developer
11 16 (5.52%) AWS Engineer
11 16 (5.52%) Azure Engineer
11 16 (5.52%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 15 (5.17%) Lead Data Engineer
13 13 (4.48%) Lead Cloud Engineer
13 13 (4.48%) Software Engineer
14 11 (3.79%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (21.03%) Terraform
2 44 (15.17%) AngularJS
3 39 (13.45%) .NET
4 36 (12.41%) Node.js
5 31 (10.69%) React
6 29 (10.00%) Spring Boot
7 21 (7.24%) REST
7 21 (7.24%) RESTful
8 20 (6.90%) ASP.NET
9 18 (6.21%) Spring
10 17 (5.86%) ASP.NET Core
11 15 (5.17%) Jest
11 15 (5.17%) PySpark
12 14 (4.83%) .NET Core
13 13 (4.48%) Blazor
13 13 (4.48%) Gherkin
13 13 (4.48%) ML.NET
14 12 (4.14%) CSS
15 10 (3.45%) ARM Templates
16 9 (3.10%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 35 (12.07%) Cloud Native
2 11 (3.79%) Product Ownership
3 7 (2.41%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (2.41%) Linux Command Line
3 7 (2.41%) Mobile App
4 6 (2.07%) Greenfield Project
4 6 (2.07%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (2.07%) Legacy Applications
4 6 (2.07%) NHS
4 6 (2.07%) Social Media
5 5 (1.72%) BBC
5 5 (1.72%) Blog
5 5 (1.72%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.38%) AI Agents
6 4 (1.38%) iPhone
6 4 (1.38%) Low-Code
7 3 (1.03%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.03%) Learning Management System
7 3 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.69%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 28 (9.66%) Linux
2 15 (5.17%) Windows
3 12 (4.14%) Unix
4 7 (2.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (2.07%) CentOS
6 4 (1.38%) Android
7 3 (1.03%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.34%) VMS
8 1 (0.34%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (55.17%) CI/CD
2 114 (39.31%) Agile
3 63 (21.72%) Infrastructure as Code
4 48 (16.55%) Mentoring
5 45 (15.52%) Test Automation
6 44 (15.17%) Microservices
6 44 (15.17%) Scrum
7 39 (13.45%) Problem-Solving
8 38 (13.10%) Continuous Improvement
9 37 (12.76%) Coaching
9 37 (12.76%) Full-Stack Development
10 36 (12.41%) Continuous Integration
11 35 (12.07%) Platform Engineering
12 32 (11.03%) AI
13 29 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
14 28 (9.66%) Software Engineering
15 26 (8.97%) Containerisation
15 26 (8.97%) SDLC
16 25 (8.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 23 (7.93%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 81 (27.93%) SQL
2 59 (20.34%) Java
3 51 (17.59%) Python
4 43 (14.83%) TypeScript
5 42 (14.48%) C#
6 31 (10.69%) JavaScript
7 24 (8.28%) Kotlin
8 23 (7.93%) Bash
9 20 (6.90%) Groovy
10 5 (1.72%) Bicep
10 5 (1.72%) VB.NET
11 4 (1.38%) PowerShell
11 4 (1.38%) T-SQL
12 3 (1.03%) C
12 3 (1.03%) C++
12 3 (1.03%) Ruby
13 2 (0.69%) Dart
13 2 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.69%) Go
13 2 (0.69%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 34 (11.72%) Security Cleared
2 29 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 25 (8.62%) Degree
4 17 (5.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (5.52%) AWS Certification
6 12 (4.14%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 12 (4.14%) ITIL Certification
7 6 (2.07%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.03%) PMI Certification
8 3 (1.03%) PMP
9 2 (0.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 2 (0.69%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.69%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.34%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.34%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (5.86%) QA
2 10 (3.45%) Data Quality
3 8 (2.76%) GDPR
4 6 (2.07%) GRC
5 4 (1.38%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.34%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.34%) WCAG
System Software
1 67 (23.10%) Docker
2 8 (2.76%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.34%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.34%) Firmware
4 1 (0.34%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.34%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 27 (9.31%) Kubernetes
2 13 (4.48%) Ansible
2 13 (4.48%) HP Fortify
3 8 (2.76%) Argo
3 8 (2.76%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (1.03%) Packer
4 3 (1.03%) Progress Chef
5 2 (0.69%) Kibana
6 1 (0.34%) Istio
6 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (0.34%) VxRail
Vendors
1 46 (15.86%) Microsoft
2 19 (6.55%) Databricks
3 12 (4.14%) Google
4 10 (3.45%) Pega
5 7 (2.41%) Cisco
6 6 (2.07%) IBM
7 5 (1.72%) AppDynamics
7 5 (1.72%) Apple
7 5 (1.72%) Facebook
7 5 (1.72%) Sony
7 5 (1.72%) Yahoo!
8 4 (1.38%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.03%) SAP
9 3 (1.03%) VMware
10 2 (0.69%) Arista
10 2 (0.69%) F5
10 2 (0.69%) Informatica
10 2 (0.69%) Oracle
10 2 (0.69%) Sage
10 2 (0.69%) Sophos